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Features: Canada's first satellite goes up soon; Cardinal Leger and his church in a year of conflict; Justice for the victims of crime; Chuckwagon Racing - the wildest game on wheels - Bob Cosgrave in training for the world championship - great colour photos; 'We're Arming against ourselves if we take atomic arms for the Bomarc missile' - Paul Simon; The Strange legacy of flight TCA flight 810's crash on Mt. Slesse on 9 December 1956 between Vancouver and Calgary; Instant Houses - A Frames and how to spend weekends in the woods; Song and Dance on the Gaza Strip - a dozen Canadian entertainers played the strangest circuit in show business - the desolate and desperate Arab-Israeli frontier - with photos; Great colour Molson ad inside back cover features illustration of the "Avian", a revolutionary vertical take-off Gyroplane, hovering near Wellington-Waterloo Airport in Ontario. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Two-page Chrysler black and white photo ad shows their vehicles being torture-tested; My Eighty Years on Wheels - by Col. R.S. McLaughlin, one of Canada's most famous and well-loved business leaders - part 1 of 3; Three Women, One Body - a case history of Eve White (aka Eve Black and Jane) - a case of multiple personality; Will Your Youngster Turn to Crime; Jean-Francois Pouliot - The Wordiest MP in Ottawa; My, uh, Dazzling Career as Miss Canada, by Marily Reddick - article with photos, including nice shot of Reddick with Marilyn Monroe; The Shipwrecked Moneybelt, fiction by Peter Freuchen; Clinic for Marriage Counselors - humour; The Private Army We're Giving the Army - Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Dr. Mahlon W. Locke of Williamsburg, Ontario and his million-dollar thumbs - a Maclean's flashback to the Locke clinic of the 1930s which treated fallen arches - article with photos; We'd Be Better Off on All Fours - if you've ever suffered from an aching back or a creaky knee read this!; The Haughtiest Suburb of Them All - Ottawa's Rockliffe; The White and the Gold - Part 13; The Toughest Beat in the World - The Mounties at work in the far north - conclusion of the Mounties series; Nice colour Pontiac ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features smiling blonde with a tray of bottles. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Cover facial photos of Gratien Gelinas; Emotion, by June Callwood; What went wrong with Canada, by Peter C. Newman; The last days of the French in Algeria - article with photos by Peter Stollery; The savage fight for life above the timberline - Jean George describes how animals outsmart the mountains; Bernard 'boom boom' Geoffrion - the highest scoring baritone in history!; Vandalism - the kids' crime that no one really understands; Minute by minute on the day of birth - with photos; Colour photo tennis Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound 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
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
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
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
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Cute Twelvetrees cover illustration of turkey chasing toddler butcher; wonderful Aylmer Soups ad inside front cover features elegant photo of Canada's Governor-General and the Countess of Bessborough; One-page Fleischmann's ad features large photo of Prof. Dr. Franz Muller; Kid Angel (fiction); Luxury Lady (fiction); Where Does the Tax-Dollar Go? - an inquiry into the cost of government in Canada (part 5); The Criminal (fiction); How to Hold a Husband (fiction); Thou Art Peter (fiction); Racketeering in the Seventies (i.e. the 1870s); Quant two-page photo ad for Pond's cold cream; Little Rambles in Hollywood; One-page Ovaltine ad shows doctor and nurse weighing boys; Radioland - great photo-illustrated article on famous radio shows and stars; Nice one-page black and orange Chevrolet ad features the Master Six Touring Coupe at a country fair; Gorgeous one-page colour Palmolive Soap ad features illustration of beautiful young lady; Photo of Laurel and Hardy in handwriting analysis ad; Better Cookery; Rare half-page photo ad for the new Dual Harmony radio by Stewart-Warner Alemite of Belleville, Ontario; Fall fashion illustrations and article; Right Habits (for children); Excellent colour-photo ad for Winchester cigarettes inside back cover features young lady wearing purple fashion designed by Maison Mainbocher of Paris; Charming back cover P and G (Procter and Gamble) ad on back cover features Polly and George and Spot, plus girls building mud castle; Dozens of other great ads. Above-average external wear and soiling. 4"x3" clipping from page 3. 3"x3" clipping from Criticisms article on page 26. Small clippings from pages 51, 53 and 67. All pages and covers free from staples but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Why Britain's biggest stars flopped on TV; Leslie Frost's masquerade as teh common man - the nation's second most important politician - article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison visits Zsa Zsa Gabor - article with photos; The Night of Terror We'll Never Forget - Victor Desgroseilliers, manager of the Dominion store in Cornwall, Ontario, and his family are terrorized by bandits - article with photos; Can we avoid a shooting battle for Berlin?; Self-Hypnosis could help you beat your tensions; Peter Gzowski writes about what it's like to have a famous ancestor (Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski); Breakout at Amiens Prison - amazing article with great photos; Great Tanners Association of Canada colour ad promotes giving leather shoes to dad for Father's Day; How do you get to be a magazine editor?; Nice colour photo ad for Bulova watches on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
298 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of Sister Segale. Three black and white photos in text. "Here, in the tersely recorded journal of Sister Blandina, a Sister of Charity, is a new and valuable picture of the Southwest from 1872 to 1892 - an authentic piece of Catholic Americana revealing twenty years of struggle against lawlessness, mob rule, Indian threats, bigotry, and violence of all sorts." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight and square. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An attractive early copy of this important work. Book
112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Large quarto in black plastic quickbind strip binding with clear plastic front cover and opaque magenta plastic back cover; 52 pages of text + approx 25 pages of full color BW & color full-page illustrations chiefly of the artist and her work. 28 cm. Very scarce. No copies in World Cat. Included is a very good softcover copy of: In Pursuit of Art and Life the Journals and Letters of a Young Sculptor San Francisco 1970-1976, by Jenny Read (173 p, illustrated with b/w photos throughout; [erfect bound). || Read was tragically raped and murdered in her studio in her Potrero Hill Studio in San Francisco in 1976. Due to DNA evidence, a San Francisco church deacon, was convicted in 2009. || San Francisco Bay Area, Artists in San Francisco in the 1960s & 1970s, Telegraph Hill; True Crime. Homicide. Cold Cases. Rapes. DNA Evidence. Potrero Hill, San Francisco, Crime, DNA Cold Case Hit, James Lee Mayfield.
Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Many colour and black and white photos. Features: The RCMP's four crime detection labs and Identification Branch - they make inanimate objects tell stories; Hon. James C. McRuer, former chief justice of the Ontario Supreme Court spent forty years studying the trial of Jesus Christ; Colour spring nature photos; William Coutts of the Coutts Hallmark greeting card company; Colour photos of cowboy-style women's fashions; LSD and a Diet - The Reshaping of [former weightlifter and wrestler] Big Doug Hepburn; The Real Georgy Girl - Lynn Redgrave; Doug Wright's Family; Nice colour-photo ad for the 1967 Dodge Polara inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 64 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Nice beach photo of Maritza Antoinette inside front cover; The Night's Beginning - story by F.G. Holcomb; New Import From Italy - color and black and white photos of Maritza Antoinette, who now works in Las Vegas; Crime and Passion - case history from new book "Crime and Passion" by Eugene B. Mozes; After Hours - story by R.E. Lotte; Flynn's Friend Beverly - photo feature of seventeen-year-old Beverly Aadland who lived with him for two years; What's In a Nameplate - Tom Jones suggests readers look to foreign cars; Oriental Dream - photo-illustrated article on Los Angeles' New Ginza, including sukiyaki recipe, by Ron S. Miller; Coffee Break - story by Earle Schell; Photo feature of Pat Conley, including color centerfold; Between Us Ladies - story by David Jenkins; Socks Appeal - article in favor of nylon-clad legs by Walter Plinge; Four pages of tasteful black and white photos of ladies in negligee; The Belly Ploy - short story by Ben Redmond; Beer - America's National Drink; In Our Own Backyard - photos of shapely Terri Summers of New York; Books and Records; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
20 pages. Features: The Sally Ann in Suburbia - Lieutenant Ken Chapman wages the Salvation Army's battle in North Vancouver - with great colour photo of Ken and Brenda Chapman of London, Ontario; K-Tel's Greatest Hits - fantastic kitschy article - with great colour photos - about the firm's hit products, and it's leader Philip Kives, a former Saskatchewan farm boy - products include the Miracle Brush, Hair Magician, Multi-Sharpener, Feather-Touch Knife, Record Selector, Frypans, Veg-o-matic, Patty Stacker, Multi-Exerciser, Super-Bond glue - a cool article!; Comparing the lot of a department store sales lady in 1907 with the modern version - a fascinating study plus archival photos; How to win at the most popular board games - Othello, Scrabble, Monopoly, Mastermind, Risk, Organized Crime; A fascinating short history of Christmas carols; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Fine Tatar Original illustrated bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic script) and Russian. 638, [1] p., b/w ills. Kirimtatar edebiyati kütüphanesi halk icadi. Masallar, efsaneler, destanlar.= Biblioteka Krimskotatarskoy literaturi. Narodna tvorchist. Kazki, legendi, eposi. Qirim-Tatar folk and fairy tales, legends and epicas. First and Only Edition.
Fine Hebrew Fine full leather bdg. with in traditional style. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 12 cm). In Hebrew. 300 p. A kabbalistic Hebreica.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 135mm), [4], 323, [1]pp., final 2 leaves a little chipped at margins, disbound. Not in the British Library.
xvi + 288pp.with some bl/w illustrations in text, original 1897-edition (2nd edition with illustrations by Salvatore de Stefano), illustrated softcover, 20cm., some foxing, good condition, G88197
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
