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Features: The Aviaries of Edward Marshall Boehm; Nomads of the Gabra - wanderers of the wasteland; Photogrammetry Breakthrough - formulas bring honors to an amateur, John P. Snyder; The Space Oblique Mercator Projection; Marine fish in a Freshwater Lake - the enigma of Lake Nicaragua; Photos of rock carvings by Harrison Forman; Sonic Exploration for Subterranean Resources - seismic reflections probe the earth; Ankh linked to Supernova - ancient Egyptian symbol records astronomical event; The Wrangel Island Affair - Vilhalmur Stefansson's expedition; Pampas, Gulls and Gauchos - life on the Argentine Plain. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
63 pages. Features: Some New Flowers for 1982; Early Spring in the Algarve; Spring Bulb Flowers will shine; My Garden - Harold Piercey; Speaking Flowers - Stuart Dickens McHugh; Some Winter Gems - Lynn Stratmann; America's Glass Flower Museum; January in your Garden; Bulbs for the Rock Garden; Cloth Leaves for Winter Decoration; Flowers and Gardens of Mughal, India; Eucalyptus - Grow your own foliage from seed; Hellebores; Some Woolly-Leaved Plants; Make your own Strelitzia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
110 pages. Features: A 1:20 - Scale Sugarcane train; The Pagosa Prairie Dogs - Part 2; Curves - Part 2; Constant Intensity Lighting; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 5; Tom Speer's Hard Rock & Dynamute Railroad; What Dancing Lions and Seabirds taught me about my big trains; Garden Railroading at the 1995 National Home and Garden Show. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
70 pages. Features: G Scale Knuckle Couplers; Don & Thelma Grimes's Railroad; From Roadbed to Golden Spike - Part 3; Assembling Roundhouse's 0-6-0 kit; Some thoughts on Security; The New Enpleinair Railway; Garden Railroading in Dallas; A Flagstop for the Little Garden & Boulder Railway. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
Features: Jewelry Maker's Handbook, Part 3; Indian Style Channel Jewelry; Modified Triad Cut; A Mission in Miniature; Horn-Hacking Hobby; New Mexico's Rockhound State Park; Gold Rock Ranch. Above-average wear but remains a sound reference copy. Date stamp to front cover. Book
Features: Argonite in Holcomb Valley; The Star of Anakie; Dissolving Borax for Micronutrients; Pictures in Rock; Making a pendant without solder; Nevada Goldfield Gem Claim - Clara and Earl Neeser; How to make a Ring; The Technique of Sanding; How to Cut a Cross; Field trips are fun - IF; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Middle page loose but present. Book
186 pages. Features: Angus Young goes off the rails; 50 rock licks you need to know; David Gilmour - new album & new guitars; Oasis; Six songs with bass lines; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's house and street suits; Bills of fare for breakfasts, by Pierre Blot; Manners Upon the Road - of the Indian Summer; New York Fashions - mourning goods, mourning dresses, models, bonnets and veils, wraps and furs, gloves, handkerchiefs; Personal; black woolen lace for dresses, wrappings, etc. imitation guipure; Netted Hair Nets; mignardise and crochet rosettes for toilette cushions, tidies, etc.; Knitted night slip for child from 1 to 3 years old; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold illustration of Ladies' and Children's Walking Suits; Basket for fancy-work, spools, thread; Paris Fashions; Thanksgiving at the Big Rock; Larry's Apprenticeship - an Irish fairy legend; Visiting Toilette; humor. Average wear. Book
72 pages. Songs include: Any Way You Want It; Baby Don't Go; Back on My Feet Again; Computer Game; Fire in the Morning; How Do I Make You; I Pledge My Love; I Shoulda Loved Ya; I Thank You; I Wish I Was Eighteen Again; Lost in Love; Off the Wall; Outside My Window; Refugee; Rock With You; Set Me Free; Us and Love; Where Does the Lovein' Go; With You I'm Born Again; Years. Above-average but not excessive wear. A sound working copy of this great compilation. Book
Features: Great colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad inside front cover; Editorial - how Gulf Oil vetoed Ottawa's pipeline plans; Gorgeous colour-photo two-page ad for General Motors four-door hard tops, Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight De Luxe Holiday Sedan and Buick Special 4-door Riviera; The Unknown Man who bought the Globe and Mail - who's R. Howard Webster? - sparked by Howard's financial wizardry, the five Webster brothers mushroomed the fur and fuel empire their father, Lorne Webster, left into a private trust that virtually blankets North America in the fields of Fuel, Stevedoring, Tankers, Hardware, The Imperial Trust, and more; Why I'm out of TV - Choir leader Dr. Leslie Bell bowed out when the singers became dancers and he was made to act; The Race to sell new cars - the market has been turned topsy-turvy by the hottest competition since the horseless carriage replaced the buggy - great black and white photos!; The blonde who leaps from the clouds - RCAF Para-nurse F/O Marion Macdonald; How they'll blow up Ripple Rock - for decades this underwater monster in the Strait of Georgia has been wrecking ships and drowning sailors; When a Canadian Ruled Oregon - Towering John McLoughlin from Riviere du Loup was king of Columbia - the Oregon and Washington of today; The doctors in overalls who've changed your life - the research done by Ontario Veterinary College; That Yellow Prairie Sky - Robert Kroetsch; Is there Really an Abominable Snowman?, by Willy Ley; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad for Toro (fortieth anniversary) mowers; Colour Visking Weiners ad; nice colour full-page ad for the all-new 1955 Plymouth; Nice colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile 88-98. Average wear. Binding sound. Address label on front. A quality copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Our TV's Hamstrung Before it Starts; Nice 1952 Monarch car ad; Who is to Blame for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the Regina Area? - article with photos; The Beautiful Black-and-White Pinto - story by Elizabeth Ann Cooper, illustrated by Jack Bush; The Hotel with the Elegant Air - Manoir Richelieu - article with photos of this hotel on the St. Lawrence at Murray Bay/La Malbaie in Quebec; I Was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds - Bonus-length feature article with photos of Dr. A. Stewart Allen, a veteran Canadian miissionary who saw friends turn into foes as the poison of communism crept through the soul of a nation he served for 21 years; Sir James Douglas, The Mulatto King of B.C. - a Maclean's Flashback The Courting of Jenny - story by L. Johanne Stemo, illustrated by Bruce Johnson; Hard Rock Miner - Canadians like Dusty Miller blast out one seventh of the world's gols - article with photos; Mickey Spillane's Giving Murder a Bad Name - interview of the famous writer with photos; Nice vintage centerfold ad for Frigidaire refrigerators; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honouring the Governor General's Horse Guards; Vintage colour-photo ads for the Sunbeam Mixmaster and Sunbeam toaster; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Sisman Scampers shoe ad; Man and His Mate - cartoon by Peter Whalley; Outstanding two-page black and white Buick ad with huge illustration of a 1952 model; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and scattered caps. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Contents: Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Legacy of massacre at Sabra and Shatila camps; Can we Afford Public Enterprise, by Dian Cohen; Trudeau delivers ultimatum - greedy wage and salary demands not to be tolerated; Rene Levesque in Paris with Mitterand; Ottawa and Alberta sign energy pact; Western Canada Concept (WCC) in tatters - leader Gordon Kesler sent packing; Italy's search for stability; Poland - dealing with the Vatican; Debategate; Arafat wins a respite; War in Chad; Expos and Blue Jays in first place - feature article; Minor league baseball in Canada; Leo Rautins goes to the NBA; TD Bank ventures toward discount brokerage; Belzberg's First City Trust takes over Pocklington's Fidelity Trust Co.; Simpson's Sears fined $1 million over diamond promotion; Japan in the 21st century, by Peter C. Newman; Growing Canadian AIDS alarm; Legal Heroin in Holland?; Pain of the Triathalon; Women inch toward equality in the workplace; Phil Edmonston and the squeeze on lemon cars; Proposals for dealing with illegals in Canada; Newfoundland's Wonderful Grand Band offers a raunchy combination of satire, slapstick and rock; The annual Stampede Art Auction in Calgary; Alden Nowlan - obituary. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Animals of the Australian Bush; Meet the Grass Family - orchard grass; Nature makes an enchanted isle atop a rock in a garden pool; Our National Scenery in Travel Poster; Nature's Poet Laureate; A doubly floriferous Showy Orchis; Matthew Fontaine Maury's Work Goes On; Goldie, a Chinese Oriole; A life-saving thistle - Evert's thistle; Conservation - what of the closed season?; Conservation and use; Hawks - what they eat; Isle Royale National Park - threat of logging speeds move to preserve this island; A New Defender of the Wilderness - the C.C.C. - Civilian Conservation Corps; For the Duck Record; Cygnus and the Northern Cross. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Mickey Free - Manhunter!, First time ever revealed, the full life story of the most dreaded killer in Apacheria; Tennessee Hell-raiser - Jason Ferdinand Patterson; Defeating the King of the Prairies - the wolf; Church Hollow Treasure; Old Oklahoma's Red Hills People; Mysterious John Day; Satchels, Scalpels and Buffalo Coats - the uniform of a Frontier Doctor; A Former Dorado Looks at Pancho Villa; Historian of the Vigilantes - Thomas Dimsdale; Did George Colgate have to die?; The Widow's Camels; Top of the World - Corona, Colorado; Secret of Skeleton Rock - a missing Army payroll; Murder at Horse Creek - the murder of James B. Jackson and his son; Butte City's Fortune Tellers; Desert Log Drive; Wagons by Studebaker; Kidnapped, Tarred and Feathered. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Average wear. Unmarked. Race to the moon; Will this hot rod hit 400 mph? - Mickey Thompson; Early Night Vision; Brasillia; Faces for Sale - Don Post of Hollywood (masks); Bazooka at work - shaped charges punch holes in rock for industry; Safe Water supply from ponds; and much more. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
98 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
pages 575-538. Features: All-Relay Interlocking at Manchester, N.H. on the B.& M. - two plants installed in 1898 are replaced; Electronics Laboratory Car on the Rock Island; Automatic Block Signals Installed on the Kansas City Southern; Train Communication tested on T. & N.O. Lines of the S.P. - inductive carrier system; Railroad Radio Laboratory Car; Dual-Frequency Yard Communication - Jacksonville Terminal, Jacksonville, Florida; New Devices; and more. Many great illustrated contemporary ads. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
62 pages. Features: All about waxes; Make a Filigree Bracelet; North Carolina Spodumene Field Trip; Utah Septarian Nodules Field Trip; Testing Turquoise; Silver Picking in Seattle; The Glass Menagerie; Jade Blade; Modifying Your Carving Units; Rockhound Cleanup. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Good working copy. Book
Features: Lapidary 1982; Minerals 1982; Lapidary Forecast; Fluorescent Breakthrough; Kachinas - The Indian Saints; Field Trip - Arizona's Saddle Mountain; The 'Golden Meteorite' Nugget; Carve a Chalcedony Rose; Where to Write for Everything; Boxing it in. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamped upon front cover. Magazine
Features: Lapidary Equipment; Minerals 1983; Gold Prospecting - 1983; Jewelry making 1983; Make a faceted Amethyst Pendant; Field Trip - Inyo Rainbow Onyx; Rock Slabs and Waterfowl; Where to Write for Everything. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp to front cover. Magazine
