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Front cover illustration of the red flag at the gate of the Tsar's Palace. Abundantly illustrated in black and white with excellent contemporary photos. Contents: Chapter CXCVI - The Adbication of the Tsar... Russia in 1916, The Stuermer Premiership, Growth of Discontent, M. Protopopoff as Minister of the Interior, Meaning and history of the autocracy, character of the Tsar, why the revolution failed in 1905-7, The Empress Alexandra, Forces behind the throne, Rasputin, His Murder, Economic Chaos in Russia, Responsibility of M. Protopopoff, The Revolution, March 1917, Police Provocation, Diary of Events in Petrograd, Provisional Government under Prince Lvoff, The Duma, Recognition of the new government by the Allies. Very important history. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of the Maid of the Mist beneath Niagara Falls, by Franklin Arbuckle; Colour ad for International trucks inside front cover; GMC truck ad; The Royal Family of the Seas - Canadian Sam Cunard's mighty Queenships shuttle across the Atlantic with 200,000 travelers each year; Why Half Our High School Students Quit; The Clumsy One (fiction); A Honeymoon at Niagara Falls, by June Callwood and Trent Frayne; How Red Dutton Made His First Million - the NHL's one-time bad man is now a rich contractor; Ellen Fairclough Goes to Ottawa - the only female member of parliament, and only the sixth Canadian woman M.P.; The Black Magic Murder Case (fiction); Joe Palooka - richest pug in the world - Ham Fisher's brawny clean-cut champion rakes in $8 million a year from comic strips, movies and candy; Rev. Lester Burry - The Mechanized Missionary of Northwest River - article with colour photos; The Day You Meet Your Skunk; The Bachelor's Dilemma, by Morley Callaghan; Page-Hersey heating ad features photo of Micheal, Marywinn, Marion and David Milne of 32 Kingsway Cres., Toronto; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Champion spark plug ad features racer Johnny Parsons; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features nice swimming illustration by Aileen Richardson; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Fantastic colour-photo ad for Marboleum inside front cover shows 1930's bathroom with yellow fixtures; Editorial on Hitler's "Racism Gone Mad"; Attractive one-page colour ad for the new 1939 Plymouth features a blue four-door; News digest contains these headings - The Anti-British Outburst in Moscow; Incidentals of a Month; A 'National Unity' party; Trials of the Rowell Commission; A Summer's Books; Nostalgice one-page ad for the 1939 Dodge Six and Dodge De Luxe (orange); "North American Speaks English" - Bismarck said this was the most impressive thing in modern history - this photo-illustrated military article deals with the matter of the English-speaking North Americans joining in the impending war on the British side; More Fish in the Sea (short story); A Maker of Books (short story); Mace Webb (short story); Going to the Dogs - great photo-illustrated article on greyhound dog racing in England, with photo of General A.C. Critchley; Little Miss Hurricane (short story); Crossways House (short story); Murderers in the Football Stands - without the outlet of sports as a safety valce for his emotions the average human being would probably turn to murder, mayhem, arson and pillage(?); Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Movie news and photos of Gloria Blondell, Carole Lombard, Paulette Goddard, Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer; Lux soap ad features beautiful photos of Loretta Young; Woodbury's Cold Cream ad features photo of Danielle Darrieux; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; *Sensational* one-page colour-illustrated ad for Canadian apples shows little boy at top, different apples down left side, and cooked pie foods along bottom, with list of apple varieties and their ripening months; Where the Fashions Start (fashion article; Nice one-page two-colour ad for Heinz Soups says "The Tureen Tells Tales; Cosmetics article; World Sayings; "Serve Fish To Your Family" colour ad inside back cover; Old Dutch cleanser colour ad on back cover; and more. Bits of loss from corners of last page, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Great cover photo of Lila Leeds. Features: "Occupation" (fiction); Revolt in the Philippines - author who helped liberate the Philippines returns to learn more about the struggle between President Roxas and rebels - article with many great photos; What the Boys did for Damon - The Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund - article with nice photos; City Girl at a Country Fair - Lorraine Davies at the Mineola Fair; Back on Top; "I'm Tired of My In-Laws" - Harry Harrison lived in a house with ten people as a publicity stunnt; Chicago's Bungling Cops - article on their poor rate of solving crime, with emotional photos; Colonel, We Loved You - true story of an officer whose career should be studied by all West Point grads; Muscles and Magazines - Photo-illustrated story of Bernarr Macfadden, founder of magazine "Physical Culture"; How Women Dress Men; Durable Dobbs - trying to stop passing quarterback Glenn Dobbs of Brooklyn; Canada's Vets Get a Break - article discusses the government benefits they received when they returned home; Sex Grows Up at Cafe Society - Singer Lucienne Boyer; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio is Back on Top; Catfight in Old Vienna - Viennese women put up fight for men with U.S. wives; Archie "Advices" the Lovelorn - Radio's famous bartender, Ed (Archie) Gardner, star of Duffy's Tavern; The King Who had a Diamond Tooth - photo-illustrated article on jazzman Jelly Roll (JellyRoll) Morton; Spam's Brave New World - have ex-GIs kept their word and refused to touch Spam (lunch meat) ever again?; Movie "Crossfire" Defied Hollywood Taboos - article with many photos; Movies of the Month; Country Editor Kicks Up a Fuss - Don Matchan of Valley Center, North Dakota; The South is Fightin' Mad - Forts Sumter and Moultrie go up for sale; Four Way Fight to take Pauline Betz' tennis crown; Two-page photo-section of gorgeous Ohio State University student Toni Bolling who was partially undressed in a Columbus department store window, resulting in jammed traffic for blocks; Lovely beauty contest photos of Virginia Harvester and Pat Geraghty; Fashionable color back cover ad for Hammonton Park clothes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Small bit of peeling to front cover. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Oscar Cahen of wedding scene; Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Austin car ad; Richard Keith Van Sickle - this oilman from Petrolia, Ontario ducked out of Austria in 1939 and the Russians grabbed his oil wells; The Girl with the Gingham Heart (fiction); But the Red Men (Indians) Didn't Vanish! - Canada's policy of cruelty and neglect toward native peoples is on the mend (large photo of Chief Joseph Abel of Yellowknife); An Island to Share (fiction); Country Minister - as the United Church celebrates its 25th anniversary modern young ministers like Elridge Currey of Victoria Square, Ontario, carry on with the great task; The Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway of British Columbia - colour-photo-illustrated article; Mermaids made to measure - Archie Johnston of Toronto makes fake mermaids, mummies, etc. for carnivals; Why Don't Adults Grow Up?; The Vigilante Massacre - on Feb. 4, 1880 about 20 men attached the Donnelly home near Lucan, Ontario; Man's Last Enemy is Himself - political news from Britain with Churchill content; Nice colour (red) Meteor car ad; The Spoof That Swept a Continent - Lewis Gorin, Jr. and friends demanded soldier bonuses - while alive to spend them!; Nice colour White Road ad with Lake Louise motif; Nice colour-photo Canadian National ad shows family having luxury meal in dining car; 1950 Chevrolet truck ad; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features wonderful colour illustration of picnic scene by William Winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
Contents: Great military ad for Chevrolet military equipment; Doomsday strikes for the Nazis with Berlin dying, nation split - photo of American soldier mocking Hitler from the stadium box where the Fuhrer once harangued Nazis; Great full-page illustration of "Hitler's Two Fronts - Last Phase"; interesting photos of captured Germans, some being Nazi-saluted by passers-by; Lucky Count von Luckner is prize of Task Force Newman; photo of Russian tanks in Vienna; Davao (Little Tokyo) at bay; Government by co-operation is theme of President Truman's actions during first days in office; Great photo and coverage of Presidential press conference; GM Truck and Coach ad - with Leyte theme; Polish issue - Soviet failure to observe promises Stalin made at Yalta poses question of good faith; San Francisco prepares for United Nations conference; Nazi policy of organized murder blackens Germany for all history - civilized world shocked by evidence, living and dead, of Herrenvolk's brutality - article with graphic photos; Henri Dentz - a traitor's death; Vintage International Harvester Truck ad with caption "Till the Japs Say 'Uncle'"; English lady harnesses goats to pull her to market - uses almost anything for fuel!; Luis Carlos Prestes released from Jail in Brazil; OPA retreats under pressure of general public indifference - fight against inflation is revealed in Newsweek survey as losing on most fronts; Ernie Pyle shared the Doughfoot's lot, even to death in a roadside Okinawan ditch - photo and article; Seiberling Tire ad in color; Dr. Frondel's work with x-rays at Harvard; Nice Chesterfield cigarette color ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Two-inch opening to top of cover-fold. Cover attached by one staple. Book
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of boy celebrating summer vacation; Sisman's Scampers shoe ad inside front cover; Editorials deal with these topics - Partial Relief, A Doctor, Not a Nurse, Maintaining the Tradition, The Cooperatives, Farewell Toscanini, and Not Conquest but Murder; Trollop (short story); This Peace (short story); A Modern Odyssey - photo-illustrated article by Edgar N. Brown describes sea travel; Rough 'Un (short story); The Black Ace (short story); The Smooth Silence (short story); The Dilemma of Debt; Scotland Yard Versus Crime - photo-illustrated article on the system employed by this world famous organization to track down criminals, law breakers and lesser offenders; Golf Duds & Meteors - photo-illustrated golf article with photos of Charles A. Whitcome, Albert "Scotty" Campbell, Lex Robson, Tony Manero, Willie Lamb, and Tommy Armour; It's In the Bag - interesting article on the history of purses; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features Banff; Palmolive ad features photo of Montreal stylist and designer Doris Preston; Nostalgic half-page ad for McClary Stoves; Vintage half-page photo ad for Eddy's Sterilized White Swan toilet paper shows fellow in bathing suit at the beach; Movie news with photos of Clark Gable, Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, William Powell, Jean Chadburn, Alison Skipworth, Warren William, Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, and more; Lux soap ad features photo of Joan Bennett; Photo of Dick Powell in Quaker Puffed Wheat ad; Pond's ad features photos of Miss Barbara Hebbard and Lady Daphne Straight; Unusual half-page ad for Blue-Jay Corn Plaster, by Bauer & Black Scientific; Nice half-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad features the Empress of Britain; Business News includes mention of the recent Alberta default; Cooking article; Lovely one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Nice one-page Heinz ad features their vinegar and Olive Oil; Vintage half-page Rice Krispies ad; Beauty article; Why Baby Cries; One-page Carnation Milk ad features five large photos of each of the individual Dionne Quints; World Sayings; Colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso; Rare colour back cover ad for Red Indian oil and Marathon Blue gasoline features illustration of native elders in feathered headgear, painted by Winold Reiss; and more. Covers loose but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
64 pages. Features: One-page Parker Pen ad shows 'active service set' which complies with military regulations; "Canada is Strong" - one page illustration of man harvesting grain, sponsored by Fleischmann's yeast; News digest includes 'Defining War Aims', A Roosevelt - Churchill Message to Europe'; Sombre one-page War Savings Certificates ad by the War Savings Committe features photo of British tots being led into bomb shelter; The Marquis of Medicine Hat, part 1 of 4; The Hitch-Hiking Trojan Horse (short story); The Battle of the Atlantic - great photo-illustrated article; Expert Touch (short story); Aid to Russia Through the Arctic; "Jack is a Prisoner of War" - great photo-illustrated article explains how the International Red Cross supports POWs, with photos of volunteers at Chorley Park, Toronto; Superfluous Murder (short story); What Happens in World Series Baseball, by J. Robert Shawkey; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quintuplets; Woodbury soap ad features photos of Miss Monique Jobin of Montreal and Eleanor Frothingham; The Oriental Box Office - photo-illustrated movie news; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Loretta Young; Kaaren Verne - photo and write-up; Rare 1/4-page Longines ad features photo of Walt Disney; The Plastics Era - how they are being used for home products; Beauty article; Wives without Husbands - how one English wife copes with wartime separation; Article on food storage; Nice one-page colour Nabisco shredded wheat ad shows military officer walking with his lady; Colour ad for Canadian Canned Lobster; Fashion illustrations; Photo shows ladies wearing Hudson's Bay 'Point' blanket cloth adapted to fall coats; Quotes from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows smiling man in suit aboard train; Colour Ritz cracker ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
12mo (150 x 85 mm) 12pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Thomas Roe and Benjamin Miller, neither having reached the age of 23, were executed on Wednesday, April 2nd, 1823, for highway robbery. They were both natives of Nottingham, and together with a youth named Thomas Brooks, only 19 years of age, assaulted and robbed Samuel Marriot, a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. Simpson, Brick-hill Farm, near Arnold. They would have murdered their victim had not his cries have brought several persons to his assistance. Brooks was admitted evidence for the Crown and was saved.
2 vols., [of 4], 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else both very good, bright, crisp copies, now housed in custom-made solander case lettered in gilt. As usual, the collation is variable. The tracts included here are: The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (first printed 1764); Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe (first printed 1693); The Murder of James I (MS written in 1440); Buchan's Description of St. Kilda (first printed 1773); Supplement to the History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (MS writen about 1656). Each tract has its own printed title and pagination; thus many volumes were broken for the tracts to be sold individually; copies in the original wrappers are rare. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Babies for Export - Province of Alberta trafficking in illegitimate babies(!); Billy Butlin - great photo-illustrated article on this Canadian who went to Britain with $25 and made a fortune out of holiday camps; Brutal Vancouver Murder - Who Killed Woo Dack? - Famous Canadian Crimes #18; What's New in Toys? - Four pages of great photos, including a super-streamlined aluminum bicycle; Bach to Boogie - Quebec's 18th Century Orchestra of Chamber Music - article with photos; Drunken Elephants battle in India! - article with photos; Adele Inge - The World's top ice-acrobat - article with photos of her forward and backward somersaults on skates!; Tail Spin; Holiday Stills - Christmas glamour shots featuring Patricia Roc, Jane Hylton and Diana Dors; Jo-Anne Chong of Toronto; Harry Mathers; Thor Hansen; Spotlight on Oscar Peterson - article with photo; FDR film review with many photos; Birth of a Monkey - Ruby at Philadelphia's Zoo; Alice Bradshaw; Ruth Warwick's Wardrobe. Stories: The Gift of the Magi; Miracle of the Bells (condensed book). Average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part II; "King Kauri" - The Kauri tree is to New Zealand what the oak is to England - article with photos; The Two Sheriffs - A strange murder situation is encountered by a veteran cow-puncher in the wilds of Montana; My Wild Boar - A newcomer to India is warned not to shoot wild pig; "Next Time" - An amusing story from the Yukon country; Lachmee's Vow - A tiger tale from Hindustan; The Sacred White Crow of Yaunghwe - brief article with two photos; The Great Boulder Murder Case - The story of one of the most remarkable murder mysteries in the annals of Australia, with photo and map; Photo of salt prospecting in Cheshire; "Bushman's Luck" - A remarkable story from New Zealand; Out of the Deep - The strange story of a famous schooner that sank off Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," to reappear in most dramatic circumstances; Sequel to the "Lost Cabin" Mine Mystery - New information regarding this story which appeared in the September, 1920 issue; Trailing the Beaver-Poachers - Game law enforcer Frank Mossman relates some of his experiences with illegal trappers in the North-west, who often do not hesitate to shoot - with photos; "Baldy Red's" Come-Back - A bootlegger smuggles illicit whisky into the forbidden Northland of Canada. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
279 pages. Index. black and white illustrations. Bookplate signed by author affixed to front free endpaper. "Few men have played as many roles in this colourful pageant of changing times as John D. Nicholson, whose life story is told in this book. Few have had the opportunity to serve in so many ways in the exciting, hazardous and inspiring task of founding this last great homeland as this vigorous character with whose name and life are linked so many of the incidents which make up such a large part of the traditions and history of our Canadian West." - from Preface. Prior owner's details lightly pencilled upon half title page. Above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Hugh Cudlipp - the new comet of Fleet St.; Funky colour ad for Buick; I served on a murder jury; How to get your boss's job; The University of Saskatchewan - The precocious alma mater of the prairies; How I got mixed up in the Cuban revolution; Eat fat and grow slim - Dr. Ray N. Lawson's approach is having success; Stoker Mahoney and Pill No. 2-183 - an uncensored naval story from WWII involving seasickness; A challenging new concept of French Canada - Philippe Garigue closely examines St. Justin, Quebec - article with great photos; Great 'wishbone' colour ad for the 1959 Dodge; Massive Black Label beer centerfold ad!; Julian Janvrin and his family are featured in a full-page ad by the Bank of Montreal; Nice Chevrolet Impala sport coupe photo ad; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe beer inside back cover features Irish setter licking lady's face; Nice Valentine theme Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Cellophane inside front cover; Great two-colour full-page ad for International Trucks - Chicago Century of Progress Theme; Nice full-page ad for Investors Syndicate featuring photo of Roy A. Hunter of B.C.; Nice 2-page Mobiloil photo ad features large photo of four cars; Chipso Laundry Detergent ad; Heritage, by Albert M. Treynor; The Cinema Murder, by Phillips Oppenheim; The Oriental Threat - regarding oriental immigration "... In British Columbia the proportion is catastrophic, being one Asiatic to every twelve whites." - with photos, by Charles E. Hope and W.K. Earle; Garden Jungle, by C.R. K. Allen; Ace of Our Judges - Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff, by M. Grattan O'Leary; Invitation, by Will R. Bird; Critic on the Hearth, by Arthur T. Munyan; Pud, by W.A. Fraser; Tides o' Fundy, by H.V. Chambers; By Express - stories of shipping animals long distances; There's Money in Stamps - Paul Montgomery writes about valuable early Canadian postage stamps - illustrated; Love Letters in a Jar, by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Nice colour Campbell Soup ad; My Hate of Jig-Saw Puzzles, by Edgar March; Every Russian to Bear Arms - Women and Children are Being Trained to Take Part in Soviet's Next War; Article titled "Inventions Are Badly Needed"; Nice two-color full-page ad for the New Chevrolet Sixes; Article on how motion pictures have almost displaced theatre in North America; Australia Sells its Steamships - claims operation a failure; Canada Needs Air Museum; Lovely Prudential Insurance ad features girl on roller skates on sidewalk rolling, arms open, to her dad; Nice ad for the Northern Electric Gurney Range; Lovely ad promotes golfing at Jasper Park by taking Canadian National; Cereals - article by Helen G. Campbell; Investing in Bank Stocks; Fantastic two-colour full-page ad for General Motors Trucks features a dumptruck being loaded by a large clamshell bucket; Nice ad for Dominions Tires; Excellent back cover colour photo ad for Winchester cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Our TV's Hamstrung Before it Starts; Nice 1952 Monarch car ad; Who is to Blame for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the Regina Area? - article with photos; The Beautiful Black-and-White Pinto - story by Elizabeth Ann Cooper, illustrated by Jack Bush; The Hotel with the Elegant Air - Manoir Richelieu - article with photos of this hotel on the St. Lawrence at Murray Bay/La Malbaie in Quebec; I Was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds - Bonus-length feature article with photos of Dr. A. Stewart Allen, a veteran Canadian miissionary who saw friends turn into foes as the poison of communism crept through the soul of a nation he served for 21 years; Sir James Douglas, The Mulatto King of B.C. - a Maclean's Flashback The Courting of Jenny - story by L. Johanne Stemo, illustrated by Bruce Johnson; Hard Rock Miner - Canadians like Dusty Miller blast out one seventh of the world's gols - article with photos; Mickey Spillane's Giving Murder a Bad Name - interview of the famous writer with photos; Nice vintage centerfold ad for Frigidaire refrigerators; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honouring the Governor General's Horse Guards; Vintage colour-photo ads for the Sunbeam Mixmaster and Sunbeam toaster; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Sisman Scampers shoe ad; Man and His Mate - cartoon by Peter Whalley; Outstanding two-page black and white Buick ad with huge illustration of a 1952 model; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and scattered caps. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: the powers that be decide Canadians can handle high mortgage rates; Haig and Gromyko agree to arms talks; Carole Laure; Applied Research is threatening free discovery; Fiction's Triumph; Bora Laskin story and cover illustration; Trudeau pushes Candus in South Korea; Solidarity re-elects Lech Welesa in Poland; Shannon Tweed; Glorious Crete; David Steinberg; Murder of Anwar Sadat; Appalachia struggles through coal's booms and busts; Gouzenko's case revisited; Jeff Conaway; The Montreal Expos were one game from the World Series; Birth of a new social order in Spain; Europe's New Left; New Leader in Poland; Jean Wadds; Peter Hodgson; Joanne Curran; Cancun Summit falls short of success; Via Rail; Poland's ruler tightens his grip; St. Jean Baptiste Day parade is back; Canada's national soccer team; Scott Hylands; Cutbacks loom for Canada's universities; Federal agreement - less Quebec; Evelyn Hart; the threatened caribou; Saudi peace plan makes headway; Dome Petroleum; Conchata Ferrell; Budget '81 - the gathering storm; Space Shuttle Columbia's safe return; Rene Levesque talks tough, but so does Trudeau; Martha and the Muffins; Sylvia Tyson; Robert Bateman; Howard Pawley's upset victory in Manitoba; Ulster's days of rage; Angie Dickinson; Canada's soccer team falls short to Cuba; Women and native groups fight for inclusion in the charter of rights; Edith Butler; Victoria Snow; Arab Summit Fez fell apart; Allan Gotlieb becomes ambassador to U.S.; Levesque plays for time; Special report on the Constitution; Barbara Amiel; Urban problem in Connecticut; Peter Munk; Poland's hour of agony; Deborah Harry; Trevor Berbick; Images of 1981; Grab for the Golan; Last stand at Szczecin; MacEachen gives in to screams about the budget; and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with few associated markings. Book
Features: Haiti - land of the 'Big Tontons'; Vietcong's 'Shadow Government' in the South; Lie Detectors Don't Lie... But...; When will it be safe to balance the (federal) budget? - this question shows how things have changed since the days we thought it unsafe not to; What Russian Girls are Like; A double standard for murder? - never in Mississippi's history has a white man been found guilty of first-degree murder when the slain person was black. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book