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Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
Stories: My Friend the Sea; The Novice; Clearing the Road; Streets Paved with Gold; Derelicts of Misfortune; Through Borneo by Bus; The Tribal Law; When the Tanker Took Fire; The Shot that Failed; Work-Hunting in New Zealand; Tshaka's Treasure; A Run on Raincoats; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. Book
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
40 pages. Coverage of the coronation. Special coverage of Canadians at the Coronation; Nice colour ad for Kraft salad dressings; Coronation Extra - Story by O.P. Paterson; Art for the Great Day - Helen McKie is an authority on regalia; The Ceremony and its Meaning; Article on the Coronation candles made by a small shop in Mamaroneck, New York; Centerfold colour illustration of the Coronation Procession route; The Two (Queen) Elizabeths - part 3 of 3; Attractive full-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Snorkel pen - features hummingbird on dark background; Nipper cartoon by Dough Wright; Unexpected historical Coronation incidents; Full-page two-colour ad for BA and its Peerless motor oil; Elizabethan Cookery - The Gore Hotel in Kensington; N.H.L. Worried over Royal Reaction - Photos of the Queen and her husband at hockey games in Montreal and Toronto; This Duchess has Stamina - Mary, Duchess of Devonshire, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; Half-page ad for M.G.M's fild "Young Bess"; Royalty as a Model, by Marcia Winn; Victoria Eighteen - story by Sholto Watt; Colour ad for Welch's Grape Juice on back cover; Super Coke ad on page 5 features boy eating burger. Average wear. Unmarked. Some chipping and short openings to bottom edges of some pages. A worthy copy of this special issue. Book
40 pages. Features: Colour photo ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Coupe; Harry Peteran - Shoemaker at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy's Fight to Live Her Own Life; Photo of Daliah Lavi; Moonshine & Cookies (fiction); Climbing Through British Columbia - article with great colour photos; How to fill your freezer and live off the fat of the land; The Case of the Disappearing TV - locating televisions in 'hidden' places in homes; Free Shopping Spree - Ruth Buckerfield loads her shopping cart for 6 minutes at an IGA grocery store in North York; Young London Goes Ladylike - great colour and black and white fashion photos of designs by Emmanuelle Khahn, David Bond, Bates, John, Kiki Byrne and Roger Nelson; The Rites of Spring - watching pickerel spawn at Gamebridge, Ontario - article with photos; What Ails Dr. Ben Casey? - a visit with TV's Vince Edwards; Rural Route comic strip by Walter Ball; Montmorency comic. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
9" x 4" map folds out to 24" x 18". Printed in two colours - the traditional Gulf blue and orange. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage road map. Map
128 pages. Features: Cover illustration of puppies for sale; Color-photo ad for a Pink Rambler 1960 station waton inside front cover; Two-page photo ad for Chrysler shows the Dart and Plymouth; Ad for large GMC trucks; Photo-illustrated article on "The Middle East - Explosive, Enigmatic"; Life Among the Pioneers - humorous article on suburbia; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh - short story by Ray Bradbury; Strictly Untouchable (sthort story); I Serve on the "Sin Committee" - George H. Young is chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Infractions; St. Leonard's House in Chicago - a chance to go straight; Nice photo of "Merry Milliners"; Perle Mesta (part 3); Make Up Your Mind (short story); Cause, Chance and Creation, by Philip Morrison; Raid on the Railroad (short story); Montana's Tourist Wilderness - color photos with text; If Hitler Had Invaded England; Beautiful ad for the Turbine Drive 1960 Buick shows red convertible on windy mountain road; The Tewksbury Feud (short story, part 4); Hires Root Beer half-page color ad; 3/4-page color ad for Maine tourism; Toro ad for mower with bagger; Back cover Kodak color-photo ad features Peter Lawford and Family; and more. Moderate moisture exposure to top quarter resulting in mild undulations and some discoloration. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. . Magazine
32 pages. Features: Visit with Helene and Josephine Lewinsohn; A Franklin Writes Back Home to Syracuse; Mini-Meet at Bennington; 28th Annual Trek; Reunion Time for Former Franklin Employees; The Unveiling of Frank Gardner's 1932 163 Touring Tres Speciale; At the Oakman's; List of "Trekkers" attending 28th Annual Trek; List of cars in the Trek; John Burns column on maintenance and restoration; The 1981 Franklin Westrek; Historic Aurora (Oregon), and on the road; At the Kallstrom's; Roster of drivers and cars for Westrek 81; Photos at Forest Grove Concourse. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
146 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. "This history of Lumby and surrounding area within a five mile radius. Covers fifty years of history from 1877 which marked the arrival of the first permanent settler with descendants still in the area." - from page 5. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Please note that this book represents Volume I (only) of the Lumby history. Volume II covers the years 1928-1960 and is listed separately. Book
60 pages. Features: John Lennon cover photo; Winnipeg's Christmas Cheer Board; Gloomy view from Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter in Alberta's Oil Patch; Newspaper groups have become too large, too wealthy and too successful; Silo construction halts air travel to Chatham, Ontario's municipal airport - farmer Bob Walker does not agree to expropriation; Jeworski's general store near Regina does booming liquor business; UBC Professor Cyril Belshaw acquitted of murdering his wife; Jean Lesage - reluctant reformer; Poland marks time on a tightrope; El Salvador's Col. Adolfo Arnoldo Majano; Ballots and Bullets in Uganda; Ronald Reagan's new cabinet; Murder of Dr. Michael Halberstam by Bernard Welch; Oilmen keep up pressure on Ottawa's energy plan; The UTDC and its ALRT; Canada's prime interest rate hits 17%; The Legacy of John Lennon - photo-illlustrated article; Photo of figures skaters Baier and Eisler; Surgeons at Toronto General Hospital lose their viewing gallery in exchange for a new wing; Parapsychologists and the long road toward respectability; Pop Psychology is the newest gimmick on the AM Dial - with photo of Nadine Berger at work; Anne Murray in 'Save the Children' ad; Bruce Springsteen - photo-illustrated article; Book and movie reviews; and more. Neat 2"x1" clipping from bottom corner of front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
6 pages. Cover photo of Marshall Montgomery. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this lovely vintage song. Book
Features include: How They Saved the "Ningpo" - A rare occasion when the tables were turned on Chinese sea pirates in 1945; Before the Fact - A missionary's puzzling story from primitive Africa; Seeking Sheba's "Lost" City - Author describes his adventures in Arabia and his accidental discovery of a practicable route to the mysterious city - abandoned for centuries; Over the Iron Curtain - Two R.A.F. officers endeavour to rescue a young Italian from Budapest in December 1945. The "WAFF" goes recruiting - Some amusing aspects of recruiting young tribesmen in West Africa; Wild Boars and Cattle Thieves - An adventure on a lonely island off the California coast; Zombies - a Haitian story; Island of Ships - Rouad, off the Syrian coast. Front cover detached but in good condition. Back cover almost detached. Most of spine missing. Contents in good condition. Name in pencil atop back cover. Magazine
Features/Photos: The Queen opens the new Forth Road Bridge (includes centre-fold); Farnborough Air Show 1964; New Excavations at Hasanlu in Persian Azerbaijan; The art of Joan Miro; colour full-page ads for the Hillman Imp and MG Midget; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and tables in the text, title and following three leaves lightly spotted; black cloth, gilt back, fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp copy of the maestro's first dedicated biography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous fine coloured photographs (a number double- or full-page) and endpaper maps; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
ST-BRIEUC, Imp. de L. Prud'Homme - 1850 - Petit In-8 - broché - avec liste des évèques nés dans le diocèse de Syt-brieuc & listes des gouverneurs, sénéchaux et maires - 278 pages
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
