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Lacey, H. M. ; U.E. Lacey
Timber-Framed Buildings of Steyning, The
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 174 pages with a great many 1/2 page b&w photos, architectural drawings. Detailed study of existing buildings. Fold-out map at back in excellent condition.
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Landon, Melville D. ("Eli Perkins").
WIT AND HUMOR OF THE AGE COMPRISING WIT, HUMOR, PATHOS, RIDICULE, SATIRES, DIALECTS, PUNS, CONUNDRUMS, RIDDLES, CHARADES, JOKES AND MAGIC. By Mark Twain, Robt. J. Burdette, Josh Billings, Alex Sweet, Eli Perkins, With the Philosophy of Wit and Humor by Me
pp. 754 + Plus Index and portrait photo frontis of contemporary humorists. Illustrated with full page drawings. Text beginning to brown. Tall 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, slightly soiled. HUMOR 7
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Large, R. Geddes
Drums and Scalpel - From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast
145 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "A particularly readable account, rich in anecdote, of how medicine came to the magnificently beautiful but isolated places of upcoast British Columbia." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked. Dust jacket sunned at spine and now protected in archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound working copy. Book
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Large, R. Geddes
Drums and Scalpels : From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast (Signed By author)
Signed by author on title page and very neat inscription on reverse of half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Well-rubbed dust jacket not price clipped with piece missing from upper rear edge, dusty rear. Very scarce in the UK. 145pp. From the earliest contact of physicians with tribespeople whose health lay in the healing power of native medicine men in upcoast British Columbia with their drums, rattles and potions, this very readable account tells how the latest scientific medicine came to whites and natives alike.
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Leclanché SA
La Société anonyme Leclanché à Yverdon (Suisse) 1909 - 1959
Leclanché SA, 1959, à l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la fondation de l'entreprise. Plaquette non paginée contenant des photos noir/blanc, des shémas et quelques rares photos couleurs éditées pour présenter les premières piles et batteries crées par Leclanché
Riferimento per il libraio : CSP-1829
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Lewis, Wyndham
Blasting and Bombadiering
312 pages. Index. Black and white plates. Covers 10 years of the author's life... "what happened to me in the Great War, and then afterwards in the equally great Peace" - from Introduction. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Some spine slant. A worthy reading copy. Book
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Lodge, J.; Boone, A.; Teale, E.; Martin, R.; Armagnac, A.; Johnson, G.; Burton, W.
Popular Science, December 1934, Volume 125, Number 6 - Aerial Cannon May Revolutionize Aerial Battle Tactics
132 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Cover illustration of mobile deep-sea floor device of J.E. Williamson; Fire at sea - a challenge to science; Lone fingerprints trap master criminals; Wins worldwife fame with microscope hobby; Earth's last drop of oil sought by new discoveries; Flying Battleships; How to Build a Sky Globe; Stalk Sea Monsters in Odd Craft; How Shotgun Champions battle for their crowns. Ads: Very nostalgic illustrated General Electric ad inside front cover features their home battery charger; RCA Victor ad illustrates the Table Model 123 "Magic Brain" radio; Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features inset photos of W.C. Geiser of Springfield, Illinois, Mrs. M.C. Mondy of Conneaut, Ohio, and R.T. Pursley of Hammond, Louisianna; Lovely color back cover ad for Chesterfield features their cigarettes in color superimposed over black and white photos from Asia and Europe. Average wear. Signature upon front covers. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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L’Assiette au beurre -
Revue L’Assiette au beurre : La Police / 1: Chef et batterie de cuisine / dessins de Camara, Grandjouan, d'Ostoya, Fourment, Aroun, Lengo - satirique
N° 112 du 23 Mai 1903 - broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 55226
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L’Express de Lyon / format in-4 - couverture et dos Noir et blanc - 1/ combat de Cienfuegos (Cuba) - une batterie du navire américain “Marblehead” pendant l’action - 2 / Chez le Négus Ménélik : la rue des lépreux à Harrar
Amérique (Cuba) et Ethiopie
N° 2 de 5 juin 1898 - broché
Riferimento per il libraio : 8774
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MANOEUVRES D'UNE BATTERIE -
Réglement sur les Manoeuvres et les Evolutions des Batteries Attelées approuvé par le Roi le 12 Mars 1836. Planches des Manoeuvres.
Paris Levrault 1836. 8vo-oblong. 115 x 21 cm. Orig. printed blue boards. Only platevolume. Lithographed titlepage and 56 lithographed plates. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 45777
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MANOEUVRES D'UNE BATTERIE -
Réglement sur les Manoeuvres et les Evolutions des Batteries Attelées, approuvé par le Roi le 12 Mars 1836. Planches des Manoeuvres.
Paris, Levrault, 1836. 8vo-oblong. (11,5 x 21 cm.). Orig. printed blue boards. Only platevolume. Lithographed titlepage and 56 lithographed plates.
Riferimento per il libraio : 45777
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Manufacturers of Toy and Military Drums, Musical T
Noble and Cooley Company Granville Massachusetts 1922
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1527773310.G ISBN : 1527773310 9781527773318
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Manufactures of Toy Drums, Musical Toys, Etc
Noble and Cooley Co. Granville Massachusetts
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1527845028.G ISBN : 1527845028 9781527845022
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Manufacturers of Toy and Military Drums, Musical T
Noble and Cooley Company Granville Massachusetts
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1527850382.G ISBN : 1527850382 9781527850385
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Manufacturers of Toy Drums, Musical Toys, Etc
Noble and Cooley Co. 1917
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1527845230.G ISBN : 1527845230 9781527845237
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Manufacturers of Toy and Military Drums, Musical T
Noble and Cooley Company Granville Massachusetts 1925
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1527851044.G ISBN : 1527851044 9781527851047
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MASON, Nick
Pink Floyd
2007 - broché - Editions E.P.A - 2007 - In-8 (22 x 17,5 cm) broché, couverture à rabats - 239 pages - Photographies en couleurs et en noir et blanc - ISBN : 9782851206565 - Ouvrage sous titré : "Pink Floyd. L'histoire selon Nick Mason"
Riferimento per il libraio : 376
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McIntosh Battery and Optical Company
Illustrated Catalogue of Stereopticons Sciopticons Dissolving View Apparatus Microscopes Solar Miscroscope and Stereopticon Combination Objectives Photographic Transparencies: Plain and Artistic
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 0366716514.G ISBN : 0366716514 9780366716517
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McIntosh Battery and Optical Company
Illustrated Catalogue of Stereopticons Sciopticons Dissolving View Apparatus Microscopes Solar Miscroscope and Stereopticon Combination . Colored Views and Microscopical Preparations
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 0366716395.G ISBN : 0366716395 9780366716395
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McIntosh Battery and Optical Co
Illustrated Catalogue of Batteries and Electro-Therapeutical Appliances.
McIntosh Battery and Optical Co.; Chicago; 1899. Nineteenth edition 1899. Stapled wraps 8 x 5 3/4 inches 272 pp. index numerous illustrations engravings five plates of radiographs demonstrating the new technology. Besides the illustrations there is substantial text background/descriptive/explanatory text testimonials use of electricity in the therapy of various diseases book reviews. Text on how to set up and use X-ray tubes. Front cover missing otherwise complete; some very short tears to edges of first few pages; one inch tear to first page lower spine aspect; mild foxing first page only; fuffling of fore-edge corners mostly upper; a little worming involving the upper margin of pages 171-194 not involving text or illustrations; otherwise pages clean and binding strong. Except for the absence of the front cover none of these defects interfere with text or illustrations. Rare in any condition or edition. Early X-ray theory and practice in medicine published only about 4 years after Roentgen's discovery. 3214018. Soft cover. McIntosh Battery and Optical Co.; Chicago; 1899. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 2171
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McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
Illustrated Catalog of Electro-therapeutical Apparatus . Thirtieth Edition
Chicago IL: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co 1909. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 2 158 pages. 8vo. Brown wrappers with embossed decorations. Front wrapper coming detached some insect damage to the title page. Otherwise a bright clean example. Nicely illustrated. Wraps. McIntosh Battery & Optical Co was established in 1879 and was a prolific manufacturer of electrical apparatus. Davis & Dreyfus Finest Instruments shows two copies of this catalog OCLC one example from a previous year. We've seen a few copies over the years.<br/><br/>Much of the content is focused on the individual practitioner and the focus has shifted from earlier catalogs to a wider range of equipment. McIntosh Battery & Optical Co unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 26618
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MICHIELS Frank
Ingoma ; socio-historische & musicologische studie van de trommel uit Rwanda
Volledig in 2 delen: samen 205pp. met illustraties en muziekvoorbeelden in tekst, in-4, onuitgegeven thesis aangeboden tot het behalen van de graad van licentiaat in de oudheidkunde en kunstgeschiedenis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1984, promotor: prof.dr.A. Maesen), goede staat, zeldzaam, C94873
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MILLET (Catherine)
DANIEL HUMAIR : Exposition Galerie Daniel Templon, 4-28 février 1969. [Rare catalogue]
Paris : Imprimerie Mazarine, 1969. Fascicule agrafé format carré (21x21cm) de couleur orange, [8] pages illustrées en noir, photographie de Daniel Humair en fin de fascicule, expositions personnelles, expositions collectives. [BEG, rare catalogue d'exposition]
Riferimento per il libraio : SPN-1107
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Moran Brian
Battery Toys The modern Automata
1 28x21,5 cm., legatura editoriale cartonata stampata a colori, pagg.166, presentati numerosi articoli quasi tutti a colori, con ampie descrizioni, prima edizione, in inglese, buone condizioni.
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Airforce Magazine: October-November-December 1990, Volume 14 Number 3
44 pages. Features include: Back to the basics - the ultralight; First kill in the six year air war; Battle of Britain - a woman's view; Leaping Squadron Leader; Not just the Arrow; Those were the Days; Escape from the SPs; Return to the Rock; The Arrow rises from the Wreckage; From AC2 to Lieutenant-Governor; Tac Hel not glamorous; McKnight Defends Budget Cuts; Canada's next space mission; Air Command Pipes and Drums - Over 40; Stranraer Down and Out. Light to moderate wear. Address label upon back cover else clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 34, January 1993 *I.W. Harper Whisky Cover*
64 pages. Features: Back cover - Horsford's 1883 Calendar; I.W. Harper - A Family Affair - Isaac Wolfe Bernheim; Antique Arizona Bottles - very informative with many photos; Kovel's Antiques & Collectibles Price List; Auction Action; Battery (Voltaic Cell ) Jars - informative article with excellent photos; The Mystery of the Missing Pontil Scar, by Kent Williams. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 40, July 1993
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Right Place, Right Time!, by Jim Sinsley; The Making of Uncle Sam, by Dave Cheadle; The Presentation Whisky Jug, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk - Alexander H. Kerr and the Kerr Glass Company, by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - The E.C. Flaccus Company, P. Duff & Sons, Battery Jar Update - by Tom Caniff; Part IV - To Remember Him (fiction), by Jackie McRae; Up-Dates; The Appeals & Perils of Appraisal, by Jack Sullivan. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Bottles and Extras Magazine, No. 41, August 1993
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Schoenheit Medical Company, by Richard A. Cannon, M.D.; The Making of Uncle Sam (Part 2), by Dave Cheadle; Did John McCloskie Invent a better whisky Jug?; Bryan's Top Shelf, by Bryan Grapentine; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - the E.C. Flaccus Co., Huyler's bottles, Kaffee Hag, by Tom Caniff; Granspa's Escapades (fiction), by Randy Leonard; Up-Dates; Auction Action. Nice two-page photo ad for The Richards Collection of American Historical Flasks at Absentee Auction, by Norman C. Heckler & Company. Cup ring on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1926 Through December 1926
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: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Down Beat - Music '69 (1969) 14th Yearbook - Jazz, Blues, Soul, Folk, Rock
98 pages. Wonderful full-page Guild amplifier ad on page 2 featues George Benson playiing. Gary Burton is featured in a full-page ad for Musser Vibes; 1968 - the year that was; The Roots of Rock, Rhythm and Blues, by John Gabree; The Joe Marsala Story - article with photos; Duke Ellington Travelogue - his Latin American photo album, with article; Notes and Memories of the New Music, by Larry Kart; The Blues as Poetry, by Rod Gruver; Combined Fender and Rogers Drums ad features Jimi Hendrix and Louie Bellson; Bud Powell - a complete discography, by Jorgen G. Jepsen; The Cream of the 1968 Record Crop; Jazz Humor, by Ira Gitler; Arrangement for Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Joe Zawinul - as recorded by Buddy Rich and his band; Tonic Drum ad featuring Max Roach; Blues and the Abstract Truth, by Oliver Nelson - composed and arranged for 7-piece combo; Slingerland Drum ad inside back cover featuring Buddy Rich. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this most enjoyable and informative publication. Book
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Down Beat Magazine, February 8, 1956 - The Benny Goodman Story
50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for movie The Benny Goodman Story with photo of Steve Allen and Donna Reed; Full-page ad for Slingerland Drums with photo of Gene Krupa; Brief article with headline "Buddy Rich Quits Drums to be Song and Dancer" (?????); Part I of the Benny Goodman story - the man who turned music upside down; 'Voice of America' interviews Benny Goodman; Photo ad for the Deagan Vibraharp featuring Lionel Hampton; Meet Mr. Yaged; Frank Holton & Co. Trombone ad featuring photo of Ralph Marterie and his All Holton Trombone Section; Guild Guitar ad featuring photo of Johhny Smith; Buescher sax ad featuring photo of Danny Ludovici, Shep Fields, Buck Thompson and Bernis Hatch; Jimmy Giuffre "Gazelle' Solo sheet music; John Lewis Shows Piano Style - sheet music; Lotus Bud sheet music; Martin trumpet ad inside back cover features photo of Leonard B. Smith; Benny Goodman image featured in backpage ad for Selmer clarinets; and more. Ink stamp to front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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Garden Railways Magazine, December 1995
126 pages. Features: A Scratchbuilt Water Tower from a Flower Pot; Curves - Part 1; Structures for Outdoor Railroads - Part 10; The Acoma Central; The Pagosa Prairie Dogs - Part 1; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 5; The Holiday Garden Railway at the New York Botanical Garden; A Battery Car that wears many hats. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine 31 August 2009 *Colin Thatcher Claims He Was Framed*
Features: Colin Thatcher claims he was wrongly convicted; Harper's Recovery; Alberta's Wildrose Alliance; Obama's Health Care Proposal; Abdullah Abdullah - a new hope for Afghanistan; Germany gets Tough - sends troops to Afghanistan; Canada's chance to Emerge from America's Shadow?; The Race for the Perfect Battery; The Cooling Cure for Cardiac Arrest; Is Quebec the Human Guinea Pig Capital of North America?; Are we Drinking too much Water?; In Praise of Dead-End Jobs; What Happened to Quentin Tarantino?; Keeping a lid on Vancouver fun; Wal-mart's new cookies taste like Girl Scout cookies; Judith Josephine Koritar - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, October 15, 1950 - I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over / Lena Horne
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 1, 1950 - Great Danny Kaye Cover Illustration
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 1, 1952 - How Social Credit (the Socreds) Took B.C.
60 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a Model L-195 Roadliner; Full-page Parker Pen ad; Editorial - The CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) is not Canadian and not National; London Letter - Belgrade laughs at the Kremlin; How Social Credit Took B.C. - The astonishing story of how a group of rank amateurs suddenly found themselves forming a government - article with photos; Warrior - Sgt. George Thomas (Tommy) Prince, grandson of an Indian chief, won ten ribbons fighting Germans, Italians and Chinese, but now he must fight to prove a man's colour doesn't count on the warpath - article with great photos; Got two hours for dinner? - Le Bastogne restaurant in Quebec City - article with colour photos; Rhymes in a Ten-cent Scribbler - Edna Jaques is Canada's best-sellling poet - article with photos; Glen Dobbs - The Roughriding Mayor of Dobberville - a lanky and amiable American quarterback has set Saskatchewan on its ear; Guns are for Men - story by L. Johanne Stemo - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Eva von Gencsy - the ballet star with the dishpan hands - article with photos; Put it Back, Lady! - how store detectives in the bustling supermarkets catch hundreds of food pilferers each year; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Nice colour ad for Aylmer canned peaches; Great Prest-o-lite battery ad features black and white photo of Detroit Red Wing star Red Kelly; Nice vintage colour La-Z-boy ad; Chevrolet ad; Colour Ford ad inside back cover; Massey-Harris colour ad on back cover shows their test track for power farming. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, April 17, 1944 *COVER PHOTO OF H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA MARY*
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Popular Mechanics, April (Apr) 1962
Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Practical Wireless Magazine: November 12, 1932 - Vol. 1, No. 8
Includes special 8 page photogravure supplement on the Argus Three. Articles: Using the Loud-Speaker; All about Low-Frequency Coupling; Indoor Aerial Erection; The Screen-Grid Valve as a Detector; Do you understand characteristic curves?; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Reveivers and their Records; Tapping and its Uses - 1; Radiogram Receivers; Simple apparatus for measuring Resistances; The Beginner's Supplement; How to choose a suitable L.T. Battery for your set; Below 100 metres; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 2; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
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Practical Wireless Magazine: November 5, 1932 - Vol. 1, No. 7
Topics: Fitting a Pick-up; Automatic Grid Bias from Battery Sets; Details Often Overlooked; Simple Former for Short-Wave Coils; Simple Tester for Tuning Coils; Economical Construction; Combined with Efficiency; A Cheap Fault-Finder; The Loud-Speaker and the Output Stage; Causes of Instability; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Receivers and Their Records; Introducing the Argus Three (3); The Speaker Speaks; Selectivity with Plug-in Coils; Choosing a Modern Valve - 3; The Beginner's Supplement; Can you Read a Circuit Diagram?; Below 100 metres; The Gang Menace - the fallacies of uni-control in Radio Receivers; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 1; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
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The Electrical Engineer Vol. II No. 1 May 22nd, 1936
39 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
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The Electrical Engineer Vol. II No. 23 October 23rd, 1936
Approx 40 pages. Features: Recent Developments in Control Gear for Small A.C. Motors; Street Lighting at Birmingham; Power Factor Improvement to a Guaranteed minimum Value; Testing A.C. Meters; Magnetisers and Magnetising; Installing and Operating Constant Potential Battery Chargers; Factory Electrical Installations; Automatic Control of D.C. Motors by Motor Generators; Survey of Electric Welding Methods; Sound Film Apparatus. Cigarette smoke odour. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Illustrated War News - Part 76, 21 November 1917
Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 1, 1941 *The First American Crusade, By Herbert Hoover*
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The War Illustrated - No. 137: Forces Behind the Russian Revolution
Features: French Lance-Grenade Battery; Along Russia's long line from Riga to Armenia (4 photos); Forces behind the Russian Revolution (1-page article); Means and modes of locomotion in Mesopotamia; Past and present in picturesque Bagdad; Deadly British Mortar that Balks the Hun; Deceptive Trench-Forestry on the Ancre; On the way to Bapaume - a wingless butterfly; Italians watch effects of new French grenade; The flight from Bukarest - 2-page article plus 4 photos; Indian Empire after the War - article by St. Nihal Singh; 4 photos of Prussian piracy - windjammer torpedoed by U-boat in the Channel; The Scottish borderers on the Somme - article. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 186 - 9 March 1918
Full page illustration of the new chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. Some Lighter Aspects of a Fleet Action - by 'Bartimeus'. Preaching and Practising Prudent Economy - 5 photos. An Aeroplane Shoot on the Western Front, by 'O.Pip'. Artillery Preparation Against the Great Attack - 3 photos of a massive British rail-mounted gun and a French shell dump. Amazing photo of French observers serving as part of an anti-aircraft battery. Five photos of kite balloons. Women at work. Tanks and Trimphs from the French Front - 4 photos. From the Forge of Vulcan to the Field of Mars - two illustrations of massive guns. The U Boats and the U.S. - a confident view of the Transatlantic Transport (article). At Army Headquarters, article by Hamilton Fyfe. Arresting Attila's Advance to the Adriatic - 5 photos. New Laws for New Conditions - how the Australian Commonwealth Set the Example. Photos of decorated soldiers. Adventures of an ensign, article by 'Vedette'. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 189 - 30 March 1918
Front cover illustration of trained dogs used as trench messengers. Illustration of British seaplane airman. Grabbe & Co., Unlimited - article on inflated British food prices. Danger Points in the East - article by Lovat Fraser. Photos of saving Holy Objects from the 'Sacrilegious' Hun. Photos from Mesopotamia - ruins and modern doings. Photos of Humane Treatment of Turks Taken in the Pursuit. Chateau and Church shattered by Huns - photos. Photos of lights being used in war; Woodrow Wilson - 'The Only Statesman in the World' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of French and American soldiers. Lighter Moments/Recreation. Photos of 'Work at home for enmeshing enemy mines at sea'. "The Winners" by Boyd Cable. Photos of stout-hearted soldiers of Resurgent Serbia. Photos of 'Preparing for the Future in Corn Land & Quarry'. Photos of curious contrasts. "The Eyes of the Battery" - Certain liveliness at an artillery observation post by 'O.Pip'. Photos of decorated individuals. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1937
Stories: Alaska's Lone Eagles; A Really Dangerous Job; Long Odds; Trouble at Los Cruces; The Rivals; My Pet Panther; Land of Drums; The Great Thirst; Fighting 'Dope' Out East; El Diablo; Brazilian Beachcombers; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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Truckin' Magazine, February [Feb.] 1993: Cover Photo of Mickey Thompson / Bell Tech Pro-Flare Ford with Illene Voss
226 pages. Features: V-8 S-10; It Ain't Ugly; S-10 Contest Winner; Pro-Flare Ford (cover photo); Renegade Ranger - custom '70s Ford; Ranger Splash - Ford's new youth truck for the '90s; WYBUYNU - Brandon Murrill's cool classic; Attention Getter; Dave Hill's alternate Scout; Pro-Faction pro-street Slantcab; Fully restored GMC Suburban; Pacific Coast Suburban; Post War Panel; Mini-Addiction; Battery operated Nissan pickups?; Late Start - Mom's mini Isuzu; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine: October 1983
Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more popular on the post war frontier than revolving rifles were lever-action repeaters - Spencers, Henrys and others; A Gunfighter Craze is Sweeping the Country; A History of Wine in California - from Mission Grapes to Premium Wines; Black Bart (C.E. Bolton) - Backpacking Robber-Poet; Wild West Shotguns - They were even used for 'salting' mines; The Lost Wagon Train; Big Russell-Remington Collection in Fort Worth - Texas Oilman's Art Displayed at Gallery; He was hanged for *planning* a murder - A.J. (Andy) Hudspeth; Natural Foods of the 'Digger' Indians; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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