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Mechanix Illustrated - July 1961
Features: McCahill tests the 'hot' new Rolls-Royce V8 and the Mercury; Build a 23-foot cabin cruiser for only $800 (Hotei); World's toughest military training - Navy Frogmen; home movie-taking made easy; our army needs new weapons - now!; Grow muscles in your backyard; 1924 Hispano-Suiza Racer; Six-ton rubber boat - Amphitrite; America's first hydrofoil ferry - the Flying Fish connects Bellingham, WA with Victoria BC; Eugene Durrance and his Florida Sea Brine Laboratory sell sea water!; Sailing on sand; Fire Buff's unique collection - James Dodge; An early Black and Decker cordless drill; clockwork marvels; Infra-red Burglar Alarm; Aluminum Pistol; "Space Camera" Eyeglasses; Transtainer; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. (colour ad on back cover shows glamourous tennis players smoking Winston cigarettes) Book
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The Great War - The Standard History of the World-Wide Conflict: Part 175, December 22nd 1917 - With the Reorganised Serbian Army
Portrait of Mrs. R.M. Harley, Croix de Guerre, on front cover. Features: Conquest of the Wytschaete-Messines Ridge (conclusion); The Serbian Operations on the Balkan Front, June, 1916 - July 1917; Centerfold photos of Canadians loading a 15" gun, Australians feeding a large gun, and Australians studying a detailed model of the terrain of Messines Ridge; Wartime Work of Britain's Special Constabulary. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
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The War Illustrated: No. 164 - 6 October 1917
How America in Making War - article be Hamilton Fyfe; America's Advance Army Nearying the Trenches; Canadians in contrast with their Hun Captures; More Prized Positions wrested from the Foe; Hun murders of the helpless in hospital; Ruin wrought and suffered by the Hun; Royal visits to the Scottish centres of war work; The Badge of the Bonnet; English Soldier's Deeds of Dash and Daring; Winning the Coveted Cross for Valour's Wear; Heroes decorated for valour and devotion; What Happened at Loos - article by Lovat Fraser; Home Scenes of Sentiment and Support; How East is Helping West Against the Hun; Our Navy's Huge Post-Bag - how letters reach our sailors at sea - article; On Board a Ship of Letters - H.M.S. 'G.P.O.'; Locating the Line of March of the Human Mole; The 1st (first) (Royal) Dragoons (one page article with photo). Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The War Illustrated: No. 162 - 22 September 1917
The truth about Tannenberg, article by Lovat Fraser; 'Billets' in Belgium - Barely better than none; Fighting the mud on the Flanders front; Heroes of Hill 70 who are closing in on Lens; Victors and Victims of the war in the air; Italy's road to victory through the mountains; Sea Men and Sea Dogs of the Swift and Broke; Wanted - a Naval Offensive! - by H.W. Wilson; Fact and fiction from Flanders and France; German super-works won by Allied Super-Men; British Strategy at Sea - a defense of present naval strategy by Percival A. Hislam; Indian Prince's Red Cross Gift for the Tigris - a floating hospital; Glimpses of life behind the French front line; Proud Moments in the progress of the French Army; The Buring of Albert - last terrible hours in a Bombarded Town; Woman War Workers in France and England; Who's Who in the Great War; Centres of Social Life in Salonika and London. Sailors and Soldiers Decorated for Heroism; The Dorset Yeomanry - one page article with photo. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The War Illustrated, 25 August 1917
Features: Who Fired the First Shot - article by Lovat Fraser on the beginning of the war; Happy Heirs to the Future of Fair France; With Poilu and Chasseur on the Flanders Front; By Flooded Road and Ditch and Ruined Farm; H.M. Landships (tanks) in commission east and west; Concrete Barricades carried by the Canadians; Spy-Mania in Amiens - encounter with a suspicious town councillor, by Hamilton Fyfe; Woman Defenders of the Honour of the Slav; Scenes in the Third Battle of Ypres; How Italy Guards herself against prisoner spies; A day in a prisoner's cage at the front - article by Basil Clarke; Captured Huns in the British and French lines; Entertainment near the trenches; Getting physically fit for war; Teutonising of Turkish Boys in Berlin; New Zealand chaplain at work in the field; Who's who in the Great War; Empire Soldiers in Mimic Warfare at Aldershot; Insignia of rank in the U.S. Army. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, June 1954: African Houdini
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Respectful wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1954
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 223 - 23 November 1918
Cover illustration of a distraught Kaiser. 'Cease-fire!' 11am, November 11th, 1918. 'Twilight of the German Gods' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. London's Delirious Joy at the Coming of Peace - photos. Star of Mons in the Ascendant - the closing battles of Britain's victorious armies - article. Sweeping the Sea of the Hun - photos. Canada Conqueror of Vimy takes Valenciennes - photos. Victory Leaders' 'Great Week' at Versailles - deciding the terms of Germany's Surrender - illustrations. Typical Hun Theft and Treachery - photos. Our adaptable army - photos. How the Army will be Demobilised - article by Basil Clarke. The Historic Armistice - article with illustration and map. The Empire's Roll of Honour. A Kaiserless Germany - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 186 - 9 March 1918
Full page illustration of the new chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. Some Lighter Aspects of a Fleet Action - by 'Bartimeus'. Preaching and Practising Prudent Economy - 5 photos. An Aeroplane Shoot on the Western Front, by 'O.Pip'. Artillery Preparation Against the Great Attack - 3 photos of a massive British rail-mounted gun and a French shell dump. Amazing photo of French observers serving as part of an anti-aircraft battery. Five photos of kite balloons. Women at work. Tanks and Trimphs from the French Front - 4 photos. From the Forge of Vulcan to the Field of Mars - two illustrations of massive guns. The U Boats and the U.S. - a confident view of the Transatlantic Transport (article). At Army Headquarters, article by Hamilton Fyfe. Arresting Attila's Advance to the Adriatic - 5 photos. New Laws for New Conditions - how the Australian Commonwealth Set the Example. Photos of decorated soldiers. Adventures of an ensign, article by 'Vedette'. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 228 - 28 December 1918
The Old Times Come Again, by Max Pemberton who explains how Christmas is re-won. Photos of the 'Great Leaders Who Have Saved The World.". The First U.S. President to visit Europe - 3 photos including smiling shot of Woodrow Wilson. Photos of U.S. vessels which protected convoys, including the destroyer Warmington and the destroyer Shaw. The Wonderful Year, article by Sir Sidney Low. Portrait of Marshal Foch. Photo of the formal re-entry of the Belgians into Liege. Photos of British Cavalry entering Spa. My four war Christmases, by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of mementoes gathered for the Great War Museum. Photo of General Maistre, commander of a French Army Group, distributing decorations in front of Rheims Cathedral. Photos of civilian prisoners trudging back to France from Germany. With the Editor by Air (aboard the Handley Page) to France & Back Again - article and photos. Photos of desecrated statues in Metz. New Names in our Old Navy, by Percival A. Hislam. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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McKenzie, F.A.
Canada's Day of Glory
342 pages. "This story of Canadian victories in the great struggle, with an entertaining analysis of what lay behind them, makes up a book which will not only be immediately interesting, but will also be a strong feature in your library in years to come. Look, for instance, at the story of our boys' capture of Vimy Ridge, and think with what avidity your children will read this ten years from now." - from dust jacket. Book unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Dust jacket bears several peripheral tears and is missing several chips but is handsome in new archival-grade brodart cover. Rare in jacket. WALLACE P.64. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 127, January 20th, 1917 - The Effect of the Somme Offensive
Features: Cover portrait of Colonel Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O., the Hero of Beaumont-Hamel, Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Navy Division. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Great British Battles of the Somme - V. - Check near Bapaume and Victory on the Ancre". Includes complete chapter CLV - "The Effect of the Somme Offensive on the German 'Will to Victory'". Many excellent photos, including one of captured German flame-throwers 'which the enemy, in defiance of civilised useage, introduced into warfare.' Graphic centerfold of a shell-shattered avenue of elms along the borders of the Yser Canal between Boesinghe and Lizerne. Also includes first portion of Chapter CLVI - Belgium Under Two Flags - The Homeland Under the German Heel and the Renaissance of the Army on the Yser. Many excellent black and white photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 250 - 31May 1919 *America's Share in the Victory*
Includes concluding portion of "Voluntary Motor Transport in the War", with photos. Chapter CCXCVI - America's Share in the Victory - map and photos. Full-page photographic portrait of Admiral William Sowden Sims in chief command of the American Fleet in Europe. Four centerfold photos of Americans in Germany. Full page photo of the 27th Division, U.S. Army, in New York, March 25th, 1919. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 252 - 14 June 1919 *The Rumanian Blunder*
Includes final portion of the chapter "The Triumph of the Army of Mesopotamia", which includes many interesting photos. Centerfold displays four photos of the British on the Tigris, at Kirkuk, and near Narin Kupri Bridge. Also contains first portion of chapter CCXCIX - The Rumanian Blunder - First Full Account of the Worst Error of the War, with photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 253 - 21 June 1919 *The Wonderful Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps*
Please note: Coloured map of Central European Nationalities not included. Cover photo portrait of Lieut.-General Sir C.H. Burtchaell, K.C.B., C.M.G., Director-General Medical Services, British Armies in France. Includes final portion of the chapter "The Rumanian Blunder". Chapter CCC - The Wonderful Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) and the Marvels of Preventative Medicine. Interesting centerfold medical-related photos. Water damage to pages at top corner of spine. Text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 258 - 26 July 1919 *Demobilising the British Army*
Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Founding of the League of Nations", with photos. Wonderful centerfold photos of returning soldiers. Chapter CCCVII - The Demobilisation of the British Army, with many photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 259 - 2 August 1919 *Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers*
Cover portrait of Sir Robert S. Horne, K.C., M.P., Minister of Labour. Please note: does not include colur map. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Demobilisation of the British Army", with photos. Centerfold photos of captured German booty, including a large cache of gas shells at Luttre, Belgium. Chapter CCCVIII - The Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers, with photos. Chapter CCCIX - The Wonders of Wireless in the War, with photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Melady, John
Korea, Canada's Forgotten War
219 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Includes Honour Roll plus Canadian Navy, Air Force, and Army Honours and Awards, Korea. Map endpapers. "Contains first-hand accounts of men who endured torture in Chinese POW camps, of doctors whose experiences in battlefield medicine have the pathos and hilarity of a M*A*S*H episode, and of prominent Canadian journalists such as Blair Fraser, Larry Henderson, and Pierre Berton, who reported on the war from the front lines, as did Rene Levesque." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Edwards 433, McFarland 1377. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encycloeaedia of the War: Part 213, 17 September (Sept.) 1918 *THE BOY SCOUTS*
Topics: preparedness of the Boy Scouts; Sir R. Baden-Powell as a Prophet; Holiday and War; The Boy Scout Organization; Work of a Wartime Camp; Lord Kitchener's View; The Public and the Scout; A Non-Military Movement; Opinions of the Press; The American Ambassador; Scout Law; Scout Badges; Gallantry in the Navy; Sea Scouts as Coast Guards; Gallantry in the Army; Influence of the Scout Spirit; War Emergency Work; Work for the Government; Agricultural Help; Boy Scout Tests of Citizenship; Recreation Huts and Collections; Helping the Police; In Air Raids and Bombardments; Work for Hospitals; Boy Scouts of the Empire; The Movement in Foreign Countries; Scouts of the Allies. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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The Great War Magazine: Part 43, 12 June, 1915
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover portrait of General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, K.C.B., Commanding the Sixth Army; Conclusion of Chapter LVII; Chapter LVIII - Complete and graphic description of 'The Storming of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle for the Ridge'; Chapter LIX - Organising the Defence of the Realm - a retrospect; Portrait of General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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King, Stella
Jacqueline: Pioneer Heroine of the Resistance
424 pages. Index. Bibliography. Sources. Black and white photographic plates. "Follows in the great tradition of other outstanding war heroines such as Violette Szabo and Odette. But Yvonne Rudellat was the pioneer. If she had failed, no other woman agent would have been sent to France." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Moderate spine slant. A sound working copy. Book
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Albrecht, Herbert R.: Mattison, David - Translator
Growing Roots - Biography (German Title: Der Dollar Un Die Seele)
283 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Author was born in Kassel, Germany in 1919. He served in the German army in World War II and emigrated to Canada where his adventures took him from Halifax to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island." - from back cover. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1977
Features: Remembering Walt - Pat Coburn is interviewed about her late husband, the "King of the Pulps" - Walt Coburn; Uncle Billy Jacobs' Story - a runaway boy hires on with the Pecos Carter and his Panhandle Pool outfit; Buried Treasure in Squirrel Gulch - the Colt 45, once belonged to William Brocius Graham, the famous Curly Bill; In Quest of a Coquillard Wagon; The Evenin' I Met Cull Mims; Taking a head count - the census; Christening the Red Onion - northwest Colorado; Arkichita and a wicked Texas Cowboy - Indian tracker versus Army bully... and guess who won! - Fort Wadsworth; What became of Cambria, Wyoming?; The Mysterious Pinkerton - undercover work at its most dangerous; California's Killer Flood - the winter of 1861-62; Living with "Aunt Sam" James; A Tenderfoot's Dangerous Trip - Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Costello, Elvis
Elvis Costello - A Singing Dictionary
328 pages. Occasional illustrations from album covers. Includes songs from the following albums: May Aim is True; This Year's Model; Armed Forces; Get Happy!!; Taking Liberties. Songs include: Accidents will Happen; Alison; B Movie; The Beat; Beaten to the Punch; Big Boys; Big Tears; Black and White World; Blame it on Cain; Busy Bodies; (I Don't Want to Got To) Chelsea; Chemistry Class; Clean Money; Clowntime is Over; Crawling to the U.S.A.; Dr. Luther's Assistant; Five (Five) Gears in Reverse; Ghost Train; Girls Talk; Goon Squad; Green Shirt; Hand in Hand; High Fidelity; Hoover Factory; Human Touch; I'm Not Angry; The Imposter; Just a Memory; King Horse; Less Than Zero; Lip Service; Lipstick Vogue; Little Triggers; Living in Paradise; Love for Tender; Man Called Uncle; Miracle Man; Moods for Moderns; Motel Matches; Mystery Dance; New Amsterdam; Night Rally; No Action; No Dancing; Olliver's Army; Opportunity; Party Girl; Pay It Back; Possession; Pump it Up; Radio, Radio; Radio Sweetheart; (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes; Riot Act; Secondary Modern; Senior Service; Sneaky Feelings; Stranger in the House; Sunday's Best; Talking in the Dark; Temptation; That's What Friends are For; This Year's Girl; Tiny Steps; Two Little Hitlers; Waiting for the End of the World; Watching the Detectives; Wednesday Week; Welcome to the Working Week; You Belong to Me. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this huge compilation. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: June 1969
Features: Great cover photo of a steam pile driver in action, plus great article and more photos inside; Funeral Train for Ike (Eisenhower) - Extra 4028 West - text and photos; Railroad News Photos; In train travel, Europe's average matches our best - article with photos and many tables; Centerfold features a pair of aging Alco L-2a Mohawks departing Selkirk, New York in 1951; Good-bye Great Western - absorbed into the Chicago & North Western camp; Mr. Jordan's marvelous multidexterous machine - 'does the work of an army of men' - great photos and article; World's steepest adhesion railroad? - amazing photos, article and map; Chet Schwarzkopf recalls riding in the cab of a steam locomotive as a boy; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Material History Review - Number 44, Fall 1996
Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 259, August (Aug.) 5, 1919 *The British Army in the West (Dec. 1917 - Nov. 1918)*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: Mr. Lloyd George as War Premier; Caporetto and the Rapallo Conference; The German Offensive of March 21; The Campaign for the Channel Ports; Unity of Command; The Strategy of Marshal Foch; The Allied Counter-Offensive; The Achievements of the British Army; THe Contributions to Victory of the Canadian and Australian Armies; The Armistice; Sir Douglas Haig's Review of the War. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 249, May 27, 1919 *The American Army in Europe*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: America's Contribution; Military Unpreparedness; Conscription of the Nation; The American Divisions; Transport of the Army; The First Troops in France; Reorganization of the French Ports; Vast Work of Transport and Supply; Horses, Staffs, Artillery, Aeroplanes; Training; First Operations; Cantigny; Chateau-Thierry; The Allied Offensive; The Marne; July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel; Advance in the Argonne; March on Sedan; The Armistice; America's Achievement. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Copp, Terry; McAndrew, Bill
Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945
249 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Few black and white illustrations. "Introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War... Examines the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to manage this behaviour." - from dust jacket. Pertinent news clippings laid in at back. Average wear. Usual library markings. Remainder mark to bottom edge. A sound working copy. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, November 4, 1961
63 pages. Features: Nehru - Lonely leader of 500 million; Allen and Sharie Farrell built their vessel Ocean Girl - great photos and text; Carole Reinhart performs in a college orchestra and Salvation Army band in Miami, Florida; I love having my own zoo - Gerald Durrell; Men are Spoiling the Movies - Edmonton-born Dianne Foster; Lord Martin Cecil - Rancher Bishop of the Cariboo - he owns a town and is world leader of a sect that believes illness is caused by 'ill spirits' - 100 Mile House Lodge, British Columbia; Can you judge people?; Room that honour laughter - McGill University establishes a memorial to Stephen Leacock; The Balkheaded Society of Redcliff, Alberta is a highbrow service club that works for the community; Hollywood Boulevard - teenagers take advantage of traffic tangle to scout for dates (photos) - the new 'sport' of cruising; Boxer Tom McNeeley; Ginette Letondal of Montreal makes her mark in Paris; Busman's Holiday for Artists, with paintings by Gabriel Bastien; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, November 25, 1961: Dr. Mikhail Klochko Fled Russia
39 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Williams, Jeffery (Signed)
First in the Field : (Hamilton) Gault of the Patricia's
278 pages. "With best wishes, Jeffery Williams" written upon title page in the author's hand. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "...Balanced, absorbing and long overdue." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's small inkstamp atop front free endpaper else unmarked. Clean with light wear. Foreward laid inside front board. Dust jacket price-clipped. Nice copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 6, 1965 *THE GREAT TRAVEL EXPLOSION*
Features: The Great Travel Explosion - Suddenly everybody's got itchy feet; The Pleasure of Failure - what famed author Morley Callaghan learned when the bottom fell out of his world; When Sickness Strikes at Night - what can you do, where can you turn for help?; The Prickly Producer - now everyone wants John Hirsch; Montreal's Vieux Quarter - how a dedicated few led the fight to save a city's historic past, with many nice photos; This Army has only begun to fight - the Salvation Army turns 100, waging war to a new jazz beat. Great colour ad for the 1965 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan. Colour ad for the '65 Pontiac on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling with evidence of exposure to moisture. A less than pretty but sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 23 January 1971 *THE DRAMATIC RESCUE OF JAMES CROSS*
Features: The biggest manhunt in Canadian history - great colour photos and lengthy text; The Private Agony of Jerome Choquette - this Justice Minister set out to strengthen the rights of the individual but now advocates identity cards and carries a .38 revolver; Newfie Fare - Everywhere an Islander goes, his food is sure to follow; Sure the UN tries to keep peace around the world - but who tries to keep peace at the UN? - retired Canadian Army officer Harold Trimble explains; Wearing your ego on your face - photos of moustaches added to the faces of famous Canadians; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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Snowy Owl - Canadian Army Staff College, Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario - Christmas 1956
111 pages. Includes group photo and list of names of attendees of the Canadian Army Staff College, 9 January 1956 - 16 November 1956. Heavily worn. Covers loose as one, but present. Moisture stain to lower corner. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Chadderton, H. Clifford
Excuse Us! (Herr Schicklgruber) *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
189 pages. Black and white illustrations. Author has signed bookplate affixed inside front cover. "A memoir of an officer who commanded an infantry company of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles (Canadian Army) in Normandy." - subtitle. (Schicklgruber was Hitler's birth name). Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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Stephens, W. Ray
The Harps of War
271 pages. Although based on fact, and the reminiscenses of the author, the characters in this book are fictional. "It all began in 1936 when I joined the famous band of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) in Winnipeg.... As the band drove into liberated Hilversum, we were overrun by tearful and cheerful Dutch because we had liberated them. Others would follow but we were the first. 'We are not soldiers,' we explained. 'But you have liberated us.' " Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Macksey, Kenneth
The Shadow of Vimy Ridge
264 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Arras has seen much of war, and this account of the city and her defence reflects the story of the British army at three crucial moments in its development." - from dust jacket. Above-average but not excessive wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound reading copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 1965
Features: If Ho Chih Minh's Army Moves South in Force...; William F. Buckley seeks the Mayor's job in New York; The Wonder is There have been So Few Riots - American Racism; The Way it Was in the London Blitz - Londoners look back with nostalgia; Saga of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Garbot); TV Shows for the new season - Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard, The Steve Lawrence Show, I Spy with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Henry Moore - Man of Form, Trials of O'Brien - Peter Falk, and Jimmy Durante meets the Lively Arts; Feliciano Bejar's Special Niche in Mexico. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Chang, Iris
The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
290 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "This meticulously researched book is a moving drama that pays fitting tribute to the Americans and Europeans living in Nanking who risked their lives to rescue the Chinese people from rape and extermination." - Nien Cheng. "A powerful, landmark book, riveting in its horror." - Richard Rhodes. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding open at title page. A worthy reading copy. Book
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Arnold, E. Irena
Poems of a Salvationist
160 pages. Gift greetings dated 1929 upon front free endpaper. Somewhat above-average external wear. Lettering worn from backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1961 *LESSONS OF THE CUBAN DISASTER/BURT LANCASTER FEATURE*
Features: Judge Peter M. Horn of New York - We Don't Call Them Criminals; Colorado's Mountain Paradise - Rocky Mountain National Park; Seething Singapore - John Masters reports from the troubled melting pot that serves as seaport and warehouse for Southeast Asia; The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster, by Stewart Alsop; Untold Stories of the Civil War - The Miraculous Steamboat - The U.S.S. Chattanooga got through to the 40,000-man Union army trapped and starving in Chattanooga, Tennesee; Burt Lancaster Feature. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, April 28, 1962 *HUGH HEFNER / THE REV. DR. HARGIS / MIGHTY DICK STUART OF PITTSBURGH*
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Saturday Evening Post, June 30 - July 7, 1962 *BIRTH CONTROL PILLS / BEANBALL*
Features: You Yanks are Hypocrites, by Prakash C. Jain; New Case-History facts on Birth Control Pills - nearly a million American women are now using oral contraceptives; My War with Sharks - a Navy frogman, armed only with a special gun and his own lungs, battles sharks at arm's-length range; Safeguarding our Atomic Secrets - Lewis Strauss points up the urgent need to maintain security in the nuclear age; People on the Way up - Delores (Dee) O'Hara, Theresa Howard Carter, Dick Ruedebusch; Landing on Easy Street - in 25 words or less - Deborah Schneider won $500/month for life for her blurb for Plymouth cars; My Old Army Carries On - Bernard Asbell, a World War II dogface inspects his old basic-training camp and discovers some changes; The Beanball - Myth or Menace? - 5 big-leaguers argue their views on baseballs biggest troublemaker; The Winds of Freedom - Dean Rusk writes on the ideas which inspired our Revolution and are still the world's most potent force; The Bouncy World of a Breezy Blonde - Brooke Bundy. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Herzberger, F.W.
The Family Altar - Brief Daily Devotions Based on Selected Scripture Texts - Military Presentation Copy
Presented to Sidney Murray "In remembrance of your safe return after services overseas in World War II" by St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Seebach's Still, Ontario, on 19 January 1946, by Pastor Albert F. Pollex. Laid in is a handsome two-colour certificate to Mr. Murray from the Army and Navy Commission of the Lutheran Church. Church blindstamp upon front free endpaper. Book is otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A very special copy. Book
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Loewen, Nancy J.
Unsung Heroes : Canadians Helping Canadians in the Face of Disaster
179 pages. "When nature tears lives apart, Canadians work heroically to put them back together again." - from back cover. Author is president of Construction Volunteers Canada. Colour photos. Large book measuring 9.25" x 12". Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bump to upper corner of front board. A nice hard-cover copy in handsomely colour-illustrated boards. Book
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Tyson, Sylvia; Suzuki, David; De Santana, Hubert; McRae, Earl; Sturdza, Marina; Seiden, Howard
Today Magazine, 8 November 1980 - David Suzuki Cover
28 pages. Features: Sylvia Tyson describes her beginnings - with photos; Christine Marshall is featured in London Life ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for theh Datsun 210; David Suzuki - A Scientist in China - article with photos; The Invisible Woman - Barbara Howard is one of our Finest Artists; Ottawa Roughrider Mike Raines is the best Defensive Tackle in Canada; Great colour centerfold displays the line of 1981 Pontiacs, including their MPG estimates; Freedom Army - flashback to the liberation of the Netherlands from the Nazis; Fashion article by Marina Sturdza; Legionnaire's Disease; Full-page colour photo ad for McDonald's Egg McMuffin; Co-operative Games for Children produced by Jim and Ruth Deacove; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
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Scott, Dr. George D.; Curtis, Linda; Moss, Bruce; Rooney, Mickey; Topp, C.B.;
Weekend Magazine, 11 June 1966 (Newspaper Insert) - Gail Ross Cover Photo
40 pages. Features: Dr. George D. Scott of Kingston is proud of his don who dropped out of grade 10 to enlist in the U.S. Army - photos and article; Hockey's Biggest Reshuffle - looking ahead to the doubling of NHL teams in the 1967-68 season - article by Andy O'Brien; Gail Ross and her Horse Hobby - article with photos; Roloff Beny - a rather enviable reputation has been forced upon me; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Arrow shirts; Aylmer Tomato Product colour centerfold; How to Spend $12 million - that's how much Mickey Rooney spend during his rise, fall and long haul back (Part 3 of 3); Great vintage colour photo full-page ad for the Honda S90; Dr. Hamendra Banerjee is trying to discover if twins Jennifer and Gillian Pollock are the reincarnation of twins Joanna and Jacqueline who were killed in an auto accident 17 months before they were born; The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) at Sanctuary Wood; Laid in is a large colour BP chart which indicates which of their gasolines should be used for which car; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Malone, Col. Dick; Bauer, W.W.; Fraser, Blair; Holliday, Kate; Blakeslee, Howard W.; Mignon, Ulric; Alexander, R.K.; Baxter, Beverley; Rennie, Jim; Inglis, Peter; Allen, Ralph; Brookes, Lt. Cmdr. A.G.; Mergendahl, Charles; et al
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, September 15, 1946
76 pages. Features: Politics in Khaki - The Inside of the Canadian Army High Command - McNaughton and Crerar stepped on Monty's toes - here's the record, revealed for the first time; Childhood's No. 1 Enemy - rheumatic fever; Battle of the Peacemakers - meeting at Paris; Witch of Endor - fiction; Kate Holliday gets a Hollywood makeup makeover; It rained poison after Bikini Islands' fifth atom bomb test - with photo; Hard rock miners; Honor of the Company - fiction; Flivvers in the Sky - fly your own plane; The Good Catch - fiction; Golfing Cop - Henry Martell - article with photo; Hell's Gate is open - upgrades allow Fraser River salmon to get further upstream - article with three photos; Nice ad for Waterman's pens with cheerleader theme; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Good Year tires features Mountie helping young lady in mountain valley; Superb Caterpillar bulldozer ad - "Boss of the Bulldozers"; Nice Fleet Aircraft ad; Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; Fantastic painted Coke ad on back cover features partying group of young people at table; and more. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Junkins, William O.; Sanborn, F.B.; Lord, C.C.; Weed, Clarence Moores; Sanborn, Sarah Fenton; Kent, Henry O.; Hadley, E.D.; Beck, Lois D.; Gordon, Lelian M.
The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine - December, 1898
Pages 311-366. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A Trip to Jamaica - part III; Barca and the Philippines; Love's Dream (poem); Our Largest Standing Army - The Birds; The Vaughans - A California Idyl - continued; Life on the Magalloway - Part III; Inaugural Address by E.D. Hadley, President S.A.R., Des Moines, Iowa; Jonathan's Preparations; George Bancroft Griffith; Index for Volume XXV; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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