Plummer, Russell; et alMareMagnum
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52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the three-masted wooden schooner Artemis; Photo inside front cover of HMS Ardent (F184); Great full-page photo of the Russian passenger vessel Taras Shevchenko; On the Waterfront; Campaign for the Lincoln Castle; Under Sail; European Commentary; Naval Review; Passenger Ships of the Soviet Union; The Wind of Change - part 2 of a review of the Royal Navy in the 'fifties; Guide to Ships of the Royal Navy - part 2 - Amphibious Craft and Missile Ships; Maritime Diary; Still in Steam - Toronto ferry 'Trillium'; Ship Sales; Casualty Reports; Letters; Nice photo of the HMS Vanquisher in 1935 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Circa late 1990s. A five-minute VHS fundraising video featuring the infamous Glen Clark. Intended exclusively for the biggest financial supporters of the British Columbia NDP, Clark implores them to dig deep and defeat the 'right wing extremists', Gordon Campbell and Jack Weisgerber by re-electing Clark for a second term. Pop this baby into your right wing friend's VCR and watch the look on his/her face! Circa 1997? A vidid reminder of BC's years of destruction at the hands of the NDP - may they never be repeated. Book
118 pages. Features: Attractive color-photo ad for the 1960 Plymouth Fury - maroon two-door in front of dam; Two-page Marlboro shows slouching golfer on bench - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later!; Champion spark plug ad features photos of Mickey Thompson, Rodger Ward, Max Conrad and Hugh Entrop; Color ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista; Nice at for the 1960 Valiant (red); Two-page Chrysler ad announces their new slant 6 engine; Major coverage of Washington, D.C, with fold-out walking map; Rules for successful D.C. party crashing; Rare two-page color ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair co-sponsored by General Mills cereals; Pepsi ad; School integration without turmoil - in Washington, D.C.; Sister Margaret of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur trains girls to think; Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates is the Second Most Powerful Man in Washington; Nice Dutch Boy color ad; Vintage two-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Nomad Station Wagon (pinkish) parked on a city street; Every Man Can't Become President; Nice two-page color ad for the 1960 Ford Comet; The Wry World of David Brinkley; Washington's Gaslight Club; Color ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Vintage two-page color GM ad shows white 1960 Impala convertible and red 1960 Corvair on the Seattle-Winslow ferry in Washington state's San Juan Islands; Meet the French Ambassador's Wife - Nicole Alphand; Nice bright ad for Miller High Life beer; Nice color ad for the 1960 De Soto (red) in front of ritzy southern home; Big Wheels of Washington - great photos of the capitol's power players; They're giving their emotions to science - medial research with photos of Nancy Lou Comstock; 7up ad inside back cover features color photo of the Kingston Trio being yarded onto a ship, with a large supply of soda; Back cover color-photo Chesterfield King cigarette ad says "Big Clean Taste" and shows smiling couple in a choking haze of smoke; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
52 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Pennsylvania's Mountain Types; The Man in the Tower; Grand Central Station - super 12-page photo-illustrated article; Via Burlington - Wartime Freight - climb to the black cusions in the caboose of First 67 and witness some real train handling; Car Retarders - They speed up switching by controlling cars from a central point; Pictorial Presentations - B&M transfer point, SP in the Siskyous, Old New York & Harlem locomotive, World's sharpest curve, NYNH&H, Western Pacific - Norfolk & Western; Lumber Railroad - The Michigan-California Lumber Company's 45-mile railroad northeast of Placerville - with photos of their aerial lumber ferry; Photos of the world's longest chute? - 3,000 foot drop to the South Fork, American River. Railroad Ups and Downs; They Look Alike - Forney and a Fairlie. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 1069 - 1108. Features: Royal fashions at Ascot; Photos at Ascot which Elizabeth attended for the first time as Queen; Photos of the Swiss assault on Everest; Photos and illustration of British Railways' latest and largest car ferry - details of the Lord Warden; Ten Years ago at El Alamein - article with photos; A Russo-Swedish Incident - the Catalina shot down by MIG-15s in the Baltic - five photos and brief write-up of the plane piloted by Ensign Karl O. Arbin; Excavations at Nippur, the 4400 -year-old holy city of Sumeria and Babylonia; The Wedding of Inanna and Tammuz; Lovely 1952 Wimbledon photo montage over two pages features 20 of the top male and female competitors; 400th anniversary of Shrewsbury School; Recent royal sightings; Photos of people in the news, including The Maharani Seeta Devi Gaekwar of Baroda with her colt Aquino II which won the Ascot Gold Cup; One-page photo of Wimbledon match between Richard Savitt and Narish Kumar; Two photos show the growth of an island volcano, Didicas in the Philippine seas; Photos of Field Marshal Alexander touring military sites in Korea; Photos of Koje Island prisoners as order is restored under Brigadier-General Boatner; Nice one-page ad for the David Brown companies features their Aston-Martin and Lagonda cars; Nice colour ad for Nuffield cars inside back cover; Colour BOAC ad on back cover features their new Comet jetliner; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Isabel LeBourdais, Dr. Gustave Gingras, Elaine Tanner, Joseph Papp, Bonny Rush, Georges Lemay, Lili St. Cyr, Jean Drapeau, Norma Lougheed, Dalton Camp, Elmer Sopha, Joey Smallwood, Eric Griffiths, Martine Van Hamel, Harry Jerome, Glenn Hall, Dirk Hoogendoorn, Constable Del Moore, Joe Borowski, Mary English; Photo and brief write-up of Medicine Hat farmer Art Millington and his battle to sell unpasteurized milk; Colour fashion photos 'hide-and-seek sex'; Artist Feliks Topolski; Doug Barkley's fight to recover from a serious hockey eye injury; Len Johnson and how this captain of an Empress found happiness as a second mate on a B.C. ferry. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Rare memento of this early high-speed endeavour to connect passengers travelling between Vancouver and Vancouver Island by sea. Claimed to connect downtown Nanaimo with downtown Vancouver in just over 45 minutes; downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria in under one and a half hours. Light wear. Few pencil notes. Undated. Circa 1972. Book
80 pages. Features: Nice ad for the Dodge Coronet V*; The Family in the Palace - Part 1 of 7 by Pierre Berton - the absorbing story of the House of Windsor; What Karsh Saw in Toronto - wonderful black and white photos - a precous snapshot of Toronto in 1953; The Girl Who Became Melissa Hayden - Millie Herman has become one of the top ten ballerinas this side of the Iron Curtain - colour photos; The Row Over the Three Rs - short of staff and space our schools can't decide on what kind of education our chikldren should get - part 2 of the Crisis in Education; William Aberhart - the Mand and His Shadow - a Maclean's Flashback - nice photos; A Friendly Game of Cards - story by Antony Ferry, illustrated by Keith Dalgleish; What's Put Hockey on the Skids? - article with full-page photo of a scrum between the Bruins and Leafs; At Grips With A Grizzly, by Colin Wyatt - the true story of probably the only man who has fought a grizzly bear with his bare hands and lived to tell the tale!; Nice colour Buick ad; Colour Plymouth ad; Nice Heinz soup ad with girl's photo; Colour ad for General Motors of Canada shows several car and truck models; Bing Crosby in Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad; 1953 Mercury car ad inside back cover; Attractive Coke ad on back cover shows well-dressed hostess setting a nice table. Light wear. Unmarked. A pleasing copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Cover art by Frankline Arbuckle shows horse-drawn potato diggers at work in New Brunswick's St. John River Valley near Grand Falls; Nice colour GWG ad inside front cover features macho scene of two men hefting a heavy wooden box; One-page colour Matinee cigarette ad shows high society equestrian scene; Article on Canada's wheat surplus; Notes on a journey to the Wagner Festival; Canada's Biggest Big Businessmen - with photo of Garfield Weston and grandson at his Riviera home, Samuel Bronfman, John David Eaton, Charles Dunning, Joseph Simard, James Muir, A.E. (Dal) Grauer, R.A. Jodrey, E.P. Taylor, and J.S.D.Tory, plus list of dozens of individuals, their number of Boards, and their main interests; How the Queen Talks and What She Says; Florencia Bay (part 1); What's Happened to the Suburb They Called Crestwood Heights? (an inquisitive study of Toronto's Forests Hills Village; Why I'm Quitting Hocky for Football - Gerry James chooses the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the Toronto Maple Leafs - article with photos; How a Teenager's Dream Came True at Stratford - Roberta Maxwell; Nostalgic BA ad for their Velvet 98 gas says a 'new star is born' and shows lady's face at center of star; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for Omega Watches says they are the official timepiece of Canadian Pacific Airlines; One-page colour ad for Canada Steamship lines features the lake freighter 'Georgian Bay'; 3/4-page Canadair ad features their CL-44 aircraft; Nice one-page Hammond Organ ad; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos in Switzerland where Theodor Wyrsch won a flag-swinging contest at St. Moritz; I Ate My Way Up the Waldord, by Antony Ferry; Marconi Radio ad; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank ad encourages modern husbands and wives to have individual chequing accounts; Vintage two-colour (black and red) Bank of Montreal ad features a long-forgotten logo; One-page colour ad for O'Keefe Ale features couple; Back cover Polysar ad features colour illustration entitled 'When Saturday Night was Bath Night', which shows mother bathing young girl in large wooden basin in kitchen with water heated on the stove; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
Un volume broché de format in8° (12x19cm); de VIII pp. (faux titre, titre, préface) un frontispice; gravure à l'eau forte de Paul Vayson; 312 pp.; 16 pp. (catalogue du libraire). nombreux tableaux; 21 figures en noir dans le texte. Volume débroché, à relier éventuellement. Intérieur frais. Peu fréquent. Voir les photos. Cette étude comprend d'importants chapitres sur les sites naturels, les truffières artificielles, l'utilisation des truies, des chiens, des mouches.... Réf: Vicaire Gastronomique 359; manque à Oberlé et Schliemann.
248 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. More than seventy black and white photos. "The first authentic account of the romantic rise to fame and ultimate disbandment of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the little-known Ferry Pilot service of the (second world) war. Starting with 30 amateur pilots, its numbers finally totalled over 700 who, between 1939 and 1945, ferried more than 308,000 aircraft of more than a hundred different types from the factories to the Royal Air Force." - dust jacket. Appendices include: Special Commendations; Honours List; List of A.T.A. Pilots Who Actually Ferried Aircraft at Pools; Ferrying Figures; Lists of All Types of Aircraft Ferried. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival Brodart, which is missing large chunk from top of backstrip, affecting front and back panels. Bonus: Laid-in is A.T.A. Association Newsletter No. VIII from 1955 which runs 16 pages, including a seven-page list of current members. Also, laid inside this newsletter is an obituary news clipping of the A.T.A.'s wartime second in command, Philip Wills, plus a letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Mather, O.B.E., dated 10 May 1996, which concerns the wartime record and award of Mr. James Bain, MBE, who served as Superintendent, Flight Engineers, A.T.A. ENSER p.376. Book
