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62 pages. Featuring Antiques as Hobbies: Old Quilts (color); Old Glass, Silver, Bookmarks; Barber's Bottles; Collector's Homes. Includes these nice ads: Hellmann's Mayonnaise (color); Refrigerators; Listerine (shows boys fighting); Natural Gas; Heinz Spaghetti; Shredded Ralston; Aluminum Hoods for Milk Bottles; Scot Paper Towels; Marlboro Cigarettes - "Mild as May... Ivory Tips protect the Lips" - with photo of man and woman (wow, definitely pre-dates the Marlboro Man!); Lovely colour illustrated ad for Bon Ami inside back cover; Gulfspray insect killer cartoon ad; Nice colour photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features photo of Billie Branch - veteran of 2,000 tobacco auctions. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy Magazine
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Terror tactics of a strike - Pilkington's; The Stock and Loan Scandal; Recipe for a fake antique; Healey fights a phantom ware - east of Suez; Miss Grundy - Postmistress of Footle-on-the-Crouch; City in the sky; Perfection in the city of slaves - ancient Athens; Edinburgh - an idea expressed in stone; Japan - a country with no illusions; The Roast Beef of Old France; The man who gave kingdoms away - Charles V; Was this the birthplace of the Greeks?; The signs that spelled protection; Britain's national wardrobe; and more. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, free endpapers lightly spotted, a little mild spotting throughout; attractively bound in contemporary niger half roan, sides ruled in blind, back with raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with blind lozenge, marbled edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. Contains the first appearance of 'Silver Blaze' complete with Paget's inconic illustrations, as 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. No. XIII. 'The Adventure of Silver Blaze'. 'Silver Blaze' is, of course, the classic early tale containing Holmes' famous epigram of the dog in the nightime. It was subsequently collected as the first of the eleven 'Memoirs' published in book form in 1894. This issue also includes Harry How's well-illustrated article 'A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle' (pp.182-188). An added Holmesian bonus is the presence of Clarke Russell's 'A Nightmare of the Doldrums' (pp.189-198); his tales were a favourite of Dr. Watson: 'I was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories' ('The Five Orange Pips'). UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. DeWaal 357.
This is a fine softcover copy with a near fine black hardshell slipcase with virtually no wear. SIGNED by the authors Mark Strand and Jorie Graham, in ink on the title-page. One of 50 signed copies from the complete edition of 400 copies. Illustrated in color. 9" high X 12" wide, 25 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
76 pages. Features: Preston Manning and the Reform Party seek top-drawer candidates; John Gotti convicted; Passing of Adam Marshall and Paul Henreid; Costly Faceoff - NHL faces challenge to restore fan faith after players strike - article with colour photos of Gretzky, Trevor Linden, Guy Carbonneau, and Don Cherry with his dog Blue; Canadians protest European Cod fishing just outside Canada's 200-mile limit; Mordecau Richler explains why Anglophones are leaving Quebec; Anglophones at a Crossroads in Quebec - article with photos and brief write-ups of Katherine Petcher, Anwer Mehkeri and the McGee Family of Val-Joli; Toronto is a magnet for Montreal Jews; Anglophones abandon the Gaspe; Gahdafi's Libya facing sanctions; How Ratings Agencies govern the money markets and rattled the wealthy Reichmann family; Peter C. Newman interviews Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells; Article about IBM and its PS/1 PC (personal computer); Sex and Psychiatry - article with photo of Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog; Nice one-page colour-photo Zurich Insurance ad features Wayne Gretzky in LA Kings gear in game action; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
126 pages. Features: Cover photo of Princess Margaret; Bell Telphone ad for "New Public Phones" (payphones); Two-page Chrysler ad; Coke at features clinking glasses and lovers' hands; A Protestant View of a Catholic President; Medicine for peace - Dr. Hernan Lillo helps his fellow Chileans; Mark Twain - article with wonderful photos; Budweiser color ad looks surprisingly modern; Kodak ad features color photos of Peter Lawford and his family; William P. Rogers - Richard Nixon's best friend; New role for radishes; Nice two-page color ad for the 1960 Ford Galxie (white four-door); California's new one-piece bathing suits - beautiful color photos; Princess Margaret - Royal Rebel; Jell-O chocolate-mint pudding ad; Very nice two-page color ad for the1960 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday Scenicoupe (blue); Hitler's Last Days - defeat, despair, madness, and death; Nice color ad for the 1960 Ford Comet; Ivy Nicholson - photo-illustrated article; How to save 19,000 lives a year - vigorous traffic law enforcement and political courage, as Connecticut is demonstrating; Arthur Godfrey Sounds Off on what's wrong with the TV networks, the sponsors and the public's taste; A Big-League baseball manager's agony - with photos of Chicago White Sox Manager Al Lopez in action; The secret behind the East/West Summit; Schlitz ad shows happy couple at table in bar after horse race; Will Success spoil the poodle; Nice Four Roses whiskey ad inside back cover shows four gents in suits read stock ticker tape in bar with bulldog at their feet; Back cover Lucky Strike ad with photo of man admiring oars he has just painted red; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
92 pages. Features: Color-photo ad for red IBM typewriter inside front cover; 2/3-page ad for The Calgary Inn; Major coverage of Quebec politics; Bill Carpenter - Once and Future Hero; Ronald Reagan wins California's Republican gubernatorial primary; James H. Meredith shot near Hernando MS by Aubrey James Norvell - article with graphic photo; Bobby Kennedy (RFK) in South Africa; Cult leader Benjamin Purnell of Benton Harbor, MI; Topeka Tornado; Fall of the XB-70 Valkyrie bomber; Time essay on LSD; Major Vietnam war coverage; Polish struggle between the Catholic church and the Communist government; Strike and violence in Dacca, Pakistan; Arthritis and Rheumatism; Knee paintings; John Mecom and the Houston Chronicle; Nice one-page color-photo Canadian Pacific Airlines ad features lovely Asian ladies; Jeanne Davis and public decency; Photo of Walkout at Amherst; Volvo car ad; Gemini 9 returns to the Atlantic with Stafford and Cernan; Photo of American runner Jim Ryun; America's two warring pro-football leagues negotiate - with photo of Pete Rozelle; Passing of test pilot Joseph A. Walker, Norman Baillie-Stewart, Natacha Rambova, Blanche Wolf Knopf, Frederic A. Gimbel, Jean Arp and lawyer-rancher Wellington Rankinand; O'Keefe Beer ad features illustration of furnituremaker Andre Gariepy; A&P heir Huntington Hartford; Ruhr coalminers strike; Interesting one-page color ad for Walker's Crystal Gin features mounted moose head; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Page 47-48 missing (unclear what they contained). Minor evidence of moisture exposure. A worthy vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Antisubmarine warfare, the 'St. Croix' and Vice Admiral Rayner; Big crowds for JFK in Berkeley and New Orleans; Test pilot Joe Walker and the X-15; Major Vietnam war coverage; Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; The European Common Market - toward ten; President Ayub of Pakistan; Manhattan's pioneering Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Photos of baseball players Cletis Leroy Boyer and Kenton Lloyd Boyer; Photo and coverage of Jack Nicklaus; Rocket Richard appears in Vitalis ad; Photo of Andy Warhol in art article; Passing of Frank Wilson Braden, Harry Guy Bartholomew, Walter Phelps Hall, Major General Ralph Emerson Truman and Helen Dortch Longstreet; Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov tours U.S.; The P-1127 VTOL; Photo of California hod carriers on strike; Photo of Mr. Norman Brunt of Port Credit, Ontario in Atlas Steels ad; and more. Centerfold ad holding by one staple. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Peugeot 204 ad; A talk with Prime Minister Trudeau; Recovering oil from the sunken tanker Arrow in Chedabucto Bay; St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, Alberta - unusual architecture by Douglas Cardinal; U.S. Postal Service Strike; Home life of letter carrier Peter Stafford of New York; The Enduring Mail Mess; Miasma of My Lai - with photo of General Koster; S.S. "Columbia Eagle"; Death of bomber Diana Oughton; Danger and Opportunity in Indochina - major war coverage; Israel-P.L.O. conflict - article with photo of smiling Arafat in Jordanian cave office and six pages of excellent colour photos of the opposing military forces; Willi Stoph - from bricklayer to organization man; Rampaging plague of mice in Australia; Reproduction of controversial British poster depicting a pregnant man; Ronald Reagan deals with student protests; Last days of the "California Zephyr" train - article with photo; Photo-illustrated article on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSN&Y); The Berlin Syndrome; Banned ad for "The Boys in the Band"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
102 pages. Features: Nice ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Two-page 1960 Chrysler ad; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith pocket (transistor) radios; Oasis cigarette ad; Color Pontiac ad features a seaside blue 1960 Bonneville convertible; Our New Hospital Crisis - many unqualified foreigners are serving in US hospitals as interns and resident physicians; The Training of a Good Doctor - Susan Cook studies at the University of Chicago - major photo coverage; The Age of Payola - have our moral standards been destroyed by the pursuit of the dollar?; Vintage two-page color ad for the new 1960 Ford Falcon Wagons (both white); Pepsi ad features scene in horse barn with dalmation; Walter Lippmann explains Why We Accept Cheating; Nice photos of Connie Stevens with hunk Bill Troy, Mike McKee, and Jerry Eagle; Farley Granger in "The Third Season" - color photos; Sanka coffee ad features illustration of lady holding humongous coffee cup; article on pancakes; Modern fake flowers are very realistic; Marlboro ad features skin diver slouching in director-style chair - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later; The Short-sleeved suit - tasteful fashion photos; Great two-page color ad for the (cream-colored) 1960 Buick Invicta Three-Seat Estate Wagon features Navajo people and a Monument Valley driving scene; The Quakers - religions in America; Basketball All America - with photos of Walt Bellamy, Terry Dischinger, Roger Kaiser, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Tom Stith, Lee Shaffer, Jerry West and Len Wilkins; Hitler's Bloody Drive to Power - the inside story, with great photos; Photo Quiz; Color ad for "Man-Tan" product which tans white skin without sun (creepy); Two Young Friends Named Ellen - Ellen Erwitt and cripple Ellen Kalman of New Rochelle, N.Y. - touching photos; Back cover color-photo Lucky Strike ad shows smiling blonde injecting tar into her lungs; and more. Average wear. Nibble and short opening at bottom of coverfold. Small piece from bottom corner of back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Features: WSP (U.S.) Conference of 1969; The Kennedy Family Passion Play; That Reformer Fellow, President Nixon; That High Cost of Living; "Reparations" Vs. World Socialism; N.D.P. Shell Game - Ed Schreyer assumes leadership of the Manitoba N.D.P.; Historic Words Live Long After Tragedy - "Bill" Pritchard, one of eight men tried in connection with the famous Winnipeg general strike of 1919, speaks again; Those Halls of Montezuma - looking back on Aztec history, and myths which surround it; Marx and the American Civil War; Do Loose Lips Sink Ships? - fascinating article claims German U-boats were had fore-knowledge of targets by gleaning information from European reinsurance companies who underwrote the risk of ocean shipments; Passing of Jeni "Chubbi" Kligman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. II, September 1891; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the third of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 131; Green & Gibson p.55.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. II, October 1891; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the fourth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 21; Green & Gibson p.55.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, March 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the ninth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 64; Green & Gibson p.57.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. II, November 1891; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the fifth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 71; Green & Gibson p.56.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. II, December 1891; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the sixth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 499; Green & Gibson p.56.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, January 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the seventh of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 13; Green & Gibson p.56.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, April 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the tenth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 171; Green & Gibson p.57.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, May 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the eleventh of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 5; Green & Gibson p.58.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, June 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the twelfth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 38; Green & Gibson p.58.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, June 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the seventh of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the sixth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. In book form the title was changed to 'The Reigate Squires' to reflect both villains. De Waal 225; Green & Gibson A14.vi (both wrongly recording the altered title).
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text, recto of first leaf (not part of the story) lightly scarred; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, February 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the third of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the second when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 518; Green & Gibson A14.ii.
