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116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
140 pages. Fiction: Let the Arctic Kill Him; Open Fire!; Come to the Wedding; The Women No One Needed; The Artless Heiress (part 2 of 8); No Blade of Grass (conclusion). Articles: The Worst Swindle - how these sordid criminals take $5 million/year from gullible women; How to Hire a Maid; Our Neutral Friends the Austrians; City of Silence - no one in Portsmouth, Ohio could use the phone for 61 days!; The Face of America - beautiful commencement photo by Don W. Jones; Gamest Fish in the Pond - Bass; Luxurious Wilderness - wonderful color photos and story about Jasper Park Lodge, Canada's 'zoo without bars'; America's Oldest Spectacular - Harvard's strange tribal rites before men are sent into the cold, cold world - with photos. Ads: Evinrude outboard ad; Nice color-photo De Soto ad features cowboy leaning on Fireflite 2-door Sportsman in Fiesta red and white; Charming two-page color Texaco ad shows crowd gathered at gas station around family car hauling a boat and motor; Interesting two-page GM ad features photos of John Cupler and his microscopic drills which he turned into National Jet Company of La Vale in Maryland; Buick Roadmaster 75; GE pink washer and dryer; Pall Mall cigarettes; Philco fridges; Salem cigarettes; Beautiful Dodge color photo ad features a swept-wing teale convertible at dusk; Nice color Underwood typewriter ad with 'Golden Touch'; Nice two-page color Chevrolet ad shows yellow Bel Air convertible on the beach; Tareyton; Kodak Brownie movie camera; Yardley grooming products; Rare Dixie Cup ice cream ad; GMC trucks; GE kitchen appliances; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of Paul Swartz, President of Swartz Oil Co.; Nice one-page color-photo Canada Dry ad shows girl with ice cream soda; The Antarctic watch by Croton; Coke ad on back cover features illustration of a scene at Lake Louise. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
42 pages. Features: Tom Deachman wants to change Christmas; The Night Frank Mahovlich Came Back to Maple Leaf Gardens - article with photos; Astrologers - a report on the continent's latest craze; Children's colour photo section - Velveteen fashion; Kildare Dobbs' adventures in multi-lingualism; Bedlam in Bytown - a disillusioned account of Grey Cup Week - with nice colour photos including Juliette, the Ottawa Roughriderettes (cheerleaders), and Julia (Julie) May Dixie - Miss Grey Cup, 1967; A cookbook for everyone this Christmas; Rex - the story of Johnny and his dog. Please note: one staple missing and the other is only holding several pages. We can restaple if you wish. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 206 pages with many b&w photos, Steamboat speed records, water speed and propeller.
12mo, 187 pages, not illustrated. Some water staining to the upper page edges. (Silhouette Desire 337) eng
58 pages. Features: News Photos; The Steel-Muscled Rail Gang - with a gang that rel-lays rail on the C & O; Taking Down the Markers - final instalment of the "Smoke over the Prairies" photo series; White Pass Meets its Match - two diesels with the qualities of a polar bear are helping the White Pass & Yukon; Saved by the Shovels - Opening of a huge strip coal mine in 1936 was the salvation of the Galesburg & Eastern; I Never Worked a Day in My Life - Bill Thomas; Steam Questionaire; When Steam Ruled the Dixie Line - see NC&StL's famous flanged-stacked locomotives and its celebrated Dixie 4-8-4's; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: The Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad on Hawaii - article with photos; The Rail Detector Car Identifies Faulty Rails - article with photos; Staten Island Rapid Transit - a B&O Subsidiary - article with photos and map; Photo Section including wonderful centerfold photo of a Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 on a curve west of Cumberland, Md.; Behind the Statistical Nightmares of the Pennsylvania Railroad's first 100 years - a story of a transport colossus - article with photos; Riding the "Dixie Line" NC&StL from Nashville to Atlanta; Photos of immense locomotives in the process of being scrapped; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Lake St. Tower - focal point of the entire Chicago & North Western Railway is the six-track terminal throat; Off the Beaten Track - Round Trip Tickets are Honoured over this interesting mountain branch of the Northern Pacific; Passenger Agent - Making friends by satisfying passengers is his job - satisfied passengers ship freight too; Mother Hubbard Locomotives - Wide fire boxes of anthracite-burning locos crowded the cab forward; Keeping the Line Open - The railroads, more than any other private enterprise, strive to maintain service and give relief in major disasters; Now and Then - Cripple Creek Short Line in Colorado; Cross Roads of the North - Rouses Point, New York, first served by Champlain & Ogdensburg Raiway, now part of Rutland system; A Streamliner is Born - Dixie Flagler is one of three new high speed trains, pioneers in fast Chicago-Miami service; Wabash Railway at Chicago - best time of year for photographing Wabash locomotives is now - best place is Landers Yard - many locomotive photos; Illinois Central 4-6-0. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine