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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: May 1963
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February, 1959
Features: Short Line Steam Pictorial; Railroad News Photos; Business Cars at Lizar Head; Logging Line, 1959 Model - The McCloud River Railroad - nicely illustrated article; I Rented a Railroad for $35 - The Brighton and Harrison Railway of New England; I Don't Like Short Lines, However - by David P. Oregon; and more. Small date-stamp atop front corner else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April, 1958
Features: All West Issue; Robert R. Young 1897-1958; Railroad news photos; Great Photo of 'The Day They Tamed the West', 10 May, 1869 - rails meet in Utah; What the 'W' stands for in D&RGW - Rio Grande's Salt Lake Division; A Place to Watch Trains - David P. Morgan thumbs his diary back to 1945 and recalls Denver Union Station in 1945; Photos through the Rockes; Nice 2-page photo of a train puffing through Marias Pass in 1940; Day of a Railroader - 2 - a fan goes firing for pay and falls in love with 4-6-6-4s; The Case of the Verdi Villains; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: October, 1956
Features: The Engine that made Penn Station Possible - the DD1 - long article with illustrations including colour painted centerfold; Your choice - Two-Storey Santa Fe Streamliners or Pennsy's ankle-view train, both built by Budd; Railway news photos; Railroads out of Rio - Brazil's frantic search for modernism has rudely booted the locomotive out of public affection - article with photos; Great photo section; Steam in Indian Summer - 5 - Steam - it fares better in the flatlands; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February, 1958
Features: Clyde Carley tells about The Train Master - 'Dip' Dipprey - nice illustrated article; Steam in Mississippi - The Mississippian Railway - substantial article with photos; Pacific Great Eastern's (PGE's) RDC's - includes photo of 5 cars near Squamish, BC and map of RDC's on mainland British Columbia; Fantastic centerfold photo of the black smoke belching Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1962 crossing the Red River Bridge at Stearns, Kentucky; Nice photo section; Railroad News Photos; New England in February - a Tripmaster feature; and more. Faint date stamp to front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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BC Studies: No. 43, Autumn 1979
114 pages. Articles include: City-Building in the Canadian West - A Case Study of Economic Growth in Early Vancouver, 1886-1893; The Decline of Geese and Swans on the Lower Fraser River; 'Self-Respect and Hopefulness" - THe Webbs in the Canadian West; Changes of Mind - Dunne-za Resistance to Empire; The Seaforths and the Strikers - Nanaimo, August 1913; Mormonism on Vancouver Island - a comment. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Churchill, Ingrid (Signed)
The House
344 pages. The fictional account of a family of homesteaders in the Land of the Mighty Peace. "... about the strength and courage required to survive that land but mostly it is about a sense of place, the homes we all lived in and the lives we've left behind." - from back cover. Author was born in the Peace River Country in 1917. She has signed and inscribed this copy upon the first blank page, otherwise the book is unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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Students of Phoenix High School
Phoenix 1984-1985: Year Book of Phoenix High School, Campbell River, British Columbia
Unpaginated. Average wear. Lengthy handwritten note and autograph upon first blank leaf else unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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1986-1987 Yearbook, Phoenix Secondary School, Campbell River, British Columbia
Many colour photos and autograohs. Average wear. Book
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1987-1988 Yearbook, Phoenix Secondar School, Campbell River, British Columbia
96 pages. Many colour photos and autographs. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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1988-1989 Yearbook, Southgate Secondary School, Campbell River, British Columbia
148 pages. Colour and black and white photos. Prior owner's name inside front board else clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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1984-1985 Yearbook: Carihi Secondary School/Campbell River (British Columbia) Senior Secondary School
135 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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McCullough, Karen M.: Editor
Arctic - Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America - Volume 44, Supplement 1, 1991 - Remote Sensing of Arctic Environments
171 pages. Contents include: The Polar Oceans Progarm of the Alaska SAR Facility; Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Training Requirements in Arctic Canada; Topographic Data and Satellite Spectral Response in Subarctic High-Relief Terrain Analysis; Monitoring the Water Bodies of the Mackenzie Delta by Remote Sensing Methods; Operational Remote Sensing of Sea Ice; Remote Sensing of the Sea Surface Temperatures for Aquaculture Planning in Northern Norway; Remote Sensing of Permafrost by Ground-Penetrating radar at Two Airports in Arctic Canada; Mapping Muskox Habitat in the Canadian High Arctic with SPOT Satellite Data; Calibration of Aerial Thermal Infrared Imagery for Walrus Population Assessment; Detection and Classification of Muskox Habitat on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data; An Assessment of Bison Habitat in the Mills/Mink Lakes area, Northwest Territories; Preliminary Geologic Interpretation of SAR Data, Yellowknife-Hearne Lake Area; Monitoring Natural Vegetation in Southern Greenland Using NOAA AVHRR and Field Measurements; Satellite Geological Mapping of the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt; Measuring Climatc State Variables from SAR images of Sea Ice - The SIMS SAR validation site in Lancaster Sound; The Role of Imaging Radar in the Development of the Canadian Arctic - Background and applications; The Use of AVHRR Thermal infrared imagery to determine sea ice thickness withing the Chukchi Polyna; In Situ Measurements of Micro-Scale Surface Roughness of Sea Ice; Derivation of Snow Water Equivalent in Boreal Forests Using Microwave Radiometry; Lake and River Ice Investigations in Northern Manitoba using airborne SAR Imagery; Location and Areal Extent of Polynyas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, November 25, 1961: Dr. Mikhail Klochko Fled Russia
39 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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St. Patrick's Parish Members
St. Patrick's (Roman Catholic Church) Parish, Campbell River, British Columbia - 40th (Fortieth) Anniversary Cookbook
134 pages. Nice recipes from the Campbell River area. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 4, 1960 *Peter C. Newman Looks Toward Ontario in the 1960s*
Features: The 20 men who really run Canada, by Peter C. Newman; Ontario in the 1960s - a major article in which Peter C. Newman forecasts the progress of Ontario for next decade; Gentle Julie and her hard-bitten Romeo (Julie Harris and Bruno Gerussi at Stratford); The wonderful things we built in our basements; The trouble with middle-aged men - they're pasing through a change-of-life similar to menopause in women; The Olympic's most dangerous game - the 3-day equestrian competition; The mystery of the Merrifield - part 2 of 3; For the sake of argument - what Jews can teach us about divorce; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - her modest reappraisal of South Africa's whites. Why Winnipeg's little theatre keeps getting bigger; The lucky town with the rich uncle - Lord Beaverbrook's gifts to Fredericton. Front cover illustration of the Great Whale River airstrip on Hudson Bay. Great colour ad for a 1960 Chevrolet Kingswood Station Wagon. Colour Cinci Lager beer ad inside back cover. Colour Coke ad on back cover shows Great Dane in car with lady. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Chip from bottom edge of back cover. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, August 27, 1960 - How I Captured Quebec's Red Hood Gang
Features: Article - is JFK our best hedge against depression?; The Life of Alexander Graham Bell - part I - "I Came to Canada to Die" - great photos; How I captured the Red Hood Gang - Det. Insp. Joseph Bedard as told to Ken Johnstone; The Harsh wonderland that was St. Lawrence Main, by Mordecai Richler; Canadian football beats the American Game; John Vickers - what makes a Tenor boom; A doctor's case for state medicine - Harry Paikin, M.D.; Holiday weekend in Paris; The Prudhommes' drive-in daydream - Prudhomme's Garden Centre Motor Hotel; Let's bring back child labour - Eileen Morris; The battle in Britain to ban the bomb; Holiday weekend in Paris; A Canadian nurse's jungle vigil with leprosy - Helen Mackenzie in Portuguese Guinea. Nice colour Black Label beer inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: the top quarer of page 5 has been clipped ane removed - apparently this was an ad form - contents unaffected. Cartoon clipped from page 40 - text unaffected. Small ad clipped from page 42 - text unaffected. Large clipping from page 44 seems to have removed a small part of the A.G. Bell article. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad on page 45. Great colour Coke ad on back cover shows man being sprayed in the head by a garden hose. Lower half of page 49 is clipped and not included - this has removed part of the football article and part of the Prudhomme article. Average wear. Book
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The (Leader-Post) Canadian Magazine, 13 February 1971 - Defeating Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest
26 pages. Features: The Town that Hit the Jackpot - Nickie Rubuliak and the residents of Smoky Lake, Alberta who defeated Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest; The Mob - Part 5 - A foothold in Ontario; Dignity in Decay - Totem Poles along the British Columbia coast; Four-page feature on mothers having *two* sons playing hockey in the NHL; Glenn Martin of the Pine River Cheese and Butter Company near Goderich, Ontario; Funny Doug Wright's Family comic strip. Average wear. Unmarked. Short closed tear to back coveer. A quality copy. Book
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Life Magazine, 9 December 1966 *THE VIETNAM DRAFT - WHO BEATS IT AND HOW*
152 pages. Features: Evading the Draft - major article; Spunky King Hussein fights to hold on in Jordan; Dino De Laurentiis - Moviemaker - nice photos; High end steam engine auction; Levi Smith's Bonus - 15 Grandchildren (part III); The day the Bible beat the monkeys - John Scobes and the Scopes trial; Adam Clayton Powell repels the press; Come with Mr. Capote to a Masked Ball - many photos; The perforated curtain - a surprise package in Eastern Europe (with photos); the sole surviving 'river Bushman' of Okavango swamps; Round wooden home overlooks Bolinas Lagoon; Too many pigeons in San Francisco. Great 2-page colour ad for the 1967 Barracuda! 1967 colour Buick ad. Average wear. Address label on front else unmarked. Book
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No Author
Map of Hays Alberta, West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
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Map of Grassy Lake, Alberta, West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
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Map of Raymond, Alberta, West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
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Map of Warner County, Alberta, West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
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Picture Butte, Lethbridge County, Alberta, West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Book
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Travers, Alberta - West of Fourth Meridian, Scale 1:50,000
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Book
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Island Cookery II - More All-time Favourites from Quadra Island
219 pages. Index. "These time-tested favourites offer delectable and unexpected variations. From prawns in mushrooms, artichoke pie, smoked salmon pasta, huckleberry hens, right through to Icelandic Ribbon Cake, disocover the tempting flavours from more than 250 recipes presented in this unique island cookbook." - from back cover. Average wear. A sound working copy. Book
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Frontier Times, February 1936
46 pages. Features: early day mail lines in Texas; Bits of Historical Information; a desperate hand-to-hand battle; John L. Goforth - a plow pioneer of Parker; six-shooters in the old southwest; a journey through Texas in 1856; taking the law to the Rio Grande; Baileys and Polleys among Earliest Texans; Noah Smithwick recorded Texas history; "I'll know what you're talking about"; Rangers' desperate battle with the Indians; John B. Hood - the man of courage; old Rockport Road - laid out by a preacher. Clean and unmarked. Undated - circa 1990? Book
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The New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1965 *COVER PHOTO OF MARIO SAVIO & CO.*
Features: The Berkeley Affair - Mario Savio vs. UC President Kerr over free speech; A Japanese remembers Iwo Jima - Toshihiko Ohno; Could Reginald Maudling win for the Tories?; We are too deep in Asia and Africa, by Frank Church; It's Middletown - On the Potomac - a Washingtonian considers the recurrent 'passion for reshaping the city; Two men from Moscow pay a call - journalists A.N. Druzhinin and Stanislav Kondrashov; Driving tests should be tougher; What will become of the Hudson River?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1965
Features: The village of Kibweta in the war-torn Congo; The hard limits of government by consensus - LBJ is up against it; Daily Dilemmas of the Attorney General - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Commuters of Rio de Janeiro gripe but they love their city on its 400th anniversary; The American Dream and the American Negro; Venezuelan artist Marisol (includes picture of her with Andy Warhol); New York's street gangs no longer 'Bop,' they 'Jap'; Playwright Neil Simon's Prescription for Comedy. Crossword completed otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1965
Features: A River Dies - and is Reborn again - New Jersey's Raritan River; We are deluding ourselves in Vietnam - Hans J. Morgenthau; Even if they can't read, They should have the right to vote - Andrew Hacker; After Fifty Years the cry of Ypres still Echoes - 'Gas!' - the beginning of chemical warfare in 1915 - chlorine and tear gas; Secret of the Nureyev Spell; The New York World's Fair - Act II; Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Schofield, Jack: Editor
BC (British Columbia) Aviator Magazine: May/June 1992 - Nanaimo Feature
Features: Nanaimo; The Airwest Story - Harbour to Harbour; Powell River Airways, Ltd.; Awood Air readies PBY Canso Flying Boats for Spain; BOE/CAN - Boeing Aircraft of Canada - factory built in 40's at Vancouver Airport; Production Test Pilot for the PBY5A flying boat (Catalina); YCD - Nanaimo Airport; Baxter Aviation - Tom and Linda Baxter; Journey Log of Dave Nilson. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Healy, W.J.
Women of Red River
261 pages. Black and white illustrations. Being an account written from the recollections of women surviving from the Red River era. - subtitle. A tribute to the women of an earlier day by The Canadian Women's Club. Colour frontispiece. Above-average wear. Hinges open. A worthy reading copy of this wonderful history. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 27, 1961 *ALLEN FUNT OF CANDID-CAMERA / CRIMINAL ABORTIONISTS*
Features: The embarrassment of Louisiana - this state was glowing with prosperity until the integration conflicts broke out in all their ugliness; Abortion (part 2 of 3) - a reporter's portrait of the abortionists - who they are, and how they practice their trade; The face of America - River of Ice - photo of the Mendenhall Glacier; Pitfalls of buying a boat - Richard Bertram's Miami 'supermarket' sold $5,000,000 worth of sail and power vessels last year despite the disdain of competitors who think he's too high-pressured; A Call on the 'Candid-Camera' Man, Allen Funt; Can Ivan read better than Johnny? - Arthur S. Trace Jr. points out that Russian kids are far more literate than their American counterparts; Adventures of the Mind - The Hidden Heart of Nature, by Elliot Lovegood (E.L.) Grant Watson. Nice color Pepsi ad. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Government of British Columbia
Statutes of the Province of British Columbia, Passed in the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of British Columbia, Begun and Holden at Victoria, on the 25th January and Ending on the 12th May, 1883
Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation, Regulation of Coal Mines, Prospecting for Coal Mines, Coroners, County Courts, Assize and Nisi Prius, Superior Courts, Creditor's Relief, Attachment of Debts, Sumas Dyking, Evidence, Ferries in Municipalities, Game, Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands, Jurors and Juries, Justices of the Peace, Crown Lands, Married Woman's Property, Minerals, Prospecting for Minerals, Municipalities, Salt Spring Island, Provincial Officers, Quesnelle Lake Dam, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Railway, New Westminster Railway, South Wellington Railway, Sleighs (on Cariboo Trunk Road), Stipendiary Magistrates, Supply, Victoria City Official Map, Victoria Transfer Company, Voters, Eagle Pass Wagon Road, Yale Fire Brigade, Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Ex-Library
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Government of British Columbia
Statutes of British Columbia Passed in the Third Session of the Third Parliament of British Columbia, Begun and Holden at Victoria, on the 5th April, and Ending on the 8th May, 1880
Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits, Declarations, and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company (Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.); Tolls (Cariboo Waggon Road); Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 17 October 1964 - The Arctic Today
100 pages. Features: Fold-out front cover reveals a 3-panel colour ad for Ford cars; How Montreal's favourite cop chased away a persistent ghost - the Payfer familiy's apartment; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont; Our Double Image of Canada's North, by Blair Fraser; How Wealthy Sportsmen are plundering Tree River - the hottest spot in North America for the angler with an unlimited budget - article with photos; The Girl in the Forest - from novel by Fred Bodsworth; Arctic Hunt - a cruel contest where the prize is survival - great photos; An open letter to the French Canadian Nationalists, by Peter Gzowski; Sidney Katz argues that female spouses have the best of the marriage bargain; Montreal's fifth International Film Festival - article with nice photos; Quentin Reynolds describes how he went from smoking 4 packs per day to zero in five days; Nice two-page colour ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne; Norman Ward tells father Five Ways to Raise a Champion Non-Athlete; Nice two-page photo ad for Pilkington glass products; Sweet colour photo full-page ad for the 1965 Lincoln Continental; Nice two-page colour ad for the new 1965 Oldsmobiles; Don Francks - Canada's next big name on Broadway; Rita Ubriaco says Canada needs less birth control and more self-control; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features guy, girl and Jack-O-Lantern. Average wear. Address label on front cover otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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McGeary, W.L.; Sloman, Fred; Korman, Seymour; Buchwald, Art; Lloyd Lockhart; Coulter, Tex; Gibson, John E.; Nicol, James Y.; Jacobs, Stanley S.; Rohan, Mag; Halliday, Hugh M.; Hilliard, Harold; Barrett, William E.; Murray, Kathryn;
Star Weekly Magazine, 20 September 1958: B-24s Bomb Ploesti
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos. Book
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Truckey, Don; Alderman, Tom; Bellan, Ruben; Collins, Anne;
Today Magazine, 8 August 1981 - Kid Cowboys
24 pages. Features: Daughter of the Governor-General, Karmel Schreyer, in the Miss Teen Ottawa-Hull Pageant - with photo; Kid Cowboys - The Annual Victoria Day Rodeo at High River Alberta - article with colour photos; Cop Shopping - Calgary is Recruiting police officers from the Maritimes; Mad Money - The Case Against High Interest Rates; Muriel Sherrin and the Stratford Festival; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
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Grescoe, Paul; Young, Sybil; McRae, Earl; Grant, Maggie; King, Paul
The Canadian Magazine, May 19, 1973
36 pages. Features: 5 Year Updates and photos of athlete Debbie van Kiekebelt, Vancouver mother Marjorie Courvoisier, Thalidomide victim Gigi Cole, Chief Robert Smallboy, Len and Agnes Fisher and Jacques About; How You Rewrote O Canada 1,200 times; Niagara River Rafting - article with colour photos; Nice full-page colour ad for the Ford Torino; Colour photo centerfold ad for Player's cigarettes - beach scene; Wonderful two-page colour photo fashion feature on halter tops; Montreal Expos Pitching Coach Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish and his Canadian pitching prospect Denis McSween; Doug Wright's Family; Colour photo Nescafe ad features image of Winnegago camper prize; Mexican Recipes; Colour ad for International pickup trucks; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage 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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Doggett, Denzil; Wish, Harvey; Bundy, Alice; Knox, Julie LeClerc; Nevis, Benjamin W.
Indiana Magazine of History, December 1936
Pages 317-448. Features: Water-Powered Mills of Flat Rock River - article with black and white photos; New Indiana Archival Documents; Jennings County in the Frontier Period; The Century-old Wright Home; Legend of Cedar Isle; Journal of John T. Williams, 1850; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Carter, Harvey L.; Yule, Robert B.; New, Harry S.; Knox, Julia LeClerc; Dahman, Schenck; Denehie, Elizabeth M.; Cottman, George S.; Coleman, Christopher B.; Kenworthy Leonard S.
Indiana Magazine of History, June 1935
81 Pages. Features: William Maclure; The Vincennes Bridge Over the Wabash River; The Importance of a Single Vote; The Old Sullivan Home in Madison; Childhood Memories of Vevay; Indiana's First Newspaper; An Autobiography - George S. Cottman; John Brown and Sons in Kansas Territory; and more. Prior owner's name atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Franklin, Stephen; Marx, Jerry; Curtis, Linda; O'Brien, Andy; Trent, Bill; Nagle, Patrick
Weekend Magazine, 26 June 1965
40 pages. Features: New flag for Canada's 98th birthday - article with photos; The Queen Mother - Her Personal Story - part 1 of 4; Jean Seberg's Return to the Top - Burned at the stake on film and in reviews, she begain again in Europe - article with photos; Photo of Miss Patricia Soulliere, "Miss Textile of the Week"; Jerry Marx Survived An Avalanche - article with photos; Fantastic colour photo centerfold ad for the Rambler line of cars; Upsurge in Canada's Track and Field Athletic Performance; Paul Anka and Diana Ayoub, the girl he left behind (and after whom his first hit song is named); Kendo battles on the Fraser River Delta dunes in Steveston - Jim Murray studies the Japanese Martial Art - article with photos; ; Back cover Esso ad with the 'Tiger in your Tank' theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Katz, Sidney; Hutchison, Bruce; Barnard, Harry; Meyer, Hazel; Hockley, Vernon; Joubin, Franc. R.; Bissell, Dr. Claude; Tyrwhitt, Janice; Griffin, Alice; Moon, Barbara
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 12 April. 1958 - By Ward Market Cover Illustration
84 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for GWG womens' slacks inside front cover; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for GE fridges; Brief write-ups and photos of two very successful Canadians - prospector Franc. Joubin who discovered Uranium at Blind River, and Claude Bissell who will soon become the U of T's youngest ever president; Full-page Royal Bank of Canada promotes their savings and personal chequing accounts; Photo of British Rock 'N' Roll King Tommy Steele; Fantastic colour photo full-page ad for the 1958 Chrysler Windsor; Is There a Drug to Cure Cancer?; The Eisenhower Tragedy - the president is a broken man and the west is leaderless; James Couzens of Chatham - The Canadian Behind Henry Ford - article with photos; Why They Won't Publish Your Song; I Married a Wrestler - by Leah Layton, wife of Lord Athol Layton - article with photos; The Best Fishing Hole in B.C.- short story; Franc. R. Joubin and Dr. Claude Bissell offer their views on what should be done about the education crisis; Are Our Children Growing Up Too Fast?; Don Harron and his losing battle to sidestep stardom - article with six photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Labatt's Pilsener beer; Colour centerfold ad for Canadian Pacific Air, Sea and Land travel services; Superb full-page colour ad for the 1958 Chevrolet's features a black convertible with red interior - what sets this ad apart is the black background - awesome!; CNR rail travel ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows a Bermuda waterfront scene; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Hutchison, Bruce; Stollery, Peter; Mitchell, W.O.; Allen, Ralph; MacDermot, Anne; Moore, Jacqueline; Ouvrard, Jacques; Allen Ralph
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 3 June 1961
68 pages. Features: Jack Shadbolt cover art; Old Vienna beer ad inside front cover; Piece by Grace Lane about the victories of the church; BA ad features statement and photo of its President, E.D. Loughney; Nice full-page colour ad for the 1961 Oldsmobile Dramatic 98 convertible coupe; When a Retarded Child is Born; Burglary by License - the work of commercial bailiffs; The Great Columbia River Foul-Up - B.C. vetoes deal between Canada and the U.S. to harness this mighty river; Outcast in the Horn of Africa - the fourth and final part of Peter Stollery's African diary; The shocking truth about the undefended border (humour); The Misfortunes of War - extract from Ralph Allen's new book "Ordeal by Fire"; Summer Attractions in Montreal; Dan Petrie and the "underground railway" from Canada to Broadway; Fantastic Labatt's 50 Ale ad with water-skiing theme; Photos of Mutual Life of Canada's top selling agents; Colour photo ad for Viyella shirts; The Metis Today - a cruel price for mixed blood - article and photos describe their poverty; Ralph Allen criticizes the government of South Africa, with focus on Sir de Villiers Graaff and Prime Minister Verwoerd; Profile of Omri J. Silverthorne, chairman of the Ontario Board of Censors of Motion Pictures. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Crowdy, Michael (Editor); Coleman, R.J.; Squarey, C.M.; Menzies, Colin D.L.; Tripp, G.W.
Marine News - Journal of the World Ship Society, September 1963
Pages 227-251. Features: Photo of the ACCRA, the first passenger liner to use the new Langton River Entrance at Liverpool; Introducting the W.S.S. Negative Bank; Branch News; Naval Craft; A Day with the First Submarine Squadron; Merchant Ships; Passenger Liners Today; Photos of new bulk carriers - The Simandou, Orion, Polarvik and Tank Princess; Perth Harbour; Warship Quiz; Echoes of the Past; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Malone, Col. Dick; Bauer, W.W.; Fraser, Blair; Holliday, Kate; Blakeslee, Howard W.; Mignon, Ulric; Alexander, R.K.; Baxter, Beverley; Rennie, Jim; Inglis, Peter; Allen, Ralph; Brookes, Lt. Cmdr. A.G.; Mergendahl, Charles; et al
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, September 15, 1946
76 pages. Features: Politics in Khaki - The Inside of the Canadian Army High Command - McNaughton and Crerar stepped on Monty's toes - here's the record, revealed for the first time; Childhood's No. 1 Enemy - rheumatic fever; Battle of the Peacemakers - meeting at Paris; Witch of Endor - fiction; Kate Holliday gets a Hollywood makeup makeover; It rained poison after Bikini Islands' fifth atom bomb test - with photo; Hard rock miners; Honor of the Company - fiction; Flivvers in the Sky - fly your own plane; The Good Catch - fiction; Golfing Cop - Henry Martell - article with photo; Hell's Gate is open - upgrades allow Fraser River salmon to get further upstream - article with three photos; Nice ad for Waterman's pens with cheerleader theme; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Good Year tires features Mountie helping young lady in mountain valley; Superb Caterpillar bulldozer ad - "Boss of the Bulldozers"; Nice Fleet Aircraft ad; Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; Fantastic painted Coke ad on back cover features partying group of young people at table; and more. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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The Postal Service Recognition Committee of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George
Postscript '90: Commemorating 75 Years of Postal History in the Fraser - Fort George Region
56 pages. Includes lists of additional sources and postmasters. "...Relates to the establishment of postal service and the anchoring of a name to a community. The postmarks reproduced here can be considered to be the official seal of the communities" - from introduction. Discusses the following postal service communities: Aleza Lake, Chief Lake, Cranberry Lake, Croydon Station, Dewey, Dome Creek, Dunster, Giscome, Giscome Portage, Henningville, Hutton Mills, Longworth, Loos, Lucerne Station, McBride, Newlands Station, Nichol, Penny, Prince George, Raush Valley, Tete Jaune and Willow River. Publisher's ink stamp inside front cover otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Undated but printed in recent years - we estimate in 1990. A nice copy. Book
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Hunt, Rev. Orrin Robbins; Lawrence, J.B.; Selden, G.C.; Chesley, Charles Henry; Moses, George H.; Pattee, Fred Lewis; Jensk, Edward A.; Tenney, E.P.; Colby, Frederick Myron; Hammond, Otis G.; Phalen, Frank L.; Douglas, Marian; et al
The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine, February 1896: A Winter at the Connecticut River Logging Company in Pittsburgh, Connecticut
Pages 99-158. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos; Features: A winter in a logging camp; A winter midnight; Farnum; The haunts of the snowbird; Raymond; Inexpression; The princes in the tower; The legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse (continued); By Old Stamboul; Sewall's Falls historically considered; An imperishable epitaph; Our store of old letters; Educational department; The worshipper; New Hampshire necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Book
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Gaselee, John; Shaw, Anthony; Ellis, H.F.; West, Genevieve; Pearce, Ian; Brinton, Alan
The Vauxhall Motorist (Magazine), August 1963
Pages 137-184. Features: Insurance Pitfalls; Here's our Taxi Now - Tiny's Radio Taxis operating in Southend use a 100% Vauxhall fleet; No Sooner Said Than Done - new computer equipment put to use by the company (wow, the computer is huge!); Brakes - a detailed two-page illustrated article of how they work; Requiem for old Roads; Stand by to Cast Off - a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads; Die Romantische Strasee - the 200 mile romantic road in Germany; Alan Briton's Views - on such things as the new two-lane bridge over the River Medway on M2; Steering - how to avoid trouble; Don't Throw a Tantrum - how to avoid road rage; Nice Velox ad inside back cover; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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