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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1923 Through December 1923
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book
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British Columbia Western Fish and Wildlife January 1975 Vol. 10, No. 1
50 pages. Features include: The Morice-Bulkley - Mores Steelhead rivers in danger; Vancouver Island's Wild Coast; Experimenting with old Doc Spratley; Fishing in Alberta for something different; Octover Trout; Hunter ethics and responsibilties; Deer of the Charlottes; From the Steelhead Society; Trichinosis and the hunter. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. (NAWCC) - October 1982, Whole Number 220
Features: The Invention of and Improved Compensation Balance - The Mechanical Genius of Charles Vander Woerd; The Tiffany 'Neverwind' Clock Description - Repairs and Adjustments; A Handmade Banjo Clock; A Gustav Becker Footnote; Beaumarchais; An Early D. Gruen & Son Minute Repeater or Fishing in High Seas; Description of an Electric Desk Clock; An Examination of Pendulum Mechanics; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1988
Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Wreck of the Empress of Ireland; Bonaire, Thailand's Exotic Waters; West Coast - a Garde of Eden; Kelp Beds of Lobster Bay; Are we destroying the reefs?; British Columbia - diving in a fisherman's paradise; Superb diving at Les Escoumins; Barkley Sound; Egypt; Fortress Louisbourg Shipwrecks; Tobago; Inflatables; Bahamas; Killarney, Ontario; St. Lawrence Seaway; Filming 'The Last Frontier'; Bruce Peninsula; Canada's Arctic; A Prehistoric Fishing Technique in British Columbia; Palau; Pacific Electric Ray; Monterey; Queen of Wrecks in Kingston, Ontario; The Caymans; Canada's Little Urchin; The sandstone cargo of the Zephyr; Treasure of the 'Governor'; Maui's Trio; Kona - star of the big island. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Happy Motoring - An Imperial Oil/Esso Publication: Volume 18, Number 4 - Eel Fishing in the Richelieu
Features: Eel fishing in the Richelieu at the twin towns of St. Jean and Iberville; Writing on Stone - Milk River, Southern Alberta; East Coast Totem Pole - John L. Bradford of Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia; Lillooet's Ice Cave - a freak of nature discovered near Lillooet, B.C. by Martin Chernault; Protecting Our Heritage - the work of Ducks Unlimited; The "Tent" that's Permanent - the Shakespearean Festival Theatre at Stratford, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring - An Imperial Oil/Esso Publication: Volume 18, Number 1
Features: Elora Gorge on the Grand River; Sunny Okanagan; Crafts on the River Route - the shore road along the St. Lawrence River; Newfoundlanders' harvest of the sea - with photos of the good old fishing days; From Orchids to Horned Toads in the Cypress Hills of Alberta; Something different in Nova Scotia - changes to Citadel Hill and 'The Ovens". Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 March 1938
48 pages. Features: Excellent colour photo ad for International Harvester trucks plowing snow inside front cover; Nice black and white full-page Chrysler ad on page 4; Beaver Bogan, by Ben Ames Williams - to test a man, take him fishing - and if you meet a Frere Cereau you'll find drama as well; The Biggest Show on Ice - A Look at The Ice Ballet Business, with black and white photos; You Want Something Different, by Anne Wormser; How Deep is Down? - Leslie McFarlane (the Hardy Boys author) writes of sinking a mine shaft in the middle of a lake and other notable feats of Canada's mining engineers, with black and white photos; Old-Fashioned Fool, by Alice Maxwell - the story of a loyalty which was without price; National Health Insurance, by John W.S. McCullough, M.D. - "Sickness insurance is bound to come... it must be a unified national scheme... and preventative medicine must be emphasized"; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - How to Behave in English Society; Max Brand - The 7th (Seventh) Day - part of the story; Recovery on Rails, by Sydney Morrell - the story of how Britain's railwys climbed from depression to prosperity - with nine interesting black and white photos; Full-page black and white photo ad for 1938 Dodge cars on page 23; Interesting two-colour full-page ad for Heinz Tomato Ketchup; Fantastic full-page black and white photo ad for Fargo trucks and commercial cars featuring photo of a 1938 Fargo 3/4 ton commercial panel van with 136" wheelbase; Half-page ad for Willys of Canada which boasts of up to 40 miles per gallon; Crossword completed in pencil on page 35; Nice two-colour full-page Chevrolet ad on page 37; Nostalgic multi-photo ad for Castoria child's laxative illustrates a furious father anxious to stuff a nasty-tasting laxative down his child's throat; Hollywood Update by Ann Ross; Attractive colour-illustrated 1938 Ford V-8 car ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 16 June 1962 - Poison Cooking Oil
Features: The sweaty fight for a single seat - the current federal election campaign; The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy - almost ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959 are walking and working again - a Canadian medical team helped in the most devastating medical story of our time in Meknes, Morocco; The case for taking children away from their parents - Dr. Karl Bernhardt; Jeanine Beaubien - the woman who stages plays in 5 languages in Montreal's Powderhouse; How to spot a home-grown (Canadian) image; How Zoo Animals get their kicks - with photos; Ralph Allen's 'Lost Art of Fishing for Fun'; Nice colour photo full-page Pepsi ad; Toronto and Montreal should be provinces, by Donald C. Rowat; The Medical Care (Medicare) War - Ralph Allen reports from Saskatchewan. Moisture stains to upper corner of all pages. Average wear. Address labe. Binding intact. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 2 August [Aug.) 1958 - Honest Ed Mirvish / Duff Roblin
Cover illustration of a Frobisher Bay scene James Hill. Contents: RCA Victor Defence Electronic Systems ad inside front cover is recruiting engineers to work on projects including the integrated electronic system to be used in Canada's first supersonic plane - the Avro Arrow; We're being deceived by the Recession, insists Bruce Hutchison; Duff Roblin - A One-Man Conquest of Manitoba; Are we really a second-rate people, by A.R.M. Lower; Why Lake of the Woods couldn't stay lost - it is being discovered for its beautiy, fishing and hunting; Have Women Forgotten How to Be Beautiful? - a Maclean's album of photos by William Notman and Yousuf Karsh - a six-page gallery of beauties; How to Get Rich the Crazy Way - Honest Ed Mirvish - article with great photos; The Senseless Slaughter of our Seabirds - hundreds of thousands are killed by oil wastes needlessly dumped by ships - article by John A. Livingston; Do You Remember Philip Emile Coue's Magic Words? - in 1923 this goateed druggist was the prophet of do-it-yourself salvation for everybody - with photos; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in soda shop at postcard rack. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 17, 1955 - The Rocket (Maurice) Richard Hockey Riot
116 pages. Features: Editorial - "Why Should Illiterates Crowd the Colleges?"; The Hanging of Ruth Ellis; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Weston's bread and biscuits; Strange Forces Behind The Richard Hockey Riot - article with dramatic photos; The Magic Life, prize-winning short story by Ann Maude Henry - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; What One Song Can Do - Priscilla Wright and Warwick Webster combine for success with "Man in a Raincoat"; What its Like to Kiss a Tiger, by Alfred Court - the greatest animal trainer of all time - article with photos; How a "Progressive" Teacher Works - how Edmonton teacher Jean Dey handles her Grade One class; The Most Exotic Meal I Ever Ate - with the Pasha of Marrakesh, by John Gunther; The Maddest Three Days in Fishing - the 3-day International Tuna Tournament at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia - article with colour photos; So You Think You Can Drive? - article with photos; How John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to fly nonstop across the Atlantic - a Maclean's flashback to 1919 - article with photos; Take Me Home Again Irene, by Fred Sloman; Anybody Eats Here Free - Toronto's Scott Mission - article with photos; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows young man and two young ladies standing at their table. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy of this historic issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues July 1, 1985 Through September 30, 1985
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
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Marine Technology and SNAME News, October 2003
Features: Multiobjective design optimization of B-screw series propellers using evolutionary algorithms; geometrical variation and distortion of ship hull forms; Real-time simulation of ship impact for crew training; Reassessment of the M.V. Derbyshire sinking with the focus on hull-girder collapse; Research opportunities identified during the casualty analysis of the fishing vellel Arctic Rose; Time-based survival criteria for passenter RO/RO vessels; A performance-based assessment of the survival of damaged ships - final outcome of the EU research project HARDER; Small commercial fishing vessel stability analysis - where are we now? Where are we going?; Discussion of Paper 1 - Resistance and propulsion characteristics of the VWS hard chine catamaran hull series '89. Unopened copy in original plastic sleeve. Magazine
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National Lampoon Magazine, February 1985 - A Misguided Tour of New York
90 pages. Features: A Letter From Mayor Koch; A Paranoid Gahan Wilson; A 30-Second Tour of the South Bronx; The Bag Lady District; Sewer Fishing; Times Square - Disease Center of the World; and more. Average wear. Light cigarette odor. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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New Liberty Magazine, September 1948 *Paul Martin (Sr.)*
88 pages. Features: Wrigley Spearment Gum ad inside front cover features young lady playing tennis; Dawes Black Horse Brewery Ad; What's Happened to former NHL goalie George Hainsworth?; The Canadian Police Muddle - Peter Smeaton's report on the easy loopholes available for criminals; Nice two-colour Chrevrolet ad; Frankie Laine - article with photos; No Strike at Labatts - interesting photos and article focus on labour relations at this major Canadian brewer; Boating the Big Ones - Nova Scotia's tuna grounds can't be beat for big-game fishing; The Way I Killed Him - part 1 (of 2) of story by Oscar Schisgall; End of Summer - story by Ernest Lehman; The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs - Illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Survey - Should Murderers Hang? - includes world statistics and graphic illustrations; Paul Martin (Sr.) - Major article and photos of the father of Paul Martin Jr. who went on to become Prime Minister of Canada; Lizzie Took an Axe - story by J.V. McAree; Gus the Great - condensed story by Thomas W. Duncan; Movie news/photos; Results of New Liberty 1948 Golf Tournament; Al Sutin and his Sutton "Butt-on" Button; Music article by Benny Goodman; Sensual two-colour half-page illustrated ad for Nemo Foundations (Girdles); Photo and brief but informative biography of artist Oscar Cahen; Nice two-colour full-page ad for Heinz ketchup; Wonderful colour illustrated ad for B-A (British American) service products inside back cover; *Wonderful* colour ad for Neilson's Malted Milk candy bar on back cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, April 4, 1938 - Albert Einstein Cover Photo and Feature Article
40 pages. Features: Great cover photo of wild-haired Albert Einstein in leather jacket; Photo of swastika atop smoke stack of New York hospital power plant on the East River between 70th and 71st; Photo of Mr. & Mrs. David Hearst; photo of Pinky Tomlin and his bride; Photo of Joan Bennett wounded on movie set by a bayonet; Great photo of FDR in limo in Gainesville, Georgia surrounded by crowd; Concern over Japanese fishing off Alaska; Photo of Dr. Seyss-Inquart with Hitler; One-page article on Einstein includes photo of his relaxing chair, work desk and Princeton home; Five photos of famous racehorse Man o' War; Nice one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal car; Nice one-page, two-color Chesapeake and Ohio ad features Ohio's "Cheese Corridor"; Photo of crowd of Akron Goodrich workers protesting wages; Photo of a 42-passenger 'Ensign' built for Imperial Airways; Handsome color Packard auto ad on back cover features illustration of well-dressed couple. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Articles clipped from pages 15, 16 and 39. One-third of table of contents page has been removed. A worthy vintage copy Book
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Rod and Rifle in British Columbia
20 pages. An early provincial booklet promotiing hunting and fishing in British Columbia. Undated - appears to be circa 1920s. Includes black and white reproductions of photos of: a flycaster with fish in net; a morning's catch of salmon at Campbell River; Four river fishermen in what appears to be a native-style carved boat; great shot of a dozens of caribou fording a wide body of water; a mounted bull moose head; smiling hunter standing over 4+ dead grizzlies; mounted big-horned sheep head; Wapati; large herd of caribou on a high plateau; coast deer; mountain goats on a rock face; prize-winning mounted head of a mountain goat. Includes considerable supporting text. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage B.C. collectible. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.23. No. 6 - November/December, 1977
Features: Spiny Lobster Fishing in the Grenadines; The Return of Pilgrim; Old Four Legs - the Lliving Fossil; Rockall - The Smallest British Isle; Where Puerto Rico Meets the Sea; Sentinel in the Sound; Project CEPEX; Ovoviviparous Volutes. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.33. No. 1 - January/February 1987
Features: The rise and fall of Neptune's kingdom; Krill - food of the future?; Captain Scammon - the whaler who turned naturalist; Egg thieves of Playa Grande; Traditional Squid fishing in the Azores; Starting the wandering gooneys; Not so naked ancestors. Sound copy. Book
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Songs and Stories of Canada, XSO-3
126 pages. Bibliography and Discography of Canadian Folk Music. List of Song Sources. "The songs contained in this series came out of the fishing villages, homesteads, logging and mining camps of this country's past and present." - from Introduction. Includes music and lyrics to many songs. It appears that this book was intended to be used together with a set of audio tapes which are not included. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 29 May 1971 *COVER PHOTO OF JOHN DIEFENBAKER*
Features: Dief - Hail and farewell; Colour full-page ad for the Chevy Vega; The artistry and derring-do of Paul Kane - he went west in 1845 'with no companions but my portfolio and a box of paints'; Maggie Grant; Look East - Gorgeous photos of Samantha Jones in Asian garb; How to be a fishing hero to your family - especially if you don't know much about it and don't want to spend a bundle; Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, May 23, 1970 *CANADIANS ARE MOONLIGHTING*
Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1995
Articles: The Names of Nova Scotian Fishing Boats; British Squadrons in North American Waters, 1783-1793; The Sale of the Century - British North American Sailing Ships, the Liverpool Market and Vessel Prices in 1854; Canada's 1994 International Fisheries Actions; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1948 *Fiftieth Anniversary Issue*
Stories: Fifty years of the Wide World; when the fire came; trouble at Tonkiu; the runaway schooner; halibut fishing; the magic man; not according to plan; gypsy snake-charmer; the buffalo-shooters; Marriott's grave. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1955 - Australian Edition - Amateur Ontario Lumberjacks
Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1954, Australian Edition
Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Average wear. Tears and chipping to fore-edge of front cover. Water stains to upper corner of opening pages. Overall, a decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1958 - Australian Edition
Features: Trapped in the Ice -continuing the saga of his 2,150 miles across the antarctic, Sir Vivian Fuchs relates a fateful moment - with photos; The Lost Wealth of Tortuga Bay, Cuba; The Tokolosi's Victim - a mis-shapen fiend and witchcraft in Africa; Give Me Canvas - the s.s. Helderus - using sails to propel broken down vessels; Monkeys in business - harvesting coconuts!; Entangled with Death - a hunter is caught up the the antlers of a moose!; Devil-Devil in the Boiler - an Australian fishing excursion goes wrong as a man is trapped in a boiler; Phantom of the Pampas - Andrew Lang; I saw the secrets of the Mafia - the writer smuggled herself into a guarded arena and became the first outsider to witness the initiation of a new member into the ranks of the dreaded organization - photos; Adventures of the Cod Fishers of Aldeburgh; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1946
Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1933
Stories: Step by Step; The Fool Afoot in America; The Subterranean City; A Spot of Fishing; A Man in Armour; The Pearls of Aidoema; His Highness The Count; In the Hands of the Cannibals; What Happened to McLean; The Elephant Men of Likoki; Whild Beasts Ahoy!; Candy Joe's Swan-Song; The Man with the Harp Again. Above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March1940
Stories: Sturgeon Fishing in Canada; Dynamite Joe; Round the World on Four Shillings; A Cowboy in Trouble; Zaman's Paradise; How We Saved the Indian Empire; The Sign; The flag-pole; Blind Peter; The Lamb-Eater Bore; The Viaduct; Muldoon's Gold Mine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1957- Australian Edition
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1954
Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, Volume 17: April 1906 Through July 1906 Plus Septmber and October 1906
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, April 7, 1962: Stevie Wise is Now Lady Listowel
55 pages. Features: How a Canadian jazz singer became the wife of an Earl - Stevie Wise of Toronto is now Lady Listowel, married to the Earl of Listowel; They Help Themselves by Helping Others - Rev. Henri Groues of France originated the Emmaus idea of collecting, repairing and selling used goods to build homes for the poor - Rev. Laurent Laporte of Montreal; He goes fishing in his own living room - George Wendelkin; A Cold Wind Makes Lola Albright a hot property; Don't put off that children's Party - or you may find it's too late to enjoy the fun yourself; League of the Light-Fingered - Shoplifting is a problem that has grown to million-dollar proportions in Canada; Fiddler with Plenty of Strings to his Bow - Ellis Wilson of Quebec is a band leader, a farmer, a TV salesman and a barber; Ted Bowsfield of Penticton, B.C. succeeds at baseball in Boston and Los Angeles; A British Army Armoured Car is converted to carrying money; Bud Henning's All-Girl Drill Crew - three daughters are all he needs to man his rig - water drilling family in the Kootenays of B.C.; You need luck in this business - Bill Daniels has cornered the market - he owns three million four-leaf clover plants - Gulfport, Florida - his business is called Daniels' Clover Specialty Co.; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads including Savage Shoes centerfold. '62 Envoy colour car ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, August 26, 1961
31 pages. Features: Queen of the fishing fleet - Mrs. Marie Penny of John Penny and Sons on the Ramea Islands of Newfoundland; Covent Garden's Canadian Invasion - Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, Robert Savoie, Irene Salemka and Andre Turp of the Royal Opera House Company; Joyce Davidson finds the rewards of TV stardom are great; Great photo feature (with text) - Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper climb the vertical rock face of The Chief, 1,700 foot mountain on the edge of Squamish, B.C.; Les Lear lambasts football 'jugheads' - he won the 1948 Grey Cup with the Calgary Stampeders as a Player/Coach; Lady, Beware of that Convention - men have begun taking their wives to big company conferences; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Top corner of spine nibbled. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, June 3, 1961
47 pages. Features: Judy Garland - a star is reborn (with picture of baby Liza and her parents); Sisterly love that saved a life - Johanna Nightingale of Steinbach Man. receives kidney from her sister Lana; Earl Cox - gardener to a million homes; Justice Minister Davie Fulton visits the Arctic; Ipso Facto's a Lhasa Apso - Virginia Langton's dog; Ginger Coffey is brought to the TV screen - Montreal novelist Brian Moore's book comes to life for a CBC television show; He flips his lid to go fishing - trailer cover doubles as dinghy; Reaction to claims that little league ball is harmful for youngsters - includes photo of Montreal's entry in the 1952 Little League World Series; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat), January / February 1985, Number 62 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
152 pages. Features: Henry Scheel - innovation never goes out of style; The Caddo Lake Bateau - James H. Conrad and Thad Sitton; Traditional Teak Grates - how they're made at Hinckley's; Barnegat Bay's A-Cats - racing for the next century; The Scottish Fishing Fleet - Rugged enough for the North Sea; The Tahoe Yacht Club's 12th annual Concours d'Elegance; The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding; An epic cruise in the New York pilot-schooner Caprice; Building the Kingfisher, Part II; Saw it yourself with a Bandmill. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat), May / June 1983, Number 52 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part I - The Lawley Years; ALVIN CLARK; Lofting by numbers; The Ancient and Versatile Vlet; The McKenzie River Drift Boat - for whitewater fishing in Oregon; Motonautico - the water taxis of Venice; A cold-molded rejuvenation; The Australian Cadet Dinghy; Building the Beetle Cats, Part II - Stem and Centreboard Trunk - the continuing study of Concordia's production methods; The End of Your Rope. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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WoodenBoat Magazine, September / October 1980, Number 36 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
136 pages. Features: Boadicea - aboard a 172-year-old fishing smack; Marine Insurance; Birchbark Canoes and a Different Drummer - canoes built from their environment; How to build the PICCOLO - a seaworthy sail and paddle canoe; How Firm a Foundation - making patterns for outside ballast; The Old Man's Sharpie - appearances can be deceiving; Alaska Packers - still going strong; Boatbuilder Clark Mills - the father of the Optimist pram; Swampscott Dories; Sewing a Patch - healing a damaged sail; How Archimedes Hauled Our Boat; Planking the MORGAN. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Munn Henry Toke
Prairie Trails and Arctic By-Ways
London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd. 1932 First edition in hardcover without a dust jacket. 288 pp. Photographs index. Professionly rebound incorporating original spine. Some wear to corners and edges hint of foxing to foredge. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. BC8-5. Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 258574
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Munn, Orson D.
Scientific American February 1933 Volume 148 Number 2
Features: History in the talkies - a vast amount of research is necessary for accuracy, but is combined with a certain amount of legitimate trickery; Our point of view - is beer intoxicating? Naval economies, Soulless machines; Television in England - a brief survey of envents of 1932 that are indicative of the general trend; More about meteors - astronomers also concern themselves with bodies no larger than bepples and distant only with the width of several counties; Leveling out the hills with more precise molecules - how a study of an automobile's digestion points the way to more power with which to climb hills; A world's fair in the making - a few of the striking effects in architecture and lighting at the century of progress at Chicago; Underneath the artist's paint - a new device takes from a painted panel a minute core which experts may then examine to detect forgeries; Seeing an unseen world - an introduction to a fascinating hobby for the amateur (microscopy); The amateur rides a new hobby - a number of people have found gem stone cutting and polishing "exceedingly Interesting" and have had excellent results; Reinforcing a weak spot in our diet - cobalt, iron, copper and many other common minerals in our diet; Water conservation - the key to national development; A vegetable from the dark - the succulent mushroom requires great care in selection of spawn, cultivation, and harvesting; The telephone goes to sea - phoning from the fishing fleet is now as easy as phoning from your own home; "Cheap" light bulb fallacies - imported oriental lights cost less but use more electricity. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
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Munn, Orson D.
Scientific American October 1932 Volume 147 Number 4
Features: New knowledge on the rise of man - the Oriental Institute is a great research laboratory for the investigation of the early career of civilized man; Editorials - air transport - "seed" - a weapon for peace; Ultr-violet light and forgery - by making use of fluorescence, professional investigators detect forgeries in documents; Avalances and avalanche protection - in the Alps, great structures are necessary to divert avalanches; Things that happen in sunspots - An astronomer's photograph of the spectrum of a sunspot may give him material for many months of study and analysis; America emerges from partial maritime eclipse - completion of the first of two great liners for the north Atlantic route gives a promise of a revived great merchant marine; Flying in the beginning - from man-carrying kites, the army experimenters turned to gliders; In a rifle factory - over 2500 operations are required to produce accurate rifles that stand the test of use; Factory punishment for tires; Physical laboratories of the stars - the atoms in the stars have been braodcasting a description of their surroundings for millions of years; Profiting by enforced leisure - children, unemployed persons, hospital patients, and even jail inmates are increasing their demand for helpful books; Hoover Dam - conclusion - materials, supplies, manpower, and future program; The liner that cannot roll - new italian line ship has world's largest gyro-stabilizer plant; A post office for freight - New Union freight terminal in New York is first step in solution of freight handling and distribution problem; Houses of the future - they may be made in factories to individual design; Salmon fishing - great industry brings millions of dollars yearly to the pacific coast - how the salmon are caught and canned. Prior owner's pencilled name mostly erased from top of front cover. Book
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MURRAY DICK, ALLEN GRAHAM
LA PECHE EN EAU DOUCE
Oyez. 1977. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 159 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc.. . . . Classification Dewey : 799.1-Pêche
Bookseller reference : RO30002173
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MURA M. - CAMPISI S. - CAU A. -
Osservazioni sulla biologia riproduttiva negli aristeidi demersali del Mediterraneo centro-occidentale.
Taranto, 1992, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 75/80 con 5 grafici. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
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MURA M. - CAU A. -
Osservazioni su alcune comunità di vertebrati e macroinvertebrati demersali mesobatiali del Canale di Sardegna.
Taranto, 1992, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 67/73 con una tabella e 2 grafici. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
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Murck, Alfreda; Fong, Wen; De Montebello, Philippe
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1980 / 1981
64 pages. Features: The Scholar's Garden; Wang Shi Yuan - the Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets; The Poetic Imagination; Painting and Garden Design; Garden Architecture; Rocks and Plantings; Building a Garden Court in New York; Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Muriel Lovichi
Histoires de pêche - La dame de Haute-Savoie.
Quai des Plumes, N° 4, La vie du Rail 2016, in/8 broché, 196 pages.
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Muriel Lovichi
Histoires de pêche - Raboin - Au bonheur des truites.
Quai des Plumes, N° 3 La vie du Rail 2015, in/8 broché, 172 pages.
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Murphey, Wesley & Don
Fish, Hunt and Trap a Little (Volume Two)
Book is extremely clean. Creaseless covers and spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. In business for 20 years we provide excellent customer service and pack with appropriate shipping material to assure your package arrives undamaged.
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Murphy Brian
The Angler's Companion. The Lore of Fishing
New York & London: Paddington Press Ltd 1978. Cream cloth gilt text on spine. Illustrated endpapers. 352pp. Foxed text block edges. Contents clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has sunned spine. A treasury of the finest fishing writing of all time. Contains a rich and entertaining variety of angling stories anecdotes poems and articles by an impressive array of the world's greatest writers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paddington Press Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003374 ISBN : 0709205139 9780709205135
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Murphy, J.T.; Lethbridge, Mabel; Laver, James; Doberer, Kurt; Hulton, Edward; Ransome, Arthur; Wintringham, Tom; Strabolgi
Picture Post Magazine - Hulton's National Weekly, March 2, 1940 - Actress Diana Churchill Cover Photo
59 pages. Features: Black-Out By-Election in Central Southwark; Women's Army for Britain - many great photos with article; How to Photograph a Beauty - photo-illustrated tips by Angus McBean; The Happy Knitters - Keswick women knit for troops; I Was a Worker in a German Arms Factory - article with photos of German war production; Match Fishing; A Girl Goes Cycling - nice photo feature on how ladies can cycle fashionably given the petrol shortage; Sweden's Gold - article with photos of mining in the town of Boliden; Diary of the War - No. 23 - The Twenty-First Week; No. 4 in the Series "How I Would Run the War" - How I would Use the Navy; Cartoon "Hungry Mouths" shows Goring feeding the mouths of heavy artillery while families look on; Where Are Our Leaders?; Match Fishing - photos of competitive fishermen; The History of Weapons, No. 6 - The Machine Gun. Nice Shredded Wheat ad on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
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