Gribbin, JohnMareMagnum
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Book in unread as new condition. 242pp. The story of the Universe from beginning to end.
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
39 pages. Features: Adolph Eichmann - his life's work was death; "I'm really too young for mink" - Sandra Dee at 18 (colour photos); Magic Power that is Battling Hunger - MPF - Multi-purpose food is made of wastes which were once thought suitable only for fertilizer and animal feed; Noda, Japan - where everyone loves herons; Colour photos of flowers in the Rockies; Booing fans and the stars they heckle (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Ab McDonald); The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
63 pages. Features: Roz (Rosalind) Russel; The Day a U-2 Crash-Landed in Canada - it lay on frozen Wapawekka Lake in Northern Manitoba 46 days before the Powers incident - two colour photos with text; Bridge's Take-Charge Champion - Eric Murray of Toronto readily admits that he is the best player in the world; How a Bursting Star could change our world - British scientist C.M. Cade is an expert on exploding stars called supernovae; Canada helps Nigeria to learn - John G. Egnatoff of the Saskatchewan Teacher's College; Aping their betters - funny chimp photos; 4 in 1 hat; Three Clowns make a movie - Ten Girls Ago; Interesting centerfold entitled 'Seventh Grade Hop'; Le Hibou - hideout for highbrows - Ottawa's wackiest private club; What do your Dreams Mean?; His vision of peace came true - Pastor of Temple Pastures Mission, Dr. Frank Uhlir envisioned a retreat in the Gatineau Hills; Great colour photo of the H.M.C.S. Oriole at sail; Doug Wright photos of the Indianapolis 500; Ann Corio Brings Back Burlesque - a famous stripper's revue evokes nostalgia; Wives of R.C.A.F.-personnel find home-making in foreign lands takes some getting used to; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
55 pages. Features: Archbishop Howard H. Clark, Anglican Primate of All Canada; Miami - City of Intrigue in the Sun - plotters, counter-plotters, gun-runners and exiles from a half-dozen Latin-American lands keep U.S. lawmen busy; How to Improve Your Luck; Colour photos of sweater fashions; Under the Knife - comic; Dog with a Soft Spot for Orphans - a motherly French Bulldog; These Men Are Almost Dead of Thirst - French Hunters Die of Thirst in Sahara; Quebec Novelist Marie-Claire Blais Takes New York in her Stride; Stars on Ice - Stars turn out for the 25th anniversary of the Ice Follies in Hollywood; Patron Saint of the Hot-Rod Set - Gordon Taylor, Transportation Minister of Alberta; Dean Griffing and Frankie Filchock say it is time for Canadian football to go American; A boy's best friend is his duck; Nipper by Doug Wright. Colour ads for: Sun-Up; Crown Royal Syrup; Lady Galt Towels; Heinz Spaghetti; Robin Hood Cake Mix; Philishave Speed-Flex; Salada Tea; Five Roses Flour; Canadian General Electric Appliances; Lux Soaps; Coffee; Birds-Eye frozen dinners; Pepsi-Cola; Christie's Premium Crackers; Maple Leaf Sausages; Aylmer Soups; Cadbury's Choco; Betty Crocker; Simon's Cigars; Electrohome Stereos; SOS pads; Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
47 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
160 pages. Many black and white photos. "The radio stories of Jack Payne, Henry Hall, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Robb Wilton, Tommy Handley, Syd Walker, Jack Train, Vera Lynn, Vic Oliver, Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Charlie Chester, Kenneth Horne, Jack Warner, Wilfred Pickles, Ted Ray, Noel Johnson, Donald Peers, Peter Brough, Frankie Howerd, Max Bygraves, Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, Harry Secombe, Petter Sellers, Tony Hancock and many more." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
64 pages. Colour illustrations. Includes stories drawn upon the rich and varied folk traditions of four southern African peoples: San, Xhosa, Tsonga, and Zulu. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Runners of the Woods, by Samuel Merwin; How the Colleges Pursue the Stars, by Ben Friedman; The Scratches on the Glass - IX, by Gladys Blake; Catherine Blows the Horn, by C.A. Stephens; Chrysler '70' ad on page 397; How to Make Real Bows and Arrows - II; A Summer Job That Pays, by William Bang; Attention Eight! - what the Captain of teh Senior Crew at Wellesley thinks girls whould like to know about Rowing. Nice Grape Nuts ad on back cover. Average wear. Book
117p. Drawings by the author. 8vo. Paperback. Nice copy. SPACE/5
20 pages. Features: The AMA Exercise Chart; There Went $125,00 a week - how TV Stars are fired - with photos of Mitch Miller, Garry Moore and Judy Garland; Nice one-page color photo for Galaxy cigarettes promotes prizes available by collecting their divident coupons; Sensational color-photo centerfold for Pillsbury illustrates many of their bake-at-home products; The Girl That You Married - Are Foreign Women Sexier?; "The Catch At Dawn" (fiction); Recipes; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Dole frozen fruit juices; Nice black and white Chrysler/Plymouth ad inside back cover features the line of 1965 Plymouths, including the Fury, Valiant, Belvedere and, of course, the Barracude - for only $2,487!; Back cover Mutual of Omaha color photo ad features family photo of the Tom Arnoldy family of Shawnee, Kansas. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs (many double- or full-page) throughout; white boards, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
60 pages. Features: Ad for the Peugeot 504; Challenges for Ed Schreyer in Manitoba; Nova Scotia fishworker labour strife; Photo of offshore drilling rig 'Sedco H" leaving Halifax; Great photo of people storming police line to shake hands with Richard Nixon in St. Louis; Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? - feature article with four pages of wonderful color photos showing the stars and stripes incorporated into bedding, clothing, vehicles, and more; Admiral Thomas Moorer takes over Joint Chiefs of Staff; Assessment of the Cambodian adventure; Nixon's Champion - Robert Dole of Kansas; Photo and brief article on Charlie Rangel; The Middle East - Statesman Speak and Guns Answer - article with photo of Arab leaders watching Libyan military parade; Phnom-Penh - What is going on?; Bernadette Devlin; Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber; Rehabilitation of Stalin in the Soviet Union; The Ordeal of A. Dubcek; Joseph Mobutu of the Congo; Pele and Brazil win soccer's World Cup; Their hearts belong to daddy - article on stripping; The Green Wrist Mania; Tony Jacklin wins golf's U.S. Open; Lord Snowdon on Pets; Michael Dann of Sesame Street; Quenching California's Thirst; Abortion on Demand; Pantsuits for Nurses; Debate over Catholic Marriage; Passing of the Maharajah of Jaipur, Rupert C. Thompson Jr., Colonel Roscoe Turner and Heenrique Galvao; Penn Central - the biggest bankruptcy Ever; The Case For - and Against - Railway Nationalization; Tremendous growth in amount of commercial paper outstanding; Cashing in on Campers - KOA (Kampgrounds of America); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
84 pages. Features: Great Bobby Kennedy cover art by Roy Lichtenstein; Ben Ginter acquired pulp mill; Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail; Mine rescue at Saxsewell No.8 mine in West Virginia; Spreading Revolt in France - major article with photos of protesters and their mayhem; Student protesters in Germany - article with photo; Vietnam war news; Nostalgic colour centrefold ad for 3M overhad projector; Saturday Evening Post struggles to survive; African Americans on TV; The Emergence of S.D.S. (Students for a Democratic Society); Hypnosis and the Truth; The fall of race horse Dancer's Image; The art of Maurice de Vlaminck - article with two colour illustrations; Book review of Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima, with photo of Mishima; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. Address label remnant on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
148 pages. Features: DuBarry Success Course ad features Mrs. Erma Smith of Sioux Falls, SD; I'm a Good Wife - but I Hate Housework!; Why Your Nerves Go to Pieces; Million Dollar Sneeze - fascinating Hollywood article on how insurance companies pay big bucks when stars get sick during filming; It's Fun to Be Feminine; Pneumonia and what to do about it; Geraldine Farrar - The Most Inspiring Woman I Ever Knew; and much more. Unmarked with above-average external wear and loss to fore-edge of back cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 200 p., color and b/w plates. Türk medeniyetlerinde astroloji, astronomi ve müneccimbasilik. Fortune-telling, astronolgy and astronomy in the Ottoman and Turkish Empires throughout the history.
406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
6 pages. Charming illustrated cover includes nice inset photo of Nick Lucas. Above-average wear. Spine taped. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
72 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Tom Reid Profile; Past Trades Revisited; New Canuck Faces; Return of Henry Boucha; Bill Goldsworthy profile; "Babe" Dye feature; Don Lever - Player of the week; Photos of the Minnesota North Stars players; Nice photo ad for the CKNW sports team of Jim Robson, John McKeachie, Jim Cox and Al Davidson; Photos of Canucks players and executives; Cesare Maniago is featured in a VanCity ad; Barry Wilkins photo feature; Bobby Schmautz photo in cothing ad; Tracy Pratt is pictured in a large ad for the New York International Development Corp.; plus many other great vintage ads. Umarked with light wear. Small coupon clipping from page 39. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Nice colour photo Yardley ad inside front cover features Bobby Orr; Great full-page ad for CKNW/98 features photo of Jim Robson photo; Bill White and Pat Stapleton are the Pride of Chicagp; Stan Mikita Deserves More Recognition; Vic Stasiuk's Practices are Never Dull; The NHL Will Soon Shop in Europe for Players; Canuck photos; Top Stars of the Game; Canucks' Young Defence in Action; Tony Esposito Flopped his way to Stardom; Canucks' Schedule; Great full-page CJOR/60 ad featuring photo of Jack Webster; Centerfold loose but present; Tony Esposito is featured in a full-page ad for Butler Tire Ltd; Photo of J. Paul McConnell in CKWX/1130 ad; The Job of an NHL Scout; Dunc Wilson - Royal Bank Player of the Week; Nice Dennis Hull Feature on back page; plus many great vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
152 pages. Features: Heath Ledger's Final Days; Sarah Palin; Politico; Cultural Snobbery; Tony Bennett on Frank Sinatra; Hot, Young Film Stars; Harvard's Big Dumb Financial Train Wreck; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
150 pages. Features: The shattering of Tiger Woods' image; Military sniper Russ Crane; The return of Gordon Gekko; What drove Finn Caspersen to suicide?; Artist Maurizio Cattelan; Six youn actresses show how stars are born; The crises behind Warren Beatty's epic 1987 flop "Ishtar"; The play Enron; Christopher Hitchens laments the closing of Gore Vidal's mind; Rocker Patti Smith; An oral history of disco; James Wolcott trashes the latest celebrity sex tapes; Spy novelist Henry Porter; Winners of the Twitter contest; Kentucky's Creation Museum; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
250 pages. Features: Body Sculpture - extraordinary new jewelling in metal by Claude Lalanne, Oscar Gustin; Kore-sculpture in cloth - Mrs. Wyatt Emory Cooper in her fabled Fortuny dresses; Fashion in the Persian-blue gardens of the sun - photos from Iran; Can't Eat Politics... Can't Eat Art; Chanel Always Now; The Miraculous Churches of Kizhi; At Kizhi - "Gulls Sit High on Their Sacred Perches"; Mumba-Flamenca - Three Spectacular Stars; Kirdis of Cameroon; Liza Minnelli; Vladimir Nabokov Talks about Vladimir Nabokov; Chanel and Hepburn - Les Grandes Mam'selles; Woodstock Music and art Fair; A Trance of Poppies; Samuel Beckett Talks about Beckett; Iran, Born Persia; H.I.M. Empress Farah Pahlavi, Shahbanou of Iran; and more. The usual magnificent assortment of ads, our favorite being the Chanel No. 5 ad on page 29 which features an intimate embrace; Two-page ad for Zsa Zsa Gabor's ZigZag perfume. Spine taped. Binding intact. Ink stamps to front cover. Above-average external wear. A stunning compilation of 1960s fashion photography in color and black and white. Hours of enjoyment and amazement await you! Book
pp. xi, 325 + numerous photographs. Text illustrations. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper binding, faded at edges. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. First edition. SPACE/4
60 pages. Bibliography. Partly based upon the exhibition 'Weaving Between the Lines', held in Kelowna and four other cities, 1997-1999. Includes work by: Anne Clark, Marion Cragg, Gabriela Diaconu, Laura Ford, Barbara Heller, Ruth Jones, Alison Keenan, Lois Kennedy, Margaret Klajnert, Mieko Konaka, Karen Leitch, Jane Mackenzie, Anthea Mallinson, Yolanda Olivotto, and Kaija Rautianinen. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. (ISBN 0968745505 printed in book may be incorrect.) Book
