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128 pages. Undated. Occasional pencil markings. Former owner's name blacked out atop title page. Fascinating lessons for Christians from common, everyday things. Flies, peanuts, tails, tears, lead pencils, etc. Did you know that such things could teach wonderful vivid lessons! Author was an amazingly happy and successful soul winner. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges.
72 pages. Features: Girl Who Married a Family - Joan Beaulieu was wed at 21 - to a husband and six lively boys! - article with nice photos; Full-page colour photo ad for an apparently short-lived product from the Campbell's soup people - Red Kettle Chicken Noodle Soup; We Waste Too Much Time Sleeping - So says Dr. Mangalore Narasimha Pai - who sleeps only three hours each night - article with photos; Using Television in Education at Queen Elizabeth High School in Nova Scotia - article with photos; Photos of amazing oversized typwriter and people; Welsh girl Valerie Gearon stars in film about Gandhi - article with colour photos; Mouth-watering colour photo ad for Lowney's Bridge Mixture candies; Photos of Polar bear and her cub; How to Make Kids' Sports Safer - article with colour photos of (now antiquated) hockey equipment; Nice two-page colour ad for Arrow shirts; Why Soviet Aid Failed to Stave Off Chaos - Understanding Cuba - part 2 of 2 - article with photos; Colour centerfold ad for Parker pens; Edie Adams goes it alone - article with photo about Ernie Kovacs' widow who is now back on the stage; Fantastic colour photo and write-up of Toronto Maple Leaf star Frank Mahovlich; Ottawa's Tudor Singers - article and cover photo; Handicapped Artists Who Help Themselves; Harold Lloyd Rediscovered - his zany comedy stil draw laughs - article with photos; Flying Santa from the Lakehead - Orville Wieben flies north from Fort William each Christmas to distribute clothing, toys, etc. to needy native kids - article with nice colour photo of native babies strapped onto colourful boards; Fashion photos of "Frivolous Nothings"; Nipper comic.Westclox colour ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1960. Provides "practical advice on angling, the fruit of long experience acquired through many years of frequenting Canadian lakes, streams and rivers. Includes articles on wet fly, dry fly and spin fishing. Camping and how to do it the right way is discussed and another article covers fishing tackle and its proper care. There is also a word or two on that most important subject, conservation." - inside front cover. Includes eight pages of full colour illustrations of fishing flies. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece (of flies) and 2 coloured plates, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original brown cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. First published in 1921. Hampton, p.255.
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece (of flies) and 2 coloured plates, small neat contemporary signature and obituary cutting mounted on front free endpaper; original brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Skues' angling classic was first published in 1921. Hampton, p.255.
Book is in excellent condition with very light cover wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include 1500 of the best fly patterns submitted by readers of Flyfishing & Tying Journal during a twenty-year open-ended fly-tying competition with a photo and materials description of each. 195 pages.
Book is in excellent condition with very light cover wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include 1500 of the best fly patterns submitted by readers of Flyfishing & Tying Journal during a twenty-year open-ended fly-tying competition with a photo and materials description of each. 195 pages. Remainder mark at bottom page ends.
Features: Stranraers (Strannies) on the West Coast; Axel Duch's Air Bridge to Biafra; V.I.A.'s Seawind Flies; Unusual landing at Shearwater; Canada's Best Helicopter Long Line Pilot. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Dick Laidman - from Bush to Boardroom; E & B flies the R44; Liberator VY241 - Chris Weicht recalls a tragedy in the lonely peaks of the BC Coast Range; Painting Klee Wyck - mural on Helijet's S-76 by Tony Coon; B-36B Bomber #2075 is ditched in B.C. in 1950 - The very first accident with nuclear weapons, as listed in the DOD summaries of accidents involving US nuclear weapons 1950-1980 - *little known B.C. history*; First Flight at 81!. Sound copy. Magazine
110 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for the de Havilland Sea Vixen; Photo ad for the Fairey Fireflash - the first British guided weapon; The Short S.C.I. - article and full-page colour photo of this unusual craft; Nice photo ad for the Beverley, made by Blackburn and General Aircraft; Ouragan - article and colour illustrations of this French jet fighter; Farnborough Preview; The P.1 - article with photos; Shot from a Flying Wing (AW 52) - article and photo of "Jo" Lancaster; I Tested Focke-Wulfs; Thwarted Fighters - the delayed success of James Marton; Crash Landing in France (part 2); The Hawker Hunter F.6 - British Jet Fighter; The Missile Age - a special directory of rockets and missiles; Air Intelligence; Russia's Flying Wagon - The YAK-24 - article with photos; Test Flight to Freedom!; I Got My Sausage!; The Luftwaffe's Workhorse - the Ju 52/3m; Captain Ray Salute to the Spitfire; Ad for the Reliant three-wheeled car; Milland Flies Again; Colour ad for Senior Service cigarettes on back cover features helicopter at sea; and more. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Pages age-toned. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
pp. xlvi, 276. Small 4to. New plain wraps. Scarce. NH 5
298 pages. Numerous excellent black and white photographic plates, including frontis image of author in milkmaid garb. Line diagrams. "In this book it has been my earnest desire and aim to present the dairy industry in a simple, practical manner, in the hope of benefitting those desirous of improving and succeeding in their chosen occupation." - from page vi. The fifty-two chapters cover such topics as: farm, stable, cow, heifer, rations, silos, crops, water, milk, cream, butter, cheese, and many more. Author was Demonstrator and Lecturer in Dairying at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. Both hinges open. Above-average wear to exterior which features a charming (albeit well-worn) milkmaid illustration upon front board. Blank 'Notes' pages at end of book contain several pages of handwritten breeding records from the 1930s. No other markings. Despite its heavy wear, this work presents a wonderful overview of dairying in the early 20th century and cannot help but bring a smile to the face of anyone involved in the modern dairy industry. Book
Features: Birth control and bigotry - applied intelligence, rather than creeds and doctrines, is needed in the sphere of human reproduction; Why the St. Lawrence Waterway (Seaway) - some of the many cogent arguments against the construction of this costly outlest from the west to the sea; Autocratic versus Democratic Diplomacy - past experience shows there is a definite need for a better understanding between military and civil officials; Scientific American's second test of telepathy; From the archeologist's notebook; Flies raised to test death sprays; The literary value of mathematical tables; Amateur astronomers' home-made observatories; Fly fast - land slow; A "Different" art museum in Toledo, Ohio; A mechanical cow; How beer is brewed; The world's most efficient pump - the heart. Unmarked. Average soiling and wear. Book
60 pages. Features include: Sea Kings in Somalia; The Bug Smasher - The Beech 18; The Wing Concept; Baden-Soellingen - forty years of excellence; Air Division - forty years of history ***Pictorial centerfold of 1 Air Division detached but present***; Halifax Flies; Norad at 35; Flying the Firefly; They Got no Gongs - excerpt from 'Behind the Glory'; Leonard Cheshire dies; VU 33 - the final parade. Average wear. Address label upon back cover. Solid copy. Book
60 pages. Features include: Out of Africa - a flight into Kigali; Operation Scotch - The Lifeline; Supersonic Training Aid; Dumbo - the Liberator that could; Canadian Contingent to Rodeo '94; Canada's Unknown Hero - Dan Cooper; Cosmopolitan - a class act; Swordfish (Stringbag) Flies Again; William Barker VC and the Formation of the RCAF; 3 Bridges to Berlin; Address label on back cover. Book
44 pages. Features include: CF-18 in Qatar; Sleep, Eat and Fly; P/O Prune... Dutiful but Dumb; Flame-Out - Col. G. Brennand (Ret); Diligent Search - by Desmond Chorley; Grounded at Petawawa; When Butterflies insulted Eagles; Cats in the Desert; Bomarc Memorial; The Endless Chain - Javelin flies at Mach One; Sar tech airman of the Quarter - Al Banky. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Address label upon back cover. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Eider Man - Passion and controversy mark Jean Bedard's ambitious plans to save the island ecosystem of the lower St. Lawrence; Preservation Instinct - Science and craft come together at the Canadian Conservation Institute, a lifeline to the nation's past; Mystery of the Murrelet - a secretive seabird flies into the heart of a West Coast controversy; Passage to Baikal - an uneasy journey to the troubled heartland of Siberia; Baby Chase - hailed by the infertile, reproductive medicine is revolutionizing human conception, but critics see it as a ticking time bomb. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Vintage colour Computerland ad; Q&A with Hugh Hefner; Sir Freddit Laker Flies Again; Searching for the multiple-murderer of Wells Gray Provincial Park in B.C.; The Mackasey Affair; Trading insults in B.C. provincial election; Chicago's first black mayor-elect, Harold Washington; Lech Walesa's May Day Challenge; Fears of a Police State in Britain amid rising lawlessness; Assam Sartawi's assassination - a dealy warning to moderates in the mid-east - photo of pistol-packing Yasser Arafat; Cover Story - Power in High Places - 26 charges recommended to the Ontario Securities Commission, including nine against Conrad Black; Clipping Canadair's wings - the Challenger 600; Colour ad for the Commodore 64 computer; Trouble with the Montreal Canadiens - Bob Berry out as coach; 'Not a Love Story' and the Charter's quiet legal revolution; Compulsory literacy; Teachers humbled by restraint programs; California's battered coastline - amazine colour photo of washed-out home . Average wear. Book
Contents: Command links finally forged for grand assault on the Reich - Eisenhower logical chief with Marshall staying at home - Alexander job a surprise; Cape Gloucester Prelude - a day in MacAurthur's Command; In Europe, it's British Stamina - in North Africa it's the heat and flies that most impress Americans; Leftist revolution in Bolivia threatens hemisphere solidarity; Move to drop the New Deal tag shows shift in political wind; First hundred years of co-ops take them into the big money - brings request for regulation from worried small business; Marmon-Herrington - heavy truck ad; What will happen to colonies? - caribbean offers one answer - Anglo-American experiment in joint regional cooperation points way to world policy. Above-average wear. Heavily water-stained. Cover held by one staple. Reading copy only. Book
Features: Greatest Navy on Earth provides a pageant of power for Truman policy outline - with photo of commissioning of giant carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt; Photo of a million people in Central Park listening to the President; Zionists assail 'ambiguity and delay' on Palestine at a New York Rally - with photo and text; Detroit Mayoralty Race - Gerald L.K. Smith, Jeffries, William Z. Foster, Frankensteen; Red Army's odd ways in peace tilt course of Russian Diplomacy; Photos of tough market life in Warsaw, Poland; Japanese Zaibatsu to be abolished; President Achmed Sukarno of Indonesia; Outer Mongolia now 'independent'; Services war unity flies apart under shock of the atom bomb; Discrimination against blacks in Britain; photo of car down lakefront ravine in Scarborough, Ontario; Labor-Management parley to fix labor strife re: wage-hour questions; Meter, Yard or EII? - Swedish compromise would shift measurement unit to end conflict; and more. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Evidence of moisture exposure to last ten pages or so. A sound copy. Book
Features: On Keeping On the Rails - the APT-E version, etc.; Special Team to Switerland - Reminiscences of the William Tell trains of the 1930s; Developments on the Great Cockrow Railway at Chertsey; Stamps; In Sight of the Sea (photos); Through an Expatriate's Eyes - An emigrant flies in from Canada to look at British Preservation; CURC Competition Colour Prizewinners; A Look at CIE in 1973; 150 Years After - Will History Repeat Itself?; Clan Line in Steam; From Barnstaple to Ilfracombe; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 32 pages. 8 1/2"w x 12 1/4"h. Artist coloring book with illustrations by Julia Mira and text and photography by Russel Barsh.
65 pages. The famous beginning reader book. "I sat by a lake. I looked at the sky, and as I looked, a fly went by...." Bright glossy colour-illustrated boards. Last page had five inch tear along spine which has been repaired. Not a book club edition. Book