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Nature Magazine, March 1935
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Scenic Highway Policy - too little thought given to Road Programs; Big and Little Storms - the how, where and why of sundry dusty doings in the air; Burro Language; Irises from Bulbs - there is a wider range than most gardeners seem to realize; Andy's last chapter - a Florida sandhill crane - how he helped to dissolve the barriers between his own kind and man; The carriers of Death - the microscope reveals how insects transport disease; The Giant Water Bug - a picture story of a strange insect; The Story of the Red Giants; A Unique Nature Club - The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 143 - Vol. XII, November 1907
Features: Photo portrait of the late Private Alexander Aikman, died 19th October, 1907; Company Notes; In Memoriam - for Mr. A. Aikman, the editor for the past six years of this Gazette; Death of Professor D.M. Masson; Death of Mr. J.G. Petrie; Gleanings; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Editorial; Our Regimental Plate - No. X - the "Sutherland" Cup - photograph and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Shooting; Marches of "G", "H", "F" and "K" Companies; "Sic Transit"; The Kaiser Manoeuvres, 1907 - the evolution of manoeuvres on a large scale (few light pencil markings on accompanying map); and more. 3" x 1" chunk from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 130 - Vol. XI, October 1906
Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on Robert Wilson Simpson - champion shot of the past season, and winner of the "Wemyss" prize. Company notes; Notes by the C.O.; Shooting - Sergeants' Wappenschaw, with nice six-photo montage; Shooting results; Member numbers; Death of Robert C. Murray, late of D Company; The History of The Glenworple Highlanders (Chapter V) - Ancient Rome; and more. Four-inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 10, 1962 - Nazi Death Camp Children Come To Canada
Features: Nice colour ad for the Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue); The Redeemed Children - the story of one of the great humanitarian acts of the twentieth century - Jewish orphans from WWII are brought to Canada - with photos; The Welcome Enemies - the happy accident by which 972 interned aliens became, in 1940, some of the liveliest immigrants Canada ever had; The public crime that seems to pay - Hit-and-run; Stop whitewashing black african demagogues, by John Phillipson; 15 days with the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, by John Phillipson - great colour photos; How Spencer Caldwell got a TV network (CTV) by the tail; In High Places, by Arthur Hailey (last of 3 parts); Molson's Canadian ad features photo of the newly launched 'City of Victoria' ferry; Tommy Douglas' first 6 months, by Peter C. Newman; Piano prodigy Hilda Irek; Nice Valentine-theme colour photo Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Aout 1965 *15 TOURS DE PISTE - AVEC JEAN OUELLET, DE RIMOUSKI, AU VOLANT DE SA COBRA*
Features: La revolte gronde chez les etudiants americains - et les Noirs humilies, et le Vietnam, et Saint-Domingue, c'en est trop!; Le Rimouskois a la Cobra - Jean Ouellet - many photos; Quand le Cardinal Roy etait soldat - trois temoins racontent les annees de guerre du nouveau prince de lEglise; L Guerre a la Pacotille - Yves Sylvestre; A Chacun sa Gaspesie, par Louis Martin; Un Remede contre la mort - le froid!, par Jacques Keable. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Fevrier 1965 *LES GRANDS BOULEVERSEMENTS DANS LES HOPITAUX DU QUEBEC*
Features: Monique Miller cover photo; Photo of Pierre Laporte on page 1; Nice colour photo ad for the 1965 GM Beaumont; Que se passe-t-il dans les hopitaux?; Septieme Nord - un teleroman de Guy Dufresne penetre dans l'intimite d l'hopital; Les Medicins de Famille se syndiquent; Des Avocats "Pas Comme Les Autres", par Adele Lauzon; Le Vol 831 - le 29 novembre 1963, 118 personnes trouvent la mort dans l'ecrasement d'un DC-8, a Sainte-Therese de Blainville - Qu'est-il advenu des familles des victimes?; Pierre Saint-Jean, Halterophile - il etait a Tokyo, en octobre 1964 - depuis son jeune age, il s'entraine en vue de l'obtention d'une medaille olympique; Nos Cuisiniers a L'ecole - objectif - accueillir convenablement les visiteurs de l'Expo dans TOUS les restaurants. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, January 2, 1965 *THE OUTSTANDING CANADIANS OF 1964*
Features: Cover photo of the Queen inspecting her guards; The Outstanding Canadians of 1964 - Father Gregory Baum, Jean Beliveau, Paul Hellyer, Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise; The people of Lambeth Ontario protest against the cutting of their trees; What Canada does to the English (and vice versa); How Allan Baker made a million from your 50-cent lunch - the rise of his Versafoods Services Ltd.; The strange revival of our best bad poet - James McIntyre; The lingering cost of disaster - the crash of Air Canada flight 831 on 29 November, 1963; The death and rebirth of the Martyr's Capital - rebuilding Ste. Marie into a top attraction for a whole new breed of sophisticated tourists; What's British Television Got? Canadians, all over the place - Sydney Newman, Elaine Grand, Ted Kotcheff, Alvin Rakoff, Bernard Braden; Minorities who want anti-hate laws are a threat to everybody's freedom, by lawyer Glen How. Above-average wear. Book
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Callwood, Joan; Katz, S.; Gilmour, C.; Town, Harold; Batten, J.; Christie, Robert C.; Staebler, E.; Hazlitt, T.; Et al
Maclean's Magazine, January (Jan.) 23, 1965 - Maureen Forrester
Features: Colour ad for the 1965 Pontiacs inside front cover; Crisis in our Classrooms - a disturbing report by June Callwood; Ohio uses a "Hospital Information System" to order drugs, assign duties, etc. in an effort to put the nurses back into nursing; Everything always comes up roses for Maureen Forrester - a look into her life and family, with photos; To Canada, with love and hisses - Harold Town; The return of hockey's proudest warrior, Ted Lindsay, with great photo; Our quiet war over peace, politicians vs. the people; Death stalks our last wild horses; Norma Bearcroft fights for the wild horses; Retired RCAF squadron leader Hugh Campbell writes that the Americans are their own worst enemies in Vietnam. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 5, 1966 *THIS HOUR HAS SEVEN DAYS*
Features: The seal hunt - a bloody smear on our image overseas; Water Crisis Coming, by Blair Fraser; This Hour Has Seven Days - the show that survives by success alone - but to the CBC brass it's a pain in the network - many photos; School without Textbooks - Toronto's Main Street adapts immigrant students to Canada; How to get where the girls are, by Fred Bodsworth; The Black Death at Drumheller, by Gertrude Charters; ad for Air Canada's new DC-9 jet; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; ad for Pat Patterson - hostess of Trans-Canada Matinee; Former Toronto Maple Leaf Busher Jackson's misfortune since he quit hockey; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 3 September, 1966 - Daniel Johnson Cover Photo
Features: Where will Daniel Johnson lead Quebec? - article with photos; A Little Girl in a Big Big Town - girls like Barbara Fulton come to Toronto by the thousands for a career, a pad and a man - many photos with article; Sam Olan wanted to put on a good show (Opera) - so look where it got him - photos with article; Where's the Walking Woman Waling? - for the past five years Canadian artist Michael Snow has only painted walking women; Calgary Yanks - oil brought 30,000 Americans to Calgary; The Secret Life of Eddie Shack, Gourmet! - article and photo; One Man, One Wreck, One Cause - BC businessman Robert Malkin took action against lax drinking and driving laws after his son, Kit was killed, by Barry Broadfoot; Great vintage colour photo ad for Honda automobiles, the convertible and the G.T. Fastback Coupe; Postcript to death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's indictment re: Aiyoot and Shooyook, two Eskimos charged with murder; When the Ghost Walked at Barrett's Landing, by Helen Wilson; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Bob Trimbee argues for athletic scholarships to keep our whiz kids north of the line; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 17 September, 1966 *COLOUR TELEVISION*
Features: Etobicoke almost banned bird houses!; The Tattoo that murder made famous; Age of the pari-mutuel supermarket; Growing restlessness with Rhodesia; Editorial - draft-dodgers are refugees, not criminals; Sensational 3-page colour photo Electrohome ad featuring their ultra-futuristic Circa '75 new home entertainment concept; "Governor General and Madame Vanier have made once-indifferent Canadians learn to care about an 'obsolete' institution - which somehow works - article and photos; The Intelligent addict's guide to color TV; Lady Auto Racers - article with colour photos - Inga Cordts, Diana Carter, Stephanie Ruys de Perez; "Let's Quit Worshipping the Kid with a B.A.", by Robert Thomas Allen; Two stories about the meaning of Death by Ian Adams and Malcolm Muggeridge; Night Street Boys/Shoe Shine Boys of Toronto - article with great photos; Dr. Robert McClure - God's Front-line Surgeon - article with photo; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; The artist, viewed as a young entrepreneur - Barry Burdeny sells paintings to corporations; "Unification will turn our army, navy and air force into a contingent of unemployed cops in green suits" - Admiral William Landymore, RCN (RTD.); and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Fall 1995
Features: On Wildlife - messages for a New Millennium; Death of a Comet - The discovery and Demise of Shoemaker-Levy 9; A Bridge to the Stars - Tethered Satellites in Space; Strange New Worlds - The Quest for Extra-Solar Planets; A View from Space - NASA's new generation of Satellites. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Author
Attack of the Killer B's - Guitar Tabulature
72 pages. Includes the following songs: Milk (Ode to Billy) Bring the Noise Keep it in the Family (Live) Startin' Up a Posse; Protest and Survive; Chromatic Death; I'm the Man '91; Parasite; Sects; Belly of the Beast (Live); N.F.B. (DallaBnikufesin). Includes chords and lyrics. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 3 March 1956 *FOSTER HEWITT/MAPLE LEAF GARDENS COVER ILLUSTRATION*
Features: Editorial - Parliament No Longer Governs; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for the Chevrolet 2-door Bel Air Hardtop; Let's stop building $15,000 shacks - how unscrupulous inept builders cheat thousands of Canadians; How Stratford went to Broadway; Southern Ontario - Bruce Hutchison Rediscovers The Uknown Country, Part VII; The Lady and the Crooks - Lawyer Vera Parsons - she mingles with some of the toughest hoodlums in Canada; The Enchanted Isle of Sudden Death - Lionel Shapiro reports from Cyprus; Robert Thomas Allen says "Don't Tell Me Your Secrets"; Is Jean Beliveau the Best Hockey Player Ever? - by Trent Frayne; Colour Chrysler centerfold promotes the safety features of their vehicles i.e. seat belts, safety-rim wheels, sealed-beam headlights, electrically-driven windshield wipers, wrap-around windshield, etc.; Colour half-page ad for the 'Big New Studebaker' car; Quarter-page black and white ad for the movie "Simon and Laura"; Nice colour photo ad inside back cover for the Plymouth 6's and V-8's, with photo of the transmission push-buttons. 3/8" chip from lower edge of front cover. Surprisingly moderate wear. A nice tight copy of this vintage issue. Book
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Grayson, Milt: Editor
The West - True Stories of the Old West: February 1970
74 pages. Features: Lincoln's Friend, Sculptress Vinnie Ream; Death in Pleasant Valley - Ed Tewskbury; The Saga of Governor Lew Wallace; Jedediah's Jinxed Journey - Jedediah Smith; Of Big Brave Bulls and Gentle Cows; No Wood for a Casket; Mountain Man Capitalist - Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick" Wootton; Another Pioneer - George Washington Bush; Five Swindlers Caught Triple Trouble - J. Frank Norfleet; Pocahontas of the Southwest; Christopher Columbus - Just a Tourist? Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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The Geographical Journal, January 1925
87 pages + viii pages of advertisements. Large fold-out map of Onitsha Province, Nigeria affixed inside back cover. Articles include: The Fourth Centenary of the Death of Vasco da Gama; Physiological Difficulties in the Ascent of Mount Everest; The People of the Aures Massif; Notes on the Ibo Country, Southern Nigeria; The Japanese Earthquake of 1 September 1923; The Mount Everest Film of 1924; Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan (including two pages of black and white photographic plates); Memorial to Mungo Park and Richard Lander; Notes on the Ross Sea. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues July 1, 1985 Through September 30, 1985
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
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Frontier Times, Winter 1961*CORD OF DEATH - Bloody Bill Anderson Tied 53 Knots in His Silken*
64 pages. Features include: Cord of Death; Bloody Bill Anderson; A Young Man's Country - William Greening in Northern Alberta; Saint with a Silver Eye - San Antonio, Nevada; Bob Meldrum; - Wyoming's Mysterious Badman; !2:00 Noon Meridian Time; The Gunnison Massacre - Natives take their revenge upon surveyors in Utah; Requiem for the Wild West Shows - Glenn Kischko; Revival at Seven Rivers; Charlie Bemis' Highest Prize; How Well do you know these Western Badmen?; Wagontrain Bride; The New World - steamboat queen of the Gold Rush; More on the Mystery of the Lost Ozarks Silver; Lady from Leadville; Death Rode with the Freighters. Unmarked. Average wear. One inch opening to base of coverfold. Book
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Simpson, Sheila
Saying Goodbye with Love : How to Take Care of the Details of Death, Honor the Life of Your Loved One and Ease Your Own Grief *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
174 pages. Signed and inscribed by author inside front cover. "Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this helpful work. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 May 1938 *FASCISM IN CANADA - PART 2 OF 2*
60 pages. Features: Excellent colour ad for International Harvester trucks inside front cover; Page 5 features an excellent full-page black and white photographic ad for Canadian Pacific's stately Duchess - 20,000 tons of sturdy steel on the St. Lawrence Seaway - includes photo of the ship, write-up and six photos of passenger amenities on board; Nice full-page black and white photo ad for DeSoto cars on page 6; Funny-faced Horse, by Margery Allingham - the jolly story of an equine comedian, a too-trusting girl, and a rather nice villain; Who'll Succeed Bennett as leader of the Federal Conservative Party? - M. Grattan O'Leary considers the prospects of Hon. R.J. Manion and Sydney Smith; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - describes the hyperactive European political environment; Emmy-May Goes to Town, by Teddie Janess - as a 'woman of the world' this very young lady met more adventure than she bargained for; Could You Drive a Bus? - Lawrence Craig examines bus driver training - includes 4 black and white photos; Fascism in Canada - Part Two of Two - Signs of disintegration have appeared following fascism's brutality in Europe - with fascinating illustrations; Dog Watch, by Kenneth Perkins - the mystery of the howling dog and the girl who wanted to know the truth; The Power Problem - an explanation of the great electric power export controversy by Kenneth R. Wilson, with several black and white photos of hydro installations; Old Ugly Face, by Talbot Mundy - Death stalks the mountain passes, hunting the only man alive who can save Tibet; 30 books in a briefcase - books on film (film-books) may reduce a mile of shelving to a few cubic feet - with photos of a film-book reading machine and a film-book recording camera, by Hugh Gourlay and Ernest Haden; Youth, '38 Model - There's nothing much wrong with our young folks, by Marjory Willison; Lovely full-page colour ad for Canada Dry on page 25 - "It's Gingervating"; Black and white full-page photo ad for Dodge cars on page 29; Two-colour full-page ad for Chevrolet cars on page 31; Pages 29-32 (centerfold) loose but present; Nice Heinz ketchup ad on page 33; Handsome full-page colour photo ad for Nash cars on page 35; Wonderful full-page black and white ad for Fargo Commercial Cars and Trucks, featuring illustration of what appers to be a 3-ton truck; Crossword completed in pencil on page 46; half of page 53 has been clipped and is missing - May have been a recipe; Top quarter of page 55 clipped and missing - appears to have contained content of minor importance; Attractive colour-illustrated 1938 Ford De Luxe V-8 car ad inside back cover shows black man commenting on the shiny finish of the car to the lovely owner Mis' Page; Nice colour ad for Buckingham cigarettes on back cover features two white kittens drinking milk from a saucer. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 November 1938
56 pages. Features: The Guy With the Face, by Charles L. Shaw - Any dolt could see Igar's face was his future; Out of Torment - Peace!, by Beverley Baxter, who is optimistic about the future of Europe after the Munich conference; You're Driving Me Crazy, by Elmin Sproule - never call your wife a nincompoop; Canon Scott, by Hubert Evans - he was a padre who babbled poetry and ate potatoes out of his hat, but the First Division still remembers him as a hero who deserved a halo; The General Died In..., by Benge Atlee - Kent Power in the puzzling case of the General who thought he had no enemies; Drama the Crowd Misses - by Dink Carroll - the inside story of many a football battle is even more thrilling than the game itself; Medicine Man, by George Edward Allen - in which white man's magic dices with death and probes the secret of the Wild Wa's shrine; Nostalgic photos of a fall fair; They Knew Joy Boyle, by Flora Alexander Boyle; Fantastic two-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge Custom; Great two-page colour centerfold ad for the new 1939 DeSoto (held by one staple), followed by another beautiful colour two-page ad for the 1939 Chrysler - this ad missing a 3" x 3" clipping from its right margin; Great colour ad for International trucks on back cover shows the range of their products from light delivery unit through dump trucks. Above-average wear. Pages 5-8 loose but present. Pages 49-52 missing. Address label atop front cover. Book
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Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, May 1957
128 pages. Features: Shield Against Death, by J.T. McIntosh; The Muted Horn, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Nut, by Ted Levine; Queen of Clothes, by F.L.Wallace; No Bems Allowed, by Walt Erickson; Next WEek, East Venus, by Robert K. Ottum, Shapes in the Sky, by Civilian Saucer Intelligence; Pawns of Tomorrow, by Nelson Bond; The Signals to Mars, by M. Bower; In Hoc Signum Vincit, by K.W. Bennett; Fillmore Y. Brightforks, by Howard Schoenfeld. Above-average wear. Spine slant. Binding intact. Unmarked. Reading copy only. Book
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Science Fiction Adventures, May/June 1961
112 pages. Features: Wind of Liberty, by Kenneth Bulmer; The Wages of Death, by Robert Silverberg; Machine Ricord, by Tevis Cogswell. Above-average wear. Water damage. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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The Most Popular Selections for the Violin and Piano
38 pages. Includes the following 27 songs: Adagietto (L'Arlesienne); Alpine Maiden's Dream, The; Aria; Asa's Death (Peer Gynt); Barcarolle; Berceuse (Jocelyn); Cavatina; Daffodils; Gavotte; Hungarian Dance; In the Mill; Last Dream of the Virgin; Madrigal; Mazurka; Meditation (Suite poetique); Melodrame (Piccolina); Melody; Nocturne; Pastoraie; Serenade; Serenade Andalouse; Song without Words; Spring Flower; The Swan (Carnival of the Animals). Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News 13 April, 1918, No. 4121, Vol. 152 - The Great Battle In The West
28 pages. Features: The Great Battle in the West - Troops, Guns, and Refugees on the British and French Front - 11 photos; Food Conditions in Germany, by Percy Shuttlewood; An Australian Soldier Poet - The Gallipoli Campaign, by E.B. Osborn; Organising the Small Producer, by S.L. Bensusan; The Gallant stand of British infantry at Bucquoy - illustration; Our Notebook, by G.K. Chesterton; Large photo portrait of General Foch, a great French General; Photo of Captain J.B. McCudden V.C.; Photo of women making goldbeater's-skin bags to line non-rigid airships; The Great Battle - French and British Divisions Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder by Regiments and Battalions - Six photos; Two-page illustration of British troops advancing at Bucquoy; Two-page centerfold illustration entitled When it is Instant Death to move a Hair's Breadth - Night Raiders Motionless Beneath a Verey Light; America's Splendid Troops Fighting Side-by-Side with British and French - 11 photos; Article about the shelling of Paris - Germany's long-range gun (approximately 75 miles); Nice ads for the following automakers - Lanchester, Daimler, Napier, Hudson. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Daily Graphic (Sunday Graphic) - Overseas Edition: Death of King George VI, No. 2042, from Thursday, Feb. 7 to Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1952
Contains each daily issue of the week bound as one. Extensive coverage of the passing of the King and the Queen-to-be. Average wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Liberty Magazine, 20 March 1937
58 pages. Features: Britain's Mailed Fist; Beginning - Henrietta's Big Night, by Edwin Balmer; Hollywood's Income-Tax Jitters; Death for a Lady's Arms, by John Erskine; Why the Grand National (Horse Race) is a Bad Bet; Sweepstakes Winners - glimpses of some lucky and unlucky Canadians, including winner Wilfred Leblanc; Three-Cornered Square, by Alberta Williams; Love Letters of a Prizefighter and a Hollywood Extra, by Bert Green; America's Queerest Trial - the Case of the Murdering Millionaire, by D. Thomas Curtin; Discretion be Damned, by Elmer Davis; Studebaker ad (only $959!); To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; St. Patrick's Day in the Morning, by Helen Dore Boylston; What Queen Elizabeth is Really Like - an intimate look at a charming new monarch and her romantic rise from gloomy Glamis Castle to Britain's shining throne, by Princess Catherine Radziwill; Youth to the Rescue - the kids make good, by Beverly Hills; Will German Sea Power Challenge Great Britain?, by Rear Admiral Yates Stirling; Marching Dead Men, by Terry Brennan as told to Captain W.J. Blackledge; Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Magazine
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine: 27 April 1957
96 pages. Features: Cover illustrations of Jasper the bear (and cubs) overlaid on Group of Seven paintings; how the Chinese plan to control their birth rate; How limited Free enterprise survives in China; Lovely ballroom colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Crown Zellerbach ad featuring John MacNaughton, Editor of the Ladysmith Chronicle on Vancouver Island; Author of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche - "I Still Remember..." - our most famous - and least-known writer breaks a lifetime's silence to recall her childhood, books she loved, her first story, the secret drama of Jalna, and celebrities she has known - with nice black and white photos; Blair Fraser Reports from Peking on the spy system that covers all China, a co-operative farm for 82 families, a model factory town and a Shanghai slum, and Christianity under the Chinese rule - great photos; Arthur Hailey - the hottest playwright in the business; How Bamford-Gordon abolished the income tax, by John Gray; The launching of the Encyclopedia Canadiana; The lurking death of our crowded skyways - mid-air collisions; Father Maurice Metayer, OMI photographs the Arctic - great colour photos of igloos, etc.; 'How I'd Make Hockey a Better Game" - by Charlie Conacher with Trent Frayne; Nice colour '57 Plymouth ad; Two-page colour Canadian Pacific ad featuring "The Canadian" and its dome cars; Nice colour ad for the Sunbeam Automatic Mixmaster; Spectacular colour photo ad for the all-new Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner; Northern Electric centerfold ad entitled 'Forward with Canada'; Colour Pontiac ad; Nice full-page black and white illustrated ad by Trans-Canada Air Lines announcing 'Giant DC-8 jet-liners to bring startling advances in long-distance air travel; Colour O'Keefe ad; Colour ad inside back cover by the Tea Council of Canada. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A nice copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 5 November 1966 *Frank Sinatra Cover Photo*
68 pages. Features and articles include: How Regina's Courts Favoured Segregation - Ingrid Bintner can't enroll in a local public school because she's a Roman Catholic; How LSD Saved My Marriage, by Pam Hyatt Foster; The Hawks lost, but Rhodesia may yet defeat the Doves - Canada rescued the Commonwealth - but was it worth the trouble?; How Canadian wonder boy, film director Sidney Furie, "tamed" Frank Sinatra; The Private World of Emily Carr; Montreal Canadiens' goalie Gump (Lorne) Worsley - The Has-been who doesn't know enough to stop being better than anybody - with photos; The House that Wouldn't Stop - Joy Carroll on her family home which began as a modest east-end Toronto summer cottage and ended as a 13-room townhouse - with photos; Peggy Ann Walpole of Toronto's 'Street Haven' helps prostitutes, lesbians, and junkies; How to be a girl alone and see the world, by globe-trotter Marika Robert; Absolutely BEAUTIFUL two-page colour photo featuring a red Buick Wildcat Sport Coupe; Gerald Stevens' Canadiana column; Colour Panasonic TV ad - looks very dated!; Colour photo Ford Auto centerfold which includes a white 1967 Mustang 2+2 Fastback; Postscript to Death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's coverage of the death of Eskimo Soosee in the July 2/1966 issue of Maclean's; Two-page colour photo ad for 1967 Chevrolet featuring the 1967 Impala Sport Coupe; Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg argues that Johnson's Vietnam war makes civil disobedience an unavoidable duty. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, November 5, 1955 - Featuring Arthur Godfrey Autobiography
160 pages. Features: John Falter cover illustration; Nice color photo ad for the 1956 Mercury autos; Fantastic 2-page color ad for the 1956 Buick; Colour photo ad for RCA Victor televisions; Aurthur Godfrey - This is my Story - part 1 of 8 - lots of great photos; That Susceptible Age, by Robert Terrall; Bangkok - article and great color photos; Madman's Chain, by Gilbert Wright; Coach on the Spot - Bowden Wyatt is lured to Tennessee from Arkansas; We Licked the Veteran Problem - military veterans are concerned their pensions may be cut; The Mayor and Miss Casey, by Nord Riley; Those Half-Pint A-Bombers - jet pilots are proving it doesn't take a big, fat plane to delivery the Sunday Punch; One Night Together, by Jean Bell Mosley; Big Back Yard - large colour photo of goat ranchers in Texas; So You're Selling Your House! - how an exhuasted houseowner spent 78 frustrating days and sleepless nights disposing of his middleaged bungalow; Death in the Wind, by Edwin Lanham; Big Power Plant in the Sky - the possibilities of tapping solar energy; Adventures of Slippery Leo - Leo Irby - Escapologist; He was part of this land - Mitchell Stuart of W-Hollow, Kentucky, by his son, Jesse Stuart; Sensational 3-page color ad for Cadillac for 1956; The Golden Journey, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Nice color photo 2-page ad for 1956 Plymouth, with all new push-button driving; Two-page ad for Ford Trucks; Lovely 2-page colour photo ad for Philco televisions - with remote control!; Nice 1-page color ad for Sealtest ice cream; 2-page color '56 Pontiac ad; Crosley Custom V television ad; Color ad for Zenith televisions; Color ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Italian-style Ravioli; Nice color 1-page ad for Karo waffle syrup; Color Betty Crocker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, October 31, 1954 *The CIA and America's Secret Agents*
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 27, 1983: *COVER PHOTO OF CHARLES AND DIANA*
Contents: Nice Jetta ad on page 3; Photo of Gretzky and Pocklington; Saudi Arabia to open its first Saudi-designed amusement park - "Islamized" amusements; Burnout agony in Uranium City, Saskatchewan; Fred Bruning on the new business of "Dialling for Titillation" (a.k.a. phone sex); Feature article - The Royal Superstars - lovely photos; Mulroney begins reuniting the Conservative Party; Pope John Paul II's Polish Odyssey - article with great photos; Power plays in the Kremlin - Andropov ailing; Push for Israeli pullback from Lebanon; Paul Volcker reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve; Craxi's quest for victory in Italy; Leslie Nielsen marries Shelley Coxford; Jan Kerouac - daughter of Jack; China's new economic revolution; Second wave debt crisis in Mexico; Investigation concludes into Conrad Black and Norcen's takeover of Hanna Mining; Peter C. Newman on Japan - Their carmakers will soon be off-shoring; Sally Ride breaks the sex barrier - Space shuttle astronaut; Vancouver's new B.C. Place - Canada's first covered stadium; Opening of Queen's Quay Terminal in Toronto; Morgantaler's crusade moves east; The Race for the America's Cup begins - Canada 1 and helmsman Terry McLaughlin; Epidemic striking Rocky Mountain Bighorn in B.C.'s East Kootenay region; Canada's C Channel goes under - death of an underdog; Fotheringham provides 29 things you never knew about Brian Mulroney. Unmarked. Average wear but covers taped on. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 14, 1983 - Kate Nelligan on Broadway
Features: Why our MPs fail us - a Q&A with Arthur Lower; Joe Clark Rallies his allies; Will and Patricia Steger charged in the Arctic; Ghanaians fleeing Nigeria; Zimbabwe - charge of the fifth brigade; Leo Rautins - young Canadian basketball star with dreams of the NBA; Gold fever strikes a moose pasture - Murray Pezim and Hemlo; Divided, Bell Prospers; Peter C. Newman discusses how Big Oil is sticking around; A Media Judgement on surrogate birth - The Stivers and Malahoff on The Phil Donahue Show; Wind-Skiing on water and ice; Bumpy birth for pay TV - demonstrators protest soft-core porn in Ottawa; Cover Story - Kate Nelligan's Broadway Triumph - nice photos; The bulk food fad - a sanitary concern?; David Cronenberg - a vivid obsession with sex and death - Videodrome. Average wear. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, January 31, 1983 - Joe Clark on Trial
Features: Afghan exiles agony; Trudeau's bad press over expensive foreign junket; A hard choice for viewers - First Choice pay TV seeks to run soft-core porn in the face of protests; Large weapons haul by RCMP on highway 99 near Whistler, BC; Cover story - Winnipeg '83 - Joe Clark on Trial - major article with colour photos; Q&A with Joe Clark on the politics of leadership; Maureen McTeer - more than just a political wife; Boston's Kevin H. White; Dark Stain on British Bobbies - tragic mistaken identity killing; Greymac, Seaway Trust Crown Trust - unfolding affair; Apple computer upstages its rivals - interesting article from the early days of PCs; Peter C. Newman on the potential of Pay TV; Canadian Pro Golfers begin a new season - photo of Dan Halldorson; The mob, a death and the NFL; Physics article on the results of proton decay research; Donald Forster and the University of Toronto - a restrained President; Time magazine quibbles with a red border around The Alberta Report; Relentless growth in private cops - Intertec. Average wear. Address label removed from front cover resulting in some peeling. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, December 27, 1982 - The Comic Triumph of SCTV - Andrea Martin Cover Photo / The Burzynski Cancer Cure?
Features: Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski of Houston and his expensive, unproven cancer cure; Who Said Canada was Dull?, by Charles Gordon; The economy - facing up to visions of 1930; Make-work jobs for the military; Yukon native land claims settlement; Huge Quebec power outage; Lech Walesa's joyless ride in Poland; Sentry Armoured Courier of New York is robbed; Earthquake in North Yeman; Risk of world economic breakdown; German politics; Peter C. Newman on high-tech pioneers in the west - Corvec Data Systems and Paul Daniell; Trent Frayne on money issues in sports; Cover Story - The Comic Triumph of SCTV with colour photos; Kerosene heaters - are they safe?; A defeat for the Garrison Diversioin project; New faces for kids with Down's Syndrome; Economy causes long, slow, squeeze in newsrooms and news coverage; The death of Aramaic; Canada's largest-ever foreign exhibit of Canadian culture, in Germany; Last Minute Vaction business. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, November 29, 1982 *The Future of Canadian Culture*
Features: CSIS news; Air pollution in Athens; Brain-drain reversal - medical research centre in Alberta; Nice Schenley Award ad; The great real estate chase - Greymac and Leonard Rosenberg; Death in the oil patch at Lodgepole, Alberta - where was Adair?; Article on Iona Campagnolo; Multiculturalism Department's secret list of 130 ethnic groups; Francis Simard; Trouble for the Amway family; The bishops enter the nuclear debate; William Shatner in Kero-Sun ad for Kerosene heaters; Brazillian election results; Thinning of China's leftist old guard; Walesa at a crossroads; Sex and death in the desert - Helen Smith and Johaness Otten killed in Saudi Arabia; Cover Story - a new blueprint for Canadian Culture - the Applebaum-Hebert Report; Surge of life in oil industry; Peter C. Newman - Behind Leonard Rosenberg's Apartment Deal; Photo of Rocket Richard and other Montreal Canadiens old-timers; NFL players' union news; Morgantaler tests the abortion law; New hope for Venice - environment; Stereo for the AM Band; The selling of public TV; Psychiatry puts itself on the couch; William Kurelek article; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, November 8, 1982 - Ocean Ranger Disaster Inquest
Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, October 11, 1982 *The Dome Petrolem Debacle*
Features: Cover photo of Helmut Schmidt; Bob Jones University - article with photos; Via Rail cutbacks; Hitler's Haunting Last Laugh - Rick Salutin argues against Israel's invasion of Lebanon; Byelection trouble for the federal Liberals - Jennifer Cossitt, and Peter Worthington; Jim Lee becomes PEI Premier; Alberta to sell PWA Airlines; Large gap between Australia's whites and Aborigines; Beirut - article with photos; Theft of gold and platinum from Rustenberg Refinery near Johannesburg; Cover Story - Helmut Schmidt becomes scapegoat for the recession; Germany after Schmidt - Helmut Kohl; the power of Green in Germany; The Brisbane Commonwealth Games; Peter C. Newman on Mitel and Kenneth Cowpland; The debacle of Dome Petroleum; LAV contract for GM Canada; One more push to rescue CANDU; Bendix, Asbestos and WCB; Last edition of L'evangeline of Moncton, N.B.?; Death by extra-strength - Tylenol poisoning; Interesting article on 'A Home-style computer' which looks at the current market - photo of a Dynalogic Hyperon; Jarvis Benoit - a lifelong case of fiddle fever; Otto Rogers - Landscapes of the Soul; Ford Lincoln Continental ad inside back cover; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 23, 1982: Lebanon - Flames and the Future
Features: Piece by Paul H. Robinson, US Ambassador to Canada; The Hard Politics of Bill Bennett's hard sell in B.C.; Resurrection of Robert Bourassa; Eric Akland dies in Aylmer, Quebec; Niagrary River pollution protesters; Cover Story - Lebanon - Flames and the future after Israelli invasion; Q&A with David Kimche, of the Israelli Foreign Ministry; Jews murdered in Paris - reaction to Lebanon invasion; British pound in decline - black mark for monetarism; Alexander Haig's calculated climb; South Africa - death in dark places; Canada's regional airlines fight for the skys - Nordair and Quebecair; End of economic miracle - AEG-Telefunken AG; BC's BCRIC; Steel and forestry industries hit very hard by economy; Jack Donohue and his unknown Canadian basketball team; Labor - unemployment and new despereation; Deely Bobbers; Drive-in theatres; United Church dares to tread; The Guardian Angels - citizen's call to arms; New Wave music toughs it out - photo of David Byrne/Talking Heads; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Antique Collector Magazine, May 1977
Features: Chess Sets; Watercolours for under 50 pounds; Parian Ware; Mediterranean Furniture; The Art Critic; Cuff Links; African figures in Sculpture;.Naive Painting; How to Sell at Auction; Dogs in Pottery and Porcelain; Rose Diamonds; Goodbye Mentmore - Mentmore Towers and its contents, the extraordinary collection of the Baron Meyer de Rothschild, are to be sold to pay death taxes; Silver Salts and Peper Dredgers; Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Card Counters; Antique Collecting in America; Under 10 pounds in Camden Passage. Average wear. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 15, 1942: Italian Jet Aircraft
56 pages. Features: Colour cover photo of the lift locks at Peterborough, Ontario; Two photos of an Italian propellerless (jet) airplane above an editorial entitled "Weapons Win Wars"; Big Ben Westclox ad with military theme; RCA Victor ad explains how their transmitters and receivers are ready to warn Canada of surprise attack; Parker Vacumatic Pen ad; Bruce Hutchison writes about Canadians in light of his millionaire friend, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and Marshal Petain, of Vichy; Spring Practice, a story illustrated by John Scott; They Were Prepared - the true story of an unnamed Nova Scotia coastal community which was organized to rescue survivors of a torpedoed boat; Japan's Cult of Death, by Morris C. Shumiatcher claims "Fanatic Jap soldiers welcome death because to die in battle is to be worshipped as a god."; Listen Boss, Now Listen! - story by Neill C. Wilson; Interesting short BC article reports on the evacuation of the Japanese and the provinces fear that it may come under Japanese attack; Bomber Ferry - The Royal Air Force Ferry Command delivers aircraft to Britain under the command of Sir Frederick Bowhill - article with photos; Toat to Tomorrow - story by Manning Coles; Pianist Ross Pratt - portrait of a Canadian whom U.S. critics have called one of the 'most gifted' younger pianists; Woodbury soap ad featuring photos of Claire Morin of St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Ford Motor Company ad explains their Xray process for examining crankshafts to be used in fighting equipment; Two-colour ad for Hewetson Shoes of Brampton, Ontario. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 15, 1933
56 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young couple and their noisy puppy by John Newton Taylor; Nice colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; Chevrolet Six ad; Nice ad for Magic Baking Powder; Men Don't Do Such Things - story by Addison Simmons; No Sense of Humor - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Senator Arthur Meighen - article by R.T.L.; The *Real* War-Debt Hoax, by Lieut.-Colonel George A. Drew who reflects on how the world watches anxiously while the Government of the United States remains in a state of suspended animation imposed by a constitution that it has long outgrown; The Ishmaelite - story by Leslie Roberts; Yes! I'm a Wrestling Fan, by Edgar March; What I Hope to Do with Radio, by Hector Charlesworth, Chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission; Water Under The Bridge - story by Martha Banning Thomas; Shacked! - Nationality laws lead to hardship and heartache as some people are refused permission to cross borders and join their families; Death at the Bath - story by Benge Atlee; Avalanche - story by Robert E. Pinkerton; The Waning Herds - Norbert Welsh on the decline of the buffalo; Lovely colour Campbell's Soup ad with illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith; Photo ad for Ponds creams featuring Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt; Vintage full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee featuring Dixie; Full-page colour ad for Chiipso laundry soap; Full-age black and white photo ad for Walter P. Chrysler's new Plymouth Six; Uncommon black and white partial-page ad for Spud cigarettes; Fireside Accessories, by F.L. deN. Scott; Very stylish two-colour illustrated ad for 1933 Oldsmobile cars inside back cover; Wow! - Lovely colour photo ad on back cover for Kodak's new $39.50 Cine-Kodak movie camera!; Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. Small chip from bottom of back cover. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August (Aug.) 1918: Thrilling Stories of the Air
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, June 1917 *General Korniloff's Escape*
91 pages plus many pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: A detailed narrative of General Korniloff's 300 mile Escape from the Austrians back to the Russian lines; Some Exciting Experiences with Rhinos, by J.A. Jordan - with photos; Hindengerg's Death Trap - a terrible tragedy befalls the Russian armies amid the Masurian Lakes; The Pygmy People of Mount Marviveles in the Phillipines - the Negritos, or "little Negroes" - with photos; The Vengeance of Eugene Ristori - The Five-Year Story of a Corsican Murder Vendetta which ends in Panama; The House of the Chained Bear - a night of terror in the wilds of Transcaucasia; On the Borders of Tibit - Part 2, by Reginald Farrer, with nice photos; The Three Scarlet Feathers - the terrible experience of a white man who got into the black books of Voodoo people in Hayti (Haiti); A Flying Man in South Africa - Part 3 of John G. Barron's adventures - illustrated; My Experiences as a "Wild Girl" - Carl L. Thompson of Seattle and his strange job; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part 4 - E.W. Hawkes' adventures, with great Eskimo photos; The Snake-Charmer's Vengeance - Alexander Feely recounts a circus tale; Our Catch - an extract from the diary of a Lieutenant of Alpine Chasseurs which describes how six Alpine Chasseurs bluffed three hundred Huns, with eight officers, into surrendering without a fight. Photo of Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Harris-Goar Jewelry ad on back cover. Nice ad for Baseball Magazine Co. Great full-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War, Series 2, No. 3, November 8th - 14th, 1939
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 81 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Defenders of the Maginot Line increase Defences; Royal Inspections of the Home Front; British Hospital Ship with Casualties from France; French Contraband Precautions; Decorations for Valour and Gallantry in the Field, by J.F.C. Fuller; How Britain's Postal Censors Work - great photos; Testing 15 inch Shells at an Experimental Station; Hitler Escapes Death in Munich Bomb Explosion; Centerfold naval illustration of minesweepers by Frank H. Mason; Safeguarding America's Neutrality; Happenings Behind Germany's Western Wall; Dominions Representatives Visit the B.E.F. in France; The British Commander in Chief in his working quarters - Lord Gort; Peace Appeal by Holland Belgium - full text of the Allied Replies; Royal Engineers in Training; Nazi Mines Washed up on Danish coast; Keel of new ship in British shipyard; Allied Air Supremacy on the Western Front; A commentary on the War for this week;Defenders of the Home Front stage mock air raids. Protecting the trade routes of France; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Flamingo - Africa's Lively Magazine, Volume 12, No. 1 *IDI AMIN FEATURE*
55 pages. Undated. Circa 1970s. Features: Colour centerfold featuring Niki Valentine; Ghana Airways ad inside front cover; Colour FIAT ad; Exclusive report on Uganda's General Idi Amin entitled "How I Transformed Uganda into a Black Man's Country", with photos; Idi Amin's views on love and marriage, and love without marriage; Nigeria's Popular Civilian Crusades Against Disease and Filth - Alhaji Aminu Kano; Kenya Rocked by Wild Rumours Following Death of Minister Ronald Gideon Ngala - several photos and article; Centerfold photos and article on Niki Valentine - the Topless Teacher from Nigeria; Colour Vespa ad; When a man becomes his own wife! - Professor and Lady Peller - many photos and article; 'Alone in the World' - fiction by Harmattan Nwabueze; New African-made car that won't get stuck in traffic jams - Professor Awodele Awojobi is the brains behind a car with steering wheels at each end!; Pretty African girl, Maria Prabhu of Nairobi, invades all male religious sect - Hare Krishna Temple - article and photos; Colour ad for Star beer on back cover. Prior owner's name and minor ink scribble upon front cover. No other markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this rare and information-packed issue. Magazine
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Esquire Magazine, December 1970 - Ari Onassis Cover
296 pages. Features: Massive 5-panel colour photo ad for Ronson products inside front cover; Polaroid 360 colour two-page ad; Simca car ad; Panasonic colour photo ad for their 8-track player; Two-page Helbros watch colour ad; Colour photo Lucien Piccard watch ad featuring ball of Swiss cheese; Nice two-page ad for Henry McKenna bourbon whiskey; Nostalgic ad for two-colour Winthrop leather boots - Vintage '30; Colour photo ad for the Leicina - a new Leitz movie camera; Two-page colour ad for Dr. Grabo Pipes; Two-page illustrated ad for Oleg Cassini shirts; List of 190 things to avoid; Happy moments for General Mark Clark, Jerry Lewisk Jack Benny, B.B. King and Allen Funt; Interview with Hugh M. Hefner; The Perfect Mother, by Tiny Tim; Nine Happy Places; The Decade of the Great Liberal Death Wish, by Malcolm Muggeridge; Who Hates Whom - Religions/Ethnic Groups vs. Socioeconomic Status; The Sex Maniac, by Hilma Wolitzer; The Mechanics of Bliss - colour art photos; The Perfect Toy - Wesley Pavalon and the Milwaukee Bucks; James Michener and the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma - with many photos; Das Hip Kapital, by Craig Karpel - a critique of the youth economy; Weird Harold and the first national Swinger's Convention; The Sears Catalog - 1652 pages of the American Dream; The Motherhood, by Robert Ullian; Exotic Christmas gift vehicles and other gifts; John Rennon's Exlusive Groupie (John Lennon and Yoko), by Charles McCarry; Portugal - a blue heaven for greenbacks; The Sweeter Options of John D. MacArthur and Truman Capote, by Tom Burke; The Great Speckled Post; Out of Uniform - photo of six members of the Santos, Brazil soccer club, with ladies; Several ad for brown leather shoes - apparently trendy at that time; Far too many additional advertisements to list. This issue is a great throwback to the 1970s with hours of great reading. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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Warbirds International, October 1995
70 pages. Features: Courtesy Aircraft nears the end of its sale of the largest private collection of WWII aircraft, owned by David Tallichet; Successful restoration of a short-wing Martin B-26 Marauder; Kalamazoo Air Zoo completes its Grumman collection with the acquisition of an F-14; Holland's Aviation Museum; Art Lacey's Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Gas Station; Death of the Kee Bird - Failed recovery mission in Greenland - B-29 Superfortress; CAF Airshow; Base Borden's hidden treasures; Anatomy of a Disaster - the last flying Avro Shackleton goes down in the Sahara; Flying Legends - British Warbird Airshow. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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Chatelaine Magazine - The Canadian Home Journal, September 1960
154 pages. Features: Incredible two-page colour ad for Green Giant canned vegetables, featuring the bottom half of the Green Giant himself; Many great full-page ads for products such as Avon cosmetics, Pond's lipstick, Wabasso bedding, Carnation Milk Powder, Pond's ad featuring Elsa Martinelli, Pacific canned milk, Crane plumbing fixtures, Arborite, GE appliances, Heinz tomato products; The Quiet Revolution of Chinese Women - article with photos; How Close are We to Test-Tube Babies? - article by Christina McCall Newman; The Queen's Other Family - Recently Elizabeth added her husband's name to her own, and thereby raised a question - just who are her in-laws? - a scattered family the world hears so little about? - article with photos; House-Warming - story by Jean Loggie; How the Kesners Came to Canada - Jo and Fred Davis are involved in bringing a refugee family to Canada; - photos and article; Have Gun Will Shoot, by Sheila MacKay Russell; Death Comes to the Island - novel by Florence Ford; A Chatelaine Guide for Women Who are Going back to Work; Dos and Don'ts of Dressing for the Job; Special 14-page Homes '60 section featuring decorating news, housing, furnishings, etc.; Ad for Minute Spanish Rice inside back cover. Nice colour photo Red Rose tea ad on back cover shows lady in white dress pouring tea. Somewhat above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. A worthy copy particularly worthwhile for its lengthy illustrated 1960 Home Fashion section. Book
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Journal of the American Rhododendron Society, Vol. 55, Number 2 Spring 2001
60 pages. Features: Small Rhododendrons from Alfeld, Germany; Rhododendrons on Postage Stamps; Proven Performers - ARS District 3; A Vireya Seed Odyssey - Some Observations; Azalea Society Convention 2001, Asheville, North Carolina; Deciduous Azaleas - Springtime in the South; Daylilies - Companion plants for Rhododendrons?; The Story of Rhododendron "Bonnie Bee'; Meerkerk Hybrid Test Garden Results, 2000; History of the ARS Research Foundation; Society News; What are These Spots? - Part II; Rhododendrons Linked to Sudden Oak Death; Rhododendrons in 3D - Dreams, Dwarfs and Delusions; The Gardens at Exbury - One Man's Obsession. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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