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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
1999Articles: Women and Seamen Don't Mix - VD in Canada's Merchant Navy, 1943-1945; Home Ports and Destinations - English Shipping in the Baltic Trade, 1536-1547; The Living Conditions onboard UK Distant-Water Trawlers, 1945-1970; This Fraudulent Trade - Confederate Blockade-Running from Halifax During the American Civil War; plus several Book Reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1961Features: Rev. Dan McLellan has helped rescue 1,000,000 Peruvian Indians from poverty; After 3 centuries, leadership of America may be shifting from the weary East to the dynamic land beyond the Mississippi; We learned to live with tragic illness - a father tells what happened after his son and daughter-in-law, the parents of two youngsters, were stricken by crippling polio; Our new super-road - the controversial 41,000 mile interstate highway system and how it will change our lives; The Mystery of Charles de Gaulle; The Fleeting Fame of No-Hit Pitchers; The Great Wilderness Fight - Conservation vs. Commerce. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: The embarrassment of Louisiana - this state was glowing with prosperity until the integration conflicts broke out in all their ugliness; Abortion (part 2 of 3) - a reporter's portrait of the abortionists - who they are, and how they practice their trade; The face of America - River of Ice - photo of the Mendenhall Glacier; Pitfalls of buying a boat - Richard Bertram's Miami 'supermarket' sold $5,000,000 worth of sail and power vessels last year despite the disdain of competitors who think he's too high-pressured; A Call on the 'Candid-Camera' Man, Allen Funt; Can Ivan read better than Johnny? - Arthur S. Trace Jr. points out that Russian kids are far more literate than their American counterparts; Adventures of the Mind - The Hidden Heart of Nature, by Elliot Lovegood (E.L.) Grant Watson. Nice color Pepsi ad. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Gutter Politics, by Bruce L. Felknor - in every election year unscrupulous smear experts ply their shoddy trade; Eichmann and His Trial (Part 1 of 3), by Gideon Hausner - the full story, his prosecutor, the Attorney-General of Israel; Change of Pace on the Night-Club Scene - New York's grab bag of entertainment holds a varied fare for the enterprising visitor; His Car is Named Desire - with the racy Avanti, Studebaker's Sherwood Egbert hungers for big sales; 'Genius' at Green Bay - Jim Tayolr delivers running power for the Packers; From Greece - Food Fit for the Gods; Tale of Two Cities - San Francisco vs. Los Angeles; Memoirs of a Monster, by Boris Karloff - the world's most famous bogeyman looks back on his 35-year career in horror; Can we still be first on the Moon? (PLEASE NOTE: PAGES 83-84 MISSING FROM THE MOON STORY. Nice colour Cadillac ad inside back cover. Average wear. Book
193432 pages. Features: The War on Religion - with an anti-religious quote by Max Epstein, Vice-Commissar for Education; Notes of the Week; New Year Notes by Lady Houston, D.B.E.; A Conservative Leader?, by Kim; The Case of Patrick O'Malley, life-long trade unionist; Satirical full-page ad for the public auction of the nations of the Commonwealth; A Hair of the Dog that Bit You!; Air Progress Abroad, by Major Oliver Stewart; The Monstrous Shadow of 1934, by Robert Machray; More Grave Changes - British Legion Affiars; Eve in Paris; Political Madness - Conservative Party Heads for Suicide, by Colonel Sir Thomas A. Polson; Lord Dalhousie - Creator of Modern India - article plus full-page portrait on glossy stock; India - the Frost Continues, by Hamish Blair; Across a Century (Charles Lamb died December 27, 1834); New book news; News snippets from the empire; The Expensive Mr. Baldwin; Music reviews; Theatre notes; The Gamekeeper's Dog, by Eric Hardy; Broadcasting notes; Lady Houston's Cold Cure; Interesting back cover reproduction of a letter dated 23 May, 1917 signed by Ramsay MacDonald (and others) in support of the Russian Revolution, plus one of his more recent quotes, plus the suggestion that it was his intent that the British people pay for goods ordered by Russia from Britain. Faint libray stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
197254 pages. Contents: Four-page colour photo-illustrated tourism ad for Lebanon; Feature article on country music with many great colour photos, including Webb Pierce and wife at their guitar-shaped pool; Nashville Cats - photos of American cowboys, hobos, howlers, growlers, yodellers - and one dark stranger (country music stars); Motoring and the Law - automobiles produce more ways of breaking the law than any other aspect of modern life; Colour photo ad for Long Beach, British Columbia, Canada; Traps of the Trade - buying and selling a car is an area beset with pitfalls; Attractive full-page colour photo ad for Tonik; The Parking Jungle - a guide to the mystery of parking your car; When you Have an Accident; Colour photo ad for the Triumph 2.5 P.I. Chunk torn from fore-edge of page 12 affecting Hank Snow photo and part of the text of the country music article. Clipping from page 47 affecting text of article on 'when you have an accident'. Last page loose but present. Book
1945Unpaginated. 12" x 9" x 0.7". Contains issues from January 1945 through December 1946, a tumultuous time for labour in the wake of World War II. Topics include: Tennessee Poll Tax Fight; A New Revision of Marxian Economics, by Raya Dunayevskaya; Barriers on the Way to Socialism, by CARP; C.C.F confusion, by C. Luff; Marxism in New Zealand by R.R. Everson; Labor Conscription - the May-Bailey bill calls for a compulsory labor draft of 18 million workers from 18 to 45 years of age; Labor and Political Action, by Harmo; Vocationalism in Ireland; Comrade Adolph Kohn; The Future of Cartels; Capitalist Justice; An admittedly Imperfect World; 60 million jobs?; Will War Delay Socialism?; Success Story; The Meaning of Social Revolution; When G.I. Joe Comes Home; The Tinplate War; The Jinni and the Master; Inquiring Student Answered; Mexico; Do away with the Working Class; Human Nature as it Really is; Parasites in Fact and Fiction; Is the Status Quo Unchangeable?; Blood and Iron - contemplating the effect of WWII; Is Socialism Inevitable?; Scientific Socialism; Now that Germany has been knocked out, What Next?; The Nature of Co-ops; A Will for Socialism; Who ar the Workers?; Edward Bellamy; The Irish Scene; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Welcome Home, Joe; Canada Goes to the Polls; A Summer Morning in Dublin; Whom the States Serves; Forced Labor in Russia; A Philosopher Squelched - San Francisco Conference; British Election Message; Willow Run - this massive plant will soon be closed after making B-24 bombers for the war; The Great Divide; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Tobin and the Teamsters; S.P.G.B. Election Message; The War's End; Socialism in Britain?; War Memorials and Poverty; Detroit seething with unrest due to postwar industrial reconversion; Russia as she is; Poverty in New Zealand; From Military to Trade Wars; Atomic Energy; Has Britain Turned Socialist?; A Job with the City; Economics of Control; The Case for Socialism; Reformers Emasculate Unions; The Communications Revolution; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Insurance and Security; So this is Peace!; Wages and Prices; A Soldier Thinks; A Program for Workers; Yours - When you want it; The General Motors Strike - the union wants 30%; An American Seaman in India; Homeward Bound; Delusions of A White Collar Worker; Veterans are workers too; Who owns large corporations?; The Truth about Russia; Socialism and Personal Ethics; The Lenin Legend; Tale of Two Continents; Kaiser-Frazer Bonus Plan; Atomic Policy; Fetish of Full Production; What? - No Money!; Growing Tensions of Capitalism; Two Worlds; India; Henry in Wonderland; Family and Education in U.S.S.R.; How to Deal with the Atomic Bomb; Recruits Wanted; Opportunity under Capitalism; United Nations and War; Catholicism in America; The Rail Strike; From Boom to Bust; T.B. and Capitalism; Stocks don't make a capitalist; Know the Enemy; Fruits of Victory; Unions in Politics; A Note on American Culture; British Labor Government; Between Two Wars; Who Owns America; Materialist Basis of Religion; Selfishness; Occupational Trends in America; Letter to a Jewish worker; OPA - The Price Sieve; Ireland Today; Serfdom in a Free Society; Questions and Answers; Paris "Peace" Conference and World War III; The Sacred Cow; Full Employment and the Liberals; Berlin Letter; The Worker - That's You!; Unity; The Atomic Age; Where are the Unions Going?; Land of Plenty; The "Flood-Like" Form; Socialism or Capitalism?; An introduction to Economics; How About a 51% Majority; What do we mean by Socialism?. Sturdily bound in maroon boards. Unmarked. Average external wear. Contents clean and gently toning with age. Lettering upon backstrip dull but legible. A sound copy. Book
196039 pages. Features: Berlin's Girl Spies trade Allure for Secrets - Ernst "Jellyroll" Wollweber's Red Mata Haris keep Allied spy catchers busy - Ermgard Schmidt; Margarete Pfeiffer, 'Gardy' Schmidt, Ursula Schmidt; Trappers hit the Convention Trail to discuss Saskatchewan't oldest industry, trapping; Their Sound of Music Carries Far - Les Jeunesses Musicales; Lively sketches by the talented pen of Queen Victoria (part 2 of 2); Madame Butterfly's New Look - western influence has revolutionized the Japanese idea of feminine beauty (with photos); House party with a purpose - six California women (led by Mrs. Harold Collins) get together to clean each other's homes; Colour photo and feature of Boston Bruins star Leo Boivin; Ladder you can roll up; Marlene and Margaret Meldrum of Saskatoon perform in the Ice Follies; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
197568 pages. Features: Canadian budget battle over defense expenses; Robert Fulford and his 'Saturday Night' magazine; Photo of Janis Joplin performing; The Canadian Canvas - A Broad Sweep (of Canadian art); President Ford's risky plan against slumpflation; CIA director William Colby defends himself; Clouds over Playboy's Bunnyland - suicide of Bobbie Arnstein - article with photo of pall-bearer Hugh Hefner; In Defense of Politicians - Do We Ask Too Much?; Eight-page colour-photo illustrated centerfold ad feature by Macmillan Bloedel explains how forests grow; Barefoot Rudolf Nureyev; Moscow's repudiation of trade agreements a serious blow to detente; Saga of the (Henry) Jackson Amendment; Triumph for the moderates in China; Bloody peace in Indochina; The P.L.O. Strategy - Fight and Talk; Truce fails in Northern Ireland; Fragile independence in Angola; Trouble in Cyprus; Ujamaa's bitter harvest in Tanzania; Passing of Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, Gustavo Rohas Pinilla, Li Fu-chun and Alberta oil baron Eric Lafferty Harvie; Goalie Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon and the success of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings - photo-illustrated article; Basketball star Jimmy Wilkins; Jailed Baptist Georgi Vins; Troubled Trident submarine program - article with photo of construction at Bremerton, WA; Scandal in Education - Barbara and Harry Lowther; Artist Robert Rauschenberg; The General Dynamics YF-16 fighter wins a dogfight; Color photo ad for Panasonic TV features gent with monocle; Retailer W.T. Grant Co. cuts back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
194960 pages. Features and Articles: Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission is questioned about Government-financed scholarships for Communists, and more; U.S. Foreign Aid is whacked to save money; U.S. Military in-fighting involving the Consolidated B-36 and more; Louis Johnson - Master of the Pentagon; The Angels of the Truman Campaign; Victor Reuther; Ralph Bunche; Berlin Rail Strike"; Communist Gerhart Eisler is freed in London on a technicality; Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan are engaged - with photo; China - "The Communists Have Come"; Japan's Emperor Hirohito shifts from divinity to human monarch; Kis Tarcsa concentration camp in Hungary opened again to hold 8,000, 90% of whom are Jews; Willy Messerschmidt mass produces homes of steel and 'foam concrete' in Germany - with photos; Colour ad for DeSoto automobiles; Colour ad for Woodwind suits for men; Grasshoppers in Saskatchewan; Quebec City's Maison du Bucheron provides 55 rooms for loggers; Full page election ad for "Canada's Great Leader", Louis St. Laurent; Railroad construction in Latin America; Soccer contest - Scotland vs. St. Louis; Archibald Henderson of North Carolina; Acne misery; Bill Stern of NBC's Sports Newsreel; Dow Brewery ad features the train engine heroics of 58-year-old Fred Ryan; Pope Pius XII delivers manuscript of Papal Bull - with photo; Pastor Salau; V-2's rival - the U.S. Navy's Viking rocket; Eddie Rickenbacker on the Airlines; Rudy Fah Tongg showed the people of Hawaii how to get rich - early in the second world war he formed a hui which bought up properties of fleeing Caucasions; Sir William Stevenson and the World Commerce Corp.; Colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover; Bruck Mills colour ad on back cover. Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news" - from page 4. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Staining and occasional related damage to top one of two inches of many pages. A worthy copy. Book
1967Contents: Porsche ad; Murder and rape of Philippine nurses in Peoria; Punta Del Este; Riot scene in Aden; Nice color photo ad for the Plymouth Sport Fury; *Beautiful* full-page color photo ad for Reynolds Packaging - Pepsi in a can held by beautiful blonde; Duke Ellington; Photo of Johnny Carson smoking in bathing suit; Article on Woody Allen - photo of him with wife Louise; Photo of David Rockefeller at New York Chamber of Commerce; Lake Havasu Real Estate; China Airlines; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1968Features: Is there a freight car shortage? - No! - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 4; 100 mph plus on the MILW (Milwaukee Road) - a quarter-century ago steam made time that would make a diesel blush; Parlor Car East - the Long Island caters to the carriage trade (LIRR); Photo Section; The Crow and the Kettle - Canadian Pacific's unremarked crossing of the Continental Divide - article and photos; The Demi-Empire of Georgia-Pacific; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
195066 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194250 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Nine prize-winning photos from Railroadians' salon; The 6:57 - The Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast; Silverton Branch - Denver & Rio Grande Western's most remote train squeeze up the gorge of Rio de Las Animas Perdidas twice a week; World's Biggest (in 1883) - El Gobernador - Nineteenth-century Mastodon; The NYO&W - built new merchandise traffic to replace collapsed hard-coal trade; The Track Circuit - this simple electrical detector tells when a train is on the track, and is used in all types of signaling; Below the Mason & Dixon Line - Medium-sized railroads abound in the south; Bill Moore's Trip - aa first-class railroad vacation trip - across Canada on Canadian Pacific is the first lap; The Ubiquitous Rock Island - a photo spread. Average wear and soiling. Small address stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Railroad Vacations - suggestions for your summer trip - choice routes for scenic and rail interest; Gone From Our Town - Social life of village once centered around the station, but now the railroad's gone, by Vince Edwards; Fast Freight Line - Western Maryland Railway, rooted at the mines in West Virginia, is important as an Eastern trade trunk; Illinois Central Portfolio - Eight old engines and a touch of the flavlor of modern power from a great North-South route; SP Cab-In-Front; Norfolk & Western's Spring Cleaning - photos of manual labour; Groucho, Harpo & Rio Chico RR - A Reel Railway in which the Marx Brothers take over the Sierra RR. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194350 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Great Northern Electrics - The Cascade electrification ; The Man in the Tower; Colorado Midland - a martyr to the cause of commerce and industry - major article with many super photos; Old EL Locomotives - they turned on a nickel; New Illinois Central 4-8-2's - Data on the 2600 class; Worth it in Cold Cash - capable legal and claim departments often save a railroad their cost many times over; Chicago Subway - after 39 years of planning, Windy City approaches goal of underground transit; "War Babies" - denied new locomotives by War Production Board, railroads turn to rebuilding some of their older power - many shop photos; First "Pacific"? - CM&StP conversion. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
1980144 pages. Features: Alaska Limit Seiners; Bill Grunwald - 26 different boats to order; Caring for deserving tools; The History of Small Yacht Design - Part I - SCHEMER and the skimming dishes; How to build PICCOLO, Part II; How to build a double paddle; LADY JEANNE - a liveaboard Maine lobsterboat; The Biloxi Schooners - the 'white queens' of the early oystering and shrimping trade; Liberated Caulking - burn the mallet; The Backbone - Part IV - the marriage of ballast and keel; Herringbone - a quick and reliable repair stitch; Milling Your Own - using a chainsaw mill to get the lumber you want. Short opening at top of coverfold. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1981160 pages. Features: Mast Protection; Welcome to Hard Times - a conversation with Dean Stephens; The Elements of Seamanship, Part III; A Classic in Plywood, Part II - Planking up the Bolger rowing dory; Building the House - cabin fever in the boat yard; Knock on Wood - Part III; Zahniser's; Wooden Yachts Earning Their Keep - Chartering as one solution; Keeping Up With LINDO - maintenance on a Baltic trader in the tropics; The International Boatbuilding Training Center - Britain's industry-sponsored school for the trade; Learning to Build in Wood - a survey of American boatbuilding programs. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
193324 pages. Contents: Openings for Return of Industrial Prosperity Reduced to Simple ABC Proposition; Muscle Shoals Bill Signed, with photo of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska; Trade Contro-Public Works Bill to Put Millions to Work; Illustration of James A. and Amy Johnson Mollison - The Lindberghs of England; Japanese troops occupy Peiping (Beijing); Hitler Accepts Roosevelt Peace Plan; Photo of Rep. Louis T. McFadden who is out gunning for tax evaders, and wants to impeach nearly everybody, including Secretary Woodin and 24 past and present Federal Reserve officials; Photo of President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Circuses and Carnivals Still have attractions - article with illustration of Jimmy Campana, Los Angeles strongman, actually being catapulted through the air from a modern crossbow; Aviation - with illustration of Commodore Alger H. Dresel with regard to the Akron disaster; Capital Chat; Before and after photos of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetary; Broadcasting; St. Lawrence Project Favored and Opposed; Illustrations of Viscount Kikujiro Ishii and Mrs. Woodin, wife of the Treasury Secretary; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Alcohol in Gasoline - pros and cons; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
ref. 40583aafLeipzig, Adolf Gumprecht, 1856, in-8°, VIII + 302 S., Stockfleckig, unbeschnitten, Original-Broschüre.
1932Former owner's name faintly in pencil atop front cover, else unmarked. Stapled contents separated from cover. Covers well-worn but contents good or better. Back cover graced with black and white advertisement from the Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources featuring image of a man tightening his belt. Features: Seeing with invisible light - use of ultr-violet light makes possible the 9000 power microscope; A new dam-reconditioning method - concrete facing is of novel construction; Editorials - synthetic rubber - studies in sex - we build ships; Is space expanding? - evidence points to the fact that the universe is exploding; Mechanical stevedores aboard ship - ship is converted into a "self-unloader"; Gorilla - greatest of all apes - thrills of a scientific expedition's hunt for gorillas; Safety rules for the airways - Department of Commerce regulations are all-inclusive; Eugenics for cows but not for humans - much of so-called eugenics is based upon fallacies; Marking the nations's boundaries - Questions of state's boundaries are complex and interesting; New York's newest subway cars - cars for new line are greatly improved; What science really is - why had the Greeks or the Chinese no Industrial Revolution?; Erosion Dares the west - a menace and the measures that must be taken to defeat it; From the archeologist's note book; Curious lead tablet, Luristan bronzes, a benevolent hippopotamus, a road of the ages; Analyzing "Archies" shots - Theodolite records shell-bursts in movies for close study; New and exotic delights for our table - many delicious fruit and vegetable immigrants in American markets. Book