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Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Gorgeous iconic Benito cover art depicts Aphrodite rising from the sea. The 76 pages include provide a broad sampling of content on beauty, fashion, society, and variety, plus the usual profusion of wonderful ads. Pages 36-37 contain a wonderful color illustration by Libis of four black housemaids happily hanging a yard full of fashionable laundry to dry in the sunny breeze. Above-average wear. Front cover is missing numerous peripheral chips and is loose but present. Back cover almost loose. Bottom corner of pages 19/20 (6" x 4") removed. A marvelous, albeit well-travelled, vintage issue. Book
Pages 361-376 (16 pages in this issue). Features: The Mystery of John Revelstoke Rathom, President Wilson's Confidant; Behind the Front - Impressions of a Tourist in Western Europe, by Aleister Crowley; Behind the Scenes at the Capital; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; Germany Repudiates War Plotters - Berlin Denounces Lawlessness - Consider Conspirators as Enemies; How They Make Cities in Germany, by Frank Koester; A Word with the Republicans; The Crisis with Austria; The President's Onslaught on Free Speech; Hitting Germany Hard; Financial Forum; War Bond ad; and more. Covers almost loose but present. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
If vintage true crime is your thing, you just hit the jackpot! 48 pages of fascinating cover-to-cover articles on sensational crimes of the day and related topics, all generously illustrated with quality black and white reproductions of photos. Features: Rehabilitation As I See It - by Richard E. Davis, Warden, Utah State Penitentiary; Inside Story of the Murder of Curtis W. Dobbins, brilliant young engineer of the RCA Victor Corporation, in the exclusive Camden suburb of Haddonfield; The Skull That Came Back To Life - the bones of Lillian White, murdered on Cheesecock Mountain near Haverstraw, New York, were used to reconstruct her identity and make possible a feverish manhunt; Sex Behind Bars - an expose of the ways of prison love and the unscrupulous "wolves" therein; The Most Wanted Man in Portland - Roy "Ted" Massey, alias Jack Henry, wanted for Hold-up and Murder Investigation; Rise and Fall of Racketeer Barons - Dossier of the Fabulous Volpe Brothers of Pittsburgh - they reached out for racketeer gold - and ruin; The Rape and Murder of pretty NYU student Helen Clevenger; What Happened to Vanished New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Carter?; Sterilization - If legalized it could have prevented the heinous love racket killings of Harry F. Powers; Amazing photo of a portion of the throng of 20,000 souls who turned out to witness the hanging of 'Negro rapist' Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, KY; Brief write-ups (with small photos) of the murders of Japanese actress Neda Taka in Los Angeles, and Louise Trammell in Chicago; San Quentin Penitentiary Inmates caught operating a counterfeiting plant that circulated queer money from Canada to Mexico!; Modern Science in Crime Detection - fingerprints at the scene; Spicy color-illustrated back cover ad for the next issue features young lady being whipped; Somewhat above-average external soiling, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this outstanding vintage issue. Book
20 pages. Features: The Trade in the Tools of Death, by George Sylvester Viereck - an account of the tremendous development of the manufacture of munitions of war in the United States showing how this country, allegedly neutral, is helping to prolong the European conflict by furnishing firearms and explosive to the British Allies; Cartoon by A. Staehle shows the Prince of Peace coming out of Bethlehem, Palestine, and hell going out of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the form of munitions on railcars; White List - A list of some companies what have refused to manufacture arms and ammunition and ammunition-related manufacturing machinery; Money From Death - a partial list of American companies engaged in the manufacture of munitions of war; Victory - In Battle and in Balkan Diplomacy; The War of 1920 - 2nd Instalment; The Ocean Travelers' Suicide Club; Arm the German Ships in New York Harbor; The Cleveland Automatic Company and the New York Times - poison shrapnel being provided to the Allies; Mr. Pulitzer in Looking-Glass Land - he seems to exist in a land where everything is the reverse of the truth; The Verdict - Guilty! - England on the Witness Stand; Spring's Awakening in Berlin, by Louis Viereck; Ad for Kaffee Hag on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Covers loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: The Next Step of President Wilson; Friends of Peace, Organize! Organize!; The Trust of the Red Death - Article III - Premonitions of the Future - George Sylvester Viereck discusses how capital is diverted from peaceful employment to the establishment of a trust that will ean the fomenting and making of wars for profit; News from Austria-Hungary, by Dr. Ervin Acel-Starhemberg; German Week at the San Francisco Exposition; Famous English Preacher Pleads for Arms Embargo - Rev. Dr. Aked and Prof. Rauschenbusch Protest Against National Dishonor; The War of 1920 (continued); Russia as a Publisher Duplicates her Failure in Military Affairs; The London Morning Post Fears the Fatherland; Mr. Ochs's (of the New York Times) Fate?; Chip in for the Dernburg Fund; Henry James has done something; Full-page fascimile of letter to George Sylvester Viereck from Mrs. Carl L. Schurz asking him to be Editor of the English edition of "Weltkrieg" called World-War; A hint for the "American Machinist" - a publication which promotes the sale of poison shrapnel; Poultney Bigelow Again - an amusing clown; If The Fatherland were published in Germany - an interesting quotation from the Cedar Rapids Republican; Prof. Burgess's Book "The War of 1914" Boycotted by some of the leading book stores in New York; Facsimile of Mr. Viereck's reply to Mrs. Schurz - in the affirmative; The German Aims of Peace; - and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Openings/creases to upper corner of back cover at backstrip. This issue noteworthy in that for the first time we find a full-page back cover ad for Budweiser -with a George Washington theme. Until this issue, most advertisers in this publication had been of the smaller, local (New York City) variety. Magazine
- Revue mensuelle d'art et de littérature de N°1 au N°16, Paris Juin 1900 à Novembre 1901, 14,5x22,5cm, 17 volumes agrafés. - A complete set of this review, edited by Ernest Raynaud. The first six copies of this set are part of a de luxe edition printed in only 12 copies on Japan paper for each issue; the subsequent volumes, of which there were no de luxe copies issued by the publisher, are on ordinary paper. This set retains its 8 loose plates hors texte as called for, 7 of which are portraits. N° 14 (August 1901) was a special issue dedicated to the opening of the monument to Arthur Rimbaud at Charleville. Among the principle contributors were: Charles Cros, Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas, Charles Morice, Rachilde and Paul Verlaine. An extremely rare set. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Collection complète de cette revue dirigée par Ernest Raynaud. Les six premiers exemplaires de notre série font partie d'une édition de luxe tirée à seulement 12 ex sur Japon pour chacun des volumes, les volumes suivants pour lesquels l'éditeur n'a jamais fait de tirage de luxe sont sur papier courant. Notre série est bien complète des 8 planches volantes hors-texte annoncées, dont 7 portraits. Le n°14 (août 1901), est un numéro spécial consacré à l'inauguration du monument d'Arthur Rimbaud à Charleville. Parmi les principaux collaborateurs : Charles Cros, Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas, Charles Morice, Rachilde et Paul Verlaine. Rarissime ensemble.
- Le sagittaire, Paris Juin 1900 à Novembre 1901, 16 volumes, agrafé. - A complete set of this review, edited by Ernest Raynaud. This set retains its 8 loose plates hors texte as called for, 7 of which are portraits. N° 14 (August 1901) was a special issue dedicated to the opening of the monument to Arthur Rimbaud at Charleville. Among the principle contributors were: Charles Cros, Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas, Charles Morice, Rachilde and Paul Verlaine. Extremely rare. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Collection complète de cette revue dirigée par Ernest Raynaud. Notre série est bien complète des 8 planches volantes hors-texte annoncées, dont 7 portraits. Le n° 14 (août 1901), est un numéro spécial consacré à l'inauguration du monument d'Arthur Rimbaud à Charleville. Parmi les principaux collaborateurs : Charles Cros, Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas, Charles Morice, Rachilde et Paul Verlaine. De toute rareté.
- L'Ermitage, Paris Janvier-Juin 1898, relié. - Edition originale des 6 numéros du premier semestre 1898. Reliure en pleine percaline souple et gaufrée, couvertures des 6 fascicules conservées Contributions de René Boylesve, Françis Viélé-Griffin, Françis Jammes, Edouard Ducoté, André Gide, André Lebey, Georges Rodenbach, Henry Ghéon, Marcel Réja, Hugues Rebell, Yvanhoé Rambosson, Fiona Macleod entre autres. Illustrations de Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Paul Berthon, Richard Ranft, William Bradley, Henry Detouche, Edouard Münch, Jean Veber, Andhré des Gachons, Paul Andra, Paul Ranson entre autres. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- Martinon, Paris 1844, 25x32cm, relié. - Édition originale parue en 20 livraisons, illustrée de vignettes gravées sur bois dans le texte d'après Célestin Nanteuil, Français, Karl Girardet, Jules David, etc. et de 20 planches gravées sur cuivre ou lithographiées d'après Diaz, Decamps, Hazé, A. Guignet, E. Hedouin, Théodore Chasseriau, Alophe, Couture, etc. In fine sont reliées les couvertures de toutes les livraisons. Les couvertures des livraisons annoncent fautivement 30 gravures au lieu des 20 qui furent jointes. Reliure postérieure en demi-maroquin rouge de Russie à coins, dos à cinq nerfs richement orné, date dorée en queue, encadrement de filets dorés sur les plats de papier à la colle. Nombreux frottements et coins émoussés. Provenance : de la bibliothèque de Victor Mercier avec son ex-libris Art Nouveau gravé par Adolphe Giraldon. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- La revue indépendante, Paris Mai-Octobre 1884, 11,5x18cm, relié. - Edition originale, un des rares ex sur Hollande pour le premier numéro, exemplaires sur papier courant les les cinq suivants. Reliure en demi percaline brune, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, légers accrocs sur les coupes, reliure de l'époque. Contributions de : E. de Goncourt "Une Passionnette" "Idées et Sensations d'un vieux civilisé", E. Monteil "Le Manuel d'Instruction laïque et la Critique", J.-K. Huysmans "La Genèse du Peintre" "Le Salon de 1884" "Un Dilemme", P. Verlaine "Les Amies", E. Hennequin "Les Romans d'Edmond de Goncourt" "J.-K. Huysmans", R. Caze "Les Boucles d'oreilles" "Fête de famille", H. Céard "'Chronique du passé", E. Zola "Théâtre de Campagne", C. Lemonnier "Une Tentation de St-Antoine de Félicien Rops", A. Lefèvre "L'Univers et la Vie", A. Remacle "Le Mouvement wagnérien en France" Agréable exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Living Arts magazine was edited by Theo Crosby and John Bodley. Designed by Gordon House. Published by The Institute of Contemporary Arts in association with Tillotsons (Boulton) Ltd. © 1963. The front and back covers are from a photograph taken by Robert Freeman of a setting arranged by Richard Hamilton in connection with his "Urbane Image" essay which was also in this publication. The Living City catalogue which was included in this, the second issue of Living Arts, was produced by members of the Archigram Group, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb with Ben Fether and Peter Taylor. — Testi: Crosby Theo, Bodley John. F.to: 21x21; pagg. 128; COL e BN; rileg. brossura. Editore: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1963.
64 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Dominion Oilcloth & Linoleum inside front cover includes illustration of amourous military couple; Nice colour-illustrated Pepsi ad features pretty blonde and illustration of boys fishing; News digest includes The Marsh Report, 'Cradle to Grave' security, and more; Nice one-page illustrated Canadian Pacific Air Lines ad explains their substantial contributions to the war effort, amid dramatic air and land battle scene; Colour Ritz cracker ad includes service man and woman; Editorial discusses how the war has tarnished certain words and lifted others; Ford Motor Company one-page ad with illustration of Canadian troops in firefight; One-page Northern Electric ad includes illustration of deHavilland Mosquito; Friendly Invasion - great photo-illustrated article on construction of the Alaska Highway, with photo of Felix Murawski, 74th Engineers of Oklahoma City; Pigs' Feet (short story); The Penalty is Death (short story); Canada's Future Housing - photo-illustrated article explains ideas to be borrowed from Great Britain and the U.S.; Chowder Boy (short story); Sea Water Gurney's Boy (short story); Hollywood News and photos; One-page Parker Pen ad shows mailman handing mother a letter beneath caption "Your boy writes often now!"; Beer is Booze; One-page ad for the T. Sisman Shoe Co. includes great illustration of soldier on motorcycle; Canadian General Electric half-page ad boldly proclaims "Vitamins For Victory"; Woodbury Powder ad includes nice photo of Lana Turner; Magnificent centrefold two-colour (red and black) Victory Bonds ad entitled "Shoulder Your Own Share" includes text on left and, on right, a large illustration of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek super-imposed over scene of fighting in her war-torn China; Army Meals Go Modern - nice photo-illustrated article explains and illustrates meal preparation for the gigantic 7,000 man "army restaurant" at Webb Hall in Toronto; Nice colour one-page ad for Heinz Tomato soup includes illustration of tomato-headed aristocrat in top hat and monocle; Fashion illustrations; Is Your Daughter Happy in the Service? - article with photos of Daisy Horner of Dorset, Ontario, Dolly Mawson and Gay Sutton of Toronto, Elizabeth Cook from Creemore, Wren Barbara McClelland of Toronto, and twins AW2 Beryl and AW2 Daphne MacPhee of Charlottetown; Fashion article; Quotes from around the world; Elaborately colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific - Canadian National Victory Bond ad inside back cover entitled 'A Profession of Faith' includes calligraphy explaining their faith in Canada's future; Nice colour Wabasso Cottons ad on back cover shows mother, daughter and sewing machine; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Covers detached as one. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
42 fascicoli Fascicoli venduti singolarmente. Folio. pp. 8/fasc.. . Buono (Good). . . .
Testi: Cook Peter. pagg. 22; BN; Editore: Archigram, London, 1970.
Scritti di Bertrand Guegan (Le livre d'art en Europe), Jean Bruller (Le livre d'art en France: essai d'un classement rationnel), Paul Istel (Reliures de notre temps). Riproduzioni in nero e a colori di rilegature, frontespizi e pagine a stampa su carta a mano e carta Giappone applicati. Con xilografie, litografie, offset ed eliogravure originali applicate di Frans Masereel, Max Elskamp, P. E. Vibert, Charles Vik, Max Ernst, Louis Bouquet, A. Alexeieff, Galanis, Mariette Lydis, Pierre Gandon, Raoul Dufy, J. L. Boussingault, Odillon Redon, etc. . 4to. pp. 100. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . . Uno dei numeri più ricercati di questa importante rivista di tipografia, grafica ed illustrazione, per la grande quantità di tavole originali applicate.
Tra i collaboratori: Ponti, Sinisgalli, Mallarmé, Quasimodo, Sereni, Parronchi, Lattuada, Anceschi, Bartolini (poesia ''Invito''), Birolli, Apollonio, Saba, Franchi, Micheli. Con litografie originali. Fascicolo 1: Tamburi, Gentilini, Gallo, Savelli. Fascicolo 2: Sassu (2), Rosi, Pulcinelli. Fascicolo 3-4: Maccari (4), Rosi, De Grada (3), per un totale di 16 litografie eseguite escIusivamente per questa rivista. 3 fascicoli (Tutto il pubblicato) . 8vo. pp. 72 + 144 + 244. . Ottimo (Fine). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Importante iniziativa culturale del primo dopoguerra per ''partecipare con severo impegno alla rinascita spirituale d'Italia'', come recitavano le presentazioni.
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
Features: The "White Avengers" - III; A German Venice; Hassoo the Traitor; A Record Trip in the Yoho Valley; The Raiding of Robben Island; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - II; A Bolt from the Blue; Across America on an Automobile; How I became a Lion-Tamer; The Bird-Charmer of Paris; The Strange Story of John Evans; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - I; The Stronghold of the Snakes; My Spanish Servants; The Mystery of the Cross-Marked Trail; Sword-Fishing; Caught in a Death-Trap; The Haunted House by the Creek; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - II; At Sea with a Lioness; A Railway Race with Robbers; Through the Copland Pass; The Tale of the Tiger-People; The Voyage of the "Vaskapu"; Two Remarkable Walking Competitions; The Story of Vasili the Fisherman; "Up a Tree"; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - III; "Dead or Alive"; In Search of a Treasure Island; The Fairy-Tale Castle; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - III; In the Far North-West - II; The Medicine Wagon; A Wonderer in Asia Minor - II; The "Bandit Hunters" - The Disappearing Islands; The "Mountain Mystery"; A Californian Rabbit-Drive; Two Bachelor Girls in Madeira; A Home in a Tree-Top; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - I; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - III; The Legend of Manaia; The "Boy Police"; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - I; Christopher the Bear; The Monkey Gods of India; How We Settled the Tie; The Last Fire-Dance of the Sabobas; The Story of Kusanga; A Training School for Cowboys; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - IV; The Hold-Up at Hugo; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - I; Peasants at Play; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - II; An Open-Air School in France; The Grey Scourge; Mistletoe Farming; The Bear and the Barrel; The Hut in the Jungle; The Romance of Seal-Hunting; The Haunted Ferry; A City inside a Palace; What Happened to Ferguson; Christmas in Many Lands; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - III; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - II; The Squatter's Cup; Riding on the Sea; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - II; Down the Wire; The Alligator Pool; A Race with a Flood; A Maori Wedding; My Debut at Kimberley; The Wild Ponies of Exmoor; The Quest for the "Biggest Bear"; Fun on a Liner; Two Ladies and a Pony-Cart in Central Japan - I; Captured by Filipinos - I;; The Dog-Derby of the Far North; My Turkish Wife; Into Unknown Papua - I; The Strike; The "Servant Problem" in East Africa; A Battle with Ice-Floes. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Maison de la Bonne Presse. 1899-1906. In-8 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur acceptable. 12 tomes d'env. 800 pages chacun. Illustrés de très nombreuses gravures et photo-gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Avec de nombreuses partitions musicales. Titre, date, tomaison et filets dorés sur les dos des 4 derniers tomes. Bords des plats frottés. Fortes mouillures dans le tome I, avec bords des pages abîmés. Mouillures sur la tranche et les bord des pages des tomes X, XIII et XIV. Tome I, jan.-juin 1899: Dernières Fleurs, Charles Vincent; Un étudiant au IVe siècle, Abbé G. Marchal; Paysage vert, Mélodie de Paul Verlaine et Charles Bordes; La Grande Amie, Pierre l'Ermite; Le Crête des Alpes, Cap. Tescos. Une perle des Pyrénées, Amélie-les-Bains; Nocturne, par Hippolyte Dessane; Courrier de la mode; Concours photographique, etc. Tome II, juillet-déc. 1899: Semailles et moissons, B. Carey; Une missionen Abyssinie, P.F. Doumet; Le Reichstag allemand, Abbé E. Wetterlé; Passacaille, musique de A. Derepas; Jeux d'esprit; Aux Champs, Paul Renaudin. guignol à Paris, Maurice Feuillet; Pages oubliées; Fantaisie hongroise, Pour 2 violons ou piano, par A. de Bertha; Les Cartes postales illustrées, Paul Franche; De quoi l'homme est fait, T.F. Manning; Le Chardon bleu, Lucien Donel, etc. Tome III, jan.-juin 1900: Baptême de cloches, Max Colomban; Les émigrés pendant la Révolution, L'Emigration militaire, Ernest Daudet; L'Usine des canons Krupp à Essen; Actualité scientifique; L'Esprit en France et à l'étranger; Etincelle, Fantaisie pour piano, Musique de Marius Guillet; L'Ecole de Mlle Pommette, Charles de Vitis; Le Mont Athos, Maurice Feuillet, etc. Tome IV, juillet-déc. 1900: Le Triomphe de la Croix, Belmont (Dr G. Viatte); Une folie de Garibaldi, Aspromonte, Emile ollivier; Le 'Passionsspiel' d'Oberammergau, Charles de Vitis; La frise en mosaïque du Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts, L.E. Fournier; Le Petit Saint-Bernard et la Redoute-Ruinée, J.M. Révial; Le Meuble à l'Exposition, ses évolutions, son avenir, etc. Tome V, jan.-juin 1901: Le Testament d'un siècle, M.L. Christian; Jeannie la Pauvrette, Georges Hamon; Le Jeunesse de Michel-Ange, Emile ollivier; Les Larmes du Petit Jésus, Musique de Aug. Thibault; La Fille du Chevrier, Alexandre Coutet; La reine Victoria, F. de Bernhardt; Vierges et Madones, A. Fabre, etc. Tome VI, juillet-déc. 1901: Conte au bord de l'eau, Louis Maigue; Lettres de La Mennais à Emmanuel d'Alzon, G; de Grandmaison; La laine, B. de Laer; Les Tapisseries françaises à la cour des Médicis, L. Bosseboeuf; Les parfums d'autrefois et d'aujourd'hui, Jacques Boyer; Herut tragique, Jean Desmauvrets; La route de Chine, Journal de route de l'enseigne de vaisseau Paul Henry; L'Université de Louvain, Dr de Visu; Coutisans du malheur, La vraie vie de Sainte-Hélène (Napoléon), etc. Tome VII: jan.-juin 1902: Promesse impériale, H. Latour; La Légende de l'Epiphanie, J.C. Broussole; Les Pionniers de la civilisation à la Nouvelle-France, Eug. Guénin; Les maisons de Chateaubriand, Edmond Biré; Le Mont-de-Piété de Paris, Aug. Harman; Les Marats, Henry de Capol; Le Padre Marcellino, Emile Ollivier; Paul Flandrin, Ludovic Le Belge; Gavotte Poudrée, Musique de Paul Wachs, etc. Tome VIII, juillet-déc. 1902: Un Dernier rameau, Bernard Dange; Guizot ambassadeur à Londres (1840), Ernest Daudet; Les Salons de 1902; Les Chemises rouges, L'armée garibaldienne à Autun en 18760-1871, Souvenirs inédits, Jacques de La faye. Eugène Delacroix, Henry Houssaye; Visite au château de Vincennes, Frédéric Lolée; L'Ecole des Forains, Abbé Gourat; Suzanne la doctoresse, Charles de Vitis; Le charme d'Athènes, Henri Brémond; Napolitaine, Sérénade de L. Elsen pour violon et piano, par Ad. Herman, etc. Tome X, juillet-déc. 1903: Il y a des carpes, Armand Praviel; Les Evêques aux premiers siècles de la Gaule, Geoffroy de Grandmaison; Les Courses, Vte G. d'Avenel; Gabriel Ferrier, Boyer d'Agen; Léon XIII d'après les médailles de son pontificat; La photographie du mouvement, L. Gastine; Le Jardin des Plantes à Paris, L. Augé de Lassus; Les Hommes du Consulat, Gilbert Stenger; Les Marchés aux bestiaux, L.G. Hamon. Séez, Paul Harel, etc. Tome XIII; Jan.-juin 1905: Dernier coup de sifflet, Jean Vézère; La capitulation de Paris en 1815, Henry Houssaye; Variétés sceintifiques, La question de l'heure, Abbé Th. Moreux; Douze cents kilomètres à l'heure, Jacques Boyer; Rochefort-sur-Mer, Georges Gourdon; La Galicie, Dominique Netterlé; La Porcelaine de Limoges, Jean Vézère; Le Roman d'une laide, Jean Rameau, etc. Tome XIV, juillet-déc. 1905: La Cité des fauves, Lucien Donel; Bonnets à poil et sabretaches, L'Uniforme dans les armées de la Révolution et du 1er Empire, Commandant de Sérignan; Au Pays du Soleil levant, M. Léra; Westminster, Henri Bremond; Les Deux voies, D.M. Lacombe; A travers le Liban, Sanctuaires et dévotions, J. Goudard; La gravure à l'eau-forte, Gaétan Guillot; Les magasins d'alimentation, Vte G. d'Avenel; Nancy, André Girodie; En Pays marocain, M. Léra, etc. Tome XV, jan.-juin 1906: Le Rayon du phare, Rebé Gaëll; La France il y a cent ans (1806), Geoffroy de Grandmaison; Les bouquets d'amateur, Albert Maumené; José-Maria de Heredia, Louis Nozier; Fourrures et pelleteries, J. de la Cerisaye; Un romancier américain, Henry van Dyke, E. Sainte-Marie Perrin; Cuisiniers et gourmands pendant le Consulat, Gilbert Stenger; Le train Renard, Jacques Boyer; Impressions d'Algérie, Jean Caren; De La Rochelle à Madagascar, Paul Bouchard; Terre-Neuve, A. Acloque, etc.
140 pages. Features: Iconic Benito cover illustration welcomes visitors to New York and the World's Fair; Welcome to New York; Invitation to the Fair; Dress Sense of a Queen; From Queen Alexandra's Day; The Queenly Figure; Mrs. Vincent Astor; Coats for the "Yankee Clipper"; World's Fair in the "Nineties"; Fruit from Paris - colour illustrations of fruity headwear; Polynesia in Print; Summer Preview in New Orleans; Southern Innocents; Land of Cotton; Vogue's Spot-Light; 5 PM to 2 AM - at the Fair; Photos of French doll Madeleine de Baine, purchased in Paris in 1868; A Wardrobe for visiting the Fair; Town Ginghams; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Miller's house; and more. Ads include: Wamsutta Supercale sheets color photo inside front cover; Tiffany & Co; Fromm Bros. silver pedigreed fox fur fashions; Best & Co; Bergdorf Goodman; International Silk Guild; Henry Bendel; McCallum Stockings; Fantastic one-page color ad for Shalimar perfume; Luxite Pantie-girdles; Bonwit Teller; Jaeckel; Van Raalte undergarments; Lord & Taylor; Stetson Tailorite Shoes; Nice one-page color illustrated ad for SeaMolds swimsuits by Flexees; Wallace Silversmiths; One-page color ad for Red Cross Shoes; S.H. Camp & Company - featuring large illustration of the Camp Transparent Woman; Macy's - Parade of Pants and Petticoats; "Lastex" Yarn; Dupont's Scuffless "Pyraheel" for shoes; Biberman Bros. - feminine frocks; Gansborough Snoodets hair nets; Vanity Fair Silk Mills; Pacific Mills; Enka Rayon; Laros Undergarments - lovely one-page color-illustrated; Everfast - one-page color-photo of model in Guatemalan print; Jacqueline Shoes; Pakables Hats; Vassarette foundations - nice one-page two-color ad; Kedettes Shoes - nice one-page color ad; Talon Placket Fasteners - featuring motorcycle cop photo; Saks Fifth Avenue; Frances Denney Make-up; Elizabeth Arden - nice one-page, two-color ad; Max Factor; Heel Latch Shoes; Daniel Green Comfy Slippers; Grace Ashley; Dobbs Hats; Jane Engel; Gorgeous color-illustrated Italian Line ad inside back cover shows charming passengers on deck; Back cover color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco auctioneer Joe Cuthrell - plus dozens of additional smaller ads. Complete and unmarked with no address label. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Short openings at each end of backstrip. A quality copy of this magnificent vintage issue. Book
160 pages. Features: Vogue views the world of Paris; Paris Openings - Variety Show; From Paris Openings - in America Now; Velvet touchin Paris; Modesty makes history at the Paris openings; Polish Cossack jackets; full-page photo by Horst of Madame Roger Max-Laubeuf in Lelong's interlaced bodice of grey silk jersey, lame skirt; Romantic Attitutes; Coats of half fabric and half fur; Iconic full-page Horst photo of the new Detolle Corset with back lacing from Paris; Colour illustrations of Paquin's Mummy Dresses - that glued-on look; Paris clings to Jersey; Crusade for covered heads; The covered-up look at dinner; The pulled-back look in Paris; Oriental Splendor - with great one-page color photo; One-page color-illustrated portrait of Miss Pamela Mountbatten by Raymond Kanella - Number 9 in a series; Fashions in Painting; The Duchess of Kent - another Alexandra - twelve side-by-side photos compare/contrast Marina's beauty and chic with Alexandra, Edward VII.'s lovely queen; Turn to Taupe; Hip-lines expand, waist-lines contract; Men who direct British and French films; Dividend dresses - young ideas; Miss Eileen Herrick's disappearing act - photos before and after she lost more than 20lb; Dinner with Turbot; Low-slung drapery, bandaged bodices; Color photo of slipper satin looks; Give Me New York... Maybe; Cloth coats for accessories/designs for dressmaking; Shop-hound trails for Autumn; New Continental Shoes; Corsets are Paris News; Tavern in Paradise in Bali - photo-illustrated article of Robert Koke of Kuta Beach; Paris Opening Accessories; Bring Me a Food Idea; Your Glasses and Your Costume; and more. Ads: Color photo ad for Bates bedspreads inside front cover; Bonwit Teller; Persian Lamb; Jay Thorpe; Peck & Peck; Hockanum Woolens - nice one-page color-illustrated scene inside Cartier's jewelry store; I. Magnin; Bond Street - a perfume by Yardley; Henri Bendel; Revlon nail enamel; Milgrin Original; Rothmoor Coats; Neiman-Marcus; Grayflex footwear; De Beers diamonds; Dobbs Hats; Cannon Hosiery; Brauer Bros. Shoe Co.; Germaine Montril; Carter's Foundations; Herald of Fashion; Scuffless Pyraheel (shoe heels); Jaeckel; Talon slide fasteners; Gorham Sterling; Kayser Gloves; Krippendorf Foot Rest Shoes; Houbigant's Demi-Jour perfume; Flexees Foundations; Rayon; Mojud Clari-phane stockings; Nettie Rosenstein; Van Raalte Gloves and Stockings; Imra; Huffman Hosiery; Munsingwear Foundettes - nice one-page two-color ad featuring Hildegarde, Television Girl No. 1 (as heard on CBS); Florsheim shoes; B.W. Cohen, Finerfur, Inc.; Enka Rayon; Ivory Flakes; Gracious Lady frocks; Lastex/Carter's Silverskin complete; Two page s of information about Vogue's 5th Prix de Paris contest for college seniors; Treo's Mist lingerie; Matrix shoes; Nice one-page photo and illustrated ad for Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain; Lovely ad for Guerlain's L'Heure Bleue perfume/parfum; Conmar fasteners; Kallman & Morris; Blotta; Campbell's Soup - featuring well-dressed lady at her desk; Pond's ad features photos of Lady Ursula Steward, the Lady Betty Bourke, The Lady Alexandra Haig, The Lady Grenfell and Lady Morris; Stein & Blaine; F. Millot; Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Elizabeth Arden's new Burnt Sugar make-up; Naturlizer shoes - illustrated in color; Henri Bendel; Peck & Peck; Beauty Balm by Germaine Monteil; Primrose House Chiffon Powder; McCutcheon's; Revillon Freres; Shulton's Old Spice Early American Trinket Box; Three perfumes by Bourjois - Evening in Paris, Mais Oui and Kobako; Daniel Green comfy slippers; Vanity Fair kneelast stockings; Woodbury Creams; Awesome one-page photo ad for Le Vertige perfume by Coty; Edgar C. Hyman scarfs; Jacqueline Cochran cosmetics; Volupte compacts; Je Reviens perfume by Worth; Harris Tweed; Klafter & Sobel; The H.W. Gossard Co.; Corday's Toujours Moi eau de cologne; Customcraft shoes; Lily of France duo-sette; Phil & H. Quinto - Strock fine fabrics; Junior Guild Frocks; Helena Rubinstein skin clearing crea Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Service to Japan, Hawaii and the Philippines now available; Anchors foul cable 4 times within 10 days - Burrard Inlet; Classified system will be extended to remainder of territory - includes full-page rate sheet; Company gains telephones in 1934 after 3 year decline (presumably due to the Great Depression); Company architect, Hugh D. Simpson; Our overseas service kept growing last year; Employee Sales Team Results; Statement of Development, 1 January 1935 - show # of phones per community; System suffers heaviest storm damage in history - January 1935 - 8 pages with photos; New exchange for the Albernis; John C. Miles succeeds John Johnston as Building Head; World Telephone network now includes 60 countries; Billy Palliser - champion salesman for Victoria Plant; Sechelt Company picnic; New phone system for thriving Alberni area - 4 pages with photos; Record 19,000 mile call from Vancouver to Perth, Australia; Dog's bark in Vancouver heard in Scotland; Round the world telephone talk sets record; Telephony's part in Canada's Jubilee celebration - 2 pages with photos; Parksville Exchange has Dial Unit at Qualicum Beach; Arthur R. Harness - garden awards; New switchboard handled by sightless operator - article with photos; PNE float details and photo; 2-page bio. with photo of Eugene P. LaBelle, the company's General Superintendant of Plant *MR. LABELLE'S NAME IS STAMPED ON THIS COPY*; Carrier circuits established between Vancouver and Calgary; Number of phones increased last year; Miss Elizabeth Murray, Vancouver's first chief operator, dies; New radio stations established; Fraser telephone building remodelled; Conference calls link Canadian cities by long distance (!); Operator school reopened; George E. Pittendrigh of Cloverdale, BC - installed Vancouver's first telephones; Telephone folks to the rescue; New Long Distance developments embrace Howe Sound Points; Key to Safety on the Job; New radio link serves Quesnel and adjacent mining area; Vancouver's first emergency phone calls; Newcastle Island Picnic; C.A. (Charlie) Price - Queer theories prove that people read the 'Yellow Pages"; James Welsh - our first formen; Article on the challenges of information operators; Seymour operating room photo; Mr. W.F. Salsbury - helped pave the way for our present telephone system; *CARICATURE OF E.P. LABELLE* and other company executives; Vancouver Arena fire damage quickly repaired; PNE float photo and details; Long Distance developments this year; Dominion Telephone organization meets in Victoria; Ex-policeman Ernest A. Harris recalls use of telephone in 1891; Monte Butler wins more rowing laurels; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Half-leather binding intact. Backstrip loose along front edge. Book
88 pages. Features: Vogue's-Eye View of Summer Fashions; New fashions, pleasures, and politics in Paris today; Waists dwindle at Paris Mid-Seasons - great Horst photos; Murder in the Art Galleries; One-page colour portrait of Mrs. Edgar Scott (Number 6 in a series); Cherchez la femme - an illustrated article on lipstick; Beautiful one-page color-illustrated ad for Bergdorf Goodman features lady seated by cabana with white dog; Random notes on waists, women and what-not; Summer Stock; This Summer's Debutantes - photos of Colette Gay, Mary Steel, Elizabeth Gibson, Rosamund Reed, Marjorie Flagg, Margaret Harper, Mary Filley, Elizabeth Kean, Dorothy Blackwell, Margot Finletter, Ann Wickes, Elizabeth Putnam and Barbara Iselin; Photos and brief write-ups of Barry Fitzgerald, Patricia Collinge, Morris Carnovsky, Hal Sherman and Sam Jaffe; House of Jewels at the Fair - with lovely one-page color photo; Color-illustrated article on 'Color - for the sand and sea'; Gorgeous one-page color photo of model in blue and white-striped dress in front of green-striped backdrop; Country Dinner - skirts or trousers?; Italy sends fashions to the Fair; Young ideas for your home life; Good for your Game - golf fashion photos; Picasso, Degas and Zola - samples of their photography; Come to Lunch on Sunday; Great photos of how a woman should look - and not look - when seeking a job; Two gorgeous one-page photos of models with little waists in dinner wear; Designs for dressmaking; Shop-hound's Early Crop; Discoveries in Beauty; Augustus John; For Mothers of Tomorrow; Cast on these sweaters; and more. Ads: Color photo ad for Cannon towels inside front cover; Bonwit Teller (shoes); Two-page ad for Lucien Lelong Carefree Perfume and Cologne; Two-page ad for the Cunard White Star and its vessel the Mauretania which will make her maiden voyage from New York on June 30th; Great one-page color-photo ad for the La Salle five-passenger four-door touring sedan (green); One-page photo ad for Oldsmobile cars; Imra; Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics; Fantastic one-page ad for the new Lastex Pagan Charm Girleiere by Formfit; Campbell's Consomme (Soup); Pond's Cold Cream - featuring photos of Lady Rosemary Gresham of England, the Hon. Ann Schaughnessy in Montreal, Mrs. Robert W. Armstrong of Toronto, the former Ann Clark (now a Roosevelt), the Lady Cynthia Williams and Mrs. Nicholas R. du Pont of Wilmington; Gorgeous two-color one-page ad for Lentheric fragrances; Old Gold Cigarettes - with photo of World's Fair Gown; One-page two-color Helena Rubenstein lipstick ad introduces new color 'Sporting Pink'; Nice one-page two-color ad for Bourjois's Mais Oui fragrance; Le Gant's "Sta-up-Top"; Revlon cream nail enamel; Tasteful leggy one-page ad for Bellin's Wondersteoen magic hair eraser; One-page ad by Japan's Board of Tourist Industry promotes tourism to that country; Fantastic color ad inside back cover features the Lincoln Zephyr V-12 in a desert scene; Nice color-photo Fisher Body ad on back cover features seaman standing by lady in red Pontiac. Faint hand-written name upon front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Short openings at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
