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1991506 pages including notes and index. The story of the Canadian men and women who, during the period from 1865 to 1924, struggled against the corruption of political patronage, abysmal working conditions and poverty-level salaries in the federal civil service. This is an account of the history of some of the organizations formed to overcome these adverse conditions, and the story of the dedicated men and women who guided them, often at great personal risk. Documents their few victories and many defeats, and the significant impact that their dogged perseverance has had on the Canadian federal service of today. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy of this exhaustive work. Book
1975206 pages including index. An operational and geographical study of the Canadian National and its equipment from its formation in 1919 through 1975. Told with knowledgeable text and over 400 fine black and white photos, maps and equipment rosters, enough to thrill and delight the hearts of al railroaders and railroad fans. Light wear to clean unmarked book. Dust jacket is price-clipped, moderately worn and bears several small tears each under one quarter inch in length. Very nice copy. Book
1959106 pages. Short Stories: Love Isn't Logical; The Flying Jeep; Escape Artist; The Man Who Invented a Girl. Articles: I Can't Stop Singing - Mahalia Jackson - nice photo-illustrated article; If an Attack Comes - the SAGE electronic warning system; We Dived for the Mystery Treasure - penetrating an unidentified ship off the Yucatan; The Jerry Giesler Story - Part 4 - The Lana Turner Case; Comeback of a Shabby City - Philadelphia - article with many great color photos; Adventures of the Mind #41 - The Final Answer. Serials: Violence on the Plains (part 3 of 8); Too Many Ghosts (part 6 of 7). Ads: Old Spice (inside front cover); Fisher Body ad features beautiful black Buick Electra 225 4-door Riviera sedan; GE Washer and Dryer; Chanel No. 5; Stanley Tools; Hammond Organs; American Tourister luggage; Tyrex; Black and Decker tooks; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Pizza; Campbell's Soup - Tomato Rice and Cream of Vegetable; Anacin; Pontiac Bonneville Convertible for 1960; Renault Dauphine; Argus photo equipment; GE TVs; Kodak projectors; Toastmaster appliances; Singer Sewing Machines; Motorola TVs; Bulova; Arvin sound products; Coffeematic coffee makers; Morris cars; Kaywoodie pipes; Hoover cleaning products; Camel cigarettes (back cover ski scene). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1934Please note that the first and last pages (1-2 and 91-92) are missing. 88 pages remain. Features: Charming cover illustration of two young boys wearing towels; Russia Today - What Can We Learn From It?; P&G one-page colour ad for Naptha Soap features inset photo of Mrs. H.F. Edens; Two Beauties and a Bandit (short story); Sequel (short story); Why the Prince of Wales is "Air Minded" - photo-illustrated article explains how H.R.H. has solved the problem of his public engagements via aviation; Trail's End (short story); After I Was Killed (short story); The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); "Frock Spotting" in Society Crowds - interesting photo-illustrated article; I'm Crazy Over English; Nice Pond's ad features photo of lovely Miss Anne Gould; One page ad for the 1934 Pontiac Straight - 8; Page of photos of Hollywood stars; One-page Lux soap ad features photo of Loretta Young; Wonderful two-page photo ad for the 1934 New Plymouth Six features family and car in front of stately home; One-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera - in 1934!; Movie reviews; Two-page photo-ad for Dodge cars features car flying over cliff and 'Bonnie and Clyde' types standing near car; Radioland - news and photos of radio stars of the day; The Invisible Science - wonderful 16-page illustrated C-I-L feature devoted to chemistry; Illustrated fashion article; Oldsmobile ad inside back cover features a 1934 Six; Ceylong Tea Bureau colour ad on back cover features reproduction of painting 'The Ice Breaker at Levis' by Robert Pilot; and more. Small to medium-sized clippings from pages 28, 47, 63, 65, 68, 76, 79, 85, 88, and 89; Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy despite its numerous defects. Book
1939Pages 235-361. Features: The Commemoration of Antietam and Gettysburg; City Directories Tell the Story of South Bend; Joseph Cannon and John Sharp Williams; The Bethel Church of Daviess County; A Hoosier General Store in 1847; Nemspaper Work at the Turn of the Century; Indiana Historical Society; History Teachers' Forum - The Length of the Tether; Documents - Seeking A Federal Judgeship Under Jackson (Holman Correspondence); A Circuit of the South in the Summer of 1924; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
1957Features: What Should Be Done About Predator Control? - editorial; Muzzle Loaders Boom on Special Range of the Canadian Muzzle Loading Club near Bothwell, Ontario - article with photos; Largemouth Bass - No Poor Relation!; Old John Picks a Tree - Old John Broadhurst's Bear Story, as related by Chipman H. Smith of Bedford, N.S.; The Muskey, The Doodler and Me; Tale of an American 'hunter' in Alberta; Let's Stop Getting Stuck; What's on the Hunting Dog Market?; Spinning has limitations; New and Outstanding Russian Hand Gun - the Russian Rapid Fire automatic pistol; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1986324 pages including index and numerous interesting black and white photographic plates. Inscribed to "Number 32 Deepsea" by Author upon half-title page which bears many additional signatures including those of: David Forsyth, Bob MacLaurier, A.J. (Jack) Douglas, Bob Kennedy, Tom McGrath, A. McKeown, Gerry McCullough, Bill Wilson, and Lloyd Robinson. McCullough is mentioned in the book as a Lake seaman who went deepsea during the war and was, at time of publication, a full-time organizer for the International Transport Workers Federation and responsible for tracking down ships violating basic conditions and bringing them into line. His predecessor was Tom McGrath. Shotguns, Mounties, American gangsters, the courts and government - all were used by the shipowners to destroy the Canadian Seaman's Union. What was this union that provoked such an unprecedented attack? Combining rigorous research with the stirring recollections of the people who lived the events, Jim Green weaves a gripping story from the union's birth on the Great Lakes in the mid-1930s through the 1949 world-wide strike to save the Canadian merchant fleet. Some creasing to covers. Average wear overall to this special copy. Book
1912160 pages. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos and detailed diagrams. Marvelously informative and interesting. An exceptional learning tool. Chapters include: Fruits and Seeds, Leaf Casting, The Growth of Seeds, Winter Buds and Tree Forms, Tree Planting and Tree Felling, Evergreens, How a Tree Lives, The Root, The Trunk, Catkins, Thorny and Climbing Plants, Leaf Buds, The Leaf, The Flower. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1974114 pages. Profusely illustrated, frequently in color. Features: Chipperfield's Circus; Dr. John Dee - 16th century astrologer, alchemist, cryptographer and navigator; New sculptures for Exeter Cathedral; Underground (short story); London's Livery companies; The Hidden Language of Art; Christmas Bazaar 1913; A Return to King Solomon's Mines; A History of Jousting and its modern devotees; Skiing at St. Moritz; Beatrix Potter's Magic World; Illustrating the 18th Century; Ship's Figureheads; American Pieced Quilts; The Legend of Clicquot; Cheese - A Taste for All Times; Lost Palaces; Piaget watch ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1947310 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Black and white photographs. "Presents more personal impressions of the hardships and difficulties that the early setlers contended with." - from dust jacket. Somewhat above-average wear to unmarked book which lacks front free endpaper. Binding intact. Numerous defects to dust jacket which is now preserved in clear protective sleeve. Book
1988351 pages including notes, bibliography, index, and black and white photographic plates. The dramatic story of the rum-runners of the Great Lakes. By turns hilarious and tragic, the book details the careers of those fishermen, farmers, plumbers, and stunt pilots, whose daring brought booze across the lakes to a grateful America - for a price. Average wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
194132 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Wonderful full-page photo of shell leaving the muzzle of a 12" rail-mounted Howitzer 'somewhere in England'; Enemy activities in pictures - crashed German bomber in Portugal, Field-Marshal von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German armed forces inspects a massive rail-mounted gun, German troops prepare for a British invasion by attempting to haul a small gun up a steep bank; Photo-illustrated text of a broadcast by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. entitled "The Position in the Balkans"; Map of Bulgariaentitled "Nazi Threat to Greek and Turkish Frontiers; Photos of Bulgaria; New U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant is welcomed by the King; Belgian troops training in England; Illustration by S. Drigin recounts the amazing story of how a wing-damaged Sunderland was taxied home for five hours after a bombing run to Norway - crewmembers took turns holding onto the end of the opposite wing to compensate for the damage in the intense cold; Interesting scenes in the Western Desert; Great photo of British artillery pounding the Italians out of Derna, another one of their Libyan strongholds, plus the infantry moving into Derna; Photos of the occupation of Bengazi; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows a successful engagement near Keren in Eritrea; Italian POWs in their camp; British POWs of the Italians in Addis Adaba; Aerial photo taken during R.A.F. attack on Massawa; Aerial photo of Italian S.79s burning near Kismayu; Aerial photo lf S.79 Italian bombers burning in Gobwen aerodrome, near Kismayu; Arctic War in Albania - photo of Greek troops using light tanks abandoned by the Italians; Photo of Italian colonel and his A.D.C. captured in Albania; Various winter photos of Greek troops in Albania; Photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Middle East Air Commodore R.B. Goddard entitled "Strategy of the Air"; Photo of Wellington bomber gunners putting on their 'hot suits' - electrically heated clothing, boots and gloves; Photo of dozens of Australian radio mechanics arriving in England; Photos of men of the Suffolk Regiment preparing for the second round; Photos of coastal watch in Northern Ireland; Commentary on the war this week; Photos aboard the Polish destroyer Piorun, including a fantasting full-page shot of a torpedo in mid air as it is shot from the deck of the vessel; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
199340 pages. Features: Initial Camber - Stabilizing Wood for Relief Woodcarving; New Works in Wood by Bayot Heer, Gerald Johnston, Tom McKenzie and Doug Haslam; Gothic Tracery; Dovetail Jig; Screws; Macrojoinery in the Maritimes; Making a Wooden Hand Plane the Fast Way; Armando's Story - Armando de Gobbo (misspelled as de Gobo) of Kingston, Ontario is a blind woodworker; Indexes to Woodworking Magazines and Newspapers; The Carvers' Quilt; Great photo of Farm Mechanics Students at the Prov. School of Technology and Art, Calgary, Jan. 25, 1926; Woodworking Incunabula; XceL multiple head wrenches, Nod and Shake goggles, and the Lunkenheimer "Universal" Glass Body Oil Pump are featured on back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A lovely copy of this fine Canadian woodworking publication. Book
199324 pages. It's time for the Addams family annual joust! When ten kooky sounds are added to an already zany story, the Addams family's traditional competition comes alive. Read the story and press the matching SoundPictures to hear Fester's maniacal laugh, the chomp-chomp of Morticia's man-eating plants, or the boinging of lances as the entire family goes on the jousting. Prior owner's name inside front cover else unmarked and only moderately worn. Some bumping to corners. All 10 sound effects working loud and clear at time of listing but we offer this book ``As Is since the batteries may have expired by the time you order. :-) Book
1947115 pages. Index. Bibliography. Presents "the failures and minor triumphs of the Canadian penal reformists.... It behooves us... to ask ourselves why the Canadian story of penalogy is as it is - and why in this year A.D. 1946 a John Kidman is required to advocate measures and reforms so transparently necessary." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket nicely preserved in Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
1975228 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Michael Vincent McGuire; Elsie MacCleave; The Finlaisons of Shuswap Falls; From Hope to Kootenay; The Dick Parkinson Story - Part 2; Goodbye Siwash Bay - Hello Sun-Oka Beach; History of Alex Alpine; Engwald (Minnie) Engen; Mr. & Mrs. J.B. MacNaughton; Christopher Tickell; The Monk Brothers of Grindrod; Pioneering in Okanagan; Okanagan Brigade Trail; Hullcar & Deep Creek Community Hall; Chesterfield School in Kelowna; The Inkameep Archaeology Project, 1973 and 1974; John Wilson - Master Carver; Mr. Willis F. Cook; The Greata Ranch; The Haug Family; Walter John Oliver and Lydia Louise Drake Oliver; Dr. & Mrs. Donald M. Black; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1994All sound effects working loud and clear. The only exception is the top "Yakko" button which works most times but occasionally not. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. A lovely copy. Book
1980305 pages including index. Although this is the story of one county in Ontario, it covers facets universal in Canadian growth: road-building, land-clearing, the development of health and educational services, and the progress and dreams of the people themselves. The story, from Indian times to the present atomic age, is told in more than 500 black and white photographs and illustrations. Moderate wear to book which has moderate twist to its orange cloth spine. Dust jacket, bearing a wonderful large photo of a mechanical railroad shovel, is well-worn but remains functional. Book
196720 pages. Features: The Day the H-Bombs Fell on Spain - the frightening inside story of history's biggest and most fateful bomb-hunt; Canada Will Break with the Crown by 1980 and Become a Republic; Inside the New Russia - article with photos; Educational TV - Does it Work?; Uncommone one-page colour-photo Canada Dry ad features photo of Canada Dry Table Water on gold-trimmed red pillow specially prepared "in honour of Royal and State Visitors to Canada" since 1939; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1980Pages 82-103. Undated. Circa 1980? Features: Chronology 1933 - part 14 - many photos; Captain Loudon Pierce Watkins, MC - Zeppelin Fighter; Normandy Summer; Book Reviews; Clunks to the Congo - The Story of Operation Simba; Airman's Album 15. Average wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing on page 101. A sound copy. Book
1997326 pages including index and black and white photos. The personal story of Theoren Fleury. Follows him through an entire hockey season while he was with the Calgary Flames. More than a sports biography, this is an engaging and insightful look at hockey as a child's game, an adult's profession, big business, mass entertainment, family pastime, and the greatest spectator sport yet invented. "...a fascinating glimpse of human nature on the rampage." - Peter C. Newman. Published before Fleury's problems in New York and Chicago. Includes 16 pages of black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Faint signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
1993Editor's inscription atop half-title page states this is copy#2. Includes note from Editor to his daughter laid in. 78 pages. Black and white illustrations. Mallett was shot down over Belgium on May 26th, 1944. Thanks to the well-organised Belgian Maquis and their support by Allied Intelligence, he and his bomb-aimer managed to avoid capture and after many adventures eventually returned to Canada." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
198398 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Reproductions of many archival black and white photos. Printed on glossy stock. "...Documents triumphs and failures of people, and the glory and gloom of places, it crystallizes names such as Betts Cove, La Manche, Terra Nova and Sleepy Cove, and it recreates the towns that are no more. It is about time and history, showing the intimate relations between Newfoundland mining and world events, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Second World War." - from Introduction. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
1998121 pages including index. Twenty years ago, Granville Island was transformed from a decrepit 37 acre industrial slum in Vancouver's False Creek to possibly the most successful urban redevelopment ever seen in North America. Rusty tin-sided factories were reborn as a public market, an art school, shops, restaurants, theatres, and a great deal more. Today, Granville Island boasts more than eight million visits a year, 2,600 jobs and the highest sales per square foot of any public market on this continent. A chronicle of the Granville Island story which celebrates what the Island has to offer, and peers inside its seldom-seen inner life. An attractive, interesting and enjoyable volume. Colour photography throughout. Book in fine unmarked condition but for gift inscription upon top half of front free endpaper which has been whited out. Book
1977174 pages including black and white photographic plates. In Spence Bay, in the far north of Canada, Judy Hill, a young nurse from Kingsbridge, Devon, decided to devote her life to caring for a community of Eskimos. In reading her story we learn of a hard cruel world where even 'survival' was still a luxury and of the courage necessary for the nurses to look after these still relatively primitive people in very isolated places. Here tragic death in a plane crash in 1972 drew attention to the vitally needed improvements in communications and facilities for these dedicated nurses. The facts of her death, and the controversy that surrounded Hartwell's action when he decided to use her body for nourishment, drew the world's attention to the risks these nurses took everyday in the wastes of the Arctic. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked but for prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Dust jacket shows average wear, is price-clipped and missing one inch chunk at bottom edge of back panel. Solid copy. Book