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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
Features: Rebirth of an Aquamarine Mine; Buyer's Guide - Hand Power Tools; The Greek Had a Word For it; Where's the Fire, Mac - Opal Misadventures; Hammer and Anvil Forging; Micro-Mounts; Heel Ends into Gem Slabs; Beyond the Sidewalk; Lost River Caverns; Steam Casting; Bhend Brothers' Saw; Points to the Past. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy with above-average wear. Magazine
Features: Geodes at Rabbit Springs; Buyer's Guide to Wax Pens; Dowsing for Jade; The Bola; 50 Bola Tie Ideas; 'Tuffa' Casting; Color in Rocks and Gems; Findings and Mountings; Good Hunting in the Badger State; $5 Soldering Short-Cut; The Gems of Idar-Oberstein. Above-average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp and some crayon marks to front cover. Magazine
Features: Gold Rush Country; The Seahorse Nugget; Make a Slab-Sided Box; Selenite in Oklahoma; Gemstone Stories; Mineral-in-depth - Versatile Fluorite; Gemstone Fireplaces; Buyer's Guide - Expoxy Adhesives; Casting Surprises; Testing the Gy- Rock Vibraphone; Little Rock Obsidian; Mineral destruction; Seashell Jewelry. Above-average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Table of contents nearly detached. Still a useful reference copy. Magazine
Features: What is a Lapidary Shop?; Field Trip - First-Time Fairburns; Gemstone Table tops; Make a little Finger Ring; Ornamental Stones for the Lapidary; Silverware Revolution; Field Trip - Bisti Badlands; Rainbow 'round your neck; The Lure of Gold; Field Trip - Strawberry Onyx; Wax Masters for Castings; Gold - Doubling up Pays Dividends; Field Trip - Rainbow Basin. Covers torn and in rough condition. Contents sound. Magazine
Features: How to Forge a Ring; New Mexico's Catron Country; Casting with Water-Soluble Wax; Mexican Wulfenite Discovery; Beads and Bear Claws; Ben Mayo - Space Age Silversmith; Make a Bead Punch; Seashell Roses; The Precious Plumes of Graveyard Point; Rack'em Up; Pt. Mugu Coquina; Working with Opals. Above-average wear. Date stamp and company stamp to front cover. Magazine
Features: Creations in Wax/ Detectors for Treasure; Field Trip - Walk to a Gem Field; Gold, Silver, Copper, and Quartz; Fresh Water Pearls; Field Trip - Mother Lode Serpentine; Underground Collecting; The Minerals of Naica; Carve and Cast Buckles; The Vibrating Lap; Field Trip - North of Juneau; Rockhound Charm Pendant. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp on front cover. Magazine
Features: Christmas and the Rockhound; Christmas Decorative; Center for Advanced Gem Studies; Last Chance Fossil Beds; Diamond Knowledge; I Bought a Bottle of Opal; Geodes; Tennessee Geodes; Its Pointsettia Time; Rockhounding in Lime Gulch; A Rockhound's Christmas Tale; Tools of the Trade; A Lapidary Christmas Tree. Somewhat above-average wear. Date stamp upon front cover. Sound reference copy. Magazine
Features: Buckling Up with a Cabochon; Gold Alert!; Gold Panning Goes High-Tech; Field Trip - Utah Wonderstone; Team Channeling; Field Trip - Wiley's Well; Rock Art; Field Trip - Mount Antero Crystals; Peridot; Treasure Hunting; Today's Metal Detectors; Seashell Pendant; Follow the Rules. Average wear. Date stamp on front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Silversmithing the Navajo Way; Rockhounding in the City; The Value of Opal; The Colors of Minerals; Gold in the Tailings; Micromounts; Field Trip - Army Pass Crystals; Field Trip - North Carolina's Hiddenite; Mr. Roger's Silverwork; Serendipity Gold; Gemstone Grand Tour; Rings from Scrap; In Search of Gold. Average wear. Binding intact. Date stamped upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features include: The Stars Behind Ray Charles; It's All Right - The Impressions; What Happened to the Elvis We Used to Know?; New Group in Town: Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters; "I Don't Want to Grow Stale" says Bobby Vinton; The Leading Surf Band: Surfaris; Your Rock and Roll Favorites; Down Memory Lane with the Olympics; Let's Take a Trip to the Sugar Shack; Big Maybell's Daughter - Betty Harris; The Music Man: Freddie Scott; and Rock & Roll Back-Stage. Cover loose but present. 5" opening on page 31/32. Back cover has two minor openings and bottom corner is missing. Front cover bright with little wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
20 pages. An early provincial booklet promotiing hunting and fishing in British Columbia. Undated - appears to be circa 1920s. Includes black and white reproductions of photos of: a flycaster with fish in net; a morning's catch of salmon at Campbell River; Four river fishermen in what appears to be a native-style carved boat; great shot of a dozens of caribou fording a wide body of water; a mounted bull moose head; smiling hunter standing over 4+ dead grizzlies; mounted big-horned sheep head; Wapati; large herd of caribou on a high plateau; coast deer; mountain goats on a rock face; prize-winning mounted head of a mountain goat. Includes considerable supporting text. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage B.C. collectible. Book
Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
