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1991445 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was premier of British Columbia from 1938 to 1941. Governing through the tumultuous years of the 1930s, his Liberal administration offered what was arguable the most vigorous response to the Depression in Canada... Duff Pattullo's life is as much a history of the province as it is an account of an individual." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears discolourations to lower section. A quality copy. Book
1984154 pages. Features: Remembering the North Shore Line after 21 years; Pacific Coast Logging - Steam Locomotives; Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling; Plans for 5 small, but interesting, layouts; Easy Bridge Mounting - a simple way to avoid track allighment problems when installing bridges; The Milwaukee Road's latest paint scheme; Coal cars for the Colorado Midland; Signs and Philosophy; Beginning from Scratch; RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award - CPR Kootenay Divsion short van; Cathels & Sorenson's Prairie in the Mountains; The water tank at Chemainus, B.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
199190 pages. Features: Build an A-frame Bridge; The Del Mar Fair; Calvary Southern's 4-6-0; The SP in 1:32 Scale; Garden Railway Objectives; Modifying LGB Coaches; Toucan; The Table Saw - Part 1; Prairie City Feed and Grain; A Sentimental Journey. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
199394 pages. Features: A Better Bachmann Caboose; Build a Bridge and Gauntlet; Cape Sarah Station; The Norma Beach Railway; Getting Started in Garden Railroading - Part 6; Southern Railway's 4-6-2 in 1:29; Regauging Aristo-Craft's 4-6-2; MDC Trucks for 0-Gauge. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
2010106 pages. Features: Refired Supreme Court judge John Major in Conversation re. bungled Air India bombing investigation; Link between residential schools and native suicide; Husky roams wild in Cobalt, Ontario; Canada Day Survey; The Jordan River is Polluted; Pakistan - land of the generals; Is Frank Stronach Canada's greediest man?; Portrait of the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip; Brothers in Arms - William and Harry; New Hoover Dam Bridge; Floyd Nicholson 1938-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; Engineers I Have Known , by Thomas O. Acree; Famous Locomotives - 25 - Two incredible photos of the Beyer-Garratt 6000 - locomotive hallmark of the British Empire; American Locomitive Company (Alco) - We're not a foundry any more! - impressive article with photos; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Monon; A Mikado & Friends - super photo of loco and crew atop bridge near Clear Creek, In; The Piedmont & Northern Story - 2; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
195160 pages. Features: Illinois Central's Floating Bridge - great photos; Jersey Meadows - Railroad Workshop of the East - photos, map and good article; In the Land of Evangeline - a look at Nova Scotia's transportation system; Photo section; The last passenger run for the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railroad; Twilight of the Trolley - Columbus, Ohio's interurban network was dying - photos and article - the Columbus, Urbana & Western; The Presidents - B&O's Super Pacifics - great photos with article; Every Day is Wash Day - how streamliners are cleaned daily; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193928 pages. Features: Cover photo of hundreds of British troops marching over Westminster Bridge; First drawings of British forces at work in France; Two-page photo feature on the making of A.R.P. 'tin-hats' - mass production from steel blanks to painted and lined helmets; Photos of Stalin; Photos of Europe's busy diplomats; Two-pages of the Turkish sailors of tomorrow, including scenes at "Deniz Harp Okulu; Photo of the "Thetis" being raised to the surface; Photos of current events in England; Photos of the King with his troops; Photos of Royal occasions in wartime London; Royalty and the Red Cross - Sewing Party at the Queen's Palace; Centerfold illustration of British tanks advancing in France; The First Nazi Raid on Britain - the Firth of Forth Attack; Fruitless German "Glide-bombing attack on the Forth Bridge; Photos illustrate Germany's war, at home and at sea - makeshifts, losses and lies; Photos in the wake of German Air Attacks which ended Ingloriously; Great full-page photo of three cruisers of the "Southampton" class proceeding in line with guns at the ready; The War with Nazi Germany - The Echo in the Balkans - article by Cyril Falls; Four photos aboard the "Bremen" on her flight to German Sanctuary; Rolls-Royce half-page announcement that they have ceased to manufacture motor car chassis in order to perform Government work; and more. Bit of writing on front outer cover. Some pages loose. Missing pages 657-58 and 661-662. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
1967Contents: U.S. Riots - 1967 Toll and before - detailed coverage; Reagan leaves hospital; Successful Minuteman II Launch; William Dale Archerd - charged as insulin murderer; Wilcox Expedition on Mount McKinley; Israel's new territories; Vietnam war update; Photo of Wuhan's double-decked road & rail bridge over the Yangtze; Photo of Stalin and daughter in 1934; Mercenaries in the Congo; Photo of Rees-Mogg; Photo of Mick Jagger; Uncommon full-page colour RCA ad shows their computer being used in a school - years before Apple!; Photo of Roger Maris with Orlando Cepeda; OGO-4 Satellite; LSD & the Unborn; Shirley Polykoff and advertising; Alfried Krupp; Shell Oil Refinery at Rotterdam; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1967Features: Photo ad for stockbroker John Brick of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis; Collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River between Kanauga, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Time Essay - What Negotiations in Vietnam might mean; Greece - the Coup that collapsed; The Soviet Fleet in the Mediterranean; Land Rush in Brazil - the Fuller family in Boias; Beautiful color-photo ad for Cadillac; Student protests in Europe; Nice two-page color ad by BOAC showing the Concorde; Asian Recreation for U.S. Fighting Men - article with four great pages of photos; Entertainer Bob Hope; Underground nuclear test near New Mexico's Leandro Canyon; A.M.C.'s Amitron car; Lockheed's AH-56A; Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and Lego; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
188620 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "They Carefully Put Their Teeth Into the Lye..."; Thanksgiving; Women and Men - Opressive Leisure; Family Living on $500 a Year - part XLVI - Thanksgiving Dinners; New York Fashions - furs, small girls' and misses' costumes; Personal; Sketches in Constantinople - Bridge of Galata, Palace of Dolma Bagtche Imperial Palace, Mosque of St. Sophia, Turkish Ladies Shopping, etc.; Lyd's Three Thanksgivings - with illustrations; Wonderful vull-page illustrated ad for the opening of the new Grand Street Building of Edward Ridley & Sons of New York - "Ridley's, 309 to 321 Grand St."; Lovely centerfold illustration "Portrait of a Lady" - from the picture byCarolus Duran exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1886; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready - first part; Misses' and girls' dresses and cloaks - nice full-page illustration; Corsages for dinner and reception toilettes; laundry basket; afternoon toilettes; some infant schools; a beautiful air-plant; humor. Above-average wear and soiling Book
1990176 pages. Footnotes. Oblong 9.25" x 12.25". A collection of vintage photos by Leonard Frank who documented the development of British Columbia. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
2008112 pages. Illustrated with colour photography. Inspires innovative entrepreneurship between city and countryside. "An intimate look into the life and process of Jan Huijgen and the creation of Eemlandhoeve." - from back cover. Text in English. Unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Book
1955Pages: 37-76. Features: Nice one-page Daimler Regency ad; Cover photo of the 'World Peace' which struck the El Ferdan swing bridge and blocked the Suez Canal; Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian; Mau Mau Terrorism in Kenya - home of Mrs. Anne Carnelley is burned; Fastest Man on Earth - photo of J.P. Stapp being strapped into rocket sled at Alamorgordo; Danish freighter 'Lexa Maersk' burns in Singapore; France approves German rearmament; Photos of 17 personalities of the week include Viscount Hambleden and his fiancee Donna Maria Carmela Attolico de Adelfia, Colonel Jose Antonio Remon of Panama, Roger G. Bannister, Captain Sir Robert Irving, and record glider Philip Wills; Nice one-page photo portrait of Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, U.S.N.; Two pages of interesting photos of life in Baghdad/Iraq; Two-pages of illustrations present the decline and fall of the Battleship - silhouettes of the world's capital ships, which have decreased in numbers and importance ever since the Battle of Jutland in 1916; Christmas Day Crash at Prestwick - wrecked B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser; Demolishing the London Zoo's Monkey Hill; Wonderful centerfold illustration of the view looking north over Central Park in Manhattan from the Observation Tower of the R.C.A. Building; Two pages of photos from Britain's first national Boat Show; Photos of 16 people who received awards, including Sir Arnold Gridley who was created a Baron; Sultan of Zanzibar opens new power station; King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia visits King Phumiphol Aduldej of Siam; Two wonderful photos of London bidding a gay welcome to 1955 - scenes at the Chelsea Arts Ball, and in Piccadilly Circus; Photo of mink farm in Cary, Illinois where 50,000 mink are being raised; Photo of large wind generator at St. Albans which may supply up to 100 kW; Article on the Mangrove. Average wear. Unmarked. Short openings along coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1956Pages: 205-244. Features: Cadets from the ketch 'Moyana' parade through the streets; Wonderful one-page aerial photo of troops and equipment of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade on board the aircraft carrier 'Theseus' leaving Portsmouth for the Mediterranean to deal with the seizure of the Suez Canal; The Suez Canal - scenes of the nationalisation decree being put into force; Mr Dulles in London to deal with the Suez crisis; Beautiful colour ad for Passing Clouds cigarettes features gloves and grey top hat; P & O photo ad features M.J. Murphy, Chief Radio Officer aboard the P & O ship 'Strathnaver'; Rebuilding the bridge Ponte Della Pietra, in Verona, Italy; Important Rubens sketch discovered in English country house of Mrs. Humphrey Brand; J.C. Laker's triumphant ten wickets; The Canadian Oilfields - a possible alternative to those of the Middle East in the future; Two page illustration of the distribution of the world's oil wells and refineries shown on a map; The Lebanon-Iraq Petroleum Co. Dispute - piping oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean - photos and text; Centerfold illustration of the rescue of the crew of the 'Moyana' by the steamer 'Clan MacLean'; Two-page graphic illustrates ever-growing transatlantic air traffic; Eleven photos of Eskimo soapstone carving; Photos of thirteen newsmaking personalities of the week including the Danish Royal Family, Mr. T. Bourdillon, Mr. R. Viney; Princess Christina of Hesse; General Valluy; Maiden flight of the Bristol Brittania 301 airliner; Photos of the Tower of London's Ravens; Earthquake damage in Burma; Protest in Seoul; Wedding of the Sultan of Kedah's son and the Sultan of Selangor's daughter; The R.S.P.C.A. hostel at London Airport; Nice colour ad for Senior Service cigarettes on back cover features sailors crossing the Equator for the first time; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194714 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Flame conditioning paper mill machinery; The welding of process piping; Broken rock drills can be salvaged; Leaks in boiler feed system permanently stopped; Impeller casing saved by bronze welding; hardfacing auto tire chains with stellite; fire and explosion wrongly attributed to acetylene cylinders - Joseph Dewasha, an Indian war veteran and apprentice auto mechanic, was killed in a garage fire and explosion in Bala, Ontario; back cover ad for Canadian Liquid Air features photo of Niagara's Rainbow Bridge which was flame-conditioned prior to being painted, with great results. Index for volume 21 of this publication laid-in. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
1914Pages 281-320. Chapters include "Lord Kitchener" and "The German Invasion of Luxemburg and Belgium". Photos include: Lord Roberts, Lord Wolseley, Hubert I.W. Hamilton, Earl Kitchener, Sir Evelyn Wood, Lord Charles Beresford, Sir F.R. Wingate, The Earl of Cromer, George W. Steevens, Sir Percy Girouard, Lord Grenfell, General De Wet, General Cronje, Lord Kitchener in Japan, Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg, M. Eyschen, Belgian soldiers sniping from a bridge. Also included are an illustration of Gordon's last stand at Khartum, January 26, 1885, a one-page map illustrating British campaigns in Egypt, and several additonal battle-scene illustrations. Somewhat above-average external wear. Ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1995458 pages. Footnotes. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Chronicles an often overlooked contribution to Allied victory and aviation history. By war's end the ferry service, through its various incarnations, had created the basis for the network of international air routes and procedures that commercial travellers now take for granted." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade cover. A lovely copy. Book
196424 pages. Features: Conrad Hilton's Code for Success; LBJ's D.C. - a practical guide to what's in and what's out in hats, food, color schemes and does in the nation's capital now that Texas has moved in; The Loveliest Girl in the World (fiction); Billion-Dollar Hat War - who's winning the battle of milliners vs. hair stylists?; Peter Sellers - Brilliant, Unhappy Star - story with photo of Sellers and his two children - the most successful actor in films is a tortured man who finds his happiness in his chilren; Cooking is a Girl's Best Friend - story with photo of Carol Channing cooking with her son, Channing Lowe. Color ads include: Hush Puppies shoes; Fortrel - featuring three boys in Syntrel slacks; Natural Bridge shoes; Sunkist Oranges (very nice photo of woman holding orange); Centerfold two-color nostalgic Rexall ad; Miss Clairol; Bermuda; Golden Star Ham; Florida O.J. (orange juice). Average wear. Considerable soiling to front cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
194068 pages. Features: Nice Dodge Truck ad inside front cover; Nice one-page Mercury 8 ad; Birthday of Jane Withers, juvenile movie star; George Jessel marries Lois Andrew; Obituaries for actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Honore Willsie Morrow, and James Francis Smith; Nice photo one-page ad for Plymouth cars; British leap to meet challenge of Nazi onslaught in the North - considerable war coverage with photos; Hints of Italy's entry to war; Holland and Belgium jittery; Scandinavian Coup - Military and Naval Critiques; US Politics; Very nice one-page color ad for the LaSalle Special Sedan in a spring gardening scene; Unusual one-page Coke ad "Flick a Switch or Lift This Glass"; Great Chevrolet Truck ad with seven photos documents how they tested one of their trucks over 100,00 miles around North America; Contract Bridge - Capt. Gruenther is again Czar as Vanderbilt team wins cup; Interesting one-page ad for the New York World-Telegram explains how it is loved by Manhattanites; Early ad for Titleist / Acushnet golf balls includes illustrations of club pro teaching young golfer what balls to buy; Jacob Epstein's pink sculpture 'Adam'; Eugene Goossens and his Symphony Number 1; Nice two-color Schlitz beer ad; Grumman's speedy Skyrocket aircraft; Walter Hoving; Production of Tung oil from trees; Classy color ad for Schenley's Gin inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco buyer H.H. Scott and a tobacco field at Willow Springs, NC; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195936 pages. Contents: Company Revamps Sales Organization - with photos of R.B. Murphy, N.C. Millidge, R.L. Auld and A.B. Evers; Accounting Geared for Automation - with photos of Allan Bryce, L.A.D. Battrum, M.G. Butler, Robert Sutherland, Kenneth Crowter, J.D. Johnston, Curtis Rice and David Cameron; Personnel Expands Scope - with photos of T.H. Halford, W.E. Wain, O.E. Snead, Dr. J.A. MacMillan, H.L. Brown, A.J. D'Ath and F.G. Fredrickson; Excellent two-page photo and text feature on the closing of the Kerrisdale office, after 38 years, to make way for the more automated Amherst office - the biggest telephone number change in Canada's history - with photos of the operators and some of the new technology - and the old; Details of conversions which took place in March; Venerable Glenburn Yields to Cypress - Another great two-page photo and information feature on a major Burnaby upgrade on Glenburn which, grew from six operators to 155 over the past 35 years; Fascinationg one-page photo feature on new microwave equipment providing long distance service between Vancouver and Kamloops - features a novel 20 x 24-foot passive reflector; 1959 telephone directories issued in Vancouver; Retirement news; Dial phones come to residents of Sidney and Keating on Vancouver Island - with several photos, including Lew Millin, Art Ensor, Gordon Cooper, Harry Potter, and others; Photo and map-illustrated article by Mrs. J.W. Bond explains the impact of improved telephone service to James Island, just off the Saanich Peninsula; Two-page feature on Junior Achievement with photos; Pension plan personalized; One-page map extending from the Lion's Gate Bridge to Horseshoe Bay indicates historical circular (mileage) boundaries formerly used to figure mileage charges; Two historic switchboards now Silent - the old Victoria and Vancouver long distance switchboards - article iwth photos; Teletype sale to East Asiatic Company - article with photo of Robert Turner of this wholesale lumber company; Retirees - Mrs. Minnie Doggett, G.A. Einerson, Edmond McKim, Miss Mary S. Duncan; In Memoriam - John E. Carlile, Mrs. Lily Rollings, James A. Murray, James L. Ward, Arthur Mills.and more. Clean with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
195736 pages. Features: Christmas greetings from President Farrell inside front cover; Feedback on Kitimat service; Two pages of great photos of installation of cable between the Pattullo Bridge and Chilliwack features work above the Vedder Canal - Pete Meehan's gang are featured; Photos of plant men boosting sales of extension phones - Norman Bowman of Cedar is tops; First counterless office in North Vancouver; Photos of Ladner's conversion to new automatic phone system; Photos of workers in the Terrace district; Retirees; Great centerfold illustrations of radiotelephones in use on sea-going craft; Dawson Creek Cut photos; Photo of Miss Sharon Buck, Vanderhoof operator and Stampede Queen; Photo of Earl Cleland and Jim Wilson working above the Nechako River; East Kootenay personalities; In Memoriam - William D. Denholm, Percy Allen; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195736 pages. Features: B.C. hosts 'biggest' telephone convention; Article on new Dog Mountain Tramway with great photos; Photo of George Forsythe and Floyd Adams repairing damaged Squamish cable; two pages of photos of employees who work at night; Howe Sound Line Rebuilt - with great photos of Foreman Davie McKinnon and his men at work; Photos of unique features of phone company buildings; new intra-system teletype system is inaugurated; Squamish Exchange - with five nice photos; Norman Fisher rescues girls near Spanish Banks; Great centrefold photos show how radiotelephones are used at the Eburne Saw Mills Division of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in Vancouver; Phone personalities in Merritt - Myrna Petrie and Frank Shepherd; Before and after demolition photos of the east side of the 700 block of Seymore St. in Vancouver, making room for the new William Farrell Building; Interesting article on company paycheques - and all the deductions from it; Bowen Island Cutover; Retirees; Photo of cable-laying under the Fraser River at the Marpole Bridge; Passing of Charlie McAndrew; company baseball photos; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1963200 pages. Features: Cover photos of Charles de Gaulle; Attractive fashion ads; One-page RCA Victor ad for Sid Caesar's album "Little Me" says "Sex, Caesar and Song"; Peugeot 404 ad; Fallacies and Facts About Automation; Photos of scenes in France; A Long Look at Stalin Ten Years Later - remembered as 'a man who did dreadful things but built a great power'; Fourteen Clues to Washington News - article on Washington correspondents with nice photo of JFK at press conference; The Brave 'Buddelers' of Berlin - photo-illustrated article on the daring escapes by tunnel by refugees from Communist Germany; What Drives Bobby Kennedy (RFK)?; Is Communism a Menace? - Bertrand Russell's Answer; The Crime of Art-Napping - famous paintings around the world are being stolen; Hubert Humphrey's ideas for making legislators more effective; The Number of Special-Purpose Organixations (Clubs) is on the Upswing; Photos and illustrations from Victorian times; Beautiful one-page color-photo Monet Jewelry ad; Spokesman for Darwin, and for Science; General Tom Thumb's Fairy-Tale Wedding; Photo of Charles Sherwood Stratton (General Tom Thumb) at age 18; What Makes a Safer Driver Safe?; Quest for the Best Hotel in the World; Radiant color-photo centerfold ad for Wamsutta features five gorgeous models in dresses; Stiffel Lamps ad; Nice one-page ad for the 1963 Ford Mercury Comet Sportster hardtop - white two-door with sheepdog in front; Macy's Home Food Service; United States Lines ad features color photos of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald BAlcom with Mrs. Andre Embiricos plus Mr. Barry Bingham, Miss Carrie Anna Crockett, Mr. Richard Lewis and Miss Suzanne Francoeur; Sketches of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge under construction; Photos of Navy Seals in training; Fashion photos of women's exotic head wrappings; Plight of the brand new parent; Photos of fireplaces used as furniture; Crossword completed in pencil; Pfaff sewing machine ad entitled 'pfun'. Please note that page 113/14 is missing, otherwise this copy shows average wear and is unmarked. An interesting vintage copy Book
