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Maclean's - Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine, November (Nov.) 19, 1979 - Iran Boils Again / Mavis Gallant
68 pages. Features: Nostalgic color-photo ad for Toshiba calculators inside front cover; Mavis Gallant - Exile in Her Own Write; Datsun 510 colour-photo ad; Canadian Church Choir Competition ad; Connie and Jenny Buck perform "Teletunes" singing-dancing telegrams; Masters of the Mountains - Bedouins of the Sinai; Iran Boils Again - feature article; People starving in East Timor - with graphic photo of children; Trouble in Bolivia; Jack Lynch visits the U.S.; The Life and Times of Anthony Scotto, President of New York's Local 1814 of the ILA; Poverty in Chicago; Dennis Kucinich unseated as Cleveland Mayor; Pierre Trudeau's Period of Adjustment; Jim Lewis of Merrit, BC accused of shipping bomb; Controversy over Alberta's purchase of photos from Roloff Beny; Edmonton debates construction of a convention centre; Montanans complain about impending pollution from new coal-fired Poplar River power plant in Saskatchewan; Controvery at the Gaelic College of St. Ann's, Cape Breton, NS; Good federal policy news for Canada's record industry; Pollution from the Dryden, Ontario pulp mill; Jean Piggot and Grete Hale decide to sell part of their Ottawa bakery division of Morrison Lamothe Inc. (ML); Celebrity photos of "The Biffs, Barbi Benton, George S. Gradow, Alexandra Stewart, and Mike Nesmith; CFL article by Trent Frayne; George Meany takes his leave from the AFL-CIO; Vancouver's Justice Institute; The new Forum des Halles in Paris; Book and film reviews; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 17 October 1964 - The Arctic Today
100 pages. Features: Fold-out front cover reveals a 3-panel colour ad for Ford cars; How Montreal's favourite cop chased away a persistent ghost - the Payfer familiy's apartment; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont; Our Double Image of Canada's North, by Blair Fraser; How Wealthy Sportsmen are plundering Tree River - the hottest spot in North America for the angler with an unlimited budget - article with photos; The Girl in the Forest - from novel by Fred Bodsworth; Arctic Hunt - a cruel contest where the prize is survival - great photos; An open letter to the French Canadian Nationalists, by Peter Gzowski; Sidney Katz argues that female spouses have the best of the marriage bargain; Montreal's fifth International Film Festival - article with nice photos; Quentin Reynolds describes how he went from smoking 4 packs per day to zero in five days; Nice two-page colour ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne; Norman Ward tells father Five Ways to Raise a Champion Non-Athlete; Nice two-page photo ad for Pilkington glass products; Sweet colour photo full-page ad for the 1965 Lincoln Continental; Nice two-page colour ad for the new 1965 Oldsmobiles; Don Francks - Canada's next big name on Broadway; Rita Ubriaco says Canada needs less birth control and more self-control; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features guy, girl and Jack-O-Lantern. Average wear. Address label on front cover otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, 3 December 1966 *MONTREAL - 16 PAGE REPORT*
Features: Gorgeous red photo ad for the 1967 Buick Wildcat Custom Sport Coupe inside front cover; Eilat hopes to be a tourist Garden of Eden; Montreal - how a big town became a great city - many great colour photos with article; Photos and brief write-ups for: Ulysse Comtois; John David Molson; Michel Robichaud; Louis Tavan; Hubert Aquin; Monique Leyrac; The Idler's Guide to Montreal; Can Israel cope with war adn peace? - Blair Fraser in Tel Aviv; Powell Smily reveals the living hell he experienced through Blackmail - it cost him $25,000 before he wrote this story; England Swings? - maybe the tiny, mini-skirted minority, but Alan Edmonds found the country depressing and he's glad to be back home; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Enjoying Montreal without speaking French; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Ad for the Bolens snowmobile called the Diablo Rouge; Crown Zellerbach ad features a majestic black and white photo of their log-laden train passing over the Nanaimo River on it's way to the Ladysmith booming grounds; The NFB - rudderless in a sea of talent - according to Don Bell; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. 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, 30 August 1958 - Manual Baseball Scoreboard Cover Illustration
Cover illustration of the scoreboard at Maple Leaf (Baseball) Stadium by Duncan Macpherson. Features: Blair Fraser reports on Baghdad and its new Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem; Editorial on Princess Margaret's visit and the (smelly) Don River in Toronto; Let's Stay Off the Moon, by Bertrand Russell; When is Adultery News, by Beverley Baxter; Why Do We Hate The Police? - a Maclean's national survey; Holiday weekend in Montreal- an introduction to the fascinations of the continent's most flavorful city, revisited by novelist Morley Callaghan who once lived, worked and played there; Now even the Canoe is going Modern; What is it about Budgies? - the may soon make dogs man's second-best friend in Canada; The double life of Football's fiercest Coach - Jim Trimble is coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; Women are Equal - Especially Ellen Fairclough, Canada's new Secretary of State; Colour photo sailing-themed Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 5 July 2010 - Royal Visit 2010
106 pages. Features: Refired Supreme Court judge John Major in Conversation re. bungled Air India bombing investigation; Link between residential schools and native suicide; Husky roams wild in Cobalt, Ontario; Canada Day Survey; The Jordan River is Polluted; Pakistan - land of the generals; Is Frank Stronach Canada's greediest man?; Portrait of the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip; Brothers in Arms - William and Harry; New Hoover Dam Bridge; Floyd Nicholson 1938-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 6 August, 1966 *J.V. CLINE - BOSS OF B.C.'S FORESTS*
Features: Is God Obsolete? - by June Callwood; Banff's where kids work for fun - article with photos; Pierre Sevigny - What Really Happened; How Sir John A. passed out patronage and built a nation all at once, by Eileen Turcotte; Go Riders Go! - the Saskatchewan Rough Riders are super popular! - article with photos; John Valentine (J.V.) Clyne - the BC Supreme Court Justice turned flinty business baron is one of the west coast's most powerful men - the unquestioned master of BC's giant forest industry; Why do you have such a big chest, mom? - when your children ask, give them the facts of life, all of them, by Joy Carroll; The People who have no names - Norman Elder recounts his time with a Peruvian tribe (the Machiguenga Indians) that survived the Inca conquest; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Crown Zellerbach majestic full page black and white photo ad of one of their log-bearing trains crossing a bridge over the Nanaimo River on the way to the booming grounds at Ladysmith. Britain's Pirate Radio Stations - operating from towers built to fight Nazi pirates; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 15, 1950: Kate Aitken is the Busiest Woman in the World
72 pages. Features: Why We Are Loosing the Cold War - what does it profit America to have the world's biggest bomb if it has forgotten the ideals that made it great?; The Busiest Woman in the World - Kate Aitken keeps 21 secretaries punch drunk with 260,000 letters a year, she makes 600 broadcasts to 5 million listeners, takes tea with the Queen - but she can't knit - article by Gordon Sinclair with photos; Rendezvous in Riga - Part One of the tale of how Bill Cosgrove got his wife Anna from behind the Iron Curtain; The Mighty Saskatchewan River; Maverick Member from Fernie, B.C. - Tom Uphill has parlayed political pranks into a record eight-session term at Victoria; I Tried Suicide; Eggs Are What You Make Them - a fun article by Robert Elliott; The Girl in Stateroom 9 - story by Allan R. Bosworth - illustrated by Jack Bush; Pogo's Pal Kelly - Walt Kelly's swampland satire is the hottest newcomer in the comic strip parade; Tinned Meat and Old Masters - After being swept from Europe by the Nazis Fred Mendel brought jobs and glamour to a startled Saskatoon - article with photos; Exercise is the Bunk - Relax!; Dow Brewery ad honours bus driver Russell Millen of Huntingdon, Quebec who evacuated his school bus before it was struck by a train; Nice colour Chevrolet ad; Little Lulu featured in Kleenex ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features Coke machine with caption "Host of the Highways". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 1, 1943 *INSIDE GERMANY*
52 pages. Features: Colour Sunkist orange juice ad inside front cover; Fairchild Engine and Airplain Corporation ad - 'From Plans to Planes at Wartime Speed; End of Steel - Dawson Creek, B.C. is a hundred boom towns rolled into one, a stampede, a bedlam of activity... on the road to Tokyo - with photos; Movie Boom - war has brought Canadian movie theatres their greatest boom - 180 million customers a year; Story - Sockeye in the River, by Clive Grierson Cornish; Navy Type - Trent Frayne writes about life aboard a Canadian minesweeper - with photos; Lightning - article by William B. Crist; Inside Germany, by Alfred Kantorowicz - article with photos; Story - The Touch of a Vanished Hand, by Laurence Wilson; Sky Troops, by Ronald A. Keith - Canadians who will soon be dropping into Hitler's back yard - with photos; RCAF recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ads for Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Pepsi-Cola (in the old bottle style!); Colour ad for Orange Crush - showing the old brown glass bottle!; Colour GoodYear ad on back cover shows a downed air crew in a life raft being rescued by a plane. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 23, 1982: Lebanon - Flames and the Future
Features: Piece by Paul H. Robinson, US Ambassador to Canada; The Hard Politics of Bill Bennett's hard sell in B.C.; Resurrection of Robert Bourassa; Eric Akland dies in Aylmer, Quebec; Niagrary River pollution protesters; Cover Story - Lebanon - Flames and the future after Israelli invasion; Q&A with David Kimche, of the Israelli Foreign Ministry; Jews murdered in Paris - reaction to Lebanon invasion; British pound in decline - black mark for monetarism; Alexander Haig's calculated climb; South Africa - death in dark places; Canada's regional airlines fight for the skys - Nordair and Quebecair; End of economic miracle - AEG-Telefunken AG; BC's BCRIC; Steel and forestry industries hit very hard by economy; Jack Donohue and his unknown Canadian basketball team; Labor - unemployment and new despereation; Deely Bobbers; Drive-in theatres; United Church dares to tread; The Guardian Angels - citizen's call to arms; New Wave music toughs it out - photo of David Byrne/Talking Heads; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 27, 1960 - How I Captured Quebec's Red Hood Gang
Features: Article - is JFK our best hedge against depression?; The Life of Alexander Graham Bell - part I - "I Came to Canada to Die" - great photos; How I captured the Red Hood Gang - Det. Insp. Joseph Bedard as told to Ken Johnstone; The Harsh wonderland that was St. Lawrence Main, by Mordecai Richler; Canadian football beats the American Game; John Vickers - what makes a Tenor boom; A doctor's case for state medicine - Harry Paikin, M.D.; Holiday weekend in Paris; The Prudhommes' drive-in daydream - Prudhomme's Garden Centre Motor Hotel; Let's bring back child labour - Eileen Morris; The battle in Britain to ban the bomb; Holiday weekend in Paris; A Canadian nurse's jungle vigil with leprosy - Helen Mackenzie in Portuguese Guinea. Nice colour Black Label beer inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: the top quarer of page 5 has been clipped ane removed - apparently this was an ad form - contents unaffected. Cartoon clipped from page 40 - text unaffected. Small ad clipped from page 42 - text unaffected. Large clipping from page 44 seems to have removed a small part of the A.G. Bell article. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad on page 45. Great colour Coke ad on back cover shows man being sprayed in the head by a garden hose. Lower half of page 49 is clipped and not included - this has removed part of the football article and part of the Prudhomme article. Average wear. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 15, 1933 *MY FOUR YEARS IN RUSSIA - J.K. Calder*
48 pages. Featues: Waste on the Waters - story by Bertrand W. Sinclair; Hats! - readers' opinions in response to an article on hats by Dora Sanders in the June 1 issue of this publication; In the Queen's Pantry - story by George Lash, from a book of his experiences; No Personal Calls, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; My Four Years in Russia - photo-illustrated article by illustrious Canadian engineer J.K. Calder, born at Ingersoll, Ontario, who, prior to this trip, had erected the Henry Ford's sprawling River Rouge Plant; Gone Native, by James Clifton Peters; The Brothers of Mademoiselle, by Leslie McFarlane (famous author of many Hardy Boys novels); Mr. (James Henry?) Gundy - appears to be a one page illustrated biography of one of the founders of Wood, Gundy & Company; Teachers in Politics, by Gwen Cash; Czar's Gold, Robert Welles Ritchie; Summer Hospitality, by Mona Vale Parr; Your Savings - Earning Trend of Gold Stocks, by B.F. Townsley; Lovely colour Palmolive soap ad inside back cover. Nice back cover photo ad for Chipso soap shows a young smiling family in clean clothes. Average wear. Binding intact. Small clipping from horoscope on page 40 means a few lines are missing from the last page of the story entitled Waste on the Waters. Centerfold missing - it appears to only have contained advertising content. Address label atop front cover.l Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 4, 1960 *Peter C. Newman Looks Toward Ontario in the 1960s*
Features: The 20 men who really run Canada, by Peter C. Newman; Ontario in the 1960s - a major article in which Peter C. Newman forecasts the progress of Ontario for next decade; Gentle Julie and her hard-bitten Romeo (Julie Harris and Bruno Gerussi at Stratford); The wonderful things we built in our basements; The trouble with middle-aged men - they're pasing through a change-of-life similar to menopause in women; The Olympic's most dangerous game - the 3-day equestrian competition; The mystery of the Merrifield - part 2 of 3; For the sake of argument - what Jews can teach us about divorce; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - her modest reappraisal of South Africa's whites. Why Winnipeg's little theatre keeps getting bigger; The lucky town with the rich uncle - Lord Beaverbrook's gifts to Fredericton. Front cover illustration of the Great Whale River airstrip on Hudson Bay. Great colour ad for a 1960 Chevrolet Kingswood Station Wagon. Colour Cinci Lager beer ad inside back cover. Colour Coke ad on back cover shows Great Dane in car with lady. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Chip from bottom edge of back cover. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, November 15, 1952 *Karsh Photos of Vancouver*
Features: Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle shows man selling flowers to Grey Cup lineup; Colour photo Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Editorial - 'Why Appease South Africa?'; Fantastic 4-page section of black and white photos of vintage toys plus descriptions - a list of Christmas toys provided by The Canadian Playthings Institute; Karsh Photographs the Face of Canada - beginning with Vancouver, 'A City Built on Timber - Water is a Secondary Theme' - the first of ten picture essays; Is the Liberal Party on the Ropes? - defeats of Liberal leaders in six provinces; They'll Keep the Pace - The New Pioneers of the Peace River Country, with colour photos; The Most Beautiful Girl on TV - Toby Robins - with 16 black and white photos; How to Bring Up an Only Child; The Spritely Czar of the CPR - William Van Horne; The City Where Dancing's A Crime - Trois Rivieres, Quebec - article with six black and white photos; Thoughts on Mackenzie King, by Bruce Hutchison; The Killer in the Snow - story by Will F. Jenkins, illustrated by Ben Turner; Granpa was a Freshman - at 52 Allan Hull enrolled at the University of British Columbia - with 3 photos; Lovely colour Kodak photo ad shows mother recording her son's height on doorframe; Great full-page colour illustrated Coke ad displays the four seasons; The Face that People Forget - Alec Guiness; *Fantastic* eight-page colour centerfold ad section for Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth 1953 models; Colour photo ad for Heinz Soups; Colour-illustrated ads for Sunbeam Coffeemaster and Mixmaster; Two-colour ad for Austin cars; Colour ad for Waterman's Pens with Christmas theme; Ad for the General Electric Rotary Ironer; Colour full-page ad for Chevrolet; Nice colour Old Dutch ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 6, 1982 - The New Medicine's Grave Risks
Features: Turkish Military attache murdered in Ottawa by Armenians - Atilla Altikat; Harnessing the mighty Slave River; Takla Lake, B.C. shooting; Days of danger at Friendship Pass - China and Vietnam; Lebanon - moving into a a perilous vacuum; The Nugan Hand scandal; Soviet Union losing the long battle for bread; Looking into Amway's empire; The bull markets march on; Olympian Calgary task for David Leighton; Ricky Henderson keeps stealing bases; Cover Story - the new medicine's grave risks - PET machine, colour-enhanced X-ray, etc.; Learning the joys of the Logo language; Sackloth adversity - Winnipeg nuns go door-to-door for money; Zoot Capri; Canadian War Museum commemorates Dieppe tragedy; Entertainment reviews. Moderate 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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Model Railway Constructor Magazine, October 1981
70 pages. Features: 'Kingsbridge' EM layout; A Lima dmu into a 116 unit; Building a HR 'River'; Survey of Motors and Mechanisms; An SR 2-BIL unit; Plans, News and Reviews. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Nature Canada Magazine, January/March 1983
Features: River of No Return - Short-term economic goals threaten to destroy the Slave River; Dipper - the songbird that's at home underwater; A Pacific Portrait Gallery - of lumpsuckers, warbonnets and wolf eels; Timberline - between two worlds; Lorne Scott - Naturalist on a tractor seat. Usual library markings. Moisture exposure. Average wear. Reading copy only. Book
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Nature Magazine, August 1935
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Beavers - intimate glimpses of a colony in the wilds; Bad Boy - the story of an interesting hawk pet; The Sand Dunes of Indiana; Giants of Hornet Land; The Cruel Vine our Grandmothers Loved - the Cruel Vine or flycatcher; Conservation - solving the bureaucratic jig-saw puzzle; Salmon or Kilowatts - Columbia River Dams threaten great natural resource; Carving the Mountains; Do Natural Enemies destroy more game than hunters?; Admiralty Island's bears; Mr. Darling and Leadership; Shall ducks follow the Dodo?; Meteors as a Hobby. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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NAWCC Bulletin, April 2002 *Those Wonderful Automobile Clocks*
144 pages. Features: New Life for an Old Faithful Clock; The Ultimate Railroad Regulator; Clocks in 3D; Hermetic Watches - A Photographic Update, Part 2 of 2; A 16th Century Ivory Watch?; Let Us Cross Over the River and Rest Under the Shade of the Trees", by Dennis Cooper; Those Wonderful Automobile Clocks; The Balanced-Independent-Hand Clock; Rebirth of the Breslin Tower Clock; Maintenance of non-jewelled Pivot Holes; Early American Wristwatches 1900-1930 - Part II; The Elgin-Size B.W. Raymond, Part 2 - The 21 and 23-Jewel Watches; An Unusual Barnes Bartholomew & Co. Clock; Anglo-American Clocks; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, January 27, 1947: Cover Photo of Ingrid Bergman;
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Pan American World Airways inside front cover features travel to Guatemala; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of huge articulated bus owned by Santa Fe Trailways; Gillette shaving blade ad features speedskater Irving Jaffee; Nice color ad for Ford cars; Former Soviet official Kiril M. Alexeieff; Russian shortwave broadcasts to America; Nice color General Tire ad; What Stalin said to Montgomery; Plymouth car ad; Photo of Kelly the Clown; Poland harassed by 170,000 Russian-trained security police; Behind the Japanese Purge - American Military Rivalries; Britain's postwar moral climate; Brief obituaries for Jean-Marie Cardinal Villeneuve, James T. (Jimmy) Sheckard, Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, and Pedro Leao Velloso; Nice International Truck ad features oil drilling scene; Accused murderer William Heirens, University of Chicago student; Photo of Polio virus isolators Drs. Hubert S. Loring and C.E. Schwerdt; Father of Radio - Lee de Forest; Color ad for the Lockheed Constellation aircraft features Rio party scene; Henry Hazlitt writes on "Stabilizing" the Economy; New York Yankee article with photo of Trippe who spurned them for Charles Bidwill of the Cardinals; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Freeze the RFC; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, April 4, 1938 - Albert Einstein Cover Photo and Feature Article
40 pages. Features: Great cover photo of wild-haired Albert Einstein in leather jacket; Photo of swastika atop smoke stack of New York hospital power plant on the East River between 70th and 71st; Photo of Mr. & Mrs. David Hearst; photo of Pinky Tomlin and his bride; Photo of Joan Bennett wounded on movie set by a bayonet; Great photo of FDR in limo in Gainesville, Georgia surrounded by crowd; Concern over Japanese fishing off Alaska; Photo of Dr. Seyss-Inquart with Hitler; One-page article on Einstein includes photo of his relaxing chair, work desk and Princeton home; Five photos of famous racehorse Man o' War; Nice one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal car; Nice one-page, two-color Chesapeake and Ohio ad features Ohio's "Cheese Corridor"; Photo of crowd of Akron Goodrich workers protesting wages; Photo of a 42-passenger 'Ensign' built for Imperial Airways; Handsome color Packard auto ad on back cover features illustration of well-dressed couple. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Articles clipped from pages 15, 16 and 39. One-third of table of contents page has been removed. A worthy vintage copy Book
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Newsweek Magazine, October 15, 1945 *MARSHALL - THE INSIDE STORY OF VICTORY*
Contents: Color Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice ad for International Harvedster crawler tractors; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color Packar Car ad - a Patriotit Hoarder!; Color Texaco ad; Washington's higher wage plan fails to meet U.S. strike crisis - Administration behind pay boost of at least 15%; Dodge truck ad; Behind Anglo-US Peace Line-up lies horror of Atom Bomb War; Irma Grese - the lady butcher confesses; Swiss Stake - war paid off, peace pockets are empty; Photo of General Yamashita and friends dining on Army chow in a Manila prison; Marshall weighs war and peace - 'Keep our arms, Train our men!' - urges year of service for America's Citizen Army; Color ad for Oldsmobile, with Hydra-matic drive; General Patton - The Mouth; David Dubinsky - leader of the 360,000 member International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Now Chemical War Secrets of the war can be told - with photos and long article; red Rio truck ad; Photo of schoolboys throwing banned Nazi flags and textbooks on a bonfire in Cologne; 1945 World Series; Color TWA ad; Higgins boat ad; Nice color Diamond T truck ad; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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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: Fall 1980
Features: Daniel - Potter Feud... a grim Arkansas frontier recollection of bloodletting whose beginning had no neutral witnesses; Beloved Cowboy, Ben Bird; D. Storms' High Mesa - there was a strange alliance between river refugees and a lawyer few people ever really understood (Stormsville); The Ancient Eel Trail; Mule Meat and Shoe Leather - travails on the 19th Kansas Cavalry; Seeking the Lost Adam; A Frontier Doctor - Part I; Deadwood, South Dakota; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1974
Features: A Brief History of Early Days in North Texas and Indian Territory; Ghosts of the Copper Bells; God was with me; The Clearinghouse Mine; Old Boz - Yankee with a Gun; A Stagecoach Reunion; "I Rode for Gerlach"; The Dancing Countryman; River Rider; Old Morenci, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1983
Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Spring, 1974
Features: Artist "Shorty" Shope; Lost River of Silver; The Only Conchita; Dyrenforth's Assault on the Heavens; Jekyll-Hyde of the Twin Territories; Tragedy in Fremont County; When Steam was Power; The Murder of Cadete; Sam Colt's Big Pistol; Cyclones and Neighbors; Old Wimberley Mills; At Strawberry, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound 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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Old West Magazine: Winter 1978
Features: Cord of Death - Bloody Bill Anderson tied 53 knots in his silken; Llano Estacado - the savage 'staked plains of West Texas and New Mexico; Not Even a Drink - train robbery at Dale Creek, Wyoming; Curly Bill Brocius - The Counterfeit Gunman of Tombstone; The Donner Strategy; Indian Bow and Arrow Making; I Smuggled Guns Across the Border - caught in the maelstrom of Mexican revolution, the plight of the Mormon colonists in Mexico was a harrowing experience; Eagle Mills, Nebraska; Murder on the Snake - New York Bar was an isolated river boat station until E.H. Cummings was brutally axed; Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker - Part I; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter 1980
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter, 1973
Features: Sky's the Limit?; Maysville was a Whiskey Runner's Heaven!; Taking a Short Cut to a Long Shot; Old Cowboy Montan'; Lost Mines in the El Paso Range; George McJunkin's Pile of Bones; Missouri River Girl; The Bear Chaser; No Need to Talk Religion; On the Trail of Gabe Hans; British Columbia's Doukhobors; Murder or an act of war?; The Little Bit of Trickery; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter, 1974
Features: Cowboy Strongman - Tom Tyler; Lost Lead/Silver Vein on New River; The Saga of Mike Devaney; Penalty for a Midnight Robbery; That Topographical Ghost - Horsehead Crossing; Three Quick Rifle Shots; What's the Use of Going On?; A Hobo's Christmas Eve; David Crockett's Unheroic Grandson; Old San Diego's Haunted House; The Shooting Above Goldman's Saloon; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly News Review of World Affairs, February 6, 1937 - Cover Photo of Terrible Indiana Flooding Due to Burst Levee
24 pages. Contents: Battle over control of the nation's electrical power - with photo of TVA Director David E. Lilienthal; Photo of Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade; Photo of Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina; Conflict between General Motors and the United Automotive Workers of America - with photo of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Terrible Ohio River Flood; Rise of Militarism in Japan - with photo of Osami Nagano; Photo of Trotzky (Trotsky) who, from Mexico, claims the Moscow trial against him is "A giant frame-up"; Terror in Lisbon; Spanish Havoc - with photo of rebels praying; "Mirror Writing" - reversed writing; Old Turk exhibits his third set of natural teeth while Edmonton youth develops his fourth set!; Photo of Wendell Wilkie; Women in the News - Miss Mary Anderson; "Jane Bull"; Movie World - with photo of Martha Raye; Photo of Mrs. Molly TicklePitcher of Turnit Top Ridge, TN; Two-page article on Benito Mussolini - with photos; Photo of 'Little Corporal' J. Toussaint Bernard; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Most of back page missing. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Rail Classics, May 1973 *British Columbia Electric Railway - With Colour Photos*
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Railway & Marine News, A Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to Pacific Coast Transportation Interests, April 1, 1911, Vol. IX, No. 6 - What the Panama Canal Means to Pacific Commerce
Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". 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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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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Scientific American, May 1970, Volume 222 Number 5 - Sulfur
Features: Chemical and biological weapons; the surface of mars; the calefaction of a river; sulfur; intercellular communication; 'second sound' in solid helium; how we remember what we see; early views on forces between atoms. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.29. No. 4 - July/August 1983
Features: Boats of Malta; In the belly of the whale; Surf smelt run; burying radioactive waste in the deep-sea floor; eat or be eaten - survival strategies of fishes; least terns of Gasparilla Island; the City of Rio De Janeiro - Voyage #80; the Distressed ocean swimmer; Dredge spoil - not always a waste. Sound copy. Book
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The (Leader-Post) Canadian Magazine, 13 February 1971 - Defeating Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest
26 pages. Features: The Town that Hit the Jackpot - Nickie Rubuliak and the residents of Smoky Lake, Alberta who defeated Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest; The Mob - Part 5 - A foothold in Ontario; Dignity in Decay - Totem Poles along the British Columbia coast; Four-page feature on mothers having *two* sons playing hockey in the NHL; Glenn Martin of the Pine River Cheese and Butter Company near Goderich, Ontario; Funny Doug Wright's Family comic strip. Average wear. Unmarked. Short closed tear to back coveer. A quality copy. Book
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The Atlantic Magazine, February 1955 *Walter Lippmann Cover Illustration*
96 pages. Features: Reports on Indonesia, Washington and Rio, and Australia; The Decline of Western Democracy, by Walter Lippmann; The Portrait ( a story) by Wolf Mankowitz; Textbooks Under Fire, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Poet as Playwright, by Archibald MacLeish; By Slow Degrees, by Catherine Drinker Bowen; The Young Poets - Leah Bodine Drake, Irving Feldman, Claire McAllister, R.G. Everson, Erick Barker, H.F. Ellis, Oscar Handlin; Alberto Moravia, by Charles J. Rolo; German Hotel, by Jeseph Wechsberg; Interesting anti-communist ad by Radio Free Europe inside back cover seeks to raise 'Truth Dollars'. U.S. Savings Bonds ad inside front cover features American sailor Richmond Hobson Above-average wear. Unmarked. Some soiling. Book
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 2001
56 pages. Features: Around the world by canoe - the voyage of the Tilikum; The Customs scandal of 1926 - rumrunning and corruption nearly topple a government; A portrait of Tom Longboat; Growing a garden in Labrador; Mifflin Gibbs and the critical black vote in colonial B.C.; Scandal at Red River - the vicar, the servant girl, and the trial; Fuss and furor over daylight saving time. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, October 1903
76 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the national congress of Chambers of Commerce in Montreal, August 1903 - with article by Ernest H. Cooper; The Threshing of the Grain - article by W.H. Belford with wonderful photos; Canadian Celebrity - Hon. Clifford Sifton; Two Lost British Columbia Towns - Douglas and Seymour; Roman, Greek, English and American Conceptions of Liberty; The British Embassy at Washington - article with photo; The War of 1812 - tenth instalment; The Pensionnaires, by Albert R. Carman - continued; Beneath the Dog's Fang - a Story of the Jacobites; Kingdom's "Break-in-Two", by J.W. Fuller; Current Events Abroad, by John A. Ewan; Woman's Sphere - edited by M. MacLean Helliwell; People and Affairs; Wonderful reproduction of a curling photo taken in 1872 on the Don River; List of contents of Volume XXI of this publication, May through October 1903. Many pages of amazing nostalgic Canadian ads, including photos ads for several private schools. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover and backstrip missing. Back hinge taped in place. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
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The Country Guide Magazine, February 1945, Volume LXIV, No. 2: B.C. Co-operatives
58 pages. A wonderful vintage copy of this popular and long-running Canadian farming publication. Great cover illustration of cowby at work. Super back cover colour photo ad for the Minneapolis-Moline Power Equipment company includes 8 photos of their products at work. Features of contents include: Nice tribute to the Royal Canadian Navy by Crucible Steel Company of America; Activities of co-operatives in British Columbia; War News Updates, including cartoon of Stalin and Allied Soldier cracking swastika in nutcracker; Photo-illustrated article on the Coyote "The Yapping Yodler" - the crafty animal which thrives with settlement and is increasing in number; Peace River Co-operative Seed Growers are outgrowing their facilities and are ripe for Expansion; Research boosts Bacon Quality; Square All Round - a trapper story by Paul Annixter; Dairy Farmers of Canad Meet at Regina to Discuss the Postwar Situation - result is increased subsidies; The Farm Goes to the University - farm week at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon; Overnight Guest, a story by Ben Ames Williams; A Dutchman in the Red River Valley - A. A. Verheul - with photos; Great full-page ad by International Harvester with image of farmer and tractor in the background; John Deere tractor photo ad; Monthly Commentary by United Grain Growers Limited; The Countrywoman - the U.F.W.A. Meeting; Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting; Planning the farm house - article; plus much more. Address label on front cover, otherwise unmarked. Modest external wear. Binding tight. Book
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The Daily Colonist, Thursday September 27, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 7-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: ;Tremors in Ellensburg, WA; Indict Hauptmann for extortion of Lindbergh ransom; Prospectors rush to new gold field in the Sturgeon River district near the Manitoba-Ontario boundary north of Port Arthur; Robbery at the home of A.F.D. MacGachen on Landsowne Road; B.C. Potato and Vegetable producers ask for marketing board; Editorial page; Illustration of young Princess Elizabeth " Lilly-beth", later known as Queen Elizabeth II; Social pages; half-page Hudson't Bay Company ad; Travel Page; Entertainment page; Sports pages; Business page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; David Spencer Limited ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, March 1990
Features: Fountains of the deep - initial experiments in mixed-gas cave diving; Huautla '88 and '89 - studying the hydrogeology and making the movie; The Hayes River Expedition - how to turn a kayak into toothpicks; Underwater Papua New Guinea; Manila Galleons Discovered off Guam; Greenland Ice Cap Expedition; Glasnost and Underwear Diplomacy in the Arctic. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, September 1989
Features: North Pole Expedition on Environmental Mission; Operation Raleigh - Character Training by Exploring; Bouvetoya - the world's most isolated island; Pitcairn Island after 200 years; Kaho'olawe - Hawaii's largest uninhabited island; River of Jade - the Rio Santo Domingo River. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Spring 1992
Features: Across the U.S.S.R. - U.S./Soviet Transcycle; Northern Siberia by Canoe and Catamaran; The Dolgan and Nganasan Peoples - Aborigines of Northern Siberia; In the Central Arctic - The Baillie River Expedition; The Efe - Fathers of the Forest; Heinrich Harrer - Medalist '92 Explorer/Photographer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Spring 1993
Features: The Mummified Bulls of Saqqara; Exploratory Mountaineering - the Arctic Islands of Canada; Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe; Fifty Feet of Rain (Island of Borneo); Young Explorers - Nicholas Moore Wiedmann, SM '92; Geographers as Literary Explorers; Dreadnoughts of the Mara; Rio Revisited - Exploring the '92 Global Forum; Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center Established in Beijing. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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