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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
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet inside front cover; The Caravelle Uproar - TCA Wanted a good plane; Ian Sclanders writes on right wing US reaction to the passing of JFK; Massive sales of Soviet gold for western wheat; German family reunions permitted; Lyndon B. Johnson - A Frank Look, by Grattan Gray; Can Paul Hellyer Bring Common Sense to our Defense Policy?; The Violent Art of Rodeo - article by Ian Tyson with four pages of photos by Don Newlands; A Little Honest Graft Never Hurt a Politician at the Polls - with reproduction of BC Conservative ad featuring Phil Gagliardi, William Hawrelak and Kelso Roberts; Anthony Frome aka Abraham L. Feinberg - The Poet Prince of the Airwaves - Tells All - article with photos; Successes and Failures of Harvard man Jim Felstiner with the delinquent youth of downtown Toronto's tough Niagara district; Canada's First Foreign-War Heroes - flashback article on the lusty Canadian rivermen sent to relieve the beseiged Gordon at Khartoum; Nice colour-photo ad for Cameo cigarettes; Brief article on Galina Samtsova; How Armand Vaillancourt won a contest, divided a town - and lost $7,000; and more. Bit of sunning to upper left portion of front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Guest-worker crisis in France; Devil's Lake Corral - white elephant; Barbara Amiel on Canada's native peoples; Cover Story - Thunder from the Tory Right - the PC federal leadership race; Bill Bennett's guessing game; Personal connection between Trudeau and Greece's leader Papandreou; Rampage in Campbellton, N.B.; Settlement of Skagit Valley flooding dispute; Reagan's new arms offer - colour photo of protesters around Greehnam Common; Tragedy in Ethiopia - when ideologies collide; Re-examining the Roberto Calvi Mystery; Columbia - tragedy in Holy Week; Uncertainty in the Beaufort Sea - Arctic oil development; Static in the Stereo industry with the introduction of the CD; Energy prices across Canada; Baseball's Blue Jays flutter to life; nice colour ad for the Commodore Vic 20 computer; Male adventure magazines; Tom Alderman - new star of The Journal. Average wear. Book
52 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
63 pages. Occasional black and white illustrations. "A basic guide based on more than 25 years' practical experience of two authorities in finance and investment." - subtitle. "An introduction to the uninitiated and a guide to the aspiring American who wishes to make a successful investment in the business world of tomorrow." - from Preface. Chapters include: Your Opportunity; The Field of Investment; Your Purse and Personality; When Buying Bonds; Preferred Stocks; Common Stocks; Men and Mechanics of Finance; Investment Trust Companies; Building Your Capital Fund. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this uncommon concise and practical vintage post-WWII investment guide. Book
68 pages. Features: Photo ad for the Sikorsky S-62 (shown afloat) inside front cover; Viet Cong - a threat to peace; Small Unit Operations - counterguerrilla war (part 1 of a series); Nice one-page photo ad for the FMC's new multi-purpose amphibiban LCA; Bell Helicopter photo ad for the HU-1B Iroquois; Guerrilla War and Common Sense - shooting holes in five popular assumptions; Something Better in Fire Direction - Capt J.C. Love's 'Ouija Board' approach to targeting mortars and artillery; Partisans, Guerrillas, and War Depth - A Soviet Tactical Doctrine - photo-illustrated article; Missiles - The Human Factor; Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerrilla War - part 3 of 5 - The Defeat of the Navarre Plan; Standard Pilot - once a definite accident cause is identified it should never be permitted to cause another accident; Prepare for I-I (Inspector Instructor) Duty; Delegate Sir - five steps to effective delegation; Promotions and Transfers; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
603 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. A wonderful overview of Nova Scotia over 100 years ago. The forty-one chapters include: History; Geology; County Histories; Mines; Indians; Tourism; Fisheries; Apple Culture; Agriculture; Institutions of Learning; Timber and Lumber Resources; Paper Pulp Resources; Quarries; Game Law; Birds; Manufacturing Concerns; Institutions for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb; Governance; The Common School System. Prior owner's details neatly written atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Blue cloth attractively adorned with black decoration upon front board and bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding intact with minor spine slant. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative work. Book
in-8°, 202 pages, broche, couverture illustree plast. Tres bel exemplaire. [PH-2]
Arles, Editions Sulliver, 2000. In-8 broché, 354 pp. TB état.
In-12, 439 pages, index, broche Couv. refaite, 1er pl. cons., titre manuscr. au dos. [HI-1]
Paris, Club français du Livre, vol 7 récits, 1953. In-8, cartonnage toile jaune décorée, 468 pp. Tirage numéroté. Cahier de photos.
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."
VALENCE, Favier libr. - 1871 - E.O. - In-8 - broché - 67 pages
Un moment de la carrière politique de Thiers, de sa réélection en 1869 à mai 1871, par l'historien Robert DREYFUS (1873-1939); avec nombreuses citations d'époque; notes. Edition originale, dans la collection publiée sous la direction de Daniel Halévy (3e série); tirage à 3882 exemplaires: 1 des 3650 sur alfa satiné, justifié n°514 (après 62 sur madagascar et 170 sur vélin pur fil). Français
Paris, Grasset 1928. In-12 broché de 347 pages. Rousseurs sur les tranches. Collection Les cahiers verts. Exemplaire de presse n° CLIV
Essays demonstrating how and why Montmartre became a breeding ground for what today is termed popular culture and the ways in which specific artists or groups created images that reflected the environment in which they lived. xvii, 296 pages. Plain dark blue cloth covers, gilt title on spine.
Full blue gren boards show some discoloration. 6 3/4"w x 9 3/4"h, 96 pages. Previous owner's sticker inside. Loose front hinge. Some staining (see photo). A collection of non-fiction stories about such subjects as snow crystals, the aurora borealis, May day, mushrooms, common salt, moose, telescopes, spiders, wool, and more.
128 pages including index. 16 pages of color plate illustrations. "My Book of Insects, Seashore Animals and Fish describes the habits and characteristics of sixty-seven insects, twenty-one common seashore animals and nineteen fish. With its beautiful paintings and lively text, the book is an encouraging and instructive reading book, and children will be eager to verify and increase the knowledge gained from picture-study and reading, by actual observation." - from preface. Bright and unmarked with minimal wear and sound binding. Book
New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961, in-8, tela edit., pp. 524.
RENNES, Imp. Catel - sans date (vers 1868) - In-8 - Débroché - 98 pages + de A à R + XXX pages
56 pages. Features: Colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pumps and bottled oil; Editorial topics include Preserving Balance, The Limit of Freedom, The Limit of Socialism, The Impasse, Adult Education, and Strong Medicine; Nice one-page ad for Waterman's pens features photo of artist Howard Chandler Christy; Travel for the Average Man - article which touches on the tough economic times of the day; Rain Before Seven (short story); Echo of Erin (short story); Modernizing the Land of the Master - great photo-illustrated article on Palestine; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); The Native Returns - photo-illustrated article on Robert Watson's return to the place of his rural Scotland boyhood; One-page Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; The Birth of a Novel (fiction); Nice one-page illustrated Ford car ad shows stylish coupe and traffic cop; Movie News includes photos of Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Montgomery, Rosemary Ames, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Una Merkek, Harold Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, and more; Interesting one-page Lux ad features photo of gagged man; Palmolive ad includes photo of Gladys Swarthout; One-page ad features several Heinz food products; Two-page General Motors of canada ad says "Progress out of the Common Sense of Canadian Motorists"; Legal article; Investment news; Half-page Canadian National photo-ad features budget vacations in Eastern Canada; Cooking article; World Sayings; Chipso ad inside back cover includes colour photo of Mrs. R.L. Pine and her family, plus her black dishwasher Birdie (Bertha); and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Dune Blasters - Off-road vehicles are causing permanent damages to fragile terrains - the situation is worst on Canada's east coast; Lions of the Algal Jungle - The Lion Nudibranch is a top curiosity on the west coast; The World at My Window - Lyn Hancock combines writing witha room with a view; Cacti in Canada - discovering prickly pears and pincushions; The Mysterious Life of the Common Loon. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
23p. Tall 8vo. Red cloth spine over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine. Original front wrap bound in. PA PAMPH 19_6 BX1
grand in-8, 506 pages, reliure demi-basane à coins d'époque, dos à nerfs, titres et filets dorés. Bon état général (reliure fatiguée, plats et tranches frottés). [NV-40]
Tours, Mame, 1896. 2 volumes in-8 reliés demi basane (reliure d'époque), dos soulignés de filets dorés et orné de fleurons, VI-663 et X-403 pp. Rousseurs éparses.
