Constable

The Life and Work of Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal. 1697-1768. [Complete set]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 184 plates and a pedigree in the text, neat inscription on front paste-downs, some light and inoffensive spotting; cloth, gilt backs, boards very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly frayed and creased at edges. Vol. I: The Plates; Vol. II: Catalogue Raisonne. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1928: Vol. LXI No. 363: To Lhasa in Disguise / Down The Colorado River, The World's Most Dangerous

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book

National Home Monthly Magazine, January (Jan.) 1938 - Vancouver's Junior G-Men / London's Famous Underground

48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book

The Canadian Magazine, April 27 - May 4, 1968: Special Police Issue

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

The Structurist - Transparency and Reflection, No. 27/28, 1987/1988

120 pages. Features: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Moholy-Nagy - Proto-Holographer; The Aesthetic of transparency in Russian modernism; Transparency in art; Windows - Transparency and enclosure; Poems on John Constable; Arctic Transparency and Reflection; The poetry of Harry Martinson; Perceptual transparency in Cezanne's paintings; A short essay on the painter Monet; Aspects of transparency in music; Transparency of architecture and man; Banco Coca - transparent architecture in Madrid; Glass in architecture; Transparency and reflection in sculpture and architecture; On Victor Pasmore's use of transparency; The work of Mary Martin; Light, space and transparency; Transparency and visual ambiguity; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book

The Canadian (Magazine) / Star Weekly, December 31, 1966 - January 7, 1967 - Artist Feliks Topolski / Hockey Player Doug Barkley's Recovery from Eye Injury

20 pages. Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Isabel LeBourdais, Dr. Gustave Gingras, Elaine Tanner, Joseph Papp, Bonny Rush, Georges Lemay, Lili St. Cyr, Jean Drapeau, Norma Lougheed, Dalton Camp, Elmer Sopha, Joey Smallwood, Eric Griffiths, Martine Van Hamel, Harry Jerome, Glenn Hall, Dirk Hoogendoorn, Constable Del Moore, Joe Borowski, Mary English; Photo and brief write-up of Medicine Hat farmer Art Millington and his battle to sell unpasteurized milk; Colour fashion photos 'hide-and-seek sex'; Artist Feliks Topolski; Doug Barkley's fight to recover from a serious hockey eye injury; Len Johnson and how this captain of an Empress found happiness as a second mate on a B.C. ferry. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine

Weekend Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 22 - June 1, 1963 - Claire Marshall Cover Photo / They Tried to Kill De Gaulle

36 pages. Features: How the Secret Army Tried to Kill De Gaulle - article with photos; Hand Knits fashion photo feature (colour photos); Full-page photo ad for Canadian Pacific's flights to the Orient features beautiful Asian woman; Bill Warwick of Penticton hockey fame seeks to return the "real" World Hockey Tournament Campionship trophy to the Russians - after his team returned a phony cup! - article and photos; TV's Fresh Young Faces - colour photos of Dinah Christie, Julie Rekai, Rhonda Silver, Lorraine Green, Louise Marleau and Beth Morris; Constable Ted Owens teaches safety in Saanich schools. Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine

The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, October 14, 1961

63 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book

Canada West Magazine, Spring, Summer and Fall 1978, Volume 8, Collector's No. 30, 31 & 32

Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book

The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, March (Mar.) 1951 - The Death Patrol

xxiv, 256-320 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Lucia, Windward Islands; The Death-Patrol - strange R.C.M.P. manhunt in Canada's far north after a murder on Moskeet Island; The Tobacco Farmers - three youngsters put their combined savings into an abandoned farm in North Queensland - article with photos; The Jewelled Cross - a strange story of buried treasure; Photo of New Zealand's "Bottle House"; The Stowaway; The Tale of a Shirt - what happened when an African 'bush-boy' acquired a taste for European clothing; The Miracle of the Sacred Eagles - photo-illustrated article on a daily phenomenon at a hilltop temple in Tirrukalikundram in Southern India; The Landlord's Tale - a rousing sea story told by the host of a village inn on the south coast; The Wai Wai Indians of the interior of British Guiana - article with eight photos; The Delectable Island - the isle of Re lies in the Bay of Biscay; Jungle Magic - an inexplicable performance witnessed in Malaya; Australian Treasure Trove - the wealth awaiting lucky finders in the Australian wilds; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book

The Wide World Magazine, The Magazine for Men, June 1950, Vol 105, No. 626: Three-Thousand-Mile RCMP Arctic Sled Trek

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

The Wide World Magazine, September 1953 - Australian Edition

Features: Gurkha Soldier - the author served with the Gurkha's throughout the late war; Canada's Cat-Swings - Cat trains are used to transport supplies over huge distances in Canada's north; Shark Bait - Elephant Graveyards; The Interventor Gets Busy - reprint of the 1934 story of the author who was sent to Peru to secure possession of some mines which had been illegally seized; V.G.I. - the author, C.A. Chard, had an undersea career of 30 years; The Bungalow - story from a little Indian rest house; Salmon-Fishing in Bering Sea - Interesting glimpses of the salmon-packing industry in Alaska, with photos; British Courage - fire aboard the British Courage which was carrying nine thousand tons of oil; The Smoke-Signal - a story from and Australian mounted constable; and more. Small openings along back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book

Canada West Magazine, Winter 1972, Volume 4, Number 4 - The Cliff Dweller / The 1913 Liberty Nickel

40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (helicopter) flight in 1907?. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book

Canadian Collector Magazine, January/February, 1987, Vol. 22 No. 1

76 pages. Features: Dealer profile of R.G. Perkins and Son - Robert Gordon Perkins and his son Sheldon; The Stained Glass of William Morris - a Vancouver collector profile; Ron McLean of Waddingtons; Creatures and spirits coalesce in the art of Bill Reid, by Doris Shadbolt; Preserving our Paper Heritage - evaluation and disposal of treasures, part 2, by Katherine McIntyre; Is it a Constable? - the mystery of 'Scene of Woods and Water', by Paul A. Hachey; Outport Furniture - Newfoundland heritage in a Hamilton home, by Leslie Fink; Caring for Works on Paper - Part IV - Care of Watercolours, by Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski; Depression Glass, by Linda Parker; Harlan House - Ceramist, by Gloria Hickey; Silken Velvets - a Venetian collection of antique fabrics, by Ileana Chiappini Di Sorio; Mysterious "Girl-in-a-Swing', by Simon Jones; Farewell auction of Lukannon 's Antiques of Saint John, New Brunswick - dispersal of the fine stock of Mrs. Rupert Wainman-Wood; At the Shows. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Bits of clear tape on front cover. Book

The Wide World Magazine, December 1957- Australian Edition

Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book

The Wide World Magazine, November 1954, Australian Edition

Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Backstrip almost entirely missing. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Decent copy. Book

The Wide World Magazine, October 1954

Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book

The Daily Colonist, Sunday July 1, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper

This listing consists of pages 1-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Hitler smashes revolt; Death of mountaineer Alex H. Dalgleish; Pioneer and Bralorne mines in B.C. may rival famous South African workings; Bones of Cougar Ike found near Nitnat?; White fishermen push seven Japanese fish boats out of Bull Harbor and warn them not to return; Merrit Indians sentenced to hang for Murder of Indian department constable F.H. Gisborne - with photos of Richardson George, Eneas George and Alex George; Editorial page; City and District News page; Social pages; Entertainment page; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper

The Wide World Magazine, November 1941

Stories: Adventure Ahoy; A Deal in Diamonds; Pattern for Blitzkrieg; Fairy Godfather; The House of Death; Fish and Chips; How I Won My Horse; The Lone Star Kid; The Promotion of Constable Sidi; The Battle of Santiago; The Crocodile-Charmers of Java; The Stolen Telluride. Above-average wear. Book

[Catalogue of Works sold]. Andrew Clayton-Payne. NEAR FINE COPY

4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in cream, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE

Sagas of the Canadian West - Vol.2, No. 2 - Summer 1972

40 pages. Features: Murder of Constable Graburn; Lynch Justice in British Columbia; Batoche; Murder of Paymaster Wilson; Manitoba's Krafchenko Kaper; Saskatchewan's Provincial Police; Roche Percee; Hazelton Bank Heist. Photo of Stony Mountain Penitentiary upon front cover. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book

Nutshell News Magazine, September 1992 - Small Wonders II

Features: Nutworking - sharing our experiences; The passing of Dee Snyder; A miniature weaving studio; John Constable preserves the history of the English Cottage; Small Wonders II - Kips Bay Club's full scale decorators repeat a big success on a small scale; Shannon Moore; The Dollhouse Museum of the Southwest; Finishing the Interior of the Airplane Cafe; The Bride of 1900; Microcrafting - Three Chinese Accents; A Kitbashed Trunk and a way to build bricks without straw; A Glow in the dark Mobile; Tin Cookie Cutters; Along the Mall XVIII - Kiddy Care; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine

The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - January 1973 Vol. 38 No. 1

84 pages. Features: Bell 212 Helicopter in Newfoundland; Brun - RCMP Horses in Alberta; Hidden Liquor Well; Cree Tattooing; Bootleg Fish - Nova Scotia; The Alberta Provincial Police; Robbery or Mischief in Haney, B.C.; Constable John Clisby; Arrested German POWs; and much more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's details black out atop title page else unmarked. Sound copy. Book

Paintings, drawings and watercolours. London 1973. 4to. 244 S. Mit 191 Abb., davon 32 farb. Orig.-Leinenbd.