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Maclean's Magazine, 15 August 1956
Features: Nice full-page colour ad for IH (International Harvester) service trucks inside front cover; Where we stand in the fight to conquer cancer - compelling answers from eight of the world's top experts; Who will the federal Liberal Party choose after Louis St. Laurent? - Lester Pearson, C.D. Howe, Pau Martin Sr., Jack Pickersgill, Harris or Winters?; How to be a singing star, the hard way - WAlly Koster, a baritone familiar to Canadian television viewers for the past four years; The Secret War of Charles Goodeve - Part 1 of 3 - in the desperate race against German weapons this Canadian was a brilliant innovator - with but a small band of fellow wizards he helped devise the weirdest tools of war - some of the revealed here for the first time - with black and white photos - the plane killer, the Cockatrice (flame-throwing truck), and the Hedgehog; It takes women to run a railroad - John Norman Harris; The desperate plight of the small farmer - for generations he was the most important man in Canada, but now he can't make a living - what's behind the tragedy and what probably lies ahead; How to Tolerate In-Laws, by Parke Cummings; Fantastic full-page colour ad for GWG (Great Western Garment) clothing; Nice colour photo full-page ad for the Buick Special 2-door convertible; Similar ad for the Pontiac Laurentian 2-door convertible; Clyde Gilmour's brief 'Best Bet' rating of the movie, The King and I. Please note: right half of page 7 has been removed but it only contained ads for finance and whiskey companies. Average wear. Address label. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 168 - Vol. XIV, December 1909
Features: Photo of Mrs. Romilly (and her dog) who is to honour the London Scottish by presenting the Battalion Prizes on December 9th; Company Notes; Shooting results; Scots Abroad - a rifle club in the Falkland Islands; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Editorial; Hallowe'en; Archibald Forbes, War Correspondent; "A" Company March; Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men; "The Bonnet"; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 134 - Vol. XII, February 1907
Features: Photo portrait of The Right Hon. R.B. Haldane, K.C., LL.D., M.P., Sec. of State for War; Company Notes; London Scottish Appeal Fund; Distribution of Prizes; Notes on the Attack (based on Infantry Training 1906) by the C.O.; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Major Malcolm in India; Sergeants' Mess - lecture by Major Neish; Recruiting poster; Company dinners; Rab and his friends - presentation to Pte. R.W. Simpson; High Life in Hong Kong (A St. Andrew's Ball), by Captain Gordon Casserly; Correspondence; Photo of "Our Early Uniform"; The Massacre of Glencoe - important historical document; and more. Bit of writing atop back cover. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 139 - Vol. XII, July 1907
Features: Photo portrait and write-up re: The Late J.G.S. Anderson, the late Captain of "E" and "G" companies; Our Regimental Plate - No. IX - the "Lumsden" Cup - photo of the cup and article by 3304; Notes by the C.O.; Annual Inspection - with photo of Cols. Balfour, His Grace The Duke of Argyll, and Montgomerie, all in top hats at the saluting base; Shooting Results; Notes on Writing Orders, Tactical Problems, and the War Game (a); and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 123 - Vol. XI, March 1906
Features: Photo and write-up on Lance-Corporal L. Graham H. Horton-Smith; Company Notes; Football Results; Our Regimental Plate - No. II - The Lord Elcho Cup - photo and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Scots Abroad - a letter from John MacDonald in Bulawayo; Editorial; Buglers; Class Firing - the conditions under which Class Firing will be conducted for the current year; The History of the Glenworple Highlanders - Chapter III - Assyria; Photos of the "H" Co. Cup and the Sergeant's Mess Cup; Assault at Arms; Peninsular War - Second Campaign... Corunna (October 1808, to 16th January, 1809), Lecture by Major F.H. Neish (with map); Correspondence; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 124 - Vol. XI, April 1906
Features: Photo and write-up on Colour-Sergeant John Galbraith; Company Notes; Quaint Old Scots Laws now to be Repealed; Our Regimental Plate - No. III - "The Lady Elcho Cups" - with photos and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; The History of the Glenworple Highlanders - Chapter III - Ancient Greece; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Private Denis Kelly of the "Michaels" - his observations on matters Military; Team photos of the football clumbs of "K" Company and "A" Company; Roll of Marksmen, 1905; Peninsular War - Second Campaign - Corunna (October, 1808 to 16 January 1809) - a lecture by Major F.H. Neish (continued from a prior issue); and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Includes laid-in sheet advertising a "Smoking Concert" sponsored by the L.S.R.V. on April 28th. Book
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The London Scottish Regimental Gazette: No. 125 - Vol. XI, May 1906
Features: Photo portrait of Field Marshall Earl Roberts; Company Notes; "To the Memory of Brave Men" - Unveiling of War Memorials at Head-Quarters, April 10th, 1906 - with photos and list of members who served in South Africa and whose names are engraved on the "Roll of Honour"; Notes by the C.O.; The Early Days of the London Scottish; Chronicles of the Cookhouse - Easter 1906; Intelligence and Information in War - Notes of a lecture by Col. R.N.R. Reade; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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Haller, Johannes; Translated By Ethel Colburn Mayne
Philip Eulenburg: The Kaiser's Friend - Volume One (1) Only
Undated. Circa 1930. Frontis portrait of the Kaiser in 1890. Five additional black and white plates. Translated from the German. "Intended to be a rehabilitation - the rehabilitation of a man who is dead, and to whom life meted out the bitter wrong of being condemned unheard for things of which he had never been guilty. Prince Philip zu Eulenberg died an outlaw. He was held to have been a pernicious influence on his Emperor, responsible as few others were for the German disaster." - from Preface. Bit of writing atop list of illustrations. Faded jottings inside back board. Back hinge starting. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
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No Price Too High - Canadians and the Second World War: Three VHS Video Tapes Complete with Slipcase
Three VHS video tapes complete with slipcase. The complete 5-hour series as seen on television. 294 minutes in total consisting of 6 episodes of 49 minutes each. "More than one million people, out of just eleven million, volunteered to serve. Their achievements, overseas and at home, were remarkable... Traces Canada's role in WWII from the pre-war years through 1945... Chronicles the events of the war starting with the dedication of the Vimy Memorial in 1936 and ending with Victory in 1945. Narrated by Arthur Kent and features historian Terry Copp." - from back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, May 5, 1962 - Toronto's Fluoridation War
Features: Great colour ad for the new International Scout, by International Harvester, inside front cover; Brief article on Toronto's fluoridation war; Ask the Name of the Lion - part 1 of Ralph Allen's novel of pride, fear and lust in the new Congo; How to tell the Grits from the Tories, by Peter C. Newman; Case history of a drug addict - 35 wasted years; More laughs to the square revue - Spring Thaw's fiftieth season; Alberta's Affair with a Rainmaker - for six years farmers near Knee Hill have been taxing themselves to buy the services of Irving P. Krick, who says he can prevent drought and destroy hail; Political struggles in Cottage Country; Colour Molson Canadian ad shows photo of bridge under construction over the Welland Canal near St. Catherines; Fantastic colour full-page ad for the GM Acadian. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 21, 1962 - First Open Survey of Psychochemical Weapons
Features: Austin Willis in ad for Matinee cigarettes; First Open Survey of Psychochemical Warfare; Disarmament and the PentagonThe last days of NORAD - Peter C. Newman finds that our elaborate missile defense system may be out of date - with photo of Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon and a photo outside NORAD's under mountain facility in Colorado Springs; What wine snobs don't know about wine; Sudbury and its 17,000 man labour war; How phobic fear makes monsters out of molehills; Patricia McDonough describes how she broke into New York show business and went straight to the bottom; W.O. Mitchell explains why Summer Cottages are wasted as status symbols; Earth Detectives will probe two miles under Canada's crust this summer to examine the earth's mantle; The New Women in Politics - Pauline Jewett and Judy LaMarsh. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 24, 1962 - The War Against Werner Von Braun
Features: Some of Johnny's Best Teachers are Machines - startling changes in our classrooms, by Sidney Katz; How the 1,500 man OAS is warring on France - l'Organisation de l'Armee Secrete/The Secret Army Organization of Algeria; Grand Prix - colour photos of auto racing on Canada's first major-league track at Mosport; We're still wrong about the Russians, by Michael Barkway; The War Against (Werner) Von Braun - Douglas Kendall now tells how his aerial photographic unit fought history's first battle against missile attack - with great photos; Around the world on a package tour, by Marika Robert; The Last Tyrant of Taste - S. Morgan-Powell of Montreal; Great colour full-page ad for the Seattle World's Fair; Nice colour photographic full-page Pepsi ad; Great full-page colour photo ad for a white 1962 Buick convertible; Colour photographic Molson's Canadian ad featuring a shot of the newly launched "City of Victoria" ferry which will soon service Vancouver Island and the mainland; Paris, February 8, 1962 - a murderous march; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Avril 1964 *COVER PHOTO OF DANIEL JOHNSON*
Features: Le Cauchemar Du Professeur Haumont; Les Marcheurs De La Paix Font La Guerre Au Racisme; Daniel Johnson, par Jean-V. Dufresne; Il etait une fois une ile, la Tortue, habitee par un 'fou'; Masques et Statuettes D'Afrique a Montreal; Les 'Homos' au Canada ils sont plus d'un million. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Aout 1965 *15 TOURS DE PISTE - AVEC JEAN OUELLET, DE RIMOUSKI, AU VOLANT DE SA COBRA*
Features: La revolte gronde chez les etudiants americains - et les Noirs humilies, et le Vietnam, et Saint-Domingue, c'en est trop!; Le Rimouskois a la Cobra - Jean Ouellet - many photos; Quand le Cardinal Roy etait soldat - trois temoins racontent les annees de guerre du nouveau prince de lEglise; L Guerre a la Pacotille - Yves Sylvestre; A Chacun sa Gaspesie, par Louis Martin; Un Remede contre la mort - le froid!, par Jacques Keable. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 6, 1965 *THE MANY WOES OF TV'S MOST EMBATTLED HOUR*
Features: nice colour photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont inside front cover; Can we succeed in NATO without really trying?; How to survive in the CBC jungle - and other TV Tribal secrets - Percy Saltzman interviews Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman; Madman on the Bridge, by Kenneth Walker, MD; Churchman Reverend A.C. Forrest talks back to critic Pierre Berton, author of "The Comfortable Pew"; Toronto - Canada's high-rising, high-living, heady new sophistocate, by Ian Sclanders; When little Tommy Burns outslugged the biggest brutes in boxing - a Maclean's flashback to the stridently Canadian boxer who barnstormed around the world in 1908 - with photos; How Canada Lives - the winter Samaritan of Ile-aux-grues - Albert Vezina wrestles a freight-laden boat over Canada's toughest delivery route to keep a St. Lawrence island alive; Now we know why C.D. Howe had Churchill screaming 'sellout' regarding uranium in the second world war. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 3 December 1966 *MONTREAL - 16 PAGE REPORT*
Features: Gorgeous red photo ad for the 1967 Buick Wildcat Custom Sport Coupe inside front cover; Eilat hopes to be a tourist Garden of Eden; Montreal - how a big town became a great city - many great colour photos with article; Photos and brief write-ups for: Ulysse Comtois; John David Molson; Michel Robichaud; Louis Tavan; Hubert Aquin; Monique Leyrac; The Idler's Guide to Montreal; Can Israel cope with war adn peace? - Blair Fraser in Tel Aviv; Powell Smily reveals the living hell he experienced through Blackmail - it cost him $25,000 before he wrote this story; England Swings? - maybe the tiny, mini-skirted minority, but Alan Edmonds found the country depressing and he's glad to be back home; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Enjoying Montreal without speaking French; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Ad for the Bolens snowmobile called the Diablo Rouge; Crown Zellerbach ad features a majestic black and white photo of their log-laden train passing over the Nanaimo River on it's way to the Ladysmith booming grounds; The NFB - rudderless in a sea of talent - according to Don Bell; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, March 1980
Features: Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition - explored more than 450,000 square miles; Fiji Island Sojourn - a challenge proferred and accepted; Search for the Origin of Life - planetary exploration might give better insight; Kenya's Lake Paradise; African Widlife Crisis - the impact of recent hostilities; Captain Finn Ronne - In Memoriam; Solomon Islands Cargo Cults - lingering impact of a world war; The Beira - more antelope than gazelle; The Bimini Underwater Discoveries. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Author Unknown
Haakon 7: Utgitt Til 75-Arsdagen 3 August 1947 Av Den Norske Regjering
400 pages. Index of people. Black and white photographic plates. Presents the biography of Haakon VII, King of NorwayAll text in Norwegian. Laid in are two large folded tables indicating lineage/family trees. Writing atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with very light wear. A large and handsome volume in pleasing condition. Book
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Military Enthusiast Magazine, Volume 5 / No. 26
34 pages. Features: B-52 Heavyweights in SAC; The Malvinas War - an Argentinian Viewpoint; Team Spirit 1983 - the annual exercise of US and Korea; Company C - Destroying the Marines; Elite Forces of the United Kingdom. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy loaded with great photos in colour and black and white. Magazine
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Robin, Martin
Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940
372 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "Between the two world wars a range of extreme right-wing groups sprang up across Canada... Explores the roots and development of these groups in the 1920s and 1930s... Begins with the Ku Klux Klan, carries on to Adrien Arcand's National Social Christian Party, then considers Fascist influence and organization in Canada's Italian and German communities during the depression decade. Concludes with how the latter declinded and were suppressed following Canada's entry into the Second World War." - from half-title page. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding somewhat shaken but intact. A worthy working copy of this fascinating glimpse into a little-known facet of Canadian history. Book
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Carter, David J.
Behind Canadian Barbed Wire - Alien Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1946
334 pages. Fascinating coverage of this little-known Canadian history. Discusses camps at: Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Kingston, Bowmanville, Gravenhurst, Banff, Ozada, Kananaskis, plus Oldham, England and Dachau, West Germany. Many black and white photos and diagrams. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Waters, Stuart
One Man's War
173 pages. Black and white maps. Author served in Dartford, Narvik, Gibraltar, Liverpool, Durban, Benghazi, Tobruk, AcreBsharri, Cairo, London, Paris and Bonn in the second world war. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Heal, S. C.
Conceived in War, Born in Peace: Canada's Deep Sea Merchant Marine
234 pages. Index. Bibliography. Copiously illustrated in black and white. "Deals specifically with Canada's very special war shipping effort in both world wars, and gives attention to the postwar aftermath." - from Introduction. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Wagner, Pat: Editor
True West Magazine, August 1971
72 pages. Features: The Porum Range War - Mack Alfred, Pony Starr; Last Train Through Hell - Hinckley, Minnesota; A Place Called "X" - Cab Tabernor, Geordie and Robert Alpine MacGregor; The Three Mysteries of Indian Joe; Grass-Grown Streets in Sierra Nevada - Part IV; Rodeo Champion Earl Thode - Earl Earnest Thode; City Without Night - Granite, Montana; Galveston Disaster in 1900; Ettie and the Doctor Book - Ettie Lashbrook; Flight from the Bosque Redondo - Oo nah kah; The $125,000 Saddle - Ed Bohlin. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: November 1948
282 pages. Special Features: The Affinity of War and Peace; Elder-Agers - Recreation in Philadelphia; God and the American People; What Men Notice About Women; Charles Francois Daubigny 1817 -1878 (inc. full page colour print of "The Farm"); This Is the Way the World Eats; Around Charlottesville; Children Without Neuroses; How Much Sentiment At Your House?; As Russia Sees Us; How America Lives: Her Husband Was an Alcoholic - John M. Freeman, Frances Freeman; When to Worry About Your Drinking; and Let's Banish the Whooping-Cough Menace. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Dodge, Zenith "Pacemaker" Radio, Coca-Cola, and Seven Up. Full page black/white ad with Ava Gardner promoting Woodbury Powder. Half page colour Little Lulu Cartoon Kleenex Tissue Ad. Full page black/white movie posters for "Johnny Belinda" starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres. Average wear. Few short openings front and back panels fore-edge. Small pen writing front panel. A sound copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine: August 1950
152 pages. Front Cover: Sally Fraser, California Special Features: A Primer on the "Cold War"; The Little Princesses: Happy Bride, Proud Mother (Queen Elizabeth / Princess Margaret of Britain); Baby's Sixth Month: Here's to His Health and Happiness; The Hidden Tax Bill on $50 a Week; How America Lives: Meet the Sheheens of Camden, SC - Austin and Lucile Sheheens; and "My Child Won't Eat". Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Ford Mercury, Seven-Up, Kraft Velveeta and Camay. Full page colour print ad with movie starlet Maureen O'Hara promoting Lux Flakes. Full page black/white ad with Mary Martin (South Pacific) promoting Rayve Home Permanent. Average wear. Pg 81/82 medium piece cut out. 12cm opening back panel at spine. A sound copy. Magazine
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Sayer, Ian; Botting, Douglas
Hitler's Last General: The Case Against Wilhelm Mohnke
393 pages. Index. Notes. Black and white photographic plates. "Presents for the first time the full range of the evidence against the man who could well be the subject of the last major war crimes trial." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Binding sound. A worthy reading copy. Book
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McGrath, John M.
Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi
114 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white sketches. "Author was a young Navy pilot who was captured by the North Vietnamese in June of 1967. As a former POW, McGrath believes that the story of life in the prison camps must be told, both for the sake ofhistory and to disprove forever the claims of the Communist government that the captured men were treated humanely, and in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention... The starkness of the drawings underscores a remarkable chronicle of lives constantly in peril, almost unimaginable in civilised times." - from dust jacket. "This book cannot be adequately described - it has to be seen and read." - Armed Forces Journal International. Sadly, the author's own country has reverted to similar barbarism at its Guantanomo Bay prisoner camp. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reference copy of this powerful and sobering work. Book
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Preston, Richard Arthur
To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College since the Second World War
248 pages. Index. Black and white photos. "With the Korean conflict and the advent of the Cold War, the emphasis in defence planning shifted away from the reservist amateur and towards the regular professional. In this work, Dr. Preston examines this change and its impact on RMC." - from dust jacket. Minor bow to front board. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound, clean copy. Book
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Steel, Captain Harwood
The Canadians in France 1915-1918
364 pages. Index. Eight sketch maps. "... A detailed - though entirely unofficial - history of the Canadian Army Corps, that great force of four divisions and "Corps Troops" which won for the Dominion the praise of the world as the mother of warrior sons." - from Author's Note. Usual library markings. Chip from bottom of page 383 - all text present. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Ex-Library
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Hopkins, Anthony
Songs from the Front and Rear: Canadian Servicemen's Songs of the Second World War
192 pages. Bibliography. Title Index. First line index. "Herein you will find the words and music that sustained Canadian soldiers, sailors, and airmen through the six years of loneliness and fears... Contains jovial drinking songs, outrageous songs, fighting songs, wistful songs, cynical songs, and just plain bawdy songs!" - from back cover. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this precious keepsake. Book
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Ladies' Home Journal: July 1938
100 pages. Front Cover: Al Parker illustration. Special Features: Dictatorships; What Do the Women of America Think About War?; Music for the Millions; What Do the Vitamins Do For Us? and Marie Curie, My Mother. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking, short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Coca-Cola, Jell-O, and Campbell's Soup. Full page black/white Lux Toilet Soap ad with Dorothy Lamour. Half page black/white Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher Cartoon Kellogg's All Bran Ad. Average wear. Few short openings front cover and first page fore-dge. Small mailing label top right corner. A sound working copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal: October 1941
178 pages. Cover: Al Parker Red Cross Illustration Special Features: Women in War; Mr. & Mrs. (Signius Wilhelm) Knudsen; If You Ask Me (written by Eleanor Roosevelt); I Collect People; What Are You Afraid Of?; Can Radio Educate?; Camp Followers of the Army; Worry About Children; How America Lives: Meet Lonnie Frey - (Linus Reinhard) Lonnie and Mary Frey; Forty Tiny Babies and Not One Feeding Bottle; and Fatigue in Children. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Campbell's Soup, Ivory Soap, Pillsbury's Pancake Flour, and Kellogg's Rice Krispies w/ Snap Crackle Pop. Short story illustrated by John P. Falter. Half page black/white ad with Rita Hayworth promoting Woodbury Cold Cream. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Full page colour ad with Paulette Goddard promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Above-average wear. 5 inch opening pgs 165-178. Back cover in rough shape - missing chunk and bears a large opening. Small mailing label atop front cover. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal: July 1942
112 pages. Cover: Al Parker "United We Stand" illustration. Special Features: Children of Working Mothers; If You Ask Me (written by Eleanor Roosevelt); How War Came; How America Lives Producing for Victory: Meet the Browns - Langford Leroy and Nadine Brown; Now is the Time to Have Children; and When to Vaccinate. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Coca-Cola, Ivory Soap, and Kellogg's Rice Krispies w/ Patriotic Snap, Crackle, Pop. Full page colour vintage Lucky Strike Cigarette print advertising with American Artist Doris Emrick Lee (1905 - 1983) painting. Full page colour ad with Rita Hayworth promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad for Kool-Aid illustrated by Norman Hall. Short stories illustrated by Andrew Loomis and Roy F. Spreter. Average wear. Few small openings front cover fore-edge. Back hinge starting. Small mailing label right corner. A clean copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal: October 1942
158 pages. Special Features: The Stake For Women; If You Ask Me (written by Eleanor Roosevelt); Victory is in the Air; Make Jealousy Work for You; How America Lives: Meet the Berckmans - Fred and Mary Berckman; Can Women in War Industry be Good Mothers?; and The Child Who Won't Eat. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Campbell's Soup, Palmolive Soap, and "Women in the War" Camel Cigarette ad. Full page colour vintage Lucky Strike Cigarette print advertising with American Artist James O. Chapin (1887-1975) painting. Full page black/white ad with Marlene Dietrich promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour movie poster for "The Major and the Minor" starring Oscar winning actress Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Short stories illustrated by Andrew Loomis and Al Parker. Average wear. Few small openings front cover fore-edge. Back hinge starting. Small mailing label right corner. A clean copy. Magazine
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Ladies' Home Journal: June 1947
278 pages. Special Features: Emergencies; Our Unstable Foreign Policy; Peace and Another War; Self-Confidence; American Art: Thomas Eakins 1844-1916 (inc. full page colour "Sailboats Racing on the Delaware" painting); The Unwed Mother; Your America; The Silver Lining; Child's Play; How America Lives: Parking Double - Charles and Nan Stone, George and Jane Stone; How Much Discipline for Baby; and The Colicky Baby. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including United States Steel (USS), Plymouth, Kaiser-Frazer (car) Corporation, Welch's Grape Juice and Seven-Up. Full page colour ad with Gregory Peck promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Full page black/white Simmons Beautyrest ad with Maureen O'Hara. Full page colour movie poster for "Ivy" starring Joan Fontaine. Full page black/white movie poster for "Honeymoon" starring Shirley Temple. American Illustrators include: Al Parker, Jon Whitcomb, Douglass Crockwell, Walter Baumhofer, and Keith Ward. Average wear. A clean copy. Magazine
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Look Magazine, August 30, 1960 *The Bloody Story of Mussolini*
84 pages. Cover: Mussolini. Special Features:The Bloody Story of Mussolini "The first fascist was a power-hungry socialist who pushed Italy to war and disaster". and Why the Cold War Turned Hot - Nikita Khrushchev. Other features include: Why our Hospitals are in Trouble; TV's "Nature Boy" - Jack LaLanne; Queen Elizabeth and her Daughter...Royal look-alikes (inc 5 pages of photos); The Lives and Loves of Simone Signoret; School for Sit-Ins and Rookie on a Romp - Baltimore Orioles Ron Hansen. Full page colour vintage print ad with Harriet Nelson promoting Eastman Kodak Company. Full page black/white Peanuts Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz print advertising for 1960 Ford Falcon. Above-average wear. Water stains throughout. Small mailing label front cover bottom left. Binding sound. Magazine
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Look Magazine, August 13, 1963 *The Fight Over the A-Bomb*
94 pages. Special Feature:The Fight Over the A-Bomb written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey (Seven Days in May) "Hidden in 'top secret' files since World War II, here is the dramatic story of the attempt by many nuclear scientists to convince President Truman that the a-bomb should not be used to destroy Japanese cities without warning." Other features include: Jeffrey becomes a man - Jeffrey Marmer; Louisville, KY: The city that intergrated without strife; Sam Winter retires from old age; The busy life of the Ambassador's Wife - Evangeline and David K.E. Bruce; Love on the Campus - Carole Wells; Physical Fitness: A report of progress by President John F. Kennedy; Natalie Wood: Child of Change and A Man Must Look Up - Del and Fran Crandall, Milwaukee Braves. Average wear. Small mailing label front cover bottom left. Binding sound. Magazine
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Pethick, Derek
The Nootka Connection - Europe and the Northwest Coast 1790-1795
281 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Explains the far-ranging factors bearing on the Nootka stage: European War, the Russian presence in the northern Pacific, the onset of Spain's waning fortunes, America's thrust west, the British East India and South Sea trading monopolies, and the steady advance of coastal charting by explorers like George Vancouver. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
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Boston, Noel
The Dutiful Edith Cavell
16 pages. Undated - appears to be circa 1940s. Provides information about the heroic British nurse who helped Belgian and British soldiers slip through German lines in the first world war, and was shot by the German authorities for her efforts. Unmarked with average wear. Foxing to first and last pages. Modest age toning to covers. Bonus: includes two unused black and white picture postcards, the first showing Mount Edith Cavell in the Canadian Rockies, the second a photo of the majestic Edith Cavell memorial erected in Brussels. Book
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The Outlook Magazine, Volume 117, September - December 1917
1.25" thick. Provides abundant coverage of the first world war plus stories about the Russian Revolution. Includes many wonderful black and white photos. Occasional library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 1 July 1938
40 pages. Features: Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; The Wedding Present, by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Design for a National Capital, by J.F.C. Smith - a bird's-eye view of the fifty-year plan for the beautification of Ottawa, with black and white photos; Streamliner, by Ray Millholland; 29,000 Miles over the Arctic - by Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon, who is convinced that airliners can fly the circumpolar skyway from America to Asia - with black and white photos; Arena Dramas - highlights from the sports parade as recorded by the dean of Canadian sports writers Elmer W. Ferguson - with photo of "Mighty Mite" Auriel Joliat; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - Cut the Barbed Wire! - he describes the addiction to war and military spending; Looms of Conflict, by Burton L. Spiller - in which crisis strikes at Rainbow Mills and a young man in love discovers romance can be bitter sweet; Norman Reilly Raine - a writing career launched in Maclean's leads to an Academy award for the best screen play of the year, by Harry Bossin - with photo of Mr. Raine; Who was Joe Boyle? (conclusion) - Snatching treasure from Bolsheviks, rescuing prisoners, defying fleets, signing treaties - "Uncle Joe" was nothing if not versatile, by Flora Alexander Boyle - with black and white photos; Nice full-page black and white ad for Pontiac cars; Gorgeous colour back cover ad for Buckingham cigarettes features a hummingbird illustration. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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Author Not Stated
Before We Go Back
64 pages. "A pictorial record (in black and white) of Norway's fight against Nazism, both inside and outside the country." - subtitle. Also includes informative text. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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British Ministry of Information
Ocean Front: The Story of the War in the Pacific 1941-1944
66 pages. Loaded with black and white photos plus supporting text. Heavy external wear. Has been folded in half. A worthy reading copy. Book
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British Ministry of Information
Tunisia - The (English) Army at War
60 pages. Undated. Circa 1944. Loaded with amazing black and white photos and supporting text. Above-average wear. Folded in half. Fragile to handle but still a worthy reference copy. Book
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Sullivan, Paul R. - Director; Arens, John J. - Compiler, Georgetown University Contributors: Mann, Jesse A.; Marginot, Robert A.; Preece, Richard M.; Smith, William J. Jr.; Dunbar, Moira; Martin, John C.; Wilson, J. Tuzo
Canadian North: Technical Assistant to Chief of Naval Operations for Polar Projects (OP - 03A3)
Prepared for the Technical Assistant to CNO for Polar Projects. "While this work is primarily prepared for military planners, it also presents the foundation study for engineers undertaking any planned construction. It is hoped that the study leads to consideration of a transportation approach from the inland rather than depending entirely on the difficult and unreliable sea approach to certain areas requiring logistic support... Covers in detail the north Canadian mainland and Baffin Island." - from Preface. Includes several bibliographies covering the geographic areas studied. Black and white illustrations and maps. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Sphere Magazine, Christmas 1916, Vol. LXVII, No. 879a
40 pages. Divinely illustrated front cover. Features: Paris in War Time - an impression of 1916, by E.V. Lucas; The Surrender - a story by Mary Gaunt; Russia - The Charm of Old Moscow, by Alan Lethbridge and illustrated by Arthur Watts; The Sculptor of the Madonna and of Countless Angels - the Della Robbia, by Cecil Headlam; Navarino - a battle of the allies - France, Russia, and Britain against the Turks; The Mystery of a Dress Coat, by Shelland Bradley; Several beautiful full-page colour portraits; Colour centerfold portrait entitled The Last Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, from a painting by F. Matania; How He Proposed - the different ways in which heroes have proposed to heroines in the novels of 1916; Louvain, 1916; Nice full-page colour ad for Eno's 'Fruit Salt'; Fantastic black and white photographic full-page ad for Napier Motor Carriages; Nice black and white photo ad for the Invincible Talbot automobiles, manufactured by Clement Talbot Limited; Smaller attractive black and white ads for Humber Cars, Austin Motor Co. Ltd., Vauxhall Motors Limited, Crossley Motors, and The Sunbeam Motor Car. Original protective advertising outer layer still present and affixed. Prior owner's name and address atop front advertising cover. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Moderate wear. A very beautiful magazine indeed! Book
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 17, 17 February 1894
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abby; The Municipal Buildings, Aberdeen; City of Munich, Germany; Lake Maggiore, Italy; The Hotel De Ville, or, City Hall, Paris; Trollhattan Falls, Sweden; Water Carriers in Cairo; The City of Damascus; Tea Plantation in China; City of Calcutta, India; The State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.; City Hall Square, New York; The City of Zacatecas, Mexico; Hyde Park, London - a busy street scene; Royal Museum, Berlin; The Ghiberti bronze doors in Florence. Moderate wear. Tears/chips to fore-edge of first three pages. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Macaulay, Margaret (Peggy); Macaulay, Horace "Red"
Surrey Girl - "Not Just Another War Bride"
288 pages. Black and white photos. "Includes many interesting tales of the wife of a permanent force military man. Her first home in Canada was on a telephone repeater station in the Yukon. The couple's travels, during post-war and cold-war periods, resulted in more than 20 residences spread through most of the provinces, and a four-year sojourn in West Germany with NATO forces." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Maclean's Magazine, 1 December 1965
52 pages. Features: Nice colour photo 1966 Pontiac ad; Our New City of Science - Sheridan Park Research Community; Off-Season Skiing - in Winter? - Hardy Canadians ski Alpine slopes when they are too cold for the locals; To Russia with Love, and a few pointers on patience - Fred Bodsworth and his around-the-world expedition of bird watchers; The General Who's Fighting for Peace - Tommy Burns attempts to halt the spread of nuclear arms; Agent 007 and the Great Christmas Caper - last year's war toys and brassiere-clad dolls seemed bad enough, but now along comes James Bond to flash a startling array of ingenious weapons and pose a bewildering moral dilemma for parents; Our World-Famous "unknown" master artist - Philip Aziz; and more. Above-average wear. Page 29 loose but present. Book
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