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Careless, Virginia A.S.
Clue to a Culture - Food Preparation of the O'Reilly Family: A Royal British Columbia Museum Heritage Record)
113 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Generously illustrated in black and white. A fascinating and highly detailed study of the cooking practices of Victoria's O'Reilly family in the last quarter of the 1800s. Prior owner's details atop title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Schmidt, Henrietta; Bradbury, Thomas E. (Editor)
Through the Years (Kennebunkport, Maine, History)
94 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
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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Multiple Contributors
Time Magazine, August (Aug.) 29, 1969 - Melvin Laird Cover / Woodstock/ Mies Van Der Rohe Remembered
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Time Magazine, August (Aug.) 19, 1974 - Gerald Ford Cover
88 pages. Features: Gerald Ford takes over from Richard Nixon; "Wallace and Sylvia Fingler - 264-acre timber barons"; The Unmaking of the President; Transcript of damning tape; Color photos of Gerald Ford and family; Biography of Gerald Ford; Ford's Transition team; The Nixon Family - facing the ordeal; Volvo 164 ad; The Legal Aftermath of Nixon's departure; A review of Richard Nixon's life - major article with many colour photos of Nixon with world leaders; Pat Nixon - steel and sorrow; Watergate retrospective - the decline and fall; The people take it in stride; Where America Goes Now; A cool reaction from abroad; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Lownsbrough, John; Woodcock, George; Brady, James; Bene, Nota; et al
City and Country Home Magazine, Summer / June 1986 - Cameron Porteous / Stately Family Home in St. Marys
152 pages. Features: 19th-century cookbooks; The fine art of Copying; The Stately St. Mary's Home of James and Norma Hiscock; Glamorous Cabbagetown Renovation; White Clothes; The theatrical magic of Cameron Porteous; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
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Foggo, Cheryl
Pourin' (Pouring) Down Rain
119 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. Family tree. "Combines personal experience with a search for ancestral origins, sharing her feelings on growing up Black in a White society and highlighting the history of a family whose strongest desire was to be allowed to fully embrace their humanity." - from back cover. Author's first book. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
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Crowsnest Pass Historical Society; Kerr, Florence E. (Chairperson)
Crowsnest (Pass) (Alberta) and Its People
xii, 914 pages. Index of articles. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. A comprehensive history of the area including over four hundred of pages of family histories. Map endpapers. Illustrated mustard-coloured cloth-covered boards. Average external wear and soiling. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent genealogical reference. Krotki 250. Strathern 2957. Book
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Flatman, R.M.; Everard, R.H.; O'Brien, P.; Barnwell, S.; Morris, H.; Refausse, R.; Ward, C.; Et al
The Irish Genealogist - Official Organ of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1991
Pages 161-320. Features: Some Inhabitants of the Baronies of Newcastle and Uppercross, Co. Dublin, C. 1650; The Family of Everard, III; An O'Brien Family in France; Some Irish in Grenoble, France, 1694-1771; Some Irish Nuns in 18th Century France; Extracts from Finn's Leinster Journal, 1770; Ossory Marriage Licences, 1739-1804; Some Officers with Irish Links from Returns of 1829; Waterford City Polling List, 1839; Emigrants from Stamullen Catholic Parish, Co. Meath; Monumental Inscriptions from Termonfeckin Cemetery, Co. Louth; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
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Ackerman, Bob (Signed); Sherwood, Linda
The Akerman Family: Growing Up with Salt Spring Island
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. 325 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos in text. Includes chapters on Akerman and Gyves family genealogy, plus the author's native ancestry. "Bob's incredible memory of the stories he heard from his family while he was growing up gives an excellent glimpse into what life was like for the early residents of Salt Spring Island. The stories he tells remind us of the importance of family, community and history: they remind us of our place as individuals and as part of the greater whole." - from Introduction. Prior owner's tiny address label inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this engaging and informative work. Book
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Varney, Harold L.; Oliver, Revilo P.; Muhlnbeck, Jack; Goff, Rev. Kenneth; Oyaas, Joann; Hearst, Allen L.
American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", June 1960, Volume XC No. 437 - Castro's War on Cuban Capitalism / Is There Free Speech?
160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Johnson, T.C.; Darden, Ida L.; Paulsen, Stephen; Grey, Hilary; Lines, John
American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", September (Sept.) 1960, Volume XCI No. 440 - California's Controversial Governor / Rothschilds and Rockefellers / Reinhard Gehlen
160 pages. Features: Our Silent Partner Against Communism - Reinhard Gehlen; Who'll Pay for Your College Education?; A Footnote to the Air Force Manual; The Enemy Whacks Away at The Family Bible; Pat Brown - California's Controversial Governor; The Swastika vs the Hammer and Sickle; The Money Changers - conclusion of a 10 March 1935 address by Father Charles Coughlin; Threat to Internationalize the Panama Canal; Magnetism! - man taps nature's invisible web of force; Kelp - Abundant Sea Harvest; Betrayal of South Korea; Cyrus Eaton "Honored" with Lenin Peace Prize; Your Amazing Blood; America's Youngest teachers - The Science Clubs of America; Congress Views UNESCO; Stop Pampering Sneak Intruders - counter-intelligence; Hot Dog!; A Salute to Helen Keller; Sharing America's Abundance; It's Never Too Late; Muscle in on Health; Freak Squeaks; Why Kentucky Colonels?; Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Part III - their interests penetrate all aspects of American life; The St. Lawrence Seaway; Does Russia Have the Earth's Stablest Currency?; Communist Swastikas - Pat Walsh of the RCMP says Communists used to paint swastikas on Montreal synagogues to scare local Jews into voting for and supporting them; executive Health; America Keeps a 165-Year Old Promise - payments to the Indians of the Six Nations; A Clue in the Missile Lag History - Five Years Ago Congress Could Not Stomach Joseph McCarthy's Censurable Truths - But Today...; Cigarette Smoking - major cause of lung cancer; Survival in Learning; Death of a Church - Holy Trinity Episcopal Protestant Church in Brooklyn; Parental Function; Adolph Eichmann and the Bitter Harvest of Hate - Voice of All Faiths Protest His Kidnapping by Israel in Argentina; Cowboy Talk; Who Are Our Rulers? - Fascinating article on the Rothschilds / International Bankers and their techniques for control; Lesson of Experience - Foreign Aid; Your Health - Two Factors for Longer Life; Maine Becomes a State of Mind. To Tranquilize or Not?. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Dilling, Elizabeth; Pakas, Manfred; Grey, Hilary; Guelzo, Carl M.; Arutunoff, A.; Et al
American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", January (Jan.) 1961, Volume XCII No. 444 - Nobel Prizes and International Communism / The U.N. "Gatt" at America's Heart
128 pages. First issue by new owners, Defenders of the Faith. Features: A New Year's Meditation; The Key to Greatness; Nobel Prizes and International Communism - do these awards advance a one-world super state?; Lady - Are You the Man of the House?; The Gifted Child - how to develop the special child; The U.N. "Gatt" at America's Heart... and Unemployment; Education and Freedom; Monkey Business; The Teacher Shortage That Isn't There; Panmunjom - Six Years After - in an ex-Korean game preserve, International Communism is frustrated (temporarily) and Freedom Village thrives; The Day Our House Died, by Ewart A. Autry; Europe on $1k; Power from Below - geothermal energy; American Mercury Acquired by Defenders of the Faith; Prayer Can Change Your Life; Management's Right to Manage; My World Stood Still, by Charles E. Kaufman of a Pennsylvania Dutch family; The Professional Type; The great Pigeon War; Beethoven - Humanitarian and "Physician"; Old Glory and the Flag of Necessity - tax dodgers on the high seas discredit our flag; My Eleven Self-Congratulations; Let's "Protire"; The Problem of Communism - will our inaction defeat us?; We Can Win the Cold War; The Man Who Makes Weeks; The Spirit of Love Day; A Campaign Promise To Break - right-to-work laws; Adult Delinquency; and more. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Lipscomb, Ed; Oliver, Revilo P.; Schwengel, Hon. Fred; Mundt, Hon. Karl E.; Jordan, Major George R.; et al
American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", February (Feb.) 1961, Volume XCII No. 445 - The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped / Major George R. Jordan
132 pages. Features: It is Happening Here - Current Misconceptions about Communism, by Revilo Oliver; Lincoln's Greatness - 1865; Are Churchmen Burying Us?; Thunder Frightens - Lightning Kills - The Soviet Union and Psychological Warfare; African Witches' Brew Concocted in Moscow - by Major George R. Jordan, author of "From Major Jordan's Diaries"; The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped - "The most infectious point of the disease is the family mailbox. It is here that so much of the pornographical sewage is dumped into the hands of so many of our children"; Let's Take a Look at the Good Guy; "From Your Valentine"; They Make Earthquakes - using seismic technology to find oil; Is Cultural Diplomacy the Road to Peace?; Hollywood Makes Me Laugh - M.J.R. Arthur's journey to the Panamanian jungle; From Religious Rite to Billion-Dollar Business - the origin of the popular pastime of bowling may astonish you; Alcoholism - a major problem; Slave Labor - USSR; What Kind of "Tic" Do You Have?; Foreign Aid Summary; Subjection... Disguised as Rebellion - progress that veers left tends toward subjection; research is Risky Business; We Adopted Two Orphans - Madeline Angell and two squirrels; Socialism by Default; Food for Peace and the UN; Benefit Program; The Administrative Agency Colossus - how laws are made and perverted with neither Congressional action nor judicial review; Guard Our Youth; A Growing Indignation - distrust and resentment to decisions from the Supreme Court; That Temporary Act - enacted as an emergency 26 years ago the TAA has been a millstone around the neck of U.S. industry; How to Win a War; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
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Ramsey, Gordon; Wolf, Dean C.; Et al
Country Gentleman Magazine, January (Jan.) 1953 - New Machines for 1953
84 pages. Features: Cover photo of farmer Robert Fielding of Otterbein, Indiana; Chore-saving farrowing house; What now for the farm programs?; How silage-feeding has changed; Best size for your farm flock; Have we hit research ceilings?; We're speeding up soil conservation; Flyboy Dumb (fiction); Photo of award being presented to Mrs. P.J. Hodge of Hemet, CA by Lt.-Gov. Goodwin J. Knight; Fashion article on the right foundation for ladies. Ads include: Studebaker trucks (color); Champion spark plugs - featuring William Rothenberger who farms near Frankfort, Indiana; '53 Dodge; New Idea manure spreader and front-end tractor attachments (color photo); Carlon Pipe - featuring Forest Liddle of Stilwell, Kansas; Gorgeous color photo ad for the International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super MD; Oliver tractors; Massey-Harris tractors, combines, and more; Allis-Chalmers tractors; Case tractors; Prince Albert pipe tobacco ad features Glenmore B. Hayes and Ed Winckler; Plumb axes; Tide detergent; 1953 Pontiac; 1953 Ford car; 1953 Chrysler cars; Jell-O puddings & pie fillings; Jergen's ad features the home and family of Mrs. James O. Hamrick of Boiling Springs, NC; International Fertilizers (nice color illustration inside back cover). Four middle leaves loose but present. Tiny ad clipped from page 78, otherwise a complete unmarked copy with above-average external wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Brick, John; Bennett, Hugh H.; Et al
Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, December (Dec.) 1952 - They're Wrecking Soil Conservation
108 pages. Features: They're Wrecking Soil Conservation; Farrowing Ideas You Can Use; Springboard to Farm Ownership; New Insecticide Stops Rootworm; Golden Bough of Christmas; Carry Your Pasture to the Cows; Your Land Can Give More; Save $1 per Hog with Less Protein; Wonder Sorghums with Drug System; Step Saving in a Stanchion Barn. Ads include: Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler - color photo (ahead of its time?) 1952 Buick; Texaco ad features Charles C. Hoover of Medford, OR, Walter Sylvester of Battle Creek, MI, and Bill Stephens of Sheldon, TX (tiny clipping from this ad); Champion spark plug ad features Copeland Greene of Genessee Depot, WI; Case tractors and equipment; Homelite chainsaws; Studebaker's 100th anniversary; Oliver OC-3 crawler tractor; International Minerals & Chemicals; 1953 Plymouth; Massey-Harris 90, 80 and 70 combines; John Deere 60 tractor (color); United States Steel ad includes photo of Mr. R.G. White of Mineral Point, WI; Lombard chainsaws; McCulloch chainsaws; The Ferguson 30 tractor; Dodge pickups; Lee jeans; Arvin radio; Camel cigarettes (with Santa!); Suggested Christmas toy gifts; Ball-brand boots; Hudson Hornet car (gorgeous color!); Tide detergent (back cover). Center page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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Cave, Hugh B.; Jones, Nard
Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, September (Sept.) 1952 - Easier Ways to Handle Corn
144 pages. Features: What about price supports?; Easier ways to handle corn; Roughage capacity; Save your beans; Pig hatcheries are here to stay; a plan for low-cost grade A milk; Keeping out of mortgage trouble; Wet-weather implements; Apply nitrogen now for extra profits; More beef from dry-land pasture; Better pasture with less cost and work; Machines dig their silage; They seed in standing corn; Six-Man football in Salem, New York, with photos including coach Bob Kana. Shopping with the Baugh family at Rucker-Rosenstock's, a department store in Petersburg, VA. Ads include: Nice color Studebaker car ad inside front cover; 1952 Buick; Willys 4WD trucks; New Holland baler ad features Ellsworth Waite of Alexander, NY; International Harvester (color photos); Prince Albert tobacco ad features singer George Morgan and William F. Quinn; Champion spark plug ad features great photos of Clarence, Frank and George Hoff who farm near Saginaw, Michigan; Ford pickups - with color photo of rancher and rice farmer W.E. Worthen, Jr. of Highlands, Texas; Oliver "Superior" seed drill; New Idea one-row corn picker (color photos); Charles Donaldson of Center Point Iowa appears in a Carlon pipe ad; Allis-Chalmers CA tractor; Ford Tractor (2-pages with photos); Kendall Gibson of Kirkwood, Illiinois appears in American Fence ad; Massey-Harris Tractor; Very nice color-photo 7up ad features BBQ scene with Granpa; Blue Bell work clothes; Funky color-photo ad for the Ford Ranch Wagon (drab blue); Pontiac car; Jergens lotion ad features Mrs. J.J. Hall of Grapevine, Texas, and her family; Winchester Super-X silvertip ammo; Noxzema ad features Mary Austin of Brooklyn, NY. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Kelland, Clarence Budington; et al
Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, July 1952 - Your Best Way to Harvest Forage
88 pages. Features: Landlord vs. Tenant; Build-in protection against wind; Here comes a better cow; There is a best way for you to handle foreage; Breeding for better wool; "Tagged Atoms" work for the farmer; It pays to dry small grain; Harveste short cuts; New way to boost legumes; Scipio Smells a skunk (fiction); The Cecil and Susan Johnson family of Grant's Pass, OR. Ads: Tide detergent; '52 Dodge; Champion spark plug ad features the Ferry-Morse Seed Co. of San Juan Bautista, CA with Dick McKenna, Gilbert Bentley, John McCabe and John Moran; '52 Pontica; 1952 Ford trucks (color); GM XP-300 and Le Sabre cars; Case tractors with 'eagle hitch'; Homelite chainsaws; Ford Tractors (2-pages); Bob Hope in Auto-Lite ad; Great color ad for Ford's 1952 station wagons; Nice color 7up ad shows boy pouring pop into class of ice cream; Gillette razor ad features Phil Cavarretta; Kool-Aid; 1952 Studebaker cars (color); Fantastic color back cover Camel cigarette ad features Linda Darnell. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Pierce, Frank Richardson; Ratigan, William; et al
Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, June 1952 - Now the Plants Bit Back
128 pages. Features: Fatter beef from cheaper roughage; Feeding guides for supplement A; Now the plants bite back; Look what's happening to hogs; How i made the cage system work; You can dry baled hay; Saving work with water; Bloat; A 'wired' hand for every farm; New method saves $2-a-pound seed; Range-bull record, artificially bred; Carts ease dairy chores; Here's low-cost range and brooding equipment; Learning how to judge land; They've made weed control work; The Biggest Liar in Alaska (fiction); Gangway for Tomorrow (conclusion); Jeff Davis, Mississippi rebuilds for youth; Elsa Dean with daughters Wilma and Nancy. Ads: GE fridges (color, inside front cover); '52 Buick; Champion spark plug ad features 10,640 acre fruit farm at Bakersfield, CA with J.A. Di Giorgio and J.C. Lyttle; Super '88' Oldsmobile; Ford trucks (color); International Trucks (color, Treamside Farm); Oliver tractors (66, 77 and 88); Lee work clothes; Chevrolet trucks; Dodge trucks - featuring Sam Harrod of Frankfort, KY; Sheppard diesel tractors; Moorman's ad features William Lally and family of Dane County, WI; Jeep (one page with 4 photos); Harley-Davidson (Marlon Brando-style male shown riding); Ford cars; Hudson cars (color); Studebaker trucks (color); Infamous color-illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover says "More Doctors Smoke Camels". Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Annett, R. Ross; MAyse, Arthur; et al
Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, July 1951 - How Hard Can You Corn a Farm?
96 pages. Features: How hard can you corn a farm?; Storage miracle for root crops; Drought, varmints and rollbacks; Easier hay handling; Strawberry-patch revival; He's beating summer droughts; Better machines for better farming; Crazy about Kids (fiction); The Raiders (conclusion). Ads; Tide detergent; GMC trucks; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Lester Trogdon and Frank G. Boles near Liberal, KS; Willys Jeep ad with 4 photos; Ford tractor; Nice 7up color ad shows family on lawn with ice cream floats; Ford cars (color); International Harvester - featuring their national parts network; Case "Vac" tractor; Chrysler car; Ferguson tractor - accepts 63 Ferguson implements; De Laval milking equipment; U.S. Air Force 1/2 pag ad; Oliver 'radius curve' plowshare; New Holland baler ad with photo of Walter Hurlburt of Berkshire Co., MA; Homelite chainsaws (2-pages); Dodge farm trucks; Life-Time gates; Titan Bluestreak Chain Saws; Gillette razor ad with baseball player Al Rosen; Jim and Catherine Ensor are famed square dance callers; Studebaker car (color inside back cover); Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photos of twenty-five celebrities, cigarette in hand, including John Wayne and Dick Powell. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Athanas, Verne; Stuart, Jesse; Shaftel, George Armin; et al
Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - February (Feb.) 1951: Does Butter Have a Future?
148 pages. Features: Does butter have a future?; Bulls to make more beef with less feed; A house to keep pace with your life; Soil tillers - weed killers; Calves are getting better care; Little farm, bountiful life; Record weights at weaning time; Helping others helps us; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
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Cave, Hugh B.; Shaftel, George Armin; et al
Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - January (Jan.) 1951: What Farmers Should Know About Social Security
120 pages. Features: What to do about social security; Low-cost lamb feeding; Dollars from pullet flocks; Paint will protect you; Silage goes underground; Tougher than sassafras sprouts - Leo Nussbaum and family of the Missouri Ozarks; Old glory takes to sea; Better chicks for meat production; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Middle four leaves loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Shaftel, George Armin; Rich, Louise Dickinson; et al
Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - December (Dec.) 1950: The Right Way to Remodel Your Barn
140 pages. Features: Musical harvest in Hood River Valley, Oregon; Kill that tough brush this winter; Quick build-up for poor soil - ; Carrier-track feed bunks; What's in a name?; Farm Christmas - Roy Tolin and family of Indiana; A county builds its own prosperity - Pike County, MS; The right way to remodel your barn - Oneida County, NY; See what's knocking at our door!; 'Catch' insurance for grasses, legumes; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Constiner, Merle; Athanas, Verne
Country Gentleman - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - January (Jan.) 1950: Fight the Corn Borer
116 pages. Features: The Farmer Co-ops' Voice in Washington - Arthur J. McFadden; You can make beef money on the side; How to fight the corn borer; Potatoes make their wonderland - Forest Chandler and Family of Aroostook County, Maine; Know your market and succeed; Call Me - by phone or radio; "Convertible" homes fill a need; This Year's Census is important to you; Nice color-photo ad for International Harvester Farmall Cub, Super-A, C, H, and M tractors; Color Studebaker ad inside back cover features Ariel F. Cooley Farms near Mesa, Arizona; and more. Some doodling on back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Ware, Edmund; Banning, Margaret Culkin; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, November (Nov.) 1949: Golden Weapon Against Mastitis
164 pages. Features: Let's Build the Right Farm Program; What's Ahead for Beef?; Golden Weapon against Mastitis; The Axeman's Woman; A River Plan That Works - Ohio's Muskingum District; What is Good Hay?; Small and Useful; The Flying Dutchman of Lancaster County - Dutch Bucher, at 62, just purchased his 37th motorcycle; Movable Haymows and Cattle Sheds; Family of Showmen - the Ben Dische family of Evansville, WI; Keeping out Livestock Plaugues; Making a market for trees - Woodland Products, Incorporated, of West Chester, PA; Photo of Burney Willis, track star now world's champion rodeo rider; Ford truck ad features Roy Halvorson of Duluth, MN, Christmas tree king of the world; Nice two-page Ford tractor ad; 1950 Harley-Davidson Hydro-Glide small illustrated ad; Photo-illustrated one-page Jeep ad; Color Studebaker car ad inside back cover features Ohio's N.W. Bechtel with his son Kenneth R. and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Hillman, Gordon Malherbe; Young, John Richard; Banning, Margaret Culkin
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, October (Oct.) 1949: Making Milk with a Tractor
176 pages. Features: Can a young man start farming today?; Now you can prove bulls as yearlings; Farming three to twenty feet down - Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio has very deep fertile soil; Irrigated acres in New Mexico - The Roybal family has built prosperity in a moutain valley - article with color photos; "This is my best bet yet"; You can be wiped overnight - are you an 'insurance sinner?'; Making milk with a tractor - H.E. Babcock sets up dairy farms to be manned mainly by a ma with a tractor; Lilies for you, too; How to get a country doctor; Science saves your grain; They sing for fun - the Will County Rural Chorus; Very attractive one-page two-color Chesterfield cigarette ad prominently featuring Glenn Ford; Ford truck photo ad features Perry Browning of Winchester, Kentucky; Two-page color GM ad includes illustration of their Milford, MI proving grounds; Back cover features one of the infamous Camel cigarette ads stating "More Doctors Smoke Camels", with photo of doctor smoking; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Mayse, Arthur; Fish, Rachel Ann; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, August (Aug.) 1949: King Cotton Goes West
96 pages. Features: County agent for the world; A barn cleaner for you?; A cow to the acre with Fescue 31; King Cotton goes west; Their Old Kentucky home - Henry Besuden and family; The Plants you need; Firestone ad includes photos of Victor Wickersham, OK congressman, and Richard D. Pope, realtor of Cypress Gardens, FL; Kaiser Traveler car ad shows pony and hay bale in back (!); 1949 Ford Dream Wagon ad; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Surdez, Georges; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, July 1949: All the Rice is Not in China
120 pages. Features: You can make money in the south; You'll need better cows; Look again at Sorghums; All the rice is not in China - Ti-Jules Baronet and family of Crowley, LA; Trees are cash in the bank - harvesting your woodlot; Home is where the heart is; This is the way we celebrate; Wanted - more grass and legume seed; Grange formula for better living - Schley Grange of Orange County, North Carolina; and more. Ads include: Ipana; Dodge Wayfarer; B.F. Goodrich ad with Clarence Warner from near Sandusky, Ohio; Jeep; Oldsmobile; International Harvester equpment; Pontiac; Cheerios; Plymouth; Lifebuoy; Sheppard diesel tractors; GM (2-page color ad with blonde at wheel); Ford truck ad with world's champion beekeeper and honey producer Woodrow Miller of Colton, CA; New Holland baler; Ford tractors (2-pages); Auto-Lite with Joan Crawford; Case tractors; Color Studebaker ad inside back cover features Minnesota farmer Lawrence Connelly from near Sabin; Color-photo Camel cigarette ad on back cover features golfers Lew Worsham and Gene Sarazen. Unmarked with average wear. Some nibbling to coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Dyrenforth, James; Knox, Joe; Garth, David; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, June 1949: The Harlands of Willamette Valley
148 pages. Features: Does Jackpotitis threaten farm youth?; The Harlands of Willamette Valley - great color-photo illustrated article on this seed business family; More meat with cheaper feed; Farm help from abroad - article with photos of Ukrainian immigrants; Can we grow 300-bushel corn?; From brush to grass to dollars; Million-acre farm boom - color-photo-illustrated article on farming in Sonora, Mexico; "I'm Raising a crop of Boys." - Eleanor Hester of Shelby, MI; Formula for Big Yields; Other hybrids in the making; and more. Ads: Ipana; Texaco - with photo of farmer Byron Harris, near Ravenna, MI; Ford; Maxwell House; Plymouth; International Harvester (color photos of combines); Studebaker trucks; New Holland balers; Oliver crawler tractors; Buick; Dodge cars; Chesterfield cigarette ad features Bob Hope and tobacco grower William P. Wiseman of Dannville, VA; Cone denim; Minneapolis-Moline Harvestors; Joan Bennett in Auto-Lite ad; Ford truck ad with photos of bellmaker George Schulmerich of Sellersville, PA; Back cover Camel cigarette ad features color photo of baseball players Gene Bearden with Johnny Vander Meer. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Garth, David; Cave, Hugh B.; Newsom, Eugene
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, May 1949: Putting the Brakes on DDT
200 pages. Features: Recipe for Co-op success; An eye for quality - New Jersey poultryman Charles Cane and family - article with color photos; Putting the brakes on DDT; Two farms in one - Jacob and Walter Meyer from near Tremont in Tazewell County, IL; The obliging chrysanthemum; Don't let the borer stampede you; Silo underground; Save money with grass; Lamb chops for the southwest; Look down and you look ahead; Who's going to breed our beef?; They built prosperity on 'worthless soil' - Saint Louis County, MN; and more. Ads: Good Year ad includes photo of Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Glen Jones and Atlanta salesman Louis W. Hill; Texaco ad includes photo of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Johnson and daughter Lorraine near Longmont, CO; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Kenneth Austin near Janesville, WI; Oldsmobile; International Trucks; 2-page color Plymouth ad; Ferguson Tractor; Frazer Manhattan car (color); Chrysler (with fluid drive); New Holland harvesters; Dodge; Ford Tractors (2 pages); Ford Trucks - featuring "Doc" Webb of Webb's City; Jeep; New Hudson cars; Minneapolis-Moline Bale-O-Matic; Studebaker color car ad inside back cover features H.T. Asbury of Winchester Peak near Lexington, Kentucky. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Tudury, Moran; Clark, Dale; Gardner, Erle Stanley
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, April (Apr.) 1949 - Shenandoah Valley Apple Grower
208 pages. Features: Cover photo of shop on the Greenacre Farm of Major W.A. Rafferty, near Morocco, Indianna, with mechanic Paul Merriman at work; We can't take chances on tomorrow's meals; Shenandoah Valley apple grower - De Kalb Russell and family of Virginia's Blue Ridge - nice color photos with article; You can make money with 100 hens; Something new at planting time; Portable utility building; Big yeilds are made deep underground; What is a good shorthorn?; Museum of the land; New life for the little brown church; Handling feed the easy way; New chemicals can work for or against you; Can you beat this for grass?; A $10,000 house for the hired man - Franklin J. Stransky of Savanna, Illinois. Ads: Texaco features innovative stable cleaner of Mr. Byron Harris of Ravenna, MI; Ford cars; New Holland forage harvester; Color photo ad for the International Farmall C; Ferguson tractor; Studebaker trucks; International trucks; Dodge cars; GMC trucks (color); 2-page ad for the Easy-Way post hole digger; 1-page color ad for REO lawn mowers; Ford truck ad features oil exploration innovator George Failing; New Hudson cars (color); Small illustrated Harley-Davidson ad for the new Hydra-Glide Fork; Jeep; Oshkosh B'gosh; Lee work clothes (one page); 1-page ad for movie "The Green Promise" starring Marguerite Chapman; Aunt Jemina; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Knox, Joe; Young, Ben T.; Et Al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, March (Mar.) 1949 - The Newtons of Pleasant Hill Farm
200 pages. Features: Easing the farmer's oldest pain - rheumatism; The Newtons of Pleasant Hill Farm - nice color photos with article about the Park and Ruth Newton family farm near St. Albans, Vermont; Housing for big litters; Less feed, more chicken; Young settlers on the plains - eager veterans have begun farming at Mirage Flats in northwestern Nebraska; What is a good Angus?; Better plant a few nut trees; Mountain school that trains leaders - School of the Ozarks; Wagon ideas to save work; The war against Aftosa; Managing farm finances; Little Johnny Appleseed - Bob Anderson of Van Buren County, Michigan; Shell agricultural laboratory near Modesto, CA; You can help with the mail; Rural art center with over 400 members at Cheltenham Township, PA; and more. Ads: Texaco ad includes Mr. James West of Pomona, CA and his innovative orchard sprayer; B.F. Goodrich ad with large photo at the John and Joseph Mueller farm northeast of Belleville, IL; G.E. radios; Oldsmobile; Kaiser cars (color); Jeep; Chevrolet cars; Gibson Model "E" tractor; New Holland hay equipment (2 pages with photo of Irvin R. Yoder, Belleville, PA); Ford truck ad features Douglas Burden and Florida's Sea World; New York Stock Exchange one-page photo ad features the Louis B. Eckelkamp family of Villa Ridge, MO; Case tractors; Hudson cars (nice 2-page color ad); Hedy Lamarr in Auto-Lite ad; Nice color-photo 1-page John Deere tractor ad; Buick (2 pgs); Ford Tractor (2 pgs); Massey-Harris tractors; Life Insurance ad features the Hinton family of East Peoria, IL, with parents Don and Pauline; Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler; Minneapolis-Moline Model "Z" tractor; Small photo ad for Harley-Davidson with the Hydra-Glide fork; 1949 Studebaker cars (color photos); Color-photo Camel cigaratte ad on back cover says "More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette". Unmarked with average wear. Several middle pages loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Kelland, Clarence Budington; Wire, Harold Channing; Gardner, Erle Stanley; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, February (Feb.) 1949: Undulant Fever - Menace to Farm Families
180 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Richard L. Stevensen farm in Hunterdon County, NJ; Undulant Fever - a menace to farm families; Don't lose dollars with dirty milk; Legumes are in trouble; Azalea Man; They Tamed the Desert - The Thain family farm of Cache Valley, Utah; What is a good hereford?; How do you market your livestock?; Making the most of the farm shop; Lumps in the stomach of the Russian bear - interesting photo-illustrated article reports "a hard core of farmer resistance blocks communist moves toward a collectivized agriculture in satellite Poland and Czechoslovakia; Pioneer for rural health - Doctor George F. Bond helps bring a modern health center to Hickory Nut Valley, NC; When insects go berserk; Hybrid onions come of age; and more. Ads: Texaco ad features novel plow invented by Mr. Selden G. Washburn of Goodwin, SD; B.F. Goodrich ad features Lew Wildin of Winterset, IA; GE radios; Oldsmobile; GMC trucks (color); Farmall Cub (color photos); Chesterfield cigaratte ad with prominent photo of Joan Fontaine plus tobacco grower Van W. Daniel of Ruffin, NC; 1949 Ford cars (color); Oliver crawler tractors; Studebaker trucks (color); Buick; Lee work wear; Jeep; Case equipment; Ford Trucks ad features trout farmer Horace Frantz of Colorado Springs and Salida, CO; Ferguson tractors; Nice one-page Massey Harris tractor ad; New Holland hay rake - 2 pages; Oshkosh B'gosh; Gibson tractors; Minneapolis-Moline "Z" tractor; Harley-Davidson with Hydra-Glide Fork; Greyhound bus (color). Tape repairs to covers which are pulling from staples, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Gardner, Erle Stanley; Severn, Bill; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, January (Jan.) 1949: Maple-Leaf Clan
134 pages. Features: Lost - two hundred million pounds of meat; Speed-up hormones for livestock; Less time for chicken chores; Maple-Leaf Clan - The Will and Agnes Barrie family and their Mount Pleasant Farm near Galt, Ontario - article with photos; The King's County Agents - fascinating photo-illustrated article on the handful of Americans helping the ruler of Saudi Arabia make the Garden of Eden bloom again; Green Thumbs Up; Is this America's finest dairy herd? - The Lew Zimmerman farm in the Mahoning Valley, west of Lehighton; Agriculture's future lies with Livestock; and more. Ads: New Idea manure spreader (color photo inside front cover); GE radios; Jergens ad features the John Rich family of Wake Forest, NC; Weed-No-More one-page photo ad for their formulation of 2,4-D; 1949 Ford cars (color); New Holland equpment - with photo of Lloyd Van Deburg and horse-drawn wagon of the Snake River Ranch, Jackson Hole, WY; Firestone ad with photos of champion plowers Lloyd Eipers, Carl Schoger, Graeme Stewart, Paul Steifbold, Robert Erickson and Carl Hagemann; Farmall tractors (color photos); Two-page color-photo Case machinery ad; Blue Bell denim ad with Ward Thorson photo; Life insurance ad features the Spike and Myrtle Bisping family of Clarksburg, West Virginia; One-page ad for the Spiegel catalog; Disston 'one-man' chainsaw; Ford tractors (2 pages); Massey-Harris model 22 tractor; and more. Front cover and first page loose but present. Back cover and last page missing. A rough but worthy reference copy. Magazine
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Bennett, Frank; Hall, Baird; Constiner, Merle; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, December (Dec.) 1948: The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek
148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-making farmer Oscar Nash of Minnesota; Photo of Clarence Lustfeld of Buckley, IL and his remote controls for his tractor; and more. Ads: Ipana ad with radio team Tex and Jinx; Texaco ad with photo of Emil Johnson of Longmont, CO; Buick; Studebaker trucks; Arthur Godfrey in Chesterfield cigarette ad; 1949 Kaiser cars (color); Oliver tractors - 66, 77, 88; Dodge; Jergens ad with Mrs. Bertha Robb and her family of Brattleboro, Vermont; Chrysler (nice 2-pages in color); Gibson tractors; Cone denim; Life insurance ad features Vermont apple growers Brower and Helen Hall of Grand Isle; Plumb axes; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Dietz, Lew; Smith, Hannah; Constiner, Merle
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, November (Nov.) 1948: Ohio Bride and Groom
192 pages. Features: The perils of prosperity; A system that makes hog sense; Don't underrate brother rat; Are sheep on the way out?; Push-button chores; Prepackaging moves toward the farm; The Wunder Wagon; They're farming by plane; To beat weeds in grain; Ohio Bride and Groom - Gerald and Beulah Parpster of Ashland County, Ohio - nice photo-illustrated article; Community-service bank - Bendersville National Bank of Adams County, PA; Triumph of the trees; Forecasts to help you fight plant diseases; Irrigated pastures; Photo of Martin Burkholder of Lancaster County, PA who recently sold his land for possibly a record price of $995/acre; and more. Ads: Texaco ad features photos of the England Brothers' farm at Brookshire, TX, including their dehydrator; B.F. Goodrich ad includes photo of Edwin R. Kent of Juniata, Nebraska; Lee jeans; Oldsmobile; Jeep; GM; New Idea equipment; 1949 Frazer Manhattan car; Gorgeous color-photo ad for John Deere tractors; Photo of S.C. Cracraft of Jackson, MO in Hood boot ad; Dodge trucks; Life insurance ad features photos of the Walter Melott family of San Jose, CA; Blue Bell denim; Admiral phonograph; Ford tractors (2 pages); Gibson tractors; Norge fridges; Modess (nice color illustration of lady reclining in chair); Lux ad with Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison; Satina ad with photo of Mrs. P.F. McEwan of Chicago; and more. Heavy external wear with loss to front cover and back cover missing. Bit of writing on front cover. Contents intact. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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Constiner, Merle; Rodman, Howard; Ullman, Elwood
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, September (Sept.) 1948: Bob Lazear and His Herefords
164 pages. Features: Are we selling the livestock business short?; Bob Lazear and his herefords - Wyoming Hereford Ranch of Cheyenne - article with photos; Weatherproof haymaking; Better livestock in the making; Dairy farmers cut time and costs; Deans of the Delta - nice color-photo-illustrated article on the Homer and Ethel Dean family farm in the Mississippi delta; Seven barns in one; photo of mobile telephone being used by V.P. Shufflebarger of the John Jacobs Farms in the Salt River Valley of Arizona; and more. Ads: Oldsmobile; Hood boot ad with photo of Myron J. Laker of Wayland, MI; Texaco ad with photos of the Waller-Franklin Seed Company in Guadalupe, CA, with manager E.D. Martin; G.E. Radio with photo of vocalist Jane Wilson; B.F. Goodrich ad includes large photo of Mr. Casey Abbott of Salt River Valley of Arizona; Ford trucks (color); Kaiser-Frazer cars (2 pages); One-page color ad for Disney film Melody Time; N.A.M. ad features photo of Andy Anderson of West Millington, NJ; Westinghouse radio; Arvin radio; Disston one-man chain saw; Jeep; Admiral radio; Ford tractors (2 pages); Blue Bell denim with photo of George Bechtold; New Dodge trucks; Lux ad features Ava Gardner and Robert Walker in film One Touch of Venus; Color Studebaker car ad inside back cover features George H. Nesemeier Jr. of North Dakota; and more. Small clipping from ads on pages 39 and 54. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Moorhead, J. Dane; Chamberlain, George Agnew; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, August (Aug.) 1948: Rain By Telephone
128 pages. Features: Just a trace may help your stock; Bring your grassland up to date; Less moisture, more dollars in grain; Taking the gamble out of peaches; Rain by telephone; They broke the prairie - Bob Collins and family of Tripp County, South Dakota; Prince of pests; Living fences; Better use for your crops; and more. Ads: B.F. Goodrich ad with large photo of M.R. Brackett of Bakersfield, CA; Studebaker trucks (color); William Bendix in Chesterfield cigarette ad; Chevrolet trucks; Oliver tractors; Blue Bell denim ad with photo of Olaf Sayland; Ferguson tractors; and more. Several middle pages loose but present. Several middle pages loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Farrell, Cliff; Chamberlain, George Agnew; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, July 1948: High Tide in Tennessee
116 pages. Features: Change on the Plains; Low men on chore time; Operation hardware; High tide in Tennessee - the Raleigh Wilson family balked at the TVA's order to move, but now they are glad they obeyed; Taking the cancer fight to farms - mobile clinic in Oklahoma; Weatherproof farming; The land sings its history; New clovers to build fertility; and more. Ads: Good Year ad includes photos of Laredo TX rancher C.Y. Benavides, ice-skating star Donna Atwood; and Kansas City contractor R.G. Aldridge; Ipana ad with photos of Nicki Ellis with daughters Judy and Bonnie; Texaco ad includes photos of inventive farmers; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Russell V. Falk of Red Oak, IA; Oldsmobile; GE radio ad with illustration of Susan Hawyard; Buick; Ford tractors (2 pages); Ford cars (very nice 2 color pages); Blue Bell denim - with photo of Homer Willis and son Jerry; New York Stock Exchange - one page of black and white photos; Modess (nice one-page color photo of elegant lady); Lux ad with photo of Esther Williams with Peter Lawford in film "On an Island with You"; Nice color photo of Esther Williams in Lipton Tea ad; Studebaker trucks (color); Color Camel cigarette ad on back cover features illustrations of rodeo champion Ken Roberts; and more. Covers nearly loose with some tape repairs. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Stuart, Jesse; Colohan, John; Chamberlain, George Agnew
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, June 1948: The Enloe Family Builds a Home
156 pages. Features: Is your soil building human health; Co-operative feeder sales; Home-grown buildings; The Enloe Family builds a home - Archie and Dal Enloe farm in Arizona's Gila River Valley - article with great color photos; A Woman's touch on tenant land - Mrs. Clarence Denison on the H.E. Brewington Farm, Farmer City, IL; Bluestem Beef; Kennebec - a potato that fights its own battles; Rearranging the rain - California's bold schemes to channel water hundreds of miles nears completion; Shipping research pays off; You walk right in - Ohio's Brueggemeier's cold storage unit; Photo of Acie Miller with his mule which foaled a horse colt; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Earl and Lloyd Becker who farm near Koncoln, Logan County, IL; Plymouth cars; and more. Ads: Texaco ad with photos of John Peterschick of Plaza, WA and his inventions; For trucks (color); Chesterfield cigarettes ad with Alan Ladd illustration plus farmer Leavitt Roberts of Paris, KY; Ferguson tractors; Dodge cars (beautiful one-page in color); International Harvester cominges (color photos); Wheaties ad with photo of Carol Tarrant, of Atchison, KS, Queen of Royal Live Stock and Horse Show; Color Studebaker car ad features Chelsea C. Taylor of Cass County who was named Corn King of Illinois in 1946; Jeep; New Holland baler; Blue Bell denim with photo of Garfield Gaskell; Cone Denim; Swan soap with color photos of young blonde; Lipton Tea ad with color photo of Alexis Smith; Nice color GMC truck ad inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features roller skater Raven Malone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Missing pages 77-80. Two pages loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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Chamberlain, George Agnew; Mayse, Arthur; Stuart, Jesse
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, May 1948: Rear-Engine Tractors
184 pages. Features: Photo of twins Myra and Mary Long of Sheldon, IL; Texaco ad with Clarence Calrson of near Marshalltown, IA who plants corn with electricity; B.F. Goodrich ad features H.B. Johnson and Son citrus farm in Escondido, CA; Hybrid corn goes high-protein; Good-bye butcher bulls; Sell through a roadside stand; "That's Something Jim Developed" - James Fairbank, extension engineer at the College of Agriculture of the University of California at Davis; Rear-Engine Tractors; Calling All Animals; A new milk-pricing system; The Brubakers of Lancaster County - great color-photo-illustrated article on the family farm of Levi and Anna Brubaker, two miles west of Lancaster; Television is busting out all over; Short cuts to pork profits; Simplified insect control; Grass silage is a 'natural'; Residence of Claude Rains; and more. Ads: Good Year ad with photo of Lee Hunter of Jacksonville, FL and H.A. Vreeland of West Milford, NJ; Oldsmobile; GE radios; Ford trucks (color); Admiral radio; Oliver tractor; John Deere tractor (one page in color); Case slicer baler; Wheaties ad with photo of Missouri State Fair winner W.S. Buckley, of Garden City; Buick; Arvin radios; New Dodge trucks; Lee work clothes; Ford tractors (2 pages); Blue Bell denim - with photo of H.R. Belden; Disston one-man chainsaw; Sparton radio (color photo); Lux ad features Veronica Lake; Nice color Studebaker ad inside back cover features Isak Pedersen of Tietonview near Yakima, WA; Color Surge milker ad on back cover. Clipping from ad on page 39, A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Constiner, Merle; Fowler, Bertram B.; Linford, Dee; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, April (Apr.) 1948: Speed King of the West
196 pages. Features: Prescription for sick lands; Oat growing goes modern; How to choose a cow; Speed king of the west - the famed quarter horse; The orange-grove dream - the farm and family of Harley Lester of Orange County, FL; Breeding for more eggs; Cattle feeders cut costs; Spray machines for weed control; A house built of blocks; Proved sires mean money-making cows; Better prove the dairyman, too; Spreading the carpet for wings - farmers continue to use aviation; Looking ahead with the USDA to planting time; and more. Ads: Color Ford pickup ad inside front cover; Ipana ad features Betty Brookfield and daughter Karen; Texaco ad with photo of invention by Milo Ferini and D. Ardantz, ranchers of Santa Maria, CA; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Roy Ayers of Woodward, OK; Dodge cars; Plymouth cars (color); Chesterfield cigarette ad features Claudette Colbert; Studebaker trucks (color); International Harvester equipment - color photos; Kaiser cars (color); Stewart-Warner radios (color); De Laval - with photo of Eugene Pyatt of Pinckneyville, IL; Chevrolt cars; Photo of 1957 Grand Champion hog and Miriam E. Meyer of Crescent City, IL; Ferguson tractors; Jeep; Minneapolis-Moline Universal "R" Tractor - color photos; Blue Bell denim; Lee work clothing; Cone Denim; Lux ad features Susan Peters; Nice color GMC truck ad inside back cover; and more. Average wear. Some middle pages loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Owen, Jean Z.; Linford, Dee; Ball, Zachary; et al
Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, March (Mar.) 1948: A Farmer Talks to General Marshall
184 pages. Features: Farmer Claude Pagles talks to General Marshall; How to choose a cow; We're inviting a foot-and-mouth disaster; A home for small flocks; Soil conservation needs a change; We're really saving soil today; Hunting our biggest cat; The Taylors of Walnut Hill - The Thomas R. Taylor family and their Walnut Hill Hereford Ranch of Barton County, KS; Greener grow their pastures; A bargain in cotton; Family story - J. Garrett Tolan Angus Cattle of Illinois; We need more meat; Plain talk; and more. Ads: Ipana ad features Frances Nalle and her kids Amanda and Bobo; Texaco ad features photo of invention at the Moore Brothers plantation near Navasota, TX; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo on the farm of Woody Doremus near Bakersfield, CA; ad for the Cessna 190 and 195; M-E rotary tillers; GE radio ad with illustration of Bea Wain; GMC trucks (color); Ford cars - with color photos in Italy, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa; International trucks; Jeep; Ford trucks; Case equipment; Futuramic Oldsmobile; New Dodge trucks; Minneapolis-Moline Universal "R" tractor - with color photos; Buick; Ford tractors (2 pages); Oliver 60 tractor; Sparton radio (color); True Temper tools; Stewart-Warner radios; Studebaker color ad inside back cover features W.K. Price Jr. of Orlando, FL; Camel cigarette color ad on back cover features Bronc rider Jerry Amber, fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Driggs, Howard R.
Driggs Family History - Book One (1) - Beginnings in America
144 pages. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of archival photos. "Compiled after more than thirty years spent in collecting material from family bibles, town and country records, from probate records and tombstones, inscriptions from local publications. Many members of the family have sent data concerning their own immediate family and an accurate family line has been provided, connecting with the original ancestor Joseph Driggs, who settled in Middleton, Connecticutt." - page ix. Handwritten correction to page 39. Moderate wear to navy blue buckram boards. Author's inkstamp upon front free endpaper. No external markings. Few library markings to contents. Binding intact. A quality copy of this treasured genealogical reference. Book
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Varkaris, Jane; Connell, James E.
Early Canadian Timekeepers
272 pages. Index. Footnotes. Bibliography. Printed upon glossy stock. "This remarkable work is essential reading for anyone interested in early Canadian timepieces and their makers. Two of Canada's foremost horological experts take an authoritative look at pre-1900 clocks and watches, and the artisans who made them, either commercially or as one-of-a-kind timepieces. Lavishly illustrated with black and white photography, this book surveys the making and selling of clocks and watches in Canada by over 125 persons, from the days of New France to the beginning of the 20th century. The stories of the men and woment behind these exceptional creations are documented here for the first time. Based on over twenty years of research, this is the most definitive, up-to-date book available on early Canadian timekeepers." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Light wear to handsome price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy of this superlative reference. Book
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Brooks, Walter; Garner, Hugh; Dempsey, David; Duffy, Jack; McCoy, Doris; et al
Liberty - Canada's Young Family Magazine, March (Mar.) 1959 - Marilyn Monroe Cover
68 pages. Features: Marilyn Monroe cover photo; Don't Turn Your Son into a Housewife; How Manitoba Civilized its Barbaric Liquor Laws; How the Wives of Geniuses Suffer; Jack Duffy writes of "Me and My Shadow, Frank Sinatra"; Fascinating article on Czech and Balkan Canadians - "Over 250,000 have come here, fleeing Nazis & Reds - they feud over their Slavic republics, are volatile, hospitable and craftsmen" - with many interesting photos; My life as the wife of a Halifax sailor; Boyne Johnston and his $260,000 spree on pilfered bank money; How Referees Handle Hockey's Wildest Blowups - Red Storey and others endure stick-swinging players, gun-toting rinksiders - article with photos, Green Mansions (Part I) - Tony Perkins finds live with Audrey Hepburn (article with photos); Marilyn Monroe - "Why I Love My High-Brow Husband (Arthur Miller)" - article with three nice photos; The Eerie World of Deaf Canadians - science is bringing powerful new hearing aids; Why I Bless the Ten Commandments; How to Be Spectacular in Spectacles - interesting photo-illustrated article on fashion eyewear; Great one-page illustrated ad for Walker's whisky features inset photo of former hockey and lacrosse star "Newsy" Lalonde; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. Address label remnant at bottom of front cover. A worthy vintage copy of this great issue. Book
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Highsmith, Patricia; et al
Woman's World - The Magazine of the Town and Country, July, 1935, Volume LI - Number 7: Includes "Girl Campers" By Patricia Highsmith
26 pages. Features: Girl Campers - an illustrated 3/4-page camp journal by twelve-year-old Patricia Highsmith who went on to considerable fame as a novelist later in life; She Walked on Silver; The Wayfarers; On Way to Propose; Vacationing by Motor; How to Keep Foods Fresh in the Summer; Easy-To-Make Cottons and Cool Sheers; Vacation Clothes; Lux dish soap ad features photos of Mrs. O.A. Ruse and family of Lorraine, Ohio; How to Be Fair at Forty; Nice color Betty Crocker ad on back page features brown cake with yellow icing, plus inset photo of Mrs. B.W. Taylor of 482 Townsend Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this charming Highsmith collectible. Book
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Hutton, Eric; Mitchell, W.O.; Walsh, Thomas; Smith, Ronald R.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February (Feb.) 15, 1952 - Physicist Dr. Harold Johns Treats Cancer with Radiation
64 pages. Features: Nice cover art shows older sister being taken on big date while younger sister looks on wistfully from the staircase; Colour-photo ad for Frigidaire ranges inside front cover; Vintage ad for Allis-Chalmers excavating equipment; Editorial - What is the Right to Strike?; My Christmas in Sing Sing - Beverley Baxter writes from New York; Jane Russell is featured in Jergen's Lotion ad; B.C. Coalition Commits Suicide - report on B.C. politics by Blair Fraser; The Atom Bomb that saves lives - Dr. Harold Johns designed a cobalt-bomb machine to treat cancer patients (radiation treatment) - article with photos; A Butcher Talks Back - Len Edwards explains why meat prices are so high; The Riddle of Louis Riel, by W.O. Mitchell - part 2 of 2 - illustrated; Philippe Takes the Count - story by Ronald R. Smith, illustrated by Barling Ville; What Kind of Canadians are we Getting? - our most adaptable settler, the British family man, finds it hardest to get in - article with photos; Wild Animals I Have Known... Slightly - humour by Rober Thomas Allen, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Fredericton - The Aristocrat under the Elms - feature article with photos of this New Brunswick city; How to Miss the Mobs - article cartoon illustrated by Peter Whalley; Full-page army recruiting ad; 1952 Dodge Coronet ad; Lovely full-page colour Coke ad shows mom taking tray of bottles to kids watching TV; 1952 Plymouth ad; Colour LaZboy ad; The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) are honoured in a colour ad for O'Keefe's Brewing Company. Please note: missing pages 29-30 (we believe these contained ads) and pages 45-46 which appear to have contained the end of the Riel article. Clipping from ad on page 47. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Margolius, Sidney; Porter, M.; Hume, W.E.; Berton, Piere; Mowat, Farley; Dugan, James; et al
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, March (Mar.) 1, 1952 - Kenneth Dancy, The Other Hero of the SS Flying Enterprise
Features: Cover illustration inside Edmonton Airport control tower with C.P. Airlines plane on distant tarmac. Colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Household Finance one-page ad features photo of A.D. MacLeod, Manager of their office at 805 First St. W. in Calgary; Seventy Minutes with General Douglas MacArthur - article with photo; Royal Roads and Royal Military College ad; Would You Live Better In the U.S.? - comparing prices and living standards of the Bieber family of Hamilton, ON with the Bigami family of Trenton, NJ; The Other Hero of the SS Flying Enterprise - photo-illustrated article on First Officer Kenneth Dancy; Are the Schools Ruining Your Child? - by veteran teacher William E. Hume; A Garden in Your Mailbox - photo-illustrated article on the Dominion Seed House with Bill Bradley, Phares Vannatter and Fred Fryer; What the West Thinks Russia Will Do; They Sometimes Murder But Never Steal - Photo-illustrated article by Farley Mowat on the vanishing Eskimos of the Hudson Bay hinterland; When Canasta Was the Craze - article with many photos of Wayne and Shuster; "I Grind Her Till She Bust" - photo-illustrated article on veteran organ grinder Joe Ferrari who lives in Toronto's Little Italy; Page 36 features a humourous one-third page two-colour "Torontonian's Map of Canada" which shows it as the hub of North America; Nice two-colour Beatty ad shows housewife carressing her automatic clothes washer; Nice back cover ad for the Irish Linen Guild. Please note: missing pages 25-28, and 49-52 (contained end of the Dancy article). Page 3 is secured with archival tape. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Berrill, N.J.; Richler, Mordecai; Katz, Sidney; Stollery, Peter; Moon, B.; Porter, M.; Newman, Peter C.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 6 May, 1961: Mordecai Richler in Paris
64 pages. Features: Cover illustration of old Montreal stairways by Ghitta Caiserman; (Scared) Scientist N.J. Berrill makes fearless forecast of the 21st century; A Fond Last Look at Montreal - text with photos of historic architectural features; It Was Fun To Be Poor in Paris - Mordecai Richler remembers; Canada - a nation of dental cripples due to major shortage of dentists; Peter Stollery Hitch-Hikes to the Gulf of Guinea - article with photos; Two Million Illiterates - Canada's Obsolete Tenth; How Robert Morse III Wages Corporate War; Maverick Politician Douglas Fisher; Colour-photo Ford of Canada centrefold; Why One English Family is Coming Back to Canada - Dennis, Billie and Craig Davill; Seagram's ad inside back cover illustrated with nice colour painting by Franklin Arbuckle of bush aircraft the "Norseman" about to land on a lake; Marjorie Pigott teaches Japanese art to the Japanese! (short article); Coke ad on back cover features colour photo of university grads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
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