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80 pages. Features: Nice ad for the Dodge Coronet V*; The Family in the Palace - Part 1 of 7 by Pierre Berton - the absorbing story of the House of Windsor; What Karsh Saw in Toronto - wonderful black and white photos - a precous snapshot of Toronto in 1953; The Girl Who Became Melissa Hayden - Millie Herman has become one of the top ten ballerinas this side of the Iron Curtain - colour photos; The Row Over the Three Rs - short of staff and space our schools can't decide on what kind of education our chikldren should get - part 2 of the Crisis in Education; William Aberhart - the Mand and His Shadow - a Maclean's Flashback - nice photos; A Friendly Game of Cards - story by Antony Ferry, illustrated by Keith Dalgleish; What's Put Hockey on the Skids? - article with full-page photo of a scrum between the Bruins and Leafs; At Grips With A Grizzly, by Colin Wyatt - the true story of probably the only man who has fought a grizzly bear with his bare hands and lived to tell the tale!; Nice colour Buick ad; Colour Plymouth ad; Nice Heinz soup ad with girl's photo; Colour ad for General Motors of Canada shows several car and truck models; Bing Crosby in Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad; 1953 Mercury car ad inside back cover; Attractive Coke ad on back cover shows well-dressed hostess setting a nice table. Light wear. Unmarked. A pleasing copy. Book
Features: Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940; Thomas Edison - the battle of the systems and the persistence of direct current; The Persistence of Draft Oxen in Western Agriculture; Technical Advance and Stagnation - the case of nail production in nineteenth-century Montreal; The Influence of Resource Quality on Technological Persistence - Charcoal Iron in Quebec; Time for a Change? - Technological Persistence in the British Watchmaking Industry; Change and Diversity within traditional Cooperage technology; Randolph Hersey and the Montreal Nail Industry, 1852-1903; Revolution Forgotten - The Peters' Combination Lock Co., Moncton, N.B.; and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Swedish spike belt; Tiny German Brutsch Mopetta; "We can death-proof our highways"; Big Boom in Dinghies; HO Electric Cars; Talking Teeth; The $200,000 Pipemobile, built by The American Pipe and Construction Co.; Preview of the 1961 cars; Test of the Hillman Minx; Florida Speed Museum; McCahill tests the Ford Tunderbird; The Amphicar from Germany; Russian Iron - photos of 8 Russian automobiles; Care for your Rambler American; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Repro/Reflections - an alternate to expensive antiques; The Bye-lo - the million dollar baby; antique Christmas toys - toys that Grandma played with; Make a miniature Christmas Doll; - complete pattern details; Bye-lo Christening dress - for that special million dollar baby; Stories and Pictures of 'the big babies'; the Fabulous doll collection of Alex Jordan; A Christmas tree of dolls; the story of Mary Lou - Effanbee "Sugar Baby"; From behind the Iron Curtain - a doll sent out of love; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Mercury cars inside front cover; Photo of Dr. Bertha Lutz of Brazil; Nice early one-page ad for Northwest Airlines includes large table of their new flights and low fares; Great color-photo ad for Caterpillar called "Grand Canyon of the Mesabi" features massive iron ore excavation; Nice one-page ad for International Trucks; Food - that a hungry world may eat; Photo of fire at Barrett plant of Allied Chemical in Philadelphia; Photo of baby Betty Lou Hall kissing President Truman; Juvenile delinquency; Is 1946 another 1920?; Great one-page Boeing ad for their Stratocruiser shows cute little boy in cabin gazing out window; The Lichfield trial over brutality to prisoners; Nice Kaiser-Frazer car ad; Great one-page color Cadillac ad shows imposing red grill; Conflict in China; Prince Morimasa Nashimoto leaves Sugamo Prison; Photo of General Douglas MacArthur inspecting honor guard in Tokyo; Nice one-page ad for Good Housekeeping Magazine shows fashionable lady reading; Before and after photos of the hanging of Hungarian police major Laszlo Baky; The controversy of the Anglo-American command; Nice one-page color ad for TWA announces they are the first to put the Constellation in the air; Photo of blind war bride Mary Martin who married Sgt. George Alkenbrack and now lives in Napanee, Ontario; One-page ad for the Country Gentleman Magazine shows crop-duster in action; brief obituaries for Harlan Fiske Stone, Arthur Chevrolet, Walter E. Dandy, and John Maynard Keynes; Creepy photo of soldier wearing night vision equipment called snooperscope; Superman article features photo of Clayton Collyer, the radio actor-announcer who plays Superman; Gold - the South African find and the world's wealth; Stocking - leg bootleg; Color ad for National City Bank of New York features paingint of rubber tappers in Malaya plus photo of Raymond G. Hill, Singapore Supervisor; Nice ad for Trav-Ler radio; The OPA reaps the whirlwind; One-page ad for Redbook Magazine; New York Yankee Pitcher Spurgeon Chandler; Legend for Canadians - photo of Coulter and Willan who used folklore for Canada's first opera; Photo of Beverly Anne Cort performing a risque dance in the Detroit suburb of Van Kyke; Nice one-page color Budweiser ad features young boy returning from fishing with his catch, while envious adults look on; Nice color-photo ad for Canadian National features Jasper, Alberta and its lodge (with small inset color photo of Minaki Lodge in Ontario); Vindictive treatment of Stalin by Trotsky; The Faith of Harold Stassen; Nice color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Juan Belmonte, Spain's great bullfighter; Nice back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features man in suit who learned his ABCs (Always Buy Chesterfields); and more. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Cover: General Dwight Eisenhower Contents: Our Frontier, the Iron Curtain; Politics: Getting the (Harry F.) Byrd; Ike, the Atom, and '52 - General Dwight Eisenhower; Crime: Slugs on Sunset Strip - Mickey Cohen and Dee David; The Cardinal (Spellman) and the Lady (Eleanor Roosevelt); Jackie Robinson Pitching; Flare-Up in Florida - Ku Klux Klan, Willie Padgett; China: Showdown Time for the U.S. - Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, U.S. Ambassador to China; Britain: (Winston) Churchill Speaking; Yugoslavia: Buttressing (Josip Broz) Tito; Trials: British Vampire - John George Haigh; Pacts: The Anglo-Russian Deal; Russia: 10 Million Slaves; Guatemala: Coup That Failied; Mexico: Oil and Dollars; Medicine: Penicillin Prophylaxis; Bedlam Subdued - Research and Development Board and Dr. Karl T. Compton; Business: Who Says Depression?; Civil Answers to Shrewd Questions; and Perspective: Feeding Hungry Horses. Binding intact. 4.5" X 1.5" piece missing fron front cover. Large clippings missing from pages 19 and 20. Some foxing to front cover. Two chips from back cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Small Scale Surprises; Reflecting on Windows - Part II; Kilgore Cast Iron Furniture; Tour Guilderville; Mina (Ralph Lauren) Polo Shop; The secret to getting your kit house started... and finished; Three slices of life in a converted brownstone apartment house; Cabriole Leg Arm Chair; 1/4" Scale Beds; Upstairs/Downstairs - a 1/2" scale room box kit; Claycrafting Sunny Bear; A Turn-of-the-century Kitchen; The Kitchen Garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Reprint of rare book 'Twelve Years in the Saddle for law and order on the frontiers of Texas, by Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Texas Ranger; an Indian fight in Jackson Hole - the Bannock Indians; Canadian Gold on a California Reef - Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan; The Dogie from Kickapoo Creek - John Boon Formwalt; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; The Lost Love of Jim Younger; Rocky Mountain Iron Man - Bruce Neal; Spokane's Fighting Marshal - Joel F. Warren; Tales of Tonopah, Nevada; . J. Wright Mooar and John W. Mooar put a price on the head of the buffalo! ; Slick faced and Sweet Smelling - early barbers; I saw Jim French Die - Catoosa, I.T.; Father Thought the world of Charley Russell; Old Fort Moroni; 'X' marks my room - early stagecoach travel; 'Denver has always been a good show town'; and more. Clean and unmarked (aside from 3 works underlined on page 7) with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The Life of Big Foot Wallace; The Haunted Corral; Pedro Loco; Ring-Tailed Roarer; Tales of the Branding Iron; The Honor of Old Thunder; Mad Killers of El Dorado Canyon; Blizzard Bull; When Cooper Wright Met the Mob; Medicine Woman; Last War Trail of Victorio; The Rifle That Opened the West; Lost Mine of the Klickitat; Spur Talk; Spirit Curse of the Lost Frenchman's Gold; Wild Horse Roundup; When Death Rode the Jarbidge Stage; Big Winnie; The Great Baptizing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Tacoma's Union Station Thrown Open to the Public - two-page article including grainy photo of the new station; Oregon-Washington Station To Formally Open May 20 - new passenger station in Seattle (article with photo inside the main waiting room); Professional biography of self-made man Carl R. Gray, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (includes photo of Mr. Gray); First Marine Producer Gas Installation on Pacific Coast - on the Barkentine Archer; Ongoing construction by Johnson Brothers & Blanchard, Georgetown of deep-sea motor cruiser designed by Seattle naval architect L.E. Geary for O.O. Denny of Seattle - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Speediest Steam Yacht is Launched - brief article and photo of the Sovereign; News of Tacoma; One page ad for the new steel trains "The Olympian" and the "Columbia" which represent "The New Steel Trail to the East Through the Golden West, commencing service 29 May, 1911; Nice illustrated one-page ad for "The Finest Train in the West, The Shasta Limited" which speedily connected Seattle with San Francisco; Excellent half-page photo ad for Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke while she pumps two heavy streams of water from her hoses; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: South Eastern into Sussex; The Ghost Walks Again - a commentary on Steamologist's recent articles on 'Fowler's Ghost' - a 2-4-0 fireless locomotive for the Metropolitan Railway; Celebrating the IOM Centenary; Railway Noises; Coal on Southern Branches; Leeds Prizewinners; Steamed in 74 - colour photos; A Devon Industrial Railway; Journey Through the (Iron) Curtain; Motived Power Miscellany; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Impressions of Danish Railways; A Norwegian Rail Survey; The Malmbanen - the iron ore line from Lapland; Unusual Southern Steam Workings; Flying Scotsman in the USA; Railways and Painting; The West Coast Speed Up - 1; Volks Electric Railway - the pioneer line at Brighton still carries nearly a half-million passengers a year; David Percival Rides The Highwayman; The Battle for the Rother Valley; TC Paddington - Buckfastleigh May 2, 1970; and more. Moderate wear. Price stamp on front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Steam in the 1960s - Part Three; Scotland's Vanished Railways; The Waverley Route - Profit not Preservation; Liverpool Street and the GE Line; Industrial Quarterly; The Iron Horse Railway; Flying Scotsman Farewell; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
74 pages. Features: Tune it On - Royal Foust can tune 5 extra mpg - part 1 of a series; Norm Grobowsky's 1923 Hennway; Closed cabin close-up photos - Ford, Chrysler, GM, Strange Stuff; Wescott's Auto Restyling; Chevy's Fourever - Chevy Cast Iron Four; Cam Grant of Burnaby B.C. makes a Model A the hard way; Care and Maintenance of Your Puzzle - set up a filing system during teardown; Phase 4 of "Chop it to it" - Jake finishes off the window frame and molding area; Chevy Up - Part 3 - tearing down a $100 Chevy engine; Part 3 of the "Pruf" is in his project - Aluminum fabrication for Tom Prufer by Ron Covell of Covell Race Cars; Pete Heacock's 1938 Bantam; Parts Meet in Hershey, PA; Very Special Buick - Report 5 - Gas Tank; Vintage Tin - photos; and more. Moderate wear. Chips from top corners of a a few pages. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
180 pages. Features: Modern icebreakers; Io - one of Jupiter's moons; an early iron age farm community in central Europe; the DNA helix and how it is read; Quantum gravity; prey switching in a simple ecosystem; the aerodynamics of human-powered land vehicles; the interpretation of visual illustions; and more. Faint initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
140 pages. Features: the large-scale cultivation of mammalian cells; machines that walk; the hair cells of the inner ear; the footprints of extinct animals; MNR spectroscopy of living cells; the physics of organ pipes; the origin of the cosmic x-ray background; the mass production of iron castings in ancient China; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
31 pages. Features: Escape from East Germany - Part 1 - by Gary Hart, as told to Paul Grescoe; "A Better Bet Than Pierre" - Liberal M.P. David Anderson may be the most eligible bachelor in Ottawa; The Quiet Resentment of Joe Zuger, Hamilton Tiger Cat (Ti-Cat) Quarterback; We Finally have a National Arts Centre; Your Name Can Date You; Trapped in the Ghetto - Canada's largest Indian slum in Winnipeg; Doug Wright's Family. Laid in is a 12-page Star Weekly novel entitled "The Short Night" plus a 16 page supplement entitled Star Weekly - Canadian Panorama. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
52 pages. Target San Francisco - the charms and pitfalls of the city of the next American Legion convention; Take Two and Hit to Right, by Duane Decker; Fringe of the Iron Curtain, by William Henry Chamberlin; Skeet is Back in Civvies - The Clay Target Brotherhood; Nice color ad for Ford cars and their 100 HP engine - illustration features red Ford passing Canadian Mounties; Color Greyhound bus ad features California redwood; Hash and Salad forever, by Jack Cluett; No Love Allowed, by Eddie Forester; Ben Hogan Reconverts - Golfer Ben Hogan served in the Army Air Force for approximately three years - now he is finding his golf game again; Police Jobs for Veterans; But We Expected You at Dakar, by Frederic Sondern Jr. and Donald Q. Coster; Taking Care of Vets Still our No. 1 Job, by John Stelle, National Commander; Nice colour ad for Hiram Walker's Imperial whiskey; Nice colour ad for Blatz beer; Color Seagram's ad inside back cover; Great color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover features emergency doctor and claims "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette". Many additional nice vintage ads. Average wear. Address label on front cover. A sound copy of this interesting vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Antiques and Television; Oak House, West Bromwich, Staffs - a Tudor Yeoman's House which has survived an Industrial Tide; Decorative Early Maps; The Hannah Gubbay Collection; "Chayres with Iron Worke" - an account of some late 17th century 'Sleeping' Chairs; The 7th Scottish Antiques Fair; The "AW" Master Salt - a unique example of 17th century English Delftware; The Macabre in Art - as illustrated by Pictures of "The Temptation of St. Anthony"; The Blazing Myth and Kindred Matters for "Silhouette" collectors; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
Features: The United Service Club, Pall Mall; Five Water-Colourists - H.B. Brabazon, George Cattermole, H.B. Carter; E.W. Cooke, W.J. Muller; A Cool look at Hertford House; Some Uncommon Examples of Old English Pewter; "Stevengraphs" - the other side of the picture; Jewellery made in steel and iron; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
56 pages. Features: The Iron Duke, Quebec and the defence of Canada; Fire! - Ottawa and Hull in Flames, April 1900; Mayflower compact and family compact - contrasting views of the political authority; North End - Winnipeg's immigrant community observed; Camels in the Cariboo - on the gold rush trail; Berlin 1936 - Canadian dancers at Hitler's Olympics. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
Features: Great colour photo of New York's WTC twin towers under construction - Newfies are making up to $23k/yr on high steel jobs; Any Game Played by 750,000 people can't be dull - curling... the world's top skip, Don Duguid; Maggie Grant; Art Galleries are great places to be caught dead in - how to beat the art snobs; So who needs a Ferrari? - a handful of Canadians who have up to $22k to spend; Girls, your Canadian manners simply won't do! - so says the London of England Modelling Academy - Clementina Chilvers; The backroom boys of the food business - they make Colonel Sanders (KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken) secret blend - the industrial seasoning suppliers; and more. One-ince tear to magazine near base of spine else sound. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
