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52 pages. Features: Great New Year cover art by Harold Eldridge; Fantastic International Harvester ad inside front cover shows large crawler dragging a massive log through the woods; Interesting full-page ad for Canadian General Electric's fluorescent lighting; Strike Town - A Close-up of Windsor, Ontario when 20,000 auto workers went on strike; Photos of prize-winning writers - Kay Webster (Mrs. Paul Belanger) of Vancouver, Jean Howarth of Vancouver and Anka Stewart of Sarnia; Money in Mushrooms - Charles Slack of Waterloo, Quebec is the British Empire's top mushroom grower - article with photos; Wilfred and the Two-Ton Romeo (fiction); They Sleep to Survive - article on animal hibernation; Field Marshal Alex (Major-General the Honorable Harold R.L.G.Alexander) - article with photo; When You Win You Lose - short story; How Fast Can We Fly? - Aviation article by Wolfgang Langewiesche; Hot-Heads (people with bad tempers); Laurentian Playground - article with photos; Nice half-page 2-colour ad for Aunt Jemima Buckwheats; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel inside back cover shows equiment moving a mountain near Charleston, West Virginia; Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
44 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of Newfoundland outport by John Phillips; Morley Callaghan asks "Which Myth Do You Follow?"; Half-page colour ad for Swift's Prem tinned meat; Handsome one-page ad for Snyder's Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Newfoundland (is welcomed to Confederation) - Photo-illustrated article by Prime Minister Joseph R. Smallwood; Quicksand (short story); Girl Overboard! (short story); Nice one-page colour O'Keefe's ad includes large reproduction of John Worsley painting of boy watching construction of new high school; Hot From the Cold War - Austin Cross reports from Europe; Half-page two-colour ad for Canadian Admiral Corp features their AC-DC-Battery "Personal" portable radio and Model 5R12 Mahogany radio; 3/4-page two-colour (black and blue) Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) recruiting ad; Cats, Cats, Cats! - photo-illustrated article; Half-page ad for the 1949 C.N.E.; Uncommon half-page ad for Burgess batteries; Half-page Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) ad shows paperboy visiting accountant in branch; Charming half-page colour ad for Canada Dry; Photo-illustrated article on swimwear fashions for ladies; Half-page colour ad for Heinz baby foods; Attractive half-page colour ad for Aylmer Tomato juice, catsup and soup; Great vintage one-page colour-photo ad for Burns tinned meat balls, bologna and hamburgers; Cooking article with recipe for blueberry jelly; Small photo ad for Kranich & Bach pianos of Toronto; Tips for keeping your home cool; Half-page Javex ad; Half-page ad for Frigidaire ranges; Nice one-page Frigidaire fridge ad; Magnificent back cover colour Coke ad shows aerial image of busy supermarket with enormous Coke cooler on its roof; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
The Eleventh annual report from 1923 includes: Annual Meeting, President's Address - Early Settlements in Upper Canada - W.H. Breithaupt; Aboriginal Agriculture in Southwest Ontario - William Herriot; War Memorials of Waterloo County - Miss L.M. Bruce; Brubacher Family History - Benjamin Brubacher; Eby Family - A.A. Eby; Biography of Miss L.M. Bruce; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier; Illustrations of the Ayr Monument, Trinity Church Tablet (Galt), and Miss L.M. Bruce. Twelfth Annual Report from 1924 includes: Early Days in Ayr - Miss E.D. Watson; The Trees of Waterloo County - William Herriot; Jacob Y. Shantz and Russian Mennonites - H.M. Bowman; Reminiscences of Freeport - M.G. Sherk; Biography of Thomas Carscadden; Biography of David Forsyth; Illustrations of Jacob Y. Shantz, Shantz homestead, Shantz barns, Freeport Academy, Group photo of Freeport Academy teachers and students (with names) circa 1869, Thomas Carscadden, David Forsyth. Thirteenth Annual Report from 1925 contains: History of the Galt Collegiate Institute, 1881-1914; Reminiscences of Early Waterloo; Galt, Sixty Years Ago; The Exiles of 1838; Biography of Sir Adam Beck; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier (Supplemental). Includes illustrations of Galt Collegiate Institute, Thomas Carscadden, The Old Galt Hish School, Sheriff A.S. Allan and Sir Adam Beck. Fourteenth Annual Report from 1926 includes: The Galt Collegiate Institute 1914-1926; The Waterloo County Pioneers Memorial Tower; The Public Schools of Galt; Also includes a biography of Dr. Augustus Stephen Vogt. Illustrations include: Pioneers' Memorial Tower; Galt Collegiate Institute, 1924; Dr. Augustus Vogt; Officers Pioneers' Memorial Association. Additional articles: Blazing the Trail in New Dumfries; The Pennsylvania-German in History; Significance of the Memorial Tower. Fifteenth Annual Report from 1927 covers: The Trail of the Aborigines through Waterloo County; History of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School; Early Days of Elmira; Hespeler Public Schools; Hespeler Public Library; The Reserve of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River, and the Mennonite Purchase; Origin of the Place and Stream Names of Waterloo County; Museum Report, etc.; Current History; plus biographies of Hugh McCulloch and John Mickleborough. Illustrations include: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School; Map of Waterloo County-Places and Streams; Old Waterloo Mill. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Gilt lettering upon green spine. Prior owner's small bookplate inside front board. A sound copy. Book
1956162874Waterloo IA: Downtown Waterloo Inc 1956. Vintage seven-page promotional investment prospectus from Downtown Waterloo Inc. a local non-profit consortium of local Iowa business owners seeking investors for a campaign to modernize the city's downtown business district during the automobile boom of the 1950s circa 1956.<br /> <br /> The seven pages of the prospectus includes: <br /> <br /> An introduction promoting "Centrally located and easily accessible" "Down Town Parking."<br /> <br /> A Downtown Waterloo Inc. common stock offering $100 a share listing all of the non-profit's officers and directors.<br /> <br /> A page listing downtown businesses above a page of a map of the area with the locations of the aforementioned businesses labeled numerically.<br /> <br /> Three two-page spreads illustrating the "Before ." and "After ." of proposed remodeling to include overhead parking with photographs of the area on the top pages and illustrated architectural proposals on the following pages. The areas illustrated include two opposing views of the intersection of West Fourth Street and Jefferson Street and one of the intersection of Commercial Street and West Fifth Street.<br /> <br /> A reprint of "Let's Keep Business in Downtown Waterloo" a two page ad from the Sunday January 29 1956 Waterloo Sunday Courier proposing overhead parking public restrooms public lockers and a bridge connecting the east and west sides of Commercial Street between West Fourth Street and West Park Ave with a large diagram of the proposed parking in the area.<br /> <br /> And a page illustrating and describing a double-spiral "Parkit" overhead parking design by Moline Architect M. R. Beckstrom.<br /> <br /> 9.5 x 14 inches side-stapled with card wrappers. Very Good plus with faint toning to the wrappers. Downtown Waterloo, Inc unknown
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save one volume), with numerous maps in the text and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature on half-title of first volume; purple cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers mildly rubbed at extremities. THIS SET WAS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE EMINENT NAVAL AND MILITARY HISTORIAN J. H. OWEN. THE SECOND VOLUME BEARS THE FORMER'S LONG AND WARM ENCOMIUM TO OWEN ON COLLINS STATIONERY MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO, AND SEPARATE HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON TITLE. The trilogy comprises The Years of Endurance 1793-1802 (second impression, 1942); Years of Victory 1802-1812 (first impression, 1944); The Age of Elegance 1812-1822 (first impression, 1950). 'A well-written narrative of the years of war with France and of return to peace' (Brown & Christie). With a small quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brown & Christie 98; Sadler 525.
76 pages. Features: Cover illustration of an evening scene on Montreal's Des Erables St. shows residents watching baseball game in distant Delorimier Stadium; One-page ad for Sparton TVs; Vintage one-page Bank of Montreal (BMO) ad features family finances; Wedding photos of Meribah Baxter and her husband-to-be, Lieutenant Brian Stark; One-page Holland-America Line ad features photo of their new flagship, the Rotterdam; One-page colour-photo Royal Trust ad features wealthy grandmother with grandson; The Day Canada Went to War - September 10, 1939 - excellent photo-illustrated article; My strange encounter with the world's most mysterious assassin - Terence Robertson's photo-illustrated article on the anonymous killer ('Jacson-Mornard-Mercadcer') of Leon Trotsky, who has been imprisoned in Mexico for 19 years; How TV Writers Get That Way - article on Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth with photos including Julie London and Andy Williams; Portrait of a High School - wonderful photo-illustrated article on Vancouver's King Edward High School; Are the British Better Off Than We Are? - photo-illustrated article; The Tragic Failure of Organized Medicine, by Harry Paikin, M.D.; "My Week In and Out of Modeling Schools' - R.T. Allen's great photo-illustrated article; Attractive colour one-page Black Label beear ad features golden prairie scene looking to the horizon; Northern Electric one-page colour ad features Saskatchewan theme; Canadian National (CN) passenger rail ad features photo of traveler and black porter; One-page Electrohome features their TVs, stereos and furniture; Waterloo County's Great Tombstone Mystery - tombstone of the two young wives of Dr. S. Bean; One-page Caterpillar ad features large aerial colour photo of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting's Flin Flon, Manitoba operation; Colour-photo ad for La Renault Dauphine car; GE Ultravision TV one-page photo ad features a young Robert (Bob) Goulet; Nice Hammond organ ad; Hertz ad on back cover features four photos of a ghastly pink 1959 Chevrolet; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features. Coronation-sized crowds meet Billy Graham at Waterloo Station in England (article by Beverley Baxter; Can Hees revitalize the Tories?; Let's Stop Monopoly Television - Scott Young challenges the decree that TV competition isn't allowed in Canada; Kitimat, B.C. - how to start a city from scratch, with photos; 24 Hours in the Old Quarter of Montreal - with photos; The Exalted deaths of the Midland Martyrs - part four of a series by Thomas B. Costain; The Men who can't stand Marriage - Sidney Katz; A Hill of Solid Gold - Prince Obermuller; Wawanesa, Manitoba - the one-horse town that spawned a Giant - the Wawanesa Insurance Company; Down the Yukon in an open boat - Part 2 of 'I Married the Klondike' by Laura Beatrice Berton; He's Made a liar out of Kipling - Canada's Colombo Plan chief, Nik Cavell; The most successful fraud in show business - Gerald Peters and his radio show Memory Music Hall. Lovely colour photo Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover. Average wear. Moisture stains along all fore-edges. Address label. Half of page1/2 removed, affecting a Royal Bank add, most of the editorial, and most of the table of contents. Portion of page 41, 57 and 61 clipped, removing a portions of mundane ads. Book
72 pages. Features: Great cover art of a confused Lineman atop a utility pole; Jergens Lotion ad featuring photos of Esther Williams and Barry Sullivan; The Greatest Three-Cent Show on Earth - The Toronto Star got to be one of the loudest, craziest and most successful papers in the world by unleashing an army of reporters on stories and stunts carefully calculated to please - as well as infurate - some of the people all of the time - article with photos of many famous personalities, by Pierre Berton (part 1 of 2); How Racketeers Sold Entry into Canada - Corrupt Canadian Government Officials and Unscrupulous Travel Agents Have Extorted Thousands of Dollars to Smuggle Italian Immigrants into Canada; The Princess and the Wild One - story by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Lord Will Take Care of Us - The Hutterites of Alberta - article with photos, including colour photo of Ann Wurtz and her sister Susie Waldner posing with Anne's twins; The Beard - Feature photo-illustrated article on Robertson Davies; Qu'Appelle - The Saskatchewan Valley That Calls; Marie Dressler - Queen of the Movie Queens - a Maclean's Flashback to the Cobourg-born 1931 winner of the best actress Oscar; Chase for Killer Stanley Buckowski - How Detective A.J. (Trigger) Payne tracked the murderer of Alfred Layng, Robert and Gloria McKay, and Helen Edmunds - interesting article with photos; A Secret Manual for Week-End Guests - humour by Eric Nicol, illustrated by Harold Town; Royal Roads Military College ad; Nice colour photo Kodak camera ad; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Peter Whalley Cartoon; Virginia Mayo is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor) is honoured in a colour ad sponsored by O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Murrell Belanger and his Belanger 99 Special and pit crew are featured in a two-colour Champion spark plug ad; Great Coke ad on back cover features attractive young nurse. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Is the End Near?; A Russian Waterloo; The German and English Replies; "American Independence Union" - Committee on organization appointed at Washington conference holds its first meeting in New York and elects officers; Must be Interned - Armed English Merchant Ships; Warning! - it is the intent of the English government to sink an American vessel in the war zone by one of her submarines and make it appear that the destruction was wrought by a German craft (false flag attack); New York's German Theater; The Duty of German-Americans, by Kuno Francke; Russia's Black Record; Map of the Old German Empire; Shells and Foodstuffs; New York Sun prints passages from a book that never existed - "Britain as German's Vassal" by Friedrich von Bernhard; England and Providence, by Dr. Edmund von Mach; News from Germany by Louis Viereck; Advertising Talk# 8 - Persuading advertisers to support this publication; Captives in Japan - Rules for the prison camp in Kurume; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy copy. Magazine
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189578983Chicago: The Equitable Pub. Company. Good; Owner's Name Inside Spine Strip Slightly Torn. 1895. First Edition. Paperback. 204 pages . The Equitable Pub. Company paperback
18151401021815. 17 x 22 cm.
1830119521830 A Bruxelles, à la Lithographie royale de Gobard, sans date, vers 1830; album in-4 oblong broché, couverture gris-vert imprimée en noir au 1er plat servant de titre, dos muet. 13 planches lithographiées en noir et une carte dépliante coloriée.
1840125251840 br. papier vert imprimé. (mouill. marginale à qq. planches) album in-8 oblong, 12 vues lithographiées et une grande carte, Bruxelles Gerard lithographe éditeur, (ca.1840)
1866PHO-1032Paris,J. Dumaine, 1866, 8, [4]-LV-[1]-491-[1] p., demi-toile verte postérieur à coins, dos lisse avec pièce de titre et date en pied, tête dorée , couverture conservée , étiquette de la librairie Clavreuil et de la bibliothèque de Chambly. Bon exemplaire.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispieces, numerous coloured plates, many maps (a number coloured in outline) in the text, and patterned endpapers; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case framed and lettered in gilt. The set comprises Vol. I: The Rise. February 1793 - September 1805; Vol. II: The Zenith. September 1805 - September 1812; The Fall. September 1812 - June 1815. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sandler 689 (recording the first edition of 1966)
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1870128157Paris, Henri Plon 1870 In-8 23,5 x 15 cm. Reliure postérieure bradel toile rouge, dos lisse orné d’un petit fer doré, VII-442 pp., 5 cartes et plans repliés, table. Dos passé, rousseurs marginales. Exemplaire en bon état.
1897135233Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Hardcover. very good. 3rd Edition. ix 351pp. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with yellow and red letter and decoration on front back and spine. Very slight bowing to boards with a small amount of professional restoration done to spine. B/W illustrated map frontis with many B/W illustrated plates through out. Clean pages. A few small spots in endpapers have been professionally repaired. Long outer and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free fly. A nice copy. very good Inscription reads "To W. B. Parker with the warmest regards of Stanley Waterloo Chicago July 14th 1898". This is Waterloo's most famous work. It was followed by a story by Jack London "Before Adam" which was so similar to Waterloo's novel that Waterloo accused London of plagiarism. London denied this explaining that his story was in the nature of a commentary on Waterloo's work. 1897 Way & Williams hardcover
1927628a2155Kitchener Ontario: The Waterloo Historical Society 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Eleventh annual report from 1923 includes: Annual Meeting President's Address - Early Settlements in Upper Canada - W.H. Breithaupt; Aboriginal Agriculture in Southwest Ontario - William Herriot; War Memorials of Waterloo County - Miss L.M. Bruce; Brubacher Family History - Benjamin Brubacher; Eby Family - A.A. Eby; Biography of Miss L.M. Bruce; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier; Illustrations of the Ayr Monument Trinity Church Tablet Galt and Miss L.M. Bruce. Twelfth Annual Report from 1924 includes: Early Days in Ayr - Miss E.D. Watson; The Trees of Waterloo County - William Herriot; Jacob Y. Shantz and Russian Mennonites - H.M. Bowman; Reminiscences of Freeport - M.G. Sherk; Biography of Thomas Carscadden; Biography of David Forsyth; Illustrations of Jacob Y. Shantz Shantz homestead Shantz barns Freeport Academy Group photo of Freeport Academy teachers and students with names circa 1869 Thomas Carscadden David Forsyth. Thirteenth Annual Report from 1925 contains: History of the Galt Collegiate Institute 1881-1914; Reminiscences of Early Waterloo; Galt Sixty Years Ago; The Exiles of 1838; Biography of Sir Adam Beck; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier Supplemental. Includes illustrations of Galt Collegiate Institute Thomas Carscadden The Old Galt Hish School Sheriff A.S. Allan and Sir Adam Beck. Fourteenth Annual Report from 1926 includes: The Galt Collegiate Institute 1914-1926; The Waterloo County Pioneers Memorial Tower; The Public Schools of Galt; Also includes a biography of Dr. Augustus Stephen Vogt. Illustrations include: Pioneers' Memorial Tower; Galt Collegiate Institute 1924; Dr. Augustus Vogt; Officers Pioneers' Memorial Association. Additional articles: Blazing the Trail in New Dumfries; The Pennsylvania-German in History; Significance of the Memorial Tower. Fifteenth Annual Report from 1927 covers: The Trail of the Aborigines through Waterloo County; History of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School; Early Days of Elmira; Hespeler Public Schools; Hespeler Public Library; The Reserve of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River and the Mennonite Purchase; Origin of the Place and Stream Names of Waterloo County; Museum Report etc.; Current History; plus biographies of Hugh McCulloch and John Mickleborough. Illustrations include: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School; Map of Waterloo County-Places and Streams; Old Waterloo Mill. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Gilt lettering upon green spine. Prior owner's small bookplate inside front board. A sound copy. The Waterloo Historical Society Hardcover
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with a frontispiece, 6 photographic plates, a full-page outline map coloured by hand, 5 engraved illustrations in the text and a large folding plan of the battle coloured by hand, page-edges browning slightly as usual; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with raised bands lettered in gilt, original printed wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cotton served in the 7th Hussars and later spent fourteen years as resident guide to the battlefield. This edition is one of the several issues printed by Tilbury for the Hotel de Musee. A lovely copy.
Hardcover in-4° oblong, non pagine (54 pages), Introduction et 25 planches a pleine page et texte au verso. Page de titre decorative. Cartonnage d'editeur illustre en noir et rouge, dos toile verte.- RARISSIME E. O. Excellent etat, TRES FRAIS. (Exempt d'inscription, de plis, de dechirures ou de rousseurs) TTBE - VG+++ Very rare. [PLG-1]
