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Stevenson, Robert J.
The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams
265 pages. References. Index. "Very important and wonderfully researched - this guy knows boiler rooms like nobody's business!" - Jack Katz. "... a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket with short closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Quality copy of this fascinating reference. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The New York Times Magazine, June 27, 1965
Features: Ambush - the Vietcong are having great success with it - a reporter describes how it works and the attempts to counter it; Is homosexuality a crime? - Britain grapples with the issue; How Hitler's War ended for a German Boy - Hans-Jurgen Stueck's experience; The loneliness of Kwame Nkrumah , the President of Ghana; A Fantasy that Paid Off - Disneyland is 10 years old this summer. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Saturday Evening Post, March 9, 1963 *LAWRENCE OF ARABIA*
Features: The McNamara Monarchy - Hanson W. Baldwin argues that one-man rule in the Pentagon weakens our armed forces; The Revolt of Europe - Charles de Gaulle and others are challenging U.S. leadership over issues such as who will control atomic power; (Peter) O'Toole of Arabia - An unknown actor dons the cloak of a legendary hero and an epic is born - colour photos; "Lawrence" Inspires the Arab Look; Den Mother to the Clubwomen - Margaret Arnold is an angry feminist in hot pursuit of her cause; The Unsound and the Fury - pigeons, corn-rippers and orchids have one thing in commonk - all can provoke cold anger; The Return of Branch Rickey - the return of the Mahatma; Crime Town USA - Youngstown, Ohio has had 75 bombings, 11 killings in a decade, and no one seems to care. Address label clipped from front cover else unmarked with average wear. Colour Corvair Monza ad inside back cover. Please note: missing pages 39-40 and 49-50. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Saturday Evening Post, April 21, 1962 *IKE LOOKS AT THE GOP*
Features: What has Texas got to Brag About? - by Stanley Walker; Lovely color ad for the Chrysler Imperial on page 14; Ike takes a look at the GOP; Ike's Mexican Holiday; People on the Way Up - Mona Thibault, William F. Haddad, Eleanor Hirai, Dr. Lee B. Lusted; Love Letter to the Queen - Lovely color photos; A Night with the S Squad - on patrol in San Francisco with the policemen who specialize in on-the-spot detection and prevention of crime; The Menningers of Kansas (part 3) - under Menninger guidance the Topeka Hospital became a place where patients came 'not to stay but to get well'; Flattery can get you somewhere; Wacky Artist of Destruction - Jean Tinguely creates mechanized sculpture designed to commit suicide. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Wilson, J.F.; "Billy See"; Nolan, John H.E.; Bodley, R.V.C.; MacLeod, Captain Jack; Taylor, Carl N.; Adams, W.H.; Stuart, Murray; Charnley, W.; Mackenzie, Lieut.-Colonel Donald; "Gundi"; "The Captain"; Melville, Fred. J.
The Wide World Magazine, June 1929 - "Chink Running" Cover Illustration
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
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Glockler, H.W.
Interned in Turkey 1914-1918
158 pages. Author wrote the manuscript for this work from memory in 1918 but it was not published until 1969. Dedicated it to "the thousands of innocent Armenian men, women and children of Ourfa, Turkey, who perished amid the horrors of the infamous genocide of 1915-18". Documents the experiences of a civil prisoner in Turkey during the Great War. In 1914 he was deported from Beirut to the interior of Turkey where he remained until his release in 1918. Average wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket. A worthy copy of this important eye-witness account. Book
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Desbarats, Peter; Sclanders, Ian; Phillips, Alan; Fulford, Robert; Tyrwhitt, Janice; Fraser, Blair; Farr, Leslie K.; Mitchell, W.O.
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, October 5, 1963 - Canada's First World's Fair - An Advance Look
84 pages. Features: Fantastic three-panel colour photo ad for Ford's 1964 models inside front cover; Peter C. Newman on Paul Hellyer; Canada's first World's Fair, by Peter Desbarats; Can we save Latin America from itself?, by Ian Sclanders; The Mafia in Canada - Part 3 - The Inner Workings of the Crime Cartel; What is behind the new wave of TV think shows, by Robert Fulford; Honest Ed Mirvish - the least likely art patron in the world; Blair Fraser reports on The Violent Realities of the New Black Nations, where tribal warfare is less than a lifetime away; Rev. Leslie K. Tarr makes the case against Christian Unity; Boy Meets Girl in Naples on the Humber - a camera crawl of Toronto after midnight; Melvin Arbuckle's first course in shock therapy - a new short story by W.O. Mitchell; Colour centerfold featuring four Chevrolet models for 1964. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Porter, Mackenzie; DesGroseilliers, Victor; Fraser, Blair; Hisey, Dr. Lloyd; Gzowski, Peter; Robertson, Terence; Burke, Angela; Baxter, Beverley
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 23, 1959
72 pages. Features: Why Britain's biggest stars flopped on TV; Leslie Frost's masquerade as teh common man - the nation's second most important politician - article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison visits Zsa Zsa Gabor - article with photos; The Night of Terror We'll Never Forget - Victor Desgroseilliers, manager of the Dominion store in Cornwall, Ontario, and his family are terrorized by bandits - article with photos; Can we avoid a shooting battle for Berlin?; Self-Hypnosis could help you beat your tensions; Peter Gzowski writes about what it's like to have a famous ancestor (Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski); Breakout at Amiens Prison - amazing article with great photos; Great Tanners Association of Canada colour ad promotes giving leather shoes to dad for Father's Day; How do you get to be a magazine editor?; Nice colour photo ad for Bulova watches on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Allen, Ralph; Baird, Vaughan L.; Hedlin, Ralph; Moon, Barbara; Sclanders, Ian; Newlands, Don; Gzowksi, Peter; MacDermot, Anne; Porter, McKenzie; Johnstone, Ken; Gordon, Donald
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, June 17, 1961 - Artist David Milne
64 pages. Features: Great colour ad for the International Harvester compact pickup truck inside front cover; Nostalgic colour photo ad for Samsonite luggage featuring a 1950s auto; Full-page ad for the Bolex, the world's most precise 8-mm camera; Nice Chrysler ad; Great full-page colour photo ad for Pepsi features young lady leaning on the car door of a young man; Is Africa the Graveyard of the UN?; The kidnapping of Winnipeg Lawyer Vaughan Baird - in his own words; Genius in Hiding - Artist David Milne - article with photos and colour reproductions of two of the artist's paintings; What peacetime conscription is doing to the U.S.; A new kind of camera photographs the horseback view of a jockey - article with photos; Foster families teach sanity to the mentally ill; McKenzie Porter on Travel Agents; Return to Berlin - Ken and Elizabeth Johnstone escaped one jump of the Gestapo - now they return for another look - article with photos; Two-page colour photo ad for Ford of Canadashows their 1961 Ford Falcon Four-Door Sedan; Quebec bobby-soxers' home-grown idol, crooner Michel Louvain - photos and article; Nice colour ad for the Chevy Corvair Monzas - two- and four-door; Great colour full-page ad for the 1961 Pontiac Parisienne convertible; Short article on Avian Aircraft, Ltd. - former Avro Aero workers are now designing the Avian 2 / 180, the latest prototype of their 'car-plane'; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Fraser, Blair; Hutton, Eric; Porter, McKenzie; Hutchison, Bruce; Bodsworth, Fred; Tyrwhitt, Janice; Cartwright, H.L.; Baxter, Beverley
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, January 17, 1959: War on Vice in London
56 pages. Features: The farcical fraud of cheap QCs; A grim chapter in London's war on vice; What happens when John Foster Dulles goes?; Article and wonderful colourful photos of Windsor, Ontario; A fond farewell for the Casino - Toronto's Casino Theatre is about to fall to the wrecking ball - photos and article; The cruel conspiracy of public speaking; An even break for the peaceful timber wolf; How to talk to your spouse - and when not to; Nice colour photo ad for the 1959 Pontiac; Great colour photo ad inside back cover shows couple drinking beer (O'Keefe) and smothing cigarettes (Rothman's) while watching a scantily-clad woman on TV; Coke ad on back cover shows skier drinking; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Rossiter, Sean; Young, Catherine; Parry, David; Enright, Janet; Oliver, Margo
Weekend Magazine, December 24 1977 (Canadian Newspaper Supplement) - K-Tel Products
20 pages. Features: The Sally Ann in Suburbia - Lieutenant Ken Chapman wages the Salvation Army's battle in North Vancouver - with great colour photo of Ken and Brenda Chapman of London, Ontario; K-Tel's Greatest Hits - fantastic kitschy article - with great colour photos - about the firm's hit products, and it's leader Philip Kives, a former Saskatchewan farm boy - products include the Miracle Brush, Hair Magician, Multi-Sharpener, Feather-Touch Knife, Record Selector, Frypans, Veg-o-matic, Patty Stacker, Multi-Exerciser, Super-Bond glue - a cool article!; Comparing the lot of a department store sales lady in 1907 with the modern version - a fascinating study plus archival photos; How to win at the most popular board games - Othello, Scrabble, Monopoly, Mastermind, Risk, Organized Crime; A fascinating short history of Christmas carols; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Swanson, W.W.; Malloch, G.R.; Gresham, Burt; Wallace, W.Stewart; Hatch, Eric; Wynne, Anthony; Price, Elizabeth Bailey; Evans, Hubert; Beck, Frederic; Dingle, Captain; Campbell, Helen G.; Scott, F.L.deN.; Blue, A.W.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 15 June 1931 - "Pat" Burns Feature Article
84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
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St. John, Arthur
Crime and Social Progress - No. 7 Penal Reform League Series
10 pages. "A lecture delivered before the Psycho-Therapeutic Society at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, January 17th, 1910." - from page 3. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Some age-toning. Pencil underlining and marginalia. Prior owner's ink stamp atop front cover. Book
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Supertramp; Hodgson, Roger; Davies, Richard
Supertramp Paris - Songbook (Song Book) with Sheet Music for Piano and Voice with Guitar Chords
96 pages. Includes colour photos of the band and its members. Songs include: School; Ain't Nobody But Me; The Logical Song; Bloody Well Right; Breakfast in America; You Started Laughing; Hide in Your Shell; From Now On; Dreamer; Rudy; A Soapbox Opera; Asylum; Take the Long Way Home; Fool's Overture; Two of Us; Crime of the Century. Contents clean and bright. Average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this most precious compilation of Supertramp songs which thrilled a generation. Book
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Simmons, Matty: Editor
National Lampoon, August 1987 *ALL-NEW SUPER-COLOSSAL TRUE FACTS SECTION*
114 pages. Features: Badly Botched Headlines; Behemoth Blunders; Ridiculous Road Signs; Spectacular Stories about Stupid People; Crazy Crime Clips; Low-IQ Bimbos and Macho Mental Midgets; plus a smorgasbord of Columns, Cartoons, Funny Pages and Fiction. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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Smith, Philip; Johnson, Jotham; Hoover, J. Edgar; Russell, Henry Norris; Boone, Andrew R.; Estabrooks, G.H.; Liddy, Sylvester J.; French, Sidney J.; Skerrett, R.G.; Snyder, Laurence H.
Scientific American Magazine, Volume 155, Number 1, July 1936 - J. Edgar Hoover on Crime Scene Science
56 Pages. Features: John Gamble Kirkwood - a personality in science; Breeding machine brains; The Road to Empire - II - an archeological discovery of unusual interest was made during the excavation of a sacred well in Minturnae; Science at the scene of the crime - J. Edgar Hoover with the inside story of how his special agents operate; New high-efficiency fluorescent mercury lamps; Are We Inside a Dark Nebula?; High-Speed Paving for California Aqueduct - fantastic photos; The operation of the human brain; Tracking down your trade mark title; Polar Molecules; Cutting metal underwater using pressurized oxygen; The senses of sight and taste vary greatly between individuals; The amateur telescope maker; World-wide radio; and more. Three-inch opening along top of front cover at spine. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Bell, Don; Balla, Joe; Spencer, William; Trent, Bill; Oliver, Margo; Klyn, Doyle
Weekend Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 1 - January 4, 1969 - How Bookies Operate in Canada
24 pages. Features: Tiger, The Bookie - article on Bookies in Canada and the $250 million in business they do annually; The Day the French invaded Lethbridge - hunters from France come to hunt pheasant - article with colour photos; Dig These Rocks - John Hillen has brought new life to the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM's) new mineralogy gallery; Return of the Nonsuch - article and photos of replica ship to that which first opened Hudson Bay - nice colour photos; CBC Radio Show "Funny You Should Say That!' - article with photo of cast members Barrie Baldaro, Ted Zeigler, Peter Cullen and Joan Stuart; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the 1969 Plymouth Valiant; Walter Marat builds things from broken hockey sticks; Gorgeous colour swimwear photography. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
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Charnley, W.; Gilhespy, W.; Lambe, A.J.; Lee, Herbert Patrick; Richardson, Leslie; Macdonald, Robert M.; Barkas, Geoffrey; Vivian, Herbert; Reekie, A.S.; Stuart-Reid, G.E.; Desmond, Shaw; Parsons, Captain Anthony
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April 1927 - American Crime - The RCMP's Craig Harbour Detachment
Features: The Derelict; The Vengeance of Devi Chand - the revenge of a bereaved father in India; A Donkey in Spain - the author planned to take a walking trip through Spain with a donkey carrying his baggage; An Arctic Outpost - what happened to three members of the RCMP's Craig Harbour Detachment - article with photos; Through France with "Sylvabelle" - I - a yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera - article with great photos; The Netik - native 'magic' on a south sea island; Aerial photo of dozens of log booms at Vancouver, B.C.; "The White Man's Great War-Game" - II - amazing photo-illustrated article of the savages of Sura, Angas and other primitive tribes of northern Nigeria; Truffle-Hunting - a description of the industry in Italy and France - and a description of the manner in which the pigs and dogs are trained to search for them - with photos; The One-Legged Kea - a tale from the South Island of New Zealand; Behind the scenes in American crime - "a veritable hell-brew of wickedness and intrigue that has no counterpart in Europe - article with photos of Mrs. Margaret Whittemore and Richard Whittemore; Besieged by Crocodiles; The Lost Safe - a detective story; Lee Sum's Lucky Day - a 'gang-robbery' in the state of Pahang in Malaysia. Multiple pieces of red and clear tape holding covers in place. Brown tape securing fore-edges of each cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Whitman, Howard; Manning, Gordon; Whitney, Dwight; Lagemann, John Kord; Howley, Brig. Gen. Frank; Small, Collie; Lees, Hannah; Rosenfield, Loyd; Chase, Margaret; Ware, Harlan; Sylvester, Harry; Roberts, Matt; Pearce, Dick; Morriss, Mack
Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, November 19, 1949 - Terror in Our Cities - Detroit
82 pages. Articles: Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of the busiest men in Hollywood; Clowns after Hours - The Minneapolis Aquatennial festival and its Aqua Jesters; My 4-Year War with the Reds; (part 3 of 5); So You Had a Virus?; Down with the Little Things; I Hate a Dumpy Woman; A Good Clean-Cut American Boy; Owl, He Crow For Midnight; Champion of Sonora; Valley of the Tyrant (part 2 fo 4); A Game of Skill. Includes these nice vintage ads: General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour image of Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr.; B.V.D. shirts; Admiral tvs; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page color photo portrait of author James Michener; Dodge Trucks; Pabst beer ad features photo of Sid Luckman; Plymouth cars; Puerto Rican Rum; General Motors; Bicycle playing cards; Nice full-page color Schenley Whiskey ad features Ed Sullivan; Camel cigarette ad on back cover includes Vic Scott, Albany to New York out-board racing champ. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Frost, C. Vernon; Green, Mort; Kirk, Lawrence; Franklin, Jay; Prior, Faith; Zacks, Robert; Gottlieb, Bill; Lagemann, Lohn Kord; McMahon, Senator Brien; Velie, Lester; Dressler, David; Gervasi, Frank
Collier's Magazine, April 3, 1948 - Effects of Inflation on America's Middle Class
78 pages. Articles:Campus Crusader - Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College; Designs for Touring 5 - a trip to New York's Finger Lakes; No Miracle in the Marshall Plan - we must wage a war of education in Europe; High Prices Make Cheap Living - the effects of inflation on America's middle class; Brothers in Crime - The Notorious Renos, train robbers of the 1860s; Bob Taft's Martha - she's a veteran politcal campaigner. Fiction: A Cross for Urdia; Fair Exchange; A Penny For Your Thoughts; Madam President; The April Load; The Gracious Senor. Includes the following ads: Studebaker (inside front cover); Listerine antiseptic - featuring black porter; RKO movies of the month; American Kitchens; De Beers Diamonds - with portrait of Miss Virginia H. Palfrey of Boston; Heinz Ketchup; Philco radio-phonographs; International Harvester TD-24 bulldozer (great color photo); "Frontier-Buck" shoes by Fortune; Talon slide fasteners; Ballantines Ale; Old Thompson Whiskey; Life Savers; Emerson Radios; Prince Albert pipe tobacco; MontaMower; Dromedary Corn Muffin Mix; Spam; United Jewish Appeal full-page fundraising ad featuring crying Israelli infant in crate; Interesting US Savings Bond ad shows large wolf with teeth bared and caption "Wolf Poison" (they equate bond purchasing with keeping the wolf away from your door); Rutland Patching Plaster; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Hutton, Eric; Moon, Barbara; Hutchison, Bruce; Porter, McKenzie; Watt, Erik; Hughes, P.B.; Brockway, Robert
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, March 15, 1958 - How Telephone Swindlers Operate
68 pages. Contents: Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover features construction of the 67-mile link between Calgary and Banff; Anticipating B.C.'s big blast at Ripple Rock; Article 1201 of the Customs Tariff makes Canadian Customs Officers Censors - in spite of themselves; Nice colour-photo ad for the 1958 Ford; The Large Family Isn't the Best Kind Now - so argues Dr. Robert Brockway; Humourous BMO full-page ad shows mad housewife, laughing daughter, and a hole where the stove sat... before mom threw it out the window!; Telephone Swindlers - how they operate and why they're seldom caught; Quebec scriptwriter Laurette Larocque-Auger - article with photos; The Coming Revolt Against Leisure; The Non-Taxable Loves of Mrs. Ollenberger (fiction); The Great Back-To-School Boom - the strongest surge in adult education the nation has ever seen; We Took Our Girls on an Arctic Vacation - Erik Watt and family attempt an eleven-hundred mile trip down the Mackenzie River to Aklavik in a 14' boat; Handsome full-page colour ad for the Buick Limited; Swiss Watch full-page ad features Norman Rockwell image of watchmaker at work; Nice one-page colour ad for Labatt's '50' Ale; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1958 Dodge features road construction scene; Colour ad for Beatty clothes washers; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features well-dressed couple in an elegant setting. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Speight, George; Gibson, Helen; Robertshaw, Ursula; Lee, Laurie; Holyoake, Gregory; Edelman, Maurice; Hannas, Linda;
The Illustrated London News, Christmas Number 1975
90 pages. Profusely illustrated, frequently in color. Features: The Pantomime Tradition; The Plant Artists of Kew; Modern Ephemera; Love; Frost Fairs on the Thames; Mr. Bellingham's Crime; Two Centuries of Jigsaws; Getting Steamed Up - the National Traction Engine Club at Kendal; Tiles from Turkey; Pots for Keeping Things In; The Social Nuances of the first name, surname, initials and nickname from the rigidities of Victorian times to the informality of today; Six Centuries of Food; Antinori family history; Trends in art book publishing; Reviving the art of embroidery; Nice ad for the Jaguar XJS; The Runaway Christmas Pudding; During holidays our ancestors served a much wider variety of tame and game fowl with elaborate and complicated garnishings; and more. Average wear. Faint newsstand inkstamp atop back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Alderman, Tom; Brown, Dick; Carmichael, David; Miller, John; Rasky, Frank; Madsen, Edmond; Hodgins, John; Sawyer, Ken; Stunden, Jim; Cinq-Mars, Jacques; Neale, Fred; Wyatt, Arthur; Banks, DonaldCarroll, Finlay, G.
The Canadian Magazine, April 27 - May 4, 1968: Special Police Issue
32 pages. Features: Major coverage of Canadian police; Det. Edmond Madsen of Calgary; Staff Sergeant John Hodgins of the R.C.M.P. Crime Detection Library; Constable Ken Sawyer of Saskatoon; Constable Jim Stunden of the O.P.P.; Lieut. Det. Jacques Cinq-Mars of the Montreal Night Patrol; Winnipeg Court Jailer Fred Neale; Constable Arthur Wyatt of Halifax; Det. Donald Banks of Toronto; Nice colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; Chief Finlay G. Carroll of London; Guide to police officer slang; Super two-page colour photo of the Toronto Police's arsenal of sophisticated gadgets and practical weapons; Photo of homicide kit; Four Brave Men - Constable George McPherson of Winnipeg, Constable Kenneth Kilpatrick of Vancouver, Constable Clifford Laye and Constable Ron Baranoski of the O.P.P.; Police family recipes; Photo and write-up of vice squad sergeant Delores Eitel; Police Training - fine for dealing with criminals, but not with people; The Cops Look at the Criminal, and the Criminal Looks Back. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Austen, David; Wise, Robert; De Felitta, Frank; Lane, John Francis; Wlaschin, Ken; Gay, Ken
Films and Filming Magazine, November 1977 - Nureyev Cover Photo from 'Valentino'
50 pages. Features: Nice ad for Smokey Robinson's 'Big Time' album inside front cover; Great one-page ad for 'Valentino'; Full-page ad for 'Equus'; Part one of a two part examination of the film industry's involvement and responsibilities in the events which paved the way for Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist pursuits; 'MacArthur' - photos; Photo-illustrated Interview with Robert Wise; Interview with author Frank De Felitta; 'Julia' - photos; 'Taboo' - photos; !977 Film Festival in Taormina, Sicily; Festival '77 - Locarno; Reviews - 'Valentino', 'Silver Bears', 'Annie Hall', 'Bim', 'The Brute', 'Demon Seed', 'Crime Busters'; 'Demon Seed' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Marmur, Jacland; Curran, Dale; Katkov, Norman; MacHarg, William; Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell; et al
The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, November 26, 1949 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel
120 pages. Features: Nice 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; color ad for Pitney-Bowes Postage Meters; Zippo Lighter color ad; My Wonderful Uncle, Levi Coombs Gould - article with photos; Challenge the Tempest (fiction); My Three Years in Moscow, Part 3 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel - with photos; The Camouflaged Crime (fiction); Robert Jones of Ohio Refused to be Smeared by Drew Pearson - article with photos; The Rape of Albania - how this former paradise between Tito and the men in the Kremlin is being slowly bled to death - article with photos; One Divorce is Enough (fiction); Charley Callahan is the shrewd press agent for Notre Dame football - article with photos; The Odds on Murder (fiction); Training New Kinds of Methodist Pastors in Denver at the Iliff School of Theology - article with photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction - conclustion); Colour photos of the Arseneau family's home and birds on Great Bird Rock; Nice 1-page color Lucky Strike ad features Raymond W. Crutchfield of Reidsville, NC; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); RCA Victor TV ad; Nice half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features Mrs. Ralph Ellis of Chicago, Mrs. Mary C. Wurdeman of Los Angeles, Mr. James S. Winterhalter of Detroit, and Miss Pamel Hendricks Bookman of New York; Nice two-color Shelby bicycle ad features Donald Duck; Nice color centerfold ad features General Electric (GE) Christmas lights; Color ad for Winchester's glowing flashlight; Honeywell thermistat ad features black and white photos of Linda Darnell; La Choy Chinese Food color ad features interesting drawing of Chinese man in pigtail; Nice 1-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Frank Benitz of Dugan Brothers Baked Goods; Nice color ad for Sunkist oranges on back cover. Average external wear. Moderate external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Mayorga, Nancy Pope; Hawkins, John and Ward; Gilmore, Cecile; Carson, Robert; Bell, Joseph N.; Barber, Noel; Paxton, Harry T.; Hunt, Morton M.; Sparks, Fred; Miller, Diane Disney; Marquand, John P.; Kelland, Clarence
The Saturday Evening Post, December 15, 1956 - My Dad, Walt Disney / War on Hit and Run Killers
108 pages. Fiction: Engagement Party; The Nervous Thief; One Night of Trouble; The Improbably Blonde; Rendezvous in Tokyo (part 4 of 8); The Secret of Shining Brook (conclusion). Articles: New War on Hit-And-Run Killers; The Face of America - Frozen Sunrise; Personal - from Budapest - Noel Barber's personal account of the Hungarians resisting the Russians; Pro Football Comes Down to Earth - photo-illustrated article on how the game is moving from passing to old-fashioned body-crushing tactics; The Truant Officer Learns to Smile - viewing truancy as a sign of disturbance rather than a crime; I'm Glad I Bought a Toupee - Fred Sparks explains how his life changed; My Dad, Walt Disney - Part V - Suddenly He Was A Genius - article with *AMAZING* color photos; Deadliest Fighter in the Air - the delta-winged, needle-nosed F-102A. Ads: Zippo lighters; Listerine; Philco televisions; Sheaffer's White Dot Snorkel Pen; Channel Master TV antennas (two pages); Imperial cars - beautiful color photo of a 2-door Southampton; Santagram ad features photo of Herb and Pixie Shriner and family; Fantastic two-page color ad for the new 1957 Oldsmobile 'Fiesta'; Whitman's Chocolates; Pontiac; Awesome two-page color photo ad for 1957 Mercury cars - 'Big M Announcement No. 3"; Great one-page color-photo ad for Plymouth features man with hose over his shoulder; Lady Borden ice cream; Nice two-page color ad for Studebaker cars; Nice one-page photo ad for Boeing features the new KC-135 transport tanker; *Sensational* two-page color-photo ad for the Buick Roadmaster features a red two-door model at night; A&P coffee; Page & Shaw chocolates. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Wallace, John F.; Macken, Walter; De Meyer, John; Hawkins, John and Ward; Baum, Arthur; Douglas, Kirk; Yoder, Robert; Nordyke, Lewis; Randall, Clarence B.; Martin, John; Rawlings, Charles; Gallico, Paul; Kelland, C.
The Saturday Evening Post, June 22, 1957 - Kirk Douglas Tells His Story / Summerton, South Carolina - "Where All The Trouble Started"
112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, October 29, 1945 *THE FLEET'S IN*
Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, September 22, 1962 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion
Features: Cover facial photos of Gratien Gelinas; Emotion, by June Callwood; What went wrong with Canada, by Peter C. Newman; The last days of the French in Algeria - article with photos by Peter Stollery; The savage fight for life above the timberline - Jean George describes how animals outsmart the mountains; Bernard 'boom boom' Geoffrion - the highest scoring baritone in history!; Vandalism - the kids' crime that no one really understands; Minute by minute on the day of birth - with photos; Colour photo tennis Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 14 1962 - ChuckWagon Racer Bob Cosgrave
Features: Canada's first satellite goes up soon; Cardinal Leger and his church in a year of conflict; Justice for the victims of crime; Chuckwagon Racing - the wildest game on wheels - Bob Cosgrave in training for the world championship - great colour photos; 'We're Arming against ourselves if we take atomic arms for the Bomarc missile' - Paul Simon; The Strange legacy of flight TCA flight 810's crash on Mt. Slesse on 9 December 1956 between Vancouver and Calgary; Instant Houses - A Frames and how to spend weekends in the woods; Song and Dance on the Gaza Strip - a dozen Canadian entertainers played the strangest circuit in show business - the desolate and desperate Arab-Israeli frontier - with photos; Great colour Molson ad inside back cover features illustration of the "Avian", a revolutionary vertical take-off Gyroplane, hovering near Wellington-Waterloo Airport in Ontario. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, February 10, 1962 - Nazi Death Camp Children Come To Canada
Features: Nice colour ad for the Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue); The Redeemed Children - the story of one of the great humanitarian acts of the twentieth century - Jewish orphans from WWII are brought to Canada - with photos; The Welcome Enemies - the happy accident by which 972 interned aliens became, in 1940, some of the liveliest immigrants Canada ever had; The public crime that seems to pay - Hit-and-run; Stop whitewashing black african demagogues, by John Phillipson; 15 days with the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, by John Phillipson - great colour photos; How Spencer Caldwell got a TV network (CTV) by the tail; In High Places, by Arthur Hailey (last of 3 parts); Molson's Canadian ad features photo of the newly launched 'City of Victoria' ferry; Tommy Douglas' first 6 months, by Peter C. Newman; Piano prodigy Hilda Irek; Nice Valentine-theme colour photo Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues July 1, 1985 Through September 30, 1985
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
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Harpers Magazine: Bound Volumes January 1964 Through June 1964
Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
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Supertramp; Davies, Richard; Hodgson, Roger;
Supertramp - Crime of the Century: Songbook Complete with Lyrics, Music and Guitar Chords
52 pages. Includes the following immortal songs: Crime of the Century; Bloody Well Right; Rudy; Dreamer; School; Hide in Your Shell; Asylum; If Everyone was Listening. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Has probably been rebound with convenient spiral binding. A rare surviving collection of these songs which will forever live within the 70's generation. Book
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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 20, 1983: *Mulroney Wins PC Leadership*
Brian and Mila Mulroeny cover photo. Contents: Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Crime in a Soviet community - Brighton Beach in East Brooklyn; Cover Story - Brian Mulroney wins Leadership of federal Progressive Conservative Party - photos include a shot of Gretzky with Mr. and Mrs. Pocklington; Article on the young Mulroney family; Joe Clark - the man who fell from grace; Mattel Intellivision ad; Margaret Thatcher's Finest Hour - re-elected; Nicaragua - The Benedictine Affair; The Pope's delicate mission to Poland; Canadair in nosedive with Challenger jet; Waning high-tech star Mitel - photos of Terry Mathews and Michael Cowpland; Mulroney is the right man for the right time - Peter C. Newman; White-water rafting getting more popular; Alpha Flight comic series; Nuclear power planning goes awry - unfinished plants in Washington state; Pezim aims for BRIC shares; Fotheringham on Mulroney. Unmarked. Address label removed from front cover leaving a peeled area. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, November 15, 1952 *Karsh Photos of Vancouver*
Features: Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle shows man selling flowers to Grey Cup lineup; Colour photo Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Editorial - 'Why Appease South Africa?'; Fantastic 4-page section of black and white photos of vintage toys plus descriptions - a list of Christmas toys provided by The Canadian Playthings Institute; Karsh Photographs the Face of Canada - beginning with Vancouver, 'A City Built on Timber - Water is a Secondary Theme' - the first of ten picture essays; Is the Liberal Party on the Ropes? - defeats of Liberal leaders in six provinces; They'll Keep the Pace - The New Pioneers of the Peace River Country, with colour photos; The Most Beautiful Girl on TV - Toby Robins - with 16 black and white photos; How to Bring Up an Only Child; The Spritely Czar of the CPR - William Van Horne; The City Where Dancing's A Crime - Trois Rivieres, Quebec - article with six black and white photos; Thoughts on Mackenzie King, by Bruce Hutchison; The Killer in the Snow - story by Will F. Jenkins, illustrated by Ben Turner; Granpa was a Freshman - at 52 Allan Hull enrolled at the University of British Columbia - with 3 photos; Lovely colour Kodak photo ad shows mother recording her son's height on doorframe; Great full-page colour illustrated Coke ad displays the four seasons; The Face that People Forget - Alec Guiness; *Fantastic* eight-page colour centerfold ad section for Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth 1953 models; Colour photo ad for Heinz Soups; Colour-illustrated ads for Sunbeam Coffeemaster and Mixmaster; Two-colour ad for Austin cars; Colour ad for Waterman's Pens with Christmas theme; Ad for the General Electric Rotary Ironer; Colour full-page ad for Chevrolet; Nice colour Old Dutch ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Oursler, Fulton: Editor in Chief
Liiberty Magazine - Canada's Largest Weekly Magazine: January 24, 1942, Vol. 19 No. 4
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
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Santoro, Victor
Frauds Ripoffs and Con Games
202 pages. Footnotes. "This book will give you an education, as well as provide entertainment." - from page 3. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound working copy. Book
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Liberty - Canada's Young Family Magazine, April 1957 - The Voodoo Murder of Gold Tycoon Sir Harry Oakes
74 pages. Features: How to Deal With Your Kid's Embarassing Questions; Gordon Sinclair Says; Great colour ad for the new 1957 Dodge with revolutionary Torsion-Aire Ride; Nice colour illustrated ad for Matinee cigarettes; Is Jack Pickersgill Giving our New Canadians a Raw Deal?; I Sleuthed the Murder of Sir Harry Oakes - Alan Hynd on the voodoo murder of Ontario's $200 million gold tycoon; Why Five Million Canadians Won't Go to Church, by Hugh Garner; How to Beat the Income Tax Department, by Fred Edge; The Wonderful Cockeyed Capers of Montreal's Newspapermen, by Robert Walker who claims reporters give rivals scoops, accept bribes, wrestle rioters, etc.; Why They're Canada's Box Office Stars - article with photos of many Hollywood personalities; Genius or Moron? - Do School Tests Cheat Your Child's I.Q.?; I Live with a Hole in my Heart, by Albert South, one of 500,000 Canadian victims of heart disease; Cool full-page colour ad for the 1957 Chevrolet featuring a pink model with white hardtop; A Young Love Affair in old Halifax, by Lyon Mearson; My Gay Days in U.S.-Canadian Baseball, by Dixie Walker, Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team; Confessions of a landlady, by Lorraine Porter; The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Part II of II; I am the Child of Divorced Parents, by Mabel Rawson, whose father deserted her Kamsack, Saskatchewan home. Nice colour illustrated at for Pontiac cars; Nice colour ad for Labatt's '50' ale; Jellied dishes to highlight Canadian spring buffets; Spring debut of Canadians petite half-sizes - illustrated fashion article; Nice colour photo ad for O'Keefe Ale; Super colour photo ad for Cinci beer; Great colour illustrated article for Dow ale; back cover photo ad for Coke shows man and woman in office with caption "It's Just Good Business". Above-average wear. Covers present but detached and chipped. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 31, 1997 - RCMP Drug Bust Gone Wrong
64 pages. Features: The RCMP's handling of a drug case is marred by mishap and tragedy - Eugene and Michele Uyeyama murdered; Special report on Canada's federal opposition - The Reform Party/Preston Manning/Keith Martin/Gilles Duceppe; Alexa McDonough - the NDP's new leader needs a seat, a profile and more MPs; Jean Charest attempts to revive federal Tories; John Savage - Time to Bow Out; Burr, Saskatchewan - striptease fever; War on biker gangs in Saint-Nicholas, Quebec; John Major's Last Stand, with photo of scumbag Tony Blair holding Sun Paper bearing Rupert Murdoch's endorsement of him; Contentious developments in the EU; Vultures close in on the Eaton's Empire; SaskTel - Canada's last public phone firm may vanish; Upsetting Chretien's electoral applecart, by Peter C. Newman; The Blue Jays and the Expos - a tale of two budgets, with photo of Roger Clemens in Jays Uniform; Elvis Stojko Reigns Again; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, 6 December 2010 - Generation Screwed! - What Boomers are Leaving Their Children
82 pages. Features: Why should polygamy be a crime?; Beverley McLachlin in conversation; Paul Wells article on Jason Kenny; Airport Security - Don't Touch My Junk; Quebec - "A New Scandal All the Time"; Nancy Pelosi still talks tough despite mid-term loss; How Public Health Failed - HIV/AIDS; Brits are using credit like never before; Investing after the Great Recession; General Motors' 'comeback'; Feature Article - What the Boomers are Leaving Their Children; Teaching Swearing to ESL students; Keeping track of patients and their implants; Barbara Streisand's epic home reno; Canadian Garlic Types, once shunned, are a sought-after, and scarce, autumn staple; Oreste Mordini 1920-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
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Van Shelton, Ricky
Ricky Van Shelton Songbook: Piano, Vocal, Guitar
80 pages. Songs include: Crazy Over You, Crime of Passion, Don't Send Me No Angels; Don't We All Have The Right?; From a Jack to a King; He's Got You; A Hole in My Pocket; I'll Leave This World Loving You; Life Turned Her That Way; Living Proff; The Picture; Somebody Lied; Wild-Eyed Dream; Workin' Man Blues. Some writing on table of contents otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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National Lampoon Magazine, May 1982 - Crime Issue
96 pages. Features: Jimmy the Weasel's Guide to Murder; Extortion; Picking Up Girls; The Unpublished Enemies of Dick Tracy; James Watt; Earth Enemy #1; and more. Light cigarette odor. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Current History Magazine, April 1937
128 pages. Features: Labor Marches, Sitting Down - The C.I.O.; I Lived in Madrid - Lester Ziffren recalls the horrors of the weeks of the siege - with black and white photos; Moscow Likes Millionaires - Ambassador Joseph Davies; The American Peasant - The Farm Tenant, with two photos; Calling the Fascist Bluff - are Italy and Germany allies or rivals?; France Finds a Huey Long - Jacques Doriot; The German God - Hitler; Jeffersonian Democracy; Geneva's Future; The Cost of Crime - Public Apathy is its major cause; Burma Divorces India; Hong Kong worries about air raids; Civil Liberties in India; and more. Taped repair to covers at foot of spine. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Time Magazine, March 24, 1967 - Martin Luther Cover
Contents: Photos of Frank Sinatra in great Garrard turntable ad; The Vietnam War - with photo of B-52 and 750-lb bombs at Guam's Andersen Air Force Base; Redwood Park plans on Pacific coast; Crime and the Great Society - Time Essay; Air photos of Quang Khe ferry point and Hanoi; Dead Huks in Pampanga, Philippines; Photo of Onassis and Maria Callas; Leontyne Price; Super two-page color photo ad for the Volkswagen (VW) Van/Station Wagon; Tar and Nicotine ratings for dozens of cigarette brands; Martin Luther - feature article; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
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Rackham, Reginald John [Signed]
Before I Forget - An Autobiography
191 pages. Signed by author/subject upon title page. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. "Mr. Rackham joined the O.P.P. in 1949 and retired after a 26 year career never having drawn his gun once. He was an identification officer involved in more murder and serious crime investigations than he can remember." - from page xii. Prior owner's name and date neatly atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 15, 1954 - Col. R.S. McLaughlin
108 pages. Features: Two-page Chrysler black and white photo ad shows their vehicles being torture-tested; My Eighty Years on Wheels - by Col. R.S. McLaughlin, one of Canada's most famous and well-loved business leaders - part 1 of 3; Three Women, One Body - a case history of Eve White (aka Eve Black and Jane) - a case of multiple personality; Will Your Youngster Turn to Crime; Jean-Francois Pouliot - The Wordiest MP in Ottawa; My, uh, Dazzling Career as Miss Canada, by Marily Reddick - article with photos, including nice shot of Reddick with Marilyn Monroe; The Shipwrecked Moneybelt, fiction by Peter Freuchen; Clinic for Marriage Counselors - humour; The Private Army We're Giving the Army - Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Dr. Mahlon W. Locke of Williamsburg, Ontario and his million-dollar thumbs - a Maclean's flashback to the Locke clinic of the 1930s which treated fallen arches - article with photos; We'd Be Better Off on All Fours - if you've ever suffered from an aching back or a creaky knee read this!; The Haughtiest Suburb of Them All - Ottawa's Rockliffe; The White and the Gold - Part 13; The Toughest Beat in the World - The Mounties at work in the far north - conclusion of the Mounties series; Nice colour Pontiac ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features smiling blonde with a tray of bottles. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 15, 1952 - The Story of the Toronto Star/How Racketeers Got Italians into Canada By Selling Visas
72 pages. Features: Great cover art of a confused Lineman atop a utility pole; Jergens Lotion ad featuring photos of Esther Williams and Barry Sullivan; The Greatest Three-Cent Show on Earth - The Toronto Star got to be one of the loudest, craziest and most successful papers in the world by unleashing an army of reporters on stories and stunts carefully calculated to please - as well as infurate - some of the people all of the time - article with photos of many famous personalities, by Pierre Berton (part 1 of 2); How Racketeers Sold Entry into Canada - Corrupt Canadian Government Officials and Unscrupulous Travel Agents Have Extorted Thousands of Dollars to Smuggle Italian Immigrants into Canada; The Princess and the Wild One - story by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Lord Will Take Care of Us - The Hutterites of Alberta - article with photos, including colour photo of Ann Wurtz and her sister Susie Waldner posing with Anne's twins; The Beard - Feature photo-illustrated article on Robertson Davies; Qu'Appelle - The Saskatchewan Valley That Calls; Marie Dressler - Queen of the Movie Queens - a Maclean's Flashback to the Cobourg-born 1931 winner of the best actress Oscar; Chase for Killer Stanley Buckowski - How Detective A.J. (Trigger) Payne tracked the murderer of Alfred Layng, Robert and Gloria McKay, and Helen Edmunds - interesting article with photos; A Secret Manual for Week-End Guests - humour by Eric Nicol, illustrated by Harold Town; Royal Roads Military College ad; Nice colour photo Kodak camera ad; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Peter Whalley Cartoon; Virginia Mayo is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor) is honoured in a colour ad sponsored by O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Murrell Belanger and his Belanger 99 Special and pit crew are featured in a two-colour Champion spark plug ad; Great Coke ad on back cover features attractive young nurse. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 1, 1950 - Great Danny Kaye Cover Illustration
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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