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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. 96 pages plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Nice ad by Spiegel, May, Stern Co. inside front cover; The Johannesburg Motor Bandits - One of the most remarkable episodes in the annals of crime in South Africa - the wholesale murder of Police Officers - Robert Ward Jackson, John Maxim, Carl Neze - many great photos; Crapsey, the Sky-Worker - he loses his fear of working at heights; Some Adventurous Small-craft Voyages as told by Captain J.A. Nilsson who made a specialty of taking tiny vessels across the oceans - with photos; What Happened on the Omul - Walter Muston, his wife and a little girl experience a disaster while mountain climbing in the Carpathians - with many photos; "Pussy" - Mariner John William Nylander relates what happened when he saved two kittens from their watery graves and brought them aboard; Our Travels in Safari-Land/British East Africa - IV - by Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porth) - many great photos; Out of a Death Trap - British Missionary Rev. A. Forder rescues a party of Americans from the fierce Bedouin Arabs of Moab - with many excellent photos; The Majesty of the Law - Prohibition laws result in ludicrous events in Kansas; The Wanderings of an Entertainer - Mr. Robert Ganthony; Nice Columbia Grafonola ad; Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
54 pages. Songs: Ain't Nobody But Me; Another Man's Woman; Easy Does It; Just a Normal Day; Lady; The Meaning; Poor Boy; Sister Moonshine; A Soapbox Opera; Two of Us. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful memento of Supertramp's glory days in the 1970s. Book
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
26 pages. Biography of Johnny Rivers inside front cover. Includes piano sheet music and lyrics for these songs: Brown Eyed Handsome Man; Johnny B. Goode; Mabellene; Memphis, Tennessee; Promised Land, The; Roll Over, Beethoven; Seventh Son; Susie-Q; Swee Little Rock and Roller. Above-average wear and soiling, inside and out. Binding intact. Few minor markings. A rare surviving copy of this sensational Johnny Rivers collectible. Book
407 pages. A *massive* compilation of almost eighty songs performed by the great 1970s duo of Seals and Crofts. Includes such hits as Diamond Girl, Hummingbird, I'll Play for You; We May Never Pass This Way Again, and so many more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this precious Seals & Crofts memento. Book
16 pages. Features: Steinway Piano ad inside front cover; Let the Flat Protect the Cargo - England is seizing and holding up ship sailing under the American flag to neutral countries; The Manufacture of Dum-Dum (mushroom tip) Bullets in the United States - article with reproductions of graphic black and white photos displaying the savage injuries they cause; The Duty of the State to the Citizen, by Frank Koester; America's Gift to the World - Peace (reproduction of an article from the Evening Post, New York, Dec. 14, 1914); Germany's Hour of Destiny, by Col. H.F. Frobenius; Beware Great Britain; George Bernard Shaw - England Provoked the War; Admiral Count Von Spee; Poem "My Normandy" - English translation of a poem by a French P.O.W.; Ambassador Morgenthau is "Active"; New York Relief Bazaar raises funds for widows and orphans; In Memoriam - a poem by Frederick H. Martens dedicated to Admiral von Spee and the men of his squadron who died off the Falkland Islands, December 8, 1914; The Great Work of the Germanistic Society of Chicago; Nice ad for the Otto Gas Engine Works of Philadelphia; France Was Deceived; The Jewish Chronicle complains about the shabby treatment accorded Jews in the British Army; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
104 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for Hilton Hotels features the Palmer House of Chicagp; Superb one-page color ad for Ford Trucks features green pickup in pleasant farm scene; Dow Chemical ad features illustration of kettle and steam inventor James Watt; (Labor) Strike Wave Threatens Essential U.S. Needs; Sam Rayburn - Texan; Joan Bennett's "Scarlet Street" is censored for 'tending to corrupt morals'; Photo of Jane Russell in low-cut blouse posing for painting; Fantastic color one-page Coke ad features crowded soda shop scene with boy singing into napkin holder microphone; Classic one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes titled "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette"; World Watches First Assembly of UNO; Photo of Mickey Rooney shaking hands with De Gaulle; Classic color ad for White Trucks features soda factory and happy end-user; Trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma in Manila; Religious Emancipation is the Jap's by MacArthur's Grace; Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, chief of UNRRA's activities in Germany, states that the movement of Jews from Poland into Germany looked like a "second Exodus... a well-organized, positive plan to get out of Europe" to Palestine, and that he had seen Jews arriving in Berlin "well-dressed, well-fed, rosy-cheeked and (with) plenty of money..They certainly do not look like persecuted people."; U.S. Need to keep peace pledges slows homeward trek of troops; A Safe American Must be founded on Strength; Nice Firestone Tire color centerfold features race car; Nice Old Thompson whiskey ad features piano keyboard; Photo of ex-POW Pvt. Cleo Brown and his bride in Milwaukee hotel; Photos of changing Navy fashions; Doukhobor article with stripping photo; Oil strike in Chile; Color photo ad for Chrysler features Andre Kostelanetz leading orchestra; Classy one-page color ad for the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation; Brief obituaries for William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw); Hector Charlesworth; William T. Dewart Jr., Slim Summerville; Germ Warfare Article with photo of Major Merck inspecting Camp (Fort) Dietrich laboratories - US was set for biological war more terrible than enemy knew; Rare Great Northern Railway ad features the opening of modern China (very prescient); SN 7618 for Malaria; photo of Lt. Col. Margaret Craighill; Great photo ad by the Cuban National Tobacco Commission features Edward G. Robinson lighting up; Article on Branch Rickey; Jockey Woolf, 1909-1946; Sensational one-page color ad for Grace Line features illustrations of their new fleet of twenty "Santa" ships; Rare one-page ad for Cuba Mail Line entitled "Ice Cubes for Cuba" shows happy family table; Curious ad for National Company's Radios features small illustration of 'slant-eyed' Chinaman above text "Gung Ho"; The Press, the Radio, and Mr. La Guardia; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features mountain climbing on Mexico's Popocatepetl; and more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Includes five pages of (intentionally) grainy black and white photos of Cohen. Songs include: Bird on a Wire; So Long Marianne; Suzanne; Sisters of Mercy; Famous Blue raincoat; Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye; Joan of Arc; Love Calls You By Your Name; No Diamonds in the Mine; Please Don't Pass Me By; Queen Victoria; Avalanche; Chelsea Hotal No. 2; Dress Rehearsal Rag; Lady Midnight; Take This Longing; Last Year's Man; The Stranger Song; Who By Fire. Music store inkstamp on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this wonderful Cohen memento. Book
48 pages. Includes black and white illustrations of the band. Songs include: Boy Blue; Can't Get it Out of My Head; Evil Woman; Kuiama; Ma-Ma-Ma Belle; 10538 Overture; Roll Over Beethoven; Showdown; Strange Magic. A rare ELO collectible. Book
Contains separate piano and trumpet sheet music, plus guitar chords and lyrics, for some of the most popular music of the 1960s and 70s. Songs include: Acapulco 1922; Fandango; Jerusalem; (The) Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro); Magic Man; Mexican Shuffle; Rise; Rotation; Route 101; So What's New; Spanish Flea; (A) Taste of Honey; This Guy's In Love With You; Tijuana Taxi; Up Cherry Street; Wade in the Water; What Now My Love; Whipped Cream. Four pages of colour photos of Herb Alpert, with two more pages in black and white. Prior owner's reference page of instrument transpositions fastened inside front cover by a staple. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. It is hard not to feel good when you listen to these timeless songs! Book
80 pages. Features all songs from two great ARS albums: A Rock and Roll Alternative, and Champagne Jam. Songs include: Don't Miss the Message; Everybody Gotta Go; Georgia Rhythm; Hitch Hiker's Hero; Neon Nites; Outside Woman Blues; Sky High; So Into You; (The) Ballad of Lois Malone; Champagne Jam; Evileen; (The) Great Escape; I'm not Gonna Let it Bother Me Tonight; Imaginary Lover; Large Time; Normal Love. Includes seven pages of photos of the band and its members. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A high-quality copy of this vintage original songbook. Book
48 pages. Eight pages of excellent colour and black and white photos of Bowie. Songs include: Loving the Alien; Don't Look Down; God Only Knows; Tonight; Neighborhood Threat; Blue Jean; Tumble and Twirl; I Keep Forgettin'; Dancing with the Big Boys. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this great Bowie collectible. Book
32 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa 1900. Includes 8 wonderful pages of black and white photos of Albert Chevalier in a wide variety of theatrical roles. Songs include: The Veteran, Wot Vur Do 'Ee Lov Oi?; The Workhouse Man; The Centenarian; The Village Constable; Hemmer; Hif Not, Why Not?; Vive Le Vigneron; Few markings to front cover. Tape repair to coverfold - back cover missing. A worthy copy of this great vintage compilation. Book
104 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of blessing of the Cod fleet at Caraquet, New Brunswick; Lovely nostalgic one-page colour-photo ad for Weston's cookies features young lady sitting in Muskoka chair; London Letter - Why the Germans Don't Want a New Army; Fantastic one-page colour Popsicle ad features their $100,000 contest prizes and small inset photo of "Pinky Lee"; The Canadian Bank of Commerce half-page colour-photo ad features fashion show scene; One-page colour ad for 1955 Dodge cars features two yellow and black cars; Report on Eating - the dramatic changes in our eating habits in a single generation - article with great colour photos including Billy O'Connor, Austin Willis, Elaine Grande and Joan Fairfax; Are We Eating Too Much?; How Long Can the Earth Keep Us Eating? - article with amazing photos of child surrounded by thousands of pounds of the various food products she will eat in the course of a 70 year life; The Courageous Comeback of fiery Quebec chanteuse Alys Robi as she recovers from mental illness - photo-illustrated article; Osmond Kendall's Marvelous Music Machine - with the magic of electrons this inventive Canadian composes piano concertos and turns doodles ino the sounds of an eighty-piece orchestra - fantastic photo-illustrated article; The Lawyer Who Never Wins a Case - Crown Prosecutor Henry Bull QC - photo-illustrated article; The Great Herring Mystery - scientists attempt to discover where Atlantic herring vanish to, and why, once the herring run ends - photo-illustrated article; Not This August (conclusion of this story); The World's First Dog Psychiatrist - Alva McColl - photo-illustrated article; We're Off to Mars; The Best Way to Take a Holiday - Photo-illustrated article explains how Fred Bosworth's family of five camps for $2.08 a day each - cheaper than living at home; Nice one-page colour ad for the Meteor Rideau 4-door town sedan (aqua and white); Colour one-page Samsonite luggage ad features couple boarding train; Vintage one-page colour ad for Leonard home appliances; Classy one-page colour Chrysler ad features two-tone purple 250 hp New Yorker DeLuxe St. Regis; Colour ad for Christie's Digestive Biscuits; Colour ad for General Motors Locomotives; Colour Chevrolet ad features yellow 1955 Bel Air convertible; Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic ad features Fearless Fosdick comic; Nice colour-photo ad for Heinz baby food; Vintage colour ad for Thermos vacuum bottles; Nice one-page ad for 1955 GMC trucks; Jantzen fashion ad features tartan shorts for him and her; Colour-photo ad for CNR passenger rail features charming scenes on-board of well-dressed passengers; Barrett Company photo ad features D.A. Boem of Boem Construction, Order Clerk Peter Englholm and Frank Hartshorne; Nice BOAC ad features their Coronet double-deck stratocruiser service Montreal to Britain; Labatt's ad features photo of warehouseman Richard Simpson of Downsview, Ontario at work; Great colour GWG ad inside back cover features man relaxing with ladies after cutting grass; Back cover Coke ad features colour photo of handsome trio beneath read and white umbrella; and more. Average wear. Numerous short openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
27 pages. Circa 1966. Unmarked. Songs include: Early Mornin' (Morning) Rain; For Lovin' (Loving) Me; I'm Not Sayin' (Saying); Peaceful Waters; Ribbon of Darkness; Rich Man Spiritual; Sixteen Miles (To Seven Lakes); Steel Rail Blues; The Long River; The Way I Feel. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this beloved compilation. Book
72 pages. Several great pages of great colour illustrations and photos. Includes these songs: London Town; Cafe on the Left Bank; I'm Carrying; Backwards Traveller; Cuff Link; Children Children; Girlfriend; I've Had Enough; With a Little Luck; Famous Groupies; Deliver Your Children; Name and Address; Don't Let it Bring You Down; Morse Moose and the Grey Goose. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch opening at top of backstrip. Last few pages of photos nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy of this great Wings memento. Book
56 pages. Contains piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following songs: Sunny Sunday; Sex Kills; How Do You Stop; Turbulent Indigo; Last Chance Lost; The Magdalene Laundries; Not to Blame; Borderline; Yvette in English; The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song). Includes four colour paintings by Joni Mitchell. Clean, bright and unmarked with neglible wear. Lovely copy. Book
Features: Nice colour ad for the Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue); The Redeemed Children - the story of one of the great humanitarian acts of the twentieth century - Jewish orphans from WWII are brought to Canada - with photos; The Welcome Enemies - the happy accident by which 972 interned aliens became, in 1940, some of the liveliest immigrants Canada ever had; The public crime that seems to pay - Hit-and-run; Stop whitewashing black african demagogues, by John Phillipson; 15 days with the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, by John Phillipson - great colour photos; How Spencer Caldwell got a TV network (CTV) by the tail; In High Places, by Arthur Hailey (last of 3 parts); Molson's Canadian ad features photo of the newly launched 'City of Victoria' ferry; Tommy Douglas' first 6 months, by Peter C. Newman; Piano prodigy Hilda Irek; Nice Valentine-theme colour photo Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Uncle Ben and the Panther - a story involving Joseph and Daniel Smith of the parish of Blissville, Sunbury Country, New Brunswick; A White Woman in the Congo - Marguerite Roby; The Spanish Heiress - Mr. E. Player defends a pretty girl from some scoundrels aboard the Vigo, of which he is the Ship's Engineer; Among the Bedouins of Eastern Palestine - the life and habits of the strange nomadic Bedouins; Hung Up in a Cave - The Rev. R. Marle relates his perilous experience while cave-exploring in the Mendip Hills; Sacred Elephant - a hunter kills an elephant which is considered sacred... and finds himself in trouble; The 'Swinging Festival' of Siam - a strange harvest ceremony; The Ordeal of Mrs. Page - kidnapped by Apache raiders on the Arizona border; Celebrating the Dashara - a remarkable Indian festival; My Sambur - a funny story from India; Across Persia and Europe on Pony-back - a remarkable ride of over 2,000 miles; A Shaker Romance - the author (then aged 9) helps a romantic young couple from this sect which did not believe in marriage and died out; The Sportsman in Rhodesia - the paradise of big game hunting; Diamond cut Diamond - a case of a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; and more. Nice Vose Player Piano ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
4 pages. As recorded by Deep Purple on their classic "Machine Head" album. Great photos of all band members on front cover. Appears to be a 1973 reprint of the 1972 first edition. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Small price sticker on front cover. Openings at each end of coverfold. Very rare vintage sheet music for one of the most classic rock songs of all time. A fantastic Deep Purple collectible. Sheet music
64 pages. Fantastic photos of the band and its members in colour and black and white. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Death on Two Legs; Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon; I'm in Love With My Car; You're My Best Friend; '39; Sweet Lady; Seaside Rendezvous; The Prophet's Song; Love of My Life; Good Company; and the timeless Bohemian Rhapsody. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Songbook for one of the most popular and impactful albums of the 1970s. 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
56 pages. Features: Excellent colour Ford Motor Company of Canada ad inside front cover features Canadians at war abroad and dong war work at home; Nice colour Ritz cracker ad shows servicemen singing while young lovely plays piano; Will Russia Dominate Post-war Europe?; Photo of Canadian jeeps hauling supplies along the 'Inferno Track' on the Italian front; Photo of Winston Churchill's grandson of the same name; Nice colour Orange Crush ad; Canada's Problem Soldier - Some things are bothering them, notably a lack of cigarettes; Wait for the Man (short story); Pot of Gold (short story); Stampede in Europe - photo-illustrated article describes the floods of European immigrants; A Present From Pietro (short story); Mascots for Morale - photo-illustrated article on military mascots, including "Butch" of a Canadian Wellington bomber squadron, "Fluff", a ship's kitten, and "Sabo", a ship's dog; Taking Germany's Portrait - Great photo-illustrated article on wartime aerial photography; Little Rambles in Hollywood - article on movies with photos of Arturo de Cordova, Joan Fontaine, Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant, and Irene Dunne; One-page Kodak ad shows one-page photo of shipmates enjoying photo-viewing; Fantastic one-page colour GM ad called "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!" shows some of the quarter-million military vehicles they have built for the war effort; Nice one-page ad for movie "The White Cliffs of Dover", starring Irene Dunne; Great one-page wartime Canadian Pacific ad explains how they serve Canada in war and peace; Government of Canada one-page ad entitled "I Had a Nightmare" explains the importance of preventing further price increases in the cost of living now and deflation later; Half-page ad for Heintzman & Co. pianos of Toronto; Woodbury Soap ad features great photos of newlyweds Thelma Bertha Bowell, of B.C.and Lieutenant (J.g.) Wilbert Kennith Carter; Cooking article addresses wartime restrictions; Nice colour one-page Swift Canadian Co. Limited ad entitled "Make Full Use of Meat Left-Overs" provides helpful hints, and photo insert of Martha Logan; Half-page ad by the Canadian Department of National War Services says "Your Waste Paper May Save a Life!", with illustration of wounded soldier in stretcher, and text explaining that 20,000 tons of waste paper are needed monthly to make containers for the transportation of vital war supplies; La Maternelle Vallerand - A Bilingual Nursery in Montreal; Laundry Logic; World Sayings; Great Canada Post Office ad inside back cover explains how mail delivery to reinforcment units is 'a challenge to us all'; Great back cover colour ad for the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) says "Count Me In!" and shows members recruiting young lady in her home; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this particularly excellent wartime issue. Book
90 pages. Songs include: Big Girls Don't Cry; Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It; Candy Girl; Christmas Tears; Connie-O; Cuernavaca Choo Choo; Dumb Drum; Happy Shades of Blue; Humdinger; If You Were a Rock and Roll Record; Jump Over; La Dee Dah; Lucky Ladybug; Magic Moon (Clair de Lune); Marlena; My Sugar; New Mexican Rose; Okefenokee; Palisades Park; Pony Express; The Push and Kick; Sherry; Soon (I'll Be Home Again); Souvenirs of Summertime; Tallahassee Lassie; That's The Only Way; Transistor Sister; The Urge; Voglio Cantare; Walk Like a Man; Woman is a Man's Best Friend. Above-average wear. Yellowed tape repairs. Few light pencil markings to contents. A worthy working copy of this wonderful vintage compilation. Book
508 pages. Chapters include: The Restringing Procedure; Figuring Scales and Setting the Bearing; String Behavior and Scale Design; How to Install a New Pin block; How to Repair, Shim, and Refinish the Soundboard; Replacing Broken Agraffes; How to Repair, Re-Cap, or Replace Bridges; How to Tune the Piano; General Information Concering the Stringing Scales; (Extensive) List of Manufacturers. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this invaluable guide. Book
