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1971210 pages. Features: Color photo ad for Lincoln Continental cars; Bulova ad featuring explorer and navigator David Humphreys; Courting Disaster (or, Serious in the Fifties), by Philip Roth; The Sociology of Dumb - one evening too many with TV talk show hosts Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Dick Cavett; Up, Uppity and Away - Julian Bond; Earth Art in the desert - with great aerial photos; The Aged are on the March; The Politics of the Costume - fantastic photos of various great outfits; Mercury is Heavier Than You Think - Locations of mercury pollution in the U.S.; A Death on the East Side, by Herbert Gold; Do People Snigger when you order Wine? - a short course to transform you from novice to semi-connoisseur; On Watching Parsifal with Molly - a personal essay by Otto Friedrich; Great Spring '72 Fashion photo section; Dewar's Whisky profile of Charles De Rose; Great back cover color ad for the Dodge Charger Topper - a custom-equipped economy Charger model. Many other great vintage ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
197555 pages. Undated. Circa 1970s. Features: Colour centerfold featuring Niki Valentine; Ghana Airways ad inside front cover; Colour FIAT ad; Exclusive report on Uganda's General Idi Amin entitled "How I Transformed Uganda into a Black Man's Country", with photos; Idi Amin's views on love and marriage, and love without marriage; Nigeria's Popular Civilian Crusades Against Disease and Filth - Alhaji Aminu Kano; Kenya Rocked by Wild Rumours Following Death of Minister Ronald Gideon Ngala - several photos and article; Centerfold photos and article on Niki Valentine - the Topless Teacher from Nigeria; Colour Vespa ad; When a man becomes his own wife! - Professor and Lady Peller - many photos and article; 'Alone in the World' - fiction by Harmattan Nwabueze; New African-made car that won't get stuck in traffic jams - Professor Awodele Awojobi is the brains behind a car with steering wheels at each end!; Pretty African girl, Maria Prabhu of Nairobi, invades all male religious sect - Hare Krishna Temple - article and photos; Colour ad for Star beer on back cover. Prior owner's name and minor ink scribble upon front cover. No other markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this rare and information-packed issue. Magazine
1956Features: What will Robert Fowler say about TV? - a report on the head of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting and what he's likely to suggest; Karsh visits Hollywood; How Harry Orchard murdered twenty men - a Maclean's flashback in two parts; Why we're getting more disastrous hurricanes; The secret war of Charles Goodeve (conclusion - The weapons of tomorrow) - the Panjandrum, the Alligator, and Lily the floating airport... these revolutionary inventions created under the guidance of a little-known Canadian have yet to be tested in combat; The life and death mystery of our liver; Frank Merrill's winning way with horses; She didn't care what people thought - fiction by Ronald R. Smith; Does more money than brains go to collete? - Dr. Sidney Smith; Ross Thatcher's glum conversion; My most memorable meal - Maj.-Gen. J.M. Rockingham. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chunk missing from front cover which bears two closed tears ***PLEASE NOTE*** pages 15-20 are missing. They contained the Karsh story plus the first page of the Harry Orchard story. Two-page Chysler ad for PowerFlite pushbutton automatic transmission (missing 3"x 2" chunk from upper left corner. Cartoon clipped from page 82 has removed part of the Harry Orchard story. Magazine
196376 pages. Features: Short article on the Freedomites and the death of hunger striker Paul Podmorrow in B.C. - includes small sketch of Big Fanny Storgoff; Editorial - What English Canada - and Jean Lesage - can learn from Maclean's survey of separatism; Nice fulll-page colour ad for the 1964 Acadian; Major article on Separatism by Peter Gzowski - includes many results of related public opinion polls; How Gwethalyn Graham and Solange Chaput Rolland feel about separatism; Malcolm Muggeridge describes the cult of Lord Beaverbrook; Blair Fraser reports from Africa that "The Blacks' New Enemies Are Black"; The Football Game The Fans Don't See - 1962 all-star John McMurtry describes the sixty-minute war of attrition that is the professional football player's real work; Wabush, Labrador - Bustling Construction camp - article with photos; A Moliere Play About Canada - see it on TV - in French; Why Gean Gascon is our first man of the Theatre; Lovely colour centerfold ad for the 1964 Buicks; Nice colour photo ad for Peter Jackson cigarettes; Entertainment Reviews; Laid-in is a news clipping from 19 December 1963 which includes a very graphic photo of Sgt.-Maj. Walter Leja seconds after he was maimed while attempting to disarm an FLQ bomb in a Montreal mailbox. Considerable writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: Cover photo of the Queen inspecting her guards; The Outstanding Canadians of 1964 - Father Gregory Baum, Jean Beliveau, Paul Hellyer, Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise; The people of Lambeth Ontario protest against the cutting of their trees; What Canada does to the English (and vice versa); How Allan Baker made a million from your 50-cent lunch - the rise of his Versafoods Services Ltd.; The strange revival of our best bad poet - James McIntyre; The lingering cost of disaster - the crash of Air Canada flight 831 on 29 November, 1963; The death and rebirth of the Martyr's Capital - rebuilding Ste. Marie into a top attraction for a whole new breed of sophisticated tourists; What's British Television Got? Canadians, all over the place - Sydney Newman, Elaine Grand, Ted Kotcheff, Alvin Rakoff, Bernard Braden; Minorities who want anti-hate laws are a threat to everybody's freedom, by lawyer Glen How. Above-average wear. Book
1966Features: The seal hunt - a bloody smear on our image overseas; Water Crisis Coming, by Blair Fraser; This Hour Has Seven Days - the show that survives by success alone - but to the CBC brass it's a pain in the network - many photos; School without Textbooks - Toronto's Main Street adapts immigrant students to Canada; How to get where the girls are, by Fred Bodsworth; The Black Death at Drumheller, by Gertrude Charters; ad for Air Canada's new DC-9 jet; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; ad for Pat Patterson - hostess of Trans-Canada Matinee; Former Toronto Maple Leaf Busher Jackson's misfortune since he quit hockey; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
195080 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1945Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1955160 pages. Features: John Falter cover illustration; Nice color photo ad for the 1956 Mercury autos; Fantastic 2-page color ad for the 1956 Buick; Colour photo ad for RCA Victor televisions; Aurthur Godfrey - This is my Story - part 1 of 8 - lots of great photos; That Susceptible Age, by Robert Terrall; Bangkok - article and great color photos; Madman's Chain, by Gilbert Wright; Coach on the Spot - Bowden Wyatt is lured to Tennessee from Arkansas; We Licked the Veteran Problem - military veterans are concerned their pensions may be cut; The Mayor and Miss Casey, by Nord Riley; Those Half-Pint A-Bombers - jet pilots are proving it doesn't take a big, fat plane to delivery the Sunday Punch; One Night Together, by Jean Bell Mosley; Big Back Yard - large colour photo of goat ranchers in Texas; So You're Selling Your House! - how an exhuasted houseowner spent 78 frustrating days and sleepless nights disposing of his middleaged bungalow; Death in the Wind, by Edwin Lanham; Big Power Plant in the Sky - the possibilities of tapping solar energy; Adventures of Slippery Leo - Leo Irby - Escapologist; He was part of this land - Mitchell Stuart of W-Hollow, Kentucky, by his son, Jesse Stuart; Sensational 3-page color ad for Cadillac for 1956; The Golden Journey, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Nice color photo 2-page ad for 1956 Plymouth, with all new push-button driving; Two-page ad for Ford Trucks; Lovely 2-page colour photo ad for Philco televisions - with remote control!; Nice 1-page color ad for Sealtest ice cream; 2-page color '56 Pontiac ad; Crosley Custom V television ad; Color ad for Zenith televisions; Color ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Italian-style Ravioli; Nice color 1-page ad for Karo waffle syrup; Color Betty Crocker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: We're Cheating our Children - Betsy Fancher argues that a parent-sponsored junior rat race has warped the meaning of childhood; Nice four-page colour-illustrated advert. for Chevrolet cars (all white); Patients for Profit - high-powered promotion, limited services and pursuit of the fast bucks are bringing many proprietary hospitals under attack; He Takes the Starch out of Protocol - Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke has pioneered dramatic changes on the Washington scene; The Kind of Gal I Am (Part 1 of 3) - Rosalind Russell - many nice colour photos; The Party Chairmen - Bill Miller and John Bailey; Handsome colour ad for the 1963 Chrysler New Yorker; 6 nice pages of color ads for Ford cars; The Durable Huguenots - persecuted for centuries, the Protestant minority today is a cultured, successful and proud elite in Catholic France; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (conclusion) by Vincent Riccio - the death of Tommy Hanlon; Masters of Second Place - the San Francisco 49ers; Another Western - Who Needs it? - The Virginian is converted into a 90-minute TV Series. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1952Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1958Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
196039 pages. Features: Adolph Eichmann - his life's work was death; "I'm really too young for mink" - Sandra Dee at 18 (colour photos); Magic Power that is Battling Hunger - MPF - Multi-purpose food is made of wastes which were once thought suitable only for fertilizer and animal feed; Noda, Japan - where everyone loves herons; Colour photos of flowers in the Rockies; Booing fans and the stars they heckle (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Ab McDonald); The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
197528 pages. Features: The Irony of a Free-Enterprise Nation with a No-Choice School System (Part 2 of 3); Nice two-page colour photo ad for Benson & Hedges cigarettes features four people on one bike; Crying Wolf - For the Record, by Gregory Clark; Excellent full-page colour photo ad for Ski-Doo snowmobiles; Enigmatic Shadow - Quebec Federalist Gerard Pelletier; Death in the Arctic - Dorothy McDonald accepts a one-year nursing assignment at Lake Harbour on Baffin Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1932Features: Sanity, Prohibition, and the federal deficit; A gasser blows in - heroic measures necessary to combat flames in oil fields; Where diamonds earn their keep - interesting life of a diamond in an industrial plant - whence it comes, how it is used, and how it ends; Editorials - radium waters - Philippine Independence - Frightfulness in warfare; A Nerve center of communication - how your radio or cable message is speeded through; Eclipses and the Sund's atmosphere - solution of an outstanding solar problem; Flying as fast as sound - considerations of what the future may hold for aviation - some physiological and mechanical aspects of the question; An early Christian cemetary - the Libyan desert gives up further secrets of antiquity; Viscount Grey and Lord Haldane - conclusion of a study of two famous World War personalities; Power from pipe lines to wires - natural gas used as fuel in steam electric plant; Watching the creation of the stars - more concerning the evolution of the galaxies; Unusual fishes - they build nests, walk on land, live in dried mud, and breathe air; Forty-noners starved in the midst of plenty - survey of plants and animals in Death Valley shows that pioneers could have survived the trials of the desert; Modern alchemy - photographing the birth of an atom; What next in elevator technology?; Inter-glacial man in England - human remains and artifacts tell an interesting story of pre-glacial migrations to and from England. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1929Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
1931Features: Africa's first national park; Editorials - building for parity a false alarm - whose fault is it?; Power development on the Columbia River - the first power project on one of the most famous of North American streams; United States plant patent number 1 - only time will show the value of plant patents, the first of which has just been released; The hottest place in the universe - what keeps the stars shining?; Henry Ford, the Practical - the automobile manufacturer knows how to do things , and how to get them done; Are there creatures like ourselves in other worlds?; The birth, life, and death of a railroad ticket; Mercury vapor power to the fore - two new and larger units have been ordered; Australia's great meteorite; Paper's thinnest web - making tissue paper; Where not to look for oil and gas; Electrical aids to blind flying; Etruscan safety pin; Excavating Rome's seaport; A modernized university library - Sterling Memorial Library at Yale; Why question the reasoning of animals? - authentic stories seem to indicate their reasoning power. Page 293 is a full page tribute, with black and white photo, to thirty-year old Linus Pauling, hailed as "a rising star who may yet win the Nobel Prize." Light erasure mark at top corner of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1978Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1972Total of 178 pages, half English/half German. Black and white sketches. Author was born in 1909 in the Ukraine and imprisoned by the Russians in 1946. She survived years of confinement, made her way to Canada, and was encouraged to document her story in this book. Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. An important historical record. Book
1994128 pages. Guitar Tab for these songs: Flying in a Blue Dream; I Am Become Death; Lords of Karma; The MIghty Turtle Head; Rubina; Satch Boogie; Saying Goodbye; Speed of Light; Summer Song; Surfing with the Alien; Tears in the Rain; Thinking of You; Time Machine; Woodstock Jam. Color fold-out of Joe Satriani. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Good luck keeping up with Joe! :-) Book
195956 pages. Features: Cover illustration of McGill tennis courts (before they were converted to a parking lot) by John Little; Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features red dump truck; Interesting one-page Parke-Davis ad features Robert Thom painting 'Susruta' of a surgeon of old India at work; Nice One-page photo ad for Matinee cigarettes features couple in floral scene; Why Not a Written Marriage Contract?; Why Herbert Morrison won't take his just reward; One-page colour-illustrated ad for Canada Steamship Lines; Death is Not Inevitable - says Dr. Hans Selye; Will Our National Emblem Vanish? - A Mystery Affliction is Killing Our Maple Trees; Our Magistrates and Judges struggle with one of the most exacting and thankless jobs in public life - article with photos of Ontario Supreme Court Justice D.C. Wells and Ontario Court of Appeals Justices Morden, McGillivray and Roach; Holiday Weekend in Calgary - Bill and Merna Mitchell and kids invade Alberta's oil and cattle capital to pack a surprising amount of cultural pleasure into one weekend; How to Curb Your Tensions; Jack Wells - Winnipeg's maverick of the sports mike - article with photos; Nice 2/3-page colour-photo ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features three ginger cats; Champion Spark Plugs ad features photo of Jim Rathmann in Italy after he won the world's fastest 500 mile race at Monza; Nice colour-photo ad for Labatt's India Pale Ale features topless man with towel over shoulders; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos of a tyrolean traverse being performed in Alberta, courtesy of Guide John Dodds; Interesting CNR passenger train ad with photo insert of napping passenger over traffic jam scene; Great colour GWG clothing ad inside back cover features back-to-school fashions; back cover colour-photo ad sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast features many ways to serve bread; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
1935112 pages. Features: Use of cemented carbides in industry; The miniature camera; Zeta Aurigae - a close double star; Canalization of the Upper Mississippi River; Archaeologist's notebook; Making your own photomicrographic camera; Rubber plant experiments; Excavations by CWA workers under the Tennessee Valley Authority bring to light the contents of 40 Indian villages and mounds; Preventing fires at sea; The versatile papaya; Is the growing death rate from heart disease and cancer real or only apparent?; Progress in this age of science; Interesting brief note and photo of what may be the first grease cartridges and grease gun; and more. Coverfold partly open. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
194328 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Great Sphinx - with a 'bib and tucker' to protect it from possible air raid damage during the war; Last Pictures of Admiral Darlan - the lying in state at Algiers; The Campaign in Tunisia - British troops in action in Tebourba; Scenes in War Areas - Our Captured Paratroops and Axis Prisoners; General Giraud succeeds Darlan; New Pictures and Personalities; The Trail of Axis Defeat in Libya - General Montgomery's Spartan Meal - photo of Monty with his luncheon of Bully Beef and Tinned Potatoes, with a cup of tea from a thermos flask; Rommel's Trail of Defeat - Abandoned Equipment Litters the Desert - including many pieces in perfect order; Points of View in Libya; Apollonia Abandoned; Prisoners "Caged" - amazing photo of hundreds of Axis prisoners being marched into their Libyan "cages"; Achievements of the British Soldier - article by Cyril Falls; The "Knock-Out Blow" that was no "K.-O." - Dramatic Pearl Harbour photos; "Remember Pearl Harbour!" - The Act of Treachery That Will Surely Prove to Be Japan's Death Warrant - 12 great photos; Fantastic centerfold skeleton-view of a Lancaster Bomber - the bomber with more than 50,000 parts; Photos of Personalities and Events of the week; Cumulo-Numbus - These majestic clouds are a danger-signal to aircraft - multiple illustrations; A Mad Orgy of Upside-Down Levitation - The Curious Adventures of the crew of a Sunderland Flying Boat - illustrations of what happened over the Bay of Biscay; Milne's Seismograph - with photos of quake damage in Japan and India; "Hitler in a Raving Mood" - Violent Gestures during the Munich Speech - Six great photos; The Great Russian Offensive - Photos from Various Sectors Hinting at the Magnitude of the Russian Victory - captured equipment, German prisoners, and more; Photos of Christmas with our fighting men at land and sea - including a shot of R.A.F. armoured cars passing under the Libyan Marble Arch. Unmarked. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Book
194750 pages. Cover photo of blonde Adele Jergens. Fiction: Got the Suits Straight? Articles: Beautiful Tyrant - Evita Duarte of Argentina - great photo-illustrated feature article; San Quentin - fascinating photo-illustrated article on this famous prison; For Beer Drinkers Only - the joys and dangers of downing America's favorite drink; The Black Seven - the dark seventh son of a seventh son was China's most ruthless bandit; Thirty-Year Girls - today's servicewomen enjoy their jobs, but they have a hard time getting dates; Murder on the Waterfront; - twenty odd unsolved murders have made the International Longshoremen's Union famous as an organization that breeds sudden death - photo illustrated article; Back Door to Broadway - summer shows are on in the Catskills, and new stars are being made - article with photos of Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante, Al Jolson, Garrett, Paul Draper, Jerry Lester, Robert Alda, Jules Munshin and Judy Holliday; Special Features: Kids are Their Business - artist Howard Sparber and gag writer Raymond Abrashkin produce winning kid cartoons; Freud Goes to the Dogs - Hollywood pet psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Jones; The War's Greatest Book - "Yank - The GI Story of the War"; Swimming - with lovely photos of America's favorite summer sport; "Living in a Big Way" - photos from Salute's movie of the month, starring Marie McDonald and Gene Kelly ; Movies of the Month; Me, I Just Sing - Al Jolson's comeback launches a new trend; Blackburn Hits Pay Dirt - Lena Blackburn sells mud to major league ball teams!; Great one-page ad for book "Bachelor's Quarters"; Editoria inside back cover features large photo of crowd welcoming new city administration to Hoboken, NJ and title "A City Comes Back"; and more. Center page holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
