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Management of Second-Growth Forests - The State of Knowledge and Research Needs: Proceedings of a Symposium Held May 14, 1982 at Missoula, Montana
269 pages. Papers include: Forest Soils of Western Montana; Past and Current Nutrient Cycling Studies; A Biophysical Assessment of the Regeneration and growth potential of forested land in Montana; The Western Spruce Budworm in Northern Rocky Mountain Forests and Silvicultural Practices; Predicting Growth and Yield for Managed Timber Stands in Montana; Genetic Tree Improvement in the Northern Rocky Mountains; Cable Logging and Second Growth Management; Forage and Livestock in Western Montana; Wildlife on Managed Forest Lands; Watershed Management in Western Montana; Recreational Resources Inventories in Wildland Settings; An Integrated Resource Management Approach to defining Operable Timber Stocks. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
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National Doll World, January/February 1987 *KATHE KRUSE AND HER MISCHIEF DOLLS*
Features: Bouncing Baby - a celluloid doll; Return of the Bru - once ravaged by fire, twice beautiful; Kathe Kruse and her mischief dolls - the dolls Hitler banned; A Valentine cut-out - an unusual paper doll; Hilda - a Dutch Doll - complete pattern; The Wonderful Effanbee Honey Walker; Accessorizing, Beautifying, and Customizing Your Dolls; Friday the 13th - the story of Lydia; the Leather soft-sculptures of Cheri Calvert Casler - Antelope Mountain Dolls; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Nature Canada Magazine, April/June 1981
Features: The Volcanoes of Garibaldi; Antediluvian Companions - photos; Sea Otters - Their Return to Canada; A Marginal Foothold - photos by Arthur W. Holbrook; Sunrise on the Pond; The Grand Canyon of the Stikine - where only mountain goats seem at ease. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, October 29, 1945 *THE FLEET'S IN*
Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Off-Road Magazine, September [Sept.] 1991 - California Jamboree
94 pages. Features: Shane's '79 Jimmy; The New Smog Laws and You; Blown 3X - a '75 Silverado from the Ozark Mountain Club; Cover Truck - The Swanson's '70 Bronco; Mopar Wizardry - '79 Ramcharger 'Tall Toy; California Jamboree; Ted Nugent's News - 4-Wheel, Lo-High; Baja 500; Pink Pacer; Reyes on Tour - photos; Project Blazer, Part 1; and much more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Old West Magazine - Spring 1967
Features: Reprint of rare book 'Twelve Years in the Saddle for law and order on the frontiers of Texas, by Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Texas Ranger; an Indian fight in Jackson Hole - the Bannock Indians; Canadian Gold on a California Reef - Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan; The Dogie from Kickapoo Creek - John Boon Formwalt; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; The Lost Love of Jim Younger; Rocky Mountain Iron Man - Bruce Neal; Spokane's Fighting Marshal - Joel F. Warren; Tales of Tonopah, Nevada; . J. Wright Mooar and John W. Mooar put a price on the head of the buffalo! ; Slick faced and Sweet Smelling - early barbers; I saw Jim French Die - Catoosa, I.T.; Father Thought the world of Charley Russell; Old Fort Moroni; 'X' marks my room - early stagecoach travel; 'Denver has always been a good show town'; and more. Clean and unmarked (aside from 3 works underlined on page 7) with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Spring 1969
Features: Land of the Noose - Yegua Knobbs; The making of a renegade - Navajo Frank; John Elsner's Dark Fortune; It was hard to stay sober in Neihart, Montana!; Eagle Tail Won't Talk; Bars instead of Bullets - Sheriff Tillman D. Taylor; 'Indian' John Nelson; Fresh Air and Ants - old time picnics; The man who 'took' Wells Fargo - Charles Wells Banks; 'Higher than the fish can go' - the Deadwood mining district of Valley County, Idaho; Badmen as I knew them - Walter Rodgers; Creatures of the night - coyotes; Scarce Book - 'A Drummer's Experience' by J.S. Dearing. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Spring, 1971
Features: Chasing the greatest Bandido of all, Pancho Villa; Oats and green pastures for the rest of your life - outrunning the Indians; The impossible treasures of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma; Railroad towns were tough - Piedmont,Wyoming; The Test - a trader's first confrontation with the Indians; Gambling in early day Montana; Train ticket west; Ride easy kid, the road's rough - sage advice from a man who should know; Prison Delivery - Emmett Dalton - complete pamphlet in this issue, plus related story The Penal Press and 'The Clock'; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1978
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1980
Features: Back there in the time of the French - a tale of lost treasure, hope, love, international doublecross, and finally death - Emperor Maxmillian; Indian Raid on the Union Pacific - the work crew was grading a longer road than they knew; Freighting in to Deadwood, Black Hills; I Knew Quanah Parker; Curly Bill Brocius - Arizona Outlaw; Nellie Cashman - 'Angel of the Mining Camps'; Ball of Fire - Nebraska homesteaders had an unwritten law that no man dared break - prairie fires; A Mountain Man 'Writes a Book' - Jim Beckworth; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) - Conclusion; and more. Average wear. Few markings on pages 54-55. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter 1980
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter, 1964
Features: Gold Trails of 1898; The Other World of the Superstitions; A Pair of Outlaws; King of Mountain Men; Murder in the Bitterroots; Outlaws in the Brush; A Ghost Named Jones; "Let 'er Rip" Montana; He Out-Robbed Jesse James; Here Lies Buried Treasure!; Too Tough to Die; Cowboy Rides a Camel; Choctaw Execution; Man-Eater of Powderhorn Creek; Indian Fight; Smokey Joe; Saved by a Glass-Eyed Horse; Bad Man; Operation Ghost Town; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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Proceedings - Symposium and Workshop on Wilderness Fire: Missoula, Montana, November 15-18, 1983 - General Technical Report INT-181
434 pages. Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. Over 100 papers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Good working copy. Book
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Rock and Gem Magazine, April 1982, Volume 12, Number 4
Features: Lapidary 1982; Minerals 1982; Lapidary Forecast; Fluorescent Breakthrough; Kachinas - The Indian Saints; Field Trip - Arizona's Saddle Mountain; The 'Golden Meteorite' Nugget; Carve a Chalcedony Rose; Where to Write for Everything; Boxing it in. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamped upon front cover. Magazine
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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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The Daily Colonist, Sunday September 23, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 9-12, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Examination of the Cariboo Gold Quartz property at Cow Mountain; Tourist travel to B.C. shows largest increase in years; J.R. Matson wins Totem Pole Golf Trophy at Jasper; Province tightens collections under taxation of income; Unusual photo of the Great Taseko Valley; Protests to Japan over torture case; B.C. payrolls last year approximately $100 million; Editorial page; list of public and high school textbooks; social page; large school supplies ad by David Spencer Limited; Entertainment page; Travel page; Business page; pages of classified ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
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The Explorer's Journal, March 1988
Features: The Xinjiang - Tibet Mountain Bike Expedition; The Dyaks of Borneo; Walking to Cape Londonderry, Western Australia; Time and Tide; The Flight of the Arctic Tern; The Chariot Animals of Queen Shub-Ad at Ur; Henry S. Evans - Profile of Accomplishment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, September 1988
Features: Which is the Highest Mountain in the World; The National Geographic Society Looks to the Future; Lowell Thomas and the Youth Activities Fund; What is Adventure?; In Search of Pharaoh's Ship; Long Vistas and Stone Arches; Our Arctic Heritage; Matthew henson, Polar Explorer; Quest for the Coelacanth; The Ethics of Exploration; The Polar Explorers Stamp Series. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Summer 1993
Features: Albanian Alpine and Black Drini River Expedition - The Wild Mountain Region of Albania; Mt. Doonerak - the Spirit of the Eskimo; Notes from the North Pacific Rim; Har Karkom Expedition 1992 - a preliminary report; Of Picket Knives, Compasses, and Things; The Mysterious Round Towers of Ireland - Low Energy Radio in Nature; 1992 Excavations at Idalion on Cyprus. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated Canadian Forest and Outdoors Magazine, August 1931
Pages 385-424. Features: This Tourist Business of Ours - is it a billion dollar ballyhoo? - photo at Radium Hot Springs; Painted Mountains - Cameron Lake of Waterton National Park; Camper - Respect the Weather!; White Water - photo-illustrated canoeing article by Grey Owl; Memories of Flashing Streams - the trout run big in Cape Breton; "A Big Bee" Brings Pipe of Peace - wonderfully photo-illustrated article describes how treaty money is paid, land is dealt, etc. with Ontario's Native peoples; Blackbird Blizzards; When You're Lost in the Woods - using your watch as a compass; Birds for the Prairie Shelter Belt; With Our Junior Fire Wardens; Trailing the Clouds on Horseback - the life of Rocky Mountain Guide Old Man Logan; Jack Miner's Mail Bag; A Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia - by John W. Piggott; Forest Business in British Columbia, by Hon. N.S. Lougheed - includes amazing half-page photo of fallers, their long saws and massive fallen timber; ; Black Bass Furnish Hot Weather Sport, by Ozark Ripley. Nice two-colour ad for C.I.L.'s Dominion Ammunition inside front cover. Canadian National ad inside back cover promotes big game hunting in Canada. Nice ad for Western Super-X shotgun shells on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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The Milky Way Pictorial [Magazine] No. 226, 1977
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Colour New Year Photos of nine starlets; A Dead Rivalry; Colour fashion photos; One-page ad for The Yellow Panther (appears to be a Pink Panther rip-off); Time for Wine and Roses; Colour foldout photo of ____ Feng; Love Stories of Chung Leen and King Wu; Yang Chuan Tells the Fact of a Divorce; Tien Nu is Mature and So Unhappy; Wang Lan cuts her hair to portray a nun; Ti Lung; Shih Sze and her Big Car; Tang Pau Yun tells the true facts of divorce; Why Liu Chia Chang attracts women; Lin Tsui; Chang Len; Richard Ng has a humorous life; At the Side of Sky-line; Chiang Nam; Deep Deep Love; De De's Daily; If the Wind Season; The Yellow Panther; Snack and Mouse Are Collect in the Fifth Mountain; The Dragon Lives Again; Robert Redford - photos and article; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, February 2, 1963 *BEVERLY HILLBILLIES COVER PHOTO / CATHOLICISM VS. COMMUNISM IN POLAND*
Features: Waste in the world of diplomacy - Ellis O. Briggs says the game of musical chairs impairs our ambassadors' effectiveness; Cuban Prisoner Exchange - James Donovan explains the inside story of how freedom was won for the Bay of Pigs captives; Americans - at least 21 languish in Castro prisons - 2 photos of JFK addressing the Cuban issue; Hawaii - where progress is the big problem; The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show - proving that corn is evergreen; It Hurts to Run - Runner Jim Beatty - his greatest foes are fear, fatigue, agony; "Ask Americans to Pray for Us" - Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski tells of his newest conflicts with Poland's Communist rulers, his efforts to avert bloodshed, his struggle to uphold religious freedom; Innocent's Grim Ordeal - Airman Gerald Martin Anderson is accused of murder in Mountain Home, Idaho - a year later, it became obvious that Air Force investigators simply picked a victim. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1962 *SHIRLEY JONES*
Features: Danger on the Right, by Senator Stephen M. Young; Our Negro Aristocracy - a little-known world of wealth, culture and glamour; People on the Way Up - John Brademas, Dany Saval, Donna Deitch, Kenny McLean; Adventures of the Mind - How Human is Human Nature, by Eric Hoffer; "... To Help a Boy" - how Big Brothers help boys from fatherless and troubled homes; Backstage with Shirley Jones - she explains how she plays ingenues and prostitutes with equal conviction - nice color photos; Eighteen Angry Men - the hard-driving colonels who work against crucial deadlines to ready our missile-launching sites - photo of construction at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1961 *LESSONS OF THE CUBAN DISASTER/BURT LANCASTER FEATURE*
Features: Judge Peter M. Horn of New York - We Don't Call Them Criminals; Colorado's Mountain Paradise - Rocky Mountain National Park; Seething Singapore - John Masters reports from the troubled melting pot that serves as seaport and warehouse for Southeast Asia; The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster, by Stewart Alsop; Untold Stories of the Civil War - The Miraculous Steamboat - The U.S.S. Chattanooga got through to the 40,000-man Union army trapped and starving in Chattanooga, Tennesee; Burt Lancaster Feature. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1962 *THE HOT WAR IN ASIA*
Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 26, 1960 *INSIDE STORY OF THE MAYO CLINIC*
Features: The Marvelous Mayos - the absorbing story of the Mayo Clinic (part 1 of 3); Adventures of the Mind - How Life Began, by Earl A. Evans Jr.; page 27-28 missing (they appeared to contain an illustration and half a photo of turkeys); We Call the Penalties - a veteran football official (Jim Henry) reveals how he and his colleagues make sure the game is played on the up-and-up; Africa's Peaceable Oasis - why tiny Liberia thrives while the rest of the continent smolders in discontent; I Call on Perry Como (conclusion) - Perry tells how his fabulously successful TV show is put together; The Mountain that nearly Killed Me - John S. Day recounts a harrowing accident - and historic rescue - on North America's highest peak, Mt. MkKinley. Great 2-page colour ad for the (black) JFK-style Lincoln Continental - suicide door illustrated. 2-page colour illustrated ad for Bulova's Accutron watches. Eight center pages loose but present. Part of page 103 clipped away. Above-average wear. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: January 15 1944
Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Standard, 22 March 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
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The War Illustrated: No. 167 - 27 October 1917
Is Belgium's Deliverance Near? - events likely to follow on the capture of the Ridges - article by Lovat Fraser; Views on the road of victory over Vimy Ridge - 2 photos; Italian Boats that went by mountain ways; Under German fire in Aisne and Champagne; Canadians utilizing the 'tump line' for carrying heavy materials to the front line; Photos of enemy ingenuity i.e. a phony hollow-tree observation post; The Victory of the Flanders Ridges - how British troops won their first sight of Bruges - article; Seven 'Somersets' capture Forty-Two Huns; Rise and Fall of the U-Boat - how Germany's blockade of Britain is rendered ineffective; Prowess and pity in Mesopotamia and Palestine; Splendid work of the gunboats on the Tigris; Humour and courage of the 'jocks' - memories and episodes of the fighting on the Western Front; French air messages and hun air murders; Realistic tests of efficiency at Aldershot. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The Western Horseman - The Magazine for Admirers of Stock Horses, June 1953 *Montie Montana Feature*
52 pages. Features: Montie Montana - Artist with a Rope; Riding by Reasoning, Part IV; Barn of Tomorrow; Training a Reining Horse; The Comanches - Lords of the South Plains; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; Down the Straightaway; Yesterday's Horse Roundup; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Bunkhouse Bookshelf; and more. Nice color-photo ad for Plasti-Aire washable Panama hats inside front cover. Great full-page ad inside back cover for the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. Back cover ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons boots. Lee jeans ad on page 35 features L.E. Matheres, Jr. of Mathers Bros., Mason City, Il. Levi's jeans ad atop page 36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine - January 1950
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine - July 1953, Australian Edition
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1954, Australian Edition: The Galapagos Islands
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1954 - Australian Edition
Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, January 1954
Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1954, Australian Edition: African Houdini
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Couple of chips from back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1954:
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, June 1954: African Houdini
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Respectful wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1945
Stories: Back to Nature; Khushal Khan's Rifle; Mountain Rescue; Indian Pantherss; The Hard Road; The Water Tank; Bhanamati; Malta Ferry; The Corner House; Bill Buffalo; Whaling in the Antarctic; Water-Divining in Malabar. Covers present but detached. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1932
Stories: Canada's Radium Rush; Del Fut Bol; Floating to Freedom; Loosewallah; Into the Unknown Triangle - Part 2 of 2 - Captain F. Kingdon-Ward and Lord Cranbrook travel to Burma to explore the Upper Irrawaddy and collect rare botanical speciments - article with eight photos; Dangling in Space; Lions with a Vengeance; The Tiger that Forgot Itself; The Dingo-Trap; Cycling to Eldorado; My Tragic Honeymoon; The Keeper of the Crocodiles; What Happened in the Bat Caves; The Mountain of Gold. Average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - searching for a missing airplane several hundred mile s inside the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - a plane trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - the sheep farmers of Souther France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a terrifying experience related by well-known author G.E.G. Plant, F.R.G.S.; Black Frost - a striking story of the hard life of Newfoundland fishermen; When the Flood Came - the adventure of an English Farmer; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat, an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go tale from Tanganyika; These Men are Tough - Australian Cattle Men; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to open a West African river; and more. Average wear. Few chips from backstrip. Sound copy Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1952
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, September 1935
Stories: The Whistle; Hitch-Hiking to the Arctic; Khushal Khan's Rifle; Part-Time Pirates; Machine-Gun Tom; The Affair at Nilakere; Public Enemy Number One; Found Ivory; The Mountain Watch; Water-Divining in Malabar; We Visit the Island Paradise;; The Secret of the Deat Heart. Covers present but detached. Somewhat above-average wear. 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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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), August (Aug.) 25, 1980 - Jimmy Carter Cover Photo
60 pages. Features: Major coverage of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale in the wake of their defeat of Ted Kennedy; One-page ad features photo of Cec De Long, PEI award-winning auto dealer; Nostalgic Toshiba calculator ad; Re-Thinking the Unthinkable - Jimmy Carter revisits the new game plan for fighting a nuclear war; Jihad for Jerusalem - Saudis try to lure Egypt's Sadat back into the Arab fold; Sadat and Begin - "Best Wishes"; Moscow's deadlock in Afghanistan - article with photo of Mi-24 helicopter in action; In Iran the Majlis Choose a Modest Man - Mohammed Ali Raja'i; Gdansk Shipyard Strike; Skyjacking to Havana; Harsh Politics in South Korea - Kim Dae Jung; Goon Squads and Torture in Bolivia; Color celebrity photos of Christie Brinkley, Beverly Johnson, Jerry and Eileen Ford, John Casablancas, Patti Hansen, Kim Alexis, Esme Marshall, Christie Hefner, Ed Koch, Muhammad Ali, Eleanor Mondale, Lauren Bacall, Gilda Radner and Shelley Winters; Cautious Consumers; K mart stores riding out the recession well; Mountain of Debt in Brazil; Dr. Neil Gordon's Serious Thinkers - summer science seminars; Steve and Cyndy Garvey lawsuit against "Inside Sports"; Passing of Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and Paul Robert; Five teams ruled ineligible for next season's Rose Bowl; Peking Opera at the Met - article with color photos; Six of the Best - and smallest - U.S. music festivals; Somewhat above-average wear. Spine rolled. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, Canadian Edition, November (Nov.) 26, 1973 - Peter Falk / Columbo Cover Illustration
88 pages. Features: Canadian Club color-photo ad features mountain kite-skiing with Jeff Jobe of Seattle; Energy Minister Donald MacDonald; James Bay Development Corp. is opposed by Cree Indians; Abortion advocate Dr. Henry Morgentaler celebrates his acquittal; Richard Nixon Presses His Counterattack; New Secret Service Chief Stuart Knight; Memories of John F. Kennedy - article with three photos; Energy Crisis; Students rise against Papadopoulos in Greece; Middle East War Prisoners Come Home; Battle Between Israel's military leaders; Anwar Sadat's Plan - Nationalist and Sober; Kissinger visits Chou En-Lai; Confucius is Alive in Canton; Princess Anne's Wedding - article with colour-photos; Celebrity photos include Beverly Sills, Joel Grey, Billie Jean King, O.J. Simpson, Dizzy Gillespie and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke; Ernie DiGregorio of the NBA's Buffalo Braves; Johnny Rodgers of the Montreal Alouettes; Gliders (soaring); Columbo - A Cop For All Seasons; and more. Four-inch opening along bottom of coverfold. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, September1950 - Cover Photo of Louisville & Nashville's Lima-built Berkshire No. 1985 Thunders Out of Norton, Va.
58 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, August 1955 - Chicago & Illinois Midland - Still in Steam!
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Songs Sung by Rail Crews; Canada's best trains - a pair of new streamliners have made two world records; Oasis in Dieseldom - Smoke over the Prairies - 8 - A Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-10-2 declares war on a Petersburg Hill - photos, captions and more; Chalk up another for RDC (Rail Diesel Car); Photo Section includes an awesome photo of the copper pit at Ruth, Nevada; Wonderful centerfold photo of Baltimore & Ohio's BR&P Pacific 5235 high above the Allegheny River at East Mosgrove, Pa; Air photos of the Hook & Dye Division of Louisville & Nashville's 8,000-foot Hiwassee Loop around Tate Mountain between Farner and Apalachia, Tenn; British Signals - and why they look that way - a detailed and interesting report; and more. Faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, March 1954 - Western Maryland - 3 Railroads in 1, Plus Photo of Marilyn Monroe
66 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: April 1957 - Volume 17, Number 6
Features: 15 pages of mountain railroading!; Naotaka Hirota's Album; Narrow Gauge vs. the Great Blizzard of 1957; News Photos; From Altoona to the Allegheny River; Riding the head end of No. 32; 84 years go by on Fulton Street; The ghosts of Sam Vauclain's compounds and of boyhood vacations hung near the Jersey beaches as a handful of dirty high-wheelers recalled famous exploits and purely personal memories; Average wear. One inch stain to upper right corner of most pages; less than $50 buys an 1800 mile rail swing through the middle west guaranteed to please the most discriminating enthusiast; and more. Faint date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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