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The Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1962 *THE NEUTRON BOMB / BACKSTAGE WITH ANDY WILLIAMS*
Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 1, 1941 *The First American Crusade, By Herbert Hoover*
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Saturday Evening Post, October 31, 1954 *The CIA and America's Secret Agents*
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, September 29, 1962 *ROSALIND RUSSELL*
Features: We're Cheating our Children - Betsy Fancher argues that a parent-sponsored junior rat race has warped the meaning of childhood; Nice four-page colour-illustrated advert. for Chevrolet cars (all white); Patients for Profit - high-powered promotion, limited services and pursuit of the fast bucks are bringing many proprietary hospitals under attack; He Takes the Starch out of Protocol - Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke has pioneered dramatic changes on the Washington scene; The Kind of Gal I Am (Part 1 of 3) - Rosalind Russell - many nice colour photos; The Party Chairmen - Bill Miller and John Bailey; Handsome colour ad for the 1963 Chrysler New Yorker; 6 nice pages of color ads for Ford cars; The Durable Huguenots - persecuted for centuries, the Protestant minority today is a cultured, successful and proud elite in Catholic France; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (conclusion) by Vincent Riccio - the death of Tommy Hanlon; Masters of Second Place - the San Francisco 49ers; Another Western - Who Needs it? - The Virginian is converted into a 90-minute TV Series. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 5 January, 1918
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 9 June 1917: No. 147
Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
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The War Illustrated Magazine, 15 May 1915 - Fighting Foul Fumes and Fiends - The British Soldier Still a Match for Coward Germans
Contents: Two photo views of Metz, the capital of Lorraine; Photo in a French trench; Donington Hall and Nelson's Last Prayer; Photo of the last victim of the intrepid Garros - photo shows a downed Taube; Photo of General Galopin reviewing the Garrison of Paris; Photo of men of the Royal Naval Division training in the Crystal Palace; The Great Landing Battles of the Dardanelles; Our Allies at Alexandria set out to meet the Turk - five photos; Turkey's Death Struggle with Forces of Progress - five photos; Planting the Union Jack in German Africa - 4 photos; Charge of the Uhlans - Martyrdom of Rheims - two photos; Britain's Pioneer Regiment in the Line of Fire - four photos; Work for Blinded Soldiers - War's Saddest Victims - five photos; Four photos of war prisoners at work for their captors; Photo of dozens of British bluejackets hauling a heavy gun ashore; Photos of women filling in the gaps while men fill the trenches; The war in the Air - article by C.G. Grey; Britain's Roll of Honoured dead - twenty-one photos; Chronology of events May 1st to May 7th; Photo portrait of Lt.-Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, C.B. inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Missing page 297 and 298. Center page loose but present. An informative issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - January [Jan.] 1926, Vol. LVI, No. 334: The Romance of Kilimanjaro / An Australian Robinson Crusoe
Features: An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Jack McLaren spent eight years alone among savages attempting to make a coconut plantation out of the primeval jungle; Beating the Black Death - Dog teams bring antitoxin serum to save the residents of Nome, Alaska, who were afflicted with diphtheria; The Fakir - sequel to "the Jogi's Curse"; The Secret of the Consulate - Italy responds during World War One to the destruction of its warships due to the activities of Austrian Secret Service agents operating in Switzerland; Among the White Arabs - The Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; My Day Off - an ex-inspector of the Federated Malay States Police; The Romance of Kilimanjaro - with photos by F. Ratcliffe Holmes; Perinco the Outlaw - cattle-rustling in Argentina; A woman's fight with a leopard; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part V (conclusion) - a trip from Sollum to El Obeid, in the Sudan (photos); The Red Lamp - a benighted traveller's terrifying adventure in a French town; The Poison Peddlers - an exciting tale of life in a railroad construction camp in Canada when illicit liquor is supplied to the workers; Interesting letters. Faint prior owner's pencilled name atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - May 1953, Australian Edition
Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in France; The Mayas of British Honduras; Unlucky Ship - the chief officer of a tramp steamer recalls the events which befell the ship; The Men-Lions Mystery - the shocking toll of human life levied by maneaters in Africa; Tow Boating Down the Mississippi - a voyage from Memphis to New Orleans, with photos; The Nukoni Ju-Ju - the abandoned Gold Coast Mines was avoided by natives; Death at Sundown - a curse which was fulfilled in startling fashion; Hurricane Journey - returning to his police job from war service, the author expected a quiet life; The Firebrand - a former Eritrean corporal in the Italian colonial police becomes a bandit; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 18: November, 1906 Through April 1907 (missing February 1907)
Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 21: May Through October 1908
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1954, Australian Edition
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August (Aug.) 1918: Thrilling Stories of the Air
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1911 - Across Unknown Labrador - Part IV By H. Hesketh Prichard
Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1956 - Australian Edition
Features: The Terrible Swede - a writer returns from a year in the South Seas; Search in Saigon - a mystery by Lawrence Morgan; Queen of the Windjammers - The Lawhill; Terror Strikes Karunga; Trapped in the Ice - Eskimo Transportation; Sentence of Death - the adventures of French Foreign Legionnaire John Seymore Townsend; Birdin' on the Furneaux; 10' a week for paradise Skokholm - I Know an Island, Part II; Beloved Elephant; War Breaks out on Friday - the Moro Naba of French Sudan; World's Tallest Totem Pole - Victoria, British Columbia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1941
Stories: The Clue of the Broken Needle; The Seer of Kantara; A Day to Remember; Hunting Wild Horses; Stope Number Five East; River Death; A Cant.Mag. on Trek; The Witherell Kidnapping Case; The Derelict; Adventure Ahoy; The Haunted Bungalow; The McGuire Mystery. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1958 - Australian Edition
Features: Trapped in the Ice -continuing the saga of his 2,150 miles across the antarctic, Sir Vivian Fuchs relates a fateful moment - with photos; The Lost Wealth of Tortuga Bay, Cuba; The Tokolosi's Victim - a mis-shapen fiend and witchcraft in Africa; Give Me Canvas - the s.s. Helderus - using sails to propel broken down vessels; Monkeys in business - harvesting coconuts!; Entangled with Death - a hunter is caught up the the antlers of a moose!; Devil-Devil in the Boiler - an Australian fishing excursion goes wrong as a man is trapped in a boiler; Phantom of the Pampas - Andrew Lang; I saw the secrets of the Mafia - the writer smuggled herself into a guarded arena and became the first outsider to witness the initiation of a new member into the ranks of the dreaded organization - photos; Adventures of the Cod Fishers of Aldeburgh; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1937
Stories: Adventures in Bunk; The Daybreak Raid; Live Wires; A Man-Hunt in Jamaica; The Lizard-Master; The Last of the Seris; Prospecting in Peru; Down the Mine; A Call in the Night; A Grips with the Head Hunters; Death in the Air; That Christmas Dinner; Pay-Day at Anna Regina. Average wear. Covers present but separated from textblock. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Vanished Trophy - a story for horse-lovers, the missing King George V International Jumping Championship Trophy; Saharan Adventure (continued) - fascinating account of a trip across the Sahara - Tuareg Tribesmen; Death in the Jungle - exploring the Rio Bobonaza for gold; Catching Wild Pigs Alive in Australia; Cyclone - a young seaman's description of his first experience of a circular storm; The Pay-Back - hunting a cattle-killing lion in Rhodesia; Kenai - deaf lead sled dog; The Big Fish - what happened to two young men night-fishing at the northern end of the Inner Sound of the island of Skye off the west coast of Scotland; Wealth in Bird's Nests - in search of the ingredient for the Chinese delicacy birds'-nest soup; and more. Chips from spine else unmarked with average wear. Back cover partially loose. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1957, Australian Edition
Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, January 1957, Australian Edition
Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, June 1917 *General Korniloff's Escape*
91 pages plus many pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: A detailed narrative of General Korniloff's 300 mile Escape from the Austrians back to the Russian lines; Some Exciting Experiences with Rhinos, by J.A. Jordan - with photos; Hindengerg's Death Trap - a terrible tragedy befalls the Russian armies amid the Masurian Lakes; The Pygmy People of Mount Marviveles in the Phillipines - the Negritos, or "little Negroes" - with photos; The Vengeance of Eugene Ristori - The Five-Year Story of a Corsican Murder Vendetta which ends in Panama; The House of the Chained Bear - a night of terror in the wilds of Transcaucasia; On the Borders of Tibit - Part 2, by Reginald Farrer, with nice photos; The Three Scarlet Feathers - the terrible experience of a white man who got into the black books of Voodoo people in Hayti (Haiti); A Flying Man in South Africa - Part 3 of John G. Barron's adventures - illustrated; My Experiences as a "Wild Girl" - Carl L. Thompson of Seattle and his strange job; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part 4 - E.W. Hawkes' adventures, with great Eskimo photos; The Snake-Charmer's Vengeance - Alexander Feely recounts a circus tale; Our Catch - an extract from the diary of a Lieutenant of Alpine Chasseurs which describes how six Alpine Chasseurs bluffed three hundred Huns, with eight officers, into surrendering without a fight. Photo of Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Harris-Goar Jewelry ad on back cover. Nice ad for Baseball Magazine Co. Great full-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1954
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1934
Stories: Death Rides with the Mounties; My Record Canoe Trip; The Girl World Tramp; The Desert Will Get Me; The Were-Tiger; When Rats Go West; My Wife; Kidnapped; The Clue of the Single Finger Print; Confessions of a Smuggler; The Ways of a Rogue; Special Circumstances; Man-Lion; Jackaroo. Above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1957- Australian Edition
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1941
Stories: Adventure Ahoy; A Deal in Diamonds; Pattern for Blitzkrieg; Fairy Godfather; The House of Death; Fish and Chips; How I Won My Horse; The Lone Star Kid; The Promotion of Constable Sidi; The Battle of Santiago; The Crocodile-Charmers of Java; The Stolen Telluride. Above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1957- Australian Edition
Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1936 *Includes Marijuana Story*
Stories: Marijuana Story - Author describes how he first encountered this evil weed, and the perilous experiences in which it later involved him (12 pages with illustrations); Pork and Beans; Shanghaied!; The Back of Beyond; The White Death; Almost My Tiger; Flamingo Island; Crocodile Craft; The Border Patrol; Frozen Horror; Georgie the Ant-Bear; The Coolies' Revenge; Stage Coach Triumphant; The Puri-Puri Man; Dead Man's Opal. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1958 - Australian Edition: Vancouver Island Logging
Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, September 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Kidnapped Crook - The unvarnished facts of the culminating adventure of Clement Passal, alias the 'Marquis de Champaubert"; Unknown waters - a voyage of the Royal Research Ship Discovery II to the unmapped areas of Australian Antarctica; The White Cockerel - A remarkable story of ju-ju from Africa; Monk's Field - a curious story from North Wales; South Sea Fire-Walkers; A Woman Scorned - a story from Tabora; This bone means death - Australian aborigines 'point the bone' to allegedly kill, even at great distances; The Two Sisters - Two Italian Girls play a big part in helping the pro-British Partisans to seize Northern Italy from the Fascists - Else and Nina Gariglio, with photos; and more. Covers loosely attached. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, Volume 19: Includes June 1907 Through October 1907 Plus February 1904
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine: April 1911, No. 156. Vol. 26
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, August 27, 1960
39 pages. Features: Adolph Eichmann - his life's work was death; "I'm really too young for mink" - Sandra Dee at 18 (colour photos); Magic Power that is Battling Hunger - MPF - Multi-purpose food is made of wastes which were once thought suitable only for fertilizer and animal feed; Noda, Japan - where everyone loves herons; Colour photos of flowers in the Rockies; Booing fans and the stars they heckle (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Ab McDonald); The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), March (Mar.) 30, 1970 - US Mail Strike
68 pages. Features: Peugeot 204 ad; A talk with Prime Minister Trudeau; Recovering oil from the sunken tanker Arrow in Chedabucto Bay; St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, Alberta - unusual architecture by Douglas Cardinal; U.S. Postal Service Strike; Home life of letter carrier Peter Stafford of New York; The Enduring Mail Mess; Miasma of My Lai - with photo of General Koster; S.S. "Columbia Eagle"; Death of bomber Diana Oughton; Danger and Opportunity in Indochina - major war coverage; Israel-P.L.O. conflict - article with photo of smiling Arafat in Jordanian cave office and six pages of excellent colour photos of the opposing military forces; Willi Stoph - from bricklayer to organization man; Rampaging plague of mice in Australia; Reproduction of controversial British poster depicting a pregnant man; Ronald Reagan deals with student protests; Last days of the "California Zephyr" train - article with photo; Photo-illustrated article on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSN&Y); The Berlin Syndrome; Banned ad for "The Boys in the Band"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, April (Apr.) 25, 1969 - Ethel Kennedy Cover
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine, August (Aug.) 22, 1969 - The Mafia Vs. America
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine, Canadian Edition, August (Aug.) 4, 1980 - Billy Carter Cover Illustration
56 pages. Features: Nice two-page ad for the Audi 5000 Turbo; The Burden of Billy Carter (Brother of President Jimmy Carter) - article with color photos - his Libyan connection; Teddy Kennedy seeks Democratic nomination; U.S. Vice Consul Richard Queen; Michael Polovchak; Death of violinist Helen Hagnes; Coverage of the Moscow Olympics - with color photos; Arab/Israeli conflict at the U.N.; Leonard Fein and other prominent American Jews criticize Israeli Prime Minister Begin; The Shah of Iran - The Emperor Who Died in Exile; Mostafa Mirsalim; Ali Tabatabai; Somoza's foes show moderation in Nicaragua; Terror in Turkey; Strikes in Poland; Moscow expels trio of underground feminists; War of the Roses in the New Hebrides - Jimmy Stevens; Color cowboy fashion photos; The Long Dry Summer - photo-illustrated article on damage to agriculture; Passenger Airlines in heated competition; Merrill Lynch's Marauding Herd - with photo of Donald Regan; Bethlehem Steel caught bribing; Bad news for GM; More Programs for Cable TV; The Paris Bourse is the hottest stock exchange in Europe; Cacophany at Copenhagen U.N. Women's Conference; Passing of Peter Sellers, Salah Eddin al-Bitar, HAns J. Morgenthau and Maria Montoya Martinez; Horrific predictions for the environment in the 21st century; Color celebrity photos of Joe Namath with "Daisy Mae" Rowe, Rose Kennedy, David Bowie,Bjorn Borg and his bride Mariana Simionescu; Article on deceased Peter Sellers, "The Prime Minister of Mirth"; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, January 13, 1967 - Chairman Mao Cover
Contents: Articles on LBJ and Ronald Reagan; Death of Jack Ruby; Major article on Red China; Super colour photo Cadillac ad; Colour photos of Canada's new Scarborough (Centennial) College; Death of powerboat racer Donald Campbell; Boeing SST; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Time Magazine, June 16, 1967 - Moshe Dayan Cover
Contents: Israel Blitz - war coverage - alleging U.S.S. Liberty "accidentally attacked" - with photos of "the death of Egypt's Air Force"; Violence in Grenada; Pathology - Inflammation; The Boeing 747; and much more. Centerfold ad loose but present Unmarked. Average wear. Book
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Time Magazine, June 7, 1954 - Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg Cover Illustration
96 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Italian Cruise Lines inside front cover; Nice color one-page ad for the 1954 Ford V-8 Crestline Sunliner - featuring a red convertible; McCarthy's case #54 and economist Val Rogin Lorwin; Death aboard the U.S.S. Bennington - six die after below-deck explosion - with photo of the deceased; Two pages of photos of the Delta Mission in Indo-China (Vietnam); Sir Gerald Templer of Malaya; Wonderful one-page color vintage ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring lady in white dress holding bouquet; Mayor Giorgio La Pira of Florence; Photo of publisher Angelo Rizzoli and story about fake letters he published; Photo of Marshal Tito celebrating a birthday; New folding money coming to Canada from the Bank of Canada; The art of Moritz Liebling - 51 of his charcoal and pencil drawings from Auschwitz 2are displayed in Montreal; The passing of Lionel Conacher; TV wedding of Mr. Peepers (Wally Cox); Nice one-page two-color ad for Babcock boilers features their new installation at Ford's new Oakville plant; Feature article on Humphrey Bogart with photos; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System (Long Distance); Article and photo of boxer Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson; The passing of photographer Robert Capa - article with photo; Sentational vintage one-page color IBM ad features illustrations of tube electronics, man operating a new 701 computer, and Chinese man using abacus; Color paintings by frontier reporter George Catlin; Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz - article with photo; Nice color ad for English Electric inside back cover shows large manufacturing project; color Johnnie Walker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice issue. Magazine
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Time Magazine, September 1, 1967 - Sandy Dennis Cover
Contents: New Haven urban renewal; Urban Coalition; A Program for Cities; George Lincoln Rockwell and the National Socialist White People's Party, and Rockwell's murder by John Patler (Patsalos); Photo of maiden flight of Navy F-111B; Trainees at For Sill P.O.W. Course - preparing for the worst - with photo; Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard awarded Medal of Honor - with photo; Smoking and Safety; Forest fires in the Northwest; Vietnam War update; Macnamara on Bombing the North; Arab Refugees after war with Israel; Review of Israel's victory; Photo of North American Aviation's XB-70 and X-15 supersonic aircraft; Ch'u Silk Manuscript; Photo after marriage of George Scott Romney, oldest son of Michigan Governor George Romney; Photo of Bobbie Gentry; Bus Mosbacher; Swimmer Debbie Meyer; Gaylord Perry and the Spitball; Sandy Dennis - article with photos; Photo of Edgar M. Bronfman who purchased shares in MGM from Philip J. Levin; The death of Henry John Kaiser - story with photos; "Alligators" - LaCoste sports shirts; Clarence Jackson of Phoenix, AZ and his fight with Sears; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear to cover. Book
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Time Magazine, September 15, 1967 - Cover Illustration of Viet Nam's Thieu
Contents: Photo of LBJ and his Vietnamese election observers; Photos from the DMZ; Photo of Westmoreland greeting Romney and other Governors in Saigon; Time Essay - The Pleasures and Pain of the Single Life; The Vietnam election; Photo of the Thieu Family at their Saigon home; Photo of Ky with wife Mai and family at Nha Trang; Photo of Viet Cong dead and a salvaged marine copter; Death of Joe Orton; Nice color photo ad for the Chrysler Imperial; Henry Miller and his fifth wife Hoki Tokuda; Decorating the derricks off Long Beach; *Stunning* Chrysler colour-photo centerfold shows the '68 300 2-door hardtop; Photo of Billie Jean King; Photo of Richard Petty - Winner at Darlington; Terrible forest fires in northwest; Full-page color-photo ad for the Wilson Companies features Gale Sayers; Photo of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation attempt to save lineman Charles Whited at top of pole who touched high-voltage line; Photos of new car models including the Buick Skylark, the Dodge Charger and the Plymouth Road Runner; Photo of John Diebold in his Manhattan office; Dl & H. Cohen Ltd. (Denis Bonchy Cohen) - the world's largest maker of kilts; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, August 1957 - Special Report on the Death of New York, Ontario & Western
66 pages. Features: Railroad news photos; Easy Does It - great photo of a wrecker and its crew at work; The Colorado Midland Story - 1 - 4'8.5" to the Narrow Gauge Country - informative article with photos; Big as B&O but not as busy - the New South Wales Government Railways - great article with photos; Fantastic 2-page photo in Philadelphia, August 4, 1933 showing two locomotives of the Reading Philadelphia to New York service; Photo Section; The Passenger - keep him happy! - article about the passenger service industry; Would You Believe it?; Tripmaster - details of a rail trip along California; Steam in Indian Summer - Steam still at work in Quebec - article with photos; Beware the Wrath of the Editor - a photo test - identify the railroad and wheel arrangement; When a Man Wishes he'd never left the farm - large super 1951 photo of a Southern Pacific (T&NO) local freight crossing the intracoastal Waterway at Houma, La.; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening along bottom of coverfold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, January 1956 - Interurbans in Iowa
58 pages. Features: Railroad news and editorial comment; Railroad news photos; The Saddest Train of All - The death of Oneida & Western and the life of L&N and Morehead & North Fork; The Antique Dealers; When Railroading Went to (the Civil) War - to the stripling railroads the Civil War was more than a "War Between the States"; Iowa - land of the steam road trolleys - super photos and article; Pilots (Cow-Catchers) - the Symbolism of the Art - article with photos of various designs ; Black Diamonds and White Diesels - Over Soldier Summit by moonlight move the paradoxes that keep Utah running; Steam rules B&O's Lake branch; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Small, faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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True West Magazine, April 1969 *The Story of Zane Grey*
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1979
Features: A Strong Medicine Wind - Wind Goomda, Kiowa Warrior; Bullfrog Blackie; I Shall be a Borrower of Money" - the owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch, H.C. Hooker; The Holdouts of Dublin Gulch; Feather Fort - it looked like the Comanches would win; Flash Flood - death that gives no notice; William H. Jackson's Cross of Snow - a gigantic Christian symbol on a mountainside in the Rockies; A Strange Summons - Ranger Ran Runnels is assigned to make a fifty-mile stretch of hell (rail line) as safe as a walk in the park; Jimmy, the Skull; Alberta Cowboys - thoughts of a long-ago summer and laughing men who knew horses; Blind Boone and 'The Marshfield Tornado'. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1973
Features: Boone Helm - Man Eater!; Arizona's 'Lost Cabin' Mines; Your Until Death - William (Billie) Grounds; Mustangers and their methods; Blanket Bill - Robert William Jarman; Trail to Thunder Mountain - a packer describes the prelude to a Zane Grey book; He Killed a Cagey Outlaw - Old Snowdrift; Wild Old Days! - with photo of a large gar or garfish on display. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1974
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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