Guthrie, Tyrone; Gordon, H. Scott; MacLennan, Hugh; Carrighar, Sally; Bisset, Sir James; et alMareMagnum
195996 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196170 pages. Features: Fourteen young, successful, but not necessarily complacent people - Father Louis Laurendeau, Elaine Bedard, David Owen, Gordon Whitmore, Adrian Vilandre, Martin Lavut, Zubin Mehta, Lynn Seymour, David Ferguson, David Gauthier, Michel Gelinas; What six young politicians think and do about politics - Brian Mulroney, David Greenspan, John Brewin, Ted Rogers (later of Rogers media fame), Jean David, Jean-Pierre Fournier; Short Story by Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) - Ring Around October; A look at the Middle-Aged Young by a reporter their age who finds they are bored by easy success; Tony Gregson's getaway with two gold bricks - he vanished from Yellowknife in 1954 with $54,000; The Sea Diary of a Gay Dog - Colin Acton was entertainment officer of the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest ocean liner; Bouncing on a trampoline can teach a child to read - findings of Montreal psychologist Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch; The most powerful village in the world - Georgetown, D.C.; The hotheaded master of Moresby Island - Captain Horatio Robertson built a 1,600-acre Chinese empire in B.C. and ruled as stormily as an Eastern despot; Peter Martin; Dimitri Dimakopoulos; Stewart Fisher. How ironic that the story featuring prominent up-and-coming politicians includes a photo with Brian Mulroney seated at a table with Peter C. Newman, the man who would later write a book entitled "The Mulroney Secret Tapes", which feature the author's controversial taped conversations with Mr. Mulroney. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding sound. Please note: missing pages 65-66 which contained end of the Young Canadians article. Book
1950Features include: The Tropic Seas for Trochus - author's experience with the hunters of these sea-molluscs; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County - Part I of the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois; Born Lucky; South Sea Solomon - The disastrous tale of a man with big ideas in the South Seas; The Runaway Steamer - The illegal voyage of a New Zealand river-steamer, the Ruawai, from Helensville to Auckland; Amazon Wonderland - author's experiences with Amazonian wildlife; Corporal Garaba's Return - A remarkable story from West Africa; Bushed - Lost in the Australian outback; Magic or Moonshine - A veteran inspector's puzzling stories of 'black magic' in Africa; Giuliano - Bandit Extraordinary; Close-Up - Peacock's Feathers; The Beehive. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1896Pages 185-246. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Andover; On Middle Ground; Rev. Mary Baker Eddy - with full-page photo of her home in Concord; Hemlock; Aunt Betsy's Thank-Offering; Brotherhood; The story of the Lady Blanche Murphy; Three representative farmers - Hon. Charles McDaniel, Samuel S. White, Herbert L. Brown; The Singer; The legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse (conclusion); The Midnight Storm; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
19171917 first edition. 608 pages. Index. Color frontisplate explains color printing. Profusely illustrated with 780 drawings and reproductions of sensational black and white photos. "The marvels of modern industry and invention , the interesting stories of common things, the mysterious processes of nature, simply explained" - subtitle. An exceptionally informative and fascinating snapshot of long forgotten state of the art technology from over a century ago. The fifty-two chapters include topics such as: The Story of the Submarine; The Story in the Talking Machine; The Story of the Motorcycle; The Story of Building a Silo; The Story of America's First Horseless Carriage (and no, it was not invented by Henry Ford!); The Story in the Making of a Magazine; The Story in a Sausage; The Story in a Billiard Table; The Story of the Taking of Food from the Air; The Story of the Growth of the Motor Truck; The Story of Tunnels Under the Hudson River; and so many more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to decorated brown cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
193352 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of calf kicking up its legs in the spring flowers; One-page Chipso photo ad features the Williams family - Thomas Vance, Calvin Edward, Mrs. Calvin C., Stephen, Charles Judson and Henry Kerr; One-page yeast ad features large photo of Dr. Gudzent of the University of Berlin; Nice one-page Pontiac ad features yellow Economy Straight 8; Order to View (short story); Green Mantle (short story); Restoration Work in France - photo-illustrated article on work done to preserve Versailles and Fontainbleau for posterity; Small Talk (short story); Beating the Star (short story); At the Edge of the Great Unsurveyed (short story); Wedding Bells Around the World - photo-illustrated article on world wedding traditions; The Man Who Taught London to Dance - photo-illustrated article on Santos Casani; A Gabled House; Pond's cold cream one-page ad features photos of Lady Diana Manners; The British Way; Nicely illustrated one-page Maxwell House coffee ad; Laboratory in the Snow - Dr. H.R. Wolf of General Motors tests cars in the winter conditions of Saskatchewan; Lovely one-page colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams; Great one-page Chevrolet truck ad includes diagrams of 10 interesting vehicles; Three pages of photos of movie stars; Radioland - article on radio stars; Movie reviews; Little Rambles in Hollywood; Champion spark plug ad includes photo of Mr. S.G. Baits, Chief Engineer of Hudson-Essex of Canada, Ltd.; Easter cookery ad; One-page illustrated ad for the Northern Electric Model 800 Gurney Range with automatic oven; Fashion article with illustrations; Lovely colour Palmolive soap ad inside back cover features elegant lady in long maroon gown; Crisco colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
1979138 pages. Index. Family Index. Bibliography. Abundantly illustrated. Average wear to unmarked book. Minor lean to spine. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
195980 pages. Features: Cover sailing illustrations shows man turning green while his Marilyn-like lady friend enjoys the ride; Pepsi ad inside front cover shows poolside scene; Kent cigarette ad shows flower gardening couple; Allstate ad features photo of Ray Morton of Castro Valley, California; We Recovered the Space Monkeys - Navy Diver Lt. (j.g.) R. Edward Foy recalls what happened in this photo-illustrated article; The Gang in Black Jackets - short story; We Tell Our Children - noted Negro journalist Carl T. Rowan tells how he answers questions his children ask when they come face to face with race prejudice - photo-illustrated article; The U-19's Last Kill (part 1 of 6); The Secrets of Long Life - article with photos of Henrietta Dull, William Perry, Thomas Murphy, Lulu Williams, Redwing Beck, and Granny Mounger; The Don't-Touch Girl (short story); The Cowboy of Fifth Avenue - Eugene Holman is board chairman of Standard Oil - photo-illustrated article; They Hunt the Mysterious Menhaden - photo-illustrated article on the pursuit of this elusive east coast fish; Mr Lincoln's Mystery Cake (short story); Rebirth of a Cathedral - resurrecting the Coventry Cathedral which was destroyed by Hitler's bombers; Top-Secret Boondoggle (short story); Great two-page color photo of the one-day assembly of a pre-fab science hall at Saint Francis College in Fort Wayne, IN; Portland cement ad features color photo of Will Rogers Jr.; Mark of Treachery (part 7 of 8); Nice two-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan shows fisherman returning with a big haul; Nice back cover color-photo Kodak ad features Ozzie and Harriet, and their boys David and Ricky; and more. Moderate wear. Bits of nibbling to edges of covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
195264 pages. Features: Nice cover art shows older sister being taken on big date while younger sister looks on wistfully from the staircase; Colour-photo ad for Frigidaire ranges inside front cover; Vintage ad for Allis-Chalmers excavating equipment; Editorial - What is the Right to Strike?; My Christmas in Sing Sing - Beverley Baxter writes from New York; Jane Russell is featured in Jergen's Lotion ad; B.C. Coalition Commits Suicide - report on B.C. politics by Blair Fraser; The Atom Bomb that saves lives - Dr. Harold Johns designed a cobalt-bomb machine to treat cancer patients (radiation treatment) - article with photos; A Butcher Talks Back - Len Edwards explains why meat prices are so high; The Riddle of Louis Riel, by W.O. Mitchell - part 2 of 2 - illustrated; Philippe Takes the Count - story by Ronald R. Smith, illustrated by Barling Ville; What Kind of Canadians are we Getting? - our most adaptable settler, the British family man, finds it hardest to get in - article with photos; Wild Animals I Have Known... Slightly - humour by Rober Thomas Allen, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Fredericton - The Aristocrat under the Elms - feature article with photos of this New Brunswick city; How to Miss the Mobs - article cartoon illustrated by Peter Whalley; Full-page army recruiting ad; 1952 Dodge Coronet ad; Lovely full-page colour Coke ad shows mom taking tray of bottles to kids watching TV; 1952 Plymouth ad; Colour LaZboy ad; The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) are honoured in a colour ad for O'Keefe's Brewing Company. Please note: missing pages 29-30 (we believe these contained ads) and pages 45-46 which appear to have contained the end of the Riel article. Clipping from ad on page 47. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1900Pages 386-450 plus 12 pages of lovely nostalgic ads. Features: The Land of the Girl Queen (The Netherlands/Holland) - article with nice photos; The Paintings of Madame F. Bries; Moonlight - short story; The Parent and the Nervous Child; The Meloon Farm (continued); Midsummer Fashions - with great illustrations; Cut Paper Patterns; June Days in Paris; Club Life in Women's Colleges - article with photos of Miss Annie Lyndesay Wilkinson, Miss Grace Lattimer Jones, Miss Bertha Wendell Groesbeck and Miss Sarah Watson Sanderson; The 20th Century Baby, Part VII - His Amusements; Answers to Mothers; The Summer Girl's Complexion; Windows and Their Decoration; Recipes for Warm Days; News of the Women's Clubs; Nice one-page ad for Waltere Baker & Co. Cocaos and Chocolates; and more. Covers detached but present. Few library markings. Average wear. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
194750 pages. Photos of gorgeous Myra Keck, of Haverford, PA, inside front cover. Short Stories: Dreamboat and the Mouse; Ex-Champion of the World; He Who Lives by the Gun!; Articles: Why Vet Marriages Fail; Is Baseball a Sweatshop? - article with photo of the Giants, Rip Sewell, Bob Murphy, and Ted Williams; Superman's Toughest Fight - now he's taking on native nazis and the Ku Klux Klan - article with photo of Bud Collyer and Richard Gibson; Labor Learns from Wall Street - the fight for higher wages; Let's Spend Money - The Mayor of Chicago, Edward J. Kelly, offers financial advice to President Truman; Chinese Reds Who Talk Like Damon Runyon - Fans Lt. Lio Yang and Professor Chang Mei; How Long Can a Body Last? - Burlesque girls provide the answer, with great photos of Gypsy Rose Lee,Ann Corio, Margie Hart, Carlotta, and Irene Allarie; Gagging of the GI Press - former soldier-reporters tell the inside story of the hit fight that sprang up between the generals and the GI news staffs over what goes into making up good and truthful Army newspapers; The Censors Who Lived in Villas; Springtime; I Made San Fernando Valley My Home - photo-illustrated article on Navy flier Phil Strick and his family; The Great Man Vouts - Slim Gaillard; 312 Nights with Soldiers - photo-illustrated article on lovely singer of 'Embraceable You' Janis Paige, 'the lush torch of Hollywood canteen fame' ; GI Joe Hits the Saddle - photos of Robert Mitchum in several movies; Salute's Pin-up - sultry one-page photo of Jane Harker; Swedes, Beautiful Swedes - featuring the Royal Dramatic Academy and photos of Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, and Viveca Lindfors; Photo salute of the month features Jim Folsom, Alabama's new Governor; Photos of Richard Webb and Marion L. Starkey; Back page 'Salute of the Year' to Harold Russell; and more. Handsome gent illustrated in Eagle Clothes ad on back cover. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
195868 pages. Features: Nice colour photo ad for the 1958 Ford at Horseshoe Bay, B.C. and what was later named the Sea to Sky Highway; Canada should ban atomic arms even if no one else will; My Fair Lady comes home to London; The Truth about Tee-age Drinking - results of a national study; My Life with the Original Marks Brothers - Kitty Marks looks back - great photos; The Fear behind Featherbedding - the rail fireman's strike and paying men not to work; The secret life of a pond; Johnny Longden tells his own story - part III; In Praise of the Beard - article with photos of great beards; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1902411, (3 ads) pages. "This volume of war correspondence and travel bridges forty years of personal wanderings and adventure." - from Introductory. The adventures described took place in many places around the world. Here are the author's thoughts after a time in China: "The Chinese are noted for their savage cruelty. I had several instances, but I will not jar my readers' feeling by going into details of the Chinaman's 'gentle art' of disposing of his captive enemies. China, too, is the land of corruption. Every man considers it his duty to cheat his neighbour. It is a cardinal article of Celestial life. The process is known as 'squeezing' and, beginning with the Emperor, it is prosecuted down step-by-step." - from page 224. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's red cloth adorned with gilt lettering. Binding intact. Moderate spine slant. Backstrip all but loose. (Prior owner secured it with tape, now moved, leaving some tackiness.) A worthy vintage copy. Book
197426 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Chicago's Battle of the Landmarks; 50 Years after the death of Louis H. Sullivan; The sturdy old Pere Marquette Building - next target in the demo derby; Dearborn St. - what and when is a landmark?; Teaming new with old on Astor Street; Woodstock Courthouse - a success story; Preservations Agencies - an instant guide; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1930140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
196416 pages. Features: Quote about joy in life (with photo) by Charlie Chaplin; The White Lie (fiction); Dandelion - a read-aloud story; Dorothy Doll's Law - she is Head Wardrobe Mistress of the "Folies Bergere"; To See a Summer Morning (fiction); Cool Tomato Recipes; Letter from Housewife Mrs. W.E. Bueker about how railway automation has affected her husband's career, and the lives of many other families, for the worse; Should the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, Wear the Hope Diamond?.. Color ad for Cut-Rite plastic bags; Average wear. Unmarked. Coupon removed from Royal Pudding ad on page 9 and Good Seasons Gravy ad on page 11, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
1926Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
1944Pages 223-290 plus ads. Features: The Taxi-man's Revenge - officers shot at Prince Rupert, British Columbia Court House in 1937; The Miracle; The Shooter; The Man Who Waited - a story from Oto in southern Nigeria in 1911; Loot From Peking - an important ring and tablets circa the Boxer Rebellion; The Human Tiger; First Blood - an amusing tale from India; Burton's Boots; My Wife; The Clue of the Single Finger-print, Part II - the hold-up of the First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado, and its bloody aftermath; O-I-L - a story from the wilds of Patagonia; Diamond Cut Diamond - A Gold Coast mining struggle; The "Debbil-Debbil" Stone - what happened when the grave of a medicine man was unearthed; short article on the "Padley Martyrs" with photo; many nostalgic ads; and more. Covers present but detached as one. Bit of price sticker remnant on front cover. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
1948168pages. Features: Attractive Christmas-theme 1-page color-photo ad for General Electric (GE) TVs and Radios; Half-page 2-color ad for movie 'Enchantment' starring David Niven and Teresa Wright; Nice 1-page color photo ad by Pinsley for Prince Gardner wallets features young couple; Half-page color ad for Seaforth shaving products; Nice 1-page color ad for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau features young girl leaving cup of coffee for Santa; I Prowled Russia's Forbidden Zone - Werner Krop provides the first eyewitness testimony of what the Russians are doing in Soviet Germany, and how the Germans feel about it; Military Secret (fiction); SESP, a Joint US-Brazilian enterprise seeks to defeat the disease-ridden jungles of the Amazon - article with color photos; Ladies' Choice (fiction); Feature story on the city of Los Alamos, New Mexico - with photos; Half Your Brain is a Spare - a recent medical discovery is helping victims made speechless by apoplectic strokes and head injuries; How We Caught Spies in WWII - conclusion of an article on how German spies Mario Martinelli and Carla Costa were captured - with photo; The Man Who Said He Would Quit (fiction); What Can We Do About Sex Crimes? - photo-illustrated double-length article; Robber's Rendezvous (fiction); Hollywood's Ballyhoo Boys - How Hollywood gets more publicity than any other industry - with photos; Searching for Oil off Southern Californa - article with nice color photos; Sporting Blood (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for Dodge 'Route-Vans"; Murder for Millions (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile's new 'Rocket' engine; Stick-up Man - Richard G. Drew invented transparent (Scotch) tape - with photo; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Telechron electric clocks; Half-page 2-color ad for Prince Albert smoking tobacco in Christmas motif; Nice 1-page color ad for International Trucks features their six-cylinder vans; 1-page photo ad for Philco tvs and radios; 2-page Buick ad; 1-page color Christmas light ad for Maxwell House coffee; Nice 2-page color ad for RCA Victor entertainment products; Nice 1-page color ad for Studebaker trucks features load of Christmas trees; Vitalis ad features Sammy Baugh, quarterback of the Washington Redskins; Nice 1-page color ad for 1949 Frazer cars; Great color centerfold ad for Nash Airflyte cars; Nice 1-page color ad for Pontiac cars; Kreml Hair Tonic ad advises how to avoid 'Scalp Scum'; Nice 1-page Motorola entertainment products Christmas-themed ad; 2-page color ad for Bulova watches; Half-page ad for televisions made by The Hallicrafters Co.; Fantastic colorful two-page ad for Florida Citrus Fruits and Juices; Nice 1-page color ad for Hotpoint automatic electric ranges; Sexy ad for Mojud hosiery; Dunhill lighter ad; 1-page color Servel Gas Refrigerator ad - endorsed by Mary Margaret McBride; Nice 1-page color ad for Kaywoodie Pipes features illustration of whalers at work in the 1850s; Nice 1-page color Christmas-themed ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; 1-page color ad for American Airlines shows grandparents bringing gifts for Christmas; Half-page color ad for Spam; Elegant color-photo 1-page ad for Gruen watches; 1-page color ad for Interwoven socks; Very nostalgic 1-page color ad for Noma Christmas lights; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Sparton radio-televisions; Full-page color ad for Perfect Circle piston rings; Grizzly Brake Lining ad features illustrations of Gerald Yudkin and Adolph Perlroth II of Eastern Automotive Parts, of New Haven CT; Nice 1-page color ad for Westminster Socks; Quarter-page photo ad for Disston one-man chainsaws; Statler Hotel ad features cartoon by Tony Barlow; Nice color-photo ad for A&P Coffee inside back cover; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194062 pages. Features: Mr. Keynes Has a Plan - super photo-illustrated article on this influential economist; Josephine Baker - star of the music halls - steps down; Rescue In the Arctic - the two-year drift of the Soviet icebreaker "Sedov" and its dramatic rescue; The Lives of Cabaret Girls - featuring Eileen O'Mahony, Barbara Wood, Marie Rennie, Bette Farrar, Baby Bradshaw and Freda Fairchild; British Propaganda Bombs are Duds - reflections on Look magazine's suggested improvements for British propaganda; The Story of Actor-Playwright Emlyn Willians; Volunteers for Finland - with photos and brief write-ups on George Ford, Pat McGee, John Hurman, Col. Kermit Roosevelt, Peter Farragut, Harry Connolly, Peter Broad and Edward Graham; Goose on the Loose - nice photos of the Goose of Montmartre on a walk through Paris; Diary of the War, #27 - The Twenty-Fifth Week; Cartoon by Low mocks Britain's lack of economic leadership; Are Economics Really Everything?; Nice two-colour ad for Bird's Custard on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
1946166 pages. Features: A Man and His Kite - story by Somerset Maugham - first appearance of The Kite; Sins of the Innocent - complete novel by Katherine Albert; A Subsidy for Marriage?; What the Doctors Now Think About Vitamins; Communism Ends At Home, by Clare Boothe Luce; Why Husbands Are Like That; The Most Inspiring Woman I Ever Met - Sarah Blanding, President of Vassar; A Volunteer Firefighter's Wife; A Gift of Beauty for your Home; Make Music Work For You; The Lesson I Learned From the Loving Hermit; Betty White - young wife in St. Louis, MO - article with photos; The Windfall - by Erskine Caldwell; Bowler Catherine Fellmeth; Woman metallurgist Valore L. Marcinak; Ballad specialist Barbara Wheaton Smith; Hatmaker Mrs. Orville Nichols; Weaver Janie Pitts; Spanish teacher Maria De Haro; Woman of the Month - Henrietta Sharon teaches hospitalized vets how to write; Liquid Liptone ad inside back cover features great color photo of June Preisser who starred in "High School Hero"; Beautiful back cover color-photo Maybelline ad features Hedy Lamarr in elegang black low-cut dress; and much more. Moderate tanning to contents. Above-average but not excessive external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1923Pages 459-510. Black and white photos. Features: Tribute to Edna Dean Proctor; At the sign of the lucky dog - New Hampshire's contribution to big league baseball; the town playground; May Yohe; The next generation - playgrounds in New Hampshire - long article with wonderful photos; An anthology of one poem poets; Manchester's mayoralty primaries; Culling campaign in New Hampshire - for more profitable poultry; The story of a Kensington Warrior - Major Ezekiel Worthen (continued); Why a traveling dental clinic?; The Wo'thless feller; Log-Driving on the Connecticut - an industry of the past - article with wonderful photos; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1998108 pages. Dozens of black and white illustrations. "In 1927 a shy young man from Vancouver appeared at the Canadian Championships... At that time Canada had no visible heroes in Track and Field... Percy Alfred Williams changed all of that and this is his story." - from prologue. Average wear. Discrete evidence of sticker removal in lower corner of front cover and at bottom of half-title page, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1992141 pages including bibliography and index. "The magnificent Bigwin Inn once stood as North America's largest and most luxurious summer resort. With an unprecedented collection of historical documents, vintage photographs and vivid colour plates, this book takes you back in time to the fabulous Gatsby-like era of the resort's heyday, a golden age when sleek mahogany launches plied sparkling lake waters, glittering masquerade balls were held in the Pavillion, chamber trios played to Hollywood stars in the Tea House, and royalty lounged beside crackling fires in the Rotunda. Discover the magical secrets of this summer place. Its unforgettable story is a colourful chapter in Canadian history and an important part of our Canadian heritage." - from dust jacket. Light overall wear. Tight and square. Two short scratches to mid-fore-edge of front panel of dust jacket - please see our photo. Half-inch opening to dust jacket back panel near top of spine. Faint erasure atop maroon front free endpaper where prior owner's details removed. A quality copy of this treasured work. Book
