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Arber, M.; Martin, E.; Jordan, J.; Mason, W.; Farrer, R.; Dunn, H.; Jamieson, C.; North, S.; Et al
Wide World, The Magazine For Everybody, August (Aug.) 1917, No. 232, Vol. XXXIX - How I Escaped From the Turks Disguised As a Woman
Pages 290-382 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: My Escape From the Turks Disguised as a Woman - the incredible story of Private Miron D. Arber and his Sinai ordeal; The Log of the "Moewe" - the adventures of a modern pirate, told by her Commander Count Dohna-Schlodien - article with photos; A Brush with the Kisi - in quest of ivory, J.A. Jordan encounters a hostile African witch doctor; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - William Shaw and a Joke on Justice; On the Borders of Tibet - part IV of the story of two years' wanderings - largely among wild lands and wilder people, whose chief desire is to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; A Bandit's Bride - Part II of the story of Elena Villa-Pinillos, once married to Mexico's Francisco Villa - no more graphic picture of the state of anarchy and terrorism prevailing in unhappy Mexico can be imagined; Strange Stories of the War; Wang Yin-Shee and the Panther - a missionaries story of a Chinese hunter's terrible experience - a death wrestle with a huge panther; A Flying Man in South Africa - Part V of a very interesting account of John G. Barron's flying adventures- with photos; How We Stole The Tugboat - Sergeant Maurice Prost recounts his sensational escape from the Germans; The Downfall of Dave Rodger - a prospector in the West turns the tables on a 'bad man' and his lawless satellites; "Punch" - the unruly kangaroo pet of nuns at an Australian convent; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
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Taylor, M.; Borders, A.; Piers, Sir Charles; Brightwell, L.; Silas, E.; Domville-Fife, C.; Crockkett, C.; Macgowan, G.; Cursham, A.; Elwyn, J.; Hogg, J.; Charnley, W.; Hayter, C.
The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventures, June, 1925, No. 326, Vol. LV - Artist on a Tropic Isle
Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
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Rutzebeck, H.; Cornell, F.; Pitt-Kethley, V.; Lamont, M.; Woolley, C.; Clarke-Kennedy, S.; Cunningham, E.; Still, G.; Walkey, C.; et al
The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, October (Oct.), 1921, No. 282, Vol. XLVII: The Truth About Louis De Rougemont
Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Knight, D.; Digby, B.; Frings, J.; Cunningham, E.; Abraham, G.; Hogg, J.; Dunn, H.; Long, E.; Evans, E.; Antoine, G.; Rutzebeck, H.
The Wide World - True Stories of Adventure, December (Dec.), 1921, No. 284, Vol. XLVIII: Mountain Mysteries
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Johnson, A.; Askew, A & C.; Trench, P.; Porter, T.; Treacher, M.; Czaplicka, M.; Martindale, F.; Pitt-Kethley, V.; Anderson, A.; et al
Wide World - The Magazine for Men, July 1916, No. 219, Vol. XXXVII: The Floating Death (Mines)
Pages 194-286 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Floating Death - a North Sea trawler skipper's heroic battle with a mine entangled in the trawler's nets; The Darkest Hour - Part II - experiences in the great Serbian (WWI) retreat to Albania (with photo of the Serbian Cavalry fording the River Drin and more); The Snake-Hunter - John Rolliston's terrible fight; The Sheriff's Ruse - how the Sheriff of Deadwood tricked three desperadoes; Real-Life Romances of the War (WWI) - Part II; A Year In Arctic Siberia - Part III - amazing article and photos taken by Polish authoress M.A. Czaplicka as she travelled 6,000 miles researching the nomadic Yenisei tribes; Baiting the "Boche" - the people of Brussels turn their humour upon the humourless huns who have taken possession of their city; Remarkable Rocks - photo-illustrated article of remarkable rocks around the world; The Girl Sergeant - young Zoe Smirnova joined the Russian Army at age 15 and fought in the battlefields of Galicia; From Job to Job Around the World - Part V - two young Americans spend time in India, with great photos; A Theatre in Cannibal-Land - Papuan savages entertain themselves with amateur theatricals! (article with great photos); A Black Outlaw - a native desperado gives Natal Police much trouble; On the Way to War - the adventures of two young Americans, Herbert H. Hope and Jack Heward, who struggle to make their way to England to fight the Germans; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Corson, A.; Treacher, M.; Fletcher, A.; Askew, A.; Czaplicka, M.; Lees, G.; Shepstone, H.; Rigg, W.; Bredon, J.; Lincoln, R.;
The Wide World - The Magazine for Men, June, 1916, No. 218, Vol. 37 - A Holiday in Mongolia
Pages 97-192 plus 32 pages of vintage ads. Features: A Battle With a Bear - a young sportsman drops into a lively rough-and-tumble fight with a big black bear; Real-Life Romances of the War (part I) - Malcolm Savage Treacher, a sergeant in a famous regiment who has been invalided to England after an exciting time in the Near East sets down stories - cameos of the Great War - told to him by soldiers during his seven months' sojourn in various hospitals (part I); From Job To Job Around the World (part IV) - the continuing remarkable adventures of two young Americans who set out from San Francisco with ten dollars between them to work their way around the world - this instalment featuring their adventures in the Philippines, with photos; The Darkest Hour (part I) - Our experiences in the Great Serbian Retreat; A Year in Arctic Siberia (part II) - a well-known Polish lady describes her experiences in the little-known regions of far-northern Siberia; The Strategy of Sister Madeleine - the story of a French Captain's Escape from the Germans; The River That Won't Behave - the mighty Mississippi regularly floods enormous areas - article with many dramatic photos; Fallen Among Thieves - the author finds himself in a very nasty hole after taking a job offered him by strangers; A Holiday in Mongolia - Juliet Bredon offers a chatty description, illustrated with photos - of a trip into Mongolia on donkey-back; A Prisoner of the Rocks - F. Hopkins Graves was caught in a British Columbia avalanche and only escaped death by a miracle, only to find himself caught in a veritable rat trap among the rocks which he only escaped after two days; Photo of terrible street-car accident in Spokane, Washington; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Thomas, T.; Abraham, Geo. D.; Coales, H.; Dalton, Lady S.; Donovan, T.; Walker, R.; Belcher, S.; Carre, P.; Et al
The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, September (Sept.) 1914, No. 197, Vol. 33 - Across Canada By Motor-Car (Part I)
Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Treacher, M.S.; Pitt-Kethley, V.; Willoughby, J.; Priestley, W.; Lees, F.; Morton-Marshall, F.; Ranee of Sarawak; Lamb, A.; Et al
The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, November (Nov.) 1914, No. 199, Vol. 34 - Trip to Kolahoi Glacier / Drifting Through Mesopotamia
100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Daplyn, A.; Westland, A.; Wesley, W.; Torday, E.; Thomas, T.; Amy, L.; Pitt-Kethley, V.; Et al
The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, February (Feb.) 1915, No. 202, Vol. 34 - The Girl-Man / A Journey Into Arabistan
Pages 294-388 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Captain's Baby - a respected officer of the Australian Steam Navigation Company takes a little urchin under his protection, leading to humorous difficulties; A Journey into Arabistan - photo-illustrated account of a journey through a little-known part of Persia; The Quest of the Peso-La-Ki - the romantic story of a hidden Western Navajo silver mine, sought for vainly by daring prospectors for over a century; Tight Corners (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures from West and Central Africa; The Girl-Man - a young woman aged 23 tires of an unhappy marriage and sinks her identity and sex to reappear as a man named Frank Duffy and wander the United States for three years - until she is discovered by a policeman and a court orders her to 'go back to the skirts'; Icebergs - interesting photo-illustrated article by Lacey Amy; Dodging Death - in Australia, Sydney Wright falls from a building under construction, only to be saved by landing on telegraph wires (per cover illustration); A wife on an Indian coffee plantation cures her husband of constantly 'talking shop'; Milly's Hobby; Europe's "Wild West" - photo-illustrated article on the great Hungarian Hortobagy; "The Doctor" - in Ceylon Gunner Duncan is tragically burned to death; Our Travels in Safari-Land (part III) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) describes her ambitious journey through British East Africa; The Missing Ship - in 1897 the American clipper T.F. Oakes and her crew were considered lost, but miraculously saved by the crew of the "Kasbek"; Interesting photo of the grave of a British Columbia Indian chief in a hit above stumps; Photo of a Burmese boy 'undergoing the operation of tattooing', with brief write-up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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O'Brien, R.; Verrill, A.; Galloway, F.; Stuart-Reid, G.; Shepherd, P.; beals, Carleton; Herschin, A.; Nolan, J.; Et al
The Wide World - True Stories of Adventure, April (Apr.) 1928, No. 360, Vol. LX - The Mitimoni Man-Eaters
Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Kalshoven, J.; Amoury, G.; Macken, W.; Morse, G.; Rigg, D.; Baum, A.; Tibbles, T.; Hauser, E. Et al
The Saturday Evening Post, August (Aug.) 31, 1957: Does Sweden Dare Stay Neutral? / Crooner Gene Austin
92 pages. Features: The Penalty Worse Than Death - Douglas C. Rigg, Warden of Stillwater Prison in Minnesota describes the life of the 110 lifers under his supervision; I Rode Detroit's Mystery Car - photo-illustrated article on Ford's new Edsel; Buckskin and Blanket Days (2 of 3) - young Tibbles' prowess astounded the Indians during a desperate hunt for buffalo, then a scene of human massacre stirred the warriors to vengeance; Town with a Homemade Lake - color-photo-illustrated article on Bloominton, Indiana; A Crooner Comes Back - photo-illustrated article on singer Gene Austin; Does Sweden Dare Stay Neutral - fascinating photo-illustrated article discusses their military and civil defenses in the shadow of their historic enemy, Russia; Secrets of the Unkown War (last of 5 articles) - Greenland's valiant little 'army' raced to ambush the Germans before the spring thaw, but they desperately needed American help; The Face of America - Callow Cowboys - branding on the W.R. Wooten Y7 Red River Ranch; Listen, Doctor! - Medical doctors listen to audio tapes to keep up with new discoveries. Fiction: The Boy Who Didn't Belong; Marry for Love; Challenge the River; The Everglaces Blonde; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 4 of 8). Ads: Vintage Homellite chainsaw ad features the EZ 6 and 6 22; Great color-photo ad for RCA Victor TV features several of their Hathaway, Socialite and Nassau models; Fantastic one-page color-photo ad for the Plymouth Station Wagon (white on blue) on the beach; L&M Cigarette ad features photo of speedboat racer Joe Schoenith. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
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Murphy, R.; Gordon, A.; Carrighar, S.; Bess, D.; Maynard, J.; Khokhlov, N.; Longgood, W.; Et al
The Saturday Evening Post, December (Dec.) 4, 1954: Sonic Booms / Boxer Art Aragon / Schrafft's Restaurants
144 pages. Features: Best-Mannered Children in the World - Eskimo children - nice color-photo-illustrated article; The Army's Tower of Babel - the new language-intelligence school at the Presidio in Monterey, California; They Came to See Him Clobbered - Boxer Art Aragon was the boxer fans loved to hate; The Truth About the "Sonic Boom" - photo-illustrated article how it's 'less dangerous than you might think"; I would Not Murder for the Soviets (part 3 of 4) - Ex-Captain Nikolai E. Khokhlov discloses the exact circumstances surrounding the downfall of his boss, Lavrenti Beria, after Stalin's death; The Wilderness Cure for Delinquents - Twin Pines Ranch in California; Cold Can Save Your Life - fascinating medical article describes how ordinary ice water can be used in a process called hypothermia for better patient outcomes; Daintiest Beaneries in Town - great photo-illustrated article on Schrafft's restaurants; He'll Eat Anything That Swims - Food Scientist Edward Harvey manages Oregon's Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria. Fiction: Haunted Hotel; Salesman's Homecoming; Inexperienced Male; The Lady's Bodyguard; Hollywood Calling! (part 2 of 8); The Avenging Texans (conclusion). Ads: Sensational two-page color 1955 Mercury car ad; Nice one-page color ad for Chevrolet Trucks shows tanker in refinery; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Rambler cars; Nice two-page color ad for 1955 Ford cars; Dennis the Menace cartoon is featured in a Cream of Wheat ad; Great two-page color-photo ad for 1955 Plymouth cars; Back cover color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features St. Bernard dog. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
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Duganne, P.; Bates, R.; Price, W.; MacKaye, M.; Carrighar, S.; Wharton, D.; Et al
The Saturday Evening Post, December (Dec.) 5, 1953: Death on K2 / Life History of an A-Bomb / I Flew with the Strato-Jets
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of breakfast in a kitchen being repainted; We Met Death on K2 (part 1 of 2) - color-photo illustrated article about the American expedition which met tragic defeat; I Flew With the Stratojets - great photo-illustrated article about life aboard a nuclear bomber, B-47 jet flying from Tampa to England, including mid-air refueling; It's Never Too Late to Go to College - each year 12,000 inquisitive adults attend New York University; The Dog That Trained Me - Sally Carrighar and her Husky dog Bobo; Professor in a Hot Spot - amateur diplomat James B. Conant, ex-president of Harvard, is the new U.S. High Commissioner to Germany; The AEC - The Life History of an Atomic (A-bomb) (part 2 of 2) - the ore-to-stockpile story of the most expensive and complex industrial operation the world has evern known; His Time is Worth $10,000 a Day - great photo-illustrated article on Boston millionaire Johnny Fox; Things You Never Knew About Pencils; Editorial - Red Rule Detested by Russion Millions. Nile Kinnick, Jr. - the best player I ever coached. Fiction: The Beautiful Hitchhiker; First Holdup; Botts and the Impossible Mountain; The Babe in Toyland; The Coward; They Double Agent (conclusion); Cry Murder (part 4 of 7). Ads: Interesting color ad for Howard Zink seat covers; Color Frigidaire ad with Christmas theme; Color Estabrook pen ad; Nice color two-page ad for Chevrolet trucks shows a range of models; Great color-photo ad for Van Heusen features Jeff Chandler and Anthony Quinn; Attractive color-photo ad for the 1954 DeSoto Automatic cars; Lowell Thomas is featured in a Kaiser car ad; Champion spark plug ad features photos of car racers Bill Blair, Dick Rathman, Fonty Flock, and Buck Baker; Nostalgic two-page color American Airlines ad features Christmas theme; Northwest Pacific ad features photo of horse named "Nig" which pulled a rail car 750 miles; Color ad for Webcor turntables; Great vintage color-photo ad for Stromberg-Carlson TVs. Somewhat above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril; et al
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November (Nov.) 27, 1948: Canada's New Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent / U.S. Navy tests "Salamander" Remote-Controlled (Drone) Tank
Pages 593-620. Features: Cover photo of Mr. J. W. Belcher, a leading figure at the tribunal of inquiry into allegations of irregularities involving ministers; Karsh photo portrait of Mr. Louis St. Laurent, Canada's new Prime Minister; Book review of "The Life and Death of Benjamin Robert Hayden", by Eric George; Several photos of Princess Margaret in Sheffield at the opening of an industrial exhibition; Two pages of photos of people connected with click close tribunal, including Mr. Gerald Upjohn, Mr. Justice Lynskey, Mr. Russell Vick, Mr. Charles Key, Mr. Francis Cecil Price, Mr. George Gibson, Mr. James R Cross, Mr. Henry Saft, Arthur Thorpe, Alfred Bieber, Joseph Kennedy, Sidney Stanley, Harry Sherman, Sir Hartley Shawcross, William Glanville Hall, Mrs. John Belcher, David Rufus Williams, and Mr. Jacob Harris; Photo of new airfield at Tegel in Berlin; Photo of collapsed road, tunnel on the Riviera; Photo of two Royal couples whose marriages have been dissolved - King Farouk of Egypt and Queen Farida, and the Shah of Iran and Empress Fazia; Uranium discovered on the shores of Lake Superior Ontario; Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth immobilized at Southampton after crew walks off in sympathy with American dock strikers; Two pages of fascinating photos of Kalgan, a front-line city in war-torn China; The Civil War reaches Shanghai - page of dramatic photos from the city as the communists advance; Sensational four-panel centrefold cutaway drawing of the new 28,000 ton Orient liner Orcades, which is expected to leave on her maiden voyage to Australia on December 14; Five photos of the glories of Wimborne Minster; Photos of personalities of the week include Victor Csornoky, Air-Comm. H.G. Brackley, Lord Winster, Sir Sidney Caine, Capt. G.E. Cove, Mr. W.V. Gibson, Len Beyers, H.E. Khwaja Nazimuddin, M. Sophoulis, A. E.W. Mason, Air Commodore E.H. Fielden, Wing Commander E.W. Tacon; Opening the new tube line extension at Greenford Station; Photo of homemade midget submarine seized in the Italian part of Lake Lugano; Page of drawings of a secret US naval weapon, the "Salamander" in action [an early drone tank]; Two large photos of the "Salamander" in action. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril; et al
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November (Nov.) 13, 1948: Use of Forklifts Causes Walkout / Truman Wins
Pages 533-560. Features: Cover photo of Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Whitehall cenotaph, November 7; Photos on the eve of the Royal birth, include nurse Miss Helen Maud Row, and Sir William Gilliatt; Photo of wrecked French tanker St. Guenole, aground near Land's End; Photo of crashed American Superfortress on Shelf Moss, near Glossup; Photo of Churchill With Attlee at the cenotaph; Photo of huge crowd at Earl's Court Motor Show; Retrospection on Armistice Day; Page of photos of forklift truck in action - use of this device in England is causing labour upset; One page Karsh photo portrait of Harry Truman; Six photos illustrate Mr. Harry Truman's personal triumph in the US presidential elections; Book review of "The Life of Chiang Kai-Shek", by S. I. Hsiung; Page of photos of men behind the Communist drive in China, and scenes in "Red" areas; Two pages plus centrefold illustration of Ashridge House; Five photos of the sport of goldfish racing in the USA; Two pages of photos of fascinating plants of the high Andes; Two large photos and illustration of the first piloted aircraft to fly by ramjet power alone, the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star; Photo of General Electric research scientist using fire as an agent to produce rain by burning charcoal impregnated with a silver iodide solution; Photo of smog over Donora, PA which caused the death of 18 old people and much illness; Photos of personalities of the week include Dr. Walter Campbell Smith, Mr. Alistair Sim, Dr. M. Burton, Dr. John Lowe, Lord Ashfield, David Western, R. G. Menzies, T. S. Eliot, Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, W. H. Wild, Dr. Paul Muller, Prof. Arne Tiselius, Korean president Rhee with Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo; Two pages of photos of rock drawings by Sudanese artists of 7000 years ago. Coverfold of outer advertising pages mended with archival tape, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Bryant, Arthur; Pycraft, W.P.; Et al
The Illustrated London News, January (Jan.) 16, 1937: Herr Hitler Entertains / Royal Wedding at the Hague
Pages 77- 116. Features: One-page ad for 'Ski Paradise' Austria; Photo of Egypt popular young Monarch King Farouk; Photos of a royal wedding in the Dutch Indies; Photo of the Bavarian Frey brothers being rescued from the Watzmann; Photo of first airmail plane leaving Ratmalana, Ceylon; Photo of Toscanini receiving Orange Grove from grateful Jews after he conducted pioneer concerts in Palestine; Photo of Hitler receiving traditional gift of salt from representatives of the Halle salt mines; One-page photo of Hitler greeting diplomats in Berlin, an occasion at which he assured the French ambassador that Germany had no designs on Spanish Morocco; Book review of "The Conquest Of Morocco", by vice Adm. C. V. Usborne, with photos; One-page pictorial map of the Straits of Gibraltar, looking east - showing Spanish Morocco, the object of alleged German penetration, and possibly to be protected by a Franco-German agreement; Nice one-page photo of Royal wedding at the Hague, showing Princess Juliana and the Prince of the Netherlands in their gold coach driving through the city; Two page photo of crowd in church to witness the royal wedding; Two pages of text and photos describe ingenious tests for German drivers aimed at preventing death on the roads; Two pages of photos of Hellenistic panels in the Al-Aqsa mosque; Centrefold illustration of Britain's two largest battleships, HMS "Nelson" and "Rodney" firing their 16 inch guns at towed targets with deadly precision; Two fascinating pages of text and photos of skull groves on the Burmese border - headhunting trophies for harvest luck; Peking man's food - the first diet records of Pleistocene date - text with photos; Photos of personalities of the week include Gilbert Holliday, Frank Hodges, Lt. Col. R. S. Stafford, Arthur G. Pite, Prof. Henry Tonks, Lord Wakehurst, Basil S. Long, Sir Edward Ellington, the Duke of Kent, the grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, the Earl of Athlone; One-page illustrated Egyptian travel ad; and more. Several interior pages loose but present. Name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Cinema Educational Guild, Inc.; Fagan, Myron
Kennedy's (JFK's) Death Trap for U.S. (United States): Tract No. 8 (Eight) - 1962
Double-sided three-panel tract measuring 10" x 6" when unfolded. Explains how if JFK achieves his 'disarmament plot' described in State Department Publication 7277, September 1961, it will lead to the U.S. becoming the People's Republic of North America by 1970. Calls for JFK's impeachment to save the nation. Considerable fine-print text. Unmarked with light wear. Book
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Steed, Nicholas; Ross, Alexander; Romahn, Jim; Callwood, June; et al
Maclean's Magazine, February (Feb.) 1967, Volume 80, Number 2: The Caribbean - Our New Future
84 pages. Features: John Gerald Benson - Banana Doctor; China's handmade "Red Flag" luxury auto - only 400 exist; Mistaseni Rock is blown to bits behind the future site of the Gardiner Dam; The Caribbean - our sunny new frontier; Canadians in the Caribbean - they've found their own personal paradise; The pleasures of paradise in the Caribbean; Dalton Camp - the man who finally belled the cat; Big-Money Cattle - Holsteins have been taken over by the jet set; Comeback for the one-room school?; Could India Feed Us?; The Lonely death of Charlie Wenjack; Edna - where are you?; The Eccentric oracle of Barrett's Landing, Nova Scotia; Full-page Volvo car ad; Canadiana - Gerald Stevens' column; Great full-page colour photo ad for the '67 Buick Skylark; Wonderful colour ad for Smirnoff Vodka featuring Zsa-Zsa Gabor wearing lots of diamonds. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Time Magazine, April (Apr.) 25, 1969 - Ethel Kennedy Cover
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Time Magazine, August (Aug.) 22, 1969 - The Mafia Vs. America
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Legner, Linda; Newman, M.W.
Inland Architect, Chicago Chapter, American Institute of Architects (AIA), April (Apr.) 1974 - Chicago's Battle of Preservation
26 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Chicago's Battle of the Landmarks; 50 Years after the death of Louis H. Sullivan; The sturdy old Pere Marquette Building - next target in the demo derby; Dearborn St. - what and when is a landmark?; Teaming new with old on Astor Street; Woodstock Courthouse - a success story; Preservations Agencies - an instant guide; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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Shere, Barbara; Carroll, Lee; MacBeth-Louthan, Gillian; Ryals, Steve; et al
Sedona Journal of Emergence!, September (Sept.) 2004 - Galactic Shamanism and the Golden Age
112 pages. Features: Let the flow be the guide; The Venus Transit Gift; A Global Mind; Overcoming Death; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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Wise, Joe
Joe Wise - Watch With Me: Songbook with Sheet Music for Melody with Lyrics and Chords
32 pages. Dedication. Composer's Notes. Songs include: Watch With Me; Dying You Destroyed Our Death; And Then It Dawns On Me; Doxology - Amen; For Tommy - Thanks for the Chance; Jesus, In Our Hands; You Are The Way; Re-Member Me; Go Now in Peace. First published in 1972. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
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Lopez, Daniel; Fox, Frank; Rudman, Mark; et al
Film Heritage (Magazine), Summer 1976, Vol. 11, No. 4 - Marlon Brando Cover Photo
48 pages. Black and white reproductions of many photos from popular films of the day, particularly Last Tango in Paris. Features: The Father Figure in the Conformist and in Last Tango in Paris; "Mort Sahl Called Me a 1939 American" - an interview with Director Sam Peckinpay; Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana); Book Reviews; Film Reviews; Dark Passage - A Confessional Poem by Mark Rudman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Johnson, T.C.; Darden, Ida L.; Paulsen, Stephen; Grey, Hilary; Lines, John
American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", September (Sept.) 1960, Volume XCI No. 440 - California's Controversial Governor / Rothschilds and Rockefellers / Reinhard Gehlen
160 pages. Features: Our Silent Partner Against Communism - Reinhard Gehlen; Who'll Pay for Your College Education?; A Footnote to the Air Force Manual; The Enemy Whacks Away at The Family Bible; Pat Brown - California's Controversial Governor; The Swastika vs the Hammer and Sickle; The Money Changers - conclusion of a 10 March 1935 address by Father Charles Coughlin; Threat to Internationalize the Panama Canal; Magnetism! - man taps nature's invisible web of force; Kelp - Abundant Sea Harvest; Betrayal of South Korea; Cyrus Eaton "Honored" with Lenin Peace Prize; Your Amazing Blood; America's Youngest teachers - The Science Clubs of America; Congress Views UNESCO; Stop Pampering Sneak Intruders - counter-intelligence; Hot Dog!; A Salute to Helen Keller; Sharing America's Abundance; It's Never Too Late; Muscle in on Health; Freak Squeaks; Why Kentucky Colonels?; Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Part III - their interests penetrate all aspects of American life; The St. Lawrence Seaway; Does Russia Have the Earth's Stablest Currency?; Communist Swastikas - Pat Walsh of the RCMP says Communists used to paint swastikas on Montreal synagogues to scare local Jews into voting for and supporting them; executive Health; America Keeps a 165-Year Old Promise - payments to the Indians of the Six Nations; A Clue in the Missile Lag History - Five Years Ago Congress Could Not Stomach Joseph McCarthy's Censurable Truths - But Today...; Cigarette Smoking - major cause of lung cancer; Survival in Learning; Death of a Church - Holy Trinity Episcopal Protestant Church in Brooklyn; Parental Function; Adolph Eichmann and the Bitter Harvest of Hate - Voice of All Faiths Protest His Kidnapping by Israel in Argentina; Cowboy Talk; Who Are Our Rulers? - Fascinating article on the Rothschilds / International Bankers and their techniques for control; Lesson of Experience - Foreign Aid; Your Health - Two Factors for Longer Life; Maine Becomes a State of Mind. To Tranquilize or Not?. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Moon, Barb.; Metcalfe, R.; Richler, Mordecai; Szulner, Eva; Hutton, E.; Nash, K.; Gray, J.; Bruce, H.; Et al
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, October (Oct.) 7, 1951 - Radiation Death of Louis Slotin / Mordecai Richler Novella
110 pages. Features: Prudential ad inside front cover features fantastic one-page illustration of Lionel Conacher being carried by his Toronto Argonaut teammates after they beat the Edmonton Eskimos to win the Grey Cup in 1921; Four Canadians plan a trip to mountain climb in the Himalayas - Sev Heiberg et al; Editorial discusses propaganda vis-a-vis the Berlin Crisis; Nuclear Researcher Louis Slotin - A Tiny Slip, A Terrible Death; Falconry in the Suburbs - Frank Beebe of Vancouver Island; It's Harder to Be Anybody - novella by Mordechai Richler; For ten days Eva Szulner was den mother to 24 child geniuses from Oak Park Junior High School in East York; Judson Lowther kills his wife Alice and the hired man, Brandon Isaacs, he found her with near Cremona, Alberta; Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was almost as an important event in Canadian history as the Great Depression itself; Japan's Tragic Solution to the Population Crisis - two milliion abortions per year; How Seven Families Really Got Away From it All - a handful of Americans, mostly Quakers, raise their families in Argenta in the Lardeau Valley of B.C.'s West Kootenays; The License to Defraud in Charity's Name - the 6,800 tax-exempt corporations in Canada are scantily investigated; Colour-photo B.O.A.C. one-page ad shows Bhikku (priest) near the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok; Photos of the dust-blow 1930s; One-page black and white photo ad for Trans-Canada Airlines features cute young girl Karen; Howard Green - Vancouver Lawyer and parliamentary veteran; and more. Please note: missing pages 9-12 and 67-70, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Farmer, Bernard J.; Bride, W.W.; Pitt-Kethley, Victor; Richards, H. Grahame; Steele, Lieut.-Colonel Harwood; Mills, J.T.; Kenny, H.T.; Clayton, G.E.; Vivian, P.; Morris, James W.
The Wide World, The Magazine For Men, August (Aug) 1951 - R.C.M.P. (RCMP) Airmen
Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Sheppard, J. Mortimer; Hall, Peter; Rundle, Marjorie; Wharton, Bill; Burger, John F.; Dickie, Francis; Forrest, Bob; Demarest, R. William; Weir, Tom; Batham, Guy; Letheby, Jack; Tench, C.V.
The Wide World - The True Adventure Magazine for Men, May 1957 - Windsailing the Sahara / The Squaw's Curse
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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King, A.G.; Hardinge, Major C.R.Q.; Dickie, Francis; Todd, Arthur; Sheppard, J. Mortimer; Laroyan, Scott; Weir, Tom; Marshall, William; Evans, Allen Roy; Welborn, Thomas; Course, Captain A.G.
The Wide World - The True Adventure Magazine for Men, June 1957 - The Men of Site "X" / Carpet of Buffalo Bones
xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Queen; Mercury, Freddie; Taylor, Roger; May, Brian; Deacon, John; Metis, Frank (Transcriptions)
Queen - A Night At the Opera: Songbook (Song Book)
64 pages. Fantastic photos of the band and its members in colour and black and white. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Death on Two Legs; Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon; I'm in Love With My Car; You're My Best Friend; '39; Sweet Lady; Seaside Rendezvous; The Prophet's Song; Love of My Life; Good Company; and the timeless Bohemian Rhapsody. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Songbook for one of the most popular and impactful albums of the 1970s. Book
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Mielziner, Jo; Pitz, Henry C.; Hurst, Earl Oliver; Smith, Jacob Getlar; Salpeter, Harry; Klett, Walter; et al
American Artist Magazine, November (Nov.) 1949 - Elmer Jacobs / Leslie Saalburg
80 pages. Features: Painting by David Lax; Tempura painting by Jo Mielziner; Death of a Painter; Elmer Jacobs; Leslie Saalburg; Thinking versus Erasing; In Defense of Canaries; Introducing Richard Haines; Watercolor by Richard Haines; The Weathervane - art in the country; Illusians of the Newly-Exhibiting Artist; Style versus Fashion; "Portrait of Glasys Swarthout"; Vanishing Problems (III); Guy Rowe illustrates the old testament; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Bryant, Arthur; et al
The Illustrated London News (ILN), February (Feb.) 17, 1945 - Battle of the Roer Dams / Capture of Colmar / The Reichswald Offensive
Pages 169-196. Features : Cover photo of Field-Marshal Montgomery with General Crerar of the Canadian First Army and General Dempsey of the British Second Army; The Battle of the Roer Dams - photos of the Urftstausee - a German defense key-point; Twelve great photos at various locations on the Western Front, including the capture of Colmar; Eighteen fantastic photos of the Reichswald Offensive where German towns were smashed by Allied bombing and infantry and armour moved through mud and flood; Article 'Prospects on the Western Front' by Cyril Falls; Two-page illustration of the victory over the Roer Triangle by the British 2nd Army - the crossing of the Vloed Beek; Two-page illustration of the victory of the Roer Triangle by the British Second Army - the gallant fight in Susteren; Two-page illustration of the victory of the Roer Triangle by the British Second Army - the critical Schilberg Cross-Roads; Seven photos of cities in the path of the Russian advance; Three photos of Royal inspection of the "Indefatigable"; Three photos of victory celebration in Colmar; Photos of personalities of the week include Captain J.R.O. Thompson, G.C., Guy Byam, The Northern Sudan Advisory Council, Sir Edward Bridges, Sir Ernest Bird, Lord Fairfield, General McNaughton of Canada, P.N. Loxley, Sir Gordon Nairne, Captain John Henry Brutn, V.C., and Sir Walter Citrine (addressing paratroops in Greece); Six photos of the Crimea conference - which sounded the death knell of Nazism - with FDR, Stalin and Churchill in five photos; Photo of official disbandment of the R.A.F. Balloon Command, with Sir Archibald Sinclair addressing members; Photo of part of 500 Dutch children arriving by boat on their way to Coventry; Photo of Bristol's Colston Hall which has just burned to the ground; Photos of damage to the Compo Santo of Pisa, and protective measures; Two pages of art from Bali - village scenes; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Krefetz, Gerald; Shea, Judith; Schafler, Julie; Williams, Gerry; et al
Craft Horizons (Magazine) of the American Crafts Council, October (Oct.) 1974 - Mary McFadden / George Ohr
72 pages. Features: Embroidery Through the Ages; Style - The Art of Clothing - the world view of Mary McFadden; Style - The Nontraditional Wearables; Writing, Thinking, and Being in the Arts Today (part II); Death Valley Mining - Gerry Williams travels to where his glaze materials are mined; George Ohr - Clay Prophet; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Jackson, Suzanne A.; Et al
The Ontario Register, Volume Seven (7), Numbers 2 & 3, 1984
Pages 97-192 pages. Features: Index of the tax assessment rolls, Hope Township, 1802-1808; Marriage Records of the Gore District (continued); Legal Notices from the Ontario Gazette 1871; Marriage Register of the Bathurst District; Baptismal Records of St. Marks Anglican Church, Niagara, 1837-1840; Marriage Records of the Huron District (concluded); Death Records of Victoria County 1871; Marriage Register of the Johnstown District; Missing Persons Notices from the Church; Marriage Notices from the Christian Guardian 1858 (continued); Marriage Records of the London District (continued); Inscriptions from St. Andrew's Churchyard, Vernonville, Haldimand Township, Northumberland County; Marriage Record of the Ottawa District (continued); Marriage Record of the Victoria District (Hastings County) (continued); Marriage Register of the Prince Edward District (continued). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Barlee, N.L.
Canada West [Magazine] - The Quarterly for Western Canadians, Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 1976
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Gold Pool of the Similkameen; Historic Houses - Part II; The Death of Nigger Dan; The Collector's Page; The Lost Patrol; 10,000 Lost Coins; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Kizny, Tomasz; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia [Translator]; Davies, Norman [Introduction]
Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
496 pages. Glossary. Index. Over five hundred black and white photos. A chilling historical photographic record of the Soviet Gulag and its legacy. "Kizny spent more than fifteen years researching this work by collecting eyewitness accounts from former Polish prisoners who had returned to their country after Stalin's death. The collapse of the Soviet Union allowed him to see for himself what remained of the dreaded Gulag, take photos and interview witnesses. Each chapter covers a key camp or work project and includes a detailed chronology of the camp, personal accounts of the survivors and formerly banned and previously unpublished archival photographs." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. Minor tape repair and slight loss to bottom corner of page 359, otherwise a high-quality copy of this massive, important and sobering tome. Lest we forget. Book
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Paterson, T.W.; Graham, Clara; Emmott, N.W.; Whalen, Dwight; Paxton, Gene; Solomatenko, Val; et al
Canada West Magazine, Spring, Summer and Fall 1978, Volume 8, Collector's No. 30, 31 & 32
Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Bryant, Arthur; et al
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, March [Mar.] 22, 1941 - Keren, Core of Weakening Italian Resistance in Eritrea
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of Wellington bomber of a Czech squadron setting out on a night raid over Germany; Photo of Admiral Sir Percy Lockwood Harmer Noble; One-page photo of group of R.A.F. cadets parading in flying kit for the first time; Two pages of photos of training of cadets training as R.A.F. pilots and observers; Six photos of Keren, the key to Eritrea, where Italians are strongly resisting; Attractive colour illustration of British aircraft painted in camouflage; Page of colour illustrations of German military aircraft painted in their sombre camouflage colours; Photos of devastation by German bombs in Clydeside, Cardiff and London; Six photos of Buckingham Palace - bombed again; Five photos of Britain's "Invasion Barges - new landing craft at the Lofotens; Article entitled 'The Battle of the Atlantic'; Six photos illustrate the war in Africa - Berbera recaptured / revolt in Abyssinia; Six photos of A.T.S. Specialists - Gunnery school observation tasks; Centrefold illustration of the women of Britain's fighting services - anti-aircraft A.T.S. training at the school of Anti-Aircraft Defense; Photos of femail representatives in Parliament include Beatrice Rathbone, Thelma Keir, Eleanor Rathbone, Florence Horsbrugh, G.D. Hardie, J.L. Adamson, Megan Lloyd George, H.B. Tate, Edith Summerskill, Viscountess Astor, Viscountess Davidson, Irene M.B. Ward, and Ellen C. Wilkinson; Photos of the "King George V" at sea; Illustrations of many weapons, including their prices; Photo of Bulgaria signing away her independence - M. Filoff; Photo of Jews required to wear arm bands in Poland; Photo of one-hundred Poles, hands tied behind their heads, being marched to their execution as revenge for the death of a German soldier; Photos of the Poles being shot, being forced to dig their own graves, and performing a 'death dance' before being shot; photo of Jewish women and old men forced to repair road damage; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Walford Davies, A.St. G. Lyster, W.G.S. Dobbie, Tom Mann, Anthony J. Biddle, Constance Smedley, F.G. Beaumont-Nesbitt, Hugh A. Drum, Dr. C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, Col. G. Contoleon, M. Nicolas Titulesco, John G. Winant and family, Sir Arthur Salter, Robert H. Brand, and Averell Harriman; Colour Guiness ad shows fighter pilot targeting a bottle; Colour Dunlop ad illustrates how to recognize rank in the Royal Navy; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
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Bryant, Arthur; et al
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, May 3, 1941 - Death of a Convoy Raider (U-Boat)
32 pages. Features: Cover portrait of the Queen; Portrait of General Jan Christian Smuts; One-page cutaway illustration of light Mark VIB tank in the field; Five photos of Athens which was occupied by the Nazis on april 27th; Full-page relief map entitled "Last Stages of a Glorious rearguard Action" looks southward from Thermopylae; Five dramatic photos show the death of a convoy raiding U-boat which, battered by depth charges, surfaces, surrenders, and sinks; Nice centrefold illustration of the recently commissioned H.M.S. "Prince of Wales", sister-ship of the H.M.S. "King George V"; Two pages of photos illustrate Britain's victorious war in Eritrea - Keren and Asmara; Photos of various booty captured at Agordat during the Eritrean campaign; Two photos of German panzer units in Africa - German tanks opposing our own in Libya; Photos of devastating bomb damage in England and funeral procession for A.F.S. members killed during a raid; Photos of personalities of the week include General Lord Gort, Dr. Wellington Koo, Sir Thomas Royden, Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Albert Blamey; Maurice Lambert, Rosalie Gassman, J.C. Dundas, and the Royals inspecting bomb damage in East London; Photo of General Smuts in Nairobi with Cunningham and Sir P. Van Ryneveld; Photo of the Belgian Premier and Madame Pierlot, two of whose sons perished in a train fire April 28th; Amazing photo of a 2,000lb bomb about to be loaded onto a Whitley heavy bomber; Seven photos show how German gunners are insturcted with the aid of scale models; and more. Staples removed. Unmarked with above-average external wear and soiling. Spine taped. A worthy reference copy of this wartime issue. Book
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Anderson, Dr. Walter G.; Smith, Ann Louise [Signed]; Henley, Caca [Editor]
Canadian Missionary POW on the Death Railway - The World War II Story of Walter G. Anderson, M.D.
Signed, without inscription, by Ann Louise Smith upon title page. Her small address label appears on last blank leaf. 267 pages. Map. Numerous black and white reproductions of archival photos and documents. Compiled from the records of Dr. Walter G. Anderson [1907-2002], Missionary, Physician, and Prisoner of War, by his niece. Anderson arrived in Singapore nine days before its fall in 1942 and became a POW of the Japanese. He kept secret diaries of his horrific experiences which, with other records, are recounted here. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Bolton, Cecil (Collator)
James Bond 007 - Greatest Hits Songbook [Song Book] with Sheet Music for Voice and piano with Guitar Chords
68 pages. Twenty-five pages of great black and white photos, including Bond creator Ian Fleming. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following Bond classics: The James Bond Theme; From Russia With Love; 007 Theme; Goldfinger; Thunderball; Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; You Only Live Twice; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?; Diamonds are Forever; Live and Let Die; Baron Samedi's Dance of Death; The Man with the Golden Gun; Nobody Does It Better; and Moonraker. Bookseller's stamp on title page otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this great vintage 007 collectible. Book
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Scroggs, Dick
The Soap Man and the Railroad of Death
85 pages. Author spent over three years as a WWII prisoner of the Japanese in Singapore, Malaya and Siam. "The vivid scenes of forced building of the Railroad of Death through 250 miles of virgin jungle, of bombings, rapes, and sordid POW living conditions, come to life with astonishing clarity in this true story." - dust jacket. Bookplate upon front free endpaper, otherwise clean and and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Enser p.43. Book
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Glavin, Terry
A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
xi, 200 pages. Bibliography. "Takes us inside the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition. Glavin shows how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well on the land itself in a series of roadblocks, is rooted in their view that their relationship to the land is one of responsibility - for the land , and to the generations to come. A rich and fascinating blend of past and present, this timely book will forever change the way readers think of the 'land claims' issue." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
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Radziwill, Princess Catherine; Sabatini, Rafael; Franklin, Jay; Collins, Fred L.; Delmar, Vina; McEvoy, J.P.
Liberty Magazine, September (Sept.) 9, 1933, Vol. 10, No. 36: The Strange Life and Death of Stalin's Wife
58 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of lady at wheel of sailboat; The Strange Life and Death of Stalin's Wife (part 1); Hearts and Swords - a stirring novel of bold deeds and lovely women in the glamorous Venice of yesterday; Movie News, Reviews and Photos - F.P.1, Morning Glory, This Day and Age, Blind Adventure; One Man in Ten Thousand - the story of a woman who knew her own heart; Happy Days - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; The Private Life of New York Mayor, Jimmy Walker (part 4); Portrait of Southpaw Baseball Player Jake Ehrich; Pa's Rhapsody in Silver and Black; Familiar Face (short story); Pretty Sadie McKee (part 12); Vox Pop; Fascinating one-page ad for Physical Culture magazine asks "Where Can the Unhappy Woman Find Happiness?"; To the Ladies; Back cover color-illustrated Chesterfield cigarettes ad features young couple in amazing '30s fashions! Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Wylde, Zakk; Vai, Steve; Satriani, Joe; et al
Guitar World Magazine, April [Apr.] 2002, Vol. 22, No. 4 - The Great Creed Mystery
190 pages. Features: Puddle of Mudd; The Rolling Stones relive the making of Exile on Main Street; Creed; Death Metal Blowout; Blue Oyster Cult Lesson by Buck Dharma; Mushroomhead; Six songs with bass lines - Bullets, Too Bad, Free Bird, Something, Nice to Know You, The Middle; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Stern, Sol; et al
Ramparts Magazine, March [Mar.] 1967 - National Student Association (NSA) and the CIA
Contains Sol Stern's important article 'NSA and the CIA' in which he exposes CIA funding of the United States National Student Association (NSA). 60 pages. Other features include: The Death of a President - The firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr; The Passamaquoddy Indians - a native tribe of eastern Maine; Jean-Paul Sartre - The Marxist Phase; The Social History of Hippies - article with many excellent color photos and works of psychedelic art; Book Reviews; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Address label removal patch on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Milky Way Pictorial [Magazine] No. 223, 1976
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: The Big Boss - Part II, He or She, Fur Fashion photos in colour, Kao Pao Shu colour foldout photo, Golden Horse Prize Giving Ceremony, Fu Shing and Chen Nei, Chin Han and Shaw Chel Yin, Sylvia Chang and Chin Chuan, Yuen Hua, Wang Yu, Tsui Tai Ching, Liu Man Ching, Liu Wei Bun, Does Fang Yin's husband commit adultery?, Chang Cheh is not a good proprietor, Lisa Wang, The Hunter The Butterfly The Crocodile, Valley of Butterfly, Shaolin Death Squads, The Navy Storm Troop, Ingrid Bergman, and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Milky Way Pictorial [Magazine] No. 257, 1979
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Gorgeous colour one-page photos of Wu Wei Chung, Lung Chun Erh, Chelsia Chan, and Eva Lin; Hong Kong Film Production Goes International; Sheung Keung Ling Fung pursues higher education; When Jackie Chan Directs; Yuen Woo Ping is Married; Dominant status of Kuo Lung's Kung Fu fictions in movies is challenged; Kuk Nam Wang; Dance of Death; Ann Margret - photos and article; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Hong Kong Movie News, May 1976
80 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Beautiful one-page colour photo of Fanny; Colour ad for The Condemned inside front cover; Yueh Hua and Tanny visit the Hong Kong Oceanarium - colour photos; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shih Szu; Colour photo ad for Learned Bride Thrice Fools Bride-Groom; Challenge of the Masters - colour foldout photos; Colour photos of Chen Ni and Fu Sheng; Shaolin Avengers - two pages of colour photos; Beautiful colour photos of Yen Nan-Hsi, Shih Ping-Ping, Chen Szu-Chia, and Ching Li; Nice black and white photos of Ti Lung, Betty Ting Pei, Hsi Hua Chiang, Lily Li, Li Hsiu Hsien, Hu Chih, Fanny, and Fu Sheng; Shaw stars visit Ocean park - article and photos; Black Magic - part II; Mother's Day; They Came From Within (It's Deadley); Scenes from The Web of Death; Colour ad for The Dragon Missile; Colour photo ad for Rado watches on back cover shows man in kayak; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Railton, Jim
Northwest Sportsman Magazine - Fishing and Hunting in B.C., August [Aug.] 1957 - 1957-58 Hunting Regulations and Game Management Maps (Quick Reference)
46 pages. Features: Editorial - "Let's Stay Live"; Game Outlook; Nice one-page two-colour ad for Weaver Scopes, made by the W.R. Weaver Co.; Half-page illustrated ad for the Pintail Sleeping Robe (sleeping bag) by Edward Lipsett Ltd.; Game Maps of B.C. 1957-58, Quick Reference; One-page photo ad for Little Brown Jug G&W Rye Whisky features four-man quartet with piano and banjo; The "Pheasants Unlimited" Program at Vernon, B.C. - article with photo of Bud Pratt and Mort Paige; Ad for Boat, Rod & Gun located in Vancouver at Seventh (near Kingsway) features large photo of well-known gun expert Bill Jagoe; Uncommon one-page, two-colour ad for Royalite gas stations; Where to Go Fishing; Clay Chips - article with photos of Frank Cooper, Frank Turner, Joe Williams, and Doug, Tommy and George Freeman; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover entitled "Ready For the Field" offers advice for hunters; Shooting competition results; Nice colour cover photo of Big Horn sheep; Many additional nostalgic ads. Pencilled name atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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