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Air Pictorial Magazine, 1968 (Volume 30): All 12 Issues Bound in One Volume
Features: Royal New Zealand Air Force; No. 14 Squadron, RNZAF; NZ Operations in the West; Liverpool Airport; Portuguese A.F. Serials; Swedish Airforce; Olympic Airways; Scottish Fighter Base; PZL - P.37 Los; Fighter Pilots; Strong Aircraft Industry; Seaplanes in Sweden; A singular Swede; Slingsby Sailplanes; Germany might have won in 1918; Martinair; Beaufighter restoration; Exeter Airport; Britten-Norman Islander; RAF's first 50 years; Albatros in Australia; First to Australia - the RAF Far East Flight 1927-28; 'Nipping and Eager Air'; The Sopwith Rotaries; Royal Netherlands Air Force; Boeing 737; Southend Airport; Swissair History - I; The Beverley Retires; Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake; Finland's Air War - I; Hannover Highlights; Swissair History - II; SEPECAT Jaguar; Finland's Air War - II; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F.; Relics in Bulgaria; West Australian Airways; From Hind to Hunter; Aerobatic Teams; Italy's Aircraft Industry; Development of Commercial Aviation in Italy; Royal Review at Abingdon; Aircraft at Abingdon; The Piaggio Story - I; PZL-104 Wilga 32; Britain's Aircraft Industry - Over the Crossroads?; British Military Aircraft; The Piaggio Story - II; Beagle Pup Air - Test; Gatwick Airport; Advanced Engine Technology; Britten-Norman BN-1F; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Hawker Siddeley 748; Nationa Air Guard; R.N.A.S. Brawdy; The Nighthawk Family; Rollason D.62 Condor; Farnborough Report; Navy Days at Farnborough; Farnborough checklist; But for the Armistice; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Cessna F-150 and F-172; Polish Air Force; Skyvan on a Strip; Finnair History; Danish Catalinas; Air Forces Gulf; Swiss A.F. Championships; Bristol Fighter; and much more. Index laid in. Tight and clean with gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. A quality copy. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: April 1938, Vol. 6, No. 4
100 pages. Features: The Silent Sky-Terror - The R.F.C. and the R.N.A.S. were required to put an end to a strange invasion from the clouds; The Fog of Fear - Kinley of the Secret Service Sets out to bring in the killers of the Clouds to book; Bristol Fashion - An old war horse comes into its own; Mind the Step - A man who knew nearly everything about flying-boats; True Story - Warriors of the Air - A vivid year-by-eary account of the achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; He Couldn't Say When - Lieutenant Struthers, R.F.C., tells his pupil to Take a Point on the Horizon and Keep Going; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Chips from spine. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: May 1938, Vol. 6, No. 5
100 pages. Features: Valley of the Missing Men - Major 'Monty' Hardcastle saves the remnants of a Squadron from the greatest Sky-Trap of the War; Silent Wings - Blind in the Darkness above the Scottish HIghlands, a Sailplane Pilot Gambled with his Life to Save a Nation's Secrets; The Case Against Death - Peter Mohune - and his dramatic exposure of a ruthless Plot; True Story - the Continuation of a stirring year-by-year account of the achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; The Fall of Peter - Peter Brown may have been the unluckiest Pilot in R.F.C history; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: July 1938, Vol. 7, No. 1
96 pages. Features: Comrades of the Catapult - Fleet Air Arm goes into action against a sinister Brotherhood of the Malayan Coast; The Flash Point - Above the North Sea disaster transforms a Flying Boat into a Blazing Victim; Altitude Flight - Eight Miles above the Earth; True Story - The conclusion of a stirring year-by-year account of the Achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; A Few Feet From the Kerb - a story of 2 Air Fighters of France; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: October 1938, Vol. 7, No. 4
96 pages. Features: Pacific Peril - British Forces search for two missing Naval Sloops; The Spy Hunters - Vital information reaches the enemy under the very noses of an R.F.C. Scout Squadron; Triplane Trickery - A Spinning Bristol might be a Trap for Tripehounds; Lone Eagle - Transport pilots have their moments; True Story - The Personal Narrative of a Young American who Fought and Flew in Spanish Skies against the latest German and Italian Warplaines in General Franco's Service; True Stories - Flying Tricks and Fighting Tactics of Britain's War-time Aircraft; No. 72 Squadron, R.F.C. - A Gallant Scout Squadron makes R.A.F. history under Mesopotamian skies; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: September 1938, Vol. 7, No. 3
96 pages. Features: The Flaming Fighters - The Pilots of a Pup Squadron fall victim to a strange Hoodoo; The Mammoth and the Midge - Flt. Lt. Kinly goes to 'P.A.Q.', no ordinary restricted area; By Order of the Khan - Mischief in the Frontier Territory of Abdullah, The Khan; Hornets of the Skies - The story of the single-seater fighter from its birth in the early days of the Great War to its Near-Perfection in the Six-Miles-A Minute Projectiles of Today; Red Wings - A Red Ruse to trap the White Russians of Denikin's Army was betrayed to the Sharp Eyes of an English Airman; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: November 1938, Vol. 7, No. 5
96 pages. Features: Blood Money - A Swedish Mercinary in R.F.C. Uniform and the most merciless killer on the Western Front; Murder in the Mess - A modern R.A.F. Bomber Squadron is the setting of Murder in an Officer's Mess; Smoking Prohibited - Misadventure in the Fleet Air Arm; True Story - Continuing the Personal Narrative of a Young Airman who fought in Spanish War Skies; A Spot of Snooping - A Bristol Fighter and its mission where success meant a German Gaol and failure the annihilation of fifty thousand men; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: February 1939, Vol. 8, No. 2
96 pages. Features: Squadron of the High Born - Revenge on the Far-famed Squadron of the Highborn Horsemen; Phantom of the Parachute - a clue to the mysterious Banshee of Arbrithie; Half-Day Excursion - Alone in a Storm-filled World; True Story - Airmen at War - an enthralling personal narrative of the Great War in the Air from First to Last; Power Dive - a story from the South American Skies; The Come-Back Trail - A warbird rises again on new-won Wings as a Pilot of the Canadian North; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: June 1939, Vol. 8, No. 6
96 pages. Features: Bats Fly Too - 'Bats' Trevor came within an Ace of Death before a flaming raider in the NIght Skies of London showed that Bats fly best at night; Battlefleet in Blue - A short moment of intense fright upon an Aircraft-Carrier; The Colonel Remembers - A Dramatic Story of Warfare in the Desert; Thunderbirds Fly Fast - Dick Reynolds was almost the Perfect Pilot of the Canadian North; The Gas Cow - Down from the clouds above the western front fell a strange derelect of the skies; Behind the Lines - An R.F.C. Officer experiences the Dark Labyringhts of Espionage; and more. Above-average wear. Small doodle upon front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: July 1936, Vol. 3, No. 1
96 pages. Features: Long Complete Air-War Adventure - to Sergeant Ryan there was One Square Mile of Enemy Territory that Must Remain Inviolate - yet Fate made it the Objective of the Most Daring Raid of that Crazy Band of Bombers, the Coffin Crew; Air Mystery Story - An R.A.F. Flying-Boat Vanishes on its Trial Flight and a Retired Fishmonger in Finland finds his Greenhouse Roof Broken by an English Schoolboy's Satchel; Air Mystory Story - The All-Seeing Eye of a Silent Witness supplied the Clue to a sinister secret that gave the German Raiders Supremacy of the Air by night; Thrilling Air War History - The full and authentic story of the rise and fall of the imperial German Air Service during the Great War; Real Life Story - I Flew for Bolivia - The Amazing story of the only Englishman who Fought and Flew for Bolivia in the Recent War of the Gran Chaco; Great Modern Air Story - The Peaslake Crash - the Dramatic story of a first and last flight; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: October 1936, Vol. 3, No. 4
96 pages. Long Complete War-Air Adventure - Raiders of the Night - Up from a Darkened 'Drome on the Western Front Rose the Strangest Convoy that ever Sailed the Night Skies of Flanders, a German Bomber and a British Fighter, Bound Together on a Desperate Mission of Death; Ace of the Black Cross - The Authentic Story of the War-time Adventures of Germany's Greatest Living Air Ace, Victor in 62 Aerial Combats and Former Member of the Richtofen Circus; The Zeppelin Fighters - The Epic Story of the men who Freed Britain's Skies from the Terror That Flew By Night; Thriller - The Airship Alibi; Dramatic Story - Chivalry prevails in the Mad Lust of Battle; Dramatic Story - A Great Story of War-Time Adventure in a Pup Squadron on the Western Front; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: December 1936, Vol. 3, No. 6
96 pages. Features: War-Air Adventure - One after another the British Batteries were Blown out of existence - until a pilot returned from the dead to reveal the secret of the Phantom gun ranger; Modern Air Thriller - The R.A.F.'s most Secret Bomber carried its Murdered Pilot to a Watery Grave when England's enemies staged a daring plot on Empire Air Day; Real-Life Story - The Amazing story of Germany's Greatest Living Air Ace; Real-Life Story - A Stirring Record of the Pioneers of Aerial Warfare; The Ace of Rabbits - Augustus Barton was the Rabbit of all Rabbits and Herman Kranz the Sector's Ace of Aces; Thrilling Story - The Night-raiding Baron von Ekkehardt was the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Western Front; Well-Engineered - The Call of the Mad Mullah Turned a Quiet Desert Oasis into a seething hive of Arab Fanatics; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: June 1937, Vol. 4, No. 6
96 pages. Features: Thriller - The Frog that Fell out of the Sky; Modern Adventure - Four R.A.F. Planes disappeared before Flying Officer Vickers unmasked the treachery that was to set the frontier aflame with Revolt; The Sky Clown - a joke costs a brave man his courage and makes a fighter of a fool; Call Me Jennie - Major Sharpness made Tigers out of Rabbits - but his first Creation won a most Untigerish name; True Story - The Epic Story of Famous R.F.C Unit - No. 56 Squadron; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: January 1938, Vol. 6, No. 1
96 pages. Features: Traitor's Tune - A strange clue links a lonely graveyard behind the enemy lines with the mysterious disappearance of Britain's Greatest Air Fighters; Flight of a President - Two men made foolproof plans for a life and death flight - but each planned a different result; True Story - Naval One - The Amazing Exploits of No. 1 (Naval) Squadron, R.N.A.S. which made air history on 3 fronts; Footlight Ace - The 'Balloon Busters' had no stranger member than Basil Harlow, Actor-Airman; The Last Throw - Deep in the Trackless bush of the Canadian North, a Reckless Air Fighter prepared his bold attempt to Sever a life-line of the Allies; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Trails Military Aircraft Magazine (Four Issues) and Four Issues of AirSpace Model Magazine (Four Issues) 1969 Through 1972 Privately Bound in One Hardcover Volume
Features: Fling-Wing Soliders and their Rotary-Wing Birds; New Designs for America's Military; The Mach 2 Aerial Militia; The Rotary - rough on fighter pilots; Freeze or fry at Eglin; The Fabulous FAC's of Vietnam; Mike's Eight Hundred Dollar Warhawk; Military Aircraft 'Round the World; Military Pilot Requirements; United States Navy's First Fighters at Sea; Swing-Wing - the final leap forward?; The great load lifters; Fokker designs on foreign fronts; Leaves from a 'Lead-Sledders' logbook; A.F.'s Secret Electronic War; Recce Drone - The inside story; The RPV's are Coming!; Where did they all go?; Mediterranean Montage; Korean War Three-way ace; Big Eye in the Sky; The Emperor's Famous Phonix Fighters; World's fastest flying command post; Down the Drain?; Want an ancient air force?; Naval aviation's historical HQ; Convoluted quest for fighter engines; Can Kelly's Tigers contain foxbat?; Chopper warfare in Indochina; Marines New VTOL Harrier; Old USAF Planes in New Home; We fly the F-111; Mr. Mac's fantastic, formidible F-4; World Champ Airliner; 'The' Combat aircraft of World War Two; Serene Victor at 600 mph; The 'Spirit' - an individual creation; Destined for Immortality; Aeronautical History Sketchbook; Cutaway drawings of Wright biplane, Bleriot Cross-channel, Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Ryan N-Y-P 'Spirit of St. Louis", Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109E; Evolution of the Superfort; Pictorials of the Joint-Effort Jaguar and great planes at Ottawa; Cover photo of Sepecat Jaguar in Aerobatic dress; Sikorsky Grant; Boeing 747; The Guppies; Sorceress, Hot Canary, Shark; North American F-86D; Pitts Special; Stampe SV-4; Thorp T-18; North American B-25; Grumman F3F-2; Spitfire; Grumman Avenger; XB-70; Seadart, Seamaster; CF-105, TSR-2; Designers and pilots speak their minds - Curtis Pitts, Ed Granville and Pete Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Haizlip, Igor Sikorsky; Biplanes 'n' Things - Caudron G.3, Morane Parasol, Fleetwings Seabird, Vultee V-1A; How to build the Fokker D-7; How to make a model old-four monoplane; how to build and detail the magnificent jug; A 'copter goes to school; Model rocketry is serious business; how to build the icarus model rocket; how the airplane flies; fly power - power a model plane with a housefly!; The Hovercraft; Breaking into Balsa; How to build a Star Trek Diorama; How to camouflage and detail the supermarine spitfire Mk-1; How to customize the Lear Jet; How to build a ticket counter special Boeing 707; Monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to paint camouflage with a brush; how to build and detail the Spad XIII; Hunting down the wolf pack; How to make the Battle of Britain Diorama; How to get an Aluminum finish that looks real; How to give decals that hand-painted look; how to build the Guillow Cessna; How to get the best from the Airbrush; Aerospace Symposium; How to build and display the Messerschmitt Bf 109F; Converting a Mosquito to a Hornet; How to build and detail the Apollo/Saturn; All the new models from the 32nd hobby trade show; 12 ways to better model building; Hunting down those rare birds; How to build a diorama; how to build and detail the confederate air force Mustang; how to draw aircraft, part I; How to simulate battle damage; how to superdetail the Hawker Typhoon; Baron Manfred von Richtoven's Fokker DR-1; How to build and detail the Tora Val type 99 - made in Hollywood!; how to build and superdetail major Lanoe Hawker's De Havilland DH 2; Here come de Judge; how to draw aircraft - part 2; the bombers that blitzed the monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to build and detail the Black Bolt; how to build and detail the Mitsubishi 1MT in Torpedo Bomber; how to construct a 2$ rocket tracking device; how to detail the OV-1 A/C Mohawk - a Vietnam observer. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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Aircraft Illustrated Extra (Magazine): No.1 Through No. 8, Privately Hardbound in One Volume
Features: German jets over England; Fiat CR42 BT 474; London-Nachtflieger; The Dark Years; The Battle of Britain Film; Home Defence 1914-1918; Hit and Run; A Mysterious 'Emil'; Flying the dreaded Stuka; Palm Sunday Massacre; Eschwege - eagle of the Aegean; Malta - Mediterranean Bastion; Suez, 1956; 'Z' Force, 1919; photo feature; Woodcock and Fury - Hawker's first and last biplane fighters; Calshot - cradle of British marine aviation; Memories of the Hawker Horlsey; British Fleet Aircraft between the wars; Flying Suitcase - a brief account of the Handley Page Hampden; The operational career of the Arado AR 234 Blitz; 'Hamish' - the story of Grp Capt T.G. Mahaddie, DSO, DFC, AFC, Czech MC; USAAF Aircraft which forced-landed in Sweden during WWII; Fokker T!X - cutaway drawing; 'Ninak' - workhorse of the twenties; RAF in India 1919-1939 - the background; Pink's War - the turning point; The Wapiti IIA in India; Fighting the Faqir - operations 1936-1938; An 'Emil' enigma solved; The Fighting Dolphins; Hawker - pioneer of air fighting; D.VII - Sidelights of Fokker's great fighter; Camel Cavelcade; Day Bombers, 1918 - an appreciation of 55 Squadron RFC/RAF; Fighting 'Boats', 1914-1918; Fairey III Floatplanes; 'Old Faithful' - the Supermarine Southampton; Singapore III - Short's last biplane 'boat; Queen of the 'Boats - sidelights on the Short Sunderland. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Peeling from front free endpaper where label removed. Excellent copy. Book
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Airforce Magazine: April-May-June 1992, Volume 16 Number 1
44 pages. Features include: Canada Third in Space; Flying the Open Skies; Flights of Fashion; More Aerial Buffoonery; High Arctic Heroism - Hercules Crash; 6 Bomber GP Video; Centralia - the war years; AWACS - High Altitude Wizardry; The Vampire and I; Black Brant Success Story - Sounding Rocket. Average wear. Some moisture induced waviness. Address label upon front cover. Solid copy. Book
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Airpower Magazine July, 1974 Volume 4 No. 4
Features: Martin AM "Mauler" - Heavyweight Champ of the Fleet; The Jug in Action - Part IV of the Thunderbolt story; The Great Curtiss Racers - Exclusive Photos. Art: Martin AM-1 Mauler; P-47D "Zombie" Book
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Airpower Magazine July, 1979 Vol. 9 No. 4
Features: In enemy hands - Allied Aircraft Captured by the Germans; The Most Spectacular Carrier Crashes Ever Filmed!; Is the F-111 the Most Versatile Warplane of Its Day?; Part II of the B-1 Replacement story. Art: General Dynamics F-111A refueling; General Dynamics RF-111A & TACT F-111; General Dymanics FB-111A Book
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Airpower Magazine July, 1980 Volume 10 No. 4
Features: Vulcan - World's first Delta-winged bomber; Pt. II of the Lockheed P-58 Story - could it have been the best heavy fighter of WW II?; Germany's Slingshot Catapult Birds. Art: XP-58 3 View; Vulcan Mk 1 and Crew; Vulcan Mk II; Vulcan Mk II with Hound Dog Missiles. Water rippling to top portion. Book
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Airpower Magazine March 1983 Volume 12 No. 2
Features: Pitcairn Autogiro - King of the Whirling Blades; Heritage of the Hawks - The Curtiss P-40 Story Part 1. Moderate wear. Book
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Airpower Magazine March, 1976 Volume 6 No. 2
Features: "Sky Bolt" - the story of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning - First of 6 parts; The Air Corp's Biplane Hawks; The Great Aerial Duels over Europe - Part III of a Mustang Ace's Memoirs. Art: Curtiss P-6E Hawk; P-51D "Cripes a Mighty 3rd"; P-51D "Ferocious Frankie"; Lockheed XP-38 Book
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Airpower Magazine May, 1976 Volume 6 No. 3
Features: Thunderjet - the story of Republic's F-84; P-38 vs. the World's Twin-Engined, Single-seat Fighters; What made the Mustang tick? - Part I of an Ace's comprehensive design analysis. Art: North American P-51B; F-84 Thunderjets; F-84 Thunderstreaks; Lockheed YP-38 Book
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Airpower Magazine May, 1981 Volume 11 No. 3
Features: Complete in one issue - the story of Northrop's F-89 Scorpion Long-range Interceptor; Exclusive color photos, cutaway, 3-views, details. Art: Northrop XF-89 Scorpion; Northrop F-89D with 52 FFAR missiles Book
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Airpower Magazine November, 1984 Volume 14 No. 6
Features: The Eagle flys - a look at America's Airborne early warning system from the eagle eye of the F-15; The Lavochkin Lagg - Soviet Russia's best WWII fighter; The Great Days of the Cleveland Air Races; Part III of the Tony Levier Story. Art: McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles on "Bear" Alert and Airborne Alert. Some water rippling along top edge. Several small perforations to front cover. Book
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Airpower Magazine September, 1974 Volume 4 No. 5
Features: Memoirs of a Veteran Test Pilot; From Jenny to Ryan Fireball; The First Fortresses; Part II of the B-17 story - Exclusive color photos. Art: B-17Cs in Formation; B-17C; Stearman N2S Book
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Airpower Magazine September, 1977 Volume 7 No. 5
Features: Hughes H-1 - Greatest Racer of the all; Building the Canberra - Part II of the B-57 story; Visiting the Leatherneck's Aviation Museum; Boeing's First Carrier Fighters. Art: Hughes H-1 Racer; Al Williams "Gulfhawk I"; English Electric, Martin B-57 Canberras; EB-57B and RB-57A Book
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Airpower Magazine September, 1978 Vol. 8 No. 5
Features: The real story of "Flak Bait" - WW II's legendary Marauder; Special book bonus - Mustang Combat Portfolio; Short Sunderland Flying Boat - Rare Planes. Art: North American )-51B; North American P-51D; "Flak Bait" Martin B-26 Book
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American Forests and Forest Life, April 1928 - The Magazine of the American Forestry Association
Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing photos of unique trees; Chief Forester Greeley's Retirement; The Chinese Elm - a Valuable Tree; The Raindrop Family - a story for children; Shirley W. Allen Takes Up New Work; Snapshots of European Forests by an American Forester - Part IV - Finnish Forestry Pays, by John D. Guthrie - with photos; Boy Foresters Serve Denver - by David W. Thomas; Nice illustrated ad for the American KampKook gas range for the outdoor chef; A nice assortment of vintage ads; Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Centerfold loose but present. Cover holding by one staple. Somewhat above-average wear. Pencil markings to back cover. Magazine
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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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American Indian Art Magazine, Autumn 2003
120 pages. Features: Reyes Galvan - A Master Zia Potter; A Stirring Story - Navajo and Pueblo Spoons; The Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art - Fortieth Anniversary Selections; Wool Yarns in Late Classic Navajo Blankets; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Angels - Child's Pre-Reading Books Series
20 page board book. Average soiling and wear. No markings. A picture story book with no words providing discovery, surprise and fun for pre-reading children from 3-6 years. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 10, December 1990
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Palmer Story - Palmer Perfumer, the First American Perfumer; Trade Cards - article with reprints of amazing vintage cards; Jar Talk - fruit jar wrenches and more canning information; Bottle-Dose - The Heckler - Skinner - Keene Show; British Bottle Bits - What was in those tooth pastes? - a fascinating article!; Extra Special Deliveries; Northwestern Show; Up-Dates; Messages; Auction Directory; Miniature Bottle Show - San Francisco Bay area; Chinese Gold Mining Camp - an account of our find during the drought of '76-'77, by Seth Simpson. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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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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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 7, September 1990
52 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Great Diehl & Lord cover photo. Features: The Eye Catcher - The Diehl and Lord Story; Holy Water Bottles - article by Al Logan Smith; Jar Talk - Lots of great home food canning content; British Bottle Bits - Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, Warner's Safe Cure, Veno's Seaweed Tonic; Munyon's Liver Cure, Munyon's Kidney Cure; The Medford (Siskiyou) Bottle Show Report; Ninety Years Ago - a digging story - author unknown; Extra Special Deliveries; Messages; A Few Pictures; Up-Dates; Reprints of items from The Pontil, February, 1965; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 9, November 1990
60 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Akro Agate Co. made Marbles - article with photos; The Grand Old Hotel Del Monte - informative article with photos; Jar Talk - great vintage canning ads and more; British Bottle Bits - internal screw threads, the crown cap, the "Beehive" top, the "Chisel Stopper"; Ninety Years Ago - story continued from last month; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; 1990 Southeastern Show and Sale -article with nice photos; Up-Dates; Messages; "The Pontil" February, 1965. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1925 Through December 1925
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: Some of the troubles repairmen encounter - 6 pages with photos; Uses of the ringing macine - text and photo; Rope for many purposes made at Sapperton factory - 5 pages with great photos; Repairs made to San Juan Cable; Test calls made to eastern centers; Misues of toll circuits is costly Statement of Development - chart of # of telephones in service in towns throughout the province; Great full-page photo plus article on the "Aorangi" - largest motorship in the world, arriving in Vancouver; Increasing importance of Australasia; How much power is required to operate a phone? - 6 page article with photos; San Juan Cable pulled out of place; Central Information Office - 3 pages; New Douglas exchange relieves pressure on Seymour office; Accounting department story; The ladies take up ice hockey - 2 pages; Crude carbonic acid is wooden conduit's elixir of youth - with photo; Fred Meloche; Great cover photo of a trainload of coal leaving the Extension Mine on Vancouver Island; Revenue Accounting group photo plus office shots; 5-page mining industry feature with great photos; Change to Stub system successful; Traffic Fundamentals - 3 pages; fantastic Victoria Harbour photo including the new Princess Marguerite and the Princess Kathleen; 4 page article with photo - 'diplomats' at the adjustment counter; 5 page feature on the cement industry with photos and operating details of the Bamberton plant; Cable laid across Saanich Inlet - photos; 9 page Fraser River feature with many photos; Company's underground program largest in years - 4 pages with photos; Six page feature of Victoria's Crystal Garden - many great photos; Supplies Department - 3 pages with photos; How the phone was brought to far off lands; Qualifications and duties of a Chief Operator; wonderful interior photos of the new Princess Marguerite and Princess Kathleen; Mount Benson Forestry lookout served by telephone - 2 photos including view of Gulf of Georgia (Strait); CNRV photos and article; Toll dispatch system adopted; Six passenger steamers added to coastal fleets of B.C.; Company again using clay conduit; An Agent's responsibilities; New Collingwood exchange; Operation of building department explained; Company cafeteria system; Cuba talks to Vancouver; Bent Plugs system; Gymnasium class for company men; The Longest Cable in the World - New York to Chicago; George McCartney goes touring again; Photos by phone opens a vast field; Six-page features on Kerrisdale with many great photos plus additional sensational 2 page centerfold of great Kerrisdale homes; Common battery system installed in Trail; New toll testing equipment provided at Vancouver; New test used in cutting over working lines in cables; Advice on thrift; North Shore prospects enhanced by the New (Lion's Gate) Bridge - 9 page article with fantastic photos and illustrations; The Old Toll Desk recalls some telephone history - 5 pages; Phone stories from abroad; Excellent 11 page article on the Telephone Toll Trails of Vancouver Island - with many great photos; Electric drills and rats are enemies of cables; Safeguarding the career of the microwatt; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is almost entirely loose. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle up Book
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Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. (NAWCC) - December 1976, Whole Number 185
Features: Patriots and Tories; Thomas Wagstaffe, Quaker Clockmaker; A Bicentennial Story in Three Parts; Who Was America's First Watchmaker; Roller Pinions, 1778 Style; A Horological view of the European Vision of America Exhibition; Life and Times of Simon Willard in Grafton 1753-1780; America's Most Historic Clock; Words from the Past - American Watches and Clocks, Chauncey Jerome; A French Revolutionary Decimal Watch. 'Sample Copy' stamped on front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, 1973 Vol. 8 No. 1 *PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CENTENARY ISSUE*
Features: Momentous Issues in the Island Story; Garden in the Gulph; Notable Prince Edward Islanders; The First Islanders; Handwoven and Homespun; Island Currency; Heritage in Building; Houses of Worship; Did They Hear the Whistle Blowing? - Prince Edward Island Railway; History of Printing; Furniture Making on Prince Edward Island; Visual Arts; Red is the Soil - PEI Pottery; Glassware; Those Gallant Ships - Photo of 'The Meteor' under construction in 1892; The Farm Family; Island Barns; Heritage Foundation; Anne of Green Gables; Acadian Settlers; Museums; Clock and Watchmakers. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, March/April 1975, Vol. 10 No. 2 *SPECIAL NEWFOUNDLAND ISSUE*
Features: The Outport; The Story of Newfoundland; The Beothuk Indians; The Norse in Newfoundland; The Dialects of Newfoundland; Greenspond - Townscape in a tickle; Old Prints of Newfoundland; Collectors and Collections; Furniture - Imported and Country Styles to 1850; Building a St. John's Victorian House; Items Found in the New Found Land; Government House; Stamps, Insignia, Medals and Currency; Commissariat House; Period Pieces for a Refurbished Commissariat House; Painters of Newfoundland; The Moravian Missions and The Labrador Eskimos; Hawthorne College; The Newfoundland Historic Trust; Museums and Historic Sites; Arts and Culture Centres; Lighthouses; and more. Date hand-written atop front cover. Quality copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, May 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
186 pages. Features: Canadian Aviation's Viewpoint; It Cost $58 Million - the Northwest Staging Route; Call it Reconquest - the original flight into Alaska; A.V. Roe; Report from London; Action at Ottawa; Trends in Washington; Floating Airport Tomorrow; Celestial Navigation Trainer; RCAF Salvage; Helldiver Story; Barracudas Attack; Percival Proctor IV; World of Flight; Gray Rocks Air Line; RCAF Transport Command; V.D.M. Propeller; Chafing on Engine Parts; Cold Weather Operation; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Small bit of sticker remnant atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, May 1948 - Destiny of Jet Transport
100 pages. Features: Destiny of Jet Transport; The Avro "Chinook" Jet Engine Story - article with many photos; Wings Across the Border - Procedures for Canadians and Americans Crossing the Border - Map of Airports of Entry; Pylo Terror (Pilot Error) in the Circuit; London Letter; TCA links Canada to Bermuda; Ottawa Report; Directory of Canadian Airports; Rolls Studies Jet Icing; Servicing the de Havilland Beaver; Multiple Track Radar in Australia; and more. Many pages of great ads including a one-page ad for the new de Havilland Beaver and Red Wing Flying Service of Port Carling, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine - May/June 1980, Vol. 15 No. 3 - Friedrich K. Ploethner
Features: International Floralies, Montreal 1980; Cabinetmaker and Weaver Friedrich K. Ploethner; 19th Century Ontario Animal Portraits; The B. Lent Pottery c. 1836-1841- Lincoln County redware; In Search of a Canadian Sampler-Maker - a fascinating story of three closely intertwined pioneer Ontario families - Robertsons, Barnharts and Smiths; the Dugald Costume Collection; The Careful Collector - Part II - International Customs and Transport. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine, November 1983, Volume 18, No. 6 - Joseph Schneider Home
78 pages. Features: Good Clear Cut Glass - Myths and misapprehensions cloud the Irish glass story; Mennonite Georgian - The Joseph Schneider Home, Kitchener, Ontario; Architectural Drawing in Quebec - Exhibition celebrates Quebec City's 375th anniversary; The Nation's Attic - The Smithsonian; The Potter's View of Canada - Canadian scenes on 19th century earthenware; Elizabeth and Jane - Their Work - Samplers; The Decoy in Canada; Horse Brasses - decorative pieces warded off the evil eye; The Weldon Collection - Specimens of China brought to the Colonies by the Early Settlers, Particularly the Loyalists - English Porcelain - Part III. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Home Journal Magazine, April 1929
120 pages. Cover illustration of young lady with umbrella and chicks by Elsie Deane. Features: Stylish colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; La Chasse-Galerie - the flying canoe of voyageurs and shantymen, by J.E. Le Rossignol; Nomads of the Sea - story by Beryl Gray; Women in Fascist Italy - article with photos by Lilian Gibson, teacher of English to Il Duce, Benito Musolini; The Challenge of Youth - article by Judge H.S. Mott of the Juvenile Court, Toronto, with photo portrait of the judge; The Female of the Species - story by sapper; The Land of the Rose, by Jean Graham; Music, Art and Drama News of the Month; Camberley's Bride - story by Leslie Gordon Barnard; Miss Helen Sparling, self trained in the world of finance, answers the question "Can Women Be Successful in Business?"; Jean Whitlock writes about the evolution of furniture in the wake of architectural and societal developments; What Easter means to women across Canada - with photos; Mary Louise Orr writes about the various forms of luggage available to travellers; Nice 1-page black and white ad for Plymouth cars; Essex automobile ad; Plans for a large English brick home; Nice colour illustrated ad for Johnson's Wax; Colour ad for Congoleum Rugs; Cute ad for Berry Brothers "Liquid Granite" floor varnish; The Canadian H.W. Gossard Co. ad for women's underclothing; Wonderful colour full-page ad for Hupmobile - the new Century Six and Eight; Gene Tunney golf photo in ad for Nujol; Nice colour full-page ad for Oriental Plush auto interiors - available in McLaughlin-Buick enclosed cars; Anna Pavlowa photos in Cutex ad; C.W. Stokes suggests the creation of a Bureau of Complaints; Dodge Brothers Six ad; Lovely 1-page black and white photo ad for Mercury women's hosiery and lingerie; 1-page Royal York Hotel ad; Willys Knight ad for the 70-B model automobile; Nice colour 1-page ad for Brookfield Butter; Wow! - Great colour centerfold ad for Red Seal Certified Cedar Chests!; 1-page colour photo ad for Puffed Wheat features infant photo of Richard Murphy on sled; Beautiful colour 1-page ad for Studebaker in yellow; Nice black and white one-page ad for Ford Motor Company; Lovely 1-page colour ad for Barrymore Rugs in desert motif; Woodwards "Gripe Water" ad; full-page 2-colour Knechtel furniture ad; Adorable Easter doll clothing cutouts by Grace G. Drayton; Nice colour ad for Crane plumbing fixtures insdie back cover; Colour ad for Parker Duofold pens on back cover. Few short openings to coverfold and cover edges. Address label and faint erasure atop front cover. Coffee stains to back cover and last page. Please Note: page 24-25 have been removed and are not present. They appear to have contained advertising content. Overall, a sound copy of this charming vintage issue. Book
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Canadian Merchant Service Guild: 1940 Annual (Yearbook)
28 pages. Index of advertisers. Report of President, Captain Jas. W. Watt; Photo of SS. Prince Rupert; Figures in the Cut Rate Wars - in the year 1884 the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company met its last spirited opposition; Photos/illustrations of Ten different styles of Seagoing Craft of the Pacific; The H.M.S. Algerine - did duty in war and peace; Pacific Future - the impact of faster vessels, air travel and possible military developments on Pacific shipping; A Voyage to Australia; Photo of a Pacific Terminal at Vancouver; The Sea in Our Language - a glossary of jargon used in the profession; Twenty years ago; Photo of the Canadian Coast Patrol Cutter SS. Lillooet; The Jervis Bay - a ship built in England in 1921-22; Honouring Vancouver's First Ship - The Royal Mail Steamship "Empress of India"; Sparks Family and the Quartermaster - a twenty-year-old story of shipmen, a cat and a parrot; Forty Years Ago; Some Casualties - an interesting look back at ship accidents 20 years ago, and the cost of their repairs; Photo of Canada's greatest west coast floating dock at Burrard Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in North Vancouver; S.S. Plumper - Early Survey Ship; Seven Men in a Boat - Roy Widdicombe recalls what happened to survivors of the Anglo-Saxon after it was sunk by the German raider Weser southwest of the Azores; Photo of the Union Bay Coaling Berths; List of members on active military service; Obituaries; Photo of the steamer Amelia, circa 1880s; Two inch by three inch piece missing from front cover. Fore-edge openings to first two pages. Book
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Canadian National Magazine, November 1949, Volume 35, Number 10
50 pages. Features and Articles: Donald Gordon Succeeds R.C. Vaughan - becomes Chairman and President Jan. 1 when Mr. Vaughan retires after 51 years of railway service; Governor-General's first visit to Newfoundland - seven black and white photos; Photos of the Lakehead, Churchill and Vancouver grain terminals; Emerson College Thesbians use C.N.S.S. flagship in preparing for "The Parlor Story"; Canada Builds to Endure - on inspection trip, President finds west busy and confident; Ticket Agents See What They Sell - Annual Sales Meeting in Seattle; This Switchman has to Think Fast - Cliff McCamon works for the C.N.R. in Saskatoon; Photo of the "Train of Tomorrow"; Moncton's Diamond Jubilee; System News - staff changes; and more. Five-inch opening at top end of cover fold, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian National Railways Magazine, July, 1935, Vol. XXI, No. 7
34 pages. Stories: Commuters by the Million - in London; The Snake Indian went Wild - operating trains up and down the centre of a rapidly-flowing river bed near Devona;Letters of a Sea Cadet - the second of a series of letters written by a cadet in the Canadian National Steamship service to his chum, a railroad man in Canada; The Railways and Development in Canada; Telegraphy - Past and Present; Through Canada's Provinces; Out of the Night (a story); 'Rotten Bologna Sausage' - recollections of a veteran of the Northwest Rebellion; Grand Trunk Agents in Session; the '84-mile Bridges - Car ferries on Lake Michigan; With the staff across Canada; Woman's Section; and much more. Please note that 3"x 4" clipping has been removed from page 34. Great 'Ford V8' ad inside back cover. Above-average wear but still intact. A great keepsake from the glory days of rail transportation in Canada. Book
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Canadian Rail, Number 292, May 1976: Wakefield Turntable
Features: Mixed Thoughts on a Mixed Train, with map of Dominion Atlantic Railway, Truro Sub.; A Turntable for Wakefield, Quebec (to accommodate Number 1057); Referred to the Committee - back when the distance between the rails was very important; Chart of the Gauges of some of Canada's early railways; Determination and Hard Work - the story of the Strathcona Museum in Strathclair, Manitoba; Waybills; Please note: a 2" wide band has been stripped from front cover, probably by tape removal. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Cars & Parts Magazine, April 1980 - Carroll Shelby
210 pages. Features: Budget Cords - the Graham Hollywood and Hupmobile Skylark; The 'Shark' - the new generation of Corvette in 1968; Big Studebakers - the Lark; Cover Car - 1933 Chevrolet Eagle Coupe; Mr. Mustang - the rags-to-riches story of Carroll Shelby; Olds F-28; Pierce-Arrow - Crowning a new champion; Using high-build primers; Ferrari - the short-wheelbase 250GT makes its mark; Ford Courier - the first one appeared in 1955; 1929 Packard Phaeton 645 with Dietrich body; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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