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56 pages. Features: Why can't we get our money's worth from CBC television?; Are the Republican's stuck with Nixon?; Nice Colour Ads: '56 Dodge - PowerFlite push-button automatic transmission; The Unknown Country - Part IV, Nova Scotia; My Heart Belongs to Old McGill; The World's Biggest Pawnshop - McTamney's in Toronto. Average wear. Centre-fold loose but present. Page 34 loose but present. Moderate soiling to lower portion of front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle. Full-page Allis-Chalmers ad features a large TS-300 motor scraper working on a Toronto bypass; Champlain - The Man Who Came to Stay - Part One of The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain; Can McCarthy Happen Hear? - This searching study of the U.S. investigating committees and their Canadian equivalents - including the prelude to the Ottawa spy case of 1945 - reveals that Canadians have no cast-iron guarantees against judgement without fair trial - with photos; Brian Boru, by Sean O'Faolain - illustrated by James Hill; The Pulse of French Canada - Montreal's La Presse newspaper; The Happiest Couple in Show Business - dance team Alan and Blanche Lund; The Waiting Lines of Spandau - What's it like to be the wife of a war criminal? - This first-hand report takes you into the homes and hearts of the women - once the elite of Hitler's Germany - whose fight for their husbands' freedom has reached kings, presidents and even the Archbishop of Canterbury - with photos; A Coal Town Fights for its Life - Bloody strikes and stark depression failed to conquer the proud miners of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but now cheaper coal from the U.S., oil, gas and hydro power present new challenges; Edmonton's Log Cabin Ritz - Bob Kashower hated hotels so much that when he turned an old air-force hut into the Airlines Hotel he insisted the guest by king; Nice colour ad for the 1954 Ford Monarch, with a 161-HP overhead valve V-8 engine; Mrs. Delores Dalzell is featured in a Jergens Lotion ad; Nice colour Chrysler ad features the 1954 Windsor De Luxe; Great two-colour full-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN); Colour Trans-Canada Airlines ad features their new Super Constellation service to Europe; Colour ad for the 1954 Dodge; Nice colour ad for "The Newest Oldsmobile in 57 Years"; Full-page ad for the 1954 Ford Consul and 1954 Ford Zephyr; Colour photo ad for the 1954 Meteor Rideau inside back cover; Coke ad on back cover features Eddie Fisher bowling. Above-average wear and external soiling. Middle two pages loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
80 pages. Beautiful cover illustration of Canada Geese by A.J. Casson. Features: Colour photo ad for Eversharp pens and pencils inside front cover; Beautiful Toronto model Betty Syme featured with her son 3-year old son Paddy in a multi-photo ad for Ipana toothpaste; The Last Delegate, fiction by Margaret Lewerth; Stuttering Can Be Cured, by George W. Kisker; Big Larry of U.B.C. - Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie is President, by Clyde Gilmour; Hut Scene, fiction by Ralph Allen; Stries Without Strife, by Clarence H. Curtis; They Won't Go Home - Homeless, hopeless, buffeted by propaganda, a quarter million world war II Displaced Persons (DP's) rot in exile rather than face the real or fancied terrors of home, by Blair Fraser; Fall of the Sparrow, fiction by Robert Fontaine; Full-page Karsh colour photo of Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis, 17th Governor-General of Canada; Ballerina Tamara Toumanova - article with six photos; The Gift - fiction by Louis Kaye; Are The Russians Mad?, by Eddy Gilmore; Happy Island - Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Bulova; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel; Fantastic colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile Series 66 Club Sedan with Hydra-Matic Drive; Colour Northern Electric ad displays their range of radios, waching machines, refrigerators and electric ranges; Beautiful full-page colour Pontiac ad features a 4-door model; 2-page black and white Buick ad; Full-page colour ad by Erven Lucas Bols, a Dutch Distiller, thanks Canada for liberating their country from the Nazis; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft featuring the Canuck; Interesting ad by Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener, Ontario presents details of 'The Expanding Home'; Colour ad by O'Keefe's Brewing Company on back cover features Southern Ontario - Canada's Industrial Province; plus many more wonderful ads and short articles. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Address label atop front cover. A superior copy of this magnificent vintage issue. Book
116 pages. Features: Editorial - "Why Should Illiterates Crowd the Colleges?"; The Hanging of Ruth Ellis; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Weston's bread and biscuits; Strange Forces Behind The Richard Hockey Riot - article with dramatic photos; The Magic Life, prize-winning short story by Ann Maude Henry - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; What One Song Can Do - Priscilla Wright and Warwick Webster combine for success with "Man in a Raincoat"; What its Like to Kiss a Tiger, by Alfred Court - the greatest animal trainer of all time - article with photos; How a "Progressive" Teacher Works - how Edmonton teacher Jean Dey handles her Grade One class; The Most Exotic Meal I Ever Ate - with the Pasha of Marrakesh, by John Gunther; The Maddest Three Days in Fishing - the 3-day International Tuna Tournament at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia - article with colour photos; So You Think You Can Drive? - article with photos; How John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to fly nonstop across the Atlantic - a Maclean's flashback to 1919 - article with photos; Take Me Home Again Irene, by Fred Sloman; Anybody Eats Here Free - Toronto's Scott Mission - article with photos; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows young man and two young ladies standing at their table. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy of this historic issue. Book
Features: Through Clouded Eyes - Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the First World War; The Making of Public History - a comparative study of Skansen Open Air Museum, Sweden, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Nova Scotia; La question de l'interculturalite en archeologie - l'exemple d'une region du Subarctique oriental; Making a House a Home - company housing in Cape Breton Island; Newfoundland outport furniture - identifying the Irish Regional Links. Exhibit Reviews: Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840; Clothing in Two Acts; Musee des Arts decoratifs de Montreal, Le plaisir de l'objet - nouveau regard sur les arts decoratifs du XXe siecle. Media Reviews: CBC and BBC - Dawn of the Eye; Our Secret Century - Archival Films from the Darker Side of the American Dream. Fifteen book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Unpaginated. 3/8" thick. 1959 High school yearbook from Oxford, Nova Scotia. An excellent keepsake loaded with black and white illustrations. Covers damaged and marked. Contents in decent condition. Book
Features: The World Wildcat (bobcat) Hunt - Canadian guide Ron Hoare and American hunter Norm Wheeler at Truro, Nova Scotia; Professional patients - they can fake symptoms well enough to fool most doctors so they can enjoy all that tender, loving (and free) hospital care; Al Stewart of West Hill is a jack of all trades, and master of just about all of them - he, Bill Fields, Izzy Flader, Nick Kioussis, Aron Frydman, Alan (and Percy) Lepke are some of the very best and absolutely most reasonable repairmen anywhere; Tie One On - fashion segment featuring decorative tie-ons for bare legs named 'Gammies"; Do Canadian workers need American salaries? - a question being considered by North America's giant international unions - carpenter Harry Peck of Portland, Oregon is compared with carpenter Floyd Holly of Vancouver, BC; Nice colour full-page ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken; Prosperity is Killing the Game of Marbles - Why should a kid work for his water babies when he can buy all he wants?; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Articles: Women Ashore - The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II; Privateer Entrepot - Commercial Militarization in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 1793-1805; Mahan's 'Life of Nelson'; Croissance Portuaire et Urbanisation - Les Cas D'Anvers (XIXe Siecle); plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
ria9781108723046_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally repr paperback
439 pages. "This conference presented the first review of the state of knowledge of the Canadian coastline." - from Foreward. Tight and square. Unmarked with moderate external wear. Sound copy. Book
57379St. John & Halifax Steam Lith. Co. 1873. A lithographed image on a single sheet matted. Image size is about 7.5 x 11 inches; matte size is 10.25 x 14.25 inches. Wear to lower edge small corner torn from lower right not affecting image or text old stain to the right edge reaching into the image generally very good otherwise. Sometimes seen colored this copy is not though there does seem to be some residual blue to the sky. Text at the lower edge indicates "From a Photo. by N.D. Hammett. D. Buchannan Arch't." <br/><br/> St. John & Halifax Steam Lith. Co., [1873]. unknown
446 p. Author's first novel. Hardcover Very good condition good
130652Decorah Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Company/Willa's Creations no date 1st edition. hardcover 800. Fine no dust jacket. Red Buckram with Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Flawless copy. History of the Western Shore area of Lunenburg County including cemeteries industry and more. Genealogical section on the following families of that area: Adams-Fredericks Barkhouse Boehner Boutilier Cleveland DeLorey Demon Dorey Hamm Hatt Hiltz Joudrey Kaizer Keddy Hirtle McGinnis Mosher Myra Rafuse Richardson Sawler Shupe Swinemar Vaughan Young and Zwicker. Anundsen Publishing Company/Willa's Creations Hardcover
1397270055.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ORD-6062Paris. Margraff. Dax. Pradeu. 1935. Gd in-8 (15,8 x 25cm) br. couverture imprimée en noir et rouge, 257pp. Exemplaire non coupé, bon état. (2).
1797Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien Maisonneuve à Paris, 1947, broché, 16,5x25cm, 204 pages, illustré de 12 planches hors-texte dont 2 portraits et 5 cartes hors-texte, dédicace de l'auteur.
17654554Paris, Duchesne, 1765. 2 volumes in-12 de XIX-324 + [4]-VIII-359 pages, deux frontispices, vignette répétée aux titres et une figure, plein veau marbré, dos lisses ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, étiquettes de titre en maroquin rouge, de tomaison vert (rel. du temps, léger accrocs au coiffe, coins lég. ouverts).
1871110662London. Bemrose & Sons. 1871. 1 Karte, XI S., 227 S., 4 S. Kl. 4to. OLdr.mit geprägtem Deckel und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.
elala3112Kingston: Creighton Printer 1868. First Edition. Including reports by A.Heatherington William Barnes and R.Bell and a folding map by W.C.Chewett & Co. Toronto. “From the reliable information which has been submitted in the foregoing pages it is obvious that gold mining in Nova Scotia has become a well established and profitable branch of industry and is now a safe field for the investment of capital. In Nova Scotia seven years of successful mining…afford the capitalist the best guarantee of what he may expect in the future…A high average yield being established beyond all doubt and there being an unlimited quantity of material to operate upon the production will be in direct proportion to the amount of labour employed…The gross yield is now about $600000 a year but there is nothing to prevent it becoming $6000000 per annum in ten years…â€. pp. 19-20 Not in Casey. 8vo. pp. 20. folding partly coloured lithographed map. library quarter cloth original printed wrs. bound in tears to wrs. library bookplate & 2 rubberstamps Kingston: Creighton, Printer, 1868 hardcover
New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1903, in-16, cartone decorato con fantasia geometrica ad intreccio in verde e bordeaux, cartello al dorso, pp. (4), 319. Impresso a secco al foglio di guardia: "Villa Camerata, Firenze, Italy" e firma d'appartenenza in matita: "Tharp"; Villa Monte in Camerata, di proprietà Ridolfi nel 1400, passò agli Albizi nel 1600, ai Pucci nel 1800, agli inizi del '900 era dei Tharp che la cedettero ai Morgans nel 1934. Prima edizione.
84 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of Victoria Harbour by Franklin Arbuckle; Parker pen ad inside front cover with photo of Sir Ernest MacMillan; Housing outlook grows darker; Why Wives are Going Out to Work - close-up look at this social and economic revolution - with photos of Mrs. Audrey and Mr. Lorne Hunt and family of Toronto; The White Pagan (fiction by Ward Holm Tanzer); Ontario's Quetico Park; Everybody's Playing the Stock Market Again - the busiest flurry since 1929; Why Uncle Sam has blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway; We Found the Last Wild West (part 3 of this tale by Richmond P. Hobson Jr.); Milk Run to Korea - Pierre Berton flies with the RCAF to Korea on one of its many flights to deliver supplies and bring the wounded home; The Toughest Man Afloat - 57-year-old Fred White, bosun of the Canuk Line freighter Triberg; The Small-town movie house at Hantsport, Nova Scotia; They Say You Taste Like Pork - the last ten years have been easily the worst in the recent history of cannibalism; Nice colour one-page ad for the Hillman Minx (blue convertible); Austin car ad; Nice colour Buick ad features red two-door Riveira Custom; Very nice one-page colour Chevrolet ad features the Bel Air; Half-page two-colour tourism ad for Ontario; Penicillin for Sweet Molly - by James Thurber; 1951 Ford car colour ad; 3/4-page Canadian Pacific ad features their Alaska, Banff and Lake Louise destinations; Dow Brewery Award features James Philpott of Toronto who suffered burns rescuing youngster from Scarborough home; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover with illustration of taxi driver relaxing; and more. Chunk from upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
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Book is nearly new, in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid, creaseless covers and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 249 pages.
