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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - January 1971 Vol. 36 No. 3
80 pages. Features: Commissioner receives Tipstaff; Dominion of Canada Rifle Association - 1970; Fresh Pork(er); The RCMP Auxiliaries; Break up Hash Party; Tragic Patrol - Sgt. R.J. Schrader and Cst. D.B. Anson; Intuition Pays Off; Protect that car from Theft!; Flying "High"; Province of the Giant Bluefin; Historic Document recalls establishment of the force; Paddy Hamilton; and more. Prior owner's details blacked out atop title page. Faint small ink stamp to front cover. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Dubova, Natalia
Stroking Exercises on Ice - The (Figure Skating) Dance Training Methods of Natalia Dubova - Volume I, The Basics: VHS Video Tape in Case
VHS video tape in case. Featuring: Elizaveta Stekolnikova and Dmitri Kazarlyga. Will assist viewers at all levels of ability in attaining the power, speed, and control typified by world-class skaters. Dubova is the world-renowned coach of Olympic medal winners Usova and Zhulin, Klimova and Ponomarenko, and Gritschuk and Platov. "I have seen Natalia in action, teaching her stroking exercises to skaters at all levels... her video will be a great asset to any skating program." - Louis Stong, Coach of World Champions Underhill and Martini and Kurt Browning. Length of tape not stated. Appears to be at least 30 minutes and quite possibly one hour. Tape and case clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Lussi, Gustave
Systematic Figure Skating - The Spin and Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi: Volume I - Spins. One Hour VHS Video Tape in Case
One hour VHS video tape in case. "Presents in detail the methodology of the renowned coach who invented and first introduced many exciting moves performed in today's freeskating. This tape features Paul Wylie and other skaters "on lesson" with Mr. Lussi, receiving step-by-step instruction for the sit, back scratch, and 'forward' scratch spins." - from case. "Gustave Lussi produced champion after champioin after champion, because he gave his pupils technique they could rely on." - Dick Button, Two Time Olympic Champion. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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(Canadian Forces) Sentinel, July-August 1972, Volume 8, Number 7
Features: A 3-part article on Quality Assurance in the Canadian Forces; Aldershot then and now - Canadians help famed British garrison town celebrate anniversary; Flight abroad is reward for top-notch military men - travel first class with 437 Squadron; Calgary Sergeant Larry Hume is host of TV show 'You and Your Aquarium'; Military medics help local populace during Jamaica manoeuvres; Canucks Unlimited - 436 Elephant Squadron - from southeast Asia to the Arctic; The Royal Navy's uniform experiments; Air Transport Command delivers a school bus to South America. Quality copy. Book
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Locomotives International - No. 19, May 1993
Features: Features: Camden and Amboy No. 635; A History of the Leeds Locomotive Building Industry - the Hunslet Engine Company 1864-1938; Medium Gauge 'Texas' Locomotives; Postcard Gems; Todd's Self-Propelling Hot-Water Tram Car; Rowan Steam Cars - and Kitson Trams; The Jamaica Railway; Gaekwar's Baroda State Railways - Part 2 - the Narrow Gauge Lines. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Orchard, Imbert: Producer
The Cariboo Road (British Columbia) : A Transcript from the 'People in Landscape' Series
15 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The Cariboo Road in modern times and in the nineteenth century. Stories of travel by car and stagecoach from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo. Interviewees - Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs. R.T. Crosby, Miss Leah Shaw, Vince Gresty, Gus Milliken, Roddy Moffat, Bryson Patenaude." - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice 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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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 23: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) January 23rd, 1915
Front cover portrait of Commander Charles R. Samson, of the Royal Flying Corps. The linked battles of Eastern France. The Course of events from the Marne to the Aisne. Centerfold artwork entitled "Contrasts in the Great War - The Awful Thunder of the Guns and the Beneficent work of the Army Medical Corps". Photos and Illustrations: The Aga Khan; Extensive plans for the comfort of the travelling Kaiser; British Armoured Car; The French '75' and its inventor Colonel Dupont; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Kidd, Ronald
One Hundred One (101) Dalmatians - Golden Sound Story
Childrens book with 10 entertaining sound effects which are working loud and clear. The classic story of the 101 Dalmations comes alive with sound! You'll hear the sinister honking of Cruella's car horn, the excited barking and sniffing of the Dalmation puppies, and the twilight telegraph as it relays its message across London. The ten imaginative sounds transport the young reader into the real-life adventures of Pongo and Perdita as they rescue all the Dalmation puppies. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1954, Australian Edition: African Houdini
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Couple of chips from back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. 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 Wide World Magazine, March 1952 - Australian Edition *Includes Marijuana Story from the USA*
Features: Hopper No. 47 - tragic events in home waters; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - a former revenue officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water Divining in India, by S. Jepson; South American Excursion - a motor car journey into Venezuala; Out of the Past - Marijuana - reprint of a 1936 article which describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul, in the United States; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little know region on the borders of Tibet, with photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an odd story from India; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - a sinister terrorist leader in the Malayan jungle; Giant's Footprint? - an amazing photo from South Africa; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Covers almost detached. Book
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Hopman, Harry
Lobbing into the Sun
129 pages. Tips from the Australian Davis Cup Captain whose coaching made champions of Rosewall, Emerson, Hoad, Newcombe, and Laver. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped at edges and bears somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Illustrated War News: November 28, 1917 - Part 77
Features: Photographic Portrait of General Sir Julian Byng, the Leader of the Victorious Third Army; German concrete construction on the French front; "Our Messenger-Pigeon Service"; Western front railway work; Ypres reservoir tower after German bombardment; The 91st Highlanders - brief article with two photos; 2-page photo of a stream of army traffic in Flanders; Motor buses bring men from the trenches (2 page photo); Photos from the British Western front in Flanders; Photo portrait of the new French Premier, M. Clemenceau; Great 2-page photo of camels being deployed in the Palestine campaign - in a wadi before an attack; Mules and Machine Guns; A camouflaged Locker-Lampson armoured car. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
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Railway Magazine - April 1979
Topics: The Preservation Bubble; An Hour to Wait; Revival of London Links; Narrow-Gauge in Brittany; Beside Bala Lake; Cook's Tour - Italian-built dining car for service in Peterborough; A Miscellany on BR. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear and crease to top of front cover. A quality copy Book
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Mechanix Illustrated - August 1967
Features: Preview of the '68 cars; What's new in Tires?; How Smog Control will effect your car; How to survive skids, spins and slides; A redwood hideaway home in kit form; Build Tinkerbelle II - a replica of the famous little boat Robert Manry sailed alone across the Atlantic - complete plans. Pinball Pokerino; Inlaid chess board. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Back cover missing. Book
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Mechanix Illustrated - May 1961
Features: McCahill tests the NEW Volkswagen; Mystery Ion Engine - tiny power plant to speed man 100,000 mph; Tiniest motor in the world; Model Airplains in Russia; Tick Tock Dough; Vacation Cabins; Turret Sprinkler; Last of the Coey Flyers; New Jaguar Sports Car; What to do with an Ostrich Egg; They make their own scooters in Great Neck, New York; and more. Tears to front cover. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Popular Mechanics, April 1970
Features: General Electric's fantastic new electric garden tractor; Detroit claims vs. Union Oil tests; Driving the Gremlin - Detroit's first VW-size car; Best car lock yet; new low-smog gasoline; Apollo's fearless fireman; New electric mowers; Dan Gurney's Column; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Popular Mechanics, October 1969
Features: New instantaneous fire extinguisher for car, boat or home; Build PM's graceful grandfather's clock; What's new in snowmobiles and outboards; Dan Gurney's column; 1970's cars - in colour!; and more. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Popular Mechanics, January (Jan.) 1962
Features: Auto Issue; 1962 Car Specifications; Drive - comparing the Ford 6, Chevy II and slim Plymouth; Flying model car - complete plans!; Will automation take your job?; Test your quick-wit quotient; the way-out world of solid state; those new metallic brake linings; how to outwit an ouzel; is your television a radiation hazzard?; and more. Few scribbles and address label on front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Popular Mechanics, November (Nov.) 1961
Features: Exclusive - I flew the Pterodactyl flex-wing; Silk-screen your own cards; Build a portable 5-minute car wash; 1962 Ford Fairlane with an all-new V8; Crowd Engineering; Football's fabulous foremen - keep your eye on the quarterback - with photos; The gas turbine goes to sea; Guns for the blue and grey; Salmon Fish farming in Washington State - Dr. Lauren Donaldson; and more. Average wear. Sound unmarked copy. Book
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Popular Science Magazine, April (Apr.) 1966
Features: Exclusive - we test-drive U.S. car with Rotary Engine - "Wankel Fever" hits Detroit; Death can result from mixing ordinary drugs and food with a couple of drinks; What it takes to win at Indy, with '65 winner Jim Clark; You can build a tape player for your car; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Popular Science Magazine, December (Dec.) 1965
Features: Henry Ford II on car safety; Sneak Preview - Chevy's new rival for the Mustang - the 'Panther'; Crazy Gadgets of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."; Build an Earthquake Detector; The secrets of drill-press mortising; U.S.-Russia vie for the Biggest Plane - AN-22 vs. C-5A; Biggest - and ugliest - chopper; Dr. Werner von Braun - Rocket-riding cameras show how boosters behave; Booster Pump for hearts; A versatile new inflatable dam!; Ford Fairlane vs. Plymouth Satellite; and more. Average wear. Small piece of tape upon front cover. Sound copy. *Please note: 13 pages Color TV Buying Guide has been removed and is not included* Book
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Science and Mechanics Magazine, July 1964
Features: The Hypersonic Transport - 5,000 mph plane makes A-11 obsolete!; $25 new disposable Janoil-Sherman engine - 5 pounds and 5 horses last 500 hours; Amazing new do-everything drug - DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide); The Ford Mustang vs. the Pontiac GTO; World's Biggest Pearl - 14 lb Pure White; America's newest sports car - the Concourse Mk. 1; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine: May 1911, No. 157. Vol. 27 - *H. Hesketh Prichard in Labrador*
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
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The War Illustrated, 8 September 1917
Features: Cover sketch of 'Canadians Near Lens' - a refresher after battle; photo of a destroyed French home; The Truth about Antwert - article by Lovat Fraser; Austrians dance to the 'Mandolinisti' Tune; Pitiful wreckage where Kultur has passed by; Handiwork of the Invader in Tortured Arras; Aspects of the advance in France and Flanders; Heroes and Howitzers Pressing back the foe; Our Sailor Coastguards - article by Basil Clarke; The Dragon-Flag Unfurled Against the Hun - Chinese photos; Daring deeds of border men and midlanders; Thwarting the U Boat - Routing Prussian Cavalry; The 'Broken Bits' from Mons - how some scattered British Soldiers won through; America Getting Ready for War in all elements (several photos); New bids for mastery in the war in the air; Plan of the body of a 'Gotha' Bombing Plane; The Goddess on the Car - article by Harold Ashton; British Women who are helping to win the war; Who's Who in the Great War; The Empire's Roll of Honour; The Newfoundanders - one page regimental story with photo. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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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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The Wide World Magazine, June 1954: African Houdini
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Respectful wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1927 Through December 1927
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: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1912 Through December 1912 *INCLUDES JUNE SOUVENIR ISSUE - FEATURES VICTORIA*
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: Photo of new office in Victoria; Advances in rates; Increased Rates in Manitoba; Telephoning across the Atlantic; Exchanges ranked in order of per cent good toll calls, November 1911; Statement of development - number of phones operating in each exchange as of 1 December 1911; Cover photo of Grand Forks Switchboard; Photo montage of underground work at Victoria; Birth of the Telephone - 3 page article; Mr. F.J. MacGougan; Photo of types of protected terminals; Vancouver Switchboard photos from 1908 and 1898; Great 2-page photo of the huge 'A' switchboard at Seymour; Load Curve Graph of Seymour Office; Cut-over of Victoria Plant - new epoch in phone history of B.C.'s capital; Vancouver Island Toll Rates; Special Victoria Issue - photo montage of city and district officials; Photo of New B.C. Office; Table showing # of phones in Victoria since 1880; Photos of underground work in Victoria; May 1880 list of Victoria subscribers; 1890 list of subscribers; cable-laying scenes from last September; Nanaimo and Sidny facilities; New Gulf Cable Ordered by William Farrell in England; Miss Mina Kerr; Record work at Highland; New Plant Department Building; How a Directory is Produced; Jolly moonlight excursion to Nanaimo aboard the steamer Princess Patricia; Great photo of 5 new auto wagons of the construction department in front of the Seymour Office (horses having been recently displaced); Some Victoria cable troubles; Photo montage of the Royal visitors, the Duke of Connaught, the Duchess of Connaught, and Princess Patricia; Training school for operators; interior and exterior views of the Royal trolley coach; 3-page Kamloops feature with photos; Functionalization of Plant - reorganization of the department; laying North Vancouver Cable; Photos of large buildings under construction in the Fairmont exchange - the Lee Building, the hospital buildintgs, Steel plant in G.N.R. yards; Fairmont feature - 4 pages with photos; Instructions for Operators; North Vancouver Cable Ready; Importance of Transmission; and more. Half-leather binding. Hinges tender but intact. Backstrip very rough. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge. Mr. LaBelle's signature upon front free endpaper and his initials are penned to top edge. He is mentioned on page 8 of the July issue as being the new Plant Engineer. Binding intact. Please note: small article clipped from page 18 of the December issue. Book
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Mitchell, Joni
Joni Mitchell Songbook: Complete Volume Number 2 (Two)
190 pages. Includes 12 pages of colour photos by Mitchell, designed by Anthony Hudson. Contains music, lyrics and chords for the following songs: A Case of You; All I Want; Blue; California; Carey; Little Green; My Old Man; River; The Last Time I Saw Richard; This Flight Tonight; Banquet; Barangrill; Blonde in the Bleachers; Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire; Electricity; For the Roses; Judgement of the Moon and Stars; Lesson in Survival; Let the Wind Carry Me; See You Sometime; Woman of Heart and Mind; You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio; Car On A Hill; Court and Spark; Down to You; Free Man in Paris; Help Me; Just Like This Train; People's Party; Raised on Robbery; The Same Situation; Trouble Child. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this timeless compilation. Book
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Hot Rod Magazine - 1956 Annual
144 pages. Index. Dozens of black and white photos and diagrams. Features: How Fast Should it Go? - 110 road test results for Detroit cars, 1950 through 1955; Making it Go Faster - latest info. on what you can buy to hot rod your family car; Stealing the V8's Thunder - the complete story on OHV V8 engines; Overhead V8 Prices and Sizes; Engine Swaps - What Fits and Why; Adapter Plates - Where to Use 'em; Proper Transmission Alignment; Choosing the Right Transmission; Hot Rodding Detroit Mills. Above-average wear. Moisture stains along fore-edge of all pages. Binding intact. Unmarked. An entertaining look back to the early days of hot rodding. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1969 *SPECIAL TREASURE ISSUE*
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1982
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Who; Townshend, Pete; Entwistle, John;
The Who Anthology
Includes music, guitar chords and lyrics from the albums: The Who Sings My Generation; Happy Jack; The Who Sell Out; Magic Bus/The Who on Tour; Tommy; Live at Leeds; Who's Next; Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy; Quadrophenia; Odds and Sods; The Who by Numbers. Songs include: Acid Queen; Baba O'Riley; Bargain; Behind Blue Eyes; Call Me Lightning; Disguises; Doctor, Doctor; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Doctor Jimmy; Gettin' in Tune; Goin' Mobile; The Good's Gone; Happy Jack; I Can See For Miles; I Can't Reach You; I'm Free; Instant Party (Circles); Its Not True; The Kids Are Alright; La La La Lies; A Legal Matter; Love Ain't For Keepin'; Love, Reign O'er Me; Magic Bus; Much Too Soft; My Generation; My Wife; Our Love Was, Is; Out in the Street; The Ox; Pictures of Lily; Pinball Wizard; Postcard; Pure and Easy; Quadrophenia; The Real Me; Run Run Run; See Me, Feel Me; Sensation; Slip Kid; Someone's Coming; The Song is Over; Squeeze Box; Tommy Can You Hear Me; You Didn't Hear It (1921); Won't Get Fooled Again. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this large compilation of excellent Who songs. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: January 1969
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Pure Railroad - Why Reserve Mining's line is a lesson as well as an intraplant rock-hauler - great photos and article; "The Finest Parlor Car Ever Built for teh Electric Service" - Parlor 500 from the J.G. Brill works in 1904; great Photo section; The World's Greatest Mikado - Big g's unremarked 0-8 2-8-2's could outperform Berkshires - tables, photos and article; Railroading - does shrinkage equal survival? - article; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1969
Features: Super Power Survives! - 14 pages of NKP 759; Exclusive - Viet Nam Rails, firsthand! - long article with many illustrations; Railroad News Photos; Southern's Computer records car locations; Daniel "Uncle Dan" Willard and his one of a kinds; Modesto & Empire Traction... diesel style - a short but solvent story by Ted Benson; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1968
Features: Railroad News Photos; Early Turbotrain photo; Steam News Photos; photos of a 1948 derailment near Adamsville, Alabama; Guess Who Operates the Largest Railroad System in the Free World? - India! - Article, Map and Photos; The Moguls of Marietta - Glover Machine Works built over 500 locomotives - article and photos; photo section; Incredible two-page 1903 photo of a head-on collision east of Hebron, Indiana; How the Freight Car Problem Got That Way... a History Lesson - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 2; Blue Mountains Revisited - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: May 1968
Features: Is there a freight car shortage? - No! - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 4; 100 mph plus on the MILW (Milwaukee Road) - a quarter-century ago steam made time that would make a diesel blush; Parlor Car East - the Long Island caters to the carriage trade (LIRR); Photo Section; The Crow and the Kettle - Canadian Pacific's unremarked crossing of the Continental Divide - article and photos; The Demi-Empire of Georgia-Pacific; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: June 1965
Features: Editorial - Biggest News from EMD since 1939; What EMD will have in its showrooms in 1966 - 2 pages of diagrams and photos; Photos of the Mississippi Maelstrom; Steam News Photos; Night photo of No. 45684 in England; Can New York City live happily ever after with 34,000 commuters? - what price rails to suburbia? - long article with illustrations and map; The Case of the Curved-Side Lightweight, introduced by the Cincinnati Car Company - Traction Classics; Photo Section - American Railroading... in 1908; Monarch Branch... after; Boarding the Century at Utica - excerpt from a 'Trains' reader letter; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: September 1964
Features: Colorado photo contest winners; What's Our 'Best' Railroad?; Highballing B&O Duplex-Drive; Extra 4501 South; Europe - passenger car trends; Railroad News Photos; Pennsy juice news; Steam News Photos; Superb two-page photo of 'where the wheel meets the rail'; 86 mph behind a 4-4-4-4 - how B&O burned the ballast in 1937; A Tale of Two Tunnels - 1 - The story of the St. Clair and Detroit River Tunnels - includes great old diagrams of how to drill a tunnel; Extra 4501 South - a most unlikely train movement; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: January 1963
Features: Nice EMD ad celebrating their 25,000th locomotive - photo shows new car body and underframe being placed on trucks; Railroad News Photos; The $35 million dollar line relocation - revamp of tight spots on the 337-mile Cincinnati-Chattanooga line nears completion - photos; Sunshine Special, 1937; Unretarded Progress - GTW's Battle Creek Yard - super article, photos and diagrams; 5632 revisited - text and photo; Super-Interurban in Sunset - Farewell to the North Shore Line - nice article and photos; The Big Diesel That Didn't - when Baldwin tried to cram 6,000 HP into one cab - Max Essl; - great article with photos and diagram; On Reporting Marks; The Self-Sufficient Nomad - the Sperry Rail Detector Car; Great photo of a Rotary snowplow; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: May, 1958
Features: Railroad news photos; New Haven's FL9's under the Waldorf-Astoria; My favorite cars are not automobiles! - David P. Morgan pages through a portfolio of extraordinary passenger cars - wonderful photos; The Clean Window Train - the Empire Builder - nicely illustrated article; Meet the M1 - awesome photo section; Speed on Rails - an exclusive analysis of North American Train Speed; What the recession means to the locomotive world; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: October, 1958
Features: Slim-gauge steam in the Sierra; Railroad News Photos; Cap-stacked 0-4-2 Saddletanker in Japan; West Side Lumber - History Born Again - many super photos with article; Great photo in Diesel House of Southern Pacific in Roseville, Califoria; Great 1937 photo of Wheeling 4-4-2 2301; Meat Train - more meat rolls across Illinois Central's Iowa Division than over all other railroads in the state combined - nice illustrated article; How to Unload a Box Car of Grain - photos inside a grain elevator at Superior, Wisconsin; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: January, 1957
Features: Big news for coach passengers; Nice color Fairbanks-Morse ad inside front cover; Railroad News Photos; Half page article on Southern Pacific's 13-mile solid fill across Great Salt Lake; Overshadowed by the Hoosac - illustrated article on other rail tunnels; The Railroad that Parliament Forgot - the Talyllyn in Wales; Super photo section including a shot inside the Paducah, KY steam locomotive shop; Four Aerotrain Photos; Washout - the monthly treatment of a steam locomotive; What Price Sleep? - the domes and diesels, decor and dining of Burlington's latest are de luxe indeed, but the big news lies in a bed just 24 inches wide; RDC (Rail Diesel Car) Breakthrough - Baltimore & Ohio takes the Budd (car) by the horns and shows what can be done; Missourie Pacific (Mopac) - maps; Steam in Indian Summer 8 - by David P. Morgan; Very nice color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway on back cover; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: November, 1956
Features: All about Budd's new coast; Middleman of the Alphabet Route - Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) bankrupted its builder, turned to coal for a living, finally came into its own as a speed-conscious bridge road - latter day solvency stems in part from the travels of a very famous business car; A Virginia & Truckee Sampler; New York Central's Oldest Steam Engine - an Alco 1000-type diesel electric locomotive; nice photo section; Colour centerfold painting of Starrucca Viaduct; The Pioneer III - an 85 foot long car! - article with many photos/diagrams; Steam in Indian Summer - Concerning Henry Ford, a 4-6-0 built in 1900, small boys and bliss and ignorance; Railroad news photos; Nice black and white ad for Elector-Motive Division's (EMD's) Aerotrain; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Material History Review 50, Fall 1999 - Architecture of Old Quebec
Features: The Architecture of Old Quebec, or The HIstory of a Palimpsest; Material History as Cultural Tradition - A La Ronde, Exmouth, Devon, England; Construction d'un paysage identitaire - Grand-Pre et la collectivite acadienne; Construire une histoire basque au Quebec; "Our Nation's Attic?" - Making American National Identity at the Smithsonian Institution; "Hitler's Car" and the Canadian War Museum - problems of documentation and interpretation; The changing significance of the Warren B. Sheppard Site, Battle Creek, Michigan; David Lowenthal on Public History - an interview; 5 book reviews. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
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Page, Victor W.
Model A Ford: Construction, Operation, Repair for the Restorer *REVISED EDITION*
Over 500 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Offers everything to make the amateur hobbyist a master mechanic." - from Introduction. Includes special speed equipment section. Circa 1991. Chapters include: The Ford Car, Its Parts and Their Functions; The Model A Engine and Its Parts; The Ford Engine Auxilliary Groups; Details of Ford Model A Chassis Parts; Driving and Maintenance of Ford Cars; Top Overhaul of Ford Model A Engine; Major Repair of Ford Model A Engine Parts; Troubles in Ford Auxiliary Systems; Ford Model A Electrical System; Overhauling Clutch and Transmission; Ford Model A Front Axle and Steering Gear; Ford Model A Brakes and Rear Axle; Ford Body and Power Plant Removal. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Ball, Kenneth
Fiat 128 1969-73 Autobook: Workshop Manual for Fiat 128 1969-72, Fiat 128S 1972-73, Fiat 128SL 1972-73, Fiat 128 Rally 1972-73
136 pages. "Comprehensive step-by-step instructions and illustrations are given on all dismantling, overhauling and assembling operations... Specifically written for the owner who wishes to maintain his car in first class condition and to carry out his own servicing and repairs." - from Introduction. Few markings to last few pages else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
The Doble Steam Car
13 pages. "The date in this folder is from original Doble literature and from Floyd Clymer's Historical Motor Scrapbook" - from page 1. Contents include: full-page black and white illustrations of the Limousine, De Luxe Phaeton, Phaeton and De Luxe Runabout. Also includes photos of the chassis - rear and overhead views, and the Chassis - front and side views. Illustrated descriptions of the the engine, steam generator and Auxilliary Unit. Additional documentation on the condenser, chassis details, specifications, body designs and equipment. Undated reprint - appears circa 1960s. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy Book
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