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The Great War Magazine - Part 111, September 30, 1916 - Italy Triumphant on the Isonzo
Features: Cover portrait of Signor Gabriele d'Annunzio. Many black and white photos. Centerfold illustrations of Italian forces in various situations. Interesting photos of: Austrian POWs; Victorious Italians in Austrian towns; and much more. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Still a worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 164, October 6th, 1917 - Safeguarding the Suez Canal
Features: Cover portrait of General Sir H.G. Chauvel, K.C.M.G., C.B. - Commanding the Australian Force on the Egyptian Front. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "Safeguarding the Suez Canal" which includes a full-page black and white map plus many interesting black and white photos. Centerfold displays 8 sketches of military leaders. Includes first portion of chapter CXCVI - "British Agriculture on a War Footing". Many photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 186, March 9th, 1918 - Victoria Cross (V.C.) Heroes in the Third Year of the War
Features: Cover portrait of Brevet-Colonel John Vaughan Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., who won the Victoria Cross by leading an attack when his personal example and gallantry turned the fortune of the day. Includes Chapter CCXXVI - "For Valour - Heroes of the Victoria Cross in the Third Year of the War" Includes photos of many dozens of V.C. recipients, plus other photos. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 240 *THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY*
Features: Cover portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Erskine Weymyss, G.C.B., C.M.G. Includes concluding portion of the Chapter "The Final Rout of the Germans". Includes Chapter CCLXXXIV - The Surrender of Germany. Centerfold photos from Versailles and the Reichstag. Many black and white photos. 2"x2" chunk from front cover (Please see photo). Average wear and soiling. Moisture exposure to pages near top of spine - text unaffected. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 242 - 5 April 1919 - The Roll of Honour, Concluding Survey
Features: Cover portrait of Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, G.C.M.G., Appointed High Commissioner, Constantinople, November, 1918, following upon the armistice with Turkey. Includes final installment of the chapter "Triumph of the British Navy". Great photos. Various nautical photos/illustrations on centerfold, including Britain's giant K class boats. Also includes Chapter CCLXXXVIII - "The Roll of Honour - Concluding Survey". Somewhat above-average wear. Some corners folded. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 244 - 19 April 1919 - Woman's Effort in the War Described By Eminent War-Workers
Cover portrait of the Marchioness of Londonderry, who writes in this issue on the work of the Women's Legion. Chapter CCXC - Women's Work in the Great War - with relevant photos and centerfold. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 246 - 3 May 1919 - The March to the Rhine
Cover portrait of Grenadier Guards approaching the Hohenzollern Bridge at Cologne. Chapter CCXCII - The March to the Rhine. Many interesting black and white photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 247 - 10 May 1919 *The Air Battles Over London*
Cover photo of where a Gotha bomb fell in London, near a Sphinx. Includes concluding portion of "The March to the Rhine", with great photos. Chapter CCXCIII - Final Phases of the War in the Air, I. - The Air Battles Over London - How the Gothas were Defeated. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 249 - 24 May 1919 *Decisive Supremacy of the British Air Force*
Cover photo of British airships on patrol as guardians of the fleet. Includes concluding portion of "Decisive Supremacy of the British Air Force", with great photos. Interesting centerfold aeroplane photos and a smashing full page photo of the R34, Britain's titanic airship. First portion of Chapter CCXCV - Voluntary Motor Transport in the War - Magnificent and Varied Works of British Motorists. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 250 - 31May 1919 *America's Share in the Victory*
Includes concluding portion of "Voluntary Motor Transport in the War", with photos. Chapter CCXCVI - America's Share in the Victory - map and photos. Full-page photographic portrait of Admiral William Sowden Sims in chief command of the American Fleet in Europe. Four centerfold photos of Americans in Germany. Full page photo of the 27th Division, U.S. Army, in New York, March 25th, 1919. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 252 - 14 June 1919 *The Rumanian Blunder*
Includes final portion of the chapter "The Triumph of the Army of Mesopotamia", which includes many interesting photos. Centerfold displays four photos of the British on the Tigris, at Kirkuk, and near Narin Kupri Bridge. Also contains first portion of chapter CCXCIX - The Rumanian Blunder - First Full Account of the Worst Error of the War, with photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 253 - 21 June 1919 *The Wonderful Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps*
Please note: Coloured map of Central European Nationalities not included. Cover photo portrait of Lieut.-General Sir C.H. Burtchaell, K.C.B., C.M.G., Director-General Medical Services, British Armies in France. Includes final portion of the chapter "The Rumanian Blunder". Chapter CCC - The Wonderful Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) and the Marvels of Preventative Medicine. Interesting centerfold medical-related photos. Water damage to pages at top corner of spine. Text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 254 - 28 June 1919 *The Great Record of the Guards in the War*
Cover portrait of the Prince of Wales with the Guards. Opens with the concluding portion of the chapter "Wonderful Work of the R.A.M.C.". Chapter CCCI - Records of the Regiments: I. The Guards. Large centerfold photos of the Guards in London upon their return from France. Many great photos. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 255 - 5 July 1919 *Records of the English Regiments in the War*
Please note: Coloured map not included. Cover portrait of the London Scottish marching past Crimea Memorial on arrival home. Chapter CCCII - Records on the Regiments, II - English 1914-15, with photos. Great centerfold photos. First portion of Chapter CCCIII - Records of the Regiments: III. English, 1916-18. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 256 - 12 July 1919 *Record of Irish and Welsh Regiments in the War*
Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "Records of the Regiments - III, English, 1916-18, with photos. Chapter CCCIV - Records of the Regiments: IV. Irish and Welsh. Many photos. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 258 - 26 July 1919 *Demobilising the British Army*
Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Founding of the League of Nations", with photos. Wonderful centerfold photos of returning soldiers. Chapter CCCVII - The Demobilisation of the British Army, with many photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 259 - 2 August 1919 *Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers*
Cover portrait of Sir Robert S. Horne, K.C., M.P., Minister of Labour. Please note: does not include colur map. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Demobilisation of the British Army", with photos. Centerfold photos of captured German booty, including a large cache of gas shells at Luttre, Belgium. Chapter CCCVIII - The Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers, with photos. Chapter CCCIX - The Wonders of Wireless in the War, with photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 63 - 30 October 1915 *RUSSIA IN WAR TIME*
Cover portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia. Chapter LXXXII - An Inside View of Russia in War Time - Many photos. Centerfold photos from Gallipoli. Chapter LXXXIII - The Heroic Struggle on Gallipoli Peninsula and the Sulva Bay Battles - many great photos. Please note that this chapter is continued in the next issue. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 41 - 29 May 1915
Cover portrait of Alexander, Prince Regent and Heir to the Throne of Serbia. Chapter LVI - The Resurgence of Serbia and the Resistance of Russia. Photo of a horrific Serbian village slaughter on page 228. Excellent two-panel centerfold photo of Austrian trenches near Jasionna. Many interesting photos. Pratt's advertisement on back cover bears an amazing photo of an early armoured personell carrier. Covers detached but present. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1953 Through November/December1954
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life (photo); Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion, Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett, 19, - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam, with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18,000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam, with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk, Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1943 Through November/December1944
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
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Dean, Pauline
Sagas of Superior - the Island Sea... and its Canadian Shore
218 pages. An interesting look at the history of the northern shore of Lake Superior. Chapters include such topics as: Many Billion Years Ago; The Wisconsin Glacier; How Rocks Write Their Own History; The First Inhabitants; Early Explorers and Notable Events; A World Famous Canal System; The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR); Early Industries; Shipwrecks on Superior; Prisoner of War and Internment Camps; Communities Lake Superior's Circle Route. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative work. Noteworthy for its 20 illustrated pages on the region's World War Two POW camps. Book
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Hamilton, Sir Ian
Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches from the Dardanelles - a Thrilling and Graphic Story
116 pages plus advertisements. Fold-out map of Gallipoli Peninsula. Frontis portrait of author. Additional maps and portraits interspersed throughout. Thrilling World War I history. Above-average wear. Prior owner's name and date upon half-title page, which is the first leaf. A worthy copy. Book
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Melady, John
Korea, Canada's Forgotten War
219 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Includes Honour Roll plus Canadian Navy, Air Force, and Army Honours and Awards, Korea. Map endpapers. "Contains first-hand accounts of men who endured torture in Chinese POW camps, of doctors whose experiences in battlefield medicine have the pathos and hilarity of a M*A*S*H episode, and of prominent Canadian journalists such as Blair Fraser, Larry Henderson, and Pierre Berton, who reported on the war from the front lines, as did Rene Levesque." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Edwards 433, McFarland 1377. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encycloeaedia of the War: Part 213, 17 September (Sept.) 1918 *THE BOY SCOUTS*
Topics: preparedness of the Boy Scouts; Sir R. Baden-Powell as a Prophet; Holiday and War; The Boy Scout Organization; Work of a Wartime Camp; Lord Kitchener's View; The Public and the Scout; A Non-Military Movement; Opinions of the Press; The American Ambassador; Scout Law; Scout Badges; Gallantry in the Navy; Sea Scouts as Coast Guards; Gallantry in the Army; Influence of the Scout Spirit; War Emergency Work; Work for the Government; Agricultural Help; Boy Scout Tests of Citizenship; Recreation Huts and Collections; Helping the Police; In Air Raids and Bombardments; Work for Hospitals; Boy Scouts of the Empire; The Movement in Foreign Countries; Scouts of the Allies. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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The Great War Magazine: Part 43, 12 June, 1915
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover portrait of General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, K.C.B., Commanding the Sixth Army; Conclusion of Chapter LVII; Chapter LVIII - Complete and graphic description of 'The Storming of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle for the Ridge'; Chapter LIX - Organising the Defence of the Realm - a retrospect; Portrait of General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine: Part 260, 9 August, 1919
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of the Prince of Wales presenting colours to Canadians; Conclusion of Chapter CCCIX - Wonders of Wireless in the War; Chapter CCCX - The Empire and the War - Progress of the Overseas Dominions and India, 1914-18; photo of Princess Patricia decorating Canadian colours and inspecting the P.P.C.L.I.; Great centerfold photo of Anzac Day in London, 25 April, 1919 - Australian Cavalry marching down Fleet St.; Photos of Officers of the Canadian 4th Division leaving Liverpool for the west; and more. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine: Part 263, 30 August, 1919
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig in London's Great Victory March; Conclusion of Chapter CCCXII - British Propaganda; Chapter CCCXIII - The Organisers of Victory; great centerfold photos of victory celebration in France; Chapter CCCXIV - The strategy of the war and the Blunders of the German Staff; Amazing photo of some of the great gun booty captured by the Canadians on the way to Cambrai; and more. Bonus: includes 'fine colour map of the strategy of the war'. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Ringma, Bob
M*L*B*U: Full Monty in Korea *Includes Custom Bookmark with Author's Name Hand-Printed*
170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
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King, Stella
Jacqueline: Pioneer Heroine of the Resistance
424 pages. Index. Bibliography. Sources. Black and white photographic plates. "Follows in the great tradition of other outstanding war heroines such as Violette Szabo and Odette. But Yvonne Rudellat was the pioneer. If she had failed, no other woman agent would have been sent to France." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Moderate spine slant. A sound working copy. Book
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Albrecht, Herbert R.: Mattison, David - Translator
Growing Roots - Biography (German Title: Der Dollar Un Die Seele)
283 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Author was born in Kassel, Germany in 1919. He served in the German army in World War II and emigrated to Canada where his adventures took him from Halifax to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island." - from back cover. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1975
Features: "Rascals" and Rangers - hot blood courses through the coal veins at Thurber, Texas; Lost Gold at Robbers Roost; The Private War of Henson Wiseman; Localisms and Familyisms - Hillfold talk in the Rockies; Wild Old Days!; The Fatal Quart of Strawberries - Patrick S. Coughlin; Ticket Scalpin' on the Railroad; Great Falls, Montana - First Black Cowboy, Walter Jackson; Under the Devil's Blanket - the most dangerous mail route in the world in Alaska; The Benevolent Ghost - Oakalla, Texas; Frying Pan Charlie - Charles Alzamora; Pima County, Arizona Territory. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1978
Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, October 1979
Features: A Folsom Graduate - William M. Fredericks; Attacked by a Rabid Horse! - Thurman, Iowa; Barclay (Bat) Masterton's Rescue of Bully Bill Thompson; The Indian outbreak of 1855 - The Dalles, Oregon; Owen Wister's Pop Call to Texas; Widow Woman (Mary Ross) - by sod or by grass? - no one ever asked; Trail City - it may have been the last escape hatch for Texas cattle and their dreaded ticks; Many of the Wild Bunch have been accounted for, but 'How Come They Never Caught Hugh Whitney'; Top Western Photographer - H.C. Eklund; Canyon Country Cowpuncher - Walt Goldsmith; Those Thousand Colts that went to war - Sam Colt and Sam Walker, from official company publications and Rip Ford's memoirs; Woman-Hater Nick Mersfelder. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News: July 28, 1883
Front cover sketches of Tamatave, Madagascar, Surgeon-General W.G. Hunter - Government Medical Advisor in Egypt, and Mr. John Marshall, New President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Topics: Mr. Waddington appointed French Ambassador to England. Cholera in Egypt. Echoes of the week. Opening of the Homes for Little Boys at Swanley by the Prince and Princess of Wales - 7 sketches on one page. The Prince of Wales at Work - 10 sketches on one page. Presentation of Regimental Colours. City Echoes. The Playhouses. Music. Evening Fete at the Fisheries Exhibition - several sketches on one page. Sketches in Cairo - 3 sketches on one page. Round about Paris. Uproar about plan for a second Suez Canal - Sketches of personalities involved on page 88. Education. Benevolence and Self-Help. 7 sketches of Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Chinese manufacture of great guns. General Home News. Classified ads. Supplement includes Chapters VII and VIII of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn. The Wimbledon meeting. Our fishing industries - with splendid 2-page engraving entitled 'Shrimping at the Mouth of the Thames'. Obituary. Chess. Wills and Bequests. Classifieds ads. 9 sketches of various fishing boats from the International Fisheries Exhibition. Engraving of Captain Matthew Webb - the celebrated swimmer who drowned last Tuesday in his attempt to swim the whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls. *Excellent* 2-page engraving entitled "War Preparations in China - Welding a Coil for a Great Gun at the Arsenal, Shanghai". The Church. Sonnets. The Inland Parcels Post. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Average wear. Magazine
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Prim, Captain Joseph; McCarthy, Michael J.
Those in Peril: The U-Boat Menace to Allied Shipping in Newfoundland and Labrador Waters, World War I and World War II
176 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. List of Some Canadian Merchant ships sunk by enemy action during World War II. List of some Newfoundland Sailing Vessels Sunk by U-Boats in World War I and II. "Author served 24 years as a master of various C.N. vessels including the William Carson and the Ambrose Shea. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant Marine Superintendant and then served as Marine Superintendant until his retirement in 1990." - from back cover. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1977
Features: John W. Barriger III, 1899-1976; Derailment and accident photos; Steam's last chance - Pennsylvania Railroad gambles - and loses - on the steam-powered T1-class for passenger power after World War II; "Fireboy, know something? We don't fit through that bridge"; How to build a DL109 - great photos; Rio Grande's Monarch Branch Revisited - an exercise in the use of the 26-C automatic brake valve, F-3 retainers, and COBRA brake shoes; Colur centerfold of the Katy Pacific 401 (Lima 1920) in 1945; The Iris G, et al - much of Canadian Pacific's history has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: October 1967
Features: Railroad news photos; 19th Annual Motive Power Survey - How to Merge Motive Power - article and photos; Pullman Prolificacy - when Pullman was America's passport to everywhere; Photo section; Coal - going, going gone? - replaced by nuclear?; Why is wartime so synonymous with railroad Wrecks? - article; 11 hours with 111 year-old locomotive - The General, the venerable (Rogers 1855) Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 employed in the daring, ill-fated Andrews Raid in the Civil War - photos and text; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: May 1963
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Short, K.R.M.
The Dynamite War: Irish-American Bombers in Victorian Britain
278 pages. Index. Bibliography. "Between 1880 and 1887 three of Britain's major cities came under attack from teams of bombers whose leadership, finance and most of whose personnel came from two Irish-American Fenian organisations... The aim of the dynamiters was to force the British government to withdraw from Ireland and to allow a free and separate nation to develop... also discusses the police response to the campaign, which led to the creation of both the Secret Service and the Scotland Yard Special Branch - draws upon Home Office documents hitherto unavailable under the Official Secrets Act." - from dust jacket. Appears unread. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to dust jacket with the exception of some minor peeling at top of spine. Nice copy. Book
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Fryer, Mary Beacock
Volunteers and Redcoats, Rebels and Raiders: A Military History of the Rebellions in Upper Canada
155 pages. Index. Bibliography. "A comprehensive history of rebellions and U.S. invasions in Upper Canada in 1837 & 1838, covering the skirmishes in eastern Ontario, Toronto and southwestern Ontario. Lavishly illustrated with rare photos and maps, this is a popular narrative history that examines the lives and motives of the leaders of Upper Canada's rebellions; their U.S. allies, the British and Canadian administrators who played significant roles in the uprisings; and the Canadians who remained loyal to the Crown." - from dust jacket. Faint erasure to front free endpaper else unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Material History Review 50, Fall 1999 - Architecture of Old Quebec
Features: The Architecture of Old Quebec, or The HIstory of a Palimpsest; Material History as Cultural Tradition - A La Ronde, Exmouth, Devon, England; Construction d'un paysage identitaire - Grand-Pre et la collectivite acadienne; Construire une histoire basque au Quebec; "Our Nation's Attic?" - Making American National Identity at the Smithsonian Institution; "Hitler's Car" and the Canadian War Museum - problems of documentation and interpretation; The changing significance of the Warren B. Sheppard Site, Battle Creek, Michigan; David Lowenthal on Public History - an interview; 5 book reviews. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
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Mullins, Eustace (Signed)
This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound
388 pages including index, footnotes and black and white photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page on 28 January, 1962. Presents the case for Ezra Pound, the man who edited the work of Yeats and T.S. Eliot, helped introduce the poetry of Robert Frost and influenced the development of Hemingway and was tried for treason and sent to an insane asylum. Includes excerpts from the controversial broadcasts Pound made from Italy during World War II. Light wear to tight and unmarked book. Minor soiling to fore- and top edges of plates - images unaffected. Moderate wear to dust jacket which bears a half-inch tear to the top of front panel and is now preserved in Brodart. Quality copy. Book
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Mullins, Eustace
This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound
388 pages including index, footnotes and black and white photographic plates. Presents the case for Ezra Pound, the man who edited the work of Yeats and T.S. Eliot, helped introduce the poetry of Robert Frost and influenced the development of Hemingway and was tried for treason and sent to an insane asylum. Includes excerpts from the controversial broadcasts Pound made from Italy during World War II. Book is tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is moderately sunned at spine and preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 259, August (Aug.) 5, 1919 *The British Army in the West (Dec. 1917 - Nov. 1918)*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: Mr. Lloyd George as War Premier; Caporetto and the Rapallo Conference; The German Offensive of March 21; The Campaign for the Channel Ports; Unity of Command; The Strategy of Marshal Foch; The Allied Counter-Offensive; The Achievements of the British Army; THe Contributions to Victory of the Canadian and Australian Armies; The Armistice; Sir Douglas Haig's Review of the War. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 247, May 13, 1919 *The Allied Advance Continued, September 1918*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: The Great Advance of the Allies; Development of Their Plan; The Simultaneous Offensives; By the French and Americans from Reims to the Meuse; By the British and French on the Cambrai; St. Quentin Front; By the Belgians; British and French in Flanders; German Opinion; The Work of the Allied Air Forces. Includes index and list of illustrations for Volume XIX. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 248, May 20, 1919 *First Rent in German Alliance - Surrender of Bulgaria*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: Fall of Monaster (Nov. 1916), followed by a period of Quiescence on Salonika Front; General Milne's Winter Problems; Offensive in Doiran Sector of April, 1917; Koritza; Allied Success in Albania; The Greek Impasse; Jonnart's Mission and the Coup D'Etat of Athens, June, 1917; Triumph of Venizelos and the Policy of Greek Reintegration and Mobilization in Allied Interest; Internal Situation in Bulgaria; Zenith and Anticlimax of Pro-German Solidarity; Sofia and the Press; Serious Misgivings and Diplomatic Disgusts unite to effect the fall of the Radoslavoff Ministry; Balance of Parties and Leaders; Summary of the Situation, 1917-18; Prospects of Summer Campaign 1918; Topographical Survey of British Front and Communications; Rearrangement of Front; Steady Influx of Hellenic Reinforcements; Combined Advance of September; The Great Days of September 14-28; Bulgarian Envoys at Salonika; Armistice of Sunday, September 29, 1918; Summary of Terms; Percussion Throughout the World; Omens not to be Disguised; Bulgaria as a Belligerent; Vanished Dream of Bulgar Hegemony in South-Eastern Europe. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 249, May 27, 1919 *The American Army in Europe*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: America's Contribution; Military Unpreparedness; Conscription of the Nation; The American Divisions; Transport of the Army; The First Troops in France; Reorganization of the French Ports; Vast Work of Transport and Supply; Horses, Staffs, Artillery, Aeroplanes; Training; First Operations; Cantigny; Chateau-Thierry; The Allied Offensive; The Marne; July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel; Advance in the Argonne; March on Sedan; The Armistice; America's Achievement. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Thompson, General Julian: Editor
The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare: British & Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000
376 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "From the almost unknown campaign in Java and Sumatra in 1945-7 which saw British troops operating alongside their recent enemies, the Japanese, to Bosnia and Kosovo in the closing years of the twentieth century, fifteen major conflicts are covered. Each is described by a contributor who either served in the campaign, saw it first-hand as a journalist or is an acknowledged expert on it." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book
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Lloyd, James
Canadian Steam at War - Canadian Railways During WWII - 50 Minute VHS Videotape in Case
VHS video tape with case. "During World War II Canadian railway companies took to the challenge on land, sea, and even in the air. With their ranks growing close to 200,000 railway workers made a major contribution to the war effort. They transported vital raw materials to war factories, then carried the finished goods to the coast and overseas. They even built ships, tanks, and other weapons. Throughout the war the railways were the only quick and effective means of carrying the millions of passengers and the hundreds of millions of tons of war supplies vital to winning the war. This video documents this important time in Canadian railway history through rare film footage and photos of railways in action... Includes a segment on the Royal Tour of 1939 and the 12 car Royal Train which carried the King and Queen on their cross-Canada tour." - from case. Black and white and colour, 50 minutes. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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