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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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Maclean's Magazine, 1 May 1938 *FASCISM IN CANADA - PART 2 OF 2*
60 pages. Features: Excellent colour ad for International Harvester trucks inside front cover; Page 5 features an excellent full-page black and white photographic ad for Canadian Pacific's stately Duchess - 20,000 tons of sturdy steel on the St. Lawrence Seaway - includes photo of the ship, write-up and six photos of passenger amenities on board; Nice full-page black and white photo ad for DeSoto cars on page 6; Funny-faced Horse, by Margery Allingham - the jolly story of an equine comedian, a too-trusting girl, and a rather nice villain; Who'll Succeed Bennett as leader of the Federal Conservative Party? - M. Grattan O'Leary considers the prospects of Hon. R.J. Manion and Sydney Smith; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - describes the hyperactive European political environment; Emmy-May Goes to Town, by Teddie Janess - as a 'woman of the world' this very young lady met more adventure than she bargained for; Could You Drive a Bus? - Lawrence Craig examines bus driver training - includes 4 black and white photos; Fascism in Canada - Part Two of Two - Signs of disintegration have appeared following fascism's brutality in Europe - with fascinating illustrations; Dog Watch, by Kenneth Perkins - the mystery of the howling dog and the girl who wanted to know the truth; The Power Problem - an explanation of the great electric power export controversy by Kenneth R. Wilson, with several black and white photos of hydro installations; Old Ugly Face, by Talbot Mundy - Death stalks the mountain passes, hunting the only man alive who can save Tibet; 30 books in a briefcase - books on film (film-books) may reduce a mile of shelving to a few cubic feet - with photos of a film-book reading machine and a film-book recording camera, by Hugh Gourlay and Ernest Haden; Youth, '38 Model - There's nothing much wrong with our young folks, by Marjory Willison; Lovely full-page colour ad for Canada Dry on page 25 - "It's Gingervating"; Black and white full-page photo ad for Dodge cars on page 29; Two-colour full-page ad for Chevrolet cars on page 31; Pages 29-32 (centerfold) loose but present; Nice Heinz ketchup ad on page 33; Handsome full-page colour photo ad for Nash cars on page 35; Wonderful full-page black and white ad for Fargo Commercial Cars and Trucks, featuring illustration of what appers to be a 3-ton truck; Crossword completed in pencil on page 46; half of page 53 has been clipped and is missing - May have been a recipe; Top quarter of page 55 clipped and missing - appears to have contained content of minor importance; Attractive colour-illustrated 1938 Ford De Luxe V-8 car ad inside back cover shows black man commenting on the shiny finish of the car to the lovely owner Mis' Page; Nice colour ad for Buckingham cigarettes on back cover features two white kittens drinking milk from a saucer. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 21, 1962 - First Open Survey of Psychochemical Weapons
Features: Austin Willis in ad for Matinee cigarettes; First Open Survey of Psychochemical Warfare; Disarmament and the PentagonThe last days of NORAD - Peter C. Newman finds that our elaborate missile defense system may be out of date - with photo of Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon and a photo outside NORAD's under mountain facility in Colorado Springs; What wine snobs don't know about wine; Sudbury and its 17,000 man labour war; How phobic fear makes monsters out of molehills; Patricia McDonough describes how she broke into New York show business and went straight to the bottom; W.O. Mitchell explains why Summer Cottages are wasted as status symbols; Earth Detectives will probe two miles under Canada's crust this summer to examine the earth's mantle; The New Women in Politics - Pauline Jewett and Judy LaMarsh. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 1, 1952 - South Africa's Ku Klux Klan
52 pages. Features: Nice cover art depicts an active school gym; Bagdad on the Thames - London Report by Beverley Baxter; Cigarette Smugglers Beware - Ottawa Report; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; The Riddle of Louis Riel - Maclean's flashback - article with photos, part 1 of 2; South Africa's Ku Klux Klan - the Broederbond believes God made the white man to be boss - article with photos; Blizzard in the Banana Belt, by Farley Mowat - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Vancouver Takes to the Hills - Skiiing in Vancouver - article with colour photos atop Mount Garibaldi and Grouse Mountain; Why I Work for God - The Reverend David S. Duncombe of Holy Trinity Church, Hicksville, Long Island - article with photos; The Shy Midas Behind the Ungava Iron Development - Julles Timmins- article with photos; She Cooked Dinner for the Princess - Maria Colquhoun - she is probably one of Canada's best cooks at Eagle Crest Lodge near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island - article with photos; How to Catch an Eagle - Winnipeg's Charles Broley is an international authority on banding eagles - article with amazing photos; "All Aboard..." - humor by Eric Nicol, illustrated by l'Amare; Bold colour centerfold ad for the 1952 Pontiac; Classy ad for the 1952 Chrysler cars; 1952 Studebaker ad inside back cover; Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 27, 1983: *COVER PHOTO OF CHARLES AND DIANA*
Contents: Nice Jetta ad on page 3; Photo of Gretzky and Pocklington; Saudi Arabia to open its first Saudi-designed amusement park - "Islamized" amusements; Burnout agony in Uranium City, Saskatchewan; Fred Bruning on the new business of "Dialling for Titillation" (a.k.a. phone sex); Feature article - The Royal Superstars - lovely photos; Mulroney begins reuniting the Conservative Party; Pope John Paul II's Polish Odyssey - article with great photos; Power plays in the Kremlin - Andropov ailing; Push for Israeli pullback from Lebanon; Paul Volcker reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve; Craxi's quest for victory in Italy; Leslie Nielsen marries Shelley Coxford; Jan Kerouac - daughter of Jack; China's new economic revolution; Second wave debt crisis in Mexico; Investigation concludes into Conrad Black and Norcen's takeover of Hanna Mining; Peter C. Newman on Japan - Their carmakers will soon be off-shoring; Sally Ride breaks the sex barrier - Space shuttle astronaut; Vancouver's new B.C. Place - Canada's first covered stadium; Opening of Queen's Quay Terminal in Toronto; Morgantaler's crusade moves east; The Race for the America's Cup begins - Canada 1 and helmsman Terry McLaughlin; Epidemic striking Rocky Mountain Bighorn in B.C.'s East Kootenay region; Canada's C Channel goes under - death of an underdog; Fotheringham provides 29 things you never knew about Brian Mulroney. Unmarked. Average wear but covers taped on. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 1, 1954 - First Hand Report on Rudolf Hess
64 pages. Features: Nice colour RCAF ad inside front cover; Dispute Still Surrounds Duff Cooper; More Canadians than Jobs; Lovely colour full-page ad for 1954 DeSoto automobiles; The Seven Living Ghosts of Nuremberg - an uncensored first-hand report from behind the bars of Spandau where Rudolf Hess, Karl Doenitz, Baldur Von Schirach, Walther Funk, Erich Raeder, Albert Speer and Baron Konstantin Von Neurath - top Nazis - imprisoned for crimes against humanity wait out the tortuous years while the world forgets they exist - with photos; Athabaska's Atom Boom - Albert Zeemel's discovery of Uranium sparks the development of Uranium City, Saskatchewan - great article with many photos; The Maps that Charted our History - a famous collection, published here for the first time, show the slow evolution of Europe's knowledge about Canada; How Early Map Makers Saw the Great Lakes; The Brainiest School in the Country - Dalhousie Law School - article with photos; How Papa Masella Made His Boys Make Music - Frank Masella of Montreal and his eight musical sons; In the Lost World of the Cypress Hills - this strange mountain on the prairies harbors tropical scorpions, petrified figs, fourteen kinds of orchid and a lawless past that sparked the formation of the Mounties; Are People Monkees? - fiction by James McNamee; Ford colour V-8 ad; 1954 Plymouth ad; Colour Buick ad; Chevrolet truck ad; and more. Average wear. Couple of small chips from covers. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, May 10, 1958 - British Columbia Centennial Issue
Features: Loaded with British Columbia content! Nice Full-page colour ad for Bulova watches; A Native's Return to B.C., by Pierre Berton; Nice colour photo ad for the 1958 Ford cars; Feature article on Victoria's Government Street, with colour photos; Many B.C.-themed cartoons; The Salty Princesses of the Pacific Coast - B.C.'s Princess Boats - article with colour photos; The Douglas Fir - the vanishing giant that built a province; The Rise and Fall of Social Credit - the west's wonder party now seems headed for destruction; What B.C. means to nine of its best artists - many colour illustrations commissioned by Maclean's - works by Jack Shadbolt, Joe Plaskett, Bruno Bobak, Lawren Harris, Gordon Smith, Molly Bobak, B.C. Binning, E.J. Hughes, John Korner; The Truth about the Sasquatch - fiction by Vernon Hockley; Nice colour full-page ad for B/A gas stations; Glamourous colour ad for B-58 Buick; Labatt's '50' ale colour ad; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton - Mt. Royal Hotel; Great full-page black and white photo ad for Canada Mink; Faded Coke ad on back cover shows a mountain scene and people in cowboy hats. Covers detached but present else average wear. Unmarked. Lerner & Williamson 1996. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, September 15, 1930
88 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young female horse rider at fireplace by Joseph Farrelly; Nice colour photo ad for Gillette razors inside front cover; full-page black and white photo ad for the Hupmobile 1931 Sixes and Eights; Mrs. Biddle Stewart is featured in a lovely black and white photo portrait in a full-page ad for Ponds beauty products; Canada's New Prime Minister - Hon.R.B. Bennett - with biographical photos; Air Air-Minded North - Jack Patterson on Grizzled Prospectors, mining moguls, Indians, white men, sky-pilots, bootleggers - all of whom fly in the north country - with photos; The Operating Room Mystery - story by Benge Atlee; Canada and the Imperial Conference at 10 Downing Street, by C.L. Sibley - struggling to save the economy of the British Empire; How to Make a Hole in One, by Grattan O'Leary; Inifficiency Incorporated - story by W. Redvers Dent; Pioneers of the Steel Trail - Part 5 - Sam G. MacIntosh, The Oldest Engineer, tells his story - with photos; What's Wrong With Our Tennis? - John Holden argues we think of tennis as a sport rather than as a profession - with photos of Dr. Wright and Willard F. Crocker; Backfire - a story by Sewell Peaslee Wright; Full-page colour reproduction of Richard Jack's "Victoria Mountain, Lake O'Hara; Smart Fellow - story by Frederick B. Watt; The King's Fool - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Photo-illustrated ad about Intestinal Fatigue featuring 'Italy's great Physician-Statesman" Dottore Raffaele Paolucci, Director of Lanciano Hospital; Interesting news story about the Wailing Wall and how the Geneva Commission must judge the rights of Jews and Muslims; Northern Electric ad entitled 'Liberation' explains how their 'electrical servant' (water pump) relieves women of having to pump and carry water - a very nostalgic ad!; Bachelors Taxed in Germany - the nation wants more babies; Dodge car ad; Nice full-page black and white photo ad for Stewart-Warner Radios; Lovely colour full-page ad for Parker Duofold pens; Nice full-page colour ad for Heinz cooked Spaghetti; Full-page historic ad by the Province of Ontario alerting its drivers to the new Financial Responsibility Law with respect to owners and operators of motor vehicles in the province; Hotels Statler ad; Lt.-Col. Kingsford-Smith is featured in a full-page black and white photo ad for the Studebaker President and Commander models; Wonderful 4-page centerfold ad for the new Marconi Radio - includes names and photos of numerous prominent Canadians who endorse the new Marconi receiving sets (radios) - past page of ad features photos of the following models - Senior Combination, A.C. Senior, 2 volt DC Superior, A.C. Standard, A.C. Junior; Sherwin-Williams full-page 2-colour paint ad; Very attractive full-page colour photo ad for Probak Shaving Blades featuring photo of Henry J. Gaisman; Two-page black and white ad for the 1.5 ton Dodge Truck for $745; George Cuthbertson - Freshwater Painter - illustration with article; Stylish two-colour full-page ad for the Chevrolet Six; Nice full-page colour illustrated ad for Swift's Brookfield Butter; Full-page photo ad for Bauer & Black medical products; Picnic Suppers, illustrated article by Helen G. Campbell; Brilliant Color Schemes for Dark Bedrooms, by F.L. deN. Scott; Lovely full-page colour illustrated ad for P and G Soap inside back cover features teacher and studen; Stylish colour ad for Community Plate silverware on back cover. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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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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