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60 pages. Features: Great ad for Dodge Trucks features delivery van, a pickup and a stake truck; Wonderful one-page International Trucks ad features tractor trailer hauling mature tree as part of construction of Treasure Island at the Golden Gate in San Francisco; Bewildered Congress groping for sound neutrality policy - article with three photos including Bernard Baruch; Defense Fever - America prepares for war; Photos of high income earners Louis B. Mayer and Greta Garbo; Italy's Seizure of Albania spreads fear from the Adriatic to the Dardanelles - major article with eight photos; Levantine Ferment; Hitler Yardstick; Refugee dilemmas in Europe; Hitler conscripts children 10 through 18 years-old for the Hitler Youth; Handsomme one-page color Packard auto ad features a 120 touring sedan; Nice two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Nice one-page two-color ad for Pontiac cars; Chevrolet car ad; Baby tumor cured with X-ray therapy; Western Union's photos by cable - with received image of Yankee Clipper aircraft; Early vintage ad for Titleist / Acushnet Golf Balls; Diary kept by Byrd's ancestor, William Byrd of Westover VA, is a gold mine of colonial data; Obituary for Joseph A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Hotel Del Monte; New Oil Boom - four-state boom is centered near Forest City, Missouri; Full page introduction to Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek's Washington Bureau - with photo; Photo of carload of dignitaries at New York's World's Fair includes Alfred E. Smith, Henry Ford, Mayor La Guardia, Grover Whalen (fair boss), and Edsel Ford at the wheel; Zeus cigarette holder ad; Color ad for Mount Vernon Whiskey on back cover features scene in George Washington's dining room. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
96 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Pan American World Airways inside front cover features travel to Guatemala; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of huge articulated bus owned by Santa Fe Trailways; Gillette shaving blade ad features speedskater Irving Jaffee; Nice color ad for Ford cars; Former Soviet official Kiril M. Alexeieff; Russian shortwave broadcasts to America; Nice color General Tire ad; What Stalin said to Montgomery; Plymouth car ad; Photo of Kelly the Clown; Poland harassed by 170,000 Russian-trained security police; Behind the Japanese Purge - American Military Rivalries; Britain's postwar moral climate; Brief obituaries for Jean-Marie Cardinal Villeneuve, James T. (Jimmy) Sheckard, Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, and Pedro Leao Velloso; Nice International Truck ad features oil drilling scene; Accused murderer William Heirens, University of Chicago student; Photo of Polio virus isolators Drs. Hubert S. Loring and C.E. Schwerdt; Father of Radio - Lee de Forest; Color ad for the Lockheed Constellation aircraft features Rio party scene; Henry Hazlitt writes on "Stabilizing" the Economy; New York Yankee article with photo of Trippe who spurned them for Charles Bidwill of the Cardinals; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Freeze the RFC; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Nice two-color addressograph ad inside front cover; AT&T charged with waste and extravagance; Gargantua the gorilla leads a streamlined new Ringling circus to town - article with photos; George Jean Nathan; Franco's offensive rolls forward; Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn defies clergy and puts over sweepstakes bill; Francis William Rickett and Ben Smith - mystery men of Mexican oil; Photo of smiling FDR with Marvin McIntyre; Photo of Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit; Negro politician Nathaniel Brewer, of Cambridge, MA; Squaws riot in Northern Minnesota; Interesting article on Key West, Florida; Nazis put their Nordic paganism into print - rules for marriage ceremonies in the Temples of Blood; Photo of the Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife; The Soviet Union's NSRA (Northern Sea Route Administration) is one of the few government agencies to escape the Stalin purge; Tsung Tsai Chiang becomes Stalin of China; Egyptian feud between Farouk I and Nahas Pasha; Fantastic hockey photo shows American goalie Earl Robertson playing against the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice photo of Joan Blondell with police; Burial announcement of Col. Edward M. House - and picture of him with Woodrow Wilson; Nice one-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Interesting photo of black children at Milk Bar - Rev. Amos H. Carnegie; Interesting picket outside Boyles Furniture Store in Utah; Labor Racketeers Still Flourishing; Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey turret lathes of Cleveland; C.I.O. seamen picket Maritime Commission offices in Washington; Leonor F. Loree leaves the D.& H. (with photo); Nice color ad inside back cover for San Francisco tourism features illustration of rotating street car; Back cover color photo ad for Four Roses whiskey features letter from John Chapman. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from page 7. A worthy vintage copy Book
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: President Truman imposes censorship by executive order; Photo of launch of B-61 Matador robot bomber (missile); Nice full-page colour ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring lady with Jack-O-Lantern and Navy man; Results of NATO meeting in Ottawa; Cab Driver Jose Carballal; Ailing King George VI; Hamburg is Rebuilding; The New Boom in Oil; Full-page two-color ad for Eaton 2-speed truck axles; New TV Tube from a hobby shop; Sumo - Japan's sacred sport - booms U.S. box office take; Nice full-age color ad for Ray-O-Vac batteries; Drop in Chesapeake oyster production; Why the Air Force needs veterinarians; Mayor Dorothy Lee of Portland, Oregon says no to gambling; Education about syphilis in painless, pinball fashion; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
This special issue most notable for its article beginning on page 238 which introduces hemp as a new billion dollar cash crop for American farmers. Pages: 161-320 plus 128 pages of great vintage ads. Other features include: The Lockheed Electra - Flying Wing of the Future (with cover illustration); Chemistry and You - Part 3; The Rough Road to Glory; The Toy That Grew Up; Hunting Oil with Earthquakes; Short Waves Rule the Seas; Shoot When They Don't Expect It; The Puzzle of the Ice Ages; Game Wardens with Wings; Adventures of the Hurricane Hunters; The Hit and Run Fleet. Advertising page 113A is a fantastic one-page black and white photo ad for Harley Davidson motorcycles entitled "You Can't Beat Fun". Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A worthy copy of this historic vintage issue. Magazine
Features: General Electric's fantastic new electric garden tractor; Detroit claims vs. Union Oil tests; Driving the Gremlin - Detroit's first VW-size car; Best car lock yet; new low-smog gasoline; Apollo's fearless fireman; New electric mowers; Dan Gurney's Column; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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
172 pages. Features: Toward a national strategy for oil exploration; Viroids; The total artificial heart; the Andromeda galaxy; The wild gene resources of wheat; the mind-body problem; Gels; two paths to the telephone - Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray; and more. Nostalgic ads including some from the early days of the PC industry. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: New owner for the "France"; The "Eilian" Remembered; Messageries Maritimes Liner "Eridan" of 1929; Beating the Oil Shortage at Sea; Ferry Scene - Sealink Setback; Brighton-Dieppe Services of the Past; The Liverpool Pilotage Service in the 19th Century; Sail Review - Welsh Preservation Plans; Greek Passenger Shipping in 1978-1979; The 'Elbe' Disaster. Book
Features: Exploring the Ocean Bottom in Manned Submersibles; Feeding and Spawning of Bluefish; IFOs; El Nino - unwanted guest; Live on California's Wharves; Oil Spills - The Causes and Cures; Long-Lining for Tilefish. Sound copy. Book
Features: Hungry humpbacks forever blowing bubbles; The Great copper-pot hunt; intensive shrimp culture in Japan; Inland seas, reefs and oil; How corals feed; Christchurch Bay's monument to safety; Reef-netting for salmon; Sergeant major on guard; Footprints of glaciers. Sound copy. Book
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
Features: Columbia - glacier in retreat; whales have riders; California's fish and oil - conflict over coexistence; Life in a sunless sea; the oldest shell game; Remember the Maine?; Boobies and frigates - strange bedfellows. Sound copy. Book
66 pages. Colour cover photos of "LePerle" - undefeated in show competition. Features: Soupability - GM's Aluminum V8's; Unbeaten at Show - "LePerle" - 1957 Thunderbird owned by Bob Turgeon of Topeka, Kansas; Soup for the Street Withoug Risking Reliability; Add to your Dash; Adapt a Corvette Floorshift to any Manual Transmission; Anglo-American Sportster - 1953 XK 120 Jaguar; Interiors - The Inside Story; Hide a Latham Blower Under Your Hood; Bubble-Topped Beast - Jack Schleich and his 1932 Ford Coupe; Micrometers; Lion-Hearted Thunderbird - Ira Meyer put a Chrysler engine in his T-Bird; Power-Laden Pulchritude - Dragsters (great photos); Mallory's new Mini-Mag; Sporty School Bus - George Maisch has a nice street rod; Rework your 352-390 Ford oil pump for Reliability; Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
98 pages. Features: Tsunami; The RV-6; American Moth; Harrier; The Ligeti Stratos; The Red Baron goes Italian; Mixing Winter Flying with Oil, Fuel and Water; Byron Originals - 'Fun-Fly'. 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
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: New Northern Wire Proposed - Suggests cable and telegraphic communication with Russian Siberia; Russo-Japanese War; Particulars of New Enterprise Mentioned for Point on Clayoquot Sound; List of Vessels Bound to British Columbia and Puget Sound from Ports of the World; Whaling Catch 1904 - presents a list of the arrivals of oil and bone for the season of 1904 from Oct.11 to Nov. 12; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Wanted - a thoroughly reliable man, of good address, to canvass for a well-known firm in this city." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Stress crack to central portion of all pages. Front page detached but present. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-8 and 13-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Photo of Japanese, British and U.S. diplomates in England attemtping to replace the old London Naval Treaty; Chuckwalla wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island; Mayor Leeming will run again; Manchukuo disregarding protests against proposed oil monopoly in state; America wants to lead in removal of barriers against international trade - warns against extreme nationalism; Government passes first market plan under B.C. Statute to protect tree fruit growers; Burnett's Gin ad; Piggly Wiggly ad; Editorial page; nice illustrated ad for Rogers and Majestic "Mystery-Tube" radios; City and District News bits; Social pages; Travel page; Sports page with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about the 1934-35 Les Canadiens hockey team; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Alberni loggers' strike, new oil refinery for Victoria, skiers arrive in Vancouver after hazardous feat, and many more; editorial page; Fantastic black and white photo ad for the new Ford V-8 on page 5; Local news; Social pages; Assorted vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: The Rampant Lion Mark; Passing of William M. Locke; An Ignored Accessory - The Oil Bottle; John D. Chevalier, New York Cutler. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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
Articles: Commercial Shipping on the Northern Sea Route; Petty Officer First Class E. Leslie Goodwin - A Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer in World War I; We'll get our own - Canada and the Oil Shipping Crisis of 1942; plus part of a Canadian Maritime Bibliography by Gerald E. Panting and numerous book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
