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48 pages. Cover illustration by Eric Aldwinckle shows dapper tourist inspecting totem pole. Contents: Short article with photo on North American drought - photo shows sand drifts two to five feet high on the road allowance at Kisbey, Saskatchewan, 4 June, 1937; Uncommon full-page ad for Nesbitt, Thomson & Company - Gold Prospecting Theme; Parcker Vacumatic Pen Ad; The Man Who Was Careful - story by Elmer Davis; Via the North Pole - Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon on what Russia's trans-polar flights mean to the future of aviation - with photos and map; The Road Never Dies, story by Bruce Hutchison; Television Broadcast, by Thomas Wayling - a layman's description of how the new wonder of the air works its miracle - with photos; Beverley Baxter on What's Happening in Europe; - with photos of Von Ribbentrop and The Leipzig; Yellow Cargo - story by Gordon Carroll; How's Your I.Q., by R.E. Knowles, Jr.; No More Bad Men - Dink Carroll writes about Rabbit Maranville, Manager of the Montreal Royals - with photo; Murder in Amber - story by Colver Harris; Animal Anecdotes - Fighting Turtles, by Phil H. Moore; Cigarettes, by Frederick Edwards - article with many great photos of cigarette production; Palmolive Soap ad features the Dionne Quintuplets; Full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee ad bears the caption "What a Gay Dog You Are!" - as a woman dressed as Cleopatra chides her sullen husband dressed as a clown; Page of wonderful ads for thirteen private schools, including photo-illustrated ad for Ontario Ladies' College; Quarter-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition's Coronation Year; Lovely half-page four-photo ad for Quaker Puffed Wheat featuring Shirley Temple; Article on How to Ice a Cake, by Helen G. Campbell; Lovely colour ad for Westinghouse radios on back cover features violin-maker Antonio Stradivari; Many more vintage ads. Moderately above-average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great issue. Book
Features: Your Health and the almighty Pill - overmedication (part 1); Will the Killers Come Here? - a report on the pieds noirs of Algeria, who may soon look to French-speaking Canada for refuge; Canada's role in attempting to discover how David took Jerusalem and where Christ rose again; Paul Anka - a new look at our besn-known export - a 21-year-old singer, composer, and tycoon - with photos; Your passport is suspect - any red spy, international crook or alien smuggler can get one by mail; Indian - a new TV play to read and see - CBC's half-hour George Ryga play; Ton Smits cartoons; Fantastic colour centerfold ad for International Trucks. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of Leonard Rosenberg. Contents: Volvo car ad; California dispute over graveyards for old nuclear subs; John Hinckley's Legacy; How Economics lost its credibility, by Dian Cohen; The Tories Make Their Choice - preparing for the leadership convention in Ottawa - photos of each candidate and a summary of their policy positions; Air Canada DC-9 burns at 31,000 feet. Abortion war in Winnipeg; Canadian bullets in Nicaragua; Williamsburg summit; Is Arafat losing control?; Cover Story - The Fall of a Financial Empire - Leonard Rosenberg vs. Jack Biddell - Greymac Trust, Seaway Trust, Crown Trust; The price of medication - generic drugs - Apotex; Peter C. Newman on Japan - Assembly lines with a heart; Octopussy review and promo photo; Fotherinham discusses Jack Webster's receipt of an honourary degree from S.F.U.; Commodore 64 computer ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Article on how 1,300 BC doctors are 'cutting the cancer toll'; Corruption - a modern manual of Graft in Civic Office; Nice colour full-page ad for the Pontiac Parisienne Sports Sedan; The Hidden Kingdom of B.C.'s Holy Terrorists - The 3,000 Sons of Freedom may be losing their grip on 9.000 more peaceful Doukhobors; Lovely colour photos of seasonal wildflowers; What Thinking Machines are doing for us, and to us; Cuba's program to export revolution - William Eccles' notes after two months inside Castro's camp - many great photos; How Wade Hampton found his feet - on crutches - the disabled former ski champ now heads a company of 50 handicapped employees; There's more in whiskers than meets the eye. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Great Travel Explosion - Suddenly everybody's got itchy feet; The Pleasure of Failure - what famed author Morley Callaghan learned when the bottom fell out of his world; When Sickness Strikes at Night - what can you do, where can you turn for help?; The Prickly Producer - now everyone wants John Hirsch; Montreal's Vieux Quarter - how a dedicated few led the fight to save a city's historic past, with many nice photos; This Army has only begun to fight - the Salvation Army turns 100, waging war to a new jazz beat. Great colour ad for the 1965 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan. Colour ad for the '65 Pontiac on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling with evidence of exposure to moisture. A less than pretty but sound copy. Book
Features: Cover illustration of roller skate accident by Richard Priest; Colour Shredded Wheat ad inside front cover; Victory Bond ad; Editorial - Maclean's declaration of Faith and Purpose; Nice ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; Commandos Attack - Highlights from the inside story of the Commandos - the first official account of the daring exploits of Combined Operations - with photos; Article on taking care of our feet; Arctic Ordeal - C.B. Wall describes an amazing story of endurance after three men crash a plan in Greenland - David Goodlet, Arthur Weaver, Al Nash - with photo; Miss Sherlock Holmes, by Thelma Lecocq - Verda Vincent is Canada's only woman criminologist; Lolly was a Lady - fiction by Ed. Zern; They Kill U-Boats - "Not only must they battle wind and weather but bomb with split-second accuracy - and bring back actual proof of their 'kill'" - by Arch Whitehouse, with photos; Beverley Baxter in London explains how war damages family life; Cross-Canada news bits including bootleg food in B.C.; Greece Fights Back - despite atrocities unsurpassed in the history of tyranny Greek guerillas wage a bitter, stubborn warfare against their Axis foes, by Betty Wason, with photos; Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts of Africa - few men living today have had a more eventful and extraordinary career than this famous warrior-statesman - with photos; The Raiders - fiction by Norman Collins; Troop Troupers - the C.W.A.C. revue that's bringing glamour to Army camps across Canada, with photos; Work and Wages, by S.E. McGorman; Northern Electric Victory Bond ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad with caption "In Wartime eat one more slice of bread each meal!"; Fascinating full-page military-themed ad by Hiram Walker & Sons explains how their alcohol is used in a multitude of military applications; Two-colour full-page Kodak ad shows two Canadian sailor receiving snapshots from back home; Modess ad shows young lady working on a plane; Nice two-colour ad for Van Camp's Pre-Cooked Beans; Full-page Ford Motor Company ad with illustration of Canada's mechanized army at war; Nice colour ad for Quaker Corn Flakes; Rare Colour Coke ad on back cover includes several images of military men. Address label on front cover. Moderate wear. Short openings to and chips from bottom edge of front cover. A sound copy of this significant wartime issue. Book
Features: Walt's Small World - "My hobby... is a life-saver. When I work with these small objects, I become so absorbed that the cares of the studio fade away... at least for a time." - Walt Disney; Mimi Shurr's Tiny Canvases - Bonanza in a Bandbox; Charles and Ferbie Claudon's Kitty Kitsch; Miniature reflections of Maryland's past - an historic rowhouse; Marty Saunders' Miniature Portraits; Sailing London to Perth in Eighth Scale; Wicker Wheels are Turning - barbara Ruemeli; Linda Carmona's Little Lovelies;Teatime in an English Country Garden; Knitting and Crochet Projects in 1" scale; Joann's Fragrant Spring Bouquet; Mary Eccher's Great American Bake-Off - pies for every taste and occasion; Room of the Month - this breakfast in bad Mother's Day means a mess in the kitchen!; Miniature Prairie Bonnets; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Golden rails of the Pacific Coast - a visit to Del Oro Pacific's Modular Layout; A Spectrum of Standards; The South Pacific Coast in 4 by 8 feet - Gary Broader's "Finescale" Module; One-On-One - Model Die Casting's Two Bay Hopper; Landscapes - alpine gardening; Scratchbuild a wood freight platform - every layout needs at least one; Bachmann Coach/Combine Kits; Ask Mr. Micro; Handlaying Track and Building Roadbed; Track car set offs; Keep it Simple. Clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
170 pages. Features: Lisa Steinberg is killed by her father, Joel Steinberg, who also beat his partner, Hedda Nussbaum - sad photos and story. Celebrity-studded opening of the Malibu Adobe eatery in Malibu; Charles and Di in Germany; 40th Anniversary of the King and Queen; Don Cappelletti sells his 90-foot-high home in Marshfield, MA; Jason Miller tests the new weather in Scranton; Donald Woods still seeking justice for Stephen Biko in the film Cry Freedom; Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher; Jonathan Butler of South Africa; Sam Lopata - clown prince of restaurant designers; Moon Pies; Lottery winner Michael Wittkowski - won $40 million in the Illinois state lottery in 1984; Auto Racer Jim Fitzgerald killed in wreck; The New Politics of Pot; Tania Aebi - around the world in 29 months by sailboat; Don Johnson and Sheena Easton announce their TV engagement and hope for a big reception; Poster artist Robbie Conal; Robert W. Duck; Designer Mary Ann Restivo; Staci Keanan of TV's My Two Dads; Marine Corps says good-bye to Charles Russell, its last active-duty WWII combat vet; Siedah Garrett. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Mummified Bulls of Saqqara; Exploratory Mountaineering - the Arctic Islands of Canada; Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe; Fifty Feet of Rain (Island of Borneo); Young Explorers - Nicholas Moore Wiedmann, SM '92; Geographers as Literary Explorers; Dreadnoughts of the Mara; Rio Revisited - Exploring the '92 Global Forum; Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center Established in Beijing. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
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
34981969 Editions Baconnier broché, 134p. Très bon état, non coupé.
2016116548Princeton University Press. New. 2016. Hardcover. 0691167281 .IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer; 8.75 X 1.5 X 12 inches; 464 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover
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
