1973333 pages. Index. "The first comprehensive study of parliamentary reform up to 1832." - from dust jacket. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Worthy reference copy. Book
2000297 pages. Index. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Professor Grubel, M.P. for Capilano-Howe Sound provides biographical background which culminated in his term in Ottawa. An engaging read, particularly for those interested in economic policy, the Reform Party, and the Canadian federal political scene in the 1990s. The biographical portion is candid, enlightening and entertaining. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for 'discarded' ink stamp atop title page. A sound copy. Book
2004296 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by Deborah Grey upon title page. Nice selection of black and white photographic plates. "Grey made Canadian history by becoming the first Reform Party MP in 1989... She was instrumental in the formation of the new Conservative Party of Canada." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
2004170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
1947115 pages. Index. Bibliography. Presents "the failures and minor triumphs of the Canadian penal reformists.... It behooves us... to ask ourselves why the Canadian story of penalogy is as it is - and why in this year A.D. 1946 a John Kidman is required to advocate measures and reforms so transparently necessary." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket nicely preserved in Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
1972Features: Canada's a great place to visit, especially if you live here! - great places to visit are presented with photos, some in colour; Colin Brown - right-wing revolutionary, fighter against medicare and tax reform - Canada's leading crusader against big government and modern permissiveness; 'Jailbreak Canada' game; *Please note that pages 23-26 are missing*; Cheer up Ron - Ron Taylor, relief pitcher from Toronto whom the Montreal Expos bought from the New York Mets last October, is released by GM Jim Fanning; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
2004264 pages. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound working copy. Book
1963Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
191810 pages. "A lecture delivered before the Psycho-Therapeutic Society at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, January 17th, 1910." - from page 3. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Some age-toning. Pencil underlining and marginalia. Prior owner's ink stamp atop front cover. Book
193648 pages. Features: Nostalgic Goodrich Tire photo ad inside front cover shows grieving family and their car after a blowout; Nice full-page photo ad for International Harvester heavy duty industrial equipment; Nice full-page photo ad for Canada Dry beverages; Horse Doctor (fiction); Our Olympic Chances - article with photos of athletes Hank Ciemen, Sammy Richardson and Phil Edwards; Honors Easy - fictional story of what happened aboard an Atlantic liner when two card sharps picked a 'sucker'; Revolt in Quebec - second in a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian's interpretation of Quebec's reform movement and the viewpoint of French Canada toward Confederation; Nemesis in Hind - a story of glamorous India, the India where death strikes mysteriously and superstition holds sway; Treasure Under the Arctic's Rim - the mineral wealth of Great Bear Lake; A Man and a Hundred Maids - a story of how too many girls may be worse than none at all; Gun-A-Noot - the strange case of the Indian who defied police for thirteen years and emerged from his trial as a hero; Beautiful full-page black and white photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring horse "Margo C", owned by Miss Faith Lyman of Montreal; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover holding loosely by one staple. Book
1972428 pages. Index. Bibliography. Fold-out map at back. "Traces the development of Straits society, viewed not from London or Calcutta but from the settlements themselves and especially the capital in Singapore... Examines the social, administrative and economic character of the settlements, the problems of external defence and piracy, relations with the Malay states, and the long history of pressure for constitutional reform and transfer to direct colonial rule." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Average wear to book. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
193324 pages. Contents: Taxes in Sight - Can't Balance Budget - Is a National Sales Tax Coming?; Opposition to new taxes; Reaction to Rhode Island Vote - with illustration of Senator Peter G. Gerry, Democratic Leader; Illustration of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross Chairman; No Federal Dole After Fall; New Mint at San Francisco and New Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky; Foreign News; Hitler keeps up pressure on Catholics and Jews; Attempted assassination of Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas; Italy offered land by Selassie to ward off threat of fight with Ethiopia; Current events - with illustration of boxer Joe Louis and photo of Senator William E. Borah; Congress; Capital Chat; Marketing; Many Interesting Methods Used in Color Printing; Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Photo of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; Science News; Aviation - Pan-American making final arrangements for California-China air route; Women of the world gaining rights they have long fought for; Photo of Japanese young ladies available for marriage through the matrimonial bureal; Social Security Law - key stone of new deal social reform to benefit 30 million; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193724 pages. Contents: Wanted - A Program for Flood Control; Photo of Jean Harlow kissing Senator Robert L. Reynolds of North Carolina; General Motors Strike - with photo from behind the strikers' battle line; C.C. Fleming of Chelan, WA is tasked with spending $200 in a month; Digest of Hitler's interesting two-hour speech, with photo of him inspecting troops; Article on Moscow's show trials with photo of Karl Radek; Spanish Lull; Canada talks constitutionsl reform; Japanese Cabinet News; Photo of Gilbert Lewis who has been working to improve the status of minority stockholders; "Feminine" Thugs; Photo of Dr. Clarence Cook Little who declared to birth control workers that their job was "deeply religious"; Article on marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns to 9-year-old Eunice Winstead Johns in Tennessee; Manila cleans up for International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church, with photo of Cardinal Dougherty; Editorial; Last words of Gregory Piatakoff in Russia; Article on Joseph Stalin, with photo; Photo of actor John Trent; Photo of Reformer Hamilton Fish of New York; Back cover ad for the McCleary Sanitarium & Clinic of Excelsior Springs, MO; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2004178 pages. "... the author has not pulled any punches in his condemnation of Jean Chretien's record. But he reserves a special contempt for Chretien's cabinet and Liberal caucus, who could have stopped Chretien in his tracks at any time, but ttook the dishonourable path of clinging to their comfortable offices and fat pensions and vaporous celebrity." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked but for gift greetings on page iii. Negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
1936Over 300 pages. Above-average wear. Occasional markings. Binding intact. Intended to explain "the economic world of here and now, with its marvelous productive efficiency and unemployment; its intricate facilities for exchange and monetary confusion; its frenzied attempts at reform and ordered progress toward institutional readjustments." - from Preface. A fascinating depression-era work to contemplate as the world's economy collapses again seventy years later. Intended for high school students, the text is concise and easy to understand. A pity our leaders have not considered its wisdom. Book
1948240 pages. Special Features: "Get Out the Vote" - Reform in Richmond; What Price Painless Childbirth?; Who Should Go to College?; Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 (inc. full page colour print of "A Girl With a Watering Can"); This Is the Way the World Washes; Your America (Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Rainier, Crater Lake); How America Lives: Meet a TVA (Electric) Family - Ed and Amaline Hodges. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, Plymouth, General Motors Frigidaire, Seven-Up (7-Up), Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and Campbell Soup w/ Campbell Soup Kid. Full page black/white ad with Maureen O'Hara promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad with movie star Alan Ladd promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1963Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
1983224 pages. Signed and dated by Ted Byfield upon front free endpaper. Mr. Byfield served honourably and effectively as a voice for right-thinking western Canadians for many years. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
1971xxv, 425 pages. Index. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
2000176 pages. Index. "...Gives an inside look at the man who would become leader of the new Canadian Alliance Party, positioning himself to take a run at Prime Minister Jean Chretien in the next federal election." - from back cover. Mr. Day went on to become a prominent cabinet minister in minority Conservative governments led by Stephen Harper. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1961126 pages. Features: The Life England's Queen Lives with her husband, her children, and her job - Part I of 3; Romantic Suspense Novel - Condensed and complete; Five Miracle Do-Overs to Please the Man in your life; Unforbidden sweets for calorie counters! Live well on $2500 a year; Should a man marry a woman who's trying to reform him?; Beautiful sweaters you can trip; How I lost 130 pounds; Greer Garson dramatizes food; Woodlawn Plantation - the most famous wedding present in America; Matilda and Emanuel Ekblad - life before and after retirement. Dr. Roy Deal and his wife Edith in retirement. Ads: Great two-page colour photo ad for Frigidaire fridges; Cutex lipsticks; Sunkist lemons; and many more. Average wear. Chips from spine. Some soiling and minor moisture marks to back cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
199764 pages. Features: The RCMP's handling of a drug case is marred by mishap and tragedy - Eugene and Michele Uyeyama murdered; Special report on Canada's federal opposition - The Reform Party/Preston Manning/Keith Martin/Gilles Duceppe; Alexa McDonough - the NDP's new leader needs a seat, a profile and more MPs; Jean Charest attempts to revive federal Tories; John Savage - Time to Bow Out; Burr, Saskatchewan - striptease fever; War on biker gangs in Saint-Nicholas, Quebec; John Major's Last Stand, with photo of scumbag Tony Blair holding Sun Paper bearing Rupert Murdoch's endorsement of him; Contentious developments in the EU; Vultures close in on the Eaton's Empire; SaskTel - Canada's last public phone firm may vanish; Upsetting Chretien's electoral applecart, by Peter C. Newman; The Blue Jays and the Expos - a tale of two budgets, with photo of Roger Clemens in Jays Uniform; Elvis Stojko Reigns Again; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1995347 pages. Index. Selected Bibliography. Footnotes. "Follows Caroline Macdonald's life and career, focusing primarily on her work in Japan on behalf of incarcerated criminals... (Macdonald) also established a social settlement, Shinrinkan - the Home of the Friendless Stranger - and was a mentor of labour union leaders and social democratic politicians." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Light overall wear with some bumping to bottom edge of boards. A sound copy. Book
194488 pages. Features: Brief obituaries for Dr. James McKeen Cattell and Admiral Mark Kerr; Bing Crosby's crutch with folding seat; Cute color ad for Bryand gas heating features Chihuahua; Reynolds Aluminum ad features astounding photo inside Fort Worth plant building Liberator Bombers - as far as the eye can see!; Photo of Pvt. Bob Kearney and Sgt. Jack Malone on the beach below Rome; New Blows in Italy and Russia put more Cracks in Nazi Wall; Extensive war coverage; Release of Leningrad; Photo of 75-millimeter howitzer crew on Cape Gloucester, New Britain enduring mud and rain; Other photos of Marines tending fallen buddy and toughing out the heat; Photo of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and his officers crossing Piazza Venezia in Rome; Discussions between de Gaulle and Churchill; Nice color General Tire ad with cartoon about recapping; Nice military-themed Camel cigarettes ad features Ethel Brett and Marine training photos; Koala rescue photos at Quail Island; Uncommon ad for Pennsylvania-Central Airlines; Photos of prison reform in Georgia which, until recently, had floggings, sweatboxes and chains; Rail settlement paves way for new wave of raise demands; Photo of Ford workers Neil Smith and John Elvin of the Edgewater, NJ plant - who were suspended from the union for working too fast!; Seagram's V.O. color ad features interesting artist's rendering of a future submarine salvaging submarine; Eddie Rickenbacker photo in Hotel New Yorker ad; War Bond ad sponsored by Timken features portrait of General Marshall; Nice one-page ad for movie "Destination Tokyo" starring Cary Grant and John Garfield; Nice 2/3-page Snap-on Tools ad for their Torqometer (torque wrench); And much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: The Senator Nobody Knows - William E. Borah will not play politics; Our Soldiers and Reform of Court-Martial System - Ex-Noncommissioned Officer says that in the World War American Soldiers were tried by Court-Martial System of George III; Heroes of the Air Mail - they carry on every day of the year, through rain or fog, over mountains and treacherous valleys; Lo! The Poor Indian, A Citizen Who Has Few Rights; Did High Freight Rates Occasion the Discovery of America?; Henry Ford's Page - America is a challenge to other nations to put their social foundations at the bottom instead of the top; Editorials - anti-American forces arrayed against Hon. Albert Johnson, Farmer Butte discovers dinotherium in Ohio, gunplay in Pittsburgh; Exploring Where Paul Preached - notable architectural and art treasures unearthed on the site of ancient Antioch - photo-illustrated article; The Lobster is Supreme in the village of Cape Porpoise; Can Courage be Cultivated?; Chats with Office Callers; The Strange Transient Woman - A One-Act Play; I Read In the Papers; Can You Tell Me? Soiling to front cover near spine. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book