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152 pages. Features: LBJ cover photos; The Qualities That Make a President; 100 Years of History in the White House in two pages of photos; LBJ - Master of the Art of the Possible; The Legacy of the 1,000 Days - JFK declared that his task would only be begun in his first 1,000 days; Twelve Great Problems for a New President; The American Tradition - Four Symbols; The Negro Child Asks "Why?" - why the violence and hate?; Are Machines More important than People?; Observations of a Freshman in Congress - Clarence D. Long; To Divorce Art from Money-Making; Six Million Woman Volunteered in the 1960 Election; The Most Expensive Family Album - Paintings of Britain's Royal Children; Thirty Years Ago - Prohibition Died; The Noise Problems of Apartment Living; Times Change in Antarctica - photos; Three photos of Las Vegas; Swimwear fashion photos; Toys are for Playing; Photos of the Modern Art of Stenciling; Ballet for Children; Britons Succumb to "Beatlemania' - article with photos; and more. Ads: Lovely fashion ads; The new Caron Derringer; Helen Harper ad features Seal Cove, Maine lobstermen; Rolex ad features photo of Maurice Chevalier; Fantastic color-photo centerfold features 12 young girls in their "Style Undies"; Color Accutron ad features photo of admiring men; Super one-page color photo ad for Indian Head's new fabrics features native man in suit with woman; Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Partait Cake; Ronson home appliances; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Shakespeare cigars features "Mr. Havana Cigar", Ralph Schuyler Williams; Boca Raton Hotel and Club; Horsman Dolls. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy Book
68 pages. Contents: Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover features construction of the 67-mile link between Calgary and Banff; Anticipating B.C.'s big blast at Ripple Rock; Article 1201 of the Customs Tariff makes Canadian Customs Officers Censors - in spite of themselves; Nice colour-photo ad for the 1958 Ford; The Large Family Isn't the Best Kind Now - so argues Dr. Robert Brockway; Humourous BMO full-page ad shows mad housewife, laughing daughter, and a hole where the stove sat... before mom threw it out the window!; Telephone Swindlers - how they operate and why they're seldom caught; Quebec scriptwriter Laurette Larocque-Auger - article with photos; The Coming Revolt Against Leisure; The Non-Taxable Loves of Mrs. Ollenberger (fiction); The Great Back-To-School Boom - the strongest surge in adult education the nation has ever seen; We Took Our Girls on an Arctic Vacation - Erik Watt and family attempt an eleven-hundred mile trip down the Mackenzie River to Aklavik in a 14' boat; Handsome full-page colour ad for the Buick Limited; Swiss Watch full-page ad features Norman Rockwell image of watchmaker at work; Nice one-page colour ad for Labatt's '50' Ale; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1958 Dodge features road construction scene; Colour ad for Beatty clothes washers; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features well-dressed couple in an elegant setting. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: Crack-up of an American Communist Family - the incredible story of a woman's revolt against 20 years of entanglement with The Party Line - Moscow decided her friends, her books, even her baby's birth; We Need Carriers and the B-36 - article with colour photo of a B-36 and awesome full-page black and white photo of an aircraft carrier at dock; Have No feah, "Big Joe" is Heah - Joe Rosenfield, Jr. is a disk jockey on New York's WOR - article with nice color photo; To the County Home to Die - 29 deaths in five weeks at the County Home near Fort Wayne, IN; The Marvelous Mounties (RCMP) - As They Really Are (part 1 of 2); The Christian Science Monitor - Gentlemen of the Press (conclusion) - includes great full-page color photo of the famed Monitor Mapparium; Lighter and Brighter; How Stalin Got That Way - editorial. Fiction: The Barber Who Played in the Series; Bride of the Week; Other Woman; Sky Line Red; The Case of the Negligent Nymph; Big Adventure - Small World. Includes these nice vintage ads: Blatz Beer - featuring nice colour photos of actor Fred MacMurray; Packard cars; Mercury cars; Zenith radios and TVs; Elgin watches; Porto-Ped shoes; Plymouth cars; Hamilton watches; *Wonderful* color centerfold for Chesterfield cigarettes features Arthur Godfrey, Bing Crosby and Perry Como; The 1950 Harley-Davidson 125 motorcycle; "Bride For Sale" one-page movie ad; Mallory hats; Dan River men's fashions; Union Pacific Railroad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features endorsement by doctors. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
132 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Three generations of the Mitchell family are featured in Sohmer piano ad; Chinese Nuclear Research - article with photos; The World of the Unborn - the new medical specialty of Fetology; Holy Men of India - In Search of Seekers of the Truth; Don't Tell it to the Computer - the threat it represents to privacy; Toscanini - the Greatest Single Influence on Today's Conductors; George Plimpton - story with photos of his varied activities; El San Juan Hotel (Puerto Rico) ad features Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board; Sweater fashion photos; "Because I Say So" - raising children; Sensuous Cone Towel ad; 1966 Was a Happening for Home Furnishings; Save the Children Federation ad features the family of Nancy and John Seletti - and young Chang Sook of Korea; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which is almost loose. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
38192Bordeaux. Charles Lefebvre. 1875. In-8. Demi-Maroquin à coins. 346 p. + cartes dépliantes H.T. Exemplaire N° 6 sur Papier Hollande extra fort de Van-Gelder. Bon état intérieur malgré quelques rousseurs. Couverture défraichie.
200 pages. Features: Cover painting of Gertrude Stein and some members of her salon; Great Jade East ad; Lovely fashion ads; Nice two-page color-photo Christmas ad for Longines watches; Nice two-page color photo ad for Omega watches; Gorgeous black and white photos Shiseido ad; Nice Van Cleef & Aprels ad features Piaget watches; Classic Rhodes shirt ad features boy working on his soap box racer; The (Gertrude) Stein Salon was the First Museum of Modern Art - photo-illustrated article; To a Name-Dropper, the Stein Salon was Heaven - photos and brief write-ups of Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Sitwell, Guillaume Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Alice B. Toklas and James Joyce; A Berlin Commune is a Big Happy Family (Sometimes) - hundreds of young leftist Berliners are experimenting with communal living at Linkeck - photo-illustrated article; A New Factory Product - 'Instant Education'; A westerner residing in Peking writes about the bitter struggle between Mao and Liu Shao-chi forces; A Ride Along the Suez Canal - photo-illustrated article; The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn - "One-Man Think Tank"; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for the Hat Corporation of America features 18 hats being modelled; Lovely Lancome ad for their Fidji product; Wonderful color-photo centerfold of Miss Springmaid, Dawn Gemay; Two-page color ad for eight models of Kodak Instamatic cameras; Centerfold Kodak ad for their movie cameras and projectors; Two more pages of Kodak ads for their flash cameras, slide projector, and more; What? Americans Hate Kids?; Many more pages of Christmas gift ads; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of Mary Carnwath; Nice Thom McAn ad features three ladies at shoeshine stand; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of Christmas rush on the Toronto subway; Terence Robertson says "Kick South Africa Out of the Commonwealth"; How to Get On Television - a tour of Canada's casting offices, including coverage and photos of Sandra O'Neill who won headlines for 'the longest legs on TV'; The Many, Mighty Siftons - proud and clannish for six generations they've done more to shape Canada than any other family; The Awful Ups and Downs of Terry Sawchuk - for the 'greatest goalie of all' life on and off the ice is one crisis after another; Why Don't We Send Our Surplus Food to the Starving, by Knowlton Nash; Portrait of Ontario's Highway 400 - "it was one of the better ideas of a man named Hitler"; Holiday Weekend in London; When Mother Was a War Worker - a look back at the women who worked in Canada's WWII munitions industries - article with great photo of Dozens of women standing on wings of 40th Lancaster bomber they'd helped build at Victory Aircraft in Maltonk Ontario; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad shows the clear tall bottles they used before converting to brown stubbies; Great vintage colour-photo ad for Remington Rand shows their room-sized Univac computer and Titan rocket taking off; Half-page Bright's Wines ad for their Mazel Tov product; and more. Back cover missing. Nibbling to bottom corner of front cover and first couple of pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Human Smugglers - Running refugees into the U.S. from the Akwesasne Reserve; Chinese migrants risk their lives to be smuggled to North America; Patrolling 'Little Korea' - illegals from all over jump the U.S. border in southern B.C.; Chinese migrants seek release in B.C.; The Tragedy of Andrew Rich - teen Innu suicide victim; Problems with Emploi Quebec; Britain's hereditary peers fall victim to reform; Plunge of Flight 990 off Massachusetts; Feature Article - Wayne Gretzky's New World - he talks of family, life, and the public perils of selling himself; Bill Gates - as Microsoft fights antitrust findings, rivals gear up in the battle for web markets; Smart Appliances are set to rival the PC's role; Chris Staples and his Vancouver ad agency Palmer Jarvis DDB; Photo of young entrepreneur award recipients Stephen J.P. Comeau and Michael-Andreas Kuttner with their mentor, Wendy Paquette; Photos and short write-ups of additional entrepreneurs: Colleen Kennedy, Paul Wareham, Mark McLane, Allen and Tim McCandless, Ariel and Ron Shlien, Dave Zakutin, Kirt Eliza Kootoo, Chris Bond, Ken Zorniak, Daniel and Garnette Weber, Alan and Ian Andreasen, Susan Ireland, Daniel Sacks; Johan Arnet, and Samson Hartland; Brian Scudamore and 1-800-Got-Junk?; The Harry Potter Series; Pianist Naida Cole; Alexei Yashin and Carol Alt; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. One-inch opening to top of cover fold. A high-quality copy. Book
[6], 260 pages. "Tells the story of an adventure in homesteading on the prairies of Alberta [near Talbot, Alberta] from 1906 to 1912. Author was the mother of a family of five. During her first winter she kept an almost daily record of events. In 1915, three years after leaving, she completed the story for her children, with no thought that it would ever by published. Offers a vivid picture of pioneer life, painted by one who actually lived through the experiences described. Tells of years of hardship and privation, years of bitter struggle, years of loneliness and frustration and disappointment, and yet, years that were rewarding." - Foreword. Prior owner's name and date atop title page, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative Canadian prairie pioneering chronicle. Strathern 3504. Book
192 pages. Features: Cover photo from 'Sanctum', a dance choreographed by Alwin Nikolais; Color Jade East ad; Many wonderful color fashion ads; Wittnauer watch ad; Omega Speedmaster watch ad on surface of the moon; Maximilian ad for Russian sable; Beautiful swimwear ad for Rose Marie Reid; Two-page Lan-Chile ad features gorgeous ladies; Steven Roberts returns to Bayonee High School for his tenth reunion with Arlyne Greenhill; Photo-illustrated article with Karl Hess - from Republican to Anarchist; The Testing of Pierre Trudeau - did he overreact to the FLQ crisis?; The Soma-Environmental Revolution, Pornography, Synergistic Consciousness, Sex with Patients - what was discussed at the American Psychological Association's convention; Kris Kristofferson - the new Nashville Sound; Choreography, Music, Costumes, Sets, etc. by Alwin Nikolas; The Burger/Blackmun (Supreme) Court; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Nice Patek Philippe watch ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Gradiaz Annis Cigars; Interesting two-page ad for "The New Miami Beach"; Very nice Elgin watch ad features Babe Ruth image; Fashion photos of ladies' party dresses; Lars-Eric Lindblad adventure travel ad for trips to the Seychelles and Russia in winter; Photo of the Richard and Marianne Koerner family as part of a Save the Children Federation ad; Average wear. Crossword completed in pencil. A sound vintage copy Book
92 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Cover photo of Willy Brandt and Kurt Georg Kiesinger; Sony Reel-to-Reel tape recorder ad inside front cover; Lovely Tweed fragrance ad features flirtatious scene on aircraft; Nice color Jade East ad; The Case for a Family Allowance; Why Aubrey Beardsley is Back - nice illustrated article; Patients Who Make the Doctor Feverish; The Fox and the Bear are Cautious Partners - the unlikely alliance of a Christian Democrat and a Social Democrat has given West Germany the chance "to make a new start for the first time in 18 years'; The Mystical West Puzzles the Practical East - contemplating the West's current absorption in the past of the East; Great color-photos of The Moulin des Corbeaux near Paris was transformed from a mill into a luxurious residence for Yves Vidal by Charles Sevigny; Fashion 'Shirting' photos; How Different are Girls than Boys?; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48275Nrf.1971.-1972.3 vols.in-8 toilés avec jaquette imprimée.2136 et 665 p. Etat neuf.
74 pages. Articles: Your Ice-age ancestor - a geologist finds a new type of prehistoric American in Mexico; Under a Red Thumb - Finland's freedom is an illustion with a neighbor like Russia; Civil Rights Mean Good Business - so says Charles Luckman; Human Eagles - Analyzing the appeal of the F.O.E. (Fraternal Order of Eagles); The Coiffures are Not Comic - girls are getting ideas for hair-doos from the funnies; The Flying Bietilas - Six famous ski jumpers in one family! Fiction: The Third Money (part 1 of 4); Snow in the Canyon; The Kissing of Patricia; One More river to Cross; Cocktails at Blindman's Lake (conclusion); The Bedspread. Ads include: Pepsodent - featuring Nancy Ruhl; Western Electric; Sieberling tires; Freuhauf Trailers; Admiral phonographs (nice colour photo one-page ad); Milky Way chocolate bars (cute one-page color photo); Firestone "Super-Balloon" tires (two-pages); Frazer cars (attractive one-page in color); The New Hudson (color centerfold); Goebel beer; "I Remember Mama" movie; Squibb Dental Cream; "Cass Timberlane" movie; Blatz beer; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Nash cars; Great color 1-page ad for White Trucks ffeatures large illustration of one of their 'Super Power' engines; Rare 1-page color ad for Dr. Pepper soda entitled "Love that Lift at 10-2 & 4 O'Clock' features four photos, an illustration of their new Dallas headquarters, and Dr. Pepper calendar girl Gilfillan; 1-page color ad for General brand winter tires; Date with Death (fiction); Maurice Duplessis - Quebec's Little Strong Man - article with photos; Botts and the Jet-Propelled Tractor (fiction); The Big Ancestor Hunt - thousands of people are researching their family trees; The Foolish Age (fiction); Basketball's Big Wheel - photo-illustrated article about Ned Irish; What the Miners Say About John L. Lewis - article with photos; The Reformer and the Redhead (fiction); My Fifty Years in the White House - part 5 of Ira R.T. Smith's recollections; Trapped (fiction); Article and color photos of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry; Are We Winning the War Against TB (Tuberculosis); Nice 1-page color ad for Campbell's Soup; Photo-illustrated article about Manhattan's Belvedere Hotel; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford cars; 1-page Color-photo ad for Good Year Tires features photos of Mrs. Albert Cuneo of San Francisco, H.B. Bass of Munford TN, and Wallace S. Saxton of Bethany CT; Nice 2-page color ad for General Motors promotes their auto styling; 1-page color ad for Maxwell House coffee shows ski scene; 1-page 2-color ad for Chevrolet Heavy Duty Trucks shows truck loaded with huge logs; Half-page Vitalis ad features Maurice (Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens; 1-page Boeing ad features illustration of ten of their plane models in flight; 1-page recruiting ad for the U.S. Army and Air Force explains how they overcame weather; 1-page photo-illustrated ad for Magnavox TV-Phonographs; Caterpillar 1-page color photo ad shows bulldozer plowing through a mountain of tin cans in a dump; 2-page ad for Philco TVs and radios features photo of Rise Stevens; Nice color 2-page ad for Heinz Ketchup; Uncommon 1-page 2-color ad for Oliver Tractors; Nice 1-page color ad features the American-Standard Severn Boiler; Nice 1-page color ad for Burroughs features stylish receptionist; 1-page color ad for Life Savers Pep-o-mint candies features old-style telephone; 1-page ad for Underwood typewriters; Nice 1-page color ad for Ritz Crackers; 1-page color ad for the 'Jeep' Station Sedan; 1/2 page color ad for Vegamato; 1-page color ad for the Servel gas refrigerator features radio host Mary Margaret McBride; Two half-page ads for Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company; 1-page color-photo ad for Gulfpride motor oil features Mr. J.N. Cooke, a prominent drug executive from Brattleboro VT; Artistic 1-page color ad for Pan Am features flowers of their destinations; Half-page Cream of Wheat ad features L'il Abner cartoon; 1-page color ad for American Airlines shows father returning to happy family; Full-page illustration of train rear platform; in Libbey-Owens-Ford ad; 1-page color ad for Delrich Margerine; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features lovely lady smoker. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
78 pages. Articles: Between the bear and the dragon - Chiang Kai-shek's power in China has faded - article with great photos; Collier's Sports - the low-down on baseball salaries; Hollywood Goes to Rome - shooting the Cagliostro movie in Rome; Toward Peace in Labor - how the Labor-Management relations Act has worked so far; John N. Garner's Story (part 3) - reveals the former Vice-Presidents's attitude toward the Roosevelt lend-spend policy and the third term; Whether Man - New York's Blizzard of '47 put the forecasters on a spot; Hard Times Come To Wall Street - why the nation's money center is in the red in this boom era. Fiction: Jeff Coongate and the Stolen Crony; The Day Before Sunday; The Mysterious Way (part 5 of 6); Blessed are the Merciful; Dark Red for Love; Meet My Family. Nice ads include: The 1948 Studebaker (inside front cover); RKO movies of the month; nice diamond ad featuring portrait of Mrs. Lewis McCracken, the former Miss Francine Whitten, of Washington, D.C.; Philco radio-phonographs; Ford Cars (nice color photo one-page ad in Europe; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Rummy soft drink; Ballantine Ale - nice color one-page ad with cowboy theme; Great two-page color-phot ad for Heinz soups (they offered turtle soup back then!); Hamm's Beer; Stewart-Warner radio-phonographs; Brewer's Best beer; Bicycle playing cards; Emerson radios; National Guard recruiting ad; Miller High Life beer; Trav-ler radios; Clark's Tendermint chewing gun; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, VAlli and Gregory Peck. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
84 pages. Features: The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, visits Canada; How to Fix a Horse Race - Swabby Swartz, thief turned mastermind, is caught at Fort Erie - article with many photos; The Shadow of the Duke of Windsor - part 2 of a series on the family in the palace by Pierre Berton; Karsh photographs Ottawa - including rare photo of Canadian Cabinet in session; The Bolshevik and the Wicked Witch, story by J.N. Harris - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Where's the Money Coming From? - the Crisis in Education; Nova Scotia's Strangest Son - A Maclean's flashback to Joseph Howe; Never Never Trust a Bull, by Thomas Walsh - many Canadians are injured by bulls - the killer with the poets eyes; Soups You Can Cut with a Knife - with cartoon illustrations by Oscar Cahen, Duncan MacPherson, George Feyer, Desmond English, Peter Whalley, and William Winter; You Can't Beat Kelly's Bear Grease - Kelly Chamandy is Canada's leading distiller of bear grease and the country's only licensed butcher of bear meat, beaver meat, muskrat meat, and raccoon meat; Nice ad for Allis-Chalmers excavating equipment; Nice full-page colour ad for Ganong's chocolates; Nice GM of Canada ad says "12,176 pairs of hands work on every car and truck..."; 1953 Meteor car ad; 1953 Chevrolet ad; REO truck ad; Elegant full-page ad for the Packard automobile; GE Push-Button Range ad; 1953 Ford Monarch V-8 ad; Nice colour 1953 Studebaker ad inside back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A high-quality copy. Book
This undated edition was published by L. Rene in London, probably in the late 1890s. "Complete Edition, with engravings." - title page. Colour plates. A fascinating nostalgic presentation of the birds and the bees, and the development of the child from conception to birth, and beyond. "Erection is chiefly caused by scuraum, eringoes, cresses, crysmon, parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to powder and drank in muscadel, scallion, sea sheel fish, etc... The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on her right side, with her head lying low..." - p.10. Hinges open. Some plates loose but present. Above-average but not excessive wear. Tiny binder's tag inside back board, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
296 pages. Index. Many black and white illustrations. Topics include: Bow City - early ranchers, 1900; First Homesteaders, 1906; River Bow; South-west of town; Townsite and Mining; Irrigation; Schools and Teachers; Camp; Cattle Brands; Rainier - Agriculture; The Railway; Clubs and Organizations; Public Services; Schools; Items of Interest; Family Histories. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound coyp. Book
xii, 914 pages. Index of articles. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. A comprehensive history of the area including over four hundred of pages of family histories. Map endpapers. Illustrated mustard-coloured cloth-covered boards. Average external wear and soiling. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent genealogical reference. Krotki 250. Strathern 2957. Book
327 pages. "More than 600 species of insects and mites that feed on trees and shrubs in the prairie provinces are discussed in terms of their distribution, hosts, and importance, life cycle and appearance and damage. There are approximately 1100 colour photographs; the life cycle and damage of major pest species are illustrated, and for less important species, primarily the larval stage is shown. Pests attacking coniferous hosts are separated from those attacking hardwoods, and each group is subdivided according to the kind of feeding damage and type of insect involved. Includes an extensive bibliography. A taxonomic index lists the order and family of each insect or mite. A diagnostic index lists the host species, feeding site of the pest, and species of insect or mite involved." - from Abstract. Light to moderate wear. Prior owner's details neatly atop title page else unmarked. Slight lean to spine. A quality copy of this superb reference. Book
376 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. The history of Lumby, British Columbia and surrounding area within a five mile radius. Topics include: Pre-village, Town History, Mills and Logging, Churches, Clubs and Organizations, Schools, Armed Forces, Lumby Queens, Sports, Parades, Farming, Cemetery list, Family histories, Houses and Buildings, and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Please note that this book represents Volume II (only) of the Lumby history. Volume I covers the years 1877-1927 and is listed separately. Book
Features: Dr. Dornier's great white wall - the story of the Do X 12-engined flying-boat; Fighters of the Cross of Christ - the growth of fighter squadrons in the Portuguese Air Force from 1940 to 1952; Ilyushin's Proliferous Shturmovic - II - 2nd and concluding part of ana article on the Ilyushin II-2/11-10 family; Miles M.52 - the supersonic dream - the sad story of Britain's first supersonic aircraft design; Fokker's Trimotors go to war - the use of the F VIIb-3m and other Fokker trimotors in the Spanish civil war; Old Rhinebeck's new dolphin - Cole Palen's Sopwith Dolpin replica; World's fastest mustangs - the Reno Races; Under Cover of Darkness - flying the Wellington operationally during WWII; An airline at war - the Sabena fleet from 1939 to 1945; Boeing's Fighter Finale - the detailed story of the P-26 "Peashooter"; TSR 2 - yesterday's auction to tomorrow's problem - the first fully-detailed technical description of the still-controversial TSR 2; Constellation - Lockheed's "Queen of the Skies" - an account of the origins and subsequent commercial development of the Constellation family; Back from the Graveyard - tells the story of the only surviving F4U-7 version of the famed Corsair fighter; A Revelation - HP's Flying Suitcase - wartime operations in one of the important, but less notable of the RAF's bombers of the 'thirties generation'; Biplanes for the Fliegertruppe - the first German biplanes to enter service in WW1 - the Halberstadt D series; Resuce at Ban Phanop - how the USAF flew 336 sorties in three days, in the effort to save the crew of a Phantom shot down over Vietnam; Supermarine 510 and Hawker P.1052 - the lives and times of Britain's first swept-wing jets; Halifax - bomber command's second string - the story of the Handley Page bomber that always came just second to its contemporaries; Talkback - reader comment on past issues; C-class boats at war - the operational use of Short C-Class flying-boats in the RAAF; Skymaster Story - a history of the Douglas Commercial No 4 and its military counterpart, the C-54; Mustangs in Korea - the operational use of the F-51 Mustang in Korea by units of the USAF, SAAF and RAAF; The First Fighting Spads - a highly-detailed account of the evolution, production and service use of the Spad 7. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
198 pages. Special Features: The Barbarism of Divorce Laws; Fun For Defense Forces - New Jersey Plan; This Is How the World Gets Around; We Can Make Childbirth Safer; How America Lives: Meet a Steelworker's Family - Arthur and Anne Crouse; Let's End Dental Crippling and What Makes a Child Unsociable? Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including 'Jeep" Station Wagon, Nescafe, Campbell's Soup w/ Campbell Soup Kid (Patriotic Theme), Pennsylvania Railroad. Full page black/white ad with Elizabeth Taylor promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad with Oscar-Winning movie starlet Joan Fontaine promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
