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70 pages. Fiction: The Beezlebub Blast; Have Fun, Baby; Mountain Time; Kiona; In Her Own Way; Looking for the Sky. Articles: Industrial Warfare - the long-standing feud between labor and management; Mary Had a Little Talent; What the Atomic Bomb Really Did; Airplane on a String; Money in the Snowbanks; Names We Give Our Children; Sun-Kissed Bangtails - throughoubreds in California; Nuts to Use; Jackie Robinson - meet the Dodger's newest recruit - article with great photo of Robinson in military uniform with neighborhood boys. Ads include: Nescafe; Bell Telephone; Pepsodent; Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring photo portrait of Danton Walker, Journalist; TWA; Ford cars; Dextrose; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photo of smoking doctor. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
In 8° (mm225x145); pagg. 260, (2) con 6 tavole in rame f.t. firmate da Gandon. Legatura in tela <BR><BR><BR>blu con impressioni a secco ai piatti e titolo in oro al dorso. "Adolphe Gandon fut l'élève de Diday puis s'établit en Suisse où il passa le reste de sa vie. Il occupe une place marquante dans l'art suisse'' (Bénézit). L'opera racconta le impressioni di viaggio dell'autore (1816-1872). Bell'esemplare
78 pages. Articles: The A-Bomb Won't Do What You Think! - a cautionary article; The Wide-Awake Business of Sleep; How a Movie Gets Made (part 1 of 2) - The making of the film "The Stratton Story" with colour photo of Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson and Agnes Moorehead; Jane Pickens - the Big Pickens Sister; Tanker Run North - life aboard the F.S. Bryant, a big oil tanker operated by Standard Oil of California; St. Louis Cardinal Edward (Eddie) Terrance Kazak; The Right Shirt on Your Back - Great colour fashion photos of stars including Alan Ladd, Frank Lovejoy, Richard Basehart, William Bishop and Lloyd Nolan. Fiction: The case of the Negligent Nymph; Summer's Ending; Surprise; Deadfall (conclusion); Send Me Home in a Barrel; Ott in the Cherry Tree. Includes nice vintage ads from: Lord Calvert whiskey - featuring color photo of Ian Hunter, stage and screen star; Listerine - for use as an anti-dandruff shampoo(!); DeSoto cars; Pontiac cars (very attractive!); "I Married a Communist" movie (full-page); Oldsmobile cars; Brunswick bowling equipment; Botany 500; Dan River clothing; Mallory hats; Smartair corduroy men's fashion (nice!); Blatz beer - featuring nice color photos of Pat O'Brien, co-star of RKO's "The Bail Bond Story"; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring L.G. Griffin, tobacco auctioneer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages Features: Charlie Brannan and his Wonderful World - The Secretary of Agriculture; Who Said Promised Land? - transplanted Europeans fled tyranny only to find disillusionment and tragedy in the sugar lands of Louisiana - article with moving photos; The Actor Who Won't Stay Dead - Rudolph Valentino - article with photos; Broadway Ticket Scandal; The Old Home Town Fights to Live - Lexington, Illinois - article with good photos; A One-Shot Cure for Syphilis; Sawyer of the Phillies - Freshman Manager Eddie Sawyer; Vivien Kellems; The Iron Butterfly (part 1 of 4); Very Unusual in California; Freddy Fowler and the Ace; My Birthday's in July; The Golden Dart (conclusion); Morning After. Nice ads for: Gem razor blades; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad featuring color photo of Miss Gladys Munn Pulitzer; Admiral portable radios; RCA Victor radios; Fisher Body; Seagram's Gin; B.V.D. clothing; Westinghouse fridges; Kleenex Tissues - features Little Luli and Tubby; Super Canada Dry full-page colour ad features their Spur Cola, Ginger Ale, Club Soda and Hi-Spot; The Martin Viking, by Martin Aircraft; Scotch Cellophane Tape; Packard cars; Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Average wear. Ten Years of Irreversible Revolution in the Patterns of Negro-white relations after the Supreme Court's decision on school segregation - article with many great civil rights photos; 'Mason-Dixon Line' in Queens - Junction Boulevard; Portrait of the Distant 'Candidate' - Henry Cabot Lodge; Are Long Presidential Campaigns necessary?; Why I Dislike Western Civilization - Arnold Toynbee explains why contemporary society annoys and frightens him; Salute to the Military; A Plea to Save the Liberal Arts; Wake-up War Between Patient and Nurse - why must hospital patients be awakened so early?; The Special Magic which draws so may to ocean voyages; Why Kids Run Away From Home; United States Lines ad features color photos of Hildegarde, Leon Cherksey of Ambler PA and Mrs. Reed Albee; Nice Sheaffer pen ad; Back cover color Benson & Hedges ad features badges of the International Sports Car Club, Long Island Sports Car Assoc., Chicago Region SCCA, Jaguar Clubs of North America and California Sports Car Club Region. Dance photo missing from page 83. Fashion photo on page 60 missing. Faint library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Pop Art Sells On and On - Why? - illustrated article; A Grand Boulevard for Washington - plans for improving Pennsylvania Avenue; The California Voter is Maddeningly Unpredictable; Plea for a 'New Phase in Negro Leadership' - suggestions for what should be done beyond protest; Travelling Across Siberia; Great two-page color-photo ad for Manhattan shirts features athletes Y.A. Tittle, Clete Boyer, Stirling Moss and Warren Spahn; Tracing the emotions and attitudes behind the new African States; Great color-photo ladies' fashion ads; Tips on Tipping and Tippees; The Big Daddies of Little League Baseball; Photos of Omaha Beach; Interior Design Photos featuring the 'Built-In" look of designs by Ward Bennett; Shirt fashion photos; Desegregation - After School; United States Lines ad features color photos of Mrs. Sally Victor, Mr. and Mrs. Max E. Kruger and Howard Schenken. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
Features: ACQR Scale Drawing Portfolio - Martin Seamaster, Cessna OE-2 Birddog, Northrop Snark, Cessna L-27A, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Sikorsky Ilia Mouremetz D; Albatross B.I Series 23, Albatross B.I Series 22 (Knoller Wing); The Hawker Sea Fury; Greenham Common Air Tattoo; Strange WWII aircraft; USAF in Europe - today and tomorrow; RAF Mildenhall Open House; Diamond Jubilee Airfield; Tracking hurricanes in C-130 Hercules; Sopwith Z00 - a collection of scale drawings; Southend Air Museum; The Birth of Naval Aviation - the story of the first shipboard landing; RNAS Lee-on-Solent - visiting one of the last Royal Navy air bases; RNAS Yeovilton - an interesting display; Rolls-Royce Spitfire; Super Spad - little known attack aircraft from Douglas; Sweden's new Air Museum; Liberator Nose Art - pin ups from WWII; China's Warbirds - rare look into aviation in China after WWII; Blackbushe Air Festival - we visit an English Warbird mecca; Enter the Lynx - a new helicopter becomes operational; ACQR Scale Profiles - a selction of classic aircraft drawings; Genie named John - first operational use of the Genie atomic missile; Aircraft cutups - can you guess these mismatched airframes; Combat aircraft of the USN - special pictorial report; Maple Leaf Seafires - Canadian Navy Supermarine Spitfires; Forgotten Swingwing - does anyone remember the USN's F-111B?; America's Early Wings - photos from an early flier's album; Fleet Air ARM Museum Update - new exhibits at the FAA Museum in England; Harvard's 40th Anniversary!; How the USAF established an air safety program; Those weird and wild triplanes; The last Falcon - the last Falcon from the Curtiss stable; Bassingbourn Anglo-American Air Festival - a tribute to the 91st Bomb Group; Red Star over California - a Russian record flight of the 1930s; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; Helicopter Rescue; Strangers in 'Port - unusual aircraft that visit an airfield; Biggen Hill Air Fair; Mustang Guardsmen - the P-51 Mustang helped form the modern Air National Guard; Boeing's Grasshopper - Nifty little observation type lost out to the L-19; Kingfisher Wreckovery; Lady Peace - the Ping Pong Special - V-1; Twilight for the Sikorsky Giants; 18 days of Hell - the brief combat history of the Belgian Air Force in WWII; Mission U-5 - Abort! - the discovery of a rare P-39 combat veteran in Australia; Typhoon! - deadly fighter-bomber of WWII from Hawker Aircraft Co.; Famous Alaskan Bush Pilots - these pioneers helped develop flying in the north; Mountain Air Force - Switzerland maintains a strong and interesting air force; Zerbe's Air Sedan - a flying oddity; Flying the F-82 in combat - the Twin Mustang is pitted against MiGs; Deuces Wild - swan song of the Convair F-102 Interceptor; Service on Sunday - flying a preacher in an SBD and almost meeting the Maker; Sea-going Gliders - USN experiments in amphibious gliders during WWII; Magnificent Men in their Flying Boats - early aerial developments with flying boats; Messerschmitt's Super-Secret P.1101 - this German aircraft helped USAF researchers in the 1950s; Roscoe Turner Special - the famed unlimited racer he flew; Hot Deck! - landing combat aircraft on aircraft carriers is a dangerous business as these photos prove; Japan's newsboy warrior - little-known Japanese biplane. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Privately bound in blue buckram-covered boards with gilt lettering to backstrip and front board. A sound copy. Book
39 pages. Features: Berlin's Girl Spies trade Allure for Secrets - Ernst "Jellyroll" Wollweber's Red Mata Haris keep Allied spy catchers busy - Ermgard Schmidt; Margarete Pfeiffer, 'Gardy' Schmidt, Ursula Schmidt; Trappers hit the Convention Trail to discuss Saskatchewan't oldest industry, trapping; Their Sound of Music Carries Far - Les Jeunesses Musicales; Lively sketches by the talented pen of Queen Victoria (part 2 of 2); Madame Butterfly's New Look - western influence has revolutionized the Japanese idea of feminine beauty (with photos); House party with a purpose - six California women (led by Mrs. Harold Collins) get together to clean each other's homes; Colour photo and feature of Boston Bruins star Leo Boivin; Ladder you can roll up; Marlene and Margaret Meldrum of Saskatoon perform in the Ice Follies; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
2 voll. in 8, pp. 416 con 1 cartina + 96 tavv. f.t. incise; 170 + (2) [Antille] con 2 tavv. f.t. incise (mancano altre due tavole); IV + 124 [California, Oregon...]; 192 [Stati Uniti] con 8 tavv. f.t. incise. Edizione italiana di questa raccolta di volumi sui vari paesi del mondo: il primo volume e' dedicato agli Stati Uniti e arriva fino al 1811; nel secondo volume compare la prosecuzione degli Stati Uniti (seppure di autore differente), la storia delle Antille, e la parte relativa a California, Oregon, America russa. L'appendice di questa parte e' dedicata all'isola di Quadra, Vancouver e isole della regina Carlotta e alle miniere d'oro della California (pp. 117-122). Il frontespizio di questo secondo volume menziona un'ulteriore parte 'Possedimenti inglesi dell'America settentrionale. Canada, nuovo Brunswick, nuova Scozia...' che pero' non e' qui presente.
74 pages. Articles: Are We Going Broke? - Beardsley Ruml says No; The Secret Boss of California - Artie Samish (part 2 of 2); Hits in the Tall Corn - in the midlands tent shows are playing to standing room only - article with great color photos; 150,000,000 Noses - Count-Em - the 1956 Census will invade every shack and mansion in the nation; Crusade in Mexico - battle to control foot-and-mouth epidemic in cattle; In Pursuit of Plenty - our planet's dwindling resources; Voice with Muscles - Singer Vaughn Wilton Monroe - article with nice color photo; Fiction: My Wife is a Liar; Rosinback; Matthew and the Lace Curtain; The Legal Bride (part 4 of 6); The Tooth Fairy. Includes the following nice vintage ads: Chevrolet; Seagram's gin - nice 2-page colour photo; Goebel Beer; Blatz beer - featuring nice color photo of dress designer La Verne Sunde; Back cover Lucky Strike ad features tobacco man Dan Currin. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
106 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Old Angus Scotch inside front cover; One-page ad for LaSalle cars; What Price English Justice?; Multiple cartoons with Nazi personages; The Secret Fuse Under Mexico - the country is rife with covert operations by Germany, Japan and Italy - article with reproductions of pertinent documents; Fascism's New World Thrust - Germany, Italy and Japan have taken over the lion's share of trade with Latin America; Mussolini Vs. His Past; Smutting Up the Circulation - Sex sells publications; Yesterday's Wrong Turning - Two million died in WWI as a result of the decision of a few men; Inside the Queerest Shipwreck - the SS President Hoover rammed a reef off Formosa; FDR's wife wonders why babies should be kept alive if there will not be a job for them when they get older; Norway, The Next Belgium - fascinating article foretells WWII events about to unfold in Norway; Henry Ford buys 1.25 million acres near Punta Gorda, Florida as a favor to Thomas Edison; Dying, Well or Badly - By Ernest Hemingway - article with grotesque large photos of dead soldiers; A Measure of Recovery - Labor fights for control of New Orleans; Kemal Ataturk - Hoodlum as Hero - his record with women is indubitably the worst; Santa on Route 17 - W.E. Riker and his two-hundred yard 'holy city' in California; Exit the Gentleman Officer - Richthofen was buried by his enemy with full military honors but his memory is mocked by the crumpled corpses of women and children in Guernica; Bidding the Guild Good-Bye - The Theatre Guild takes the bumps toward the ash can; Inside the Third Reich - article on the prohibition of criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany; The Men Who Helped a Hero - the sixteen men who were with Alvin C. York when he 'singlehanded' captured 132 Germans; They Still Want to Get In - article on illegal aliens entering the U.S. across the Mexican border; Man with Six Countries - A European journalist sells the plans for the defense of Pilsen to the Germans; Wrong Man, Time and Place - Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball; Thousand Mile Gun - Britain's rulers seem to believe Germany possesses a long-range rocket-gun; Nostalgic 2-page illustrated ad for Look Magazine; One-page ad for Parent's Magazine features photos of George J. Hecht and Clara Savage Littledale; The Fable of Man's Salvation; Classy half-page ad for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Nice color ad for Eagle pencils features their Mikado, Verithin and Turquoise products; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco expert in white suit and hat. Above-average but not excessive wear. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Tratta dal “A Voyage round the word. In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Now Lord Anson...” (London, printed for the Author, 1749). Incisione in rame all'acquaforte (incisa dal Lattre), b/n, cm 29,5 x 55,8 circa (alla lastra), piccolo cartiglio in alto a destra, margine graduato sul laterale sinistro e sull'inferiore. Oltre a tutte le isole e agli scandagli di mare sono raffigurate le coste della California (“Partie de Californie”) e le Coste del Messico (“Partie du Mexique”). Anson George (1697 – 1762). Usuali pieghe editoriali, strettissimi margini, molto buono lo stato di conservazione. .
Pages 418-528. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - Part VI; How Mohammedans Pray - photo-illustrated article; The Pirate of "The Ghost" - a stowaway saves a blockade-runner; Where Beasts are Baptized - astonishing ceremonies in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; The Story of an Alpine Adventure - Miss A.E. Metcalfe and Miss M. Cartwright take a wrong turn in the Swiss mountains; A Race up Mont Blanc, by Samuel Turner (with is photo); Fascinated by a Snake - photo-illustrated tale from Australia; Congo Money - fascinating photo-illustrated article showing grass mats, cowrie shells, beads, etc.; Bob Mansell's Lion; Run Amok - Borneo tale by E.W. Barrant (with his photo); Floating Church on the Seine - article with nice photos; Strangest Horse Race on Earth - the 'Palio' of Sienna - article with great photos; Gun Robbers of Fyzabad - tale related by veteran Michael Lynch, with his photo; The Havoc Wrought by One Man - Chinaman Gong Ung Chung blows up powder magazine at the Western Fuse Works in Oakland, California - article with photos; The Wreck of the "General Grant" - a desert island experience; Illustrations of the curious "Knapp" roller-boat; Photo of William Laurens and the boat he lived in for years; Photo of a bag of 369 caribou in Newfoundland; and more. Front cover missing. Back cover loose but present. Above-average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Mayor John Lindsay - Once hailed as an urban messiah, now blamed for the city's financial collapse; Vladimir Horowitz - No other artist produces such music; Ethiopia is convulsed by revolution and beset on three sides by enemy forces - article with color photos; Fantastic one-page color-photo ad for Rose Marie Reid swimwear shows two beauties in the sand with background lad staring lustily; Problems of a Problem Solver - Jimmy Carter at the end of his first year as President; California's contribution to Interior Design - with Michael Taylor and Mimi London; Keeping Fit in California; Color photos of Women's fashions designed by Dennis Goldsmith, Jean D'Alessio, and Mimi Fayazi; and more. 80 pages. Excellent color and black and white photo reproductions including fabulous fashion ads, and more. School stamp upon front cover and first page. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Slippery Wiley" Again - Continued misdeeds of a West Australian gold thief; My Seal-Hunt - The touch-and-go experience of a young man who was seal hunting on the ice off the coast of Newfoundland; Through Spain in Disguise - Part IV - Count and Countess Malmignati continue their adventure, disguised as Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Photo and bried write-up of the "Magic Pool" of Henleaze, said to provide wonderfully fresh skin to her bathers; "The Lucky Seven" - A young ex-serviceman gets stung when he buys a ranch in British Columbia; "Water!" - A young Brit and his party of native soldiers nearly die of thirst while crossing the Karoli Desert in Kenya Colony; The Maroons of Jamaica - Nicely photo-illustrated article on these lineal descendants of runaway slaves who received their own peace treaty - includes photo of the community whipping post; "Witchcraft" - A queer Central African story about a missing old man - with interesting photos; The Secret of Still Valley - While hunting in Northern California, a doctor and clergyman stumble into a dangerous hidden mountain valley; Kite-Fighting in Siam - Photo-illustrated article; The Strain - The vivid photo-illustrated story of two young officers remotely stationed on the Indian frontier; On the Trail of the "Thirstland Trekkers" - Part II - Colonel Deneys Reitz explores terra incognita in the former German South-West Africa - with nice photos; Brief article on how Dutch Windmills "Talk"; Adventure Comes to the Chemist - Mr. Woodcock is inexperienced with firearms but decides to arm himself due to many local hold-ups. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A pleasing copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
168 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - Time and Beauty; The Impact of Modern Beauty - colour, dash - super-model Karen Graham leads the way; Dressing to size, dressing to type - Karen Graham in small-scaled separates and a narrow sweater-dress for day - the little minks - the blouson, the wrap-and-tie, sweater-dressing at night, the small big-evening dress with bareness and glitter; Lives of a Blonde - Dina Merrill; The New Ease in Fur - day and night - the cardigan jacket in sable, blond fox. The wrap-and-tie in fisher, sealskin, white mink - black mink and the little black dress at night; New Chanel dazzle - the black sequin pants suit; The super-allure of men's robes made for women - and the black nightdress; Caring for famous faces - east and west; Volcanic ashes for your hair - down to earth - sea salt for your bath; Karen Graham's 25-minute hair and makeup routine; Blondness - now is the moment and it's easier than ever; Have you a minute? - how to make every second work for you, your figure, your face, your hair; Chanel #19 comes to town; What a dermatologist can do for your looks; Exercise - what you don't know can hurt you; Karen Graham - the private life of a public beauty; Dear Beauty Business - stop telling me the truth and let me buy a dream; An interview with Marilyn Durham; The California House of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Silver's new love-light - ivory; Vogue Horoscope - John Lennon, by Maria Elise Crummere; Vogue Travel - Haiti; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Back cover missing. A worthy reference copy of this special Karen Graham issue. Book
88 Pages plus 16 pages of ads. Features: A Girl of the Island - a beautiful girl is shipwrecked on a lonely tropic island; A Man's Luck - Part III - Hjalmar Rutzebeck story of life and love in the Far North; The Mystery of Charlie Ross - tragic story of the kidnapping of four-year-old Charlie Ross from his home near Philadelphia; My Island of Dreams - Part I of the adventures of amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings - with his photos; Taming the Head-Hunters - author and a party of ten police enter the little-known hill country of British North Borneo to punish a tribe of head-hunting Dyaks; Through Central America on Horseback - Part IV of Eugene Cunningham's trip by horseback through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala, with his photos; Our Canoe Trip - Carleton L. Dyer and a friend canoe in the wilds of Northern Ontario; The Feast of the Vultures - a remarkable annual festival near Constantine, in Algeria; A Pocket Republic - photo-illustrated account of a visit to the remarkable Republic of Andorra; Attacked by an Octopus - a fisherman's terrible experience on the coast of California; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
193-288, [166] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of A.L.Garford, Esq., Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California - Marston & Van Pelt, Architects; Hilgard Hall, University of California - John Galen Howard, Architect; Suggestions and Models for Architectural Rendering - The Lithograpic Work of David Roberts, 1796-1864; English Architectural Decoration - Part X; The Artistic Treatment of Concrete Surfaces; Workingmen's Houses in Italy - Part II; Portfolio of Current Architecture;The Architect's Library; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with average wear. Covers loosening. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
97-192, [106] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of Major J.H.H. Peshine, Santa Barbara, California - Myron Hunt, Architect; War Memorials; Housing Project Schedules; The Government's Housing at Bridgeport; Profiles and Materials; Modern Industrial Plants - Part IV; Some Doorways of Older New York; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Architect's Library; Notes and Comments. Heavy external wear. Faint library stamp atop front cover. Covers loose but present. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of Clement Atlee; RCA ad inside front cover with photo of RCA Laboratories at Princeton, NJ; Nice color ad for Dubonnet wine; Fairchild ad includes illustration of their Flying Boxcar in use by Western Union; The Atomic Bomb - problems confronting statesmen; FDR's Home, Hyde Park, becomes a new shrine; Teaching democratic ABC's to Nazi PW's (POWs) - a first-hand report; Four Million Families want ti build or buy a home; New Highways for a better New York - article with artist's renderings of the Cross-Bronx Expressway near Parkchester, the Cross-Bronx Expressway at the Washington Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge in Richmond, and an intersection of the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens; One-page color ad for Virginia Rounds cigarettes; Dean Margaret Pickel challenges women to face the responsibilities of their full citizenship; Photo-illustrated article on what goes on in cow country when beef cattle are shipped to market; Interview with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Revlon's 'Fatal Apple' nail color; Five photos of New York-area Girl Guides in action; Eight gorgeous photos of dresses for dancing dates; One-page color ad for Gemey perfume; Bold red Schaefer beer ad features checkers board; One-page color ad for Croix Royale California wines; Nice color back-page ad features Cobbs Florida fruit gifts; and more. Moderate external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Mild age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
128 pages. Magnificent cover art by Charles Dye depicts overheated truck hauling Christmas trees and several fresh kills. Two contributions by Jack O'Connor in this issue. Additional Features: Hunting wild goats and boars on Santa Catalina Island; Polar Bears were forgotten in this desperate fight to survive; Bucks with buckshot in Louisiana's low country; Quest of the Golden Trout - of 1,000 Wyoming mountain lakes it was Big Elbow or bust; In the California goose capital, where everything proved ducky; To Quebec's Kipawa for a princely bull moose; Jack O'Connor article on the World's Most Beautiful Deer - India's chital; Blood and Snow - it was tough to claim this buck after shooting him; Catskill Giant - Egbert H. Schultz' first bear was New York's biggest for 1954; Monkeyshines on Biscayne Bay, Fla. - photos of Bongo the chimp fishing!; Scioto Pinch - winter's squeeze up north brought duck limits in Ohio; Circuit Rider - following a killer cougar for seven days near Boulder Valley, Montana; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury outboard motors; I Followed Izaak Walton - from Sinnemahoning Creek, PA, to the River Dove; How to use a dog for bush-tails (squirrels); Jack O'Connor on accurate light sport rifles; Incredible photo of 85.75lb world record lake trout caught in Lake Athabaska, Saskatchewan. Nice ad for the 1956 Nash cars. Nice color Remington ad inside front cover features their new magnum shotgun shells; One-page black and white ad for the 1956 Chevrolet cars (Chevies). One-page color-photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; 2/3-page brown and black ad for the Savage Model 24 rifle. Illustrated Ruger handgun ad. Great color ad for the Golden State Arms Corporation inside back cover features Hitler Jugen dagger for $5.95 - with sheath, postpaid! Nice color-photo Evinrude outboard motor ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice ad for Dodge Trucks inside front cover shows eight of their models; 2/3-page two-color ad for Heublein's Club Cocktails; Birthday photo of boxer Max Baer; Marriage of Artie Shaw to Lana Turner; Vivien Leigh divorce; Annie Lyon Howe, the mother of Christian Kindergarten in Japan, is honored; Obituaries for Col. R.E.B. Crompton, Frederick E. Murphy and Rudy Wiedoeft; Nice color ad for the La Salle Special 5-Passenger 4-Door Touring Sedan (Green) with white wall tires; Pullman ad shows men getting productive work done while on train; Nice one-page photo ad for 1940 Plymouth cars; Communists muscling into Peace Groups; War in Finland - Mass vs. Morale; Swedes Balk at Finnish Aid; When Spring Comes to Finland Mobility will be Difficult; British Seizure of Altmark stirs furious war of words; Germany relies on roundabout routes to get war supplies; Canada's new three-symbol battle flag; Japanese blocked in effort to shut off the war in China; Murals in Linoleum for the new S.S. America; Runner Charles (Chuck) Fenske; Joe DiMaggio ranks among the best-dressed; Al Capp and his Li'l Abner comic strip; One-page ad for the Cine-Kodak movie camera; Photo and article on Peanut scientist George Washington Carver; 2/3-page ad promotes Metropolitan Oakland, California; Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen; Plastic furniture made by Kodak; Fluorescent carpet; Nice color ad for Packard cars inside back cover; Great color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco buyer James Walker and farmer A.B. Mize of North Carolina; And much more. Center page loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Darkness is Danger - the danger of driving at night; Meet Harry's Boss, Bess - the story of first lady Bess Truman; Erin Goes Briny; We Took Our Child to a Psychiatrist - Danny Piel's psychological battle; Toughest Job in Sports - Hockey Goalies; The Man Behind Clark Gable - article with great one-page photo; Freezing for Freedom - military operations in frigid Churchill, Manitoba; I Stole a Million - insurance fraudster David Schiffer (part 2 of 2); Tito of Yugoslavia Learns the Hard Way - back page illustrated editorial. The Face Everyone Knows; Charge Account for Education; White Wedding; Creative in California; X the Unknown; The Best Boy with a Horse; Ringside Maiden (part 7 of 8). Includes these ads: Admiral entertainment products; GM Electro-Motive Division; Johnson outboard motors. Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring large color photo of playwright Charles Bennett, RCA Victor televisions, Lucky Strike cigarettes - on back cover. Middle page holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Babes In A Boat - Part I - A couple knowing nothing of navigation decides to set sail from Victoria, British Columbia and cross the Pacific; The Big Redwood - Story of a dog's uncanny instinct; A Holiday in the Sunderbunds - Pursuing a Royal Bengal Tiger - with great photos; A Matter of Habit - An amusing tale of two mean men at that 'sun-baked cinder-heap Aden'; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part III of an amazing expedition from Sollum to El Obeid, over two thousand miles, across the Sahara, visiting much previously unexplored territory, with nice photos; The "Lone Star Kid" - Young Harry Wells purchases a pony, sombrero and revolver before proceeding to carry out a 'hold-up'; Ram Kumar's "Cure" - a common fraud/confidence trick practiced in India; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part III of the extraordinary adventures of G.M. Dyott, who was abandoned by his guide in the upper Amazon - includes photos of shrunken heads; The Great Snake - A native Basuto legend comes true in the Orange Free State; Full-page photo of the 'Santa Cruz Monster' that washed up on shore; Photo of the Emir of Kano's Bodyguard; "Black Foxes" - An amusing story from near Mink Landing, Alberta which proves not every black fox pelt is worth the money; Two Men and a Leopard - Story of a terrific hand-to-hand battle with an infuriated leopard; A Weird Quest - Daily seances are held to aid in finding lost California gold mines; Up and Down in Kurdistan - Nicely phtoto-illustrated article about David F. Anderson and his flying excursion in Mesopotamia which began as an ibex hunt and ended with a bear. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
78 pages. Articles: Kansas Staggers to the Polls - bootleggers will be out of luck if the state votes wet this fall; Why Ike Said No - a close friend explains Ike's refusal of the nomination; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 14) - Three Titans Spin the Globe - revealing the conversations of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; Carelessness - The Child Killer; Air Transport - the answer to air power - in global warfare, cargo planes are as vital as fighting planes; Suited for the Campus - autumn style notes for college men from Maine to California. Fiction: Second Man on the Ticket; Someone to Watch Over Katie; Boy's Best Friend; It Wouldn't Be Fair; Rain in August; An Affair of State (conclusion). Ads include: Fortune shoes for men; DeSoto car; Bell Telephone; Seiberling tires; 1949 cars; Plymouth; RCA Victor radio-phonographs; Pendleton shirts; Hickok belts; Admiral portable radios; U.S. Rubber (centerfold); Dodge Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Jantzen sweaters; Evelyn Neblett in Pepsodent ad; Rand shoes; Loretta Young in Auto-Lite ad; Springs Mills; Indian motorcycles; Dan River; TTD; Kodak; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring diving star "Jim" Fairbrother. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
