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Pages: 205-244. Features: Cadets from the ketch 'Moyana' parade through the streets; Wonderful one-page aerial photo of troops and equipment of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade on board the aircraft carrier 'Theseus' leaving Portsmouth for the Mediterranean to deal with the seizure of the Suez Canal; The Suez Canal - scenes of the nationalisation decree being put into force; Mr Dulles in London to deal with the Suez crisis; Beautiful colour ad for Passing Clouds cigarettes features gloves and grey top hat; P & O photo ad features M.J. Murphy, Chief Radio Officer aboard the P & O ship 'Strathnaver'; Rebuilding the bridge Ponte Della Pietra, in Verona, Italy; Important Rubens sketch discovered in English country house of Mrs. Humphrey Brand; J.C. Laker's triumphant ten wickets; The Canadian Oilfields - a possible alternative to those of the Middle East in the future; Two page illustration of the distribution of the world's oil wells and refineries shown on a map; The Lebanon-Iraq Petroleum Co. Dispute - piping oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean - photos and text; Centerfold illustration of the rescue of the crew of the 'Moyana' by the steamer 'Clan MacLean'; Two-page graphic illustrates ever-growing transatlantic air traffic; Eleven photos of Eskimo soapstone carving; Photos of thirteen newsmaking personalities of the week including the Danish Royal Family, Mr. T. Bourdillon, Mr. R. Viney; Princess Christina of Hesse; General Valluy; Maiden flight of the Bristol Brittania 301 airliner; Photos of the Tower of London's Ravens; Earthquake damage in Burma; Protest in Seoul; Wedding of the Sultan of Kedah's son and the Sultan of Selangor's daughter; The R.S.P.C.A. hostel at London Airport; Nice colour ad for Senior Service cigarettes on back cover features sailors crossing the Equator for the first time; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
pp. 308 +Plus 4 leaves of B/W plates. 12mo. 190mm. Original publisher's pictorial full yellow cloth binding lettered in red and decorated in red and black. Spine ruled in black and lettered in red. Cover colors are bright but board is soiled. Spine soiled with fading. Some Wear to base and head of spine and edges of boards. Corners sharp. Some pages mildly damp-stained. Hardbound. Very Good. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. American News Company was a magazine, newspaper, book, and comic book distribution company founded in 1864 by Sinclair Tousey, which dominated the distribution market in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The company's abrupt 1957 demise caused a huge shakeup in the publishing industry, forcing many magazine, comic book, and paperback publishers out of business. NW62
Reprint of the 1962 first edition. 293 [1] pages. Bibliographic Index. Index of Chapter Glosses. "Concerned with that association of cultural and political events which, from the origins of phonetic literacy to the development of typography, have shaped the Western individual and society. The translation of tribal man into his Western form is shown to have occurred by the agency of phonetic literacy alone." - form dust jacket. Markings to contents in pencil and ink. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound reference copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to lower corners. With fully-removable transparent sleeve. 240pp. Themes of photography - the human condition, still life, portraits, the nude, nature, war - and very well illustrated.
86 pages. Intended for dealers, service stations and repairmen. Not connected with the Ford Motor Company. Includes suggestions for improving sales highlighted by dozens of magnificent vintage ads for vehicles and parts, the highlight being the Columbia Body Corporation's centerfold ad which displays seven of their hardwood custom built commercial vehicle body designs; Average wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present. A worthy copy of this wonderful Ford collectible. 13.5" x 10.2" Magazine
a life in photo-journalism G(no dj, pictorial card covers, corners of front cover bumped at the tip, binding firm and pages clean and unmarked but faint narrow damp stain bottom edge of pages not affecting text) quarto 197pp. First edition. B/w photos throughout. Autobiography of one of Fleet Street's best known news photographers, whose coverage of the 1956 Suez Crisis helped win him his first major award.
12 pages. Features: Mr. A.R. Tucker joins quarter-century club; Mr. R.M. Pinfold marks 45th year with the company; Congratulations to W. Murray Lytle; Retirement of Harry Finnegan - story and photos; Wiener roast for hosiery staff - story and photos; New season for bowlers; 12-year-old Ronald Oracheski wins Eaton's "Firebird" contest; Jean Pugh entertains; Wedding of Alice Fedoruk; Baby news. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
12 pages. Features: Ewart Miller celebrates 25 years with Eaton's; Ronald Gilmour marks his 40th anniversary with the company; Lila Brigham reaches 30 year milestone with Eaton's; Wedding news; Bert Cossey - 30th milestone in Eaton career; 30 year milestone for Mr. C. Ross Dargavel; Miss Tillie McVeigh is promoted; Miss Ruth Holden honoured by associates; Miss Canada visits Eaton's - Miss Danica d'Hondt - story and photos. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
12 pages. Features: John J. Whitesell marks 25th anniversary and retirement; Presentation to Mrs. Chris Moore; Mildred Schultz is married; Farewell to Mrs. Vi Fraser; Bowling bash - photos and story; Field Day at Elk Island Park - many photos with text; Field Day at Highlands Golf Course - many photos; Mr. L.W. Bradshaw marks 30th anniversary; Mourning the passing of Delbert Miller. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Bit of writing on front cover. A sound copy. Book
12 pages. Features: Lou D. Chisholm becomes quarter century club; Eaton's 29th Anniversary in Edmonton - text and sale photos; Honours for Florence Gilmour; Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
144 pages. Features: The Real News From Three Mile Island; Skidding - horses in the woods; Plant a Tree for England; The Butterflies of Jasper Ridge; The I Cash Clothes Man; Going Underground in Arctic Norway; Turning into WARC; Personal Computer Networks; Dungeons & Dragons; The Brief Against "Voluntary Metric Conversion"; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
290pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
52 pages. Features: Classy Stan Smith cover illustration of fashionable lady in white hat; Heroine of an Anecdote (fiction); Tale of the Cats - Anecdotes of sunken Caterpillars of Cat Trains in Canada's north which were amazingly salvaged; The House of Mystery (fiction); The Old Head (sports fiction); The Boy Who Rode Lightning (horseracing fiction); Return Engagement (fiction); Truce for the Beavers - photo-illustrated article by Grey Owl; Nice photo-illustrated Plymouth car ad; Classy two-page illustrated Oldsmobile ad; Colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium ham features illustration of Mrs. Robert E. Marsh; Marybelle and the Wishing Stone (juvenile fiction); Beauty article; Fashion Forecasts from Fifth Avenue - with illustrations; Dodge car photo ad features the "Airglide Ride"; Movie news and photos; Easter Recipes; Letters to the Editor; Interesting colour-illustrated Cellophane ad inside back cover features "Poor Johnny Microbe" whose food supply has been reduced by this product; Back cover Old Dutch Cleanser ad features colour illustration of elegant ladies in luxurious green bathroom. Unmarked with average wear. Complete and intact. A fascinating and charming vintage issue. Book
A paper on the newspaper press in Britain. No covers. Rust stains to front cover and affecting up to page 7. Slight creases.
Folio 304p., illus. SOFTCOVER. Paperback Very good condition
179 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. A compilation of the author's newspaper columns. In this book "... readers can experience the best of life in a particular corner of Manitoba and abroad - written, as it was lived, with liberal dashes of Stewart humour." - Helen Mulligan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
41st year of issue. Good pbk. Covers soiled. Page edges browned. Binding fragile. 23475. eng
192 pages, statistics. Covers worn. Page edges browned. Front hinge weak. eng
Features: reproductions of two short articles from 'The Pierce-Arrow Salesman'; Organizational Chart of the Pierce-Arrow Company, circa 1918; Evaluating the 'Dymaxion' car, by Maurice A. Thorne (Pierce-Arrow Experimental Engineer, 1929-34); reproduction of an interesting "Alemite Equipment Sheet" circa 1920, which was mailed to a customer by his Pierce-Arrow dealer; Reproduction of a 1973 news story about the renovation of a 1924 Pierce Arrow Truck at Burlington County Votech - many photos; Large original factory photo of a 1914 Pierce-Arrow runabout; Six-page article entitled "Old Days Service Garage Experiences", by John M. Powers - includes chassis diagram of a 1915 48-B-3 Pierce-Arrow which shows 93 (!) greasing points; Service Section - New Haven Station is Model - nicely illustrated 2-page article about a P-A dealership in New Haven; Three *great* pages of photos and text about the Clarke-Leu Company, the P-A dealer in Albany, NY; Recollections about the Famous Pierce-Arrow Cars, by A.C. May; Pierce-Arrow Epigrams, circa 1916, are reproduced inside back cover; On back cover is a reproduction of a 1920 dealer's quote for a five-ton dual valve Pierce-Arrow dump with four-yard steel body ($7242.40). Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of a 1934 Model 840A limousine; Reproduced news clipping of Ken Mausolf's 1920 Pierce Arrow; Pierce-Arrow in the Thirties - four-page article by Brooks T. Brierley; 1933-1938 Pierce-Arrow Registrations Chart; Two photos of a 1934 Model 836A four-door sedan; Reproduction of a 1973 news story about Charles Thompson, restorer of Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Pierce Arrow - reproductions of several related photos and articles included; Musings and many photos from the 1973 Meet; Back cover features a reproduction of a Pierce-Arrow Common Stock Certificate. Moderate wear. Some soiling to front covers. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Night Hunting Deer With a Camera; Kennel news; Manitoba Prairie Chicken Trials - article with photos of dogs Chehaw, Kremlin, and Spartan Roy; Plenty of dog information; Veterinary Q & A; Vintage one-page illustrated ad for Florida-Collier Coast and Associated Hotels; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Shipboard newsletter of the USAT Chateau Theirry while she operated as an army transport vessel in 1937. 13" x 8". Seven one-sided pages plus cartoon illustrated covers which focus on wine, women and mocking senior officers. Contents include: comments on the heat and boredom of their trip from Hawaii, apparently bound for San Francisco; Sino-Jap Doings; Movie of the Night; Radio News - gold hoard found in Panama, Miller Creek Forest Fire in Montana, Tennis score, King of Rumania buys famous yacht, War news from near Peiping (Beijing), baseball scores; Onboard kindergarten cancelled due to heat and lack of facilities; Ship's position; many humorous writings; and more. Bound by a single staple in upper right corner. Chip from bottom corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A wonderful nautical memento. Book
191 pages including index and glossary. An instructional guide for newsroom and classroom beginners in newsfilm. A source of information on newsfilm practices and trends at pacesetting TV news operations. Emphasis throughout is on shooting, editing and scripting silent and sound film to communicate reality without distortion. A nostalgic (?) look back at this ever-evolving and competitive art and business. Book
28 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo of Lineman Gordon MacDonald, of New Westminster, at work on a pole near Cloverdale; One-page appeal for operators - jobs available; Lovely one-page photo of beautiful twin-sister operators Phyllis and Dorothy Harper at work; Photos of mother and daughter at work as operators - Annabelle Corriveau and Florence Corriveau; Photo of Norma and Christine Laughton workking together; Photo of Shirley Sinclair working with her mother Agnes; Great photos of elaborate B.C. Tel. parade float in Vancouver; Photos of operators who recently assisted in various rescue operations; Photos of employees at work in the Victoria Plant Building; Many great annual picnic photos from Bowen Island, including a photo of the huge group; Farewell to George Pawson, William Smith, Mickey O'Brien, and Al Scott; much social news with photos; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
