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Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: Always look back - a portfolio of steam today - smoke over the prairies; 15,806 feet up... switchbacks to the sky! - Central Railway of Peru; Railroad news photos; Miss 2,000,000 miles - after over 800 trips between New York and Miami Seaboard's favorite blonde stille finds trains an adventure; The Power of Pickering - high in the Sierra Nevada hurried exhaust tells of a logging operation which has not exchanged the rubber tire for steam and gears; Steam rules the New York & Long Branch; Toledo, Peoria & Western adds a booster unit; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
Features: Society Honours James Willard Schultz; They Loved Billy the Kid - to them he was 'Billito'; Venerial Diseases among Frontier Troops; The Craziest Trial in California - the first criminal trial held at Sutter's Fort; The Boy Who Turned in the Younger Gang - 17 year-old Asle Sorbel; This Texas Outlaw Had Nine Lives - Dan Bogan, alias Bill McCoy; Shootout at Poplar Grove - Gun Battle in Kennewick, Washington rivaled OK Corral Showdown; The Outlaw Trail - winding from northern Montana to Miles City, then south to Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming; A Sensational Holdup - More than 75 people robbed for 3 horses by the Martin Gang on the Osage Indian Reservation; Wanted - Roy Bean - Before he was the law west of anything, he was arrested in San Antonio for resisting an officer and assault; Killings in Wyoming - Otto Franc's famed Pitchfork Ranch in Big Horn County, Wyoming; Settlers Loved Berry Pies - Forgottin Frontier Food, Part III. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
134 pages. Features: Vogue's Eye View - This is it; Fall Forecast - real-life fashion - the velvet blazer as a suit, as separates; the fur-trimmed coat, the caped coat, belted and swingy; Dressing in layers - with a rolling suede cape, rolled up pants, leotards and little skirts; The new pants suits in mixed patterns; the little knit dress; the black knit dinner suit; the black velvet smoking; Chubbies - new fizz for evening in fur, in feathers; Silvana Mangano; Forecast for legs and feet - the shoes, boots, and stockings to wear with the new fall clothes; Vogue Patterns - You did this yourself? - suit looks for day and evening - and the fabrics to make them in; Clothes to knit and crochet; Gayelord Hauser - "For My Toast I Want Butter"; Motivate Yourself; How do you wear your hair in the blazer life?; The new real-life hair colourings; Working with your hands, by Arnold A. Hutschnecker, M.D.; Country House near London for Prince and Princess Stanislas Radziwill; Horoscope for Maria Elise Crummere; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Covers missing A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: The 8th Air Force's Greatest Day - Fighting the Luftwaffe at 30,000 feet; Was the Bearcat WW II's finest piston engined fighter?; Dolphin and Snipe - the later day Sopwiths; HItting Mach 3.0 in the Bell X-2 Part II. Art: The Great Air Battle of Jan. 14, 1945; Grumman F8F-1 & F8f-2; Grumman F8F-2 & F8F-1. Please note: water-induced rippling to covers and pages. Book
128 pages. "Paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. Provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. Shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. Tells stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms to arboreal palaces lived in by adults. The centrepiece of the book is a photo essay of a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Reading copy only. Very rough condition... as befits a very popular former library copy. Covers detached from contents, but present. Book
50 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
First published in 1983 by Octopus under the title "Cheesecakes and flans". VG in pictorial boards. 12071. eng
198 pages. Author's nice inscription, rubber stamp and signature upon front flyleaf. Rather than a travelogue, this is an attempt to see events in China through author's own eyes and to interpret some of its history through personal experience... "The story of someone who has had a love affair with China." - from back cover. A very personal account of author's involvement with the three modern eras of Chinese history: the last days of the Ching dynasty, the republican years, and the years since the Communist Revolution. Author was born in Hong Kong in 1909. Includes black and white illustrations plus a special slip laid in which depicts the actual size of a shoe worn by women with bound feet. Minimal wear. No markings. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Book
128 pages. Features:The Great new ready-to-wear looks from paris, Italy, and Spain - all available here and now; The New York Collections Evening Report; Chanel 1883-1971; The Beautiful People in the Snow; All the fashion you want for your feet and legs this spring; Vogue's Super Diet; John Marin; Marin on Marin; Yes, Yes, Nanette; Sex - up with the stock market; Solzhenitsyn - Three Short Stories; Detonations in London; On Guadalupe - the live-and-work studios of Jean Schlumberger; A Cruise into Irresponsibility; British Embassy Ball in Washington; Vogue's School and Camp Directory; and much more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
162 pages. Index. Illustrations. A family self-care guide for relieving common foot problems. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Mm 165x235 Brossura editoriale, 173 pagine con illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Libro in buono-ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
pp. vii, 461. Illustrations by Jerry Joyner. Large 8vo. Original full clothbinding, slightly worn. Hardbound. Nice copy. COOK 1
352 pages including index and numerous black and photographic reproductions as well as some in colour. From primitive beginnings Canadian natural gas processing has grown into a massive industry capable of processing billions of cubic feet of gas per day, and capturing a high percentage of the valuable hydrocarbon liquids and sulfur found in the gas. Relates the tale of an industry growing up from an uncertain infancy to confident maturity; tells of the businessmen, scientists, engineers, operators and manufacturers who found the means, both competitive and cooperative, to turn Canada's raw gas into safe and reliable fuel and by-products. Prior owner's small ink stamp upon title page and top edge of textblock. Opening to lower corner of front board (with corresponding loss to dust jacket) otherwise, clean, bright and tight with very light wear. A quality copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover portrait illustration of female member of the military; Ford ad inside front cover features action photo of troops constructing bridge under fire; Nice half-page colour Pepsi ad features naval officer in uniform and illustration of boys swimming; News of the month includes Dissolution of the Third International (Comintern), and Closing Ranks Against Japan; Editorial on Black Markets and Summer Vacations; Jet Black (short story); The Pacific Coast Rangers - photo-illustrated article includes photos of Lieut.-Col. T.A.H. Taylor, O.B.E., M.C., and Col. M.E. Dopping-Hepenstal; Matilda and the Wolf (short story); Key Men of War - an enormous directory of over 200,000 names is relied upon for expertise which has saved hundreds of lives and brought success to major campaigns; Garfield Weston - article with Karsh photo-portrait; Old-Style Cop (short story); Hollywood news - article with photos including Lenore Aubert; Northern Electric one-page ad features illustration of tank; Five to One (short story); Rare one-page two-colour illustrated ad for General Motors and their "Victory Service; R.C.A.F. half-page recruiting ad features lady in uniform having tea with civilians; Wings on Her Feet - first part of a series on AW2 Heck's experiences in the Air Force; One-page Westinghouse ad entitled "After Victory" includes photo of airman using bombsight and large illustration of large artillery piece in use; Woodbury Powder ad includes photo of beautiful Linda Darnell; "What's In My Lunch Box?" - wartime photo-illustrated article on home food tips; Colour Ritz cracker ad features illustration of naval personnel; Canadian Women Take to the Block Plan - photo-illustrated article explains the Women's Voluntary Service and the block leaders they assign, with particular attention to Mrs. Jack Wilson of Rochester Ave. in Lawrence Park in Toronto; Colour Orange Crush ad; World Sayings; Canadian Pacific Air Lines ad inside back cover includes large illustration of much of the northern hemisphere and heading "Wings over the North... and Beyond!"; Nice Kodak black and white photo ad on back cover shows air crew enjoying photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage wartime issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cute photo of skinny-dipping little girl with huge Newfoundland dog; Wartime ad by the Trans-Canada Telephone system explains how citizens must limit use of their services in favour of war activity; Monthly war news update; The Tale of the Lonesome Swine (short story); Drama in the Union Station - Canada's National War Labour Board listens to all comers as it progresses toward its goal of a workable plant for industrial peace - article with photos of Mr. Justice C.L. McTague, Chairman of the Board, Mr. Leo. Lalonde, and Mr. J.L. Cohen, K.C.; Susabelle and Stoney Joe (short story); It's a Rough Road to Rangoon; His Honour the Judge (short story); Hollywood news; Once -age recruiting ad for the WRCNS / CWAC / RCAF; Mosquitoes Sting the Axis - photo-illustrated article on the R.A.F. Mosquito, Mark 11 (Fighter Intruder); Ford Motor Company one-page ad features allied spotters observing an enemy column; Their Watchword "Be Prepared" - the Girl Guides; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Westinghouse ad entitled "The Most Powerful People In the World"; Woodbury soap ad features photos of geology student Joan Patterson of Montreal and her pilot officer fiancee; Colour Orange Crush ad; Interesting article on munitions workers meals; Canadian General Electric ad entitled "Avoid Food Waste"; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Veronica Lake; Wings on Their Feet - part 2 of a series on AW2 Heck's experiences in the Air Force; Ontario Liberal Harry Nixon; RCAF half-page recruiting ad; Highway Women - interesting article on Canadian women who have moved to Northern Canada to support its development; Kotex ad includes illustration of lady building planee; World Sayings; Great colour-photo Coke ad inside back cover shows men working in heavy industry; Nice colour back cover recruiting ad for Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.); and more. Faint pencil name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A qualilty copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features: Nice colour Guinness ad inside front cover; Photos of enemy supply shipping under air attack, and aflame; The new "Covenanter" Tank; Super page of 14 illustrations of Russian aircraft, including a photo of the L-760 six-engined bomber; 2 pages of illustrations of the work of air crews; Photos of the Navy's latest aircraft-carriers - "Formidable" and "Victorious"; Photos of Marshal Vorshilov, Marshal Budenny, and Marshal Timoshenko; Illustrations of Nazi army and air force commanders on the Russian front; Personalities of the week include photos of Lord Gort's official call at Algeciras and Bruno Mussolini, the Duce's second son killed in an air crash; Elevin Interesting photos of action on the Russian front - including the pathetic image of dozens of Russian refugees in a ditch; Impressive centerfold illustration depicts the bravery of the first New Zealand V.C. of the war, awarded to Sergeant J.A. Ward who climbed onto his planes wing to extinguish a fire at 13,000 feet; Photos of British, Australian, and Indian forces defending Malaya against Japanese 'Chess-Moves" in the Pacific; Great photos of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia/Java) in military and naval preparations; Photos of Boeing's "Flying Fortress" on the ground with R.A.F. members; Wonderful photos of Mrs. Washburn - the first woman to attain the summit of Mount Bertha, Alaska; Colour ad for North British Rubber inside back cover; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover shows grain being cut by a horse-drawn machine. Average wear. Faint ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Photos of the memorial services for the "Thetis" victims; Photos of Axis Activities - "Volunteers" return from Spain - Italy's Navy Day - Kondor Legion goose-steps past Hitler; Maps of the strenuous Royal Tour; Cross-section illustration and photos of their Majesties' "Royal Yacht" for their return to England in the "Empress of Britain"; Great photos of unusulally-placed bird nests; Amazing illustrations of the feet of various Australian animals; Colour photos of pageantry at the Aldershot Tattoo; Photos of the Royal Tour through the Rockies from Banff to the Pacific; Five photos of the Royals in British Columbia; Photos of the Royals returning eastward across Canada to Niagara; The King and Queen in Washington - photos; The Royals in New York City; Classy two-color ad for Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. First three pages loose but present. Pages 1127-28 and 1131-32 and any pages after 1134 are not included. Despite its deficiencies, still a worthy copy. Magazine
Moon's Bride Came C.O.D. - After a courtship by mail between Edmonton and Hong Kong, Moon Chai Lim Noey and Chui Man Chan are married - article with photos; The Third Face of Eve - the completely authenticated account of the three entirely separate lives of a young U.S. housewife hailed by psychiatrists as perhaps the most dramatic study ever conducted of the baffling problem of multiple personality - portrayed in film by Joanne Woodward; TV show 'Gunsmoke' - a grown-up western - article with photos of Matt Dillon/Jim Arness; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Coffee Crisp and Aero Chocolate Bars - "Canada's Favourites"; Sandra Dee - brief article with three photos; Feast for Art Lovers - Art Fair arranged by the Women's Committee of the Winnipeg Art Gallery - brief article with many photos; Colour photos of the Royal visit to Ottawa including huge colour-photo centerfold image of the Queen speaking in the Senate Chamber with Prime Minister Diefenbaker to her side; To Win an NHL Title You've Got to Have a Take-Charge Guy - article with photos of Flaman, Jean Beliveau, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Dick Duff and Andy Bathgate, by Andy O'Brien; Family Up a Tree - Amazing photos of the tree house in which the Dorton family lives in Lexington, Kentucky; Fantastic colour photo and write-up for Edmonton Eskimo star Jackie Parker; The Identical Leavy Twins of Vancouver - Jack and Leo are six feet, 10 inches tall and weigh 340 pounds! - article with photos; Photo of Alfons Arndt lifting a polar bear on his shoulders; Nipper cartoon strip by Doug Wright; Gregory Clark tells about the Puff-Ball. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice copy. Book
