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74 pages. Features: Tune it On - Royal Foust can tune 5 extra mpg - part 1 of a series; Norm Grobowsky's 1923 Hennway; Closed cabin close-up photos - Ford, Chrysler, GM, Strange Stuff; Wescott's Auto Restyling; Chevy's Fourever - Chevy Cast Iron Four; Cam Grant of Burnaby B.C. makes a Model A the hard way; Care and Maintenance of Your Puzzle - set up a filing system during teardown; Phase 4 of "Chop it to it" - Jake finishes off the window frame and molding area; Chevy Up - Part 3 - tearing down a $100 Chevy engine; Part 3 of the "Pruf" is in his project - Aluminum fabrication for Tom Prufer by Ron Covell of Covell Race Cars; Pete Heacock's 1938 Bantam; Parts Meet in Hershey, PA; Very Special Buick - Report 5 - Gas Tank; Vintage Tin - photos; and more. Moderate wear. Chips from top corners of a a few pages. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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
64 pages. Features: Simek's latest delivery, a UT755L platform supply vessel; Halmatic's latest delivery to the UK MCA; HMS TYNE; HMS ECHO; Quiet power for fishery research; Thai Wood - quality construction survives; Bakur and Stelkur; Azimuthing thrusters seek higher speed capability; Aeroderivative gas turbines offer alternative power; DBC Marine Safety Systems - 25th Anniversary; Construction of the Mirabella V - long article and great photos. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
98 pages. Features: Five Years of Legal Flying with Auto Gas; Sand Casting; Ross Grady's Kittyhawk Mk.III; Midget Mustang 1944; the Whitehead No. 21. Sound copy. Book
98 pages. Features: John Shively's D.H. 5; First Flight Impressions in the Voyager; Judging the Homebuilts; The Q2 and Me Too; For Tri-Motor NC8407; Experimental Aircraft Certificates; Who Says - Bad Gas. Sound copy. Magazine
62 pages. Featuring Antiques as Hobbies: Old Quilts (color); Old Glass, Silver, Bookmarks; Barber's Bottles; Collector's Homes. Includes these nice ads: Hellmann's Mayonnaise (color); Refrigerators; Listerine (shows boys fighting); Natural Gas; Heinz Spaghetti; Shredded Ralston; Aluminum Hoods for Milk Bottles; Scot Paper Towels; Marlboro Cigarettes - "Mild as May... Ivory Tips protect the Lips" - with photo of man and woman (wow, definitely pre-dates the Marlboro Man!); Lovely colour illustrated ad for Bon Ami inside back cover; Gulfspray insect killer cartoon ad; Nice colour photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features photo of Billie Branch - veteran of 2,000 tobacco auctions. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy Magazine
96 pages. Features: Reports on Wasthington, North Africa, and Israel - David Ben-Gurion becomes Minister of Defense; Owen Wister's Journals - the unpublished journals; Russia's Calamity, by Edward Crankshaw; The Grand Trunk Road to Agra, by Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens; Streams (poem), by W.H. Auden; A Patron of the Arts, story by Donald Heiney; Have we Conquered the Business Cycle?, by Sumner H. Slichter; The Diamond Cutters (poem), by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Oedipus Myth, by Robert Graves; The Under-Educated, by Robert C. Wilson; What Happened to the Girl Scouts?, by Ben H. Bagdikian; Twenty Years of Writing, by William Saroyan; Teaching Creative Writing, by Roy Cowden; Styrian Festivities, by Merloyd Lawrence. Color ad for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover. Color ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
55 pages. Black and white illustrations. Articles include: A Photo Voyage Around the Charlottes; Seabirds on the Charlottes - Thumps and Grunts in the Night; The Story of the Ninstints; The Haida - an outline of early contacts with Europeans; Captain Dixon on the Coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1789; Notes on a Haida Text -1; Early Years in Masset, 1909-1915; Hudson's Bay Company Post at Masset Queen Charlotte Islands 1869-1898; The Sandspit Saga; The One Room School of Yesteryear; A Few Adventurous Years; The Last Trip of the Gas Boad 'Mabel'; Memories of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 7-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Honours for Victoria man F. A. Lindsay, B.C. Amateur Golf Championship, Mussolini talking war, Canada-US Fishery treaties, B.C. commences hunt for natural gas, Saanich arsonist, hunters attacked by eagles at Bull Harbour, Smuggling of tools suspected for use in construction of stills, and many more; Photo of Royal Oak Burial Park being developed; editorial page; Social pages; Hudson's Bay Company ad; Fred L. Foster comes to B.C.; photo ad for Dodge trucks sold by Begg Motor Co., Limited; Entertainment page; large ad for Daily Colonist amateur Snapshot Competition; David Spencer Limited ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. Bit of writing atop page one. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Cover portrait of Sir Robert S. Horne, K.C., M.P., Minister of Labour. Please note: does not include colur map. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Demobilisation of the British Army", with photos. Centerfold photos of captured German booty, including a large cache of gas shells at Luttre, Belgium. Chapter CCCVIII - The Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers, with photos. Chapter CCCIX - The Wonders of Wireless in the War, with photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres; 2 page illustration of a steamer's Smoke-Box Defence against a U-boat; "Standard Ships" - 4 photos; The Menin Road Battle - 3 photos; nice 2-page photo of a YMCA catering hut in action with German shell range; The Canadian Artillery Regiment - one page story with 2 photos; Laying a rail line during the battle for Lens; Menin Road battle - many photos; Destruction in Ypres; Great 2-page photo with caption "During a Bombardment on the Flanders front - Artillerymen (wearing gas masks) with a heavy Gun in Action". Staples disintegrating. Average wear. Book
Features: ARCOP aims to improve Arctic transport; Laser mapping for accurate 3D modeling; Diesel and gas turbine technology; Offshore technology; Noise and vibration control; Interiors. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Deeper draughts for optimum mega container liners; ship speed trials - a new method of analysis; Correlating model and full-scale propeller cavitation; Diesel and gas turbine technology; New-generation bulk-carriers; Offshore technology; Noise and vibration control; Korean update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Diamond 53 - a double-skin bulker design for Graig; Advancing the gas turbine cause for LNG tanker propulsion; First Sulzer flex-60 engine ready for Agrexco reefer ship; SMM 2002 report; Products and chemical tankers; Romania; ICCAS 2002 conference; Spain. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
128 pages. Index. Circa 1922? "Prepared by a Ladies' Club in a friendly rivalry for the very best there is in tested recipes... With oven cooking guide for woodfire, gas and electricty, record of results, time table for cooking and other tables." - from front cover. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this pleasing vintage cookbook. Book
Features: A River Dies - and is Reborn again - New Jersey's Raritan River; We are deluding ourselves in Vietnam - Hans J. Morgenthau; Even if they can't read, They should have the right to vote - Andrew Hacker; After Fifty Years the cry of Ypres still Echoes - 'Gas!' - the beginning of chemical warfare in 1915 - chlorine and tear gas; Secret of the Nureyev Spell; The New York World's Fair - Act II; Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The case against fallout shelters, by Hanson W. Baldwin; Kennedy's Grand Strategy - how we can counter Russian aggression, yet avoid nuclear war; People on the way up - Barbara Dodd, Frederic Chapin, James Messler - the Star Farmer of America, Geraldine Pearson; Hell Creek Crossing - a story excerpted from the newest work of William Faulkner; Phyllis Diller - the unlikeliest star (funny!); Where are those dream cars? - a car that drives itself, uses no gas and runs without wheels is more than idle speculation (conclusion); Holidays at Sea - cruisemaster Mike Burke runs a profitable fleet of pleasure boats; Why do they call my husband crazy? - Jim Piersall's wife tells of her husband's illness - and recovery; Krishna Menon - the Wasp of New Delhi - India's left-leaning chief delegate to the UN - terrible-tempered, anti-American and prime planner of the Goa invasion. Front cover loose but present, otherwise average wear. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
58 pages. Features: Western Pacific orders Budd car after successful 10-day trial (short story); The Rutland Railroad - article with photos; The Locomotive in 1949 - railroads cut back diesel orders, almost forgot steam & admired the gas turbine - long article with photos; Ohio's last Narrow-Gauge - The Ohio River & Western - article with two great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold photo of Southern Pacific's Suntan Special in California; Broad Gauge Route - The Erie Railroad - photos; My Finest Train Trip - David P. Morgan describes his trip from New Orleans on the Panama Limited - with photos; Big Hook - the machinery and crews who clear away wrecks - super photos; Hub of the Washington Terminal - Ivy City Enginehouse services the steam, diesel and electric locomotives of the five railroads using the capital's Union Station - article with two photos; Los Angeles at Night - nice long-exposure photos; Casey Jones Died 50 Years Ago - article with photo; Lancaster & Chester - Miniature Division at Elliott Springs; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Most deadly cargo of the century? - hauling nerve gas across the south; Railroad news photos; Thoughts on 30 years of train watching, by David P. Morgan; Super Restaurant on the rails; Steam over India - many photos, long article; Nader's raiders have attacked the ICC - Ralph in the roundhouse; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Built by American Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) - a photo story; Official Guide - presents hundreds of pages of timetables; The Diesel's Big Year - in 1950 steam was on the way out, but the gas turbine was a new opponent to diesel; Photo Section - includes centerfold photo of a Santa Fe eastbound freight near Kingman, Az; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern - uncommon interurban in Iowa - article, photos and map of the "Crandic Route"; Astra Domes in the Northwest - article with photos; The Stewart Special - awesome article and photos of rail action in the Korean War; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
70 pages. Features: Courtesy Aircraft nears the end of its sale of the largest private collection of WWII aircraft, owned by David Tallichet; Successful restoration of a short-wing Martin B-26 Marauder; Kalamazoo Air Zoo completes its Grumman collection with the acquisition of an F-14; Holland's Aviation Museum; Art Lacey's Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Gas Station; Death of the Kee Bird - Failed recovery mission in Greenland - B-29 Superfortress; CAF Airshow; Base Borden's hidden treasures; Anatomy of a Disaster - the last flying Avro Shackleton goes down in the Sahara; Flying Legends - British Warbird Airshow. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part III - The Years of Achievement; A Close Look at Wood Screws, Part I; Chris White and his Multihulls; The Schooner AMERICA; Canoe Building in Vermont - Tom Hill, Carl Bausch and Ed Sturges; Just the Right Medium - Ken Bassett chooses plywood for his recreational rowing craft; Keeping a Wooden Hull From Drying Out; Winter Protection for outside-stored boats; Auxiliary Power - experiences with gas and diesel; STAR - the boat of Frederick S. Ford Jr. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
