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144 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Black and white photographic plates. Statistical tables. "Paints with a broad brush the popular, imaginative aspect of the industry." - from Foreward. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Great 'Star Wars' ad inside front cover; 'The Duellists' - photos; Genetic Genocide - Author Michael Chrichton discusses the serious underlying dangers of the modern scientific world as dealt with in his latest work, 'Coma' - with photos; Magic film from Jean Cocteau - article with photos (part one); Films and Filming awards for 1977; Reviews - 'The Apple Game', 'Death Trap', 'The Duellists', 'East of Elephant Rock', 'The Intruder', 'Julia', 'Martin', 'My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga and Julie', 'Padre Padrone', 'Pumping Iron', 'Wizards'; 'First Love' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on an appreciation of the career of Bing Crosby; 'Saturday Night Fever' - photos; 'The Deep' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Features: Rate application explained; Reprints of Victoria Times and Vancouver Sun articles on B.C. Tel's application for higher rates; Lionel Edwards is featured in a photo-illustrated article on how he uses an oscilloscope to spot faults in the video portion of television transmission; Photos of preparations of new automatic equipment in Kerrisdale for a 20,000 line conversion - with photos of Glen Turner, Len Davis, Thor Andersen, Berry Smith, Harris Howe, Fred Smith, George Kozak and John Green; Retirement photos of Vera Gillespie and Nancy Robertson; 19 photos of recent sales training to boost sales of new equipment and services; Photo of Norm Adkins with a huge capacitor; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston phone system upgrade - with photos of George Patterson, Norah Payne, Frank Darlington, Ken Owen and Jack Uphill; photo of iron lung at Pearson Hospital; Photos of Poole Construction working on the Alaska Highway and using new radiotelephone service; Five photos of the B.C. Tel exhibits at the 1958 P.N.E.; One-page map of Victoria and vicinity shows free-calling areas; Feature article and photo of Fred Feeny of Gibsons who is also a volunteer fireman; Company picnic photos; In Memoriam - John W. Hough, Annie Campbell, Archibald Broadfoot, Eileen Auton, John A. Lee, Arthur E. Nash; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
232 pages. "From Keenan's earliest coaching days in junior hockey to his disastrous time with the Vancouver Canucks to his recent attempts to return to the NHL, Keenan takes an honest inside look at the most controversial coach in hockey history." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket in Brodart cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Nice gift for your favorite hockey fan. Book
78 pages. Features: Olaf Skoogfors obituary; American Craft 1976 - Affirmations; Works in Wood - Robert Strini; Guild of Book Workers; The Paper Constructions of Neda Al-Hilali; The American Indian and the American flag; School for American Craftsmen - 25th Anniversary; Maria Martinez - Pueblo Potter; Glenda Arentzen's Magic Metal; The Design of Gae Aulenti; Forged Iron Today; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Many black and white illustrations. "An objective and unbiased look at an important historical component of the European anthropological scene." - from page 1. Average wear. Some curling to corners. Unmarked. Book
50 pages. Features: ads for 'Cross of Iron' and 'The Last Tycoon'; The Right Look - interview with Oswald Morris on the changing role of the cinematographer as truth competes with illusion; 'In Nome del padre' (In the Name of the Father) - photos; article entitled 'Italnoleggio'; Photo-illustrated article on the cult movie 'Singin' in the Rain'; 'Jabberwocky' - photos; Reviews - 'Joseph Andrews', 'The Story of Adele H', 'The Sentinel', 'Shadowman', 'A Star is Born', 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane', 'The Fate of Lee Khan', 'Charlotte', 'When the North Wind Blows', 'The Pink Telephone', 'Le Puritan', 'Exhibition', 'Le Baron Fantome', 'Sweeney', 'Les Violons Du Bal', 'Blue Belle', 'Black Moon'; 'East of Elephant Rock' - photos; 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane' - photos; 'The Brute' - photos; 'The Devil's Playground' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Dean Martin has the Last Laugh (without Jerry Lewis); The Beast of Belsen and the Dragon Tattoo; The Shrinking Violet - a story for lads with taller sweeties; Sucker in Paradise; Those Brooklyn Indians - 5,000 Mohawks in New York's most famous borough - Iron Workers, Big Chiefs of High Steel Construction; "My Favourite Girl" Photo Contest; The Man Who Married Annie Oakley - Frank Butler; The Great Football Swindle; Chinatown's Bloody Emperor - Fung Jing Toy evaded 200 attempts on his life; The Real-Life Drama of Willie the Actor - Willie Sutton; Yankee Lynch Mob - an angry crowd goes berserk at Port Jervis, New York; A Sight for Tired Eyes - Gale Fagan; Killer Trail of the Glanton Gang. Many nostalgic ads. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
108 pages. Features: Color-photo Volvo car ad; Nice color-photo ad for the Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 7000; Brooklyn Ghetto Child Baby Love; Ronald Reagan decides to build the MX missile and the B-1 Bomber - article with great color photos; Selling AWACS to the Saudis; Two-page Itt Canada ad features their numerous Canadian industrial applications; Is John Hinckley crazy about Jodie Foster?; South Florida swamped by refugee needs and violence; Graft in Oklahoma; How to cut benefits without hurting the truly needy - school lunches; Nissan Stanza ad; Nice one-page color photo ad for CP Air's Empress Class service; Ad for the Olivetti S6000 computer; Nice color-photo ad for the 1982 Mazda RX-7; Unemployment Plague in Western Europe; Solidarity sticks with Lech Welesa, but his policies are attacked; West Germany sends superspy Gunter Guillaume East; Bloodshed in the streets of Iran; Buick ad for the 1982 Riviera, Electra and Estate Wagon; First Person Account of Life in a Khomeini Prison; Wiser's Whisky ad features photo of master blender Keith Baldwin and many co-workers at the Thurlow Township distillery; Taipei rejects Beijing; 8-page color ad feature for Sheraton Hotels; Soviet Rockers - Woodstock, Yerevan style; Whiff of Panic on Wall St. - article with inset photo of Joe Granville; Sonny Cough and a once-only tax-free deal; Color-photo Luxman stereo ad features inset color photo of Boris Brott, conductor of the Hamilton Philharmonic; The Bath Iron Works in Maine; Color-photo ad for the 1982 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue; Coping with the high cost of moving employees; Art Feature, "Paris 1937-1957 - An Elegy"; Celebrity color photos of Chester Gould, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner and Alfred Kahn; U.S. Cities look to Europe for more livable streets (trying to tame the automobile); Nice color-photo ad for the Toshiba Beta V-8500 VCR; Two-page ad for the Peugeot 505SR car; Photo-illustrated article on singer Pat Benatar; Pulp industry ad includes color photo of waterbomber in action; Color photo ad for the Chevy Cavalier; Large protest for black colleges in Atlanta; Karpov and Korchnoi meet in chess; The Hinckley Case and the Insanity Plea; Passing of Romulo Betancourt, Robert Montgomery and Harry Golden; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; A Salute to Southern Pacific's Overland and Shasta Route - poetry with photos; Tide 470 - Two Chesapeake & Ohio hopper cars star in a drama (cover story); The Elegant Virginia City Private Rail Car; The Architecture of the Locomotive - photos and article; Samuel Unsull's - exit the Electric Interurbans (3); Britain invaded by Diesels; To Chama, Colorado and back on two pieces of D&RGW narrow iron; Southern Pacific's new Englewood Yard at Houston; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: News Photos; Engraving - The Promise of the 1890s for Baldwin Locomotive Works; The Shawmut Line; The Problems of Grade Crossings; Destroyed by Fire - The Waterlook, Cedar Falls & Northern lost more than statistics can tell; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Keeler Branch; Ore-carrying Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's husky power - second of the series; New York Central's curious compound 4-8-4; What you think about subsidies for railroads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Treasure of Toussaint Kensler; Saved by a Hyer Boot!; Blood Brothers - Walt and Jesse Iron Horn seal their eternal friendship; How Paddy Martinez found Uranium; The West's Most Puzzling Lost Mines; The Gum Shoe Kid - R.W. (Bob) Thaler; Was Belle Starr Killed by Mistake?; My God, Ain't That Beautiful! - The Carlsbad Caverns; The Marshall and the Indian - Murray, Idaho; Indian Wolf's Secret Gold Reserves - the Palouse Indians; The Nerve of Doc Adair; Lost Gold of the Guadalupes; Wild Old Days!; Daddy Dun's a Dandy - big cattle men; Farewell to Grayhorse. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Honor among horse thieves; Mystery tablet of the Big Bend - Hot Springs, Texas; The Troubled Life of a Bicyclienne - Annie Sylvester; Mason's Cattle Drives; Story of an Emigrant Boy - Fort Mason, Texas; Idaho's Last Indian Scare; Hard Luck Iron Mule - used for pulling wagons across the plains; The Girl Who Waited at Seaman's Rest - Tacoma, Washington, 1905; Dead Man's Well - Was Susan Hail its Victim?; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
100 pages. Short Stories: The Marriage Wrecker; Reckless Voyage; Bait for a Bachelor; The Message. Articles: What Negroes Can Learn From Gandhi; Fury on Ice - The Richard brothers of the Montreal Canadiens, Maurice (The Rocket) and Henri (The Pocket Rocket); We Motored to Moscow - fascinating photo-illustrated article about a drive behind the iron curtain; On My Own - part 4 of 'my round-the-world adventures'; We Hunted Sharks and Sunken Gold - color-photo-illustrated article on treasure hunting in the Caribbean; The Navy vs. "Going Steady" - the Naval Academy's new experiment in forced-feeding social life. Serials: Hornblower and the Pirate Plot (conclusion); The Case of the Footloose Doll (part 5 of 8). Ads: Great color-photo Camel ad inside front cover features power lineman at work; *Sensational* De Soto two-page color photo features white car surrounded by nine sailors in white uniforms; Maytag dryers; Simmons mattresses; Oldsmobile with trans-portable radio; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Pontiac - with photo of futuristic monorail 'Trailblazer' in background; Cushman 'Eagle' (minibike); Lucky Strike Cigarettes (at basketball game); Thorexin; Arrow Shirts; Fisher Body; Butterscotch Lifesavers; Renault La Dauphine car; Sealtest Black Raspberry Ice Cream; GMAC; Canada Tourism; Westinghouse TVs; Oasis cigarettes - on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
126 pages. "Recounts the step-by-step infiltration of Communism in China until the time was ripe for the final take-over by force. A story not of a benign agrarian revolution but of the unfolding of a ruthless plot strikingly similar to the Red conquest of other lands that have gone behind the Iron Curtain. The author writes with a sense of urgency in the belief that complacency and lack of wide-spread appreciation as to Communist technique are still handicapping the West in meeting the threat of International Communism both at home and abroad." - from front flap. Author was in charge of the hospital in Chungking for over twenty years. Prior owner's name atop title page else unmarked. Average wear. Book
36 pages. Features: ; Many photos of Anti-Aircraft instruction in England; Photos of gunnery practice of the H.M.S. "Iron Duke" with shells visible in air; The Men Responsible for our Defense - photos of leaders of Britain's Navy, Army and Air Force; Full-page photo of a typical British solder of 1939 with full equipment; The Modern British Army - a Force Prepared, Equipped and Trained for service abroad - nine photos; Two-page illustration presenting the various aircraft of the Royal Air Force; Ten photos of the French Army - A Force with Great Traditions; Four photos of the French High Commands - on land, sea and air; Illustrations of aircraft of the French Air Force; Ten Photos presenting a Conspectus of the German Army - Mechanised units for "Lightning War" - Infantry, Tanks and Artillery; Centerfold map of Europe illustrating many possible theatres of war; Eight photos of the types of aircraft in the German Air Force - Bombers and Fighters; Page of photos of Germany's Military Leaders - Herr Hitler and his chiefs of staff; Excellent full-page photo of Sir Nevile Henderson boarding aircraft as he leaves Berlin; Dramatic two-page photo of the members of the Reichstag giving the Nazi salute to Hitler; Photos of London preparing for war - sand-bagging, setting guns, putting children on trains out of London; Photos of precautions at Canterbury and in the Capital; Photos of the Signing of the World-Staggering Non-Aggression Pact - Russo-German Smiles in Moscow - Stalin, Von Ribbentrop and advisors; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Two pages almost loose. Pages 399-402 missing. A worthy pre-war reference copy despite these deficiencies. Magazine
362 pages. The author shares his variety of experiences with the British Navy in WWI. Contents include: Scapa Flow - H.M.S. Iron Duke; Serbia-Smederevo-San Giovanni Di Medua; Harwich - H.M.S. Centaur; Nieuport Bains - The Royal Naval Siege Guns; Zeebrugge - H.M.S. Vindictive; Archangel - The Armoured Train. Lengthy gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
H. DUNOD ET E. PINAT. 1910. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Coiffe en pied abîmée. Intérieur frais. XXII + 408 + LXI pages. Nombreuses pages découpées en fin d'ouvrage. Tranches dorés. Reliure façon cuir.
L'Esprit du Temps. 1991. In-12 Carré. Broché. Très bon état. Couv. fraîche. Dos impeccable. Intérieur frais. 82 + 77 pages. Illustrés de nombreuses reproductions en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Ouvrage de G. Bouchon: Réimpression à l'identique de l'édition de 1891 chez Gounouilhou (Cinquantenaire de l'Inauguration du C.F. de Bordeaux à La Teste, 1841-1891). Illustrations de M. Gustave LABAT.
SNCF. 1952. In-4 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 381 pages. Illustré de nombreux graphiques et schémas en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. Plusieurs planches dépliables. Dos muet. Petit tampon (Dépôt de Bordeaux Saint-Jean) et annotations sur le 1er plat. Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français. Frein Westinghouse. Frein Kunze-Knorr. Frein Hildebrand-Knorr. Frein Bréda...
SNCF. 1953. In-4 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 114 pages de texte (vol. I) et 87 pages illustrées de nombreux schémas en noir et blanc (vol. II). Tampons et annotations sur les 1ers plats. SNCF, Région Sud-Ouest, Matériel et Traction.
Librairie Picart, Paris. 1940. In-4 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos abîmé. Intérieur acceptable. 149 pages. Illustré de nombreux schémas en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. 1 figure hors texte avec calques superposés. Texte en caractères cursifs. Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, Matériel et Traction.