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Muench David Cheek Lawrence W
David Muench's Arizona: Cherish the Land Walk in Beauty
Arizona Highways 1997 143 pages 27 94x2 286x33 274cm. 1997. Relié. 143 pages.
Référence libraire : 500051743 ISBN : 916179664
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Muir, Doris; Woods, Cindy; Walt, G.L.; Et al
Log Home Guide (Magazine) - For Builders and Buyers, Spring 1984 - Smokey Mountain Farmhouse
80 pages. Features: Smokey Mountain Farmhouse; Country Charm, City Sophistication; Log Home Decor; Energy (2) - How does the log stack up?; Log houses and energy conservation; NALBA 2nd annual meeting and trade show; Dealer of the Year; and more. Few library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Mulholland George W. Mountain Raymond D. Baum Howard
Simulation of aerosol agglomeration in the free molecular and continuum flow regimes Volume NBSIR 86-3342 Leather Bound
2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Vol: - Volume NBSIR 86-3342 Pages 56. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. Volume NBSIR 86-3342 hardcover
Référence libraire : LB1111006426763
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Frontier Times Magazine, January 1976
Features: Sheriffs Pat and Mike Sughrue; Life in Dakota Territory; The Flaming Forest; Lady Boss of the Great Divide; The 17-Year Onion and Potato War; Fence Cutting and Murder; World Champion War Dancer, Augustus (Gus) Hurley McDonald; Forgotten Feudist - George Culver Tennille; Basil Clemons - Eccentric Photographer; Tools of the Blacksmith; Montana Diamond; The White-Eyed Albino. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Please note: Back cover not included. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine, July 1965
Features: Founder of the Cowboy Camp Meeting - William B. Bloys at Fort Davis, Texas in 1888; Shoot-out on Christmas Day, 1883 at McDade, Texas in Bastrop County - Thomas Bishop and George Milton; Boom Days at Ash Meadows, Nevada; Strawmen and Marshals - Ellensburg, WA and locality circa 1906; Greatest living hunter - Clell Lee; Riding the Shale Rock Trail; Paul P. Lawson and Idaho adventures; Victim of the "White Night" - unfortunate Joseph Hahn, after whom Hahn's Peak was named; Whipping Tree - primitive form of Seminole justice rarely suffered repeat offenders; John J. Tomlinson - Sawmill man of Yellowstone City in the Crow River Reservation; Oro, Arizona - most remote of the Bradshaw's Ghost Towns; The Wound that never healed - Mary Christofferson Anderson's chin was shot away by a cannonball at age 14 during the Morrisite Massacre of 1862; Rawhide times in Dakota - when it was open range from the White River to the Niobrara; I Cast My Lot With a Soldier - dedicated Army wives who followed their husbands to the American frontier in the 19th century; Appointment on Red Mountain - Emma Crawford was buried atop 7,200 foot-high Red Mountain where she said she had communed with an Indian brave; New Mexico's Mysterious Markers - many styles of Christian Cross; Flames of Starvation and Death - Cattlemen and nesters were comrades in arms when the sky warned of fire; King-sized nugget - found at the Willard Claim Mine in California's Sierra Nevadas; Uncle Milty's Legs - Milt Clements stood tall even though he only had one leg - Frank Lockert's personal museum at Coats, Kansas. Average wear. Some yellowing to pages. Occasional markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine: January, 1972
Features: Hell on the Largo - Henry Coleman; Kiamichi Warrior's gold - a headless apparition had a vested interest in the wealth of the Choctaw Nation!; Beartown's "Guardians of Public Morality" - Beartown, Montana; Wising up in the West - the life of a young man on the Kansas prairie/Dodge City; Iron Man William Henry Harrison Llewellyn; Did Chief Jospeh (Nez Perce Indian Chief) Slay Mrs. Manuel?; Hemmed in by rattlesnakes - berrypickers in a prickly situation; Ghosts of the Sierritas - copper rich Twin Buttes; Wells Fargo Horse Express; The Lively Nights of a Coon-Dog Man; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: July, 1971
Features: Last rig to Battle Mountain - the last family to take the Humboldt Trail by covered wagon, led by Sherman Wilhelm, makes one of Nevada's richest gold strikes; Motion Picture Vignettes - Neal Hart; Clues to Frontier Treasure; Over-kill in Apache land - Camp Grant Massacre; Last rails across North America - Building the Grand Trunk; A hundred miles of lonely river - the Missouri River; Toughest school in the county - Oklahoma; Stars over Chloride, New Mexico; "My God, My Hero, My Ideal" - Joaquin Miller; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: March, 1970
Features: Soldiering at Fort Fetterman - a sergeant's chronicle; Motion Pictures Vignettes; A Treasure Mystery - Spanish artifacts off Padre Island; A Guaranteed Sliding Stop - handling horses; Mile-High Placer Camp - Greaterville; The Ambush of George Flatt; Robbery of the Denver Mint; Marietta and the King of Siam - trading post at Cedar City, Utah; When Gibbons fought Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Montana; Pen and Ink Newspapers of the Old West; Bear Creek and Friday Mountain - The Johnson Institute; The Art of Survival in Indian Territory; Lick Observatory - Miracle of 1876; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: May 1974 - Ghost Town & Mining Special Issue
Features: Western book roundup; I saw the gold; Turkey Creek Wildcat - Galeyville; Big Uncle Cemetery; The Murderer's Ghost - the case of Lewis Holder; Chinese Diggin's - does a vein of quartz cross Burnt Bridge Creek?; Punching Chihuahuas for the nations; No place to go but down - South Mountain in the San Juans; Oklahoma's Indian boarding schools; The great Cornish Pump at the Ontario silver mine in Utah's Wasatch Mountains; Slaughter of the Innocents - one of Iowa's most bizarre unsolved crimes; To 'Red-up a house' - house cleaning; John Clarke - wood carver; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine: May, 1969
72 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: May, 1972
Features: The ghosts of Inyo; Matadors walked the streets of Gillette! - Bull Fighting in Colorado; "We Must Kill" - medicine men near the Yukon River wanted to get rid of gold seekers; Colonel Tim McCoy - 30 years under crossed sabers; Up in the La Sals - A basin so rich 'you can run trees through the sawmill and the sawdust will assay at better than $10 a ton"; Life is just a chance you have to take; Lost Cabin Creek Mines (Dawson County, Montana); Amos Chapman, Scout - the hero of the Buffalo Wallow fight; Timberline Kate - Kate Knowlton at Monte Cristo; A Day at the Greene House - a youth confronts a Mexican mob; Cump Sherman out west - William T. Sherman was never able to take San Francisco... He was disoriented in the Bay City, unable to understand the mystique of gold; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: November, 1970
Features: The Makin' of a Brush Propper Cowhand - chasing mavericks in Arizona; Whiskey Traders of Fort Whoop Up - center of the trade in northern Montana and the south prairies of Canada - John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton; Sweet Trail to the Gallows - the Penascal murders; Search for the Old Overland (stagecoach); Alexis Godey's Kinship with risk; Land of the violent sun - Old Hachita; Doc Crumbine of Dodge City; Narrow-Gauge Royalty - The Slim Princess; Ambush and gold dust - a Black Hills tragedy; Mojave desert's wild Dutchman - Charlie Koehn; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: September 1973
Features: A place called Topock, Arizona; His own Paula Revere - "The Sheriff is coming!"; The Soda Springs (Idaho) treasures; Reminiscences of a Trail Cutter - Walter B. Self; Queen of the Snows and King of the Klondike - Mollie Walsh and Packer Jack Newman; A Patron Saint and a little backing - Don Ana, New Mexico; Lion Mountain Silver Camps; Haunted Waterhole; the courage of Charlotte Martin - Ox Driving Girl; Forgotten man of Sutter's Mill - Charles Bennett may deserve credit for California's gold rush; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: September 1974 *SPECIAL TREASURE ISSUE*
Features: Lafitte's lost galleon; More legends of Gulf Coast adventure; The Wildcatters - long article with many great photos of oil's early history; Kit Carson's Grandson, who is also Tom Tobin's grandson!; Pool Rooms and Horse Racing - early gambling; Recapture Creek's Mystery Gold; Fifty-Six Miles from a doctor - life in early Montana; Comanche Trail - when horses were treasure; Owens Valley - Playground for earthquakes; the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad; Stetson Scrapbook; Little Joe, the loner; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: September, 1971
Features: Ghost riders in the sky - tornadoes; Devil wind of the prairies - early tornados; Bonanza in the Mogollons; A county, a courthouse, a hanging - convicted murderer James Cason in Weatherford, Texas; The case of the brass nuggets; Kit Joy's gang - train robbers; Finding a hideout cave; horseplay was often fatal - Lima, Montana and Colonel William Boule; The Choctaw who lived like a king - Robert M. Jones; A long talk with Chuckawalla Wilson - years on the track of the Lost Padre Mine; The Wandering Winnebago - forced to move for 32 years; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
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Air Classics Quarterly Review, Vol. 5: Spring 1976 Through Winter 1976, Including 1976 Yearbook
Features: ACQR Scale Drawing Portfolio - Martin Seamaster, Cessna OE-2 Birddog, Northrop Snark, Cessna L-27A, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Sikorsky Ilia Mouremetz D; Albatross B.I Series 23, Albatross B.I Series 22 (Knoller Wing); The Hawker Sea Fury; Greenham Common Air Tattoo; Strange WWII aircraft; USAF in Europe - today and tomorrow; RAF Mildenhall Open House; Diamond Jubilee Airfield; Tracking hurricanes in C-130 Hercules; Sopwith Z00 - a collection of scale drawings; Southend Air Museum; The Birth of Naval Aviation - the story of the first shipboard landing; RNAS Lee-on-Solent - visiting one of the last Royal Navy air bases; RNAS Yeovilton - an interesting display; Rolls-Royce Spitfire; Super Spad - little known attack aircraft from Douglas; Sweden's new Air Museum; Liberator Nose Art - pin ups from WWII; China's Warbirds - rare look into aviation in China after WWII; Blackbushe Air Festival - we visit an English Warbird mecca; Enter the Lynx - a new helicopter becomes operational; ACQR Scale Profiles - a selction of classic aircraft drawings; Genie named John - first operational use of the Genie atomic missile; Aircraft cutups - can you guess these mismatched airframes; Combat aircraft of the USN - special pictorial report; Maple Leaf Seafires - Canadian Navy Supermarine Spitfires; Forgotten Swingwing - does anyone remember the USN's F-111B?; America's Early Wings - photos from an early flier's album; Fleet Air ARM Museum Update - new exhibits at the FAA Museum in England; Harvard's 40th Anniversary!; How the USAF established an air safety program; Those weird and wild triplanes; The last Falcon - the last Falcon from the Curtiss stable; Bassingbourn Anglo-American Air Festival - a tribute to the 91st Bomb Group; Red Star over California - a Russian record flight of the 1930s; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; Helicopter Rescue; Strangers in 'Port - unusual aircraft that visit an airfield; Biggen Hill Air Fair; Mustang Guardsmen - the P-51 Mustang helped form the modern Air National Guard; Boeing's Grasshopper - Nifty little observation type lost out to the L-19; Kingfisher Wreckovery; Lady Peace - the Ping Pong Special - V-1; Twilight for the Sikorsky Giants; 18 days of Hell - the brief combat history of the Belgian Air Force in WWII; Mission U-5 - Abort! - the discovery of a rare P-39 combat veteran in Australia; Typhoon! - deadly fighter-bomber of WWII from Hawker Aircraft Co.; Famous Alaskan Bush Pilots - these pioneers helped develop flying in the north; Mountain Air Force - Switzerland maintains a strong and interesting air force; Zerbe's Air Sedan - a flying oddity; Flying the F-82 in combat - the Twin Mustang is pitted against MiGs; Deuces Wild - swan song of the Convair F-102 Interceptor; Service on Sunday - flying a preacher in an SBD and almost meeting the Maker; Sea-going Gliders - USN experiments in amphibious gliders during WWII; Magnificent Men in their Flying Boats - early aerial developments with flying boats; Messerschmitt's Super-Secret P.1101 - this German aircraft helped USAF researchers in the 1950s; Roscoe Turner Special - the famed unlimited racer he flew; Hot Deck! - landing combat aircraft on aircraft carriers is a dangerous business as these photos prove; Japan's newsboy warrior - little-known Japanese biplane. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Privately bound in blue buckram-covered boards with gilt lettering to backstrip and front board. A sound copy. Book
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Alberta Historical Review: Vol. 5, Spring 1957, No. 2
32 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Rocky Mountain Rangers; Chief Factor John Rowand; From the Old Land to the New (Part 2); Moira O'Neill in Alberta; Indians of the Early West (Part 2); Eye Openers; Notes and Comments; Western Bookshelf. Average wear. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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American Forests and Forest Life, January 1928 - The Magazine of the American Forestry Association
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Architectural Digest Magazine, December 2000 *Robert Redford's Manhattan Penthouse*
290 pages. Features: Special Section on Hotels Around the World - Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge in Nabibia, The Milestone in London, Pansukian on the island of Siargao, Alvear Palace in Buenos Aires, UXU Ranch in Wyoming, Hotel de Russie in Rome, The Carenage Bay on Canouan Island, Spring Cottage by the Thames, andLa Posada de Santa Fe in New Mexico; Robert Redford's Manhattan penthouse; Lakeside in Palm Beach; Modern oceanfront home on Maui; European mood in Mexico City; An 1853 spring house in Texas updated for today; French modernism in L.A.; Winfield House - the American Ambassador's residence in London. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Architectural Digest Magazine, October 2003 *Dennis Quaid at His Montana Ranch*
232 pages. Features: Serene life for Dennis Quaid amid the rolling hills of Montana; Susan and Jerry Lauren's Folk Art Collection in New York; National Gallery Director Earl A. Powell III in Virginia; Les Jolies Eaux - new life for Princess Margaret's Mustique retreat; Star Jones gets her dream apartment in New York; A Southern California residence embraces the elements; Susan Sullivan and Connell Cowan find calm near Santa Barbara; The ever-evolving MicroMultiple House puts a twist on the concept of unbuilt houses; The Wyndham Martineau Bay Resort & Spa on Vieques; Jaquelin T. Robertson; Eureka Springs - the Victorian era lives on; Luis Barragan's San Cristobal in Mexico; Karl Springer - his exotic furniture; San Francisco design centrer; Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como; Properties for sale around the world. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Baldwin Locomotives (Magazine), July 1932
60 pages. Features: Operating Articulated Locomotives in Fast Frieght Service on the Baltimore and Ohio; The Effect of Boiler Capacity on Revenue; The Chilean State Railways - superb article with many photos; A New Locomotive for the Alaska Railroad - The Baldwin Mountain (4-8-2); Gas-Electric Locomotives - detailed article with photos; New Motive Power for the Lehigh Valley Railroad - ten 4-8-4 locomotives are added; Evolution of the Southwark-Emery Testing Machine - article with many photos including a superb shot of their 4 million pound unit - the world's largest and finest precision testing unit; The Illinois Terminal Railroad System - informative article with great photos. Ten pages of excellent ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 29, August 1992
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Photos and details of glass powder horns; The Magic of Metamorphic Trade Cards - Part II - Beyond Patent Medicines - fantastic vintage ads; Hair Raising Stories - Circassian Hair Oil and Restorative - A.L. Scoville & Co.; Bryan's Top Shelf - his tall and short bottles; Embalming Bottles - informative and wonderfully illustrated article by Adrienne S. Escoe; Jar Talk in Fredericksburg, Texas; Dr. Pepper's Mountain Herbs; "Dr. Pepper's Phos-Ferrates"; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits; Auction Directory; The Label Space - The Bunker Hill Monument is popular on labels - Bunker Hill Pickles; Up-Dates; "Nyal" - a Poison Bottle story by Ben and Mirriam Glassman. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1957 Through November/December1958
Half-leather binding. 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: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1926 Through December 1926
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: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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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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Canadian National Magazine, June 1948, Volume 34, Number 5
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of view from Jasper Park Lodge; The New Prince George starts service this month; Jasper Park Lodge - a Quarter of a Century, with many photos; Canadian National Cameos - the meaning of train signals; Longmoor - a memorial window for the Canadian railway troops, who did their overseas training on the Longmoor Military Railway, was unveiled April 25 at the Garrison Church at Longmoor, Hants; Posters display our services - great pictorial display; The Reminiscing Run - a gabfest ensues when engineers get together; T.C.A. enters Bermuda - new direct air service inaugurated from Montreal and Toronto - with photos; G.T.W. (Grand Trunk Western Railway holds annual meeting; List and photos of staff working in Moncton's New Atlantic Building; System News; Chickens Without Wings - Dominica specializes in eating Crapaud (Frogs) which the natives refer to as "Mountain chicken"; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Address label on back cover. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Cars & Parts Magazine, September 1979
178 pages. Features: King of Power - as late as 1908 there were more steam-powered than gasoline-powered cars; Rolls Royce in US; Avanti - the Avanti's life span as a Studebaker product lasted only little more than a year; Da Vinci - a single da Vinci was made by James Scripps Booth in the period 1915-1920; Dodge Brothers - production facilities continued to introduce changes without slowing the assembly line; Petit Jean Mountain - Big show near Morrilton, AR; Meet Menno Duerksen; Cover Car - 1925 Doble E-9 Phaeton; and more. Average wear. Minor staining/waviness from moisture exposure. A sound copy. Magazine
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1986
Includes the February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December issues. Topics include: Beginner's Snorkeling Guide - Part 1; Florida Wrecks; How to be a Commercial Diver; Buying a Buoyancy Compensator; Island Hopping in the Bahamas; Kingston's Brand New Shipwreck; Beginner's Guide to Snorkeling - Part 2; Fashion Wetsuits; Ghost Fleet - North Carolina; Monterey's Breakwater; Puget Sound Piling Dive; St. Lucia Retreat; Expo '86; China Rockfish; Exploring the Emerald Sea; King of the Mountain - the Cayman Islands; Inland Diving - Northwest Waters; Moray Eel; Diving Doctor; The Diamon Knot; Red Sea Mecca; Underwater Hockey; California Shipwrecks; the C-O Sole; Corsair; Florida Keys; Personality Profile - Peter Hughes; the Blue-Clawed Lithode Crab; Exploring West Coast Waters - Inside Passages of BC; Tobermory, Ontario. Light wear. Quality copies. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: March 20, 1997
Features: Judi Bari 1949-1997; Chemical Weapons Incineration Scam; Modern Luddism; Resistance at Big Mountain; The New English Underground; Proper Fence Mending Techniques. Quality copy. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: 2 February 1997
Features: The People vs. Woody Harrelson; Rad Waste Cover-up; Forest Blockades Down Under; Resistance at Big Mountain; Privat Property and the Land Ethic; Clearcuts and Landslides. Quality copy. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: November-December 1998
Features: Headwaters Activist, David Nathan Chain, Killed; Minnehaha under Seige; Actions and Arrests at Wing Creek; Muzzlling a Mine in Montana; An Interview with Julia Butterfly; Exploit the Media before it Exploits You; Reflections on Gypsy; Warner Creek Investigation; Ward Valley's Success; Olympic Threat to Polish Wilderness; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1988
Features: The Passion of Diane Fossey - one woman's lonely battle to save the mountain gorilla; Where the Earth Shows its Bones - Majesty and malaise in Gros Morne National Park; Spirit of Sail - Learning the art of a high-canvas life; Equine Justice - Toronto Police Force's mounted unit serves, protects and mucks out the stalls; Redesigning Life - Biotechnologists transform animals and creat novel life forms. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1991 - Rafting the Tatsenshini
Features: Journey to the Ice Age - Rafting the Tatshenshini, North America's wildest and most endangered river; Cryptic Clues - Combing Peru's remote coast for traces of its ancient headhunting artists; The Kings of Riding Mountain - Manitoba's Black Bears are the biggest in the world... Preserving a place for them takes more than simple biological research; Small Wonders - Flea-sized machines fit for Alice in Wonderland may be the fixers of the future. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: May/June 1982: Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies
Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: September 1999
Features: Kingdom in the Clouds - Kangchenjunga was once thought to be the world's highest mountain; Swimming into the Past - The St. Lawrence River as underwater playground and history teacher; Missing Angela - HIV is sweeping through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; Wagner's Wonderland - a city-encircled wetland is a refugium for creatures great and small, and an army of volunteers is working hard to keep it that way; Remains of the Day - Giganotosaurus carolinii is the largest theropod known to science, but as a team of Argentinean and Canadian paleontologists recently discovered, in the world of dinosaurs, there's always a bigger bone to pick. Clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1981
Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1979
Features: The First Men on the moon - the ultimate assignment, by John H. Faber; Caucasus Mountain Expedition - a naturlist returns to Central Asia; Sea Bears of the Pribilofs - will they survive human predation?; Saturation Diving - a new frontier of nautical archeology; Exploring Nepal's Rivers - the Talu Beri, Beri and the Karnali; Australia's Lake Eyre - when the rains came; East African Field Trips - students sample ethnic lifeways; Solar Energy - a return to basics; Sea Snakes of Gato Island - an exotic resource of the Philippines. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1986
Features: Astride the Comet; Exploring "Big Foot"; 1983 Huautla Vertical Cave Expedition; Under the Ice in Antarctica; new England Coast Shark Photography; The Mountain Gorilla - a tribute to Dr. Dian Fossey; Where is Tollan?; Indonesian Islands - Nias, Madura, Samosir. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Flying Lady - The Periodical of the Rolls-Royce Owner's Club, Inc., November/December 1991
Cover photo of an H.J. Mulliner saloon. Features: National Meet - Monterey, California, August 20-25, 1991 - 17 pages with dozens of great photos; Monterey Board of Directors Meeting; List of articles about Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars as compiled by C.S. Shoup; Rockey Mountain High, August 1991 - Five Ghosts Denver to Monterey, Six Ghosts Back - empirical testing of Carburation, Cooling and Crew at 14,000 ft. and 97 degrees F. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine: March, 1971
Features: Camp cooks and mail order brides - both were favorite prey of the practical joker!; Mountain lions at Robbers Roost; Santa Fe's delayed hanging - the killers of Frank Chavez; Keelboaters' heyday to doomsday; Suicide at El Paso - the Pierson Hotel; Green and Broke - Fred Chilver and Family/Newton Kansas; Trouble in a (Model)"T"; Utah's Cursed Gold - a cow leads to treasure; The Mystic Healer - Francis Schlatter, German cobbler, entered Colorado's mountains and became a 'Christ-Man"; Fly Specked Billy - Custer, South Dakota; Spirit Spring of the Osage - a shrine of water held in awe by the Indians; Motion Picture Vignettes; They Called it Content (Runnels County, Texas); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Garden Railways Magazine, January-February 1989
62 pages. Features: An extensive garden railway in 00 scale; The South Park & San Juan; The Q&D Builds a Boxcab Steamer; The Ragwee & Thorns; The Unicorn Mountain Railroad; Last Days of the Clear Creek Branch of the SP & SJ; Locomotive carrying cases; The Daventry Garden Railway - Part 1; From Roadbed to Golden Spike - Part 1; Track Sweepers. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, January-February 1990
62 pages. Features: Build an Odometer Car; The Grun Mountain und Western; Electricity in the Garden - Part 2; The Great Central Railroad; Plants for Northern Garden Railways; The Phillips Family's Recreational Railroad; Steam from the Dutch East Indies; Life Forms on the Cobre Railroad. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, July-August 1989
70 pages. Features: Building Your Own Track; Bust & Boom on the PD&Q; A Water Level Makes the Grade; Maximum Shared Performance from a Stock Mamod Locomotive; Track Construction on the RB Ry.; Ou West; The Montana Southern; Tomar's Lighted Drumhead; Electric Control for LGB Switches; Roadbed to Golden Spike - Part 4; Gauge 1 Turnout Construction; Union County & Northern's #1. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Gems and Minerals Magazine, November 1964
Features: Experiments with Grit Sawing - the Hard Way; A Ring for a large Stone; Olivine Nodules on the Kona Coast, Hawaii; Apache Agate and Tears; A Scepter fit for a Queen; A Conversation Piece; Thomsonite at Black Mountain, near Hinkley, California; Gem Cutter's Handbook; Australia's Yowah Nuts; Gude Crystal Models; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 18, Number 5 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical - B.C.'s Radium Hot Springs
Features: Canadian Castles; Where Prairie and Mountain Meet - Waterton Lakes National Park; Anne's Gables are still Green on Prince Edward Island (PEI); The Healing Springs of British Columbia - Radium Hot Springs, Harrison Hot Springs; A Canadian Trail in Minnesota - a nine mile portage used by early explorers including la Verendrye, the Alexander Henrys, Alex. Mackenzie, David Thompson, and John Tanner, the first white boy to live on the Manitoba prairie - the portage connects Fort Charlotte with Grand Portage/Lake Superior; Catching and Curing Salmon... the Indian way. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 19, Number 3 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical
Features: British Columbia - a century of progress - with story and photos; Canada's cradle of celtic culture - St. Ann's, The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia; Rocky Mountain Motorcade - 100-car, 300-man motorcade pioneers 125-mile route from Rocky Mountain House to the Banff-Jasper highway - super photos!; Quebec City's 350th Birthday; Motoring at Fort Churchill; Echoes from an old coach road - highway 33 between Trenton and Kingston. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, August 17, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Fire-proof dresses; The Parlor; Manners Upon the Road - of Mountain air; New York Fashions - fall goods, faille, fancy silks, woolen goods, ecru woolens, Jacquard goods, about plaids and stripes, French calicoes, trimming laces, varieties; Personal; Toy harness and whip; bat of steel springs, carriage leather, and cord; netted and crochet ball net; black figured tulle jacket; black figured tulle Bedouin mantilla; crochet and flannel garters; skipping-rope with braid and cord cover; embroidered Panama convas work-box; knitted square for coverlets; Pollys' Victory; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Lovely full-page illustration for the month of August; Two half-page illustrations of watering-place toilettes; To the Bitter End - continued; English gossip; Sketches at Naples; Illustration "Naples - consulting the oracle of the cumaean sibyl; Nice large illustration "The English Laborer's Home - Evenings"; humor. Average wear. Book
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: October 1948
278 pages. Special Features: Mountain Mothers - Maternity Center; How Can We Get the Schools We Want?; Why Do Women Cry?; This Is the Way the World Studies; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Can Your Bedfast Child Amuse Himself?; The Draft will Fail Unless; How America Lives: Going Places with Ben Schultz - Benjamin Adam Schultz, Mary Schultz; and The Antisocial Child Needs Understanding. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, 1949 Frazer Manhattan, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and Motorola Television. Full page black/white ad with Jane Wyman promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Full page colour movie posters for "The Three Musketeers" starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly. Half page colour movie posters for "The Loves of Carmen" starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. Average wear. 1cm opening front panel fore-edge. 2cm opening back panel fore-edge. A sound copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: September 1950
234 pages. Special Features: The Sophisticates are Not the Wise; Homeless Children in Butte, Montana; Can a Nation Afford Health for all its People?; Baby's 7th Month: All's Right with His World; How America Lives: Meet the Karns of California - Todd and Katherine Karns; and Treat Childhood Fears with Love. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Motorola TV, Coca-Cola, and American Airlines. Full page black/white ad with Mary Martin (South Pacific) promoting Rayve Home Permanent. Full page black/white ad with Betty Grable promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page black/white Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Average wear. 6cm X 3cm opening back panel. A sound copy. Magazine
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Leica Fotografie International Magazine (English), 1 / 1989 - Hans Siwik / Fee Schlapper / Jurgen Winkler
48 pages. Text in English. Features: Hans Siwik - the puppet theatre Obraszow; Fee Schlapper - portraits in the course of time; Photography - 150 years old; Jurgen Winkler - mountain landscapes; Kaiser's Toptable; Hansjurgen Zobel - in the zoo; Leica Focometer 2 - special applications; Ruth & Heinz Kloss - Andalusia; Obraszow's Puppets - Marina Saslawskaja; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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