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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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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 1 - January/February 1985
Features: The Giant Clam - Friend or Foe?; Jan Mayen - a little known but important island; An organization to help combat oil spills; Australia's other fishes; Coral reef research and the Wellwood incident; The revolution in salmon culture; St. George Reef Light - Guardian of Dragon Rocks; Nurse sharks' mating ballet. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.32. No. 1 - January/February 1986
Features: Lighted houses in the sea; listening to the grey whales; the mystery of Erebus and Terror; The inflatable sharks - survival of the fattest?; Trivia; Oceanography's new eye in the sky; the fuzzy sponge thing; Kiel Canal - Busiest ship canal in the world; Making light of lifting. Sound copy. Book
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Sport Aviation Magazine - April 1985
90 pages. Features: Lancer 200; Harry Thompson's Dormoy Bathtub; Bob's Cloud Nine; Mong Super Sport; Gordon Slattery's Kustom Kolb; The Flutterbug still lives; Instrument Panel Light for Homebuilts. Light wear. Magazine
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The Antique Collector Magazine, October 1969 / November 1969
Features: The Role of the Expert; Charlecote Park - The Warwickshire Seat of the Lucy Family; Watches with Unusual Dials; Treasures of Islamic Pottery - A Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition; Robert Adam - Perfectionist - a Furniture Pilgrimmage to Osterley; The English Silver Butter Knife - fresh light on its introduction and origin; The Brothers Jorden - an Important Find of a Royal Profile Miniature Group; Royal Gift of William III; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
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The Antique Dealer and Collector's Guide, July 1970
Features: Tribute to Henri Matisse; Restoration; Antique Cameos and Intaglios; Gold and Silver Pique; Urbino Delft; Tables with Many Purposes; Pin Boxes and other Fairings; English Sealed Wine Bottles; New Light on Worcester Wares; The Antique World of the Mayflower; The Splendours of Brighton Pavillion; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Atlantic Magazine, October 1956 *72 Page Feature on the Arab World*
192 pages. Features: Reports on Argentina, Suez, France and Australia; Box Office is Not Enough, by Agnes De Mille; I Shall Vote for Eisenhower, by Robert Cutler; Why the Democrats should win, by Gerald W. Johnson; The Burning of the Waters (story) by James Still; Children of Light (poem) by Robert Huff; A Growth of Moderation, by Sumner H. Slichter; Country Auction (poem) by George F. Dell; Too Much Man (story) by Wolf Mankowitz; The Pendulum of Taste, by John Carter; The Long Night, by Lowell D. Blanton; Person-to-Person, by Leland Hazard; Courtesy on Wheels, by Mary Ellen Chase; The Shakespeare Boom?, by Alfred Harbage; Wolf Mankowitz, by John Metcalf; The Arab World - A Culture in Tradition - essays, stories, and verse by writers in the Arab World - a 72 page feature. Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" and Ancestor scotch whisky inside front cover; Colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Nice colour full-page ad by the European Travel Commission on page 20. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - August/September 1998: Arctic Ordeal of Captain John Ross
56 pages. Features: The Arctic ordeal of Captain John Ross; Health reformers and alternative medicine in 1860s New Brunswick; Canada's aboriginal soldiers come into the light; Louis Cyr and his Amazing feats; The Sisters of Ann - the Pacific Coast Mission of four faithful Quebec daughters; Devil's Island - the brief but vital life of a tiny Atlantic community; Canada's last political club celebrates its longevity. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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The Cook's Kitchen Collection
Unpaginated. Includes soups & appetizers, fish & shellfish, meats, chicken, vegetables & salads, rice & pasta, desserts. Handy easel back stands upright on your counter top. Glossy colour photos throughout. Very light wear. Small piece clipped from Fish and Shellfish tab. Excellent copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1991
Features: Who really discovered the New World?; Search for the Lost Squadron; Young Explorer Profile - Chriss N. Earnest; The Poseidia Expeditions - a Summary; Solving an Old Mystery; Who Owns the Past? - Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Archaeology; Mongolia and United States Sign Scientific Exchange Agreement; Computed Axial Tomography of the Sperm Whale Head; Exploration not Exploitation!; The Untamed Masai of Tanzania; Artificial Light for the Ancient World. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News 13 April, 1918, No. 4121, Vol. 152 - The Great Battle In The West
28 pages. Features: The Great Battle in the West - Troops, Guns, and Refugees on the British and French Front - 11 photos; Food Conditions in Germany, by Percy Shuttlewood; An Australian Soldier Poet - The Gallipoli Campaign, by E.B. Osborn; Organising the Small Producer, by S.L. Bensusan; The Gallant stand of British infantry at Bucquoy - illustration; Our Notebook, by G.K. Chesterton; Large photo portrait of General Foch, a great French General; Photo of Captain J.B. McCudden V.C.; Photo of women making goldbeater's-skin bags to line non-rigid airships; The Great Battle - French and British Divisions Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder by Regiments and Battalions - Six photos; Two-page illustration of British troops advancing at Bucquoy; Two-page centerfold illustration entitled When it is Instant Death to move a Hair's Breadth - Night Raiders Motionless Beneath a Verey Light; America's Splendid Troops Fighting Side-by-Side with British and French - 11 photos; Article about the shelling of Paris - Germany's long-range gun (approximately 75 miles); Nice ads for the following automakers - Lanchester, Daimler, Napier, Hudson. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Miniature Magazine, Winter 1980 - A Potpourri of Mini Tricks
Features: Whitefield's Glass Shop; Miniature Embroidery; A Potpourri of Mini Tricks; Making Your Own Dollhouse Molding; Miniature Telescope; A Santa's Workshop; The Carpenter House That Passed Inspection; Dollhouse Builders; A Victorian Oil Lamp from Breakfast Eggshells; The N.A.M.E. National Houseparty; Miniature Guns - Part 2; Upstairs-Downstairs Curio Cabinet; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Naval Architect, January 2003
Features: Improving ferry design through passenger-flow simulation; Integrated automation for LNG tankers; ECOPAINT project fulfils new emissions rules; Wondermar - hoping to enhance Europe's competitiveness; Fatique in ship structures - new light on an eternal issue; Rolls-Royce/IZAR fast cargo ferry - competing with road transport; Cruise liner technology; Norway's marine industries; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 12 January, 1918
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 2 June 1917: No. 146
Illustration Features: At Grips with the Hun in Historic Artois; Among German Spies in North Sea Ports (article); The Ruins of Rheims; American sailors' cheers for the Sailor King; Scenes in the Wake of the Franco-British advance; The Terrible 'Tank' Pursues the Turk in Palestine; The Russian Soldier As I Know Him - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Graphic Scenes in the Gigantic Arras Struggle; Science After the War - article by J. Arthur Thomson; Belgian Slaves and British Emancipators; Royal Progress through the industrial north; Interesting Incidents in Loyal Lancashire; In the Canadian Lines on the Arras Front; Heads of Teutonic and Ottoman Offending; Forces combined against the U-Boat Corsairs; The Highland Light Infantry - article with photo. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
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The War Illustrated - No. 182 - 9 February 1918 - Aerial Possibilities of 1918
Features: Aerial Possibilities of 1918 (story); Aerial activity from Flanders to the Adriatic; Physical fitness Guarded in Trench & Dug-out; Where Snowy Winter is called a temporary truce; With General Marshall's men in Mesopotamia; From the Field of Conflict to the Camp of Care; Brought to the fore by Revolution in Russia; New Light on the True Inwardness of Bolshevism (story by Hamilton Fyfe); Behind the lines in lands of Beauty and Romance; Protective Colouring and Pyrotechnics in War; Some thrilling episodes in the story of the Light Cruisers (story); Below-Deck Heroes Daily Brave unseen danger - photos of the 'black squad' feeding the boilers with coal; Aspects of Sir Edmund Allenby's Palestine Army; American Soldiers enter sternly into action; Emergencies in Frontier Fighting in the East; Mountain Climbing in the Mahsud Campaign; Active Women Wield the Woodman's Axe and saw; Keepting the ways clear with constant work; The 7th Canadian Infantry (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The War Illustrated - Part 180: 26 January 1918 - The Vision of a New Europe
Features: The Story of the Growth of the Admiralty War Staff (story and photos); The Queen of the Adriatic and the Holy City; Venice Preserved and Jerusalem Delivered; Intervals of play in the wearying work of war; Duty and Piety from Dieppe to the Piave; American Ardour at home, abroad and afloat; The Vision of a New Europe (story); Vain German Rain of Bombs and shine of armour; Labour that paves the way for further progress; Theft and 'Protectsie' in Russia - Some Evils of the Old Regime as I saw them, by Hamilton Fyfe; Side Shows in the Panorama of War; Kaiser Wilhelm Gloats over Italy at Gorizia; Where Allies are Aiding the Intrepid Italians; Destroyers and their doings (story); New signs in the sky of coming air activity; U Boat Outrage on a Helpless Hospital Ship; Scarred Heroes Reach the Sanctuary of Home; The Somerset Light Infantry (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. 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, 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, 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 Youth's Companion, June 9, 1927 *MAN-LIFTING KITES*
Features: The Termagant - a story of youth and age; The Picture Puzzle - III - continuing Miss Blake's fascinating mystery story; The Eye-Sharpener - An early adventure in salesmanship; On Trial - the story of a boy's first adventure in the business world; If I could travel; Miscellany; Fact and Comment - Lindbergh and the world, Our new Money; This Busy World - a new Russian Terror, Ireland at the Polls; The Y.C. Lab - Man-Lifting Kites; Best Puzzles of the week. Kraft paper affixed along cover fold of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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