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Features: Sugarland, by Norrell Gregory; Sparrow, by Margaret Warde; Wade's Tough Luck, by E.E. Harriman; Tom Scanlan - Second Mate, by Wallace E. Mather; Football - 1926 (with photo), by Jackson L. Cannell, Assistant Coach, Dartmouth College; The Berkshire Boy, by MacGregor Jenkins; Through the Dragon's Teeth - I, by Lewis R. Freeman; How to Groom a Horse, by Parkhurst Whitney; After the Shutter Has Clicked - 2, by Harry Irving Shumway. The Periwigs have a Contest, by Mary Booth Beverly. Nice Dodge Brothers Motor Car ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Striking dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb
Pages 127-186. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Woodsville - feature article with dozens of photos; The Vaughans - a California Idyl (continued); The Origin of the names of the towns in Merrimack County, and also the date of their settlement and incorporation; The tunnel-seat and the window-seat; The days that have gone (poem); The militia - the safeguard of the state; The song sparrow (poem); Arter David; A song (poem); A compromise with a spectre; My Grandmother's ghost (poem); Nice photo ad for the Boston and Maine Railroad inside front cover; Illustrated ad for Coates Clippers of Worcester, MA inside back cover; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
58p.,frontis. SOFTCOVER. One of 600 copies in paper wrappers. Author's presentation slip & 3 Black Sparrow ads laid in Paperback Very good condition
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, title in red and black, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map in pocket at end, preliminaries lightly spotted; original red boards, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, vellum back lettered in gilt, red endpapers, boards lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 93). Loosely inserted is a slip from the publisher announcing the availability for sale of the author's original drawings for this work.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 70 pages. Slight wear to cover. Smells a bit of nag champa incense. Paperback edition limited to 1000 copies.
80 pages. Beautiful cover illustration of Canada Geese by A.J. Casson. Features: Colour photo ad for Eversharp pens and pencils inside front cover; Beautiful Toronto model Betty Syme featured with her son 3-year old son Paddy in a multi-photo ad for Ipana toothpaste; The Last Delegate, fiction by Margaret Lewerth; Stuttering Can Be Cured, by George W. Kisker; Big Larry of U.B.C. - Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie is President, by Clyde Gilmour; Hut Scene, fiction by Ralph Allen; Stries Without Strife, by Clarence H. Curtis; They Won't Go Home - Homeless, hopeless, buffeted by propaganda, a quarter million world war II Displaced Persons (DP's) rot in exile rather than face the real or fancied terrors of home, by Blair Fraser; Fall of the Sparrow, fiction by Robert Fontaine; Full-page Karsh colour photo of Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis, 17th Governor-General of Canada; Ballerina Tamara Toumanova - article with six photos; The Gift - fiction by Louis Kaye; Are The Russians Mad?, by Eddy Gilmore; Happy Island - Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Bulova; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel; Fantastic colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile Series 66 Club Sedan with Hydra-Matic Drive; Colour Northern Electric ad displays their range of radios, waching machines, refrigerators and electric ranges; Beautiful full-page colour Pontiac ad features a 4-door model; 2-page black and white Buick ad; Full-page colour ad by Erven Lucas Bols, a Dutch Distiller, thanks Canada for liberating their country from the Nazis; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft featuring the Canuck; Interesting ad by Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener, Ontario presents details of 'The Expanding Home'; Colour ad by O'Keefe's Brewing Company on back cover features Southern Ontario - Canada's Industrial Province; plus many more wonderful ads and short articles. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Address label atop front cover. A superior copy of this magnificent vintage issue. Book
Pages 119- 152 plus sixteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Saskatchewan's Oil and Gas - major article with many excellent photos including Tommy Douglas on the podium; Some Birds of Canada; The Canals of England; The Craft School of Fundy; Voyages of Discovery - British Columbia; Canadair one-page ad with illustration of their Sparrow II guided missile; and more. Faint date stamp atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: "The Military Profession - Lt. Gen. W.A.B. Anderson, Commander of Mobile Command; Biathalon Training; From North Star to Southern Cross - The Travels of a Yukon and its crew; Destroying a beached Second World War British Mine, lodged in driftwood on a Vancouver Island beach; Sea survival for Starfighter pilots; They were given a real bridge to blow up - 2 Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers brings down the old Hawkshaw Bridge, mid-way between Fredericton and Woodstock, N.B.; Shades of Alley Oop - a CH-113A Voyageur removes dinosaur bones from their ancient resting place; Classroom for the sea - Fleet School (Pacific) at Esquimalt (5 pages); The Buffalo Aircraft - Our newest tactical transport; Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile systems. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: BHC (British Hovercraft Corporation) - a leader in the sector; Which frigates for Canada?; Project - Lamurs 40; European Point Defense Systems - naval Crotale, Sea Wolf, Albatros, Dardo, OE/OTO 35 mm, GDM-A, Sea Sparrow; Farnborough '78 Preview and Buyers Guide with specs and illustrations; Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Sikorsky Hawk Family; Turkey bids to booster air power; S.79 - the Hunchbacked Sparrow. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy long ago released from a library, so rebound in black buckram, with title in gilt on the spine, also a number at the base of the spine. NO other library marks or pockets, etc. The title page has a bit of oxidation to the top of the page. This very soft paper typically attracts foxing. Very clean throughout. A few edge tears now closed. The color plates are printed on white glossy sheets and are fine. 36 color plates + 121 black & white illustrations + 27 figures in the text. 11" high X 8" wide, 189 pages + ads. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
