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1986Features: How Polar Bears Keep Their Cool; The Great Bird that Beat the Odds - the Great Blue Heron; Out of Kiusta - young people discover inner resources they didn't know they had; Classroom in a Virgin Rainforest; Free Trade - The Environmental Dilemmas; Cross-Country Caravan to save South Moresby Island from logging. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. Sound reference copy. Book
1944Contents: Caterpillar Diesel ad - They pushed back the sea at Port Moresby; drawing of a very primitive snowmobile as part of an electric power company ad; Photo of JFK - he returned to Los Angeles for a leave after 11 months of fighting in the Pacific; Greatest battle of air weighs U.S. Bombers vs. Nazi industry - but Germans still produce - meanwhile Eisenhower begins speeding D Day preparations; Mustang, aviation's ugly duckling, becomes a top long-range fighter; The outlook in the Battle of Russia - by Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone; Bid for Burma; Nazis seem to plan Ukraine stand despite red encirclement tactics; Why our Italian campaign is so tough; Enveloping Rabaul; Reds keep Curzon Line the issue in rejecting Polish conference - Pravda story of British offer of separate German peace injects new note in Allied relations; Lucky Strike cigarettes - attractive color ad; chart showing FDR's 12 budgets - reflect massive spending increases of WW II; Riddles of contract termination hold key to postwar prosperity; Nice military Oldsmobile/GM ad; Hereford T.Royal Rupert sells for record $38,000; A harbinger of things to come - photo of 5 Mexicans, wearing native hats and panchos (!), brought to New Haven to shovel snow due to manpower shortage; Photos and article on Bronko Nagurski; Kinsey Whiskey - nice color ad; Leadership in Merchant Shipping presents U.S. with big problem - is subsidy war inevitable or can world powers co-operate to ease trade competition. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193840 pages. Contents: Spain: Bombs vs. Civilians, Gold vs. Ore, Oranges vs. Olives - War Bursts in Renewed Fury on Land and Sea; London Trade Pulls The Strings; Mr. Roosevelt and Business: Conciliation Progresses - White House Talks Bring Advisory Council but Little to Cure Depression; Anti-Lynch Fight: Filibuster Continues in Face of Closure Threats; Revenge: Senators Get Their Chance to Badger (Harold) Ickes; (Alben W.) Barkley vs. (A.B.) Chandler: Kentucky Feud Embarrasses the Administration; End of a Pacifist (Rolphe Forsyth); Trapper Trapped: Alert Cashier Aids Solution of Kidnaping (Charles S. Ross) and Murder; Relief: Judge Commends $2 a Week Budget to Senators; Shawneetown; Japan Makes a Gesture; Chinese Guerrillas Take a City: (Generalissimo) Chiang's (Kai-shek) Followers Rush Roads for Long Campaign of Attrition Against Invaders; French Compromise: A New 'National' Government Tackles Thankless Task; Among the Pharaohs: King (Farouk I) of Egypt and His Bride (Queen Farida) Respect Moslem Traditions; Rumania and Jews: King (Carol II) Sends Parliament Home; Goga Starts Persecution; Irish Settlement: Eire to Work With Britain on Defense Program; Young Alabama Painter (Charles Shannon) Impresses the Critics With Studies of Negroes; Church of New Jerusalem Observes 250th Anniversary of (Emanuel) Swedenborg; Mercy Killing Advocates of America and Britain Form Organization; Baseball's Hall of Fame Opens Its Door to Old Pete (Grover Cleveland Alexander), Reformed Pitcher; TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority): Defeat of Utilities; Word Fight in Washington; Ford (Motor Co.) Policy: Both NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) and U.A.W. (United Automobile Workers) Reject Company's Plan; Oil Price-Fixing: Sixteen Companies Convicted Under the Sherman Act; Anthracite: Pennsylvania Problem Gets Attention in Washington; Coast Shipping: Lack of Subsidies Imperils Route Through Canal; and The Consumer and Organization - Consumers Research and Consumers Union. Full Page vintage colour advertising with Dolores Del Rio promoting Lucky Strike Cigarettes. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1944Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
1966Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
1983Features: The Class of '82 - Tools of the Trade; Historic Preservation in Miniature; The Tiniest Doll Maker - Joyce Lynch; Making Minis Your Business - Janna Joseph; The Geometry of Marble Flooring; Stitch a Stewart Chair Seat; Cross Stitch Candlewicking workshop; Joann's Glass Tinsel Painting; Room of the Month - Sundaes 'n Sugar Cones, Part II; Bob Porter teaches Trimming; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1968Features: They called him Coyote - Scott Andrew Smith; Goodhearted and unlucky - Long George Francis; Stump-Jumper on the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail; Blue Riches Halfway to the Sky; Foster Child of the Kiowas - Millie Dergan; Why Badmen were Bad; Gay times in Gibbonsville, Idaho; Climb the Blackjack! - Longhorn Cattle; Climax Jim - Rustler Rufus Nephews, alias Jim Thomas; Noah H. Rose - frontier cameraman; Steamboat on Puget Sound - the Beaver; Oakes Rhymes with Hoax - D.C. Oakes and Pikes Peak gold; Last days of the great northern herd; 'an eye for an eye' was not enough - William Clark Quantrill and his band; Gunfighting tricks of the trade; complete reprint of scarce book - Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws and his Band of Train Robbers by G.W. Agee; and more. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1979Features: The Nine Lives of Captain Frank Jones; "I am no Coward" - Caspar Collins, young Lieutenant in Wyoming; When the Law hit the Strip (the Territory of Oklahoma); Hanging Bill Coons was such fun!; When President Harding Honored the Pioneers - a great day in Oregon, with photos; The Fort Mims Massacre, August 30, 1813 in Alabama; Sam Peppard's Folly - his wind-powered windwagon sailed on a sea of grass; Wagontrain Bride - Nathan Olney's scouts had a strange assignment, kidnap a girl, find a preacher, then hold the line against an irate father; Chuckhole Chuckles - no holds were barred in the old days of journalism and conversation; The Southwest's Greatest Tracker - John Johnson, veteran Negro cowhand; A Ranger of Commerce, or 52 years on the road, by Howard W. Peak; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
193724 pages. Contents: Battle over control of the nation's electrical power - with photo of TVA Director David E. Lilienthal; Photo of Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade; Photo of Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina; Conflict between General Motors and the United Automotive Workers of America - with photo of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Terrible Ohio River Flood; Rise of Militarism in Japan - with photo of Osami Nagano; Photo of Trotzky (Trotsky) who, from Mexico, claims the Moscow trial against him is "A giant frame-up"; Terror in Lisbon; Spanish Havoc - with photo of rebels praying; "Mirror Writing" - reversed writing; Old Turk exhibits his third set of natural teeth while Edmonton youth develops his fourth set!; Photo of Wendell Wilkie; Women in the News - Miss Mary Anderson; "Jane Bull"; Movie World - with photo of Martha Raye; Photo of Mrs. Molly TicklePitcher of Turnit Top Ridge, TN; Two-page article on Benito Mussolini - with photos; Photo of 'Little Corporal' J. Toussaint Bernard; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Most of back page missing. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195018 pages. Cover: Vic Damone Features include: A Dream Come True - Vic Damone; Versatile Songstress - Eileen Wilson; and Harmony is Their Trade: The Frank Petty Trio. Collection of lyrics to the popular songs of that era including: Are You Lonesome Tonight?; He's a Curbstone Cutie; Gone Fishin' and many more. 1" opening top front cover. Little wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
1911Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1911Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1971Features: Christmas and the Rockhound; Christmas Decorative; Center for Advanced Gem Studies; Last Chance Fossil Beds; Diamond Knowledge; I Bought a Bottle of Opal; Geodes; Tennessee Geodes; Its Pointsettia Time; Rockhounding in Lime Gulch; A Rockhound's Christmas Tale; Tools of the Trade; A Lapidary Christmas Tree. Somewhat above-average wear. Date stamp upon front cover. Sound reference copy. Magazine
1982220 pages. Features: The Mechanization of work; the mechanization of agriculture; the mechanization of mining; the mechanization of design and manufacturing; the mechanization of commerce; the mechanization of office work; the mechanization of women's work; the distribution of work and income; and more. Faint name and initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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; Trade with the Orient; News from Nanaimo and Ladysmith; B.C. Telephone announcment of new exchange at Ladysmith including list of all 33 numbers; Dr. Telford Case Proceedings; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "WANTED - Smart girl or an experienced woman for store (city). Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Book
199956 pages. Features: In the spirit of the Voyageurs - Two moderns paddle an old fur-trade route; The great gopher war - building a prairie tradition on pest control; The architect and the lady - The Rattenbury affair; Portraits of a first family of New France; Volunteers on guard for thee in the 18th century; Steamboat follies - the pleasures and perils of crossing Lake Simcoe. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
199456 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
190376 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the national congress of Chambers of Commerce in Montreal, August 1903 - with article by Ernest H. Cooper; The Threshing of the Grain - article by W.H. Belford with wonderful photos; Canadian Celebrity - Hon. Clifford Sifton; Two Lost British Columbia Towns - Douglas and Seymour; Roman, Greek, English and American Conceptions of Liberty; The British Embassy at Washington - article with photo; The War of 1812 - tenth instalment; The Pensionnaires, by Albert R. Carman - continued; Beneath the Dog's Fang - a Story of the Jacobites; Kingdom's "Break-in-Two", by J.W. Fuller; Current Events Abroad, by John A. Ewan; Woman's Sphere - edited by M. MacLean Helliwell; People and Affairs; Wonderful reproduction of a curling photo taken in 1872 on the Don River; List of contents of Volume XXI of this publication, May through October 1903. Many pages of amazing nostalgic Canadian ads, including photos ads for several private schools. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover and backstrip missing. Back hinge taped in place. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
1934This listing consists of pages 1-8 and 13-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Photo of Japanese, British and U.S. diplomates in England attemtping to replace the old London Naval Treaty; Chuckwalla wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island; Mayor Leeming will run again; Manchukuo disregarding protests against proposed oil monopoly in state; America wants to lead in removal of barriers against international trade - warns against extreme nationalism; Government passes first market plan under B.C. Statute to protect tree fruit growers; Burnett's Gin ad; Piggly Wiggly ad; Editorial page; nice illustrated ad for Rogers and Majestic "Mystery-Tube" radios; City and District News bits; Social pages; Travel page; Sports page with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about the 1934-35 Les Canadiens hockey team; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1906A massive Japanese commercial reference from the early 1900s. Approximately 2,000 pages. Text primarily in Japanese, other than the 18-page bilingual (Japanese/English) index and an intriguing bilingual fold-out sample of various contemporary export documents. Two items laid inside front board include a double-sided bilingual glossary of commonly used trade terms and a wonderful 22" wide by 16" high colour map of the world with trade routes to/from Japan indicated in red. Most text on the map is Japanese with some place names in both English and Japanese. Please note that library name is stamped through the blank upper right corner of the map. Elaborately gilt-decorated backstrip with title in Japanese and English bears considerable wear but is still handsome and, dare we say, mysterious. Per a handwritten inscription inside back board, this copy was presented to representatives of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo on 24 October, 1908 by Mr. Shonojo Moriyama, Proprietor of the Dobun_____. Edges adorned with partially-faded marbling. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A marvelously unique item. Book
193488 pages. A rare surviving copy of this vintage Canadian gardening periodical. Contents include: The Pansy; Roses for the Garden; The Scree - What is it?; Some Further Notes on the Iris; The Lily Pool - a new idea in pool construction; Youth in the Garden - building cold frames for pocket money; Glass substitutes in gardening; Some of our garden pests; and more. Many interesting contemporary ads plus a major Annual Directory of the Trade in Canada for 1934, including retailers, wholesalers, nurserymen, seedsmen, allied trades and buyers' guide. Back cover features ads by Empire Garden Nurseries, Sidney Roofing and Paper Col, Layritz Nurseries Ltd., and H.M. Eddie & Sons Ltd of Sardis, BC. Minimal pencil markings. Somewhat above-average external soiling and wear. Book
1996Articles: Adventures in the Sack Trade - London Merchants in the Canada and Newfoundland Trades, 1627-1648; The Battle for Convoy UC-1, 23-27 February 1943; Not More Ports, Better Ports - The Development of British Ports since 1945; Keeping the Local Economy Afloat - Canadian Pacific Navigation and Shipowning in Victoria, 1883-1901; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1997Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
1997Articles: The Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War; British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine; Management and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Ports; The Development of Strategic Concepts and Shipbuilding Programmes for the Soviet Navy, 1922-1953 - Stalin's Battleships and Battlecruisers; plus several book reviews. One article high-lighted in Table of Contents, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1998Articles: The Master's Measure - Remunerative Patterns for Hudson's Bay Company Captains, 1726-1736; Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865 - Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race; This Sad and Melancholy Catastrophe - Port Maitland, Ontario and the Wreck of the Troopship 'Commerce', 6 May 1850; A Dundee Ship in Canada's Arctic - SS Diana and William Wakeham's Expedition of 1897; The Historical Experience of Scaled-Down Nineteenth Century Drydock Technology; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book