1998647 pages. "...This indispensable guide to playing bridge is the perfect companion for everyone from beginners to masters." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1917Features: The Potsdam Conspiracy - Chapters from the Inner History of the War - 1, by Lovat Fraser; Photos of the varied work of General Currie's (Canadian) gallant troops; French Pontoniers - the master bridge builders; Working amid the waters on the Flanders front - chain ferry/dam building; Vanguard of a vast American host for France; Waves of attack from trench and breastwork; The Third Battle of Ypres - article by Max Pemberton on the dawn of a titanic conflict in the Flemish markets; In Battle or Barter Ever Cheerful Canadians; French Infantry advance in battle formation - firing-line and supports take a German trench; When Paris was Saved - how Bordeaux celebrated the Victory of the Marne; U-boat Pirates Captured by Belgian Cavalry; How the Gotha's Gun Tunnel Cures the "Blind Spot"; Huns glorify their air-murderers and macines; Gog and Magog on Rations - article by Harold Ashton; Impressions of the Inferno in Artois and Lens; Warm welcome waiting at journey's end; The Empire's Roll of Honour. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
1964456 pages. Frequently illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings. Topics include: New Dams in the UK; New Marine and Riverside Structures; Loading Tests on Large Bored Piles in Clay; New Zealand House, London; Some New Ecclesiastical Structures; The Economic Design of Members Subjected to Shearing (Ultimate-load Method) - parts I and II; Concrete Structures in Israel; The Principal Post-Tensioning Systems for Prestressed Concrete; Loading Tests on Deep Bored Cylinder Foundations; Precast construction of a training college; Prize-winning Designs for a Motorway Bridge; Research on Concrete Members Reinforced with Deformed Bars; The Inelastic Space Frame - Prestressed Concrete; Concrete Construction at Tinsley Park Steelworks; Construction of Student Hostels; The Counteraction of the Self-weight of Prestressed Concrete Beams; Pressures in Containers of Granular Materials - Parts I and II; Reconstruction of Benghazi Harbour; Model to Determine Temperature Effects on a Cylindrical Structure; A Specification for Concrete; Effects of Oiling and Grouping Prestressed Wires; Continuous Bridges on Elastic Supports; Developments in Foundation Engineering; Progress at Nuclear Power Stations; Removable Wide-slab Construction of a Car-Parking Building; Stresses in Stiffening Beams of Skewed-slab Bridges; A Theory of Bonding - Parts I, II and III; Extensions at Gatwick Airport; Research by the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete; The Design of Concrete Hinges; Installing Pipe-lines by the Thrusting Process; Critical Loads of Plane Frames; Tunnelling Machines for Tube Railways; The Analysis of Stairs with Unsupported Intermediate Landings; The Newark By-pass Road; Special Boundary Conditions in Membrane Shells - Parts I and II; A Multi-Storey Car Park at Leeds; Bridges on the Newark By-Pass Road; Tests on Helical Stairs; Bridges on the Heads of the Valleys Road; Chimney's Constructed with Precast Blocks; New Bridges on the New Motorways - Parts I and II; Practical Analysis of Frames with Beamless Floors; Stiffness Coefficients for Cylindrical Shells; Rapid Construction of a Precast Concrete Building; An Approximating Analysis for Shallow Shells of Translation; Ultimate-Load Analysis of an Edge-Loaded Rectangular Slab Resting on Soil; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
1919Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
1919Includes final portion of the chapter "The Triumph of the Army of Mesopotamia", which includes many interesting photos. Centerfold displays four photos of the British on the Tigris, at Kirkuk, and near Narin Kupri Bridge. Also contains first portion of chapter CCXCIX - The Rumanian Blunder - First Full Account of the Worst Error of the War, with photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1958Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company. Book
1956Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Good-bye to the Fairmont board in Vancouver - great photos including one with Miss Joan Ross; Map of radiotelephone chains; Fairmont Cutover Highlights; Merritt switchboard gutted - photo; Photo of a young Kenneth Dye - who went on to serve as Auditor-General of Canada from 1981-1991; Company Auto Equipment Staff; Photos of the expansion of Vancouver's underground telephone system; Many photos of Kamloops staff at work; New phone system for Vancouver's new Public Safety Building - photos; 1954 Annual Report Highlights; Record expansion this year; Outdoor phone booths popular; 15 years ago; Photos of Victoria's expansion program; Victoria Commercial Office modernized - photos; Photos of moving phone lines prior to dismantling the old Granville Street Bridge; New radiotelephone mast on Lulu Island - photos; New Engineering Section formed; Automatic Toll Board for Royal City; Conversion project for Vancouver's Dexter office; Photos of placing cable 70 feet above the Fraser River near Boston Bar; Photo of 'Jocko', the company chimpanzee; Sales Training; Campbell River First North-west Conversion to automatic operation; Oliver and Osoyoos approve free calling; Walter R. Jones retires; L.C. Patey passes away; path testing to begin for microwave system - article; photos of cable-laying between Ioco and Port Moody; microwave skyway - photos and text; photos of loss of part of the bridge at Mission; microwave path testing completed for B.C. - article with map; photo and article of 'electronic secretary' (hint: picture a big box with a record player in it!); List of Exchanges in B.C. and # of lines operating; photos of heavy gangs at work; access to microwave sites 'most difficult' (article); G.W.S. Montgomery passes away; photos of New West's Lakeview office; Engineering for TD-2 Microwave in B.C. - article with map; Photos of laying underwater cable near Nelson; 1955 - company's best year ever; James Hamilton and C.B. Diplock retire; Aerial tram to serve Dog Mountain site near Hope; Teletype now links Trans-Canada system; "They Take their telephone with them - great article and photos on the use of radiotelephones - early car phones!; groundwork laid for microwave in B.C.; R.A. Story ends 46 years career; Photos of cable-laying between Mayne Island and Swartz Bay; photos of blasting near Hedley; North-west acquires Peace River; PNE photos; Dog Mountain construction photos; photos of the Mid-Canada Line, which supplemented the DEW line; article and photo re: the new 'Speakerphone'; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text - Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee of the company. Book
1954Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life (photo); Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion, Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett, 19, - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam, with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18,000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam, with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk, Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text. Book
1934Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: New Year's Greetings telephoned to Mother in England; Echoes of Turkish Telephony; What people talk about during long distanc calls; Industry advances in 1932 despite business losses; First Bermuda call was boon to navigation company; Statement of Development, January 1, 1933 - provides statistics on the number of telephones working in each community of B.C.; West Vancouver celebrates 21st birthday; Entertainment programme telephoned from Vancouver to Victoria; John Lawson - phone pioneer of West Vancouver; John Henry Ward retires; Royal City students visit phone office; New employee sales campaign has been organized; An ounce of prevention; Fred Meloche has retired; We can talk to the Holy Land; Bowen Island annual picnic; C.A. McMaster; Telephone echoes from India; Who can solve the mystery of B.C.'s first telephone?; Telephone people on job despite earthquake; Hungry people make most work for telephone operators; B.C. Telephone Basketball Team; Statement of Development, May 1, 1933 - a table showing the number of telephones in each community of the province; W.H. Cooke; Victoria to London via All-Red Telephone Route; Vancouver-London conversation heard across Canada; Bowen Island Picnic; Gold Rush turns spotlight on Bridge River Valley; R.G. Roach Retires; An address by Miss Nell Rowbottom, agent, Nanaimo; Beware of Holiday Hazards; Port of New Westminster sets new shipping record; Speedy repairs after Cumberland fire - text and photos; George McCartney (Mr. Mac) retires; A Haircut for the Trans-Canadian Line; George Williamson of the Slocan retires; Toll Lines Restored for Christmas after two weeks of havoc - 6 pages of amazing photos and text; We can talk to the Flathead Valley; The Plant Library is at your service; Two Mining Areas Brought Within Telephone Reach - Anyox and Campbell River (opens up Stewart, Alice Arm and Premier Arm) - great photo of the Anyox plant of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company, Limited; Col. Victor Spencer's voice travels record distance by phone; Telephone to the rescue; Operators' Problems Explained in Radio Interview; Telephone plays prominent part in fight against forest fires - 2 pages with photos; Telephone queries add spice to newspaper life; Electrical Men Meet at Nanaimo; Ernest Moore passes away; New construction project to improve Bridge River service - 2 pages with photos; B.C. Nickel project given service; A telephone pole becomes a Bug's Breakfast - 3 pages with interesting photos and text; Barnston Island receives service; Sculling champ, Edward Snead, retires; Telephone Exchange Established in Bridge River Area - 3 pages of text and photos; Construction programme under way in the Albernis; Ralph S. MacPherson; Photo of the 'Morro Castle' afire; Roy (Dutch) Harris of East Kootenay dies; 'Mystery Mountain' claims life of Alec H. Dalgleish; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1931Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Cover photo of the Victoria Exchange; Company launches employee sales plan; feature on Leo Griggs with photos; Ladner forges to the front as a farming district - with photos; Important changes in Prince George; Mission and Revelstoke; Remodelling Victoria Exchange; Our Trans-Canada Link is growing; - 3 pages with photos; Record holiday load handled by Vancouver toll office; Vancouver-Victoria Cable line severed by Dredge; Engineeers walking all over the province - 4 pages with photos and text; Proper posture; Statement of Development - a table listing the number of operating phones in towns across the province; Campbell River - Cape Lazo Cable is big job for this month - 2 pages; Keeping pace with Schedule on Trans-Canada Line; Philip Creagh - Nanaimo wire chief; Centralized billing system now in effect; Breaking of insulators may have serious consequences; Ocean Falls joins our system and receives first toll service - great photo; Powell River - Cape Lazo Cable successfully laid - 3 pages with photos; Harvey Sauder; A P.A.B.X. is now serving the B.C. Electric Railway Co.; Cover photo of the Victoria exchange; Victoria traffic and commercial staffs now under same roof - text and great art deco photos; One-Fourth of Work on Trans-Canada line completed; C. Whitmore Halford; new phone system in Powell river - 2 pages with photos; All Canadian route from Vancouver to Winnipeg; Trans-Canada construction photos; Vancouver talks with Berlin; Coal Harbour Regatta broadcast from radiotelephone ship; A telephone man in Turkey; Thrilling events preceded opening of Ocean Falls service - with photos; The Huntingdon System is Acquired; The Municipality of Maple Ridge; N.J. Dunlop; A telephone man in South America; Telephone Co-operators; Cover photo of Vancouver fire alarm switchboard; Telephone to the rescue when fire threatens; Great photos of laying cables across Victoria Harbour; Selling Telephone Service; A telephone man in India; Three Nanaimo phone men attempt to save three children in Nanaimo River; Gerald C. Clarke; Two-Thirds of Trans-Canada line complete; Prince George visits plant where our dial equipment was made, in Lancashire; Successful picnic; Princeton to be important link in Trans-Canada line; Wiring plans; The Modern Mouse must have a Telephone House (mouse moves into pay phone); Bigger phone directory - 2 pages with interesting photos; Phone poles go over mountains - several photos; Ervin J. Davis; Trans-Atlantic service growing; Herman A. Nicholson; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1922Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Nice photo montage of six female lower mainland agents; Commendation for Excellent service; Industrial Review - statistics for the province; Bar graph of phones in service between 1903 and 1921; When the telephone was a curiosity in the Capital City - nice seven page feature on the history of telephony in Victoria, beginning in 1877; Page of the 1880 Victoria and Esquimalt phone book; Facsimile of letter dated 1878 from the Bell Telephone office in Brantford, Ontario which says Mr. R.B. McMicking has accepted the agency of the company in British Columbia; City of Vancouver gets new phone number; Telephone development keeps pace with progress; Cover photo of the operating room of the Nanaimo exchange; Five-page illustrated article on Nanaimo, including 35 year-old photo of downtown with Bastion visible and an 1890 photo of a portion of the downtown and bowl area; Trouble shooting in Kootenay; The manufacture of porcelain; photo of operators at work in New Westminster; 6-page illustrated feature on New Westminster with mid-90s photo of the Colonial Hotel and area plus a photo of Columbia street before the fire of 1898; Composite cables will be important betterment; Fairmont operating room photo; Great photo montage of the old wooden bridge connecting Nanaimo's Fitzwilliam St. with downtown (the caption mentions E.P. LaBelle, whose name is stamped on the top edge of this book); 11 page feature on the history of telephony in Vancouver, with several photos from before 1900; pulling coils of duplex wire through the mountains by snow shoe(!); Nice photos of the following exchanges - Seymour, Fairmont, Highland, Bayview, Victoria, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Cumberland, Belmont, Duncan, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Colquitz, Ladysmith, Keating, Aldergrove, Abbottsford, Collingwood, Fraser, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Ladner, Kerrisdale, Eburne, Milner, Cloverdale, Steveston, Sidney, Hammond, Mission City, Kamloops, Agassiz, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, New Denver, plus plant headquarters for the Mainland and Victoria; statement of development showing number of operating phones per community; Cover photo of the Foul Bay area of Victoria; More Switchboards for Seymour; Bayview Extension; Centralization of observation equipment; Demo. switchboard for school; Much outside construction; Seven duct miles of conduit laid in Seymour underground; Table showing exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Alexander Graham Bell dies; Oaks Point snap shots; new motor control switchboard; Wireless telophony in early nineties (article); Laying underground conduit in Shaughnessy; New aerial cable across Capilano River; Passing of William Farrell, Company President; Rejuvinating used Plant material in machine shop; a peculiar case of hydrolysis; photo of Georgia street conduit trench; Second Annual Telephone Convention; 1885 B.C. Provincial Directory - article with 1885 photo of Vancouver Harbour; Autobiography of a switchboard plug; photo of burying conduit on Seymour in 1905; Appreciation shown by Port Alberni business men; Long Distance operators usually get their man; 7,000 mile motor trip of B.C. Telephone man; The telephone directory - my favourite book; Map showing routing of two cable between Book
1978Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1981Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
1984322 pages. "Sure to create many new players with a real understanding of what bridge is all about." - Alan Truscott, Bridge Editor, New York Times. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this popular work. Book
1980102 pages. Feature: Heman Clark and the 'Salem Bridge' Shelf Clocks. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1977Features: John W. Barriger III, 1899-1976; Derailment and accident photos; Steam's last chance - Pennsylvania Railroad gambles - and loses - on the steam-powered T1-class for passenger power after World War II; "Fireboy, know something? We don't fit through that bridge"; How to build a DL109 - great photos; Rio Grande's Monarch Branch Revisited - an exercise in the use of the 26-C automatic brake valve, F-3 retainers, and COBRA brake shoes; Colur centerfold of the Katy Pacific 401 (Lima 1920) in 1945; The Iris G, et al - much of Canadian Pacific's history has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1965Features: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. A sound copy. Magazine
1964Features: Railroad news photos; Steam news photos; The Rathole Division is no more - super two-page photo of a train at mid-span of the New River Bridge plus photos of the Keno Road Cut, the Grassy Gap Cut, and more; Our GM Scrapbook - 2 - 9900 to 9908 the Custom Years - nicely illustrated article; Super 2-page photo of a 0-8-8-0 in the shops at Colonie, N.Y. in 1927; Switchbacks and Shays - passengers are scaling 10 percent grades iup West Virginia's Bald Knob - great article and photos; American Railway Progress Exposition Track Exhibit in Chicago - article and photos; Photos of diesels bucking snow in New England; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1956Features: All about Budd's new coast; Middleman of the Alphabet Route - Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) bankrupted its builder, turned to coal for a living, finally came into its own as a speed-conscious bridge road - latter day solvency stems in part from the travels of a very famous business car; A Virginia & Truckee Sampler; New York Central's Oldest Steam Engine - an Alco 1000-type diesel electric locomotive; nice photo section; Colour centerfold painting of Starrucca Viaduct; The Pioneer III - an 85 foot long car! - article with many photos/diagrams; Steam in Indian Summer - Concerning Henry Ford, a 4-6-0 built in 1900, small boys and bliss and ignorance; Railroad news photos; Nice black and white ad for Elector-Motive Division's (EMD's) Aerotrain; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1958Features: 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
1979278 pages. Index. Bibliography. "Between 1880 and 1887 three of Britain's major cities came under attack from teams of bombers whose leadership, finance and most of whose personnel came from two Irish-American Fenian organisations... The aim of the dynamiters was to force the British government to withdraw from Ireland and to allow a free and separate nation to develop... also discusses the police response to the campaign, which led to the creation of both the Secret Service and the Scotland Yard Special Branch - draws upon Home Office documents hitherto unavailable under the Official Secrets Act." - from dust jacket. Appears unread. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to dust jacket with the exception of some minor peeling at top of spine. Nice copy. Book
190522 pages. Headings include: The Captain's Soliloquy; The Wants of the American Theatre Public; Charles Dana Gibson; Mr. Brockway, Mayor of Elmira; This Bubble World; Horatius at Bridge; The Dramatizing of Lady Kitty Ashe; Music; The Latest Books; Aut Scissors Aut Nullus. Excellent illustrated advertisements, including a notable one by Smith & Wesson. Covers held by nearly invisible tape. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1968100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
198164 pages. Features: The Daring Raids - The Dam Busters (The Moehne Dam) - Tamuz 17 Project in Iraq; Sinai-Palestine 1914-1918 - with many archival black and white photos; Paris Air Show 1981 - impressions and outlook; The Suez Crossing 1973 - Part 1 - The Plans (multiple photos and many details); Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Book
1964160 pages. Features: What was killed was not only the President but the Promise; How to Survive in the Kremlin; General Westmoreland - inheritor of a wretched war; The Road Back for teh G.O.P., by Jacob K. Javits; White Mercenaries on a 'rabbit hunt' in The Congo; Photos of the new Verrazano-Narrows bridge; Michelangelo Antonioni - 'Most Controversial Director'; Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans, including Goldwater-Miller; The dizzying pace of Luxembourger life - and why Common Market bureaucrats don't want to make it their headquarters; After the Yankees What? - a TV Drama - C.B.S, the Columbia Broadcasting System; New Musicals, New Songwriters; Petain - of Verdun, of Vichy, of history; When children don't achieve. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book