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The War Illustrated - 5 January, 1918
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine: April 1911, No. 156. Vol. 26
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, Volume 19: Includes June 1907 Through October 1907 Plus February 1904
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 21: May Through October 1908
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 18: November, 1906 Through April 1907 (missing February 1907)
Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1954
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Kroll, Virginia L
Fireflies, Peach Pies & Lullabies
"In this honest and healing picture book, Francie finds a way to share her nice memories of her Great-Granny and encourage others to remember the little things - the fireflies, peach pies, and lullabies - that celebrate the true life of a beloved one." - from dust jacket. Unpaginated. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1964 *Can the Gila Monster Kill?*
Features: Pete Kitchen's Road of Deam Men; Jim Baker - Forgotten Plainsman; Can the Gila Monster Kill?; Trailing the Horse Thieves; Hangman's Hill in South Dakota; Sen-nes or Curly Jim - Diplomat of the Spokanes; The Yocum Silver Dollar; Andy Adams, Author; Death in the Yellowstone; Holdup!; A Cabin on Price River; Buckskin Jim Cutler and his Montana Water Fights; Making Do; Wishart of the Oxcart Brigade; Wild Old Days; The Towns the Ghosts Forgot - Sacramento; Chili Bean the mule; Rosebuds and Whiskey and Whistling Springs; Land of Shalam - one of the world's least known religions. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, October 1965 *Book Bonus - Vinegarroon*
Features: Vinegroon - the saga of Judge Roy Bean, "Law West of the Pecos"; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Dawson (Klondike/Yukon)- Paris of the North; Liver-Eating Johnson's Last Trail; Guns of the Old West - the Colt Forty-Five; Al Wetherill of the Mesa Verde; Geronimo/Fimbres; Cavalryman vs. Cowboy - a famous race; The Grizzly Bear - King of the California Wilderness - Grapevine Canyon; Two Minutes to Live; Maryhill Castle - Sam Hill; Bottle Bugs - old western bottle; Wheelock Academy and the fighting brothers; Cedros - the magic island; Blood for Blood - the Snake Indians on Bear River in California; Death Rode the Snows - 56 die in Rogers Pass slide; Wild Old Days - underwater - Parker Canyon Lake. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (first part); It's Death to Bonnie and Clyde - great photos; Sand Dunes of Gold - at Whiskey Run, Oregon; Wyatt Earp's Letters to Bill Hart; Did Edison get 'turned on' in Wyoming; Knights of the Wagon Yard - horse traders; Independence Day Murder - Park City, Utah; The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens; Point of Rocks - the Cimarron cut-off witnessed lots of trouble; Fort Lancaster - lower road to the west; Wild Old Days!; The Hermit of Ruby City. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1969 *SPECIAL TREASURE ISSUE*
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1969
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1969 *The Story of Zane Grey*
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine: December 1971 *Special Treasure Issue*
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine: October 1971
Features: Breakthrough - in 1906 the Imperial Valley suffered one of the worst man-made disasters of all time; A Story That Never Got Written - Timberline, the old Wyoming cowboy; The Little Green Tents - Walt Mason, "Poet Laureate of Ameica"; The Last Powwow and the Nicholson Family; Wolf-Kill Treasure - making life tough for prospectors; Who was George Matics?; General Ranald S. Mackenzie - his insanity and death; Mementos of Notriety - imfamous weapons; Grass-grown streets in Sierra Nevada - Part V - Columbia, Chinese Camp, Coulterville, Bagby and Bear Valley; Remember 'Chip of the Flying U"? - the B.M. Bower Books are in demand again; Wild Old Days; Travelin' Lilght - Tom Lipps; Tall Wolf's Macabre Necklace. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1973
Features: Boone Helm - Man Eater!; Arizona's 'Lost Cabin' Mines; Your Until Death - William (Billie) Grounds; Mustangers and their methods; Blanket Bill - Robert William Jarman; Trail to Thunder Mountain - a packer describes the prelude to a Zane Grey book; He Killed a Cagey Outlaw - Old Snowdrift; Wild Old Days! - with photo of a large gar or garfish on display. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1974
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1979
Features: Garett's Death - Conspiracy or Doublecross? - Patrick F. Garrett; Scotty Lovelock's Mysterious Assayer - Andrew H. Scott; Queen Caches in the Old West; Hunting Redskins and Their Nests - Colonel George Hunter in Washington state; Roaming the Back Country - "Chicken Red"; On to Telluride and Gold! - Julius Hansen; Ross' Bad Leg - Ross Estes; Rainbow Over the Dragoons - Courtland, Arizona; The Legacy of Jean Lafitte - in the Neutral Strip of Louisiana; Hudson's Bay Company - oldest and most powerful North American Enterprise. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1979
Features: A Strong Medicine Wind - Wind Goomda, Kiowa Warrior; Bullfrog Blackie; I Shall be a Borrower of Money" - the owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch, H.C. Hooker; The Holdouts of Dublin Gulch; Feather Fort - it looked like the Comanches would win; Flash Flood - death that gives no notice; William H. Jackson's Cross of Snow - a gigantic Christian symbol on a mountainside in the Rockies; A Strange Summons - Ranger Ran Runnels is assigned to make a fifty-mile stretch of hell (rail line) as safe as a walk in the park; Jimmy, the Skull; Alberta Cowboys - thoughts of a long-ago summer and laughing men who knew horses; Blind Boone and 'The Marshfield Tornado'. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, November 1981
Features: Bunkhouse culture; Murder at Mount Sicker - This peaceful Canadian village was no match for a jealous madman who could disappear and reappear at will; Death in El Dorado - most 49ers had six months to succeed or go hungry; A Very Lively Hermit - Charley Parks; Emma Montgomery Jorgenson - the Queen of the Cook Tent; Neil Howie - Better than his times; Some Tragic Wyoming Characters; Twelve Years Shot - the Lawson Family; Caddo George - Slipped a dagger into Satank; "Dort Naus Ist America" - a siren's song that emptied the Old World and populated the new; Early-Day Orders at Fort Sill; Don Florencio of Lincoln County. A quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1982
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News: July 14, 1883 *Daphne Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow*
Front page loose but present and presents six sketches of 'The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow" - The Daphne capsized upon launch with much loss of life. New items: Mr. Gladstone immolates eight ministerial bills; Wimbledon competition more popular than ever; Malagasy envoys leave for home; Good news from Ireland - a lessening of crime and upset; Update on Cholera outbreak at Damietta; The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow; Live-Saving Apparatus on the Serpentine; The New Steam-Ship Tartar; Banquet to Mr. Henry Irving; National Sports; Parisian Sayings and Doings; Death of the Duke of Marlborough; Royal activities; Church news; Benevolence and Self-Help; Ben Nevis Meteorological Station; Funeral of Mr. W. Spottiswoode; General Home News; The City of London College; Two pages of Classified Ads (please note that this page is loose but present). Full page of sketches of "Complimentary Dinner to Mr. Henry Irving at St. James Hall. Half-page illustration of 'Trial of life-saving apparatus on the Serpentine, Hyde Park. Half-page engraving of "The Union Steam-Ship Company's Royal Mail-Steamer Tartar. Very dramatic two-page engraving entitled "The Great Disaster at a Ship Launch on the Clyde - Sinking of the Daphne, with Two Hundred Men. Above-average but not excessive wear. Includes separate supplement which consists of two full-page engravings - the first shows a kneeling man gardening while tenderly holding an infant, the second shows a sad kitchen scene from a picture by W.H.Weatherhead with the caption "For men must work and women must weep, Though storms be sudden and waters deep, And the harbour bar be moaning - C. Kingsley". The Ben Nevis Summit Observatory - Six sketches on one page. Opening of the City of London College - two sketches; Funeral of the late Mr. W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., in Westminster Abbey - 4 sketches. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling overall. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
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Material History Review - Number 48, Fall 1998 *Ships, Seafaring and Small Craft*
Features: "Probably the most beautiful Rowboat afloat" - The Form and Meaning of the St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies; The Amsler Integrator and the Burden of Calculation; Snagboats and "Dead-Heads" - Interpreting History Onboard the W.T. Preston; Le Marco Polo, un navire canadien de renommee mondiale au milieu du XIXe siecle; Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games - Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work; Culture Materielle et niveaux de richesse chez les pecheurs de Plaisance et de l'ile Royale, 1700-1758; Emotion as Document - Death and Dying in the Second World War Art of Jack Nichols; "You Paint Me a Ship as is Like a Ship" - The Verkin Ship Portraits; Mi-marins, mi-mages - caracteres de l'univers magico-religieux des pecheurs et des gens de mer du littoral tyrrhenien; Les objets du rite - le bapteme de la Ligne; Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven - the Phenomonon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond; Recent Media Treatment of the Titanic Tragedy; Edutainment and the Museum - a cautionary tale; plus 10 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 254, July 1, 1919 *The Collapse of Austria-Hungary*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: murder of Count Sturgkh; death of Emperor Francis Joseph; Dr. von Koerber, Austrian Premier; The Ausgleich; The Emperor Charles; Political Changes; Count Czernin; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Effects of the Russian Revolution; Peace Currents; The Reichstrat Summoned; Resignation of Count Tisza; Letter of the Emperor to Prince Sixth of Bourbon; Austrian Victories in Italy; The Peace of Brest-Litovsk; Polish Problems; Allied Victories in France; Effects in Austria-Hungary; Austro-Hungarian Peace Note. Average wear. Covers loose as one but present. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Rohner, Ronald P.
The People of Gilford - a Contemporary Kwakiutl Village - Bulletin 225
179 pages. "Field research for this study was conducted among the Kwakiutl Indians of the Gilford Island Band, B.C. from September 1962, through August 1963, and again during June and July 1964." - from Preface. Topics include: Gilford Island and the Northwest Coast; History of the Gilford Island Band; Band Economic and Subsistence Activities; The People of Guilford; Community Social Organization; The Family at Gilford; The Formative Years; The Village School and Education; Intoxicants and Village Life; Political Organization and Social Interaction; Death and Religion; Epilogue - Conditions of Field-Work. Printed on glossy stock. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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National Lampoon, August 1986 *SHOW BIZ ISSUE*
82 pages. Features: Famous last sights; True Facts; Death Wish VII - The Day of Reckoning; Foto Funnies; National Lampoon Interview - Steven Spielberg; A Day or Two (Give or Take a Few Hours) in the Life of a Comedian; The Dream Factory; Death in Venice; The ABC Fall Lineup; Being at the Movies Comics!; The Films of Annie Sprinkle; Commercial Potential; The Bunker - A Play in One, Last Act; Gonif Films Presents Holocaust II; Funny Pages; Loews Schizo - Homes of the Big Double Features; Masterpieces of Miscasting; Stick it in his Ear! Average wear. Bit of writing on table of contents (page 4). Does not quite lie flat. A sound copy. Book
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National Lampoon, April 1987 *CRIME PAYS*
Features: Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Zen Bastard; The Yellow Journal; True Facts; Late Night with Mr. Vengeance!; Shoeshine for the Apocalypse; Crime!; The Do-Goodies Social Action Team in Cartoon Madness; Everyone's a Criminal; Foto Funnies; P-Men; War is Hell; Trots and Bonnie and Clyde; The FBI Uniform Crime Report; Brooklyn; Berserk!; Life on Death Row; Con Crafts; The Chain of Command; The Effective Manager; Funny pages. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. This copy has been partially three-hole punched along the left margin. Book
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National Lampoon, April 1987 *CRIME PAYS*
Features: Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Zen Bastard; The Yellow Journal; True Facts; Late Night with Mr. Vengeance!; Shoeshine for the Apocalypse; Crime!; The Do-Goodies Social Action Team in Cartoon Madness; Everyone's a Criminal; Foto Funnies; P-Men; War is Hell; Trots and Bonnie and Clyde; The FBI Uniform Crime Report; Brooklyn; Berserk!; Life on Death Row; Con Crafts; The Chain of Command; The Effective Manager; Funny pages. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. This copy has been partially three-hole punched along the left margin. Book
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Priess, Anita
Exiled to Siberia - Bilingual English/German Text
Total of 178 pages, half English/half German. Black and white sketches. Author was born in 1909 in the Ukraine and imprisoned by the Russians in 1946. She survived years of confinement, made her way to Canada, and was encouraged to document her story in this book. Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. An important historical record. Book
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True West Magazine, December, 1974
64 pages. Features: Prospecting in the Cherokee Hills; The Hoax of Prunes, the Burro - Fairplay, Colorado; Mama's gone to sit on a jury - Mrs. Eliza Boyd was the first woman to be summoned for jury duty; Santa Anna's Pay Chest; When House Calls were House Calls - wilderness doctor goes 85 miles by dog team!; Early-Day 'Town Houses' - early New Mexico architecture; The Ashes of Los Burros - mining district in California; Death dresed up like hired help - Minot, North Dakota; One More Mystery for the Superstition Mountains of Arizona; Old Friends from Perote, the infamous Mexican prison; Lost Breck Hofus Gold Mine; Man with the Diamond Willow Cane - South Dakota cowboy 'class of 1902' - Frank Glover; Wild Old Days!. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, August 27, 1960
39 pages. Features: Adolph Eichmann - his life's work was death; "I'm really too young for mink" - Sandra Dee at 18 (colour photos); Magic Power that is Battling Hunger - MPF - Multi-purpose food is made of wastes which were once thought suitable only for fertilizer and animal feed; Noda, Japan - where everyone loves herons; Colour photos of flowers in the Rockies; Booing fans and the stars they heckle (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Ab McDonald); The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, 15 September, 1956 *ROBERT FOWLER AND HIS T.V. ROYAL COMMISSION*
Features: What will Robert Fowler say about TV? - a report on the head of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting and what he's likely to suggest; Karsh visits Hollywood; How Harry Orchard murdered twenty men - a Maclean's flashback in two parts; Why we're getting more disastrous hurricanes; The secret war of Charles Goodeve (conclusion - The weapons of tomorrow) - the Panjandrum, the Alligator, and Lily the floating airport... these revolutionary inventions created under the guidance of a little-known Canadian have yet to be tested in combat; The life and death mystery of our liver; Frank Merrill's winning way with horses; She didn't care what people thought - fiction by Ronald R. Smith; Does more money than brains go to collete? - Dr. Sidney Smith; Ross Thatcher's glum conversion; My most memorable meal - Maj.-Gen. J.M. Rockingham. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chunk missing from front cover which bears two closed tears ***PLEASE NOTE*** pages 15-20 are missing. They contained the Karsh story plus the first page of the Harry Orchard story. Two-page Chysler ad for PowerFlite pushbutton automatic transmission (missing 3"x 2" chunk from upper left corner. Cartoon clipped from page 82 has removed part of the Harry Orchard story. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 December (Dec.), 1950 - Death of the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S.U.)
Features: Editorial - Housing's a Headache the Provinces Should Handle; Backstage in India - the split with India widens; The Masters at Margate - London Letter by Beverley Baxter; Everybody Boos the CBC, by Pierre Berton; Len Norris on the air with the CBC; Corn and Culture - Max Ferguson is adored by his zany half hour of amusing mimicry while Harry Boyle dishes up those highbrow Wednesday Night sessions; Ted Reeve picks Maclean's All-Canadian football team (The All-Canadian is all-American, with four from the West, eight from the East); How to buy that Christmas Tie; Death of a Union - the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S.U.) - once strong and respected - had to die for the greater glory of the Communist Party - Here's how it was killed - a frightening, firsthand expose of Red strategy in Labor by an ex-Communist, Gerry McManus (former Secretary-Treasurer) who witnessed the betrayal of 10,000 Canadian workers from the inside; Don't Call me Baby Face - Part V (conclusion) of the story of boxer Jimmy McLarnin; Never get friendly with a friendly bear; The Double Life of Dr. James Barry - Inspector-General Barry ruled the British Army's medical corps in Canada with a bossy efficiency in a thick cloud of rumor and legend... Then, after 53 years' service, a shocking secret came out; Known to be Dangerous - fiction by Octavus Roy Cohen. Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Mercury car on page 25. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Ford Monarch car on page 51. Reading copy only. Above-average wear. Page 9 loose but present. Pages 29-36 loose but present. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 27 June 1970 *COVER PHOTO OF A NEW MIDI COAT*
Features: Top Dogs - the long, the short and the tall - plus 12 others that make Canadian dog owners sit up and pant; The Facts of Death; Nobody Gives a Listen - George Cook has written 5,501 songs - more than anybody else in the world; Revving through the streets of Trois-Rivieres at 140 mph; What's really what in Ottawa?; Moveable Feasts - food feature: How Montreal cracked down on its port thieves. Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note: half of page 27 missing; most of page 29 missing; half of back cover missing. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 5 December 1970 *FLQ CRISIS - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PIERRE LAPORTE*
Features: Story with many colour photos in the wake of the FLQ crisis; What it means to Canada?; What it means to separatism?; The FLQ - what it is, who it is, how it works, and what makes it so hard to stop; Six basic skills of hockey - Ed Giacomin on goaltending, Bobby Orr on Balance, Gordie Howe on Passing, Norm Ullman on stickhandling, Bobby Hull on Shooting, Keith Magnuson on hitting; The widow of the man they called God - Father Divine, the famed Depression preacher, died in 1965 but his followers refused to believe it - now Mother Divine keeps five banquet tables waiting for him; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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McCrimmon, Marilyn
Custodian of Yellow Point : The Biography of Gerry Hill
174 pages including black and white photographic plates. Author spent four years talking with Gerry, before his death in 1988, and with many of the people who were profoundly influenced by him. This is the story, largely in his own words, of an original and unique British Columbian who established the Yellow Point Lodge on Vancouver Island just south of Nanaimo. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding sound. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, September 12, 1965 *POPE PAUL VI ON COVER*
Features: We may win the (Vietnam) war but Lose the People, by James Reston; The Pope is not Pontifical, by John Cogley; The President's 'Just-a-Minute' Man - Dean Rusk; After Courreges, What Future for the Haute Couture?; Winds of Change in the Senate; The Draft Boards Escalate - who should be drafted? Who Should be Exempt?; This Cat Needs no Pulitzer Prize - Duke Ellington; To Juarez on the Divorce Run - quick divorces in Mexico; When Black Death Stalked in London. Crossword completed else unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1965
Features: Do we want to win the war on poverty? - Christopher Jencks; The Inner-Directed Mood - Stewart Alsop; Madison Avenue - the big invisible sell, by Martin Mayer - long article with many photos; Elizabeth (Liz) Montgomery of the TV show 'Bewitched' - Sam gets her way; The Case of the Dead Bookie - Mark Fein and the death of Rubin Markowitz; Attack on the unborn - last year up to 20,000 children suffered prenatal damage because their mothers contracted German Measles while pregnant; Grits, Magnolia and skiing - snowmaking allows downhill skiing in the southern U.S.; The filibuster's best friend - Richard Russell, dean of southern senators, braces for his greatest fight; Richard Rodgers - the No. 1 melody man. Many nice colour car ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, 5 June 1965 *I SPIED FOR THE RUSSIANS, PART 2 / TED KENNEDY COVER PHOTO*
Features: I hate Paris in the springtime - Robert Daley; The Intellectuals and Vietnam - Stewart Alsop; Ceiling Zero (The Human Comedy); Massachusetts - Rogues and reformers in a state on trial - Ted Kennedy content (so what has changed?) - the Garage Scandal; Horses in the living room - the Assael family has many pets, including 5 miniature horses; "I Spied for the Russians" - Robert Glenn Thompson; India - downhill toward disaster - the year since the death of Nehru; Shirley Temple - her eyes are still dancing - great photos!. Colour Ford Station Wagon ad. Super colour Cadillac ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, January 5 - January 12, 1963 *QUACK MARRIAGE COUNSELORS*
Features: In Defense of Gambling, by Jimmy Breslin; Quack Marriage Counselors - a growing nationwide scandal - long article; "King" of the U.S. Senate - Robert S. Kerr; Basketball's Bullies - reckless coaches, rowdy players and riotous fans disgrace our colleges, says Referee Al Lightner; Making the "Best-Dressed" List - some women have resorted to bribery; New Science that Copies Life - by mimicking the sensory organs of animals, scientists are inventing startling new machines; The Fateful Dive of the Atlantis - a bold experiment which took two divers to the ocean floor ends in mysterious death. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1962 *THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE CUBAN CRISIS*
Features: Uncle Sam's Rejects - obese and illiterate, more youths fail the draft today than ever before; In Time of Crisis - two top reporters combine forces to reveal the drama and struggle out of which emerged a turning point in the Cold War; Citizen (Orson) Welles Rides Again - he tries for a comeback with a movie (The Trial) based on a nightmarish novel; Paridise in Peril - exotic Thailand stands in the path of Red advance - can U.S. support help it survive?; Battler Against Bigotry - Gordon Hall targets U.S. Nazis - photos of John Birch head Robert Welch and American Nazi Party Fuhrer George Lincoln; The Champion Who Can't Beat a Memory - Emile Griffith remains agonized by Paret's death; Christmas Feast for Gourmets; Bad Drivers Cost You Money - auto-insurance buyers are becoming outraged about paying for accidents they don't cause; How are you? - Don't tell me - the nation has flipped over ills and pills; Has Success Spoiled Big Labor? (part 1 of 2) - the unions have grown arrogant and fat - large black and white photo of a smiling Jimmy Hoffa as he leaves court. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1962 *THE NEUTRON BOMB / BACKSTAGE WITH ANDY WILLIAMS*
Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, September 29, 1962 *ROSALIND RUSSELL*
Features: We're Cheating our Children - Betsy Fancher argues that a parent-sponsored junior rat race has warped the meaning of childhood; Nice four-page colour-illustrated advert. for Chevrolet cars (all white); Patients for Profit - high-powered promotion, limited services and pursuit of the fast bucks are bringing many proprietary hospitals under attack; He Takes the Starch out of Protocol - Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke has pioneered dramatic changes on the Washington scene; The Kind of Gal I Am (Part 1 of 3) - Rosalind Russell - many nice colour photos; The Party Chairmen - Bill Miller and John Bailey; Handsome colour ad for the 1963 Chrysler New Yorker; 6 nice pages of color ads for Ford cars; The Durable Huguenots - persecuted for centuries, the Protestant minority today is a cultured, successful and proud elite in Catholic France; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (conclusion) by Vincent Riccio - the death of Tommy Hanlon; Masters of Second Place - the San Francisco 49ers; Another Western - Who Needs it? - The Virginian is converted into a 90-minute TV Series. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Gurwin, Larry
The Calvi Affair : Death of a Banker
249 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Footnotes. "Award-winning financial writer Larry Gurwin conducted more than a hundred interviews in the course of his research. His sources have included nearly every major figure in the story, including members of the Calvi family and Vatican financiers. It is a mark of his achievement that he has welded all the disparate elements into a brilliant and compelling narrative." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 2 November 1963 - Canadian Separatism
76 pages. Features: Short article on the Freedomites and the death of hunger striker Paul Podmorrow in B.C. - includes small sketch of Big Fanny Storgoff; Editorial - What English Canada - and Jean Lesage - can learn from Maclean's survey of separatism; Nice fulll-page colour ad for the 1964 Acadian; Major article on Separatism by Peter Gzowski - includes many results of related public opinion polls; How Gwethalyn Graham and Solange Chaput Rolland feel about separatism; Malcolm Muggeridge describes the cult of Lord Beaverbrook; Blair Fraser reports from Africa that "The Blacks' New Enemies Are Black"; The Football Game The Fans Don't See - 1962 all-star John McMurtry describes the sixty-minute war of attrition that is the professional football player's real work; Wabush, Labrador - Bustling Construction camp - article with photos; A Moliere Play About Canada - see it on TV - in French; Why Gean Gascon is our first man of the Theatre; Lovely colour centerfold ad for the 1964 Buicks; Nice colour photo ad for Peter Jackson cigarettes; Entertainment Reviews; Laid-in is a news clipping from 19 December 1963 which includes a very graphic photo of Sgt.-Maj. Walter Leja seconds after he was maimed while attempting to disarm an FLQ bomb in a Montreal mailbox. Considerable writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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McGeary, W.L.; Sloman, Fred; Korman, Seymour; Buchwald, Art; Lloyd Lockhart; Coulter, Tex; Gibson, John E.; Nicol, James Y.; Jacobs, Stanley S.; Rohan, Mag; Halliday, Hugh M.; Hilliard, Harold; Barrett, William E.; Murray, Kathryn;
Star Weekly Magazine, 20 September 1958: B-24s Bomb Ploesti
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos. Book
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Gottfried, Martin; Kent, Leticia; Messinessi, Despina
Vogue Magazine (US), August 15, 1971
114 pages. Features: Vogue's guidelines to the best new looks for fall - and what to wear with them; Ready-to-wear collections from Paris, London, Italy; How to put shoes, stockings and boots together; Vogue Patterns - black velvet for day; The new Underdressing; Vogue's own Boutique; Guidelines for Hair and Makeup; The Life and Loves of the American Beach Bum - by Patrick Skene Catling, Gardens are a Demanding Joy, by May Sarton, Ways to Save this "Fair and Sweet" land; H.R.H. The Princess Anne; Theatre in Paris 1789; Quilt art at the Whitney Museum; Vital Sex Questions People Don't Ask but Should - an interview with Dr. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson; Baden-Baden - Soaking Therapy in Germany's Elegant Spa; Suffering Summering Houseguests; Vogues Decorating Ideas and Finds; Art Under Glass - Philip Johnson's new Sculpture Gallery; The Seven Most Wanted Shapes in Silver; "Death in Venice" benefit in Los Angeles; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Grescoe, Paul; Peredo, Sandra; McIver, Jack; Young, Sybil; Grant, Maggie; Edmonds, Alan; Sagi, Douglas
The Canadian Magazine, March 24, 1973 - The Wives of Team Canada
32 pages. Features: Air Canada Across our Native Land - Six new versions of our national anthem by Jo Ouellet, Tam Deachman, Martin Myers, Hart Pomerantz, John Nichol and Maggie Grant; The Life of a Team Canada Hockey Wife - interviews with Marie Mahovlich (wife of Frank), Sandra Clarke (wife of Bobby), Nancy Ratelle (wife of Jean), Jan Ellis (wife of Ron), Ginette Cournoyer (wife of Yvan), Gail White (wife of Bill), Margaret Parise (wife of Jean-Paul), Eleanor Henderson (wife of Paul) and Joy Berenson (wife of Red); Nice full-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Chevelle; Herb Brigham's Brigham Pipes produces about 80% of the smoking pipes made in Canada - article with colour photos; Study in Studes - colour photo fashion pages; Doug Wright's Family; David Andrews Loves Small Witt Streetcars; Ernie Davison's fictional Death Ray; Nice colour photo ad for the Volkswagen Campmobile inside back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Weekend Magazine, 13 September 1975 (Canadian Newspaper Insert) - Gerard Pelletier Cover Photo
28 pages. Features: The Irony of a Free-Enterprise Nation with a No-Choice School System (Part 2 of 3); Nice two-page colour photo ad for Benson & Hedges cigarettes features four people on one bike; Crying Wolf - For the Record, by Gregory Clark; Excellent full-page colour photo ad for Ski-Doo snowmobiles; Enigmatic Shadow - Quebec Federalist Gerard Pelletier; Death in the Arctic - Dorothy McDonald accepts a one-year nursing assignment at Lake Harbour on Baffin Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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