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56 pages. Cover: Staff Sargeant Lawrie Bell. Contents: Presidency: The Lull Before the Congress Storm - Harry S. Truman; Defense: The Soft 'Upper Belly' - Alaska "America's soft upper belly"; Love: It's Wonderful!; Crime: War on the Reuthers - U.A.W. (United Automobile Workers)'s Walter and Victor Reuther; Foreign Policy - 1949 and 1950; Russia: New Cast But the Same Old Show; France: Again a Crisis - Vote of Confidence in National Assembly; Indonesia: Birth of a Union; Jamaica: (William Alexander Clarke) Bustamante Blues; Middle East: The Israel-Jordan Talks; The Soviet View of the Future; Canadian Affairs: Fight Over Films - National Film Board; Medicine: Important Records - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) Family Pedigree Help Chart Disease; Religion: Year of Pardon - Catholic Church, Pope Pius XII Marks "the year of the great return and the great pardon"; Business: The Experts Predict a Prosperous Year for 1950, a Continued Rise, With Moderate Decline Later; The Outlook for Industry in Perspective, Top Business Executives Give Their View; Bounceback of '49 - A Year-End Review; Science: (Albert) Einstein's Long-Awaited Field Theory; Basketball: (Bob) Cousy and the Crusaders; The Bullet-Biter - Leo Durocher; and Perspective: On Dissenting From Dissenters. Color Budweiser ad on back cover. Binding sound. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Cover: Tom Clark Contents: (Robert A.) Taft's Triumph; Fiscal: Who'll Dam the Red Ink?; Courts: Du Pont on the Carpet; Crime: Kluxers on the Prowl - Ku Klux Klan; Why We Need the B-36; Trials: Jug for Judy (Coplon); (Alger) Hiss and Mrs. (Priscilla) Hiss; Which Way Will (Harry S.) Truman Turn?; Mao (Tse-tung) Thumbs His Nose at the West; Red China: The U.S. Is in a Hole, and (Dean G.) Acheson is Worried; Germany: (John J.) McCloy's Three Hats; Britain: Saving the Pound - Sir Stafford Cripps; Canadian Affairs: Peace in Asbestos (Quebec); Medicine: TB (Tuberculosis) Personality; A Spot of Trouble - Columbia Broadcasting System; Tunnels From Germany - Supersonic Wind Tunnels from Peenemunde, Germany; Economy: Past Depressions, Present Dilemmas; Agriculture: Drought Here, Rain There; Oil: Why the Gas Hike?; Religion: 'The Greatest Christian' - Dr. Albert Schweitzer; The Man Who Was Next - Archbishop Joseph Beran; Joe (DiMaggio) Comes Home; (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe in Colorado; and Perspective: The Coming Battle of Ohio. Monsanto ad on back cover features some of their products. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
88 pages. Cover: Robert A. Taft Contents: Of Steel, Rails, and the Economy - Philip Murray's C.I.O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and Benjamin F. Fairless's United States Steel Settlement; Politics: (Robert A.) Taft at Bat; Crime: Killer on a Rampage - Howard Unruh; The Navy's Spirit; The Monetary Crisis: We'll Share Britain's Troubles - Britain, Canada and United States; Britain: The Wringer Beckons - "Britain's only salvation lies in going through 'an economic Dunkerque'".; Germany: Dismantling, the New Political Key; Spain: The U.S. Fleet's In; Britain: Holding the Wage Line - British Trades Union Congress Convention; Yugoslavia: And Now It's Titler; The Thread From Rome to London; 'The Servant Problem': New Status for an Old Occupation; Medicine: Two-Eyed X-Rays - LeRoy J. Leishman and his three-dimensional fluoroscope; Television: Enter Sylvania (Electric Products, Inc.); Housing: Four Rooms by U.S. Steel; Industry: 'Save Boeing' for Seattle; The Case for Capitalism; Religion: Thomas Merton, Trappist (monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky); The (English) Channel: Final Summary - Shirley May France; The (Brooklyn) Dodgers' Problem - Branch Rickey; Education: For Navajo Knowledge - Dr. George A. Boyce; and Perspective: On American Highways. Full page colour vintage print advertising including De Soto, General Motors, "88" Oldsmobile and a Standard Oil Company ad with the Southern Pacific Lines "Lark" locomotive through Santa Susana Pass. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: California's Prince of Rascals; Tom Gilmore's Ordeal; Lost Mine West of Hiko; "Cap" White Followed the Book; The Wells Fargo Forgeries; Herding a Stork Through the Caribou Mountains; Sylvan Grove Bank Robbery; The Spring Seat on a Wagon; Nine Died - Three Lived; The Crime Against Sylvester Mowry; Peacemakers Walk a Dangerous Road; The Yucca Brevifolia; Tumbleweeds; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Ambush - the Vietcong are having great success with it - a reporter describes how it works and the attempts to counter it; Is homosexuality a crime? - Britain grapples with the issue; How Hitler's War ended for a German Boy - Hans-Jurgen Stueck's experience; The loneliness of Kwame Nkrumah , the President of Ghana; A Fantasy that Paid Off - Disneyland is 10 years old this summer. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: What has Texas got to Brag About? - by Stanley Walker; Lovely color ad for the Chrysler Imperial on page 14; Ike takes a look at the GOP; Ike's Mexican Holiday; People on the Way Up - Mona Thibault, William F. Haddad, Eleanor Hirai, Dr. Lee B. Lusted; Love Letter to the Queen - Lovely color photos; A Night with the S Squad - on patrol in San Francisco with the policemen who specialize in on-the-spot detection and prevention of crime; The Menningers of Kansas (part 3) - under Menninger guidance the Topeka Hospital became a place where patients came 'not to stay but to get well'; Flattery can get you somewhere; Wacky Artist of Destruction - Jean Tinguely creates mechanized sculpture designed to commit suicide. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The McNamara Monarchy - Hanson W. Baldwin argues that one-man rule in the Pentagon weakens our armed forces; The Revolt of Europe - Charles de Gaulle and others are challenging U.S. leadership over issues such as who will control atomic power; (Peter) O'Toole of Arabia - An unknown actor dons the cloak of a legendary hero and an epic is born - colour photos; "Lawrence" Inspires the Arab Look; Den Mother to the Clubwomen - Margaret Arnold is an angry feminist in hot pursuit of her cause; The Unsound and the Fury - pigeons, corn-rippers and orchids have one thing in commonk - all can provoke cold anger; The Return of Branch Rickey - the return of the Mahatma; Crime Town USA - Youngstown, Ohio has had 75 bombings, 11 killings in a decade, and no one seems to care. Address label clipped from front cover else unmarked with average wear. Colour Corvair Monza ad inside back cover. Please note: missing pages 39-40 and 49-50. Book
Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Envelope - the author worked on a British Columbia ranch where he became involved in a mixup with illicit whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Touch and Go - a story from Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - a tale from the days of the South African Police in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown succeeded in clearing up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt, with several photos; Timber-Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech; Australia's Black Trackers; Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip through southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota; Mahoney's Folly - A weird little story from Ireland; and more. Each cover partially loose. Openings to backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
55 pages. Features: How a Canadian jazz singer became the wife of an Earl - Stevie Wise of Toronto is now Lady Listowel, married to the Earl of Listowel; They Help Themselves by Helping Others - Rev. Henri Groues of France originated the Emmaus idea of collecting, repairing and selling used goods to build homes for the poor - Rev. Laurent Laporte of Montreal; He goes fishing in his own living room - George Wendelkin; A Cold Wind Makes Lola Albright a hot property; Don't put off that children's Party - or you may find it's too late to enjoy the fun yourself; League of the Light-Fingered - Shoplifting is a problem that has grown to million-dollar proportions in Canada; Fiddler with Plenty of Strings to his Bow - Ellis Wilson of Quebec is a band leader, a farmer, a TV salesman and a barber; Ted Bowsfield of Penticton, B.C. succeeds at baseball in Boston and Los Angeles; A British Army Armoured Car is converted to carrying money; Bud Henning's All-Girl Drill Crew - three daughters are all he needs to man his rig - water drilling family in the Kootenays of B.C.; You need luck in this business - Bill Daniels has cornered the market - he owns three million four-leaf clover plants - Gulfport, Florida - his business is called Daniels' Clover Specialty Co.; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads including Savage Shoes centerfold. '62 Envoy colour car ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
31 pages. Features: How Smugglers try to fool the Mounties; Gatineau Park is a Camper's Paradise; The Deep, Dread-Bolted Thunder - Robert Fontaine's father was afraid of thunderstorms; An Air View of the World's Largest Glacier - Antarctica's huge Beardmore Glacier sits for a unique panoramic portrait; This coach is paid in laughs - squirt softball coach Fred Cederberg of Streetsville, Ontario; Nice Lifesavers ad on back cover; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
39 pages. Features: U.S. Crime Syndicates are Moving in on Canada (first of two articles); Belles of the Ball - Canadian gals take to bowling in rapidly-increasing numbers; World of Colour the Eye Can't See - crystals viewed under the microscope; Brain Waves Comic; Canadians in a Great Adventure - The Undercover War Pays Off - Men of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) risked their lives in a task that helped to free war-torn France; Northern Dolls are a hit down south - Eskimo/Inuit art; Shirley Calling Tokyo - Shirley MacLaine talks to husband Steve Parker; Nice colour photo and write-up of Boston Bruin star Don McKenney; Story about the NHL players with the highest goal/shot ratio; Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads including super Eaton's centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
55 pages. Features: Archbishop Howard H. Clark, Anglican Primate of All Canada; Miami - City of Intrigue in the Sun - plotters, counter-plotters, gun-runners and exiles from a half-dozen Latin-American lands keep U.S. lawmen busy; How to Improve Your Luck; Colour photos of sweater fashions; Under the Knife - comic; Dog with a Soft Spot for Orphans - a motherly French Bulldog; These Men Are Almost Dead of Thirst - French Hunters Die of Thirst in Sahara; Quebec Novelist Marie-Claire Blais Takes New York in her Stride; Stars on Ice - Stars turn out for the 25th anniversary of the Ice Follies in Hollywood; Patron Saint of the Hot-Rod Set - Gordon Taylor, Transportation Minister of Alberta; Dean Griffing and Frankie Filchock say it is time for Canadian football to go American; A boy's best friend is his duck; Nipper by Doug Wright. Colour ads for: Sun-Up; Crown Royal Syrup; Lady Galt Towels; Heinz Spaghetti; Robin Hood Cake Mix; Philishave Speed-Flex; Salada Tea; Five Roses Flour; Canadian General Electric Appliances; Lux Soaps; Coffee; Birds-Eye frozen dinners; Pepsi-Cola; Christie's Premium Crackers; Maple Leaf Sausages; Aylmer Soups; Cadbury's Choco; Betty Crocker; Simon's Cigars; Electrohome Stereos; SOS pads; Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
68 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Photos of Frank Sinatra in great Garrard turntable ad; The Vietnam War - with photo of B-52 and 750-lb bombs at Guam's Andersen Air Force Base; Redwood Park plans on Pacific coast; Crime and the Great Society - Time Essay; Air photos of Quang Khe ferry point and Hanoi; Dead Huks in Pampanga, Philippines; Photo of Onassis and Maria Callas; Leontyne Price; Super two-page color photo ad for the Volkswagen (VW) Van/Station Wagon; Tar and Nicotine ratings for dozens of cigarette brands; Martin Luther - feature article; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
58 pages. Features: News photos, including diesel headliners, fresh faces and names; Phots of B&M's beautiful Baldwins; Commuters on the Go Train - Southern Ontario's commuter service - feature extensive article with multiple photos; Photo section; Bivouac for World War II Railroaders - G.I. rails took their basic training on the Crime & Punishment - 711 Railway Operating Battalion at Fort Belvoir, Virginia - article with photos; K4 vs. J-1 in 1931 - Pacific and Hudson/New York Central; 8 Motors x 16 Drivers equals 1080 H.P. - Oregon Electric Railway's 123-mile Portland-Eugene main line. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Cover photo of Russian Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel to outer space and back; Nice one-page ad for the Volkswagen (VW) truck (microbus); Showdown nears for Castro in Cuba; JFK and how he runs the White House; One-page photo ad for GE's two-way radio; Russia's Triumph in Space - What Does It Mean? - photo-illustrated article; Why The U.S. Wasn't First; A Look at what the U.S. has - and plans - in space; Where U.S. Went Wrong - The Ways to Catch Up; JFK Learns About Personal Diplomacy; Why De Gaulle is a Growing Problem for U.S.; Kennedy's plan to deal with corn surplus; Up Front with U.S. Guerrillas in Southeast Asia - an eyewitness report; A Close New Look at Nehru's India; The Red Terror in Tibet - Interview with the Dalai Lama; Crime Wave Hits Washington, D.C. - with photo of Dallas O. Williams who has 59 convictions, including murder; Critical thinking about the "Show" trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel; Nice small photo ad for Checker Motors Corp. of Kalamazoo; Nice two-page color-photo ad for (red) Chevy trucks with IFS (independent front suspension) on excavation site; How the United Mine Workers (UMW) under John L. Lewis uses its considerable investments, and why; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
<p>23 cm, brossura editoriale illustrata a colori con titolo al piatto e dorso, p. 246. Con illustrazioni a piena pagina di Fabio Fabbi. Segni del tempo al dorso. Complessivamente ben conservato.</p>
in-8°, 326 pages, illustrations hors texte N/B, relie cartonnage edition, jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [AFF-1]
In 8° br. fig. col. pp. 223, ben tenuto
Small bump on one corner. Lightly rubbed dust jacket. Clean, tight. ...
