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1961310 pages including bibliography and index. Will aid those interested in the practical art of horology. Intended to serve as a course of study, as a means of reference, and as a textbook or working manual to be used in the school, at the bench, or in the library. Completely revised to include new material on automatic watches, shock-proof watches, and other recent developments in watchmaking. Features a handsome set of handsome illustrations in full colour showing exploded views of alarm and self-winding watches. Rubber stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some foxing to top edge. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is missing some chips and is partly sunned at top of front panel. Solid copy. Book
1990240 pages including index. Through colourful anecdotes, documented reports and personal remembrances, Ian Mahood tells of the birth and eventual death of forest management in British Columbia. Gift greetings and discard stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
196774 pages including dozens of archival black and white illustrations. Entertaining and informative history of this Vancouver Island community. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for Centennial Committee rubber stamp upon title page. Nice copy. Book
1997393 pages including index. Intended for use in an introductory instructional computing course for preservice or in-service teachers. Clean, bright and unmarked but for rubber stamp upon top edge. Excellent copy. Book
1996683 pages. Brings together fifteen of the most significant plays published in Canadian Theatre Review between 1974 and 1991. Most have been out of print since their appearance in the journal. Includes lost classics such as Ten Lost Years and This is For You, Anna. Moderate wear. Average quantity of markings to contents. Rubber stamp upon half-title page. Solid copy in bright red covers. Book
1896406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
195552 pages plus index. Contains a carefully selected group of prayers found in the personal and private writings of many well-known characters and in the liturgy of various religious movements. Prior owner's ink stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Average wear. Bonus: includes contemporary Rosicrucian bookmark. Book
1921378 pages including index. Establishes the view that in the conception of the adjustment of the individual and environment we have a fundamental principle about which a rational theory of education can be developed. Prior owner's details and blind stamp upon front free endpaper. Occasional light pencil markings to contents. Hinges going. Above-average wear. Remains a useable copy. Book
2000185 pages. Intrigue, blackmail and murder - a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Blind stamp and date upon half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
1935296 pages including black and white illustrations. Intended primarily as a text for students in Money and Banking in the senior courses of commercial high schools in Canada. Chapters include: Rise of Money; Canada's Monetary System; Credit and Credit Instruments; Monetary Standards; Rise of Banking; The Banking Business; Branch Banking in Canada; Deposit Accounts and Reserves of Canadian Banks; Loans and Investments of Canadian Banks; Supervision of the Canadian Banking System; Crises and the Canadian Banks; History of the Canadian Banking System; Stock Exchanges; Domestic and Foreign Exchange; Inflation of Currency; The English Banking System; The French Banking System; The Banking System of the United States; Other Banking Systems of the World; The Central Bank of Canada. Very light wear. Contents clean and bright. Prior owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp upon back endpaper. No other markings. Binding like new. Light blue cloth boards. Splendid copy of this excellent reference. Book
1995179 pages including notes and index. "Has Atlantis finally been found?... Presents some startling - and convincing - evidence that it has. That, in fact, Antarctica is the lost continent of Atlantis." - from dust jacket. Rand Flem-Ath's Signature and inscription upon half-title page. Discard stamp upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket in protective cover neatly taped to book. Excellent copy. Book
1972168 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "Reviews the curious and little-known details that add colour, perspective and humour to our country's heritage." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Front endpaper removed. Book
1993175pp. A book not about Kim Campbell, but about "Kim Campbell." It addresses not a person but a public image that has come to Canadian national consciousness in a cluster of photos, quips, speeches and headline adjectives. Suggests that such a web of images is all any voter has available for judgement in a modern democracy and further, that in the late 20th century democracy called Canada, we get not the candidate we deserve, but the candidate of our desires. (Ms. Campbell and her party were all but destroyed in the federal election which occurred shortly after this book was printed.) Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
197772 pages. Features: The De Pinedo Inheritance - Fortune or Fraud? - a reply; Canadian Painters in Philately - Part 2 of 2; "Corrected" airmail special delivery stamp - first day of use; Unique from the Yukon - publicity cover for the Yukon Exposition of 1912; Postmarked Ottawa; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
199087 pages. Features: Orapex '90 - Ottawa's Second National Stamp Show and Bourse; Netherlands - Indies - In Quest of Correct Franking; Prairie Pathfinders - Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday; Postmarked Ottawa; George Mackinley Geldert, M.C. 1886-1967; Decoys, Spears and Skates; The R.P.S.C. Junior Stamp Collector; Vignettes of early British North American Postal History - Part XIII - The Wilderness Route from Quebec to Halifax; Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1990Features: Editorial Consultant's Notes; The R.P.S.C. Junior Stamp Collector; A Look into Naturopathy - the Complimentary Way; The 1815 Battle of Waterloo; Vignettes of Early British North American Postal History; Postmarked Ottawa; Varia - Batavius; Fellow of the Royal Society - Henry D. Hicks, C.C., Q.C.; Precancelled Admirals Die 1 and Die 2 on the 1 cent Yellow and 3 cent Carmine. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1944Features: Photos of British troops and supplies at Arnhem, plus battle photos; Photos of damage to Channel ports; photos of sea forts protecting London; and more. Average wear. Prior owner's name and stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Page 397 loose but present (because page 415 has been removed and is not included). Centerfold (loose but present) provides a large and fascinating cut-away diagram of 'the secrets of the flying bomb' - how the robot's flight and dive are automatically controlled. Book
196147 pages. Features: The secret delights of the shunpiker - Bill and Vivian Heine have explored the quiet back roads of many parts of Canada; Millie Perkins is Glad She was Fired - the girl film fans knew as Anne Frank is free to fulfill her new ambition - to become an actress; De Gaulle is the Man for Me - Field Marshall Montgomery on leadership towards the resolution of the East-West strife; A spoonful of syrup may stamp out Polio - mobile medical teams test the oral vaccine Sabin in Wedgeport and Comeau Hill, N.S.; School that teaches the three Ps - Poise Posture and Presence - Phyllis Leeman's Pixie School of Modelling in New Westminster, B.C.; Humourous signs keep people off the grass; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
1962Features: Let's keep the filibuster, by Hodding Carter; The Kremlin's Persecution of Jews - a firsthand report on the newest campaign inside Russia to stamp out an age-old religion and way of life; The Mutiny of Marlon Brando - how the petulant superstar broke the budget in a marathon remake of Mutiny on the Bounty; Famous people who don't remember me - a veteran Government official's amusing encounters with Winston Churchill and other celebrated figures; People on the way up - Seena Hamilton, discus champ Dave Weill, Nancy Schoonover, bus magnate George Sage; On Trial - Jimmy Hoffa and Adam Clayton Powell, part 2 of 3; How to get along with the Bees; Dinner with the Kennedys - what to expect when you receive Washington's most sought-after invitation, a bid to spend a gala evening at the White House; Radio's Pill Pusher - Carlton Fredericks, self-styled 'foremost nutritionist' has amassed a fortune endorsing vitamins and wonder foods. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196320 pages. Features: How They Keep Horse Racing Honest - Science Invades the Sport - article with photos; Why Protestants Mourn Pope John; Zenith TV ad; The Fort Henry Guards - article with colour photos; Birth of a Stamp - Ernst Roch and Canada's new Five Cent Stamp featuring the Queen - article and great photos; Boy Scout Shadow Compass. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
196648 pages. Features: Nice colour Oldsmobile ad inside front cover; Join CUSO and spend a weekend with a real live duck-hunting maharajah; The West grows by Moose Jaw just sits and watches the trains go by; The Ship that Died of Shame - the HMCS Inch Arran; Bill Edwards of Oakville and his "Truth Paste" toothpaste; The Battle for the Warrendale Children; Harold Town Creates the Connoisseur's Christmas Tree - article with many colour photos; New Hustle in the Holy Land - it is polishing itself up to boost tourism; Nicholos Monsarrat - an interview before he left after living for fourteen years in Canada; Nightcap - it's TV with a leer and a plunging neckline, a busty, bawdy baby that nobody loves... just the viewers - article with photos; A Second Look at the "Facts" about Cancer and Smoking by the author of "You May Smoke"; George Feyer and his Comic Art (with a postage stamp theme); Eric Levinson claims Harry Houdini speaks to him from the grave - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Botany 500; What's New in Medicine; Nice ad for the 1967 Chrysler Newport; Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile ad; GM ad for their new energy absorving steering column; Code ad with Christmas theme on back cover. Average wear. 2"x2" piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
193396 pages. Features: Nice Plymouth Six ad featuring interview with G.R. Stevens of Elgin, Illinois; ATT ad features woman using old-style phone; Buying automatic refrigerators; "Human-Eye" camera opens new way to television; Snakeskin and marble made by photography; Planes to dump rain on crops; Photo of tidal wave in the River Severn, in England; Queer jobs in the Arctic - Major L.T. Burwash in pursuit of the North Magnetic Pole; Two-passenger sailplane has closed cockpits; Rare Stamp Racketeers thwarted by black light; Human body gets machine tests; Freak vehicles for air, land, and water; Animal movie actors trained by strange tricks; Tires torn to pieces in safety tests; Homemade Sextant; Is Rudy Hofmeister the fastest wood carver?; War Waged on Insects with Lights and Odors; Microscope "Movies" on Screen; Newest Household Devices; Weird stunts with aluminum in the home laboratory; One-man show with a magic hat; Adding earphones to your radio; Radio sets now tuned by sight; New gears shift themselves; A simply built high striker; Tools and Materials Captain McCann uses to build ship models; Graceful stool built from coat hangers; Sport belt made of knotted string; Simple design for boy's auto (go-kart); Luggage Making on the kitchen table; Taking telephoto shots with your own camera; Helpful hints for motorists; plus dozens of other brief and interesting illustrated items. Great cartoon-style ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover features magic tricks. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint store stamp on back cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
194978 pages. Features: Battleship Killer - The War's Strangest Story - Torpedo-riding Italians sank enough British ships in Alexandria Harbor to give the Axis the advantage in the Mediterranean - but the Axis never knew it!; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (part 1 of 2); The Glory Road (part 2 of 2); Stampede in Stamps - Stamps become a popular investment - with photo of Joe Granville (presumably the same Joe Granville who went on to a successful career on Wall Street); Oh, You Beautiful Blonde! - Marie Wilson; Is the Witch Doctor Helping You? - century-old secrets of primitive medicos are turning out to be cure for diseases that have baffled modern medical men for years. Fiction: There Are Older Things Than War; Brood of Evil; Set in Concrete; Willow Woman; No Sentiment; Pride's Castle (part 3 of 8); Cleveland Indian reliever Gene Bearden; Back page opinion column regarding the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. Includes these ads: B.V.D. Sports Shirts, Zenith Televisions, Mercury cars, GM (nice 2-page color ad), Ford car color photo ad with black lawn jockey appearing twice, Nice color one-page ad for the U.S. Army, Pincor lawn mowers, Spam, Durkee's margerine, Mallory hats, Lucky Strike colour photo ad features pretty lady river fishing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2000128 pages. Many pages of high-quality colour plates. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this beautiful catalogue. Book
194966 pages. Features: Design for leather; Junior craftsman project; Woodcarving caricaturist - Alfred Perry of Cedar Grove, Ontario - article with photos; Painting in oils is easy; Felt Spectacle case; Food casting; The Sculptured Shillalagh; Stamp collecting; Hobby cures a soldier - Private Jerome Biegel of the U.S. Army carves matches; How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers (part 2); Home Weaving Service; Message from the Hon. Paul Martin; 1949 National Hobby Exhibition; List of hobby exhibitors; Feature exhibits, Phil. S. Quelch's operating miniature sawmill; Profitable little animals; Mosaic pictures from human hair; Neville C. Seymour and his silk strand etchings; The Narcissus; Garden Glimpses; Fine Wood Inlay; Model Railroads; Shell Craft; Spiral Coil Applique; Camera Kinks; Your Photography; Weaving with Reeds; A Hall Lantern; Birch Bark Art; Hobby-Craft Patterns; Model Plane Contest; What's New; and more. Interesting full-page ad for Canadian government annuities shows regretful elder woman holding broom outside boarding house. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very uncommon vintage Canadian hobby publication. Book
