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Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
Features: Our scramble to keep India's atom peaceful; Former Canadian diplomat, Arnold Smith, is newly elected first secretary-general of the Commonwealth - with photos; To Hell and Back - an anonymous writer's tale of alcoholism and drug addiction; The real meaning of dreams, by Ben Rose; Sweet Song of Success - Features story on Ian and Sylvia, with photos; Quebec's new Power Elite - Claude Morin, Arthur Tremblay, Guy Fregault, Louis-Phillips Pigeon, and Jean Deschamps; Sunday Driver - Commercial Artist and Canadian Racing Driver of the Year, Al Pease races his MGB; Is the Canada Council Squandering Your Money?; Talking with insects and animals (like dolphins) to learn how to talk to other worlds; Tai Chi - a new health kick, a thousand years old; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Trouble in Puerto Rico; Profile of David Horrobin; Spreading voter revolt in Canada's west - WCC/Western Canada Concept; Saskatchewan's government out of step; The rise of the invisible man, Grant Devine; The painful legacy of Sinai; Alsands - the demise of a megaproject; Ian Sinclair steps down as head of Canada Pacific; Even with Gretzky's help, Canada places third in the World Ice Hockey Championships; The Battle for the Falklands; Washington sides with England - at what cost?; TV ads warn of buying imported cars; The assault of the PC threatens familiar habits of pencil-and-eraser executives; Allan Fotheringham on Paul Robinson - America's new Ambassador to Canada; Somewhat above-average external wear. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and the bars being forced to close on time - with photos of Frank Pretula, Louis Greco, Pierre DesMarais, Jean Drapeau, Pax Plante, Armand Courval, and members of the morality squad; The Miracle that began in a Stable - Dr. J.G. Fitzgerald and the history of his Connaught Laboratories which makes vaccines - photo-illustrated article; How to Handle Women; Photo-illustrated article on the unlikeliest couple in show business - George Murray and Shirley Harmer; Will a Machine Ever Take Your Job? - Article on what automation will mean to Canada; The Great Chinese Food Hoax - colour-photo-illustrated article on how Canada's Cantonese cooks are now being recognized for their delicious Chinese dishes, rather than the Canadian food they had been preparing in their cafes; The Great Carlak's Bitter Magic (short story); Life on the Gulf Islands - great photo-illustrated article on the 4,000 Canadians enjoying the dream of living on an island in the Pacific - with photos of Margaret Robinson, George Copeland, Bob Holloman, Derril Georgeson, Winnie Lautmann, Norm Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. A. King; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? - Illustrated article on Albert Johnson who shot others before being killed by a posse; How I Made my Killing in the Market - all you need is a few bucks and some 'inside dope'; One-page National Cash Register (NCR) colour ad features lovely redhead; Color ad features the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Haig & Haig whisky ad features nice colour photo of Eilean Donan Castle; Sisman Tredders shoe ad features photo and endorsement by Lloyd Percival; Nice one-page colour Sylvania TV ad; Half-page Homelite ad shows large tree being brought down; Unusual one-page colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) illustrates how to read a tea cup; Quarter-page Moosehead Pale Ale ad features illustration of moose looking at portaging canoeist; Great one-page illustrated Dunlop Tires ad features photo of hero Mr. Martin Binkle of Kitchener, a driver for the Cope Transport Company who rescued children from a blazing farmhouse on highway 6 near Rockton; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Wexford, Ontario labourer Frederick Gilbert; Nice one-page two-colour ad for 1955 GMC trucks hilights their all-new V8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
80 pages. Features: They All Quit Cold - photo illustrated article on the 1928 Canadian National Exhibition Swim, in which none of the 199 contestants finished, but Georges Michel was the last man to quit - and he attempted to claim the prize of $25k - article with photos of George Michel, Ethel Hertle, George Young and Ernst Vierkoetter; Canadian V.C.'s (winners of the Victoria Cross) - article with illustrations of Captain F.A.C. Scrimger and Lance-Corporal Fred Fisher; Naught Broken Save This Body (short story about air battle); The Gatineau (River's) Taming - great photo-illustrated article on how the Gatineau River was developed for hydro power generation - with photos of Olivier Lefebvre, Major Walter Blue, the great Baskatong Dam, and more; Coyote Joe (fiction); Grains of Destiny - the romantic story of how Canada's wheat wealth sprang from a stray kernel in a shipload - with photos of Dr. Charles E. Saunders and L.H. Newman; When I Acted with Terry - recollections by actor Arthur Stringer; The Lordly Vagabond - fiction concerning a trussed king, a rogue unmasked and Beauty riding to the aid of Valor; Canada's Concern in the Pacific - article in the future relationship of the British Empire and the United States as affected by their affairs in China and Japan - with photos of Port of Yokohama and photo of "The Empress of Canada" in Shanghai Harbor; Finn - short story of a shrewd Saint John skipper; The World's Toughest - photo-illustrated article on Al Young, who drove six-horse stage coaches in B.C.'s Cariboo in temperatures as low as -74 degrees; With a Nonino! - legal short story; Photo of Mackennzie King and Hon. P.C. Larking inspecting a figure for the Canadian War Memorial at the March Studios, Farnborough, England; The Victoria Order of Nurses - they nurse 3,000 patients every day - article with photos of Miss Elizabeth Smellie and Right Honorable George P. Graham; Color and More in the Bedroom - interior design article with photos. Ads: Nice one-page ad for the Essex Super Six car; The Marquise De Polignac is illustrated in a one-page photo ad for Pond's skin products; Nice one-page ad for Barrett Roofings shows roofer at work; One-page Northern Electric ad explains how they transmit power and sound; One-page Canada Dry ad shows family Christmas scene dated Dec. 25, 1928; One-page Canadian Marconi Company ad features their 6-tube battery operated receiver (radio), with cabinet by McLagan; One-page Arrow Shirt ad features pipe-smoking gent in suit; Splitdorf Radio ad; Nostalgic one-page contest announcement offers prize to the person who can create the largest list of words from the letters in the name of author L.A. Cunningham (whose photos appears in the ad); "Ceetee" underwear ad; Appleford-brand heavy waxed paper; Dodge New Senior Six car ad; Nice illustrated ad for Langmuir Luggage - with Yale pin-tumbler locks; Kotex; Stromberg-Carlson Radios; Tillson's Natural Bran; Squibb's Dental Cream; Royal Yeast Cakes; No-Mar furniture - manufactured by Malcolm & Hill, Limited, of Kitchener; One-page Ovaltine features lady on bed with nerves which need soothing; Moirs Chocolates; Weed tire chains by the Dominion Chain Company; Handsome one-page red and black ad for Rogers brushing lacquer; Seaman-Kent Hardwood Flooring; Westclox; Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup; The "Mona Lisa" doll by the Reliable Toy Company (with photo); Vintage one-page orange and black illustrated ad for "The Makers of Canada" book series is entitled "The Campbells Are Coming" and talks of the history of Scotchmen in settling Canada's west; Willard Batteries - one page in red and black; The United Bond Company of Toronto; Please note: back cover missing. Pages 17-18 missing - contained colour plates of war paintings. Pages 67-68 missing.(probably contained ads). A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Lovely Franklin Arbuckle cover illustration of couple admiring winter view of Peyto Lake at Banff National Park; Nostalgic Canadian Pacific colour ad inside front cover features young lady looking forward to seeing Canada by train; One-page DeSoto ad features a maroon Custom; Pay-Off in Oil - Leduc, Alberta has been stampeded by roughnecks after the recent discovery of oil; Labor War is Civil War - article by Charles Luckman of Lever Brothers Company in the U.S.; Marigold Spring (fiction); E.K. Brown explains his Ontario - rich but repressed, powerful but timid, and disliked but loved by her own; Bell's Sweet Singers - Dr. Leslie Bell conducts the 60 lovely girls of the Ontario College of Education choir - article with nice photos; Divorce - a Racket and a Scandal; Excellent colour-photo Campbell's soup ad features attractive housweife in front of a wall of soup cans; Nice colour Waterman's Taperite pen ad; When the Crowd Roars - Ted Reeve conjours up the biggest thrills of 40 years in sport; Guardian of the Clock (fiction); Flying Railwayman - New head of CPR is W.M. Neal, who rose from office boy to President; Article on mosquitoes by Max Braithwaite; The Faraway Music Company (fiction); Wonderful one-page colour White Rose gas station ad shows vehicles lined up for service; Colour photo Caterpillar ad shows highway excavation in progress, with tarp protecting crawler operator from the cold; Nice back cover Coke ad features young lady with 'come hither' look gazing down from porch. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice Orient & Pacific (Cruise) Lines ad inside front cover shows one of their boats at see with guests swimming and playing sports on deck; Nice colour Oldsmobile ad; Inflation can kill our nation; The two ordeals of Kikik - an Eskimo is forced to kill a man and then survive a frigid ordeal to try to save five children, only to be charged for murder by the white man's law - article with many photos; Can you loaf your way to a better figure?; How to Endure a Father (Robert Thomas Allen); Flora Lewis kept house behind the iron curtain - article with photos; The gay and gusty world of the college press - article with photos; Excellent centerfold ad for the new Ford Galaxie - wedding theme; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Coffee drop at top of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: The farcical fraud of cheap QCs; A grim chapter in London's war on vice; What happens when John Foster Dulles goes?; Article and wonderful colourful photos of Windsor, Ontario; A fond farewell for the Casino - Toronto's Casino Theatre is about to fall to the wrecking ball - photos and article; The cruel conspiracy of public speaking; An even break for the peaceful timber wolf; How to talk to your spouse - and when not to; Nice colour photo ad for the 1959 Pontiac; Great colour photo ad inside back cover shows couple drinking beer (O'Keefe) and smothing cigarettes (Rothman's) while watching a scantily-clad woman on TV; Coke ad on back cover shows skier drinking; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
237 pages including index. With illustrations from thirty-two photographs. Spine missing. Past moisture exposure to bottom inch of book resulted in fading to that portion of blue cloth boards and very light staining to contents which are otherwise mildly yellowed and in good condition. Hinges intact. Minimal markings. Very good reading copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and endpaper maps; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired at headband. The UK edition is far scarcer than its American counterpart. Enser, p.252.
159 pages including black and white photographic plates. An excellent copy of this journal. Norman Luxton made history crossing the Pacific in the Indian dugout canoe Tilikum, went on to found the Banff newspaper, Crag and Canyon, and devoted the rest of his life to developing Banff as a mountain playground and to assisting the Indians. Contents very clean and square. Brown boards show light wear. Dust jacket has half-inch tear to top edge of front panel and very light edge wear. Book
Milano, Rizzoli, 1980, in-8, cartonatura editoriale figurata a colori, pp. 202, [6]. Con illustrazioni su tavole f t.
24 pages, including illustration. Plus a fold-out sketch map measuring approximately 8 x 26 inches (20 x 66 cm) and a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 7.5 x 15 inches (19 x 38 cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This narrative traces the history of renowned navigations to elucidate a continuous chain of events, whereby the accident of one voyage created the objective of the next. He also speculates on how political history on world discovery was impacted by even the slightest circumstance. Includes plates, a large fold out chart of the Spanish Galleon in the Pacific taken by Anson, as well as a large fold out colour map.
Madrid, CSIC, 1983. 4to. alargado; XVII pp., 402 pp. Cubiertas originales.
Staple-bound. 8 1/4"w x 10 7/8"h. Slight creases to cover. 23 pages. Smells a bit of nag champa incense.
322p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; green boards, blue cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with or two short closed tears. Enser, p.54.
DJ tattered and taped. ; Author Lord, best known for books about the Titanic, here describes operations behind Japanese lines during World War II; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages
Approximately 290 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Robert B. Kennedy - Pine Logger; Prince George - white spruce capital of the world; Forest Road Traffic; Founding of the Pacific Logging Congress; Don't Underestimate Powder (explosives); Efficient Engine Air Cleaners are a Must; The Loggers Role in Forest Insect Control; Providing Redwoods for Parks and Recreation; Day Rate Falling and Bucking; Freak Douglas Fir - article and photo of natural graft in 1930 south of Gunter in Douglas County, Oregon; What's New in Logging Equipment; and much more. Includes many interesting equipment ads, some in color. Front free endpaper removed. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
11" x 8.5" x 0.75". "Contains articles prepared exclusively for the Loggers Handbook together with the official proceedings of the 63rd session of the Pacific Logging Congress and the condensed reports of its six regional conferences prepared by their respective secretaries." - from title page. Articles include: Archie W. Rafter; Moving Logs in British Columbia Waters; Renewing Productivity on Forest Brush Lands; Natural and Man-Caused Slash in Headwater Streams; Precision Logging - Management of the Future Forest; A History of Railroad Logging; Effects of Logging on Small Streams in the Thorne Bay Area of Southeast Alaska; The Tango; Forestry in Austria; Logging Engineering; Intensive Management of Coastal Douglas Fir; and more. Also includes many great contemporary logging equipment advertisements. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy with illustrated boards and endpapers. Book
Gilt spine lettering faded. Light wear to spine ends; Maps in endpapers show the trek of author Humphrey, who meandered through the region and recorded his observations. Green decorative boards with gilt lettering and pictorial design; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 306 pages
Il buddha dimora nel cambio di una motoo nei petali di un fiore.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 294 pages.