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292pp. 23 cm. Paperback Very good condition Signed by the author
Pages 113-176. Features: Cover illustration of Connecticut Painted Wall; American Furniture in a California Collection; Signed and Dated - A Painted Wall in Connecticut; Interior Decorations at Unity Farm; - an editorial note; Glassmaking in South Boston - Part 1; Bellows for the Hearth; Stenciled Coverlets; Arms of the Guilds on Liverpool Ware; Murals in Upper New York State; Two Gold Snuffboxes; Signs bring customers; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. Moisture exposure to bottom edge. Short archival tape repair to base of spine. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
78 pages. Articles: We need a Vice President Now; Affairs of State; The Other Babies Who Broke the Odds - major photo-illustrated article on the Venezuelan family of Efren and Ines Prieto and their new quints; The Dollar Crisis; Broadway's Hottest Playwright - Edward Albee; Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics - "I Owe the Public Nothing"; The Silent First Lady of France - Yvonne de Gaulle is a lonely woman feared by many, known by few; Music for Machines - early article on music synthesizers with photo of pioneer Milton Babbitt; Bill Scranton - a reluctant candidate. Fiction: reuben, Reuben. Ads: Nice color photo of Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe inside front cover; G.E. home appliances; Best Foods Mayonnaise; Sweet two-page color photo ad for a (light blue) Chevelle Malibu Super Sport Coupe on the beach; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; *Beautiful* black Pontiac two-page ad features a four-door Bonneville before a formally dressed crowd; Salem cigarette ad features frolicking couple in orchard; Excellent color-photo Pepsi centerfold ad features ski scene; Pall Mall cigarettes ad with illustration of people singing around white piano; Dodge Trucks; Nice color ad for the Philadephia Electric company inside back cover features steelmaking scene; Kent cigarette ad on back cover features couple, apparently in a ski chalet near Innsbruck, Austria. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Douglas Harkness - the lonely ordeal of a rebel Tory; All federal Tories like Duff Roblin; Clayton Boston (Slim) Delbridge and the B.C. Lions of the C.F.L.; Songs to Break Up Canada By - and an Anthem That Can't Offend Anyone - Editorial; The Outstanding Canadians of 1963, with photos - Sister Marie Laurent-de-Rome, Woodrow Lloyd, Glen How, Jack Leitch, Leo Plouffe, Claude Jutra, Leon Major, Ed Mirvish, C.B. MacPherson, Sylvia Fricker, Ian Tyson, Sharp, Mitchell, Peter C. Newman, Pat(rick) Watson; The Growing Acceptance of "Harmless" Narcotics; How I Worked My Way through College Peddling Pot; Douglas Duncan - The Man Who Discovered Canadian Painting; Mad Assault on Everest by Canadian Engineer Earl Denman (a Maclean's Flashback); How John Chester and Family are beating $20,000 in debts; The Older You Get, The Harder the Crooks go after Your Money; Old Books - The Fastest-Growing Cult on the Cultural Front; Old (Antiquarian) Books - The Fastest Growing Cult on the Cultural Front - article with nice photos; Fantastic two-colour one-page photo ad for Ian and Sylvia feature in the next issue of Chatelaine; The Incredible Pace of Modern Master John O'Hara; Ottawa Should Build Schools for Bilingualism in every Province; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features youthful gang singing with player piano; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: The Daguerreotype; Boston's Carvers and Joiners - Part II - Post-Revolutionary; Earliest Signed Picture by T. [Thomas] Chambers; French Landmarks [Buildings] - Along the Mississippi; Flower Prints and Flower Printmakers of the Eighteenth Century; Kenmore - In Fredericksburg, VA; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 241-312. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers loosening. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
214 p. + Frontis. Title page decorated with a copper plate engraving of a bull. Frontis and title page ink stained. Text very foxed. Manuscript ownership of George Sager. 155 mm. Virtually disbound. Paper printed boards very worn with loss. Lacks spine. Title continues: "A Selection Of Valuable Receipts For The Cure Of Diseases In Horses, Cattle, Sheep & Swine, With Directions To Farmers For Choosing Good Stock. Also, A Variety Of Agricultural And Miscellaneous Receipts. With Copper plate Embellishments." Twenty second edition. Hardbound. Very poor condition, but extremely scarce. OCLC Records only AAS and Univ. of Toronto. S&S/AI 3624. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 8
Very Good Turkish Original illustrated wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 109 p., 40 numerous b/w ills., and many unnumbered b/w photographic plates. Small label on front cover, occasional light fading in pages. Otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition of this first complete book on oarsmanship ever printed in Turkey, written by the Turkish oarsman champion hold the championship for a long time in the early period of the Turkish Republic. The book includes the details of the oarsmanship sport, boat building, rules, and western and Turkish history of this sport. Nevin Hassan started rowing in Galatasaray Bebek Boathouse [i.e. Kayikhâne] in 1929, and in the same year, he captured Eftal Nogan's championship in Tek Çifte boat from Altinordu. Nevin Hassan left active sports at a young age after 1935, went to Germany to study at the Berlin Technical High School, and followed the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a correspondent for "Kirmizi Beyaz dergisi" [i.e. the Red-White magazine]. During his education in Germany, he worked with F. K. Gwinner and Tom Sullivan, two of the most famous rowing coaches in the world at the time, at the Berliner Ruder-Club, and also read the books of the famous sports authority Steve Fairbairn and compared them with the Orthodox rowing style. Nevin Hassan coached the Galatasaray Rowing team following his return from Germany. Not located in OCLC.; The National Library of Turkey 000039123.
Pages 405-458. Printed upon glossy stock. Nice reproductions of black and white photos. Features: Dartmouth During a Decade; Benjamin Thompson; A Dream at Last Realized; Nab Souther's cat - after the legends of a New England Town; Obituaries for Hon. Virgil C. Gilman, Hon. Larkin D. Mason, Dr. Samuel G. Dearborn, John Paul; Hon. Deforest Richards, Rev. Elisha A. Keep, David L. Webster; The Old Minister; Poems; Table of contents to Volume XXXIV; Nice one-page photo ad for the Boston & Maine Railroad. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
24 pages. Contents: Front page article about crabs with great photo of crab biting lady bather on toe; Grilling the house of Morgan & Co. Digs Up Plenty of Pay Dirt - Senator 'Kingfish' Huey Long grills Thomas W. Lamont; Oklahoma's Quadruplets - Mona, Roberta, Leots and Mary Keys - graduate from high school; Million Names on Uncle Sam's Pay Roll; Gandhi Fast No Record - with grainy photo from an earlier date; It's No Longer the 'hicks from the sticks' - now it's the 'gullible cityites'; Foreign News - World Economic Conference in London, German Reichsbank declares partial moratorium on foreign payments on its debt; Europe's Big Four Sign Up for 10 Years of Peace and Good Will; Broadcasting; Current Events; Illustration of Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, the only surviving officer of the Akron; Justice Department reveals details of gold hoarders; George N. Peek - Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Act (with illustration); Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson slated to be the czar of industry - with small illustration; Great ingenuity used to build models for Chicago Fair; Prof. F.E. Lumley on Propaganda; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of the official records of the House of Representatives - it holds 10,000,000 documents; Scientific; Gulf Stream Shifts off Boston; Huge new offering of US Bonds and Securities Greatly Oversubscribed; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Aviation - artist's rendering of a proposed seadrome, and discussion of airships; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
33 pages. Features: Bibles and Booze - Prohibition in Chilliwack in the late 1800s. The Depression in Matsqui, 1930-1937; Willard Ernest Ireland, 1914-1979; Old Trails and Routes in British Columbia: The Boston Bar Trail, 1859-1860 - Fort Hope to Boston Bar; plus 15 book reviews. Book
64 pages. Features: The most beautiful bottle in the world!; Bottle Landmark to be Restored - Brooks Catsup bottle water tower, located 15 miles east of St. Louis; Shoe Polish in Advertising - Part 2; The Whittemores of Boston - brothers David and Joshua; An exhibition of tongue-in-cheek in proprietary medicines; Jar Talk; Many great ads; The Label Space - Cruikshank Brothers Co.; Ancient wine, water & Olive Oil - a glimpse at containers of another kind. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: What in the World are Nordhausen Korn Schnapps? - article with photos by Jack Sullivan; Bryan's Top Shelf - Embossed Pepsi-Cola Bottles - article with photos - by Bryan Grapentine; Magic Metamorphic Advertising/Trade Cards of the late Victorian age - article plus reproductions of super vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; "Seeking Killer Jars", by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News - Shows; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - Clay Pipe Bowls; The Label Space - Max Ams of Cincinnat and their patented sheet metal can and their patented cover fastening for jars, WAN-ETA Cocao of Boston - by Tom Caniff; Details of a major Western Glass Auction; Up-Dates; Bromo-Seltzer Blue - postscript to article in last issue, by Cecil Munsey. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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: Good-bye to the Fairmont board in Vancouver - great photos including one with Miss Joan Ross; Map of radiotelephone chains; Fairmont Cutover Highlights; Merritt switchboard gutted - photo; Photo of a young Kenneth Dye - who went on to serve as Auditor-General of Canada from 1981-1991; Company Auto Equipment Staff; Photos of the expansion of Vancouver's underground telephone system; Many photos of Kamloops staff at work; New phone system for Vancouver's new Public Safety Building - photos; 1954 Annual Report Highlights; Record expansion this year; Outdoor phone booths popular; 15 years ago; Photos of Victoria's expansion program; Victoria Commercial Office modernized - photos; Photos of moving phone lines prior to dismantling the old Granville Street Bridge; New radiotelephone mast on Lulu Island - photos; New Engineering Section formed; Automatic Toll Board for Royal City; Conversion project for Vancouver's Dexter office; Photos of placing cable 70 feet above the Fraser River near Boston Bar; Photo of 'Jocko', the company chimpanzee; Sales Training; Campbell River First North-west Conversion to automatic operation; Oliver and Osoyoos approve free calling; Walter R. Jones retires; L.C. Patey passes away; path testing to begin for microwave system - article; photos of cable-laying between Ioco and Port Moody; microwave skyway - photos and text; photos of loss of part of the bridge at Mission; microwave path testing completed for B.C. - article with map; photo and article of 'electronic secretary' (hint: picture a big box with a record player in it!); List of Exchanges in B.C. and # of lines operating; photos of heavy gangs at work; access to microwave sites 'most difficult' (article); G.W.S. Montgomery passes away; photos of New West's Lakeview office; Engineering for TD-2 Microwave in B.C. - article with map; Photos of laying underwater cable near Nelson; 1955 - company's best year ever; James Hamilton and C.B. Diplock retire; Aerial tram to serve Dog Mountain site near Hope; Teletype now links Trans-Canada system; "They Take their telephone with them - great article and photos on the use of radiotelephones - early car phones!; groundwork laid for microwave in B.C.; R.A. Story ends 46 years career; Photos of cable-laying between Mayne Island and Swartz Bay; photos of blasting near Hedley; North-west acquires Peace River; PNE photos; Dog Mountain construction photos; photos of the Mid-Canada Line, which supplemented the DEW line; article and photo re: the new 'Speakerphone'; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text - Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee of the company. Book
Features: Celestial bedroom in 1/4" scale; CJ's - miniaturists successful in business; Learn the secrets of soldering fine metal; Make a Boston fern; Dramatic depression-era tenement room; charming '50s vintage roombox; frontier barbershop; The sunbonnet; crochet an old-fashioned shawl; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Moisture exposure to top edge of pages. A worthy copy. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
134 pages. Features: China's rampaging Red Guards - Young Chinese put old ways to the torch - eyewitness report; The war that turned China into Mao Tse-tung's Price (part 3) - after the Japanese invasion and Chiang's victory, the Communists reap the harvest; The New Whitney Museum; James Bond Alias Ian Fleming - Part 1 of a biography of the famous thriller writer; Word is out about the Boston Strangler - Albert Desalvo named in book; Albert O. Jones quoted as confessing to old Hawaiian killing; City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis; Are Girle Athletes really Girls?; and more. Nice colour ad for the (red) 1967 Plymouth Fury. Great two-page colour ad for the 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Colour ad for Ford's Mercury Cougar. Two-page colour ad for the 1967 Chevrolet Caprice (yellow); Two-page colour ad for the 1967 GTO (blue); 1 page colour ad for a green Chrysler (with optional 440); 5 nice pages of colour ads for the AMC 1967 cars; Reverse of fold-out front cover is an outstanding 3-panel colour ad for the 1967 Camaro which measures approximately 30" x 14". Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front. A sound copy. Book
126 pages. Special Features: Behind the Plot to Assassinate Robert Kennedy and What De Gaulle Really Wants - Charles De Gaulle. Other features include: Teacher of the Year - Lawana Trout; The New Carol Channing; Dick Radatz: Monster Who Puts Out Fires; Fabulous, Feudal Portugal: New Advances in Female Fertility; As I See Our First Lady - Claudia Taylor Johnson; and Pierre: The Salty Senate Candidate - Pierre Salinger. Full page colour vintage print advertising includiing 1964 Rambler 440 Convertible, 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar I and Weyerhaeuser Company. Above-average wear. Front/Back cover loosely attached. Some water stains. Binding sound. Magazine
88 pages. Features/Articles: The alarming mystery of radar waves - What are we doing to huma life?; John Morgan and Martin Bronstein of the TV show Comedy Cafe; Editorial - let this be our last year in NATO; Pauline Jewett - Ottawa starts a department to fight poverty; nice colour photo ad for the Olds Delta 88 Royale; Interview with Arthur Hailey; Roloff Beny's India - lengthy article with great colour photos; John Doyle and his gamble with millions - the controversial mining promoter and close friend of Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood; How to be a Global Villager; Nice colour photo ad for the Pontiac GTO and Firebird; Color them Big Ink - a Canadian band with members Robbie Robertson, Dick Manuel, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Levon Helm; Success Can't Spoil Bobby Orr - article with two photos; Great Chrysler colour photo ad for the New Yorker, Chrysler 300 and Newport Custom; Colour ad of the CTV news team including Harvey Kirck and twenty-five well-dressed others; Three Designing Models - Deborah Thompson, Judith Davies and Dona Saunders; Anyone Can Steal a Million - bank clerk Ann Spiller stole $492,000 and fooled the town of Penticton, BC; Some pages yellowed with age. Address label on front cover otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cecil B. De Mille is featured in a Union Pacific Railroad ad; Interesting Comptometer one-page photo ad explains how Macy's used 325 of these business machines to boost office efficiency; Great ad for the Olds '60' 2-door sedan; FDR's plea to dictators hastens showdown in Congress; Hobboes of America - 31st convention; Photo of William B. Bankhead and family; Nice color ad for the La Salle car (maroon 5-passenger 4dr touring sedan featured); Europe's armies match size of forces mobilized in 1914 - diplomats struggle to stave off outbreak; Photo of Goering with Mussolini in Rome; Netherlands ready to release flood if Hitler invades; Father-in-law scorned by Zog now Premier of puppet Albania; Trotsky leaves the Mexican home of Diego Rivera; Palestine Conference resumes on Egyptian soil - Arab leader, Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed killed by British two weeks prior; Guerrillas harass Japanese after trickling through lines; Tenth year of the Curtis String Quartet - write-up with photo; Photo of Elektro, the cigarette-smoking robot who will star at the NY World's Fair; Boston Bruins defeat Toronto Maple Leafs to win Stanley Cup - story with great team photo; Nice one-page ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Nice one-page photo ad for Ford V-8 Trucks for 1939 featuring a dump truck owned by S.H. Bacon of Los Angeles; Photo of Ida Tarbell and review of her autobiography; Charles Lindbergh returns to US; Otelia Augspurger Compton is chosen as "The American Mother" for 1939; Obituary for mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine); Barter plan for war supplies to be pressed by Washington; Pepsi-Cola ownership lawsuit is settled in favor of Charles G. Guth; Edward J. Noble; Morris Anolik arrested for dealing in gold; The Menasco "Uni-Twin" airplane engine; Hudson car ad inside back cover; Great color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco auctioneer F.E. McLaughlin in action; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Collision on the High Seas; The Co-ed or the Townie; By Boats Possessed; The Sheriff Who Never Gave Up; Fire at the Cocoanut Grove - the Boston nightclub became a furnace, trapping 1,000 revelers in one of the worst disasters in America's history; Three Brides, a Bathtub, and Murder; Saga's Photo Contest; Mel Ott - The Boy Wonder; The Marine in the Halloween Mask; The Big Build-up; The Most Versatile Shotgun Sport; Von Richtofen - The Last Knight of Battle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book