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16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: 'Carbon Coke' - the story of a personal crow; The Waves of the Sea; Character in Flowers; The Tame Deer of Nara; Birds' Eggs without Robbing the Birds; A Salt Water Aquarium - the seashore holds much interesting life; The turbulent life of the Sand-bug; Hyacinths; Conservation - exploiting wildlife; Wildlife in the National Forest - who owns it?; President Roosevelt receives Forestry Award; Have we learned anything? - an alarming falling off in the numbers of black ducks; Outlook for Waterfowl; Poisoning Predatory Animals; Venus Hides Behind the Moon. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Love Story from Mary Shipman; Special Stair Shapes; Ralph Haskins; Petite Elite; Vicki Metzger's Cats; The Grandma Box; Ann Cunningham; Valentine Ideas; Show Scene; Salt Box House; Wing Chair Kit; Wooden Baskets; Sugarplum Fairy; Sweetheart Bedroom; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: New Presidents for Harriman Railway System - informative article with excellent photo of Harriman officials in Seattle in November of 1909; Golden Spike Driving at Bend, Oregon (article); Increased use of Oil on Railroads; Seattle Port Commission studies improvements; President Shaughnessy's Report to C.P.R Stockholders - major article; Feature write-up of James Rolph, Jr., the next mayor of San Francisco, with photo; How is This For Passenger Traffic?; New Invention by David H. Wilson of Chicago Revolutionizes Telephony - C.P.R. sends message by telephone from Montreal to Fort William via telegraph line; Railroad Ties Pickled in Great Salt Lake, UT; Freight Congestion in New York City - major article with two photos; Death of Popular Ship Master Capt. Walter McWilliams of the American-Hawaiian S.S. Co. - article with photo; C.P.R. Purchases Fast Turbine Steamer Queen Alexandra for the Vancouver - Nanaimo Run; Successful Trial Trip of new Sound Steamer Calista; Schooner Daisy Gadsby Launched; Ramona Captain and Engineer Found Guilty; The Gaertner Releasing Hook - article with diagram; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; Bernard N. Baker, president of the Atlantic & Pacific Transport Co. Tells of Great Trade Possibilities; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: fast breeder reactors; the genetic activity of mitochondria and chloroplasts; woodhenges; superdense water; automatic analysis of blood cells; the great albatrosses; experiments in intergroup discrimination; why the sea is salt. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Communication in Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins; Vessels vs. Whales; The Mummichog a Fish for all seasons; Hang Gliding - Underwater; The Sargasso - Sea of Fascinations; Dividing the Continental Shelf Pie; Artificial Reef Propagation of a Salt Marsh; Jaws of Extinct Shark at Planet Ocean. Sound copy. Book
Features: Little Salt Spring; Tokyo Fish Market - A Wholesale Look at the Japanese Diet (Tsukiji); A New Island country; Stars for Kings; Birds of Rabbit Island; The Unknown World of Flipper; Hypothermia - Surviving Killer Cold. Sound copy. Book
Features: Antiques and Television; Oak House, West Bromwich, Staffs - a Tudor Yeoman's House which has survived an Industrial Tide; Decorative Early Maps; The Hannah Gubbay Collection; "Chayres with Iron Worke" - an account of some late 17th century 'Sleeping' Chairs; The 7th Scottish Antiques Fair; The "AW" Master Salt - a unique example of 17th century English Delftware; The Macabre in Art - as illustrated by Pictures of "The Temptation of St. Anthony"; The Blazing Myth and Kindred Matters for "Silhouette" collectors; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
Features: Value-Added Tax - Zero-Rating or Exemption; Recent Acquisitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum; Newliston, Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland - The Home of the Hog Family for 250 Years; Grosvenor House Fair Supplement; William James Muller 1812-1845; The Willow Pattern; The Craftsmanship of English Walnut Furniture; Celebrated Profiles - silhouette portraits at the National Portrait Gallery; Daniel gardner - An Exhibition at Kenwood; European Taste - Frank Partridge's Exhibition of English and French Furniture; English Silver Salt Cellars; Worcester Spoon Trays in the Marshall Collection; and more. Some markings. Average wear. Magazine
40 pages. Divinely illustrated front cover. Features: Paris in War Time - an impression of 1916, by E.V. Lucas; The Surrender - a story by Mary Gaunt; Russia - The Charm of Old Moscow, by Alan Lethbridge and illustrated by Arthur Watts; The Sculptor of the Madonna and of Countless Angels - the Della Robbia, by Cecil Headlam; Navarino - a battle of the allies - France, Russia, and Britain against the Turks; The Mystery of a Dress Coat, by Shelland Bradley; Several beautiful full-page colour portraits; Colour centerfold portrait entitled The Last Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, from a painting by F. Matania; How He Proposed - the different ways in which heroes have proposed to heroines in the novels of 1916; Louvain, 1916; Nice full-page colour ad for Eno's 'Fruit Salt'; Fantastic black and white photographic full-page ad for Napier Motor Carriages; Nice black and white photo ad for the Invincible Talbot automobiles, manufactured by Clement Talbot Limited; Smaller attractive black and white ads for Humber Cars, Austin Motor Co. Ltd., Vauxhall Motors Limited, Crossley Motors, and The Sunbeam Motor Car. Original protective advertising outer layer still present and affixed. Prior owner's name and address atop front advertising cover. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Moderate wear. A very beautiful magazine indeed! Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Stories: Moccasin Telegraph; The Man with the Harp Again; Seeking the Salt Caravan; Down in the Desert; The Depression-Buster Mine; A Luckless Voyage; The Elephant's Vengeance; At War With the Bushmen; The Rival Magicians; One-Eye Williams; Sepik Quest; The Auditor's Adventure. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: A Bishop in the Wilds; Brigand-Hunting in Palestine; The Girl World Tramp; The Man Who Saw Red; The Lost Mine of Dr. Thorne; Goat Currency; Running the Border; Wild Pigs!; The Salt Lick; African Magic; An Island Paradise; Slippery Wiley's Clients. Above-average wear. Book
Features: "The Sky's No Limit," Continued - The First Fully Authentcated story of the test pilots and the hazards they face - Pilot Baled Out From Under the Sea; Arab Feud at Ahwar; Salt Their Sentence - The Salt Mine of Trapani in Sicily; Dirty Paddy - Croc-Hunter Extraordinary; Sing-Sing in By-and-By Land - Port Moresby; Butter on the Beach; Call of the Dancing Madness - Secret Beliefs of British Columbia Native Peoples; Waste-Land Double Crosser in Australia; All Plaice are Left-Handed; The Game of the Bull at Pemba, off the East African Coast; Isle of the Toiling Bell - onboard the schooner Joie de Vivre; Tiger in the Temple - Central India; Trapped on the Ocean Bed - Pearl Diving in the South Pacific; Heroes in Harness - Sled Dogs of the North; Woman of the African Bush - She Assumed Animal Form; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
96 pages. Features: One-page ad for Sony high-fidelity tapedecks; Gerald LeDain and the Ledain Commission on drugs; Photo of Leonard Cohen as he works with Marshall McLuhan to name the Anik satellite; Harvesting trout in Manitoba; Royal Trust moves into the TD Center and a spacious 'leafy look' office layout; The politics of polarization in the US; Spiro Agnew's attack against the media bosses; Parades for peace and patriotism; Washington rally organized by Professor Charles Moser for Nixon's unsilent supporters; Arrest of Samuel Melville, George Demmerle and Jane Alpert after dynamite blasts in New York City; Edward Johnson and Willie Smith charged with murder and rape after the savage deaths of Hermine Rohs, Willy Rohs and Marilyn Rohs of St. Louis; The Apollo 12 mission; Nice one-page ad for Toronto's Royal York Hotel; The Start of SALT talks; Solzhenitsyn remains true to his credo; Election in India; Japan seeks return of Okinawa and Ryukyu island chain from U.S.; Victory for Marcos in the Philippines; Rare two-page colour-photo ad for Wardair - Canada's largest jet charter airline; The Suez Canal's Bleak Centennial; The New Feminists - Revolt against 'Sexism'; One-page ad for the ill-fated IOS, Investors Overseas Service, Ltd.; The art of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatests sculptor; Suddenly Washington, DC has no law to prevent doctors from performing abortions; Whole Earth Catalog; Fordham's administration building messed up; Passing of Donald J. McParland, Iskander Mirza, Ferdinand Eberstadt and Harry Scherman; Time to squirm for military contractors of the U.S. Navy; Price of Hershey Bar raised from 5 to 10 cents; Merger of Northweset Orient with Northeast airlines; Nickel shortage; Interesting 4-paragraph article on the price of gold; Ad for the Peugeot 504; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: All West Issue; Robert R. Young 1897-1958; Railroad news photos; Great Photo of 'The Day They Tamed the West', 10 May, 1869 - rails meet in Utah; What the 'W' stands for in D&RGW - Rio Grande's Salt Lake Division; A Place to Watch Trains - David P. Morgan thumbs his diary back to 1945 and recalls Denver Union Station in 1945; Photos through the Rockes; Nice 2-page photo of a train puffing through Marias Pass in 1940; Day of a Railroader - 2 - a fan goes firing for pay and falls in love with 4-6-6-4s; The Case of the Verdi Villains; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
Features: Big news for coach passengers; Nice color Fairbanks-Morse ad inside front cover; Railroad News Photos; Half page article on Southern Pacific's 13-mile solid fill across Great Salt Lake; Overshadowed by the Hoosac - illustrated article on other rail tunnels; The Railroad that Parliament Forgot - the Talyllyn in Wales; Super photo section including a shot inside the Paducah, KY steam locomotive shop; Four Aerotrain Photos; Washout - the monthly treatment of a steam locomotive; What Price Sleep? - the domes and diesels, decor and dining of Burlington's latest are de luxe indeed, but the big news lies in a bed just 24 inches wide; RDC (Rail Diesel Car) Breakthrough - Baltimore & Ohio takes the Budd (car) by the horns and shows what can be done; Missourie Pacific (Mopac) - maps; Steam in Indian Summer 8 - by David P. Morgan; Very nice color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway on back cover; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Lost Patrol - an experienced Mountie fails to turn back in time; Bringing Home the Cook - Roundup Cooks; When Lightning Strikes - The Ritch Family; Small Caliber Two-Man Placering; The Salt Hauler Murders - nothing would stop the Cheyennes; Elwha's Feuding Hermits - photo of a post office in a stump!; Attempted Break at Yuma Penitentiary; Little Finland - Snoma, South Dakota; Montana's Caveman Outlaw - Frank Brady; Wild Old Days!; They Found the Range Empty! - A ranger cleaned out by Comanches and Kiowas. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
62 pages. Features: How to have your own gold rush; coins found at old railroad spur; selenite chrystals on the salt plains; the wonderful world of lost wax - making fine jewelry; Food bottles from the past; Good old Long Island; Looking for Arrowheads? Try Nevada; Better understanding why treasures were buried; Mid-America Treasure hunters; How deep do coins sink?; Treasure hunters turn to 'topo' maps; Searching out clues aids coin, relic hunting - how to be a 'Sherlock Holmes'. Average wear. Book
66 pages. Features: Cover photos of Billy Red Cloud, Bill Watts, George Drake, Sputnik Monroe, Dale Lewis and Johnny Weaver; Great photo inside front cover shows Little Beaver throwing Sky Low Low; Sputnik Moore - "I hate crybabies" - article with many photos; Izzy Moidel - No one loves the referee; Johnny Weaver - article and photos (one with Haystack Calhoun); Mary Jane Mull - article with photos; Spiros Arion - article with photos, including a shot with Bruno Sammartino; The Riddle of Bill Watts - article with photos; Amateur Wrestlers - article with photos; Peter Fladever - article with photos; George Drake has made it big in England - article with photos; Lucille Dupree - article with photos; Billy Red Cloud - article with photos; Dale Lewis - All-American boy goes bad; Salt Lake City Mat Stars - photos; Hempstead action photos; Toronto action photos; Action photos from the Middle East; Action photos from Malta; Nation-wide results; Super photo of Man Mountain Dean inside back cover; Colour photo of Vern Gagne on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Four-inch opening to top of cover-fold. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
A very interesting issue. Features: Triangulation - why and how this precise surveying job is done; Editorials - The Nicaragua Canal - The "R-101" disaster - Spiritism exposed - Why a navy is needed - Sick railroads - Lessons learned; Our changing transportation - competitors to the railroads; Zone television and the television arc - television transmission via three channels; Tudying up the constellations - archaic method of outlining roups is being simplified; Problems of calendar improvement - the importance of the movment ot change our calendar; Tons of human hair in industry - woven into press-clth, hair serves a most useful purpose; This new big business of gardening - food raising becomes a gigantic mechanized industry; From the archeologist's Notebook - bronze bowl - home of a notorious Roman - Lid of Canopic jar - a Roman portrait - Chinese head-dress ornament; Man's insect allies - an insect that feeds on cacti and destroys them; Change - the great competitor; Sulfur - the second of three related articles on salt, sulfur and petroleum; Clemenceau and Foch - the United States enters the war - the Armistice and peace conference; Diesel versus gasoline-engined plane - the diesel-engined plane has a higher "ceiling"; A flexible amusement building in New Orleans - a municipal auditorium with a movable stage platform; A two-mile industrial water tunnel - tunnel for the ford plant carries enough water for several cities. Chip loose at top of spine. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Tear to page 402. Book
