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512 pages. The third of seven reports which cover the survey and demarcation of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and between the United States and Canada from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, excepting that part of the boundary through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, which was surveyed and reported upon by the International Waterways Commission. Compiled in accordance with the provisions of Article III of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed at Washington, April 11, 1908. Printed on high quality coated paper. Includes four colour fold-out maps, all of which are in excellent condition. Dozens of fascinating black and white photographs. Detailed Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and Indeces. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Binding tight. Bright gilt lettering upon green spine. Lettering upon front board significantly faded. Top and bottom corners of the last 60 pages bear minor moisture-induced undulations. Very nice copy. Please note: Sketches of the triangulation and precise traverse were printed under separate cover which is not included. Book
In 12°, pp. XII, 112, (4). Brossura editoriale ril. in cartonato con tassello al dorso. Nel primo Ottocento la diffusione dei bagni di mare porta, in Inghilterra e Francia, alla commissione e alla stampa di diversi manualetti che gratificano e incoraggiano l’abitudine. Lavori come questo (che succede di un anno a un libro omologo pubblicato a Nizza) vanno a costituire fra l’altro la premessa all’avvento del turismo ricreativo come settore economico. An early title about the turism.
Pages 129-160. Features: Eight-photo, two-page feature on the full-scale production of tanks in Britain; Archbishop fo Canterbury, Dr. Lang, announces his resignation; Fascinating photos of massive concrete U-boat shelters being built on the Atlantic coast; Map of Southern Malaya where the Japanese are able to easily land using flat-bottomed boats; Photos after the Japanese sinking of the 'Prince of Wales' and the 'Repulse', with heads bobbing in water - and Captain William Tennant of the 'Repulse' after his rescue; Map of the Western Pacific, indicating dates of Japanese landings on many islands; Five photos of the U.S. Vanguard arriving in Great Britain; Photos of twelve people of the week including Admiral Chan-Chak, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Lieut.-General Walter Short, painter Richard Sickert, Mrs. Yvonne Llewellyn Roberts, Edward Elliott, and Major-General De Villiers; Events in Russia (article with three maps); Four photos of new battleship "Duke of York" and its carriage of Mr. Churchill to U.S.A.; Large photo portrait of General Douglas MacArthur; One-page map of Batan (Bataan) Peninsula, Philippines, where Gen. MacArthur, the Americans and Filipinos have gallantly held the Japanese at bay for four weeks; Fascinating two-pages with fourteen illustrations of how Aerodromes are defended, above and under the ground; Two-pages of twelve vivid photos of scenes on the Russian front; Bardia Recaptured - two pages with eleven fascinating photos; The Eighth Army's Trail - six photos of Benghazi after its capture; Six photos of the Royal Air Force v. the Weather in the desert; Four amazing photos of the "Flying Wing" designed gy John K. Northrop, including three photos of it in flight; Theatre Royal, Bristol, to be saved for the nation? - six photos; Marvelous two-color OXO ad on back cover shows young lovely offering a tray of steaming drinks; Vintage ads. This issue was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with only moderate wear. A quality copy of this great wartime issue. Book
195 pages. Circa 1982. Chapters include: The First Inhabitants, The Parkland Beckons, Glidehurst District, The Search for Oil, Discovery, Atlantic No. 3, Birth of a Model Town, The Formative Years, Churches - A Part of the Plan, Schools, Recreational Facilities, Early Memories, Clubs and Organizations, Sports - a way of life, Special Celebrations, Devon in the Eighties, By Our Own Account. Many black and white photos. Front board nicely decorated with gilt. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of the Maid of the Mist beneath Niagara Falls, by Franklin Arbuckle; Colour ad for International trucks inside front cover; GMC truck ad; The Royal Family of the Seas - Canadian Sam Cunard's mighty Queenships shuttle across the Atlantic with 200,000 travelers each year; Why Half Our High School Students Quit; The Clumsy One (fiction); A Honeymoon at Niagara Falls, by June Callwood and Trent Frayne; How Red Dutton Made His First Million - the NHL's one-time bad man is now a rich contractor; Ellen Fairclough Goes to Ottawa - the only female member of parliament, and only the sixth Canadian woman M.P.; The Black Magic Murder Case (fiction); Joe Palooka - richest pug in the world - Ham Fisher's brawny clean-cut champion rakes in $8 million a year from comic strips, movies and candy; Rev. Lester Burry - The Mechanized Missionary of Northwest River - article with colour photos; The Day You Meet Your Skunk; The Bachelor's Dilemma, by Morley Callaghan; Page-Hersey heating ad features photo of Micheal, Marywinn, Marion and David Milne of 32 Kingsway Cres., Toronto; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Champion spark plug ad features racer Johnny Parsons; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features nice swimming illustration by Aileen Richardson; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration by W.A. Winter of happy evening horse-drawn sleighs; O'Keefe's ad inside front cover features Clare Shragge illustration of boy dreaming of becoming a flyer; The Quarrel - winner of the $1k first prize in Maclean's story contest; Will the Atlantic Pact Work?; The Amazing Career of George McCullagh; The Starling - Saint or Sinner?; Why They Won't Let You Have Television - Ottawa balks the CBC and the CBC balks private showmen; Full Circle Round Shahli's (fiction); What, No Opium Dens? - Vancouver's Chinatown (article with nice photos); Smallpox - a sleeping killer; Arrangements by Cable - Radio's Howard Cable; The Vindication of Suzanne Pas-de-Nom; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad shows bulldozer plowing through smouldering dump - a scene younger viewers may not believe!; Back cover colour Coke ad shows cooler with industrial backdrop, encouraging workers to drink up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Great article on Lorne Green and Family with colour photos; Dr. Barry Goldthorpe - Canadian Doctor in the Malaysian Jungle - article with colour photos; Frances Drummond - The Boss of Twin Falls - she manages a chalet at Field, B.C. - article with great colour photos; What's ahead for Paul Hellyer - article with photos; Coin dealer Fred L. Samuels of Van Horne Sales, Ltd.; Great colour photo centrefold showing Canada's Navy in the Atlantic - the Kootenay, St. Croix, Saguenay, Stettler, Antigonish, Nipigon, Skeena and Restigouche; The Flying Ray-Dens Flying trapeze act - article with photos; Great ad for 1966 Mercury pickups and vans; Mickey Mantle - Baseball's Ailing Wonder - article with colour photo; Beautiful colour photo ad for Jantzen beachwear; Sensual full-page black and white photo ad for Warner bras; Strathcona (Alberta) County's volunteer firewomen - article with nice photos; Wild colour photo full-page ad for Philco TVs shows a large arrangement of TVs at the top of which is a model aboard an exotic moped - wild!; Nipper comic. Centerfold loose but present. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Black and white photos. Includes chords, lyrics and piano music for the following songs: Nebraska; Atlantic City; Mansion on the Hill; Johnny 99; Highway Patrolman; State Trooper; Used Cars; Open All Night; My Father's House; Reason to Believe. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: One-page Parker Pen ad shows 'active service set' which complies with military regulations; "Canada is Strong" - one page illustration of man harvesting grain, sponsored by Fleischmann's yeast; News digest includes 'Defining War Aims', A Roosevelt - Churchill Message to Europe'; Sombre one-page War Savings Certificates ad by the War Savings Committe features photo of British tots being led into bomb shelter; The Marquis of Medicine Hat, part 1 of 4; The Hitch-Hiking Trojan Horse (short story); The Battle of the Atlantic - great photo-illustrated article; Expert Touch (short story); Aid to Russia Through the Arctic; "Jack is a Prisoner of War" - great photo-illustrated article explains how the International Red Cross supports POWs, with photos of volunteers at Chorley Park, Toronto; Superfluous Murder (short story); What Happens in World Series Baseball, by J. Robert Shawkey; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quintuplets; Woodbury soap ad features photos of Miss Monique Jobin of Montreal and Eleanor Frothingham; The Oriental Box Office - photo-illustrated movie news; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Loretta Young; Kaaren Verne - photo and write-up; Rare 1/4-page Longines ad features photo of Walt Disney; The Plastics Era - how they are being used for home products; Beauty article; Wives without Husbands - how one English wife copes with wartime separation; Article on food storage; Nice one-page colour Nabisco shredded wheat ad shows military officer walking with his lady; Colour ad for Canadian Canned Lobster; Fashion illustrations; Photo shows ladies wearing Hudson's Bay 'Point' blanket cloth adapted to fall coats; Quotes from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows smiling man in suit aboard train; Colour Ritz cracker ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper diagrams; elegantly bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 6pp publisher's advertisement at end. Metzler commanded U-69 from her launch until mid-1941 (encompassing the best of the 'Happy Time'). He gives a clear account of his experiences (with some valuable photographs) and a briefer note of the vessel's subsequent career and sinking in February 1943. One of the scarcer U-boat command memoirs. Enser, p.429; Law 1722.
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
64 pages. Numerous pages of heartwarming black and white photos of sentimental Canadian scenes to accompany the songs, plus images of popular personalities and acts which appeared on the popular Don Messer's Jubilee television program on the CBC. Songs include: The Blue Laurentians; The Don Messer Jubilee; Eight Sails in the Breeze; Good Old New Brunswick; In a Little Shack Up the Pontiac; In the Land of Blue Tartan; The Log Driver's Song; Moonrise Over Ottawa; My Canada; My Red Headed Girl From Quebec; Nova Scotia Moon; Old New Brunswick Moon; Ook-Pik - Pride of the Eskimo; Prince Edward Island is Heaven to Me; We'll Rant and We'll Roar; When it's Apple Blossom Time in the Valley; The Avon Breakdown; Banks of Newfoundland; The Centennial Waltz; The Champion Hornpipe; David's Jig; Elliott's Favorite Reel; Expo '67 Two-Step; Happy Acres Two-Step; John A. Cameron's Jig; Lou Sullivan's Breakdown; The Paper Maker's Breakdown; Pictou Island Reel; The Slim Pine Reel. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful Centennial memento. You can't get much more Canadian than this! Book
80 pages. "In this booklet, Ernst Zundel replies to an article in the Atlantic Monthly, February 2000 issue. Paragraph pairs are numbered and separated by a line. Mr. Zundel's answers are bolded." - page 1. The article deals with the libel suit brought by historian David Irving against American historian Deborah Lipstadt after she referred to him as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." Pencil underlining and marginalia up to page 31. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
344 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "For Captain (now Admiral) Gallery and his hask force the capture of the U-505 was an exultant climax to the long and dangerous battle against the deadly effectiveness of the German U-boats. The capture was accomplished only after months of careful planning and under the most hazardous condition." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. (Bibliographic reference: Enser pg. 429) Book
525 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Black and white photographic plates. Illustrated map endpapers. "Based on previously classified archival research and over 100 interviews, including with British and German Commanders who worked with the Canadians. Particularly fascinating are details of NATO planning for meeting a Warsaw Pact attack, including how nuclear weapons would be used." - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Moderate peripheral wear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
68 pages. 17" x 11". Index. Reprint of The Apostolic Faith (1906 - 08) which was originally printed in Los Angeles and edited by William J. Seymour. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
36 pages. Features: Great full-page Ethyl Corporation ad features Gabrielle de la Landelle and his design of the "Steam Air Liner" of 1864; North Atlantic Rehearsal - Double crossing of the Atlantic involving the "Caledonia" with photos; Full-age ad for Gold Flake cigarettes; The 8th Annual meeting of the Canadian Flying Clubs Association at Regina - article with photos of Lt.-Col. E.A. McCuster, Cliffe Kaake, W. Stempel, H.B. Monaghan, Dr. J.J. Green; Full-page ad for the De Havilland Dragon Rapide with photo; The Sperry Gyropilot - article with photo; Deutsche Lufthansa in the North Atlantic - article with two great photos of the Nordmeer; Photo of an HA 139 seaplane taking off; Lovely Pontiac centrefold ad; Shortcutting the Globe - flying over the top of the world; Old Country (Britain) Gossip; United Air Transport Ltd. ad; M.A.L.C. News; Condensed news from the flying clubs; News from the West Coast; Siddeley Cheetah full-page photo ad; The Students' Forum; Cub Aircraft ad; Nice illustrated Imperial Airways ad inside back cover; Stanavo products ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with photo of Mrs. Lorraine Yarsinsky and her triplets; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - par 6 of 7 - his feud with Rudy Vallee, and the day he was arrested as a spy; We Flew Operation Sharkbait - Col. Charles F. Blair, Jr., USAF Res. recounts the harrowing tension-filled hoursin a jet fighter that spanned the Atlantic on a hush-hush test flight - the first Great Circle Route flight to Europe in a Thunderstreak Interceptor; Fishing at its Fanciest - article and great color photos from Palm Beach; My Ware with the Army - W.H. Von Rosenstiel got no mail for three months so went over his colonel's head - with astounding results; Should your child be a Librarian? Ads: Winston cigarettes (taste good); Pream coffee; Amana fridges (very nostalgic); Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing - with color photos of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Hal March of the $64,000 Question; 'Eggs Belong in Breakfast'; Presto appliances; Nice 1-page color ad for Boeing's 707; Ford cars - two-page color photo; Westinghouse washer - the famous 'sand test'; Tareyton; Pontiac cars - nice yellow Super Chief two-door hardtop; Baldwin Organs; GMC Air Suspension Tractors - two color pages; Union Pacific Railroad Vacations; RCA TV Service; Underwood Typewriters (golden gloves); Allis-Chalmers - 2-page ad showing their cement plant; USS United States Steel with illustration of futuristic bridge; GMAC color photo ad with old ladies telling young mom what to do; Nice two-page Borg-Warner ad in 'believe-it-or-not' format; Nice one-page color Pepsi adshows young painting couple; Magnavox High Fidelity TVs; MacGregor baseball gloves - featuring Red Schoendienst; GM two-page photo ad features Amanda, Ohio, home of GM supplier Mid-West Fabricating - with photos of Stanton Johns, Francis and Helen Crago, Dick Young, and L.E. Conrad; Evinrude outboard motors - nice color-photo ad; Ponderosa Pine Windows; Anchor Fence; IBM Selectric Typewriters; Santa Fe Super Chief; Briggs & Stratton engines; Nice Viceroy cigarette ad features bowler Don Carter; Chrysler 4-door hardtop Windsor - color photo; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake Mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Densely packed with text and a multitude of marvelous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes: Color reproductions of two antique transfers and a ticket; The Mousam River Railroad; Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway; Portsmouth, Kittery & York Street Railway; Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway; Atlantic Shore Line Railway; York Utilities Company; Seashore Electric Railway; Tables of rolling stock; Route map inside back cover; Facsimile stock certificate on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this informative work. Book
72 pages. Features: High Moment of Faith - a gallery of children in first communion, confirmation, bar mitzvah; Report from Asia - We're arming for the wrong war; A Mechanic Tells why we should scrap 10-year-old cars; The Uncanny art of 27 drugged painters; a 10-day trencherman's tour of Winnipeg; What it's like to drive a Buick to Moscow; Why Hockey Keeps Getting Faster... and Gentler; Our risky place in the grand design for the Atlantic. Great colour ads include: Pepsi; Hammond Organs (2-page); Coke-coloured Santa (back cover). Average wear. Pages 17 and 19 loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by Wing Commander Charles Kingford-Smith, which completed the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing in a heavier-than-air craft in 1930; New Features of Engines Exhibited at the National Aircraft Show; Wind Tunnel Tests and Performance Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - The Development of Deck Flying (to/from aircraft carriers) with photo of Squadron Commander Dunning's first successful landing on the H.M.S. Furious, and three photos of the fatal second attempt; Airplane Motor Radio Shielding; Aircraft Servicing Solutions; Compensating the Compass - Periodic Inspection and Servicing; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
731 pages. Canada Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. Replaces "Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada" as the authoritative reference in its field. It will be invaluable to all involved in the fisheries resource and its allied studies." - from dust jacket. Clean and bright with light wear. Prior owner's name in marker upon fore-edge of text. A quality copy. Book
Includes the following 8 issues from 1993: February, March, April, May, June, August, November, December. Includes the following features: Hakai Passage; Giant Nudibranch; Roatan and Utila; Bay Islands 'Aggressor'; Wreck of the Bohemian; Cayman Brac; Joy of Snorkelling; St. Lawrence Belugas; Tahiti - the rangiroa Atoll; Hawaiian Humpbacks; Tobermory in the Summer; Grand Cayman Island; Nakwakto Rapids; Norway Wrecks; Deep Divers; Pacific Octopus; Barkley Sound's Ten Best; Artificial Reefs in Ontario; Belize Holiday; Cuba; Saba; Isleworth; Black Sea Visit; Sidney, B.C.; San Juan Islands; Photobiology; Battle of the 'Atlantic'; Costa Rica; Macrophotography - getting up close; Neah Bay, Washington; Discovery Passage, B.C.; Bonaire; Aruba and Curacao; 'Touch the Sea'; Cozumel; Pirate's Treasure in Cayman; Inflatables; Nudibranchs; New York Cops; Queen Charlotte Islands; Similan Islands, Thailand; Philippines - Balicasag; Hypothermia; Marine Parks; Halifax Harbour; Ceolacanth cycles; Jurassic Seas; Talking Underwater; Palau, Vanuatu, Best of the Great Barrier; Sambro Island, Nova Scotia; Palm Beach, Florida; Mystery Wreck in Georgian Bay; Sumbarines Ahoy!; Clayoquot Sound, Hotsprings Cove; 'Shoal Searcher'; Bahamas. Clean with moderate wear. Quality copies. Book
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
In-8 gr. (mm. 245 x 145), tela editoriale (lievi aloni), pp. XII,865,(11), con figure nel testo e 15 tavole fuori testo, alcune più volte ripiegate. Nona edizione interamente rinnovata di questo "Nautical Directory for the South Atlantic Ocean". Solo qualche lieve fioritura altrimenti ben conservato.