Multiple ContributorsMareMagnum
2 204 résultats
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. 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
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, top with a few brown spots else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with tiny loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 92pp., previous owner's name and address on soiled half-title, engraved portrait of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, wrappers browned, some light soiling, stitched as issued, uncut. General Lavalette, who having been condemned to death, escaped from prison by changing into in his wife's dress. Wilson, Bruce and Hutchinson, were tried for being instrumental in the escape from Paris, of Lavalette. Wilson passed the barriers in a cabriolet with Lavalette disguised as a British officer, and escorted him safely to Mons. He sent an account of the adventure to Earl Grey which was intercepted and he was arrested in Paris. The three men were tried in Paris and sentenced to three months imprisonment. JISC locates a single copy at University of Cambridge.
12mo (150 x 90 mm), [2], 79, [1]pp., new boards, printed paper label on upper cover. JISC locating a single copy at Nottingham University Libraries.
Light rubbing and a few minute tears to spine heels. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; Green cloth boards with decoration in gilt and black. Pictorial gilt decoration of an eye, undertitled "We never sleep" in gilt letterings. Rare! Describes the profession of the detective. Numerous beautiful tissue guarded b&w illustrations ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 278 pages
Le jugement « condamne ladite Charlotte Villecourt à être brûlée vive sur un Bucher, qui sera pour cet effet dressé en la plage de Greve par l'Exécuteur de la Haute Justice, son corps réduit en cendres & les cendres jetées au vent, ladite Charlotte préalablement appliquée à la question ordinaire & extraordinaire pour avoir par sa Bouche la vérité d'aucuns faits résultant du Proces & les noms de ses complices ». Dans « L'oeil du Maître : maîtres et serviteurs de l'époque classique au romantisme », Claude Petitfrère rappelle l'extrème sévérité des jugements rendus contre les domestiques et cite, à l'appui de ce constat, le cas de Charlotte Villecourt, condamnée à mort pour un faux témoignage.
12mo, 23, [1]pp., title page printed within a black border, recent boards, printed paper label on upper cover.
8vo., on laid paper, with copper-engraved frontispiece and 8 fine copper-engraved plates, wanting one gathering (4 leaves) following title; original boards, newly rebacked in calf to style, a very good, bright, clean copy. 'A New Edition, with great Additions. Illustrated with a great Variety of Copper-plates'. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 full-page coloured illustrations; pictorial buckram, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 7 coloured illustrations in each volume and coloured endpapers; pictorial boards, backstrips lettered in colours, a near fine set in publisher's printed board slip-case.
Fine Tatar Original illustrated bdg. HC. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Crimean Tatar and Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic script). 383, [1] p., b/w ills. Kirimtatar halk masallari. [= Krimsko-Tatarski narodni kazki]. Illustrated by Varfolomeev A. An extremely rare book on Crimean-Tatar fairy tales.
Small 4to (190 x 155 mm), 10pp., title printed in red and black within a decorative border, early twentieth-century half red morocco by Hatchards, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, a handsome copy. The original edition of this work is untraced. John Simpson was executed in 1700.
32 pages. Features: Major coverage of Canadian police; Det. Edmond Madsen of Calgary; Staff Sergeant John Hodgins of the R.C.M.P. Crime Detection Library; Constable Ken Sawyer of Saskatoon; Constable Jim Stunden of the O.P.P.; Lieut. Det. Jacques Cinq-Mars of the Montreal Night Patrol; Winnipeg Court Jailer Fred Neale; Constable Arthur Wyatt of Halifax; Det. Donald Banks of Toronto; Nice colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; Chief Finlay G. Carroll of London; Guide to police officer slang; Super two-page colour photo of the Toronto Police's arsenal of sophisticated gadgets and practical weapons; Photo of homicide kit; Four Brave Men - Constable George McPherson of Winnipeg, Constable Kenneth Kilpatrick of Vancouver, Constable Clifford Laye and Constable Ron Baranoski of the O.P.P.; Police family recipes; Photo and write-up of vice squad sergeant Delores Eitel; Police Training - fine for dealing with criminals, but not with people; The Cops Look at the Criminal, and the Criminal Looks Back. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Colour photos. Features: Interviews with members of the Satan's Choice motorcycle gang, including Big Jack Olliffe, Howard Berry, Ted Anderson, David White, Doug MacDonald, and Art Hindle - yes, Art Hindle, the handsome Canadian actor you've seen in dozens of movies and TV shows, not to mention modeling clothing in department store catalogs - who knew?; What goes on inside a strike? - Canadian Longyear; Daytime TV - the men who entertain other men's wives - Graham Kerr, Elwood Glover, Max Ferguson, David Anson, Ed Reid, Paul Soles; Data Security Co. is the brainchild of J. Philip Humfrey and Polycom Systems, Ltd. - its vault stores sensitive data on computer tapes; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant; Vaudeville in the Ring - Professional wrestling article with photo of Haystack Calhoun in the ring with The Sheik. Bit of writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Great colour ad for the International Harvester compact pickup truck inside front cover; Nostalgic colour photo ad for Samsonite luggage featuring a 1950s auto; Full-page ad for the Bolex, the world's most precise 8-mm camera; Nice Chrysler ad; Great full-page colour photo ad for Pepsi features young lady leaning on the car door of a young man; Is Africa the Graveyard of the UN?; The kidnapping of Winnipeg Lawyer Vaughan Baird - in his own words; Genius in Hiding - Artist David Milne - article with photos and colour reproductions of two of the artist's paintings; What peacetime conscription is doing to the U.S.; A new kind of camera photographs the horseback view of a jockey - article with photos; Foster families teach sanity to the mentally ill; McKenzie Porter on Travel Agents; Return to Berlin - Ken and Elizabeth Johnstone escaped one jump of the Gestapo - now they return for another look - article with photos; Two-page colour photo ad for Ford of Canadashows their 1961 Ford Falcon Four-Door Sedan; Quebec bobby-soxers' home-grown idol, crooner Michel Louvain - photos and article; Nice colour ad for the Chevy Corvair Monzas - two- and four-door; Great colour full-page ad for the 1961 Pontiac Parisienne convertible; Short article on Avian Aircraft, Ltd. - former Avro Aero workers are now designing the Avian 2 / 180, the latest prototype of their 'car-plane'; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Tiger, The Bookie - article on Bookies in Canada and the $250 million in business they do annually; The Day the French invaded Lethbridge - hunters from France come to hunt pheasant - article with colour photos; Dig These Rocks - John Hillen has brought new life to the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM's) new mineralogy gallery; Return of the Nonsuch - article and photos of replica ship to that which first opened Hudson Bay - nice colour photos; CBC Radio Show "Funny You Should Say That!' - article with photo of cast members Barrie Baldaro, Ted Zeigler, Peter Cullen and Joan Stuart; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the 1969 Plymouth Valiant; Walter Marat builds things from broken hockey sticks; Gorgeous colour swimwear photography. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 181-220. Features: Cover photos of the loss of the car-ferry 'Princess Victoria' which went down on 31 January with a loss of 128 lives, plus two more pages of dramatic photos of the disaster; Simulating an atomic blast over Clapham Junction; 10 photos related to the murder of the Ruck family by Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya, a shocking crime redeemed only by the heroism of an African houseboy; Full-page photo of massive flooding on Canvey Island, Essex - the Thames estuary pleasure resort; Two more pages of photos of the Canvey Island flooding which killed 100; Photos of flood-related scenes in Norfolk, Sheerness Naval Dockyard, Southend; the East Coast, Lincolnshire, Essex, Kent, Felixstowe, Jaywick, Yarmouth and Salthouse; Photos of the worst Netherlands flooding in 400 years; Centerfold illustration of the last moments of the Princess Victoria; Nice colour-illustrated ad inside front cover for Number Seven cigarettes features a Hawaiian party scene; Photos of personalities of the week, including recently deceased James H. Scullin, Sir Reginald Wingate and Samuel A. Courtauld; The lesson of the coelacanth; Photos of the Monte Carlo Rally - great successes for British Cars; Photo of India's celebration of her 3rd anniversary of independence with President Dr. Rajendra Prasad taking the salute of a detachment of Indian camel troops; Tasteful colour back cover ad for Sanderson wallpapers and fabrics; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 337-364. Features: Cover photo portrait of the victim of a shameful and dastardly crime, Count Bernadotte, the representative of the United Nations, seen with his wife, when beginning the mission of peace which ended in his murder at Jerusalem; Colour ad for the Dunlop Rubber Company inside front cover features the city of Lincoln; Conference discusses the future of the Italian colonies; Two photos of the UN Security Council as it discusses Hyderabad and Count Bernadotte's murder; Two pages of photos of huge crowds in Berlin illustrate a Communist demonstration and the funeral of a youthful victim of Communist police action, Wolfgang Scheunemann; Photos of personalities of the week include Lord Noel-Buxton, Maj. Gen. S. F. Irwin, Emile Ludwig, the right Hon. J. S. C. Reid, Adm. Sir Henry Bruce, Sir Sothern Holland, Lieut. Gen. Rajendrasinghji G, Sylvain Mayer, Sir Charles Eric Palmer, Dame Lillan Braithwaite, Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, Khwaja Nazimuddin, U Tin Tut of Burma, Sao Shwe Thaik, and Col. Serot of France; Photo of the funeral procession of Mr. Jinnah, first Gov. Gen. of Pakistan; Photo of French aircraft workers fighting police in Paris; Photo of Gen. DeGaulle speaking to huge crowd in Nice; Photo of Pakistan's new Gov. Gen., Khwaja Nazimuddin; Article with map discusses the invasion of Hyderabad; Two large photos illustrate Hyderabad's surrender to the Indian Union after a five-day war; Two pages of informative photos about the India Hyderabad war illustrate the auxiliary forces which opposed the entry of Indian troops - the Razakars; Photos of buildings in Britain today - ancient, modern, and for export; Photo of the royal arrival for a special session of Parliament; Book review of "The Journal Of Eugene Delacroix", translated from the French by Walter Pach; Four pages of beautiful colour illustrations/photos of flowers; Photos of ingenious British animal toys which earned dollars for this country; Four photos illustrate Britain's production of famous turbojets; One-page illustration of air screw turbines in production - the buld-line for Armstrong Siddeley "Mamba" turboprops at Coventry; Two pages of text and photos of the revival of tapestry weaving in Scotland at the Dovecote Studios; Five fascinating photos present scenes aboard the capsized battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso, as she is being broken up by her new owner, Mr. Heovding; Photo of police investigating Mosquito crash scene at Manston on September 18 where 12 people were killed during an air display; Photo of Mr. James Wilson, seven times champion sheepdog handler, with his dog Glen, twice champion sheepdog, at Worcester; Five photos of Australian cricketers being welcomed by the king and queen at Balmoral Castle; Six photos in the Waitomo glow-worm Cave, New Zealand, where "Boletophila Luminosa" creates a wonder of the world; Fascinating colour-illustrated back cover de Havilland ad illustrates aircraft decompression chamber research. Unmarked with average wear. Archival tape repairs to coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: The farcical fraud of cheap QCs; A grim chapter in London's war on vice; What happens when John Foster Dulles goes?; Article and wonderful colourful photos of Windsor, Ontario; A fond farewell for the Casino - Toronto's Casino Theatre is about to fall to the wrecking ball - photos and article; The cruel conspiracy of public speaking; An even break for the peaceful timber wolf; How to talk to your spouse - and when not to; Nice colour photo ad for the 1959 Pontiac; Great colour photo ad inside back cover shows couple drinking beer (O'Keefe) and smothing cigarettes (Rothman's) while watching a scantily-clad woman on TV; Coke ad on back cover shows skier drinking; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Nice 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; color ad for Pitney-Bowes Postage Meters; Zippo Lighter color ad; My Wonderful Uncle, Levi Coombs Gould - article with photos; Challenge the Tempest (fiction); My Three Years in Moscow, Part 3 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel - with photos; The Camouflaged Crime (fiction); Robert Jones of Ohio Refused to be Smeared by Drew Pearson - article with photos; The Rape of Albania - how this former paradise between Tito and the men in the Kremlin is being slowly bled to death - article with photos; One Divorce is Enough (fiction); Charley Callahan is the shrewd press agent for Notre Dame football - article with photos; The Odds on Murder (fiction); Training New Kinds of Methodist Pastors in Denver at the Iliff School of Theology - article with photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction - conclustion); Colour photos of the Arseneau family's home and birds on Great Bird Rock; Nice 1-page color Lucky Strike ad features Raymond W. Crutchfield of Reidsville, NC; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); RCA Victor TV ad; Nice half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features Mrs. Ralph Ellis of Chicago, Mrs. Mary C. Wurdeman of Los Angeles, Mr. James S. Winterhalter of Detroit, and Miss Pamel Hendricks Bookman of New York; Nice two-color Shelby bicycle ad features Donald Duck; Nice color centerfold ad features General Electric (GE) Christmas lights; Color ad for Winchester's glowing flashlight; Honeywell thermistat ad features black and white photos of Linda Darnell; La Choy Chinese Food color ad features interesting drawing of Chinese man in pigtail; Nice 1-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Frank Benitz of Dugan Brothers Baked Goods; Nice color ad for Sunkist oranges on back cover. Average external wear. Moderate external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
108 pages. Fiction: Engagement Party; The Nervous Thief; One Night of Trouble; The Improbably Blonde; Rendezvous in Tokyo (part 4 of 8); The Secret of Shining Brook (conclusion). Articles: New War on Hit-And-Run Killers; The Face of America - Frozen Sunrise; Personal - from Budapest - Noel Barber's personal account of the Hungarians resisting the Russians; Pro Football Comes Down to Earth - photo-illustrated article on how the game is moving from passing to old-fashioned body-crushing tactics; The Truant Officer Learns to Smile - viewing truancy as a sign of disturbance rather than a crime; I'm Glad I Bought a Toupee - Fred Sparks explains how his life changed; My Dad, Walt Disney - Part V - Suddenly He Was A Genius - article with *AMAZING* color photos; Deadliest Fighter in the Air - the delta-winged, needle-nosed F-102A. Ads: Zippo lighters; Listerine; Philco televisions; Sheaffer's White Dot Snorkel Pen; Channel Master TV antennas (two pages); Imperial cars - beautiful color photo of a 2-door Southampton; Santagram ad features photo of Herb and Pixie Shriner and family; Fantastic two-page color ad for the new 1957 Oldsmobile 'Fiesta'; Whitman's Chocolates; Pontiac; Awesome two-page color photo ad for 1957 Mercury cars - 'Big M Announcement No. 3"; Great one-page color-photo ad for Plymouth features man with hose over his shoulder; Lady Borden ice cream; Nice two-page color ad for Studebaker cars; Nice one-page photo ad for Boeing features the new KC-135 transport tanker; *Sensational* two-page color-photo ad for the Buick Roadmaster features a red two-door model at night; A&P coffee; Page & Shaw chocolates. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 474-510. Features: Hon. Hosea A. Parker - article with one-page illustration of subject; Query; The Crime of Isaac Dole, and his Punishment; Cloud-land; Hon. William Henry Haile; Lake Village; Pleasant Pond; The Name and Family of Tulloch; Sketch of Keene; A Garden; New Hampshire Men in Michigan; A Slight Mistake in the History of New Hampshire; Letter of James Madison to Gen. John Stark, and his Answer; Record of Marriages and Births in the Town of Canterbury, N.H.; Book Notices. Back cover partly loose. Above-average external wear and soiling. Faint prior owner's name atop front cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Labor Marches, Sitting Down - The C.I.O.; I Lived in Madrid - Lester Ziffren recalls the horrors of the weeks of the siege - with black and white photos; Moscow Likes Millionaires - Ambassador Joseph Davies; The American Peasant - The Farm Tenant, with two photos; Calling the Fascist Bluff - are Italy and Germany allies or rivals?; France Finds a Huey Long - Jacques Doriot; The German God - Hitler; Jeffersonian Democracy; Geneva's Future; The Cost of Crime - Public Apathy is its major cause; Burma Divorces India; Hong Kong worries about air raids; Civil Liberties in India; and more. Taped repair to covers at foot of spine. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
