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25 dossiers réunissant des coupures de presse contrecollées, relatant des catastrophes ferroviaires, entre 1935 et 1936. [ Contient notamment : ] Ligne Modane-Paris 1935 - Déraillement près de Niort 1936 - Accident du rapide Paris-Vienne 1936 - Tamponnement Boulogne-Bâle et Paris-Bâle 1936 - Collision de deux trains près de Chaumont - Catastrophe de Pomponne - Déraillement de l'express Libourne-Bordeaux à Saint Loubès 1935 - Déraillement du rapide Irun-Bordeaux-Paris à Marcheprime 1935 - Déraillement à Laroche du rapide Paris-Rome 1936 - Déraillement de Villepatour - Tamponnement du rapide Lourdes-Avignon par l'omnibus de Tarbes, à Adé 1936 - Déraillement de l'expresss Paris-Le Mont-Dore près de Bourges 1937 - Déraillement du rapide Marseille-Bordeaux à Virelade 1936 - Déraillement du rapide Paris-Pyrénées- Côte Basque près de Dax 1937 - L'accident du Mans 1937 - Le déraillement à Villeneuve-Saint Georges de l'express Paris Saint-Etienne 1937 - Tamponnement de l'express Bordeaux-Paris par l'express supplémentaire à Vars 1937 - Collision près de Creil 1937 - Catastrophe de l'express Alger-Oran 1938 - Tamponnement près de Saint-Vincent de Tyrosse 1938... Beau travail très propre, réalisé par le spécialiste Robert Dufour. Prix du lot, non séparable. Français
La Commune de Nogent-l'Artaud se situe sur l'axe qui relie Metz à Paris, non loin du front. Malgré les proclamations louant le courage et l'ardeur des troupes françaises, les diverses dépêches, émanant du Ministère de l'intérieur, de la préfecture de Laon, qui tombera un mois plus tard en opposant une résistance héroïque, ou de la sous préfecture de l'Aisne, rendent compte d'une situation militaire défavorable qui s'aggrave de jour en jour. La dépêche du 7 août qui reprend divers communiqués dont deux de l'Empereur, fait état du repli des troupes de Mac Mahon et de Frossart. Le 6 août, la bataille de Froeschwiller-Woerth se solde en effet par la déroute des troupes de Mac-Mahon qui se résout ensuite à quitter l'Alsace pour protéger Paris. Frossart abandonne quant à lui la Lorraine. (source : napoléon.org). Ce même jour, l'Empereur est lui-même en difficulté, une dépêche annonçant « d'un autre côté, sur la Sarre, un engagement a commencé vers une heure, il ne paraissait pas très sérieux lorsque petit à petit, des masses ennemies se sont accrues considérablement (…) ». A 4h50 du matin, dans un communiqué du Major-Général au Ministre de l'intérieur, l'état de siège est déclaré. « Nos troupes sont pleines d'élan, la situation n'est pas compromise mais l'ennemi est sur notre territoire et un effort sérieux est nécessaire. (…) nous nous mettons d'urgence en état de défense. Pour faciliter l'exécution des préparatifs militaires, nous déclarons l'état de siège ». Une dépêche du 10 août fait mention du renversement à Pais du gouvernement d'Emile Ollivier « le général Palikao a été chargé de former un cabinet ». Le 11 août, un communiqué fait savoir que « Paris est absolument tranquille, très bonne séance hier au corps législatif, rien de nouveau à Metz, troupes et population on ne peut mieux disposées » Le 12 août, une circulaire du Préfet fait état des difficultés à fournir des armes à l'ensemble des hommes mobilisés dans la Garde nationale. La dépêche du 17 août au soir reprend un communiqué de Bazaine qui relate la bataille de la veille (Mars la Tour), victoire des Français et « dernière grande bataille de cavalerie » (napoléon.org), victoire qui est pourtant suivie d'un ordre de repli. Le 19 août, une dépêche du Préfet revient sur la journée du 16 et constate à propos de la décisive bataille de Saint-Privat « le lendemain, 17, il y a eu près Gravelotte quelques combats d'arrière-garde ».
Wonderful vintage brochure in brown decorated card covers. Measures 23 cm x 10.5 cm when closed. Opens to reveal six large double-side leaves, each measuring 30.5 cm x 23 cm when folded-out. Includes twenty-three black and white reproductions of photos plus a map, all supported by considerable text. Rates for cottages and tents provided inside back cover. A plaque located near the former site of the inn states it closed in 1928 and burned down in 1936. It was purchased in 1910, a year before this brochure was printed, by Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison who, inspired by the philosophy of Walt Whitman, set out to build a wilderness retreat for the avant-garde. Guests were offered painting lessons, amateur theatre, and poetry readings. Many well-known Canadian artists, including members of the Group of Seven, painted and sketched in this area, drawn by the strking landscape. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
Du numéro 21 de janvier 1984 au numéro 104 de fin 1997 puis du numéro 129 (janvier 2002) au numéro 140 (décembre 2003), 16 vol. reliure mobile rigide bordeaux, très nombreuses illustrations couleurs, Presses & Editions Ferroviaires, Grenoble, 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 2002 - 2003, 98 pp. par numéros Bel ensemble en parfait état bien complet de 16 années, soit 96 numéros, suivi de 1984 à 1997, puis de 2002 à 2003. Une véritable somme de connaissance sur l'univers du train et du chemin de fer, pour l'amateur éclairé et le maquettiste compétent. Prix du lot. Français
33 numéros in-4 br. (d'abord en feuillets puis thermocollés et enfin brochés), Histoires d'O. Les Trains, 1987-1990 Rare ensemble réunissant la tête de collection de cette revue de maquettisme ferroviaire (manque seulement le numéro 29 sur les 34 premiers numéros). Bon exemplaire. Français
Features: Julius Kruttschnitt of the Harriman Lines Claims Railroads and Labor Friendly; Great Northern Finances for Fiscal Year; Steel Bridge Across Chehalis River at Aberdeen to Open 23 September; Rapid Work on Argo Terminals; Innovation of Ticket Cases - article with photo of modern ticket case; Final Bursting of Controller Bay Bubble (editorial about Alaskan nautical dangers); Business Profile of Kenneth C. Kerr, Industrial Agent of the Alaska Steamship Company (with photo); Improper Packing Causes Great Loss; Record Freight Train runs from Altoona to Enola, PA; Many Abandoned Railways in U.S.; Free Baggage Allowances in Various States and Countries; The World's Wheat Crop; Bernard N. Baker Outlines Plans of Atlantic and Pacific Transportation Co.; General H.M. Chittenden Makes Statement for Seattle Port Commission; What the (New) Port Commission May Do for Seattle; The Proposed West Point Immigration Station - article with map showing location of the proposed station and the proposed West Point Waterway Improvement as planned by Virgil Bogue; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Empress of China Crew Exonerated; Decision in Princess May Stranding; Marine Decisions; Diagrams illustrating work to soon begin on Pier 1, owned by the Northern Pacific Railway Company; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; The San Pedro - New C.P.R. Steamer for Trans-Pacific Service - article with illustration; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: Sensational colour-photo ad for red International crawlers inside front cover; Secret Reef (fiction); The Facts about "Infantile Paralysis" - Panic, Publicity and "Polio" - article with photo of patients in iron lungs; Man of Action (fiction); Informative four-page photo feature illustrates all the jobs created by Canada's auto industry; A Show is Built - Canada's National Motor Show in Toronto, and J.L. Stewart, its mastermind; The Red Lake (Ontario) Marines - Gread photo-illustrated article explains how freight is delivered to this isolated mining community by marine railway and winter tractor; The Fur Masters (fiction); Seal Hunter - Captain Abraham Kean brought a million pelts from the Arctic icefields; Frank Calder - Hockey's Biggest Asset; Just So, Jitsu (fiction); Nice half-page illustrated ad for the Honderich Furniture Co. of Milverton, Ontario; Wonderful two-colour, two-page ad for the 1938 Chevrolet (yellow); Excellent two-colour, one-page ad for the 1938 Oldsmobile (red); Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) ad features champion cocker spaniel 'Max', owned by Mrs. Paul Armstrong of Montreal; Crossword completed in pencil. Please note: this copy missing pages 1-6, 33-44, and 53-54. Covers and pages 71-76 loose but present. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this incomplete but hard-to-find issue. Book
132 figures dans le texte et 40 planches hors texte, 1 vol. in-4 reliure pleine percaline éditeur bordeaux, Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, Editeur, Successeur de de Baudry et Cie, Paris, 1906, III-334 pp. avec nomb. planches dépliantes. Rappel du titre complet : La Locomotive Actuelle. Etude générale sur les Types récents de Locomotives à grande puissance. Complément au Traité Pratique de la Machine Locomotive [ Edition originale ] Proportions - Conditions d'Etablissement - Construction - Régime Economique - Utilisation - Revue des Principaux Types usités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis Bel exemplaire de l'édition originale, en très bel état. Français
1 vol. in-4 reliure demi-basane verte, Revue Générale des Chemins de Fer, Juillet - Décembre 1889, 559 pp. avec 51 planches hors texte (le plus souvent sur double page, souvent dépliantes). Au sommaire notamment : De la consommation des traverses en bois employées sur les voies du réseau français ; Notes sur la durée des rails d'acier ; Note sur la construction de la Gare des chemins de fer de l'Etat à Nantes ; Note sur les cabestans électriques ; Note sur l'augmentation de la capacité de chargement des wagons à marchandises ; Note sur la qualité des aciers pour rail & accessoires ; Note sur quelques cas d'usure des rails d'acier ; Note sur l'usure des rails de duretés différentes ; Modifications apportées au chariot transbordeur sans fosse pour voitures et wagons de la Compagnie des Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée ; Note sur la locomotive Compound à 3 cyclindres n° 3101 du Chemin de fer du Nord ; Recherches expérimentales des conditions de stabilité des voies en acier ; Note sur les chemins de fer nogentais à traction mécanique par l'air comprimé ; Note sur deux nouveaux appareils enregistreurs de la vitesse des trains ; Note sur les inondations et interruption de la circulation des trains sur les lignes du réseau du Midi dans la région méditerranéenne, le 6-7 janvier 1889 ; Manoeuvre à distance des aiguilles de dédoublement dans les stations sur lignes à voie unique ; Le bâton-pilote électrique, employé par la Compagnie du London & North-Western Railway (Angleterre). Bon état pour cet exemplaire bien complet des 51 planches hors texte (reliure lég. frottée) Français
1 vol. in-4 reliure demi-basane verte, Revue Générale des Chemins de Fer, Janvier - Juin 1880, 519 pp. avec 35 planches hors texte (le plus souvent sur double page, souvent dépliantes). Au sommaire notamment : Note sur les opérations de manutention dans les gares de chemins de fer ; Note sur les expériences faites au chemin de fer du Nord, en vue de constater exactement le nombre de tours accomplis par les roues motrices des locomotives lancées à grande vitesse ; Note sur la fabrication des ferrures de wagons à l'étampe aux ateliers d'inchicore (Dublin) ; Note sur les appareils de sécurité appliqués à la manoeuvre des aiguilles ; Note sur les dalots, aqueduc et ponceaux à redans. Formule donnant la longueur et la hauteur des redans en fonction de la pente du radier ; Plans de gare - Dispositions à donner aux voies de service dans les gares des lignes à voie unique et à faible trafic ; Pont sur la rivière de Tay, près de Dundee ; Renseignement sur les modes de fixation des bandages ; Note sur le viaduc de l'Erdre ; Mémoire de M. Riches sur l'automacité des freins continus ; Rapports de l'Etat avec les Compagnies de Chemins de fer en Angleterre ; Expériences faites aux chemions de fer du Nord sur l'injecteur-réchauffeur Körting ; Note sur les scieries mécaniques ; Influence des pente sur le prix de revient kilométrique d'une tonne de marchandises à petite vitesse ; Chemins de fer aériens de New-York ; Notes sur le développement des voies ferrées dans l'empire du Brésil ; Note sur les clotures en usage à la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi ; Résultats des essais faits en Belgique sur les voies métalliques - Systèmes Hilf et de Serres et Battig ; Les locomotives à l'Exposition Universelle de 1878 ; Les chemins de fer en Amérique (notice bibliographique). Bon état pour cet exemplaire bien complet des 35 planches hors texte (reliure lég. frottée, un petit accroc en coupe) Français
304 pages. Signed by author upon title page. Index. Extensive list of oral history sources. A superb reference abundantly illustrated with black and white archival photographs. Chapters include: The Coastal Forest; Beginnings; Early Steam Power; Yarding Them Out; The Railway Era; The Birth of Truck Logging; Final Mechanization; Postwar Conversions; Modern Logging. Appendix - B.C. Coastal Log Production. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper and half-title page else unmarked. Average wear to book. Light wear to handsome dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Assessment; Power of Attorney; Breeding Stock; Cattle Ranges; Choses in Action; Civil Causes; Foreign Companies; Voluntary Conveyances; Debentures; Debts and Choses in Action; Elections; Execution against Lands; Fences; Gold Mining; Jurors; Land; Licences; Loan; Methodist Church of Canada; Mining; Municipalities; Public Parks; Procedure; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Road Tolls; Roads; Public Schools; Supply; Taxes; Tolls; Trustees; Victoria and Esquimalt Railway (E&N); Voluntary Conveyances. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Land Registry Ordinance; Justice of the Peace; Mineral Ordinance; Gold Mining; Municipality Act; Election of MLAs; Office of Sheriff; The Public School Act; Public Works Act; Drainage, Dyking, and Irrigation; Wild Land Tax; Road Ordinance; Election of MLAs; Gold Mining; Courts Merger; MPs ineligible to be MLAs; Fireman's Protection Act; Proof under Oath; Suits against the Crown; Supply of Water to Victoria; Land Ordinance, 1870; William Creek Fire Brigade; Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company (E&N), Incorporation of; Replevin; The Public Inquiries Aid Act; An Act to Secure Wives and Children; Indemnification of members of the Legislative Assembly; Asylums for the Insane; Rights of the Property of Married Women; Bills of Sale; The Constitution Act, 1871; Scale of Fees to be taken by certain officers; Agricultural Societies; Allowances to Jurors in Criminal Cases; the Legislative Assembly Privileges Act; Game Ordinance; Attorneys of the Supreme Court to be called to the bar of said court; The Homestead Ordinance; Defraying the expenses of civil government; Indemnification of Members of the Executive Council and others; Practitioners in the County Courts and other inferior Courts; Privileges of the members of the Legislative Assembly; An act to render legitimate, children born out of lawful wedlock. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Public Acts relating to: Bills of Sale, Bridges, Cattle Ranges, Civil Procedure, Companies, Assize Courts, County Courts, Absconding Debtors, Trial of Controverted Elections, Foreign Mining Companies, Game, Granville Squatters, Justice's and Coroner's Oaths, Crown Lands, Land Registry, Licences, Mechanics Lien, Married Woman's Property, Regulation of Coal Mines, Quartz Mines, Municipalities, Pawnbrokers, Poisons, Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (re: Beecher Bay Branch), Kootenay Railway, Shuswap and Okanagan Railway, Recognizances, Public Schools, Sherrifs, Statutes, Supply, Taxes, Trustees, Vancouver Preservation of the Peace, Noxious Weeds, Workmen's Wages. Private Acts relating to: Mtasqui Dyke, New Westminster City, Nicola Mining Company, Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, Kootenay Railway, Harrison Hot Springs Tramway, Victoria City Official Map. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Book
Contains public acts relating to: Breeding Stock, Constitution, Courts of Assize, County Courts, Recovery of Small Debts, Dentistry, Debt, Judgements, Crown Lands, Loan, Licenses, Medicine and Surgery, Minerals, Municipalities, Victoria and Saanich Railway, Settled Estates, Smelting Works, Consolidation Statutes, Surveyors, Supply, Timber, Road Tolls, Water Viewers. Private Acts relating to: Electric Light, Findlay Creek Mining, Gas, Insurance, Victoria and Saanich Railway, New Westminster and Port Moody Telephone, Tramways, Vancouver, Coquitlam Water Works, Nanaimo Water Works, Vancouver Water Works. Covers heavily worn. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
270 pages. References. Numerous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Title of the thirty-one chapters include: The David Thompson Party; Fort Kootenay; Gold on Wild Horse; Old Times on Perry Creek; Two Isadores of East Kootenay; International Railway Rivalry; Steamboat Days on Upper Columbia. The North Star Mine; Sullivan Mine Early History; Pierre - Kootenay Indian; Building of the Crowsnest Railway; Early Cranbrook; THe Frank Slide; Fernie; The coming of the Automobile; The Blue Bell Mine; Early Days in Kaslo; Beginnings of Nelson; Rossland Camp; The Salmon-Beaver Valley; The Doukhobors; and many more. Contents moderately toned with age. Heavy external wear and soiling. Usual library markings. Back free endpaper removed. Binding intact. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy. (Hale & Barman #359) Book
88 pages. Extensively illustrated. The story of electric street railway transportation in the city of Calgary, Alberta. By 1909, Calgary boasted a population of 30,000 people. In July of that year, the Calgary Electric Railway began operations with two cars, sixteen employees and three miles of track. The system became known as the Calgary Municipal Railyway the following year and provided forty years of service. Tickets and transfers from various periods are portrayed plus a variety of photos to interest everyone with an interest in the development of Calgary as a city; the construction of "The Bay"; early scenes in Bowness Park; and some views of streetcars serving seemingly unpopulated fields that today are thriving subdivisions. Pocket inside back board contains route map, route indicators and errata. Unmarked. Book is bright and clean with very light wear to orange boards decorated with sparkling gilt lettering. Bookplate upon front endpaper. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy archival-grade Brodart cover, bears average wear and a number of tears under one inch in length but remains attractive. Lovely copy. Book
Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
Pages 474-560 + 32 pages of ads. Features: The Six Skulls, Part II (sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings";The Reformation of Bill Allerday - an amusing Australian story; The Human 'Tank' - Mike Inik constructed a suit of armour out of solid steel and schemed revenge for twenty years; The Boat-Dwellers - wonderful photo-illustrated article on the thousands of British families who live on boats; "R.N.-W.M.P - The Riders of the Plains - authoritative stories of some of their exploits; Strange Stories of the War, including "Maroc", mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; On the Borders of Tibet, Part VI - article with amazing photos; The Trouble at Punta Gorda - a planter's struggle with drink-crazed labourers in British Honduras; Circumstantial Evidence - the October 4th, 1900 tragedy at Rochester University, New York state; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; Railway Building in the Wilderness, Part II - fantastic photo-illustrated article on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad through the Canadian Rockies; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with openings to bottom of backstrip. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour Oldsmobile ad inside front cover; Join CUSO and spend a weekend with a real live duck-hunting maharajah; The West grows by Moose Jaw just sits and watches the trains go by; The Ship that Died of Shame - the HMCS Inch Arran; Bill Edwards of Oakville and his "Truth Paste" toothpaste; The Battle for the Warrendale Children; Harold Town Creates the Connoisseur's Christmas Tree - article with many colour photos; New Hustle in the Holy Land - it is polishing itself up to boost tourism; Nicholos Monsarrat - an interview before he left after living for fourteen years in Canada; Nightcap - it's TV with a leer and a plunging neckline, a busty, bawdy baby that nobody loves... just the viewers - article with photos; A Second Look at the "Facts" about Cancer and Smoking by the author of "You May Smoke"; George Feyer and his Comic Art (with a postage stamp theme); Eric Levinson claims Harry Houdini speaks to him from the grave - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Botany 500; What's New in Medicine; Nice ad for the 1967 Chrysler Newport; Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile ad; GM ad for their new energy absorving steering column; Code ad with Christmas theme on back cover. Average wear. 2"x2" piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 97-192, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: A Fall From the Clouds; A Woman Alone in China - part 1; Blackmailing a Railway; Interviewing Mount Robson; Imprisoned Beneath the Sea; Short Stories - Farringway's Luck, Catching a Tartar; Eight Thousand Dollars; Insect Oddities; Byways in Sind and Baluchistan; The Pirates of the "Tai On"; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
560 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The Great Northern played an historic and sound role in the settlement and development of the Northwest." - from Foreward. Map endpapers. Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. Attractive green cloth-covered boards with bright gilt lettering. Clean, bright and unmarked. Minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
Public Acts dealing with: Consolidation of the Statutes, Bush Fires, Charitable Associations, Companies, Courts - Official Stenographer, Regulation of Elections, Protection of Game, Jurors, Land Grants, Licenses, Mechanics Liens, Lulu Island (railway purposes), Magistrates, Medicine and Surgery, Minerals other than Coal, Quartz Mines, Municipalities, Probate and Letters of Administration, Canadian Western Central Railway, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Public Roads, Royal Columbia Hospital, Royal Hospital, Public Schools, Summary Proceedings before Justice of the Peace, Supply, Taxes on Property, Trespass on Enclosed Land. Private Acts relating to: Anglican Synod of B.C.; Brockton Point Athletic Club, Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, New Westminster Incorporation, Canadian Western Central Railway, New Westminster Southern Railway, New Westminster and Vancouver Short Line, Vancouver Street Railway, National and Electric Tramway and Lighting, Vancouver Incorporation, Victoria City Official Map. Binding fragile. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Book
212 pages. Features: The War of Distances - supplying our troops on distant fronts; Who Should Get the Ships? - The UN's methods, machinery, and difficulties of rationing; The Negro's War - a most fascinating look at the situation of America's blacks in WWII - with beautiful one-page color illustration by Romare Bearden and additional works by Charles Alston; Atlantic Area; They're Crowding the Rails - 51 trains/day on one Arizona track; Popguns on the Southern Front - Sterling Products Inc. is tasked with regaining its Latin-American drug market lost to I.G. Farben; Rubber Stocks - How Do We Stand?; "I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight" - Captain John Paul Jones; In Search of a Policy - Allocating scarce resources after the war; Anatomy of Public Spending - II; The Greatest Man in Canada - Prairie Editor John Wesley Dafoe of the Winnipeg Free Press; "Not Bold Enough" - thoughts of Archbishop Stritch of Chicago; and more. Many great ads including: Marion excavating equipment; White Trucks, featuring a beautifully illustrated scene in Yellowstone Park (?) with reference to Chiang Kai-shek; and back cover color-photo Chesterfield cigarette ad featuring Adrienne Ames, supervisor of canteen supplies for Bundles for Bluejackets (somewhat soiled). Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy of this great wartime issue. Book