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1976602 pages. Thematic index, chronological list of authors and translators, chronological list of composers and arrangers, chronological list of sources, chronological list of sources for the tunes, bibliography, supplementary index. Signed by author upon title page. Prior owner's name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this painstakingly compiled and most scholarly work. Book
1950Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1948184 pages. Features: Farmer Claude Pagles talks to General Marshall; How to choose a cow; We're inviting a foot-and-mouth disaster; A home for small flocks; Soil conservation needs a change; We're really saving soil today; Hunting our biggest cat; The Taylors of Walnut Hill - The Thomas R. Taylor family and their Walnut Hill Hereford Ranch of Barton County, KS; Greener grow their pastures; A bargain in cotton; Family story - J. Garrett Tolan Angus Cattle of Illinois; We need more meat; Plain talk; and more. Ads: Ipana ad features Frances Nalle and her kids Amanda and Bobo; Texaco ad features photo of invention at the Moore Brothers plantation near Navasota, TX; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo on the farm of Woody Doremus near Bakersfield, CA; ad for the Cessna 190 and 195; M-E rotary tillers; GE radio ad with illustration of Bea Wain; GMC trucks (color); Ford cars - with color photos in Italy, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa; International trucks; Jeep; Ford trucks; Case equipment; Futuramic Oldsmobile; New Dodge trucks; Minneapolis-Moline Universal "R" tractor - with color photos; Buick; Ford tractors (2 pages); Oliver 60 tractor; Sparton radio (color); True Temper tools; Stewart-Warner radios; Studebaker color ad inside back cover features W.K. Price Jr. of Orlando, FL; Camel cigarette color ad on back cover features Bronc rider Jerry Amber, fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197736 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: They Came Before Cook - Explorers who visited British Columbia before Captain James Cook; Church at Yale, B.C. Has Roots - it has seen over a century of service; The Haunted Man - An 1861 Victoria Detective Story; The Unknown Land - times have changed since American fisheries officer James Swan visited the Queen Charlotte Islands almost a century ago; Poundmaker - Son of Crowfoot; British Columbia's Hedley Camp and the Nickel Plate Mine; Reminiscences of hundred-year-old mining man John 'Jake' Turnbull; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194750 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: HBC and the Smithsonian; River of Deadmen's Valley - R.M. Patterson spent three years in the fabled Nahanni Valley; Prisoners of the Indians - continuing the story of the McLean family's adventures in 1885; By God's River to the Bay - God's River in Northern Manitoba; Pullen in Search of Franklin - part II; Tweedsmuir Park - article with photos and map; Voyageur's Artist - Frances Ann (Beechey) Hopkins; Boy Hero - Donald Ayalik; Founding Fort Yukon - the company's most westerly fort was established by Alexander Hunter Murray 100 years ago; Pageantry at York Fort - an eye-witness account of the trading ceremony which was staged at York Factory in the 1770's; ad for HBC prairie farmlands for sale on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196463 pages. French lyrics - chord names included, 22 internationally famous selections in their original French versions. Songs include: A L'Enseigne de la Fille Sans Coeur; Comme Moi; Cri Du Coeur; Dans Leur Baiser; Des Histoires; Il Fait Bon T'Aimer; Je M'Imagine; La Belle Histoire D'Amour; L'Accordeoniste; La Ville Inconnue; Le Ballet Des Coeirs; Les Amants De Paris; Les Mots D'Amour; Les Trois Cloches; Mon Dieu; Mon Manege a Moi; Mon Vieux Lucien; Salle D'Attente; T'es L'Homme Qu'il Me Faut; Toi, Tu L'Entends Pas; Toujours Aimer; Un Etranger. Also includes biography in English and French. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1947118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Tons on Wings - large planes pushing the limits of runways; The Story of the GCA - part 1; Douglas Skystreak; The Martin 2 - 0 - 2; Plane Fishing; Bendix Helicopters in Full Color; Operation Helios; V-173 - The Flying Pancake; Air Progress; Honeymoon Isle in Florida - great photos; The Solution; Modelers - Get a Sponsor; The Pinnacle; Pity the Poor C-D; Twinster; White Comet, Jr.; Bullet 100; Piper Super Cruiser; 1947 Mirror Model Flying Fair; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
193458 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of Maestro at work; To the Ladies; Editorial discusses how the world is being reborn - for the better; Nostalgic comic-style one-page ad for Ingram's Shaving Cream; Destroyer - part 1 of a novel of love deeper than the sea; Movie Reviews - "Racketeers, Redskins, Romance"; The Brain Trust - Eminent idol-smasher H.L. Mencken wonders if it will do better today than it has in the past; Lux Toilet Soap photo ad features RKO-Radio stare Irene Dunne; On One Wheel - a revolution, a girl, and a perilous landing; Vox Pop; Twelve Months in the White House - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; Did John Jacob Astor Find Capt. Kidd's Riches? - a true story of pirate gold and the birth of a famous fortune; The Case of the Howling Dog (part 8) - Perry Mason stages a phantom murder; 10,000 families going back to the land; Transient Lady (part 11) - dangerous days and a girl's devotion; An Elephant Never Forgets - hilarious tale of an exile from Georgia and 5 tons of pachyderm wisdom; Rookies That Bloom in the Spring - tales of some colorful baseball players; Snake Dance (short story). Nice color back cover Coke ad features men in suits and soda fountain. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1960128 pages. Features: Cover illustration of puppies for sale; Color-photo ad for a Pink Rambler 1960 station waton inside front cover; Two-page photo ad for Chrysler shows the Dart and Plymouth; Ad for large GMC trucks; Photo-illustrated article on "The Middle East - Explosive, Enigmatic"; Life Among the Pioneers - humorous article on suburbia; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh - short story by Ray Bradbury; Strictly Untouchable (sthort story); I Serve on the "Sin Committee" - George H. Young is chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Infractions; St. Leonard's House in Chicago - a chance to go straight; Nice photo of "Merry Milliners"; Perle Mesta (part 3); Make Up Your Mind (short story); Cause, Chance and Creation, by Philip Morrison; Raid on the Railroad (short story); Montana's Tourist Wilderness - color photos with text; If Hitler Had Invaded England; Beautiful ad for the Turbine Drive 1960 Buick shows red convertible on windy mountain road; The Tewksbury Feud (short story, part 4); Hires Root Beer half-page color ad; 3/4-page color ad for Maine tourism; Toro ad for mower with bagger; Back cover Kodak color-photo ad features Peter Lawford and Family; and more. Moderate moisture exposure to top quarter resulting in mild undulations and some discoloration. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. . Magazine
196088 pages. Features: One-page ad for the 1960 Ford Falcon Tudor Wagon; Two-page color Cadillac ad shows green 1960 Coupe de Ville in Mantucket; 1900-1956 - the fun and fury of 15 Presidential campaigns - great photos; Frigidaire fridge ad shows mom and daughter in blue dresses with yellow fridge; Photo-illustrated article on a visit to Nepal; Photos of babies in bikinis; Canadian Club ad with colour photos of Indian tiger hunt; Wonderful world of light -photos; Adolph Eichmann - Nazi Butcher - his crimes, his escape, his 15 years of hiding, his capture; Nice Chesterfield King ad with photo of couple of beach; Color ad for Gravy Train dog food; Nice Budweiser ad shows lady with puppies; Albert Asker - money alone was not enough; The story behind the painting of Toulouse-Lautrec; Plastic surgery gives a young housewife the kind of nose she always wanted; Park your child in Denmark; John Wayne - The Big Man of the Westerns - great photo-illustrated article on him and his family; and more. Opening to bottom of coverfold and bit of loss to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1922133 pages. "An amplification of some notes that were written at Maroeuil a month or two after the Armistice was declared, and it is written primarily for the officers and men who served with the regiment in France, and also that the parents and relatives of the fallen may know something of the Regiment... It is hoped that this book may prove of interest to members of other units with which the Battalion was from time to time brigaded." - from Preface. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact with modest lean. Gilt lettering and decoration upon olive green front board and backstrip rubbed but legible. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1956Features: Charles Cotta and his four-wheel-drive Steamer; Philadelpia's Treasury of Automobile Information - the Thomas McKean Collection on the Automobile; Le Musee des Arts et Metiers de Paris; Getting antiques out of Mexico; The Best Car Built in America - The Story of the Locomobile; My Antique Model Automobiles; Albert Augustus Pope - He put a nation on wheels; "Good Roads" and Bad in the Alabama Black Belt - 1875-1917; Carbide Candlepower - interesting article on auto lighting; The Late Lord Austin of Longbridge - The father of the Wolseley and Austin cars; The Reluctant Helpmate; In Duster and Veil; Restoring a 1922 Stanley; The Cross Engine Franklin - Part 3 of 3; Book Review Index for all books reviewed in this publication 1945-1955; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. Bit of writing atop front cover and in classified ads otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
193165 pages. Includes fourteen black and white photos. Undated. Circa 1931. Author was Reverend of First United Church in Vancouver, B.C., "The Church with the Open Door" which "Ministers to 27 different nationalities, irrespective of race, color, class, or creed". - from title page. "... A story of human interest dealing with flesh and blood, telling you in a simple and direct manner something of the struggle for an existence on the part of thousands of homeless men in this great Canada of ours." - from page 9. Contents include topics such as: The Slave Market; The Tramp; The Juvenile Hobo; Why Men Fail; The Hobo and the Climate; Enforced Idleness; The Hobo and Alcohol; The Sex Life of the Hobo; How the Hobo Travels; Insanity; The Hobo and the Communist; and many more. Above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Short piece of grey tape atop spine. A worthy vintage copy which takes readers deep inside the lives of Canada's multitude of impoverished men during the Great Depression. Book
1991268 pages plus chronology and index. Signed by author and Gagliardi. "Next to him, the Roman roadbuilders were pikers. He is the world's greatest highway builder." - W.A.C. Bennett. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean and bright with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
1952256 pages. Features: Woodbury ad includes wedding photos of Virginia Owen and William Loock, Jr. of New York; Nice Ivory soap ad includes photo of Cathy Avery; Hemorrhoids; Home Child Safety; New Gizmos; Color Camay ad features Mrs. John-Michael King; Advice for making a long car trip; The Most Wonderful Thing - story by Shirley Jackson; A Loaf of Bread and Thou - story by Millie McWhirter; The Long Journey - story by Martha Gellhorn; The Best Girl - story by Florence Jane Soman; A Low Sodium Diet; Gorgeous fashion photos; Composer Cesar Franck; Lana Turner is featured in color Lustre-Creme ad; Gloria Swanson in Jergens ad; Noxzema ad features Virginia Kavanagh of NYC, Paulette Hendrix of Savannah, GA, and Phyllis Riggs of Brooklyn; Lovely color Avon ad features Miss Ella Raines and her rep. Mrs. Virginia Ankener; Kim Hunter in Woodbury ad; Fantastic colour-photo Maytag ad features the three generation family of Mrs. James Cameron of Joliet, Illinois with grandfather H.G. Dahl, father Lloyd Dahl, grandson Glenn Dahl; Jell-O pudding ad; The Wonderful Vegetable Dinner; Strawberry tarts; U.S. Defense Bonds ad features photo-portrait of Major Carl L. Sitter, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient; Rex Harrison photo in National Silver company ad; Royal Crown Cola ad feature photo of Linda Darnell; Lovely fashion ads and illustrations; Spur Cola ad; Sensational back cover color Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels" and includes photos of hardworking doctor smoking; and much, much more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine
197554 pages. Features: P-Boat - Part I of the Consolidated PBY Catalina Story -development and production -article with many excellent illustrations and photos; Colour centerfold illustration of the Consolidated PBY-2 (Patrol Wing Four/Patrol Squadron 17); The Macchi Castoldi Fighters - excellent photo-illustrated article; Daredevil - Ormer Locklear - article with excellent photos. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
1982421 pages including index and many black and white photographic plates from the Bank's archives. Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Scotiabank. Examines the history of the Bank as part of the larger history of Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, Canada, and, ultimately, the world financial community. An important contribution to banking, corporate, and Canadian history. Wonderful unmarked copy very closely approaching As New condition. Book
1947152 pages. Features: Listen Hear, You Parents!- a schoolteacher sounds off; Why Not Plenty For All? - No child should go hungry in the U.S.A.; John and Estelle Ferrans - article with nice photos in color and black and white; Hollywood Beats the Drum; Nice fashion photos; On Guard with Inoculation; Story book hair styles - with photos; Margaret Woolverton - Chicago traffic engineer; Frances Buss - CBS TV Director in New York; Dr. Lore Rose David - the only woman micropaleichthyologist; Josi (Josephine) Cucinotto - designer for tots; Woman of the Month - Dr. Karen Horney; Nice colour-photo Maybelline ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1995112 pages. Tells the inside story of how the greatest game on earth came to Vancouver. Here's all the background to the franchise bid, the team building process, plus facts and statistics about the Grizzlies' first players. A dynamic full-colour gallery of the greats conveys all the magic of today's high-flying, gravity-defying superstars, including Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Grant Hill and more. A high quality glossy colour production. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1994152 pages. Index. Bibliography. Copiously illustrated with archival black and white photography. "The combination of text and visual history offers readers a privileged glimpse of the glory days of one of the coast's major industries." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
195718 pages. Features: Editorial on Farmer-Sportsmen Relations; Mailbag; Photo of Dr. P.G. Margetto with 30-lb spring; Group photo of Arv. Sestrap, Dr. Duncan, C. Chapman, J. Sestrap and their many fish taken from the Kitimat River; Nice photo ad for Edward Lipsett Ltd. entitled Ready for Steelhead shows angler and much fishing gear; Cold Steel - steelheads in the Thompson River; Nostalgic illustrated foul weather gear ad for Canor Plarex Ind. Ltd. features their sport jacket and steelhead and hunting jacket; Pictorial Story of the B.C. Gun Dog Club Retriever Trial - the many photos include "Hand" Dawson, Oliver Krog, and Jack Smyth, Bill Sinser, Ken Gibson, Chris Burton, Richard Pruden, and Bill Sinser with his labrador "Bulldozer of Crevamoy"; Photo of well-known big-game hunter Jim Bond (who will soon be speaking in Vancouver) seated above a large ram; Club News; Pistol article; Clay Chips - article including photos of Gordon Finch of Kelowna, Ed Richter with Blake Stokes and Ed Brown (all in their 80s), and the winning Kelowna team of Gordon Finch, Art Pollard, Don Ellis, Brian Cooney and Howard Mascron; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover says "Watch That Muzzle! - The 10 Commandments of Safety"; Back cover ad for Gibbs tackle's top steelhead lures; 'Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Small archival tape repair to bottom of coverfold. A quality vintage copy. Book
193462 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of dog pulling curtain from lady; Editorial on 'The Lost Art of Living'; Nice one-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six; Every Other Inch a Gentleman - part one of an anonymous Hollywood saga; Ad for Fleischmann's Yeast includes photos of Dr. Jules Monges and Dahlia Upchurch of Richmond, VA; Palmolive Shave Cream ad features photo of George Earl, trainer of "Torchy" Peden, bicycle racing champion; Will Japan Seize Alaska? - an arresting warning by Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana; Excitement at Kamp Kumfort - a nice girl seeking adventure finds it; Nice two-color (red and black) ad for Libby's Catchup; Rendezvous (part 2) - Amazing true adventures of American fighter Edgar Bouligny (with photos); No More Belindas - a wistful tale of elfin memories; Movie News and Photos - Catherine the Great, The Big Shakedown, Palooka, and Search for Beauty; Tamer of Lions - true story of La Goulue, a cancan dancer of the Moulin Rouge in Paris; Destroyer - a novel of a love deeper than the sea (part 4); The Eye of Fate (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover features scene at tobacco auction. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1972112 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trademark list. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and diagrams. "A collector's guidebook for the USA." - from front cover. Chapters include: Introduction; Your Milkbottle Collection; How to Build a Milkbottle Collection; Especially Desirable Milkbottles; The Thatcher Story; Go-Withs for the Milk Bottle Collector; How to Display; Milk Bottle Mysteries; Studying the Milk Bottle Collection; "Bottoms Up"; How to Categorize a Collection of Milk Bottles; Amethyst Milk Bottles; Thatcher & Barnhart's Milkbottle Closure of 1886; Tin Tops; The Borden Company; Thatcher Company Catalog 1887. 1974 bottle-pricing guide laid in. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this precious reference. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
193412 charming color-illustrated pages for young readers present the fanciful tale of how Hires R-J Root Beer Extract came to be enjoyed by children of the day. Features nine (unused) 'Magic Rubs' where rubbing a coin will reveal a hidden image. Light wear and minor external soiling. A quality copy of this lovely vintage Hires collectible. Book
