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1996Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: McCahill tests the 'hot' new Rolls-Royce V8 and the Mercury; Build a 23-foot cabin cruiser for only $800 (Hotei); World's toughest military training - Navy Frogmen; home movie-taking made easy; our army needs new weapons - now!; Grow muscles in your backyard; 1924 Hispano-Suiza Racer; Six-ton rubber boat - Amphitrite; America's first hydrofoil ferry - the Flying Fish connects Bellingham, WA with Victoria BC; Eugene Durrance and his Florida Sea Brine Laboratory sell sea water!; Sailing on sand; Fire Buff's unique collection - James Dodge; An early Black and Decker cordless drill; clockwork marvels; Infra-red Burglar Alarm; Aluminum Pistol; "Space Camera" Eyeglasses; Transtainer; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. (colour ad on back cover shows glamourous tennis players smoking Winston cigarettes) Book
193736 pages. Cover: Workers Alliance of America March in Washington. Contents: Far East: Japan Risks Whole Army and Navy in 1,500-Mile Offensive to Assert Supremacy; Relief: Questions and Answers Tell Story of Costly and Unsolved Mystery (Workers Alliance March); Labor: Profane Irish Expert (Edward F. McGrady) Hired by RCA to End 'Curse'; Massachusetts: Governor (Charles F. Hurley) Lets Memorial (Sacco-Vanzetti) Stay in Storage; Spain: Santander's Captor Gets Warning Form London, Felicitations From Rome; Balkans: Mysteries and Riots Excite Little Entente Powers; U.S.S.R.: Soviet Junior G-Man (Vitalik Arbatyan of Baku) Sets Examples for Older Boys; Cuba: Fourteen Men in a Boat Give the Army Police a Fright; Education: Jerome Davis Leans to C.I.O. (Committee for Industrial Organization), Embarrasses Yale; Nazis: Exchange Students End Training For Foreign Service; Foundations: New Research to Honor a Negro (Moses Carver) and a Diabetic (Renziehausen); Bacteriophage: Germ Eaters Are Whirled into Visibility; Grafting: New Bureau Formed to Deal in Skin and Cartilage; Entomology: Dr. L.R. Watson Breeds Gentle, Cowlike Bees; Missionaries: The Elders, Back From Iran, Are Surprised; Baseball: Cubs and Giants Gallop to a Photograph Finish; Golf: (Johnny) Goodman Is Best Man at Amateur Links Ceremonies; Screen: Refrigerated Comedy Puts Cinderella on Ice Skates in "Thin Ice" Starring Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie; Money: (Federal Reserve) Board Prescribes Discount Duts as Antidote for Treasury Nightmare; Jewelry: Orchids and Credit Help Galvanize Bauble Business; Living Costs: 864 Ways to Buy Hats, Keep Eggs, Save Gas; Painter: Mississippian (John McCrady) Turns to Delta Negroes for Subjects; and Today in America: Another Spain? Full Color Vintage Ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes in baseball game motif on back cover . Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1945Contents: Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic drive color ad inside front cover. GM Electro-Motive Division color ad; V-E Day eases some controls but nation has no ready chart covering next few months; Great War Bond ad in color; Fisher Body color ad; the U-249 'sails against England' under British escort (photo and story); The Wehrmacht Plot - could keep General Staff alive as nucleus of next German Army; Photos of victory celebrations in Europe; Fat, Satisfied, Vulgar - photo and story of Goering's surrender; Kesselring - soft soap; Quaking Quisling; Photo of the firing squad execution of Mussolini's friend Lt. Gen. Achille Starace; Our Jap Enemy - he is fanatical and capable of long resistance; Delegates face some pitfalls despite wide area of agreement in writing world charter; V-E Day rioters smash the business district of Halifax; Emil Rieve in reverse; Photo of a Northrop XP-56; Amazing photo of Army Capt. Desmond E. Carrig dangling from power lines after his car hit a telegraph pole; An improving reporter in wartime radio must interpret coming peace; Horse racing ban lifted; Douglas aircraft color ad; Interesting color ad for McCall's, extolling the virtues of rationing paper; Interesting story and photos of large military hydroponics farming operation on Ascension Island; Laister-Kauffmann aircraft ad. Average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Covers attached by one staple else a sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Nice Baldwin Diesel-Electric ad; Color Ford auto ad; Nice color Mallory Hats ad; His half-year honeymoon ends but Truman is still the man to beat; Private William H. Garrett of Waverly, Kentucky says good-bye to his entire family, killed in an accident; Angels in uniform - army and navy nurses; Color Coke ad - refreshment on the Admiralty Isles; Stalin's Holiday adds fresh fuel to rumors of his serious illness; Photos of German war prisoners, male and female, in Italy; The Chunking government and the Chinese Communists make peace - on paper; photo of Hungarian Nazi strung up from a lampost in Budapest; Army proposes, fate disposes and GI's long for boats to the US; GI wives in London protest for transport to the US; Nice color Chevrolet centerfold ad; Playing Barbotte in Canada; Rioting breaks out in Argentina; John L. Lewis reaches for new power through control of shop bosses; Air Forces miracle of help yourself is way back for casualties at home - the Baruch rehabilitation plan; Nice color Schlitz beer ad; Color Studebaker truck ad inside back cover; Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1967Features: Reprint of scarce book - Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier by Captain John M. Elkins; Apache Tears - Nino Cochise; The Wake of Whiskey Bill; The First War Correspondent, 1846; Treasure rode in the boot; Mysterious trapper Billy Nay; Bill Hickok's girl on the flying trapeze; Alias 'Shooting Star' - a drifter covets a horse; The day the glue pot became a cauldron! - the Seattle fire of 1889; A cavern of gold in New Mexico?; The Army's 'stubborn fact' - the Army mule driver; A hard man to understand - Stephen W. Dorsey; people of the Laramie Plains; Ghost Ferry in Hoodoo Valley - Seneaquoteen Post; Rufus 'Potato' Clark of Denver; Pioneer Child - Nettie Hight Yarbrough; James Case's Last Frontier. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1977Features: The Most Awful Abduction of Elegant Elaine; He Fought the Blizzard of 1880 and won!; Incident at Las Cruces; The Diamond E and Diamond X Ranches; First Movie House West of the Mississippi; Ruthless Relative; Wild Game Country; Adventures of an Army Post Photographer; Cow-boy life in Texas or 27 years a mavrick; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1973Features: Don of Ganado; Lorenzo, the Great; A Slab of Gold; Shanghaied!; Those Army Mules; Judge Gibson's 'Past'; Dare-the-Devil Women; Massacre at Marais Des Cygnes; The Men of Miller-Lux; Digger Man of Julesburg; Ghosts for Sale!; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1984Features: Silversmithing the Navajo Way; Rockhounding in the City; The Value of Opal; The Colors of Minerals; Gold in the Tailings; Micromounts; Field Trip - Army Pass Crystals; Field Trip - North Carolina's Hiddenite; Mr. Roger's Silverwork; Serendipity Gold; Gemstone Grand Tour; Rings from Scrap; In Search of Gold. Average wear. Binding intact. Date stamped upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1956111 pages. Includes group photo and list of names of attendees of the Canadian Army Staff College, 9 January 1956 - 16 November 1956. Heavily worn. Covers loose as one, but present. Moisture stain to lower corner. A worthy reference copy. Book
19048 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: The Russo-Japanese War ('Little Enemies Made Short Work of the Flower of the Czar's Army'); Crowded Winnipeg cattle shed roof collapses while man wrestles bull; Mrs. Maybrick is Insane; Ill feeling in Dawson over closure of 20 saloons; Mining interests on Lorne Creek; and many more. Dozens of advertisements including: "For Sale - 50 Acres, Victoria District, 4 miles from town, 7 acres under cultivation, $40 per acre." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Small local article clipped from page 2. Book
1971Features: The biggest manhunt in Canadian history - great colour photos and lengthy text; The Private Agony of Jerome Choquette - this Justice Minister set out to strengthen the rights of the individual but now advocates identity cards and carries a .38 revolver; Newfie Fare - Everywhere an Islander goes, his food is sure to follow; Sure the UN tries to keep peace around the world - but who tries to keep peace at the UN? - retired Canadian Army officer Harold Trimble explains; Wearing your ego on your face - photos of moustaches added to the faces of famous Canadians; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1917Portrait of Mrs. R.M. Harley, Croix de Guerre, on front cover. Features: Conquest of the Wytschaete-Messines Ridge (conclusion); The Serbian Operations on the Balkan Front, June, 1916 - July 1917; Centerfold photos of Canadians loading a 15" gun, Australians feeding a large gun, and Australians studying a detailed model of the terrain of Messines Ridge; Wartime Work of Britain's Special Constabulary. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
1917Features: Cover portrait of Colonel Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O., the Hero of Beaumont-Hamel, Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Navy Division. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Great British Battles of the Somme - V. - Check near Bapaume and Victory on the Ancre". Includes complete chapter CLV - "The Effect of the Somme Offensive on the German 'Will to Victory'". Many excellent photos, including one of captured German flame-throwers 'which the enemy, in defiance of civilised useage, introduced into warfare.' Graphic centerfold of a shell-shattered avenue of elms along the borders of the Yser Canal between Boesinghe and Lizerne. Also includes first portion of Chapter CLVI - Belgium Under Two Flags - The Homeland Under the German Heel and the Renaissance of the Army on the Yser. Many excellent black and white photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
1919Includes concluding portion of "Voluntary Motor Transport in the War", with photos. Chapter CCXCVI - America's Share in the Victory - map and photos. Full-page photographic portrait of Admiral William Sowden Sims in chief command of the American Fleet in Europe. Four centerfold photos of Americans in Germany. Full page photo of the 27th Division, U.S. Army, in New York, March 25th, 1919. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1919Includes final portion of the chapter "The Triumph of the Army of Mesopotamia", which includes many interesting photos. Centerfold displays four photos of the British on the Tigris, at Kirkuk, and near Narin Kupri Bridge. Also contains first portion of chapter CCXCIX - The Rumanian Blunder - First Full Account of the Worst Error of the War, with photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1919Please note: Coloured map of Central European Nationalities not included. Cover photo portrait of Lieut.-General Sir C.H. Burtchaell, K.C.B., C.M.G., Director-General Medical Services, British Armies in France. Includes final portion of the chapter "The Rumanian Blunder". Chapter CCC - The Wonderful Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) and the Marvels of Preventative Medicine. Interesting centerfold medical-related photos. Water damage to pages at top corner of spine. Text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1919Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Founding of the League of Nations", with photos. Wonderful centerfold photos of returning soldiers. Chapter CCCVII - The Demobilisation of the British Army, with many photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1919Cover portrait of Sir Robert S. Horne, K.C., M.P., Minister of Labour. Please note: does not include colur map. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Demobilisation of the British Army", with photos. Centerfold photos of captured German booty, including a large cache of gas shells at Luttre, Belgium. Chapter CCCVIII - The Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers, with photos. Chapter CCCIX - The Wonders of Wireless in the War, with photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
1915Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover portrait of General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, K.C.B., Commanding the Sixth Army; Conclusion of Chapter LVII; Chapter LVIII - Complete and graphic description of 'The Storming of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle for the Ridge'; Chapter LIX - Organising the Defence of the Realm - a retrospect; Portrait of General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1968Features: A History of Military Pyrotechnics - Part I of III; Army Marksmanship Beginnings; Smith and Wesson Extension Stocks; French Oval Bore Pin Fire Revolver; Davis Museum. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1968Features: Handguns of the Transition Era; Ed McGivern's Colt Single Action Army; Guns in the Black Hills Gold Rush; The Rare Wire Extractor Cargridge Sharps Pistol/Rifle. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1961Features: Kosciuszko's Pistol?; Waters Gunmaking Family - IV (the second Asa); The Kentucky Rifle; Data on Sharps; Testing the "Centennial Army"; Arms of the Volunteer Regiments of the Civil War; The Mexican Mystery Colt Solved. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1971Features: Ordnance Inspection of the Colt U.S. Martial Single Action Revolver; Smith & Wesson's No. 2 Old Army Revolver; The Paradox Springfields - A Tale of The Needlegun - Part II. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1917Features: Canadians in France; A Royal visit to the west of England; The King inspects Japanese Sailors at a British Port; Liberty Loan Day parade in New York; With the Gaza Wing of Sir Edmund Allenby's Army; Some of the Captors of Beersheba; Romance of the Regiment - The 61st; A smashed German Windmill Blockhouse; The Bal Masque of War; A Zeppelin Raider is brought down at St. Clement; The heroic storming of Passchendaele; With the victorious French 6th Army on the Aisne front; a Portuguese Training Camp in England; Photo of Lieut. Syed Abdul Alajeed. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
