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Features: Buckling Up with a Cabochon; Gold Alert!; Gold Panning Goes High-Tech; Field Trip - Utah Wonderstone; Team Channeling; Field Trip - Wiley's Well; Rock Art; Field Trip - Mount Antero Crystals; Peridot; Treasure Hunting; Today's Metal Detectors; Seashell Pendant; Follow the Rules. Average wear. Date stamp on front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Silversmithing the Navajo Way; Rockhounding in the City; The Value of Opal; The Colors of Minerals; Gold in the Tailings; Micromounts; Field Trip - Army Pass Crystals; Field Trip - North Carolina's Hiddenite; Mr. Roger's Silverwork; Serendipity Gold; Gemstone Grand Tour; Rings from Scrap; In Search of Gold. Average wear. Binding intact. Date stamped upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features include: The Stars Behind Ray Charles; It's All Right - The Impressions; What Happened to the Elvis We Used to Know?; New Group in Town: Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters; "I Don't Want to Grow Stale" says Bobby Vinton; The Leading Surf Band: Surfaris; Your Rock and Roll Favorites; Down Memory Lane with the Olympics; Let's Take a Trip to the Sugar Shack; Big Maybell's Daughter - Betty Harris; The Music Man: Freddie Scott; and Rock & Roll Back-Stage. Cover loose but present. 5" opening on page 31/32. Back cover has two minor openings and bottom corner is missing. Front cover bright with little wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
20 pages. An early provincial booklet promotiing hunting and fishing in British Columbia. Undated - appears to be circa 1920s. Includes black and white reproductions of photos of: a flycaster with fish in net; a morning's catch of salmon at Campbell River; Four river fishermen in what appears to be a native-style carved boat; great shot of a dozens of caribou fording a wide body of water; a mounted bull moose head; smiling hunter standing over 4+ dead grizzlies; mounted big-horned sheep head; Wapati; large herd of caribou on a high plateau; coast deer; mountain goats on a rock face; prize-winning mounted head of a mountain goat. Includes considerable supporting text. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage B.C. collectible. Book
Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
Features: Jean Chretien - the Finance Minister as tough guy - with a weakness for one-liners; Rush Rock - feature article on rock group Rush, consisting of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson; Name Game - an unusual exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Chowder recipes; Hockey's Roger Neilson - coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Somewhat above-average external wear. Small chip from front cover which bears a two-inch tear to fore-edge. Similar tear to first leaf. Center page holding by one staple. Book
Features: The Home Party Pitch - selling products through home sales parties - Tupperware and others; Paul Rimstead article on pool champion George Chenier, aged 63 - The loneliness of an old master, with great colour photo; Car Theft - wrecked Ontario cars morph with stolen Montreal cars - theft to order, theft by owner arrangement; theft for resale, theft for parts; Schussing the sands - in 1939 Robert Cote begain sand skiiing the north bank of the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac - the sport has taken off - colour photos; Maggie Grant column; Snake Charmers - fashion photos; Strawberry Recipes; Cybermedix is the greatest medical checkup ever; Art under pressure - colour photos of beautiful rock formations; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: The Home Sales Game - coffee, cake, and buy, buy, buy - Tupperware, etc.; The Loneliness of an Old Master - Snooker Champion George Chenier; The Auto Theft Industry; The real truth about the bible baddies; Sand Skiing at Tadoussac; Maggie Grant; Snake Charmers (fashion feature); Cybermedix - get Canada's most complete medical checkup without seeing a doctor; Part of page 33 has been clipped out - it appears to have been from an article about coloured rock; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
30 pages. Articles: They grew 200 million years ago - the geological formations of South Africa; Pegmatites; Buried Treasure of the Nicoamen Plateau; Enamelling on Metal - as a Hobby (part 2); Princeton (British Columbia) The Etiquette of Rockhounding; Pebble Pups Steak; Fossi-Wood - Well worth digging; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing inside back cover else unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: spectacular destruction of three of the Bedaux Canadian Expedition's caterpillar cars; photo of rock formation in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve where Indians practice pagan rituals - Canada's Stonehenge?; Evidence shows Germany storing up war material; Request for survey of sanitary conditions in Saanich district; Ad for Oak Bay home - $2,625!; Editorial page; Cartoon page (missing two-inch strip along edge with partial loss to 3 cartoon strips; two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: In the Wake of Columbus; West Through the Northeast Passage; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Part I, Journey to a remote stone age rock quarry center and discovery of a unique fire starting tool; Did the Norsemen sail from Greenland to Ungava Bay for Lumber?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Mountains of the Jinn; Volcano Magic - Photographing an Eruption at Night; Cuzco-Tuyo - The search for a lost Inca fortress; Culture and Spirituality in Majorca; Angkor Wat Conservation Debate Erupts; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Part II - the Yeineri Rock Quarries; The Sea's Last Refuge; Explorer Earns Honor from Nobel Institute; Celebrating a Tradition of Exploration - The Explorer's Club Space Dinner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Approximately 60 pages. Songs include: Yes! We have no Bananas; Annabelle; Oh! Min; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; If I knew you then as I know you now; Seven or Eleven; I've Got the Yes!; The Gold-Digger; Lost (A Wonderful Girl); Abie's Irish Rose; Underneath the Sip Sip Sippy Moon; Stingo Stungo; Away down east in Maine; Rosetime and You; Honeymoon Chines; Somebody Else Took You Out of My Arms; Rock me to sleep with My Virginia Melody; Down on the farm; Frankie and Johnie; Where the Bamboo Babies Grow; Mammy's Little Silver Lining; Little Rover; Starlight Bay; Doggone Whipporwill; True Blue Sam; Magic Eyes. Arranged in dance form as fox trots, one steps and waltzes. Piano solo only. Average wear. Covers holding by one staple. Book
Features: Gun Parts from an 18th Century Kaskaskia Indian Village; The 1931 Rock Island Arsenal M2 - America's last Calvalry Saber; An Experimental Winchester Lever-Action Musket; A Cased Venditti Pistol. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
Pages 337-376. Black and white photos. Features: Radar Proved Miracle Development of WWII; Radio in Freight Yard Service on the B.&O.; Survey of Union Members' Interest in Publications; Trades and Labor Congress Meeting; The Atomic Bomb is no Secret - Decisive discovery which led to the building of the atomic bomb was made by Germans in 1938 - with photos, by Dr. Edward U. Condon; Signal Changes on Milwaukee, Rock Island and Kansas City Southern near Kansas City, Mo.; The Fall and Rise of Manila - after more than three years of Japanese rule little was left of the once great "Fool's Paradise" - with photos, by E.H. Jacoby; Head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific; and more. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Navajo Tribal Fair at Window Rock, Arizona; E.B. Quigley - Painter of Horses; Bronc Breaking; Vet's Corner; Down the Straightaway; Quarter Racing at Centennial; Arab Blood in Today's Ponies; Jubilee Days in Laramie; Cow Cuttin'; That Record Pushing Sister - Little Sister W; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; The Stallion as a Stock Horse; It Could Happen to You; Western Paul Revere - Joe Rankin; Tips from Tyler. Nice color ad for Tem-Tex Arizona - Western shirts. Full-page Stetson ad on page 1. Blue Bell jeans ad on page 3. Circle Bar - A Ranch Quarter Horse dispersal sale ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
31 pages. Features: Queen of the fishing fleet - Mrs. Marie Penny of John Penny and Sons on the Ramea Islands of Newfoundland; Covent Garden's Canadian Invasion - Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, Robert Savoie, Irene Salemka and Andre Turp of the Royal Opera House Company; Joyce Davidson finds the rewards of TV stardom are great; Great photo feature (with text) - Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper climb the vertical rock face of The Chief, 1,700 foot mountain on the edge of Squamish, B.C.; Les Lear lambasts football 'jugheads' - he won the 1948 Grey Cup with the Calgary Stampeders as a Player/Coach; Lady, Beware of that Convention - men have begun taking their wives to big company conferences; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Top corner of spine nibbled. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
76 pages. Features: Two-page color-photo ad for Electrohome TVs; Major coverage of Pierre Trudeau's wedding with colour photos; Great photo of many Montrealers pushing a city bus stuck in snow; Suburbia - The New American Plurality; Affluent Bedroom - Leawood, Kansas; Affluent Settled - Evanston, Illinois; Low-Income Growing - El Monte, California; Low-Income Stagnant, East Orange, New Jersey; Bomb in the Senate; The Texas Electric Chair, "Old Sparky"; Showdown in Laos; CIBC ad announces their new office in Tokyo; Jinnah's Fading Dream in Pakistan; Israel/Egypt conflict; Women's suffrage in Liechtenstein; Terrorism in several countries; Trouble at Harper's magazine; Art - Japanese Screens; Water pollution in Italy; H. Bruce Franklin; Transition at M.I.T. - Jerome Wiesner and Erich Segal; Two Rabbis Rock the Boat - Philip Schechter and Martin Siegel; Pope Clement XV; Passing of Charles W. Engelhard, Dr. Paul de Kruif and Allan Nevins; Medicine and the snowmobiler's back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Railroad news photos; Last train from Leadville; In 4 - 8 - 4s, if not in finances, Rock Island Excelled; Passing Through Europe - 2; and more. Few chips from lower right corner of front cover and few early pages. Book
Features: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. A sound copy. Magazine
