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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: July/August 1983
Features: Great Winged Whales - Combat and Courtship rites among humpbacks, the ocean's not-so-gentle giants; Canadians in Paris - To Expatriates, the city of light remains an immovable feast; Big Ice - Trekking Auyuittuq - An Odyssey through the land that never melts; Solar Winds and Phantom Tiaras - Science Probes the multihued mysteries of the northern lights. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: June/July 1999
Features: In this Eternal Land - Canadians shed new light on Egypt's fascinating past; Voices on the River - Heeding the call of the Ganges River dolphins; Maps and Memories - it took three centuries for Europeans to make their way across Canada... it is a country that is remarkably savage in nature and character; Sonoran North - three desert species move into Alberta's badlands and find themselves perfectly at home. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Eskimo Graphic Art 1964-65: Cape Dorset (L'art Graphique Des Esquimaux)
40 page catalogue of Inuit art in black and white. Includes works by Lucy, Pitseolak, Sharni, Kananginak, Inukjuarjuk, Parr, Pannichea, and many others. Moderate wear to illustrated covers which have yellowed at spine and fore-edge. Light soiling. Unmarked. Bonus: Original four page stapled price list for items in catalogue, plus contemporary Canadian Handicrafts Guild brochure are laid inside front cover. Nice copy. Book
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Esquire Magazine, March 1970 - Lee Marvin Cover - Evil Lurks in California
200 pages. Features: California Evil - Death is most attractive in Californai; Charlie Manson's Home on the Range; Photo of topless SharonTate hugging Roman Polanski; Princess Leda's Castle in the Air; The Art of Evil; Banality of the New Evil; The Style of Evil; Light in the Heart of Darkness; Our Country 'Tis of Thee, Land of Ecology - by Jon Margolis; Femina Sapiens, by George P. Elliott; They're Going to Fry Ahmed's Black Skinny Ass - a Cleveland story; The Great Western Bus Ride, by Jack Kerouac; This is How the Ride Ends, By Jack McClintock; Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz; The Drinking Habits of the Very Young; Hurray for Hats; The Greatest Writing Ever Wrote, by Ed McClanahan; Fashion Photos; Stacked Up Over Stornoway - phooey on the great age of popular travel; Morton Sobell - Slightly at Large; Many other great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Everywoman's World - "Canada's Greatest Magazine" - Volume XII, Number 4, April 1920: Breast Feeding Techniques
Contents: Gorgeous colour illustrated ad for Luxite Hosiery inside front cover. Heintzman & Co. Grand Piano ad; Article on the techniques of Breast Feeding; Waltham Watch Ad; Ad for Cutex manicure products; Full-page text-filled ad for Jergen's skin products; The Wooing of Franchette, by Victor Rousseau; The Love Train From Loughborough, by Tom Gallon; When Dreams Come True, by Ernest A. Phillips; Hearts are Trumps, by Leslie Gordon Barnard; Through Canada with Edward, Prince of Wales - article with photos; How to Grow 18 vegetables to combat the high cost of living; Photos of Scenes from the Life of Christ, as sculpted by Mastreianni; Famous Paintings by the Great Masters - as posed by Pearl White, the noted "Movie" star; The Home Cooking Class - Lesson IV - Flour Mixtures and the Rules that Govern Them; What Shall We Have For Breakfast?; The Open-Faced Pie; Eggs are now more Plentiful; Doing Justice to the Left-Over Roast; The Family Laundry Up-to-Date; The Experiment Kitchen - new brooms; Ad for Ivory, 'the safe soap'; The Fashionable Silhouette and other helpful fashion hints; 8 New designs for the spring or summer suit; The First Frock of the Season; *Gorgeous* colour full-page ad for Lawrason's Snowflake Ammonia shows mother and daughter washing dishes and handing laundry; Backside of this ad is a lovely colour ad for Penmans sweater coats which shows a young couple picking posies; Dress designs for the Sports Season; Dresses for Morning and Afternoon; Street Dresses; New styles for youthful attire; The Home Dressmaking Class; Uncle Peter's Stories - The Whispering Lion; Gossard Corset ad with many photos; Sheet music for The Robin - a spring song, by John Holliday; Ganong Chocolate ad; Fresh air for the housewife - house design considerations; Pepsodent ad - prevents "Those Cloudy Teeth"; McLaughlin Light Six auto ad; Full-page ad for the 1920 Chevrolet Touring Car - featuring endorsement and photo of Mary Pickford; The Perils of Winter Diving - with photos; Flirting with death - photos of very dangerous professions; Nice colour full-page ad of a steaming breakfast sponsored by Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon; Backside of this ad is an equally attractive colour ad for Pompeian Day Cream which features a lovely staring into her mirror; Photos of little touches to add to youthful beauty; "Speldewerksters" or Belgian Lace-Makers; Two house plans; Interesting 11-in-1 aluminum pot set illustrated ad; Canadian Fairbanks Morse Co. Limited ad for their "F" Power and Light Plant; Illustrated Bias Corsets ad; Northern Electric Power and Light plant ad; Interesting print ad offers 160 free acres to returning servicemen in Northern Ontario ($0.50/acre for others 18 years or older); Skinner's Silks and Satins illustrated ad; Ad by B&B Formaldehyde Fumigators urges homeowners to fumigate every room in April to make their home safe; Cute photo ad for Cowan's Cocoa; Household tips on last page. Nice colour ad by Belding Paul Corticelli Limited inside back cover shows a large spool of thread; Lovely colour illustrated ad for Grape Nuts on back cover says this product will make baby faces "Grow Plump and Ruddy". Covers loose but present. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Frequent soiling and moisture stains. A rare issue of this publication which ran from 1914 through 1922. Book
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Excellence - The Magazine About Porsche, September (Sept.) 2013 - Lightweight DP RSR
144 pages. Features: 2014 Panamera E-hybrid; Up close to Porsche's new 991 RSR; DP Motorsport's '73 911 T wunderkar; Stealth 356 - Maury Special #3; Modified 930 on the salt at Bonneville; Transformer - returning a 914-6 racer to the light of day; Comfy Cruiser - TLG's '72 911 T is a sleeper - and a keeper; 944 8V - is a front engine waterpumper in your future?; Dakar Dreams - a classic 911 runs the Africa-Eco Challenge; Interview with Matt Speakman - the first paraplegic to race a pro Porsche; Is Burmester's stereo option worth $5000?; Profile of Roland Kussmaul - old Porsche engineer who never faded away; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Flora Magazine - For Flower Arrangers and Gardeners: Winter 1977
Features: Beginner's please!; winter garden; gardening indoors; growing unusual plants indoors; making a Christmas cone; the romance of Christmas greenery; Candle light; flowers through the ages; berried Treasure; Beech nut flowers; new flower seeds for 1978; colour it red; a flower arranger visits Japan; A Desert Beauty; Shell Magic; Flower Arranging and Gardening in Peru; Flowers for a Royal occasion; Personal colours of flowers of the Zodiac; Chinese Brush Painting; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, July-August 1991
72 pages. Features: Small-space garden railroading; The Budley Bumblebahn; The Limestone Light Railway; Beyond the Blue Horizon - Part 5; The Hawk Creek Line; A Visit to Pola; The MIssionary Ridge Railway. Four inch opening at bottom of cover fold, otherwise moderate wear. Book
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Guns and Hunting Magazine, July 1969 *Thompson Submachine Gun Feature Article*
74 pages. Features: Savage's new lineup of .22's; Latest Products; The 50-year old Thompson is still the one they turn to; Light gauge lightweights from Remington - models 1100 and 870 now come in 28 and .410 gauges; Single shot hunting for Florida boars; Trail Guns; Take a Camera with you; The All-Around .25; Cook yourself some French Crick Ham; Hot .22 Wildcat; A Sporterized military rifle can cost you double; The Evolution of the holster; Potshots; Portfolio of hunting dogs; and more. Prior owner's stamp atop first page. Book
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Harper's Baza (Bazaar)r Magazine, January 6, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: embroidered toilette or pin cushion; black velvet mantle - front and back illustrations; Hair Painting; Holiday Gift-Making; Manners Upon the Road - of Moving On; New York Fashions - new-year's reception dresses, new-year's cards, tables, etc., invitations, dinners, dressed dolls; corners of ornamenting tidies, etc. - Swiss and mull application on netting and lace; lace and silk lamp shade; lamp-chimney covers; Frock for child from 1 to 2 years old; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Great full-page illustration "The Old Year Out, and the New Year In"; Suits for children and dolls; Flannel Slipper; Provessor X___ and His Egg; Sayings and Doings; Hats and Bonnets for young and elderly ladies; cloth and satin slipper; embroidered spectacle case; Key pocket; embroidered foot-stool; The Home Circle; Evening Toilette - nice illustration; Paris Modes; Tableaux; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, December 23, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: embroidered smoking cap; footstool with oriental embroidery; Great-Heartedness; New York Fashions - opera and ball toilettes - white tulle, watteau dresses, satin dresses, tarlatan and muslin, opera wraps, gentlemen's ball dress, varieties, point lace and guipure work, honey-comb canvas; Personal; Lamp Mats; Case for Pocket Comb; Kid morning slipper; linen collar and sleeves with Swiss muslin ruffles; silk gauze and lace collar and sleeves (second mourning); Steel Blue cloth Mantelet - front and back; Mercy's Ring; Ladies' winter bonnets, hats and caps - seven nice illustrations; Olive green cloth mantelet - front and back; golden-brown poplin suit with velvet trimming; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Old Letters; Silver Canvas and crochet lamp-chimney cover simulating a liberty-cap; card-board and silk lamp screen; lamp mat; embroidered needle-book; court-plaster case; Mountains and Mole--Hills; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, December 9, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Evening Dress - front and back illustrations; Luck; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - evening dresses, wedding dresses, bride-maids' dresses, bridegroom's suit, wedding cards, dresses of the trousseau; Personal; knitted and crochet bib; crochet bib; crochet waist for child from 1 to 2 years old; crochet tobacco pouch; cover for hot-water bottle; rice-powder box; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Sayings and Doings; Carriage-leather mat; knotted and crochet fringe for curtains, etc.; Edging for Lingerie; Design for Lamp Mat - point russe and button-hole stitch embroidery; crepe de chine cravat with jabot; Modern Costume; Kitty's Two Thanksgivings; Laura Silver Bell; low-necked evening dress, with adjustable court train and round skirt; Crochet Purse; embroidered chair cushion; footstool with hot-water bottle and cover; Diaries; humor. Average wear. Please note - cartoon clipped from central portion of back page. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, March 4, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Silk dinner with basque-waist and over-skirt; ball or evening dress for young lady; Culture of hardy roses; A Lesson from Germany; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - hints of spring styles, mourning goods; Personal; Lambrequin in Venetian embroidery; sofa pillow with serpentine braid and crochet cover; tassels for trimming curtains, curtain loops; duchesse toilette-table with figured percale drapery; dog's collar of brass rings covered with crochet-work; smoking set with stand; case for playing cards; Hannah - continued; Family breakfasts and dinners; Novel variety of church music; Sayings and Doings; beaded lamp screen; Embroidered work-bag; embroidered foot muff; netted and bead worsted basket; Charley's Maiden Aunt; Microscopic Writing; The Gifted Frog; Remarkable Days in February; Nice full-page illustration "The Turn-Over" shows smiling group after their sleigh has overturned; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, March 9, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Cover for can; square shawl worn as a hood; Small-talk about pastry; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, faille ribbons, flame-tinted roses, style of trimming, colored English crape, new veils, round hats, spring suits from Paris; Personal; shade for night lamp; work-bag with chenille embroidery; work-bag with chenille embroidery; evening and bridal slippers with bows; Mrs. Grey's Two Dreams, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration "Low and High Necked Waists"; Bridal and Evening Dresses; Paris Fashions; An Ocean Picnic; Buckwheat Cakes and Buckwheat; Evening Toilette; Useful recipes; London's Heart, by B.L. Farjeon - continued; Furniture and Dress; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, November 26, 1870 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
14 pages. Contents: Vest-Casaque Walking Suit - cover illustration; Manners upon the Road - of Beams and Motes; New York Fashions - furs, pprices, sable, mink, black marten, or Alaska sable, seal sets and sacques, ermine and grebe, astrakhan sets and cloaks, fur trimmings, children's furs, fur turbans, gentlemen's furs, vest-casaques; Personal; Wroghtu guipure edgings and rosettes; Embroidered Tidy; Tapestry Lambrequin; Pen-Wiper simulating a poppy; Miss Drake's Enterprise; Burns's First Love; The Snake-Charmers; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Full-page illustration - "Nutting"; lamp mat in application and Byzantine embroidery; crochet and netted spool basket; crochet edging for children's clothing; point lace and tatted insertion; tidy in point lace and satin stitch embroidery; humor. Average wear. Missing pages 761-762. Cover-fold almost completely open. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, October 8, 1870 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Features: light gray poplin wrapper; Old Pensioners; Leaning on our petty vices; New York Fashions - under-clothing, sets of under-wear; Personal; chemise yoke and sleeves of jaconet tucks and insertion; trimmings for under-clothing; crochet edging for lingerie, etc.; tatted rosette for trimming under-clothing, lingerie, cravats, etc.; rosettes for trimming lingerie, or making fanchons or caps; Aunt Patty's Boy; Professions for Women; Excellent centerfold compilation of dozens of items of night-wear; The Magic Jar; Self-Reliance in Children; The Cryptogram - continued; Circumstantial Evidence; Illustration "Angels of Mercy" shows nurses tending to the ill; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar), April 30, 1870 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Birthday Fete and Concert Toilettes of the Empress - cover illustration; New York Fashions - shaded suits, grisaille suits, mourning suits, linen costumes, house dresses; Personal; Crochet Tidy; Section of Byzantine embroidery for light screen; Cigar-case in Byzantine embroidery; Crochet Garter; Crochet cover for toilette-cushions, lamp-mats, etc.; Popline Walking dress - two illustrations; How they Welcome Easter in Rome; full-page illustration of "The Mall, Saint James's Park, on a Drawing Room Day"; half-page illustrations of "Half-Penny Dinner for Poor Children in East London" and "The Dainty Child"; The Cryptogram - continued; illustration of "The Orphans" on page 285 has been removed and is not included; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar), February 25, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's winter dresses illustrated on front cover; Dress - Ancient and Modern; Medical Severity; New York Fashions - Fancy Costumes; Personal; illustrations of suits for girls; Illustrations of frocks for young boys; Hannah (continued); The Burst Pipe - with illustration; On Healthful Family Bread - by Catherine E. Beecher; Society in Ancient Greece; Sayings and Doings; Great full-page illustration presents six Ball and Evening Toilettes; Lovely sleeve, veil and good illustrations; Scissors! - a Valentine Tale; Folding Gothic Screens; The Wonderful Lamp; "Slow Work" - illustration shows young man and woman seated and awaiting cupid to activate; Lovely blouse, apron, talma and underwaist illustrations; Boarding-House cartoons on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar), September 24, 1870 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Walking dress with guipure lace trimming - front and back illustrations; How the Age Affects Us; New York Fashions - woolen goods; cashmere twills; serge; repped goods; alpacas, mohairs, ladies' cloth, new water-proof clothes, cloakings, fleece-lined piques, corsets and bustles, kid gloves; Personal; Crochet corsets for girl from 8 to 10 years old; Red and white cloth lamp mat; Embroidered foot-stool; crochet purse; section of cravat; Japanese girls; Quality Hill; Pickles; The Honey-Moon; Sayings and Doings; Doing Nothing; Black tulle cravat bow trimmed with lace; Ecru organdy garden hat; Dress with high waist and ruche trimming - front and back; The roman Girl of the Period; Embroidered cashmere tunic and sack - front and back; The Cryptogram - continued; 6"x7" clipping from page 619; full page illustration "The Last Day of the Condemned" shows may about to be taken to death; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
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Healing Journeys : The Ka Ka Wis Experience, 1974-1994
186 pages. The story of the Ka Ka Wis Family Development Centre at Meares Island near Tofino, British Columbia. "Read this grassroots story. Rejoice with us. And join us in widening the Circle of Healing in the tomorrows still to come." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Heritage - The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation: Spring 2003
68 pages. Features: Rising from the Ashes - The Restoration of St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Looking through Light - Putting the Windows Together Again; Landmark Program Fills Need; True Colours - Vancouver's Historic Exterior Colour Palette; Prairie Wooden Grain Elevators Almost Extinct; Fire Suppression Systems Designed for Alberta Elevators; Heritage Canada - its beginnings; Risk Management for your Building can prevent disaster; LeBreton's Legacy - LeBreton Flats in Ottawa; Archaeological Digs at LeBreton Flats; Montreal Architectural Heritage Campaign. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Heritage, Summer 2002: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation - Acadian Architecture in Port-Royal
Features: Coming to light - Two Landscapes in Nova Scotia; Acadian Architecture in Port-Royal; Vancouver's Art Deco Burrard Bridge Tops Vancouver's Endangered List; Documenting Heritage Buildings; Old theatres make new debuts; Eglington Theatre wins one-year reprieve; Mount Royal - threats and battles; Ontario's lost heritage properties studies; The battle for Fort York - lessons for heritage conservation; American funding spares historic Canadian Mansion - Willowbank to become a school of Restoration Arts. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Hill's Swedish-English, English-Swedish Pocket Dictionary
244 pages. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Minor curl to front cover. Excellent pocket-sized reference. Book
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Ikebana International, Volume 32, Issue 2
Features: Chrysanthemum; Harbinger of Spring - the plum blossom in Oriental painting; Wagashi - a taste of the seasons; Chabana - flowers in the way of tea; Ikebana Boutique. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Ikebana International, Volume 34, Issue 1, 1989-'90
Features: Floral Focus - Monstera - Monstrous but Delicious; Matsuri - 'people get to go crazy!' - great color photos; Edible Flowers - a Tasty new Cuisine Blooms in Tokyo; The Secret Garden - Looking at flowers in a whole new light; Ikebana Portfolio; Hana Kagami - Color Coordination for Ikebana. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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LAIFS - Bulletin of the Los Angeles International Fern Society Volume 4, Number 2, February 1977
Features: Report on the meeting - Collecting Fern Spores; Natural Outdoor Light - Indoors?; A miniature outdoor greenhouse; and more Book
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LAIFS - Bulletin of the Los Angeles International Fern Society Volume 5, Number 1, January 1978
Features: Report on the Meeting - Companions in the Garden; Influence of Temperature and Light on Growth; and more Book
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Locomotives International - No. 26, Vol. 5, December 1994
Features: Postcard Gems; Some Notes on the Finnish Railways in the 1950s; Some Early Diesel Locomotive Experiments; The Teresa Cristina Pacifics; The Railways of Jamaica - Epitaph, August 1994; Steam at Dresden, Germany, 29 April to 2 May 1994; New Light on the 'Lawleys'; The Last Big Steam Show down under; Back Track. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Locomotives International Magazine, No. 39, July - August 1997
Features: Narrow Gauge Railways in the Ukraine- Part 1; The Brotan Boiler; 'ZAFRA' - Cuban Steam Harvest '97; Unsuccessful Paraguayan imports from Argentina; Bosnian Railways at work in 1997; Semi-rigid tenders; A Chinese SY Class Light Oil Burner; Broader than Broad - Hitler's Great Dream of 3m Gauge rails Across Europe - Conclusion. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 26 April 1958
Features: Great colour photo ad for 1958 Ford cars; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for International Harvester Construction Equipment with photos of their trucks, scrapers, and a variety of crawlers; Why the Traffic Jams keep getting worse - 29 of Canada's 31 biggest cities see nothing but more congestion and chaos on the streets of tomorrow; Flashback - the year we went wild for the Prince of Wales - story with many nice photos - Canada's love affair with Prince Edward in 1919; Is Democracy Obsolete - by Bruce Hutchison; Durelle is Different - Boxer Yvon Durelle - light heavyweight champion of Canada and the British Empire; Ed Lucas and the $64,000 Question; What's Out There? - June Callwood reports on what scientists think they know about space; Why Should Juliette Knock them Dead? - This folksy CBC contralto scores a baffling success every Saturday; Robert Thomas Allen swears off Bargains; Excellent colour photo ad for Carling's Red Cap Ale; Nostalgic colour centerfold Kodak ad displays a wide range of their products; Nice full-page colour ad featuring a pink Oldsmobile; Colour full-page ad for Carlling's Black Label beer; Colour full-age Pontiac ad. Average wear. Openings along sunned coverfold. Unmarked. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, April 15, 1942: Italian Jet Aircraft
56 pages. Features: Colour cover photo of the lift locks at Peterborough, Ontario; Two photos of an Italian propellerless (jet) airplane above an editorial entitled "Weapons Win Wars"; Big Ben Westclox ad with military theme; RCA Victor ad explains how their transmitters and receivers are ready to warn Canada of surprise attack; Parker Vacumatic Pen ad; Bruce Hutchison writes about Canadians in light of his millionaire friend, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and Marshal Petain, of Vichy; Spring Practice, a story illustrated by John Scott; They Were Prepared - the true story of an unnamed Nova Scotia coastal community which was organized to rescue survivors of a torpedoed boat; Japan's Cult of Death, by Morris C. Shumiatcher claims "Fanatic Jap soldiers welcome death because to die in battle is to be worshipped as a god."; Listen Boss, Now Listen! - story by Neill C. Wilson; Interesting short BC article reports on the evacuation of the Japanese and the provinces fear that it may come under Japanese attack; Bomber Ferry - The Royal Air Force Ferry Command delivers aircraft to Britain under the command of Sir Frederick Bowhill - article with photos; Toat to Tomorrow - story by Manning Coles; Pianist Ross Pratt - portrait of a Canadian whom U.S. critics have called one of the 'most gifted' younger pianists; Woodbury soap ad featuring photos of Claire Morin of St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Ford Motor Company ad explains their Xray process for examining crankshafts to be used in fighting equipment; Two-colour ad for Hewetson Shoes of Brampton, Ontario. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
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Na Okida O Hawaii - Hawaii Orchid Journal Volume V, Number 1 March 1976
28 pages. Features: Some orchids in the 50th state; Two Orchidists in Waianae - Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff and Two in Wahiawa Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover. Attractive copy with light wear. Book
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Nature Magazine, April 1935
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Conservation - a new section is added to Nature Magazine; Audubon, The American Woodsman; That strange thing called Fasciation - photos of plants which has grown together; Chickens of the Sagebrush - Sage Chickens; Colobopsis - an ant of interesting habits; The Home Ties of Chickadees; A Tree Goes in for Engineering - photo and brief article of a tree growing out of a man-made vertical rock wall; Wonderful photos of a hummingbird nest atop a light bulb; American Game Conference leaves us in doubt about who owns our wildlife; Public Lands - wasted and almost destroyed through many generations - the nation at last faces this most serious problem; Massachusetts points the way to billboard control; Mars Nears the Earth; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Nature Magazine, No. 3473, Vol. 137, Saturday, May 23, 1936 - Cosmic Rays and Mutations
Pages 841-882 plus outer layer of 8 pages of ads. Features: Induced radioactivity of short period; Collision forces between light nuclei; Return of radio waves from the middle atmosphere; Technique of the Painting Process in the Brihadesvara Temple at Tanjore; Raman Spectra of 'Heavy' Arsine, Silicichloroform and Silicibromoform; Detection of Spotted Wilt Virus in Chrysanthemums; A Case of Lethal genes in the horse; Mutations arising at the Bar Locus in Drosophila melanogaster; Cosmic Rays and Mutations; Photochemical Reaction of Chlorophyll with Ferrous Ions; Thermal Decomposition of Ethylene Oxide; Antagonistic effect of iodides in baldness and toxicity due to thallium acetate; The Harding sugar reagent; Ascorbic acid as a precursor of serum complement; and more. Binding intact. Average external soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, February 20, 1939 - Pope Pius XI, 1857-1939 (Cover Photo)
52 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
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Newsweek Magazine, October 1, 1945 *HIROHITO'S FRONT YARD - HOW LONG WILL THEY STAY?*
Contents: Color Nash car ad inside front cover; Caterpillar Diesel ad; Color Mallory hat ad; Uneasy lies the nation under confused labor, price policies; Victims of muscular dystrophy; American Diplomacy loses face over occupation force bickering - Sharp retort by Acheson to MacArthur's 200,000 estimate exposes disunity to world (photo of MacArthur in front of Daibutsu/large Budha in Japan); Cleavage between Russian and Anglo-American viewpoints comes out in London Peace Talks; When Yank meets Russian - Korea under two flags; Photos of Germans and Japanese in their defeated lands; photo of the charred body of Joseph Goebbels; Stimson retiring, warns U.S. to keep military might in peace; Photo of Private Harold Atkinson, first of the Winnipeg Grenadiers returns home to Winnipeg (photo); Home builders see green light but fear Bowles price controls; Cyrus Eaton; Educators hope to make good Japs out of bad ones; Color Budd car ad; color DC-6 ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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North: A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Northern Administration Branch: Bound Issues, January Through December 1966 - Volume 13
Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
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Nutshell News Magazine - For Creators and Collectors of Scale Miniatures, August 1995 - Annual Kitcrafting Issue
Features: In the Shaker Style; Adding Atmosphere - a little light on the subject, part I; Judy Berman; Green Thumbs; Austin Dollhouse Contest; Miniatures Kit; Miniatures Marketplace in Milwaukee; The Animal Family; Biedermore!; Hit the Road!; Mini-Retreat; Sidwalk Cafe; The American Boy; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Nutshell News Magazine - For Creators and Collectors of Scale Miniatures, October 1995 - 1920's and 1930's Nostalgia
Features: Kitchen Nostalgia; More Light on the Subject - Part II; Enrique Quintanar; The House that Kupjack Built; The Origins of the Toymaker's Shop; Cedarbush Enhancements - Helen Bush's 'Natural' Talents; Karen Fuller; A nostalgic look at the twenties and thirties; The Philadelphia Miniaturia; Vintage Drug Store; Chair Times Two; Grandma's Knitted Pillows; Modern Mail Order; Spring Into Summer, 1931; Accessories for the Bath; Soho Gallery; A Model Kitchen; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Nutshell News, January 1997 - Meet the Master of Miniature Lighting
Features: Small accomplishments - start the new year right!; The Joseph Addotta Collection - bronze casting at its best; Scott Hughes - Master of Miniature Lights; The Knowles Collection - Rachel and Wink; Floral Creations of Helen David - the Gulf Coast's resident florist; Let there be light - peruse our lighting shop; Show Scene - Chicago; Eliza Doolittle meets upstairs/downstairs; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly Digest of World Affairs From the Nation's Capital, August 3 1933 - Loafing Capital Better Get Busy!
24 pages. Contents: Loafing Capital Better Get Busy - OR ELSE!; Dole may end by November; New Taxes Appear Certain; Motor Deaths Increase; TVA Power Sale Upheld; Foreign News - German decree against political statements from Catholic pulpits; Ethiopian Emperor Issues Call to Arms as Japan Enters Scene - with illustration of Selassie; Meteor explodes in the air above Krasnovishersk, Russia; Current Events; Photo-illustrated ad for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda being used to treat a wound; Congress; Some Women are That Silly - paying more at high class stores; A Nest of Lobbyists; Poor Kipling Still Poetizing; Marketing; Captital Chat; Judge William I. Grubb; Senator George William Norris; Science News; Aviation - Delay of dirigible service between Germany and US due to failure to complete the LZ-129; Congress turns light on 'Invisible Rulers' - Lobbyists; Chinese Continue Never-Ending Fight Against Many Floods; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Popular Science Magazine, May 1961
Features: Beware of Auto Accident Fakers; New VW comes in two styles; Pickup becomes a Beach Wagon; Patching Tubeless Tires; It tells what dead men can't; Beating Russia's big Rockets; Space talk on beams of light; Wonderful world of plywood; Earth Radio to launch ICBMs; Handcuffs defy escape artists; Fifth Wheel runs a bus (and stops it too); How a Coffee Machine Works; U.S. Cavemen 10,000 years ago?; Weapons of the Civil War; "Black Box" helps you find fish; How Dreams keep us sane; Tiny Battlefield for tankmen; Blueprint for multi-purpose yard tractor; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Tears to covers. Spine chipped. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine, November 1975
Features: Steam 150 at Shildon; Some Impressions of George Stephenson; Stone from Somerset Quarries; Midland Locomotive Performance - 1; The Mawddwy Railway; Broad Gauge Farewell at Paddington; Touring with the Wirral; Great photos from Shildon; The Cadeby Light Railway; Rhaetian Miscellany; The Last Years of the LNER - 3; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Railway World Magazine: April 1968
Features: The LNER B1 4-6-0s in Retrospect; Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in South Africa; Past, Present and Future at Yieldingtree; Two Miles a Minute - by steam - LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall; Light Railway Timetables 1968; Around Britain's Light Railways; End of Steam to Buxton; End of BR's Observation Cars; and more. Moderate wear. Writing on front cover and throughout contents. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: November 1960
Features: Bricklayers Arms and the Southern Region Light Pacifics; Rival Routes to Bristol - Part 1; Two Irish Idylls - Evening Train from Enniskillen; Diesel over Dingle Bay; The "Left Bank" Electrics of Paris - Part One; Orphans of a Brighton Storm - a little-known and somewhat unsavoury episode in L.B. & S.C. locomotive history a century ago; An Early Railway Photograph; Progress in Preservation; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Bottom inch of cover fold open. Magazine
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Sailing (Magazine) - The Beauty of Sail: April 1976
Features: BRUSHFIRE - burned by the rule, she's an elegant fast racer - sailing profile of a pre-IOR ocean racer by Gunnar C. Anderson; The light air touch - the North American Flying Scot Championship last August on Lake Pontchartrain of New Orleans; At last... a breeze; Southern Circuit '76 - year of the exotic from carbon fibers to wood; The script worked, with changes; Geared up for the SORC; Yes, they are wood!; Hot rod from out of the past - the Hampton, an 18-footer from 42 years ago can compete with some of the high performance designs of today; A crew of boys - pictures by Bob Grieser - the CHRISTIAN RADICH makes her way up the Chesapeake; Petit Nevis - where whales are butchered; PIRANA - 45' 7" S&S/PJ racer; M&W 33-footer - Radical 3/4 ton cupper; Monterey Clipper - 36'2" pilothouse motorsailer; Westsail 28 - Small ocean cruiser; and more. Clean with light wear. Faint doodling in lettering on front cover. Nice copy. Book
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Scientific American Magazine, April 1988
Contents: Computers in music; The self, the world and autoimmunity; The membrane paradigm for black holes; energy-efficient buildings; Light switches for plant genes; The effects of spin in gases; The behavior of Baleen whales; Trembley's Polyps. Average wear. Book
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Scientific American, February 1970, Volume 222 Number 2 - Large Scale Electronic Integration
Features: the assessment of technology; large scale integration in electronics (LSI); the afar triangle; the physiology of high altitude; particles that go faster than light; phosphenes; the rangelands of the western U.S.; cell surgery by laser. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Scientific American, May 1981 - The Sunflower Crop
188 pages. Features: The fuel economy of light vehicles; split genes; the sources of celestial x-ray bursts; the crest of the east pacific rise; countercurrent systems in animals; highly excited atoms; the sunflower crop; Chinese building standards in the 12th century; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.30. No. 3 - May/June 1984
Features: Perpetual seafloor metal factory; Swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos Islands; The cooperative whale and its rescuers; Frying Pan Shoals Light Station - an aid to seafarers and biologists; Sea Squirts; The short , unhappy saga of Steller's sea cow; Milkfish - Southeast Asia's protein machine; Unpalatable Goby. Sound copy. Book
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