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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
60 pages. Features: Great color-photo ad for Fisher Body inside front cover features young lady with horse; Nice one-page ad for Long Distance with close-up image of young man; Photo and brief write-up of 72-year-old pancake-eating champion Charles Sharp of Iowa; Eye-catching one-page two-color ad for the February 1st issue of the Saturday Evening Post leads off with a profile of American Airlines President "C.R."Smith; Plymouth car ad; Debate on Lend-Lease - article with photos including Charles A. Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy; British Drive Against Italy rescues lifeline of empire - new losses force Fascists to accept German domination; Amazing photo of a large (freight) trainload of Italian prisoners being moved to the rear; Blow-up in Rumania - failure of Iron Guard Revolt Strengthens Antonescu - article with photo of Horia Sima; Japan's Strong Men - Konoye strips Diet of powers as Matsuoka praises Axis goal; Nice color ad for Seagram's V.O. shows Canadian server crossing the border into the U.S.; Negroes in Uniform - article with photo of part of Uncle Sam's ninth cavalry Regiment; Nice ad for the 1941 De Soto which features Fluid Drive with Simplimatic Transmission; Great photo of 7 year-old Barbara Schulz of Evanston, IL who is chief taster for the Reed candy plant in Chicago; Nice photo ad for the Edison Voicewriter/Ediphone includes NBC's Bill Stern and "Ellen Randolph" (Gertrude Warner); Photo of basketball player Stanley "Stutz" Modzelewski; Photos of Bob Feller and Bobo Newson; Radio sensation Martin Block; ad promoting air travel shows plane flying over old-timer pouring hot water into the radiator of his snowbound car; Nice color-photo ad on back cover for Lucky Strike cigarettes features Connor Aycock, tobacco warehouse owner of Durham, NC; and much more. Center page holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
308 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Many reproductions of photos. A very heavily-worn former library copy with the usual markings. Reading copy only. Offered as is. Book
Saumur, Librairie Militaire Milon, 1900; in-4, 643 pp. + 692 pp., reliures demi-toile verte, dos lisse, pièce de titre bleu-nuit. Nombreuses illustrations, dont certaines en couleurs. Bon état.
132 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Giorgio Almirante is no Mussolini Yet; If You Think It's Groovy To Rap, You're Shucking - article on new vocabulary of the day; J.I. Rodale - Guru of the Organic Food Cult - photo-illustrated article; Six 'Big Lies" About America - featuring one-page illustration of the Statue of Liberty with a Hitlerian face, swastikas around her crown and a grenade in her raised hand; The Party's Over for the Class of '71 - a report from the University of Chicago suggests the nation's June graduates are facing some sobering facts of life; After Vietnam - Another Witch Hunt? - in the aftermath of the Mylai massacre, William Calley and his Captain Medina; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Interesting one-page color-photo ad for Amelia Earhart luggage features nude model; Nice Tissot watch ad; Mother's Milk or Another Milk?; Fantastic one-page color comic-style Dannon Yogurt ad entitled "Fight Fat"; Nice color ad for Louis Sherry ice cream; Photos of the summer cottage of New York Lawyer Lee Eastman; Two-page ad by the Judaic Heritage Society presents "The Medallic History of the Jews of America"; Friendship Dairy Products ad for their Cottage Cheese; Pennsylvania ad features photo of Amish horse and covered wagon. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
102 pages. Articles: So You Want to Be President! - a White House reporter describes the rugged aspects of the job; The Farmer's Best Friend - The National Grange and its achievements; Designs for Touring - Out where the west ends (part 6); Men, Mikes and Money (part 2) - good music goes on the air, and Radio City is opened; Who Will Ever Run the Red Sox? - how will the team play for Boss Man McCarthy; Blazers are Back for Men - great color photos. Fiction: I Have a Wallet; The Shearing at Nello; The Horse Lattitudes; Violet; My Sister Mary; I'm a Stranger in Town Myself. Includes these ads: Hart Schaffner & Marx (inside front cover); Bell Telephone; Monarch canned fruit; GMC Trucks; Nash cars; Auto-Lite Spark Plugs (featuring Betty Hutton); RCA Victor radios; Pabst beer featuring colour photo of Miss Gladys Swarthout and Mr. Frank Chapman; Douglas shoes; Dodge trucks; Fisher body; Gillette Blue Blades/razors (2 pages in color); Plymouth; Chevrolet; Puritan Sportswear; Good Year; McGregor cool cord shirts; Hickok belts; The New Hudson cars; Lord Calvert liquor ad with full-page colour photo of Mr. William Lescaze; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Jeep Station Wagon; Ballantine's Ale; Trailways bus lines; Studebaker; Camel cigarettes ad on back cover features water skier Nance Stilley. Covers pulling from staples, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy standing in icy water; Nostalgic one-page illustrated ad for the circular Western Electric 560-AW loudspeaker; Marriage for Two (fiction by Roche); President Elect Herbert Hoover - It's Going To Be Different; Other Men's Poison (fiction by Roark Bradford); Thunder in the Backfield - Grantland Rice reviews the star-studded running backs of 1928, with photos of Ken Strong N.Y.U., and Chris Cagle of Army; In Loving Memory (fiction by Fred Sweet); "Too Collegiate" - fiction by Lucian Cary; Good Clean Fun - two pages of charming vintage illustrations of how people amused themselves before movies, radios and cars; The Ticker's In a Jam - great photo-illustrated article explaining stock ticker technology; Cabaret (fiction by O.C. Cohen); The Kid's Clever - Part 2 of the Gus Edwards story; Marvelous one-page illustrated ad for Flexible Flyer includes their seven sled models for children, plus an illustration of Commander Byrd at the South Pole; I Can Pick Winners, But - A famous horse racing handicapper explains why he still works for a living; The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, by Zane Grey (part VIII); Nice one-page Atwater Kent Radio ad includes photos of their Models 40 A.C., 42 A.C., a Model E circular speaker, Model 44 A.C., and Model 52 A.C.; Master of Sinister House (fiction by E. P. Oppenheim); Nice one-page color ad for the 50 box of Gillette shaving blades; Color centerfold ad for Remington Rand procalims "The Emancipation of the American Business Man" with illustration of "the bent and withered office drudge"; Nice one-page Edgeworth pipe tobacco ad includes illustration of their four-sized tin and letter from one F.W. Fitzpatrick; Classy one-page photo-illustrated ad by Bosch Radio (American Bosch Magneto Corporation) displays their Model 29B, 28A and features photo of the Model 28; Marvelous one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes includes illustration and endorsement of Lady Grace Drummond Hay, the first woman to fly the Atlantic from Europe to the United States, aboard the Graf Zeppelin (which is also illustrated in the ad); Smoth Brothers' cough drops ad includes photo of vaudeville comedian Joe Cook; Quarter-page illustrated ad for Daisy Air Rifles - "That's What Our Boy Has Been Asking For"; Classic back cover Victrola ad displays their Models 835, 918, 43, 711, 255, and 1069. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Noise the Destroyer - ; Lincoln's Friend at Court - the girl across the river; Are We Scrapping the Whole Navy? - article with statistics and photo of the U.S.S.'West Virginia' and photo of the U.S.S. 'Detroit' in drydock; Lincoln in Marble and Bronze - article with illustrations of the Brenner Medal, J.E. Roine Medal, and more; A Letter and a Reply - The Opening of the Civil War; Henry Ford's Page - the 'crush my rival' kind of competition is bound to come to grief; Editorials - Judge Landis protected from facing Ban Johnson, Civil War is On in China, the bonded indebtedness of the U.S.A., Chief Justice Taft suggests Grand Juries by abolished; Julia Taft Bayne Recalls Good Times in the White House; The Great Anneke Jans Delusion - most remarkable lawsuit in American History, as described by noted economic author Charles Albert Collman; Little Lost Speeches and Anecdotes of Lincoln; The New Salem of Abraham Lincoln -how he clerked in a store and whipped a bully; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Aaron Sapiro and money losing Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Association prove there is no magic in agricultrual co-operatives, Auto Thief displaces Horse Thief in Middletown, NY; News Bits; Wonderful photos of the perils and problems of bridge building. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
94 pages. Fiction: The Terrible Morning; Mountain Time; (part 4 of 5); The Pond; A Serious Study of Love; A Man Needs a Horse; The Importance of Being Kissed. Articles: All Out Against Cancer; Little Miss Innocent; American in Germany; Underwater Wealth; A.W.O.L. De Luxe - Private John Martin, and American in the Canadian army; Fashion on the Downgrade; Lindbergh in Battle (conclusion); The Little Doc - Doris Gnauck; Bad Neighbor Policy - our diplomatic bungling in Latin America. Ads include: Mary Brewer in Ipana ad; Perry Como and Martha Stewart in G.E. Radio ad; Great logging-theme ad for International Trucks; Mercury cars; Elsie the Cow; Piper Cub; American Airline System; REO trucks; Clark's Teaberry Gum; Perilous Holiday (Movie ad); The Lockheed Constellation aircraft; Great back cover Coke ad shows male and female troops on train. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
First edition of a useful bibliography. ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER. Hundreds of items described in detail. A few plates. 4to. Like new.
Pages 418-528. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - Part VI; How Mohammedans Pray - photo-illustrated article; The Pirate of "The Ghost" - a stowaway saves a blockade-runner; Where Beasts are Baptized - astonishing ceremonies in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; The Story of an Alpine Adventure - Miss A.E. Metcalfe and Miss M. Cartwright take a wrong turn in the Swiss mountains; A Race up Mont Blanc, by Samuel Turner (with is photo); Fascinated by a Snake - photo-illustrated tale from Australia; Congo Money - fascinating photo-illustrated article showing grass mats, cowrie shells, beads, etc.; Bob Mansell's Lion; Run Amok - Borneo tale by E.W. Barrant (with his photo); Floating Church on the Seine - article with nice photos; Strangest Horse Race on Earth - the 'Palio' of Sienna - article with great photos; Gun Robbers of Fyzabad - tale related by veteran Michael Lynch, with his photo; The Havoc Wrought by One Man - Chinaman Gong Ung Chung blows up powder magazine at the Western Fuse Works in Oakland, California - article with photos; The Wreck of the "General Grant" - a desert island experience; Illustrations of the curious "Knapp" roller-boat; Photo of William Laurens and the boat he lived in for years; Photo of a bag of 369 caribou in Newfoundland; and more. Front cover missing. Back cover loose but present. Above-average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nostalgic Goodrich Tire photo ad inside front cover shows grieving family and their car after a blowout; Nice full-page photo ad for International Harvester heavy duty industrial equipment; Nice full-page photo ad for Canada Dry beverages; Horse Doctor (fiction); Our Olympic Chances - article with photos of athletes Hank Ciemen, Sammy Richardson and Phil Edwards; Honors Easy - fictional story of what happened aboard an Atlantic liner when two card sharps picked a 'sucker'; Revolt in Quebec - second in a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian's interpretation of Quebec's reform movement and the viewpoint of French Canada toward Confederation; Nemesis in Hind - a story of glamorous India, the India where death strikes mysteriously and superstition holds sway; Treasure Under the Arctic's Rim - the mineral wealth of Great Bear Lake; A Man and a Hundred Maids - a story of how too many girls may be worse than none at all; Gun-A-Noot - the strange case of the Indian who defied police for thirteen years and emerged from his trial as a hero; Beautiful full-page black and white photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring horse "Margo C", owned by Miss Faith Lyman of Montreal; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover holding loosely by one staple. Book
74 pages. Features: Darkness is Danger - the danger of driving at night; Meet Harry's Boss, Bess - the story of first lady Bess Truman; Erin Goes Briny; We Took Our Child to a Psychiatrist - Danny Piel's psychological battle; Toughest Job in Sports - Hockey Goalies; The Man Behind Clark Gable - article with great one-page photo; Freezing for Freedom - military operations in frigid Churchill, Manitoba; I Stole a Million - insurance fraudster David Schiffer (part 2 of 2); Tito of Yugoslavia Learns the Hard Way - back page illustrated editorial. The Face Everyone Knows; Charge Account for Education; White Wedding; Creative in California; X the Unknown; The Best Boy with a Horse; Ringside Maiden (part 7 of 8). Includes these ads: Admiral entertainment products; GM Electro-Motive Division; Johnson outboard motors. Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring large color photo of playwright Charles Bennett, RCA Victor televisions, Lucky Strike cigarettes - on back cover. Middle page holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
279 pages. Index. black and white illustrations. Bookplate signed by author affixed to front free endpaper. "Few men have played as many roles in this colourful pageant of changing times as John D. Nicholson, whose life story is told in this book. Few have had the opportunity to serve in so many ways in the exciting, hazardous and inspiring task of founding this last great homeland as this vigorous character with whose name and life are linked so many of the incidents which make up such a large part of the traditions and history of our Canadian West." - from Preface. Prior owner's details lightly pencilled upon half title page. Above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Book
Features: Letters about Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum - marvel or monstrosity?; Seeds of Revolt in Red China? - Richard Hughes writes of the chances of Chiang returning to the mainland; Close-Up of the First Earth Satellite - The U.S. will soon re-attempt to place a satellite in orbit some 225,000 miles up to study the moon; Children in a Crucible - "An account of the impact of the process of desegregation upon both white and Negro children at the high school in Clinton, TN, which was bombed after twelve Negro children were integrated with the 700 white students two years ago, as described by teacher Margaret Anderson; In Defense of the Politician - by Senator Richard L. Neuberger; 'To Learn and Teach the Truth' - Evaluating the performance of UNESCO; How to Mix a Cocktail Party ; A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story - A Cezanne masterpiece sold last month for $616,000, exemplifying its soaring prestige; Why Russian Women Work Like Men; End of the Boffolo Texensis; Marks of Office - Photos of interesting items in Washington offices; Visitors to the U.N. headquarters in New York; Great color-photo ad for Rheingold Extra Dry beer features photo of Madelyn Darrow, Miss Rheingold 1958 in motorboat; Classy one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Noel Coward sipping tea in pounding surf; Article on Boy Scouts; Photos of women's fashions for enchanted; Photos of various fashionable home heating stoves; Four photos from the making of "A Night to Remember" about the Titanic; Six photos of the Aga Khan IV at Harvard; The New York Horse Show; and more. 92 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Articles: The Kids Get a Night Club - Rochester's teenagers solve their entertainment problem; The A-Bomb's Invisible Offspring - the menace of radioactivity from atomic blasts - article with scary photos; The Balkan Follies - how Americans are browbeaten in Moscowized southeast Europe (Yugoslavia); Little Man on a Horse - sketches of backstage life of the big-time jockeys; I Stopped Stammering - how he was cured - Dr. Richard R. Hutcheson and the district speech clinic in Washington, D.C.; They Kicked Us Off Our Land (conclusion) - the misuse of public grazing lands. Includes ads for: Duraglas bottles; Ipana toothpaste - featuring Bryan Cornell and his mother; General Electric entertainment products (in colour); Admiral FM-AM phonograph with miracle tone arm; U.S. Royal tires; International Harvester products - trucks, dozers, tractors and appliances; Ford woody wagons; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Colgate tooth paste; Lucky Stricke cigarettes; Ballantine Ale - featuring Victorian bathing suits; Good Year - centerfold; Kingsey gin; GM Electro-Motive Division; Veedol motor oil; "The Long Night" movie starring Henry Fonda; Schlitz beer; Polaroid sportglas - modelled by Bill Stern and Margaret Young; Acushnet golf balls; Back cover Chesterfield cigarette ad features large color image of actor Charles Boyer. A worthy vintage 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
88 pages. Features: What Two Canadian Artists Saw in Russia - Fred Varley and Eric Aldwinckle - includes illustrations by each; The Weird and Woolly War Against the Lobster Poachers - article with photos; The Richest Woman in Town - fiction by James McNamee; We Went La Verendreye's Way - West from Superior the adventurous six took the Voyageurs' Trail - Dr. Omond Solandt, Eric Morse, A.H.J. (Tony) Lovink, John Endemann and Sigurd Olson; The Surest Way to Get a Job - article by Robert Thomas Allen; How the Auto Beat the Horse - Part 2 of a feature on Col. R.S. (Sam) McLaughlin; The White and the Gold, part 14; How a Blind Saskatchewan Man Runs His Farm - Emil Strand - photos and article; A Cage for the Bird Man - story by David Stuart; Corn Flakes ad shows red-haired boy digging deep into the box; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for Sylvania TVs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: The Big Boss - Part II, He or She, Fur Fashion photos in colour, Kao Pao Shu colour foldout photo, Golden Horse Prize Giving Ceremony, Fu Shing and Chen Nei, Chin Han and Shaw Chel Yin, Sylvia Chang and Chin Chuan, Yuen Hua, Wang Yu, Tsui Tai Ching, Liu Man Ching, Liu Wei Bun, Does Fang Yin's husband commit adultery?, Chang Cheh is not a good proprietor, Lisa Wang, The Hunter The Butterfly The Crocodile, Valley of Butterfly, Shaolin Death Squads, The Navy Storm Troop, Ingrid Bergman, and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Tien Nei; Nine pages of colour movie ads; Lung Chun Erh; Hsu Feng; Colour photo series of martial arts-related photos, featuring a muscular fellow with movie camera; Chin Han's estranged wife won't let him go; Age and Appearance no barriers for Kwai Ah Lui; Tsui Fong smiles again; Wang Tao; Sexy-eyed Yin Choi Ling; New Wave Co.; Yuen Qui gets his reward; Lau Ka Wing seeks to revitalize Kung Fu films; Movie Diplomacy and the 1979 Golden Horse Awards; The Big Knife; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Short Stories: Queen's Gate Incident; Competition at Slush Creek; Big Game; Jacobs' Beachcombers. Articles: Basketball Beanpoles - with action photo of 6'-7" Howie Schultz of Hamline; Delayed Combat Fatigue - an alarming new trend in the increase of neuropsychiatric disorders among veterans who have been discharged for a year or more;; Inside Spain; I Deserted Franco - a Spanish Republican who was forced into Franco's Army goes over the hill and describes what made him desert; Eager Beaver - photo-illustrated article on playwright Garson Kanin - with sexy backdoor photo of Judy Holliday; Bradley's Beachhead - General Omar N. Bradley reviews his first year as chief of the VA (Veteran's Administration); How Job Training Became a Scandal; My Lost Division - John Hillard Dunn, his 106th Division, and the Battle of the Bulge; Robbers on the Racetrack - Don Meade says Arcaro and other jockeys will steal a horse race as quick as they flash a whip ; Murder in the Soap Operas - Dan Banion detects too many corpses among the cornflakes; Iron Roof Over Harlem - article on prospects for the people of Harlem, with photos of Billie Holliday, Canada Lee, Romare Beardon, Bert Alves, Kenneth Spencer and Vivian Richardson; You Don't Die Bored; Happy Landing - Gerald L.K. Smith is now on Los Angeles City Council - article with photos. Picture Stories: Anything Goes - great photo-illustrated feature of "The Painted Post - America's only True Western Dance Hall", in the San Fernando Valley; Hot on Ice - people pay big money to see figures skaters such as Donna Atwood, Phil Taylor, Don Condon and Mary Irwin. Labor's Publicity Battle - with sexy photos of Colleen Sullivan of Detroit, and Elayne Keenan of Detroit; Bergen College Boom - great photo feature on how this sleepy college suddenly snapped awake under the GI Bill of Rights; One Block West of Broadway. Special Features: Merry Christmas; Salute of the Month - one-page photo of Elliott Roosevelt; Reconverted; Photos of three vets in the new lives - Alan Rockwell, David Pressman, and Milton Burns; Pin-Up - Martha Vickers. And more. Ads: Great one-page ad for movie "Never Say Goodbye" with photo of Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker; Lovely back cover color ad for Eagle Clothes features man and woman at airport. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Russell Sambrook cover illustration of boy in pajamas sneaking his dog upstairs; Dominion Linoleum colour ad inside front cover features yellow and maroon interior design of a 'very lucky' young person's bedroom; AC spark plug ad features horse talking to man cleaning his shotgun; Premier Aberhart of Alberta ponders 'licensing' newspapers; Fantastic one-page photo-illustrated ad for Marconi radios includes photos of newscaster Christopher Ellis and Frances James, plus photos of the model 79 A.C., 81 A.C. and 85 A.C. radios; One-page ad for the Parker Vacumatic pen features marathon theme; The Red Boar (short story from Rajputana); Revolt in Quebec - The English-Canadian View - article with photos of C.E. Gault, Maurice Duplessis and Camillien Houde; A Matter of Business (short story); Forward-Pass Time - article explaining how the aerial attack has made a new game of Canadian football - with photo of Rosso of the Argos in 1935; Beverley Baxter shares interesting new from London, plus he explains how Hitler saw propaganda used against Germany in WWI and vowed to use that same weapon to avenge his nation; Finished Picture (short story about the marriage trap); J. Bull, Customer - article on Canadian exports to Britain; The Thin Woman (short story); Photo-illustrated article on the settlers of King Ridges, 25 miles north of Toronto, where 41 families formerly on relief are plowing, sowing and reaping to earn their own living from the land; The General Died at Dawn (short story); Vintage one-page colour-photo ad for Green Giant Fine Foods of Canada features their canned vegetables; Very nice one-page colour-photo Westinghouse Air-pilot radio ad; Charming one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Prestone anti-freeze one-page ad features illustrations of (now) classy vintage cars; Half-page Palmolive Soap ad features two photos of the Dionne Quints, plus Dr. Dafoe who helped birth them; Stanfield's ad features illustration of man proudly strutting in his long underwear; Ponds Cold Cream ad features photo of Mrs. William Jay Iselin; One-page ad for the Singer "Make-It-Yourself" Wardrobe Plan; Fantastic colour photo/colour comic ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso soaps feature "True B.O. Experience No. 127"; Back cover colour ad by the federal Department of Fisheries encourages readers to eat fish often; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this marvelous depression-era issue. Book
94 pages. Articles: How Truman Did It; The Barbizon Hotel - For Women Only - article with nice photos; Dogs are Big Business; I Saw the Reds Taste Freedom - Col. Robert Bishop's dramatic recollection of Bucharest, Rumania's brief taste of liberty in 1944, with great photo; How to Give Money Away; My Life in a Cooking School. Fiction: You Can't Win 'em All!; Girl With a Horse for Sale; The Miracle of Tepayac; Make Something Happen; Passage to Panama (part 6 of 7). Aviation Features: My Story of the Wright Brothers; Cavalcade of Trnasportation; The Collier Trophy - for flight beyond the speed of sound - won by John Stack, Lawrence D. Bell and Captain Charles "Chuck" E. Yeager, USAF; Diary of the First Flight; Our Aerial Arsenal - great compilation of color illustrations of US military aircraft; ; The World the Kitty Hawk Made; Super color aerial photo of Niagara Falls with Rainbow Bridge in backbround. Illustration of basketball player George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers; Ads include: Nice color Canada Dry ad inside front cover; Martin 2-0-2 Airliner; Pan American World Airlines; American Airlines;; B.F. Goodrich; Plymouth cars; International Trucks; Douglas Aircraft - attractive military theme; Good Year's Cross -Wind Landing Wheel; TWA Airlines; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Hiram Walker's liquor; The 1949 Frazer car; Pabst beer features color photo of Mrs. Winston Guest; "Enchantment" movie starring David Niven; Bell Aircraft ad features illustrations of their helicopters and X-1 jet; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows Santa reaching into a fridge for a quick drink. Covers pulling from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 254-336 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: Biggest Hold-up on Record - robbery of the U.S. Mail at Toledo, Ohio in February, 1921; Salvaging a God - a tale of South Sea natives and one of their gods; Pekin (Peking / Beijing) to London, Mostly by Car- Fantastic photo-illustrated article on Capt. D.M. McCallum's 15,000 mile adventure, including photos of Angkor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada (part 3 of 3) - H.P. Musson's homestead turns out to be all rocks and precipices!; The People of Pierre Le Loupe - George E. Stuart-Reid volunteers with the North-West Mounted to finally capture a half-breed murderer after a long and arduous hunt; A Day in the Life of a South African Farmer; Over Niagara Falls in a Rubber Ball! - Amazing photo-illustrated article on Jean Albert Lussier and his daring exploit; How I Won My Horse - Margaret S. Coffman and her challenging 300-mile Texas ride; The Big Leopard - John de Bruin recounts how he was attacked - with photo; When Raj Mungal Saw Red - a valuable elephant goes rogue in Sabalpur, India; The Snake Worshippers - a story from Calcutta about the Ooriyas, natives of the province of Orissa on the east coast of India; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part 2 of 2 of this photo-illustrated account of Emil Trinkler and his trip to this strange land of desolate mountains and fertile valleys, with photos of the huge cliff carvings at Bamian; Following the Frontier Trail - Newspaperwoman Edith Ammons Kohl recounts her experiences in the vast range country of Wyoming; My Strangest Experience - a story of the occult by a trooper in the B.S.A. police. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Secret Submarine - Part I - A strange story of adventure in the romantic Spanish Main; The Largest Map in the World - on display in the lobby of the Ferry Building in San Francisco; The Phantom Gunman - A 19-year-old boy leads Johannesburg police on a merry chase before he is finally jailed; The Last of the Sea-Elephants - Dr. L.M. Huey visits the lonely island of Guadalupe to capture live specimens of these creatures, some of which weigh 2.5 tons! - with photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part III (conclusion) of one of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Land of Mystery - Part I - Colonel E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Gallowhur were among the very few white men allowed to enter "forbidden" Nepal, with photos; A Car Climbs Table Mountain, the mighty mass of rock that dominates Cape Town - with photos; The Boy Who Sought Adventure - Part I of the fascinating travels and adventures of B. Wicksteed; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - Part II of a three-month river and canal journey through France; The Secret of Black Horse Mountain - Dark happenings involving a farmer and a tramp who meet up again a thousand miles away; Teaching on the Frontier - A young teacher runs into trouble working in remote New Mexico; The Pennsylvania Witch-Murder - Three young men argue they were justified in their action to prevent evils spells from bewitching them - with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
