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A Naturalist in Alaska
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 302 pages.
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214 p. + Frontis. Title page decorated with a copper plate engraving of a bull. Frontis and title page ink stained. Text very foxed. Manuscript ownership of George Sager. 155 mm. Virtually disbound. Paper printed boards very worn with loss. Lacks spine. Title continues: "A Selection Of Valuable Receipts For The Cure Of Diseases In Horses, Cattle, Sheep & Swine, With Directions To Farmers For Choosing Good Stock. Also, A Variety Of Agricultural And Miscellaneous Receipts. With Copper plate Embellishments." Twenty second edition. Hardbound. Very poor condition, but extremely scarce. OCLC Records only AAS and Univ. of Toronto. S&S/AI 3624. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 8
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 302 pages.
24 pages. Contents: Spring 'Lambs' in Immense Number Flock to Wall Street to be Slaughtered; Insurance and Industrial Magnates Fatten - Unashamed, on lifeblood of people; Government declares war on racketeers and all lawless elements in general; 1933 Pulitzer Awards; Chief Provisions of Sweeping Farm Relief - Farm Mortgage - Inflation Bill; Foreign News - Japan to ask for US recognition of Manchukuo; Control of Chinese Eastern Railway Causes Tension; Photo of Dr. T.V. Soong, Chinese Minister of Defense, and a Harvard grad; Full text of President Roosevelt's radio address to the nation; Illustration of Senator Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire; Illustration of Mrs. Cordell Hull; Science; Broadcasting; "Sunken Dollars' - a real old-time thriller story of the sea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Auction Report; Hutchison House - a fine stone house in Peterborough; Joseph Legare 1795-1855; Style Influences in the Furniture of Upper Canada; Manitoba Paperweight; Molly Lamb Bobak - one of Canada's most prolific painters; Potteries of the Brothers Glass - one of the last major potteries to operate in Ontario (in London). Clean, sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Lovely full page black and white photographic portrait of Miss Fiona Myddelton; Birds of a Desert Island - Desnoeufs Island in the colony of the Seychelles; From scythe to mowing machine; Dogs that Cannot Bark - Basenjis of the "Of Syngefield" Strain; Some problems of tree growth - interesting photos; The Father of Shooting - Colonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853), one of the greatest wild-fowlers of all time; Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Admiral Keppel's Column; Problems of Wintering Sheep; Britain's Painted Cave - the Gower Cliffs in South Wales, where Bacon Hole is situated; Many interesting real estate advertisements. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Chinese Needlecase; Ned Darning of Filet Lace; Stitching Trivia; "Take Up Your Needle" - author unknown; "Midnight Blue" Bergello Pattern; "Manz Zorj" - Embroidery of the Hill Tribes; Thoughts of Sheep in Wales and Other Embroideries; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. 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: Tough Warriors; A Fortune in Chinese Porcelain; Iowa's Terrible Gun Battle; The Sun Comes Up - The Sun Goes Down; The Great Onley; The Fresh Air Cure; Booby Trap; Good to the Last Ounce; Runnin' Wild; Hot-Headed Tom James; The Guy Who Stole His Own Sheep; Old West Scrapbook; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Two Ugly Men - Glanton, the brutal scalp hunter, and Naked Horse, the vengeful Yuma chief, fought to the death for control of the mighty Colorado; Homesteaders' Saturday Night - in the sand hills west of North Platte, Nebraska; Meanest Town on the Coast - Madison, Texas; He Lived with the Barrens - John Hornby; Captain Jack - a stray in the family line - Orren Arms Curtis; Tensleep Raid - the raiding and burning of a sheep camp threw the Big Horn Basin country of Wyoming into a turmoil of accusations, hatred and murder!; Unleaded Horse Flesh - Did we shut the stable door to soon?; Trapped in a Snowbank - Grandfather Dickinson moves his young family to Lyon County, Minnesota in 1872; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) - Part II; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label removal from front cover opened a hole 1" x 3" which has been taped over. Otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
Features: Sooty and Sweep; Hatty Town; Pipaluk; Tich and Quackers; Jackanory - conspiracy of the red sleeves; The Herbs; Ivor the Engine; Larry the Lamb in Toytown. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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: Ad Toepperwein; Shortest Sheep Hunt; The Destroyer Carbine; Testing the new Browning Smoothbore Savage Marke 10; The Rifleman's Rifle - the Model 70; Congressman Sikes; How to Start a Cartridge Collection. Above-average wear. Please note: back cover missing. Book
Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
144 pages. Articles include: An Autobiography by Alfred E. Smith; Britain Goes Labour Again; Radio Finds its Eyes; Boats with Wings; War Propaganda by one of the War Propagandists (Mr. George Creel?); Real Estate Barometers. Nice advertisements by: Westclox Pocket Ben; Campbell's Soup; Swift Lamb; Oldsmobile; Nash 400; Marx Bros. Film "Cocaonuts'; Lincoln Auto; Listerine; *Fantastic 2-page colour Essex Auto*; Spur Tie; Chevrolet Truck; Coca-Cola; Charles Lindbergh in Pennsylvania Railroad Ad; Caterpillar Tractor; *Canada Dry - 2 page colour; Burroughs; now Politically Incorrect garden hose ad; Dill's Tobacco; Johnston's Chocolates; Dutch Cleanser. Front cover detached and in two pieces else average wear. Solid copy. Book
32 pages. Features: The War on Religion - with an anti-religious quote by Max Epstein, Vice-Commissar for Education; Notes of the Week; New Year Notes by Lady Houston, D.B.E.; A Conservative Leader?, by Kim; The Case of Patrick O'Malley, life-long trade unionist; Satirical full-page ad for the public auction of the nations of the Commonwealth; A Hair of the Dog that Bit You!; Air Progress Abroad, by Major Oliver Stewart; The Monstrous Shadow of 1934, by Robert Machray; More Grave Changes - British Legion Affiars; Eve in Paris; Political Madness - Conservative Party Heads for Suicide, by Colonel Sir Thomas A. Polson; Lord Dalhousie - Creator of Modern India - article plus full-page portrait on glossy stock; India - the Frost Continues, by Hamish Blair; Across a Century (Charles Lamb died December 27, 1834); New book news; News snippets from the empire; The Expensive Mr. Baldwin; Music reviews; Theatre notes; The Gamekeeper's Dog, by Eric Hardy; Broadcasting notes; Lady Houston's Cold Cure; Interesting back cover reproduction of a letter dated 23 May, 1917 signed by Ramsay MacDonald (and others) in support of the Russian Revolution, plus one of his more recent quotes, plus the suggestion that it was his intent that the British people pay for goods ordered by Russia from Britain. Faint libray stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Photos of Princess Elizabeth as the years have passed; Colour Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Driving sheep through the snow-capped Alps - great photos; Linda Smith - 4-year-old rodeo expert; New Zealand's Harald Isaachsen and his back-to-nature family; Photos of Japanese Yabusame - when archers shoot on horseback; Photos of Rabies vaccine manufacture; Many other interesting photos from around the world. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Book
Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - searching for a missing airplane several hundred mile s inside the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - a plane trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - the sheep farmers of Souther France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a terrifying experience related by well-known author G.E.G. Plant, F.R.G.S.; Black Frost - a striking story of the hard life of Newfoundland fishermen; When the Flood Came - the adventure of an English Farmer; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat, an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go tale from Tanganyika; These Men are Tough - Australian Cattle Men; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to open a West African river; and more. Average wear. Few chips from backstrip. Sound copy Book
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Features: Sir Douglas, Sheep Dog - detective work on a ranch; The Last Straw - the revolt of a modern mother; Sewing Susie - V; The Philosopher's Club - how a kid brother can be a nuisance; Fact and Comment; This Busy World - the situation in China and fighting in Nicaragua; Miscellany; The Y.C. Lab - a pedal-powered boat! Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Cover photo of Radio City Music Hall organists Jack Ward, Dick Leibert and Ray Bohr. Contents: Photo of the interior of Loew's Theatre, Akron, Ohio - An acre of seats in a palace of splendor. The Kilgen Wonder Organ - Part 1 - how the Kilgen Company of St. Louis responded to a shortage of organs in the 1920s - 3-page article with great photos. Snippets from England. Ad for the 1970 Conn 3-Manual Theatre Organ. The Gil White Residence 3/11 Organ. Nuggets from the golden days. Song Slides and Theatre Organists - the theatre organ solo in which glass song-slides were projected upon a motion picture screen developed from a humble beginning. Biography of performer Henry B. Murtagh. Toronto's Odeon Carlton Theatre - article with photo - opened in 1948. Reader contributions. Hollywood Cavalcade. The Esther McDonald Stayner Story - a theatre organ biography, with photos. New York Paramount now nostalgia. A Living Tribute to Farny Wurlitzer and Lou Rosa. Fifteenth convention of A.T.O.S. in New York. Bill Lamb named honourary member. Theatre Organists Hall of Fame - Lee Erwin. Photos and write-ups of twenty artists who performed at the fifteenth convention. Closing the Allyn Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut - Angelo Mastagni and Jack Martin of Clinton's Inc. purchased the organ and donated it to the ATOS Chapter - story with photos. Record reviews. Letters to the Editor. Rodgers delivers 'Style 260 Special' organ to Bob Power - article with photos (and ad on back cover). Chapter news. Classified ads. Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Classified ads. Rodgers Organ ad on back cover features photo of Bob Power and his new custom built Conn organ. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
126 pages. Features: Seven IRA men escape from prison ship The Maidstone; Leo Durocher; Noah Dietrich recalls the day they jailed Howard Hughes; Alan Gibbs - Hollywood stuntman; Handsome Marlborough centerfold loose but present; Eva Cropp - she swims with dangerous fish; The Uncensored adventures of Lewis and Clark; The Mad Marlin (fish) of Punta Carnero; Golf fashion photos; Five on a Raft - and then there were Three - Juan Puga, Richard Antonio and Tom Rash were rescued from Elliott Key, Florida. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Book
Features: Dad Fairbanks - Desert Man and his Nevada mule teams; Midnight Ride - Black Devil; Those Marrying Earp Men; Bond's Alley - Hillsboro, Texas; "Escorting' sheep from California to Montana; When Klondike Mike Broke Trail with a Dead Man - Tanana Valley, Alaska; The Day General E.S. Godfrey Got Lost; Wild Old Days!; A Dog Called Baldy; Blizzard on Hog Eye Mesa. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
