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Frontier Times Magazine: September 1974 *SPECIAL TREASURE ISSUE*
Features: Lafitte's lost galleon; More legends of Gulf Coast adventure; The Wildcatters - long article with many great photos of oil's early history; Kit Carson's Grandson, who is also Tom Tobin's grandson!; Pool Rooms and Horse Racing - early gambling; Recapture Creek's Mystery Gold; Fifty-Six Miles from a doctor - life in early Montana; Comanche Trail - when horses were treasure; Owens Valley - Playground for earthquakes; the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad; Stetson Scrapbook; Little Joe, the loner; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: September, 1971
Features: Ghost riders in the sky - tornadoes; Devil wind of the prairies - early tornados; Bonanza in the Mogollons; A county, a courthouse, a hanging - convicted murderer James Cason in Weatherford, Texas; The case of the brass nuggets; Kit Joy's gang - train robbers; Finding a hideout cave; horseplay was often fatal - Lima, Montana and Colonel William Boule; The Choctaw who lived like a king - Robert M. Jones; A long talk with Chuckawalla Wilson - years on the track of the Lost Padre Mine; The Wandering Winnebago - forced to move for 32 years; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
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Air Classics Quarterly Review, Vol. 5: Spring 1976 Through Winter 1976, Including 1976 Yearbook
Features: ACQR Scale Drawing Portfolio - Martin Seamaster, Cessna OE-2 Birddog, Northrop Snark, Cessna L-27A, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Sikorsky Ilia Mouremetz D; Albatross B.I Series 23, Albatross B.I Series 22 (Knoller Wing); The Hawker Sea Fury; Greenham Common Air Tattoo; Strange WWII aircraft; USAF in Europe - today and tomorrow; RAF Mildenhall Open House; Diamond Jubilee Airfield; Tracking hurricanes in C-130 Hercules; Sopwith Z00 - a collection of scale drawings; Southend Air Museum; The Birth of Naval Aviation - the story of the first shipboard landing; RNAS Lee-on-Solent - visiting one of the last Royal Navy air bases; RNAS Yeovilton - an interesting display; Rolls-Royce Spitfire; Super Spad - little known attack aircraft from Douglas; Sweden's new Air Museum; Liberator Nose Art - pin ups from WWII; China's Warbirds - rare look into aviation in China after WWII; Blackbushe Air Festival - we visit an English Warbird mecca; Enter the Lynx - a new helicopter becomes operational; ACQR Scale Profiles - a selction of classic aircraft drawings; Genie named John - first operational use of the Genie atomic missile; Aircraft cutups - can you guess these mismatched airframes; Combat aircraft of the USN - special pictorial report; Maple Leaf Seafires - Canadian Navy Supermarine Spitfires; Forgotten Swingwing - does anyone remember the USN's F-111B?; America's Early Wings - photos from an early flier's album; Fleet Air ARM Museum Update - new exhibits at the FAA Museum in England; Harvard's 40th Anniversary!; How the USAF established an air safety program; Those weird and wild triplanes; The last Falcon - the last Falcon from the Curtiss stable; Bassingbourn Anglo-American Air Festival - a tribute to the 91st Bomb Group; Red Star over California - a Russian record flight of the 1930s; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; Helicopter Rescue; Strangers in 'Port - unusual aircraft that visit an airfield; Biggen Hill Air Fair; Mustang Guardsmen - the P-51 Mustang helped form the modern Air National Guard; Boeing's Grasshopper - Nifty little observation type lost out to the L-19; Kingfisher Wreckovery; Lady Peace - the Ping Pong Special - V-1; Twilight for the Sikorsky Giants; 18 days of Hell - the brief combat history of the Belgian Air Force in WWII; Mission U-5 - Abort! - the discovery of a rare P-39 combat veteran in Australia; Typhoon! - deadly fighter-bomber of WWII from Hawker Aircraft Co.; Famous Alaskan Bush Pilots - these pioneers helped develop flying in the north; Mountain Air Force - Switzerland maintains a strong and interesting air force; Zerbe's Air Sedan - a flying oddity; Flying the F-82 in combat - the Twin Mustang is pitted against MiGs; Deuces Wild - swan song of the Convair F-102 Interceptor; Service on Sunday - flying a preacher in an SBD and almost meeting the Maker; Sea-going Gliders - USN experiments in amphibious gliders during WWII; Magnificent Men in their Flying Boats - early aerial developments with flying boats; Messerschmitt's Super-Secret P.1101 - this German aircraft helped USAF researchers in the 1950s; Roscoe Turner Special - the famed unlimited racer he flew; Hot Deck! - landing combat aircraft on aircraft carriers is a dangerous business as these photos prove; Japan's newsboy warrior - little-known Japanese biplane. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Privately bound in blue buckram-covered boards with gilt lettering to backstrip and front board. A sound copy. Book
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Alberta Historical Review: Vol. 5, Spring 1957, No. 2
32 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Rocky Mountain Rangers; Chief Factor John Rowand; From the Old Land to the New (Part 2); Moira O'Neill in Alberta; Indians of the Early West (Part 2); Eye Openers; Notes and Comments; Western Bookshelf. Average wear. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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American Forests and Forest Life, January 1928 - The Magazine of the American Forestry Association
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Architectural Digest Magazine, December 2000 *Robert Redford's Manhattan Penthouse*
290 pages. Features: Special Section on Hotels Around the World - Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge in Nabibia, The Milestone in London, Pansukian on the island of Siargao, Alvear Palace in Buenos Aires, UXU Ranch in Wyoming, Hotel de Russie in Rome, The Carenage Bay on Canouan Island, Spring Cottage by the Thames, andLa Posada de Santa Fe in New Mexico; Robert Redford's Manhattan penthouse; Lakeside in Palm Beach; Modern oceanfront home on Maui; European mood in Mexico City; An 1853 spring house in Texas updated for today; French modernism in L.A.; Winfield House - the American Ambassador's residence in London. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Architectural Digest Magazine, October 2003 *Dennis Quaid at His Montana Ranch*
232 pages. Features: Serene life for Dennis Quaid amid the rolling hills of Montana; Susan and Jerry Lauren's Folk Art Collection in New York; National Gallery Director Earl A. Powell III in Virginia; Les Jolies Eaux - new life for Princess Margaret's Mustique retreat; Star Jones gets her dream apartment in New York; A Southern California residence embraces the elements; Susan Sullivan and Connell Cowan find calm near Santa Barbara; The ever-evolving MicroMultiple House puts a twist on the concept of unbuilt houses; The Wyndham Martineau Bay Resort & Spa on Vieques; Jaquelin T. Robertson; Eureka Springs - the Victorian era lives on; Luis Barragan's San Cristobal in Mexico; Karl Springer - his exotic furniture; San Francisco design centrer; Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como; Properties for sale around the world. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Baldwin Locomotives (Magazine), July 1932
60 pages. Features: Operating Articulated Locomotives in Fast Frieght Service on the Baltimore and Ohio; The Effect of Boiler Capacity on Revenue; The Chilean State Railways - superb article with many photos; A New Locomotive for the Alaska Railroad - The Baldwin Mountain (4-8-2); Gas-Electric Locomotives - detailed article with photos; New Motive Power for the Lehigh Valley Railroad - ten 4-8-4 locomotives are added; Evolution of the Southwark-Emery Testing Machine - article with many photos including a superb shot of their 4 million pound unit - the world's largest and finest precision testing unit; The Illinois Terminal Railroad System - informative article with great photos. Ten pages of excellent ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 29, August 1992
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Photos and details of glass powder horns; The Magic of Metamorphic Trade Cards - Part II - Beyond Patent Medicines - fantastic vintage ads; Hair Raising Stories - Circassian Hair Oil and Restorative - A.L. Scoville & Co.; Bryan's Top Shelf - his tall and short bottles; Embalming Bottles - informative and wonderfully illustrated article by Adrienne S. Escoe; Jar Talk in Fredericksburg, Texas; Dr. Pepper's Mountain Herbs; "Dr. Pepper's Phos-Ferrates"; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits; Auction Directory; The Label Space - The Bunker Hill Monument is popular on labels - Bunker Hill Pickles; Up-Dates; "Nyal" - a Poison Bottle story by Ben and Mirriam Glassman. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1957 Through November/December1958
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1926 Through December 1926
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1923 Through December 1923
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book
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Canadian National Magazine, June 1948, Volume 34, Number 5
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of view from Jasper Park Lodge; The New Prince George starts service this month; Jasper Park Lodge - a Quarter of a Century, with many photos; Canadian National Cameos - the meaning of train signals; Longmoor - a memorial window for the Canadian railway troops, who did their overseas training on the Longmoor Military Railway, was unveiled April 25 at the Garrison Church at Longmoor, Hants; Posters display our services - great pictorial display; The Reminiscing Run - a gabfest ensues when engineers get together; T.C.A. enters Bermuda - new direct air service inaugurated from Montreal and Toronto - with photos; G.T.W. (Grand Trunk Western Railway holds annual meeting; List and photos of staff working in Moncton's New Atlantic Building; System News; Chickens Without Wings - Dominica specializes in eating Crapaud (Frogs) which the natives refer to as "Mountain chicken"; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Address label on back cover. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Cars & Parts Magazine, September 1979
178 pages. Features: King of Power - as late as 1908 there were more steam-powered than gasoline-powered cars; Rolls Royce in US; Avanti - the Avanti's life span as a Studebaker product lasted only little more than a year; Da Vinci - a single da Vinci was made by James Scripps Booth in the period 1915-1920; Dodge Brothers - production facilities continued to introduce changes without slowing the assembly line; Petit Jean Mountain - Big show near Morrilton, AR; Meet Menno Duerksen; Cover Car - 1925 Doble E-9 Phaeton; and more. Average wear. Minor staining/waviness from moisture exposure. A sound copy. Magazine
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1986
Includes the February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December issues. Topics include: Beginner's Snorkeling Guide - Part 1; Florida Wrecks; How to be a Commercial Diver; Buying a Buoyancy Compensator; Island Hopping in the Bahamas; Kingston's Brand New Shipwreck; Beginner's Guide to Snorkeling - Part 2; Fashion Wetsuits; Ghost Fleet - North Carolina; Monterey's Breakwater; Puget Sound Piling Dive; St. Lucia Retreat; Expo '86; China Rockfish; Exploring the Emerald Sea; King of the Mountain - the Cayman Islands; Inland Diving - Northwest Waters; Moray Eel; Diving Doctor; The Diamon Knot; Red Sea Mecca; Underwater Hockey; California Shipwrecks; the C-O Sole; Corsair; Florida Keys; Personality Profile - Peter Hughes; the Blue-Clawed Lithode Crab; Exploring West Coast Waters - Inside Passages of BC; Tobermory, Ontario. Light wear. Quality copies. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: March 20, 1997
Features: Judi Bari 1949-1997; Chemical Weapons Incineration Scam; Modern Luddism; Resistance at Big Mountain; The New English Underground; Proper Fence Mending Techniques. Quality copy. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: 2 February 1997
Features: The People vs. Woody Harrelson; Rad Waste Cover-up; Forest Blockades Down Under; Resistance at Big Mountain; Privat Property and the Land Ethic; Clearcuts and Landslides. Quality copy. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: November-December 1998
Features: Headwaters Activist, David Nathan Chain, Killed; Minnehaha under Seige; Actions and Arrests at Wing Creek; Muzzlling a Mine in Montana; An Interview with Julia Butterfly; Exploit the Media before it Exploits You; Reflections on Gypsy; Warner Creek Investigation; Ward Valley's Success; Olympic Threat to Polish Wilderness; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1988
Features: The Passion of Diane Fossey - one woman's lonely battle to save the mountain gorilla; Where the Earth Shows its Bones - Majesty and malaise in Gros Morne National Park; Spirit of Sail - Learning the art of a high-canvas life; Equine Justice - Toronto Police Force's mounted unit serves, protects and mucks out the stalls; Redesigning Life - Biotechnologists transform animals and creat novel life forms. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1991 - Rafting the Tatsenshini
Features: Journey to the Ice Age - Rafting the Tatshenshini, North America's wildest and most endangered river; Cryptic Clues - Combing Peru's remote coast for traces of its ancient headhunting artists; The Kings of Riding Mountain - Manitoba's Black Bears are the biggest in the world... Preserving a place for them takes more than simple biological research; Small Wonders - Flea-sized machines fit for Alice in Wonderland may be the fixers of the future. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: May/June 1982: Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies
Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: September 1999
Features: Kingdom in the Clouds - Kangchenjunga was once thought to be the world's highest mountain; Swimming into the Past - The St. Lawrence River as underwater playground and history teacher; Missing Angela - HIV is sweeping through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; Wagner's Wonderland - a city-encircled wetland is a refugium for creatures great and small, and an army of volunteers is working hard to keep it that way; Remains of the Day - Giganotosaurus carolinii is the largest theropod known to science, but as a team of Argentinean and Canadian paleontologists recently discovered, in the world of dinosaurs, there's always a bigger bone to pick. Clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1981
Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1979
Features: The First Men on the moon - the ultimate assignment, by John H. Faber; Caucasus Mountain Expedition - a naturlist returns to Central Asia; Sea Bears of the Pribilofs - will they survive human predation?; Saturation Diving - a new frontier of nautical archeology; Exploring Nepal's Rivers - the Talu Beri, Beri and the Karnali; Australia's Lake Eyre - when the rains came; East African Field Trips - students sample ethnic lifeways; Solar Energy - a return to basics; Sea Snakes of Gato Island - an exotic resource of the Philippines. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1986
Features: Astride the Comet; Exploring "Big Foot"; 1983 Huautla Vertical Cave Expedition; Under the Ice in Antarctica; new England Coast Shark Photography; The Mountain Gorilla - a tribute to Dr. Dian Fossey; Where is Tollan?; Indonesian Islands - Nias, Madura, Samosir. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Flying Lady - The Periodical of the Rolls-Royce Owner's Club, Inc., November/December 1991
Cover photo of an H.J. Mulliner saloon. Features: National Meet - Monterey, California, August 20-25, 1991 - 17 pages with dozens of great photos; Monterey Board of Directors Meeting; List of articles about Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars as compiled by C.S. Shoup; Rockey Mountain High, August 1991 - Five Ghosts Denver to Monterey, Six Ghosts Back - empirical testing of Carburation, Cooling and Crew at 14,000 ft. and 97 degrees F. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine: March, 1971
Features: Camp cooks and mail order brides - both were favorite prey of the practical joker!; Mountain lions at Robbers Roost; Santa Fe's delayed hanging - the killers of Frank Chavez; Keelboaters' heyday to doomsday; Suicide at El Paso - the Pierson Hotel; Green and Broke - Fred Chilver and Family/Newton Kansas; Trouble in a (Model)"T"; Utah's Cursed Gold - a cow leads to treasure; The Mystic Healer - Francis Schlatter, German cobbler, entered Colorado's mountains and became a 'Christ-Man"; Fly Specked Billy - Custer, South Dakota; Spirit Spring of the Osage - a shrine of water held in awe by the Indians; Motion Picture Vignettes; They Called it Content (Runnels County, Texas); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Garden Railways Magazine, January-February 1989
62 pages. Features: An extensive garden railway in 00 scale; The South Park & San Juan; The Q&D Builds a Boxcab Steamer; The Ragwee & Thorns; The Unicorn Mountain Railroad; Last Days of the Clear Creek Branch of the SP & SJ; Locomotive carrying cases; The Daventry Garden Railway - Part 1; From Roadbed to Golden Spike - Part 1; Track Sweepers. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, January-February 1990
62 pages. Features: Build an Odometer Car; The Grun Mountain und Western; Electricity in the Garden - Part 2; The Great Central Railroad; Plants for Northern Garden Railways; The Phillips Family's Recreational Railroad; Steam from the Dutch East Indies; Life Forms on the Cobre Railroad. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, July-August 1989
70 pages. Features: Building Your Own Track; Bust & Boom on the PD&Q; A Water Level Makes the Grade; Maximum Shared Performance from a Stock Mamod Locomotive; Track Construction on the RB Ry.; Ou West; The Montana Southern; Tomar's Lighted Drumhead; Electric Control for LGB Switches; Roadbed to Golden Spike - Part 4; Gauge 1 Turnout Construction; Union County & Northern's #1. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
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Gems and Minerals Magazine, November 1964
Features: Experiments with Grit Sawing - the Hard Way; A Ring for a large Stone; Olivine Nodules on the Kona Coast, Hawaii; Apache Agate and Tears; A Scepter fit for a Queen; A Conversation Piece; Thomsonite at Black Mountain, near Hinkley, California; Gem Cutter's Handbook; Australia's Yowah Nuts; Gude Crystal Models; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 18, Number 5 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical - B.C.'s Radium Hot Springs
Features: Canadian Castles; Where Prairie and Mountain Meet - Waterton Lakes National Park; Anne's Gables are still Green on Prince Edward Island (PEI); The Healing Springs of British Columbia - Radium Hot Springs, Harrison Hot Springs; A Canadian Trail in Minnesota - a nine mile portage used by early explorers including la Verendrye, the Alexander Henrys, Alex. Mackenzie, David Thompson, and John Tanner, the first white boy to live on the Manitoba prairie - the portage connects Fort Charlotte with Grand Portage/Lake Superior; Catching and Curing Salmon... the Indian way. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 19, Number 3 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical
Features: British Columbia - a century of progress - with story and photos; Canada's cradle of celtic culture - St. Ann's, The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia; Rocky Mountain Motorcade - 100-car, 300-man motorcade pioneers 125-mile route from Rocky Mountain House to the Banff-Jasper highway - super photos!; Quebec City's 350th Birthday; Motoring at Fort Churchill; Echoes from an old coach road - highway 33 between Trenton and Kingston. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, August 17, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Fire-proof dresses; The Parlor; Manners Upon the Road - of Mountain air; New York Fashions - fall goods, faille, fancy silks, woolen goods, ecru woolens, Jacquard goods, about plaids and stripes, French calicoes, trimming laces, varieties; Personal; Toy harness and whip; bat of steel springs, carriage leather, and cord; netted and crochet ball net; black figured tulle jacket; black figured tulle Bedouin mantilla; crochet and flannel garters; skipping-rope with braid and cord cover; embroidered Panama convas work-box; knitted square for coverlets; Pollys' Victory; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Lovely full-page illustration for the month of August; Two half-page illustrations of watering-place toilettes; To the Bitter End - continued; English gossip; Sketches at Naples; Illustration "Naples - consulting the oracle of the cumaean sibyl; Nice large illustration "The English Laborer's Home - Evenings"; humor. Average wear. Book
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: October 1948
278 pages. Special Features: Mountain Mothers - Maternity Center; How Can We Get the Schools We Want?; Why Do Women Cry?; This Is the Way the World Studies; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Can Your Bedfast Child Amuse Himself?; The Draft will Fail Unless; How America Lives: Going Places with Ben Schultz - Benjamin Adam Schultz, Mary Schultz; and The Antisocial Child Needs Understanding. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, 1949 Frazer Manhattan, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and Motorola Television. Full page black/white ad with Jane Wyman promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Full page colour movie posters for "The Three Musketeers" starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly. Half page colour movie posters for "The Loves of Carmen" starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. Average wear. 1cm opening front panel fore-edge. 2cm opening back panel fore-edge. A sound copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: September 1950
234 pages. Special Features: The Sophisticates are Not the Wise; Homeless Children in Butte, Montana; Can a Nation Afford Health for all its People?; Baby's 7th Month: All's Right with His World; How America Lives: Meet the Karns of California - Todd and Katherine Karns; and Treat Childhood Fears with Love. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Motorola TV, Coca-Cola, and American Airlines. Full page black/white ad with Mary Martin (South Pacific) promoting Rayve Home Permanent. Full page black/white ad with Betty Grable promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page black/white Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Average wear. 6cm X 3cm opening back panel. A sound copy. Magazine
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Leica Fotografie International Magazine (English), 1 / 1989 - Hans Siwik / Fee Schlapper / Jurgen Winkler
48 pages. Text in English. Features: Hans Siwik - the puppet theatre Obraszow; Fee Schlapper - portraits in the course of time; Photography - 150 years old; Jurgen Winkler - mountain landscapes; Kaiser's Toptable; Hansjurgen Zobel - in the zoo; Leica Focometer 2 - special applications; Ruth & Heinz Kloss - Andalusia; Obraszow's Puppets - Marina Saslawskaja; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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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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