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1984324 pages plus index. Recounts the achievements of 24 Canadian airmen in WW II. Relies upon over six years of research into squadron operational diaries, combat reports, decoration citations, log books and other offical documents. Black and white illustrations. Date stamp upon half-title page. Some soiling to front cover. Moderate wear. One inch opening to base of front cover at spine. An excellent reference. Book
1980321 pages including bibliography and index. The history of the pre-Klonkike era, as recorded in the journals, letters, reports, and books of the first Europeans to penetrate the American northwest. Dabs of liquid paper upon title page. Sticker scar on front cover. Average wear. Book
1990240 pages including index. Through colourful anecdotes, documented reports and personal remembrances, Ian Mahood tells of the birth and eventual death of forest management in British Columbia. Gift greetings and discard stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
1978256 pages including index. Fantastic black and white illustrations throughout. Seven decades of descriptions, reports and road tests in facsimile. Compiled from the archives of Autocar. An outstanding record, of compelling interest for motoring historians and enthusiasts. Light to moderate wear to unmarked book. Tears to and some chips from illustrated dust jacket. Book
199098 pages. Features: The Boy, The Man and the Ryan; Lavern Lawrence's Pulsar; Pilot's Licenses; Tail Incidence; Service Difficulty Reports; Getting Started in Aerobatics; Don Rushton's Sopwith Camel; AP-1 Autopilot in the Glasair; Antenna Fundamentals; Don Campbell's 5151; Aviation Soviet Style. Nice copy. Book
1907351 pages. Contains reports from 1868 through 1894. A wonderful highlight of this volume is the black and white photographic plates of the bank branches in the following locations: Head Office; Ayr; Blenheim; Brandon; Carman; Claresholm; Cobalt; Collingwood; Dawson; Dundas; Dunnville; Edmonton; Fernie; Galt; Guelph; Halifax; Hamilton; Innisfail; Kamloops; London, England; London, Ontario; Middleton; Moosejaw; Nanaimo; Nelson; New York; Orangeville; Ottawa. Narrow opening along front hinge. Back hinge starting. Unmarked. Average wear to partially dulled dark green boards adorned with clearly legible gilt lettering. Overall a quality copy of this rare and informative momento. Book
1938514 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. An exciting look back at the early days of Alaska. The thirty chapters include such topics as Vigilante Days of '98 at Dyea and Skagway, Dawson and the Klondike Mines, American Occupancy of the Yukon Basin, Rafting Down the Kantishna River, Animla Migration from Asia to Alaska, The Judge Tried by a Miner's Meeting, and many more. Author served as U.S. District Judge in Alaska 1900-1908, Alaska Congressman for 14 years, and as Editor for seven volumes of "Alaska Law Reports". Prior owner names atop front free endpaper and title page. Above-average wear and soiling to blue boards. Few coffee drops to fore-edge. Contents in quality condition. Endpapers yellowed but contents remain bright. Binding intact. Worthy working copy. Book
1985100 pages. Features: LeBaron collection of Canadiana, folk art; Christmas at Dundurn; Ceremonial horse furniture among the Blackfoot; Coffee, Candles and Cognac - Filling the 1890s inventory at Fort St. James; Coopering at Fort Langley; Mission Churches in British Columbia; Spanish Nootka - prints and drawings record B.C.'s first permanent garrison; Hudson Bay Company country-made furniture on the Pacific Slope; Chilkat Dancing Blankets; Mowachaht - a manuscript reports on the people Cook mis-named Nootka; Craigflower Manor near Victoria; B.C. Woman Artists 1885-1985; U'Mista Cultural Centre; Rungius - Painter of Wildlife; Cots, cradles and sleeping benches in the Hutterite home; Master Cabinetmaker - Gregory Brown of Sidney, B.C. Moderate wear. Mended tears to fore-edge of front cover. Sound copy. Book
198470 pages. Features: Auction Reports 1983; Pioneer Tools - The MacLachlan Woodworking Museum, Township of Pittsburgh; The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Opens; Spadina - Toronto Preserves Spadina House; Lucky's Keyrings - Collecting Has a Therapeutic Value; Sesquicentennial Styles - wearing apparel in the eighteen-thirties; Perry Davis (Pain-killer) - King of the Wild Frontier; From the Four Quarters - Centuries of Visual Culture Regained for Ontario; The History of the City of Toronto's Fine Art Collection. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1993Features: Mount Graham Actions; Freddies Foiled in Idaho; Oxleas Wood Saved; Desert Rats Fight Back; British Columbia Supplement; Rendezvous Reports; and more. A sound copy. Book
1998Features: Ecoterrorism trials in Congress; Genetic Actions Sweep UK; Winona LaDuke Interview; NAFTA for Africa; Rendezvous Reports; ADC Buildings Torched; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1963Features: Rambler and Ford Owner's Reports; Hurricane Killers Learn Where to Aim using silver iodide crystals; How Space Detectives Rate the Red Moon Probes; Complete plans for PM's point-riding funabout; water-skiiing at 106 mph; The newest on the water; How Water Dragsters do it; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196260 pages. Topics include: 23 page report on the latest in Canadian Homes' frequent reports for antique lovers, with content from Herbert Schwartz, Robert Collins and George Hancocks. Great contemporary advertisements. Above-average wear. Several tape reinforcements. Unmarked. Minor water staining to some pages. Magazine
1927The Eleventh annual report from 1923 includes: Annual Meeting, President's Address - Early Settlements in Upper Canada - W.H. Breithaupt; Aboriginal Agriculture in Southwest Ontario - William Herriot; War Memorials of Waterloo County - Miss L.M. Bruce; Brubacher Family History - Benjamin Brubacher; Eby Family - A.A. Eby; Biography of Miss L.M. Bruce; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier; Illustrations of the Ayr Monument, Trinity Church Tablet (Galt), and Miss L.M. Bruce. Twelfth Annual Report from 1924 includes: Early Days in Ayr - Miss E.D. Watson; The Trees of Waterloo County - William Herriot; Jacob Y. Shantz and Russian Mennonites - H.M. Bowman; Reminiscences of Freeport - M.G. Sherk; Biography of Thomas Carscadden; Biography of David Forsyth; Illustrations of Jacob Y. Shantz, Shantz homestead, Shantz barns, Freeport Academy, Group photo of Freeport Academy teachers and students (with names) circa 1869, Thomas Carscadden, David Forsyth. Thirteenth Annual Report from 1925 contains: History of the Galt Collegiate Institute, 1881-1914; Reminiscences of Early Waterloo; Galt, Sixty Years Ago; The Exiles of 1838; Biography of Sir Adam Beck; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier (Supplemental). Includes illustrations of Galt Collegiate Institute, Thomas Carscadden, The Old Galt Hish School, Sheriff A.S. Allan and Sir Adam Beck. Fourteenth Annual Report from 1926 includes: The Galt Collegiate Institute 1914-1926; The Waterloo County Pioneers Memorial Tower; The Public Schools of Galt; Also includes a biography of Dr. Augustus Stephen Vogt. Illustrations include: Pioneers' Memorial Tower; Galt Collegiate Institute, 1924; Dr. Augustus Vogt; Officers Pioneers' Memorial Association. Additional articles: Blazing the Trail in New Dumfries; The Pennsylvania-German in History; Significance of the Memorial Tower. Fifteenth Annual Report from 1927 covers: The Trail of the Aborigines through Waterloo County; History of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School; Early Days of Elmira; Hespeler Public Schools; Hespeler Public Library; The Reserve of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River, and the Mennonite Purchase; Origin of the Place and Stream Names of Waterloo County; Museum Report, etc.; Current History; plus biographies of Hugh McCulloch and John Mickleborough. Illustrations include: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School; Map of Waterloo County-Places and Streams; Old Waterloo Mill. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Gilt lettering upon green spine. Prior owner's small bookplate inside front board. A sound copy. Book
1997Features: Interpreting Environmental History Through Material Culture; Omar Ramsden and the CNE; "Providential Openings" - the Women Weavers of nineteenth-century Queens County, New Brunswick. Research Reports: George Cove's Solar Energy Device; Researching Alberta's Gas Technology - a case study - The Turner Valley Gas Plant; La pierre de taille des Charentes et les colonies francaises; Exhibit Review - the Bank of Montreal Museum; Conference Review - Material Culture Worlds - a report on 3 conferences; plus 7 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1932Topics: Care and Upkeep; New Ideas in Wireless Cabinets - Part 1; Whe Why and the Wherefore - 2; About Variable Condensers (coupon clipped from page 80 removed part of this article; Practical Indoor Aerials; Variable Mu Valves - 1; How to Use a Blue Print; A Trip Round Europe on the Long Range Express; What will the Dolphon Do? - the Dolphin Three; The Voice of the Set; Simple Tests Without Instruments; Test reports of complete receivers - the Varley D.C. Receiver; Resistance-Controlled Volume; Below 100 Metres; Volts and Valves; and more. Above-average wear. Small clipping from lower back cover. Book
196163 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
19441.25 pages thick. Hundreds of pages. A large collection of circulars issued by the U.S. War Department circa World War II. A sampling of the titles include: Standards of Physical Examination During Mobilization; Inspector General's Department; Quartermaster Corps; Standards of Physical Examination for Flying; Administration of Hospitals - General Provisions; Service Commands and Departments - Administration; Posts, Camps, and Stations - administration, non-appropriated funds, motion picture service; Penalty Envelopes and Labels - Use of the Mails; Correspondence - How Conducted; Military Records - Service Record, Morning Reports; Personnel - Honors to persons; Enlisted Men - reception and processing. Also includes Technical Bulletin TB 23-7-4 entitled cal. .30 Carbine M2 (T4). Upon front board is written "Enlistments, Public Relations", beneath which is written the prior owner's name, Sgt. Lowry. Some markings to contents. Average wear. Binding sound. An interesting and informative second world war artifact. Book
1961Features: Pigskin Preview '61 - an expert's pick of the Nation's Top Teams and Players; Berlin on a Tightrope - a Post editor reports from the city on which the eyes of the world are focused; The Tragedy of Tibet - in 2 and a half years of brutal domination, the Red Chinese have reduced this once-proud nation to slavery and famine - a shocking report based on eyewitness accounts; Brunette Today, Blonde Tomorrow - tints promise to become as widely used as lipstick; These Children Love to Read - Mae Carden teaches reading using the maligned phonetic system; Adventures of the Mind - The Joy of Life, by Alexander Eliot; Atomic War on Insects - by using radiation to sterilize males, scientists are tricking the deadly screwworm fly into breeding itself out of existence - Drs. Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: Judge Peter M. Horn of New York - We Don't Call Them Criminals; Colorado's Mountain Paradise - Rocky Mountain National Park; Seething Singapore - John Masters reports from the troubled melting pot that serves as seaport and warehouse for Southeast Asia; The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster, by Stewart Alsop; Untold Stories of the Civil War - The Miraculous Steamboat - The U.S.S. Chattanooga got through to the 40,000-man Union army trapped and starving in Chattanooga, Tennesee; Burt Lancaster Feature. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: How America Invented Manners - Russell Lynes; The American Woman - a revealing report on how American women really see themselves - a fascinating and extensive article with many great photos; Nice color centerfold of Ford Station Wagons and the Falcon Club Wagon; The Soft-Sell, Soft-Shell World of Johnny Carson - 'Tonight's' low-pressure ringmaster rates as a comic with lots of wry and little ham; The Beast in the Living Room - A canine-corps cop brings a vicous dog home to his wife and 8 kids *PLEASE NOTE THE BEAST ARTICLE IS MISSING PAGES 63-64*; Inside the Siberian Science City - William Benton reports on a new city outside Novosibirsk; Will Negroes Crack the Suburbs? - Armed with Kennedy's mandate, Robert Weaver plants to free Negroes from the city ghettos; How to Cook by the Book - building a kitchen library. Chip from nice Coke Santa ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1962Features: A Catalogue of Boors - a story about road rage (before the term was coined) by Corey Ford; pages 11-14 loose but present - they contain a wonderful two-page color ad for 'Jet-Smooth' Chevrolet; The Menningers of Kansas - the life and work of the men who have devoted themselves to the fight for better understanding and effective treatment of the mentally ill, part 1 of 4; People on the Way Up - Joan Lakow, John Cassavetes, LaBonnie Bianchi, Willard Scott (Scotty) Thompson; Hollywood Throwback - Natalie Wood is a screen queen in the old flamboyant tradition; Casey Stengel - after a year's layoff, the 'Ol Professor, now manager of the New York Mets, begins his second half-century in baseball; Color pages of Ford car ads; Noah would approve - Roland Lindemann's Catskill Game Farm gives dwindling species room and safety to breed; My 36 hours with Khrushchev - Drew Pearson's wife reports on her visit to the inner sanctum of Russia's 'ruling class'; Have we lost Southeast Asia? - a report on this troubled region whose principle defense against red-Chinese invasion is the almost-powerless South East Asia Treaty Organization. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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
1963Features: What we can do about fallout - how to protect yourself from the hottest year for nuclear fallout since testing began - Canada is the hottest country in the world; What is a Screen Gem? - the tv show machine that turns out the lion's share of the canned entertainment on our screens - a profile of the factory and the shrewd men who run it in the United States and Canada; Mordecai Richler reports from the world hockey tournament in Sweden; The cottage industry of Timmins, Ontario - Stealing Gold; Moral Re-Armament/MRA - a private citizen's security check on this 'mysterious organization that claims to be fighting communism'; Mackenzie Porter among the Bunnies - what these lovely young women are like on their own time; Pierre Berton spends election night with the Pearsons. Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in red gown and young man in clown suite. Some chipping and sunning to edges of front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
