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46 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Washington & Old Dominion Railway; Center Entrance Cars for KC & St. J.; Express & Freight Traffic in Providence; Boston's Two Rooms & Bath Articulateds; Illinois Traction Freight House at Springfield; Erie Railroad Electrified Branch; The Oregon Electric Railway; New Double Deck Cars for Pittsburgh; Track Reconstruction in San Francisco; Express Car for Auto Shipments (NOT&L); Center Entrance Cars for Memphiis; THI&E Terre Haute Terminal; New Cars for Michgan United; Chicago's Oil Delivery Car; Recent Passenger Stations in Los Angeles on PE; also other items, plans, maps and charts. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The 'Crazy One' - Mariana, La Loca progressed from silver camp dancehall to High Priestess of Joaquin Rocks - a frightening woman!; The West's Best Hidden Horror - Jim Gilliland; Smithwick's Bowie Knife; Tramp Miners - the Old Ruth Mine near Trona, California; "I'll Kill 'til I Die" - Wesley Barnett; South Dakota Gold Streams; 'Struck Oil" - a theatrical gusher of the '70s!; Terror to the Rustlers - Chief Field Inspector John R. Banister in Oklahoma; A Very Special Strongbox; Old Cripple Creek and Ralph Carr; Sourdough Gold - Charles Goff in Alaska; Wild Old Days! Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Charming full-page colour photo ad for Softique bath oil and Caldwell towels features three lovely young ladies; Artistic full-page black and white photo ad for Sarong bras; The Boat Who Wouldn't Float - Farley Mowat describes his nautical adventure; The Old Are Fading Away - Family Farms are rapidly becoming a thing of the past - Great feature article on the Coulchard family of Perth County, four miles south of Stratford; Two Women Can Beat Three Men Any Old Day, by Gregory Clark; Feature Article on Superbus which travelled across Canada in the making of the Gerald Potterton-directed Superbus film to be shown at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan; Fantastic half-page colour ad for the 1970 Dodge Charger; Super full-page colour photo ad for Mercury snowmobiles; Two-page Lady Pilot fashion photo feature by Doyle Klyn with photos by Beverley Rockett; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
40 pages. Coverage of the coronation. Special coverage of Canadians at the Coronation; Nice colour ad for Kraft salad dressings; Coronation Extra - Story by O.P. Paterson; Art for the Great Day - Helen McKie is an authority on regalia; The Ceremony and its Meaning; Article on the Coronation candles made by a small shop in Mamaroneck, New York; Centerfold colour illustration of the Coronation Procession route; The Two (Queen) Elizabeths - part 3 of 3; Attractive full-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Snorkel pen - features hummingbird on dark background; Nipper cartoon by Dough Wright; Unexpected historical Coronation incidents; Full-page two-colour ad for BA and its Peerless motor oil; Elizabethan Cookery - The Gore Hotel in Kensington; N.H.L. Worried over Royal Reaction - Photos of the Queen and her husband at hockey games in Montreal and Toronto; This Duchess has Stamina - Mary, Duchess of Devonshire, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; Half-page ad for M.G.M's fild "Young Bess"; Royalty as a Model, by Marcia Winn; Victoria Eighteen - story by Sholto Watt; Colour ad for Welch's Grape Juice on back cover; Super Coke ad on page 5 features boy eating burger. Average wear. Unmarked. Some chipping and short openings to bottom edges of some pages. A worthy copy of this special issue. Book
74 ages. Features: Ceylon strike; Doolittle Raider; Willys Jeep; Allied Oil Plot; Bridge Busters; U-boat Turkey Shoot. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings' declaration that U.S.A. Has "Actual Socialism" Raises Questions; Farm Income Up 40% but Buying Power Less due to Price Boots; Murder Statistics; Sleeping Epidemic Unabated; Oil Industry Board; Schools Need Revenue; James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, lists 64 rulers of the country - none of whom are the President; Planning for World Police Force; President Roosevelt issues executive order requiring all holders of gold that has not been licensed for export or other purposes to report hoards of over $100 to the collectors of internal revenue; Foreign News - with photo of Marshal Pilsudski of Poland; Germany's Isolation in World Affairs - article with artist's rendering of Hitler; National Current events - with photo of Rep. James M. Beck of Pennsylvania; National Recovery Administration (NRA); Senator Huey P. (Kingfish) Long; Ambassador Sumner Welles; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of 'old underground vault where money is now stored in U.S. Treasury'; Science; Aviation; Article on Siamese Royalty and Movies - with photo of King Prajadhipok and his consort Rambaibarni; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: Sanity, Prohibition, and the federal deficit; A gasser blows in - heroic measures necessary to combat flames in oil fields; Where diamonds earn their keep - interesting life of a diamond in an industrial plant - whence it comes, how it is used, and how it ends; Editorials - radium waters - Philippine Independence - Frightfulness in warfare; A Nerve center of communication - how your radio or cable message is speeded through; Eclipses and the Sund's atmosphere - solution of an outstanding solar problem; Flying as fast as sound - considerations of what the future may hold for aviation - some physiological and mechanical aspects of the question; An early Christian cemetary - the Libyan desert gives up further secrets of antiquity; Viscount Grey and Lord Haldane - conclusion of a study of two famous World War personalities; Power from pipe lines to wires - natural gas used as fuel in steam electric plant; Watching the creation of the stars - more concerning the evolution of the galaxies; Unusual fishes - they build nests, walk on land, live in dried mud, and breathe air; Forty-noners starved in the midst of plenty - survey of plants and animals in Death Valley shows that pioneers could have survived the trials of the desert; Modern alchemy - photographing the birth of an atom; What next in elevator technology?; Inter-glacial man in England - human remains and artifacts tell an interesting story of pre-glacial migrations to and from England. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: A button industry from ocean pearl; Editorials - more speed in the air; voices across the world; Wild life in a fire; Flying instruction as it should be; How you are influenced by color - color requirements, particularly in foods, are so rigid that methods of color comparison are widely employed in industry; Interstellar space wholly empty?; A day with a locksmith; The perspective of modern physics - has modern science reached an impasse?; A tinted statue from Pompeii's ashes - portrait statue of Livia, a notable discovery of last year; It pays to be a pioneer - a salaried employee who developed a great corporation of his own for noise-eliminating work; Natural gasoline from oil wells - Kettleman Hills field produces gasoline and natural gas; Pose yourself for your portrait - new portrait cabinet removes mental hazards from photography; Into a hidden world - observation of microscopic life in stagnant ponds is a fascinating hobby; Asquith and Kitchener - conclusion of a biographical study of two great British war leaders; Form letters with a personal touch - an automatic typewriter; World affairs and the telephone - circuits now reach most countries; How ancient is modern man?; Cotton cloth fit for a king. Few small white blemishes to lower left corner of front cover. Back cover is a colour Lucky Strike advertisement graced with a painting of a lovely Emily Boyle of Bronxville, N.Y. beneath the caption "Consider your Adam's Apple!! Don't rasp your throat with harsh irritants." Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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
66 pages. Features: "Imperial" cover roadster; How to build a custom dashboard - progress report #4; Restyling the 'standard of the world' - 1947 Cadillac convertible receives extensive modifications; The Triple Threat - a pedigreed "T" bone that had 3 owners with a one track mind; Hop Up Road Test #2 - trials of Olds-equipped Mercury ends in disaster (due to oil pump casting failure); Plastic Pioneer - Ken Fuhrman of Berkeley, CA invents clear plastic parts to cover your engine but show it, too; Cam-installation procedure; Installing top fabric in older cars; Building an exhaust system (part I); Floor shift for automatic transmissions - progress report #5; and more. Above-average wear. Writing on front cover and title page. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 10, [1] p., 1 folded statistics. Yemeklik zeytin istihsal ve ihraç durumumuz 1959.
275 p. + Illustrations, charts, and maps. Highly illustrated in color. 4to. Original cloth binding. DJ. Small repaired tear in DJ. A fine copy of this famous commercial history, which includes a great deal of useful information on the Islamic world, Saudi Arabia, and the oil industry. every bit of this text becomes more significant in light of recent world events. ISLAM 3
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
Contains article by Erle Zwingle "Olive Oil : Elixir of the Gods' (pp. 66-81) Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 10 1/4"w x 13 3/4"h. 30 pages. No date shown; circa 1962. Previous owner's name on cover.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. 432 p. In Turkish. Mousul question in term of oil. Petrol çerçevesinde Musul sorunu, 1926-1955.
108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels, dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada? - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil, mining, pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story, complete with timetable, of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations, eight in colour, by Chesley Bonestell (not in Schuetz); I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger (faller) beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the (yellow) 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars (battling a big truck on the highway); 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans, of Kitchener, Ontario; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. (Regular Officer Training Plan) ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice(?); Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue. Book
A very nostalgic 'scribbler' ca. 1950s, perhaps earlier. Back cover features full-page advertisement for the famous Bee Hive 5"x7" N.H.L. hockey pictures. This ad features facsimiles of several Toronto Maple Leaf players. Inside and outside of front cover, and inside of back cover consist exclusively of bright colourful ads for: Bee Hive Corn Syrup, Durham Corn Starch, Ivory Laundry Starch, and St. Lawrence Oil. Contents consist of 24 ruled pages, 14 of which contain hand-written notes. Light to moderate wear. Measurements: 7" wide x 9" high. A very nostalgic and collectible item, particularly for Maple Leafs fans. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight scuffing to rear cover. 8 3/8"w x 11"h. 216 pages. Catalogue of exhibition held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 April - 14 July 1985. Conents: Lear's Early Years; Natural History; Early Landscape 1834-1848; Lear's Travels 1848-1888; Studio Watercolours; Lear & Tennyson; Oil Paintings; Illustrated Travel Books; Nonsense; The Pelican; Later Memorabilia.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Publisher's page shows # "1" in series of numerals. Mr. North is author of Lineups , Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music , Leap Year , The Year of the Olive Oil , New and Selected Poems , The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight, Cadenza , Complete Lineups , What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems, North of the Charles.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Publisher's page shows # "1" in series of numerals. Mr. North is author of Lineups , Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music , Leap Year , The Year of the Olive Oil , New and Selected Poems , The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight, Cadenza , Complete Lineups , What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems, North of the Charles.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Publisher's page shows the number "1" in a series of numerals.