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Chang, Iris
The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
290 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "This meticulously researched book is a moving drama that pays fitting tribute to the Americans and Europeans living in Nanking who risked their lives to rescue the Chinese people from rape and extermination." - Nien Cheng. "A powerful, landmark book, riveting in its horror." - Richard Rhodes. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding open at title page. A worthy reading copy. Book
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Author's Name Not Stated
Letters from a Chinese Official - Being an Eastern View of Western Civilization
75 pages. Lovely old illustrated library bookplate inside front board. Some peeling inside back board where card pocket was removed. Mark where spine label was removed. Binding intact. Average wear. A sound copy of this intriguing work. Book
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Alford, William P.
To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense
222 pages. Index. Bibliography. Extensive footnotes. Intellectual property law in Chinese civilization. Occasional marginalia throughout text. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, July 17, 1965 *SEAN CONNERY COVER PHOTO*
Features: Must we woo Red China? - by Arnold J. Toynbee; A time of trouble (Affairs of the State); Should Women give Men the Vote?; America's new big rich - despite high taxes, a small number of little-known men have made huge postwar fortunes - John D. MacArthur, Dr. Edwin Land, Howard Ahmanson, John Mecom, W. Clement Stone, Henry Crown - with photos; The Great wild-bee safari - bee-tree hunting; Last of the Divorce Rances - Donner Trail Ranch; Adak - "A woman behind Every Tree" - a return to the Aleutian/Alaskan Island manned by 80,000 Americans during World War II; Discovery that helps prevent miscarriages - 'Skin Patch'; The big (James) Bond bonanza - great photos of the 'Thunderball' shoot and more. Colour Chevrolet Truck 'Workpower' centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, May 12, 1927 *PEDAL-POWERED BOAT*
Features: Sir Douglas, Sheep Dog - detective work on a ranch; The Last Straw - the revolt of a modern mother; Sewing Susie - V; The Philosopher's Club - how a kid brother can be a nuisance; Fact and Comment; This Busy World - the situation in China and fighting in Nicaragua; Miscellany; The Y.C. Lab - a pedal-powered boat! Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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National Doll World, August, 1981
Special Features: Riding Dolls; More about Baby Wendy; Revlon Dolls; China Shoulder Head Dolls; Home Gnomes; Party Outfit for 10" doll; Posable Porcelain People; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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National Doll World, April 1987 *GOLLIWOGS / RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY*
Features: Raggedy Ann and Andy - John and Marcella Gruelles' gift to American children; China Heads, Part II; Gollywoggs (Golliwogs) - a doll inspired by a black clown; Old-Fashined costume 'Mikey' - knickers for My Friend; The Ideal Tammy and Family - back to the 60s; Little 'Americana' Dolls - the doll art of Virginia Little; Goodbye to Maydy, Mikey & Jenny; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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National Doll World, June 1986 *TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITH THE FLINTSTONES*
Features: Martha Chase and her 'Prestige' dolls; Anecdotal Dolls, Part II; Here Come the Brides; China Heads, Crown Jewels of the doll world; 25 Years with the Flintstones; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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National Doll World - #4 - Around the World with the Adopted Kids : China, Italy, America, Switzerland, Holland, Mexico, Arabia, Scotland, England
A colorful collection of costumes for your adopted kids. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Ikebana International, Vol. 33, Issue 2, 1989
Features: Floral Focus - Winterberry - a splash of cold weather colour; The Beloved Plant - Selections from the Lutz Bamboo Collection; Shokei Moji - Voices of Ancient China; Traditions in Chinese Floral Art; Ikebana Portfolio; Hana Kagami - treatment of Ikebana material. Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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Vogue Magazine (US), April 15 1972 - Sophia Loren Cover Photo
130 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - Escape; How to look where you're going and beat the luggage wait; The One-bag traveller and - the perfect knit pants suit; the longer shirt-jacket; the chino shirtdress, the weightless creaseless, everywhere, every-weather smock coat; Fashion for the beach climates of the world - cool and breezy crinkle cottons, new wave of batik, the strapless maillot, news in black; The New Norells - worn by Lyn Revson; The Many Moods of Marisa - the best new evening looks in town - worn by Marisa Berenson; Focus on summer - super new shirt looks, bareness with separate cover, black and white, jacketed for town, warm-weather sweater-dressing; How to add travel power without adding pounds - a quick beauty checklist; Your Health and Climate, by Ellen Switzer; How to solve your unsolvable hair problems - or, Why Wigs ; How to take your good looks wherever you go; How Sophia Loren Really Travels; Social Climbing the Travel Way, by George Bradshaw; Travel Anxiety - a psychologist tells how not to suffer it; Vladimir Nabokov talks about his travels; How people really travel now - Drena Van Alen, Lady Sarah Courage, Madame Helene Rochas, Lady Diana Cooper, Contessa Susanna Agnelli, Principessa Irene Galitzine, Catherine Spaak, Mrs. Kenneth Tynan, Jose Luis de Vilallonga; La Duchesse d'Uzes, Mrs. David Michael Winton, Diana Guthrie, Mrs. Isobel de Crempien, Maggie Keswick, Diane Sawyer; People are Talking About - Virgil Thomson; In China Now - Sally Reston tells what to see, buy, watch for; New Life-Force in the Midwest, by Seymour Krim; Giorgio de Chirico - inverview by John Gruen; At Home the New Roman Way - a power of American Art; Horoscope of Charles Chaplin; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Marsh, James Reid
The Charm of the Middle Kingdom
245 pages. Decorated front board. Numerous good quality reproductions of black and white photos. A Vivid and intimate record of Chinese life, revealing its glamour and fascination, its callousness and disregard of human values. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy of this engaging account. Book
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Perckhammer, Heinz Von; Schaeffer, Dr. Emil (Herausgeber)
Von China Und Chinesen - Schaubucher (SB) 28
16 pages of text and descriptions of 63 full-page sepia-tone reproductions of photos. All text in German. Illustrated front board. Small prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Moderate age-related tanning to some pages. Moderate external wear. Original binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful von Perckhammer compilation. Book
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Katz, Sidney; Fraser, Blair; Clare, John; Newman, Peter C.; Allen, Robert Thomas; Richler, Mordecai; O'Hagan, Richard; Johnstone, Ken; Jolliffe, Edward B.; Baxter, Beverley
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, November 22, 1958 - Royal Winter Fair Cover Illustration and Article
96 pages. Features: Nice Royal Winter Fair cover illustration; China may soon be *the* world power; Behind China's Smile - a troubled people; Fantastic colour ad for Hertz features the 1959 Chevrolet; Is the body its own best doctor? - fresh discoveries of the body's natural defenses; If war comes by sea or land (part 2); A better world for retarded children; Is Alan Jarvis mis-spending our art $ millions at the National Gallery; Confessions of a fellow traveler - Mordecai Richler lays bare an unsuspected aspect of underground communism - its lighter side; Wonderful historic William Notman photos of An Era of Ships and Timber, plus skills and crafts that are no more; The Royal Winter Fair - biggest of them all; The On- and Offstage life of boy wonder Marcel Dube - the hottest playwright in French Canada; Nice colour ad for Rambler's 1959 cars; Great two-page colour ad for the 1959 Fairlane 500 Club Victoria; Colour ad for Fleetwood televisions; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover "Making Happy Music Together"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Taylor, Charles; Clarkson, Adrienne
Weekend Magazine, September 29, 1979 (Canadian Newspaper Supplement) - China at 30
40 pages. Features: Inside the new Republic of China - major article with colour photos; Colour pictorial history of the Republic of China; Understanding Hearts - Adrienne Clarkson goes home to her ancestral village in China - article with photos; Uncommon - and attractive - full-page colour photo for Woolco ladies fashions; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Powning, John; Gaunt, Mary; Jordan, John Alfred; St. Lawrence, Bernard; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Boswell, A.M.; Martin, Stuart; Lees, G.F.; Morell, J. D'Arcy; Shepstone, Harold J.; Beattie, S.A.
The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, March 1919: A Woman's Travels in China
Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with great photos; Stories of the War - Thirty Hours in No Man's Land - in WWI an Australian trooper on the Western Front is wounded and must make his way back to his own lines; Siringa's Last Battle - a native boy helps in one of the first fights in German East Africa, A Week in a Lens Dungeon - McLean and Ebbs of the 87th Canadian Battalion hid in a cellar for a week before making their way back to their lines; Miraculous Escapes from Sunken Submarines; An Adventurous Hunt After Man-eating Crocodiles - in Victoria Nyanza; The Mountain Warriors of France - excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - part II of what happend when Zulus killed an Englishman to use his body for love medicine; Wonders of Northern Syria - article with many great photos of architectural remains; Carter's Exoneration - a stirring story of the Australian Mounted Police. Great multi-page advertising feature on the Waterproof Products Corporation. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Moley, Raymond: Editor
News-Week (Newsweek), April 17, 1937
52 pages. Features: Supreme Court gives its blessing to Labor Relations Act and hands Roosevelt a victorious defeat - with photo of sit-downers and many related officials; Labor - Murphy medicine heals Chrysler strike - Ford and Vermont also prescribe for Sit-Downers - includes photo of Henry Ford, several photos of Hershey, PA - including a bloody-nosed John Loy - the aftermath of a riot at the American Gas Machine Co.'s Albert Lea, MN plant, and more; Photo-illustrated article on Britain's Stanley Baldwin, First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; A brief article on Germany presciently declares that Germany requires at least two more years before it wil be ready for total war - it also foreshadows Hitler's secret agreement with Stalin; Interesting brief updates with photos from Spain, China and Japan; Prodigy Mary Christine Dunn; Great article with five photos on the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team; The first commercial radio show using an all-Negro cast goes to air - with photo of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong; Federal Reserve supports market as institutions reduce their U.S. bond holdings; Hart Schaffner & Marx Celebrates its Golden Jubilee; Book revies; small news bits; and more. Many great vintage ads including a full-page ad for International half-ton trucks (vans), a full-page Chevrolet ad featuring two ladies, a luxurious full-page ad for the new Studebaker State President, and a lovely color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on the back cover which features a lady driving a gas-powered scooter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Snow, Edgar
War and Peace in Vietnam
32 pages. Reprinted from "The Other Side of the River" with a new introduction by the author. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound working copy. Book
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Hutchison, Bruce; Fraser, Blair; Lynch, Paul; Ruddy, Jon; Steed, Nicholas; Harris, Marjorie; Adams, Ian; Ruddy, Jon; Hutton, Eric; Edmonds, Alan; Graham, Elizabeth; Brien, Alan; Ross, Howard
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, October 1967 - Laurier Lapierre Cover Photo / Steam Age Tractors
114 pages. Features: Gorgeous two-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; Nice colour photo ad for 1968 Polaris snowmobiles; Bruce Hutchison's Unknown in Canada; How Laurier Lapierre Stays Famous; Can the Lapierre Generation Make the NDP Win?; Relic Steam-Age Tractors are now the pride of collectors - article with great colour illustration and photos; Clare Graves - the U.S. College Professor and his theory which explains why China is belligerent, why hippies act so cool, and why you're not getting along with your boss or your mate; Fur fashion article with great black and white photos; A Priest and a Psychiatrist reveal how they explore and cope with agonizing depression, self-doubt and disappointment - their own and that of the people they are trying to help; Recipes for Ontario's fall festivals - fruit, game and cheese; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Sony's portable 7" TVs; Does it Pay to Go Bandrupt?; Great two-page colour photo ad for four models of the Ford Torino; The Salmon are back in the Great Lakes! - transplanted Kokanee; There's a New Way to Have A Baby - Psychoprophylaxia; Nice two-page photo ad for Ontario Hydro shows the Pickering Nuclear Generation Station and the Mountain Chute dam under construction, plus a crew loading collant assemblies into the reactor at Douglas Point; Nice full-page photo ad for CKEY/590 features traffic man Bob Carter; Nice colour-photo half-page ad for Ski-Doo; Nice 3/4 page colour photo ad for International small trucks/Travelall; Half-page beautiful colour photo ad for the Chrysler 300 2-door hardtop; Nice two-page colour Chevrolet ad featuring the Camaro, Corvette, Chevy II Nova, Chevelle, and Chevrolet; Beautiful two-page colour photo GM ad features the Cutlass "S" Holiday Coupe, Cutlass Supreme Town Sedan, Delta Custom Holiday Coupe and the Ninety-Eight Luxury Sedan; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Broomhall, Marshall
The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission
306 pages. Index. With portraits, illustrations and fold-out map of China. Gilt and black decoration upon red front board. Light pencil markings and marginalia to first half of book. Few internal library markings. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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McElroy, Gil; Selfridge, Richard; Clennell, Tony; Bamford, Doug; Morrison, Cindy; Haines, Paul
Contact Magazine - Ceramics from a Canadian Perspective, Fall 1998, No. 114 - Richard Selfridge
48 pages. Features: The Exhibition "Alexander McCurdy - SOS - Sources of Support"; Richard Selfridge; Tony Clennell and the Coffin Kiln; Canadian Potters in China; 1998 San Angelo Ceramics Competition; A Peter King Workshop. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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Edmonds, Alan; Young, Sybil; MacGregor, Roy; Kimball, Elizabeth; Allan, Ted
The Canadian Magazine, July 12, 1975 - Golfer Moe Norman / Cover Photo of Lula Beatrice Wilken, Canada's Most Influential Person
24 pages. Features: Lula Beatrice Wilken of Moose Jaw; Full-page Mars ad features colour photo of the ill-fated Pontiac Astre; Catalogue shopping in Canada; The Amazing Moe Norman - Canada's Best Golfer; Doug Wright's Family; Cabbage recipes; Norman Bethune's conversion from a heavy-drinking womanizer into a model of ascetic devotion in China. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Beatty, Warren; Wlaschin, Ken; Elley, Derek; Lambert, Gavin; Warner, Alan; Gay, Ken
Films and Filming Magazine, August 1975 - Cover Photo of Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds in 'Lucky Lady'
50 pages. Features: Feature photo-illustrated interview with Warren Beatty; 'Lucky Lady' - photos; Cannes 1975; 'The French Connection II' - photos'; Shopping for Soundtracks; Recent Swedish Cinema Unseen in Britain; 'The Little Prince' - photos; Reviews - 'The Passenger', 'Illumination', 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', 'Knots', 'Deadly China Doll', 'The Mattei Affair', 'Uptown Saturday Night', 'Blood Money', 'The Donald Duck Story'; 'Bite the Bullet' - photos; 'The Yakuza' - photos; Review of book 'The Nazi Cinema'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Hill, George Roy; Zeffirelli, Franco
Films and Filming Magazine, August 1979 - Cover Photos of Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in 'The Main Event'
50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for 'The Main Event'; Full-page ad for 'The China Syndrome'; Photo-illustrated interview with director George Roy Hill; 'A Little Romance' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Franco Zeffirelli; 'Alien' - photos; Reviews - 'Manhattan', 'Avalanche Express', 'Boulevard Nights', 'Hair', 'The Main Event', 'Scum', 'Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline', 'We Forget Everything'; 'The Main Event' - photos; 'The China Syndrome' - photos; Review of bookon Diaghilev; 'Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline' - photos; 'Esther, Ruth and Jennifer' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Schlesinger, John; Hill, Debra
Films and Filming Magazine, September 1979 - Cover Photo of Peter Falk in 'The In-Laws"
50 pages. Features: Ads for 'Pretty Baby' and 'Butch and Sundance - The Early Years' inside front cover; ads for 'Once in a Lifetime' and 'Lost and Found'; Joe Rosenthal's historic Victorian war films to be auctioned; 'Dracula' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with John Schlesinger; Photo preview of John Schlesinger's 'Yanks'; Interview with Debra Hill about her role as producer, and her collaboration with director John Carpenter; 'Escape from Alcatraz' - photos; Reviews - 'Pretty Baby', 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure', 'Caravans', 'The China Syndrome', 'Dracula', 'Fedora', 'Hill's Angels', 'The In-Laws', 'My Love Has Been Burning Phantasm', 'Quintet', 'Why Not Stay for Breakfast'; 'Lost and Found' - photos; 'Quadrophenia' - photos; 'All Quiet on the Western Front' - photos; 'The In-Laws' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Bland, J.O.P.; Backhouse, E.; Rauch, F. (Translator)
China Unter Der Kaiserin Witwe
503 pages. Text in German. Black and white photographic plates. Average wear and soiling. Moisture marks to upper corner of pages - nothing major. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Wu, Guoguang; Lansdowne, Helen
China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security
303 pages. "Records, analyzes, and attempts to conceptualize the phenomenal development of Chinese foreign policy and its impact on international relations, with the emphasis on China's active participation in multilaterally oriented regional security regimes." - from Introduction. Prior owner's name neatly clipped from first page otherwise like new. A excellent copy. Book
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Richthofen, Ferdinand Freiherr Von; Tiessen, E. (Editor)
Ferdinand Von Richthofen's Tagebucher Aus China: Volumes I and II (One and Two)
588 + 375 pages. Index. Colour fold-out map at back of volume I. All plates present. Text in German. Contents unmarked and moderately age-toned. Foxing to plates and some pages. Average overall wear. Narrow openings along both hinges of volume I. Documents von Richthofen's important travel and research in China. Book
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Hu, William C.
The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival: Foods and Folklore
141 pages. "Explores the relationship of festival foods to nutrition, culture and economic concerns... A wonderfully engaging glimpse of the harvest season and its most important festival... Unique in that it not only discusses various festival foods and their nutritional value, but also gives the popular stories surrounding the origins of the foods. The simple recipes are a special feature that will, no doubt, add to readers' (and eaters') enjoyment." - from back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Loesser, Frank
On a Slow Boat to China - Sheet Music for Piano and Voice
4 pages. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Drake, Ervin
The Rickety Rickshaw Man: Sheet Music for Voice and Piano with Guitar Chords
6 pages. Great cover art. As performed by Eddy Howard. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Sheet music
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Nordmo, J.M.
Demons Despoiled
95 pages. "Years lived on the north China plain have given the author an intimate acquaintance with demonic power and its manifestations, along with the superstitions of popular Buddhism." - from front flap. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
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Sterling, Ada; Grand, Sarah; Pool, Maria L.; R.K.M.; Wu, Madame; Urmy, Clarence; Nesbit, E.; Bull, Katherine T.; Ashmore, A.T.; Wheeler, M.; Blay, M.
Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) - A Weekly Magazine for Women, July 21, 1900 - Chines and American Women Contrasted
Pages 710-772 plus 8 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Midsummer Days at Newport - article with many nice photos; Babs the Impossible (first part);The Meloon Farm (continued); Chinese and American Women Continued - article with nice photo of the author, Madame Wu, Wife of the Chinese Minister; The Wouldbegoods - #2 - The Blackheath Jungle; Mrs. L.E. Piper - A Study - article with photo of the wife of Mr. William Piper and her home at Arlington Heights, MA; The World of Fashion - article with great illustrations; Paris Fashion Fancies; Cut Paper Patterns; The 20th Century Baby - Emergencies (part 8); Recipes for warm days; In Jogund Vein; News of the World section covers The Rebellion in China, A Sun-Spot Year, Labor Settlements; Home-Made Cordials; News of the Women's Clubs; and more. Few library markings. Above-average wear to covers. Taped repairs to interior of front cover. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
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Utley, Freda
China at War
310 pages. Index. Fold-out map. Several black and white photographic plates, including graphic scenes of victims of the Japanese. "A naturally straightforward writer, Miss Utley is able to make her penetrating discussions of Chinese politics as deeply interesting and moving as her descriptions of air raids and hospital tours." - from dust jacket flap which is affixed to first blank leaf. Library binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Newsweek Magazine, May 28, 1945 *PRESIDENT TRUMAN - THE FIRST 40 DAYS*
Contents: color Parker pen ad inside front cover; interesting ad for the Curtiss Commando aircraft; Great International Harvester Truck/War Bonds ad; Pullman railcar ad with returning vets bearing swastika emblazoned souvenirs; Colour Cadillac ad; nice color ad for White Trucks - military theme; Does Truman lean left or right? - clues appear in the first 40 days; Are Japs Wanted? - article with interesting poster demanding fair play for America's Japanese; Congressional committee tours Concentration camps; Miami dogs killed after they kill Doretta Zinke; Blockade and bombs hit Japan as prelude to gathering storm - attrition is Allied policy while knockout forces transfer in strength to the Pacific; Great photo of the first Yank post V-E day ship bringing servicemen home; Great map indicating the 'Bomb Strategy Against Japan'; color Seiberling Tire ad; How to Starve out Japan - bomb the rice paddy dikes; Philippines - sobering losses; China - the Japs back up; Dramatic photo of the American Essex-class carrier Franklin (Big Ben) with its crew huddled on the flight deck after it was attacked by a single Japanese bomber with two 500lb bombs; Okinawa - sacrifice - 156 American marines and doughboys died there each day last week; photo of German prisoners with shovels in the massive American Henri Chappelle Cemetery in Belgium; Russia casts its shadow over Asia; Yugoslavs' willful grab at Trieste poses danger for Charter makers; Prince Faisal and other Arabs agree Palestine is an Arab state, despite a half-dozen vociferous Jewish organizations on the conference sidelines; Color Goodyear belt centerfold; Photo of Allied officers in front of Reichstag ruins; Pattern emerges for occupation - Allies command, Germans obey; "Life has no meaning" for Dr. Ley, once leader of the German labor front - article and photo; Nazi U-boat (with 'the Schnorkel') surrenders and is escorted to a Newfoundland port - photo; NBC airs dramatization of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom; Max Schmeling released; Rosenberg's den of Royal Theives holds key to looted art of Europe; interesting ad for a Sperry gunsight "The gunsight that 'things' faster than humans... or Japs!"; Great color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, December 18, 1944 *PARTISAN GIRLS - THEIR WEAPONS ARE AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE*
Contents: interesting Borg-Warner ad features color military illustration promoting their desalination equipment; Full-page ad for movie 'To Have and Have Not' starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Interesting ad with several photos of the Great Northern Railway; Norfolk and Western Railway color ad; Friction over policy for Europe disturbs relations of big three - idealism of U.S. clashes with realism of British and quiet toughness of Reds; Red Thrust on Hungarian front may be master key to victory - Vienna, aim of campaign, is strategically a greater prize than even capital of Reich; Inside V-2 - official British diagram of a German V-2 shows the workings of the rocket and its relative size as compared with a man; The Ormoc Trap; Disaster in China - struggling to save lifelines to the Occident; Kaywoodie Briar pipe - beautiful color ad; Photo of a Fifteenth Air Force Liberator aflame over a heavy flak barrage; Men over 26 to fill the ranks as casualty lists grow longer - 26 to 37's must work or fight in bitter war months ahead; Interesting ad for the Comptometer displays a Googol! - of interest to modern-day Google fans!; White Truck color ad - attractive; France sated with bloodletting - moderates move to halt purge - Germans threaten reprisals against French captives in Reich if executions are continued; Photo of Canadian General Crerar with Cpl. E. O'Connor of Toronto; De Gaulle with Molotov; Industry puts reconversion aside to answer hurry call for arms; The Japs failed purge of the Philippine educational system; Great Lakes Steel color ad featuring futuristic auto body styles. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, April 17, 1944 *COVER PHOTO OF H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA MARY*
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Stevens, Gerald
The Canadian Collector: Glass, Pottery, Furniture, Firearms of the Nineteenth Century
100 pages. Bibliography. From first printing of 750 copies. Printed upon glossy stock. Many black and white photographs. Sections include: Early Canadian Glass; Canadian China and Pottery; Canadian Cabinetmakers; Canadian Gunsmiths (including a long list). Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Book
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Action for Men (Magazine): August, 1959, Vol. 3, No. 5
74 pages. Features: Corporal Alford's Patrol is missing - the incredible story of Korea's mystery platoon; Dr. Koo and his Park Ave. Geisha spies - he ran Japan's U.S. underground till the FBI stepped in; Hell-Raising Commander Chesney - escape artist, smuggler, seducer; The Coast Guard Hunt for Madam Screwball's Floating Joy House - a burning bordello yields a load of 'wetback' Chinese girls; I'll take every city in China - $133,000 each - Yankee freebooter Frederick Ward glued back together the Manchu empire. Bonus - the man-hungry Queen who led a slave ship mutiny and ended up ruling her own island of men. Great photos of Lauren Hastings. Bits of nibbling from periphery. Somewhat above-average wear. Jot of writing to front cover else unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1979
Features: Huautla Cave - San Augustin 1979 Expedition - it may be the world's deepest cave network; Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Becoming a Man - initiation rites among the Australian aborigines; Campfires in Ethiopia - Travel to the Sudan under a royal pass; New Zealand's Record Giant Ammonite; Lottun Cavern's Ancient Artifacts - they point to a pre-cataclysmic culture; The Yaguas of Salco, Peru - a brief sojourn in a primitive village; Cultural Sites in China - sites open to visitors; Waterfowl Migrations in North America - they follow four major flyways; Historical Exploration Oil Painting Found - it depicts Commodore Perry's Okinawa encampment. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1980 *75th Anniversary Edition*
Features: The Future of Exploration - a scientist forecasts space colonies; Classification of Volcanoes - type of eruption used as guide; Jeanne Gurnee - Dedicated Caver - a productive underground career; Migrating White Storks in Peril - south Sinai wetlands on route destroyed; The Darien of Panama - the twilight of a unique environment; Domestic Dogs from the Neolithic of China - new finds documented in scientific collaboration; Proclomations and Messages observe 75th anniversary; How Dr. Bush retrieved the Time Capsule of 1928 from the cornerstone of our former clubhouse; Nordenskiold and the Northeast Passage - a centennial tribute; Enhydros - how they occur and what we can learn from them; Exploration and Energy - a driving force through the ages. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1980
Features: Solar Eclipse of 1980 - scientists race totality; Devils, Quolis, Dunnarts and Thylacines - a survey of Tasmanian mammals; Journey into Northern China - impressions of a scientist; A Geologist in Alaska - John C. reed on 45 years in the boondocks; Nebraska Miocene Giant Turtle - complete skeleton reveals new species; Niger - Tenere Expedition - geographical and archeological observations; Transglobe Expedition Now in Antarctica - British explorers circling globe on polar axis; Exploring Canada's Ellice River - observing Arctic tundra flora and fauna; New support for Archeological Discovery; Malaysia-Singapore Waterway Border - United Nations Law of the Sea problems. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Explorer's Journal, June 1982
Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June/July/August 1983
Features: The Black River area of the Mosquito Coast, Honduras - Rio Tinto Expedition; The Footsteps of Liu - variety of amphibians and reptiles; Yellowstone - Nature's Laboratory; The Panama Choco Expedition - Flag 172; The Transglobe Expedition completes objectives and receives the Explorers Medal; A visit to South China. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, March 1987
Features: Aniakchak; The Explorers Club Flag; Lewis N. Cotlow, Medalist; First Contact with New Guinea Primitives; By Outrigger from Bali to Madagascar; The Yi in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, China; An Unusual Find at Cyprus; The Kabiye of West Africa. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Explorer's Journal, Fall 1991
Features: Once around Lesotho; 1990 Cueva de Aqua Carlota Expedition; Early Lamellar Body Armor in China and Tibet; The Way to Shangri-La in the Alps; The Ria Deseado - a Mosaic of Marine Life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, June 1988
Features: The Black Caiman of Zancudo Cocha; Solo in the Arctic; Explorations Among the Stars; In Search of Hypercharge - A Matter of Some Gravity; Huautla; Yamantaka - Tibet's Yak-headed Deity; Soko Islands, South China Sea. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Till, Barry; Swart, Paula; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Chinese Jade: Stone for the Emperors
144 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Usual library markings. Heavily worn. Reading copy only. Book
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Ng, Peter Y. L. (Signed)
New Peace County: A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region
152 pages. Index. Bibliography. Reference notes. Map stored in pocket inside back cover. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. "For the student of Chinese history, for those interested in pre-British Hong Kong and for the layman alike this is a fascinating and enjoyable book which while satisfying in itself will also serve as a guide to further research." - from dust jacket. Book clean and bright with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
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Jansen, G.H. (Signed)
Zionism, Israel and Asian Nationalism
347 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. Chapters include: The Motivation of Zionism; Zionism in Action; The Process of Rejection; China and India Turn their backs; The Alien almost at Home; Asia draws back; Israel - a colony or a coloniser. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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