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62 pages. Features: London Toy and Model Museum; Neustadt - an HO scale German layout by Stephen Rabone; Building a Layout - 17; Merry-Go-Round Hoppers; Performance of Locomotive Mechanisms -3; Plans Page - GNR Twin articulated suburban coaches; Lineside Lorries in the '80s; Wallsea - Barrie C. Walls with headlamp codes on his 0 gauge layout. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
40 pages. Features: Photo of "Mohawk Pete", Peter M. Feinberg, of Watertown; Nazi Rail Scandal; Rivalry of Junkers and Nazis Seems Stalemated; German Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg marries Elli Gruhn - Von Fritsch is purged after his angry reaction; von Ribbentrop promoted; Keitel promoted; 'Little Men' criticize New Deal; The Langley family of Walker County, Alabama, receives first Bankhead-Jones Act check (with family photo); Lawyer Dick Davis gets together with mobster Arthur Flegenheimere (Dutch Schultz); Who shot Russell Hardy?; Francisco Franco forms cabinet; Photos of goose-stepping Nazi and Italilan soldiers; Emma McClure and her symphonic pianos; Photo of Dr. Ralph Hultgren; 22-year-old John Joseph Lorencik is engaged to 70-year-old Henrietta Pieper; Photo of DC-4 being built; Ad for 1938 Ford Trucks inside back cover; Nice color-photo Four Roses Whiskey ad on back cover features the Dunhill tobacconist of St. James. Average wear. Unmarked. Discrete tape repair to top of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Contents: color Parker pen ad inside front cover; interesting ad for the Curtiss Commando aircraft; Great International Harvester Truck/War Bonds ad; Pullman railcar ad with returning vets bearing swastika emblazoned souvenirs; Colour Cadillac ad; nice color ad for White Trucks - military theme; Does Truman lean left or right? - clues appear in the first 40 days; Are Japs Wanted? - article with interesting poster demanding fair play for America's Japanese; Congressional committee tours Concentration camps; Miami dogs killed after they kill Doretta Zinke; Blockade and bombs hit Japan as prelude to gathering storm - attrition is Allied policy while knockout forces transfer in strength to the Pacific; Great photo of the first Yank post V-E day ship bringing servicemen home; Great map indicating the 'Bomb Strategy Against Japan'; color Seiberling Tire ad; How to Starve out Japan - bomb the rice paddy dikes; Philippines - sobering losses; China - the Japs back up; Dramatic photo of the American Essex-class carrier Franklin (Big Ben) with its crew huddled on the flight deck after it was attacked by a single Japanese bomber with two 500lb bombs; Okinawa - sacrifice - 156 American marines and doughboys died there each day last week; photo of German prisoners with shovels in the massive American Henri Chappelle Cemetery in Belgium; Russia casts its shadow over Asia; Yugoslavs' willful grab at Trieste poses danger for Charter makers; Prince Faisal and other Arabs agree Palestine is an Arab state, despite a half-dozen vociferous Jewish organizations on the conference sidelines; Color Goodyear belt centerfold; Photo of Allied officers in front of Reichstag ruins; Pattern emerges for occupation - Allies command, Germans obey; "Life has no meaning" for Dr. Ley, once leader of the German labor front - article and photo; Nazi U-boat (with 'the Schnorkel') surrenders and is escorted to a Newfoundland port - photo; NBC airs dramatization of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom; Max Schmeling released; Rosenberg's den of Royal Theives holds key to looted art of Europe; interesting ad for a Sperry gunsight "The gunsight that 'things' faster than humans... or Japs!"; Great color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Seattle will build 15,000 fine new homes (ad); Schlitz beer ad - in color with lovely model; New York Central Railroad ad - "Black Magic" - 95,000,000 tons of coal per year; Block votes tipped teh balance in closest election since 1916 - photo of FDR with Harry Truman; Photos of voting shenanigans in Chicago; V-2 weapons may win next war but come too late for this one - detailed article with air photo; Ignorant men and modern weapons - the inside story of the Chinese Army - with photos of refugees fleeing the Japanese; White trucks - color ad; France given more say in Europe in prelude to Big Three Meeting; Reprieve for the Canadian Zombies; Doukhobor mass disrobing; Cuban housecleaning - Grau purges Batista henchmen; Long-suffering victims of sinus problems can be cured; Nikola Tesla - prophet of tomorrow; Very military ad by Bankers Trust Company shows a soldier pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth; Color Sheaffer's pen ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
142 pages. Features: Home-Built street trucks; First Time Around - Our clean custom cover S-truck; Time Traveler - a well-aged Chevy with lots of kick; Pro Phantom - this is how to do up a Chevy; Big Blue; Upstairs, Downstairs - home-built the hard way; 100+ beste bolt-ons; Ford's design guru speaks's out; How to Switch - TBI to TPI - manifold magic for Chevys; Fantastic back cover color-photo Toyota ad features Leo Warfield and his yellow pickup which has over 600,000 miles on it!; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Good-bye to Golf - Arthur W. Baum, a reformed addict, exposes the evils of an over-rated game; The Mood of America - Stewart Alsop surveys voter opinion from coast to coast; Haute Mode for Little Girls - nice color photos - top designers are creating elegant new wardrobes with fancy price tags for the grade-school set; Facing up to Automation, by John Diebold; Great color ad for the '63 Chevrolet trucks in rough Baja scenes; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (part 2 of 3) - Vincent Riccio; Churches Take up Show Business - using plays and musicales to relate religion to contemporary life; "Be a Champ, Act a Champ - Sonny Liston goes after the heavyweight boxing title next week"; At Home with 'Hazel' (Shirley Booth); Hope for Retarded Children - how the Kennedy family's own misfortune spurred the fight against a widely misunderstood affliction. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Madam Queen - Missouri Pacific Lines - article with photos; $2 million investment in the new Powhatan Arrow by Norfolk & Western - article with photos; San Francisco's Belt Line; Passengers and Trailer Trucks ride the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad - article with map and photos; Photo Section including nice centerfold photo of St. Louis - San Francisco's train No. 409 steaming across Oklahoma; Welded Rail - Continuous Rail promises to be worth the investment - article with photos; The Wandering West Penn - a trip on the pastoral electric line - article with map and nice photos; Southern Pacific innovative photo feature; Archival photos of early days on the Soo Line; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Grand Trunk Western and Detroit's only rail suburban service; Photo-illustrated Article on Trucks; Adding large chunks of ice to reefers; TVA to the Rescue - Its demand for coal keeps coal-hauling short lines in business; Photo Section; Nice photo centerfold shows the Polar Star pausing at Badminton Station at night; Inside Burlington - Part 2 - a detailed illustrated article; Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania - photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
248 pages. Features: One 2 Show - a Northern California Mini; Ford concept trucks; Purple Merc; Add Corvette rear suspension to your project truck; Annual run at Prado Park; Jerry Covington and two of his fine Chevy pickups; Pro Farm Ford; Add a suspension lift to your truck; The Torch - from Florida; Alloy Toy - an $85k street pickup; The Narrow Way; West Coast Mini-Truckin' Nationals; Solomon Gallegos and his custom Chevys; Sinbad; Chevy door repair; Owen Jeancart and his Canadian Classic Chevy pickup; Russell Performance Products 454; and much more. Short tape repair to top of spine. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Cover photo of Russian Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel to outer space and back; Nice one-page ad for the Volkswagen (VW) truck (microbus); Showdown nears for Castro in Cuba; JFK and how he runs the White House; One-page photo ad for GE's two-way radio; Russia's Triumph in Space - What Does It Mean? - photo-illustrated article; Why The U.S. Wasn't First; A Look at what the U.S. has - and plans - in space; Where U.S. Went Wrong - The Ways to Catch Up; JFK Learns About Personal Diplomacy; Why De Gaulle is a Growing Problem for U.S.; Kennedy's plan to deal with corn surplus; Up Front with U.S. Guerrillas in Southeast Asia - an eyewitness report; A Close New Look at Nehru's India; The Red Terror in Tibet - Interview with the Dalai Lama; Crime Wave Hits Washington, D.C. - with photo of Dallas O. Williams who has 59 convictions, including murder; Critical thinking about the "Show" trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel; Nice small photo ad for Checker Motors Corp. of Kalamazoo; Nice two-page color-photo ad for (red) Chevy trucks with IFS (independent front suspension) on excavation site; How the United Mine Workers (UMW) under John L. Lewis uses its considerable investments, and why; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
114 pages. Articles: Rampageous Reuther - an intimate appraisal of the United Auto Workers' (UAW) Walter Reuther; Heels Among the Heroes - there are too many Peck's bad boys in our occupation forces - article with nice photos of Americans serving in Germany; Stop, Look and Live! - Detroit's successful campaign to reduce auto casualties; Lady Killers - Lady Roller Derby participants - article with great color photos of Gerry Murray, Evalyn Karran and others; Circus Opera - Elephants trumpet and horses galumph when Salmaggi stages Aida; Lethal Lullaby - facts to know if you take sleeping pills; Big Tin God - the saga of Simon Patino of Bolivia and his vast Gold and Tin mining empire; Interesting back page editorial on Britain's Palestine problem. Fiction: The Hard Way Home; A Sense of Echelon; Clock Without Hands; What a Man Wants; Love is Kind of Fragile; Trouble on the Autobahn. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Listerine; Ethyl; Shell agricultural research; Admiral phonographs; Philco phonographs - with Bing Crosby photo; Life Savers; Buick (nice 2-page photo Ford cars; Anso film; Camel cigarettes with photo of hospital intern and caption "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette; Gillette razor ad features caricature of footbal player Steve Van-Buren ad); Rare full-page color ad for Wurlitzer Juke Boxes; GE light bulbs - with photo of George Burns and Gracie Allen; Clicquot Club sparkling water; Good Year (color centerfold); Garod radios; Mission Orange beverage; Carole Landis is featured for Dupont; Spertt Portable Sunlamps - with color photos; Dodge cars; Schlitz beer; "The Best Years of Our Lives" movie starring Fredric March and Myrna Loy; RCA Victor phonographs; Oregon tourism - with photos; Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover shows farmer holding huge golden leaf. Somewhat above-average external wear. Cover pulling from one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Book
184 pages. Features: Farmer Claude Pagles talks to General Marshall; How to choose a cow; We're inviting a foot-and-mouth disaster; A home for small flocks; Soil conservation needs a change; We're really saving soil today; Hunting our biggest cat; The Taylors of Walnut Hill - The Thomas R. Taylor family and their Walnut Hill Hereford Ranch of Barton County, KS; Greener grow their pastures; A bargain in cotton; Family story - J. Garrett Tolan Angus Cattle of Illinois; We need more meat; Plain talk; and more. Ads: Ipana ad features Frances Nalle and her kids Amanda and Bobo; Texaco ad features photo of invention at the Moore Brothers plantation near Navasota, TX; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo on the farm of Woody Doremus near Bakersfield, CA; ad for the Cessna 190 and 195; M-E rotary tillers; GE radio ad with illustration of Bea Wain; GMC trucks (color); Ford cars - with color photos in Italy, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa; International trucks; Jeep; Ford trucks; Case equipment; Futuramic Oldsmobile; New Dodge trucks; Minneapolis-Moline Universal "R" tractor - with color photos; Buick; Ford tractors (2 pages); Oliver 60 tractor; Sparton radio (color); True Temper tools; Stewart-Warner radios; Studebaker color ad inside back cover features W.K. Price Jr. of Orlando, FL; Camel cigarette color ad on back cover features Bronc rider Jerry Amber, fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
74 pages. Features: The Shame of our Local Health Departments; New Bones For Old - new orthopedic techniques and bone banks; The House You'll Warm To; The Truth About Truman; Arequipa, Peru - I Love You!; Let's Feed Mr. and Mrs. Hungry Bird; Face of America #3 - the Statue of Liberty; Nice ads for: Mallory Hats, 1949 Ford Cars (color photo), Underwood Typewriters, Jeep *Fantastic* color photo ad; International Trucks, Oldsmobile Cars - great color centerfold, U.S. Military - recruiting ad, Full-page color ad for Budweiser featuring southern banquet with belles galore, Blatz Beer - great color photo one-page ad featuring bowler Hank Marino, Canada Dry - nice color ad, Coke - nice color one-page ad featuring Coke machine superimposed over a large shipyard and Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: Good Jobs for Good Girls; Another Eisenhower - Milton Eisenhower may be the next Kansas Governor; A Russian to Keep Your Eye On - Andrei Gromyko; Skid Row - USA (conclusion); Why We Get Tired; Good Gussy - Tennis playerGertrude Augusta Moran - article with nice color photos; The Child is the Monument - a New Orleans school designed to fit children; Mario Lanza - Celluloid Caruso? - Article with nice colour photos; Fiction: Deadfall (part 1 of 3); A Young Man Trapped; Mondy Come Home; The Has-Been; The Auction; The Legal Bride. Includes these vintage ads: Johnny Walker; Dan River Shirts; Lady Bordon ice cream; Erie Railroad; Willys-Overland "Jeep" Station Wagon; International Trucks; Ford cars; *Fantastic* color centerfold Dodge ad; Kleenex Tissues ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Puerto Rican Rum; Movie "Easy Living" (one page ad); Chesterfield cigarettes ad on back cover features color image of Alexis Smith from the movie "Montana". Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Nash cars inside front cover; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation; Nice one-page two-color ad for the April 19th issue of the Saturday Evening Post features photo of FDR's best friend, Harry Hopkins; Dictograph features photo of Mr. J.H. Victor, President of the Victor Mfg. & Gasket Co.; Brief obituaries for Loring C. Christie, Marcel Provost, Frederic William Wile, Isidore Witmark, Sen. Morris Sheppard, and Urbain J. Ledoux (Mr. Zero); Nice one-page ad for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York illustrates its many amenities; Very attractive two-color one-page ad for New International Trucks features a red pickup; US Assumes Protection of Greenland; Submarine S-49; Photos of Pan-American Day in Greenfield, Iowa; Nazis overwhelm Yugoslavs and set up new Croation state; Pressure on Suez Mounts; The British in Greece; Kremlin treaty with Japanese follows hint of displeasure at Reich; Nice one-page color photo ad for American Cyanamid features geologist at work in beautiful wild country; Lots of war coverage; Great one-page color Cadillac ad; Nice centerfold color ad by GM features letter to their dealers from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Nice one-page color ad for Owens-Illinois packaging service shows lady tending cosmetics display; Photo of Air Secretary Robert A. Lovett; One-page color Calvert Whiskey ad features antelope; Great one-page color ad for Texaco features ill-looking boy who has just tried smoking a guitar; Cutting the $2 million Presidente Vargas diamond; Nazis and Drugs; Photo of boxer Jack Johnson; Nice Chevrolet ad; Nice 2/3-page ad for Moore-McCormack Lines shows incredible Rio; Mennonite conscientious objectors (COs) do bit at their camp, the Grottoes; Nice photo of new Lone Ranger Brace Beemer; Nice color-photo ad for Monsanto Plastics inside back cover features lady using Resinox adding machine; Back cover ad for Old Overholt whiskey. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice Dodge Truck ad inside front cover; Nice one-page Mercury 8 ad; Birthday of Jane Withers, juvenile movie star; George Jessel marries Lois Andrew; Obituaries for actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Honore Willsie Morrow, and James Francis Smith; Nice photo one-page ad for Plymouth cars; British leap to meet challenge of Nazi onslaught in the North - considerable war coverage with photos; Hints of Italy's entry to war; Holland and Belgium jittery; Scandinavian Coup - Military and Naval Critiques; US Politics; Very nice one-page color ad for the LaSalle Special Sedan in a spring gardening scene; Unusual one-page Coke ad "Flick a Switch or Lift This Glass"; Great Chevrolet Truck ad with seven photos documents how they tested one of their trucks over 100,00 miles around North America; Contract Bridge - Capt. Gruenther is again Czar as Vanderbilt team wins cup; Interesting one-page ad for the New York World-Telegram explains how it is loved by Manhattanites; Early ad for Titleist / Acushnet golf balls includes illustrations of club pro teaching young golfer what balls to buy; Jacob Epstein's pink sculpture 'Adam'; Eugene Goossens and his Symphony Number 1; Nice two-color Schlitz beer ad; Grumman's speedy Skyrocket aircraft; Walter Hoving; Production of Tung oil from trees; Classy color ad for Schenley's Gin inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco buyer H.H. Scott and a tobacco field at Willow Springs, NC; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a pop (beverage) truck at work; Supita (fiction); Design for a new Dominion - The Rowell-Sirois Report is charged with significance for every individual Canadina living today and for his children and his grandchildren after him - with photo of the Dominion-Provincial Relations Committee; Sam Small's Better Half (fiction); Gerard Cote - Canadian Marathon Champ - article with photo; Twilight for Neville Chamberlain; Check Rein (fiction); Treasure in Iron - article and photos of the Steep Rock Mine near Atikokan, Ontario; Murder Off Stage (fiction); A Century in Steam - the story of the first transatlantic steamship to dock at a Canadian port on June 1st, 1840; Nice full-page ad for RCA Victor audio products; Gifts for the Bride; Full-page Dodge truck ad. Front cover nearly loose. Back cover badly chipped and loose. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: The Electric Vehicle Company - The Failed Coup by the Electric Trust to monopolize the automobile industry - fascinating article with beautiful photos; Mr. Electric - George De Laplaine of New Brunswick, NJ and his collection of electric vehicles; The Invincible Electric Trucks of the Curtis Publishing Co. - article with great photos - 22 electric trucks dating from 1910 to 1927 have proven the efficiency and economics of the electric vehicle; A Portfolio of Electrics - super photos of early electric cars with captions; Discovering a 1911 Hupp Yeats Electric; A 1914 Baker Electric Roadster Model WB; The Herb Singes - Jr. and Sr. - article with photos; Restoring a 1911 Palmer-Singer; Photos of Illinois region cars; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of McGill tennis courts (before they were converted to a parking lot) by John Little; Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features red dump truck; Interesting one-page Parke-Davis ad features Robert Thom painting 'Susruta' of a surgeon of old India at work; Nice One-page photo ad for Matinee cigarettes features couple in floral scene; Why Not a Written Marriage Contract?; Why Herbert Morrison won't take his just reward; One-page colour-illustrated ad for Canada Steamship Lines; Death is Not Inevitable - says Dr. Hans Selye; Will Our National Emblem Vanish? - A Mystery Affliction is Killing Our Maple Trees; Our Magistrates and Judges struggle with one of the most exacting and thankless jobs in public life - article with photos of Ontario Supreme Court Justice D.C. Wells and Ontario Court of Appeals Justices Morden, McGillivray and Roach; Holiday Weekend in Calgary - Bill and Merna Mitchell and kids invade Alberta's oil and cattle capital to pack a surprising amount of cultural pleasure into one weekend; How to Curb Your Tensions; Jack Wells - Winnipeg's maverick of the sports mike - article with photos; Nice 2/3-page colour-photo ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features three ginger cats; Champion Spark Plugs ad features photo of Jim Rathmann in Italy after he won the world's fastest 500 mile race at Monza; Nice colour-photo ad for Labatt's India Pale Ale features topless man with towel over shoulders; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos of a tyrolean traverse being performed in Alberta, courtesy of Guide John Dodds; Interesting CNR passenger train ad with photo insert of napping passenger over traffic jam scene; Great colour GWG clothing ad inside back cover features back-to-school fashions; back cover colour-photo ad sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast features many ways to serve bread; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Nice colour-illustrated military-themed Canada Post ad inside front cover; Assault on Normandy, by Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro, with photos; "Stand By to Beach", by Commander Peter MacRitchie, RCNVR - D-Day Coverage - article with photos; Dinner for Four - fiction by Marguerite Eyssen; How Long will You Live?, by Dr. W.W. Bauer; So This is Rome, by Peter Stursberg - impressions of the eternal city after liberation; Britain After the War, by Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald; 'Stardom's No Joke' says Judith Evelyn, 1,000 times a star in Angel Street; Interesting news bits from across the country; Have a Good Time, John - fiction by Alberta Pierson Hannum; Johnny Longden Up, by Jim Coleman, with photos; Brilliant Business - Canadians are proving they can master the ancient craft of diamond cutting; Wedding Bells for another Woodbury (Soap) Deb - the former Thelma Bertha Bowell of B.C. and Lieutenant Wilbert Kennith Carter - ad with photos; Colour Kodak ad explains colour printing; Lovely colour ad for Dr. West's toothbrushes; Nice colour ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat; *RARE* full-page colour GM ad commemorates the contribution of the quarter-million vehicles they contributed to the war effort - caption reads "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!; Similar colour ad by Ford Motor Company inside back cover shows their trucks at work in war and at home; Heintzman & Co. piano ad; *Wonderful* colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover shows a sailor returning from war being welcomed to his industrial former place of work; Faint bit of writing and address label upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this important wartime issue. Magazine
82 pages Features: Robert Sherwood - King of English; I Flew for Israel - Julian Swing explains why he fought for Israel; The Truth About Mail-Order Marriage; New Jobs for Liberty Ships - article with amazing photo of dozens of ships at anchor; John Bull in search of a Future - Britain is on the road to being a power again; White Brother of the Navajo - Indian Trader Roman Hubbell; Tennis Town Tempest - Great article and color photos of Gertrude Moran; Two-page photo of the Grand Canyon. Fiction: I Never Dream; The Conquest of Jan; The Queen Maker; A Sitter for Mother; Pride's Castle. Ads include: Chevrolet trucks, Fisher Body, Dodge trucks - featuring a blue grocery van, Kleenex - featuring Little Lulu and Tubby, Back cover Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring John Lund and James H. Darden (of Farmville, H.C.), Coke - drinking from bottles near a lighthouse, Pennsylvania Railroad - the new Broadway Limited, MontaMower, Pepsi, Pontiac cars, Amazing two-page color-photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer features Gary and Mrs. Cooper, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, James Montgomery Flagg, Gladys Swarthout and husband Frank Chapman, Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Robinson and Mr. & Mrs. F. Warren Pershing. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. Reading crease to front cover and crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 237pp. Book two of the mini company histories of thirty-five American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890. This volume concentrates mainly on the 1950s and 1960 for the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce in the UK.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. Book three of the mini company histories of thirty-one American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890 - the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce.
