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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
1958100 pages. Short Stories: Impossible Accident; Brothers' Quarrel; Man Trap; Gigolo. Articles: Religious Revolution on the Campus; The Land That Time Forgot - Part II - Stronghold of the Kukukuku; Baseball's Oldest Youngster - Jack Sanford; They Believed I Was an Arab Prince - William Peter Blatty poses as "Prince Xeer" for ten days - gullible Hollywood bows and scrapes; Don't Fall for the Mail Frauds; The Face of America - Dear Teacher - lovely color photo of Principal John Martin of Hillview Elementary School in Menlo Park, CA - surrounded by kindergarteners; Architect Royal Berry Wills - Big Man in Small Houses. Serials: Death Stalks the Bride (part 1 of 4); Seven Days to Tingyong (part 2 of 3). Ads: Philadelphia Electric Company; Special K cereal; Vitasafe; Mobil service stations - two pages with great color photos; Wheeling Corrugating Company; Mercury Outboards - nice two-page color-photo ad with boaters and swimmers; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Ford cars features the Edsel and others in a water scene; Whitman's chocolates; GMAC - with color photo of reluctant kids dancing; Mayo Spruce ad features photo of Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee Braves with his son, Lewis Kent Burdette; Hilton Hotels - with color illustration of their Havana, Cuba property; Eaton Manufacturing photo-illustrated ad features George D. Williams, General Superintendant, T.L. James & Company, Inc., Ruston, LA; Photo of Bil Sharman in ad for Spalding basketballs; Acme Spring Co. of Connecticutt is featured in a GM photo/text ad; Page & Shaw chocolates; Color photo of Saratoga 2-door hardtop and Saks Fifth Ave. fashion featured in color photo ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover features home movies. Somewhat above-average wear. Bits of writing on back cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193844 pages. Features: Cover photo of a Taylorcraft 50; Photo ad for Berry Brothers, makers of Berryloid aircraft fishishes; The T.C.A. Accident at Regina - death of Captain Dave Imrie and first officer Jack Herald; Building Bombers for Britain; Nice full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes; Fantastic photo full-page ad for North Electric features image of "Norseman", and R.C.M.P. plane; Fairchild ad boasts of their payloads; The Airman's Prayer; The DeHavilland Flamingo takes shape - article with photos; Interesting full-page ad for Rotax electrical equipment; The Sperry Flightray; Germans show Consistent record in Ocean Flights; Lovely illustrated full-page ad for the Junkers JU90 - with Swastika on tail; Great centrefold ad for Fleat Aircraft features photos of their twin-engined transport and general purpose trainer; The Lear ARC-6 Automatic Radio Direction Finder; Tale Spinning from Winnipeg; Gipsy Minor 90 h.p. Unit added to Famous Range; Flying and Insurance Policy Interpretation; Taylorcraft Expands; Taylorcraft's Representatives for Eastern Canada; Nice full-page Taylorcraft ad; Nice Cub Aircraft ad; News from the West Coast; Nice 1938 Lockheed ad inside back cover; Intava ad on back cover shows a T.C.A. ship being fueled; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1940320 pages including index. A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners in the provinces of Canada and the North-West Territories and Newfoundland. Chapters include: Of the Office and Appointment of Coroners; The Duty and Authority of Coroners Generally; Of the Jurisdiction of Coroners in Inquests of Death; Of the Rights of Coroners; Liabilities of Coroners; Offenders; Parties and Accessories; Crimes Which Come Under the Notice of Coroners; Deodands; Flight and Forfeiture; Evidence; Coroner's Court; Proceedings Subsequent to the Inquisition; Cremation of Human Remains; General Order of Proceedings at Inquests. Includes schedule of fees and Appendix of Forms. Names of two prior owner's inside front board. Moderate wear. Partial lean to spine. Maroon textured boards. Hinges intact. Original receipt, dated 1946, laid in. Book
1949120 pages. Features: Nice 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; color ad for Pitney-Bowes Postage Meters; Zippo Lighter color ad; My Wonderful Uncle, Levi Coombs Gould - article with photos; Challenge the Tempest (fiction); My Three Years in Moscow, Part 3 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel - with photos; The Camouflaged Crime (fiction); Robert Jones of Ohio Refused to be Smeared by Drew Pearson - article with photos; The Rape of Albania - how this former paradise between Tito and the men in the Kremlin is being slowly bled to death - article with photos; One Divorce is Enough (fiction); Charley Callahan is the shrewd press agent for Notre Dame football - article with photos; The Odds on Murder (fiction); Training New Kinds of Methodist Pastors in Denver at the Iliff School of Theology - article with photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction - conclustion); Colour photos of the Arseneau family's home and birds on Great Bird Rock; Nice 1-page color Lucky Strike ad features Raymond W. Crutchfield of Reidsville, NC; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); RCA Victor TV ad; Nice half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features Mrs. Ralph Ellis of Chicago, Mrs. Mary C. Wurdeman of Los Angeles, Mr. James S. Winterhalter of Detroit, and Miss Pamel Hendricks Bookman of New York; Nice two-color Shelby bicycle ad features Donald Duck; Nice color centerfold ad features General Electric (GE) Christmas lights; Color ad for Winchester's glowing flashlight; Honeywell thermistat ad features black and white photos of Linda Darnell; La Choy Chinese Food color ad features interesting drawing of Chinese man in pigtail; Nice 1-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Frank Benitz of Dugan Brothers Baked Goods; Nice color ad for Sunkist oranges on back cover. Average external wear. Moderate external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197078 pages. Features: Fantastic cover photo of Steve McQueen; Color-photo ad for Newport cigarettes features bearded seaman at sea; Gillettee Platinum-Plus shaving blade ad; Mother of 5, Mrs. Richard Polansky of California, is featured in an Anacin ad; One-page color-photo ad for the Buick 1970 Opel Kadett (Deluxe Wagon - Red) includes elephant; Lark cigarette ad with color photo of smokers on ski hill chairlift; Viceroy cigarette color-photo ad features man and woman rehearsing at piano; The Politics of Exclusion; Photos of the "March Against Death" in Washington, DC; A visit with Sir Lawrence Olivier; Parliament cigarette ad features their recessed filter; The Trans-Sexuals - Male or Female?; Color-photo ad for the Toyota Corona - red hardtop; Joni Mitchell - two-page article with four nice photos; Budweiser beer centerfold ad is mostly red; France's First Lady, Madame Pompidou - article with color photos; Feature article on Steve McQueen with nine photos; Color fashion photos of 'fashions from a commune'; One-page weight-loss ad features Christine Stanley who lost 86 pounds before her husband came home on leave from Thailand; Nice back cover color-photo Winstons ad features couple on sand dune. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1961110 pages. Features: Prudential ad inside front cover features fantastic one-page illustration of Lionel Conacher being carried by his Toronto Argonaut teammates after they beat the Edmonton Eskimos to win the Grey Cup in 1921; Four Canadians plan a trip to mountain climb in the Himalayas - Sev Heiberg et al; Editorial discusses propaganda vis-a-vis the Berlin Crisis; Nuclear Researcher Louis Slotin - A Tiny Slip, A Terrible Death; Falconry in the Suburbs - Frank Beebe of Vancouver Island; It's Harder to Be Anybody - novella by Mordechai Richler; For ten days Eva Szulner was den mother to 24 child geniuses from Oak Park Junior High School in East York; Judson Lowther kills his wife Alice and the hired man, Brandon Isaacs, he found her with near Cremona, Alberta; Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was almost as an important event in Canadian history as the Great Depression itself; Japan's Tragic Solution to the Population Crisis - two milliion abortions per year; How Seven Families Really Got Away From it All - a handful of Americans, mostly Quakers, raise their families in Argenta in the Lardeau Valley of B.C.'s West Kootenays; The License to Defraud in Charity's Name - the 6,800 tax-exempt corporations in Canada are scantily investigated; Colour-photo B.O.A.C. one-page ad shows Bhikku (priest) near the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok; Photos of the dust-blow 1930s; One-page black and white photo ad for Trans-Canada Airlines features cute young girl Karen; Howard Green - Vancouver Lawyer and parliamentary veteran; and more. Please note: missing pages 9-12 and 67-70, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
1960154 pages. Features: Incredible two-page colour ad for Green Giant canned vegetables, featuring the bottom half of the Green Giant himself; Many great full-page ads for products such as Avon cosmetics, Pond's lipstick, Wabasso bedding, Carnation Milk Powder, Pond's ad featuring Elsa Martinelli, Pacific canned milk, Crane plumbing fixtures, Arborite, GE appliances, Heinz tomato products; The Quiet Revolution of Chinese Women - article with photos; How Close are We to Test-Tube Babies? - article by Christina McCall Newman; The Queen's Other Family - Recently Elizabeth added her husband's name to her own, and thereby raised a question - just who are her in-laws? - a scattered family the world hears so little about? - article with photos; House-Warming - story by Jean Loggie; How the Kesners Came to Canada - Jo and Fred Davis are involved in bringing a refugee family to Canada; - photos and article; Have Gun Will Shoot, by Sheila MacKay Russell; Death Comes to the Island - novel by Florence Ford; A Chatelaine Guide for Women Who are Going back to Work; Dos and Don'ts of Dressing for the Job; Special 14-page Homes '60 section featuring decorating news, housing, furnishings, etc.; Ad for Minute Spanish Rice inside back cover. Nice colour photo Red Rose tea ad on back cover shows lady in white dress pouring tea. Somewhat above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. A worthy copy particularly worthwhile for its lengthy illustrated 1960 Home Fashion section. Book
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
