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152 pages. Features: Profile of William Withrow, director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) for the past 25 years; Tony Aspler recommends dining at the chef's table at the Sutton Place Hotel; The Tapestries of Gail Bent; Ballooning in Burgundy; The Class Menagerie - magnificent carousel rescued by Nancy and Derek Phillips; Muskoka cottage constructed for Sir Wilfrid Hepton in 1902 on a 9-hectare island; Muskoka's Croft of Dounie, the cottage built by William Henry Elliott in 1894 on 52 acres near Port Sandfield, Ontario; Muskoka cottage Belle Isle - built in 1898; Visit with collage artist Louis de Niverville; Jewelry designer Beni Sung; The fragrant, evocative garden of Rachel McLeod; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
180 pages. Features: A visit with Ambassador Stephen Lewis at the United Nations in New York; The masterpieces of baroque art on view at the National Gallery of Canada; The foods of France; Lapdog of Luxury - David Scott's collection of inanimate pugs; Cottage country retreat created by Al Wandich and Jim Strasman; Architect Andrew Bruce and interior designer Pam Todd turn an Oakville Cottage into a lakeside showcase; Men's business wear; Phyllis Lambert fulfills a philanthropic dream; Stephen Homer visits le cimetiere Pere-Lachaise in Paris; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Leo Heaps scores a coup for the Public Archives of Canada; Lorna and Walter McIntyre revive the lost art of overshot weaving; Tony Aspler surveys the nine Canadian member hotels of Relais et Chateaux; A week at Germany's legendary Baden-Baden; Salute to Stratford, Ontario; The heritage farmhouse of Clayton Shields; At home with Douglas Chamberlain, Pat Galloway, berthold Carrier and Iris MacGregor Bannerman; Forty centuries of emeralds; The Kleinburg cottage of Kayo O'Young and Diane Nasr; Kay Kritzwiser's portfolio of paintings of flowers by Canadian artists; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
84 pages. Features: Cover illustration of children returning to home from school in Trail, B.C., with smelter in background; Wonderful one-page photo-illustrated ad by the Plywood Manufacturers Association shows construction of the Stanley Park Zoo's otter pool in Vancouver, as designed by Underwood, McKinley, Cameron; Editorial discusses the forbidding of Paul Robeson's proposed Canadian concert tour; Frank Tumpane says "Stop Pampering our Smart-Aleck Teen-agers; Why Does the British Press ban MRA (Moral Re-Armament)?; Attractive one-page colour Mercury car ad features red and black Montclair 4-door Phaeton hardtop; The Future of the Canadian Family - a Maclean's Report; Will Dewline cost Canada its northland? - photo-illustrated article wonders if, by allowing the US to cover much of the dewline's cost, if we've also handed over part of our national independence; The Magic Brain of Sigismund Gantzoff (short story); Can You Live to be 100?; Part 13 of Bruce Hutchison's series on Canada - The B.C. Interior - article with great colour photo of log sorting in Quesnel; Barbara Chilcott - The Girl Who Learned to be a Tempest - photo-illustrated article; The World's Biggest Fire Department - colour-photo-illustrated article on the work of the 2,000 men with Ontario's Department of Lands and Forests who battle thousands of fires annually over 223,000 square miles of bush; One-page colour-photo ad for the 1956 Dodge Mayfair, V-8, 2-door hardtop (two-tone pink); Crown Zellerbach ad; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photos in home of Mr. F.S. Hogarth in North York; One-page colour ad for 1956 Buick features white Roadmaster 2-door convertible druving by camels in zoo; Nice colour Stelco ad features canned goods being taken to Cottage; Nice colour Cinci ad features gent feeding pretzels to attractive lady; Royal Standard typewriter ad features large illustration of kissing couple in rowboat; Black Label beer ad features photo of Mabel; Nice one-page ad for Chevrolet Trucks; One-Page colour-photo-illustrated Canadian Club ad features Wendy Hilty and Balkan lancers competing at Sinj in their sport of Alka; Canadian Wine Institute ad features colour photo of Lorne Greene; Interesting half-page write-up about this issue's cover artist and how the illustration evolved; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Toronto labourer Albert Chilcott; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
8vo., with illustrated title-spread, profusely illustrated with sepia-toned photographs and coloured illustrations in the text, and photographic endpapers; original printed wrappers with fold-ins. Delightfully illustrated diary of natural history and daily life in Hampshire's Upper Itchen Valley.
8vo., with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
96 pages. Features: Landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada; Freewheeling discussion with Harold Town; Architecture at Expo '86; The cottage industry that is wildlife art; Milton Avery's Landscape Legacy; The dark Visions of Donigan Cumming; Cover photo of Jessica Bradley and Diana Nemiroff; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features and articles include: How Regina's Courts Favoured Segregation - Ingrid Bintner can't enroll in a local public school because she's a Roman Catholic; How LSD Saved My Marriage, by Pam Hyatt Foster; The Hawks lost, but Rhodesia may yet defeat the Doves - Canada rescued the Commonwealth - but was it worth the trouble?; How Canadian wonder boy, film director Sidney Furie, "tamed" Frank Sinatra; The Private World of Emily Carr; Montreal Canadiens' goalie Gump (Lorne) Worsley - The Has-been who doesn't know enough to stop being better than anybody - with photos; The House that Wouldn't Stop - Joy Carroll on her family home which began as a modest east-end Toronto summer cottage and ended as a 13-room townhouse - with photos; Peggy Ann Walpole of Toronto's 'Street Haven' helps prostitutes, lesbians, and junkies; How to be a girl alone and see the world, by globe-trotter Marika Robert; Absolutely BEAUTIFUL two-page colour photo featuring a red Buick Wildcat Sport Coupe; Gerald Stevens' Canadiana column; Colour Panasonic TV ad - looks very dated!; Colour photo Ford Auto centerfold which includes a white 1967 Mustang 2+2 Fastback; Postscript to Death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's coverage of the death of Eskimo Soosee in the July 2/1966 issue of Maclean's; Two-page colour photo ad for 1967 Chevrolet featuring the 1967 Impala Sport Coupe; Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg argues that Johnson's Vietnam war makes civil disobedience an unavoidable duty. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: Down East Bungalow Cottage; Bungalow's of Florida's first great boom; Olympia home of Cheryl and Jeff Petra; Recreating an Authentic Chicago Bungalow Exterior; Nick and Ruth Clemence adapt Greene & Greene's interior approach in California; Steve and Mary Ann Vorhees; and more. Unmarked. with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and reproductions throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Profusely illustrated and scholarly catalogue of an important exhibition. Very scarce.
Pages 333-372 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Firenze Cottage," the Summer Home of Daniel Guggenheim, Esq., Elberon, NJ.; A Swimming-Pool for Private Gardens; Trellises; Vacation Home-Making; L'Art Nouveau Houses in Austria; Birds and the Country Home; A Group of Bungalows at Pasadena, California, Costing from Fifteen-Hundred Dollars Upwards - great two-page compilation of 16 photos; Photographing Birds; Concrete Ornaments for the Garden and How to Make Them; A Colonial Suburban Home - Guaranteed Cost $6,000; "Weldacre," The Home of George E. Smith, Esq., Philips Beach, MA; Do Plants Think?; Nice one-page photo-ad for the Invincible vaccum machine by the Electric Renovator Mfg. Company; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers and some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 293-332 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Darlington," the estate of george Crocker, Esq., Ramsey, NJ; Designs Direct from Nature; "Annesden," the Summer Home of Miss Annie E. Quimby, Bridgehampton, Long Island; Playhouses for Children; A Group of Small Houses - costing from $3,000 to $10,000; Grape Culture in France; A House with a Guaranteed Cost - A House That Can Be Built for Seven Thousand Dollars; The "Wayside Inn", otherwise known as the "Red Horse Tavern" of Sudbury, MA; The Rochester, NY Chamber of Commerce Cheap Cottage Competition, won by Miss Esther M. Byers - The First and Second Prize Designs; House of James E. Wheeler, Edgehill Road, New Haven, CT; One-page illustrated ad for the "Invincible" Electric Renovator (vaccum) from the Electric Renovator Mfg. Co.; Back cover two-color ad for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers and some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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196 pages. Features: Fairy-tale setting defines the design of Monique Waque's cottage in Germany's countryside; Faded Glory of a majestic Muskoka lodge owned by Ana Lopes and Don Tapscott is lovingly resurrected; Home on West Vancouver's Bachelor Bay is reinvented by David Zacharko and David Yustin as a supermodern wonder with panoramic views; Rough-hewn and organic elements for a stylishly lived-in look; Two leading looks in the world of bathroom design; Barbara Sallick; Street Value - 3 front yards showcase 3 ways to make a great first impression; The Chathanat family overhauls their kitchen; The makeover of Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman's terrace offered the busy TV hosts a much needed oasis of calm; Green Giant - a family in rural B.C. builds a dream home on 76 acres which is as sustainable as it is stylish; Vancouver stylist Carrie McCarthy personalizes her home with unique finds and organic vignettes; Best Benches; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
158 pages. "Takes you deep into cottage country to discover the essence of summer cottage style. Spectacular photographs from Muskoka, Haliburton, Georgian Bay and the Kawarthas capture the time and place we love most... With chapters on experiors, boathouses, kitchens, dining rooms, living rooms, decks, docks and gazebos, verandas and porches, bedrooms, bathrooms, guest cabins and bunkies, wallworks, details, fireplaces and gardens, this is the definitive book on Canadian cottage style." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Remainder dot to bottom edge of textblock. A sound copy of this attractive work. Book
132 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Giorgio Almirante is no Mussolini Yet; If You Think It's Groovy To Rap, You're Shucking - article on new vocabulary of the day; J.I. Rodale - Guru of the Organic Food Cult - photo-illustrated article; Six 'Big Lies" About America - featuring one-page illustration of the Statue of Liberty with a Hitlerian face, swastikas around her crown and a grenade in her raised hand; The Party's Over for the Class of '71 - a report from the University of Chicago suggests the nation's June graduates are facing some sobering facts of life; After Vietnam - Another Witch Hunt? - in the aftermath of the Mylai massacre, William Calley and his Captain Medina; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Interesting one-page color-photo ad for Amelia Earhart luggage features nude model; Nice Tissot watch ad; Mother's Milk or Another Milk?; Fantastic one-page color comic-style Dannon Yogurt ad entitled "Fight Fat"; Nice color ad for Louis Sherry ice cream; Photos of the summer cottage of New York Lawyer Lee Eastman; Two-page ad by the Judaic Heritage Society presents "The Medallic History of the Jews of America"; Friendship Dairy Products ad for their Cottage Cheese; Pennsylvania ad features photo of Amish horse and covered wagon. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
Features: Crisp Colonial influences and a preppy palette give a historic Muskoka cottage a fresh persona, with interior design by Anne Hepfer (cover story); A sleek cedar-clad retreat nestled in the Canadian Shield embodies a new cottage tradition - designed by Meg Graham and Andre D'Elia; Playing with dark and light, a design-savvy homeowner crafts a summer home on the rocks of Georgian Bay; Refashion a garden shed or cottage bunker into an island-inspired guesthouse; Host a simple yet sophisticated alfresco feast; Rashida Jones' eclectic, laid-back California sunroom; and more. 128 pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Sm. 8vo., Fifteenth Edition, with full-page engraved illustration of an ice-house, some mild age-staining to text throughout; original boards, very neatly rebacked in green cloth to style, old backstrip laid down, paper label, boards mildly age-marked at edges else a very good, bright, crisp copy. Cobbett's domestic manual for the labouring classes was first published in parts between 1821 and 1822. An immediate success, it has become a classic of rural and economic literature and is arguably his best-remembered work after 'Rural Rides'.
Sm. 8vo., on laid paper, with a full-page illustration (of an ice-house) in the text, some light and inoffensive spotting; boards, cloth back lettered in gilt, green top, uncut, a very good, clean copy of a most attractive edition. The best modern edition, printed at the Westminster Press
An unmarked workbook illustrating the many architectural syles in B.C. -- from longhouses to Tudor. Many drawings, real estate ads, b&w photos. 214 pages. Oblong. 10 3/4"w x 8 3/8"h.
6 pages. Nice color-illustrated front cover. Average wear. Minimal markings. A sound vintage copy. Sheet music
48 pages. Features: Victorian House, Victorian House Furniture, Colonial House and Furniture, Boulangerie and Furniture, Town House, Quilted House, Cottage Tea Cozy, Mouse House, Wall Hanging House. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
IN-16°, PP. 144, ILL. IN NERO E A COL. DI ANNY EVASON, CART. EDIT., COP. ILL. COL. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO E DI POLVERE, ALCUNE BRUNITURE), COME NUOVO (M), (CULTURA & COLTURE). M 511
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Small tears and edge wear on price-clipped dust jacket. Age-toned endpapers. Colored frontispiece painted by Marian Wrench and forty-four full-page decorative drawings in black and white by Florence Mekeel.
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Full-page black and white photos of: Osborne Palace - Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight; Pope's Villa at Twickenham on the Thames near London; Robert Burns' Cottage, Ayr; The Giant's Causeway - Irish Basaltic rocks; Lakes of Killarney; Palace of Sans Souci, Potsdam; Castle of Rheinstein; The Appian Gateway, Rome; The Grand Canal, Venice; The Grand Opera House, Paris; The Grand Staircase in the Paris Opera House; The Stora Theatre, Gothenburg, Sweden; The City of Lisbon, Portugal; The City of Bethany, near Jerusalem; Native Malay Village - fishermen in boats with raised houses in background; The Cathecral , City of Mexico. . Some soiling. Unmarked. Chips from rust brown covers. Book
