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125 pages. Hand-numbered 947 of 1000 copies and signed by author. British Columbia history par excellence. A superlative pictorial biography of the British Columbia Premier written by his friend, Jim Ryan. Book in pristine condition but for a very small and nearly invisible blemish in lower left corner of front board. Gorgeous gilt-decorated maroon cloth-covered boards are otherwise As New. Contents As New. Colour illustrated slip cover shows light to moderate wear and remains very attractive. Wonderful copy. Book
63 page collection of poetry by author who was born in Creston, B.C. and lived her life in this province. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Hardcover New Release item. Pls. allow a minimum of 4 - 6 weeks as this is hi p frombook publishers.
28 pages. Features: Some orchids in the 50th state; Two Orchidists in Waianae - Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff and Two in Wahiawa Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover. Attractive copy with light wear. Book
68 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of golfer staring out window at rain; Colour Marboleum floors and Muroleum walls ad inside front cover; Vintage Frigidaire fridge one-page ad; News digest includes 'Munich-Mindedness', 'No Compromise', 'Re-distribution of the Earth', 'The Heroism of Finland'; Fantastic one-page colour photo Fisher Body ad provides two photos of the Dionne Quintuplets, all wearing light blue coats and with ribbons in their hair; Paying for the War; Mysteries of Tibet's Dalai Lama, the 'King Who Never Dies' - fantastic photo-illustrated article with photo of 'Little Tanchu', the Dalai Lama, and the Potala in Lhasa; Nice Little Dog (hunting short story); Spring Freshet Baby; Nothing Ever Happens; Managing Director of the Navy, Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord - article with photo; Spies in Holland - Fascinating article explains how Nazi agents have been specially commissioned by the Hitler since 1933 to probe the secrets of Holland's plans for defence in the event of invastion; Loafers' Loops (short story); Bang and Go Back! - harness-racing article; Vintage half-page orange and black Alka-Seltzer ad features endorsement of the Toronto Maple Leafs and photo of them playing the New York Rangers, including Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad presents the Banff Springs Hotel; *Gorgeous* 1949 Chevrolet colour centrefold ad features a maroon Special De Luxe Sport Sedan plus illustrations of a green Cabriolet, a brown four-passenger coupe, a brown Master 85 Business Coupe, and a green Town Sedan; Interested photo-illustrated Movie News; Nice photo and brief write-up of Muriel Angelus; 1/4-page illustrated ad for Canadian National's Continental Limited; Photo of world champion pacer "Billy Direct", with his celebrated trainer, Vic Fleming; No Happy Medium, Please - fashion article; Pull Up a Chair - interior design article with two funky colour photos; The Eyes Have It - beauty article; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Lady Brigid King-Tenison and Katherryn Hernan; Another Pond's ad features photos of Miss Ridgeley Vermilye; Vintage fashion illustrations; Menus to Fit Every Budget; World Sayings; Great Heinz Spaghetti ad on back cover shows happy blonde holding steaming dish; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A sound copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of saluting Canadian female service member; Trans-Canada Telephone System ad inside front cover features illustration of operator; News digest touches on Hitler "Playing for a Draw", Russia's great offensive, and more; Hollywood news and photos; They Bring Down the Barracks - great photo-illustrated article documents the many Canadian entertainers who entertain our troops, including photos of the London Little Theatre Concert Party including Teresa Chandler, Pearl McCullough, Nora Rooney, Gerry Farquharson, Gloria Hamlyn and Monica McGarrell, plus the cast of the Lifebuoy Follies - Jimmy Devon, Sasha Dener, Harold Rich, Pat Rafferty, Helen, Bruce, Mildred Moray, Irene Hughes and Dorothy Merrall, and the Montreal Masquers; The Country of the Young (short story); A Use for a Decent Pay-Day; My Grandma's No Saint; Selectiver Service; Booze - The Saboteur - scientific research throws a startling light on an old problem and upsets some long-held beliefs; Mad Flight (short story); Canadian General Electric ad entitled "Victory Diet"; R.C.A.F. recruiting ad aimed at women; Woodbury Soap ad features lovely photos of Margaret Knight, of Toronto, who serves as private secretary to the Wing Commander of the R.A.F. Delegation in Washington; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Paulette Goddard; Photo-illustrated articl on Nursery Nutrition - on the Kitchen Front; Nutrition Goes to Sea; Fashion Illustrations; Angels in Nurseries; Small illustration shows smiling beaver in soldier gear saying "Eat Right to Fight"; Quotes from Around the World; Fantastic colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features sailors; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Palmolive soap ad inside front cover; News digest includes 'Nazi change in war strategy', Ukrainia, the Canada of Europe', 'The Black Sea Barrier', A New Front in Caucasia?'; Wanted - More Gridiron Speed - Canadian football article; One-page War Savings Certificates ad shows mother asking son "$5 for $4 Johnny, how would you like that?"; Why Hitler Must Lose the War - Otto Strasser explains; Nobody Ever Told Us (short story); "Isle of Adventure" - Photo-illustrated article on Herschel Island, off the mouth of the Mackenzie River; You Can't Ever Tell About Men (short story); After Midnight (short story); Boss of Britain's War-Workers - photo-illustrated article on Ernest Bevin; The Marquis of Medicine Hat (part 2 of 4); The Return of Laughter - entertainment article; Woodbury cold cream ad features photo of Dorothy Lamour; Sexy two-colour ad for 'almondized' Beautyskin Lingerie; 'Make-a-Light' bicycle generator promotion; Red Seal Cedar Chests ad; Give Your Eyes a Chance - article on proper lighting; One-page illustrated article entitled "Canada is Strong" shows miner drilling, sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast; Twentieth Century Aladdin's Lamp (short story); Nice one-page illustrated H.J. Heinz ad shows young lady rushing home from shopping to prepare supper; Fashion illustrations; photo of sleeping child submitted by H.C. Aitken of Kentville, N.S.; Nice colour subscription ad for this magazine inside back cover shows Santa; Quotes from around the world; Nice colour-photo Schick Injection Razor ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
72 pages. Cover illustration of baby by Neil Hott. Features: Nice colour ad for Christie's biscuits inside front cover; Full-page ad on page 2 encourages women to Vote Conservative; Waterman's pen ad; Light Housework - story by Roderick Stuart Kennedy; Trail Tried - story by Maude M. Bloom and Mildred S. Adler - illustrated in colour by R.C. Smith; Tell-Tale Finger Paints - photo-illustrated article by Sophia Wilds; African Parade - story by William J. Makin, illustrated by B.V.V. Matteson; The Altar of the Moon - story by Francis Dickie; Wish You Were Here - story by Frances Douglas and Thelma Le Cocq; Strange Occupations - photo-illustrated article by George A. Posner; What is Social Credit? - article by V. Gable; In defence of the manly arts - photo illustrated article by T. Lewis Brown with photos of Joe Louis, Max Baer, 'Strangler' Ed Lewis, Gus Sonnerberg, Jim Browning, Don George, Jim Londos, James J. Braddock and Danno O'Mahoney; Nostalgic black and white 1-page ad for Maxwell House Coffee; Hollywood News by E.G. Bayne; Lux soap ad features photos of triplets Ford, Gladys and Margaret Ferguson and the runs in their nylon stockings; Article and photos of the various buildings used by writers for various Hollywood companies; Photo of John Boles holding Shirley Temple; The Hotel Cavalier, by Sir William Thomas, M.B.E.; Colour fashion idea - The New Cossack Suit. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Name written on page 42. Moisture stains to lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Conservation - a new section is added to Nature Magazine; Audubon, The American Woodsman; That strange thing called Fasciation - photos of plants which has grown together; Chickens of the Sagebrush - Sage Chickens; Colobopsis - an ant of interesting habits; The Home Ties of Chickadees; A Tree Goes in for Engineering - photo and brief article of a tree growing out of a man-made vertical rock wall; Wonderful photos of a hummingbird nest atop a light bulb; American Game Conference leaves us in doubt about who owns our wildlife; Public Lands - wasted and almost destroyed through many generations - the nation at last faces this most serious problem; Massachusetts points the way to billboard control; Mars Nears the Earth; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Pages 795-840 plus outer layer of 8 pages of ads. Features: Obituary for Prof. James RIce; The Nature of Light; Phenomenological Theory of Supra-conductivity; Scattering of Neutrons by Protons; A Numerical Method for Two-dimensional Fourier Synthesis; Magnetic Anisotropy of Resorcinal; Fine Structure of the L23 Absorption Edge of Magnesium Metal; Intensity Anomalies in the Lyman Series of Hydrogen; X-ray Examination of Tooth Structure; Natural Sources of Fluorine and 'Mottled Teeth' in Maldon, Essex; Nazi-Socialism and International Science; Fertile Sugar Cane; Two Methods of Formation of Dictyosomes from Vesicular Golgi Bodies; and more. Binding intact. Average external soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 841-882 plus outer layer of 8 pages of ads. Features: Induced radioactivity of short period; Collision forces between light nuclei; Return of radio waves from the middle atmosphere; Technique of the Painting Process in the Brihadesvara Temple at Tanjore; Raman Spectra of 'Heavy' Arsine, Silicichloroform and Silicibromoform; Detection of Spotted Wilt Virus in Chrysanthemums; A Case of Lethal genes in the horse; Mutations arising at the Bar Locus in Drosophila melanogaster; Cosmic Rays and Mutations; Photochemical Reaction of Chlorophyll with Ferrous Ions; Thermal Decomposition of Ethylene Oxide; Antagonistic effect of iodides in baldness and toxicity due to thallium acetate; The Harding sugar reagent; Ascorbic acid as a precursor of serum complement; and more. Binding intact. Average external soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
324 pages plus references and index. Buried beneath all the advertising and promotion of milk and dairy products are some real, unique, nutritional nuggets that become ever so precious when exploited by science and technology. Boost your immune system. Relieve stress and anxiety. Fight osteoporosis, and more. Prior owner's details upon half-title page else unmarked. Very light wear. Attractive in glossy illustrated covers. Book
541 pages including index and abundant illustrations in colour and black and white. Written in French. Recounts the 120 year history of the Nestle Corporation. Several small tears to dust jacket which remains attractive. Light to moderate wear. Minor lean to spine. Unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
366 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa early 1900s. Black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of author. "The most rational and intelligible presentation in general outline of Biblical Revelation, so far as it is as yet complete, that it has been our privilege to discover in extant literature." - from introduction by The Rev. W.J. Sipprell. Prior owner's name upon browned front free endpaper. Small label inside front board. Hand-written notes inside back board. Occasional light pencil markings to contents. Front gutter taped. Above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, uncut, top lightly faded else a near fine copy in very lightly browned dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, free endpapers very lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the publisher's disclaimer slip mounted facing title. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
100 pages. Features: Attractive one-page color ad for Dodge Trucks features bright yellow moving van; Seattle's worst earthquake in history; Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin wins Atlanta's Negro vote; Color ad for General Tire features well-dressed lady with lots of luggage being helped by black porter; Classy color ad for the Farnsworth Television and radio Corporation; Two-page poem commemorates the first anniversary of the Iwo Jima battle; Canadian exposure of spy ring turns doubting eyes on Russia - major article with photo; Nice one-page ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Attractive color ad for Ford cars features ski scene; Young UNO closes first session with hope, suspicion, and a veto; Photos of Francisco Franco; Field Marshal von Paulus; Sir Sholto Douglas; Photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah; The bravest padre - Maj. John Weir Foote, Presbyterian chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry is awarded the VC; Brief obituaries for Dr. William Allan Neilson, Cornelius Johnson and Adolph Lorenz; Army posters to help soldiers adapt to civilian life; Tuberculosis germ killer; Photo and article of artist Alberto Vargas; Nice color-photo ad for the Boeing Stratocruiser; American Cyanamid color ad shows smiling coal delivery man iun bomber jacket; Dr. Henry A. Jones experiments with onions; Uneasy Swedes wonder what future holds; Photos of the lightweight Bobbi car; Aerial photo of downtown Chicago promotes the area for industrial development; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of John H. Sienold, Banquet Manager; Photos of American Cardinals; The Secret of "Huff-Duff" (radio direction finder) can be told - as part of ITT ad; Picasso of the Camera - Edward Weston; ad for Dr. Grabow pipes; and more. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Nice 2/3-page ad for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York; Nice one-page two-color ad for International Harvester features their trucks, crawlers and farm tractors; Nice one-page ad for the new Kaiser and Frazer, America's First 1947 Motor Cars; Nice Mercury color car ad; Color-photo Caterpillar ad shows their heavy equipment building levee; Nice New York Central ad features illustration of lady passenger sleeping in large sleeper compartment; Reproduction of notice by David Silberman of the Cap-Tin Development Corp. "A Pleas from a Bewildered Small Business Man"; Photo of German POWs awaiting transit back to Germany; Atomic Bomb - Greatest Show on Earth; Classy color one-page ad for the Farnsworth Television & radio Corporation; Anglo-Soviet Interests collide at UNO; Photo of GI bride Mathilde Dermarinius being paid to watch scary movie; Four photos of Japanese being cleaned and deloused at Sasebo; MacArthur bans sale of Japanese girls into prostitution; Sanji Nozaka - leader of the Japanese Communist Party; Operation Crossroads - Navy sends 100 vessels to take blows of new weapon - atomic bomb; Nice red REO Truck ad; First batch of GI kids and brides sail from Britain to New York; Good Year color centerfold ad (loose but present) shows black laborers harvesting cotton; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of Manuel Sanchez; GI's ask Ike for permission to marry German girls; Carl A. Spaatz; Canadian Earl Roberts Graham of Vegreville, Alberta, teaches people to kiss - article and photos; Strike fever spreads to Japan - weakly; Photo of Colonel Councill - coast-to-coast by P-80 in 253 minutes; Radar bounces off Moon to throw light on lunar riddle; Shift to letter language may teach Japs to Think; Baseball player Melvin Ott; Canadian M.P. Wilfred Kennedy McDonald is bone-crushing hockey player Bucko McDonald - article with photo; Article and photo on Bob Feller; Super one-page color-photo Boeing ad features the double-decked Strotocruiser; Difficult conditions for newborns in Italy; 25th Anniversary of Planned Parenthood; Photo and article on Johnny Desmond; The State is a Faithless Trustee; Color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Portugal; Charming color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Claudette Colbert; and more. Opening to top of coverfold. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
94 pages. Nice one-page Diebold ad promotes War Bond purchases and their Cardineer product; Nice one-page color GM ad shows tanks being offloaded from ship by soldiers; Interesting TWA ad shows illustration of native American looking up at plane; Draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is released from prison (with photo); Photo of boxer Joe Louis with his wife, Marva; Timken Bearing ad features Admiral Nimitz portrait; Brief obituaries for Raymond Clapper, Yvette Guilbert, Dr. Arthur Eugene Bestor, Will B. Johnstone and Janet R. Aiken; One-page military-theme Chevrolet ad; Ferocity of Nazi Defense shows importance of Rome Beachheads - with aerial photo of military train in Italy; Major war coverage; Battle of Kwajalein; The Marshall Islands - another stop on the road to Tokyo; Donald Bennett's Elite Forces use fireworks to Light Targets; Push toward Finland; The Battle for Rome; Russia's 16 for 1 split shows drift to regional setups; Photo of Aga Khan taking sleigh ride with lady friend in Switzerland; Photos of 'deserter's passport' to be used by Croats to give themselves up to the Germans; Soldier vote problem; Nice one-page color Camel cigarette ad features soldier home on furlough; US Steel color ad shows steel car and steel helmet; Victory garden stats and seeds; Nice wartime Trailmobile ad; Nice one-page United Airlines ad; Fantastic one-page two-color ad for REO trucks features logging and loggers; Styrene centerfold ad loose but present; Milwaukee Road military-themed ad; Lighters, Irons and Bathtubs returning to American Scene; Reproductions of Japa atrocity posters which were posted in war production plants to boost production; Nice photo ad for Dodge Trucks features photos of troops in action and heavy snow removal at home; Reporter Raymond Clapper is killed - article with photos; Nice photo of Army show in New Guinea with Phyllis Brooks onstage; Photo of 'sex rejuvenator' Serge Voronoff with his younger wife; Nice promotional ad for the Metropolitan Oakland area has nice aerial photo; Classy one-page color-illustrated ad for McCall's Magazine features mother reading to son; Daniel Fosdick Parker; Color Studebaker ad inside back cover features military equipment; Back cover ad for Seagram's 7 Crown; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: One-page Plymouth car ad; Nice one-page Ford car ad; Maxine Jones marries Noah Beery Jr. - with photo; William P. Buckner Jr. is jailed; Nice one-page color Good Year ad for their Double Eagle Airwheel; White Book - Nazis release papers alleging our envoys talked too much; China Puppet - Wang takes over amid jeers of Chiang's fighting forces; Graf Spee details come to light; Easy government victory in Canada; British admit Nazis lead in propaganda score; South American labor ferment; The bomber and its targets; What does Russia's naval policy portend?; Photo of Bertrand Russell with his family; King Kaslov - King of Russian Gypsies in the US; Nice one-page color LaSalle car ad shows Special Coupe on baseball diamond; Nice one-page glossy two-color ad for Canadian Pacific; Great one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal sedan features lovely lady; Conductor/Pianist Walter Damrosch; Photo of Notre Dame runner Greg Rice; Ediphone ad features photo of Mickey Rooney in the movie "Young Tom Edison"; Gyrations in the British Currency; Photo of Yankee Clipper taking off from the new seaplane base at La Guardia Field, New York City; Attractive color ad for the Packard Super-8 160 shows a blue car driving in the country; And much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for the ill-fated Ford Pinto inside front cover; Nice Long Distance ad features photo of Miss Mary Ann Van, Executive Secretary, Arthur Godfrey Productions; Victory for the Press - Supreme Court rules in favor of the press re: government secrecy 'in the national interest'; Joe Columbo is shot in Manhattan; Indonesia moves toward stability; Three cosmonauts die aboard Soyuz 11; Saab 99 car ad; John W. Snyder; Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger - a way to end the Vietnam war?; Daniel Ellsburg - the man who started it all; The Secret History of the Vietnam War (Cont'd) - major coverage; Sexy Smirnoff ad features young couple in small boat; Plugging the leaks at the Rand Corporation; Large color photo of Jim Collier in Chase-Manhattan Bank ad; Richard Speck; Soviet Union and Israel discuss resumption of diplomatic relations?; Victor Louis; War in Pakistan; One-page color ad for Chevrolet's disastrous Vega (red); Jim Garrison arrested in New Orleans (with photo); The Vietnam Vogue - fashion article; Photo of Eddie Kasko with Carl Yastrzemski; Muhammad Ali is vindicated by Supreme Court; Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus; GMC Truck ad; Digital Equipment (DEC) and its popular minicomputers; Two-page Ford ad features airbag testing; Switach shoplifting prevention product; NYPD corruption investigation; New younger breed of prostitutes; Semen storage; New Light on Cold Sores; Jane Fonda; The Fillmore East and the Fillmore West are closed by Bill Graham; Golda Meir Has the Masada Complex; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Color Nash car ad inside front cover; Caterpillar Diesel ad; Color Mallory hat ad; Uneasy lies the nation under confused labor, price policies; Victims of muscular dystrophy; American Diplomacy loses face over occupation force bickering - Sharp retort by Acheson to MacArthur's 200,000 estimate exposes disunity to world (photo of MacArthur in front of Daibutsu/large Budha in Japan); Cleavage between Russian and Anglo-American viewpoints comes out in London Peace Talks; When Yank meets Russian - Korea under two flags; Photos of Germans and Japanese in their defeated lands; photo of the charred body of Joseph Goebbels; Stimson retiring, warns U.S. to keep military might in peace; Photo of Private Harold Atkinson, first of the Winnipeg Grenadiers returns home to Winnipeg (photo); Home builders see green light but fear Bowles price controls; Cyrus Eaton; Educators hope to make good Japs out of bad ones; Color Budd car ad; color DC-6 ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. Small tears and stains to dust jacket. 172 pages.
212 pages including biographical notes. "Modern Canadian writing is far more rooted in the past than we usually care to admit." - from introduction. Crisp and clean with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book