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Features: Clobbering the Luftwaffe - the greatest gun camera film ever shot!; Legend of the lost - an armada of wrecked WW II aircraft lies in the Pacific - We'll tell you where to find them. Minor moisture rippling along top edge. Book
Features: Exclusive - For the First Time Anywhere, the Custer Flying Wing!; Rocket Fighter Pt II - Attacking the Bomber Streams; WW II's Pacific Graveyards; The Lightning in North Africa and Compressibility at 30,000 feet; Outlandish Winged wonders. Art: Lockheed P-38H; Lockheed F-5B; Messerschmitt 163S & 263; Kawanishi H8K 2 "Emily"; Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty"; Vought F4U Corsair Book
Features: Airlines Today; F-15 Anatomy; The Israeli Lion - An outline of what will be the I.A.I. Arye (article with colour illustrations); The Phantom II Legend; Rotterdam Naval Technology Expo; The Pacific Ocean Today; Western Pacific Air Forces; 18 Navies to One Ocean; Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: "The Military Profession - Lt. Gen. W.A.B. Anderson, Commander of Mobile Command; Biathalon Training; From North Star to Southern Cross - The Travels of a Yukon and its crew; Destroying a beached Second World War British Mine, lodged in driftwood on a Vancouver Island beach; Sea survival for Starfighter pilots; They were given a real bridge to blow up - 2 Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers brings down the old Hawkshaw Bridge, mid-way between Fredericton and Woodstock, N.B.; Shades of Alley Oop - a CH-113A Voyageur removes dinosaur bones from their ancient resting place; Classroom for the sea - Fleet School (Pacific) at Esquimalt (5 pages); The Buffalo Aircraft - Our newest tactical transport; Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile systems. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Canadian Pacific 1881-1981, Part Two - a brief history of the company, with many great b/w photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Saving old town Lunenberg; Preserving a garden of Plaster Delights - Ottawa's Beattie House; The Future of the Past - Ken Osborne; B.C.'s Gulf of Georgia Cannery on Endangered List; Fredericton's Preservation area expands; Fisheries Fiasco - Steveston's Pacific Coast Cannery demolished. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
82 pages. Features: The Sunset Limited; F&CC Line; The Atlantic Story; Southern Pacific Locomotive Roster; Transit Topics (including photo of Japanese Monorail); and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
Articles: The Names of Nova Scotian Fishing Boats; British Squadrons in North American Waters, 1783-1793; The Sale of the Century - British North American Sailing Ships, the Liverpool Market and Vessel Prices in 1854; Canada's 1994 International Fisheries Actions; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The North Pacific Campaign in Perspective; The Origins of British Whaling - Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fishery; We Have Missed Another Great Opportunity - G.G. McGeer, Alaska, and the Politics of Failed Advocacy; plus numerous book reviews. Three book reviews circled in Table of Contents else clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Snow photos - storm of 1977; The AB&C Railroad; A case of railway mania - the railroad system of the United States was greatly overbuilt; 7,000 miles from here... - Narrow Gauge, Wooden Coaches, and a Steam Engine - the Kingston Flyer; Color Centerfold of 'The City of Denver behind a Milwaukee Road FP45/FP7 duo; Queen of the Red River Valley - Passenger Trains 31 and 32 of the Texas & Pacific; Piggyback and the Portager Dream - 2 - In a sea of Clejans, TTX's, NITX's, Flexis, and Railvans... Portager Drowned; Selected Railroad Verse; and more. Average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad; A Railroad Plans for Tomorrow - operating after the war; Do You Know These Railroads?; New York Central 4-8-2; Main Line of the Narrow Gauge - Rio Grande three-foot rails over Cumbres Pass, with super photo centerfold of a Denver & Rio Grande Western train beginning its run from Alamosa to Durango; Beyond Ellicott's Mills - oldest main line sees few passenger trains but its two tracks shorten B&O freight route 15 miles; Yugoslav Railroads - Pathway to the Orient; Great full-page ad for Rock Island Lines; Case History with which Attorney Louis F. Meyer Jr. illustrates an important railroad legal point. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
254 pages. Bibliography and index. Intended to provid "... an impartial and constructive analysis of the situation in the Far East with a view to indicating the major issues which must be considered in any future adjustment of international relations in that area." - from Foreword. Bookplate upon front free endpaper. Minimal lilght pencil annotations to contents. Binding sound. Light wear. Red cloth exterior adorned with silver and black upon backstrip. A quality copy. Book
72 pages. Features: The quiet death of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Glassmaking in America - the story of Steuben; The peaceful journey of Chen Chi; Lladro - creating new traditions in Spanish porcelain; Mary Moline's Rockwell-inspired dolls; In Memoriam - Marcel Moussalli; Why Gordon W. Jones collects books; The glass of Orrefors a look at a current traveling exhibit. Rubbing to front cover, otherwise average wear. Prior owner's name atop page 2. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
18 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The story of Canada's second transcontinental railway through British Columbia prior to the First World War. (David Ross, W.J. McKenna, Walter Wicks, Lorne Kenny, Wiggs O'Niell". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
157 pages including extensive. Clear attractive colour photography throughout. Designed to help the reader with both field and laboratory identification of common poplar diseases in British Columbia, and to provide regionally specific disease impact and distribution information, where it is known. Includes host-fungus index for Populus in British Columbia. Lightest wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
4 pages. 7" x 5.5". Charming front cover color illustration of the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. Nostalgic color illustrations of vessel service staff inside. Dated Aug. 4 with Chief Steward A.E. Burnley and Commander Robert Marquart. Back cover doubles as back of postcard which guests are encouraged to complete and mail to family and friends, postage provided. Undated - probably circa 1930s. Was folded in half. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage item. Book
132 pages including index. "An authoritative natural history and a visual celebration of this playful creature. Together, text and photographs combine to capture the beauty and power of the coastal seas and to emphasize that we must take part to help ensure the continued prosperity of this fascinating creature." - from dust jacket. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
391 pages including index and many black and white photographs. Part aviation history and part adventure tale, this book is an engaging, affectionate, carefully researched history of Canadian Airlines International, a company which, in the best wingwalker tradition, has performed in a series of heart-stopping, life-and-death dramas for more than seventy years. Usual library markings. Moderate lean to spine. Book
320 pages. "...undoubtedly the finest guide book to local diving we have ever seen... the book will whet your appetite and look good on the coffee table." - from back cover. Illustrations include: 7 maps; 99 nautical chart portions; 110 photographs. Service information includes: dive shops and air stations; charter boats for day trips and liveaboard trips; rental boats; launching ramps and how to find them; tourist and ferry information for Washington and British Columbia. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
240 pages. Features: The Energy of Bobby Kennedy, Jr.; Stella McCartney on Design & Ethics; Roberto Saviano on Life After Gomorrah; David de Rothschild's Anti-Plastic Pacific Adventure; Jacques Cousteau's Underwater House; Deep Ecology; Philippe Parreno's Post-Apocalypse; Sustainable Sushi; The Missing Link Between Fashion & Fish. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
176 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Lyrics and music to many songs. "This unique collection of songs spanning a period of 75 years is a colorful documentary giving vivid glimpses into the social, economic, and political life of the province of British Columbia from the time of Captain Cook to the present." - from back cover. Chapters include: Pre-Colonial Times; Victoria, Vancouver Island; The Fraser River and the Cariboo Gold Rushes; Towards Confederation; Pioneering, Sod-busting and Settling In; Transportation by Land and Water; Logging and Sawmilling; Mining - Prospecting, Coal and Hard Rock Mines; Fishing for Salmon and Halibut; Ranching - Dairy and Cattle. Prior owner's details written atop front cover and title page else unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Book
46 pages. Features include: The Fort Henry & Sioux Lookout - A Beginners Layout; CPR S-4 Switcher (Part 2) - Modelling the unique Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) S-4 No. 7110 (circa 1950); The Manitoba Live Steamers; Canadian Rolling Stock - Kitbashing a Canadian National (CN) Covered Hopper; One Winter's Eve - Model an unusual Flat Car Load; Canadian Classic - Canadian National (CN) Snow Plow No. 55614 (circa 1959); and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) 0-6-0 Switcher Class U3d&e (circa 1913). Binding sound. Minimal soiling front cover at spine. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
44 pages. Intended for high school students and teachers. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound working copy. [Location: Reference Shelf] Book