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The Explorer's Journal, Summer 1993
Features: Albanian Alpine and Black Drini River Expedition - The Wild Mountain Region of Albania; Mt. Doonerak - the Spirit of the Eskimo; Notes from the North Pacific Rim; Har Karkom Expedition 1992 - a preliminary report; Of Picket Knives, Compasses, and Things; The Mysterious Round Towers of Ireland - Low Energy Radio in Nature; 1992 Excavations at Idalion on Cyprus. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1990: Expedition to the Mekranoti Indians
Features: An Expedition to the Mekranoti Indians; The First Catacombs; Some Departed Explorers I have known; Exploring Lake Baikal, Siberia; Les Voyageur Moderne on Quebec's Swampy Bay River; The Angkor Teimples in Kampuchea (Cambodia); The Pumori Climb in Record Time; Italian National Research Council - Scientific and Technological Research in the Himilayas and Karakorum. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, February 1928
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, March 1934
78 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Assam Border of Tibet; Homesteading in North-West Canada (in the Peace River Block); Survey in Johore; The Site of the City of Kalar in Kalar Dasht; The Grand Teton, Wyoming; The Kukanga Swamps; The Earthquake-Series of Ito (Japan); The Return of the Lively in 1831; The Este Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Morgan Horse Magazine, September, 1975 - The Foal Issue
194 pages - extra big issue. Features: Monaliza ad; Black River Thor ad; Feeding the Foal - article by H.F. Hintz and H.F. Schryver; Bar C's Elector, 17729 ad; Where are We Going - includes interesting graph of Summary of Annual Foal Registrations between 1921 and 1974; The Foal that Wouldn't Quit - by the Libbys of Kalire Farm, New Woodstock, New York; 1975 Foal Pictorial - 16 photos with captions; Full-page memorial ad for Burkland's Pride (1966-1975) which contributed to "Justin Morgan Had a Horse"; What's in a Name?, by Christopher Charles; Funquest Ben Star ad; Southern Regional Report; Colour ad for VF Juanita of Valleyfield Morgans; Diagram of a Creep Feeder inside a Creep Enclosure; The Woodlawn Carriage Meet; Color ad for Saddleback Sealect, 24230; Life Begins with a Morgan - by Wayne G. Hipsley; 1975 Foal Pictorial - 20 photos with captions; Cherry Blossom Parade - 1975; Carriage Drive in Historic Cooperstown; One Hundred Miles in One Day, by Polly Bee; Circle F - The Mile High Regional; Golden West Regional Show; Another 1975 Foal Pictorial - with proud mothers; The Vermont Morgan Show; The Missouri Valley Morgan Show; 4 more pages of foal pictorial; Jersey Show a Success; Green Meads Farm ad for UVM Promise 16916 on back cover; *Many* more ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1965
Features: A River Dies - and is Reborn again - New Jersey's Raritan River; We are deluding ourselves in Vietnam - Hans J. Morgenthau; Even if they can't read, They should have the right to vote - Andrew Hacker; After Fifty Years the cry of Ypres still Echoes - 'Gas!' - the beginning of chemical warfare in 1915 - chlorine and tear gas; Secret of the Nureyev Spell; The New York World's Fair - Act II; Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1965 *COVER PHOTO OF MARIO SAVIO & CO.*
Features: The Berkeley Affair - Mario Savio vs. UC President Kerr over free speech; A Japanese remembers Iwo Jima - Toshihiko Ohno; Could Reginald Maudling win for the Tories?; We are too deep in Asia and Africa, by Frank Church; It's Middletown - On the Potomac - a Washingtonian considers the recurrent 'passion for reshaping the city; Two men from Moscow pay a call - journalists A.N. Druzhinin and Stanislav Kondrashov; Driving tests should be tougher; What will become of the Hudson River?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1965
Features: The village of Kibweta in the war-torn Congo; The hard limits of government by consensus - LBJ is up against it; Daily Dilemmas of the Attorney General - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Commuters of Rio de Janeiro gripe but they love their city on its 400th anniversary; The American Dream and the American Negro; Venezuelan artist Marisol (includes picture of her with Andy Warhol); New York's street gangs no longer 'Bop,' they 'Jap'; Playwright Neil Simon's Prescription for Comedy. Crossword completed otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 27, 1961 *ALLEN FUNT OF CANDID-CAMERA / CRIMINAL ABORTIONISTS*
Features: The embarrassment of Louisiana - this state was glowing with prosperity until the integration conflicts broke out in all their ugliness; Abortion (part 2 of 3) - a reporter's portrait of the abortionists - who they are, and how they practice their trade; The face of America - River of Ice - photo of the Mendenhall Glacier; Pitfalls of buying a boat - Richard Bertram's Miami 'supermarket' sold $5,000,000 worth of sail and power vessels last year despite the disdain of competitors who think he's too high-pressured; A Call on the 'Candid-Camera' Man, Allen Funt; Can Ivan read better than Johnny? - Arthur S. Trace Jr. points out that Russian kids are far more literate than their American counterparts; Adventures of the Mind - The Hidden Heart of Nature, by Elliot Lovegood (E.L.) Grant Watson. Nice color Pepsi ad. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Sphere Magazine - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: April 7, 1945
Features: Horrific opening photo of the ruins of Wesel bears the caption 'German cities are being pulverised to dust; photos of the British jet plane, the Gloster-Whittle; photos of the crossing of the River Rhine; Photos and details of Hitler's Berhof at Berchtesgaden; Photos of the capture of Mandalay; photos from Iwo Jima; The capture of Wesel; New equipment for use against Germans and 'Japs'; Pictures from Russia; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 185 - 2 March 1918
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 230 - 11 January 1919 *PHOTOS OF HOLZMINDEN AFTER THE BRITISH ESCAPE*
Front cover illustration of a raving Bolshevik. Secrets of the London Air Raids - Where Zepps and Gothas dropped their bombs - article. Allied flags at Constantinople and Cattaro - two photos. New World Knights Guard River of Old Romance - 5 photos of American troops in Germany. Two photos of British soldiers in Germany. Four photos related to the escape of 29 British officers from the POW camp at Holzminden. Bolshevism in its True Colours - article by Sir Sidney Low. Photogravure centerfold includes images of the British in Cologne. Shall we Hang the Kaiser - article by Lovat Fraser. Equine and Canine Transport Bound for the Rhine. Ships of the Allies Anchor Off Sebastopol Again - 4 photos. Two photos of a British 'mystery' aeroplane' dropping a torpedo. And more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - December 1925: Vol. LVI No. 333
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - July 1928, Vol. LXI, No. 364
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - July 1953, Australian Edition
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 21: May Through October 1908
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 22: November 1908 Through April 1909 (Does Not Include February 1909)
Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1954
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1941
Stories: The Clue of the Broken Needle; The Seer of Kantara; A Day to Remember; Hunting Wild Horses; Stope Number Five East; River Death; A Cant.Mag. on Trek; The Witherell Kidnapping Case; The Derelict; Adventure Ahoy; The Haunted Bungalow; The McGuire Mystery. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1938
Stories: Canadian Hold-Up; A Clerk Breaks Loose; The Editor's Post Bag; Have You Seen an Elephant; My Cycle Trip to Spain; Latest From London; Spanish Interlude; The Brass River Affair; They Brought Me Back Alive; Crawford's Cobra; The Wolves of the Cascades; My All Blacks; The Tantanoola Tiger. Average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Vanished Trophy - a story for horse-lovers, the missing King George V International Jumping Championship Trophy; Saharan Adventure (continued) - fascinating account of a trip across the Sahara - Tuareg Tribesmen; Death in the Jungle - exploring the Rio Bobonaza for gold; Catching Wild Pigs Alive in Australia; Cyclone - a young seaman's description of his first experience of a circular storm; The Pay-Back - hunting a cattle-killing lion in Rhodesia; Kenai - deaf lead sled dog; The Big Fish - what happened to two young men night-fishing at the northern end of the Inner Sound of the island of Skye off the west coast of Scotland; Wealth in Bird's Nests - in search of the ingredient for the Chinese delicacy birds'-nest soup; and more. Chips from spine else unmarked with average wear. Back cover partially loose. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1957, Australian Edition
Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1917: The White "Maori"
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1954, Australian Edition
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - searching for a missing airplane several hundred mile s inside the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - a plane trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - the sheep farmers of Souther France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a terrifying experience related by well-known author G.E.G. Plant, F.R.G.S.; Black Frost - a striking story of the hard life of Newfoundland fishermen; When the Flood Came - the adventure of an English Farmer; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat, an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go tale from Tanganyika; These Men are Tough - Australian Cattle Men; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to open a West African river; and more. Average wear. Few chips from backstrip. Sound copy Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1952
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine: May 1911, No. 157. Vol. 27 - *H. Hesketh Prichard in Labrador*
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, November 25, 1961: Dr. Mikhail Klochko Fled Russia
39 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Theatre Organ Magazine, April 1971
38 pages. Contents: Cover photo of the 4/31 Granada organ Loft Club Wurlitzer in West Seattle; The Great Organ of the Mormon Tabernacle - article with photos; Memphis' Magnificent Malco Theatre; James (Jim) O. Carter has loved organs since he was a kid - article with photos; Douglas Spivey and his dad save Robert Morgan organ from wrecker's ball in Durham, North Carolina church; Chauncey Haines - "Tuesday Night at the Silent Movies" - article with great photos; Stu Green and Peg Nielsen wed; Rosa Rio in Cincinnati - she plays the 4/30 Wurlitzer of Stan Todd at his Shady-Nook Steak House in Hamilton, Ohio; Back cover ad by the Rodgers Organ company promotes Lyn Larsen and his album "Something Special". Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Theatre Organ Magazine, Journal of the American Theatre Organ Society, February 1970 *Tony Fenelon in America*
Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photos of the majestic interior of the Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon. My Great Adventure 'Up Over' - Australian organist Tony Fenelon's 31-day tour of the U.S.A in the fall of 1969. The Story of Rosa Rio - wonderful 4-page article with photos. What is Unification? - 4-page technical article. Don Thompson Concertizing in Western U.S. The Young Radical Comes of Age - bring understanding of the Theatre Organ up to date, given its return to the international music scene. Pipe'n Pizza makes Southwest Scene - the "Pasta with Pipes" Phenomenon. Hollywood Cavalcade. New chapter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has smash hit first concert. Tenth Home Organ Festibal at Hoberg's woodland resort in Northern California. *Marvelous* three-panel glossy colour centerfold ad for the Rodgers 33-E Theatre Organ. Reader contributions. Obituaries for Douglas Erdman and Mrs. Felix (Jean) Wiener. The Pipe Piper - a listing of any theatre pipe-organs known to be playing. Chapter news. Letters. Lyn Larsen's Fall Concert Tour. Record reviews. The Music of Jerry Mendelson Captivates Rahway Audience. CATOE members restore Pickwick Wurlitzer. Roland J. Treul moves Barton to his home - story with photos. Nuggest from the Golden Days. A Tribute to Dan Papp. California Miss Debuts on Covina "Wurlimorton" - Carol Jones. Classified ads. Chapter news. Conn Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Bonus: prior owner's A.T.O.S. membership card stapled to table of contents. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition) September (Sept.) 12, 1969 - Ho Chi Minh Cover
96 pages. Features: Stupendous prairie grain harvest - with photo of Alta Atcheson of Saskatchewan; Farmer Fred C. Langmaier of Zehner, Saskatchewan; Photo of Pierre Trudeau yachting in the Mediterranean; Peter Lebensold and his 'The Five Cent Review'; Fortress of Louisbourg; Nice color-photo as for the Mercedes-Benz 280s; Color Quantas ad features photo of Koala under blanket in first class seat; Racial Revolt - why the summer was quiet; Photo of burned-out Newark ghetto two years later; photo of fire and riot in Hartford; Ramson for kidnapped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick in Rio; Mary Jo Kopechne inquest delayed; Feature article on the passing of Ho Chi Minh - with photos; Can the hijackers be halted? - already 46 aircraft hijacked this year; Coup in Libya - King Idris is overthrown; Albert Speer - Hitler's personal architect; Isle of Wight music concert - great two-page photo-illustrated article of hippies, Bob Dylan and Marsha Hunt; John O'Brien and Shintaro Okada study Tay-Sachs disease; Charles Templeton is featured in ad for Progress wool fashions for men; Harvey Matusow and the Guerrilla war against computers; James and Diane Pike become lost in the desert near Qumran; Wheat Price War; Restoration of Novgorod Kremlin - article with three pages of color photos of Soviet architecture; Passing of Rocky Marciano, David Karnofsky, Right Reverenc James A. Pike, Josh White, Erika Mann, Drew Pearson, Norman Washington Manley, Betty Gram Swing and Arthur Upham Pope; The Track of the Quarck; One-page illustrated Cominco ad; Toyota Crown ad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), August (Aug.) 3, 1981 - Chuck and Di Cover Illustration
56 pages. Features: Storyteller Michael Parents; G6 Leaders Meet at Montebello - article with color photos; Ronald Reagan - Commander from Culver City; Clinch River - a Breeder Reactor for Howard Baker; New US policies on immigration; Senators urge William Casey to quit CIA; Daniel Yankelovich predicts new "ethic of commitment"; Prince Charles Weds Lady Diana - feature article with color photos; Precarous Peace Between Israel and P.L.O.; Tough Challenges in Poland; U.S. Favouring China over Taiwan; Pope's Assailant Mehmet Ali Agca gets life; Attack from the right in El Salvador; Hunger strikers lose favour in Northern Ireland; Karl Barth's last letters mix vitriol and compassion; The merits oof multi-billion-dollar mergers; Chrysler turns up a winner under Lee Iococca; Cola wars in Thailand; Iceberg Cool - Theodore Taylor uses ice for air conditioning - on a large scale; Sailing article - "Happiness is a Hobie Cat"; Time Inc. shuts the Washington Star; MADD - growing protest against lenient punishment for drunk drivers; Passing of Carol Fox, Fernand Spaak, Gabriel Hauge and Abram Kardiner; Prehistoric zoo at Archer, Florida okra farm; Steps taken to save the whales; A vote for Egypt's Aswan Dam; Soprano Mirella Freni; Summer Computer Camps replace snakes and frogs; The Pessimistic Vision of the late artist Philip Guston; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), August (Aug.) 3, 1970 - Growing Old in America
56 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine - Canadian Edition, November (Nov.) 24, 1967 - Harold Wilson Cover Photo
112 pages. Features: Pitney-Bowes ad features Mike Lawlor; Kodak M18 Movie Camera ad; Map of Canadian Pacific's holdings; Artist Claude Goulet; X-15 Crashes in Mojave Desert, taking the life of Air Force Major Michael J. Adams; Vietnam war coverage; Ferdinand Marcos electoral victory in the Philippines; Fantastic two-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited features large black and white archival photo of loggers with color inset photo of the lovely Mrs. Tom Radford of (our hometown) Ladysmith, BC; Dressing up the Masai in Tanzania; South Yemen - Yoke of Independence; Photo of Miss World, Madeleine Hartog-Bel who passed out when she was named the winner; Photo of Oregon State's Haggard kicking field goal vs. U.S.C.; Passing of racehorse Dark Star; German Publisher Axel Springer; Stella's Radial Rainbows; Nice color photo of John D. Garnet in Schaefer Pen ad; Passing of Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, Bernard Kilgore, Joan Lowell, Serafino Romualdi, Clementine Paddleford, Ida Cox, Sir Archibald Nye and Dr. Elmer V. McCollum; Divorce of Ralph Schoenman and J.D. Salinger; San Antonio's fast-rising Hilton Palacio Del Rio Hotel; Jeep Wagoneer ad; Photo of band "The Doors" at the Fillmore; Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Dick Honey tree-chipping in New Zealand. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, April (Apr.) 25, 1969 - Ethel Kennedy Cover
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine, August (Aug.) 1, 1969 - Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick
76 pages. Features: Ohio's polluted Cuyahoga River - with photo of it on fire; Colour photos of President Nixon welcoming the Apollo 11 astronauts back to earth; The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick; Photo of Nixon with President Marcos of the Philippines; Stories on the aftermath of Apollo 11; Suez battles; The Chosen Prince of Spain; Kikuyu Suspect Njoroge; Color samples of pastel art by Robert Natkin and Richard Diebenkorn; Ruler of the Road - auto racer Jackie Stewart; Article on Japan's ascendancy; Photo of Laotian troops studying Mao; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine, December 22, 1967 - Bob Hope Cover - Christmas in Vietnam
Features: Photo ad for stockbroker John Brick of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis; Collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River between Kanauga, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Time Essay - What Negotiations in Vietnam might mean; Greece - the Coup that collapsed; The Soviet Fleet in the Mediterranean; Land Rush in Brazil - the Fuller family in Boias; Beautiful color-photo ad for Cadillac; Student protests in Europe; Nice two-page color ad by BOAC showing the Concorde; Asian Recreation for U.S. Fighting Men - article with four great pages of photos; Entertainer Bob Hope; Underground nuclear test near New Mexico's Leandro Canyon; A.M.C.'s Amitron car; Lockheed's AH-56A; Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and Lego; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine about Railroads, March 1950 - Cover Photo of the Texas & Pacific 4-8-2 No. 909 Leaving Dallas Westbound
58 pages. Features: Steam Success Story - Louisville and Nashville's Eastern Kentucky Division - article with many great photos; Mr. Walter Giger''s Remarkable Locomotive - d design that might have prolonged the life of steam power and delayed the diesel; The Texas & Pacific - long article with photos, map and list of locomotives; Photo Section - includes centerfold of a West Shore passenger train of the New York Central on the Hudson River; How to get rid of smoke - article with photos; Only One of Her Kind - Baldwin 2-6-6-4 - Beautiful photo; The Capital to Chicago - Baltimore & Ohio's Capital Limited - article with photos; In Pursuit of the Mail - Great Northern wanted the mail contract and not even a landslide could hold it back; Married to a Train - Esther Probst married a rail fan (J.P.) - article with photos; Streamlined Makeshifts - Before and after photos of some steam locomotives born after 1933 - article with photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, April 1950 - Cover Photo of the Milwaukee Road Express to Chicago Behind a 4-6-4
58 pages. Features: Western Pacific orders Budd car after successful 10-day trial (short story); The Rutland Railroad - article with photos; The Locomotive in 1949 - railroads cut back diesel orders, almost forgot steam & admired the gas turbine - long article with photos; Ohio's last Narrow-Gauge - The Ohio River & Western - article with two great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold photo of Southern Pacific's Suntan Special in California; Broad Gauge Route - The Erie Railroad - photos; My Finest Train Trip - David P. Morgan describes his trip from New Orleans on the Panama Limited - with photos; Big Hook - the machinery and crews who clear away wrecks - super photos; Hub of the Washington Terminal - Ivy City Enginehouse services the steam, diesel and electric locomotives of the five railroads using the capital's Union Station - article with two photos; Los Angeles at Night - nice long-exposure photos; Casey Jones Died 50 Years Ago - article with photo; Lancaster & Chester - Miniature Division at Elliott Springs; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, September1950 - Cover Photo of Louisville & Nashville's Lima-built Berkshire No. 1985 Thunders Out of Norton, Va.
58 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railoading: August 1971, Volume 31 Number 10
58 pages. Features: Many great photos; Mr. Young's X - the dream that died; All Railroads are living in glass houses; Over high trestles, into ocean mists - the last steam train leaves the Nanaimo River Camp of MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island; Voyaging Coast to Coast on an iron ocean. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, August 1955 - Chicago & Illinois Midland - Still in Steam!
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Songs Sung by Rail Crews; Canada's best trains - a pair of new streamliners have made two world records; Oasis in Dieseldom - Smoke over the Prairies - 8 - A Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-10-2 declares war on a Petersburg Hill - photos, captions and more; Chalk up another for RDC (Rail Diesel Car); Photo Section includes an awesome photo of the copper pit at Ruth, Nevada; Wonderful centerfold photo of Baltimore & Ohio's BR&P Pacific 5235 high above the Allegheny River at East Mosgrove, Pa; Air photos of the Hook & Dye Division of Louisville & Nashville's 8,000-foot Hiwassee Loop around Tate Mountain between Farner and Apalachia, Tenn; British Signals - and why they look that way - a detailed and interesting report; and more. Faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, December 1956
66 pages. Features: News Photos; 4 to 12 Shift - ; 1,000,000,000 Commuters - Illinois Central Suburban was build to carry commuters - extensive coverage; Steam in Indian Summer; Photo Section; Super centerfold photo of an eastbound coal train crossing the New River at Glen Lynn, Va behind a million-pound 6,800 horsepower electric; Trains Turntable - opinion; Casey Called it a Cabin - in steam days they were hot, dirty and always ornamental; Trains Tripmaster - through the mountains... to Florida!; John Walker Barriger's Bible for Railroading; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, June 1954 - 10 Pages of Southern Pacific Photos!
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, October 1957 - True Story of Kate Shelley
66 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, September 1955
66 pages. Features: News Photos - Will You Have Steam or Diesel?; Memories of the New River Gorge on the C&O in the days of Imperial Salon Cars and pump-heavy steam power - photos and article; Berkshire on the Move - Smoke over the Prairies 9 - Nickel Plate; The Alaska Railroad - the railroad that had it too good and too bad - Frank Kalbaugh was brought in to apply the rod to the spoiled child; Illinois Terminal Traction in Twilight - photo section; De-Dieselization - a diesel shortage means the Pennsylvania railroad has to bring steam locomotives out of mothballs; Here Comes Tomorrow - GM's new lightweight passenger speedster; From Throttle to Typewriter - Cy Warman; Wonderful photos from Lookout Pass - when steam ruled; Nice colour ad for Great Northern Railway's new Dome Cars on back covere; and more. Two-inch opening at base of coverfold. Faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: April 1957 - Volume 17, Number 6
Features: 15 pages of mountain railroading!; Naotaka Hirota's Album; Narrow Gauge vs. the Great Blizzard of 1957; News Photos; From Altoona to the Allegheny River; Riding the head end of No. 32; 84 years go by on Fulton Street; The ghosts of Sam Vauclain's compounds and of boyhood vacations hung near the Jersey beaches as a handful of dirty high-wheelers recalled famous exploits and purely personal memories; Average wear. One inch stain to upper right corner of most pages; less than $50 buys an 1800 mile rail swing through the middle west guaranteed to please the most discriminating enthusiast; and more. Faint date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April, 1958
Features: All West Issue; Robert R. Young 1897-1958; Railroad news photos; Great Photo of 'The Day They Tamed the West', 10 May, 1869 - rails meet in Utah; What the 'W' stands for in D&RGW - Rio Grande's Salt Lake Division; A Place to Watch Trains - David P. Morgan thumbs his diary back to 1945 and recalls Denver Union Station in 1945; Photos through the Rockes; Nice 2-page photo of a train puffing through Marias Pass in 1940; Day of a Railroader - 2 - a fan goes firing for pay and falls in love with 4-6-6-4s; The Case of the Verdi Villains; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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