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Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
38 pages. Contents: Cover photo of the 4/31 Granada organ Loft Club Wurlitzer in West Seattle; The Great Organ of the Mormon Tabernacle - article with photos; Memphis' Magnificent Malco Theatre; James (Jim) O. Carter has loved organs since he was a kid - article with photos; Douglas Spivey and his dad save Robert Morgan organ from wrecker's ball in Durham, North Carolina church; Chauncey Haines - "Tuesday Night at the Silent Movies" - article with great photos; Stu Green and Peg Nielsen wed; Rosa Rio in Cincinnati - she plays the 4/30 Wurlitzer of Stan Todd at his Shady-Nook Steak House in Hamilton, Ohio; Back cover ad by the Rodgers Organ company promotes Lyn Larsen and his album "Something Special". Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photos of the majestic interior of the Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon. My Great Adventure 'Up Over' - Australian organist Tony Fenelon's 31-day tour of the U.S.A in the fall of 1969. The Story of Rosa Rio - wonderful 4-page article with photos. What is Unification? - 4-page technical article. Don Thompson Concertizing in Western U.S. The Young Radical Comes of Age - bring understanding of the Theatre Organ up to date, given its return to the international music scene. Pipe'n Pizza makes Southwest Scene - the "Pasta with Pipes" Phenomenon. Hollywood Cavalcade. New chapter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has smash hit first concert. Tenth Home Organ Festibal at Hoberg's woodland resort in Northern California. *Marvelous* three-panel glossy colour centerfold ad for the Rodgers 33-E Theatre Organ. Reader contributions. Obituaries for Douglas Erdman and Mrs. Felix (Jean) Wiener. The Pipe Piper - a listing of any theatre pipe-organs known to be playing. Chapter news. Letters. Lyn Larsen's Fall Concert Tour. Record reviews. The Music of Jerry Mendelson Captivates Rahway Audience. CATOE members restore Pickwick Wurlitzer. Roland J. Treul moves Barton to his home - story with photos. Nuggest from the Golden Days. A Tribute to Dan Papp. California Miss Debuts on Covina "Wurlimorton" - Carol Jones. Classified ads. Chapter news. Conn Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Bonus: prior owner's A.T.O.S. membership card stapled to table of contents. Book
96 pages. Features: Stupendous prairie grain harvest - with photo of Alta Atcheson of Saskatchewan; Farmer Fred C. Langmaier of Zehner, Saskatchewan; Photo of Pierre Trudeau yachting in the Mediterranean; Peter Lebensold and his 'The Five Cent Review'; Fortress of Louisbourg; Nice color-photo as for the Mercedes-Benz 280s; Color Quantas ad features photo of Koala under blanket in first class seat; Racial Revolt - why the summer was quiet; Photo of burned-out Newark ghetto two years later; photo of fire and riot in Hartford; Ramson for kidnapped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick in Rio; Mary Jo Kopechne inquest delayed; Feature article on the passing of Ho Chi Minh - with photos; Can the hijackers be halted? - already 46 aircraft hijacked this year; Coup in Libya - King Idris is overthrown; Albert Speer - Hitler's personal architect; Isle of Wight music concert - great two-page photo-illustrated article of hippies, Bob Dylan and Marsha Hunt; John O'Brien and Shintaro Okada study Tay-Sachs disease; Charles Templeton is featured in ad for Progress wool fashions for men; Harvey Matusow and the Guerrilla war against computers; James and Diane Pike become lost in the desert near Qumran; Wheat Price War; Restoration of Novgorod Kremlin - article with three pages of color photos of Soviet architecture; Passing of Rocky Marciano, David Karnofsky, Right Reverenc James A. Pike, Josh White, Erika Mann, Drew Pearson, Norman Washington Manley, Betty Gram Swing and Arthur Upham Pope; The Track of the Quarck; One-page illustrated Cominco ad; Toyota Crown ad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Cowboy Issue. Features: Story of the Cowboy; Massacre at Bear River; Legend of the Lariat; The Day the West Went Fence Crazy; Cattleman's War Against the Gray Killer; The "Ten Gallon" Umbrella of the West; The Hired Killer; The American Bronco; Guns That Tamed the Western Frontier; The "Million Dollar" Jackass. Magazine
88 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of Bobby Hull doing Russian dance; Jack Gallagher's new Canada Party; Critique of our school system; The Way We Were at Mount Allison; The Splendid Thompson River; Billy Harris' Mission to Moscow; Paperback Hero - Dan Ross of East Riverside, NB has written 234 successful novels in the past 13 years; The Hatches of Alberta - in praise of Victor and Susan Hatch and their 12 children; What the Ministry of Transport did to Harry Kohne and neighbours in Richmond, BC; Therese Casgrain - enfant terrible at 78; The Joy of Fidelity; Inca Ruins in Legendary Peru; Sensational two-page CBC TV ad entitled "First Choice" features colour illustrations of their dozens of popular TV personalities of the day; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Contest blank clipped from page 81. Missing pages 27-28 which included part of the Thompson River story and (probably) a photo of Billy Harris, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Approximately 200 pages. Text in English. Contains 140 sumptuous colour photos with descriptive text. Rust-coloured cloth front board adorned with colour illustration and brilliant gilt lettering. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Apparently this was a presentation copy as a small business card-sized tag laid in reads "Le Premier Ministre du Quebec." Very nice copy of this beautiful work. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: HBC and the Smithsonian; River of Deadmen's Valley - R.M. Patterson spent three years in the fabled Nahanni Valley; Prisoners of the Indians - continuing the story of the McLean family's adventures in 1885; By God's River to the Bay - God's River in Northern Manitoba; Pullen in Search of Franklin - part II; Tweedsmuir Park - article with photos and map; Voyageur's Artist - Frances Ann (Beechey) Hopkins; Boy Hero - Donald Ayalik; Founding Fort Yukon - the company's most westerly fort was established by Alexander Hunter Murray 100 years ago; Pageantry at York Fort - an eye-witness account of the trading ceremony which was staged at York Factory in the 1770's; ad for HBC prairie farmlands for sale on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. References. Tables. Graph. Map. Colour photo of bloom of Noctiluca scintillans in Dixon Entrance. Chapters include: Shellfish Poisoning; Assay Procedure; Chemistry of P.S.P.; History; Specific Occurences in British Columbia; Ecology; Forecasting; Detoxification; Control Measures; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. Bit of price sticker remnant upon front cover. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
34 pages. Features: Cover photo of beach scene on Mamette Lake; Photo of Eugene Korytniak with massive 69 lb spring salmon from the Kitimat River; You, Too, Can Catch a Statistic! - interesting statistics on last years catch; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Gibbs tackle; Photo of massive Tyee salmon caught off Campbell River; Illustrations show how to get results from your Herring Bait; Remember When? - fishing around Kamloops in the early 1900s, with photo of Mrs. Margaret Scott of Echo Lodge and a catch of rainbow trout from Paul Lake, plus a photos of Joe Kendall in his barber shop, Bert Collins of Cache Creek, and Fred Casey of Knouff Lake; Photo of Jack Finlay and Norman Towe and 352 crows the Abbotsford Fish & Game Club shot on a recent 'Crow Day'; Clay Chips - with photos of Joe Williams, Russ Young, Arnold Reigger, Mrs. Ruth Ray; Verne Greensword, Danny Pagliaro, Michael Fripp, Stu Loutit, Don McIntosh, Jack Radford, Russ Young, Arnold Ford, Tommy and George Freeman, Marvin Hergert, Danny McDonald, and Earle Reynolds; Boats; Safety Afloat; Nice one-page Old Vienna features large photo of trollers proudly displaying their catch; How a good boat driver helps water skiers; Brief illustrated piece on Nikko shotguns from Japan; Photos of Ducks Unlimited officials Fred Auger and Col. Clarence Wallace; Stillwater 'Caddis'; Back cover illustrated ad for the International Travelall; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Features: Mailbag; Photo of Dr.l G.W. Robertson of Bralorne, B.C., Dusty Young of Williams, CA, and Al Elsy, owner of Talchako Lodge on teh Atnarko River - each with a huge fish; Photo of Ken Walmsley and his friend Tony from Kamloops with a 34-lb spring salmon; 1958-59 Hunting Regulations and Game Management Maps (Quick Reference); Binocular Alignment; Ad for Boat, Rod & Gun, located at Seventh (near Kingsway) in Vancouver features photo of Bill Jagoe, "known to thousands of hunters in B.C. as a man who knows what he is talking about when it comes to guns."; Photo of C. Cope of Osoyoos with a nice catch of rainbows from Osoyoos Lake; Clay Chips - includes photos of Bert Whelan, Jim Turner, Vic Reinders and wife 'Tommy', Mrs. Sharen Pilkington and her hubby Ralph with Bert Whelan; One-page ad for the Calgary Brewing and Malting Co. announces their arrival in B.C.; Photo of Ed Meade with E.L. (Ted) Barsby of the B.C. Federation of Fish and Game Clubs; Boy's First Gun - photo illustrated article; The Humour and Truth About Duck Hunting; Ad inside back cover by the Department of Recreation and conservation entitled "Ready For The Field" reminds hunters of good practices; Nice back cover photo ad for the International Travelall includes photo of the vehicle in an idyllic camping scene; Many additional nostalgic ads. Writing on front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Mailbag; Frankly Speaking - loaded guns in cars, Fraser River Steelhead, Industry's Place in the community, Horseshoe Bay (Blackball wants more ferry slips), Club Announcements; Clay Chips; Steelhead Report - the Lower Mainland's fisheries biologist, George Dibble, graduated from U.B.C. and joined the Game Department in 1953 - article with photo of Dibble; Shooting with both eyes open; Photos of the month include Norman Towe of Abbotsford, Frank Andrews of New West, engineer Charlie K. Harman, Bert Holyoaks, Ken Wilson with Hike Richmond, and Spencer Pallot of Haney; Camera! Action! - photography article for hunters; Photo of Tats Gatley holding two cutthroat; Boating content and ads; Ad inside back cover for the B.C. Game Commission presents the ABC's of Sportsmen (suitable for framing); Many additional nostalgic ads. Bits of writing on front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Features: Nice C-I-L ammunition ad inside front cover features illustration of Emerson Clark of Preston, Ontario, Winner of the 1958 Grand American Handicap (trapshooting) - first Canadian winner of this competition in 59 years; Mailbag; 1959-60 Hunting Regulations and Game Management Maps; Game Outlook by J. Hatter; Old Vienna one-page ad features photo of successful duck hunter; Photo of Swedish Sharpshooter and world heavyweight champ Ingemar Johansson in boxing trunks holding Husqvarna rifle; Clay Chips - includes photos of W.A.(Bill) Judge and Frank Cooper; Hunter or Hunted - don't shoot your fellow hunters!; An Extra Duck in Your Bag - how sportsmen can reduce the crippling loss of waterfowl; Nice one-page illustrated ad for new Browning shotguns, the 12 gauge automatic - 5 and 20 gauge automatic 5; Watch Your Sporting Manners; Backyard Fishing - Lloyd Purdy lives in Ocean Falls - article with photo of Purdy holding Steelhead from the Martin River; Boats; One-page ad for the Department of Recreation and Conservation inside back cover gives advice for hunting on private lands; Back cover ad for the new International Travelall station wagon; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
265 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Black and white reproductions of photos. Map front endpaper. A very readable history of this storied British Columbia railway. Prior owner's stamp upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking the dust jacket. A sound copy. Edwards & Lort 2949. Book
254 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Fold-out map. Two maps stored in back pocket include i The Ganaraska Watershed (1942), showing proposed Ganaraska Forest, the river, its tributaries, and ii Soil Map of Ganaraska. Printed upon glossy stock. Prior owner's name and date stamp, and small address label atop first blank leaf. Average wear. Binding intact. Fascinating not only for the terrible environmental damage it documents, but also for the substantial relevant local history included. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Map, car rosters and many black and white archival photos. "The name Canadian Pacific Electric Lines is the unofficial title given to the small electric railways leased by Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario in the early 1900s. These began in Waterloo County between Galt and Preston and the first line, the Galt and Preston Street Railway opened on July 26, 1894." - from page one. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Bit of sticker remnant atop front cover. Sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
94 pages. Features: Cover photo of river crossing demonstration by the 16th and 17th Engineer Combat Battalions at Fort Hood in April 1963; Shore power for the USS Enterprise; Hutment Construction in Thailand; Fallout Protection at military installations; The Stalwart - new British cross-country amphibious load carrier; Richard Gridley - First Chief Engineer of the Army; Tracing Sediment Movement with Radioisotopes; Design with Threaded Nails; Inventory of Freeways by Aerial Photography; The Solar Disc; Navy Crane Moment Indicator; Combat Engineers 21 - The Battle for Ipo Dam - water supply of Manila; Wellington's Peninsular Engineers; Geographical Survey of the West, 1871-1879; Nuclear Power Plant Field Tests - field testing for the PM-1, and Atoms for Antarctic Power; Navy Mobile Power Reserve; Salvaging Rigid Pavements in Georgia; Geology Study for Navy Pier Construction; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this very informative issue. Book
213 pages. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Printed upon glossy stock. The 43 chapters include such topics as Early Port San Juan, Jordan River - Logging with Rail; Sooke and Otter Districts, WWI; The Depression Years; Boyd & Garrison; Seaton, Peatt & Eve, Munns; Butlers, CIP Inc.; Silviculture; and much more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely copy. Book
99 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Black and white illustrations. "Subject was born in 1910 in Vancouver. His family established a homestead in Horseshoe Valley. He worked in a variety of interesting trades and spent many decades living in Powell River, British Columbia." - paraphrased from page 2. Prior owner's name atop title page. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Editorial on Farmer-Sportsmen Relations; Mailbag; Photo of Dr. P.G. Margetto with 30-lb spring; Group photo of Arv. Sestrap, Dr. Duncan, C. Chapman, J. Sestrap and their many fish taken from the Kitimat River; Nice photo ad for Edward Lipsett Ltd. entitled Ready for Steelhead shows angler and much fishing gear; Cold Steel - steelheads in the Thompson River; Nostalgic illustrated foul weather gear ad for Canor Plarex Ind. Ltd. features their sport jacket and steelhead and hunting jacket; Pictorial Story of the B.C. Gun Dog Club Retriever Trial - the many photos include "Hand" Dawson, Oliver Krog, and Jack Smyth, Bill Sinser, Ken Gibson, Chris Burton, Richard Pruden, and Bill Sinser with his labrador "Bulldozer of Crevamoy"; Photo of well-known big-game hunter Jim Bond (who will soon be speaking in Vancouver) seated above a large ram; Club News; Pistol article; Clay Chips - article including photos of Gordon Finch of Kelowna, Ed Richter with Blake Stokes and Ed Brown (all in their 80s), and the winning Kelowna team of Gordon Finch, Art Pollard, Don Ellis, Brian Cooney and Howard Mascron; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover says "Watch That Muzzle! - The 10 Commandments of Safety"; Back cover ad for Gibbs tackle's top steelhead lures; 'Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Small archival tape repair to bottom of coverfold. A quality vintage copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Mailbag; Depends on the Way! - article on trout fishing in the Little River below Squilax bridge, with photo of happy young Ian and photo of Gary; Clay Chips - article with photos of Jim Mathieson and Jim Forbes Jr., Bud McIntyre, and John Haddock of Pender Harbour; Ad inside back cover for the Department of Recreation and Conservation advises "You Require a 1959 Angling License"; Several pages of boating information and ads; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
156 pages. Features: Is your soil building human health; Co-operative feeder sales; Home-grown buildings; The Enloe Family builds a home - Archie and Dal Enloe farm in Arizona's Gila River Valley - article with great color photos; A Woman's touch on tenant land - Mrs. Clarence Denison on the H.E. Brewington Farm, Farmer City, IL; Bluestem Beef; Kennebec - a potato that fights its own battles; Rearranging the rain - California's bold schemes to channel water hundreds of miles nears completion; Shipping research pays off; You walk right in - Ohio's Brueggemeier's cold storage unit; Photo of Acie Miller with his mule which foaled a horse colt; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Earl and Lloyd Becker who farm near Koncoln, Logan County, IL; Plymouth cars; and more. Ads: Texaco ad with photos of John Peterschick of Plaza, WA and his inventions; For trucks (color); Chesterfield cigarettes ad with Alan Ladd illustration plus farmer Leavitt Roberts of Paris, KY; Ferguson tractors; Dodge cars (beautiful one-page in color); International Harvester cominges (color photos); Wheaties ad with photo of Carol Tarrant, of Atchison, KS, Queen of Royal Live Stock and Horse Show; Color Studebaker car ad features Chelsea C. Taylor of Cass County who was named Corn King of Illinois in 1946; Jeep; New Holland baler; Blue Bell denim with photo of Garfield Gaskell; Cone Denim; Swan soap with color photos of young blonde; Lipton Tea ad with color photo of Alexis Smith; Nice color GMC truck ad inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features roller skater Raven Malone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Missing pages 77-80. Two pages loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Kwakiutl Totem Pole Carver Mungo Martin; The Cheerful Eskimo - photo-portraits by Richard Harrington; Ballet of the Brushlands - courtship dance of the sharptail grouse; Bankers from Portugal - Photo-illustrated article on Portuguese activity on the banks off Newfoundland; Changing the Arctic Maps - II - Dr. J. Lewis Robinson discusses the mainland the the islands south of of 75 degrees North Latitude; Mackenzie River Sketch Book; Border Chieftain - Dr. John McLoughlin, of Oregon fame, spent almost 20 years fur trading along the present Minnesota-Ontario border; The Wolf and the Caribou; Land of the Ojibway; Nice photo inside back cover shows Fort Garry Coffee being cooked on a rock; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
[4], 412 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Map endpapers. "A second book of stories of the early Powell River area and some of its pioneers." - Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A superb copy. Book
