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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - January 1967 Vol. 32 No. 3
80 pages. Features: Fights near Edmonton; New Guinea Patrol; Expo is coming to Canada!; New Patrol Vessels for Expo; Late Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood CMG passes; Fort Walsh; Written Off - Kalomo District; Tire Technology; Commissioner George B. McClellan on Police Leadership; Cpl. Bradley's Dogs Sweep N.B. Field Trial Titles; International Traffic in Stolen Gems; A Windsor, Nova Scotia Crime; Moonshine in Toronto; An Angler's Last Journey in the Northwest Territories; Leads to Murder; Asst. Commissioner T.V. Sandys-Wunsch; and more. Prior owner's details blacked out upon page one else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Goulet, George R. D.
The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied
286 pages. Index, bibliography. "Provides a critical legal and political analysis of Louis Riel's sensational 1885 trial for high treason, and in so doing arrives at some unique and startling conclusions." - from back cover. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Sound reference copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1952
Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War - Part 169, November (Nov.) 13, 1917. The Disorganization of Russia, March-July 1917
Cover portrait of M. Kerensky. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: Rise of the Soviet; Bolsheviks and Maximalists; Jewish Influences; Indiscipline in the army; Kerensky abolishes the death penalty; Alexeieff as Generalissimo; German Propaganda; Lenin and his agents; Resignation of Miliukoff; Provisional government's note to the allies; replies of Great Britain and France; No annexations and no indemnity; Resignation of Gutchkoff; A coalition cabinet; the 'soldier's charter'; dismissal of generals; Kerensky's visit to the armies; chaos in Russia; confiscation of land; mutinees in the fleet and armies; The Sukhomlinoff Trial; All-Russian congress of Soviets; Drunkenness revived; Treatment of the Imperial family; The Revolution and the Church; Fraternization with the enemy; women solderis. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: the following issues may be of interest: Part 13 - The History of the Russian Army/The Russian Army at the Outbreak of War; Part 32 - Russia's Problem - The First Invasion of East Prussia; Part 33 - The Russian Conquest of Galicia; Part 44 - The last phases of the Russian Winter Campaign (1914-15); Part 50 - The Russian Offensive in the Carpathians (1915); Part 55 - The Campaign against the Baltic Provinces/ The Austro-German Victory on the Dunajec; Part 56 - The Reconquest of Przemysl and Lemberg; Part 61 - The Fall of Warsaw; Part 65 - The Advance from Warsaw, Last stages of the summer campaign (1915); Part 97 - Russia at War; Part 105 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - first phase; Part 110 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - Second phase; Part 122 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - last phase; Part 124 - The Russian Campaign in 1915-16 in Armenia; Part 159 - The Adbication of the Tsar. Magazine
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True West Magazine: January 1984
Features: Society Honours James Willard Schultz; They Loved Billy the Kid - to them he was 'Billito'; Venerial Diseases among Frontier Troops; The Craziest Trial in California - the first criminal trial held at Sutter's Fort; The Boy Who Turned in the Younger Gang - 17 year-old Asle Sorbel; This Texas Outlaw Had Nine Lives - Dan Bogan, alias Bill McCoy; Shootout at Poplar Grove - Gun Battle in Kennewick, Washington rivaled OK Corral Showdown; The Outlaw Trail - winding from northern Montana to Miles City, then south to Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming; A Sensational Holdup - More than 75 people robbed for 3 horses by the Martin Gang on the Osage Indian Reservation; Wanted - Roy Bean - Before he was the law west of anything, he was arrested in San Antonio for resisting an officer and assault; Killings in Wyoming - Otto Franc's famed Pitchfork Ranch in Big Horn County, Wyoming; Settlers Loved Berry Pies - Forgottin Frontier Food, Part III. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Old West Magazine: Winter, 1975
Features: The Infamous Plan of San Diego; Clay Allison of the Washita; The Lost Bradfield Mine; Most Debonair Adventurer in the West; A Ten-Ton Payload; The 'Lone Survivor' is always suspect; 20th Century House-Raisin'; The Trial of Bob Doxey; We Used to Live Someplace; Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1995: The Saladin Trial
Articles: The Saladin Trial - A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions; Hardly Heroes - Canadian Merchant Seamen and the International Convoy System, 1939-1945; The Origin and Growth of the Canadian Customs Preventive Service Fleet in tyhe Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec, 1892-1932; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 22: November 1908 Through April 1909 (Does Not Include February 1909)
Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1966 *Invitation to a Ghost Walk*
Features: Peraltas Ghost Walk; Miracle at Martinsville - the Martin Brothers of Hall County, Nebraska; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Elks Lodge Badges; The Flume Riders; Hardluck General - George Crook; Mining - the game with no rules; Fair Trial at Encinoso - Charley Siringo; I Saw the Whitman Massacre - The Ghost Town of Goldstone; When a man and a horse square off - Marion McGinty; Miramount - Francolon's Castle of Mystery; The Capture of 'Jesse James' (a Stallion); Wild Old Days!; Circle City - the end of the road. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News: July 14, 1883 *Daphne Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow*
Front page loose but present and presents six sketches of 'The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow" - The Daphne capsized upon launch with much loss of life. New items: Mr. Gladstone immolates eight ministerial bills; Wimbledon competition more popular than ever; Malagasy envoys leave for home; Good news from Ireland - a lessening of crime and upset; Update on Cholera outbreak at Damietta; The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow; Live-Saving Apparatus on the Serpentine; The New Steam-Ship Tartar; Banquet to Mr. Henry Irving; National Sports; Parisian Sayings and Doings; Death of the Duke of Marlborough; Royal activities; Church news; Benevolence and Self-Help; Ben Nevis Meteorological Station; Funeral of Mr. W. Spottiswoode; General Home News; The City of London College; Two pages of Classified Ads (please note that this page is loose but present). Full page of sketches of "Complimentary Dinner to Mr. Henry Irving at St. James Hall. Half-page illustration of 'Trial of life-saving apparatus on the Serpentine, Hyde Park. Half-page engraving of "The Union Steam-Ship Company's Royal Mail-Steamer Tartar. Very dramatic two-page engraving entitled "The Great Disaster at a Ship Launch on the Clyde - Sinking of the Daphne, with Two Hundred Men. Above-average but not excessive wear. Includes separate supplement which consists of two full-page engravings - the first shows a kneeling man gardening while tenderly holding an infant, the second shows a sad kitchen scene from a picture by W.H.Weatherhead with the caption "For men must work and women must weep, Though storms be sudden and waters deep, And the harbour bar be moaning - C. Kingsley". The Ben Nevis Summit Observatory - Six sketches on one page. Opening of the City of London College - two sketches; Funeral of the late Mr. W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., in Westminster Abbey - 4 sketches. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling overall. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
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Sheftel, Yoram
Show Trial : The Conspiracy to Convict John Demjanjuk as 'Ivan the Terrible'
379 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "The acclaimed account of the infamous show-trial of John Demjanjuk, falsely accused of being one of the most monstrous Nazi war criminals." - from back cover. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. "A fascinating and disturbing story." - Julia Neuberger. Unmarked with moderate wear. Tight and square. A sound copy. Book
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Life Magazine, 9 December 1966 *THE VIETNAM DRAFT - WHO BEATS IT AND HOW*
152 pages. Features: Evading the Draft - major article; Spunky King Hussein fights to hold on in Jordan; Dino De Laurentiis - Moviemaker - nice photos; High end steam engine auction; Levi Smith's Bonus - 15 Grandchildren (part III); The day the Bible beat the monkeys - John Scobes and the Scopes trial; Adam Clayton Powell repels the press; Come with Mr. Capote to a Masked Ball - many photos; The perforated curtain - a surprise package in Eastern Europe (with photos); the sole surviving 'river Bushman' of Okavango swamps; Round wooden home overlooks Bolinas Lagoon; Too many pigeons in San Francisco. Great 2-page colour ad for the 1967 Barracuda! 1967 colour Buick ad. Average wear. Address label on front else unmarked. Book
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Hounds and Hunting Magazine - October 1962
112 pages. Features: Top personalities in Beagling; A successful new beagler; Canadian corner; Dog Health; Wanted - a Mister Blue Cap; History and Handling III; Ch. Easterwood Tony - the Undefeated Beagle; The Northland Beagle Club; Questions and Answers on Field Trial Judging; Many dog owners aware of flea and tick problems; Rabbit hounds and rabbitat; New York Federation Winners Stake. Cover photo of FD. CH. Sycamore Shadow. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, 5 June 1965 *I SPIED FOR THE RUSSIANS, PART 2 / TED KENNEDY COVER PHOTO*
Features: I hate Paris in the springtime - Robert Daley; The Intellectuals and Vietnam - Stewart Alsop; Ceiling Zero (The Human Comedy); Massachusetts - Rogues and reformers in a state on trial - Ted Kennedy content (so what has changed?) - the Garage Scandal; Horses in the living room - the Assael family has many pets, including 5 miniature horses; "I Spied for the Russians" - Robert Glenn Thompson; India - downhill toward disaster - the year since the death of Nehru; Shirley Temple - her eyes are still dancing - great photos!. Colour Ford Station Wagon ad. Super colour Cadillac ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1962 *THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE CUBAN CRISIS*
Features: Uncle Sam's Rejects - obese and illiterate, more youths fail the draft today than ever before; In Time of Crisis - two top reporters combine forces to reveal the drama and struggle out of which emerged a turning point in the Cold War; Citizen (Orson) Welles Rides Again - he tries for a comeback with a movie (The Trial) based on a nightmarish novel; Paridise in Peril - exotic Thailand stands in the path of Red advance - can U.S. support help it survive?; Battler Against Bigotry - Gordon Hall targets U.S. Nazis - photos of John Birch head Robert Welch and American Nazi Party Fuhrer George Lincoln; The Champion Who Can't Beat a Memory - Emile Griffith remains agonized by Paret's death; Christmas Feast for Gourmets; Bad Drivers Cost You Money - auto-insurance buyers are becoming outraged about paying for accidents they don't cause; How are you? - Don't tell me - the nation has flipped over ills and pills; Has Success Spoiled Big Labor? (part 1 of 2) - the unions have grown arrogant and fat - large black and white photo of a smiling Jimmy Hoffa as he leaves court. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 3, 1962 *ADOLPH EICHMANN AND HIS TRIAL*
Features: Gutter Politics, by Bruce L. Felknor - in every election year unscrupulous smear experts ply their shoddy trade; Eichmann and His Trial (Part 1 of 3), by Gideon Hausner - the full story, his prosecutor, the Attorney-General of Israel; Change of Pace on the Night-Club Scene - New York's grab bag of entertainment holds a varied fare for the enterprising visitor; His Car is Named Desire - with the racy Avanti, Studebaker's Sherwood Egbert hungers for big sales; 'Genius' at Green Bay - Jim Tayolr delivers running power for the Packers; From Greece - Food Fit for the Gods; Tale of Two Cities - San Francisco vs. Los Angeles; Memoirs of a Monster, by Boris Karloff - the world's most famous bogeyman looks back on his 35-year career in horror; Can we still be first on the Moon? (PLEASE NOTE: PAGES 83-84 MISSING FROM THE MOON STORY. Nice colour Cadillac ad inside back cover. Average wear. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1962 *MARLON BRANDO - MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY*
Features: Let's keep the filibuster, by Hodding Carter; The Kremlin's Persecution of Jews - a firsthand report on the newest campaign inside Russia to stamp out an age-old religion and way of life; The Mutiny of Marlon Brando - how the petulant superstar broke the budget in a marathon remake of Mutiny on the Bounty; Famous people who don't remember me - a veteran Government official's amusing encounters with Winston Churchill and other celebrated figures; People on the way up - Seena Hamilton, discus champ Dave Weill, Nancy Schoonover, bus magnate George Sage; On Trial - Jimmy Hoffa and Adam Clayton Powell, part 2 of 3; How to get along with the Bees; Dinner with the Kennedys - what to expect when you receive Washington's most sought-after invitation, a bid to spend a gala evening at the White House; Radio's Pill Pusher - Carlton Fredericks, self-styled 'foremost nutritionist' has amassed a fortune endorsing vitamins and wonder foods. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 17, 1962 *FLYING TIGER 923 - WE DITCHED AT SEA / EICHMANN AND HIS TRIAL*
Features: Don't blame your parents - Dr. Vincent T. Lathbury; Conflict of Interest - Can Congress crack down on its own members?; Geraldine Page - Diamond who likes it Rough; Why I Quit the Ministry - a frank, disturbing story by an anomynous clergyman; The Hidden Weaknesses of Communism - the world's new nations see that Moscow won't provide progress and freedom; Breezy Designs for the Office - businessmen spend millions a year on lavish office decor - mostly to please the female help; Eichmann and his Trial (conclusion); Gridiron Phantom - Washington State's Hugh Campbell; "We Ditched at Sea - the ordeal of Flying Tiger 923". Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, June 9, 1927 *MAN-LIFTING KITES*
Features: The Termagant - a story of youth and age; The Picture Puzzle - III - continuing Miss Blake's fascinating mystery story; The Eye-Sharpener - An early adventure in salesmanship; On Trial - the story of a boy's first adventure in the business world; If I could travel; Miscellany; Fact and Comment - Lindbergh and the world, Our new Money; This Busy World - a new Russian Terror, Ireland at the Polls; The Y.C. Lab - Man-Lifting Kites; Best Puzzles of the week. Kraft paper affixed along cover fold of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Government of British Columbia
Statutes of the Province of British Columbia, Passed in the Second Session of the Fifth Parliament of British Columbia, Begun and Holden at Victoria, on the 27th January, and Ending on the 28th April, 1888
Public Acts relating to: Bills of Sale, Bridges, Cattle Ranges, Civil Procedure, Companies, Assize Courts, County Courts, Absconding Debtors, Trial of Controverted Elections, Foreign Mining Companies, Game, Granville Squatters, Justice's and Coroner's Oaths, Crown Lands, Land Registry, Licences, Mechanics Lien, Married Woman's Property, Regulation of Coal Mines, Quartz Mines, Municipalities, Pawnbrokers, Poisons, Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (re: Beecher Bay Branch), Kootenay Railway, Shuswap and Okanagan Railway, Recognizances, Public Schools, Sherrifs, Statutes, Supply, Taxes, Trustees, Vancouver Preservation of the Peace, Noxious Weeds, Workmen's Wages. Private Acts relating to: Mtasqui Dyke, New Westminster City, Nicola Mining Company, Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, Kootenay Railway, Harrison Hot Springs Tramway, Victoria City Official Map. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Book
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Thoroughbred and Classic Cars Magazine, March 1975 - Bullnose MG Cover Photo
72 pages. Features: Mercedies 450 SLC On the Road; SS 100 Coupe - a unique preview of Jaguar's postwar sports cars; Half-Litre Club - the cheapest Grand Prix breeding ground of the early post war period; Peter Collins - one of Britain's top quartet of the fifites; Chris Maye and Doug Shoebridge work on their Maybridge; Weld it Yourself; Land's End Pilgrimage - 50 years ago Cecil Kimber gained a Gold Medal on the Land's End Trial in his MG Speckal - Michael Bowler takes the same care back to the same hills - wonderful colour photo and centerfold; 1937 Lincoln Zephyr V-12 - artice and nice colour photo; How the AA Was Born - Looking back at the birth of the Automobile Association; Mini Manual - Triumph TR2 1952/55; History of the Post War Touring Car - Part 4; Racing in the Classic Car Championship; Classic of the Month - Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint; and more. Minor moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Thoroughbred and Classic Cars Magazine, September 1975 - Freddie Dixon
68 pages. Features: The Classic Maserati 250F; Bead Blasting at PAO Metal Finishers; Freddie Dixon - feature article with photos; Classic Concours and Hill-Climb; On the road with the Volkswagen Scirocco TS and Polo; Prince Albert's Own - PAO Preparations; Wolseley Hornet Special; Speed Merchants Classic Car Championship Round 4/5; Jaguar D-Type Replica - the first post-war car to be reproduced in series - with magnificent colour photos; The Lakeland Trial 1974; Classi Choice - Part 2 - a further batch of the more interesting cars from the Autocar series of used car tests; Sons of 328 - the final instalment on the post-war influence of the BMW 328; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Hives, Frank; Bailey, Elliot;; Marshall, James Vance; Gibbons, John; "Indian Agent"; "Nemo"; Carr, C.B.; Morritt, W.B.; Dudgeon, A.M.; Dwyer, Harry H.; Dunn, H.H.; "The Captain"; Melville, Fred J.
The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, November 1929
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Cowan, James A.; Fleming, Brandon, Morley, Dennis; Swinton, Allan; Bunce, Frank; Soucisse, Victor C.; Roberts, Leslie, Lugrin, N. De Bertrand; Ross, Ann; Griffin, Dave; Phillips, Hec; Murphy, Kathleen, Campbell, Helen G.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 15 July 1936 - Revolt in Quebec
48 pages. Features: Nostalgic Goodrich Tire photo ad inside front cover shows grieving family and their car after a blowout; Nice full-page photo ad for International Harvester heavy duty industrial equipment; Nice full-page photo ad for Canada Dry beverages; Horse Doctor (fiction); Our Olympic Chances - article with photos of athletes Hank Ciemen, Sammy Richardson and Phil Edwards; Honors Easy - fictional story of what happened aboard an Atlantic liner when two card sharps picked a 'sucker'; Revolt in Quebec - second in a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian's interpretation of Quebec's reform movement and the viewpoint of French Canada toward Confederation; Nemesis in Hind - a story of glamorous India, the India where death strikes mysteriously and superstition holds sway; Treasure Under the Arctic's Rim - the mineral wealth of Great Bear Lake; A Man and a Hundred Maids - a story of how too many girls may be worse than none at all; Gun-A-Noot - the strange case of the Indian who defied police for thirteen years and emerged from his trial as a hero; Beautiful full-page black and white photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring horse "Margo C", owned by Miss Faith Lyman of Montreal; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover holding loosely by one staple. Book
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Malmignati, The Countess Guerrini; Mossman, Frank; Bowen, Patrick; Low, Captain John; Martyn, Frederic; Sprange, Grace; Clarke, Charles J.L.; Willard, Reta G.; Terry, Michael; Ingwersen, A.; Beaman, Sir Frank; Hawkes, Ernest W.; Stuart-Reid, G.E.
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, August 1927 - Through Spain in Disguise
Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while tramping from Hope to Princeton, British Columbia; Hunting the Australian Buffalo - article with super photos; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part III of a trip from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a forty-foot yacht; Trial by Jury - an awkward trial in India; Tuk-Took - a little Eskimo girl, her step-mother, and her dog - with nice photos; A Dead Man's Diary - an unknown white man perishes in the African wilds, but leaves his diary; The Mystery of "Dutch Henry" who was wanted "dead or alive" by two governments; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Proudfoot, Dan; Benoit, Mme Jehane; Grant, Maggie; Carmichael, David; Grescoe, Paul
The Canadian Magazine, August 3, 1968
20 pages. Features: Diefenbaker's Final Fray; Erna Paris describes her juror service during a rape trial; Fantastic colour photo for GM featuring John Brooks and his red Firebird; Calgary Stampeder receiver Terry Evanshen thinks himself to touchdowns; Salad recipes; Doug Wright's Family; The St. Boniface hawks - two of the Lowthian brothers have fought in Vietnam in U.S. units. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Richards, Dick; Lane, John Francis; Craven, Jenny
Films and Filming Magazine, May 1976 - Cover Photo of Donald Sutherland in 'Casanova'
50 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for 'The Slipper and the Rose'; Photo-illustrated interview of Alexander Stuart; 'Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins' - photos; Fellini's 'Casanova' - photos; Article - 'Film and Politics in Italy - Francesco Rosi's Example; 'Extinct Corpses' - photos; 'Unbroken Arrow' - photos; Article on Britain's successful Children's Film Foundation; 'The Battle of Billy's Pond' - photos; 'All the President's Men' - photos; Reviews - 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', 'Inserts', 'Rendezvous at Bray', 'Ankur' (the Seedling), 'Steppenwolf', 'Legacy', 'Mahogany', 'The Homecoming', 'Autobiography of a Princess', 'The Hindenburg', 'Operation Daybreak', 'Butley', 'The Black Bird', 'Story of Sin', 'The Master Gunfighter', 'Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold', 'The Swiss Conspiracy', 'The Anti-Christ', 'Trial by Combat'; 'Nickelodeon' - photos; 'Aces High' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Worden, William L.; Foster, Bennnett; Mansfield, Norma; Upson, William Hazlett; Dawson, Peter; Walsh, Thomas; et al
The Saturday Evening Post, August 6 1949 - We Bucked the Arctic Ice Pack in the Icebbreaker U.S.S. Edisto
112 pages. Features: Nice 1/2 page color Fatima cigarette ad; 1-page color Hudson car ad - circus scene; 1-page color Maxwell House coffee ad features illustration of band practicing in the living room; Nice 1-page color ad for Zenith radios; 1-page color ad for Kelly Springfield tires features lady swimmer; RPM Delo ad features nice color photo of excavation scene in rugged territory; Renegade Canyon (fiction); The Man Who Hunts Old Bones - photo-illustrated article about Dr. Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Schoolgirl in Pursuit (fiction); G.I. Jim's In Love with Paris - color-photo illustrated article about the 1,300 American veterans studying and living under the G.I. Bill of Rights in Paris; Night of Trial (fiction); Senator Paul Douglas - Hard-boiled idealist - article with photo; We Bucked the Ice Pack - aboard the U.S.S. Edisto icebreaker as it ventured to previously unexplored waters - article witih photos; New help for that headache - combining medicine with psychiatry; Get That Rig Through (fiction); Tales of the Talking Taxis - photo-illustrated article explains how two-way radios are improving life for taxi drivers; Botts and the Brink of Disaster (fiction); Is Japanese Youth Going Communist? - photo-illustrated article; 1-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco man Dan Currin of Oxford, NC; Nightmare in Manhattan (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile cars featuring the new 'Holiday' coupe; 1-page color ad for De Soto cars features the new 'Carry-All' sedan; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features blind-folded woman smoker; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford Trucks features photos Howard Johnson of hotel chain fame; Nice color-photo Kodak ad with rugged scenery in background; 1-page Chevrolet ad features the Styeline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Nice centerfold color ad for Mobilgas; 1-page color ad for RCA Victor televisions features Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; 2-page color ad for General Motors (GM) shows their range of products; Nice half-page color-photo ad for Florida orange juice; 1-page ad for Northwestern Mutual features photo portrait of Walter Geist, President, Allis-Chalmers; Nice 1-page color ad for TWA shows happy children in flight; 1/2 page color ad for Meadow gold ice cream; 1-page color Gulfpride motor oil ad shows new car by lighthouse; Nostalgic half-page 2-color ad for Elmer's of New Orleans features their Mint Bublets and Chee-Wees; Nice 1/2 page color ad for Beech-Nut gum; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly Digest of World Affairs, September 30, 1933 - Reichstag Fire Trial
24 pages. Contents: Huge Gap Between Farmers Get and Pay Out Must be Closed; New Jersey Wants a Canal; Bank Deposit Insurance; Ambassador Norman H. Davis aims for European disarmament; Foreign news; cartoon of Hitler playing saxophone to 'That Nordic Strain'; Five defendents in Reichstag burning put to trial; Cuba Still Unsettled as Presidents Come and Go - Who's Next?; Report from German labor camp; Photo of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana who was bruised in an auto accident; Photo of Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Board of Temperance of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Photo of Senator Thomas D. Schall, of Minnesota; Will H. Hays, motion picture czar, seeks films which mirror adult life; Photo of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Marketing; Capital Chat; Aviation - Newark, NJ Airport is busiest and biggest in the world; Cosmetics not new; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly News Review of World Affairs, February 6, 1937 - Cover Photo of Terrible Indiana Flooding Due to Burst Levee
24 pages. Contents: Battle over control of the nation's electrical power - with photo of TVA Director David E. Lilienthal; Photo of Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade; Photo of Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina; Conflict between General Motors and the United Automotive Workers of America - with photo of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Terrible Ohio River Flood; Rise of Militarism in Japan - with photo of Osami Nagano; Photo of Trotzky (Trotsky) who, from Mexico, claims the Moscow trial against him is "A giant frame-up"; Terror in Lisbon; Spanish Havoc - with photo of rebels praying; "Mirror Writing" - reversed writing; Old Turk exhibits his third set of natural teeth while Edmonton youth develops his fourth set!; Photo of Wendell Wilkie; Women in the News - Miss Mary Anderson; "Jane Bull"; Movie World - with photo of Martha Raye; Photo of Mrs. Molly TicklePitcher of Turnit Top Ridge, TN; Two-page article on Benito Mussolini - with photos; Photo of 'Little Corporal' J. Toussaint Bernard; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Most of back page missing. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, April 1, 1946
Contents: Color Borg-Warner power train ad; Color Ford Mercury Ad; Pearl Harbor - Stimson Tells; Dr. Alan Nunn May; Meat - the nation's first big postwar racket; 'Food and Peace' by Ernest K. Lindley; Letters of complaint pour in re: Bikini atom-bomb tests; nice color Four Roses whiskey ad; Color Farnsworth phonograph/radio ad; The Draft - Services clamor 'give us more time'; 'Live Kimono Ban' - General Eichelberger issues an order to the ground forces forbidding public displays of affection with the Japanese; Great black and white ad for International Trucks; Admiral Pratt's notes to the Editors on the Prospects of War and Peace; Black and white Fairchild Aircraft ad; The United Nations (U.N.) Security Council begins its work; nice color ad for White trucks; Color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; Food - hand of politics weighs on the starving; Interesting illustrated Chase-National Bank ad; The Kurds - History's Goad; Dr. Petiot, France's newest Bluebeard, goes on trial; two-page color Goodyear rubber ad; Igor Gouzenko makes his first public appearance since going into voluntary protective custody - accuses Fred Rose, Canada's only Communist Member of Parliament, and Sam Carr, national organizer of the Labor-Progressive (Communist) party, and more; Alberta's Premier Ernest Manning; Job help for Handicapped is difficult but rewarding; Weather at the Crossroads - the Bikini Bomb/Operation Crossroads; Color Boeing ad; black and white Kaiser - Frazer Corporation auto ad; Slugging it out for President of UAW - Walter Reuther; Nice color ad for the New York Central Railroad; Color American-Marietta ad; Brooks Brothers sold; Ralph Robey argues for a housecleaning of government economic forecasters; Photo of Alexei, Patriarch of all Russia; color ad for the Highway Trailer Company (truck trailers); Freuhauf Trailer ad; Color TWA ad; Nice color Reo Truck ad; Bernard Baruch appointed as the U.S. representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Above-average wear. Some soiling to front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, August 6, 1945 *B-25 BOMBER STRIKES EMPIRE STATE BUILDING - PHOTOS, ILLUSTRATION AND TEXT - EERILY SIMILAR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001!*
Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Thomas, P.F.
The Trial of J.V. Stalin: Exercises in Critical and Moral Reasoning - Critical Geopedagogy No. 1
108 pages. Bibliography. Intended to "Disseminate and synthesize some critical, but very scattered existing knowledge concerning the human costs of J.V. Stalin's once-acclaimed achievements." - from page one. Contents clean and bright. Light external wear. A quality copy. Book
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Harpers Magazine Bound Issues: January 1961 Through June 1961
Feature articles include: The Pressures Against Air Safety; My Other Books, by James Michener; The Baffled Young Men of Japan, by Peter Drucker; Senator Dodd vs. Kenneth Tynan; New Start in Foreign Policy; The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King - James Baldwin; Can de Gaulle Avoid Civil War?; Hoodlum Priest and Respectable Convicts; Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and the Bill of Rights; Surgery for Strokes; The Tyranny of Multiple-Choice Tests; Writing the "Inside" Books; How to Talk to People, If Any, on Other Planets; California's $2 Billion Thirst; "Anti-Americanism" in Canada; Trial by Combat in American Courts; Adenaurer and McCloy; The Good Slum Schools; The Happiest Creatures on Earth?; John Gunther; Adam Yarmolinsky; Special Supplement - the mood of the Russian People; Secret Angola; Portrait of Bevin; Up-to-date Texas; Nobel Prizes; Apocalypse; A cure for bewitchment; The Pitchman; America's Wandering Scholars; The Coming Bust in the Real Estate Boom; The American Negro's New Comedy Act; William Carlos Williams; A Small Atomic Accident; Riesman and his Readers; and more. Light wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
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Liberty Magazine, 20 March 1937
58 pages. Features: Britain's Mailed Fist; Beginning - Henrietta's Big Night, by Edwin Balmer; Hollywood's Income-Tax Jitters; Death for a Lady's Arms, by John Erskine; Why the Grand National (Horse Race) is a Bad Bet; Sweepstakes Winners - glimpses of some lucky and unlucky Canadians, including winner Wilfred Leblanc; Three-Cornered Square, by Alberta Williams; Love Letters of a Prizefighter and a Hollywood Extra, by Bert Green; America's Queerest Trial - the Case of the Murdering Millionaire, by D. Thomas Curtin; Discretion be Damned, by Elmer Davis; Studebaker ad (only $959!); To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; St. Patrick's Day in the Morning, by Helen Dore Boylston; What Queen Elizabeth is Really Like - an intimate look at a charming new monarch and her romantic rise from gloomy Glamis Castle to Britain's shining throne, by Princess Catherine Radziwill; Youth to the Rescue - the kids make good, by Beverly Hills; Will German Sea Power Challenge Great Britain?, by Rear Admiral Yates Stirling; Marching Dead Men, by Terry Brennan as told to Captain W.J. Blackledge; Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Magazine
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Time Magazine, 28 March 1949 *Cover Portrait of Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe*
68 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 6, 1983 *INSIDE CANADA'S PRISONS*
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, January 31, 1983 - Joe Clark on Trial
Features: Afghan exiles agony; Trudeau's bad press over expensive foreign junket; A hard choice for viewers - First Choice pay TV seeks to run soft-core porn in the face of protests; Large weapons haul by RCMP on highway 99 near Whistler, BC; Cover story - Winnipeg '83 - Joe Clark on Trial - major article with colour photos; Q&A with Joe Clark on the politics of leadership; Maureen McTeer - more than just a political wife; Boston's Kevin H. White; Dark Stain on British Bobbies - tragic mistaken identity killing; Greymac, Seaway Trust Crown Trust - unfolding affair; Apple computer upstages its rivals - interesting article from the early days of PCs; Peter C. Newman on the potential of Pay TV; Canadian Pro Golfers begin a new season - photo of Dan Halldorson; The mob, a death and the NFL; Physics article on the results of proton decay research; Donald Forster and the University of Toronto - a restrained President; Time magazine quibbles with a red border around The Alberta Report; Relentless growth in private cops - Intertec. Average wear. Address label removed from front cover resulting in some peeling. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, October 25, 1982
Features: Commodore Vic-20 computer ad; Tourist invasion ends solitude of Queen Charlotte Islands; Richard Hatfield wins again in New Brunswick; Litton Systems bombed in Etobicoke; Federal by-election results - Peter Worthington proves spoiler; Limits on parental power - Camille Laurin; Trial of Albert Helmut Rauca; John McEnroe ad for Bic shavers; Poland's days of anguish, with colour photos - outcry over Solidarity's dismantling; King Hussein meets with Yasser Arafat - article with photo; Cover Story - Friends Again - U.S./Canadian relations; Scotiabank's Caribbean affair - the lure of tight bank secrecy laws and no corporate tax; International Harvester fights bankrupcy; Bytec's booming high-tech venture; Peter C. Newman on Bill Mulholland of BMO; Blood and Tears at the financially challenged CBC; Victims of drunk drivers fight back; The pride of the Tudor fleet - the rising of the Mary Rose; Noah's Ark and biblical truth; Fascinating National Citizens' Coalition ad slamming Pierre Trudeau - lists many of his damning quotes; The Amos Garrett Band - article with photo of Amos; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, October 4, 1982 - Israel on Trial
Features: Cover photo Lebanese horror - bodies being dug up; Pontiac 2000 ad; Pontiac 6000 ad; Pontiac Phoenix ad; Signs of strain in the Libyan revolution - Ghadaffi/Khadafy; B.C. Hydro substation bombed on Vancouver Island; Charles Baird of Inco replies to the call for his company to be nationalized; Bill Davis and Ontario jump onto the 6 and 5 retraint bandwagon; New Brunswick election; Cover story - Anguish in the Diaspora - the aftermath of Sabra and Shatila; Khmer Rouge forces prepare for teh Vietnamese dry season offensive - Kampuchea and Prince Norodom Sihanouk; Centerfold ad for the Oldsmobile Firenza; Cutlass Cierra ad; Olof Palme election victory in Sweden; Ed Koch defeated in New York; Costly plan for the deliverance of Dome Petroleum; The lights go out on the NFL - labour strife; Painful defeat for the Montreal Expos - once-again runners-up; Looking ahead to the new EPCOT Center; A revisionist view of insulin's birth - Banting and Best; Parents neglect regular immunization; Machines that talk back, by Suzanne Zwarun; The economy makes it tough for young academics - Bruce Walton; Decision to form one Lutheran church; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 19, 1982 - Special Effects - Newest Film Stars
Features: Why Inco must be nationalized, by Nick Lowe; Canada - inflation problems; Post office fights to maintain monopoly powers; Whycocomagh reserve natives protest against chemical spraying they say will pollute their water supply; Chaotic search for a solution in Lebanon; Mexico - land of sinking hopes; Ahmed Shah Masoud - the Che Guevara of Afghanistan - feared by the Soviets; Untangling the scandal fo God's Banker, Roberto Calvi; Breaking up Chirac's Paris; Bulent Ecevit on trial; War on firearms in the US; Sheikh Mohammed charged in Florida; Contrad Black and an 'honourable settlement' to a war - Norcen and Hanna Mining; Ratings of Canadian banks lowered by DBRS; People section contains news and colour photos of Susan Jacks, Princess Anne, Trevor Berbick and The Ducklings; Italy wins the World Cup of Soccer - Paolo Rossi; The fight against MS (Multiple Sclerosis); Canadian Jews oppose Lebanon invasion - Bob Kellermann; Home offices gain in popularity due to technology and desire to stay in touch with family - Kent Harding; Cover Story - movie special effects - Tron, Yoda, The Thing, Poltergeist, Wrath of Khan, etc.; Flashback to King Kong's special effects in 1933. Entertainment reviews. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Antique Collector Magazine, December 1971/Janaury 1972 - Christmas Number
Features: Insuring the Uninsurable; The Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place; The Shrine of the Magi by Nicholas de Verdun in Cologne Cathedral; The Trial of the Pyx - The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of the City of London - checking gold and silver content since 1238; Ancient Furniture in Modern Homes; Some Basic Notes on Ancient Glass; The London Sale-Room in December; That is 'T Clock'? - a notable Timekeeping Exhibition at Garrards; and more. Moderate external wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, March 15 1954
Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle. Full-page Allis-Chalmers ad features a large TS-300 motor scraper working on a Toronto bypass; Champlain - The Man Who Came to Stay - Part One of The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain; Can McCarthy Happen Hear? - This searching study of the U.S. investigating committees and their Canadian equivalents - including the prelude to the Ottawa spy case of 1945 - reveals that Canadians have no cast-iron guarantees against judgement without fair trial - with photos; Brian Boru, by Sean O'Faolain - illustrated by James Hill; The Pulse of French Canada - Montreal's La Presse newspaper; The Happiest Couple in Show Business - dance team Alan and Blanche Lund; The Waiting Lines of Spandau - What's it like to be the wife of a war criminal? - This first-hand report takes you into the homes and hearts of the women - once the elite of Hitler's Germany - whose fight for their husbands' freedom has reached kings, presidents and even the Archbishop of Canterbury - with photos; A Coal Town Fights for its Life - Bloody strikes and stark depression failed to conquer the proud miners of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but now cheaper coal from the U.S., oil, gas and hydro power present new challenges; Edmonton's Log Cabin Ritz - Bob Kashower hated hotels so much that when he turned an old air-force hut into the Airlines Hotel he insisted the guest by king; Nice colour ad for the 1954 Ford Monarch, with a 161-HP overhead valve V-8 engine; Mrs. Delores Dalzell is featured in a Jergens Lotion ad; Nice colour Chrysler ad features the 1954 Windsor De Luxe; Great two-colour full-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN); Colour Trans-Canada Airlines ad features their new Super Constellation service to Europe; Colour ad for the 1954 Dodge; Nice colour ad for "The Newest Oldsmobile in 57 Years"; Full-page ad for the 1954 Ford Consul and 1954 Ford Zephyr; Colour photo ad for the 1954 Meteor Rideau inside back cover; Coke ad on back cover features Eddie Fisher bowling. Above-average wear and external soiling. Middle two pages loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Theatre Organ Bombarde, Journal of the American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts, February 1969
Cover photo of the Mont Clare Theatre (in Chicago?). Contents: A Swinging Weekend in San Francisco - Oakland with George Wright and Don Baker. Restored Robert Morton given trial run in the San Diego Fox Theatre. The Austin Premier Quadruplex - the story of the revival of the ultimate system of player organ roll manufacturer; Richard (Dick) Leibert Takes L.A. "Again!". Ohio Valley Chapter presents... Gaylord Carter at the RKO Albee Theatre; Home Organ Festival Shows off Top Electronic Organs. Allegro Vigoroso, by J.S. Zamecnik, arranged by Harry J. Jenkins - sheet music plus write-up. Theatre Organ, Oriental Style - Floyd Bunt reports on organs he viewed and heard in Asia. Where the Bartons Were, Part 4 - Dan Barton shares his personally compiled list of Barton organ installations. California gains its own "Pizza Joint" - Steve and Shirley Barden. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Classified ads. Chapter news. Disc Squeals. Nice Rodgers Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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St.- George, Maximilian; Dennis, Lawrence
A Trial on Trial - The Great Sedition Trial of 1944
503 pages. Index. Addenda. The personal copy of Canadian M.P. Norman Jacques. Mr. Jacques signed this copy inside the front board and beneath his name wrote "House of Commons, Ottawa, July 29/46". Mr. Jacques was a controversial member of the Social Credit party who "promoted C.H. Douglas's belief in an international financial Jewish conspiracy and attempted to read excerpts of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into the Canadian parliamentary record." - Wikipedia. Upon verso of front free endpaper the following note is hand-written, "Compliments of Dr. Donald J. McDaniel, 31 North State St., Chicago, Ill." "The book is not so much an account of the trial as an analysis of it. Dennis and St. George identify the people and the purposes behind the trial, how and why it came about. And they devote much of the book to a dissection of the government's case against the accused seditionists." - L.A. Rollins. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Bright gilt decoration and lettering upon blue cloth front board and backstrip. Book
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Krawczyk, Betty (Signed)
Lock Me Up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist
219 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "The inspiring true story of a 73-year-old grandmother turned ecological warrior." Signed and inscribed by author upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, March 1951 - Cover Photo of the Clinchfield 4-6-6-4 No. 651, Class #-1, Near Marion, N.C.
58 pages. Features: Florida Woodburners - Lumber railroads still use scrap-burning locomotives - article and many great photos; Today's Monon - the story of what the new president has done since the CI&L came out of receivership - article with photos; The Busy Beeliners - After several months trial in actual service, it appears the Budd-built RDC-1 has a solid rail future - photos with article; Photo Section includes dramatic centerfold photo of the Cumberland-Pittsburgh line at the top of the hill at Sand Patch Tunnel; Night ride on the El Capitan - board Santa Fe's biggest money-maker in Kansas City and ride to Chicago - article with photos; The Evolution of Railroad - fascinating article with great historic illustrations; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, April 1950 - Cover Photo of the Milwaukee Road Express to Chicago Behind a 4-6-4
58 pages. Features: Western Pacific orders Budd car after successful 10-day trial (short story); The Rutland Railroad - article with photos; The Locomotive in 1949 - railroads cut back diesel orders, almost forgot steam & admired the gas turbine - long article with photos; Ohio's last Narrow-Gauge - The Ohio River & Western - article with two great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold photo of Southern Pacific's Suntan Special in California; Broad Gauge Route - The Erie Railroad - photos; My Finest Train Trip - David P. Morgan describes his trip from New Orleans on the Panama Limited - with photos; Big Hook - the machinery and crews who clear away wrecks - super photos; Hub of the Washington Terminal - Ivy City Enginehouse services the steam, diesel and electric locomotives of the five railroads using the capital's Union Station - article with two photos; Los Angeles at Night - nice long-exposure photos; Casey Jones Died 50 Years Ago - article with photo; Lancaster & Chester - Miniature Division at Elliott Springs; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News, November 13, 1920 - Armistice Day
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book
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The Morgan Horse Magazine, May 1972
82 pages. Features: ad for Triton Tally Ho; ad for Orcland Donlendon; Emerald's King John, MHR 19657; Article - Thoughts on Developing Impulsion, Rhythm, Suppleness and Obedience... the the walk, trot and canter - Lateral Work at the Trot and Center, by Mrs. Bruce Ferguson; Hi Mist Moon Dancer ad; The Side-Check Harness Bridle - illustrated article by David LaSalle and Fred Herrick; ads for Tiger Allen and Royal Crest Parader; Beware - Novice on the Trial - photo-illustrated article by Alison B. Mears; Moving Cross-Country with a Morgan, by Sandra Smith; "Justin Morgan Had a Horse"; 50-mile Competitive Trail Ride - Counsel and Promises, by P.A. Mack; Color ad for Applevale Gaiety; Centerfold ad for E.F. Sam 15772; Gallant Lee ad; Report of the Judging Standards Committee, Part III; Back cover ad for Syndicates Anastasia 09783 of Green Meads Farm. Average wear. Subscription form removed from page 26 which partially affects photo on page 25. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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