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Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Last Chance for Vietnam - international flare-ups may topple this strategically located country - many interesting black and white photos; People on the Way Up - Peter Beard, Craig Ellwood, Building Designer, The Van Dorn Sisters; Paris gives Women a break, by Oleg Cassini (pages 29-32 loose but present); You CAN afford college - Princeton's financial-aid officer tells how to swing the high cost of higher education; Nice pink Cadillac ad on page 33; 'Common Market' - what does it mean to us? - a report by Christian A. Herter; Hockey's Gashouse Gang - the story of the rambunctious Chicago Black Hawks, the team that scrapped its way to icedom's coveted Stanley Cup (they haven't won it since - very rare Black Hawk material!); City in the Shadow - the ghost of Boss Frank Hague lingers in Jersey City . Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Crooks Get all the Breaks - Virgil W. Peterson; Can our children learn faster? - at the Whitby School in Connecticut, the Montessori method is used to teach the three Rs; People on the Way Up - Gigi Reynolds Carrier, Dick Gregory, Joy Tymezyszyn Jr., Jane Marilley; Abraham Kaplan on 'Are Psychiatrists and Clergymen enemies or allies?'; Connie Francis - what made her a star, and how does she survive the competition?; Casey Stengel; How Sotheby's venerable London auction house sets prices and tastes for highbrows; The Vanishing Hillbilly - the proud Ozark mounaineer is being modernized out of existence as TVs become more common than indoor plumbing. Great 2-page color Chevrolet Jobmaster Trucks ad. Nice Coke ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Galleon Gold - Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg is continually drawn to the silver shoals off the Bahamas to search for underwater treasure; Trapped by the Bor Herd of Elephants; The Mowha Maneater - a tiger story in the Indian jungles; We Chose Danger - an adventure of Frank Illingworth in troubled Morocco; Badboy of the Fisheries - the common seal; H.M.S. Thule Intercepts - an intensely dramatic story of a submarine at war as told by its Commander, Alastair Mars, D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar; Volcanic Island - "I Know an Island"; Swallowed by the Jungle - the conclusion of "Manhunt in Green Hell", a story from the French Guiana jungle; Iceland Pony Race; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chip from spine. Sound copy. Book
31 pages. Features: Canada's first long-distance car rally - Heather Wilson and Margaret Taylor travel 4,098.2 miles; Jack Lemmon went from from Harvard to Hollywood; Milkweed - the Swee-Scented Killer - a common Canadian flower traps many of the insects that pollinate it; Learning how to fall - Judo lessons; Son who sings his mother's songs - Ernie McCulloch of Calgary; Dramatic Canadian Soccer Gamble - $1 million spent to import big-time play - Stanley Mathews, Tony Macedo; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
72 pages. Features: Antisubmarine warfare, the 'St. Croix' and Vice Admiral Rayner; Big crowds for JFK in Berkeley and New Orleans; Test pilot Joe Walker and the X-15; Major Vietnam war coverage; Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; The European Common Market - toward ten; President Ayub of Pakistan; Manhattan's pioneering Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Photos of baseball players Cletis Leroy Boyer and Kenton Lloyd Boyer; Photo and coverage of Jack Nicklaus; Rocket Richard appears in Vitalis ad; Photo of Andy Warhol in art article; Passing of Frank Wilson Braden, Harry Guy Bartholomew, Walter Phelps Hall, Major General Ralph Emerson Truman and Helen Dortch Longstreet; Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov tours U.S.; The P-1127 VTOL; Photo of California hod carriers on strike; Photo of Mr. Norman Brunt of Port Credit, Ontario in Atlas Steels ad; and more. Centerfold ad holding by one staple. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Everyman's diesel primer - the abc's of 'phenomenally productive equipment; Ingersoll-Rand - catalyst of dieselization *extensive and profusely illustrated article*; Joy and Pain on the Boston & Maine. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: Ben W. Heineman; The great Tug-of-War - pushing match at Kent, Washington on 22 February, 1920 between a GE 261-ton bipolar No. 10254 vs. a 278 ton 2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 9520; Classics under catenary (and beside third rail) - from the power in the trolley to the motors fed, electrification has had a common theme - nonstandardization - B&O No. 1 was first, Central's tinplate prototype, New Haven's A.C./D.C. box-cab motors, Norfolk & Western's side-rod box-cabs, Milwaukee's bipolar gearless motors, The Classic GG1, Great Northern Had the Biggest; Muskingum's prototype for the future; The when and if of wires; Those Russian Electrics; The Mystique of Electrification - when we regarded electric traction as noncontagious - hence safe; First Generation M.U. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: BR (British Rail) - a new image; South Vietnam - progress under fire; Railroad news Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of Mexico's National Railway TR-3 Mountain type No. 3306; 17th Annual Motive Power Survey - The Common Denominator - 2,500 HP; A generation passes - Southern Pacific's locomotive 6153 ends its 15 year career; The Aging Dignity of Chicago Union Station - many photos; 4-panel colour fold-out centerfold ad by GM's EMD; Identify 10 diesels by looking at their wheels; If New York Central Says Yes - Central's second look at commuters; Photo of Cass Scenic No. 7, a balloon-stacked three truck Shay, in action in 1964; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo feature on the US Railroad Administration's 4-6-2 of WWI - the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL); A Tale of Two Railroads - Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley have more in common than their deficits - article with photos and map; Ad with colour photos for GM's new locomotives at work in the Rockies; Photo Section; Super 1.5-page 1909 photo of the Delaware & Hudson Camelback 837 on the turntable at Oneonta, NY; And Then There Was One - What's ahead for South Shore, sole survivor of Insull's Traction Triumvirate? - article with photos and map; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The Nunes Brothers' Boat and Ways Company; Chainsaw Lumbermaking - Natural Knees - Will Malloff explains how to cut your own crook timber; The Shipsmith's Art - Turning your hand to forge work; A New ERA - Vic Carpenter's idea of a perfect runabout; Reviewing TARNE's Keel, Part II - the final steps in fitting, fastening, and fairing it in; Inside the Wood Block - a maintenance guide; Jack Tyrrell - a fourth generation boatbuilder; Irish Hookers; The Galway Bay Pucan - a new 'little hooker'; Ancient Curraghs - they may never become extinct!; Improving the classic dinghy - eliminating some common problems; Hardtack's Running Moor - practical sailorizing from times past; Lashmanship - keeping things in their proper place; Boatbuilding in Grenada - a last bastion of wooden boat building with hand tools alone. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The BOWDOIN Project - Admiral MacMillan's Arctic Schooner; Common Sense and the Energy 48; Boat Plans and the Public Domain; Rowing the Maine Coast in a Matinicus peapod; Building MARTHA's Tender, Part III; Ceilings; On Deck - details that look good and perform well; Old Wooden Thistles provide stiff comptetion for their fiberglass competitors; The Vineyard Haven 15; Keeping a Cutting Edge - Handsaws; The Barnegat Bay Sneakbox; Getting the Old Girl Back in Shape - an ingenious resteaming method for easing the tension in new frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Chemistry may become the important post-depression factor; Editorials - extreme naval economy; farm by-products - one dollar for ducks - no dole for us - pilotless plane of the future; Cows fed irradiated yeast give ricket-preventive milk; Space as yet unfathomed - man's report is - "no bottom"; Better engines for navy planes; Speeding rail freight - new merchandise containers carry less than carload lots; Man-made oases in American deserts; Poland becomes a maritime nation - denied use of Danzig, Poland builds her own seaport; Has forest conservation created a false alarm?; Modern coal for modern markets - coal is now washed and thoroughly cleaned; Trademarks in disguise - the secret of a good trademark is its arbitrary nature; How stable is the earth's crust?; Masterpiece of Minoan Art; Babylonian brick reliefs; a link between Hellenistic and Roman painting; Butterfly faking - a new industry - rare and costly species "manufactured" from common varieties; Stone age man's world-wide culture. Back cover boasts colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring illustration of a sultry Jean Harlow. She is quoted as saying "It's a delight to find a celophane wrapper that opens without an ice pick." Average wear. Unmarked. Two very small tears to fore-edge of back cover. Book
PARIS, Imp. Générale Lahure - 1898 - In-12 - 1/2 reliure - Dos à 5 nerfs avec titre doré - Plats et gardes marbrés - Tranche supérieure dorée - Signet - Tirage limité à 200 exemplaires numérotés hors commerce, exemplaire n° 37 - Couverture conservée - 88 pages - Très bel exemplaire Envoi : "A Monsieur le Comte de Montaigu, Hommage affectueux de l'auteur."
in-8 carré, 84 pp., nombreuses reproductions de gravures, broché, couverture illustrée Bel exemplaire. [HA109-8]
80 pages. Combines excellent photographs, some in colour, of the most common prairie weeds with a brief and interesting description of each. Sixty-seven weeds are discussed including the following: old witch grass, barnyard grass, green foxtail, wild oats, couch grass, wild barley, dock, knotweed, wild buckwheat, tartary buckwheat, lambs quarters, saltbush, spear leaf goosefoot, Russian thistle, Russian pigweed, pigweed, prostrate pigweed, purslane, corn cockle, night-flowering catchfly, bladder campion, cow cockle, white cockle, stinkweed, and many many more. Concludes with 4 very useful plates which show the various seeds of the weeds discussed. Book
325 p. 16mo. 170mm. Original full cloth binding. Spine darkened. MOD LIB BX 1 x2
New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961, in-8, tela edit., pp. 524.
Editions de'Aujourd'hui, Les introuvables, 1987, 213 pp., broché, couverture tachée, état correct.
157 pages including extensive. Clear attractive colour photography throughout. Designed to help the reader with both field and laboratory identification of common poplar diseases in British Columbia, and to provide regionally specific disease impact and distribution information, where it is known. Includes host-fungus index for Populus in British Columbia. Lightest wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
23p. Tall 8vo. Red cloth spine over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine. Original front wrap bound in. PA PAMPH 19_6 BX1
48 pages. Features: Great one-page colour-photo Molson's Canadian ad shows the tall bottles they used before the stubbies; Why Single Out Sex as the Only Real Road to Sin? - asks Morley Callaghan; How W.S. (Shakes) Morrison Shook Parliament; Is Anybody Winning the Trading-Stamp War?; The Lavish and Lovely Laurentian Mountains; Can Little Bill Smith lick the heavyweights of Labour? - this transport union leader squares off with Hoffa and Banks; How I Learned About Strangers; A Visit with Mr. & Mrs. Jan Rubes - he's a Czech political refugee; Loneliness - perhaps the most common and least studied social problem of our time; Sir John A. MacDonald's first and only trip to the west - he 'pacified' the Indians, admired the embryo cities, and got stung in a Victoria hotel; Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst movies of 1959; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
A Paris, Librairie Militaire de J.Dumaine - 1878 E.O. - E.O. - Complet en 4 volumes - Reliure 1/2veau de l'époque - Dos à nerfs à caissons ornés - Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge - Pièce de tomaison certe - Plats & Gardes marbrés - Plans en texte (1 déchirée au T. III avec manque - Nombreuses cartes dépliantes hors-texte - T. I) Préface, Table des Matières XV-718 pages + Appendice. 91 bis - T. II) VIII + pagination continue du T.I, 719 à 1631+ Catalogue éditeur 12 - T. III- 1 ère Partie) VIII-616 + Appedice LXXIX - T. III-2 è Partie) VII + pagination continue 617 à 1040 - Très bon exemplaire - RARE Complet
- G. Téqui, Paris 1882, 11,5x18,5cm, relié. - Quinzième édition. Reliure en demi chagrin rouge, dos à quatre nerfs comportant des traces de frottements orné de pointillés, filets et motifs typographiques dorés, encadrements de filets à froid sur les plats de cartonnage rouge, deuxième plat sali et taché, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, tranches marbrées. Quelques petites rousseurs. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
72 pages. Features: Why Britain's biggest stars flopped on TV; Leslie Frost's masquerade as teh common man - the nation's second most important politician - article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison visits Zsa Zsa Gabor - article with photos; The Night of Terror We'll Never Forget - Victor Desgroseilliers, manager of the Dominion store in Cornwall, Ontario, and his family are terrorized by bandits - article with photos; Can we avoid a shooting battle for Berlin?; Self-Hypnosis could help you beat your tensions; Peter Gzowski writes about what it's like to have a famous ancestor (Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski); Breakout at Amiens Prison - amazing article with great photos; Great Tanners Association of Canada colour ad promotes giving leather shoes to dad for Father's Day; How do you get to be a magazine editor?; Nice colour photo ad for Bulova watches on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
