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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1939 Through November/December1940
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Long Distance enters Canada's North Country; Telephone reunites B.C. Mother, Whilma Hincks, with son in Switzerland; Bayview and West win traffic service contest; Telephone calls that keep the doctor away; Article on diet/eating by K.F. Robins, Health Supervisor; The dial telephone's magic wheel and how it works - 4 page illustrated article; 2 photos and caption of the only Chinese telephone office outside of China - Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, San Francisco; Statistics re: number of telephone sets per community province-wide; Numerous changes in Vancouver's new telephone directory; Many merry mix-ups followed the directory changes; Calls to Australia now routed across the Pacific; Fred Buckle; A visit to London, England via its telephone directory; The Rolling Pin to the Rescue - the tabulators in the information office; B.C. Ship-to-Shore service expands rapidly in year; Harley D. Miller; Paving the way for Vancouver's dial system; White Rock to have dial system; Carrier now used on Gulf cables linking Vancouver and Nanaimo; New submarine cable laid from Copper Cove to Bowen Island; Greater Vancouver and Royal City have big cable programme; Half a million calls daily in Vancouver; William Tyre; Robert Browning Smith; Vacation from work but not from health; Cover photo of King George and Queen Elizabeth bidding farewell at Chilliwack; Gordon Farrell's yacht on Burrard Inlet; Telephones at the fingertips of Royal Couple throught the tour - 5 page article with great photos; Australia wins telephone 'ashes' in Port Day 'word match'; Wire Photos Transmitted from Vancouver for First Time - 3 pages with photos; "Our PNE exhibit was a crowd magnet - voice mirror"; Cecil Austin McMaster; Robert Smyth; Telephoning popular pastime of singers; Telephone equipment in new Hotel Vancouver - many photos plus article entitled "The House with 700 Phones"; White Rock now has dial system; Percy H. Wilson; Miss Dorothy Howard; Ernest E. Harris; Article on operators by Damon Runyon; Our Al Hunter now a one-man phone company in Liberia, Africa; Vancouver's First Dial Office now in service - 8 page article with photos; Thirtieth Year of Telephone Talk; Flood waters fail to keep Courtenay operators from work; Photos of heavy gang work near Kamloops; Fraser Office will go dial in fall of 1941; The Marine Office Power Plant; A.L. Creech; Some highlights of Vancouver's first dial office - 3 page article with photos; Take Care of your Skin; West Vancouver Office is doubled in size to keep pace with growth; Miss Grace D. Smith; Telephone displays are features of 'Bay' anniversary windows; Walter Hughes, Royal City Plant Man; Sunspots 'sabotage' service - one page article with diagram; Community gift of phone to Colebrook couple Mr. and Mrs. George Frith; Phone Company joins Vancouver's dial system; Allan W. Hunter in Liberia - 4 pages with photos; UBC Silver Jubilee section with many nice photos; Frederick J. Tremblay; Back cover devoted to Dunkerque (Dunkirk); Lumber for the Empire - 9 super pages of great photos (all with captions) of sawmills, logging scenes, buildings constructed of B.C wood; 3 page PNE report with photos; Marine Office now serves over 11,000 telephones; sensational 11-page photographic tribute to B.C's fishing industry; New Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues December 1932 - January 1933 Through December 1934
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: New Year's Greetings telephoned to Mother in England; Echoes of Turkish Telephony; What people talk about during long distanc calls; Industry advances in 1932 despite business losses; First Bermuda call was boon to navigation company; Statement of Development, January 1, 1933 - provides statistics on the number of telephones working in each community of B.C.; West Vancouver celebrates 21st birthday; Entertainment programme telephoned from Vancouver to Victoria; John Lawson - phone pioneer of West Vancouver; John Henry Ward retires; Royal City students visit phone office; New employee sales campaign has been organized; An ounce of prevention; Fred Meloche has retired; We can talk to the Holy Land; Bowen Island annual picnic; C.A. McMaster; Telephone echoes from India; Who can solve the mystery of B.C.'s first telephone?; Telephone people on job despite earthquake; Hungry people make most work for telephone operators; B.C. Telephone Basketball Team; Statement of Development, May 1, 1933 - a table showing the number of telephones in each community of the province; W.H. Cooke; Victoria to London via All-Red Telephone Route; Vancouver-London conversation heard across Canada; Bowen Island Picnic; Gold Rush turns spotlight on Bridge River Valley; R.G. Roach Retires; An address by Miss Nell Rowbottom, agent, Nanaimo; Beware of Holiday Hazards; Port of New Westminster sets new shipping record; Speedy repairs after Cumberland fire - text and photos; George McCartney (Mr. Mac) retires; A Haircut for the Trans-Canadian Line; George Williamson of the Slocan retires; Toll Lines Restored for Christmas after two weeks of havoc - 6 pages of amazing photos and text; We can talk to the Flathead Valley; The Plant Library is at your service; Two Mining Areas Brought Within Telephone Reach - Anyox and Campbell River (opens up Stewart, Alice Arm and Premier Arm) - great photo of the Anyox plant of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company, Limited; Col. Victor Spencer's voice travels record distance by phone; Telephone to the rescue; Operators' Problems Explained in Radio Interview; Telephone plays prominent part in fight against forest fires - 2 pages with photos; Telephone queries add spice to newspaper life; Electrical Men Meet at Nanaimo; Ernest Moore passes away; New construction project to improve Bridge River service - 2 pages with photos; B.C. Nickel project given service; A telephone pole becomes a Bug's Breakfast - 3 pages with interesting photos and text; Barnston Island receives service; Sculling champ, Edward Snead, retires; Telephone Exchange Established in Bridge River Area - 3 pages of text and photos; Construction programme under way in the Albernis; Ralph S. MacPherson; Photo of the 'Morro Castle' afire; Roy (Dutch) Harris of East Kootenay dies; 'Mystery Mountain' claims life of Alec H. Dalgleish; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1931 Through December 1931
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Cover photo of the Victoria Exchange; Company launches employee sales plan; feature on Leo Griggs with photos; Ladner forges to the front as a farming district - with photos; Important changes in Prince George; Mission and Revelstoke; Remodelling Victoria Exchange; Our Trans-Canada Link is growing; - 3 pages with photos; Record holiday load handled by Vancouver toll office; Vancouver-Victoria Cable line severed by Dredge; Engineeers walking all over the province - 4 pages with photos and text; Proper posture; Statement of Development - a table listing the number of operating phones in towns across the province; Campbell River - Cape Lazo Cable is big job for this month - 2 pages; Keeping pace with Schedule on Trans-Canada Line; Philip Creagh - Nanaimo wire chief; Centralized billing system now in effect; Breaking of insulators may have serious consequences; Ocean Falls joins our system and receives first toll service - great photo; Powell River - Cape Lazo Cable successfully laid - 3 pages with photos; Harvey Sauder; A P.A.B.X. is now serving the B.C. Electric Railway Co.; Cover photo of the Victoria exchange; Victoria traffic and commercial staffs now under same roof - text and great art deco photos; One-Fourth of Work on Trans-Canada line completed; C. Whitmore Halford; new phone system in Powell river - 2 pages with photos; All Canadian route from Vancouver to Winnipeg; Trans-Canada construction photos; Vancouver talks with Berlin; Coal Harbour Regatta broadcast from radiotelephone ship; A telephone man in Turkey; Thrilling events preceded opening of Ocean Falls service - with photos; The Huntingdon System is Acquired; The Municipality of Maple Ridge; N.J. Dunlop; A telephone man in South America; Telephone Co-operators; Cover photo of Vancouver fire alarm switchboard; Telephone to the rescue when fire threatens; Great photos of laying cables across Victoria Harbour; Selling Telephone Service; A telephone man in India; Three Nanaimo phone men attempt to save three children in Nanaimo River; Gerald C. Clarke; Two-Thirds of Trans-Canada line complete; Prince George visits plant where our dial equipment was made, in Lancashire; Successful picnic; Princeton to be important link in Trans-Canada line; Wiring plans; The Modern Mouse must have a Telephone House (mouse moves into pay phone); Bigger phone directory - 2 pages with interesting photos; Phone poles go over mountains - several photos; Ervin J. Davis; Trans-Atlantic service growing; Herman A. Nicholson; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector - April 1969, Vol. 4, No. 4
Features: Alice and Vincent Massey as Private Collectors; Sterling in Perspective; Who's for the Michilimackinac Hunt?; Manitoba Furniture; Peter Rindisbacher - Resident Western Artist; Some Art Mysteries; London Letter - Sales Sidelights. Some pages and front cover were stuck together and have been damaged when they were re-opened. Still a useful reference copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector - February 1969, Vol. 4, No. 2
Features: Worcester Scale Blue Decoration; Royal WorcesterTrade Marks; London Letter - Sales Sidelights; Tiffany Glass; English Clocks; The Vaughan Collection - the art of understatement; Early Magazine Drawings - Group of Seven; John Hammond, R.C.A. - 1843-1939; Gun Collecting - Thoughts and Tips. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector - September 1970, Vol. 5, No. 8: St. Lawrence Glass Co.
Features: St. Lawrence Glass Co. - Glasshouse to Pottery; Canadian Subjects of Currier & Ives American Lithographers; HectorGuimard - Designer Architect - Art Nouveau Period; 150 Years of Art - Manitoba Centennial Exhibition; Christie's of London - 200 Years of Auctioneering; A Clutch of Curiosities - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; The American Museum in Britain. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: June 1970
30 pages. Features: Victorian Silver; Oriental Cloisonne Enamels - a Western Collection; 100 Years after The Great Boz (Charles Dickens); The London Market; New Form of Pattern Glass for Canadian Collectors - 20th Century Antiques; Louisbourg - the Gibraltar of Canada; Don't Just Stand There - a dummyboard figure; Button Collecting; The Simeon Perkins House in Nova Scotia. Unmarked with moderate wear. Address label clipped from back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, December 1968 - Samuel Hawksett Feature Article
Features: 100 Years of Canadian Architecture; Christmas Toys of Yesteryear; Samuel Hawksett - Forgotten Artist; 500 Years of Wine in the Arts; Rocking Chairs; The Seven Wonders of London; The Wassail Bowl. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, February, 1970 *Victorian Canada*
Features: Victorian Canada - Part 1 - The Framework; Winter Flowers; Mantelpiece Ornaments and Miniature Brass Furniture; Guidelines for Restoration of Antique Furniture - Part 2; Maritime Antiques in Early Literature; London Sales Rooms; Period Pieces. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, January 1968, Volume 3, Number 1
30 pages. Features: British Hall-Marks, J.S. Forbes; Arts of India and Nepal; From Greenland's Icy Mountains; London Letter - V.& A. Museum Shows Hungarian Art Treasures; An Outline of French Period Furniture; Art of Furniture Design - Contemporary Craftsmen; Little Boxes, by Mary Carol Wilson; Sam Slick's House; An Ancient Egyptian Wall Painting; For Those Who Eat Cheese - Cheese Collectibles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, July 1969 *The Mystery of W.F. Wilson*
Features: Japanese Theatre Prints - Part 2; Nature's Artist - preserving flowers and grasses; Art Glass; London Letter - One Owner's Furniture; The Mystery of artist W.F. Wilson; Mabel Smith's Rare Goblet Collection. Some writing at bottom of front cover. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, June 1967, Volume 2, Number 6
30 pages. Features: Papineau House - Old Montreal Reborn; London Letter - Kremlin has largest collection of Tudor and Stuart Plate; Port Hope Pottery, by Kathleen M. Graham Stearns; Antique Safari - Maritimes Adventure, by Ann Newton; Collecting Maps, by Alexander E. Macdonald, M.D.; A Timeless Season - Roloff Beny in Canada; Musee Historique de Vaudreuil Soulanges. Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, October 1967, Vol. 2, No. 10
30 pages. Features: Nova Scotia furniture; Stoke-On-Trent - city of living tradition - the Staffordshire Potteries is today the world's centre of ceramic production; Art in London; Victoria and Albert Museum; Transfer Prints on Worcester - first period porcelain; Glamour of Old English Drinking Glasses; Full page Christie's ad featuring 'Very rare wines from private cellars'; Once the cork is pulled - rare old wines; The Glass Flowers of Harvard; British Potters link with Canada; Pioneer Living - wonderful information on weeden ware, recipes and more; Samplers - article by Mary Carol Wilson. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, February 1947 *Cover Photo on Deck of Canadian Aircraft Carrier H.M.C.S. Warrior*
94 pages. Features: Flight Safety (first of a series); Our Navy's Wings - The First of Two Aircraft Carriers Join Canada's Fleet; Report from Ottawa; U.S. Navy orders Jet Fighters - the XFJ-1 and XF6U-1; Let's Learn to Fly - Taxiing and Control During Takeoff; London Letter; Supersonic Quest; Western Skylines; The Case for Community Airports; Interior Decoration of Aircraft - Designing for Passengers; Sperry Gyropilot - Electronic Approach works with "George"; Northrop Pioneer - trimotor transport; Photo of the XC-99 under construction; and more. Many pages of great ads including one for Kashower Air Service Ltd. of Oshawa plus a Fairey ad featuring a photo of Canada's first aircraft carrier, the H.M.C.S. Warrior. Small faint ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, June 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
232 pages. Features: Behind the Hush-Hush - United States Army Air Forces Bare their Secrets to writers for the First time in 25 Years; Down to Earth; Tomorrow's Air Liners; Typhoon - Flying Power-House is Deadly Weapon; Should Regulations Be Increased?; Pathfinder Force; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Air Line Pilots' Association; Prospects Worth Fighting For; Routes to Canada Debates; Cause of Canadianism Served; Aircraft Maintenance Section; Marauder Landing Gear; Engineering Illustration; Ontario Backing Pledged; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, March 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
166 pages. Features: The Future is Here, by Burton Lewis; Report from London; Action in Ottawa; Trends in Washington; Built from One Jenny! - Leavens Bros. plan to cover Ontario with scheduled Air Service, by Keith Edgar; AOS Staff Pilot is Specialist, by Ronald A. Keith; Vickers Speeds Cansos, by R. Eric Crawford;; Vickers Tooks and Equipment; The World of Flight; de Havilland Propeller Record; CPA Provides Essential Service; Ideas of the Month; Overhaul at Central Aircraft; Hydraulic Control Valves; Cub Aircraft Unique; Allies Get Ju 88; Damon Predicts Better World; New Products; and more. Includes many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Faint ink stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, May 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
186 pages. Features: Canadian Aviation's Viewpoint; It Cost $58 Million - the Northwest Staging Route; Call it Reconquest - the original flight into Alaska; A.V. Roe; Report from London; Action at Ottawa; Trends in Washington; Floating Airport Tomorrow; Celestial Navigation Trainer; RCAF Salvage; Helldiver Story; Barracudas Attack; Percival Proctor IV; World of Flight; Gray Rocks Air Line; RCAF Transport Command; V.D.M. Propeller; Chafing on Engine Parts; Cold Weather Operation; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Small bit of sticker remnant atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, May 1948 - Destiny of Jet Transport
100 pages. Features: Destiny of Jet Transport; The Avro "Chinook" Jet Engine Story - article with many photos; Wings Across the Border - Procedures for Canadians and Americans Crossing the Border - Map of Airports of Entry; Pylo Terror (Pilot Error) in the Circuit; London Letter; TCA links Canada to Bermuda; Ottawa Report; Directory of Canadian Airports; Rolls Studies Jet Icing; Servicing the de Havilland Beaver; Multiple Track Radar in Australia; and more. Many pages of great ads including a one-page ad for the new de Havilland Beaver and Red Wing Flying Service of Port Carling, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, October 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
186 pages. Features: U.S. Route to Ottawa Favoured; The Final Frontier - first report on new route via Churchill; First Military Aviatrix - Helen Harrison is licensed to fly in four countries; Rescue, Northern Style - Captain Russ Baker of Canadian Pacific Air Lines; B-29 Armament Revealed; If Good Will Prevails; What's a Morrow Board?; Iso-Rev Propeller; Avro York Design; Reports from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Packing for Export; British Helicopters Were Three Years Ahead; Modernized Blackfish for Royal Navy Carriers; Fairey Barracuda; Gliding Club Meets - Gatineau Gliding Club; Human Limits in Flight; Requires Small Planes; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, October 1946
114 pages. Features: The RCAF Today; Farming and the Airplane; Flight in the Ercoupe; Facts About Fog; Let's Learn to Fly, Part VI; Hobby Airline - Tom Wheeler and his Grey Rocks Air Service; International Air Show - Toronto's Eight-Day Show; Reconversion of the Anson - converting wartime trainers to passenger craft; Ottawa Report; London Letter; Maintenance Section; Photo of the sleek Supermarine Jet Spiteful; and more. Many pages of great ads. Small ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Average wear. Binding intact. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, September 1944 - Commercial, Military, Civil
164 pages. Features: Three Main Ocean Routes Urged; $27 Million Ago - last month the Canadian government took over air bases established by the U.S. in the Hudson Bay area; Captain W.R. "Wop" May Goes North Again; de Havilland Assembly; The Magic Merlin; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Australia's Score; Air Board Claims Denied; "Gas Inn"; The Elusive Auster; Dinghy Drill; Children Save Pennies for Planes; Mark XIV Bombsight; Maintaining the Wasp Engine; Easily Made Wing Jig; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Front cover beginning to loosen. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, September 1946
98 pages. Features: Through the Sonic Barrier - flight faster than sound with simple tube jets now seems possible - great photos including the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing Bomber; Report From Bikini - nuclear tests - with photos; Let's Learn to Fly, Part V; Flight in the Seabee; Report from Ottawa; Farm to Airport in Forty-five Days - The Barrie (Ontario) Flying Club; Provincial Portrait from the Air - making big scale Ontario Map will take three Ansons Five Years; What is IATA?; London Letter; Taylorcraft is Back; Maintenance Section; and more. Many pages of great ads. Small ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine, September/October 1978, Vol. 13 No. 5 - Hutchinson House in Peterborough
Features: Auction Report; Hutchison House - a fine stone house in Peterborough; Joseph Legare 1795-1855; Style Influences in the Furniture of Upper Canada; Manitoba Paperweight; Molly Lamb Bobak - one of Canada's most prolific painters; Potteries of the Brothers Glass - one of the last major potteries to operate in Ontario (in London). Clean, sound copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine, September/October 1983, Volume 18, No. 5
68 pages. Features: The Weldon Collection - Part II - English Pottery; Snuff Bottles; The Loyalists - Bicentennial Exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum; Silk Roads, China Ships - Inspiration for 2000 years of collecting; Furniture-Making in Harbour Grace - Part II, Albert Rogers; James Kerr-Lawson Restored; "La Haute Folie" Still Standing - The Hurtubise house has endured three turbulent centuries; Survival Transcended - Folk Art in Canada; An American in London - a report on London's Grosvenor House Antique Fair. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Canadian National Magazine, July 1946, Volume 32, Number 7: Joan Fontaine Cover Photo
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of Joan Fontaine, who starred with Bing Crosby in "The Emperor Waltz", filmed in Jasper; Unity of Purpose - delegates from all parts of the C.N.R. system in Canada and the U.S. met in Montreal on June 11th; Jasper goes Hollywood - filming of The Emperor Waltz - with photos; T.C.A. links Canada with Chicago - soon service to Cleveland will begin; A Century of Progress - The Great Western Railway from Hamilton to London; Vancouver's Diamond Jubilee; Waterway for Salmon - Hell's Gate fishways on the C.N.R. and C.P.R. sides of Fraser River Canyon; He Knows his Race Tracks - Jim Quinn, operator, Canadian National Telegraphs, Toronto; Meet Mr. Saskatchewan - E.G. Wickerson; System News; Dozens of photos of new names on pension roll; Departmental Doings; Photo of one of the largest single-unit freight shipments ever handled by rail - a 100-ton crude oil fractioning tower for McColl Frontenac Oil Company at Montreal; Lots of company news; Young Railroaders' Club; Coke ad on back cover; and more. Address label on back cover. Unmarked. Three inch opening to top edge of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian National Railways Magazine, July, 1935, Vol. XXI, No. 7
34 pages. Stories: Commuters by the Million - in London; The Snake Indian went Wild - operating trains up and down the centre of a rapidly-flowing river bed near Devona;Letters of a Sea Cadet - the second of a series of letters written by a cadet in the Canadian National Steamship service to his chum, a railroad man in Canada; The Railways and Development in Canada; Telegraphy - Past and Present; Through Canada's Provinces; Out of the Night (a story); 'Rotten Bologna Sausage' - recollections of a veteran of the Northwest Rebellion; Grand Trunk Agents in Session; the '84-mile Bridges - Car ferries on Lake Michigan; With the staff across Canada; Woman's Section; and much more. Please note that 3"x 4" clipping has been removed from page 34. Great 'Ford V8' ad inside back cover. Above-average wear but still intact. A great keepsake from the glory days of rail transportation in Canada. Book
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Chatelaine - The Canadian Home Journal, October 1961 *The Fabulous Dunsmuirs*
166 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Naturalizer shoes; What Happened to Eleven? - the balance between childhood and adolescence; Nice two-colour full-page ad for Craven "A" cigarettes; Fantastic two-page colour photo ad for Jell-O; Who Says Large Families are More Work? - Dorothy-Jane Goulding writes about her family of five children - with photos; Are We Burying Our Old Folks Alive? - article by Mollie Gillen with photos; The Victory, by Sheila MacKay; Chatelaine drops in on Daphne du Maurier; Canadian women belong in politics, by Charlotte Whitton; Claws of the Cat, by Florence Ford; The Fabulous Dunsmuirs - Part II; 100 Recipes to prepare in minutes; Gilt-Edged Bargains - wonderful photo-illustrated fashion article by Vivian Wilcox; I Want to Colour My Hair, But..., by Eveleen Dollery - with colour photos; What's Happening to Our Children?, by Violet Munns; Nice colour full-page photo-ad by Bell encourages readers to purchase extension phones; Artsy ad for Weldrest nylons; A Kitchen planned to the Nth Degree - Joan and Woodrow London; Super colour photo full-page ad for Sealtest Banana Nut Fudge Split ice cream; Nostalgic Pure-Pak ad encourages readers to shun bottled milk for disposable containers - we've come full circle!; Great two-panel colour ad for Swift's bacon; Many other large colourful food ads; Cute Viyella children's clothing ad; Full-page colour ad by CIBC encourages readers to borrow money to put braces on the teeth of their children; Are You Neglecting Your Child's Teeth?; Charming colour ad for Ladybird children's wear; Lovely colour ad for Angel Face cosmetics inside back cover. Upper corner of page 47 missing - text unaffected. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Hours of great reading in this sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Chatterbox Newsbox
96 pages. Gift Greetings inside front board dated 1917. Front board illustration shows a young lad and his dog. Colour frontis depicts "The water supply of a great town. Binding bears several cracks. Numerous line drawins. Hinges intact. Above-average wear and some soiling externally. Worthy reading copy. Book
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Commonwealth Today - No. 59
32 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1955. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Features: British Columbia's Centennial Celebrations; Canada's Boy's Town in Malaya; Colombo Plan Steel Technicians in Britain; Ghana's Goodwill and Trade Mission; Designs of the Year - annual U.K. awards; Ceylon's Buddhists in London; H.M. the Queen Mother's World Tour; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Child Welfare in Pakistan; Modern New Airport in Nairobi, Kenya; New Zealand's expanding forests; The Craft of the Nigerian Potter; Spare-Time Studies in Britain; Uganda's New Agrucultural School. Bonus: includes 8-page Canadian supplement which bears a lovely colour portrait of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret. Second Bonus: 13" x 9" photographic portrait of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, suitable for framing. Covers detached from textblock but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
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Concrete and Constructional Engineering Including Prestressed Concrete: Volume LIX (59) - Containing All Issues from 1964
456 pages. Frequently illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings. Topics include: New Dams in the UK; New Marine and Riverside Structures; Loading Tests on Large Bored Piles in Clay; New Zealand House, London; Some New Ecclesiastical Structures; The Economic Design of Members Subjected to Shearing (Ultimate-load Method) - parts I and II; Concrete Structures in Israel; The Principal Post-Tensioning Systems for Prestressed Concrete; Loading Tests on Deep Bored Cylinder Foundations; Precast construction of a training college; Prize-winning Designs for a Motorway Bridge; Research on Concrete Members Reinforced with Deformed Bars; The Inelastic Space Frame - Prestressed Concrete; Concrete Construction at Tinsley Park Steelworks; Construction of Student Hostels; The Counteraction of the Self-weight of Prestressed Concrete Beams; Pressures in Containers of Granular Materials - Parts I and II; Reconstruction of Benghazi Harbour; Model to Determine Temperature Effects on a Cylindrical Structure; A Specification for Concrete; Effects of Oiling and Grouping Prestressed Wires; Continuous Bridges on Elastic Supports; Developments in Foundation Engineering; Progress at Nuclear Power Stations; Removable Wide-slab Construction of a Car-Parking Building; Stresses in Stiffening Beams of Skewed-slab Bridges; A Theory of Bonding - Parts I, II and III; Extensions at Gatwick Airport; Research by the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete; The Design of Concrete Hinges; Installing Pipe-lines by the Thrusting Process; Critical Loads of Plane Frames; Tunnelling Machines for Tube Railways; The Analysis of Stairs with Unsupported Intermediate Landings; The Newark By-pass Road; Special Boundary Conditions in Membrane Shells - Parts I and II; A Multi-Storey Car Park at Leeds; Bridges on the Newark By-Pass Road; Tests on Helical Stairs; Bridges on the Heads of the Valleys Road; Chimney's Constructed with Precast Blocks; New Bridges on the New Motorways - Parts I and II; Practical Analysis of Frames with Beamless Floors; Stiffness Coefficients for Cylindrical Shells; Rapid Construction of a Precast Concrete Building; An Approximating Analysis for Shallow Shells of Translation; Ultimate-Load Analysis of an Edge-Loaded Rectangular Slab Resting on Soil; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
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Concrete and Constructional Engineering Including Prestressed Concrete: Volume LX (60) - Containing All Issues from 1965
470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Some New Concrete Bridges; Stithians Dam; Cruachan Dam; Prestressed Precast Concrete Construction at Cardiff; A Calculator for Concrete Mixes; Motorway M6 - Preston/Lancaster Section; New Equipment for Concrete Road Construction; Piccadilly Plaza Building Manchester; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessel for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station; Building Constructed over a Railway Tunnel; Large Cooling-water Chambers at Tilbury; Sewage Works, Dalmarnock; Sewage Works, Godstone; Restrained Ribbed Slabs with Distribution Ribs; Library and Swimming Baths, Hampstead; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - I; Early Concrete Buildings in Britain; Precast Construction of Asbestos-cement pipe factory, Eire; A Precast Concrete Fire-drill Tower; A Cantilevered Concrete Grandstand - Coventry City Football Club; Pierced Shear-Walls - I; Modern Designs for Prestressed Concrete Bridges; Stockbury Viaduct; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - Parts II and III; Oil-Tanker Jetty at Milford Haven; Repairs to Piles in Sea-water; Market Hall, Wakefield; Pierced Shear-Walls - II; Developments in Formwork for concrete structures; Air-Permeability of Concrete; A simplified Method of Analysing Free-standing Stairs; Pierced-Shell-Walls - III; Recent Lightweight-Concrete Structures; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessels; Research on Concrete Structures in Nuclear Engineering; Stresses in Wide-Flanged T-beams; Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Town Hall Extension, Ealing; Foundations and Other Construction Below Ground; The G.P.O. Tower during construction; The Design of the G.P.O. Tower, London; Data for Load-Factor Design of Beams and Slabs; The Interaction of Parallel Frames; A Pioneer of Concrete - George Semple of Dublin; Fatigue Behaviour of High-Yield Steel Reinforcement; A Computer Programme for the Analysis of the Effects of Torsion; Design of Continuous Concrete Slabs Supported on Steel Beams; Concrete Roads in Nigeria; Economic Design by the Ultimate-Load Method - Parts I, II and II; Cracking of Slabs Spanning in Two Directions; Design of Bow Bridge Intersection; Membrane Analysis of Parabolic Conoids; Concrete Dam in Yorkshire - The Thruscross Dam; A Code for Structural Lightweight-aggregate Concrete; A New Gauge for the Measurement of Internal Strains in Concrete; Circular Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Recent construction of silos; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
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Flora Magazine - For Flower Arrangers and Gardeners: May-June 1980
Features: The Mexican Waterpipe flower; Flowers from the Florist; Chelsea 1980; Oxalis; Ornamental vegetables; flower sellers of London town; natural containers; simple shrub arrangements; flowermaking; flowers with antiques; supporting colour; flower arranging in Israel; facile Floral Foam; Beginners please; Battle of the flowers; pressed flower and plant designs with a difference; The forgotten art of flower cookery; a flower arranger visits Crete; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Flora Magazine - For Flower Arrangers and Gardeners: March-April 1979
Features: Florapuzzle; Eggs-quisite eggs; Happy Easter; Bird Making; In Your Garden; Craft Potter; Leaving No Stone Unturned; Collecting Books on Flower Arranging; Embroidery with Plant Material; How to make bulb flowers last longer; flowering shrubs; first steps to Ikebana; Flowers through the ages; Phormiums; the abc of flowers; far-away flower holidays; R.H.S. shows in London; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Flying Lady - The Periodical of the Rolls-Royce Owner's Club, Inc., March/April 1991
Cover photo of a Windovers limousine. Features: London to Peking by Silver Ghost - 1990 Motor Challenge in 1920 Car - 4 pages with photos; Phantom II Continental 98PY - Barker Allweather - 3 pages with photos; Andre Hartford - Where are you? We need you! - repairing a Hartford Telecontrol auxiliary shock damping system; Carburetter Air Valves - how to test them & How to Fix Them; Carburetter adjustment, by Eric Platford, Rolls-Royce Ltd., 17 September 1913 - 2 pages; The Odyssey of 3CM92 - Phantom III Barker Saloon - 3 pages with nice photos; Board Meeting, Houston, TX, January 25-26, 1991. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) Magazine, November 2007 - Ryan Gosling Cover
288 pages. Features: Review of American Gangster; Francis Ford Coppola argues that doing business in Hollywood is bad for the soul; Bengal Chad Johnson's touchdown celebrations; Loel Lovell on money; Michael Hsu on making your pad more attractive - affordably; Fernando Botero tackles Abu Ghraib; Glenn O'Brien analyzes the sartorial choices of world leaders from W. to Kim Jong Il to Joseph Kabila; John McCain once seemed a shoo-in for the Republican nomination; Landmark trends of the past 50 years; Dressing up Dave Grohl in outfits under $200; Best Watches under $500; Chiwetel Ejiofor models designer suits; Uruguay's Punta del Este - The New Rio; Ten ways to wear a tweed sports jacket; Ryan Gosling - The Loner; Elizabeth Banks - funniest tramp in the room; A guide to London - the coolest city on the planet; Jerry Seinfeld interview; Kevin Durant - newest NBA superstar; Iraqis flee to Syria. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Guns Magazine, November 1963 *Guns of the VoPos*
74 pages. Features: Guns of the VoPos - East German police are being armed with the latest Russian guns, equal to the best; The Sharps and the Buffalo (part II); Coy is the Coyote - one of the world's toughest targets; Save One For the Teacher - a Deer Hunting adventure; Sit Down and Shoot better Big Game scores; Try This for Grouse - Nebraska's vas sandhill areas offer the nation's best Grouse Hunting; When Colt's Was in London - 109 years ago; One of Two? An 8mm Raphael; Shooters for Tomorrow - youth shooting clubs; and more. Slight musty scent otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
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Happy Days Story Book
Undated and unpaginated. Copyright by Murrays Sales & Service Co, London. A lovely old children's book in glossy illustrated boards. Front board shows two boys in a canoe. Sticker patch to right of title. Pages have yellowed and there are pencil marks on some of the activity pages. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 19, Number 5 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical
Features: Up and down the Laurentians; the dramatic Deas Island Tunnel - article with great photos; Through the Annapolis Valley; Take your children to Storybook Gardens, a project of the London Public Utilities Commission (PUC); History with a high fence - Fort Macleod has captured much of southern Alberta's history and put a stockade around it; Time for all - public clocks in Canada; Imperial has already printed 25 million road maps!. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 13, Number 2, 1952
Features: Stop! - You're Wasting Gasoline!; The Calgary Stampede; Uncle Tom's Cabin, on Highway 2 between Windsor and London - Rev. Josiah Henson of Dresdon, Ont. was the escaped slave whom Harriet Beecher Stowe met and used as a model for her famous story; "Your Happy Motoring Show" - Imperial Oil's thrice-weekly 15-minute radio show starring Terry Dale and Wally Koster; Gather Heirlooms as you Go! - souvenirs to gather across Canada; May Day at New Westminster; From the mailbag of Eddie Torr. Back cover rumpled. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, August 12, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's summer dresses; Echoes; New York Fashions - widow's grenadines, how to shorten demi-trains, innovations in costumes, delaine suits, fall silks; knitting-work bag with netted cover; Perssonal; crochet corset for girl from 1 to 3 years old; window curtains; figured tulle and lace fichu; figured lace fichu-scarf; figured lace fichu with sleeves; Geraniums; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Water-proof Glue; Servants in Holland; Sayings and Doings; Royal Incomes - the pay of sovereigns and their investments; Many detailed illustrations of aprons; Butternut jewelry; Paris Modes; Living in Germany - Amusements; The Darwinian Theory - a sketch in the monkey-house of the London Zoological Garends; Woolen reps wall pocket; Work-Basket; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, December 14, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Full-dress toilette; Cleaning kid gloves; Family cooking, by Pierre Blot - part III; Manners upon the Road - of the bachelor family; New York Fashions - full-dress toilette, black silks, the chatelaine bodick; coiffures and combs, cloth boots, fans; Personal; Black silk cord and bead fringes and border; embroidered calendar frame; tapestry design for border; Burial Vagaries; The Mystery of Viscount Bowldout, by George Augustus Sala; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Winter Hats and Bonnets; Old Matches; Saving books from the Escurial library - text will dramatic illustration showing children carrying stacks of books from a burning library; London's Heart - continued; The Count and Countess de Chambord; North London Synagogue - the Feast of Tabernacles - with illustration; humor. Average wear. Yellowing to first page. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, June 15, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Walking suit with camargo over-dress - front and back illustrations; Hints on the use of paste and glue; Temperature for Cooking; The moral of both babies - Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of lilacs; New York Fashions - traveling dresses,, varieties for tourists, point russe embroidery, Personal; crochet tobacco pouch; dressing-case; hanging flower-pot screen; netted and bead window-screen; natted guipure square for setting together covers; London's Heart - continued; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Gentleman's traveling or smoking cap; traveling-purse; embroidered shawl-strap; gentleman's collar box with cover of plaited cord; umbrella and parasol traveling-case; embroidered twine canvas traveling-bed; traveling wall-pocket; Pretty Pepita - 1; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; General Schenck at Christ's Hospital, London - with illustration; Gypsying Servants; The couse of true love never did run smooth; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, June 8, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Lady's visiting toilette; The Feet; The Other Baby - Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of sanded sugar; New York Fashions - postilion-basque wrapper, pointed cape walking suit, new colors, Dolly Varden novelties; riding habits; Personal; tidy in Genoese embroidery; tatted collars; embroidered silk emery bag; lady's crochet sleeping net; knotted and bead scissors case; crochet night-cap for girl from 6 to 8 years old; design for cover of bed-quilt - Venetian embroidery; All or Nothing; Paris Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Coiffures for young and elderly ladies; suits for young ladies; black gros grain fichu; ladies' and children's dresses; To the Bitter End - continued; Married Bachelors; "Knocking down the Elephant - illustration; "Catching the Lion" - illustration; Illustration "The Jews' Infant-School Ball at Willis's Rooms, London"; Preparation of Fruit Juices; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, September 21, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Lady's and Child's Dresses; Home-made carpets; Drying Flowers in the Sand; Siesta; Manners Upon the Road - of Safety-Valves; New York Fashions - wraps, the dolman, the sacque with cape, yak lace, house sacques, opera cloaks, the national dress trimming; Box for ironing utensils; Cover for Flat-Iron; Alphabet for marking Linen; Breakfast Caps - many nice illustrations; London's Heart; Service; Sayings and Doings; Fantastic centerfold consists of dozens of illustrations of shirts, caps, under-drawers, chemises, collars, etc.; At Rye - by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Fashions; Niss Nilsson's Last Appearance - with illustration "Christine Nilsson's Last Night at Drury Lane Theatre, London"; Subsitute for Cream; Needle-work and tatted chemise yokes; buttons and button-holes for lingerie; needle-work, point lace, and crochet borders, rosettes, insertions, and edgings for lingerie; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Large clipping from page 619. 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), July 11, 1868
16 pages. Contents: Promenade Toilettes; Summer Fruits; Proper Exercise; New York Fashions - Lace Garments, Carriage Wraps, Sea-Side and Yachting Jackets, Traveling Wraps; Personal; illustrations of table cover, crochet tidy, canvas tidy, etc.; Feminine Respectability; Gentlemen's Summer Fashions; Taken by Storm; London Correspondence; The Women of the Day; Nice full-page illustration of Gentlemen's Paris Summer Fashions; French Etiquette of Courtship and Marriage; Three Hours to a Dilemma; Sayings and Doings; Wonderful full-page illustration by Winslow Homer entitled "The Fourth of July in Tompkins Square, New York; Small clipping from page 589; The Household Angel, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow - continued; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
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Ladies' Home Journal: October 1938
120 pages. Special Features: 'Tis of 'Thee; Mr. & Mrs. Mussolini; What do the Women of America Think About Relief; With the Kennedy Family in London Town; Can You Believe Your Eyes? and Rheumatic Heart Disease. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking, short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Coca-Cola, Green Giant Peas, and DuPont Cellophane. Full page colour Wrigley's Double Mint Gum ad with Claudette Colbert. Half page black/white ad with Loretta Young promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Above-average wear. Pages 81 - 120 partially loose from binding. Small mailing label top right corner. A sound working copy. Magazine
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 1 May 1939 *Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth*
56 pages. Features: Fantastic colour International Harvester truck ad inside front cover; Money Marriage - the story of a girl who learned that money doesn't paddle a canoe in a crisis, by Eve Burkhardt; Kings Who Came to Canada, by W.J. Baanks; The Pipe Pushers, by Weston Martyn; Your Clothes and Your Clothes - a gibe at wollen-armored males who dare to laugh at women's clothes, by Mary Lowery Ross; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - the crash of appeasement; Beautiful Homes, I Love You, by Anne Wormser; A $300,000,000 Business - Canada's Tourism industry - fascinating!; Deep Waters, by Ben Ames Williams; It Does Rain Fish - dropping fingerling trout from airplains is Quebec's latest method of restocking Northern lakes; Great 1939 Chevrolet centerfold ad; Nice colour Stetson Hat ad inside back cover; Colour photo Studebaker Champion ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 December (Dec.), 1950 - Death of the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S.U.)
Features: Editorial - Housing's a Headache the Provinces Should Handle; Backstage in India - the split with India widens; The Masters at Margate - London Letter by Beverley Baxter; Everybody Boos the CBC, by Pierre Berton; Len Norris on the air with the CBC; Corn and Culture - Max Ferguson is adored by his zany half hour of amusing mimicry while Harry Boyle dishes up those highbrow Wednesday Night sessions; Ted Reeve picks Maclean's All-Canadian football team (The All-Canadian is all-American, with four from the West, eight from the East); How to buy that Christmas Tie; Death of a Union - the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S.U.) - once strong and respected - had to die for the greater glory of the Communist Party - Here's how it was killed - a frightening, firsthand expose of Red strategy in Labor by an ex-Communist, Gerry McManus (former Secretary-Treasurer) who witnessed the betrayal of 10,000 Canadian workers from the inside; Don't Call me Baby Face - Part V (conclusion) of the story of boxer Jimmy McLarnin; Never get friendly with a friendly bear; The Double Life of Dr. James Barry - Inspector-General Barry ruled the British Army's medical corps in Canada with a bossy efficiency in a thick cloud of rumor and legend... Then, after 53 years' service, a shocking secret came out; Known to be Dangerous - fiction by Octavus Roy Cohen. Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Mercury car on page 25. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Ford Monarch car on page 51. Reading copy only. Above-average wear. Page 9 loose but present. Pages 29-36 loose but present. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 July 1938
40 pages. Features: Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; The Wedding Present, by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Design for a National Capital, by J.F.C. Smith - a bird's-eye view of the fifty-year plan for the beautification of Ottawa, with black and white photos; Streamliner, by Ray Millholland; 29,000 Miles over the Arctic - by Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon, who is convinced that airliners can fly the circumpolar skyway from America to Asia - with black and white photos; Arena Dramas - highlights from the sports parade as recorded by the dean of Canadian sports writers Elmer W. Ferguson - with photo of "Mighty Mite" Auriel Joliat; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - Cut the Barbed Wire! - he describes the addiction to war and military spending; Looms of Conflict, by Burton L. Spiller - in which crisis strikes at Rainbow Mills and a young man in love discovers romance can be bitter sweet; Norman Reilly Raine - a writing career launched in Maclean's leads to an Academy award for the best screen play of the year, by Harry Bossin - with photo of Mr. Raine; Who was Joe Boyle? (conclusion) - Snatching treasure from Bolsheviks, rescuing prisoners, defying fleets, signing treaties - "Uncle Joe" was nothing if not versatile, by Flora Alexander Boyle - with black and white photos; Nice full-page black and white ad for Pontiac cars; Gorgeous colour back cover ad for Buckingham cigarettes features a hummingbird illustration. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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