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Features: Improving ferry design through passenger-flow simulation; Integrated automation for LNG tankers; ECOPAINT project fulfils new emissions rules; Wondermar - hoping to enhance Europe's competitiveness; Fatique in ship structures - new light on an eternal issue; Rolls-Royce/IZAR fast cargo ferry - competing with road transport; Cruise liner technology; Norway's marine industries; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Stories: Back to Nature; Khushal Khan's Rifle; Mountain Rescue; Indian Pantherss; The Hard Road; The Water Tank; Bhanamati; Malta Ferry; The Corner House; Bill Buffalo; Whaling in the Antarctic; Water-Divining in Malabar. Covers present but detached. Book
58 pages. Features: F.O.B. Philadephia - The Budd RDC-1 - article with diagrams and many photos; International Dieselization - Canadian Pacific holds the honors for operating the first entirely dieselized North American international railroad division - photos and article; Extra 1555 West - from Pocatello to Portland over Union Pacific's Idaho and Oregon Divisions - long article with map and great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold of a Mallett K-4c class 2-6-6-2 No. 7533 leading 105 cars through Lewis Run, Pa.; The Miracle of Turtle Creek - The Story of George Washington's invention of the modern Air Brake - Long article with photos and detailed diagrams; The Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad - brief writeup with photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer across Baltimore Harbor - is electrified in tunnels; Yosemite Valley Railroad - Gateway to Yosemite National Park; Pennsylvania Special - 3 miles in 85 seconds! - a speed record that stands today, 38 years after it was made; Helper Engines - used where mountains must be crossed; By Rail to Guatemala - U.S. and Mexican freight cars roll into Central America with the completion of the Suchiate Bridge; The Bear and the Semaphore - bear forces young signalman up a signal pole; Locomotives of the Wisconsin Central, including No. 96. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. 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
40 pages. Features include: Seaspan's China Tow; St. Roch II - Voyage of Rediscovery; Takaya - Multi-Purpose Patrol Vessel for Vancouver Port; Understanding Cycloidal Propulsion; Osprey 2000 - Ferry with the Kootenay Spirit; 2001 Directory lifts, ways and drydocks; Rough ride on Green Cove. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
22 pages. List of references. "Between 1883 and 1980 various facilities and methods were used to cross the river at Medicine Hat. This work is a compilation of relevant excerpts from books, newspapers, research of historians and personal memoirs." - from title page. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of car ferry Juno; On the Waterfront; European Ferry Commentary; New Warships for Old (?) - a review of additions and deltions to the fleets of the Royal Navy, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service; P&O's 'C' Class Liners of 1925 - Part 1; Voyage Report - Gordon Turner describes a memorable laker trip in the Great Lakes bulk carrier Peter Misener; Ships Pictorial; Singapore Shipping - colour photorfeature; Forty Years of Clyde Car Ferries; 'Ships Monthly' Ferry Cruise '94; A Captain and His Ship - Ronald Regan is master of the trailing suction dredger Sand Harrier; Naval Review; The Last voyage of the Olivebank - part 2 - towards Australia; Eagle Oil Tankers - photofeature; Ports of Call; Large colour photo of the HMS Westminster inside front cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of train ferry Nord pas-de-Calais; Ships of 1966 - photofeature; Farewell to the Train Ferry - P.J. Cone reviews the long history of the cross-Channel train ferry services which recently bowed out to the Channel Tunnel; The World's Navies - The Netherlands; 'Waterborne Freight in the UK'; Ferry Fleets Update; Ferry Focus - Peptunia and Poseidonia; Classic Liners at Southampton - colour photofeature; Cruise Ship Review; The Ships That Dunston Built - a short history of a Humber shipyard; SAS Somerset - the history of the boom defence vessel preserved as a floating exhibit at Cape Town; 'The Tale from the Nab' - recollections of a Southampton pilot, by A.R. Howard of his historic North-west Passage journey aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov; Voyage Report - North-west Passage with the Russians, by Captain P.R.M. Toomey; One-page colour photo of the APL Japan; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 137 pages with a great many b&w photos. Chapters include: Human history in the natural scene, American Indians, Spanish explorations, American Explorations, The American frontier reaches the Grand Canyon, Forest reserve and national monument, Grand Canyon national park: period of establishment, .... Period of expansion.
144 pages plus section with numerous full-page black and white illustrations. Captain Hayman was the skipper of the ferry crossing Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and Westbank before it was replaced by a floating bridge. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
pp. xii, 271 + Plates. Text illustrations by Constance Enslow. Sm. 4to. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. First Edition. NAVAL BOX 2
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 32 pages. Small tear and slight liquid stain to dust jacket. Previous owner's name. Pictorial boards slightly bumped. Beautiful brightly colored illustrations. Large format: 10 5/8"w x 14 1/2"h.
118 pages. Index. Numerous reproductions of black and white photographs. Printed upon glossy stock. The story of the troubled birth and phenomenal growth of the British Columbia Ferry Authority, now operating as B.C. Ferries. Prior owner's stamp inside front and back covers, otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy of this informative work. Book
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
Book has light wear to covers with a 1" tear upper back cover, pen mark on front. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 115 pages with occasional drawings & b&w photos. Inscribed by author on title page.
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
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.
Un volume de format in 8° de 192 pp.; nombreuses illustrations en couleurs de Paul Durand. Reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur; belle jaquette illustrée. Bel état. Voir photos. Peu fréquent.
Un volume broché de format in 8° de 494 pp.; couverture illustrée. Bel état. Voir photo.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured folding frontispiece, 5 coloured plates, 35 plates in monochrome, 16 coloured plates of house funnel colours and 30pp of ships drawn in outline, fore-edges lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, case a little bruised, joints mildly rubbed else a good, sound copy. Sold with a small quantity of relevant ephemera, including several pages of ship's photographs.
