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108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Articles: The Kids Get a Night Club - Rochester's teenagers solve their entertainment problem; The A-Bomb's Invisible Offspring - the menace of radioactivity from atomic blasts - article with scary photos; The Balkan Follies - how Americans are browbeaten in Moscowized southeast Europe (Yugoslavia); Little Man on a Horse - sketches of backstage life of the big-time jockeys; I Stopped Stammering - how he was cured - Dr. Richard R. Hutcheson and the district speech clinic in Washington, D.C.; They Kicked Us Off Our Land (conclusion) - the misuse of public grazing lands. Includes ads for: Duraglas bottles; Ipana toothpaste - featuring Bryan Cornell and his mother; General Electric entertainment products (in colour); Admiral FM-AM phonograph with miracle tone arm; U.S. Royal tires; International Harvester products - trucks, dozers, tractors and appliances; Ford woody wagons; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Colgate tooth paste; Lucky Stricke cigarettes; Ballantine Ale - featuring Victorian bathing suits; Good Year - centerfold; Kingsey gin; GM Electro-Motive Division; Veedol motor oil; "The Long Night" movie starring Henry Fonda; Schlitz beer; Polaroid sportglas - modelled by Bill Stern and Margaret Young; Acushnet golf balls; Back cover Chesterfield cigarette ad features large color image of actor Charles Boyer. A worthy vintage copy. Book
448 pages. Index. "... Rockefeller's Institute of Pacific Relations controlled the spy ring that instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, ... they knew in advance, to the very day, when it would occur and involve us in the war." - page 281. Moderate wear to book. Binding sound. Prior owner's address label atop front free endpaper. Publisher's address corrected in ball pen upon back panel of dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is missing several chips and bears a variety of short openings. A sound copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Whitman's prestige chocolates inside front cover; Essex car ad; Mimeograph ad; Business is Business (short story); What's the Racket? - interesting article about rackets - what they are and how they work; Moonlight on the Water (short story); Beyond the War (a war short story); Position in Life - how a woman chooses her position in life; In the Strongroom (short story); A Ship Comes In - the dramatic story of Eugenie Leontovich, principal actress in Grand Hotel; - article with photo; Yuan Hee See Laughs (part VII); Gunsight Trail (part VI); Golf "Coarse" - how to make a smaller crop of divets; How Dry We Are - what is known about droughts and what measures for relief have been attempted i.e. photo of electrically-charged sand being discharged into the air; A Mere Detail (short story); Beautiful color full-page photo of a green car in Fisher Body ad; Wonderful two-page color ad for Dutch Boy paint shows Dutch Boy painting atop ladder; Full-page color ad for bananas by the United Fruit Company; Full-page Buick ad; Canada Dry full-page ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad featuring Dr. Emil Fronz of Vienna; Two-page colour centerfold ad for General Electric refrigerators - very nostalgic!; Full-page ad for Chrysler Eights & Sixes; Nice two-color full-page ad for Williams shaving cream/Aqua Velva; Color ad for Seald-Sweet grapefruit; Two-page ad for Veedol oil - "so clear you can read a newspaper through it"; Full-page ad with photo for the Autogiro - an early helicopter!; Ad for True Temper step-down steel shafts for golf clubs with photo of the 6th Tee at Pebble Beach; Vintage ad for Wilson golf equipment inside back cover; Nice color Ford ad inside back cover shows policeman in car; Nice color Frigidaire refrigerator ad on back cover (soiled). Average external wear and soiling with a few peripheral chips/openings. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
807 pages. "Written to preserve as much of the history of the Rural Municipality of Oakdale as possible." - from Foreword. Contents laid out in the following order: The first inhabitants; Land Surveys (1883-1904); Homesteading Period (1906-1911); Post Offices Established (Ermine, Ednaburg and Coleville); R.M. of Oakdale established (1908); School districts established and schools built (1910-1920); Railroads built through area; Hamlets established; WWI; The 1920s;The 1930s; The 1940s; The 1950s; The 1960s and 1970s. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Superb copy. Book
84 pages. Index. Glossary. "Industrial operations in the prairie provinces and the Northwest Territories release airborne emissions that can injure surrounding forest vegetation. This report describes symptoms of these pollutants and of natural stresses that may appear similar. Nineteen pages of colour photos provide examples of these symptoms on forest vegetation." - Abstract. Prior owner's name inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A "Gringo" in Old Mexico - An engineer escapes with his life, less a friend and his money; "The Old Small Cat" - Cornered by Shanghai Police, a Chinese bandit only succumbed after a 19 hour battle involving many weapons used against him - includes photos; Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland - A fascinating photo-illustrated article showing how the Far North of Canada is being opened up by passenger and transport aircraft; South African Outlaws - Two prominent law-breakers, Jack Howard and Reilly; At Grips With the Desert - Part I of Donald R.G. Cameron's crossing of the Sahara in which his party became lost for ten days; The Mud-Dwellers of Caparroso - Photo-illustrated story about this amazing Spanish village - with photos; Photo of the first three men to scale 'Balanced Rock' near Castleford, Idaho - Clarence French, George Ernest, and John Carolls; A Little Oversight - A story about a 'Palm Oil Ruffian' pioneer trader in West Africa; Something for Nothing - A queer experience that befell Margaret S. Coffman near Goatneck, Texas; "The Bobbery Pack" - A hunting story from India; Waterways of the "Swiss Sahara" - Photo-illustrated article about the fascinating 'bisses' used to divert glacial runoff to irrigate a particularly dry part of Switzerland; The Coffin Ship - A weird story from the Far East dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society; The Gold That Wasn't - A dummy gold ingot is mysteriously stolen in New South Wales; The "Great Scalp Frauds" Case - Frank Mossman, Game Warden of Pacific County in Washington State, explains how he discovered an ingenious swindle; Man and His Needs. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away. Back cover loose but present, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
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: New Presidents for Harriman Railway System - informative article with excellent photo of Harriman officials in Seattle in November of 1909; Golden Spike Driving at Bend, Oregon (article); Increased use of Oil on Railroads; Seattle Port Commission studies improvements; President Shaughnessy's Report to C.P.R Stockholders - major article; Feature write-up of James Rolph, Jr., the next mayor of San Francisco, with photo; How is This For Passenger Traffic?; New Invention by David H. Wilson of Chicago Revolutionizes Telephony - C.P.R. sends message by telephone from Montreal to Fort William via telegraph line; Railroad Ties Pickled in Great Salt Lake, UT; Freight Congestion in New York City - major article with two photos; Death of Popular Ship Master Capt. Walter McWilliams of the American-Hawaiian S.S. Co. - article with photo; C.P.R. Purchases Fast Turbine Steamer Queen Alexandra for the Vancouver - Nanaimo Run; Successful Trial Trip of new Sound Steamer Calista; Schooner Daisy Gadsby Launched; Ramona Captain and Engineer Found Guilty; The Gaertner Releasing Hook - article with diagram; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; Bernard N. Baker, president of the Atlantic & Pacific Transport Co. Tells of Great Trade Possibilities; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: Cover photo of Senator Kirksen cross-legged; Excerpts from "Moscow Summer 1964" by Yugoslav essayist Mihajlo Mihajlov who documented the astonishing Russian outpouring of literature and songs about Stalin's concentration and work camps; Civil Right No. 1 - The Right to Vote, by Martin Luther King; The Huks bring terror to the Philippines; The Oil Can is Mightier than the Sword - Everett McKinley Dirksen - one of the real pillars of today's Senate; The U.N. of Dag Hammarskjold is Dead - Can it be reborn?; He loves things to be beautiful - I.M. Pei; On the rounds with an African Witch Doctor; Why they invade the sea - skindiving; Full-page colour ad for The Sound of Music; That's the Truth - and other Cosby stories. Covers almost detached. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated story of Royal Tour (King, Queen and Princesses) of South Africa; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Heinz Baby Foods; Great swimsuit photo of Gerry Pattison; Pond's Angel Face ad; Photo-illustrated article on British Columbia's Cancer Institute; Gemology - photo-illustrated article; 20-page colour comic section; The Madman of Bergerac, by Georges Simenon; Bootleg coal in Cape Breton - article and photos; Ernest Cormier - U.N. Architect - photo and story; Shallow oil gusher on farm of D.F. McFadyen in Calgary; Ivan Petelka - Sault Ste. Marie Linguist has invented a new number language; Abandoned BAnk Accounts; Talking Books for Blind Students; Democratization of Japan Designed on American Lines; Pictou Women's Craft Guild; Winnifred Pickering - successful Toronto underwriter; Master Swindler Joseph George Gouin; Sports News; Mike Spack - captain of the University of Manitoba Bisons; Quebec's Liquor Racket - pay the politicians or go out of business, by Ken Johnstone; Today's Athletes are Beating Yesterday's Records - great photos and article; A Big Country - short story by Edmund E. Pugsley; Kenneth Ford writes of being tall - 6'-6""; Robert LaPalme writes of being short - 5'-0"; Noteworthy Canadians - brief write-ups and photos of skiers Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, novelist Edwarde Meade, violinist Donna Grescoe, harpist Winifred Bambrick, ecologist Pierre Dansereau, and poet Patrick Anderson; Picking Germany's Brains - 300 of Hitler's top scientists now in the US working for the Allies - article with photos; Peace - Perfect Peace, story by Gregory Clark; Emperor Bing Crosby and his business interests, by Jack Hirshberg; Which Came First? - A Short Story by June McFeely; Lovely full-page colour ad for Yardley cosmetics; Russian Producer Eisenstein Screens Part I of the Notorious Czar Ivan's Career; Full-page colour ad for Jell-o puddings; Ontario Society of Artists Celebrates its 75th Anniversary - photos and story; Fight Training - Super photo and article on boxer Joe Baksi; Interesting Pepsi ad; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: The Alert and Progressive Civic Government of Arthur, Ontario - photos and nostalgic article; Glamorous Blonde - Lizabeth Scott - photos and article; Winnipeg Auditorium indispensable to City's Life - photos and story; Mary Matheson and her plans to bring books to Australian children; Anschluss - In Reverse - many Germans are seeking new citizenship; Major Article by Jacqueline Sirois - Gambling in Canada; Ottawa's aspirations as a city - with the rest of the country paying; Wonder pill offers hope for thousands of victims of anemia; Tuttle - story by Nicholas Scarlett; U.N. Trouble Shooters - Canadians use their service training to keep smooth the machinery of world piece - article with group photo of Lloyd Herman, Byron Wood and W. Murray Anderson; A Bird in the Hand - story by Gregory Clark; Cyrus Stephen Eaton and Charles Aubrey Eaton - They Represent Finance and Politics in US; Who is Sylvia? - story by Peter Carter-Page; Ontario's Gale Sherwood is Hollywood's newest star - photo and write-up; Pipe Down, You Guys - story by Doris Hedges; Large dramatic photo of tapping of the burning first oil gusher in Alberta's Leduc oil field; Oil Boom in (Leduc) Alberta - article with photos; Montreal police confused by Chinese men - who can't tell them apart!; Photo of man standing before a 108" saw blade in British Columbia; New Nickel find at Lynn Lake, Manitoba - story and photos; 20 page colour comic section; Red Morning - story by Ruby Frazier Frey; Natalie Bury of Vancouver; Leslie Bell - Conductor Extraordinaire - article and photos; SPEBSQSA - Society for the preservation and encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America; Tom Connors of Halifax - he's been collecting sports pictures for 50 years - photo and article; Snooker King - George Chenier - article; Peter Mews - mannequin creator explains how they are made for Clatworthy & Sons of Toronto - great photos and article; Whooping Cough tests in England show promise - photos and story; and more. Unmarked. Average wear and some moisture stains. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
Features: Northern Pacific Railway Co. Making Big Improvements in the State of Washington; Julius Kruttschnitt an Optimist; Mobilization and the Railways - article from the Army & Navy Journal; Amending Our Shipping Laws; George G. Gould Retains His Position; Railway News in Brief; Noted Engineer E.C. Hawkins - Obituary with photo; Interstate Commerce Decisions; San Francisco Will Be Ready for the Panama Canal and the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 - article with photos of "San Francisco's Two Big Men", James Rolph Jr., Mayor, and C.C. Moore; Statutory Regulation of Ocean Traffic; Pacific Coast S.S. Co. Places Order for 10,000-Ton Steamer - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Comprehensive Review of Far Eastern Shipping Situation by U.S. Consul General at Hong Kong, George E. Anderson; Astoria Getting Ready for Panama Canal; Panama Canal Rates - The Big Issue; Captain John Truebridge - Obituary; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Some Perils of the Deck Load - Feature article includes photo of a leaning steamer Cuzco; The Advantages of the Water-Tube Boiler; Record of a Ballin Water Tube Boiler - article with photo; The International Navigation Congress; Boiler Inspection for [Panama] Canal Zone; General Shipping News; Oil Engined Barges to Revolutionize Shipping; and much more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: 40,000 People Visit New Oregon-Washington Passenger Terminal - Over two pages of informative content including illustration of the new Seattle passenger terminal of the O.W. R. & N. Co. on opening day, May 20, 1911; C.M. & P.S. Ry. Co. Inaugurates Through Passenger Service; Former Seattle Mayor Robert Moran sees the Panama Canal causing trouble ahead for Seattle unless a change in system is effected; Professional biography of E.J. Pearson who, for the past five years, was chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound (with photo of Mr. Pearson); The Lumber Trade and the Railways; "Railophone" tests in England allow phone calls from one moving train to another; Canadian Pacific to burn Oil; Government Must Act Now on Alaska Coal Cases! - major article; Description of the Pace Oil Engine - including photo; Influence of the Panama Canal on the World's Commerce; Death of Capt. Franz S. Moore - brief article and photo of "one of the best known, most experienced and skillful navigators on the North Pacific"; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Description of the largest-ever Air Reversing Propeller designed by L.H. Coolidge of Seattle for the barkentine Archer - article with photo; News of Tacoma; Prospects Are Promising for the Bering Sea Season; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of camouflaged marines crossing rope bridge in South Pacific; Article on freedom of movement for aircraft after the war by Vice-President Wallace; Russia's 'Burma Road' Through Iran - article and six photos; Needed - One American Peace Plan; Moscow Learns to Relax Again - The heart of fighting Russia beats calmly now and nerves are less tense as victory looms ahead; The Pentagon - illustrated article on this maze of corridors, courts, ramps and roads; Runner Gunder Haegg - A Modern Hermes From Sweden; Chicago Isn't So Sure - The city's isolationist spirit has changed since Pearl Harbor; "This is the Army" On the Screen - with six photos; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes - America's Luxury Cigarette (featuring lady in two-piece swimsuit as the Marlboro Man had not yet been concocted); What Kind of School? - a progressive educator says the time has come to harmonize our conflicts and work for the best possible in American education; Nice one-page color ad for Mazola Salad Oil; How to Salt Away Food; Nice half-page color ad for Ten-B-Low condensed milk; The Home in Wartime; That New Black Magic - Lovely two-pages of fashion photos of elegant black dresses; Great vintage Aircraft Spotter's Handbook ad on back cover helps readers determine if an aircraft is friend or foe. Unmarked with moderate wear and external soiling. A quality vintage wartime issue. Book
33" x 25" coloured map. "Showing Dominion Lands Vacant. For complete information and regulations governing homestead entry apply to agent at Peace River..." Coal mines, water developed, other minerals, undeveloped minerals, oil and gas wells, power transmission lines and main roads indicated. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent homesteading memento of the Peace River/Grande-Prairie District. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pumps and bottled oil; Editorial topics include Preserving Balance, The Limit of Freedom, The Limit of Socialism, The Impasse, Adult Education, and Strong Medicine; Nice one-page ad for Waterman's pens features photo of artist Howard Chandler Christy; Travel for the Average Man - article which touches on the tough economic times of the day; Rain Before Seven (short story); Echo of Erin (short story); Modernizing the Land of the Master - great photo-illustrated article on Palestine; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); The Native Returns - photo-illustrated article on Robert Watson's return to the place of his rural Scotland boyhood; One-page Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; The Birth of a Novel (fiction); Nice one-page illustrated Ford car ad shows stylish coupe and traffic cop; Movie News includes photos of Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Montgomery, Rosemary Ames, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Una Merkek, Harold Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, and more; Interesting one-page Lux ad features photo of gagged man; Palmolive ad includes photo of Gladys Swarthout; One-page ad features several Heinz food products; Two-page General Motors of canada ad says "Progress out of the Common Sense of Canadian Motorists"; Legal article; Investment news; Half-page Canadian National photo-ad features budget vacations in Eastern Canada; Cooking article; World Sayings; Chipso ad inside back cover includes colour photo of Mrs. R.L. Pine and her family, plus her black dishwasher Birdie (Bertha); and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
238 pages. "Documents the administrative aspects of discovery and treatment, describes the sequence of treatment events in 1990 and 1991, summarizes the results of uplands and intertidal archaeological investigations conducted in response to planned treatment and presents environmental, historial, and archaeological data relevant to understanding SEL-188 in relation to other nearby coastal sites. The report is essentially a case study in protecting cultural resources from potential impacts resulting from a marine oil spill and subsequent treatment." - from page iii. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Undated. Circa 1995? Book
36 pages. Features: Cover photo in cab of the new Twin Beechcraft; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover; Great half-page photo of a De Havilland Dragon above the clouds; Aerial History in the Making - passage of the Act to incorporate the Trans-Canada Air Lines; Great full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features photo of screen star Anna Lee; News and Views of the Month; Early Experiments in British Columbia - an account of experimental efforts in flying conducted at Vancouver shortly after the achievements attained by McCurdy, Baldwin, and their associates at Baddeck, Nova Scotia - with photo of the first aircraft to fly in western Canada, involving William and Winston Templeton, William McMullen and Earl Godfrey; Great full-page Chevrolet ad at Niagara Falls; Douglas announces plans for new super-transport DC-4; S.A.(Al) Cheesman - article with photo; Photo of Capt. M. (Tim) Armstrong and W.J. (Jack) Sanderson together; Monospar ad; List of R.C.A.F. Transfers; Photos from Toronto's first Air Force ball; Old Country (Britain) Gossip - with photo of a Nazi Junkers Ju-86 and three Vickers "Victoria" troop carriers flying by a pyramid in Egypt; Great full-page photo ad for the De Havilland Hornet Moth; Photo of Mr. G.N. Irwin of Whitby, ON at the controls of his Cabin Waco with A. Derumaux, his radio operator; Mackenzie Air Service ad shows map from Edmonton to Cameron Bay; Sensational 4-page centrefold ad for Beechcraft products with photos of the Model E 17 B and the Model 18; Irvin Air Chute (Parachute) ad; Aero Research by Bristol - article with two photos; Great full-page photo ad for Imperial Airways shows customers standing on the Promenade Deck; Indoor Stick Model Practice; M.A.L.C. News; Nice half-page photo ad for the Rearwin Sporster; The Students' Forum; Cub Aircraft Ltd. ad; Condensed Club News; Full page ad with photos for the Canadian Marconi Company; Northern Electric Aircraft Radio ad; Bristol Engine ad inside back cover; Imperial Oil ad for Stanavo products on back cover features photo of an interesting craft in flight in the far north; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 33-64 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover photo of snow-covered R.A.F. Aerodrome - showing airman and plane in trees- somewhere in France; Photos of treasures of the tomb of Pharaoh Sheshonk, at Tanis; Two drawings of the British Maginot Sector under fire; Two-page illustration of Scottish troops taking over in the Maginot Line; Two-page panoramic map of the heavily fortified coastline of north-western Germany; Photos of incoming and outgoing cabinet ministers Leslie Hore-Belisha, Oliver Stanley, Andrew Rae Duncan, and John Reith; Page of six photos showing Finnish medical services and staff at work in the Arctic cold; Page of five photos showing Finnish soldiers with tanks, guns and transport taken from the Soviets; The War with Nazi Germany - The Defense of Finland (article and photos); Ten winter photos from the Western Front, French sector, including the B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Forces); Centrefold illustration of "The Aerial Gun-Power of Britain, France and Germany - The Armament of the Bombers and Fighters Now in Action"; Four German aerial photos of "Brutal Attack on a Trawler" in the North Sea; Two detailed German air photos of the Maginot Line - showing Mourmelon and defensive lines; Book review of "Experiments in Civilisation" by H. Ian Hogbin; Photos of Cairo police training for riots; Photos of Rome under snow; Photo of Brazillians honouring the memory of their last Emperor, Pedro II, and his consort; Photos of interned German sailors of the "Admiral Graf Spee" in Buenos Aires; Two photos of destruction in Rome's San Lorenzo in Damaso; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir C.S. Burnett, Malcolm Morrison, Marie Therese Dickens, Dr. G.R. Eden, Humbert Wolfe, King Carol and Crown Prince Michael of Rumania, Lord and Lady Linlithgow in Calcutta, and Sir John Herbert and his wife in Calcutta; Illustrations of "Kilted Highlanders Resting in Their Billet" and "Signals at Work"; Illustrated page of statistics indicating "Germany's Desperate Oil Situation"; Two pages of photos of Hatfield House being used as a military hospital; Two page of photos of 6th-century Badami murals in India; Photo of Captain Hans Langsdorff, his funeral cortege being saluted by Buenos Aires' Nazi colony, and crew members of the Graf Spee being boated to internment. Average wear. Spine taped. A sound vintage WWII-era copy. Book
28 pages plus advertorial covers. Extensive WWII coverage including: Karsh cover photo of Churchill and Mackenzie King; Five photos of "Huge Military Convoy Reaching India Without Losing a Ship or Man - Disembarkation Scenes"; Two-page illustration of "The Relative Size, Velocity and Weight of Shell Used in the Latest North African Battles - General Grant Tanks, The Mark IV, and the German 88-m.m. anti-tank gun"; Ten Photos of devastation in Malta, "The Heroic Island, continuously battered from the air, unfailing courage of the most bombed place in the world"; Article on the Threat to Egypt; Eight photos of bomb damage to Canterbury and other historic sites; Photo-illustrated review of "Last Train From Berlin" by Howard K. Smith; One-page photo of 'starboard vista' view of British aircraft carrier; Six illustrations of the fighting in Africa by Captain McIntyre of New Zealand; Six aerial photos of Mersa Matruh, Libya, now in the hands of Rommel; Centerfold illustration of Senior army officers being trained to fix trucks; Photos of scorched earth in Sollum, Libya; Aerial photo of bomb damage to 'Gneisenau' at Brest; Photo of King Feisal II of Iraq on his 7th birthday; Photo of emblems of Yugoslavia's guerilla army - featuring skull and crossbones; Photo of U.S. sailor being trained to swim in a sea of buring oil!; Excellent photo illustrates the 56 personnel needed to maintain, service and fly a heavy bomber of the 'Sterling' type, including plane, fuel truck, bomb trailers, etc.; Photo of King George of the Hellenes addressing joint session in Washtington; Royal Visit to Ulster; Excellent one-page photos of dozens of 'General Grant' tanks, used in the Battle of Libya, under construction at the giant Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit; Photo-illustrated article on Sir James Dewar and his pursuit of liquid air and liquid hydrogen; Five photos of the British Army training in troop-carrier gliders; Twelve excellent photos illustrating "Sebastapol's heroic defence against overwhelming odds in Crimea - scenes from the Russian battlefronts opposing Germany's gathering offensive; Photos of personalities of the week including Mervyn Haigh, Dwight Eisenhower, C.S. Staniland, Elinor Mordaunt, parents of Kenneth Campbell, V.C., Churchill with Attlee, Eden and Sinclair, Churchill with wife and daughter, Wife of able seaman Savage, V.C., Sir Edwin Cooper, V.A. Crutchley, V.C., Lord Glanely, Tom Driberg, and parents of Petty Officer Sephton, V.C. Unmarked with average wear. Spine taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Photo of General Georges Catroux; Six photos of Home Guard members protecting Buckingham Palace; Illustrations show how wireless communication provides the eyes for a field battery; Four charming photos of Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and the Queen; Photo at Kirkuk pre-refinery which pipelines oil to a Haifa refinery; Photos of oil wells in Iraq - the focal point of the Nazi "Drang Nach Osten"; Photos of and related to the 620-mile pipeline to Haifa; Map of South America with article entitled "Nazi Threat to U.S. and Panama - Lufthansa Air Lines in Latin America; Article entitled "The Attitude of the Vichy"; Photos of Dakar entitled "Germany's Infiltration to Dakar - It's Menace to America"; Six photos from Addis Ababa where Imperial forces enter and the Union Jack is hoisted; Six photos entitled "The Return of Haile Selassie - The Negus Welcomed by His People" includes a photo of Miss Banichyzgu Kidani, the only woman soldier in the forces of the Negus; Photos of new bombing raid damage in London - The Queen's Hall, Lambeth Palace, Salvation Army HQ, St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, St. Olave's, St. James's Palace, and the Old Bailey; Two pages of photos from enemy sources include: German soldiers exercising in Africa to the sound of an accordion, German troops resting after capturing El Agheila, Libya, British POWs waiting at an African airport; General Von Kleist saluting panzer unit in Belgrade, Photo of hundreds (thousands?) of Yugoslavian soldiers crowded into German POW camp, swastika flag hoisted over the Acropolis, and General Tsolakoglu signing final capitulation; Photo of ship the 'Zamzam', reported sunk; Photo of German POWs in the western desert receiving food; Two photos of booty taken when the British captured Kismayu; Seven photos from Canada beneath caption "Nazi Prisoners in Canadian Camps - Dodges Used for Escaping" - includes photos of mail checking, improvised tool and weapon, etc.; Photo of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore arriving in Egypt; Photo of destroyed parish church of St. Peter and Paul, Bromley, Kent; Photo of Mr. Kenneth Riddle, President of the Oxford Union; Photo of five British POWs released from camp in Italian Somaliland; Photo of massive celebration for Portuguese Prime Minister; Photo of De Gaulle with Longmore in Cairo; Photo of Viscount Gort with Sir Clive Liddell whom he succeeds at Gibraltar; Photo of U.S. battleship "Washington" which is nearing completion; Photo of the King and Queen inspecting bomb damage at Westminster Abbey; Photos of personalities of the week include: General Sir R.H. Haining, Maj.-Gen. H.C.B. Wemyss, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H.R. Pownall, Brig. Viscount Bridgeman, General Dentz, Miss Agnes Keyser, The Duke of Aosta, Queen of Croatia, The Duke of Spoleto, The Duke of Hamilton, Mr. Ivone Kirkpatrick, E.M.B. Ingram, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Pulteney, Grig.-Gen. Sir C. Champion De Crespigny and The Earl of Suffolk; Dunlop one-page ad shows bombs being loaded into the belly of a plane; and more. Staples removed. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy of this informative WWII issue. Book
Pages 337-364. Features: Cover photo of Winston Churchill watching a parade of heavy infantry tanks named after him; Photos of Wendell Willkie visiting our forward positions in Egypt; Two pages of devastation - the wreckage left behind after Rommel's forced retreat from the Western Desert; Page of desert photos including German POWs, a 'sticky' bomb, minesweeping and Communion for the wounded; One-page illustration of deserted village in East Anglia; The Position of Madagascar - article; Six photos of tanks and their landing craft; Malta "Island Fortress of Heroism" Receives her George Cross - six photos of the pomp and ceremony; Photo of the "Wakefield" ablaze, and photo of her passengers on deck awaiting rescue; Photo of FDR beside large Japanese flag - which he refused to touch; Photos of H.M. destroyer "Zulu" and flying-boat "Clare", both lost; Twelve photos from the Russian Front; Centrefold map of Australia, "Japan's Main Objective in the Pacific"; Six Photos of the last moments of the "Yorktown", sunk off Midway Island; Photos of ten personalities of the week include Commander E.P. Tomkinson, General Von Kleist, Admiral Sir William James, Lieut. Cutler, V.C. (of Australia), and Sergt. Murray Smythe, V.C. with Major-General Dan Pienaar; Three aerial photos of Rouen after first raid by U.S. "Fortresses"; Photos of London's evacuated statues; Four large before and after photos of Dusseldorf after raid of September 10; Victory Through Air Power (article); Five photos of Marines vigorously training; Four photos of U.S. Troops learning to swim through seas of blazing oil; One-page illustration of British naval losses since the war's outbreak, from capital ships to submarines; Six illustrations of the life of British War Prisoners in Germany; Sixteen portraits of war prisoners in Oflag VIe, by Lt. J.F. Watton; vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of Brigade H.Q. in the desert battle zone where the Brigadier, South African Command, directs operations - and photos of bombs exploding nearby; Twelve fascinating photos beneath the heading "Fighting in the Western Desert - Vivid Incidents, and Personalities, including Rommel in Tobruk and General Freyberg, V.C., Wounded; Two large photos from "The Battle of Midway Island"; Two-page map of the world entitled "Oil - The Supply Problem of the Warring Powers - A Map of Production Areas and Lines of Ocean Transport"; The Crisis in Russia (article); Seven great photos illustrate the pre-fabrication system in Shipbuilding - the U.S. sets the world's record in production; Photos of incendiary bombs - as were showered upon Hamburg - being prepared for raid; Two pages of photos and text describe the fall of Sebastopol; Centrefold illustration shows young British Officers studying tactical problems with models; Interesting photo-illustrated article explains how vegetables are dried, thus effecting considerable transport economy; Page of photos explaining the benefits of dried meat; Photo of test flight of the Boeing patrol bomber "XPBB-1"; Page of photos engaged in obstacle course training; Six photos of the "Mustang" - the fastest Army co-operation plane in the world; Two pages of photos of ice-covered decks of warships; Photos of twelve personalities of the week include cricketeer "Andy" Ducat, Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, and Wing-Cdr. Hon. M. Aitken; Nice colour back cover ad for Puritan Leather Soles features illustration of Oliver Cromwell. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
