519 résultats
64 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle presents the rail line to Ungava's Iron; Editorial argues that Canadians need to read more of their authors; Elegant one-page colour 1953 Chrysler ad features red two-door New Yorker; The Crisis in Education - the Canadian education system is creaking toward chaos, Part 1 - The Teachers; Jerry (Gerald) Bull - Boy Rocket Scientist - photo-illustrated article on 24-year-old Dr. Gerald V. Bull, guided missile expert; The Dumbest Cluck on the Farm - fun article about raising chickens; When the Redskins took over Twiggeville (short story); Montreal - A City With a Heart - Karsh photos capture the spirit of the city; The Neighbours Who Sing for Canada - The Don Wright Chorus of London, Ontario - article with many photos; How the Boom Hit Seven Islands, Quebec courtesy of Mining Magnate Jules Timmins - article with many photos; Interesting one-page Massey-Harris ad examines the economic impact of farmers; Handsome one-page colour ad for the 1953 De Soto Firedome V-8 (maroon); Sensational 1953 Studebaker centrefold colour-photo ad features a canary yellow Starliner coupe; One-page two-colour Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) ad features photo of airman with puppy in his helmet; One-page colour ad for the 1953 Meteor car features a black on yellow car; One-page Morris Minor car ad; Nice colour one-page ad for Leonard fridges; What to do until the guests leave; Lovely colour Dofasco ad shows housewife picking peaches through her window in the middle of winter; Nice colour La-Z-Boy ad shows officeman relaxing; General Motors one-page photo ad explains how their many activities spend $350 million annually; Champion spark plugs ad features small photo of Chuck Stevenson, 1952 AAA National Racing Champion; Nice colour one-page Oldsmobile ad features green 1953 Super '88' holiday coupe; Half-page RCMP recruiting ad; Colour ad for the 1953 Ford Monarch (grey) inside back cover; Weston's ad on back cover links with the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Wonderful cover illustration of ice fishing huts by Macpherson; Quebec Board of Cinema Censors bans film Martin Luther as it shows the Pope in a bad light; Should White Marry Black? - Interracial Marriage; Dulles Battles an Uneasy Europe; Colour Plymouth ad; John Tunney's Stubborn Fight for Justice - this pro-union Winnipeg milkman spent seven years and thousands of dollars battling the union leaders who cost him his job - bonus-length feature article with photos; Do You Know How Old You Really Are? - new atom-age tests make a liar of the calendar; The Lakehead-core of Canada - Karsh photo feature on Fort William-Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) - with interesting emphasis on the huge Finnish labour force; The Memory of a Sentimental Morning - story by Ronald R. Smith - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; People Won't Believe the Colonel's Blind - Col. Eddie Baker and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB); He Tried to Create the Perfect Wife - story by Robert Olson; There'll Never Be Another Model T - a Maclean's flashback to 1922 when Henry Ford's 'car for the multitude' became almost a way of life; Lovely colour ad for the 1954 DeSoto; My Adventures in Basic English, by Steve Laszkiewicz, a displace person (DP) from Poland; Unusual colour centerfold "Do I Have To Grow Old?" shows fashionable woman - sponsored by the Canadian Banana Company; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover "After the Prom... it's Coke Time". Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
124 pages. Features: Peter Whalley's cover illustrations depict the many phases of deer hunting; Editorial laments the 'sickness' of TV giveaway shows; How Iron Man Sir Anthony Eden Made Good; Half-page Wawanesa Insurance ad features photo of 1948 Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott figure skating; Great two-page colour ad for a white on red 1956 Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Four-door hardtop; The New Wonder Drugs That Fight Insanity - photo-illustrated article on Chlorpromazine and reserpine; Buck Crump's Love Affair with the CPR - photo-illustrated article on the rise of Buck Crump from machinist's apprentice to 51-year-old president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR); The Cooney's and their seven adopted children - photo-illustrated article on the family of Lillian and Joe Cooney of Toronto; St. Boniface (Manitoba) is Nobody's Suburb - photo-illustrated article on the largest French-Canadian settlement outside Quebec; Where to buy an ancestor cheap - Ben Ward-Price runs Canada's busiest auction gallery, Ward-Price Ltd. - photo-illustrated article; Uncle Charley's Secret Treasure (short story); The Unconquered warriors of Ohsweken - photo-illustrated article on the Iroquois and their unknown 'republic' in the heart of Ontario; How the Highlanders Took Nova Scotia - they are making the place more Scottish than Scotland - photo-illustrated article; Flashback article on the September 15, 1885 tragic death of Jumbo the elephant at St. Thomas, Ontario; God's Little Fleet - Rev. John Antle and the Columbia Coast Mission visit the raft villages of B.C.'s coastal loggers - nice photo-illustrated article; Two Hunters (arctic short story); Want a Moose in Your Parlor? - photo-illustrated article on taxidermist Clifford McCutcheon and his Oliver Spanner & Co. Ltd. of Toronto; What's Your Day to Shine?; One-page colour-photo ad for NCR (National Cash Register Company) shows lady working adding machine; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria (white on salmon colour); Nice Sylvania TV ad; One-page photo-ad for Ronson lighters; Bright two-page colour ad for the 1956 Dodge Mayfair 4-dr hardtop (black on yellow); Beautiful two-page colour ad for the new 1956 De Soto Fireflite 4-door hardtop (white on blue); Colour Seabreeze ad shows eight of their record players; Rare one-page two-colour illustrated ad for McCulloch chain saws shows lady cutting log; Fantastic One-page illustrated Dunlop Tire ad explains how hero Edward Chipman of the Elmhurst Dairy in Montreal entered a burning home three times to save children on the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation just before Christmas 1954; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features photo of their new Empress of Britain; Molson's Golden ale ad features colour illustration of 'Goldie' the lion playing checkers; Colour ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Admiral TV ad features their 'Regina', 'Manitoba' and 'Collingwood' models; Canadian Wine Institute colour ad features M. Andre Vaucher and Mlle. Micheline Dubois, both of France; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington shows its huge banquet room; Barrett Company ad includes photos of F.E. Shaw, Tim Kier, George Goddard, L.O. Heron and John Hawthorne; Labatt's IPA ale ad includes photo of Toronto crane operator Leo Maltais; Interesting 1/3-page piece on artist Simpkins and his cartoon bear Jasper; Canadian Anecdote - When B.C. Had a Navy; Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows terribly muddy backroad and explains how the state of Kansas has performed major upgrades to its roads; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover has one-inch stain at top; and more. Discrete clear archival-tape repairs to coverfold, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A pleasing vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
STE FOY (Québec), Ed. Anne Sigier - 1985 - In-4 - Cartonnage éditeur avec vignette en couleurs contre-collée sur le 1er plat - Gardes illustrées - Textes en anglais et en français - Très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs HT - 150 pages - Bon exemplaire
Features: Nice two-colour Browning Rifles ad inside front cover; Leased Lakes Pay Off; Trout and the Beginning Angler; Hike to Hatheume; Quebec Province Fabulous in Choice of Outdoors Fare; Visit Quebec This Summer; Interestsing illustrated ad for the Swingfog mosquito and blackfly fogger; Pete McGillen on Fishing; Recoil or Kick; The Pest That Was the Pheasant; May and Dogs; Great ad for Chinook Sleeping Bags on back cover; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
276 pages including index. The conflict between Quebec nationalism and Canadian values and the story of the appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee against the violation of freedom of expression. Author is the Canadian who pioneered the appeal of Quebec's sign law to the United Nations. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
48 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. "Tells the story of the peoples of Canada, and points to a road for us to follow towards permanent unification of all our groups into one strong, resolute nation." - from Foreword. Eight pages are devoted to the subject of 'World Conspiracies" and the fact that "The Communist conspiracy has worked among many of our Canadian groups, the most important of which, in terms of numbers, are the Anglo-Saxons, the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Finns, the Magyars, the Jews, and the Poles." Also discusses Nazi infiltration in Quebec. Above-average but not excessive wear. Top inch of front cover missing. Unmarked. Still a sound copy of this fascinating, rare, and now politically incorrect, work. Show this to your young kids to illustrate how times have changed. Book
112 pages. Features: Cover photo of LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) in adoring crowd; Lovely color fashion ads; Bankers Trust features Ian Mackay; What Good Can Be Said of Political Conventions?; Barry Goldwater Seeks a New Coalition; The Day Paris Was Liberated - Twenty Years Ago - article with photos; Plea for 'Realism' in Southeast Asia after the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Analysis of the 'White Backlash' - New Haven's reaction to the demands of Negroes for full citizenship takes some unexpected forms; Moscow Debates Its Manners; Two Peoples Under One Flag - a restive Quebec fires up old Anglo-French rivalries and shakes Canadian unity; Portrait of Channel No. 1- 'Coco' Channel has created a half-century of chic - photo-illustrated article; The Race to build the first Mach 2-plus passenger planes; It's Easier to Adopt a Baby, but the number of babies available does not meet demand; Campus fashion photos; Speaking frankly on homosexuality - something which was taboo until recently; Photos of hair styles and jewels; Photos of a Ranch House designed by Aspen Architect Eleanor Brickham; Chesterfield cigarette ad features horse breeder Guy Stillman, fashion consultant Virginia Van Brunt and architect Larry Craig Dean; Eight photos of prominent TV shows; and more. Light wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Rave Reviews for Ed Koch; Quebecois Flock to the beaches of the south coast of Maine; Fairy-Tale Wedding of Charles, the Prince of Wales, to Diana Spencer - nice photos; Abolhassan Bani-Sadr; VIA Rail drops 15 Runs; World Record Swim for Alex Baumann; Strikes at Algoma Steel and Stelco; Straight-speaking Laura Sabia; B.C. Hatchery Accident results in many blind fish; Saskatoon aims to become a prairie Tivoli Gardens; Shorts - Fashion; Stopping the Suicide Cycle; Rock Music - with picture of Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Loverboy. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
28 pages. Lovely colour-illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers. "This book was written to give some of the answers and tell some of the stories about the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers and the little French Canadian towns and villages that the ship named The Saguenay) passes as she sails." - from page two. Illustrations throughout in a Richard Scarry-like fashion. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this thoroughly enjoyable and educational early Canadian children's title. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, dark top, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
Begh 1950, In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée, 339 pages. Bon état.
91 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Book
2 vols. in-8, brochés, couvertures imprimées, XVII, 720 p. (les deux volumes en pagination continue). Edition originale et unique de cet ouvrage collectif publié par la "Commission Internationale d'Histoire des Mouvements Sociaux et des Structures Sociales" sous la direction d'Ernest Labrousse. Quelques articles sont rédigés en anglais. Nombreuses et importantes contributions: Jacques Droz, F. Bedarida, R. Portal, E. Hobsbawm, Jiri Koralka, etc., etc. Europe, Pays arabes, Afrique noire et Madagascar, Asie, Canada et Amérique latine. Bon exemplaire.
Pages 1-50 plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Newfoundland - the watchdog of the Atlantic - with many great military photos; In the Heart of British Columbia's Coast Range; The Watermills of Old England; Occupational Therapy Across Canada; Some Canadian Cities (meaning and origin of names); Canada's Postcard Commandos - using photos to identify and target assets of our military opponents; The Balkans; and more. Some of the best ads include: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (with artillery illustration inside front cover); Quebec Liquor Commission ("Please Use Less"); Empress Hotel/Chateau Frontenac Hotel (combined photo ad on back cover). Moderate wear. Small name stamped inside front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
in-4to, 84 pp., abdt illustré couleurs et N&B, broché. Bel exemplaire. [P-37]
80 pages. Features: Al Purdy's Canada; John Turner - The Once and Future Contender; There is so a (goreous, sexy) life after thirty; How to Watch the Stanley Cup - by Jacques Plante (with photo of Plante); What Quebec Wants to Be - by Claude Ryan; Neil Young - My Brother the Folk Singer - article by Bob Young with photos of Neil; The New Sourdoughs - colour photos and write-ups of people drawn to Northern Canada, including Freddy Carmichael, Paul White, Mel Deines, Daryle Brown, Pete Cowie and Jim Robertson; Hostel Holidays in Europe; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
251 pages. Black and white illustrations. Intensely describes the various states of mind of a scarred hockey player who sets about the task of riding his strong wrists to glory and success. Lafleur's confidant in certain disquieting circumstances, Larochelle embellishes his account with previously unpublished disclosures that are both moving and profoundly human. - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Average wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
in-8°, 140 pages, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire [CL-5]
Broché. 297 pages. Couverture tachée.
Unpaginated. 5/8" thick. Printed upon glossy stock. Each page charmingly illustrated. Prior owner's details, dated 1909, upon first blank leaf else unmarked. Minor moisture marks to lower edge of all pages. Minor undulations to all pages. Attractive green front board adorned with lovely decoration and gilt lettering. A pleasing volume. Book
Broché. 190 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 157 pages. Large format: 9 7/8"w x 12 3/4"h. Full cream-colored cloth boards. In Poor slipcase with several tears. Many full-page b&w and color illustrations.
