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Chip Chats Magazine, January/February 1987
72 pages. Features: The Denton family woodcarvers; Garrity Carved Signs Co.; carving your masterpiece - why not?; Jim Fliger - no fish story; The Master Carver - Rudy Vargas; Exploring Power Carving; Carving a Horse; The Wood Bee Carver's Tool Kit; Carve a Wolf Head Neckerchief; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Moscow, Alvin
The Rockefeller Inheritance
462 pages. Extensive index. Bibliography. "They were five of the richest kids on earth - John, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop and David. This is the story of how they lived and how they grew in the shadow of the Rockefeller inheritance... Based on rare in-depth interviews with the five brothers themselves, and with their friends and business associates. The author had unprecedented access to the Rockefeller family archives - and he spent eight years preparing and researching this book. The result is a definitive, close-up view of the Rockefeller dynasty - an unauthorized, unrestricted and totally honest look at the public and private lives of the men and women who control the Rockefeller inheritance." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to book which is unmarked but for gift greetings inside front board. Dust jacket heavily worn. A sound reference copy. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, March 10, 1962
39 pages. Features: My holiday ended in a red jail - Milorad Cop went to see his son in Prague and was accused of spying; Marie St. Laurent at the Florida Message Centre helps Canadians down south; Skiing for Eight - On a Budget: Fun-filled weekends are a way of life for the Moore Family (son Tim went on to great success with AMJ Campbell Van Lines); Arlene Phillips Braves the Heights - goes atop buildings with her high-steel worker father Joey Phillips, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Caughnawaga Indian reservation near Montreal; I live for work and love says Melina Mercouri - the star of Never on Sunday; Seat of Trouble - comic; Great colour photos with story about NHL goalies Gump Worsely and Jacques Plante; The Rockefellers Change with the Times - the fourth generation of the family has a different approach to wealth - inclues 8 interesting black and white photos; The Fleet Nobody Wanted - British Columbia's government-owned ferry service (B.C. Ferries); Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, April 7, 1962: Stevie Wise is Now Lady Listowel
55 pages. Features: How a Canadian jazz singer became the wife of an Earl - Stevie Wise of Toronto is now Lady Listowel, married to the Earl of Listowel; They Help Themselves by Helping Others - Rev. Henri Groues of France originated the Emmaus idea of collecting, repairing and selling used goods to build homes for the poor - Rev. Laurent Laporte of Montreal; He goes fishing in his own living room - George Wendelkin; A Cold Wind Makes Lola Albright a hot property; Don't put off that children's Party - or you may find it's too late to enjoy the fun yourself; League of the Light-Fingered - Shoplifting is a problem that has grown to million-dollar proportions in Canada; Fiddler with Plenty of Strings to his Bow - Ellis Wilson of Quebec is a band leader, a farmer, a TV salesman and a barber; Ted Bowsfield of Penticton, B.C. succeeds at baseball in Boston and Los Angeles; A British Army Armoured Car is converted to carrying money; Bud Henning's All-Girl Drill Crew - three daughters are all he needs to man his rig - water drilling family in the Kootenays of B.C.; You need luck in this business - Bill Daniels has cornered the market - he owns three million four-leaf clover plants - Gulfport, Florida - his business is called Daniels' Clover Specialty Co.; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads including Savage Shoes centerfold. '62 Envoy colour car ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 8, 1964 - Peace March Canada, 1964
Features: How William Zeckendorf changed Canada's skyline and found trouble; The good woman and the convict - how Frances McKearney's devotion led a vicious criminal (Joe Flaherty) 'back to the human race'; The Peaceniks go to La Macaza, Quebec - the U.S. civil rights technique - non-violent civil disobedience - comes to Canada (many photos); How I became a solitary noisemaker - Sheila Burnford admits that her secret vice is talking with birds; The highway that's changing Ontario - portrait of 401, the monster that makes and breaks businesses, towns and drivers; How the Scotch out-talked the family compact - Scotch Grits vs. 'Rotten Tories' in Ontario's classic battle of wit and lung power (by John Kenneth Galbraith); Report on Two World's Fairs - New York is fun, but Expo 67 might just change the world; The Man who made it all the way back - excerpt from first novel of Hugh Hood; George Wallace - the educated bigot; a band called The Beavers - Canada's answer to the Beatles; United Appeal hurts our best charities - Dr. Gordon Bates. Average wear. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, January 27, 1962 - Robert Goulet Cover Photo
Features: Is it the Boss that's wrong with business? - business is slipping and some of Canada's ablest executives are saying it's time to crack down on overmanagement, half-educated managers and payrolls padded at the top; What a decent government can do in Latin America - the people of Puerto Rico benefit from Luis Munoz Marin and Operation Bootstrap; Robert Goulet - the life and times of a hot property; In High Places - part 2 of Arthur Hailey's new novel; The unmarried wives - more Canadian men and women are living together without the formality of a marriage; Form Chart on Hobbies - who's in front in the $3 billion-a-year scramble to find newer and better ways to pass spare time; Memoirs of a fortnight in French - an English-speaking writer moves in with a small Quebec City family and learns how it feels to be the stupid one for a change. Colour ad for the 1962 Acadian inside back cover. Above-average wear. Water damage. A worthy reference 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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Life Magazine, April 26, 1968 *THE FRENCH SPY SCANDAL*
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Flora Magazine: February 1982
Features: Setting the Scene - Julia Clements; Birch Structures - Sylvie Expert-Bezancon; Bright and Beautiful - Baskets and Trays; Flower Arranging in the Caribbean; Reminiscences of a flower arranger - Joy Fleming; Winter Foliage - Rona Coleman; The Arum Family - Virginia Black; My Garden - George Foss; Flowers from a Winter Garden - Sheila Macqueen; A Wild Flower Sanctuary - W.J. Wegg; February in Your Garden - Frances Perry; Spring-Flowering Shade Plants - Edna Knowles; Natural Wood Containers; More Exotic Flower Lovers; Camilias in the British Isles; Silk Camelias; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, June 22, 1968 *PHOTO OF PIERRE TRUDEAU IN COVER*
Features: Colour cover photos of Pierre Trudeau and Robert Stanfield; "Trudeau and Stanfield on Movies, Luck, Women... things like that; Women just don't know their place - The Royal Commission on the Status of Women holds court across Canada; It's still a lazy, lovely boy's world - Hugh Garner; Rabies - the disease is making frightening advances all across the country; The Tragecy of a Jockey - Queen's Plate winning Chris Rogers is recovering from his 18 beers a day habit; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Once inch tear to lower fore-edge of front cover and first page. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, February 28, 1970 *SNOWMOBILE RACERS ON FRONT COVER*
Features: Loud and Low and no In-flight Movies - pioneer Canadian aviation 50 years ago; The High School for Pregnant Teenagers; The Poncho Comes North - fashion; Snowmobile Racers, by Paul Rimstead; When Mother Goes Back to Work - some pros/cons, dos/don'ts; Simmer Down - food section; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, March 7, 1970 *COVER PHOTO OF COP WITH BREATHALYZER*
Features: Life under the Breathalyzer - how a neat little machine has changed party-giving, marriages, Christmas, New Year's, driving, dining, even our sex lives; From Oven to Entree - how a chicken becomes a dinner (includes recipe for Supreme of Chicken Albufera); Polish up my diamonds, I'm wearing my jeans tonight - fashion; Hair - The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical; Fran Huck - The Reluctant (Hockey) Pro - when Canada dropped out of international hockey, he announced he would turn pro; The Crepe - easy elegance (food feature); Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Some rubbing to front cover. 3"x3" piece missing from upper corner of back cover. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, May 2, 1970 - Best Highway Diners in Canada
Features: The Seven Best Highway Diners in Canada - Parkside Service Centre, Maberley, Ontario - Kanaka Bar Restaurant, Lytton, BC - Helen's Coffee Shoppe, DeWinton, Alberta - Headingley Husky Travelcentre - Headingly, Manitoba; Gil's Truck Plaza, Quebec City - Valley Restaurant, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick - Blanche's Grill, Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Miss Nude America... is a Canadian, Dianne Boisclair; Colour ad for GM Pontiac models - Firebird, Le Mans, Grand Prix; The NHL's Ten Best Fighters - John Ferguson, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Orland Kurtenbach; Ted Harris; Reggie Fleming; Eddie Shack; Derek Sanderson; Jim Dorey; Shades of Captain Marvel - fashion; Nice colour Hush Puppies ad; Nothing succeeds like failure - ask Marvin Fleishman of auctioneer Danbury Sales Ltd; Rebuilding a wreck and restoring a memory - an HS-2L flying boat and Don Foss; The Things you didn't know about Nature; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, May 23, 1970 *CANADIANS ARE MOONLIGHTING*
Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, May 30, 1970 *HOW THE FASHION INDUSTRY BOSSES YOU AROUND*
Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 6 June 1970 *THE HOME SALES GAME*
Features: The Home Sales Game - coffee, cake, and buy, buy, buy - Tupperware, etc.; The Loneliness of an Old Master - Snooker Champion George Chenier; The Auto Theft Industry; The real truth about the bible baddies; Sand Skiing at Tadoussac; Maggie Grant; Snake Charmers (fashion feature); Cybermedix - get Canada's most complete medical checkup without seeing a doctor; Part of page 33 has been clipped out - it appears to have been from an article about coloured rock; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 27 June 1970 *COVER PHOTO OF A NEW MIDI COAT*
Features: Top Dogs - the long, the short and the tall - plus 12 others that make Canadian dog owners sit up and pant; The Facts of Death; Nobody Gives a Listen - George Cook has written 5,501 songs - more than anybody else in the world; Revving through the streets of Trois-Rivieres at 140 mph; What's really what in Ottawa?; Moveable Feasts - food feature: How Montreal cracked down on its port thieves. Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note: half of page 27 missing; most of page 29 missing; half of back cover missing. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 11 July 1970 *BIll COLE'S PLAN FOR AN ENCORE*
Features: What Canadians don't like about each other; Wives who live with fear - some men aren't happy unless they're risking their lves... but for their wives, it's a different story - Monique Ouellet, Sheila Roberts, Beverly Lancaster, Krysia Reid, Lana Dodds, Annie Vallis, Margaret Ion; My name is Rosemary Radcliffe - and I'm not making faces just for the fun of it; Bill Cole will jump off the highest building in Canada for $20,000; When you see the same movie 1,045 times - Projectionists Sam Bowes and Wally Brown will miss "2001- A Space Odyssey" when it moves on from Toronto's Glendale Cinerama; The Problems of Being Establishment - if you're one of Nova Scotia's Olands, you're 'expected' to make beer - The Oland Family; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 31 October 1970 *PIERRE TRUDEAU ON FRONT COVER*
Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 28 November 1970 *PART 3 OF 'THE MOB'*
Features: Is it already too late for the Seventies? - 'our awards for achievement below and far short of the call of duty in the first year of the decade; The members of the Mob - meet the ones who've been weeded out, and you'll worry just as the cops worry - about the ones who are still with us; The Winds of the Sea - Tom and Greg Ryan are maritime fishermen; Suddenly pants are proper - fashion feature; George Eaton of the famous family races Grand Prix cars at 170 mph; Please note 1/3 of page 23 has been clipped out - this probably contained part of the 'you asked us' section; Rogers Chocolates - began when the chocolate bar was only 9 years old - photos and text (piece clipped from one photo); Homer Stephens conducts Canada' largest car auction - Cooksville Auto Auction; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 23 January 1971 *THE DRAMATIC RESCUE OF JAMES CROSS*
Features: The biggest manhunt in Canadian history - great colour photos and lengthy text; The Private Agony of Jerome Choquette - this Justice Minister set out to strengthen the rights of the individual but now advocates identity cards and carries a .38 revolver; Newfie Fare - Everywhere an Islander goes, his food is sure to follow; Sure the UN tries to keep peace around the world - but who tries to keep peace at the UN? - retired Canadian Army officer Harold Trimble explains; Wearing your ego on your face - photos of moustaches added to the faces of famous Canadians; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 6 February 1971 *MORE ON THE MOB, AND ARTIST JACK CHAMBERS*
Features: The Mob - Part 4 of a Series - Gambler Sammy Klein was killed by loansharks for being late with his payments; If you can't speak Canadian, don't worry - Nobody Can; Maggie Grant; Centerfold advertisement for Esso Power Players NHL card promotion; What makes Jack Chambers Canada's top-priced painter? - four page article with nice colour illustrations; Canada has a great chance in the North American tiddlywinks championships!; Prominent Canadian Ladies suggest what a man should smell like; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 20 February 1971 *THE NIAGARA DAREDEVILS/PART 6 OF 'THE MOB'*
Features: The Niagara Daredevils - Red Hill Jr. tried to go over and was killed - his brother says he'll try in June; "As an Abortionist I was Really doing something to help people" - When Dr. Robert Makaroff was arrested in Vancouver last March, he had performed more than 1,000 illegal abortions; Stretch denim fashion feature; What a golf pro does in winter - Len Ellerton uses a videotape recording machine to help students with their swings; A guide to Golf Etiquette; Yummm Yogurt! - food feature; Part 6 of 'The Mob' - The Bookies - They're crime's biggest moneymakers - Montreal bookie Gary Ball; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 17 April, 1971 *THE GREAT NOVA SCOTIA WILDCAT HUNT*
Features: The World Wildcat (bobcat) Hunt - Canadian guide Ron Hoare and American hunter Norm Wheeler at Truro, Nova Scotia; Professional patients - they can fake symptoms well enough to fool most doctors so they can enjoy all that tender, loving (and free) hospital care; Al Stewart of West Hill is a jack of all trades, and master of just about all of them - he, Bill Fields, Izzy Flader, Nick Kioussis, Aron Frydman, Alan (and Percy) Lepke are some of the very best and absolutely most reasonable repairmen anywhere; Tie One On - fashion segment featuring decorative tie-ons for bare legs named 'Gammies"; Do Canadian workers need American salaries? - a question being considered by North America's giant international unions - carpenter Harry Peck of Portland, Oregon is compared with carpenter Floyd Holly of Vancouver, BC; Nice colour full-page ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken; Prosperity is Killing the Game of Marbles - Why should a kid work for his water babies when he can buy all he wants?; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 24 July 1971*INFLATION - WHY YOU NEVER GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH*
Features: The more you make, the less it buys - Prices are rising rapidly - prices of many goods and services over the past 10 years are presented in charts; Yes, it is a coffin - Jean-Marc Beliveau of Sarcofab says his company's caskets will keep their integrity longer; $600 and all the dirt you can eat - motocross racing - many colour photos; four pages of lovely colour nature photos from across Canada; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family; Bernie Welch wants you - to join the Household Cavalry and guard the Queen. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 20 May 1972 *COLIN BROWN - CANADA'S LEADING CRUSADER AGAINST BIG GOVERNMENT*
Features: Canada's a great place to visit, especially if you live here! - great places to visit are presented with photos, some in colour; Colin Brown - right-wing revolutionary, fighter against medicare and tax reform - Canada's leading crusader against big government and modern permissiveness; 'Jailbreak Canada' game; *Please note that pages 23-26 are missing*; Cheer up Ron - Ron Taylor, relief pitcher from Toronto whom the Montreal Expos bought from the New York Mets last October, is released by GM Jim Fanning; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 12 December 1970
30 pages. Features: How to Actually Enjoy Winter; The Moosemeat Special - the train that runs from Sault Ste. Marie and stops for two liquor stores, whenever a hunter wants on or off - and whenever it hits a timber wolf; How to actually enjoy skiing; Southern exposure - fashion feature; Maggie Grant; The Granddaddy of Draft Dodgers - Jim Blake and his brothers fled into the mountains to escape from Prime minister Borden's conscription law at the time of the first world war; Myrna Lorrie - getting back on track at age 29; Everything about cats with Dr. Robert Williams; Doug Wright's Family. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Franck, Adrian; Gregor, Pearl: Editors
New Sarepta (Alberta) - Looking Back: 1900-1980
706 pages. Amazing black and white dust jacket photo shows a woman pioneer clearing brush by hand. This exhaustive local history covers: The Town of St. Jospeh; General History; Political History; Churches; Family Histories; Business; Recreation; The New Sarepta Historical Society. Includes reproductions of archival maps and hundreds of black and white illustrations. Prior owner's details upon verso of illustrated front free endpaper else unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Krotki 380. Book
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Lund, L. Margaret
Corral Dust
224 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa 1980s.The account of the author's ranching experiences with her husband Eric. Black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Cowles, Virginia
The Rothschilds: A Family of Fortune
304 pages. Index. Many black and white illustrations. Several colour plates. "Here, rendered with a sharp eye for the minutiae of social circumstance, are their descendants in England, in France, across Europe, to the present day, making history, leading fascinating lives as bankers, Zionists, patrons of the arts, sportsmen, scientists, winegrowers, princely hosts, latter-day Medicis." - from dust jacket. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in Brodart. Book Clean and unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Book
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Star Weekly - The Canadian Magazine: December 7, 1968 *LORNE GREENE FAMILY COVER PHOTO*
35 pages. Features: Why Lorne Greene will stop playing Ben Cartwright (of the Bonanaza TV show) - a singularly fascinating article by Paul Grescoe which peaks on page 4 when Mr. Greene recounts a personal 1939 experience in which not only America's involvement in the coming WWII was predicted, but also how America would come to be the stronghold of Fascism some years later; Coaltown, Canada - Michel, B.C.; They Paddled Across the Prairies - Karl and Alan Friesen paddled from Calgary to Winnipeg; Heart Attack Survivors Take Heart - now heart specialists believe you can and should get out of bed as soon as possible and resume a normal life; General Andrew McNaughton - Part Two - The Happy Time; Ladies of the Cloth - in all of Canada there are about 75 women clerics and sometimes the younger ones feel isolated; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Star Weekly, The Canadian Magazine: 31 May 1969 *ESCAPE FROM EAST GERMANY*
31 pages. Features: Escape from East Germany - Part 1 - by Gary Hart, as told to Paul Grescoe; "A Better Bet Than Pierre" - Liberal M.P. David Anderson may be the most eligible bachelor in Ottawa; The Quiet Resentment of Joe Zuger, Hamilton Tiger Cat (Ti-Cat) Quarterback; We Finally have a National Arts Centre; Your Name Can Date You; Trapped in the Ghetto - Canada's largest Indian slum in Winnipeg; Doug Wright's Family. Laid in is a 12-page Star Weekly novel entitled "The Short Night" plus a 16 page supplement entitled Star Weekly - Canadian Panorama. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, 5 June 1965 *I SPIED FOR THE RUSSIANS, PART 2 / TED KENNEDY COVER PHOTO*
Features: I hate Paris in the springtime - Robert Daley; The Intellectuals and Vietnam - Stewart Alsop; Ceiling Zero (The Human Comedy); Massachusetts - Rogues and reformers in a state on trial - Ted Kennedy content (so what has changed?) - the Garage Scandal; Horses in the living room - the Assael family has many pets, including 5 miniature horses; "I Spied for the Russians" - Robert Glenn Thompson; India - downhill toward disaster - the year since the death of Nehru; Shirley Temple - her eyes are still dancing - great photos!. Colour Ford Station Wagon ad. Super colour Cadillac ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, December 19, 1964 *THE CHILDREN OF AMERICA*
Features: Parents will never amount to much! - Jamie and Suzy Kitman; The World of Play - Colour photos of city kids at play; The Extraordinary Amidon School - the three R's plus discipline and old-fashioned teachers; Dickens' A Christmas Carol - colour photos; The Remarkable Life of a Little Genius - Peter Winston; The Small-Fry Boom - Kids are Big Business; My Father was 'Uncle Wiggily' - four members of an extraordinary family produced most of the books read by generations of American children, but father was best loved for writing the 'Uncle Wiggily' stories, by Roger Garis; A Day in the Life of a Pediatrician - Laurence Gesner Pray of Fargo, North Dakota. Nice colour Pepsi ad with colour Coke ad with Santa Claus on back cover. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1961 *BOBBY DARIN*
Features: Presidents in Retirement; The Changing Far East - vivid contrasts between the traditional past and the tumultuous present mark the rapid emergence of the Orient into the modern world; Little Singer with a Big Ego - Bobby Darin is the 25-year-old enfant terrible of show business; Can the Commuter Survive? - some measures that may reduce the hardships of America's inadequate railroads and overburdened highways; Milwaukee's Sausage Artists - for 80 years the Usinger family has created Wursts to please the fussiest Feinschmeckers this side of the Rhine; Nation of Gamblers - amid a chorus of misgivings, the British have made wagering legal. Above-average wear. Back cover missing. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1962 *THE NEUTRON BOMB / BACKSTAGE WITH ANDY WILLIAMS*
Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, April 14, 1962 *IRAN'S ROYAL FAMILY*
Features: Iran's Good King - a report from the imperial realm of 'our staunchest ally in the Middle East'; People on the Way Up - Val Forgett, Norma Gibbs, Charles Swibel, Catherine Anouilh; The Menningers of Kansas - Part 2 - the hopeless patient is a myth; nice color ad for Seattle's World's Fair 1962; Reading - a way upward - school officials in St. Louis are showing that good books provide a way out of poverty; Posh Palace of Fashion - New York's Bergdorf Goodman; Nice Cadillac ad on page 65; An Answer to Teller - a reply to Edward Teller's S.E.P. articles in Febrary 1962; The Met's Second Caruso - Richar Tucker. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, September 15, 1962 *NELSON ROCKEFELLER / JOANNE WOODWARD*
Features: Last Chance for the Moon - Sen. Clinton P. Anderson argues only a nuclear-powered rocket can overtake Russia's lead in space; My Life with New York Juvenile Gangs (part 1 of 3) by Vincent Riccio - many photos; Star without an Image - outspoken, unpretentious Joanne Woodward manages to hide herself behind a hundred make-believe roles; Ghana - Neutral on the left - nice color photos; Taming the Colorado - Article with great photos of the Glen Canyon Dam under construction; Strong boy of the Minnesota Twins - Harmon Killebrew; Stylish Entertaining at Home; Living High on $6500 a Year - Darrell Huff, a free-lance jack-of-all-trades tells how a family can live like millionaires on a modest income; The Decline and Fall of Friendship - one of humanity's greatest blessings is sadly out of fashion; Nelson Rockefeller - Does he have a future with the G.O.P.?. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, March 17, 1927 *THE MATTERHORN*
Features: Caleb Peaslee on being careful; The Queer Case of Mother - a story for all the family; Midshipman Bumpus's Efficiency - a fire at the Naval Academy; A Boy on the Matterhorn - a 16-year-old boy tackles the Alps; The Family Jar - Aunt Marietta sends a wedding gift; Cameron MacBain, Backwoodsman - V; The National Society for Ingenious Boys - Motors and Generators III - Alternating Current Phenomena. Unmarked with average wear. Front cover almost detached else a sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, March 31, 1927
Features: Mr. Peaslee on Ill-judged thrift; My Father and I; Great-Aunt Isabel - a story for all the family; Thunder - a boy and his horse; Cameron MacBain, Backwoodsman - VII; For Two Cents - a problem in high profits; Fact and Comment; This Busy World; Miscellany. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, January 28, 1926 *THE DAWES FAMILY IN MARIETTA, OHIO*
Features: The Dawes Family of Marietta, Ohio - Charles Gates Dawes is Vice-President of the United States; School - by Hellen Keller; Yellow and Other Colors; The Adventures of William Tucker; The Story of Peggy Harrison - X; Fact and Comment; This Busy World - Mussolini's soaring dreams; Miscellany; The Y.C. Lab - Five Boys Built This Gym in Minnesota. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, August 19, 1926
Features: Three Thousand Dollars, Ida Reed Smith; A Sure-'Nough Skipper, by Anne Bradford Holden; Alibi Al, by Ralph Henry Barbour; Jack Farrington's Beanstalk - VII, by David Loraine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; Chrysler '70' car ad; After the Shutter Has Clicked, by Harry Irving Shumway; The Wonder Story of Steinmetz - VI - Family Man and Forger of Thunderbolts, by John Winthrop Hammond. Nice Dodge Brothers Motor Car ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Doll and Toy World, February/March 1987
A look at Japanese Dolls; The Neustadt Doll Museum; Dollwatch U.K. - our new lost and found section; A review of the Collector's Encyclopedia of Dolls (vol. II); Comics of Childhood; Louisa Alcott - behind 'Little Women' was a family making delightful clothing for dolls; and more. Average wear but top edge rumpled from improper storage. Book
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National Doll World, April 1987 *GOLLIWOGS / RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY*
Features: Raggedy Ann and Andy - John and Marcella Gruelles' gift to American children; China Heads, Part II; Gollywoggs (Golliwogs) - a doll inspired by a black clown; Old-Fashined costume 'Mikey' - knickers for My Friend; The Ideal Tammy and Family - back to the 60s; Little 'Americana' Dolls - the doll art of Virginia Little; Goodbye to Maydy, Mikey & Jenny; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Ikebana International, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1987
Features: Clematis - a trailing vine of royal purple; Kamon Quilts - a new role for the Japanese Family Crest; Korean Celadon; Bamboo - Japan's Tea Heritage; State of the Art - I.I.'s Ikebana Portfolio. Wonderful photography throughout by Katsuhiko Mizuno, including gorgeous red maple leaves on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Tyson, Ian; et al
Maclean's Magazine, 25 January 1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson Cover Photo
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet inside front cover; The Caravelle Uproar - TCA Wanted a good plane; Ian Sclanders writes on right wing US reaction to the passing of JFK; Massive sales of Soviet gold for western wheat; German family reunions permitted; Lyndon B. Johnson - A Frank Look, by Grattan Gray; Can Paul Hellyer Bring Common Sense to our Defense Policy?; The Violent Art of Rodeo - article by Ian Tyson with four pages of photos by Don Newlands; A Little Honest Graft Never Hurt a Politician at the Polls - with reproduction of BC Conservative ad featuring Phil Gagliardi, William Hawrelak and Kelso Roberts; Anthony Frome aka Abraham L. Feinberg - The Poet Prince of the Airwaves - Tells All - article with photos; Successes and Failures of Harvard man Jim Felstiner with the delinquent youth of downtown Toronto's tough Niagara district; Canada's First Foreign-War Heroes - flashback article on the lusty Canadian rivermen sent to relieve the beseiged Gordon at Khartoum; Nice colour-photo ad for Cameo cigarettes; Brief article on Galina Samtsova; How Armand Vaillancourt won a contest, divided a town - and lost $7,000; and more. Bit of sunning to upper left portion of front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 23, 1963: The New Cities
Features: The New Cities - a national report on the downtown revolution - what it means to the people; For the Sake of Argument - public 'inquiries' often abuse justice - a lawyer says stop legal smears - Aubrey Golden; Our Schools are Loaded Against Boys - a school principal shows how the system is weighted unfairly in favor of girls; The Carnies on the Picture Tube - a lighthearted look at junk TV and the people who make money making it; The Kennedy Dynasty, Part IV - how the family opened the blitz that was to elect the first Catholic president; My first 50 years in medicine - Dr. Alton Goldbloom's testament to the pleasures and pains of treating the young; The Great Balloon Voyage - How the air age reached Canada in 1859, but the aeronauts ended up hoofing it; Last chance for the Deer People - as the caribou goes, so go the Eskimos - trying to save both; A report on Canada's secret John Birchers (JBS / John Birch Society), by Pierre Berton; Nice colour photo ad for Canadian Club whiskey inside back cover features B.C. "High-Riggers" race of Gordie Eve; Back cover ad for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala Convertible on a ski hill. Some age-toning to pages at edges. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Scott, Cameron: Editor
Nanaimo Magazine, January 1994 -
30 pages. Features: Nice full-page ad for the Cameron Island development, Phase II; Great full-page ad for Anton's restaurant on Victoria Crescent in National Enquirer format with photo of an alleged Elvis sighting at their restaurant; Jim Smiliey considers 1984 ten years later; All in the family - part I of a two-part series on family and community in Nanaimo; Family Business in the 90's; Where to locate Nanaimo's new Ferry Terminal? (which was ultimately located at Duke Point); Dozens of ads for local small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Star Weekly Magazine, 1 September 1951 *Baby Prince Charles Cover Photo*
32 pages. Prince Charles baby photos, including cover photo. Other royal family photos; Japanese police photos; Ostrich farming photos; photos of gathering eggs from seabirds on England's cliffs; Colour ad for the Studebaker Champion; Freda Shetler of Ferndale, WA - sulky driver; Ottawa suburban well baby clinic photos; Spectacular colour centerfold ad for Heinz ketchup; Missionary students at the Moody Bible institute learn to fly; Royal Canadian Air Force ad; Photos at Switzerland's Sanatorium Universitaire; Nice colour Waterman's pen ad; Photos of Wellesley college's doll collection; Plastic musical intruments prove practical; - Bill Glass; Colour Ivory Soap ad - Lovely Girls Love Ivory!; Motorcycle action photos; Navy underwater photogarphy; colour Community brand cutlery ad on back cover. Average wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
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The Star Weekly Magazine, 29 September 1951 *Cover Photo of Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh*
32 pages. Photos of Princess Elizabeth as the years have passed; Colour Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Driving sheep through the snow-capped Alps - great photos; Linda Smith - 4-year-old rodeo expert; New Zealand's Harald Isaachsen and his back-to-nature family; Photos of Japanese Yabusame - when archers shoot on horseback; Photos of Rabies vaccine manufacture; Many other interesting photos from around the world. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Book
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