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Sea Frontiers - Vol.34. No. 1 - January/February 1988
Features: Marine mirages; The anemonefishes of the Indo-Pacific; Ancient ocean rocks - high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains; The dolphins of San Pedro Channel; Shipwreck legislation - legality vs. morality; Underwater pharmacy; Simon Lake and his diving boat. Nice copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.34. No. 3 - May/June 1988
Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
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Lay, Rear-Admiral H. Nelson
Memoirs of a Mariner
326 pages. "This book gives a few reminiscences of my forty years in the Royal Canadian Navy which covers the last two months of World War I, the period between the wars when the RCN was almost eliminated because of lack of funds, and, of course, the whole of World War II. I have also put in a few words about the family background, and at the end of the period after I retired until the present time." - from Introduction. Numerous black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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The Nautical Magazine - September, 1927, Vol. 118
Contents include: Manavilins - III; The Great Ship Swallower; Private Trading; Those Puzzling Star Names; Collections Lost at Sea; In Memoriam - the British Square Sailer; Speed Sound Signals - stoppage - Collision; Dramatised Versions - V. Hotkins' Code; Wanted - an Esprit de Corps of the Sea; The Good Old Days; The Marine Services of Nigeria - III; Ships of South Kensington; Swediish East India company; Watermen of the Thames - a company centenary; Leaves from a Longshore log; and more. Above-average wear. Spine leaning. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy of this fascinating periodical. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 5: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One)
Pages 113-140. Contains the conclusion of Chapter VIII and the first part of Chapter IV entitled "The German Host Falls on Belgium. Over fifty war illustrations/photos including: Hard-fought British retreat in Belgium; British Marines protect Ostend; Heroic defenders of Belgium; Germans in Liege; Belgium's King Albert on horseback; Antwerp defenses; Belgian lancers; German spy caught in Montreal; Zepellin bombardment of Antwerp in defiance of the Hague Convention; Centerfold illustrations of the British navy and its leaders; German cavalry raiders in canvas boats; French Cavalry moving to Namur; Indian troops for Europe; Sikh regiment; American volunteers for the French army on their way to enlist; and more. Sound unmarked copy with somewhat above-average wear. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 15: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) November 28th, 1914
Cover photo of Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty. How the Germans swept on Brussels. The First Battles in East Prussia. Photos and illustrations include: The German Imperial Guards in Brussels; Germans defending Brussels; Albert, the hero king of the Belgians; Wheeling invalids in wheelbarrows; Carrier Pigeons' Scenes from the First naval battle off Heligoland; Full-page photo of the sinking of the German Cruiser Mainz off Heligoland; Krupp guns used in the German navy; and more. Moderate wear. Single piece of tape inside back cover may be securing covers to textblock, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 73: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) January 8th, 1916
Cover portrait of The Duke of Abruzzi, First cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, Chief Commander of the Royal Italian Navy. Feature: Italy's war in vivid picture and story. Concluding portion of "The Mountain Battles for 'Italia Irredenta'. German Inhumanity to British Prisoners. Photos/Illustrations: full-page photo of Italian troops entrenching at the foot of a glacier on the Austrian Alps; Centerfold illustrations of heavy Italian artillery and before/after views of the Austrian armoured fort at Malborghetto, in the Carnic Alps; and more. Two pieces of tape inside front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Wilson,H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 155: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/I/One) August 4th, 1917
Cover portrait of Rear-Admiral Laurence Eliot Power, appointed in May 1917 to be Director of Dockyards and Repairs. The work of the Navy Engineers - a splendid record. Centerfold photos of torpedoes and smokescreens. The Victories on the Oppy Line and the Sensee Fortress System. Moderate wear. Covers still attached. Unmarked. Book
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Wilson,H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 165: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/I/One) October 13th, 1917
Front cover portrait of Temp. Surgeon-General Humphry Davy Rolleston, Consultant physician to the Royal Navy and Senior Physician of St. George's Hospital, London. British agriculture on a war footing (conclusion). Life of the "Lower Deck" - How it was affected by War Service. Covers secured by tape. Book
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Lynch, Mack: Editor
Salty Dips: Volume 3 (Three)
240 pages. "Navy veterans simply spun their 'salty dips' into a tape recorder with an audience of their peers. The tapes were transcribed into this gem of a book." - Ottawa Citizen. Average wear. Prior owner's name neatly atop title page. Sound reference copy. Book
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Lynch, Mack: Editor
Salty Dips: Volume 2 (Two)
206 pages. "Navy veterans simply spun their 'salty dips' into a tape recorder with an audience of their peers. The tapes were transcribed into this gem of a book." - Ottawa Citizen. Average wear. Prior owner's name neatly atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Sound reference copy. Book
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Lynch, Mack: Editor
Salty Dips: Volume 1 (One)
208 pages. "Navy veterans simply spun their 'salty dips' into a tape recorder with an audience of their peers. The tapes were transcribed into this gem of a book." - Ottawa Citizen. Above-average wear. Openings along backstrip. Prior owner's name neatly atop title page. Partial lean to spine. Still a worthy reference copy. Book
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Smith, Kathleen, et al: Editors and the Vancouver Natural History Society
Nature West Coast: A Study of Plants, Insects, Birds, Mammals and Marine Life as Seen in Lighthouse Park
283 pages. Index. "A study of plants, insects, birds, mammals and marine life... Here is a book for all who are interested in the flora and fauna of coastal southern British Columbia." - from dust jacket. Abundanly illustrated in black and white. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket preserved in Brodart. Lovely copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, January 1953, Australian Edition
Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - April 1953, Australian Edition
Features: The Treasure Map - Buried Treasure in the South Sea Islands, with photos; Salving the Guadarrama - a marine surveyor's account of a remarkable salvage operation; Mr. Kim's Secret - an incident from the grim struggle in Korea; The Man Who Turned Pirate - reprint of a 1938 story involving the American schooner-yacht Aafje, with photos; Australia's Mail-Men; Smiler - another case of Jack ashore getting into trouble in Malaya; The Earthquake - the author and his wife narrowly escape near the Tibetan frontier; Greek Fire - a forgotten incident from World War II involving the protection of a petroleum installation; Average wear. Back cover almost loose. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: The Vengeance Trail - A murder-mystery from Ecuador, with photos; Our New Guinea Cruise - curious sights and scenes, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - interesting climbs in Arctic Norway - photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The 'Hidden Gold" Murders - a German case; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - murderers are eventually captured in America's rugged North-West; A Weird Quest - seances are held to help locate 'lost' gold-mines; Behind the Door - a tale from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - an experience in the wilds of Queensland; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1952
Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1952
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1952
Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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Dickens, Admiral Sir Gerald
The Dress of the British Sailor
33 pages. Numerous archival black and white illustrations. Prior owner's name neatly stamped inside each cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Second printing of the 1957 first edition. Book
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Scientific American, December 1970, Volume 223 Number 6 - Interference Coatings
Features: Marine Farming; The Absorption Lines of Quasi-Stellar Objects; Auditory illusions and confusions; human embryos in the laboratory; optical interference coatings; rickets; Permanent Magnets; The Mule. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1983: Kelp Beds
Features: Fires of Thunder - Quebec's Project of the Century Roars over the Lands and Lives of the Cree; Marine Dominoes - Scientists piece together the complex ecological puzzles of the once great kelp beds; Everest - The Expedition Chronicle of Canadians facing Mountaineering's Crowning Challenge; Canadian Mount Everest Expedition 1982 - The Team. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Breezes - The Magazine of Ships and the Sea: December 1974
Features: Fire in the Mexican Gulf; The Marine Art of Arthur Briscoe; P & O Liner "Canton" of 1938; Ships on Stamps - The Chichester Breed; Dover Re-visited; Malta's National Shipping Line; The Barge Carriers - 3 - "LASH" on the North Atlantic; The John Herron Line. Book
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The War Illustrated - 26 May 1917: No. 145
Illustration Features: a couple of Spahis (Algerian Cavalry) on patrol; The epic story of Lieven and Lagnicourt - article on how the Australians broke the Prussian Guard; 'Tanks' at work on British and French fronts; Work and play behind the lines in the West; Vandal Passion and British Phlegm under fire; Conquerors of Courcy - Russians in Champagne; Forward with the Tricolour North of Soissons; What Italy's Navy is doing - article be Dr. James Murphy; Ships that keep watch and ward in the Adriatic; Ousting the Hun from the shelter of Oppy Wood; The Serbian as I know him - article by H. Charles Woods; One Trawler that tackled 4 U-boats at once; Courageous women nurses; Fokker and Albatros and some of their fallen flyers; Prussia's ruthless havoc in the Somme Valley; The Seventh (7th) Australian Infantry. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - October 1993
Features: The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Operation Torch, 1942-1943; The Battle of Convoy BX-141; The 1834 Cruise of HMS Alligator - The Bible and the Flag; The Liberation of Oslo and Copenhagen - A Midshipman's Memoir; Numerous book reviews; Letter re: Pride of Baltimore - The Story of the Baltimore Clippers, 1800-1990. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1992
Articles: C.C. Ballantyne and the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, 1917-1921; Historic Watercraft and Canada's Maritime Heritage; Canadian Maritime Bibliography by Fischer, L.R.; Salmon, M.S. and Wison, G.S.; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1994
Articles: Toronto Harbour and the Defence of the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1870; Dodging in the Bight, a good place for a Whale - Environmental Factors Affecting Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Whaling in Davis Strait; Reassessing the Dreadnought Crisis of 1909 and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy; The Last Murmansk Convoys, 11 March - 30 May, 1945; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1996
Articles: The Lost the Smell - The Canadian Steam Merchant Marine, 1853-1903; Managing Change - The Organisation of Port Authorities at the turn of the Twentieth Century; Shipwrecks, Collisions and Accidents in St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Waterway, 1848-1900; plus a letter re: The Tancook Schooners and book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1997
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1997
Articles: The First Generation of Marine Engineers in Central Canadian Steamers, 1809-1837; Spencer Baird and the Scientific Investigation of the Northwest Atlantic, 1871-1887; The Battle for Convoy ONS-154, 26-31 December 1942; Maritime Strength and the British Economy, 1840-1850; plus several book reviews. One item high-lighted in Table of Contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1997
Articles: The Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War; British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine; Management and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Ports; The Development of Strategic Concepts and Shipbuilding Programmes for the Soviet Navy, 1922-1953 - Stalin's Battleships and Battlecruisers; plus several book reviews. One article high-lighted in Table of Contents, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1997
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1998
Articles: The Fortunes of War - Commercial Warfare and Maritime Risk in the War of 1812; Safe Home in Port? - Shipping Safety within the Port of Liverpool; The Decline of British Whaling in Arctic Canada, 1820-1850 - a case study of Newcastle upon Tyne; Letters from Halifax - Reliving the Halifax Explosion Through the Eyes of My Grandfather, a Sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1999 - Mexican Navy 1846-1848
Articles: Too Few Ships, Too Few Guns, and Not Enough Money - The Mexican Navy, 1846-1848; Computer Simulations of Ancient Voyaging; Arctic Focus - the Royal Canadian Navy in Arctic Waters, 1946-1949; Muster Table for the Royal Navy's Establishment on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; The Company of Women; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1999
Articles: Women and Seamen Don't Mix - VD in Canada's Merchant Navy, 1943-1945; Home Ports and Destinations - English Shipping in the Baltic Trade, 1536-1547; The Living Conditions onboard UK Distant-Water Trawlers, 1945-1970; This Fraudulent Trade - Confederate Blockade-Running from Halifax During the American Civil War; plus several Book Reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 12 January, 1918
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1954
Features: A Tigress for Escort - an amazing story of Indian big-game hunting; Football Crazy - An amazing story of the merchant navy in South Africa; Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a long-delayed 'sequel' to "The Wreck of the General Grant", originally published as far back as 1899; Garcia - by Kerry Wood of Red Deer, Alberta; Saskatchewan "Snowplanes" - includes photo of the winner of the 1938 'Derby Cup' race; The Land of Wonders - a visit to a little-known region in the heart of Turkish Anatolia; Diamonds Cut Diamonds - a quaint story from Queensland involving beachcombers collecting loot from a wrecked steamer; Search and Rescue - stirring stories of rescues by the Royal Canadian Air Force; Alpine Killer - an unusual story from the Austrian Tyrol by a chamois hunter - involves a savage ibex; The Death-Track - a white man seeks to develop land considered sacred. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 187, 16 March 1918
Cover illustration of H.M. Field Pigeon Post. Illustration of a runner. "How Japan May Rescue Russia" by Lovat Fraser. Photos of Allenby's Anzacs reaching Jericho and the Jordan. Photos of Maple Leaf Heroes Who Hold the Line at Lens. Photos of Men of the Navy Active Mid Arctic Snow & Ice. Photos of Getting Ready for the Roaring of the Guns, including photo of a great dump/shell park along the French Western Front. Photos of Great Naval Ordnance that Awaits the Onset. "The Assembly Trench" by 'Sapper'. Photos along the Allied Line; Peaceful pursuits over classic battlefields. Illustration of Canadian narrow-gauge armoured engine supplying ammunition to the front. "F.O.O. in a Daylight Raid" - 20 minutes in an enemy trench. Wounded borne in barges by quiet waterways. Women's war work. Illustration of German observer post concealed behind an image of Christ on the cross. Safeguarding the Soldier - how Australia has taken thought for the future. Photos of Americans in France. Mascots and Pets share their masters' peril - photos. And more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 184 - 23 February 1918
Four photos of Canadians at work in the snow in France. Arms and Apparatus for Night-Flying Airmen - 5 photos plus inset photo of Lieut. Dostier, one of Germany's crack airmen. Remarkable photo of the raid by Gothas on Paris in January 30th. Avengers of Arras Advance Their Artillery - Two Photos. Pitiful Plight of the Little Country Places - 3 photos. 'Butoire' - how in fighting one foe he conquered another, by Henry Barbusse. Trench cookhouses. Valuable war-time village vegetable industry - 6 photos. Activity of shipways and gunworks in America - 6 photos including 2 of Hog Island. Wartime wastage of the navy - a heartening contrast with the Napoleonic war, by Percival A. Hislam. French contrivances and fortitude - 5 photos. Critique of the book 'Englishman, Kamerad!'. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 228 - 28 December 1918
The Old Times Come Again, by Max Pemberton who explains how Christmas is re-won. Photos of the 'Great Leaders Who Have Saved The World.". The First U.S. President to visit Europe - 3 photos including smiling shot of Woodrow Wilson. Photos of U.S. vessels which protected convoys, including the destroyer Warmington and the destroyer Shaw. The Wonderful Year, article by Sir Sidney Low. Portrait of Marshal Foch. Photo of the formal re-entry of the Belgians into Liege. Photos of British Cavalry entering Spa. My four war Christmases, by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of mementoes gathered for the Great War Museum. Photo of General Maistre, commander of a French Army Group, distributing decorations in front of Rheims Cathedral. Photos of civilian prisoners trudging back to France from Germany. With the Editor by Air (aboard the Handley Page) to France & Back Again - article and photos. Photos of desecrated statues in Metz. New Names in our Old Navy, by Percival A. Hislam. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 127, January 20th, 1917 - The Effect of the Somme Offensive
Features: Cover portrait of Colonel Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O., the Hero of Beaumont-Hamel, Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Navy Division. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Great British Battles of the Somme - V. - Check near Bapaume and Victory on the Ancre". Includes complete chapter CLV - "The Effect of the Somme Offensive on the German 'Will to Victory'". Many excellent photos, including one of captured German flame-throwers 'which the enemy, in defiance of civilised useage, introduced into warfare.' Graphic centerfold of a shell-shattered avenue of elms along the borders of the Yser Canal between Boesinghe and Lizerne. Also includes first portion of Chapter CLVI - Belgium Under Two Flags - The Homeland Under the German Heel and the Renaissance of the Army on the Yser. Many excellent black and white photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 241 - 29 March 1919 *COMPLETE WITH COLOUR PLATE PORTRAIT OF GENERAL BYNG*
Features: Cover portrait of Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Fleet, watching the surrender of the German High Sea Fleet from his flagship the Queen Elizabeth. Chapter CCLXXXVII - The Surpassing Triumph of the British Navy - Failure of Germany's Submarine War and Surrender of her High Sea Fleet. Many great black and white photos. Super full-page photographic portrait of Admiral Beatty and Flag-Captain Chatfield, watching the surrender of the German Fleet. Includes photo of Admiral Beatty's historic message to the Admiralty announcing "the bloodless, most glorious triumph of the British Navy, the surrender of the seventy units of the German High Sea Fleet at the appointed rendezvous in the North Sea on November 21st, 1918, in obedience with the armistice terms." Many other historic photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 242 - 5 April 1919 - The Roll of Honour, Concluding Survey
Features: Cover portrait of Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, G.C.M.G., Appointed High Commissioner, Constantinople, November, 1918, following upon the armistice with Turkey. Includes final installment of the chapter "Triumph of the British Navy". Great photos. Various nautical photos/illustrations on centerfold, including Britain's giant K class boats. Also includes Chapter CCLXXXVIII - "The Roll of Honour - Concluding Survey". Somewhat above-average wear. Some corners folded. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1959 Through January/February 1960
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: Rate increase approval; explansion plans for 1959, including new purchasing, warehousing and repair centre to be built at Manitoba Street and Southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver; Operator Distance Dialing Nears Reality; B.C.'s Biggest Television Events in 1958 as covered by mobile television links, including the Ripple Rock blast, the visit of H.R.H. Princess Margaret, and the Grey Cup; Changes to Sales Organization; Automating Accounting; Expanding the Personnel Department; Conversion of manual systems to dial operation; Conversion of Glenburn to Cypress; New Long Distance Route to Kamloops; Dial phones come to Sidney, Keating and James Island; Pension Plan Personalized; Adoption of Irregular Base Rate Areas; Closing of two historic switchboards in Victoria and Vancouver; Teletype Sale Made to East Asiatic; R.W.J. Angus becomes new General Commercial Manager; The Birth of N.P.A. 604 (the 604 area code); High cost of workplace accidents; Long Distance Anniversary greetings to a New Westminster Rotary Club from around the Western Hemisphere; Removal of high-wire span that linked Agassiz and Chilliwack since 1910 (6 pnotos); Conversion jobs sparked romances; Maintenance men to match our mountains; The visit of the queen (14 photos); "Follow Me" - a child's-eye view of the telephone company through the medium of C.B.C. television; Vancouver General Hospital (3 photos); Electronic 'Detectives' Guard Microwave; The FW-1 intertoll switching installation in the William Farrell Building - the brain and heart of toll; Logging by Radio - New Switchboard serves radiotelephone subscribers; Laying cable in the Pitt River (2 photos); Opening of new headquarters in 700 block of Seymour Street in Vancouver (3 photos); A new approach to serving the public in the new addition; Activation of a new radiotelephone long distance system through the Cariboo - illustrated; Traffic Signs for Toll; New Woodland Central Office serves Whalley (photos); Phone fashion; Network Television reaches the Interior; 500,000th telephone installed; Night move of revenue accounting to 555 Seymour (photos); Terrace phones now automatic (photos); Traffic, Staff Metering - Instantly; Service at New Denver is Personalized; The Heave-Ho Boys - name your antenna and they'll put it up! (with great photos); new building for Gibsons, Sechelt; Kamloops Editorial salutes operators; Transmission Levesl - an FW-1 Problem; Plans for 1960, including completion of Burnaby centre; Graph of telephone growth in B.C. since 1880; History of the Alma Central Office; The Happy Islanders on Calvert, Trutch and Swindle Islands; Machines take over in the Accounting Field; Rough weather at Newcastle Ridge; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom edge of text. A photo and announcement re: Mr. Labelle is found in the July/August 1959 issue. Book
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Multiple Contributors
British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1945 Through November/December1946
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: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points Book
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Melady, John
Korea, Canada's Forgotten War
219 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Includes Honour Roll plus Canadian Navy, Air Force, and Army Honours and Awards, Korea. Map endpapers. "Contains first-hand accounts of men who endured torture in Chinese POW camps, of doctors whose experiences in battlefield medicine have the pathos and hilarity of a M*A*S*H episode, and of prominent Canadian journalists such as Blair Fraser, Larry Henderson, and Pierre Berton, who reported on the war from the front lines, as did Rene Levesque." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Edwards 433, McFarland 1377. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encycloeaedia of the War: Part 213, 17 September (Sept.) 1918 *THE BOY SCOUTS*
Topics: preparedness of the Boy Scouts; Sir R. Baden-Powell as a Prophet; Holiday and War; The Boy Scout Organization; Work of a Wartime Camp; Lord Kitchener's View; The Public and the Scout; A Non-Military Movement; Opinions of the Press; The American Ambassador; Scout Law; Scout Badges; Gallantry in the Navy; Sea Scouts as Coast Guards; Gallantry in the Army; Influence of the Scout Spirit; War Emergency Work; Work for the Government; Agricultural Help; Boy Scout Tests of Citizenship; Recreation Huts and Collections; Helping the Police; In Air Raids and Bombardments; Work for Hospitals; Boy Scouts of the Empire; The Movement in Foreign Countries; Scouts of the Allies. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Evans, Bob
HMS "Eaglet"
362 pages. The story of the Royal Naval Reserves on Merseyside. Gift greetings on title page and marginalia on several pages only. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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