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38 pages. Features: Writing-on-Stone; The All Red Route Through the Kootenays; Camels in the Cariboo; A Sea Monster Guarded Islander's Goad; Charcoal's Reign of Terror. Clean, bright copy. Book
154 pages. Features: Preston Tucker's 1948 Tucker - a three-eyed car; 1942 Blackout Buick; 1908 Thomas Flyer, Model F4-60; Super streamlined 1934 Desoto Airflow; 1956 Pontiac Star Chief convertible; Walter P. Chrysler - the challenge to revive Maxwell; Harry Bennett - Ford's resident tough guy tells it like it was; Touring in an old car - surviving trouble on the road; Pebble Beach - a fine tribute to Delage and Delahaye. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover. Magazine
178 pages. Features: The Lozier Story - Part II; The Real McCoy (Corvette History) - Part X; Chrysler's Early Eights (Part II); The Road to Concours d'Elegance - from junk to show winner; Mustant - Ford's Wonder Car - Part I; Vintage Car Races; Degreasing Auto Parts; Cover Car - 1929 Packard Model 6-26; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Canterbury Tale - a great British bus route; the story of Diamond in County Durham; Hugh Dougherty remembers the Glasgow ot Bundoran link; A modern Regent V; Ferry cross the Mersey; Green GS on red roads; More on Shamrock & Rambler names; An OB on the quayside; 100 years of Trent; Badge engineering; and more. Average wear. Couple of library markings. Clear tape along spine. Average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Road Test - Iso Lele Automatic; Evolution of the Sting Ray - article with great colour photos; New Cams for Old; MG Anniversary Meeting at Silverstone; Vintage and Thoroughbred Rileys; Full Bore in Austin 7s - article with great colour photos; XJ13 - behind the web of secrecy that surrounded Jaguar's mid-engined Le Mans contender; Austin-Healey Hundred; Mini-Manual Austin-Healey 100 1953/54, No 12; Bristol 401 Saloon/1952; Nuvolari-campionissimo?; 1939 Daimler - restoration of a rare Straight-8 Daimler limousine; The Birmingham Science Museum; Classic of the month - M45 1934 Lagonda; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The story of the 1958 Chevrolet; 1939-40 Nash Ambassador; 1966-70 Ford Falcon; 1950-51 Studebaker; Allan Kornmiller - from Rambers to Road Runners; 1932 Buick Series 90 Convertible Phaeton; 1956 Pegaso Z-102 Panoramica Coupe; 1952 Dodge B-3-B Pickup. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Singular Horseman - how a Chinese poet came to the aid of a fox-hunting man (Max Brand); Bumping Down to Mexico - Abroad by car, the road to Mexico City (Owen P. White); Bushwacker Brew - Romance and the federal government hit snags in old Bushwhacker (Frederick Hazlitt Brennan); Ready All! - On the line at the Poughkeepsie Regatta (Alastair MacBain); Black Magic - the supernatural cat (William MacHarg); Captain Jenkin's Ear - A Yankee saves the British Fleet (Jacland Marmur); The Prodigal Nurse, part VI - Celia headed for trouble (Teresa Hyde Phillips); Trouble Shooter, Part II - the brawling builders of empire (Ernest Haycox); Statesmanship in High C - Senator Barkley sounds the tocsin (George Creel); Chorus Call, by James Aswell; Keep up with the world - a little learning (Freling Foster); Just for fun - play clothes (Aimee Larkin). Nice colour Ford V-8 ad on page 23. Nice colour Chevrolet ad on page 45. Nostalgic colour Texas Centennial Coke ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
456 pages. Frequently illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings. Topics include: New Dams in the UK; New Marine and Riverside Structures; Loading Tests on Large Bored Piles in Clay; New Zealand House, London; Some New Ecclesiastical Structures; The Economic Design of Members Subjected to Shearing (Ultimate-load Method) - parts I and II; Concrete Structures in Israel; The Principal Post-Tensioning Systems for Prestressed Concrete; Loading Tests on Deep Bored Cylinder Foundations; Precast construction of a training college; Prize-winning Designs for a Motorway Bridge; Research on Concrete Members Reinforced with Deformed Bars; The Inelastic Space Frame - Prestressed Concrete; Concrete Construction at Tinsley Park Steelworks; Construction of Student Hostels; The Counteraction of the Self-weight of Prestressed Concrete Beams; Pressures in Containers of Granular Materials - Parts I and II; Reconstruction of Benghazi Harbour; Model to Determine Temperature Effects on a Cylindrical Structure; A Specification for Concrete; Effects of Oiling and Grouping Prestressed Wires; Continuous Bridges on Elastic Supports; Developments in Foundation Engineering; Progress at Nuclear Power Stations; Removable Wide-slab Construction of a Car-Parking Building; Stresses in Stiffening Beams of Skewed-slab Bridges; A Theory of Bonding - Parts I, II and III; Extensions at Gatwick Airport; Research by the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete; The Design of Concrete Hinges; Installing Pipe-lines by the Thrusting Process; Critical Loads of Plane Frames; Tunnelling Machines for Tube Railways; The Analysis of Stairs with Unsupported Intermediate Landings; The Newark By-pass Road; Special Boundary Conditions in Membrane Shells - Parts I and II; A Multi-Storey Car Park at Leeds; Bridges on the Newark By-Pass Road; Tests on Helical Stairs; Bridges on the Heads of the Valleys Road; Chimney's Constructed with Precast Blocks; New Bridges on the New Motorways - Parts I and II; Practical Analysis of Frames with Beamless Floors; Stiffness Coefficients for Cylindrical Shells; Rapid Construction of a Precast Concrete Building; An Approximating Analysis for Shallow Shells of Translation; Ultimate-Load Analysis of an Edge-Loaded Rectangular Slab Resting on Soil; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Some New Concrete Bridges; Stithians Dam; Cruachan Dam; Prestressed Precast Concrete Construction at Cardiff; A Calculator for Concrete Mixes; Motorway M6 - Preston/Lancaster Section; New Equipment for Concrete Road Construction; Piccadilly Plaza Building Manchester; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessel for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station; Building Constructed over a Railway Tunnel; Large Cooling-water Chambers at Tilbury; Sewage Works, Dalmarnock; Sewage Works, Godstone; Restrained Ribbed Slabs with Distribution Ribs; Library and Swimming Baths, Hampstead; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - I; Early Concrete Buildings in Britain; Precast Construction of Asbestos-cement pipe factory, Eire; A Precast Concrete Fire-drill Tower; A Cantilevered Concrete Grandstand - Coventry City Football Club; Pierced Shear-Walls - I; Modern Designs for Prestressed Concrete Bridges; Stockbury Viaduct; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - Parts II and III; Oil-Tanker Jetty at Milford Haven; Repairs to Piles in Sea-water; Market Hall, Wakefield; Pierced Shear-Walls - II; Developments in Formwork for concrete structures; Air-Permeability of Concrete; A simplified Method of Analysing Free-standing Stairs; Pierced-Shell-Walls - III; Recent Lightweight-Concrete Structures; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessels; Research on Concrete Structures in Nuclear Engineering; Stresses in Wide-Flanged T-beams; Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Town Hall Extension, Ealing; Foundations and Other Construction Below Ground; The G.P.O. Tower during construction; The Design of the G.P.O. Tower, London; Data for Load-Factor Design of Beams and Slabs; The Interaction of Parallel Frames; A Pioneer of Concrete - George Semple of Dublin; Fatigue Behaviour of High-Yield Steel Reinforcement; A Computer Programme for the Analysis of the Effects of Torsion; Design of Continuous Concrete Slabs Supported on Steel Beams; Concrete Roads in Nigeria; Economic Design by the Ultimate-Load Method - Parts I, II and II; Cracking of Slabs Spanning in Two Directions; Design of Bow Bridge Intersection; Membrane Analysis of Parabolic Conoids; Concrete Dam in Yorkshire - The Thruscross Dam; A Code for Structural Lightweight-aggregate Concrete; A New Gauge for the Measurement of Internal Strains in Concrete; Circular Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Recent construction of silos; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
19 pages. Features: Cover photo - CNR class U-2-e 4-8-4 No. 6153 at work; 125 years of steam excursion; 75 Years of Transcontinental Service; Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) - A Sensible Road; Vicinal Museum for Belgium; Montreal Park & Island Railway Steel Car - diagram and specifications; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
A simple Tapping Stand; Stoneleigh Steamers; Farcot's Table Engine; A Fine McLaren Road Locomotive; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; Paddle Steamer Engines by Denny's of Dumbarton. Excellent copy. Book
Features: Corner of the Road - Peru's 'Shining Path' stirs up hope - and trouble - for the destitute descendants of the Inca Empire; Blooming Legacy - Steeped in mystery, the Butchart Gardens flourishes in modern-day British Columbbia; The Ambassador of Baraboo - for Canadian George Archibald, saving the world's cranes is 'of universal interest to mankind'; Playin' Mas - Caribana, Canada's largest annual street party, transforms Toronto the good into Toronto the fun; Superfish - Biotechnology spawns 'tailor-made' stock for Canada's aquaculture industry; Out of the Rock - Printmaker David Blackwood chronicles the lives of Newfoundland's not-so-ancient mariners. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Where Waters Run Brown - Once the 'pearl of the Caribbean', Haiti hovers at the edge of ecological collapse... a cautionary tale; Audubon's Wake - retracing the route of John James Audubon along Quebec's rugged lower North Shore; The Hounds of Summer - Sans tracks, touts and hustlers, the sleek sport of greyhound racing is catching on in southern Saskatchewan; Bound for Glory - with leather and gold, virtuoso bookbinder Michael Wilcox turns tomes into tiaras; The Great Fire - Early European explorers brought more than fresh ideas to North America - how a simple virus (smallpox) depopulated two continents, destroyed their cultures and helped create, among other things, slavery, the fur trade and capitalism. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
160 pages. Features: 2012 911 Cabriolet; Sir Stirling Moss - England's greatest driver on his Porsche years; 1979 911 Turbo - a final year 930 with a few discrepancies; GT3 RS 4.0 and 911 2.0; 1958 356A coupe; Sebring 2012; Smart buy - 996 Turbo - four-wheel drive and 415 hp for $40,000; 1972 911T - a racer becomes a road car again; $4.4 million Porsche - and other notable sales at the auction of 2012; Camp 4 - learning to drive someone else's 911 on ice; Perfect Glass - how to get streak-free, haze-free windows; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Future of Exploration - a scientist forecasts space colonies; Classification of Volcanoes - type of eruption used as guide; Jeanne Gurnee - Dedicated Caver - a productive underground career; Migrating White Storks in Peril - south Sinai wetlands on route destroyed; The Darien of Panama - the twilight of a unique environment; Domestic Dogs from the Neolithic of China - new finds documented in scientific collaboration; Proclomations and Messages observe 75th anniversary; How Dr. Bush retrieved the Time Capsule of 1928 from the cornerstone of our former clubhouse; Nordenskiold and the Northeast Passage - a centennial tribute; Enhydros - how they occur and what we can learn from them; Exploration and Energy - a driving force through the ages. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Daniel Denison Streeter, FN 1913; Amos Burg, FN 1931; U.S. Caving Team Attains Record Depth; Searching for Aloe plants in Africa; Kansas City Museum - Osage culture exhibits; The Dog that helped win the West - Scannon, the Newfoundland dog who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Bimini Marine-Archeology Expedition - underwater formations considered artificial; Rowing across the Atlantic - Curtis and Kathleen Saville in their Excalibur; Exploration under the Arctic Ice - submarine surveyors of the polar region; First U.S. Atlantic Route Flight - William M. Masland was the navigator on the Pan American Sikorsky S-42 that made the first route survey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1937. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Elora Gorge on the Grand River; Sunny Okanagan; Crafts on the River Route - the shore road along the St. Lawrence River; Newfoundlanders' harvest of the sea - with photos of the good old fishing days; From Orchids to Horned Toads in the Cypress Hills of Alberta; Something different in Nova Scotia - changes to Citadel Hill and 'The Ovens". Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: British Columbia - a century of progress - with story and photos; Canada's cradle of celtic culture - St. Ann's, The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia; Rocky Mountain Motorcade - 100-car, 300-man motorcade pioneers 125-mile route from Rocky Mountain House to the Banff-Jasper highway - super photos!; Quebec City's 350th Birthday; Motoring at Fort Churchill; Echoes from an old coach road - highway 33 between Trenton and Kingston. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
Features: Up and down the Laurentians; the dramatic Deas Island Tunnel - article with great photos; Through the Annapolis Valley; Take your children to Storybook Gardens, a project of the London Public Utilities Commission (PUC); History with a high fence - Fort Macleod has captured much of southern Alberta's history and put a stockade around it; Time for all - public clocks in Canada; Imperial has already printed 25 million road maps!. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Highway to Canoe Country - one of Ontario's newest roads leads to the well-established town of Atikokan and Steeprock Mine in Northwestern Ontario; Five Ways to 'Do' the Rockies; The Woodcarvers of Port Joli - Route 2 on the south shore of the St. Lawrence; Twin Brothers, Twin Trucks - The Robertson brothers, Dave and Phil, from near Niagara Falls and their 1948 1/2-ton pickup trucks customized with early truck caps for storage and sleeping, all for less than $50.00!; Those Road Maps, by Lillian Allison. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Time Gun in Ottawa; Cape Breton - an island of contrasts; Winter comes to British Columbia; Pack Knacks - A very nostalgic look at luggage sets; Your Carburetor is a Refrigerator; Bonanza in Bones - Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan; Fairies and Artistry in Muskoka - Fairy Garden at Pine Ridge Road in Bala, Ontario. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Who says pioneering is a thing of the past? - Imperial Oil agent L.M. Fortin and his truck supply road contractors near Beattyville and Senneterre in Northwestern Quebec; Yukon's Highway to the Sea - taking the Haines Cutoff to the sea from the Alaska Highway; The Devil's Hills - Manitoba's desert, about 100 miles west of Winnipeg and 40 miles east of Brandon; Rollin' Along, Singin' A Song - Songs sung across Canada; Logging in the Gatineau - great photos - trucks on the frozen river; Muskoka Pioneers, by Anne Smyth; On to Peggy's Cove (continued from last issue); The Carillon across Canada. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
14 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "Child's Gabrielle Dress and Walking Coat and Ladies' Summer Dresses"; Politeness at Home; Manners Upon the Road - of summer friends; New York Fashions; Nice illustration "The Peddler"; Births in Holland; Hugh Damer's Last Leger - continued; Handkerchief with tatted border; fringe for trimming coverlets, curtains, etc.; crochet rosette for covers, lingerie; Medallions for cigar-cases, etc.; cover for prayer-books, bibles; Hair Dressing - with illustrations; A Very Natural Flower; Chat from the Capital; Useful Recipes; The Empress Augusta - full-page illustration; Invalidism; Notable Sleepers; humor. Average wear. Page 420 loose but present. Book
16 pages. Contents: Summer Hood with Cape - front and back views; Manners Upon the Road; A "New Departure"; New York Fashions - summer mantles, fans, gloves, summer shoes; Personal; knitted and crochet insertion for linterie; medallions for album covers, port-folions, etc.; curtain bands; alphabet for marking lingerie; coffee-warmer; netted cover for circular stand; An African Harem; Gold-Fish; Sayings and Doings; Cambric Garden Hat; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with frills; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with ribbon trimming; Rest; Fischer's Method of Bleaching Straw; Dutch Marriages; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Ladies' straw hats; humor. Average wear. Book
