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McQuarrie, John
'Til We Meet Again: Recapturing Moments of the RCAF in World War II *SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR*
171 pages. Signed and inscribed by author and illustrator upon front free endpaper. "This book is not a history piece. The tidbits of historical fact sprinkled herein are incidental to our real purpose. For we are not trying merely to inform you, we want to take it a step further. We hope rather to move you, to help you sense and feel the pulse, the beat and the drama of those times. The images and words are offered as a celebration of the excitement and romance of an era and a people whose resourcefulness and courage are worthy of great tribute." - from Introduction. Dozens of superb colour photos and several wonderful colour reproductions of wartime posters. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
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Marrin, Albert
The Secret Armies: Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II
239 pages. Index. "The secret history of World War II in Europe... The stories of the spies and counterspies and double-agents, who, under cover of code names such as Hedgehog, Zigzag and Tricycle gathered information behind German lines and passed misinformation to Nazi intelligence... Tells the story of how the British spy Intrepid and a four-man Norwegian team prevented the Germans from manufacturing an ingredient needed in the atom bomb. An how a team of Czech nationals assassinated the Nazi leader of their country." - from dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Recommended reading list. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
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Copp, Terry; McAndrew, Bill
Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945
249 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Few black and white illustrations. "Introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War... Examines the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to manage this behaviour." - from dust jacket. Pertinent news clippings laid in at back. Average wear. Usual library markings. Remainder mark to bottom edge. A sound working copy. Book
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Dow, Helen Jeanette; Colville, Alex
The Art of Alex Colville
211 pages. Index. "This richly illustrated book represents the full scope of Colville's work. There are the early canvases; the war art commissioned when he was overseas with the Canadian forces; the highly praised designs of Canada's Centennial coins issued in 1967; and such latter-day masterpieces as Pacific, To Prince Edward Island, and January. In all, forty-eight major works are reproduced in full colour, with fifty-six black-and-white illustrations of Colville's sketches, drawings, coin designs, paintings and serigraphs." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
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Semans and District Historical Society
Always a Hometown - Semans (Saskatchewan) and District History
527 pages. Index of family names. Illustrated endpapers. Many black and white illustrations. Decorated front board. Chapters include: History of the Village, Development of the Community, Churches, Our War Record, Organizations, Sports/Recreation/Entertainment, Schools, Family Histories, Memories. Prior owner's details handwritten on bottom of title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this substantial work. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Infantry Journal - June 1926
Pages 597 through 714 pages. Several additional pages of illustrated advertisements. Contents include: The 'Lost Battalion' of the 77th Division; The Enveloping Attack; Motor Transportation in Military Operations; The Philippines Maneuvers; The Company's Personnel; Trotski and the Conscription of Labor; German Infantry Training; The War Stock Uniform. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Top inch of backstrip open but present. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Hoofbeats 1945 ('45): Student Yearbook of North Phoenix High School, Phoenix, Arizona
198 pages. Substantial World War II influence to this issue i.e. relieving shortages, writing to servicemen, Civil Air Patrol, Red Cross, students in uniform, and more. Extensively autographed. Average wear. Binding intact. Spine leaning. A sound copy. Book
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National Lampoon - The Humor Magazine For Adults: May, 1984 *1984 BASEBALL PREVIEW*
Features include: Capital Punishment is not a bowl of cherries; Ronald Reagan, Pen Pal (Part 3); Foto Funnies; Off the Subject; Eggboiler; Hello Jesus (a play on "Hello Kitty"); PT-69 - the debauched adventures of Ted Kennedy in World War II (colour comic format); The Whole Earth Catalog of Sex Tools; Allelulia!; Out of Write Field; Glenn Eichler's Magic Tips; Spring into Spring - baseball uniform art; Dave Winfield's beans a bird; Where were you on the day Thurman Munson died?; The All-American Barbie Dreamhouse Theatre - with Mr. T; and more. Average wear. Bit of soiling to front cover. Slight waviness to top edge from moisture. Three-hole punched along left margin. A sound copy. Book
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National Lampoon, May 1986 *ALL-STAR SPORTS ISSUE*
82 pages. Features: I Ever Plagued the Game; Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Surprise poster #185 - Keith Hernandez's Urine Sample; Foto Funnies; Dumb Records; My Friend, Marvelous Marv; Handicapped Sports; Ratso's Hockey Clinic; The Million-Dollar Kid; True Facts; Sports Hallucinated; A Game of Words; Joan of Arkansas; Bad Sports; Great New Sports; Funny Pages; Surprise Poster #186 - Great Moments in Sports - The First Female Globetrotter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Jacobs, Martin S.; Numark, Charles A.: Compilers
America's Wartime Scrapbook: From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
63 pages. Wall-to-wall illustrations, primarily in colour. "An outstanding compilation of a variety of keepsake items and novelties produced in the United States to bolster morale during World War II on the homefront." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Chip Chats Magazine, May/June 1987
72 pages. Features: Jay Cooke's Sign Shop; Exploring Power Carving; Carving a Lion; Jake Herr; John Reid - Carver of Raptors; The Wood Bee Carver's Tool Kit - Drawer Three - Repair a Pocketknife; Carve an Indian War Ax Neckerchief Slide; In love with Ponies - Robert Curley Carves for a living; Original Letter Opener Patterns; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Priess, Anita
Exiled to Siberia - Bilingual English/German Text
Total of 178 pages, half English/half German. Black and white sketches. Author was born in 1909 in the Ukraine and imprisoned by the Russians in 1946. She survived years of confinement, made her way to Canada, and was encouraged to document her story in this book. Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. An important historical record. Book
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Wendel, C.H.
150 Years of International Harvester
416 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white archival photos. Based upon extensive access to company records. "Throughout this narrative it has been our goal to show the evolution of the farm equipment industry - specifically International Harvester Company and its predecessors. It is hoped that the reader might see a thread of continuity in our attempt to portray the Company's goal of building labor-saving machines for the farmer." - from Preface. Clean and bright with very light wear. Handsomely decorated read boards. Front endpaper bears prior owner's ink stamps, blind stamp, and handwritten personal details. Atop several pages the page number has been hand-written in. Bit of writing inside back board. This copy was obviously cherished and treated accordingly by its prior owner. A lovely copy of this magnificent compilation. Book
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Popular Science Magazine, May 1961
Features: Beware of Auto Accident Fakers; New VW comes in two styles; Pickup becomes a Beach Wagon; Patching Tubeless Tires; It tells what dead men can't; Beating Russia's big Rockets; Space talk on beams of light; Wonderful world of plywood; Earth Radio to launch ICBMs; Handcuffs defy escape artists; Fifth Wheel runs a bus (and stops it too); How a Coffee Machine Works; U.S. Cavemen 10,000 years ago?; Weapons of the Civil War; "Black Box" helps you find fish; How Dreams keep us sane; Tiny Battlefield for tankmen; Blueprint for multi-purpose yard tractor; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Tears to covers. Spine chipped. Magazine
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Craig, Chris (Captain): Read By Michael Kilgarriff
Call for Fire: Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War: Audiobook Consisting of 10 Audio Cassette Tapes with Case
Ten audio cassette tapes with case. "... A first-hand account of fighting in the Falklands and the Gulf campaigns by the only British senior officer who commanded in both of these major wars. In 1982, Chris Craig was captain of the frigate HMS Alacrity - the only British surface ship to sink an Argentinian vessel. Nine years later, he was in command of the twenty-six British ships in the Gulf campaign." - from cover. Foreward by General Sir Peter de la Billiere. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, November 25, 1961: Dr. Mikhail Klochko Fled Russia
39 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Pozzi, Henri; Translated By Mott, Francis J.
Black Hand Over Europe, Consisting of: War is Coming Again; Also a Resume of the Story of Woislav Maximus Petrovich, the Secret Protocols to the Balkan Pact of Alliance, and the Constitution of the Serbian Black Hand
273 pages. Black and white frontisplate of author. Three black and white plates in appendices. New preface to this edition discusses events which transpired in the fifteen months since the first French edition was published. "Surveys the political situation in Yugoslavia between the two World Wars, and shows how the Yugoslav state was created for the simple purpose of implementing Serbian domination over the non-Serb nations within Yugoslavia." - Croation Information Centre. Unmarked. Hinges and binding intact. Moderate wear and soiling to red cloth-covered boards. Light foxing near endpapers. A sound copy. Book
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Colliers, The National Weekly Magazine: 7 November, 1936
Features: The Heart has Wings, Part I - flight into romance, the new serial (Faith Baldwin); Flowering Jade - Love and the Chinese War, the curative methods of Doctor Johnny Scott (Sidney Herschel Small); Cold Gold - Canada's Treasure - a planned and scientifically stage-managed gold (and radium) rush in the Northwest Territories, with photos(Leslie Roberts); The Great Snatch - Gorilla tactics (Frank Condon); Football Follies - Fun on the gridiron (C.E.'Tiny' Thornhill with Frank J. Taylor); The Bluff - he found himself out (Charles Bonner); Dark Tropic Sea, Part III - Island mystery (Alan LeMay); Sorority Hero, by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Keep up with the world - the least you can learn (Freling Foster); The man without a soul - mechanical monster (Quentin Reynolds); Slade the Terrible - blood and thunder (Owen P. White); So can you - magic, with a can opener (Barbara Blake); Inn about town - accommodations for all (Kyle Chrichton);; Take a look inside - say 'ah' please - a bronchoscopist removes a nail from a child's lungs (Hannah Lees). Nice colour Canadian Club whiskey ad inside front cover. Colour Camel cigarette ad. Nice colour RCA Victor radio ad. *Fantastic* colour centerfold ad for the 'completely new' Hudson automobile. Splendid Coca-Cola colour ad inside back cover shows man sitting with his dog. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 6, 1965 *THE GREAT TRAVEL EXPLOSION*
Features: The Great Travel Explosion - Suddenly everybody's got itchy feet; The Pleasure of Failure - what famed author Morley Callaghan learned when the bottom fell out of his world; When Sickness Strikes at Night - what can you do, where can you turn for help?; The Prickly Producer - now everyone wants John Hirsch; Montreal's Vieux Quarter - how a dedicated few led the fight to save a city's historic past, with many nice photos; This Army has only begun to fight - the Salvation Army turns 100, waging war to a new jazz beat. Great colour ad for the 1965 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan. Colour ad for the '65 Pontiac on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling with evidence of exposure to moisture. A less than pretty but sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 4, 1964 *Seven Days That Shook Ontario - the Great Polic-State panic*
Features: How the Bill of Rights is getting in the way of justice; The Holy War to destroy Bill 99 - the fantastic law that trampled our freedoms underfoot; Jack Kent Cooke in Lotusland - he's living a rich, comic life in the U.S.A.; A Striking New Discovery in Eskimo Sculpture - first report on a group of artists who carve like angels and live like cavemen, the Caribou Eskimos of Baker Lake; Portrait of the American dollar we all love - how the great US foundations give away money creatively - $50 million in Canada; The world of Can't - a young cerebral palsy victim tells how he's beating the frustrations of charity; The Hottest Hand in Music - Zubin Mehta and the Montreal symphony; Will success spoil Gerald Gladstone?; Let the dropouts drop out, until they're ready to learn. Nice colour Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 15 September, 1956 *ROBERT FOWLER AND HIS T.V. ROYAL COMMISSION*
Features: What will Robert Fowler say about TV? - a report on the head of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting and what he's likely to suggest; Karsh visits Hollywood; How Harry Orchard murdered twenty men - a Maclean's flashback in two parts; Why we're getting more disastrous hurricanes; The secret war of Charles Goodeve (conclusion - The weapons of tomorrow) - the Panjandrum, the Alligator, and Lily the floating airport... these revolutionary inventions created under the guidance of a little-known Canadian have yet to be tested in combat; The life and death mystery of our liver; Frank Merrill's winning way with horses; She didn't care what people thought - fiction by Ronald R. Smith; Does more money than brains go to collete? - Dr. Sidney Smith; Ross Thatcher's glum conversion; My most memorable meal - Maj.-Gen. J.M. Rockingham. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chunk missing from front cover which bears two closed tears ***PLEASE NOTE*** pages 15-20 are missing. They contained the Karsh story plus the first page of the Harry Orchard story. Two-page Chysler ad for PowerFlite pushbutton automatic transmission (missing 3"x 2" chunk from upper left corner. Cartoon clipped from page 82 has removed part of the Harry Orchard story. Magazine
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Tisa, John: Editor
The Palette and the Flame - Posters of the Spanish Civil War
162 pages. Index of artists. After years of neglect "... The posters reemerge for the first time in full glory. One Hundred and forty are reproduced here (in glossy colour) - a truly representative collection. This volume is not only a work of documentation, of commemoration, of love and devotion to the epic battle of the republic, it is an art book as well. The often total coherence of the form, content and 'impact' of the communication makes the posters something that goes beyond the purely documentary, datum, on the level of historical and political evidence, and places them squarely in the history of revolutionary art." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this impressive compilation. Book
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Life Magazine: October 7, 1966 *Pull-Out Cover Shows Ian Fleming at the Wheel of a 4.5l Bentley Per Moonraker*
134 pages. Features: China's rampaging Red Guards - Young Chinese put old ways to the torch - eyewitness report; The war that turned China into Mao Tse-tung's Price (part 3) - after the Japanese invasion and Chiang's victory, the Communists reap the harvest; The New Whitney Museum; James Bond Alias Ian Fleming - Part 1 of a biography of the famous thriller writer; Word is out about the Boston Strangler - Albert Desalvo named in book; Albert O. Jones quoted as confessing to old Hawaiian killing; City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis; Are Girle Athletes really Girls?; and more. Nice colour ad for the (red) 1967 Plymouth Fury. Great two-page colour ad for the 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Colour ad for Ford's Mercury Cougar. Two-page colour ad for the 1967 Chevrolet Caprice (yellow); Two-page colour ad for the 1967 GTO (blue); 1 page colour ad for a green Chrysler (with optional 440); 5 nice pages of colour ads for the AMC 1967 cars; Reverse of fold-out front cover is an outstanding 3-panel colour ad for the 1967 Camaro which measures approximately 30" x 14". Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front. A sound copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 12 December 1970
30 pages. Features: How to Actually Enjoy Winter; The Moosemeat Special - the train that runs from Sault Ste. Marie and stops for two liquor stores, whenever a hunter wants on or off - and whenever it hits a timber wolf; How to actually enjoy skiing; Southern exposure - fashion feature; Maggie Grant; The Granddaddy of Draft Dodgers - Jim Blake and his brothers fled into the mountains to escape from Prime minister Borden's conscription law at the time of the first world war; Myrna Lorrie - getting back on track at age 29; Everything about cats with Dr. Robert Williams; Doug Wright's Family. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Kinegal, Jane; Simpson, Sam: Editors
Growing Food on the Queen Charlotte Islands
111 pages. Bibliography. References. Index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Haida agriculture; Early investigations; First Settlers; Fairs; War; Five Farms; Farmers' Institute; Experimental Plot; Wild Cattle; Experimental Plot; The Later Years; Soil Treatment; Climate; The Crops; The Gardiners. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
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MacSkimming, Roy
Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972
274 pages. Index. "It was the greatest hockey series ever played - and it changed the game forever. Weaving together rich period detail, illuminating anecdote and thrilling hockey action with eyewitness accounts from Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Harry Sinden and other series greats, the author evokes as never before those 27 legendary days in September 1972." - from back cover. Great black and white illustrations. Discard stamp and remainder mark to top edge else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy Book
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Myer, Dillon S.
Uprooted Americans: The Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority During World War II
Bibliography. Index. Many black and white illustrations. "This inside view of the administrative and policy-making process, of what actually happened in the relocation centers, gives you a meaningful understanding of events of the war years." - from dust jacket. Author served as Director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Usual library markings. Hinges open. Above-average wear. Front free endpaper removed. Not pretty but a worthy reference to this important historical period. Book
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Phillimore, Lord
Recollections of a Prisoner of War
321 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. "I hope that this truthful record of one of the by-products of War will show how far human kindness and courage in most depressing circumstances are brought out by the great appeal of a great war to the generous instincts hidden in peace." - from Preface. Foxing to some pages. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper. Very heavily worn. Backstrip tattered. Reading copy only. Book
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Stephens, W. Ray
The Harps of War
271 pages. Although based on fact, and the reminiscenses of the author, the characters in this book are fictional. "It all began in 1936 when I joined the famous band of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) in Winnipeg.... As the band drove into liberated Hilversum, we were overrun by tearful and cheerful Dutch because we had liberated them. Others would follow but we were the first. 'We are not soldiers,' we explained. 'But you have liberated us.' " Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Linklater, Eric
Our Men in Korea
79 pages. Index. Many black and white photographic plates. "Explains the part played in Korea by British Commonwealth Forces from the beginning of the war until July 1951. Based, in large part, upon the author's observations on visiting Commonweatlh units in 1951." - McFarland 1392. Former military library copy with usual markings. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Macksey, Kenneth
The Shadow of Vimy Ridge
264 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Arras has seen much of war, and this account of the city and her defence reflects the story of the British army at three crucial moments in its development." - from dust jacket. Above-average but not excessive wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound reading copy. Book
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Aviation and Marine International - Atlantic Edition: October/November 1977 *YC-14 AND YC-15*
Features: A Surprise Attack on NATO; Cairo - 6th October 1977 - impressive military parade marks anniversary of the October War; A New Silvercraft (projects); A Dangerous Fish (projects); More Boats, Fewer Ships - current practice; Wiesbaden '77 electronics exhibition; YC-14 & YC-15 face to face - great article with two colour fold-outs and many more photos; Electronic Warfare; Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Aviation and Marine International - Atlantic Edition: April 1978 *The Fairchild Republic A-10 (Warthog)*
Features: Mirage 2000; War on Mines in the West - the evolution of mine warfare in the Western World from the end of World War II to the present (mine-sweeping/mine-hunters); The Italian Aerospace Industry; The Fairchild Republic A-10 - great article with colour fold-out; Panama Canal Treaty - Selected Documents (part 1); Additional illustrated stories. Former price on front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Born in Battle Magazine No. 18
64 pages. Features: The Daring Raids - The Dam Busters (The Moehne Dam) - Tamuz 17 Project in Iraq; Sinai-Palestine 1914-1918 - with many archival black and white photos; Paris Air Show 1981 - impressions and outlook; The Suez Crossing 1973 - Part 1 - The Plans (multiple photos and many details); Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, August 22, 1965 *COVER PHOTO OF TED KENNEDY AND JFK*
Features: Thurgood Marshall, the new Solicitor General; Our War Aims were Wrong - by crushing the Axis under the policy of unconditional surrender, the victors destroyed a vital balance of power; Bizarre Reactions become normal uner the influence of LSD, which science continues to study to determine if it is good - or evil (includes photo of Timothy Leary on page 57); The Emergence of Senator Ted Kennedy; Doctors bring preventative medicine to major league baseball - pictures of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale; Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Surfing. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1965 *KU KLUX KLAN COVER PHOTO*
Cover photo of Klansman holding child, both dressed in Klan attire. Features: What's wrong with germ warfare? - Dr. Clifford F. Rassweiler; Blandness in the White House; The Future of the Republican Party, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Klu Klux Klan - We've Got Nothing to Hide - article with many excellent colour photos; Bosses make lousy lovers - Helen Gurley Brown; Mastah Freddy's modest miracle - Lt. Fred Hargesheimer couldn't forget the natives who saved his life when he crashed in New Britain during the Pacific War; The house that art built - MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art; Filet of hippo, anyone? - the National Zoo Restaurant in Washington, DC; The masquerade of a counterfeit doctor - Thomas M. Novak. Several great full-page colour car ads, including the Ford Mustang. Great colour ad for a Honda 50 which gets 200mpg. Above-average wear to covers which have some tears, otherwise clean and unmarked. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1965
Features: Do we want to win the war on poverty? - Christopher Jencks; The Inner-Directed Mood - Stewart Alsop; Madison Avenue - the big invisible sell, by Martin Mayer - long article with many photos; Elizabeth (Liz) Montgomery of the TV show 'Bewitched' - Sam gets her way; The Case of the Dead Bookie - Mark Fein and the death of Rubin Markowitz; Attack on the unborn - last year up to 20,000 children suffered prenatal damage because their mothers contracted German Measles while pregnant; Grits, Magnolia and skiing - snowmaking allows downhill skiing in the southern U.S.; The filibuster's best friend - Richard Russell, dean of southern senators, braces for his greatest fight; Richard Rodgers - the No. 1 melody man. Many nice colour car ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1965 *GO GO MADNESS!!!*
Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Chang, Iris
The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
290 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "This meticulously researched book is a moving drama that pays fitting tribute to the Americans and Europeans living in Nanking who risked their lives to rescue the Chinese people from rape and extermination." - Nien Cheng. "A powerful, landmark book, riveting in its horror." - Richard Rhodes. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding open at title page. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, February 9, 1963 *ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH BY ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN*
Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, February 16, 1963 *SID CAESAR / DAVID SARNOFF*
Features: Oceans of ignorance - by Dr. Milner B. Schaefer - how the US may lose the wet war unless it steps up marine research; Babies without Homes - for the first time in a generation, there are more children available than couples wanting to adopt; Mona Lisa - Leonardo's famed masterpiece keeps a wacky date with America; Hush-Hush Resort - Mexico's unspoiled Puerto Vallarta; ; Hail Caesar - Sid Caesar returns after two years in semi-hibernation; David Sarnoff's Vision - he dreams of how electronics will change our future; Wild World of European Sports; My Secret Swiss Stake; Jewish Cooking; Progress goes marching through Georgia - Gov. Carl Sanders and the advancement of racial integration. Colour Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, December 1, 1962 *BERLIN'S TUNNELS TO FREEDOM*
Features: Why husbands die young, by Peg Bracken - they think it's sissy to admit they're sick - until too late; Our New Strategy - the alternatives to total war; "My Favorite Quotation" - provided by many famous people; Artist of the Third Eye - Marc Chagall; ; Now Ruthie Newton is in Step - she was found half-dead when she was an infant in India; Digging a Way to Freedom - the human story behind tunnel 29 from East to West Germany; Coaches on a Collision Course - Army's Paul Dietzel and Navy's Wayne Hardin drive their teams toward a showdown in Saturday's gridiron classic; Why I Quit Hunting - a hunter tells how the slaying of an antelope struck him with so deep a sorrow that he put away his guns forever; Stormy Sage of Weather Control - Dr. Irving Parkhurst Krick not only predicts rain, he makes it for his clients by seeding rain clouds from planes; Hollywood's new breed of Soft Young Men - Richard Beymer, Troy Donahue, George Hamilton, Mickey Callan, George Chakiris. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1961 *LESSONS OF THE CUBAN DISASTER/BURT LANCASTER FEATURE*
Features: Judge Peter M. Horn of New York - We Don't Call Them Criminals; Colorado's Mountain Paradise - Rocky Mountain National Park; Seething Singapore - John Masters reports from the troubled melting pot that serves as seaport and warehouse for Southeast Asia; The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster, by Stewart Alsop; Untold Stories of the Civil War - The Miraculous Steamboat - The U.S.S. Chattanooga got through to the 40,000-man Union army trapped and starving in Chattanooga, Tennesee; Burt Lancaster Feature. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, April 28, 1962 *HUGH HEFNER / THE REV. DR. HARGIS / MIGHTY DICK STUART OF PITTSBURGH*
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 31, 1962 *PHYLLIS DILLER / KENNEDY'S GRAND STRATEGY*
Features: The case against fallout shelters, by Hanson W. Baldwin; Kennedy's Grand Strategy - how we can counter Russian aggression, yet avoid nuclear war; People on the way up - Barbara Dodd, Frederic Chapin, James Messler - the Star Farmer of America, Geraldine Pearson; Hell Creek Crossing - a story excerpted from the newest work of William Faulkner; Phyllis Diller - the unlikeliest star (funny!); Where are those dream cars? - a car that drives itself, uses no gas and runs without wheels is more than idle speculation (conclusion); Holidays at Sea - cruisemaster Mike Burke runs a profitable fleet of pleasure boats; Why do they call my husband crazy? - Jim Piersall's wife tells of her husband's illness - and recovery; Krishna Menon - the Wasp of New Delhi - India's left-leaning chief delegate to the UN - terrible-tempered, anti-American and prime planner of the Goa invasion. Front cover loose but present, otherwise average wear. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 30 - July 7, 1962 *BIRTH CONTROL PILLS / BEANBALL*
Features: You Yanks are Hypocrites, by Prakash C. Jain; New Case-History facts on Birth Control Pills - nearly a million American women are now using oral contraceptives; My War with Sharks - a Navy frogman, armed only with a special gun and his own lungs, battles sharks at arm's-length range; Safeguarding our Atomic Secrets - Lewis Strauss points up the urgent need to maintain security in the nuclear age; People on the Way up - Delores (Dee) O'Hara, Theresa Howard Carter, Dick Ruedebusch; Landing on Easy Street - in 25 words or less - Deborah Schneider won $500/month for life for her blurb for Plymouth cars; My Old Army Carries On - Bernard Asbell, a World War II dogface inspects his old basic-training camp and discovers some changes; The Beanball - Myth or Menace? - 5 big-leaguers argue their views on baseballs biggest troublemaker; The Winds of Freedom - Dean Rusk writes on the ideas which inspired our Revolution and are still the world's most potent force; The Bouncy World of a Breezy Blonde - Brooke Bundy. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Herzberger, F.W.
The Family Altar - Brief Daily Devotions Based on Selected Scripture Texts - Military Presentation Copy
Presented to Sidney Murray "In remembrance of your safe return after services overseas in World War II" by St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Seebach's Still, Ontario, on 19 January 1946, by Pastor Albert F. Pollex. Laid in is a handsome two-colour certificate to Mr. Murray from the Army and Navy Commission of the Lutheran Church. Church blindstamp upon front free endpaper. Book is otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A very special copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, October 19, 1963 - Walter Gordon Cover Photo
Features: Fantastic two-page colour ad for the Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Coupe in Desert Beige; What Goes On Behind The Mask of Modern Marriage? - the first public account of the marriage studies now being readied for publication by Dr. John Cuber; Champion athlete Dave Steen lashes out at 'The Badgers who ar Handcuffing our Amateur Athletes'; The Craziest kill of the U-boat war - Harold Lawrence wryly recounts the briefly famous exploit that won him a DSC from King George and inspired an RCN recruiting poster; What really happened to Walter Gordon?, by Peter C. Newman; What was behind the James Coyne Fiasco, by Peter C. Newman (Coyne was governor of the Bank of Canada); The incredible talents of animal actors - with photos - Sheila Burnford's account of seven days at the Disney set outside Hollywood (Burnford wrote "The Incredible Journey"); The Tragic Strength of Apartheid, by Blair Fraser; The brigantine Pathfinder races the Renown III and St. Lawrence II on Lake Ontario - the first such race since the nineteenth century - nice photos; Nice colour centerfold for the 1964 Oldsmobile models; Colour Coke photo ad on back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Bit of peripheral sunning to front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Canada. Air Force Headquarters. Air Historical Section; Power, C.G. (Introduction)
The R.C.A.F. (Royal Canadian Air Force) Overseas - The First Four Years
418 pages. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Includes list of recipients of Orders, Decorations and Medals. Roll of Honour (new to this revised edition). Glossary. Index. "... Presents a picture of individual gallantry and cool courage comparable only to the finest tales of ancient chivalry, and destined inevitably to a permanent and glorious niche in the annals of Canada." - dust jacket. Prior owner's details inside front board covered by blank white label, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Cooke [3e] p.322. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 18 January 1919 - The Passing of Theodore Roosevelt, Friend of Britain
Pages 65-100. Features: Charming ad for Kruschen Salts inside advertorial front cover; Front cover photo of German soldiers returning to Berlin "Undefeated"; Article by G.K. Chesterton about the hope of the Polish people; Photo of the late great actor Sir Charles Wyndham; Photo of German troops entering Berlin; Photo of Liebknecht addressing large crowd in Unter Den Linden in Berlin; Two-page photo spread of the new "Lloyd George" Coalition Government - the Premier and some of the chief members - 32 photos in all; A Great Day in Prague - several photos show President Masaryk's Triumphal Entry; Photo of Filippo Cavallini, Luigi Dini and Adolfo Re-Riccardi in prisoners dock as they face charges of treason; Several photos of the aftermath of war; Photos of British Peace Delegates departing to Paris; Three pages of photos of Theodore Roosevelt - A Friend of Britain; Aerial Records and Record Making - article by C.G. Grey - Editor of "The Aeroplane"; Superb full-page photo portrait of Poland's Ignace Paderewski; Two pages of illustrations depicting heraldic symbols for commemorating naval traditions - some new badges for British War-Ships; Nice centerfold illustration by Arthur Watts shows a coastal motor-boat engaging a German seaplane; Large aerial photos of bombs exploding at sea; Illustration of new Undersecretary of State for Air - The Rt. Hon. Major-General J.E.E. Seely, D.S.O., on his charger Warrior; Photo from Baghdad of the British Commander-in-chief reading a proclamation announcing the surrender of Turkey; Great full-page ad for Kenilworth Cigarettes shows young lady on bed lighting her smoke from that of her male companion in uniform; Aerial photo of bombed Red Cross hospital at Etaples; Photo of Herr Ebert addressing a meeting of non-commissioned officers; Interesting photo of the interior of the Sopwith Aviation company's big factory at Ham, Surrey; "Astol" ad on back cover claims to restore natural colour to hair which is grey or faded; numerous other gorgeous vintage ads. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
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