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in-8°, 316 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [HI-3]
56 pages. Features: Fantastic colour International Harvester truck ad inside front cover; Money Marriage - the story of a girl who learned that money doesn't paddle a canoe in a crisis, by Eve Burkhardt; Kings Who Came to Canada, by W.J. Baanks; The Pipe Pushers, by Weston Martyn; Your Clothes and Your Clothes - a gibe at wollen-armored males who dare to laugh at women's clothes, by Mary Lowery Ross; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - the crash of appeasement; Beautiful Homes, I Love You, by Anne Wormser; A $300,000,000 Business - Canada's Tourism industry - fascinating!; Deep Waters, by Ben Ames Williams; It Does Rain Fish - dropping fingerling trout from airplains is Quebec's latest method of restocking Northern lakes; Great 1939 Chevrolet centerfold ad; Nice colour Stetson Hat ad inside back cover; Colour photo Studebaker Champion ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
64 pages. Features:Nice one-page colour ad for the '58 Plymouth with "Torsion-Aire; We must come to terms with Russia - or perish; Britain is rocked by air crash of Manchester United; Nostalgic full-page colour-photo ad for Aquascutum short wool coats; The Private Side of Politics - a panel speaks informally with John Diefenbaker adn Mike Pearson; Margaret - sister of the Queen - great article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison explains "What Went Wrong with the Boom" - economic analysis; Colour photos by John de Visser; How Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard Beat His Kid-Brother Jinx - article with great photos; Nostalgic centrefold ad for Inglis appliances for 1958; Uncommon colour photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; Huge two-page ad for the Conservative Party of Canada features full-page black and white photo of John Diefenbaker; Snappa Cappa Red Cap Ale - colour one-page photo ad shows fisherman opening bottle; Nice B/A ad on back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
116 pages. Features: Fantastic full-page colour-photo ad for Canadian Lord Calvert whisky features Oscar Peterson and Guy Lombardo; Full-page ad for the 1970 Arctic Cat Panther; The Black Gold (Oil) Rush of '69 - drilling for gold in the Canadian Arctic; Could the 1929 Crash Happen Again?; A Hole in the Muskeg with Two Billion Dollars In It - excerpt from Morton Shulman's book about a Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. geologist and his hunch; Derek Sanderson - The Dead-End Kid Who Wants to Be a Superstar - Feature Article with colour photos; Colour Ski-Doo ad; The Violent Death of Paddy Donovan; How to Become An American Without Really Trying; Key West - Florida's Bargain Basement; Colour photo ad for Ski Whiz snowmobiles; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for the 1970 Buick features the Electra 225 and Riviera; Canadians You Should Know - artist Wayne Eastcott, boxer Clyde Gray, glassblower Wolfgang Eberhart, Colour womens' fashion photos; Colour photo ad for the 1970 New Yorker 4 door hardtop; Larry Zolf reviews Easy Rider; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this scarce and wonderfully nostalgic issue. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Passing of A.J. Casson; Diane Francis on Preston Manning; Pondering Canada without Quebec; Liberals and Tories Embrace the Reform Party Agenda; Patrick (Pat) Buchanan seeks to tap right-wing backlash in the south; Letter from Moscow - Life behind the lineups; Israeli troops bulldoze through U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon - article with photo; Canadians Cannot Count on Government to Secure a Golden Retirement; The fight for control of pension funds; Nice VIA rail ad; Canada's first Olympic hockey medal in 24 years caps successful Winter Olympics - article with photos of celebrating Eric Lindros; Myriam Bedard; Brian Orser article on Olympic figure skating; Speed Skater Sylvie Daigle; Skier Wendy Buda suffers fatal crash; Pressure groups try to sanitize TV shows; Review of 'Storming Babylon' book on Preston Manning - with photos of Manning and his father, Ernest; Nice two-page ad for the Volkswagen EuroVan; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Passing of Scott Brayton and John Burgess; National Unity Debate; Guy Bertrand and Quebec's right to self-determination; Unity Debate - furor over fraud and illegal spending by both sides; The Quebec Gridlock; Photo of Brian Mulroney with psychic JoJo Savard; In British Columbia, Gordon Campbell's Liberals vs. Glen Clark and the NDP; Shaky Grip on Power in India; Liberia descends into brutal anarchy - article with very graphic photo; Robert Dole quits Senate to pursue U.S. Presidency; The Tragedy of Admiral Jeremy Michael (Mike) Boorda of the U.S. Navy; Eight climbers die on Mount Everest; Mark Blumes and battle for control of Mark's Work Wearhouse; CRTC Confronts U.S. Satellite TV Challenge; Eugene Lishak and SLM Software Inc. of Toronto provide cash machines for Russian banks - brief news item with photo; The airborne exploits of Father Goose, Bill Lishman; Marc Garneau in astronaut training; Photo of Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo in Uganda; Damon Stoudamire is rookie of the year; Philantropist Joan Chalmers; Auto Eroticism - David Cronenberg's sex-driven movie 'Crash' shakes up the Cannes festival; Ad for the Nissan Quest on back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: How Mental Illness is attacking our immigrants; The Brave New World of Trailor Living; Paul Anka - What it takes to crash Tin Pan Alley at Fifteen; The Toughest Flying Country in the World - British Columbia's Graveyard of Lost Planes; Davie Fulton - The Second Most Powerful Tory; How I Became an Equal - Arthur Tateishi and how this Canadian-born Japanese bounced back after Pearl Harbour; The Town Where Everybody Plays - Flin Flon, Manitoba. Nice Colour Ads: 1958 Dodge Automobile; Labatt's Crystal Lager Beer; O'Keefe Ales; Brading's Ale; DeSoto 1958 Automobile. Page 41 loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Features: Scumbag Tony Blair in conversation; Canada - Jailhouse Nation; Iggy's Quebe Problem; Harper's politics of venom and accusation; Alberta sales tax may be inevitable; Rise of the far right in England - the English Defense League; Salafi Preachers travel the globe preaching 'true' Islam; Sarkozy's Roma Stumble; Tim Hortons' historic decision to move to frozen donuts has exposed a bitter - and high-stakes - battle inside the country's favourite coffee shop - lengthy article; Bid to buy Potash; Avoiding the real estate crash; How to lose $100 million - Keith Raniere of the Nexians - Bronfmans lost money with him; The Boom Generation and its satisfying sex life; The Decline of Studying - students are spending less time studying but getting higher grades; Aqsa Parvez; Environmentally friendly air conditioning; Betty Crocker goes vegan; Arlene Wiener in memoriam; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Argentina - a civilian solution?; Arson at Red Hot Video - B.C.'s war on Pornography; Cover article - John Crosbie - the Tory to watch; 1-page article on Jane Crosbie, John's wife; Nova Scotia's 'Tollgate'; Righting a terrible wrong - Donald Marshall; The Margaret Thatcher Factor; Rumour of war in mideast; Cracks in South Africa's wall of white; Canada's illegal alien trade - smuggling people into the US; Stock Market - some insist the current market is ready for another 1929 crash; Eastern Airlines - soaring debt load; Taxing burden for Canadian distillers; Peter Newman on Victor Rice, CEO of Massey-Ferguson; Joseph Borowski's legal challenge to Canada's abortion law; Nuclear power's soft underbelly - Indian Point; Revolution in Romance novels, by Anne Collins; Blue Thunder - movie review. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of the Queen inspecting her guards; The Outstanding Canadians of 1964 - Father Gregory Baum, Jean Beliveau, Paul Hellyer, Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise; The people of Lambeth Ontario protest against the cutting of their trees; What Canada does to the English (and vice versa); How Allan Baker made a million from your 50-cent lunch - the rise of his Versafoods Services Ltd.; The strange revival of our best bad poet - James McIntyre; The lingering cost of disaster - the crash of Air Canada flight 831 on 29 November, 1963; The death and rebirth of the Martyr's Capital - rebuilding Ste. Marie into a top attraction for a whole new breed of sophisticated tourists; What's British Television Got? Canadians, all over the place - Sydney Newman, Elaine Grand, Ted Kotcheff, Alvin Rakoff, Bernard Braden; Minorities who want anti-hate laws are a threat to everybody's freedom, by lawyer Glen How. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Canada's first satellite goes up soon; Cardinal Leger and his church in a year of conflict; Justice for the victims of crime; Chuckwagon Racing - the wildest game on wheels - Bob Cosgrave in training for the world championship - great colour photos; 'We're Arming against ourselves if we take atomic arms for the Bomarc missile' - Paul Simon; The Strange legacy of flight TCA flight 810's crash on Mt. Slesse on 9 December 1956 between Vancouver and Calgary; Instant Houses - A Frames and how to spend weekends in the woods; Song and Dance on the Gaza Strip - a dozen Canadian entertainers played the strangest circuit in show business - the desolate and desperate Arab-Israeli frontier - with photos; Great colour Molson ad inside back cover features illustration of the "Avian", a revolutionary vertical take-off Gyroplane, hovering near Wellington-Waterloo Airport in Ontario. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover illustration of roller skate accident by Richard Priest; Colour Shredded Wheat ad inside front cover; Victory Bond ad; Editorial - Maclean's declaration of Faith and Purpose; Nice ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; Commandos Attack - Highlights from the inside story of the Commandos - the first official account of the daring exploits of Combined Operations - with photos; Article on taking care of our feet; Arctic Ordeal - C.B. Wall describes an amazing story of endurance after three men crash a plan in Greenland - David Goodlet, Arthur Weaver, Al Nash - with photo; Miss Sherlock Holmes, by Thelma Lecocq - Verda Vincent is Canada's only woman criminologist; Lolly was a Lady - fiction by Ed. Zern; They Kill U-Boats - "Not only must they battle wind and weather but bomb with split-second accuracy - and bring back actual proof of their 'kill'" - by Arch Whitehouse, with photos; Beverley Baxter in London explains how war damages family life; Cross-Canada news bits including bootleg food in B.C.; Greece Fights Back - despite atrocities unsurpassed in the history of tyranny Greek guerillas wage a bitter, stubborn warfare against their Axis foes, by Betty Wason, with photos; Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts of Africa - few men living today have had a more eventful and extraordinary career than this famous warrior-statesman - with photos; The Raiders - fiction by Norman Collins; Troop Troupers - the C.W.A.C. revue that's bringing glamour to Army camps across Canada, with photos; Work and Wages, by S.E. McGorman; Northern Electric Victory Bond ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad with caption "In Wartime eat one more slice of bread each meal!"; Fascinating full-page military-themed ad by Hiram Walker & Sons explains how their alcohol is used in a multitude of military applications; Two-colour full-page Kodak ad shows two Canadian sailor receiving snapshots from back home; Modess ad shows young lady working on a plane; Nice two-colour ad for Van Camp's Pre-Cooked Beans; Full-page Ford Motor Company ad with illustration of Canada's mechanized army at war; Nice colour ad for Quaker Corn Flakes; Rare Colour Coke ad on back cover includes several images of military men. Address label on front cover. Moderate wear. Short openings to and chips from bottom edge of front cover. A sound copy of this significant wartime issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
130 pages. Features: Why Roman Polanski Belongs in Prison; Super 2-page ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; A New Turn in our Afghan Strategy; Gene Simmons in conversation; Obama's man in Ottawa - David Jacobson; Stephen Harper on the Beatles, stage fright and his musical debut - with Abbey Road photo of the Harper Family; The Real Problem In Iran - it's not Ahmadinejad's nuclear capability; Conservative pundits have a hate on for Chicago; The world's seven richest nations and their meeting which brought the global economy back from the brink - major study with coverage of the 2008 crash; The Truth About Canwest's Collapse; Canada's top 100 Employers; The challenge for employers to retain the best and brightest; Can the private sector compete for employees?; New findings on redheads; Mark Steyn on Free Speech, and what Ignatieff can't say now; In Memoriam - Michael Mariak Jok. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Creepy cover photo of Canadian serial child-killer Clifford Olson and many of his victims; The Legacy of Jean Lesage; Cover Story - Killer Clifford Olson's Plea under section 745 of Criminal Code for early release from prison after only 15 years served; Olson's Prison World; Section 745 - Good Intentions, Mixed Results; Premier's conference - with photo of Lucien Bouchard at the microphone; Prairie farmers face crop loss; photo of Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason; India's Passage - facing weighty challenges on its 50th birthday; Police close in on suspects in the Air India tragedy; Abu Maizar and Lafi Khalil - terror suspects; KAL Flight 801 crash at Guam International Airport; Biting The Apple - Microsoft's Bill Gates bails out former Stave Jobs and Apple Computer; Body of Evidence - controversy over a corpse fuels the Bre-X scandal; British Columbia's Smelter of Success - $1.2 billion deal with Alcan at Kitimat; How First Nations self-rule can bring prosperity; Elvis reigns supreme 20 years after his death; Karen Douglas teaches English to Mexican labourers in Bowmanville; Murder in Cold Lake - Carol Meredith and Barclay MacFie; and more. Moderate wear. A clean and unmarked copy. Magazine
198 pages. Features: Fifteen world-class artists and designers take on a turn-of-the-century town house in a massive fund-raising effort for the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS (DIFFA); Frederick Kiesler - Modernism's Neglected Man; The Instant-Gratification Garden; The Real Truth Behind the (Predicted) Real Estate Crash of 1989; Perfect Houses, Perfect Lives. Ummarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Cover photo of young lady in red hat with veil; Quink ink ad; Orange Crush ad features brown bottle; How to Treat Germany in Collapse; One-page ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System; One-page colour GM ad features reproduction of painting of dock scene by Fred H. Brigden; Rebirth of a Nation - photo-illustrated article on Holland as it comes back to life after the war; Debit for Plunder - photo-illustrated article on the Nazis and the most gigantic robbery of all time; The House of Four Winds (short story); One Bad Turn (short story); Running Test (short story); Trade Follows the Treaty - photo-illustrated article on thriving world trade after the defeat of Germany; The Big Fellows (short story); Nice one-page black and white Kodak photo ad shows LAC Harold Campbell of Thorold, Ontario, a member of the crash crew at an R.A.F. airfield in southern England; Fantastic one-page federal Liberal party election ad with photo of Mackenzie King says "Opportunities for All... Buid a New Social Order, Vote Liberal"; Evinrude ad shows troops in small watercraft; Notes for Newlyweds; Nice colour ads for Savoy Custard, Magic Baking Powder, and Chase & Sanborn coffee - with Charlie McCarthy comic; Fashion illustrations; The New Fashioned Woman - Relax in Slacks; Beauty Becomes You - fashion article with photos; Colour portrait of Susan Peters in Woodbury Powder ad; Photo of Ethel Merman in Arrid ad; Colour Coke ad inside back cover with illustration of party with young sailor; GSW/McClary appliances colour ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Giving credit to Ed Uhl, AUS, for his help in the development of the bazooka; Nice International Harvesteer ad presents their crawlers, tractors and trucks; Nostalgic ad for the Highway Trailers Company; Sugar still rationed; Photo and article on W.C. Fields; Soviet Army pulls out of central Europe; Nice color Nash car ad; Indo-Chinese Puzzle; 22nd World Zionist Congress wraps up answering No to the question "Should the Congress authorize the Jewish Agency to participate in the London conference on Palestine in January?"; Irgun captures British troops and flogs them; Memories of the Soviet Censor III; Color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Photo of Ambassador George S. Messersmith; Brief obituaries for W.C. Fields, Baron Robert Philip De Rothschild, John Barton, Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond and Hugh R. Wilson; Photos of Tiny Tim rocket test; Nice color-photo portrait of Mr. Hiroam U. Helm, distinguished rancher, in Calvert Whiskey ad; Nice color ad for Frazer and Kaiser cars; Student of children, Arnold Gesell; "Star of Cairo" plane crash; Henry Hazlitt writes on the "Purchasing Power" theory; World Series article; Photo of tennis players Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer; Hermon H. Scott and his Dynamic Noise Suppressor in broadcasting studio; The Irrepressible Taft-Dewey Conflict; Canadian Club color photo ad features diving off the Dodecanese Islands; Great back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Jo Stafford and Perry Como; and more. Covers heavily-worn and loose but present. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Tragedy in Hood Valley; Treasure of the Estrellas; Man and Beast on a Crash Course; Two-Bar's Biggest Roundup; Bill Nye's Funny Bone; The Rogue's Rogue; A Man with Three Graves; Silver Fox Farming; A Pretty Lady Few People Knew; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Edizioni Crash, Rignano Sull'Arno 1986. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Soft cover in fine conditions, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
307 pages. Index. List of Sources. Black and white photographic plates. "A narrative of extravagant events and extraordinary men. Begins with the famous 1920 bomb explosion outside the Morgan bank. Ends with an explosion that had far more lasting impact - the conviction for embezzlement of Richard Whitney, last champion of the Old Guard of American finance." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book. Somewhat above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy. Book
Author's signature, and inscription to Western Canadian talk-show host Terry Moore upon front free endpaper. 208 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "Two days after the Soviet spy satellite Cosmos 954 splattered its debris across northern Canada, I decided to try to find the truth behind this disturbing incident." - from Preface. Light wear. Clean and tight. Nice solid copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Rising Cost of Living Raises New Problems; Pan-American Conference; Bonus Payments to be mailed to veterans; Attention to defenses; Foreign News - Hitler's 47th birthday, illustration of Gen. Werner Von Blomberg; African War Nears End - Ethiopia in Future to be Italianized; Current Events; Photo of Amelia Earhart who will operate 'flying laboratory' for Purdue University; Illustration of Elliott Roosevelt who comments on his father's health; Congress; Gov. Louis J. Brann; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of house at 516 10th St. where Lincoln died; Science News; Aviation - tragic crash of transcontinental airliner in Pennsylvania gives greater significance to new altimeter from Ralph Lucas of Albany; National News; Despite Repeated Financial Losses, World Fairs Go On - New York Next; Snappy slogans of former campaigns; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Signed, without inscription, by James Wesley Rawles upon title page. "Rawles, a former Army Intelligence officer, uses the format of an exciting action novel to present a wealth of timely and invaluable survival information. An exceptional reference." - J. Stachow. 342 pages. Unread and as new. Clean, bright and unmarked. A great gift idea for a dedicated survivalist. Book