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Signed, without inscription, by author upon first blank leaf. 238 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. First published in 1946 as "55 Axis." The thirteen chapters include: Defence of Britain; Conquest of Sicily; Fighting Pursuit from Reggio; The Moro River and Ortona Road; The Adriatic Barricade; The Liri Valley Campaign; The Battles of the Gothic Line; The Po Valley Denial; Victory in the Netherlands; The Kiska Connection; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Armorial bookplate upon first blank page. Front cover partially sunned. Binding intact. A sound copy. Cooke p.170 Book
This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. Book
112 pages, including nine beautiful pages of color photos of Crystal. Includes piano sheet music with lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Beyond You, Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger, Cry Me a River, Why Have You Left The One (You Left Me For), Too Good to Throw Away, Hello I Love You, Heart Mender, Paintin' This Old Town Blue, Talkin' In Your Sleep, Somebody Loves You, We Must Believe in Magic, Someday Soon, The Wayward Wind, I Still Miss Someone, When I Dream, I'll Do It All Over Again, Let's Do It Right, Going Down Slow, ready For The Times to Get Better, I'll get Over You, One More Time, You, This is My Year For Mexico, Right in the Palm of Your Hand, River Road, The Green Door, High Time, Coming Closer, What You've Done For Me, All I Wanna Do In Life, I'm Not So Far Away, Wrong Road Again... and more! Store stamp on title page otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful compilation from back in the day when Crystal Gayle was at the top of the music world. Book
64 pages. Features Gross's great song Shannon. Photos of Henry Gross in color and black and white. Other songs include: Juke Box Song; Lincoln Road; Overton Square; Springtime Mama; Moonshine Alley; One Last Time; Something In Between; Someday; Pokey. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Cover photo of Hugh Downs and Jack Parr; Nice Jell-O ad inside front cover shows Chocolate Ribbon Parfait; Two-page Marlboro ad shows predecessor to the 'Marlboro Man', a young fellow in straw hat slouched on a chaize-lounge; Interesting Armstrong Tire ad shows fingers extending from tire to grip the road; One-page Coke ad shows ice fishing scene; Europe 1960 - Americans are swarming there - many photos of this travelogue; Charming Campbelle's Tomato soup shows twins eating; What I Think Jack Paar is Really Like; The Chase That Doomed Adolph Eichmann; Kraft ice cream toppings; Lovely photos of Paris fashions; Albert Lasker and his crusade against disease; Nice photos of Donna Reed and family in Kodak ad; Huge color photo of freckled red-headed boy eating massive slab of watermelon; Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox - The Magic Glove - article with many photos; Nice Pepsi ad shows BBQ scene; Color-photo-illustrated article on the "House with a Hole in the Roof" - built by Eichler Homes, designed by Anshen & Allen, in Orange, California; Photo Quiz; Hogarth - a man's painter; Brigitte Bardot - problem child - photo-illustrated article of her and her family; 7up ad inside back cover shows lady painting on man's back; Groovy Winston cigarette color-photo ad on back cover features male and female disc jockeys; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
88 pages. Colour photographs. Includes music and lyrics from the super-popular 1980s album of the same name. Songs include: Sultans of Swing; Down to the Waterline; Portobello Belle; Twisting by the Pool; Romeo and Juliet; Where to you think you're going?; Walk of Life; Private Investigations; Telegraph Road; Money for Nothing; Brothers in Arms. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
132 pages. Features: It is Happening Here - Current Misconceptions about Communism, by Revilo Oliver; Lincoln's Greatness - 1865; Are Churchmen Burying Us?; Thunder Frightens - Lightning Kills - The Soviet Union and Psychological Warfare; African Witches' Brew Concocted in Moscow - by Major George R. Jordan, author of "From Major Jordan's Diaries"; The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped - "The most infectious point of the disease is the family mailbox. It is here that so much of the pornographical sewage is dumped into the hands of so many of our children"; Let's Take a Look at the Good Guy; "From Your Valentine"; They Make Earthquakes - using seismic technology to find oil; Is Cultural Diplomacy the Road to Peace?; Hollywood Makes Me Laugh - M.J.R. Arthur's journey to the Panamanian jungle; From Religious Rite to Billion-Dollar Business - the origin of the popular pastime of bowling may astonish you; Alcoholism - a major problem; Slave Labor - USSR; What Kind of "Tic" Do You Have?; Foreign Aid Summary; Subjection... Disguised as Rebellion - progress that veers left tends toward subjection; research is Risky Business; We Adopted Two Orphans - Madeline Angell and two squirrels; Socialism by Default; Food for Peace and the UN; Benefit Program; The Administrative Agency Colossus - how laws are made and perverted with neither Congressional action nor judicial review; Guard Our Youth; A Growing Indignation - distrust and resentment to decisions from the Supreme Court; That Temporary Act - enacted as an emergency 26 years ago the TAA has been a millstone around the neck of U.S. industry; How to Win a War; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
408 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Two fold-outs. Many archival black-and-white illustrations. Hand-numbered copy number 811. "The history is traced from the first surveys of Pickering Township, to the establishment of Brock Road, then Bentley's Corners and finally Brougham. All aspects of this typical Ontario village are covered - social, educational, recreational, government and business - from its infancy in pioneer days to 1973. The final chapter deals with the controversial airport, proposed by the federal government, which would have obliterated this historical village." - from dust jacket. One of the better local histories from Ontario that we have seen. Moderate wear to clean, unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. Prior owner's name clipped from top of title page. Sound copy. Book
192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
92 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Eskimo-American Girl by Neysa McMein; Lovely full-page black and white ad for Victola on page 3 (featuring model No. 360); Full-page black and white ad for P and G Naptha soap on page 4 entitled 'From Arizona to the Adirondack'; "A Great Rushing of Wings, by Emma-Lindsay Squier - illustrated by Maurice L. Bower; The Midnight Revel, by Thomas Hardy - illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; The Candle in the Window, by Margaret Hill McCarter - illustrated by Edward F. Ward; Christmas, by Gene Stratton-Porter - woodcuts by John J.A. Murphy; The Splendid Road, by Vingie E. Roe - illustrated by Robert W. Stewart; Reversion, by Robert W. Chambers - illustrated by Gerald Leake; The Loring Mystery, by Jeffrey Farnol; The Gods He Served, by Melville Davisson Post - illustrated by C.D. Mitchell; Spanish Sunlight, by Anthony Pryde - illustrated by James H. Crank; Charming 2-colour Campbell's Soup ad features Campbell kid with calendar and title 'Never let a day go by without eating soup!' - 21 kinds, 12 cents a can; Fels-Naptha ad; Pond' cream ad; Brown Durrell Company - Gordon Hosiery ad; Awsome colour ad for Mazola salad and cooking oil; Nice Eureka vacuum cleaner ad; Forest Mills Underwear ad; Davenport Bed ad; Montgomery Ward Catalog ad; Wonderful full-page color ad for Diamond Walnuts; Fantastic full-page color ad for Kraft Cheese; Page 64 contains a complete Christmas game which can be cut out and played; 13 pages of wonderful vintage clothing styles for women and children; Full-page ad for Fleischmann's Yeast; Lovely color Colgate ad on back cover features Christmas gifts 'that are sure to please'. Unmarked. Average wear to contents. Covers detached and heavily worn, but present. Please note: One-third of page 41 has been removed - it appears to have contained a 'tempting hint for holiday cheer'. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Zemstvos Gathering in Russia; Elections in the Interior; West Hastings Ballot Box Case; Fighting the White Plague - Enthusiastic Gathering and Sale of Work at Balmoral Hotel; Canadian Northern Track Layers Making Good Progress; Atlin Flourishing; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Half-Acre Lots: Just off Gorge Road, For Sale at $200, $225 and $250. (A Good Speculation)" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
Cover: Queen Elizabeth II Special Feature: Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. Includes: Article "Your Undoubted Queen"; The Ceremony in Pictures; Article-The Great March Past; The Royal Progress (photos); At the Palace and on the Route (photos); Article - Singing in the Rain; Article - Men in Full Dress; The Royal Family's Day (photos); Article - The Royal Family at Home and Article - The Royal Family's Fishing. Other features: Top-Gear Hawking; A Townsman in the Country: Reverie on Four Coronations; Sculptor of Animals - Herbert Haseltine; Country birds come to town; and Pattern for Ascot. Pages numbered 1053 - 1100. Average wear. Writing in ink pg. 1053. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Magazine
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold out map inside back cover entitled "South Haven Peninsula - Studland Heath, To Illustrate the Paper by C. Driver". Features: The Blosseville Coast of East Greenland, by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen; The Physiography of South Haven Peninsula, Studland Heath, Dorset; Observations on Certain Antarctic Icebergs, by J.M. Wordie and Stanley Kemp - photo plates of icebergs with different colours; Frederik Hendrik Island; The New Road Map of Great Britain; The Mount Everest Expedition; Photographic Surveys - Review. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
48 Pages. Features: Dominion ammunition ad inside front cover; Full-page Sun Life Assurance ad; List of open seasons for game, 1931-1932; Sky Trails Above the Rockies - Hal Roach followed route of pioneer fur traders (along with Kenneth Allen - guide, Clair B. Brunson, and Harvey Crate - guide; The Perils of Woods Travel - by Grey Owl; Above the Timber Line - unusual animal, bird and tree life; Mowitch to the Minute - a true story of the hunt - why the big ones always get away, by Hamilton M. Laing; ; The Practice of Tree Surgery - article with great photos; The Plant as Artist and Architect; From Dwelling Place to Home - Herman Larsen, a prairie farmer and tree lover, shows how trees make home prosperous and beautiful; New Forests that Follow Fires; Forest Fires in 1930; Logging on the Pacific Coast - How B.C. Giant Timbers are Harvested - article with photos, by James Kay; Fenders Best Quality Spruce - a new use for spruce left following pulpwood operations; Little Puzzlements in Conservation, by Ozark Ripley; Half-page ad for the Waterous Twin Engine Feed for portable and small sawmills; Davey Tree Surgeons ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note: missing pages 19-22. Book
Features: Baseball isn't our national sport, by George Preston Marshall; My views on Berlin - Dwight D. Eisenhower, long article with many photos; People on the Way Up - Beth Burt, Tom Meschery, Katia Saks, James McDivitt; Second-Chance Actress - how Anne Bancroft hit the glory road, with the aid of her psychiatrist; PT-109, The Adventure that made a President, Part 4 of 5; Ad for Honda's 'Fabulous 50'; When Strangers Tour the USA - here is what visiting Europeans think of us; My Life with what's left of Society - Cleveland Amory takes a close look at himself and America's upper crust; The Fight for Rule of Labor - this week's Miami Beach convention of the AFL-CIO will chart the future course of American unionism - photos of George Meany, Jimmy Hoffa and Walter Reuther. Great color Cadillac ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
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
