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180 pages. Illustrations. The fascinating saga of a talented, adventurous Canadian family whose musical odyssey took them from frontier Saskatchewan to the bright lights of Broadway during the years of the Great Depression. Date and price sticker patch upon front free endpaper. Remainder mark. Two tears to back panel of dust jacket which is neatly taped to book. Light wear otherwise. Solid copy. Book
Contents include: Housing data covering such characteristics as type of dwelling, number of rooms, tenure, rent, household facilities. Data on size and composition of family and characteristics of family heads. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 2.4". 2.8 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
144p., illus. Printed at The Grabhorn Press. This copy inscribed by the president of the company for Clarence E. Anderson Hardcover Very good condition; lacking part of paper label on spine
Contents: Nice Baldwin Diesel-Electric ad; Color Ford auto ad; Nice color Mallory Hats ad; His half-year honeymoon ends but Truman is still the man to beat; Private William H. Garrett of Waverly, Kentucky says good-bye to his entire family, killed in an accident; Angels in uniform - army and navy nurses; Color Coke ad - refreshment on the Admiralty Isles; Stalin's Holiday adds fresh fuel to rumors of his serious illness; Photos of German war prisoners, male and female, in Italy; The Chunking government and the Chinese Communists make peace - on paper; photo of Hungarian Nazi strung up from a lampost in Budapest; Army proposes, fate disposes and GI's long for boats to the US; GI wives in London protest for transport to the US; Nice color Chevrolet centerfold ad; Playing Barbotte in Canada; Rioting breaks out in Argentina; John L. Lewis reaches for new power through control of shop bosses; Air Forces miracle of help yourself is way back for casualties at home - the Baruch rehabilitation plan; Nice color Schlitz beer ad; Color Studebaker truck ad inside back cover; Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Boeing ad boasts of their record coast-to-coast flight by a C-97, 6 hrs, 3 min, 50 sec.; Reo Truck ad; Full-page ad for a radio show called "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman on the Blue Network (ABC); Fisher Body color ad; Allies strike at Rundstedt's finest after 8-day race to the Rhine - Wehrmacht escapes disaster but loses heavily in pulling out and blowing up the bridges - great map; Sample of a 'safe conduct' pass showered down on Germans, as well as a humorous satirical German response; Two photos taken during the Bataan death march (stolen from the Japanese); News from Iwo Jima; Eighteen-year-olds fight and die as nation debates their status - European and Pacific wars were speeded by using youths Stimson says in defense; Photo of Erich Gimpel and William C. Colepaugh as they are led into court prior to being hung as Nazi spies; 67 Army nurses captured by the Japs on Bataan and Corregidor return the the US; Troubled return of vets - Mr. Jobe in Chicago; Britain accepts the Yalta Charter but U.S. keeps fingers crossed - F.D.R.'s report to Congress is received with reservation despite its urgent tone; Poland - scores to settle - General Anders; White Truck ad in color; Canada Calling - new CBC 50,000 watt short-wave transmitter; America's join in Alliance to keep hemisphere peace - the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, in Mexico City; Interesting ad for Bituminous Coas - presents its varied military uses; Coal owners are unlikely to sign UMW contract calling for pertentage on each ton; Kansas corn piled outside for lack of freight cars; Vintage color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and her family; Photo of 26-year-old Frank Sinatra with details of his draft classification; Wacs at work; Photo of Martin (The Blimp) Levy, a 640 pound wrestler; Studebaker color military ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Two-page Honda Prelude ad; Two-page Purolator Courier ad; Karpov vs. Korchnoi at chess; Gasohol; Major coverage of Jimmy Carter's Middle East peace initiative with color photos of Carter, Sadat and Begin; Nice color-photo ad for the Triumph Spitfire; Two-page color-photo ad for Ford's station wagons and van; US moves military assets to Yemen; U.S. Rep. Philip Miller Craine of Illinois; William H. Orr wins Equalimony case at the Supreme Court; Charlie Allen - this freelance executioner gunned down east coast mobsters; Rafer Johnson is featured in a color photo ad for AMF products; Retaking Stateville Prison in Joliet, IL; Iran - Who's In Charge? - with photo of four rapists facing firing squad; Nice color Monte Carlo car ad; Massacre in Chad; Chinese military activity in Vietnam; Communist Spy Ursel Lorenzen; Military forces close in on Idi Amin's capital of Kampala; Colorful centerfold ad for the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar OneStep camera; Color-photo ad for Le Car by Renault features Roy Larson & Family of Spokane, WA; Vantage cigarette ad features Peter Accetta of New York City; Jimmy Connors marries Patti McGuire; Advertising Grows Up; Nice color photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit (in snow); Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center's successful alcohol-abuse programs; Zany Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs; Caleb (Cale) Yarborough - article with photo of him fighting Bobby Allison; Homage to Nijinsky; Subaru ad features photo of The Cadillacs; Wonderful color photos of Jupiter; Iran - The Oil Flows; Ray Dolby and the Sound of Dolby; Mavis Lindgren is featured in a Blue Cross / Blue Shield ad; Nice Virginia Slims ad with Niagara Falls sepia photos at top; Network executive Fred Silverman; The Young Romantics - art article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Pope John XXIII - Gentle Shepherd of a Revolution; Amazing two-page Westinghouse photo ad features the world's biggest mobile land machine (an excavator); United States Lines color-photo ad features Mr. and Mrs. William Wood Prince, Sr., Miss Robin Underwood of Amarillo, Texas, Mr. Jerry Crabs of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bennett and family, of Staten Island, New York; Color Bulova watch ad; One-page color-photo ad for the Rambler Classic station wagon (red); Photo-illustrated civil rights coverage; The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi; Firestone ad features photo of racer Parnelli Jones; Two-page Firestone ad features black and white photos of 40 Indy 500 winners - their names, cars and avg. speed; Nice color-photo Cadillac ad features an enormous limo and a gigantic 2-door convertible; "Look After Germany First"; Kenya - from Mau Mau to Prime Minister; Cars of Tomorrow - As Detroit Dreams - illustrated article; Fear of Free Markets, by Henry Hazlitt; Color-photo ad for OMC boats features speeding boat with brass band playing!; The Case for Yale Law School; Nice color-photo ad for Air France features Robert & Vera Ransom of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco; and much more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Photo of "Mohawk Pete", Peter M. Feinberg, of Watertown; Nazi Rail Scandal; Rivalry of Junkers and Nazis Seems Stalemated; German Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg marries Elli Gruhn - Von Fritsch is purged after his angry reaction; von Ribbentrop promoted; Keitel promoted; 'Little Men' criticize New Deal; The Langley family of Walker County, Alabama, receives first Bankhead-Jones Act check (with family photo); Lawyer Dick Davis gets together with mobster Arthur Flegenheimere (Dutch Schultz); Who shot Russell Hardy?; Francisco Franco forms cabinet; Photos of goose-stepping Nazi and Italilan soldiers; Emma McClure and her symphonic pianos; Photo of Dr. Ralph Hultgren; 22-year-old John Joseph Lorencik is engaged to 70-year-old Henrietta Pieper; Photo of DC-4 being built; Ad for 1938 Ford Trucks inside back cover; Nice color-photo Four Roses Whiskey ad on back cover features the Dunhill tobacconist of St. James. Average wear. Unmarked. Discrete tape repair to top of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Fantastic Chrysler/Plymouth color-photo 4-panel ad inside front cover features the Scamp, Valiant Brougham and Gold Duster; State of the President (Richard Nixon); Electronic Vision - research aims for artificial sight; Film "The Exorcist" leads to frenzy of interest in exorcisms; Pending coalminer strike in Britain; America's oil companies seen as villains in the energy squeeze; Dr. Thomas E. Deiker argues for gun control; Nice color-photo ad for the Ford Maverick; Watergate scandal - John Dean, H.R. Haldeman; Photo of President Nixon and family with Billy Graham; Illinois Democratic candidate Jimmy H. Martin; Murder of John Bambic in San Francisco; John Margulies steals art from his parents, Irwin and Paula; What Makes Syria Tick?; Communist Dissidents Ludvik Vaculik, Paul Goma, Wolf Biermann and Wladyslaw Bienkowski; Terror in Phnom Penh - Frenc Exodus; Eric Gairy of Grenada; Nice color ad for the Zenith Chromacolor II TV; Horrible photos of Sao Paulo highrise fire - with falling bodies; The Cooling of Fidel Castro; John F. Kennedy Jr. with Muhammad Ali; Color-photo GM centerfold ad features the memorable front grills of the 1974 Buick LeSabre, Pontiac grand Am, Oldsmobile Delta 88, Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 and Cadillac Coupe deVille Cabriolet; Bart Bradish has cerebral palsy; Chess article on Boris Spassky; Boxer Joe Frazier - The End of the Road; American Folk Art; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Increasing demand for kosher meals on Western Airlines; The Devil - a durable personifcation of evil; Cover photo of priest holding crucifix in exorcism-mode; Robert Goulet is featured in a Lauder's Scotch ad; Milton Friedman writes about volunteer armed force; Sam Goldwyn, 1881-1974; Colorful photo ad for Inteerwoven socks features a smiling Al Hirt; The development of flywheel power - most likely to come with the Advanced Concept Train; Color photo at for Twist lemon menthol cigarettes on back cover; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Nice Sears two-page ad features one-page color photo of a Norman Rockwell-like family meal; "The Farm" of Summertown, TN; Ronald Reagan's Tax Triumph - article with color photo of Reagan and his lieutenants celebrating; Tip O'Neill and his fleeced flock; Behind the William (Bill) Casey Flap; Passing of Master Builder Robert Moses; Nice color photo ad for the Fiat X1/9; Gay Power in Macho Houston; Death of Sailor Paul Trerice aboard the U.S.S. Ranger; A Fresh Look at the Mideast - New Role for the Palestinians in the Peace Process?; Fall of a Disloyalists - Alexander Haig's problems with ambassador Robert Neumann; Another Exile for Abolhassan Bani Sadr of Iran; Death of a Strongman - Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera of Panama; Tough Economic Times in Poland; Lurching Toward Cancun - The Third World; Nice color-photo centerfold ad for Pioneer Hi-Fi products; Charles and Diana - Royal Wedding - article with color photos; The Curse of the Hmong; Surgery on the Unborn - Rosa Skinner - Hydronephrosis; Cadillac Cimarron ad; Showdown at Diablo Canyon - embattled nuclear plant; Beer Brewer H. Heileman Brewing Co.; America's first private-sector rocket launch from the Matagorda Space Port; Adoptee James Grant George and his need for a bone marrow transplant; Photos of Mike Schmidt and Valenzuela; Kathy Whitworth - The Million-Dollar Lady; Middle Class Junkies - heroin has become a dangerous new kick; Nice Chrysler Cordoba (Corinthian Edition) ad; Gene Splicing On the Farm; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice color-photo Nash car ad inside front cover; Nice one-page two-color ad for the April 5, 1941 issue of the Saturday Evening Post features articles on the U.S. Navy and occupied Poland; Marriage of Ilona Massey to Alan Curtis; Brief obituaries for Dr. Eugene Dubois and Lawrence Hills; Nice one-page black and white photo ad for H.J. Heinz soups features happy photo scenes of soup being served; US takes dozens of foreign ships into 'protective custody' - discovery of Axis sabotage, Nazi nationals rush home; Crackdown on former Communist leaders Earl R. Browder and Richard J.H. Krebs, alias Jan Valtin; Dr. John Romulus Brinkley - radios' goateed medicine man; White Slavery on Cow Island, MS - Mrs. Cora Lee Davis and her family were held for two years by sharecropper Joseph Walker; Yugoslav Stand Against the Nazis - Belgrade closes border and Bulgarian Army mobilizes; Grainy photo of Ribbentrop welcoming Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka; Color Good Year tire ad; Color-photo Canadian Club whiskey ad features photo of rowboat approaching iceberg to await rescue; Cine-Kodak movie camera ad; Strike tidal wave; Nice color Cadillac ad features front grill and Hydra-Matic Drive; Classy color-photo ad for Fisher Body shows lady holding flowers; Last run for 10th Avenue cowboy in New York - with photo of him leading freight train down street; Photo of bank in New Rochelle station waiting room includes partial view of classic 1941 magazine rack; Photos of boxers Lou Nova and Max Baer; John Kieran; Emiliano Zapata - Prince of the Peasants - with photo; Book review of "Chemical Warfare" by Dr. Curt Wachtel, including photo of author; Nice color ad for Grace Line Cruises on back cover shows older man lounging on deck; and much more. Middle page holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Great Studebaker photo ad inside front cover highlights their Climatizer and 7,300 master craftsmen of South Bend; Fantastic one-page color-illustrated ad for the Cadillac Sixty Special in a desert scene; One-page Hartford Fire Insurance photo ad shows massive tree which has fallen on a large home; The widening rift in the auto workers' union; Ralph Robey; End of the Spanish War - and trouble in sight; The meaning of Adolph Hitler's Reichstag speech; French plane deal starts foreign-policy row; The vote on relief - victory for Garner forces; Photo of Frank and Theresa Mauler who returned to Pinkaute in Europe to visit Mr. Mauler's father; Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Jules Brulatour; Capture of Barcelona points to end of Spanish War - major coverage with photos; A short article reviews the amount of US press coverage Hitler has received since he came to media attention over six years ago; Gehrig's $34,500 tops Baseball pay; photo of American skating record setter Eddie Schroeder; Photo of squash players Anne Page and Elizabeth Pearson; Fencing winner Barbara Cochrane; "One Man's Family" Radio Show - article with photo of cast and family tree diagram; Nice one page ad for the Mercury 8 car; Attractive color ad for Monsanto plastics inside back cover shows lady holding baby shoes in clear plastic container; Nice color ad on back cover for Grace Line Caribbean-South American cruises features male tourist with monkey and lots of luggage. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cecil B. De Mille is featured in a Union Pacific Railroad ad; Interesting Comptometer one-page photo ad explains how Macy's used 325 of these business machines to boost office efficiency; Great ad for the Olds '60' 2-door sedan; FDR's plea to dictators hastens showdown in Congress; Hobboes of America - 31st convention; Photo of William B. Bankhead and family; Nice color ad for the La Salle car (maroon 5-passenger 4dr touring sedan featured); Europe's armies match size of forces mobilized in 1914 - diplomats struggle to stave off outbreak; Photo of Goering with Mussolini in Rome; Netherlands ready to release flood if Hitler invades; Father-in-law scorned by Zog now Premier of puppet Albania; Trotsky leaves the Mexican home of Diego Rivera; Palestine Conference resumes on Egyptian soil - Arab leader, Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed killed by British two weeks prior; Guerrillas harass Japanese after trickling through lines; Tenth year of the Curtis String Quartet - write-up with photo; Photo of Elektro, the cigarette-smoking robot who will star at the NY World's Fair; Boston Bruins defeat Toronto Maple Leafs to win Stanley Cup - story with great team photo; Nice one-page ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Nice one-page photo ad for Ford V-8 Trucks for 1939 featuring a dump truck owned by S.H. Bacon of Los Angeles; Photo of Ida Tarbell and review of her autobiography; Charles Lindbergh returns to US; Otelia Augspurger Compton is chosen as "The American Mother" for 1939; Obituary for mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine); Barter plan for war supplies to be pressed by Washington; Pepsi-Cola ownership lawsuit is settled in favor of Charles G. Guth; Edward J. Noble; Morris Anolik arrested for dealing in gold; The Menasco "Uni-Twin" airplane engine; Hudson car ad inside back cover; Great color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco auctioneer F.E. McLaughlin in action; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
98 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; What became of swimmer Trudy Ederle; Rare one-page photo ad for Sikorsky Aircraft featuresS-51; Classy color ad for Lincoln cars - "Nothing Could Be Finer"; Color ad for Borden's instant coffee features 'dumb' husband serving wife in twin bed; Neat Jeep ad shows Jeep on side with arrows indicating design features such as PTO (power take off) at front and back; Fifteen photos of Harry Truman accompany article on him; Tony Doto - a soldier trained to kill has trouble in civilian life; Mr. Truman's plan for the Middle East; What price Soviet-Iranian Accord? - with photo of Dr. Ali-Akbar Daftary and his daughter, Iran Ala; Middle East - Bevin, Pashas, and Peoples; Herbert Hoover pleads for food for children; Manchurian scramble in China; Photo of Hirohito; Nice color-photo Kodachrome ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Jones & Laughlin Steel features over the road freighting illustration - before steel; The New France watches the Rhine; Velasco Ibarra loses friends in Ecuador; Brief obituaries for C. Oscar Strand, Thomas Dixon, and composer Vincent Youmans; Photo of 13-year-old Jerry Mullen of Los Angeles having glass removed from his backside - the 15th trip to hospital for this accident-prone boy; Nice one-page ad for Western Air Lines - America's Pioneer Airline; National black market in lumber - 'peckerwood' sawmills; The town of Arlington, MO is sold by Fred Pillman for $10,000 - with photo; Nice Delta Airlines ad; Nice one-page color ad for the Gilbert Paper Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, provides aerial illustration of their snow-bound plant; Nice ad for Gaylord Boxes; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along coverfold. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
Full blue coth boards. 181 pages.
706 pages. Amazing black and white dust jacket photo shows a woman pioneer clearing brush by hand. This exhaustive local history covers: The Town of St. Jospeh; General History; Political History; Churches; Family Histories; Business; Recreation; The New Sarepta Historical Society. Includes reproductions of archival maps and hundreds of black and white illustrations. Prior owner's details upon verso of illustrated front free endpaper else unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Krotki 380. Book
Features: Color cover photo of lovely Jinx Falkenburg; Full-page black and white photos of Elaine Shepard of MGM's Ziegfeld Follies, Dolores Moran, Arthur M. Danchuk, Evelyn Keyes, Ted Keppler of Beverly NJ, Mrs. Ted Kepper, Maria Montez, Adele Mara, Louise Allbritton, Ava Gardner, Three men of 15th Air Force (Hugh Bayless, James R. Barry and Earl L. Ballinger), The large Bernarr Macfadden family in 1924 at the White House, Helen Hayden, and Dorothy Van Nuys; Back cover photo of 'young Hercules' Jack Thruman of Elgin, IL; Half-page black and white photos of Robert E. Hitchcock of Jackson MI, Capt. Douglas S. Schnell, Major James Edward Monroe of Jacksonville Beach, and John L. Bogert of New York City. Feature articles include: Greatest Crime of This Horrible War - White Flour Curse; Simple Appendicitis Remedy; Warning! - Sulfa Drugs Dangerous; At Age 87 John L. Bogert is Active and Ambitious!; Do Your Eyes Need Crutches?; Cancer Controversy - X-Ray Experience - by Stanford Burney; 57-Day Fast Overcame Ten Ailments!; Nervous Wreck Passes Flying Tests; Douglas S. Schnell Wins Battle Against Varicose Veins; Cripple Dancer Maxine Wolfe Tries Exercise - Now She's a WAC; Eugene Bock lost his bulges and high blood pressure; Win Beauty - Nature's Way; Joseph Martini - Journey to Health; Marcelline E. Sylvester Improved Her Hearing; Alcohol and Tobacco - 9th instalment of the Superb Womanhood Series; Mermaid Finds Success - Helen Hayden Howard; Confessions of a Prize Fight Champion - part 3; Astonishing Benefits of [Wartime] Food Rationing; Fasting and Fruit Juices Kill Tapeworm; William Clinton's Defective Heart Now Powerful; Barbara E. Andrus was Anemic and Fat - Tried Country Life; Marguerite Walsh Overcomes Arthritis of the Spine; Can Prunes Prevent Infantile Paralysis?; Robert E. Hitchcock Gained 40lb and Lost Respiratory Ills; Skin Cancer - A Diet Cure; Mae Sampson lost 35lb and Married Her Boss!; Major James Edward Monroe of Jacksonville Beach turns 130 this Month!; College Athlete Improves His Fallen Arches; Paralyzed Liver Causes Death; Finger Massage for Bleeding Gums; Spindle-Legs Made Lovely; The Physical Culture [P.C.] Creed; The Appalling Waste of Manhood - Too Much Comfort Invites Loss of Virility. 112 pages. 7.5 x 5.3 inches. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this excellent vintage wartime issue. Book
92 pages. Features: Those Amazing Masseys - Part I of II - the family behind the Canadian industrial giant; Corsage - story by William L. Worden; Broadway's Mr. Ballyhoo - Billy Rose; Stop 78! - Flashy Virgil Wagner of the Montreal Alouettes; A Person Has To - story by Blanche Huddleston; It's True What They Say About Jamaica - a playland of waving palms, sun-drenched beaches, the good life - it's awaiting you, nine hours away; Now I Can Hear You - Bring the gift of hearing to deaf people; A Hundred Bucks foor Mary, by Steve McNeill; New Liberty's 1950 Radio Awards; The Sleeping Death, by John Verner; It's Slaughter - They Call it Sport - a hunting article by J.V. McAree; Short articles involvingDr. A.R.M. Lower, Joan May and Ed Murphy; Five Notes to Fame - the story of vocalist Vera Lynn; Royal Canadian Air Force full-page two-colour ad; The Return of Edward Meade; Rare colour ad for Carling's White Label ale inside back cover. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Two Volumes Bound In One: pp. 216; 144 of (156?). Portrait Frontis in first volume, very worn with chipped edges. Manuscript ownership of John R. Hagerty, July 1847 on verso of frontis. Browned and age stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Disbound. S&S/AI 14993/9414. Poor. AI BX 4
276p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition Inscribed by the author for Capt. Israelson
Michel Lafon 1998, In-8 broché, 319 pages. Trés bon état.