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193174 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Whitman's prestige chocolates inside front cover; Essex car ad; Mimeograph ad; Business is Business (short story); What's the Racket? - interesting article about rackets - what they are and how they work; Moonlight on the Water (short story); Beyond the War (a war short story); Position in Life - how a woman chooses her position in life; In the Strongroom (short story); A Ship Comes In - the dramatic story of Eugenie Leontovich, principal actress in Grand Hotel; - article with photo; Yuan Hee See Laughs (part VII); Gunsight Trail (part VI); Golf "Coarse" - how to make a smaller crop of divets; How Dry We Are - what is known about droughts and what measures for relief have been attempted i.e. photo of electrically-charged sand being discharged into the air; A Mere Detail (short story); Beautiful color full-page photo of a green car in Fisher Body ad; Wonderful two-page color ad for Dutch Boy paint shows Dutch Boy painting atop ladder; Full-page color ad for bananas by the United Fruit Company; Full-page Buick ad; Canada Dry full-page ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad featuring Dr. Emil Fronz of Vienna; Two-page colour centerfold ad for General Electric refrigerators - very nostalgic!; Full-page ad for Chrysler Eights & Sixes; Nice two-color full-page ad for Williams shaving cream/Aqua Velva; Color ad for Seald-Sweet grapefruit; Two-page ad for Veedol oil - "so clear you can read a newspaper through it"; Full-page ad with photo for the Autogiro - an early helicopter!; Ad for True Temper step-down steel shafts for golf clubs with photo of the 6th Tee at Pebble Beach; Vintage ad for Wilson golf equipment inside back cover; Nice color Ford ad inside back cover shows policeman in car; Nice color Frigidaire refrigerator ad on back cover (soiled). Average external wear and soiling with a few peripheral chips/openings. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195680 pages. Features: Who Killed Sir Edmund?; Able Baker; A Matter of Time; Last Bus, Last Round; The Short Honest Life of Walker the Talker; The Slow-Porter Torture; Cross-Country Golf; The Unwelcome Return of the Mimsers; "And Then He Heard The Angels Call"; Study in Leadership; Eggy-Sheggy-Ray; Concerning Clothes; Photos of Jayne Mansfield, Martine Carol and Else Hansen - The Norwegian Firebrandand; How to Cheat at Cards; Tyson, Laker and Tribe; Three pages of men's sweater fashions; and more. Pencilled name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
194866 pages. Articles: Designs for Touring - Salt Water, Salubrity and Sin - Attractions of Mississippi's Gulf Coast - The Poor Man's Riviera; Strife Among the Roses - Rose Bowl Preview - with financial details; For Landings' Sake - a study of the causes of airline accidents; The Truth in Russian Eyes - an interview with the editor of Pravda; The People's Life Preservers - the FDA; Veni, Vidi Valli - Little lady Valli is Italy's gift to Hollywood; Facts and Figures - the last word in foundation garments (corsets, bras and girdles); Old Ties for Old - men can now swap unwanted gift neckwear; Here a City Died - a visit to Machu-Picchu - article with great color photos. Fiction: Cocktails at Blindman's Lake; This is the Night; Four Alarm; Oh, Lovely Land; Previous Date; The First Foot. Includes these nostalgic ads: Boris Karloff in a Tums ad; Pontiac cars; Talon Dresses (featuring wedding gown); "Night Song" movie (full-page); Spam; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring ballerina Kathryn Lee. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194886 pages. Articles: The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest states acquire the New Look of prosperity; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 4) - Stalin spoke of morals - the record of his visit to Stalin to discuss plans for defeating Hitler; Hunting of the Swede - screen writer Eddie Blum discovers Marta Toren for Hollywood; Designs for Touring (part 8) - Northern Michigan travel. Fiction: Along Came Mary; Marabou for Mama; The Bramble Bush; Even Up; The Makings; Hannigan. Ads include: True Temper golf club shafts; Zenith radios; Hickok belts; Monarch canned produce; American Optical; RCA Victor portable radios; 1949 Studebaker trucks; Pabst beer - with colour image of Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Peck; Good Year; Plymouth; American Airlines; Freeman Shoes; Mercury cars; Ballantine's Ale; Hiram Walker nice two-page color-photo ad; Skol; Esterbrook pens; Holeproof socks; Tawn toiletries; National Guard; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring rodeo champion Ken Roberts. Front cover nearly detached. Piece missing from top of back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194878 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194782 pages. Articles: The Kids Get a Night Club - Rochester's teenagers solve their entertainment problem; The A-Bomb's Invisible Offspring - the menace of radioactivity from atomic blasts - article with scary photos; The Balkan Follies - how Americans are browbeaten in Moscowized southeast Europe (Yugoslavia); Little Man on a Horse - sketches of backstage life of the big-time jockeys; I Stopped Stammering - how he was cured - Dr. Richard R. Hutcheson and the district speech clinic in Washington, D.C.; They Kicked Us Off Our Land (conclusion) - the misuse of public grazing lands. Includes ads for: Duraglas bottles; Ipana toothpaste - featuring Bryan Cornell and his mother; General Electric entertainment products (in colour); Admiral FM-AM phonograph with miracle tone arm; U.S. Royal tires; International Harvester products - trucks, dozers, tractors and appliances; Ford woody wagons; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Colgate tooth paste; Lucky Stricke cigarettes; Ballantine Ale - featuring Victorian bathing suits; Good Year - centerfold; Kingsey gin; GM Electro-Motive Division; Veedol motor oil; "The Long Night" movie starring Henry Fonda; Schlitz beer; Polaroid sportglas - modelled by Bill Stern and Margaret Young; Acushnet golf balls; Back cover Chesterfield cigarette ad features large color image of actor Charles Boyer. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2004216 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: The Mundanthurai sanctuaryis Tamil Nadu's haven for wildlife enthusiasts; The Unknown Lucknow; Bharatpur's Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary; Devil Rays off the coast of the Maldives; Nagpur and Indian aviation achievements; Suits that make the man; Jijoy Chowdhury's evocative images of a winter morning in Kolkata; Kurukshetra is steeped in mythological grandeur; Sakinalu packs a punch for the Telegus; Sri Lanka's capital; Bentota Beach; Sigiriya Rock; Buddhist art; Sri Lankan cuisine; Tea and golf in Nuwara Eliya's green hills; Baila; Sri Lankan writers; Tamilian tales; Geoffrey Bawa's architectural style; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
194690 pages. Fiction: The Fugitives; He Loves Me; Take Care When You Say Hello; The Long Denial (part 3 of 4); When the Lilacs Bloomed; Mr. Digney Has a Dream. Articles: The Deadliest War - Germ Warfare; Judy Holliday - star of 'Born Yesterday'; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon criticizes abuse of power in Congress; How to Run a Prize Fight - the Louis-Conn brawl; Scranton Buys its Own Jobs; Lessons in cooking fish on the beach in the Nassau, Bahamas manner; George Vogel is staff Organist at the Freeport Bank of Freeport, Long Island; Miracle Bark of the California Redwood; and more. Ads include: Color GE Radio ad featuring Frank Sinatra; Great color photo ad for International trucks featuresWillers Truck Service of Sioux Falls, SD, plus the Herman Oil Transport Company of Fremont, NB; Lucky Strike cigarette ad; Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Martin Aircraft; Nice color-photo ad for Oldsmobile and its new Hydra-matic transmission; Bendix Aviation; Hickok belts; Little Lulu is featured prominently in a Keenex ad; Santa Fe Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Douglas DC-4 aircraft; Piper aircraft; Mercury cars; Acushnet golf balls; Very attractive ad for Jantzen swim suits and sun clothes; Blatz Beer - sailing scene; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features bride. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194674 pages. Fiction: Straw Hat Circuit; Candlelight and Salt Pork; A Little Fire; Sleep, My Love (part 2 of 5); The Wonderful Race at Rimrock; Come Back, Come Back. Articles: Who is a Negro - the problem of lightskin colored folks who pass as whites; St. George and the Marxian Dragon - a report on the first year of Britain's experiment in socialism; All-America Water Queens - The A.A.U. picks a team of the nation's 14 best girl swimmers; What George Bernard Shaw thinks at Ninety; The Truth About Henry Kaiser - this, part 2 of 3, deals chiefly with his invasion of the automobile industry; The Scholar and the Sprout - Life with Uncle Roger at Mrs. McTiver's Cape Cod boardinghouse. Nice ads include: Seiberling tires; Life Savers candies; Nice color ad for GMC Trucks; Sensational color centerfold ad for the new Chevrolet; Talon ad features color photo of woman in corset; Nice two-color two-page Buick ad; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury cars; One-page color ad for Pontiac's new 1946 DeLuxe Station Wagon; Corby's Whiskey - with golf photos; Great color photo ad for Canadian Club inside back cover features logging scenes in northern British Columbia; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194682 pages. Fiction: Leader of the Band; The Other Woman; The Senator was Indiscreet; The Reformer; Sleep, My Love; Callaghan's Miracle. Articles: The Roosevelt I Knew (part 1); No War with Russia; Just Swing the Club Head - Golf Pro Ernest Jones; Why Teachers Quit School; Bermuda - Tourist Paradise; Dowager Queen - Mrs. Twombly; Everyone catches a fish at this lake near Azusa, CA; Color photo aboard a luxuriously appointed C-47 (DC-3) designed by Raymond Loewy; One Year After V-J Day. Ads include: Eveready Batteries; Philco record players; Santa Fe Railroad; *Fantastic* Wurlitzer Juke Box ad "Nickel's worth of fun - fishermen have lunch"; "Crack-Up" movie; Good Year tire centerfold; Frigidaire fridges; Waltham watches; Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Kodak film; Squirt Soda; "The Killers" movie starring Ava Gardner; Aeronca airplanes; Nice Jeep ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
197524 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
1949180 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Timken tapered roller bearings; 1-page color ad for Lumite auto seat covers; 1/2-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes; 2-page color ad for General brand Winter-Cleat tires; Fantastic 1-page color ad for White Trucks features log-hauling scene; Nice color 2-page ad for General Electric radios and tvs; Nice color 1-page ad for Whitman's Samplers; What Kind of Man is Stalin? - Part 1 of 'My Three Years in Moscow - article with photos - the author met Stalin personally; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); How to Get Rich After Dark - photo-illustrated article on the men who fish the Gulf Stream off Florida; The Rebellious Age (fiction); Moutain Rescue Man - color-photo illustrated article on Ranger William Butler of Washington's Mount Rainier; The Woman Hater (fiction); John Pastore - Rhode Island's Little Firecracker - article with photo; Hilarious Memories of Albert J. Rothe "The Red Barber" who trimmed famous men such as Truman, Bradley, Byrnes, Leahy and Patton - article with photos; Anxious Night (fiction); Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth's football program - article with photo; Collision Course (fiction); Feature article on Miinot, North Dakota, with photos; New York City's Food Trades Vocational High School - article with great color photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction); Photo-illustrated article on Jimmy Dunn of America's foreign service; *SENSATIONAL* full-page color-photo ad for the New Chrysler Town & Country in a bird hunting locale; That Ain't The Way I Saw It - former newspaperman Robert M. Yoder on the glamorous adventures thata befall a reporter in the radio serials; Fantastic two-page Borg-Warner ad highlights their products in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! format; U.S. Army photo-illustrated recruiting ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; 2-page color-photo ad for Sun-Maid Raisins; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Nice 1-page color-illustrated ad for American Airlines; Magnavox TV ad; Nice photo-illustrated ad for Pullman cars; 1-page color ad for Rice Krispies; Two-page ad for Listerine and dandruff; Gorgeous 2-page color illustrated Chevrolet ad featuring a red Styleline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad features photos of Jane Wyman; Nice 2-page color-illustrated General Motors ad highlights the safety of their vehicles; Nice 1-page 2-color photo-illustrated ad for Eaton 2-speed axles features tank truck driver Mr. J.T. Ebling; Eveready battery ad features photos of Mr. Axel Lober, Mr. Everett Smith, Janice Winters and Mr. Sam C. Kuster; Nice 1-page photo illustrated ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Color ad for Crosley fridges; Nice color ad for Kraft Cocao Mix; Wonderful full-page color 7up (Seven-Up) ad features photo of a square dance scene; Color ad for Del Monte Catsup; Hydrox cookie ad; Color ad for Hamilton watches; 1-page 2-color ad for Red Heart dog food features photos of Lassie; Nice 1-page color ad for United Aircraft; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner cartoon; Full-page tire chain ad for American Chain & Cable Company; 1-page 2-color ad for Cavalier Cedar Chests; Statler Hotels ad features cartoon. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. This issue noteworthy for its many exceptional ads. Magazine
193324 pages. Contents: Front page article about crabs with great photo of crab biting lady bather on toe; Grilling the house of Morgan & Co. Digs Up Plenty of Pay Dirt - Senator 'Kingfish' Huey Long grills Thomas W. Lamont; Oklahoma's Quadruplets - Mona, Roberta, Leots and Mary Keys - graduate from high school; Million Names on Uncle Sam's Pay Roll; Gandhi Fast No Record - with grainy photo from an earlier date; It's No Longer the 'hicks from the sticks' - now it's the 'gullible cityites'; Foreign News - World Economic Conference in London, German Reichsbank declares partial moratorium on foreign payments on its debt; Europe's Big Four Sign Up for 10 Years of Peace and Good Will; Broadcasting; Current Events; Illustration of Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, the only surviving officer of the Akron; Justice Department reveals details of gold hoarders; George N. Peek - Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Act (with illustration); Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson slated to be the czar of industry - with small illustration; Great ingenuity used to build models for Chicago Fair; Prof. F.E. Lumley on Propaganda; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of the official records of the House of Representatives - it holds 10,000,000 documents; Scientific; Gulf Stream Shifts off Boston; Huge new offering of US Bonds and Securities Greatly Oversubscribed; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Aviation - artist's rendering of a proposed seadrome, and discussion of airships; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
192766 pages. Features: Nice color Stark Bros. ad inside front cover features their red radiance rose; Planting for Christmas joy; Transplanting a house and building a garden; Houses must have good walls; William Allen White in his garden; Delphinium goes to college; Those friendly winter birds; How to achieve homelikeness - tables, lamps desk and Davenport are as necessary as the chairs; Beauty in vegetable gardens; Radio has come a long way - technical jargon no longer one of the essentials; A home speeks good English; Planting a Perennial Picture; Some tales about trees; The Art of Book Giving - an original 'Alice in Wonderland' with original pictures; General Electric one-page ad shows woman hand-wringing clothes; Toys that teach; One-page two-color ad for laundry-washed clothes; Christmas cakes from abroad; Try a Christmas picnic; Nice one-page ad for Hoosier kitchen working centers; For better housekeeping; Recipes; Vintage 2/3-page ad for True Temper sidewalk cleaners; Lawn hints from golf greens; Nice Maytag Christmas-themed ad for their aluminum washer; Christmas song at the door -an old holiday custom; 2/3-page Grebe Radio ad; 2/3-page Everett piano ad; Better bungalows for birds; 2/3-page Stanley Tools ad shows set No. 904 which consists of 12 tools and oak cabinet; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Whizzard Sled made by the Pollack Roller Runner Sled Co., Inc.; Make your Merry Christmas cards; Among Ourselves - readers' letters and ideas; Two Graceful Iron Standards - bird cage support and aquarium base; Great color ad for McKinney forged iron hardware inside back cover; Nice art deco color ad for Rogers brushing lacquer on back cover. Average wear and soiling. Page 39 loose but present. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1984152 pages. Index. Footnotes. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes two voters lists from over one-hundred years ago. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative history. Book
1995128 pages. Features: "Where are our Liberators?" - The Canadian Liberation of west Brabant; The Liberation of Leesten; "Missed Opportunity" - Operation Broadsword, 4 Brigade and the Gulf War, 1990-1991; HMCS Prince Robert - The Career of an Armed Merchant Cruiser; The Calgary Tanks at Dieppe; The Rise and Fall of Canadian Military Assistance in the Developing world, 1952-1971; The Dutch Underground in Barneveld - Occupatiion to Liberation; How the War Ended; The Capture of the Abbaye D'Ardenne by the Regina Rifles, 8 July 1944; Genesis of a Painting - Alex Colville's War Drawings; News from the Directorate of History; Charles Comfort - Soldiering Artist, 1943-1945; Tommy Atkins We Never Knew Ye - Documenting the British Soldier in Canada, 1759-187; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
196092 pages. Short Stories: The Magic Lane; Captain Ashore; Girl in the Middle; The Boy and the Bear. Articles: Are We Safe From Our Own Bombs? - with amazing photo of downed C-124 Globemaster which crashed carrying three H-bombs, plus several other amazing crash photos; I Call on Rock Hudson - with nice color photos; How We Bagged the Mafia (conclusion); Oral Polio Vaccine - The Best Yet?; The Friendly Americans - Prakash C. Jain of India concludes we are very nice people; Adventures of the Mind - The Religious Traditions of Our Nation; The Face of America - Moving Day - great color photos of Mrs. Kathryn C. Sutton's home being moved from its original location in Bridgewater, PA; The Love Life of a Shy Bird - rare photo of a hen woodcock atop her egges. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 4 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (conclusion). Ads: Hotpoint Fridges (inside front cover); Boeing 720; Acushnet Golf Balls; Firestone Tires; Bayer Aspirin; RCA Whirlpool Gass Appliances; Hamm's Beer; Morris 1000 car; 1960 Chevrolet Trucks - two-page color ad; Schlitz Beer - color centerfold; Shasta Soda; Two-page GM Diesel ad features great large photo of Euclid scraper at work; US Savings Bonds; B.F. Goodrich Tires - two color pages; Dial Soap; L&M Cigarettes (back cover). Above-average but not excessive wear. Some discoloration to back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
19349" x 4" map folds out to 24" x 18". Printed in two colours - the traditional Gulf blue and orange. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage road map. Map
1968Features: Royal New Zealand Air Force; No. 14 Squadron, RNZAF; NZ Operations in the West; Liverpool Airport; Portuguese A.F. Serials; Swedish Airforce; Olympic Airways; Scottish Fighter Base; PZL - P.37 Los; Fighter Pilots; Strong Aircraft Industry; Seaplanes in Sweden; A singular Swede; Slingsby Sailplanes; Germany might have won in 1918; Martinair; Beaufighter restoration; Exeter Airport; Britten-Norman Islander; RAF's first 50 years; Albatros in Australia; First to Australia - the RAF Far East Flight 1927-28; 'Nipping and Eager Air'; The Sopwith Rotaries; Royal Netherlands Air Force; Boeing 737; Southend Airport; Swissair History - I; The Beverley Retires; Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake; Finland's Air War - I; Hannover Highlights; Swissair History - II; SEPECAT Jaguar; Finland's Air War - II; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F.; Relics in Bulgaria; West Australian Airways; From Hind to Hunter; Aerobatic Teams; Italy's Aircraft Industry; Development of Commercial Aviation in Italy; Royal Review at Abingdon; Aircraft at Abingdon; The Piaggio Story - I; PZL-104 Wilga 32; Britain's Aircraft Industry - Over the Crossroads?; British Military Aircraft; The Piaggio Story - II; Beagle Pup Air - Test; Gatwick Airport; Advanced Engine Technology; Britten-Norman BN-1F; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Hawker Siddeley 748; Nationa Air Guard; R.N.A.S. Brawdy; The Nighthawk Family; Rollason D.62 Condor; Farnborough Report; Navy Days at Farnborough; Farnborough checklist; But for the Armistice; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Cessna F-150 and F-172; Polish Air Force; Skyvan on a Strip; Finnair History; Danish Catalinas; Air Forces Gulf; Swiss A.F. Championships; Bristol Fighter; and much more. Index laid in. Tight and clean with gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. A quality copy. Book
1957Features: The friendly voice of Canada - the forest of shortwave transmitter masts near Sackville, N.B. which send the signal of the CBC International Service to distant lands; They're Tenting Tonight - tenting in Canada's parks; Miracle in the Mountains - Lake Louise is rated as one of the seven most nearly perfect landscapes on earth; The Great Trans-Canada Trail / The Carlton Trail from Winnipeg to Edmonton; British Columbia's Gulf Islands - nice photos. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1970Features: In world arms sales, Canada ranks fifth; Well fed, well bred, well read - the smooth, snug, very-best-of-everything lives of the girls at The Bishop Strachan School (B.S.S.); Hugh Hefner's Playboy Jet - article with four colour photos; Midi-skirts for kids; For Golf Nuts, Even 4am isn't too early! - interviews with a variety of Canadian golf nuts; Motherhood and the single girl, by Sheila Kieran; Salad Dressings; Doug Wright's Family cartoon; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1998Features: Saving old town Lunenberg; Preserving a garden of Plaster Delights - Ottawa's Beattie House; The Future of the Past - Ken Osborne; B.C.'s Gulf of Georgia Cannery on Endangered List; Fredericton's Preservation area expands; Fisheries Fiasco - Steveston's Pacific Coast Cannery demolished. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
1999215 pages. Hand-numbered copy #104 of 300. The recollections of this experienced activist who trained many in the art of non-violent protest and served as one of the famous Raging Grannies. Sure to be valuable reading for others hoping to help keep and make this world a better place. Recounts her activities in Israel.Palestine, Clayoquot Sound, Nicaragua, etc. It appears this copy was originally signed and inscribed by the author but this has been obscured by liquid paper. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1955Features: Great colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad inside front cover; Editorial - how Gulf Oil vetoed Ottawa's pipeline plans; Gorgeous colour-photo two-page ad for General Motors four-door hard tops, Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight De Luxe Holiday Sedan and Buick Special 4-door Riviera; The Unknown Man who bought the Globe and Mail - who's R. Howard Webster? - sparked by Howard's financial wizardry, the five Webster brothers mushroomed the fur and fuel empire their father, Lorne Webster, left into a private trust that virtually blankets North America in the fields of Fuel, Stevedoring, Tankers, Hardware, The Imperial Trust, and more; Why I'm out of TV - Choir leader Dr. Leslie Bell bowed out when the singers became dancers and he was made to act; The Race to sell new cars - the market has been turned topsy-turvy by the hottest competition since the horseless carriage replaced the buggy - great black and white photos!; The blonde who leaps from the clouds - RCAF Para-nurse F/O Marion Macdonald; How they'll blow up Ripple Rock - for decades this underwater monster in the Strait of Georgia has been wrecking ships and drowning sailors; When a Canadian Ruled Oregon - Towering John McLoughlin from Riviere du Loup was king of Columbia - the Oregon and Washington of today; The doctors in overalls who've changed your life - the research done by Ontario Veterinary College; That Yellow Prairie Sky - Robert Kroetsch; Is there Really an Abominable Snowman?, by Willy Ley; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad for Toro (fortieth anniversary) mowers; Colour Visking Weiners ad; nice colour full-page ad for the all-new 1955 Plymouth; Nice colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile 88-98. Average wear. Binding sound. Address label on front. A quality copy. Book
1951Pages 1025-1124 (99 pages in total). Includes index and prices. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Intended to be read by shop owners. Presents a wonderful cross-section of "the most complete stocks in Western Canada" - from page 1024. Extensive listings of firearms and related products. Also included are products for dogs, traps, thermos and related products, flashlights and batteries, lighters, harmonicas, cards, baseball, tennis, badminton, golf, football, hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, boxing, lawn bowling, croquet, roller skating, snow shoes, bicycles and ski equipment. Above-average but not excessive wear. Front cover taped in place. Back cover missing. A very enjoyable and nostalgic item. Young readers will be amazed to see how far today's gear has advanced in the past 50+ years, particularly ski equipment. Book
