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377 pages. Bibliography. Maps. Many black and white reproductions of photos, plus some in colour. Provides historical examples of the principles of war dealing with: Selection and Maintenance of the Aim; Morale; Seven Faces of Morale; Surprise; Offensive Action; Co-operation; Concentration of Force, Economy of Effort, Security, Flexibility, and Administration. Prior owner's armorial bookplate on back of title page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
334 pages. Index. Maps. Black and white photographic plates. "... A rare gem. I have been actively hunting for this sort of record and have come to realize just how rare such accounts are. This one also touches all the points an historian would wish to mention, from the attitudes of officers to frustration with the Ross rifle. One can only wonder how the journal survived and how it was composed." - Professor Desmond Morton, from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Would be graded very good if not for the fact that some rain appears to have fallen upon half-title and title pages (only) resulting in modest undulating. Average wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
xii, 211 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Maps. "The political consequences of this battle were so profound and so far-reaching that it is not difficult to understand why it has generally been considered one of the 'decisive battles' of the modern era." - x. No dust jacket, as issued. Moderate foxing to top and fore-edges otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear to publisher's blue cloth. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Pages 203-243 plus nineteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Toronto's 150 Years; Metal Crafts in Canada - many photos of beautiful creations; Western Mountain Flowers; Britain's Storied Stones and Crosses; Interiors of Pioneer Houses in New Brunswick; and more. Some of the best ads include:.Ford Motor company (military theme); Magnificent two-page two-color Victory Bonds ad features soldier on battlefield; CIBC (features photo of heavy navy guns); Gold Flake cigarettes (features photo of male and female military personnel); Canadian Women's Army Corps - nice colour ad on back cover Moderate wear. Bit of sticker remnant and peel mark on front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric. Book
309 pages. Index of names. Facsimile reprint of the 1908 first edition. "...Compiled from the records of the grants of land made in Upper Canada to officers, non-commissioned officers and men who had served in 'the first flank Companies, the Provincial Artillery, the Incorporated Regiment, the Corps of Artillery Drivers, the Provincial Dragoons, the Marine and General Staff of the Army,' and in Lower Canada, to 'the officers and men of the Embodied Militia, discharaged troops and others." - from Introduction. Bright red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Appears unread. Binding tight. Clean, bright and unmarked with virtually no wear. A superb copy of this highly-informative reference. Book
Pages 311-366. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A Trip to Jamaica - part III; Barca and the Philippines; Love's Dream (poem); Our Largest Standing Army - The Birds; The Vaughans - A California Idyl - continued; Life on the Magalloway - Part III; Inaugural Address by E.D. Hadley, President S.A.R., Des Moines, Iowa; Jonathan's Preparations; George Bancroft Griffith; Index for Volume XXV; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Photos of gorgeous Myra Keck, of Haverford, PA, inside front cover. Short Stories: Dreamboat and the Mouse; Ex-Champion of the World; He Who Lives by the Gun!; Articles: Why Vet Marriages Fail; Is Baseball a Sweatshop? - article with photo of the Giants, Rip Sewell, Bob Murphy, and Ted Williams; Superman's Toughest Fight - now he's taking on native nazis and the Ku Klux Klan - article with photo of Bud Collyer and Richard Gibson; Labor Learns from Wall Street - the fight for higher wages; Let's Spend Money - The Mayor of Chicago, Edward J. Kelly, offers financial advice to President Truman; Chinese Reds Who Talk Like Damon Runyon - Fans Lt. Lio Yang and Professor Chang Mei; How Long Can a Body Last? - Burlesque girls provide the answer, with great photos of Gypsy Rose Lee,Ann Corio, Margie Hart, Carlotta, and Irene Allarie; Gagging of the GI Press - former soldier-reporters tell the inside story of the hit fight that sprang up between the generals and the GI news staffs over what goes into making up good and truthful Army newspapers; The Censors Who Lived in Villas; Springtime; I Made San Fernando Valley My Home - photo-illustrated article on Navy flier Phil Strick and his family; The Great Man Vouts - Slim Gaillard; 312 Nights with Soldiers - photo-illustrated article on lovely singer of 'Embraceable You' Janis Paige, 'the lush torch of Hollywood canteen fame' ; GI Joe Hits the Saddle - photos of Robert Mitchum in several movies; Salute's Pin-up - sultry one-page photo of Jane Harker; Swedes, Beautiful Swedes - featuring the Royal Dramatic Academy and photos of Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, and Viveca Lindfors; Photo salute of the month features Jim Folsom, Alabama's new Governor; Photos of Richard Webb and Marion L. Starkey; Back page 'Salute of the Year' to Harold Russell; and more. Handsome gent illustrated in Eagle Clothes ad on back cover. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Politics in Khaki - The Inside of the Canadian Army High Command - McNaughton and Crerar stepped on Monty's toes - here's the record, revealed for the first time; Childhood's No. 1 Enemy - rheumatic fever; Battle of the Peacemakers - meeting at Paris; Witch of Endor - fiction; Kate Holliday gets a Hollywood makeup makeover; It rained poison after Bikini Islands' fifth atom bomb test - with photo; Hard rock miners; Honor of the Company - fiction; Flivvers in the Sky - fly your own plane; The Good Catch - fiction; Golfing Cop - Henry Martell - article with photo; Hell's Gate is open - upgrades allow Fraser River salmon to get further upstream - article with three photos; Nice ad for Waterman's pens with cheerleader theme; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Good Year tires features Mountie helping young lady in mountain valley; Superb Caterpillar bulldozer ad - "Boss of the Bulldozers"; Nice Fleet Aircraft ad; Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; Fantastic painted Coke ad on back cover features partying group of young people at table; and more. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
62 pages. Presents thirty-one ballads penned by a Canadian prisoner of war in Germany's Oflag VII/B during WWII "...in the belief that they may be of some interest to the folks in Canada, and that our friends at home may get some inkling of the things we do and the things we think about behind the old barbed wire." - page 3. Ominous cover art depicts large Nazi boot treading on silhouette of POW behind barbed wire. Reproduction of the author's POW photo on page 6. Photo of the Pipe Band of Oflag VII/B on page 30 includes Brigadier W. Southam (Canada). Sketch of Oflag VII-B on page 62. Dedicated to the men of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, and the South Saskatchewan Regiment. Laid-in is an undated WWII news clipping entitled Poem Found on Body of Unknown Soldier. Prior owner's name stroked out atop first leaf. Average wear. Binding sound. A sombre WWII memento. Book
Personal copy of R.E. (presumably Robert/Bob) Trembath, of Vancouver, B.C. who signed and dated the front free endpaper and entered his WWII service record on the following page. 66 pages. Numerous reproductions of WWII black and white photos accompanied by text. At back is a list of thirteen handwritten names and hometowns, presumably of fellow members of Trembath's Motor Service mates from western Canada. This book appears to contain excerpts of a much larger WWII history, not included. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
180 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Timken tapered roller bearings; 1-page color ad for Lumite auto seat covers; 1/2-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes; 2-page color ad for General brand Winter-Cleat tires; Fantastic 1-page color ad for White Trucks features log-hauling scene; Nice color 2-page ad for General Electric radios and tvs; Nice color 1-page ad for Whitman's Samplers; What Kind of Man is Stalin? - Part 1 of 'My Three Years in Moscow - article with photos - the author met Stalin personally; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); How to Get Rich After Dark - photo-illustrated article on the men who fish the Gulf Stream off Florida; The Rebellious Age (fiction); Moutain Rescue Man - color-photo illustrated article on Ranger William Butler of Washington's Mount Rainier; The Woman Hater (fiction); John Pastore - Rhode Island's Little Firecracker - article with photo; Hilarious Memories of Albert J. Rothe "The Red Barber" who trimmed famous men such as Truman, Bradley, Byrnes, Leahy and Patton - article with photos; Anxious Night (fiction); Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth's football program - article with photo; Collision Course (fiction); Feature article on Miinot, North Dakota, with photos; New York City's Food Trades Vocational High School - article with great color photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction); Photo-illustrated article on Jimmy Dunn of America's foreign service; *SENSATIONAL* full-page color-photo ad for the New Chrysler Town & Country in a bird hunting locale; That Ain't The Way I Saw It - former newspaperman Robert M. Yoder on the glamorous adventures thata befall a reporter in the radio serials; Fantastic two-page Borg-Warner ad highlights their products in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! format; U.S. Army photo-illustrated recruiting ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; 2-page color-photo ad for Sun-Maid Raisins; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Nice 1-page color-illustrated ad for American Airlines; Magnavox TV ad; Nice photo-illustrated ad for Pullman cars; 1-page color ad for Rice Krispies; Two-page ad for Listerine and dandruff; Gorgeous 2-page color illustrated Chevrolet ad featuring a red Styleline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad features photos of Jane Wyman; Nice 2-page color-illustrated General Motors ad highlights the safety of their vehicles; Nice 1-page 2-color photo-illustrated ad for Eaton 2-speed axles features tank truck driver Mr. J.T. Ebling; Eveready battery ad features photos of Mr. Axel Lober, Mr. Everett Smith, Janice Winters and Mr. Sam C. Kuster; Nice 1-page photo illustrated ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Color ad for Crosley fridges; Nice color ad for Kraft Cocao Mix; Wonderful full-page color 7up (Seven-Up) ad features photo of a square dance scene; Color ad for Del Monte Catsup; Hydrox cookie ad; Color ad for Hamilton watches; 1-page 2-color ad for Red Heart dog food features photos of Lassie; Nice 1-page color ad for United Aircraft; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner cartoon; Full-page tire chain ad for American Chain & Cable Company; 1-page 2-color ad for Cavalier Cedar Chests; Statler Hotels ad features cartoon. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. This issue noteworthy for its many exceptional ads. Magazine
232 pages. Features: Behind the Hush-Hush - United States Army Air Forces Bare their Secrets to writers for the First time in 25 Years; Down to Earth; Tomorrow's Air Liners; Typhoon - Flying Power-House is Deadly Weapon; Should Regulations Be Increased?; Pathfinder Force; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Air Line Pilots' Association; Prospects Worth Fighting For; Routes to Canada Debates; Cause of Canadianism Served; Aircraft Maintenance Section; Marauder Landing Gear; Engineering Illustration; Ontario Backing Pledged; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
178 pages. Cover: Al Parker Red Cross Illustration Special Features: Women in War; Mr. & Mrs. (Signius Wilhelm) Knudsen; If You Ask Me (written by Eleanor Roosevelt); I Collect People; What Are You Afraid Of?; Can Radio Educate?; Camp Followers of the Army; Worry About Children; How America Lives: Meet Lonnie Frey - (Linus Reinhard) Lonnie and Mary Frey; Forty Tiny Babies and Not One Feeding Bottle; and Fatigue in Children. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Campbell's Soup, Ivory Soap, Pillsbury's Pancake Flour, and Kellogg's Rice Krispies w/ Snap Crackle Pop. Short story illustrated by John P. Falter. Half page black/white ad with Rita Hayworth promoting Woodbury Cold Cream. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Full page colour ad with Paulette Goddard promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Above-average wear. 5 inch opening pgs 165-178. Back cover in rough shape - missing chunk and bears a large opening. Small mailing label atop front cover. Magazine
138 pages. Special Features: Women and Army Moral; If You Ask Me (written by Eleanor Roosevelt); Plan for Parenthood; Do You Have Headaches?; How America Lives: Meet the Potters - Stanley and Hope Potter; Should Parents Sacrifice to Educate Their Children; and Baby Eczema. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Coca-Cola, Bon Ami, Jell-O Pudding, Palmolive. Full page colour print ad with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Half page black/white ad with Myrna Loy promoting Woodbury Cold Cream. Above-average wear. 4 inch opening page 76. Few small openings front cover fore-edge. Back hinge starting. Small mailing label top right corner. A sound copy. Magazine
138 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. BONUS: Includes two original oversize black and white group photos, presumably of the young men appearing in this yearbook. Book
155 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. Book
160 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. Book
137 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Rab Butler's Bid for Power - in London Letter; Biggest Man on the Biggest Campus - Dr. Sidney Smith is President of the University of Toronto - article with photos; We Live in the World's Most Famous House - William Levitt of Levitt and Sons has built thousands of houses since the war in Levittown, NY and Levittown, PA - he is the Henry Ford of housing - article with photos; Billy Sunday of the Birds - a Maclean's flashback to Jack Miner and his legacy of caring for wild birds - article with photos in colour and black and white; The Farmer Who Makes Movies - Osmond Borradaile, the veteran Canadian cameraman has returned to his Chilliwack farm and has no intention of ever returning to the Hollywood rat race he once knew - article with photos; The Champ Still Baby Sits - Marline Stewart (Streit) of Fonthill, Ontario hasn't let all her trophies dazzle her - young gifted golfer article with photos; For 3 Nights Only - story by Joseph Schull illustrated by Marray Smith; Hero of the Hunted Men - Yaroslav Stetzko leads an army of underground fighters in a crusade to crush Russian imperialism - the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) - photos and article; Our Passport was a Dishrag - Johnny Cochrane and and Lenny Burton, two Canadian girls, describe their wonderful low-budget world travels - article with photos; Never Bet With Your Wife - humour by Robert Thomas Allen, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Cartoons by Peter Whalley - The Income Inquisition; Nice colour photos ad for Massey-Harris says "Power Farming Makes Canada a Land of Plenty"; Great centerfold ad for the 1952 Ford; Household Finance (HFC) full-page ad; Nice half-page ad for movie Macao, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell; Full-page colour REO truck ad; 1952 Mercury car ad; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs inside back cover features young baseball player at bat; Sweet two-page colour ad for 1952 General Motors cars; Altas Tire ad features Byron, Michigan. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Editorial - We Can't Afford not to listen to Stalin; Did Stalin Make Hitler's Blunder? - a question from London; The Man Who's Going to Make Our TV - When TV arrives in Canada, probably this summer, much of what comes out on the screen will come out of the head of a 33-year-old prodigy named Mavor Moore - article with photos; What it's Like to by Forty - humour by Robert Thomas Allen - illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Nightmare Convoy of the Atlantic - A Maclean's Flashback - the blow-by-blow story of ONS 154, the hardest-hit convoy ever escorted by the Canadian Navy at the close of 1942, by Jack McNaught; Our Four Lads on a Little White Cloud - the quartet of Toronto choirboys - Jimmy Arnold, Connie Codarini, Frankie Busseri, and Bernie Toorish - nice colour photo, article, and black and white photos; The Ordeal of Seretse and his White Queen Ruth - Seretse Khama guessed that his 100,000 African subjects would not object to his marriage to a white English girl, Ruth Williams - article with photos; Lady in the Celeste - story by Pat E. O'Neill - illustrated by James Hill; The Acid-Minded Professor - the University of Alberta's Dr. William Rowan - article with photos; How to Save Your Child's Life - the modern home is almost as dangerous as a battlefield; The All Want to See the Folies - The Folies Bergere of Paris - article with photos; Why Won't Canadians Eat Fish?; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Excellent full-page colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Crawler Tractors - Steel Production/Slag Moving Theme; Very attractive colour full-page ad for the 1952 Pontiac; Centerfold ad for the 1952 Meteor; Uncommon colour ad for Tooke brand clothing; 1952 Monarch car ad; O'Keefe's Brewing Company ad honours the 48th Highlanders of Canada; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows 'Gone for a Coke' painted on wall by painter on break. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Contents: Nice Baldwin Diesel-Electric ad; Color Ford auto ad; Nice color Mallory Hats ad; His half-year honeymoon ends but Truman is still the man to beat; Private William H. Garrett of Waverly, Kentucky says good-bye to his entire family, killed in an accident; Angels in uniform - army and navy nurses; Color Coke ad - refreshment on the Admiralty Isles; Stalin's Holiday adds fresh fuel to rumors of his serious illness; Photos of German war prisoners, male and female, in Italy; The Chunking government and the Chinese Communists make peace - on paper; photo of Hungarian Nazi strung up from a lampost in Budapest; Army proposes, fate disposes and GI's long for boats to the US; GI wives in London protest for transport to the US; Nice color Chevrolet centerfold ad; Playing Barbotte in Canada; Rioting breaks out in Argentina; John L. Lewis reaches for new power through control of shop bosses; Air Forces miracle of help yourself is way back for casualties at home - the Baruch rehabilitation plan; Nice color Schlitz beer ad; Color Studebaker truck ad inside back cover; Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cover portrait of Colonel Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O., the Hero of Beaumont-Hamel, Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Navy Division. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Great British Battles of the Somme - V. - Check near Bapaume and Victory on the Ancre". Includes complete chapter CLV - "The Effect of the Somme Offensive on the German 'Will to Victory'". Many excellent photos, including one of captured German flame-throwers 'which the enemy, in defiance of civilised useage, introduced into warfare.' Graphic centerfold of a shell-shattered avenue of elms along the borders of the Yser Canal between Boesinghe and Lizerne. Also includes first portion of Chapter CLVI - Belgium Under Two Flags - The Homeland Under the German Heel and the Renaissance of the Army on the Yser. Many excellent black and white photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: You Yanks are Hypocrites, by Prakash C. Jain; New Case-History facts on Birth Control Pills - nearly a million American women are now using oral contraceptives; My War with Sharks - a Navy frogman, armed only with a special gun and his own lungs, battles sharks at arm's-length range; Safeguarding our Atomic Secrets - Lewis Strauss points up the urgent need to maintain security in the nuclear age; People on the Way up - Delores (Dee) O'Hara, Theresa Howard Carter, Dick Ruedebusch; Landing on Easy Street - in 25 words or less - Deborah Schneider won $500/month for life for her blurb for Plymouth cars; My Old Army Carries On - Bernard Asbell, a World War II dogface inspects his old basic-training camp and discovers some changes; The Beanball - Myth or Menace? - 5 big-leaguers argue their views on baseballs biggest troublemaker; The Winds of Freedom - Dean Rusk writes on the ideas which inspired our Revolution and are still the world's most potent force; The Bouncy World of a Breezy Blonde - Brooke Bundy. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
