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Explorer's Journal, September 1978
Features: The Aviaries of Edward Marshall Boehm; Nomads of the Gabra - wanderers of the wasteland; Photogrammetry Breakthrough - formulas bring honors to an amateur, John P. Snyder; The Space Oblique Mercator Projection; Marine fish in a Freshwater Lake - the enigma of Lake Nicaragua; Photos of rock carvings by Harrison Forman; Sonic Exploration for Subterranean Resources - seismic reflections probe the earth; Ankh linked to Supernova - ancient Egyptian symbol records astronomical event; The Wrangel Island Affair - Vilhalmur Stefansson's expedition; Pampas, Gulls and Gauchos - life on the Argentine Plain. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Flora Magazine: January 1982
63 pages. Features: Some New Flowers for 1982; Early Spring in the Algarve; Spring Bulb Flowers will shine; My Garden - Harold Piercey; Speaking Flowers - Stuart Dickens McHugh; Some Winter Gems - Lynn Stratmann; America's Glass Flower Museum; January in your Garden; Bulbs for the Rock Garden; Cloth Leaves for Winter Decoration; Flowers and Gardens of Mughal, India; Eucalyptus - Grow your own foliage from seed; Hellebores; Some Woolly-Leaved Plants; Make your own Strelitzia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, February 1996
110 pages. Features: A 1:20 - Scale Sugarcane train; The Pagosa Prairie Dogs - Part 2; Curves - Part 2; Constant Intensity Lighting; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 5; Tom Speer's Hard Rock & Dynamute Railroad; What Dancing Lions and Seabirds taught me about my big trains; Garden Railroading at the 1995 National Home and Garden Show. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Gems and Minerals - November 1971 - No. 410
Features: Jewelry Maker's Handbook, Part 3; Indian Style Channel Jewelry; Modified Triad Cut; A Mission in Miniature; Horn-Hacking Hobby; New Mexico's Rockhound State Park; Gold Rock Ranch. Above-average wear but remains a sound reference copy. Date stamp to front cover. Book
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Gems and Minerals Magazine, August 1961
Features: Argonite in Holcomb Valley; The Star of Anakie; Dissolving Borax for Micronutrients; Pictures in Rock; Making a pendant without solder; Nevada Goldfield Gem Claim - Clara and Earl Neeser; How to make a Ring; The Technique of Sanding; How to Cut a Cross; Field trips are fun - IF; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Middle page loose but present. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 17, Number 2, 1956: The Champlain Trail
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, December 7, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's house and street suits; Bills of fare for breakfasts, by Pierre Blot; Manners Upon the Road - of the Indian Summer; New York Fashions - mourning goods, mourning dresses, models, bonnets and veils, wraps and furs, gloves, handkerchiefs; Personal; black woolen lace for dresses, wrappings, etc. imitation guipure; Netted Hair Nets; mignardise and crochet rosettes for toilette cushions, tidies, etc.; Knitted night slip for child from 1 to 3 years old; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold illustration of Ladies' and Children's Walking Suits; Basket for fancy-work, spools, thread; Paris Fashions; Thanksgiving at the Big Rock; Larry's Apprenticeship - an Irish fairy legend; Visiting Toilette; humor. Average wear. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 30 April 1955: R. Howard Webster
Features: Great colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad inside front cover; Editorial - how Gulf Oil vetoed Ottawa's pipeline plans; Gorgeous colour-photo two-page ad for General Motors four-door hard tops, Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight De Luxe Holiday Sedan and Buick Special 4-door Riviera; The Unknown Man who bought the Globe and Mail - who's R. Howard Webster? - sparked by Howard's financial wizardry, the five Webster brothers mushroomed the fur and fuel empire their father, Lorne Webster, left into a private trust that virtually blankets North America in the fields of Fuel, Stevedoring, Tankers, Hardware, The Imperial Trust, and more; Why I'm out of TV - Choir leader Dr. Leslie Bell bowed out when the singers became dancers and he was made to act; The Race to sell new cars - the market has been turned topsy-turvy by the hottest competition since the horseless carriage replaced the buggy - great black and white photos!; The blonde who leaps from the clouds - RCAF Para-nurse F/O Marion Macdonald; How they'll blow up Ripple Rock - for decades this underwater monster in the Strait of Georgia has been wrecking ships and drowning sailors; When a Canadian Ruled Oregon - Towering John McLoughlin from Riviere du Loup was king of Columbia - the Oregon and Washington of today; The doctors in overalls who've changed your life - the research done by Ontario Veterinary College; That Yellow Prairie Sky - Robert Kroetsch; Is there Really an Abominable Snowman?, by Willy Ley; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad for Toro (fortieth anniversary) mowers; Colour Visking Weiners ad; nice colour full-page ad for the all-new 1955 Plymouth; Nice colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile 88-98. Average wear. Binding sound. Address label on front. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 15, 1952 - I Was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Our TV's Hamstrung Before it Starts; Nice 1952 Monarch car ad; Who is to Blame for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the Regina Area? - article with photos; The Beautiful Black-and-White Pinto - story by Elizabeth Ann Cooper, illustrated by Jack Bush; The Hotel with the Elegant Air - Manoir Richelieu - article with photos of this hotel on the St. Lawrence at Murray Bay/La Malbaie in Quebec; I Was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds - Bonus-length feature article with photos of Dr. A. Stewart Allen, a veteran Canadian miissionary who saw friends turn into foes as the poison of communism crept through the soul of a nation he served for 21 years; Sir James Douglas, The Mulatto King of B.C. - a Maclean's Flashback The Courting of Jenny - story by L. Johanne Stemo, illustrated by Bruce Johnson; Hard Rock Miner - Canadians like Dusty Miller blast out one seventh of the world's gols - article with photos; Mickey Spillane's Giving Murder a Bad Name - interview of the famous writer with photos; Nice vintage centerfold ad for Frigidaire refrigerators; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honouring the Governor General's Horse Guards; Vintage colour-photo ads for the Sunbeam Mixmaster and Sunbeam toaster; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Sisman Scampers shoe ad; Man and His Mate - cartoon by Peter Whalley; Outstanding two-page black and white Buick ad with huge illustration of a 1952 model; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and scattered caps. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 11, 1983 *COVER PHOTOS OF PITCHERS DAVE STEIB AND STEVE ROGERS*
Contents: Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Legacy of massacre at Sabra and Shatila camps; Can we Afford Public Enterprise, by Dian Cohen; Trudeau delivers ultimatum - greedy wage and salary demands not to be tolerated; Rene Levesque in Paris with Mitterand; Ottawa and Alberta sign energy pact; Western Canada Concept (WCC) in tatters - leader Gordon Kesler sent packing; Italy's search for stability; Poland - dealing with the Vatican; Debategate; Arafat wins a respite; War in Chad; Expos and Blue Jays in first place - feature article; Minor league baseball in Canada; Leo Rautins goes to the NBA; TD Bank ventures toward discount brokerage; Belzberg's First City Trust takes over Pocklington's Fidelity Trust Co.; Simpson's Sears fined $1 million over diamond promotion; Japan in the 21st century, by Peter C. Newman; Growing Canadian AIDS alarm; Legal Heroin in Holland?; Pain of the Triathalon; Women inch toward equality in the workplace; Phil Edmonston and the squeeze on lemon cars; Proposals for dealing with illegals in Canada; Newfoundland's Wonderful Grand Band offers a raunchy combination of satire, slapstick and rock; The annual Stampede Art Auction in Calgary; Alden Nowlan - obituary. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 6, 1983 *INSIDE CANADA'S PRISONS*
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues July 1, 1985 Through September 30, 1985
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
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Nature Magazine, April 1935
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Conservation - a new section is added to Nature Magazine; Audubon, The American Woodsman; That strange thing called Fasciation - photos of plants which has grown together; Chickens of the Sagebrush - Sage Chickens; Colobopsis - an ant of interesting habits; The Home Ties of Chickadees; A Tree Goes in for Engineering - photo and brief article of a tree growing out of a man-made vertical rock wall; Wonderful photos of a hummingbird nest atop a light bulb; American Game Conference leaves us in doubt about who owns our wildlife; Public Lands - wasted and almost destroyed through many generations - the nation at last faces this most serious problem; Massachusetts points the way to billboard control; Mars Nears the Earth; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Nature Magazine, September 1935
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Animals of the Australian Bush; Meet the Grass Family - orchard grass; Nature makes an enchanted isle atop a rock in a garden pool; Our National Scenery in Travel Poster; Nature's Poet Laureate; A doubly floriferous Showy Orchis; Matthew Fontaine Maury's Work Goes On; Goldie, a Chinese Oriole; A life-saving thistle - Evert's thistle; Conservation - what of the closed season?; Conservation and use; Hawks - what they eat; Isle Royale National Park - threat of logging speeds move to preserve this island; A New Defender of the Wilderness - the C.C.C. - Civilian Conservation Corps; For the Duck Record; Cygnus and the Northern Cross. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Old West Magazine - Summer 1966
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Summer 1968
Features: Mickey Free - Manhunter!, First time ever revealed, the full life story of the most dreaded killer in Apacheria; Tennessee Hell-raiser - Jason Ferdinand Patterson; Defeating the King of the Prairies - the wolf; Church Hollow Treasure; Old Oklahoma's Red Hills People; Mysterious John Day; Satchels, Scalpels and Buffalo Coats - the uniform of a Frontier Doctor; A Former Dorado Looks at Pancho Villa; Historian of the Vigilantes - Thomas Dimsdale; Did George Colgate have to die?; The Widow's Camels; Top of the World - Corona, Colorado; Secret of Skeleton Rock - a missing Army payroll; Murder at Horse Creek - the murder of James B. Jackson and his son; Butte City's Fortune Tellers; Desert Log Drive; Wagons by Studebaker; Kidnapped, Tarred and Feathered. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1978
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Popular Mechanics, August 1959
Features: Average wear. Unmarked. Race to the moon; Will this hot rod hit 400 mph? - Mickey Thompson; Early Night Vision; Brasillia; Faces for Sale - Don Post of Hollywood (masks); Bazooka at work - shaped charges punch holes in rock for industry; Safe Water supply from ponds; and much more. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Railway Quarterly, Fall 1982, Volume 6, Number 3
98 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway Signaling Magazine, August 1945
pages 575-538. Features: All-Relay Interlocking at Manchester, N.H. on the B.& M. - two plants installed in 1898 are replaced; Electronics Laboratory Car on the Rock Island; Automatic Block Signals Installed on the Kansas City Southern; Train Communication tested on T. & N.O. Lines of the S.P. - inductive carrier system; Railroad Radio Laboratory Car; Dual-Frequency Yard Communication - Jacksonville Terminal, Jacksonville, Florida; New Devices; and more. Many great illustrated contemporary ads. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Rock & Gem Magazine: Volume 7, Number 7 - July, 1977
62 pages. Features: All about waxes; Make a Filigree Bracelet; North Carolina Spodumene Field Trip; Utah Septarian Nodules Field Trip; Testing Turquoise; Silver Picking in Seattle; The Glass Menagerie; Jade Blade; Modifying Your Carving Units; Rockhound Cleanup. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Good working copy. Book
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Rock and Gem Magazine, April 1982, Volume 12, Number 4
Features: Lapidary 1982; Minerals 1982; Lapidary Forecast; Fluorescent Breakthrough; Kachinas - The Indian Saints; Field Trip - Arizona's Saddle Mountain; The 'Golden Meteorite' Nugget; Carve a Chalcedony Rose; Where to Write for Everything; Boxing it in. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamped upon front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, April 1983, Volume 13, Number 4
Features: Lapidary Equipment; Minerals 1983; Gold Prospecting - 1983; Jewelry making 1983; Make a faceted Amethyst Pendant; Field Trip - Inyo Rainbow Onyx; Rock Slabs and Waterfowl; Where to Write for Everything. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp to front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, February 1972, Volume 2, Number 2
Features: Rebirth of an Aquamarine Mine; Buyer's Guide - Hand Power Tools; The Greek Had a Word For it; Where's the Fire, Mac - Opal Misadventures; Hammer and Anvil Forging; Micro-Mounts; Heel Ends into Gem Slabs; Beyond the Sidewalk; Lost River Caverns; Steam Casting; Bhend Brothers' Saw; Points to the Past. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy with above-average wear. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, January 1972, Volume 2, Number 1
Features: Geodes at Rabbit Springs; Buyer's Guide to Wax Pens; Dowsing for Jade; The Bola; 50 Bola Tie Ideas; 'Tuffa' Casting; Color in Rocks and Gems; Findings and Mountings; Good Hunting in the Badger State; $5 Soldering Short-Cut; The Gems of Idar-Oberstein. Above-average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp and some crayon marks to front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, July 1974, Volume 4, Number 7
Features: Gold Rush Country; The Seahorse Nugget; Make a Slab-Sided Box; Selenite in Oklahoma; Gemstone Stories; Mineral-in-depth - Versatile Fluorite; Gemstone Fireplaces; Buyer's Guide - Expoxy Adhesives; Casting Surprises; Testing the Gy- Rock Vibraphone; Little Rock Obsidian; Mineral destruction; Seashell Jewelry. Above-average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Table of contents nearly detached. Still a useful reference copy. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, May 1983, Volume 13, Number 5
Features: What is a Lapidary Shop?; Field Trip - First-Time Fairburns; Gemstone Table tops; Make a little Finger Ring; Ornamental Stones for the Lapidary; Silverware Revolution; Field Trip - Bisti Badlands; Rainbow 'round your neck; The Lure of Gold; Field Trip - Strawberry Onyx; Wax Masters for Castings; Gold - Doubling up Pays Dividends; Field Trip - Rainbow Basin. Covers torn and in rough condition. Contents sound. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, November 1975, Volume 5, Number 11
Features: How to Forge a Ring; New Mexico's Catron Country; Casting with Water-Soluble Wax; Mexican Wulfenite Discovery; Beads and Bear Claws; Ben Mayo - Space Age Silversmith; Make a Bead Punch; Seashell Roses; The Precious Plumes of Graveyard Point; Rack'em Up; Pt. Mugu Coquina; Working with Opals. Above-average wear. Date stamp and company stamp to front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, November 1982, Volume 12, Number 11
Features: Creations in Wax/ Detectors for Treasure; Field Trip - Walk to a Gem Field; Gold, Silver, Copper, and Quartz; Fresh Water Pearls; Field Trip - Mother Lode Serpentine; Underground Collecting; The Minerals of Naica; Carve and Cast Buckles; The Vibrating Lap; Field Trip - North of Juneau; Rockhound Charm Pendant. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp on front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, September, 1983, Volume 13, Number 9
Features: Buckling Up with a Cabochon; Gold Alert!; Gold Panning Goes High-Tech; Field Trip - Utah Wonderstone; Team Channeling; Field Trip - Wiley's Well; Rock Art; Field Trip - Mount Antero Crystals; Peridot; Treasure Hunting; Today's Metal Detectors; Seashell Pendant; Follow the Rules. Average wear. Date stamp on front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, September, 1984, Volume 14, Number 9 - 5 Lb Nugget Cover Photo
Features: Silversmithing the Navajo Way; Rockhounding in the City; The Value of Opal; The Colors of Minerals; Gold in the Tailings; Micromounts; Field Trip - Army Pass Crystals; Field Trip - North Carolina's Hiddenite; Mr. Roger's Silverwork; Serendipity Gold; Gemstone Grand Tour; Rings from Scrap; In Search of Gold. Average wear. Binding intact. Date stamped upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Rock and Roll Songs Magazine, April 1964 Vol. 9 No. 36
34 pages. Features include: The Stars Behind Ray Charles; It's All Right - The Impressions; What Happened to the Elvis We Used to Know?; New Group in Town: Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters; "I Don't Want to Grow Stale" says Bobby Vinton; The Leading Surf Band: Surfaris; Your Rock and Roll Favorites; Down Memory Lane with the Olympics; Let's Take a Trip to the Sugar Shack; Big Maybell's Daughter - Betty Harris; The Music Man: Freddie Scott; and Rock & Roll Back-Stage. Cover loose but present. 5" opening on page 31/32. Back cover has two minor openings and bottom corner is missing. Front cover bright with little wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Rod and Rifle in British Columbia
20 pages. An early provincial booklet promotiing hunting and fishing in British Columbia. Undated - appears to be circa 1920s. Includes black and white reproductions of photos of: a flycaster with fish in net; a morning's catch of salmon at Campbell River; Four river fishermen in what appears to be a native-style carved boat; great shot of a dozens of caribou fording a wide body of water; a mounted bull moose head; smiling hunter standing over 4+ dead grizzlies; mounted big-horned sheep head; Wapati; large herd of caribou on a high plateau; coast deer; mountain goats on a rock face; prize-winning mounted head of a mountain goat. Includes considerable supporting text. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage B.C. collectible. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.28. No. 1 - January/February 1982
Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
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The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Tuesday, November 22, 1904 Issue
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
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The Canadian (Magazine), 21 January 1978 - Cover Photo of Jean Chretien, Feature Article on Rock Group RUSH
Features: Jean Chretien - the Finance Minister as tough guy - with a weakness for one-liners; Rush Rock - feature article on rock group Rush, consisting of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson; Name Game - an unusual exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Chowder recipes; Hockey's Roger Neilson - coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Somewhat above-average external wear. Small chip from front cover which bears a two-inch tear to fore-edge. Similar tear to first leaf. Center page holding by one staple. Book
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The Canadian Magazine (Star Weekly) 13 June 1970 - Remember Tupperware Parties?
Features: The Home Party Pitch - selling products through home sales parties - Tupperware and others; Paul Rimstead article on pool champion George Chenier, aged 63 - The loneliness of an old master, with great colour photo; Car Theft - wrecked Ontario cars morph with stolen Montreal cars - theft to order, theft by owner arrangement; theft for resale, theft for parts; Schussing the sands - in 1939 Robert Cote begain sand skiiing the north bank of the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac - the sport has taken off - colour photos; Maggie Grant column; Snake Charmers - fashion photos; Strawberry Recipes; Cybermedix is the greatest medical checkup ever; Art under pressure - colour photos of beautiful rock formations; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 6 June 1970 *THE HOME SALES GAME*
Features: The Home Sales Game - coffee, cake, and buy, buy, buy - Tupperware, etc.; The Loneliness of an Old Master - Snooker Champion George Chenier; The Auto Theft Industry; The real truth about the bible baddies; Sand Skiing at Tadoussac; Maggie Grant; Snake Charmers (fashion feature); Cybermedix - get Canada's most complete medical checkup without seeing a doctor; Part of page 33 has been clipped out - it appears to have been from an article about coloured rock; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Rockhound, August 1966, Volume X Number 4
30 pages. Articles: They grew 200 million years ago - the geological formations of South Africa; Pegmatites; Buried Treasure of the Nicoamen Plateau; Enamelling on Metal - as a Hobby (part 2); Princeton (British Columbia) The Etiquette of Rockhounding; Pebble Pups Steak; Fossi-Wood - Well worth digging; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing inside back cover else unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
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The Daily Colonist, Saturday September 15, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-4, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: spectacular destruction of three of the Bedaux Canadian Expedition's caterpillar cars; photo of rock formation in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve where Indians practice pagan rituals - Canada's Stonehenge?; Evidence shows Germany storing up war material; Request for survey of sanitary conditions in Saanich district; Ad for Oak Bay home - $2,625!; Editorial page; Cartoon page (missing two-inch strip along edge with partial loss to 3 cartoon strips; two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
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The Explorer's Journal, December 1988
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Fall 1992
Features: In the Wake of Columbus; West Through the Northeast Passage; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Part I, Journey to a remote stone age rock quarry center and discovery of a unique fire starting tool; Did the Norsemen sail from Greenland to Ungava Bay for Lumber?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Explorer's Journal, Summer 1996
Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1992
Features: Mountains of the Jinn; Volcano Magic - Photographing an Eruption at Night; Cuzco-Tuyo - The search for a lost Inca fortress; Culture and Spirituality in Majorca; Angkor Wat Conservation Debate Erupts; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Part II - the Yeineri Rock Quarries; The Sea's Last Refuge; Explorer Earns Honor from Nobel Institute; Celebrating a Tradition of Exploration - The Explorer's Club Space Dinner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Gem Dance Folio for 1924 - Selected from Broadway's Musical Comedy Song and Dance Successes
Approximately 60 pages. Songs include: Yes! We have no Bananas; Annabelle; Oh! Min; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; If I knew you then as I know you now; Seven or Eleven; I've Got the Yes!; The Gold-Digger; Lost (A Wonderful Girl); Abie's Irish Rose; Underneath the Sip Sip Sippy Moon; Stingo Stungo; Away down east in Maine; Rosetime and You; Honeymoon Chines; Somebody Else Took You Out of My Arms; Rock me to sleep with My Virginia Melody; Down on the farm; Frankie and Johnie; Where the Bamboo Babies Grow; Mammy's Little Silver Lining; Little Rover; Starlight Bay; Doggone Whipporwill; True Blue Sam; Magic Eyes. Arranged in dance form as fox trots, one steps and waltzes. Piano solo only. Average wear. Covers holding by one staple. Book
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The Gun Report Magazine - December 1972
Features: Gun Parts from an 18th Century Kaskaskia Indian Village; The 1931 Rock Island Arsenal M2 - America's last Calvalry Saber; An Experimental Winchester Lever-Action Musket; A Cased Venditti Pistol. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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The Signalman's Journal, October 1945
Pages 337-376. Black and white photos. Features: Radar Proved Miracle Development of WWII; Radio in Freight Yard Service on the B.&O.; Survey of Union Members' Interest in Publications; Trades and Labor Congress Meeting; The Atomic Bomb is no Secret - Decisive discovery which led to the building of the atomic bomb was made by Germans in 1938 - with photos, by Dr. Edward U. Condon; Signal Changes on Milwaukee, Rock Island and Kansas City Southern near Kansas City, Mo.; The Fall and Rise of Manila - after more than three years of Japanese rule little was left of the once great "Fool's Paradise" - with photos, by E.H. Jacoby; Head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific; and more. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Western Horseman - The Magazine for Admirers of Stock Horses, September 1953 *Special E.B. Quigley Feature*
64 pages. Features: Navajo Tribal Fair at Window Rock, Arizona; E.B. Quigley - Painter of Horses; Bronc Breaking; Vet's Corner; Down the Straightaway; Quarter Racing at Centennial; Arab Blood in Today's Ponies; Jubilee Days in Laramie; Cow Cuttin'; That Record Pushing Sister - Little Sister W; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; The Stallion as a Stock Horse; It Could Happen to You; Western Paul Revere - Joe Rankin; Tips from Tyler. Nice color ad for Tem-Tex Arizona - Western shirts. Full-page Stetson ad on page 1. Blue Bell jeans ad on page 3. Circle Bar - A Ranch Quarter Horse dispersal sale ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1946
Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, August 26, 1961
31 pages. Features: Queen of the fishing fleet - Mrs. Marie Penny of John Penny and Sons on the Ramea Islands of Newfoundland; Covent Garden's Canadian Invasion - Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, Robert Savoie, Irene Salemka and Andre Turp of the Royal Opera House Company; Joyce Davidson finds the rewards of TV stardom are great; Great photo feature (with text) - Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper climb the vertical rock face of The Chief, 1,700 foot mountain on the edge of Squamish, B.C.; Les Lear lambasts football 'jugheads' - he won the 1948 Grey Cup with the Calgary Stampeders as a Player/Coach; Lady, Beware of that Convention - men have begun taking their wives to big company conferences; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Top corner of spine nibbled. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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