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56 pages. Cover photo of sport fisherman using an outboard motor which 'has replaced oars for fishermen'. Features: The Golden Key, by Lee Russell; When the Risk Overshadows the Skill - Roger Bannister blames the 'criminal negligence' of braggarts for tragedies which mar sport; Classy colour ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee canned Ravioli; Canada's Busiest Party Givers - Mr. and Mrs. F. Ronald Graham of Marine Drive in Vancouver - with enough dishes for 700 people - nice photos; Dictatorship due for France? - article by George Langelaan with photos; The Low-Down on Hi-Fi - how to tell what you get for your money; My Love Affair with Canada, by Bing Crosby - with photos; I Always Love to Scrap - boxer Yvon Durelle - with photo; The Sinclair Luck, by Gordon Sinclair; Boats are Bustin' Out All Over - an examination of the quarter-billion-dollar canadian recreational boating industry; Predictions for the Oscar Awards; Colour ad for Goodyear tires features colour illustrations of vehicles for each year, 1915 through 1957; Sean O'Malley's Daughter, by Brian Cleeve; Young Man in a Hurry, by Margaret E. Barnard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated article on Venezuela and its oil industry; Large photo of "Bustle Beauty" Marilyn Munroe in bustled bikini, wearing outrageous platform shoes; Large colour full-page ad for Waterman's pens; Student Strike at Toronto's Malvern Collegiate after Principal Lorne H. Clarke Dismissed - article with three great pages of photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Tooke shirts; Two amazing pages of photos and text entitled "Troubled Palestine" - Lifting of Martial Law after 15 days brings no end to Terrorist Incidents - Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem; 104th Running of the Grand National - Caughoo, an unknown 100-1 long shot wins; Readers' Letters; We Need to Speed Exports, by Gerald Waring; Bellingham, Washington is fast becoming the centre of entertainment for BC'ers - photo with article; Do Women love Weaklings?; Leonard (Len) Wookey of Callander, Ontario - Successor to the Dionne Quints- photos and article; Some Day - short story by Beth Balcom; What's Doing on Mars? - Sydney Cooper on Rocket Travel; Spanish Maquis - 100,000 strong, they strike at Franco's government - photos and article; Bell the Cat, by Gregory Clark; Come Spring - short story by Eric Cameron; 20-page Colour Comic Section; He Who Whispers, fiction by John Dickson Carr; Devil-Charming Ritual in Vancouver; Bootleg Fur - contraband fox pelts in Ontario; Cancer research at the newly-organized National Cancer Institute of Canada; Pigeon Timber Company's "luxurious" lumber camps in Ontario's Black Sturgeon area north of Lake Superior; Alberta deer being relocated to preserve farmers' crops; Earthquake Man - Edward Mantle of Hamilton; Van Treel and an international Dope Ring Roundup on the West Coast; Sports news; Super colour full-page ad for Northern Electric radios; Photos of romantic hats; Colour ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System; Photo-illustrated article on fencing in Canada; Back page colour ad for Lux soap featuring great photo of Betty Grable; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Book
265 pages including index. A most lovely copy of this work, originally published in 1905. The most comprehensive and yet succinct one-volume work ever written about the mighty waters of the St. Lawrence which for a thousand miles act as the border between the United States and Canada. Includes 100 illustrations. Unmarked. Minimal wear. Attractively illustrated dust jacket. Book
Discusses espionage in the immediate post-war period, including the defection of Igor Gouzenko in Canada and also the story of the "Vavoudes Group"and Nicholas Belogiannes in Greece (pp113-154) as well as espionage in Sweden "An enthralling book, alarming in its implications, but valuable as a revelation of contemporary history and as a cautionary tale for the still incredulous citizens of free countries." 203p.+ 4 pages of plates. Neat tight copy, but for a small pink stain on bottom of pages where colour has beled . DJ neat with slight foxing and a similar pink Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (wanting original paper guard), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original paper guards present) and 13 engravings in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down and separately printed errata slip mounted facing Preface. Henry Ashworth James, of Herstmonceux Place Sussex, was father of aviation pioneer Wing Commander Sir Archibald James MC; this copy was formerly in the latter's library.
xi, 394 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "Joe Boyle led many lives - sailor, sports promoter, entrepreneur, diplomat, soldier, spy - each life a testament to a romantic nature, a love of action, a blunt, single-minded devotion to doing what seemeed right and what needed to be done. Decorated by four European countries for outstanding services in war, he long remained unsung and all but forgotten in his own land. Now, using new material from the Boyle family archives never before published, this book recreates in colourful detail the exciting life of one of the last international heroes." - dust jacket. Book
Good copy, pages bright and tight. Minor edgewear to cover, spotting on FEP. Clean Copy
156 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. "Provides an overview of the developments in the international and domestic environment which affect the demands for and on the armed forces of Canada and other democracies, and the government's and the public's expectations of the armed forces, drawing the broad implications for governmental, defence and military policy." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An unread copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Appears to be a little water warping in the lower 1/2" of the pages about the last 10 pages of the book. Full of photos, schedules.
385 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "This book is a study in the history of ideas, specifically with reference to the conjunction of the movements of religion and social reform in Canada in the years 1914 to 1928... The book catches the social gospel in mid-passage, in a period when its influence was high but its fortunes in crisis." - from Preface. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is preserved in protective Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
279 pages including index. Challenges earlier works which focus purely on Social Credit monetary fixations and religiosity. Argues that the early party is best seen as a colalition of reformers, including working-class social democrats, the unemployed, small business owners, and farmers placed in jeopardy by the Depression. Moderate quantities of wear and marginalia. Book
"Hamida Ghafour and her family fled Kabul in 1981 when the Russians invaded. In this memoir, she tells how she went back in 2003 as a journalist to cover the country's post-9/11 reconstruction." "As Hamida is drawn deeper into her country's present, other members of her family come to life for us - her great-grandfather the Sufi mystic, her poetess grandmother who urged women to unveil, her great-uncle who wrote the first democratic constitution, her brave cousin Bahodine who paid for his views with his life. Her parents and their student days of hamburgers, hunting trips with American hippies and searches for the perfect pomegranate. In her family's past she finds the story of Afghanistan itself." "She finds its future in people like the Midwestern beautician teaching women a new kind of independence, her cousin the parliamentary candidate and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization - in the form of a giant Sleeping Buddha." 336p.bibliography. index. Book
Book is in excellent condition with no flaws; sharp corners, as new. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, no tears. 296 pages with a very large number of full page b&w photos, maps, line drawings, ads, ledgers, etc. Previous owner's name inked out on front end paper. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Full maroon cloth boards.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 183 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding.
188 pages. "I believe there is an urgent need to reform the tax system so that it is simpler, fairer and more efficient.... The Single Tax provides a better solution." - Author. Mills was MP for Broadview Greenwood. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with title in blue and black, and numerous plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published under the authority of the National Co-Ordinating Council for the Golden Anniversary of Flight in Canada.
Hugh Garner's best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the book's events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens. Around Grace orbit her various boarders: alcoholic Gordon Lightfoot; Walter Fowler, an aspiring writer whose marriage has just broken up; Aline Garfield, a fundamentalist Christian grappling with various urges and torments; a Polish refugee woman; and a colourful cast of others whose lives intersect in drama that arises from arbitrary or coincidental encounters.Nice printed cloth cover in yellow and black designed by Frank Newfeld . Book
238 pages. Index. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author and her daughter. "The story of Dora Hood's experiences as owner and proprietor of Dora Hood's Book Room in Toronto from 1928 to 1954. Mrs. Hood writes glowingly about book collectors for she was convinced that, by and large, they are among the most delightful people one can meet." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket protected in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Tape marks on endpapers from former dust jacket cover. A sound copy of this precious account of used book selling in Canada prior to the internet. Bibliographic reference: Amtmann H-1081. Book
240 pages including index. A complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Provides pictures and descriptions of 495 of the ships that have served in Canada's naval forces. Text and photographs, most of which have not been previously published, combine to create a book of lasting appeal for all who have served in the naval forces and a reference work of importance to Canadian history. Usual library markings. Binding open at title page and page 239. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Many b&w photos.
270 pages. Through James Davis's eyes we see the real face of Canada's army: efficient, technologically advanced - sometimes brutal. The uncompromising opinions Davis has about the strengths and weaknesses of our present-day military are backed up by his own first-hand experience at "the sharp end" as a front-line soldier. Will interest not just military buffs but also those who want to understand the life-and-death pressures facing Canada's soldiers at home and abroad. "If Canadians really want to know what our soldiers faced in Bosnia, Rwanda and right here in Caada, Jim Davis delivers. Read him and think." - Desmond Morton. Book and dust jacket clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 280 pages. Very large format: 12-1/4" wide and 15-1/2" tall (may require extra charges for shipping, depending on location). Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Some fading and discoloration to dust jacket, with slight edge wear. Binding thread is showing through the endpapers at the front hinge, but this appears to be the way it came from the publisher; not broken or loose. Many color illustrations.
xiv, 282 pages. Index. 105 plates plus tissue-protected colour frontispiece illustration of James Wolfe. "Being a volume of records and illustrations together with a pictorial travelogue showing the stage of development which America had reached seventy years after the Seven Years War." - subtitle. "It is my intention not to produce an entire history of even the periods to which I refer, but to bring to light various tracts, letters and documents, many of great rarity and most interesting, and thus to allow the reader to form his own conclusions, rather than to place my interpretation upon this evidence." - Preface. Please note: contains only one map [three missing] in pocket inside back board. Back hinge open. Front hinge starting. Usual library markings and wear. A worthy reading copy. WALLACE p.93. Book
The author was Superintendent of Schools, Chatham,Ontario. This book is "A Condensation of a Thesis Submitted in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Pedagogy in the University of Toronto". and includes and array of statistical charts and tables reflecting the reults of various reading and intelligence tests administered to White and Negro schoolchildren in the area during the 1930s. 'It is proposed in the following work to give some account of the history of the early settlement of Negroes in Kent County, Ontario, and to make a study of the mental capacity of Kent County coloured children.While there are many data available from the testing of American Negroes, very few attempts have been made to examine the mental capacity of any reasonably large group of Canadian Negroes. Kent County, Ontario, was among the few regions where Black people were found in comparatively large numbers". The book reflects some of the common racial perceptions of that period, but nevertheless the author was aware of some of the limitations of his data and notes in his concluding pages that "When considering the present investigation the question of the socio-economic environment of the Negroes should be given some thought. If socio-economic environment affects intelligence and school achievement, this factor. should be kept in mind when considering the results of this present investigation'' and also "In fairness to the Negroes it should be pointed out that the tests used in the present investigation have been standardized on White children; and in consequence there is the possibility that owing to a different cultural, social and general environmental background the Negro is unfairly handicapped when he attempts the white mans' tests" [The same problems which, even 70+ years on, still affect educational testing!] 187p. illus, maps, charts tables, bibliography, index. Clean tight copy, slight shelf wear. else fine. Book
