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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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SHOOT! Soccer/Football Magazine, 6 September 1969 *THE SKY BLUES - COVENTRY CITY*
Features: Please note: standup figure of Bobby Moore not included; Cover colour photos of Eusebio and Bobby Moore; Bobby Moore writes - 'Top clubs beware - the giant-killers can cut you big boys down to size'; b/w photo of Les Latcham (Burnley) vs. Bobby Tambling (Chelsea); Francis Lee - Finished with Football! - he almost gave up the game - now he's England's most exciting player; No one wanted to win the F.A. Cup in 1960; Colour photos of Bruce and Neil Rioch (Aston Villa); Colour photo of Jack Charlton (Leeds United and England); Kidology! - the secret of being a successful manager; Aladin's Lamp saved Huddersfield!; Nice colour centerfold team photo of the Sky Blues - Coventry City; b/w photo of Willie Whigham (Middlesbrough); b/w photo of Alan Stephenson (West Ham) vs. Wyn Davies (Newcastle United); You Can't be on top without a Scot!; My Most important Goal! - by Jeff Astle (Albion); Colour photo of Barrie Jones; Focus on John Holsgrove (Wolves); Great goalmouth photos; Have the Welsh Dragons lost their fire?; New boy Eusebio joins the Champions Benfica and... The Eagles Swoop to Conquire Again!; Colour photo of John O'Rourke (Ipswitch) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
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Scientific American April 1931 Volume 144 Number 4
A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
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Scientific American February 1933 Volume 148 Number 2
Features: History in the talkies - a vast amount of research is necessary for accuracy, but is combined with a certain amount of legitimate trickery; Our point of view - is beer intoxicating? Naval economies, Soulless machines; Television in England - a brief survey of envents of 1932 that are indicative of the general trend; More about meteors - astronomers also concern themselves with bodies no larger than bepples and distant only with the width of several counties; Leveling out the hills with more precise molecules - how a study of an automobile's digestion points the way to more power with which to climb hills; A world's fair in the making - a few of the striking effects in architecture and lighting at the century of progress at Chicago; Underneath the artist's paint - a new device takes from a painted panel a minute core which experts may then examine to detect forgeries; Seeing an unseen world - an introduction to a fascinating hobby for the amateur (microscopy); The amateur rides a new hobby - a number of people have found gem stone cutting and polishing "exceedingly Interesting" and have had excellent results; Reinforcing a weak spot in our diet - cobalt, iron, copper and many other common minerals in our diet; Water conservation - the key to national development; A vegetable from the dark - the succulent mushroom requires great care in selection of spawn, cultivation, and harvesting; The telephone goes to sea - phoning from the fishing fleet is now as easy as phoning from your own home; "Cheap" light bulb fallacies - imported oriental lights cost less but use more electricity. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
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