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50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for movie The Benny Goodman Story with photo of Steve Allen and Donna Reed; Full-page ad for Slingerland Drums with photo of Gene Krupa; Brief article with headline "Buddy Rich Quits Drums to be Song and Dancer" (?????); Part I of the Benny Goodman story - the man who turned music upside down; 'Voice of America' interviews Benny Goodman; Photo ad for the Deagan Vibraharp featuring Lionel Hampton; Meet Mr. Yaged; Frank Holton & Co. Trombone ad featuring photo of Ralph Marterie and his All Holton Trombone Section; Guild Guitar ad featuring photo of Johhny Smith; Buescher sax ad featuring photo of Danny Ludovici, Shep Fields, Buck Thompson and Bernis Hatch; Jimmy Giuffre "Gazelle' Solo sheet music; John Lewis Shows Piano Style - sheet music; Lotus Bud sheet music; Martin trumpet ad inside back cover features photo of Leonard B. Smith; Benny Goodman image featured in backpage ad for Selmer clarinets; and more. Ink stamp to front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
126 pages. Features: A Scratchbuilt Water Tower from a Flower Pot; Curves - Part 1; Structures for Outdoor Railroads - Part 10; The Acoma Central; The Pagosa Prairie Dogs - Part 1; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 5; The Holiday Garden Railway at the New York Botanical Garden; A Battery Car that wears many hats. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Colin Thatcher claims he was wrongly convicted; Harper's Recovery; Alberta's Wildrose Alliance; Obama's Health Care Proposal; Abdullah Abdullah - a new hope for Afghanistan; Germany gets Tough - sends troops to Afghanistan; Canada's chance to Emerge from America's Shadow?; The Race for the Perfect Battery; The Cooling Cure for Cardiac Arrest; Is Quebec the Human Guinea Pig Capital of North America?; Are we Drinking too much Water?; In Praise of Dead-End Jobs; What Happened to Quentin Tarantino?; Keeping a lid on Vancouver fun; Wal-mart's new cookies taste like Girl Scout cookies; Judith Josephine Koritar - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a Model L-195 Roadliner; Full-page Parker Pen ad; Editorial - The CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) is not Canadian and not National; London Letter - Belgrade laughs at the Kremlin; How Social Credit Took B.C. - The astonishing story of how a group of rank amateurs suddenly found themselves forming a government - article with photos; Warrior - Sgt. George Thomas (Tommy) Prince, grandson of an Indian chief, won ten ribbons fighting Germans, Italians and Chinese, but now he must fight to prove a man's colour doesn't count on the warpath - article with great photos; Got two hours for dinner? - Le Bastogne restaurant in Quebec City - article with colour photos; Rhymes in a Ten-cent Scribbler - Edna Jaques is Canada's best-sellling poet - article with photos; Glen Dobbs - The Roughriding Mayor of Dobberville - a lanky and amiable American quarterback has set Saskatchewan on its ear; Guns are for Men - story by L. Johanne Stemo - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Eva von Gencsy - the ballet star with the dishpan hands - article with photos; Put it Back, Lady! - how store detectives in the bustling supermarkets catch hundreds of food pilferers each year; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Nice colour ad for Aylmer canned peaches; Great Prest-o-lite battery ad features black and white photo of Detroit Red Wing star Red Kelly; Nice vintage colour La-Z-boy ad; Chevrolet ad; Colour Ford ad inside back cover; Massey-Harris colour ad on back cover shows their test track for power farming. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Includes special 8 page photogravure supplement on the Argus Three. Articles: Using the Loud-Speaker; All about Low-Frequency Coupling; Indoor Aerial Erection; The Screen-Grid Valve as a Detector; Do you understand characteristic curves?; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Reveivers and their Records; Tapping and its Uses - 1; Radiogram Receivers; Simple apparatus for measuring Resistances; The Beginner's Supplement; How to choose a suitable L.T. Battery for your set; Below 100 metres; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 2; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
Topics: Fitting a Pick-up; Automatic Grid Bias from Battery Sets; Details Often Overlooked; Simple Former for Short-Wave Coils; Simple Tester for Tuning Coils; Economical Construction; Combined with Efficiency; A Cheap Fault-Finder; The Loud-Speaker and the Output Stage; Causes of Instability; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Receivers and Their Records; Introducing the Argus Three (3); The Speaker Speaks; Selectivity with Plug-in Coils; Choosing a Modern Valve - 3; The Beginner's Supplement; Can you Read a Circuit Diagram?; Below 100 metres; The Gang Menace - the fallacies of uni-control in Radio Receivers; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 1; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
39 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
Approx 40 pages. Features: Recent Developments in Control Gear for Small A.C. Motors; Street Lighting at Birmingham; Power Factor Improvement to a Guaranteed minimum Value; Testing A.C. Meters; Magnetisers and Magnetising; Installing and Operating Constant Potential Battery Chargers; Factory Electrical Installations; Automatic Control of D.C. Motors by Motor Generators; Survey of Electric Welding Methods; Sound Film Apparatus. Cigarette smoke odour. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: French Lance-Grenade Battery; Along Russia's long line from Riga to Armenia (4 photos); Forces behind the Russian Revolution (1-page article); Means and modes of locomotion in Mesopotamia; Past and present in picturesque Bagdad; Deadly British Mortar that Balks the Hun; Deceptive Trench-Forestry on the Ancre; On the way to Bapaume - a wingless butterfly; Italians watch effects of new French grenade; The flight from Bukarest - 2-page article plus 4 photos; Indian Empire after the War - article by St. Nihal Singh; 4 photos of Prussian piracy - windjammer torpedoed by U-boat in the Channel; The Scottish borderers on the Somme - article. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Full page illustration of the new chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. Some Lighter Aspects of a Fleet Action - by 'Bartimeus'. Preaching and Practising Prudent Economy - 5 photos. An Aeroplane Shoot on the Western Front, by 'O.Pip'. Artillery Preparation Against the Great Attack - 3 photos of a massive British rail-mounted gun and a French shell dump. Amazing photo of French observers serving as part of an anti-aircraft battery. Five photos of kite balloons. Women at work. Tanks and Trimphs from the French Front - 4 photos. From the Forge of Vulcan to the Field of Mars - two illustrations of massive guns. The U Boats and the U.S. - a confident view of the Transatlantic Transport (article). At Army Headquarters, article by Hamilton Fyfe. Arresting Attila's Advance to the Adriatic - 5 photos. New Laws for New Conditions - how the Australian Commonwealth Set the Example. Photos of decorated soldiers. Adventures of an ensign, article by 'Vedette'. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Front cover illustration of trained dogs used as trench messengers. Illustration of British seaplane airman. Grabbe & Co., Unlimited - article on inflated British food prices. Danger Points in the East - article by Lovat Fraser. Photos of saving Holy Objects from the 'Sacrilegious' Hun. Photos from Mesopotamia - ruins and modern doings. Photos of Humane Treatment of Turks Taken in the Pursuit. Chateau and Church shattered by Huns - photos. Photos of lights being used in war; Woodrow Wilson - 'The Only Statesman in the World' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of French and American soldiers. Lighter Moments/Recreation. Photos of 'Work at home for enmeshing enemy mines at sea'. "The Winners" by Boyd Cable. Photos of stout-hearted soldiers of Resurgent Serbia. Photos of 'Preparing for the Future in Corn Land & Quarry'. Photos of curious contrasts. "The Eyes of the Battery" - Certain liveliness at an artillery observation post by 'O.Pip'. Photos of decorated individuals. Book
Stories: Alaska's Lone Eagles; A Really Dangerous Job; Long Odds; Trouble at Los Cruces; The Rivals; My Pet Panther; Land of Drums; The Great Thirst; Fighting 'Dope' Out East; El Diablo; Brazilian Beachcombers; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
226 pages. Features: V-8 S-10; It Ain't Ugly; S-10 Contest Winner; Pro-Flare Ford (cover photo); Renegade Ranger - custom '70s Ford; Ranger Splash - Ford's new youth truck for the '90s; WYBUYNU - Brandon Murrill's cool classic; Attention Getter; Dave Hill's alternate Scout; Pro-Faction pro-street Slantcab; Fully restored GMC Suburban; Pacific Coast Suburban; Post War Panel; Mini-Addiction; Battery operated Nissan pickups?; Late Start - Mom's mini Isuzu; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more popular on the post war frontier than revolving rifles were lever-action repeaters - Spencers, Henrys and others; A Gunfighter Craze is Sweeping the Country; A History of Wine in California - from Mission Grapes to Premium Wines; Black Bart (C.E. Bolton) - Backpacking Robber-Poet; Wild West Shotguns - They were even used for 'salting' mines; The Lost Wagon Train; Big Russell-Remington Collection in Fort Worth - Texas Oilman's Art Displayed at Gallery; He was hanged for *planning* a murder - A.J. (Andy) Hudspeth; Natural Foods of the 'Digger' Indians; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Juliette is featured in an Burgess Battery ad; By God, There Aint' Many of us Left - The Orangemen of Ontario / Orange Association in Canada; Pro Golfer Doug Sanders - He'd Be Poor on $38,000 a Year; Who Needs Ottawa - BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett has plans to split Canada into five regions and describes himself as a co-operative federalist; Full-page ad for Sony radios; Automobile Skid Control School in Oakville, Ontario run by Henk de Vries; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
124 pages. Features: The New York Thirties; Preservation and the Richardson Boat Owner's Association; EMME; Alternatives to the Lumber Yard; Putting Down Roots - your own woodlot; The Backbone - Part III - getting it upright and ready for ribbands; The Restoration of the STANLEY NORMAN - rebuilding a working skipjack between seasons; Marine Batteries - Part II - installing and maintaining battery systems; A Core Sound Sharpie; Seizing Hanks - step-by-step instructions; California's Ancient Canoe - the heritage and rebirth of the tomol; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Paperback Light wear with fold/scruff marks on cover. Pages clean with no w ritings, no tear and n highlights.
112 pages. Features: Vladimir Nekola generates his own electric power in downtown Chicago using wind and sun; Stu Kingman and family install a home photovoltaic system; Wind Generators and Birds; Electric Cars - Toys or Reality?; EV Battery Chargers; Electric Vehicle Tires; A Graphic Guide to Solar Water Pumping; California 'Net Metering' legislation introduced; Mark Klein and the Gimme Shelter Crew; David Booth's straw bale home odyssey; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
46 pages. Features: Lovely cover photo of Carmen McRae; Small photo ad for Selmer saxophones features John Coltrane; Pacific Jazz ad features Carmell Jones; Sinatra sues Capital; AFM sues Republic Pictures; Confusion reigns in wake of MCA breakup; Ellington sues and is sued in return; Elegy for Eddie Costa who died in car crash July 28; Something Rockin' in Denmark; Carmell Jones - Trumpet in a Hurry; The agonies of exploration - Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; On the Threshold - feature article on the singer's singer, Carmen McRae; Sketches of the Rollins quartet by George Roth; Focus on Vi Redd - alto saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, and vocalist; Centrefold ad for Gretsch drums features Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, and Art Blakey; Record reviews; Large ad for Jimmy Smith and his Fats Waller album; Ad for Dodo Greene and her album 'My Hour of Need'; Art Blakey - Blindfold Test; Caught in the Act - Woody Herman and Leandro Barbieri; Fender Accordio-Organ ad features photo of Buddy De Franco and Tommy Gumina; Slingerland drum company ad features photo of Rufus Jones of the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra; Small ad for Martin Trumpets features Al Hirt; Zildjian cymbal ad on back cover features photos of Mr. Zildjian and dozens of prominent drummers. Unmarked with somewhat average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
