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1928Pages 41-80. Features: The Saddest Woman in the World - Marie of Russia - article with photos; Buried Treasure - a complete story; Photo tips of what not to do with your Gramphone; Most People Have a Double - but is sometimes means trouble - article with photos; Does Marriage Mean Going ThroughThe Mill? - a story that answers the problem; Lovers or Friends? - Woodbine Willie discusses the truth about companionship between the sexes; Wit of the Week; Open That Window! - and help yourself to health; "Stop & Look" pictures include Copenhagen church in the shape of an organ; Why George Tupper wished his wife many unhappy returns (fiction); In a Floating "Hell" - horses break loose aboard a storm-tossed ship enroute to Russia from Canada; Angel Esquire (continued); The Story of the Birmingham Municipal Bank; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1981626 pages. Glossary. "Highlights from the State of Competition in the Canadian Petroleum Industry - the government report that alleges monopoly practices by Canada's big oil companies." - from front cover. "Compiled from the more than 135,000 secret oil company documents that were seized by government investigators in raids between 1973 and 1978.... Shows that the oil companies purposely restricted competition, worked together to keep prices and profits up, and sacrificed Canadian interests when they were told to do so by their foreign parents." - from back cover. Considering that Esso sounds eerily like an acronym for the Rockefeller's Standard Oil (S.O.) readers of this work will also surely be interested in the early writings of Ida Tarbell and her revelations about the methods of that company and its founder, J.D. Rockefeller. Has anything changed? Book
196452 pages. Features: How Canada helped Communist China gain a foothold in Africa; Why New Brunswick's bid for one big maritime province never got off the ground; The Warren Report - new boost for the Kennedy memorabilia industry; Merv McKenzie and the Toronto-based campaign to unseat Cassius Clay; Roy Peterson cartoon of Bob Thompson/Real Caouette (Social Credit); Let's stop kidding ourselves about civil defense; Can Canada win the U.S. Election? - should Canada hope for a win by Goldwater or Johnson?; The Cranky conclusions of un-American Canadian Ian Sclanders; The Egg and Donald Shaver - this iron-willed Canadian peddles millions of chickens in 44 countries - fascinating photo-illustrated article; The Happiest Canadians - Newfoundlanders; Norman Philipps and his life and hard times as a Royal Baby-Sitter; Dr. Benge Atlee - the two things wrong with our schools is what they teach and how they teach it;Comeback of the Six-Day Grind - the six-day bicycle race is making a comeback in Canada (in Montreal) - great article with photos; The vanishing Sons of Freedom (Doukhobors) and the tough reporter, Simma Holt, who's finally told their story; Canadian Club ad features photos of Simon Khoury flying on kite behind boat; and more. Above-average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
193196 pages. The lovely and uncommon story "... of an Indian baby and his early childhood days. Told in in such a way as to be read by first-grade children... Readers will acquire a knowledge of Indian traditions, religion, and culture, and a better understanding of the people whom the European explorers found in North America." - from Introduction. Wonderful bright colour illustrations upon each page. Above-average wear. Former school library copy with usual markings inside but none to exterior. Although well-worn, this remains a decent copy of this delightful work. (Incidentally, this book would probably be banned from today's politically-correct schools as its external artwork includes what later became better-know as swastikas at each end of spine and in lower right corner of front board.) Book
1928Pages 201-240. Features: Tales of the Flying Squad - Crook Catching on Wheels - photo illustrated article; The Quest - another fine story of the Foreign Legion; Jealousy Between Lovers - a necessity, otherwise, a curse; The Gramophone - an appealing short story; The Struggle of the Giants - a wonderful (Football Association Challenge) cup season - article with photos; The Otter's Inn - a popular nature story; When Parliament Gasped! - great illustrated article of drama on the floor of the House; How to get your garden going; Shadowed Love - a man's love for two women; Illustrated Amami Shampoos ad; The Real Swanee - photo-illustrated article about the film 'Uncle Tim's Cabin"; The Uninvited Guest - short story; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197435 pages. Text in English and Inuit. Line Drawings. Includes: The Story of Inaloosiak and the Grizzly Bear; The Birds and Their Contest; The Man Who Became Many Things; Naraye; Anarktee; The Mouse and the Fox; Young Polar Bear; Ookpik and the Polar Bear; Medicine Song; Song of the Fox; Eratak; The Little Boy and His Grandmother; Polar Bear Family and the People; The Evil Woman. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1988120 pages. Covers feature large glossy colour photos of Fuhr in action and holding the Stanley Cup. Topics include: The Fuhr Story; The Basics of Goaltending; Game Action Photos; The Game; Scouting; and more. "Grant Fuhr is widely recognized as the world's best goalie. A winner of the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender, Fuhr is a perennial all-star who has backstopped the Edmonton Oilers to four Stanley Cup wins in five years. He holds records for most points in a season by a goalie and most games played." - from pages 7. Average wear. Unmarked. A solid copy of this great goalkeeping collectible. Book
1928Pages 441-480. Features: Science - Super Detective - why not use universities to detect crime? - article with photo of Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Commissioner Enright, late of the New York Police; Lost & Found - short story; My Trip to a Whaler off the Shetlands, where 200 whales are killed every season - with six photos; The Looker On - a love story; Bizarre photo of golfing from the head of someone doing a handstand atop a 27-storey building; The Truth About Nerves - some simple causes of a mysterious malady by a Harley Street Doctor; Nursing Big Clocks - First Aid for the timepieces which "Tell the World"; - article with Big Ben photos; How Our Weather Forecasts are Obtained; Hidden Fires - a love story; More Zoo Secrets - article with animal photos; Angel Esquire (fiction); A Railwaymen's Triumph - photo-illustrated article on the splendid orphanage of the Railway Benevolent Institution at Derby; and more. Openings along coverfold. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1928Pages 401-440. Features: The Truth About Those "Undress" Shows - where is the modern stage fashion leading us? - argues for stricter censorship over stage 'fashions' - with reproductions of scandalous photos; The Man Who Hadn't a Chance (story); What Did Christ Mean? - who are the meek and how can they inherit the earth?; Mother Love - an appealing little story; How the Cup is Won - secrets of the great vitory final by the Captain of Cardiff's winning team last season - article with photo; A Stranger in the Wild - a January nature story; Making the "Stars" Twinkle - some facts about filmland's unseen army, the people who do the behind-the-scenes work - article with photos, including "Our Gang" kids and an aerial photo of the MGM lot; Photo of 'land yacht' (early RV); Photo of world champion unicyclist Walter Nilsson riding on top of the Cheops pyramid; Adventure - a short story; Wit of the Week; Fishing With a Kite! - Photo-illustrated article about queer ways of catching the ocean's finny monsters, including photo of Rex Ingram with a huge fish he caught off Florida; Angel Esquire (continued); The World's Largest Building Society - The Halifax Building Society - started in a coffee house and now has capital of 40 million pounds. Openings along coverfold. Clean six-inch opening to central portion of front cover and following several pages, apparently by an errant knife cut. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1928Pages 281-320. Features: Bad Luck or Fate? - photo-illustrated article about the ill-fated east-to-west Atlantic flight of Hon. Elsie Mackay and Captain Hinchliffe - with photos of female flyers ; Lady Carbery, Ruth Elder, Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim and Mrs. Grayson; The Dead Hand - a Foreign Legion story; London's Lonely Girls - photo illustrated article by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin explains how they are saved from being 'stranded'; Singing 210 "Hits" a Week - Photo illustrated article on entertainers Layton Turner and Clarence Johnstone (Layton and Johnstone); Shop'uns - a tale of eggs at Easter; Banning Our Beauty Spots - photo-illustrated article on how people are being denied access to the sea, seashore and cliffs; The Rolling Penny - a case of X. Crook, Detective; Getting the World's Goat - an article about how to get on people's nerves; Shadowed Love (continued); and more. Staples disintegrated. Writing on covers. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
192840 pages. Features: The Cost of Living Mystery - Why the index figure today is unfair Perilous Island - a story of the eternal triangle in the tropics; Keeping the Zoo Fit - the latest medical aids for aiding birds and beasts; Under Cover - a new adventure of Detective X. Crook; "Stop and Look" Interesting pictures, including a 'mobile home' carved from a huge tree trunk; Spook Ships of Britain - ghostly vessels that haunt our shores; British Boys in Slavery! - no greater scandal exists today than the practice of sending British orphan boys and 'first offenders' to Canada and Ireland to be 'apprenticed to farm work, for which they are wretchedly paid and poorly looked after; Love is Blind; Air Wonders of Today - article with great photos; Angel Esquire (fiction); All About Old Age Pensions; Unmarked. Coverfold half open. Several middle pages loose but present. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1988185 pages. A history in photographs and documents of the first century of one of Canada's oldest and most distinguished independent schools. Traces the story of Ridley's evolution, from its early days in a former spa in St. Catherines, Ontario, to its present status as a leading co-educational institution, whose academic and athletic achievements are known around the world. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Slight warp to book. Very nice copy. Book
1978170 pages including index. A study of the development and use of money in Wales from its early origins - through the cattle drovers and the first private banks. Discusses counterfeiting, tokens, private notes, the truck system, and more. Black and white illustrations. Bookplate inside front board else clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to book. Light wear to dust jacket. Lovely copy. Book
1928Pages 241-280. Features: 2L0 Today - article with photos - a tour of the studios, how programmes are arranged, wonders of the control room; Belzebuth - a fine story of the Foreign Legion in Algeria; Variety Star of Today - Will Fyffe - photo-illustrated article; Rich Little Poor Girl (short story); What Will Petticoat Government Mean? - Will Britain be any better whan all women have votes? - article with photo of arrested Suffragette; Lucky Little 'Uns of the Turf - photo-illustrated article on how horse jockeys are made; Shadowed Love (continued); Interesting article on soap - with great photo of acres of soap at Port Sunlight; Ghost Towns of Western USA - great photo-illustrated article of the ghost town of Rhyolte; In the Spring (fiction); Infamies of the Third Degree - the official 'torture system' which disgraces civilization; and more. Staples disintegrated. Bit of writing on back cover. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1959Features: History of License Plates - Part II; The 1902 Hansen Car; 1907 the Hansen-Whitman Car; The Auburn - Cord - Duesenberg Club Story; Your Roving Reporter; Canada's First Automobile Inventor Found - George Foote Moss in Sherbrooke, Quebec; 1909 Sterling restored; Our White Steamer Man in South Africa 50 Years ago - V.A. Root; Photos of White Steamers; 1908 Sharp Arrow Racer - photos; The Case of the Disappearing Pierce-Arrows - photos/article about their alternate uses on rail in Colorado; Nice color ad for Antique Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1984Features include: Deep Thoughts; True Section; Nick Palomar, D.D.S., in The Case of the Star's Choppers; Bestsellers Illustrated - In Search of Excellence; The New Order; The Mystery of the Ghostwriter; Sunbelt Gags Fall 1984 Catalog; A Story of New York, or Where Does David Letterman get his Guests?; A Semester at Barker Prep.; TF - The Bean Report; Miss Poland; NatLamp Contest #36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1983Features: Sixguns on the Diamond - a story of athletics as played on the frontier; Murder at Escondido; The Strangulation of Damian Romero - it was Sheriff Mason Bowman's first hanging and he wanted everything to go right... of course it didn't; Photographer with Custer - William H. Illingworth; Samuel Kyburz - the forgotten man who helped Sutter settle California; Cowboy Mutiny - the Nefsey Brothers; Bad Blood - The True Story of Harry Tracey - the first complete account of the Notorious Pacific Northwest Outlaw - long article with many photos; Erastus 'Deaf' Smith - he gave one momentous year to the Texas Revolution; Horse and Buggy Doctor - Dr. C. Dana Carter Served the Wilds of Wyoming; Old West Cookery - Foods of Early California, with recipes; Alf Bolin's Reign of Terror. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1975Features: A series of photos from San Francisco Bay; S.O.R.C.; A Memoire from Maine - sailing story and pictures by Mary J. Finke; Young Salts; 26-foot Sloop designed by Allton Dunsford to further the art of gunkholing - CAROLINA; No-Nonsense Rogger from Holland is capable 50-50 motorsailer; Surprise! - a Richard Carlson motorsailer that sails well to weather; Modified Ericson shows impressive comfort gains - the 39-B; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: Florida sailor designs 19-foot coastwise, gaff-rigged cruiser - the Salt 19; Seidelmann designed Palmer 550 enrolls in Quarter Ton Fleet; Traditional cruising design finds speed, responsiveness with new rig - the enlarged version of the SERAFFYN; Aesthetics and comfort remembered in the Norlin 37 Mark II; Great gaffed mains, barn door rudders and plump hulls; Sailing for winter sports enthusiasts; in search of Spain - pictures and story by Dorothy I. Crossley; A ton of heavy racing; One by One - one last old Conway schooner survives to carry a fragment of the sail driven 19th century toward the last quarter of the 20th; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Please note: middle page loose but present. Book
1917Features: Ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres; 2 page illustration of a steamer's Smoke-Box Defence against a U-boat; "Standard Ships" - 4 photos; The Menin Road Battle - 3 photos; nice 2-page photo of a YMCA catering hut in action with German shell range; The Canadian Artillery Regiment - one page story with 2 photos; Laying a rail line during the battle for Lens; Menin Road battle - many photos; Destruction in Ypres; Great 2-page photo with caption "During a Bombardment on the Flanders front - Artillerymen (wearing gas masks) with a heavy Gun in Action". Staples disintegrating. Average wear. Book
1917Features: On the British front in Flanders; The Italian advance on the Julian front; On the Belgian front along the Yser; German Prisoners' Parcels - at an internment camp; 2-page photo of some of Russia's 37,000 prisoners in Galicia; The Guards Regiment (one page story with 2 photos); German prisoners at work in England (4 photos); The August 'Gotha' day-time raid on the Kent coast; Centerfold photo of the Italian pontoon bridge across the Isonzo on the Julian front; 2-page photo of wounded British prisoners returning to London from Switzerland; The training of British naval cadets (4 photos); A funeral with naval honours in Tokyo (Tokio); Indian soldiers where the Prussian Guard was beaten; 2 photos of the Messenger-pigeon service; Great 2-page photo of a captured German Gun-Emplacement at Lens. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
1918Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
1944Stories: Grizzly Gold; The Jewelled Buddha; Burly's Plug; Eyes of the R.A.F.; Chinese Valley; Broken Journey; The Prime Minister's Story; Fifty Days; All Square at Batura; The Affair at Nilakere; Crossing the Busu; The Return of a Celebrity. Average wear. Book
197147 pages. Contents: Cover photo of Gaylord Carter, artist of the Seattle Paramount 4/20 Wurlitzer; Chicago's Senate Theatre 3/19 Kimball consumed by fire - article with photos; Theatre Organ - Texas Style - the Robert Morton Series 210 of the Jefferson Theatre in Beaumont, Texas has been played by Al Sacker for the past 22 years; Presenting Mrs. Melody - The Story of Irma Glen - article with photos; Billy Nalle Thrills AGO at Kline 4/28 Wurlitzer; Musical accompaniment for Motion Pictures, by Edith Lang and George West; Detroit Organist F. Donald Miller - reprint of a 1927 article; The Saga of the Wiltern Orgoblo - the mammoth 4/37 Kimball; The Humorous sidelights of the world of theatre organ as seen through the eyes of Dinny Timmins (Del Castillo); High School Organ Speaks Again - The 2/13 Rosary Hour Organ at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York; Ken Ensele and his adventures to save a Wurlitzer Opus 1334, Style F - article with photos; Ray Brubacker - Man of Many Talents; Chapter news. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
197764 pages. Features: Jimmy Carter's Report Card; Rosalynn - Jimmy Carter's closest emissary; Color-photo ad for the Chrysler LeBaron; Robert McCarney - king of the referendum in North Dakota; Anita Bryant and gay rights showdown in Miami; Ian Smith's dangerous new gamble in Rhodesia; Decade of occupation in the West Bank - article with color photos; Spanish campaign between Suarez and Gonzalez; Japanese venerate their WWII war dead; The the best and brightest of the class of '77 see ahead for themselves - with photos of Judy King, David Bryan, Catherine Burke, Ron Ridgeway, Cady Perkins, and more; New Cardinal Giovanni Benelli; Bill Moyers and Fidel Castro; Environment - Prescription for World Survival; Employment - court strikes blow for seniority; Illegal TV set rebates; Cracking down on the payoffs for amateur athletes; Diagnosing Lyme's Malady; Sumptuous Robes from Japan; Passing of Paul Desmond, Goddard Lieberson, Ben Grauer, Roberto Rossellini and Bruce Bliven; The Hot New Rich - cover story article with color photos of Famous Amos, Peter Frampton, Marc Howard, Alan Silverstone, Steve Cauthen, Joe Morgan, Colleen McCullough, Robin Cook, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Furth, and Rick Byers; Nice one-page photo-illustrated article on ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) - with the photo showing their entire crew assembled at Cobo Hall; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine