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The Daily Colonist, Friday November 2, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-8 and 13-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Photo of Japanese, British and U.S. diplomates in England attemtping to replace the old London Naval Treaty; Chuckwalla wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island; Mayor Leeming will run again; Manchukuo disregarding protests against proposed oil monopoly in state; America wants to lead in removal of barriers against international trade - warns against extreme nationalism; Government passes first market plan under B.C. Statute to protect tree fruit growers; Burnett's Gin ad; Piggly Wiggly ad; Editorial page; nice illustrated ad for Rogers and Majestic "Mystery-Tube" radios; City and District News bits; Social pages; Travel page; Sports page with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about the 1934-35 Les Canadiens hockey team; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
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The Electrical Engineer Vol. I No. 15 February 28th, 1936
Approx. 40 pages. Features: The Metadyne system of electric motor control; Engineers' Experiences; Electrical Pyrometers; Marine Control Gear; Power Factor Meters; 25-line Private Automatic Telephone Exchange; Electrical Equipment in a Modern Store; Making Agreements for Power Supply; Reading Switchboard Instruments from a distance; Development of X-rays in Dental Practice; Selection of Factory Substation Switchgear; Mercury switches and their applications; Ballast Resistances; Electrical Progress Overseas; Opportunities in the Cinema Industry. Well-worn. Bottom staple has torn through cover else no major defects. Unmarked. Blue and Orange front cover features advertisement for Callender Cables showing the vessel "Stirling Castle" equipped with 112 miles of their cable. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, March 1989
Features: First across the Kra; The Explorers Club in space; Tassili - the Sahara's secret; Exploring Spanish Galleons on the Pedro Shoals; My Career and Zaire - by Philip R. Dormitzer; Coronado's Chickens; The Explorers in London; The Antarctic Explorers Stamp Series; Anatomy of an Explorer, by John D. Bruno. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, December 1933
80 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Contents: Ruwenzori - Flights and further exploration, by Dr. Noel Humphreys; Changes in Land Utilization in the South-West of the London Basin, 1840-1932; The Agrarian Contribution to Surveying in England; Woutneel's Map of the British Isles, 1603; Watkins' Kayak. Fold-out map of 'Ruwenzori - illustrating the expeditions of Dr. Noel Humphreys, 1932'. Average wear. Binding intact. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Library bar code on first page of advertisements. Covers beginning to loosen from textblock. A worthy copy. Book
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The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, April 13th, 1918, No. 2524, Vol. XCVII *Revolution in Russia*
32 pages plus 4-page advertising cover. Cover photo of large new WWI artillery piece being readied for firing. Features: The Way of the War; The Great German Offensive - photos; What the German Invasion means for France - photos; Our artillery in the Great Offensive - photos; With the American Army in the Field - by Henri Bazin; Bombing London - the story of a Hun (conclusion of the story begun in the previous issue) - Karl Lowenstein; Anarcy in Russia -illustrations by Russian artist Mr. Wladimiroff; Centerfold illustrations under the heading "The Rival Armed Forces of Russia - the real army in dissolution, the red army in revolution; The spread of Uric Acid - how to correct the gouty habit; Photos of women at work in the Humber (armaments) Works; ads for the following automotove manufacturers: Maxwell, Humber, Lanchester, Arrol-Johnston; Buick. Average wear. Bindint intact. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
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The Great War - The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict: Part 134 - 10 March 1917 - The Socialisation of Great Britain
Cover portrait of Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, who has commanded the London District since 1913. Features: The Socialisation of Great Britain (conclusion); The Life of Germany During the Year 1916 - with many interesting photos. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name upon front cover. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War - The Standard History of the World-Wide Conflict, Part 207: August 3rd 1918 - War Scenes in Coloured Photography - No. 6 with This Part
Features: The Terrible Progress in Battle Machinery. Staples have disintegrated. Average wear. Colour illustration laid in shows the London Scottish returning to rest camp after heavy fighting. Centerfold contains many photos of contemporary tools of war. Book
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The Great War - The Standard History of the World-Wide Conflict: Part 184, February 23rd, 1918 - Words and Wanderings of the Kaiser
Portrait of Colonel T.H.J.C. Goodwin on front cover. Features: The Closing Victories on the Passchendaele Ridge (conclusion); The Man Who Willed the War - Words and Wanderings of the Kaiser William - with numerous photos; Centerfold portrait of Lieut.-General Travers Clarke; Centerfold portrait entitled Representatives of the Allied Powers attending the first meeting of the Allied Naval Council, London, January 22nd, 1918; Back cover advertisement for National War Bonds. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 247 - 10 May 1919 *The Air Battles Over London*
Cover photo of where a Gotha bomb fell in London, near a Sphinx. Includes concluding portion of "The March to the Rhine", with great photos. Chapter CCXCIII - Final Phases of the War in the Air, I. - The Air Battles Over London - How the Gothas were Defeated. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 254 - 28 June 1919 *The Great Record of the Guards in the War*
Cover portrait of the Prince of Wales with the Guards. Opens with the concluding portion of the chapter "Wonderful Work of the R.A.M.C.". Chapter CCCI - Records of the Regiments: I. The Guards. Large centerfold photos of the Guards in London upon their return from France. Many great photos. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 255 - 5 July 1919 *Records of the English Regiments in the War*
Please note: Coloured map not included. Cover portrait of the London Scottish marching past Crimea Memorial on arrival home. Chapter CCCII - Records on the Regiments, II - English 1914-15, with photos. Great centerfold photos. First portion of Chapter CCCIII - Records of the Regiments: III. English, 1916-18. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine: Part 260, 9 August, 1919
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of the Prince of Wales presenting colours to Canadians; Conclusion of Chapter CCCIX - Wonders of Wireless in the War; Chapter CCCX - The Empire and the War - Progress of the Overseas Dominions and India, 1914-18; photo of Princess Patricia decorating Canadian colours and inspecting the P.P.C.L.I.; Great centerfold photo of Anzac Day in London, 25 April, 1919 - Australian Cavalry marching down Fleet St.; Photos of Officers of the Canadian 4th Division leaving Liverpool for the west; and more. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Gun Report Magazine - February 1987
Features: Civil war rarity - An identified American English Dragoon; Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Gunsmiths; T. Ketland & Company - Birmingham and London. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News - Silver Jubilee Celebrations Number: May 11, 1935, No. 5012 - Volume 186
This extra-large issue features extensive coverage of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of His Majesty King George V. Included are 25 pages of advertisements, in colour and black and white, plus 96 photo-laden pages of Silver Jubilee content. Many of the advertisements are of particular beauty including: Brown & Polson's Corn Flour; Swan Pens; Debenham & Freebody; Ovaltine; Dunlop Tire (colour); Haig Whisky (colour); Dewar Scotch Whisky (colour); Austin Reed of Regent Street (colour); McVita - a particularly gorgeous colour ad; Craven 'A' cigarettes - another gorgeous colour ad featuring female model; The New Ford V-8 (colour); Booth's Dry Gin (colour); Barker Coachwork; Rover; Hooper & Co. Magnificent individual full-page colour portraits of the King and Queen. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Two center pages loose but present. A nice copy of this, one of the most magnificent issues in the long history of this esteemed publication. 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 Illustrated War News - Part 79, December 12, 1917
Features: The Struggle before Cambrai - a Contest of Giants - Profit and Loss - A Critial Issue - French Local Combats - Italy Against Heavy Odds. Photo of a French listening post - overhearing talk in German trenches; Great photos from the Cambrai battlefield; Two-page photo of the retreat of the Italian Third Army; French Troops in Italy; Romances of the Regiment - the 28th North Gloucestershires; The Canal du Nord; Clearing a blown bridge on the Canal du Nord; A German Prisoner detention camp in France; Photo of Vauban's Ditch at Verdun; French wire-netting trench barricade; A wrecked Gotha; The new Sultan of Egypt's state entry into Cairo; The Final Rout of the Germans in East Africa; Four photos on the Palestine Front during General Allenby's advance; Early morning Gotha raid on London, Dec. 6; Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
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The Illustrated War News: September 19, 1917 - Part 67
Features: On the British front in Flanders; The Italian advance on the Julian front; On the Belgian front along the Yser; German Prisoners' Parcels - at an internment camp; 2-page photo of some of Russia's 37,000 prisoners in Galicia; The Guards Regiment (one page story with 2 photos); German prisoners at work in England (4 photos); The August 'Gotha' day-time raid on the Kent coast; Centerfold photo of the Italian pontoon bridge across the Isonzo on the Julian front; 2-page photo of wounded British prisoners returning to London from Switzerland; The training of British naval cadets (4 photos); A funeral with naval honours in Tokyo (Tokio); Indian soldiers where the Prussian Guard was beaten; 2 photos of the Messenger-pigeon service; Great 2-page photo of a captured German Gun-Emplacement at Lens. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette, No. 176, Vol. XV, August 1910
Photo of "Our Team Winning the National Territorial Marathon Race for the County of London Territorial Association - July 9th, 1910. Photo of The County of London Team, Winners of the China Cup - four members of the Scottish were included in the team. Photo of the China Cup, won by the County of London Team; full-page drawing entitled "Drummie" by D. McEwan. Continuation of article entitled "'Tis Forty Years Ago." Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, September 12, 1965 *POPE PAUL VI ON COVER*
Features: We may win the (Vietnam) war but Lose the People, by James Reston; The Pope is not Pontifical, by John Cogley; The President's 'Just-a-Minute' Man - Dean Rusk; After Courreges, What Future for the Haute Couture?; Winds of Change in the Senate; The Draft Boards Escalate - who should be drafted? Who Should be Exempt?; This Cat Needs no Pulitzer Prize - Duke Ellington; To Juarez on the Divorce Run - quick divorces in Mexico; When Black Death Stalked in London. Crossword completed else unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 1965
Features: If Ho Chih Minh's Army Moves South in Force...; William F. Buckley seeks the Mayor's job in New York; The Wonder is There have been So Few Riots - American Racism; The Way it Was in the London Blitz - Londoners look back with nostalgia; Saga of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Garbot); TV Shows for the new season - Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard, The Steve Lawrence Show, I Spy with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Henry Moore - Man of Form, Trials of O'Brien - Peter Falk, and Jimmy Durante meets the Lively Arts; Feliciano Bejar's Special Niche in Mexico. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1996
Articles: Adventures in the Sack Trade - London Merchants in the Canada and Newfoundland Trades, 1627-1648; The Battle for Convoy UC-1, 23-27 February 1943; Not More Ports, Better Ports - The Development of British Ports since 1945; Keeping the Local Economy Afloat - Canadian Pacific Navigation and Shipowning in Victoria, 1883-1901; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, September 23, 1961 *CONNIE FRANCIS FEATURE STORY*
Features: The Crooks Get all the Breaks - Virgil W. Peterson; Can our children learn faster? - at the Whitby School in Connecticut, the Montessori method is used to teach the three Rs; People on the Way Up - Gigi Reynolds Carrier, Dick Gregory, Joy Tymezyszyn Jr., Jane Marilley; Abraham Kaplan on 'Are Psychiatrists and Clergymen enemies or allies?'; Connie Francis - what made her a star, and how does she survive the competition?; Casey Stengel; How Sotheby's venerable London auction house sets prices and tastes for highbrows; The Vanishing Hillbilly - the proud Ozark mounaineer is being modernized out of existence as TVs become more common than indoor plumbing. Great 2-page color Chevrolet Jobmaster Trucks ad. Nice Coke ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: 1 April 1944
Photos: Aerial photo of destruction in Berlin; 2 photos from Cassino; Multiple photos of massive destruction in Berlin; The Andartes of Greece; The use of the tank in Italy; Behind the scenes in Germany today; Cassino laid flat in four hours; Photos from the war in the Pacific; the fighting in Burma; scenes from recent night raids in London; and more. Covers worn at fold otherwise a sound copy. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: January 15 1944
Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: March 4, 1944
Photos: Pictures from the Korsun area of the Russian front during the encirclement operations; Destroying the Lutfwaffe's aircraft factories - the biggest day raid of the war, carried out by 2,000 American planes; The return of the blitz to London; Photos from inside the Warsaw ghetto; equipment pours into Britain; American action againt the Japanese; Anzio Fighting; Photos from Finland; The German Battleship Gneisenau out of action - photos; and more. Front cover loose but present. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The Standard, 22 March 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
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The War Illustrated - 11 August 1917: No. 156
Illustration Features: Surrending Germans pass through the French lines; The Battle of the Nieuport Dunes - Matchless story of the Northamptons and the King's Royal Rifles (article by Max Pemberton); Canadian Pioneers at work and at Liesure (5 photos); Men of many climes who fight for France; Italians in the Alps and in the air; These Three historic years - article by Lovat Fraser; Aerial activity of four warring nations; Immortal Heroism of K.R.R.C. & Northamptons; Incidents in the Battle of the Nieuport Dunes; British Women's Mission of Mercy in France; How the Hun encourages neutral powers; 'Pipsqueaks' that served to alarm all London - 5 photos of air raid sound rockets; When Paris was in Peril - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Fire and Fury Flaming upon the foe in France. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The War Illustrated - No. 179: 19 July 1918: The Pan-Germans' New Dreams
Photos with the following captions: Lines that all lead to the Hindenburg Line; Wreckage and Waste from Ypres to Cambrai; Freed by British Bravery from the Terrible Turk; 'Tanks' Advance into action & Tow Back a Prize; On the Edge of Great Events among the Alps; Rare and Ready Courage to the Rescue of a Comrade; 'Graft' and Bribery in Russia (story); Clearing the Crescent off the Permanent Way; Weather Difficulties defied by daring and work; Unmasking Spies in London (story); 'Ghost' that Fails to Frighten our Flying Men; Happiness in Hospital in Barge and Burrow; Art's Spirit Shining Amid the Murk of War; The Terriers of the Pack - some of the remarkable doings of the "M.L." Craft (story); Last Moments of the Torpedoed Transport Medie; From London's Roads to Flanders' Muddy Fields; The Royal Highlanders of Canada (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 227 - 21 December 1918
Illustration depicting Ex-Kaiser William in Holland, living in fear of justice. Photogravure supplement shows 8 photos with subjects including: Allied representatives at the historic conference at 10 Downing St., London on Dec 2 and 3, 1918, Beaten Huns straggling home, German evacuation from Belgium, the surrendered German fleet at Scapa Flow, French Armny of liberation entering Strasbourg and U Boat 64 up the Thames, lying off the House of Parliament, with the victorious White Ensign above the defeated flag of Germany. London's Great Aerial Victory - Mysterious Menace which broke the Nerve of Hun Flyers (article). British advance to keep watch on the Rhine - 2 photos. 5 photos from Spa. 5 photos under the caption 'Under the Red Flag in Republican Berlin". 4 photos of submarine sailors. Q Boat v. U Boats - 6 photos of mystery ship in the Thames. In my native land set free - by Emile Cammaerts. The Peace Bird on the Wing, by Hamilton Fyfe. Signs and Symbols of the Central Empire's Collapse - 5 photos. Photos of Giant Austrian aeroplane brought down by a british pilot on the Italian front. Illustration of British from Ruhleben Camp in Berlin securing souvenir nails from the colossal Hindenburg Statue. From 'COG' to Partnership - article by Basil Clarke. Two Photos of Germany Deciding Her Destiny - a great crowd outside the Reichstag and the first sitting of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council in the Reichstag. The Hun as Uriah Heep, by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 230 - 11 January 1919 *PHOTOS OF HOLZMINDEN AFTER THE BRITISH ESCAPE*
Front cover illustration of a raving Bolshevik. Secrets of the London Air Raids - Where Zepps and Gothas dropped their bombs - article. Allied flags at Constantinople and Cattaro - two photos. New World Knights Guard River of Old Romance - 5 photos of American troops in Germany. Two photos of British soldiers in Germany. Four photos related to the escape of 29 British officers from the POW camp at Holzminden. Bolshevism in its True Colours - article by Sir Sidney Low. Photogravure centerfold includes images of the British in Cologne. Shall we Hang the Kaiser - article by Lovat Fraser. Equine and Canine Transport Bound for the Rhine. Ships of the Allies Anchor Off Sebastopol Again - 4 photos. Two photos of a British 'mystery' aeroplane' dropping a torpedo. And more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated: No. 162 - 22 September 1917
The truth about Tannenberg, article by Lovat Fraser; 'Billets' in Belgium - Barely better than none; Fighting the mud on the Flanders front; Heroes of Hill 70 who are closing in on Lens; Victors and Victims of the war in the air; Italy's road to victory through the mountains; Sea Men and Sea Dogs of the Swift and Broke; Wanted - a Naval Offensive! - by H.W. Wilson; Fact and fiction from Flanders and France; German super-works won by Allied Super-Men; British Strategy at Sea - a defense of present naval strategy by Percival A. Hislam; Indian Prince's Red Cross Gift for the Tigris - a floating hospital; Glimpses of life behind the French front line; Proud Moments in the progress of the French Army; The Buring of Albert - last terrible hours in a Bombarded Town; Woman War Workers in France and England; Who's Who in the Great War; Centres of Social Life in Salonika and London. Sailors and Soldiers Decorated for Heroism; The Dorset Yeomanry - one page article with photo. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1938
Stories: Canadian Hold-Up; A Clerk Breaks Loose; The Editor's Post Bag; Have You Seen an Elephant; My Cycle Trip to Spain; Latest From London; Spanish Interlude; The Brass River Affair; They Brought Me Back Alive; Crawford's Cobra; The Wolves of the Cascades; My All Blacks; The Tantanoola Tiger. Average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1917 *"Todger" Jones, V.C. - Single-Handedly Captured 102 Men*
96 pages plus several pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: "Todger" Jones, V.C. - The Man Who Captured a Hundred Germans Single-Handed - his story as told by himself - with photos; A Flying Man in South America - part II - the strange adventures of Mr. John G. Barron - great photos; The Man Who Didn't Exist - the Belgian story of the most carefully planned murder case on record involving M. Guillaume Bernays; On the Borders of Tibet - Part I - the story of two years' wanderings by Reginald Farrer, with wonderful photos; The German Spy in France, by Bernard St. Lawrence who was engaged in collecting authentic information concerning German spies and their methods; Airmen in the Desert - adventures of the Royal Flying Corps in Sinai, by F.W. Martindale; The Hon. Roderick Buckley Mystery - the disappearance of a wealthy young man formerly well-known in London society; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - part 3 - E.W. Hawkes writes about his eventul cruise - with great photos; Mulai Hassan's Donkey - a favorite Algerian tale as related by Donald Maclean; ; Thirteen Days Adrift - an Atlantic Tragedy after the steamship "Columbian" took fire in the Atlantic; Curiosities of Soudan, by H. J. Shepstone, with many excellent photos. Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Massive eleven-page illustrated ad for the National Rubber Co. of New York which seeks to sell shares to readers; Photos of a sundew reaching out to seize a fly. Above-average wear. Crease to front cover. Chips from backstrip. Few light pencil marks to contents. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1953 - Australian Edition
Features: The Ivory Poachers of Tanganyika; "They're Mustering up North" - a cattle round-up in Northern Australia; My Panther Hunt - a greenhorn's first big-game hunt in India; Japanese Sacred Horse - at Miyajima, the famous 'Shrine Island'; House of Terror - Queer happenings in Malaya; The Secret Submarine - Curacao, chief island of the Dutch West Indies; The Handyman - a dramatic story of the pioneer days of flying in Canada's Far North; The Walkabout Bird - The Australian Emu; When the Cyclone Struck - an epic exploit performed by a Torres Straits islander, a diver on board a pearling-lugger; All in the Game - a gold-seeking tale from Nigeria; An Arctic London - an abandoned quarry-camp on Spitzbergen; Island Paradise - the island of Car Nicobar; Where East is West - missing his ship in the Panama Canal, the author tramps to another port only to undergo a nightmare; Binding intact. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, 23 September, 1961
47 pages. Features: Why girls run away from home - thousands of Canadian girls 'break out' yearly; Major Hockey looks west - Coley Hall spends $250,000 for a new team based in San Francisco's Cow Palace; Nancy Sinatra and Tommy Sands; Yarmouth's 200th Birthday; New hospital design places patient's rooms in ring around service unit - Montreal's new Santa Cabrini Hospital; Christopher Plummer plays Henry II and Richard III in London; The Stained Glass windows of Christ Church, Blackfriars, England; Montreal parapalegic Mike Harling races his sports sedan; Resurrection of a warship - the Swedish warship Vasa which sank near Stockholm in 1628; For Canadians visiting England, there are 3 kinds of luck - good, bad and British; Blackbird attacks people - photos and text; Daffodils; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, September 23, 1961
47 pages. Features: Why girls run away from home - thousands of Canadian girls 'break out' yearly; Major Hockey looks west - Coley Hall spends $250,000 for a new team based in San Francisco's Cow Palace; Nancy Sinatra and Tommy Sands; Yarmouth's 200th Birthday; New hospital design places patient's rooms in ring around service unit - Montreal's new Santa Cabrini Hospital; Christopher Plummer plays Henry II and Richard III in London; The Stained Glass windows of Christ Church, Blackfriars, England; Montreal parapalegic Mike Harling races his sports sedan; Resurrection of a warship - the Swedish warship Vasa which sank near Stockholm in 1628; For Canadians visiting England, there are 3 kinds of luck - good, bad and British; Blackbird attacks people - photos and text; Daffodils; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Tide Rips 1951 - United States Coast Guard Academy Class of 1951 Yearbook
260 pages. Hundreds of black and white photos. Lavishly produced. Handsome exterior features gilt upon embossed decorated olive boards. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Nice copy. Book
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Time Magazine, 6 June 1949 *Cover Portrait of U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson*
60 pages. Features and Articles: Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission is questioned about Government-financed scholarships for Communists, and more; U.S. Foreign Aid is whacked to save money; U.S. Military in-fighting involving the Consolidated B-36 and more; Louis Johnson - Master of the Pentagon; The Angels of the Truman Campaign; Victor Reuther; Ralph Bunche; Berlin Rail Strike"; Communist Gerhart Eisler is freed in London on a technicality; Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan are engaged - with photo; China - "The Communists Have Come"; Japan's Emperor Hirohito shifts from divinity to human monarch; Kis Tarcsa concentration camp in Hungary opened again to hold 8,000, 90% of whom are Jews; Willy Messerschmidt mass produces homes of steel and 'foam concrete' in Germany - with photos; Colour ad for DeSoto automobiles; Colour ad for Woodwind suits for men; Grasshoppers in Saskatchewan; Quebec City's Maison du Bucheron provides 55 rooms for loggers; Full page election ad for "Canada's Great Leader", Louis St. Laurent; Railroad construction in Latin America; Soccer contest - Scotland vs. St. Louis; Archibald Henderson of North Carolina; Acne misery; Bill Stern of NBC's Sports Newsreel; Dow Brewery ad features the train engine heroics of 58-year-old Fred Ryan; Pope Pius XII delivers manuscript of Papal Bull - with photo; Pastor Salau; V-2's rival - the U.S. Navy's Viking rocket; Eddie Rickenbacker on the Airlines; Rudy Fah Tongg showed the people of Hawaii how to get rich - early in the second world war he formed a hui which bought up properties of fleeing Caucasions; Sir William Stevenson and the World Commerce Corp.; Colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover; Bruck Mills colour ad on back cover. Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news" - from page 4. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Staining and occasional related damage to top one of two inches of many pages. A worthy copy. Book
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Time Magazine, November (Nov.) 14, 1969 - Spiro Agnew Cover / Fred Bear
104 pages. Features: Spiro Agnew - The King's Taster - feature illustrated article; Apollo 12 - off to the moon again; John Lindsay win's New York Mayor's election; The Haynsworth Showdown; Relief in Saigon after Nixon speech; Skyjacker Raffaele Minichiello becomes instant folk hero in Italy, the country of his birth; Joint Arab Defense Council meets in Cairo; The Polaroid 360 camera - two-page color-photo ad; The Rockefeller Report on Latin America; Color ad for the 1970 Ford Thunderbird with jets in background; What makes a city great?; Violence against teachers; Private Schools - the last refuge; IBM two-page color-photo ad features oceanographer Ed Coughran; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on electric cars shows awkward looking vehicles by Westinghouse (the 'Lotus Europa"), Ford (the 'Lead Wedge'), and G.E. (the 'Delta'); Artist Christo Javacheff; Bob Dylan Speaks - article with photo of him and wife Sarah in London; Big game hunter Fred Bear; Press Ethics - Carl Gilman; Nice color ad for the 1970 Mercury Cougar; Trial of Bobby Seale in Chicago - from the embarassing to the outrageous; Color photo of Al Hirt in Miller Beer ad; Color ad for the 1970 Olds (Oldsmobile) Delta 88 Royale; Northwest Orient airlines ad; Rev. Carl McIntire; The economy at the turning point; Glaciology article; Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen studies migration of the indigo bunting; The first segment of Sesame Street runs on TV - article of Ernie and Bert with Joan Ganz Cooney; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, March 1954 - Western Maryland - 3 Railroads in 1, Plus Photo of Marilyn Monroe
66 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, April 1961 - All About Strasburg
58 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Reading Rambles - Why and how should a railroad de-dieselize?; Amazing trestle-disaster photos from making of movie "Ring of Fire' at Shelton, WA; KCKV - The dying remnant of a Kansas Interurban; The Road to Paradise - The Strasburg Railroad makes money on passengers, but oh that freight deficit!; For Heavy Slogging Service on Steep Grades - the Union of South Africa's topography turned thhe land into a locomotive paradise - great article with many photos; Amazine two-page reprint of a 1960 night photo of the Canadian Pacific Mikado 5135 enroute to Toronto from London; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear A nice copy. Magazine
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Vanity Fair Magazine, February 2009 *Cate Blanchett Cover*
184 pages. Features: Who really killed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?; Uncovering the nastiest secrets of the Bush White House; The Princess and the Photographer - the romance that rocked swinging London; 2009 winners and losers; Cate Blanchett - she only looks like a drama queen. Light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
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Vogue Magazine (US), July 1971
134 pages. Features: Vogue's Eye View - This is it; Fall Forecast - real-life fashion - the velvet blazer as a suit, as separates; the fur-trimmed coat, the caped coat, belted and swingy; Dressing in layers - with a rolling suede cape, rolled up pants, leotards and little skirts; The new pants suits in mixed patterns; the little knit dress; the black knit dinner suit; the black velvet smoking; Chubbies - new fizz for evening in fur, in feathers; Silvana Mangano; Forecast for legs and feet - the shoes, boots, and stockings to wear with the new fall clothes; Vogue Patterns - You did this yourself? - suit looks for day and evening - and the fabrics to make them in; Clothes to knit and crochet; Gayelord Hauser - "For My Toast I Want Butter"; Motivate Yourself; How do you wear your hair in the blazer life?; The new real-life hair colourings; Working with your hands, by Arnold A. Hutschnecker, M.D.; Country House near London for Prince and Princess Stanislas Radziwill; Horoscope for Maria Elise Crummere; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Covers missing A worthy reading copy. Book
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Weekend Magazine, 23 January 1965 *How Canada's Flag Was Born*
34 pages. Features: The Comfortable Pew, by Pierre Berton; Carol Morley - Canadian girl from London is a zany, zesty star in a top New York Revue - and now she wants to tackle Broadway; Name Droppers comic strip; How Canada's Flag Was Born, by Robert McKeown; Greased pig event at the University of Alberta's first rodeo - article with colour photos of animated young ladies; George Chuvalo Could Beat Floyd Patterson - photo-illustrated boxing article by Andy O'Brien; Port Moody B. C.'s Thunderbird Fast Draw Club - article and colour photos of the folks who love to shoot fast; Nipper - Doug Wright comic strip. Various tears. Considerable damage to covers. Book
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Multiple Contributors; Dintgle, Captain A.E.
Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly Digest of World Affairs From the Nation's Capital, June 24, 1933 - Senator Huey Long Grills the House of Morgan & Co.
24 pages. Contents: Front page article about crabs with great photo of crab biting lady bather on toe; Grilling the house of Morgan & Co. Digs Up Plenty of Pay Dirt - Senator 'Kingfish' Huey Long grills Thomas W. Lamont; Oklahoma's Quadruplets - Mona, Roberta, Leots and Mary Keys - graduate from high school; Million Names on Uncle Sam's Pay Roll; Gandhi Fast No Record - with grainy photo from an earlier date; It's No Longer the 'hicks from the sticks' - now it's the 'gullible cityites'; Foreign News - World Economic Conference in London, German Reichsbank declares partial moratorium on foreign payments on its debt; Europe's Big Four Sign Up for 10 Years of Peace and Good Will; Broadcasting; Current Events; Illustration of Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, the only surviving officer of the Akron; Justice Department reveals details of gold hoarders; George N. Peek - Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Act (with illustration); Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson slated to be the czar of industry - with small illustration; Great ingenuity used to build models for Chicago Fair; Prof. F.E. Lumley on Propaganda; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of the official records of the House of Representatives - it holds 10,000,000 documents; Scientific; Gulf Stream Shifts off Boston; Huge new offering of US Bonds and Securities Greatly Oversubscribed; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Aviation - artist's rendering of a proposed seadrome, and discussion of airships; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly Digest of World Affairs From the Nation's Capital, July 1, 1933 - Uncle Sam is Partner in All Industry
24 pages. Contents: Uncle Same is Partner in All Industry - Labor to Get Rights and Consumer to Gain; Australian Representatives Now in Washington; No 'Overproduction' if masses get theirs, says Rexfor Tugwell, Your Friend at Court; War Debt Payments From Europe are Slim; Changes in Veteran Aids Softened by Compromise; Record-Breaking Congress Adjourns Leaving the President a Free Hand; Foreign News; Stabilization Snag at World Monetary and Economic Conference at London; Current Events - with illustrations of Bernard M. Baruch, Speaker Rainey, Sec. Perkins and Col. Howe; Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4, 1776; Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers; Mrs. Daniel C. Roper; Glass-Steagall Banking Bill Solidifies Banking; Marketing; Great photo of feminine employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing counting and sorting new greenbacks; How did money come to take barter's place?; Capital Chat; Science News; Aviation - discussion of the Akron disaster; English Ancestry of the Liberty Bell; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of the sea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Mumby, Frank Arthur
Publishing and Bookselling. A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Frank Arthur Mumby. With a Bibliography by W.H. Peet. Revised by F.A.M. New and revised edition, type reset.
London: Jonathan Cape 1949. 439 Seiten. 8° (17,5 - 22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3074525
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MUNRO-HAY, S.C.
EXCAVATIONS AT AKSUM.
, London, The Britisch Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989., Bound, cloth, with original dust-jacket, 21,5x30,5cm, 359pp, illustrated b/w, bibliography, index.
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9922
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MUNFORD, W.A.;
PENNY RATE: ASPECTS OF BRITISH PUBLIC LIBRARY HISTORY,
, London, The Library Association, 1951, Bound, green cloth, paper dustjacket, 140 x 220mm., 150pp.
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 19074
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MUNDY A.
Chruso-Thriambos. The Triumphs of God. Compiled and performed on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in honour of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London 29 October 1611. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED. WITH EDITOR'S A.L. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED. WITH EDITOR'S A.L.s
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, text in black letter; original navy blue buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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