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4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, green top, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of a standard reference.
Oblong format book is in excellent condition with lightly bumped corners and very very light edgewear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 376 pages with many b&w maps. Chapters include: kemps of the kemp road, arab lake homesteads, big salmon lake, amey road, kingford dam, hardwood bay road, clear lake road, roushorn road to slide lake, logging in frontenac
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, title-vignette, 26 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, minimal spotting to text; original pictorial terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in dark red, uncut, a well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp, firm copy. With the fine etched armorial bookplate of R.J. Carthew on front paste-down, and blind stamp of WH Smith on front free endpaper.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, 26 plates and 46 illustrations (several full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly foxed, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth blocked in black, pictorial backstrip lettered in black, uncut and partially unopened, covers mildly age-stained, backstrip dulled (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy of a scarce account.
Signed by author on bookplate on front end paper. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small enclosed tear to spine and traces of storage. 128pp. The definitive guide to Porsche 911 evolution covering all production versions 1963-1993, covered in depth with over 200 specially commissioned photographs. Tucked inside the rear jacket is the original publisher's invoice for the sale of a signed copy.
184 pages including index. "At the time when I undertook to write this book, the defence policies of Canada were a matter of greater public interest than perhaps at any previous period in time of peace since the Dominion came into existence in 1867. Today, with the country involved in a new Great War and that war in a critical stage, they command still more attention. This volume is presented as a possible contribution to public information and discussion on the subject... Intended to provide an outline of the history of Canadian defence policy, with emphasis upon the most recent period." - from Author's Preface. Chapters include: Geography and Canadian Security; The Military Institutions of an Unmilitary People - Canadian Defence Policy to 1914; The Great War and After 1914-1935; The New Defence Policy 1935-1939; The Second World War. Appendices include: The Hudson Bay Route; The Militia Reforms after 1989; Defence Expenditure 1929-1939; plus notes. Some yellowing to contents. Moderate wear to navy cloth-covered boards. Map endpapers. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Full-page photo memoriam for Merle (Jerry) J. Duryea, 1895-1957; Restoring the Easy Way; Transcontinental Records - interesting article and photos; History of the Automobiles Turcat, Mery et Cie of Marseilles, France - major article with photos and specs/details for their cars from 1899 through 1933; Horn's Cars of Yesterday; Automobiles and Road Building in the Alabama Black Belt after 1900; James Melton Autorama - photos with captions; Emblem collection (with photos); 100 Miles per day for mThree Months (in 1902) - Henry Hewetson; Touring the Junk Shops; Model T Topics - related to commutator; How the Rambler Got its Name; In Duster and Veil; The Story Behind the Picture - The EMF Pathfinder stuck in mud in 1909; Steam Corner - Development of the Piston Valve Cylinder to Replace the Cylinder on a Regular Stanley 20-hp. 4 x 5 Engine Frame; The 1957 Detrick Steamer; Questions and Answers on Stanley Steamers 1920; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
235 pages. Compiled in the spirit of the Kelly family reunion which has occured regularly since 1946. Includes: Beverages, Appetizers, Salads, Soups, Meats and Sauces, Seafood and Fish, Potatoes and Rice, Pasta, Vegetables, Casseroles, Jams Marmalade Pickles and Relishes; Pumpkin recipes, Muffins and quick breads, Cookies, Pies, Desserts and Cakes, Miscellaneous. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this precious Kelly family heirloom. Book
Cover illustration with caption 'Damascus in British Hands." Topics include: Hindenberg's 'super-barrier', the Wotan line; The Man Who Would Be King; What Bulgaria's Surrender Means; Hope amid the French ruins; American's First Army Moves Towards the Moselle; The Flanders Battlefields, by Hamilton Fyfe; Mating the Huns' Insidious Moves in Siberia; Recruits Who Rally to Freedom's Allied Flags; Allied Activity Against Bolshevist Anarchy; Dawn of the Day of Deliverance for Siberia; Road Signs of the War; Active Anzac Guns that Give the Foe No Rest; Air and Sea Escorts Defy Underwater Craft; Up in a 'Zepp' Hunting the U Boat, by Sydney A. Moseley; Varied Activities of the Devoted V.A.D.; Problems in the Labour Market, by W.L. George; Red Cross Targets at which the Teuton Aims; Huns Crumbling - Not Yet Broken, by Frederic William Wile; The Breach in the Balkans. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Still a worthy copy. Book
Cover illustration depicts 'First-Aid' for Fighting Tanks. Topics: Photo of British Troops at the St. Quentin Canal; What the British Army Has Done, by Lovat Fraser; Great Joy in Lille Delivered from the German; General Ludendorff by Hamilton Fyfe; Bridging Difficulties on the Road to Victory; Helps and Hindrances along the Lines of Advance; Real & Realistic Tanks in the War-Swept West; Free after Four Long Years of Oppression; Ostend won back from Unconquerable Belgium; Foiling the Foe from the Alps to the Adriatic; Ministering Women Whom Men Hold in Honour; Hun Obstacles that Failed to Hinder the French; With the 'Chinks' (Chinese Labourers) in France - Stories of Loyal Helpers from the Far East; Murder on the High Seas by the Kaiser's Minions; On Active Service - Glimpses of V.A.D. Work; Valiant Men Rewarded with the Victoria Cross; 'Back to Your Beer-Mugs' - Germany from Within by Frederic William Wile. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blind, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 201). Perkins & Parry, p.105
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, title-vignettes, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original pictorial buff cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in black, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 304 pages with many full-page photos, biographies, overhead photos, etc.
84 pages. Features: Interview with U.S. newsman Edwin Newman; Classy two-page ad for Seiko digital watches; Volkswagen Rabbit ad; This Country Showed Such Promise Once...; Nice color photo ad for Sears/De Beers Diamonds features new mother with child; CN Rail ad features image of executive R.R. Latimer; Media coverage of the House of Commons; Willy De Roos sails into Vancouver's False Creek Harbour, setting a world record for fastest Northwest Passage trip in the smallest craft ever to make the route; John McCallum burned by Winnipeg restaurant pyrotechnics; Bloody Italy - terrorist casualties mount; AMC Concord car ad; Ad for Montreal's Quen Elizabeth Hotel - the two storey hotel; Nice Pentax camera ad; Feature article on filmmaker Harry Rasky; Gilles Villeneuve - The Next Canadian Hero - photo-illustrated article; Lufthansa 737 hijacked to Mogadishu, Somalia - Entebbe-like rescue; The Ulster Peace Movement and Ciaran McKeown; Allan Bakke claims reverse discrimination at the University of California's medical school; Celebrity news about Linda Rondstadt, Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson and Billy Graham; People rush to Northern BC for pipeline and other opportunities; Trevor Pilley of the Bank of British Columbia (B.C.); Dodge Magnum XE colour-photo ad; The new 'Ottawa Today' newspaper; Ad for the Audi 5000; Musician Murray McLauchlan; Allan Fotheringham says Toronto may finally have something going for it!; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 213-252. Features: Two Victors in use with the Enfield School of Motoring pass the 100,000 mile mark; Poffle to the Peaks - photos and article of a continental trip; First appearance of teh Hadrian Bedouin motor caravan; Ten Simple Things to Know; Photos and write-up of a demanding trip in Asia; Tale of a Sale - W.L. Vollum describes his sale of a car; "Okay", a 1923 Vauxhall has been serving a Devon farmers for four generations - photo and article; Autocar road tests the overdrive Cresta - detailed article with photos and specifications; Photo instructions how to fit your engine with the new heavy-duty big end bearings that are being fitted to the 1961 Victor models; How to avoid parking tickets; Letters from readers; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
99 pages. A detailed history of Mill Bay, British Columbia and its people. "When white men came in the early 1880's, Mill Bay was a vast forest, great trees covering the eastern slope to the water's edge. There was almost no undergrowth as sunlight could not penetrate to the forest floor. Since developers have discovered Mill Bay, there is very little uncleared land left." - from introduction. Includes interesting archival black and white photographs. Author was born in Mill Bay in 1904 and grew up on Cobble Hill Road. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 137-184. Features: Insurance Pitfalls; Here's our Taxi Now - Tiny's Radio Taxis operating in Southend use a 100% Vauxhall fleet; No Sooner Said Than Done - new computer equipment put to use by the company (wow, the computer is huge!); Brakes - a detailed two-page illustrated article of how they work; Requiem for old Roads; Stand by to Cast Off - a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads; Die Romantische Strasee - the 200 mile romantic road in Germany; Alan Briton's Views - on such things as the new two-lane bridge over the River Medway on M2; Steering - how to avoid trouble; Don't Throw a Tantrum - how to avoid road rage; Nice Velox ad inside back cover; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Many black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Features: Robert Clay Allison (The Wild Wolf) - the cowboy gunfighter born near Waynesboro in Wayne County, Tennessee; The Early Cattle Trails - Three Mountain Road, Wilderness Road and Bay State Cowpath were forerunners of the Longhorn highways; Dakota Mail Riflers and Special Agent John B. Furay; A Hallway in Hades - Quicksilver/Mercury discovery on a section of land owned by Howard E. Perry east of Terlingua, a hamlet of jacals in the Big Bend in Brewster County, Texas; A Man the Earth Talked To - Senator John Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst; The Indians Named Him Shine - Shine Smith's work with and huge Christmas parties for the Navajo on an impoverished reservation; Murder at the Sawdust Pile - Martin Zidmair and murder near Livinston, Montana circa 1903; Prettiest Girl at Wimberley's Mill, Texas - Virgie L. Moritz (nee Mayes); Peyote Priest - James Kassanovoid, Comanche; Iron Horse vs. Dobbin - the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Eugene with Medford, Oregon; A Town of Gourds - Calabasas in the Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona; Fleet-footed Frontiersmen - William Price Cooper outran Indians, and their ponies, to save his skin; 101 memories, and then some! - Col. Frank S. Giles and the 101 Ranch; Leechtown Legends - small gold rush town 20 miles northwest of Victoria, British Columbia at the junction of the Leech and Sooke Rivers ; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - their characteristics, customs, habits, religion, marriages, dances and battles; Mrs. Faye Shobert of Central City, Colorado discovers Lost Gold Mine on her property!. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Exercise in Space - interesting article with photos explains how the company seeks to minimize the space of the shipping boxes it uses to transport its vehicles by ship; Vintage Ride - a wonderful 2856-mile trip that was made in a Vauxhaull 30/98 at Luton over 40 years ago; Garden Guests; Dressed in White - photos of a trip to St. Moritz by Douglas Dickins in his Vauxhall; Major Roads Ahead - some of the many road building projects presently under construction; "Motor" road-tests the Victor Super - detailed review article; Alan Brinton's View; Fishiology - An Gilmour's fishing trip in her Dormobile caravan; Art in Iron - photos of signs; 65 m.p.h. in a speed-limit area - not 'dangerous'; Readers letters; Many pages of great ads; Nice colour photo ad on back cover for the VX4/90. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
622 pages. Above-average wear. Many student markings, primarily upon front endpaper. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Canada at Work - These are the Workers - colour photos and brief writeups of the following workers; Beverly Frederickson of Winnipeg, Abner Napoleon of Montreal, Ed Weiterman of Edmonton, Shyanne Smith of Saint John, Wallace Wisen of Halifax, Elizabeth Wardle of Whitehorse, Eldon G. Owens of Moose Jaw, Frank McNeill of Alberton, PEI, Monika Wicha of Toronto, Peter Howard of Vancouver, Peter Cardinal of the NWT, and Theophilus Noel of Labrador. The Long, Lonely Road - article and photos of the life of long-distance truckers Bud Ferris and Marcel Clement; Labour Minister Bryce Mackasey - he's brought a new look to labor-management relations - article with photos; Tips for children's parties you will always remember; According to Doyle; Sportsman cigarette ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Cover photo of Dr. Henry Morgantaler. Contents: Nostalgic Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Sidney Jaffe abducted from a Toronto Street; The trials of Leonard Jones of Moncton, New Brunswick - ardent opponent of official bilingualism; Bill Bennett girds for a grinding battle in B.C.; Brian Mulroney steps forward; Bad chemical spill at E.B. Eddy mill in Espanola kills 100,00 fish in Lake Huron; Philipps/Micom word-processor ad; Ronald Reagan and the black vote; Poland suggests it may lift martial law prior to visit of Pope John Paul II; Defiance in Chile - protests; Bomb in Orly Airport; Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping discuss future of Hong Kong after 1997; Rough road to rearmament in Japan; Joyce Davidson and David Susskind to divorce; Margaret Trudeau and Fred Kemper to wed; News re: Sylvia Ostry; Maislin's bid for survival (trucking company); Ramifications of the Morrison Report in Ontario - investigated the activities of Leonard Rosenberg, William Markle and William Player; Peter C. Newman writes on why Halifax will benefit more than St. John's from the development of offshore oil; The Nation's New Agony Over Abortion; Video games become more realistic - Dragon's Lair; Mystery at Sick Children's Hospital - multiple infant deaths; Blacks bleaching their skin; Diver Sergei Chalibachvili dies in Edmonton; Antismokers flex their muscles; The Arrival of music on CD; Gabrielle Roy - Obituary; Joe Schlesingere comments on Debategate. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Taxes in Sight - Can't Balance Budget - Is a National Sales Tax Coming?; Opposition to new taxes; Reaction to Rhode Island Vote - with illustration of Senator Peter G. Gerry, Democratic Leader; Illustration of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross Chairman; No Federal Dole After Fall; New Mint at San Francisco and New Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky; Foreign News; Hitler keeps up pressure on Catholics and Jews; Attempted assassination of Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas; Italy offered land by Selassie to ward off threat of fight with Ethiopia; Current events - with illustration of boxer Joe Louis and photo of Senator William E. Borah; Congress; Capital Chat; Marketing; Many Interesting Methods Used in Color Printing; Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Photo of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; Science News; Aviation - Pan-American making final arrangements for California-China air route; Women of the world gaining rights they have long fought for; Photo of Japanese young ladies available for marriage through the matrimonial bureal; Social Security Law - key stone of new deal social reform to benefit 30 million; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. 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