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Pages 902-964 plus 10 pages of lovely nostalgic ads. Features: Illustration of Effie Dean; Heroines of Nineteenth-Century Fiction (9th paper) - Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines; Friends; The Art of Swimming; Elfin Tres (Bonsai) - photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Varney's Freedom; The Wife of a Boer President - Mrs. Steyn; Babs the Impossible; Midsummer Fashions - article with many marvelous illustrations; Fashions in Little Things; For Future Use; The Palais de Costume at Paris - article with four marvelous photos; Cut Paper Patterns; The International Council of Women - its secret sessions in Paris - article with photos of Mrs. May Wright Sewall and The Countess of Aberdeen; Mrs. William McKinley and Mrs. William J. Bryan - article with photos of each lady; A Boat Song; Summer Gayeties in Paris; Recipes for Warm Days; Editorial Comment; In Jocund Vein; and more. Detached front cover is chipped and repaired with tape. Back cover missing. Few library markings. Average wear. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
Features: Russia mobilizes 13,000,000 men to defend her freedom - six photos including an excellent shot of an L-760; Photos of U.S.S.R. leaders and Soviet Navy and Army Chiefs; Good photo and caption of Mr. R.A. Watson Watt - originator of radiolocation, which helped to win the Battle of Britain; Three photos of the "Bristol" Beaufort - a deadly torpedo-carrier and bomber; Super photo in the massive wind tunnel at Langley Field, USA; Photos to indicate the power of English Radiolocation technology; Photos of Russian arms and troops on display; Page of photos and illustrations illustrating the Navy of the U.S.S.R. - Red units in the Baltic and Black Sea; Article on Tank Fighting, by Cyril Falls; Two interesting illustrations of the Armoured Command H.Q. Car which directs a fast tank brigade; Centerfold illustration of activity within the mobile Tank H.Q.; Photos of 15 personalities of the week; The Duke of Aosta and his generals surrender at Amba Algagi - with two good photos; Three excellent photos of the "Illustrious" under attack in the Mediterranean; Several photos of Polish sailors training and at rest; Various interesting naval photos including a shot of the new U.S.S. "Washington"; Five photos from Jibuti - French Somaliland - which must be Free French or Anti-Axis; Six photos of swimming in battle-dress and full kit - strenuous army training; Illustration of Churchill on the compass platform of a minelayer, by Sir Muirhead Bone; Illustration of Commander navigation for his mine-laying squadron, also by Sir Muirhead Bone; Article on the Curlew; Artistic full-page ad for Firth Brown; Schweppes full-page ad; Full-page ad for Vat 69. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
120 pages. Contents: The Command and Control of Nuclear War, by Ashton B. Carter; Collapse and Formation of Stars, by Alan P. Boss; The Perception of Speech in Early Infancy, by Peter D. Eimas; Alzheimer's Disease, by Richard J. Wartman; Hot Nuclear Matter, by Walter Greiner and Horst Stocker; The Reliability of Computer Memories, by Robert J. McEliece; Jet-Propelled Swimming in Squids, by John M. Gosline and M. Edwin DeMont; The Crossbow, by Vernard Foley, George Palmer and Werner Soedel. Nostalgic ads for floppy disks and the IBM PC - with Charlie Chaplin look-alike, and more. Initials written atop front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. The crossbow article is particularly interesting. Magazine
140 pages. Features: The homelessness problem; Undersea volcanoes; Immunotoxins; Form and function in fish swimming; Symbiotic stars; Multilingual word processing; the mathematics of three-dimensional manifolds; medieval roots of the industrial revolution; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Arranging Bouquets; Ladies' and Children's Bathing Suits; Autograph Seekers; Manners upon the Road - of a drop of oil; New York Fashions - fall fashions, sea-side suits, wraps, bathing suits; Personal; Carriage-leather bathing bag; pink satin, crape, and mull sachet; embroidered pen-wiper; carriage-leather bathing slippers; Swiss muslin jackets; Edith Causton's Highland Campaign; English Gossip; "Ladies' and Children's Summer Dresses" - full-page illustration; Swiss muslin and pink gros grain ribbon breakfast cap; Swiss muslin and blue ribbon breakfast cap; ladies' breakfast and dress caps; Sayings and Doings; London's Heart - continued; Silk Gauze and gros grain bow for the hair; coiffure for little girl; oiled silk bathing caps; twisted crod border for trimming dresses, skirts, etc.; Embroidered Swimming Belt; Foundation for bags, slippers, footstools, etc.; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Clipping from page 467. Book
28 pages. Features: Nice photo of Iris Steeves with photo of post-war 'shortages' company ad; Two pages of photos of lovely young lady employees; One-page photo of operator and swimming star Miss Mary Baggaley; Photo of the Trail switchboard at work with related article - 18,000 calls a day; Welcoming employees back from the armed forces; Article on the supply difficulty situation (result of war); Photo of Charlie McAndrew who has installed 40,000 phones!; Article on new Air-Sea-Land phone service; Fascinating article on page 19 requests female operators - either single or widowed; In Memoriam - James H.H. Nelson and David H. Charles; Much company ocial information. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Cover photo of blonde Adele Jergens. Fiction: Got the Suits Straight? Articles: Beautiful Tyrant - Evita Duarte of Argentina - great photo-illustrated feature article; San Quentin - fascinating photo-illustrated article on this famous prison; For Beer Drinkers Only - the joys and dangers of downing America's favorite drink; The Black Seven - the dark seventh son of a seventh son was China's most ruthless bandit; Thirty-Year Girls - today's servicewomen enjoy their jobs, but they have a hard time getting dates; Murder on the Waterfront; - twenty odd unsolved murders have made the International Longshoremen's Union famous as an organization that breeds sudden death - photo illustrated article; Back Door to Broadway - summer shows are on in the Catskills, and new stars are being made - article with photos of Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante, Al Jolson, Garrett, Paul Draper, Jerry Lester, Robert Alda, Jules Munshin and Judy Holliday; Special Features: Kids are Their Business - artist Howard Sparber and gag writer Raymond Abrashkin produce winning kid cartoons; Freud Goes to the Dogs - Hollywood pet psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Jones; The War's Greatest Book - "Yank - The GI Story of the War"; Swimming - with lovely photos of America's favorite summer sport; "Living in a Big Way" - photos from Salute's movie of the month, starring Marie McDonald and Gene Kelly ; Movies of the Month; Me, I Just Sing - Al Jolson's comeback launches a new trend; Blackburn Hits Pay Dirt - Lena Blackburn sells mud to major league ball teams!; Great one-page ad for book "Bachelor's Quarters"; Editoria inside back cover features large photo of crowd welcoming new city administration to Hoboken, NJ and title "A City Comes Back"; and more. Center page holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: "Canada is Strong", one-page ad shows Canadian farmer tilling land; One-page Singer sewing machine ad features Mrs. S. Armstrong of Montreal; News Digest discusses Yugolsavia's 'purge', Slav vs. Teuton again, Washington News, and an 'inside job' for Hitler; Frigidaire ad; We Blockade the Continent - article with fascinating map explains wartime trade complications; Slave Labour Under the Nazi Scourge - Fascinating photo-illustrated article written by Oskar Lutze, a former trade-union official of Berlin; The Slide on Short Mountain (short story); War and Canada's Golden Age - article explains how Canada will benefit from WWII; The Designing Wench (short story); The Running Man (short story); Inside the Gestapo - conclusion of fascinating article about a strange and fatal bunch of documents, with photos of Franz von Papen and Countess Vera Fugger; Bluff by Holloway Horn (short story); The Woes of Wives; Longines watch ad includes photo of Sir Hubert Wilkins; Gay Garden Gadgets; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Hollywood news and photos; Photo of Norma Shearer in Woodbury cold cream ad; Nostalgic 1941 Chevrolet centrefold ad encourages readers to be "Feature-Wise", with illustrations of dozens of features available in their cars; Men and Their Wardrobes; Treasure in Strange Places; With Love from the Luftwaffe - article on German bombing of Britain; Birth of a Lipstick; Maple Leaf Fund - article with photo of Victor T. Goggin, President of the Fund; Department of National War Services half-page ad says "Save Scrap Metals, Rags, Paper and Bones"; Norway Fights On - one year after the Germans invaded; Watch Your Step; The Small Room (short story); Swimming and Health; Serve Them, They Serve You - cooking article with recipes; Fashion illustrations; Classy War Savings Certificates ad inside back cover shows mother with kids on hilltop and her 'pledge to them - and to Canada'; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this extraordinary wartime issue. Book
78 pages. Cover photo of Sue Laurence and Jackie Vargas of the Athen Water Follies, Oakland, California. Includes 1960 official synchronized swimming rules, national summaries, and list of champions. Many diagrams and great black and white photos of prize-winning swimmers. Heavy wear and soiling. Tape along spine. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this vintage work. Book
60 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Undated. Appears to be circa 1942 as ad atop page 4 indicates a printing date during WWII. Offers recipes for: Soups; Meats, Fish & Supper Dishes; Salads and Dressings; Quick Breads; Pies and Tarts; Puddings and Desserts; Cakes and Icings; Small Cakes and Cookies; Pickles and Preserves; Beerages; and Candy. Blue card covers. Vintage Neilson's Cocoa ad on back cover. Interesting ad for Camp Tapawingo inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Nibbling to top corner of all covers and pages. Tanning to contents. A worthy copy of this uncommon work. (Driver 099.1) Book
Pages 161-196 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Cover photo of the Eiger, where Barry Brewster lost his life, plus text and more photos; Russian dock collides with the South Goodwin lightship; Photo of Simon Paterson coming ashore after swimming the English Channel underwater in just under 14 hours; Photo of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the pro--fascist union movement, being knocked to the ground by demonstrators in Manchester on July 29; Four photos of the Queen at Plymouth and Dartmouth; Indian forces attack Chinese post in Ladakh - article with photo; Photo of Egyptian tank and Conquerer rocket; Major Michael Banks, Lieut. Hugh Wiltshire, and John Hinde successfully climb Mount McKinley; Major E. J. E. Mills and Capt. M. R. Jones are killed 5000 feet from the summit of Khingyang Chish in the Himalayas; Photo of new French bathyscaphe, L'Archimede, which successfully plunged to a depth of 31,350 feet on July 15; Photo of First Lady Mrs. Kennedy and Col. John Glenn waterskiing near Hyannis Port Massachusetts, Photo of Russian high jumper Valeriy Brumel setting world record of 7'5" at Stanford on July 22; America's Cup sailing photos, Aerial photo of devastation caused by exploding propane truck at Berlin, New York; Honolulu crash scene photo where 27 people died when a Britannia airliner crashed while landing; Photo of triple-hulled airship under construction at Trenton, New Jersey; Two photos of NASA's "Project Apollo"; Review of "Red Plush and Black Velvet", by Joseph Wechsberg - Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's queen of song; Two pages of illustrations show how the USA proposes to land two men on the moon in a few years; Two pages of photos of the new Chelsea barracks; Fantastic centrefold aerial photo of a packed Los Angeles Dodgers baseball stadium surrounded by many acres of cars; Four illustrations of the threatened monuments of Nubia; Photos of historic English buildings to be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere; Photos of personalities of the week include Richard Aldington, Sir Burke Trend, Sir Laurence Hellsby, W. Armstrong, the Very Rev. M. M. Gibbs, Mr. C. Dearrsley, Aelred Watkin, Lord Freyberg, V. C., Major E. J. E. Mills, Capt. M. R. Jones, Mr. J. Mannings, Mr. J. T. Molony, the Duke of Norfork, The Right Honourable T. Rinfret, P. C.; Page of photos of horses and riders at the Royal International Horse Show; One-page photo of Miss Pat's Smythe riding Flanagan at the White City; Three photos of Bubbles, the 14 foot black pilot whale at Marineland, California, performing her tricks; Beautiful one-page aerial photo of the Colossus of Chiba, Kwannon, the Japanese goddess of mercy, standing 170 feet tall; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
84 pages. Features: Farewell to Sir Thomas Beecham; Colourful one-page ad for Libby's juices; Crocus got its Seaway - by W.O. Mitchell; George Hees - Ottawa's Biggest Surprise Package; The Strange and Savage World of Hollywood, by Bruce Hutchison; Sir William Macdonald - the strangest millionaire who ever drew breath; Does your face reveal your character?; Two-page colour-photo ad for Kodak movie cameras; One-page photo ad for Esther Williams swimming pools; Two-color half-page ad for film "Say One For Me"; Photo of Mickey Mantle in small Bantron ad; Canadian Club ad with colour photos features Gilbert Winfield in Sherwood Forest; What the New Pope Means for Canada; Back cover ad for Crane plumbing fixtures features designer Henry Dreyfuss; and more. Please note: missing page 7-8, 13-17, 39-40, and 69-74, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of the Maid of the Mist beneath Niagara Falls, by Franklin Arbuckle; Colour ad for International trucks inside front cover; GMC truck ad; The Royal Family of the Seas - Canadian Sam Cunard's mighty Queenships shuttle across the Atlantic with 200,000 travelers each year; Why Half Our High School Students Quit; The Clumsy One (fiction); A Honeymoon at Niagara Falls, by June Callwood and Trent Frayne; How Red Dutton Made His First Million - the NHL's one-time bad man is now a rich contractor; Ellen Fairclough Goes to Ottawa - the only female member of parliament, and only the sixth Canadian woman M.P.; The Black Magic Murder Case (fiction); Joe Palooka - richest pug in the world - Ham Fisher's brawny clean-cut champion rakes in $8 million a year from comic strips, movies and candy; Rev. Lester Burry - The Mechanized Missionary of Northwest River - article with colour photos; The Day You Meet Your Skunk; The Bachelor's Dilemma, by Morley Callaghan; Page-Hersey heating ad features photo of Micheal, Marywinn, Marion and David Milne of 32 Kingsway Cres., Toronto; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Champion spark plug ad features racer Johnny Parsons; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features nice swimming illustration by Aileen Richardson; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Cover photo of female Canadian munitions worker surrounded by room fulled with 500lb bombs, 'exports for Germany'. Features: Escape from Hong Kong (part 1) - Excellent photo-illustrated article by Canadian C.E. 'Ted' Ross on the heroic last days in Hong Kong and a daring flight to freedom; Woman Power - will they remain in the work force when the war ends?; The Army's Keyman - Lt. Gen. Kenneth Stuart, the Army's C.G.S. is responsible for blueprinting Canada's army and plan for the nation's defense; Page 15 provides brief statistics on Japanese residents moved inland from the B.C. coast; Fun and Games - a grand time is had by all when Vernon goes cow-town, Kelowna has a regatta or Princeton runs a ski-meet; Conducted by Fricker - conductor Dr. Herbert Austin Fricker of Toronto. Fiction: The Shinging Links; Apple Boy the Soothsayer; Green Geese (part 2). Nice Pepsodent photo ad features twin brothers and swimming champions Jack and Alan Sampson. Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows one of their crawlers pushing through wartime jungle. Back cover colour Coke ad shows brawny worker's arm, sleeve rolled up, clutching a cold bottle. Unmarked with average external wear and soiling. Portion of Swift ad on page 25 is removed, taking with it a portion of the Green Geese short story on the back side. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
Features: Humorous cover art by Norris shows bored boy in church; Can We All Get Jobs? - an argument to boost exports; Home-Front Booby Traps - returning servicemen with their war earnings must beware sharpsters targeting their funds; It's The Happy Gang! - They boast over a million weekly radio listeners; Our Crazy Clothes - Eminent Toronto doctor claims never have so many worn so much - or so little - in the wrong places; This is Berlin - The crippled city struggles to its feet; Bug Busters - DDT and dimethyl phthalate; London Letter - Who Got Slapped?; Washington Memo - approval of the United Nations Charter; Backstage at Ottawa - Dominion-Provincial talks next month; Get in the Swim - photo-illustrated article on aquabats/ornamental swimmers/synchronized swimmers, including nine-time champion Doris Geldard of Toronto; It Happened in Norway - Paper shoes, paper clothes, no meat, but even traitor Quisling will get a fair trial; Turn Again Home (short story); A Date for Agnes (short story); Russian Lady (short story); Canny Canning; and more. Nice ads for: Fleet Aircraft; Moore Business Forms, Koroseal by B.F. Goodrich, Miracle Whip, White Rose petroleum products, Canada Dry sparking water, Absorbine Jr., John Labbatt Ltd., Kreml Hair Tonic, Arrid deodorant (featuring photo of Jessica Dragonette), Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited ("Serving the United Nations with War Alcohol"); Pep O Mint Life Savers; Eveready Flashlight Batteries (featuring photo of young radio singer Cleone Duncan of Calgary); Vitalis; Eversharp Red Top Lead (fantastic colour ad on back cover); Wonderful colour ad inside back cover by the Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener encourages readers to support Red Cross Blood Clinics to help soldiers. 52 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Small perforations in front cover to right of title. Several peripheral openings. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Front endpaper has been removed. Interior pages clean and unmarked. 54 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. Beautiful illustrations by Irene Robinson.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Shiny pictorial cover. Small format: 6 1/2"w x 4 1/8"h. Approx. 50 pages. #18 in The Odyssey Library Series. Illustrated by Leif Rydeng.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Foolscap 8vo. (16 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 64 p. F¿rst Edition. Türk yüzme tarihi. History of Turkish swimming.
With Index. 333 pages. A couple of marks on front cover.
Broché. 158 pages.
Broché. 264 pages.
Broché. 32 pages. Couverture scotchée. 18x24cm.
