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197543 pages. "The basic skills of trapping, preparation of pelts and marketing are outlined. When followed in principle, these methods will lead to better utilization of your trapping time, greater fur yields, finer quality pelts and higher prices for your product. The Conibear trap is highly recommended for the harvesting of aquatic and some small fur bearing animals." - from Foreward. Abundantly illustratrated with helpful detailed diagrams. Undated. Circa 1970s. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound working copy of this excellent reference. Book
1967Features: The saga of blue-eyed Herman Wol - Old Wolf Post; Indian Saddle Makers; Artist Paul Dyck collects Rare Indian Saddles; Somebody lost $3 million - The Islander goes down in Alaska's Inside Passage with gold on board; Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead - Roping a Bear in Montana!; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - J.Lee Humfreville; The Bane of Thieves - Dave Cook of Colorado; Jack Healy - the horse tamer; Meat's Meat - a starving man will eat anything; Powder River Expedition - General Patrick Connor and an ill-fated Sioux campaign in Wyoming; Saint or Devil - Padre Antonio Martinez of New Mexico; The Atoka Track - old Choctaw country; The Wanderers, by Rosie M. Norrish; In Defense of the 'old-time' coyote; The Backtracker - John Clarke of Comanche Texas tracks down his son's murderer; Wild Old Days!. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1984292 pages including index. The unique reference book that will lead gardeners quickly and easily to the plants that will look best and grow best in their own particular gardens. Over 1,400 garden plants, all illustrated in full colour, are systematically organized according to growing conditions, purpose and appearance. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this superb reference. Book
1962Features: Last Chance for the Moon - Sen. Clinton P. Anderson argues only a nuclear-powered rocket can overtake Russia's lead in space; My Life with New York Juvenile Gangs (part 1 of 3) by Vincent Riccio - many photos; Star without an Image - outspoken, unpretentious Joanne Woodward manages to hide herself behind a hundred make-believe roles; Ghana - Neutral on the left - nice color photos; Taming the Colorado - Article with great photos of the Glen Canyon Dam under construction; Strong boy of the Minnesota Twins - Harmon Killebrew; Stylish Entertaining at Home; Living High on $6500 a Year - Darrell Huff, a free-lance jack-of-all-trades tells how a family can live like millionaires on a modest income; The Decline and Fall of Friendship - one of humanity's greatest blessings is sadly out of fashion; Nelson Rockefeller - Does he have a future with the G.O.P.?. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
199346 pages. Features: Mayoral ads for Joy Leach and Larry Iwaskow; Moving on from the Mill - Port Alberni's work-force heads into the 90s; Big Changes - a new Nanaimo City Plan will lead downtown and the waterfront into the next century - with large photo of Victoria Crescent; Photo of the Gordon St. area and the old Malaspina Hotel; Photo of Gino Sedola on the Visiting Vessel Pier; Ian le Cheminant and the Victorian restoration of the Thomson residence on Milton St. - article with construction photo; Phantoms of the Island, by Linda Putnam - discusses Kanaka Pete (Peter Kakua); Super aerial photo of downtown Nanaimo with Cameron Island under construction; Dozens of ads for local small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
196348 pages. Features: There's a New Chic to the Soviet Woman - the tough austerity of Stalin's era has begun to soften, and the ladies are taking the lead - article with great photos; Cowboy Charioteers - brief article and three photos of chariot racing in Idaho; How Billy Barker Won his V.C. (Victoria Cross) - It was One Against 60 so he decided to Ram! - long article with illustrations; Yukon Artist Inger Fiskaa - article with photos; Regina's Wascana Lake Bird Sanctuary - article with photos; Candles With a Twist - a profitable business for Creston, B.C. teacher Sigurd Askevold - story with photos; Princess Alexandra of Kent Becomes a Scotsman's Bride - story with great colour photos; Leo Durocher Explains Why the Spitball Ain't Nasty - photos with story; German Kurt Hill Became a Sarcee Indian in Alberta - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Lowney's Glosette Raisins - back when they came in the red box with the window; Colour photo ad for Angel Face Lipstick; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 4"x10" clipping from page 39 only affects recipe and cartoon; Kiddie Who Needs a Caddie - Five-Year-Old Andrew McConnell is a good golfer - short article with five photos; A quality copy. Book
196828 pages. Features: Alberta is Manning Country - Excellent article on Ernest Manning who took over as head of government in Alberta twenty-five years ago - colour photo of E.C. Manning and black and white photo of his son Preston Manning; Interview with Montreal Model Nicole Deslauriers - article with photos; Interview with golfer Billy Casper - article and photos; Nice colour ad for the CCM Firebird bicycle which has a 'banana' seat and endorsement by Bobby Hull; Article on Lasers; "The Fool" - Barry Finch and his group of designers lead London in way-out fashions - article with colour photos; Hires Root Beer ad; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 3"x 8" clipping from page 23 only affects recipe and preview of next issue. A quality vintage copy. Book
1923Pages 301-346. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; As the road unrolls - some impressions of an early summer motor trip - feature article with great photos; Future policies of the Republican Party - Three New Hampshire leaders analyze the situation - a revival of party loyalty wanted, A party program, a forward-looking party; Polar caves - short article with photos; The day old chick industry in New Hampshire; The Road to Lariat; Three women who lead New Hampshire club work - Mrs. Clara Fellows, Mrs. G.E. Speare and Mrs. George H. Morris; An anthology of one poem poets; Gould Hill Farm - How a fine apple orchard grew from small beginnings - article with great photos; A gold mine in Jerseys - George M. Putnam's Herd of Champions - great article with photos; New Hampshire Necrology; Great full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. showing their No. 11 mill - the largest textile manufacturing plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; and more. Average wear. External soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
196748 pages. A very 'sixties' publication complete with cover photo of young girl wearing coonskin cap. Authentic "off the record" arrangements. Songs include: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You; Black is Black; Born Free; Day Tripper; Eleanor Rigby; Hungry; Kicks; Last Train to Clarksville; Michelle; Nineteen Days; 96 Tears; Penny Lane; Pipeline; Rain; Secret Agent Man; She; Strawberry Fields Forever; Taxman; Tijuana Taxi; Time Won't Let Me; Ups and Downs; (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet. Average wear. Minimal markings. Binding intact. A sound and copy of this uncommon compilation of great 60's hits. Very nostalgic. Book
198266 pages. Features: Orbital photography; From chaos to cabinets; Getting involved brings rewards; Focus on junior high; Part-time travelogues lead to full-time audiovisual production; Improve sales with better filing; Converting is cheaper than building - abandoned service stations provide inexpensive studio locations; Tax talk. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
196348 pages. Features: Money - Suddenly everybody's owing it - Nine out of ten Canadian families are now living and playing with things they haven't paid for; Which Way Will Mexico Lead Latin America?; Lynn Seymour - what it takes to become an international star - many photos; The new assault on smoking; The anatomy of John Profumo's big lie - behind the greatest scandal of the century; I was shipwrecked on a coral reef - a girl sailor's log of a classic adventure at sea, by Myrna Birch; Great colour photo ad for Sterling London Dry Gin. 5"x4" clipping from Metropolitan Life ad on page 10 does not affect any meaningful content. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2003132 pages. Colour photography throughout. Most text in English. Features: Interview with Shashi Kapoor; Travelling in Kashmir; Gulmarg - the ultimate winter destination; Trout fishing in Kinnaur; Skiing at Nainital; Animal Magic of Mudumula; Euphoria Lead Singer Palash Sen; Diet freak Sachin and foodie sibling Sarika Pilot remember their childhood; How the forest backdrop changed Goutam Ghosh and the crew of 'Abaar Aronnye'; Wow Macau!; Sangai Surprise; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1995112 pages. Features: Risa Buck went off the grid in Ashland; Kurt Nelson combines solar electricity and science education in a space station simulator for students in Wausau, WI; Mark Whitaker powers some of his appliances with solar electricity; Ely Schless's electric power bike; Electric Vehicle Charging and Maintenance; Visit to a lead recycling factory; The evolution of hot water heaters; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1974Features: We shall never surrender - a look at the vintage planes flown by the RAF and FAA; The RAF's first jet fighter - a close look at the Gloster Meteor - in service for nearly thirty years!; De Havilland's Vampire - was England's first single engine jet fighter; Sea Hawk - the FAA's first modern jet fighter; The Hunter - Hawker's Classic Jet Fighter; The Delta Javelin; Blackburn's Battling Buccaneer; Two for the Sea - the venom and the vixen, protectors of the fleet; Twin-Engine Lightning - one of the first interceptors ever built; Phantom - the F-4K and F-4M help modernize the FAA and RAF; Harrier - the world's only operational VTOL aircraft; the early machines flown by the American military; the idea of a small easily stored fighter fascinated early designers; the Fledglings - the early Boeing fighters led the way to more modern warplanes; The elegant Curtiss Hawks - Curtiss kept its Hawk series of fighters in action for 20 years; Boeing's Battling Biplanes - a close look at the famous F4B/P-12 series of bi-winged fighters; XF7B-1 - Boeing's Model 273 boasted many new features; The fighters of Berliner Joyce - a company that is now almost unknown produced a number of reliable fighters; Grumman's Flying Barrels - Grumman's early biplanes firmly established their lead with naval fighters; P-26 Peashooter, first of the modern fighters; Some little-known fighters; Rumblings of Mars - surviving examples of the P-35, P-36, and P-64 are rare; P-38 Lightning; The Cobras - the unusual Bell P-39 and P-63 are virtually extinct types; Warbird Color Portfolio, Part One; P-40 Hawks; P-47 Thunderbolt; P-51 Mustang; Wildcat; Corsair; Warbird Color Portfolio, Part Two; Hellcat; Tigercat; Bearcat; Joe McConnell - Top Korea Ace; Thunderjet over Korea; The Last Thunderstreak; Lost at Sea - dramatic naval aircraft accident photos on the high seas; Skyraider - the best all-around airplane of the bloody Korean War; Korean Invaders; Leatherneck Corsairs over Korea - a pictorial essay; 'Mayday, I've been hit!" - a young naval pilot's experiences during the Korean War; Sea Fury MiG Tangler - the Hawker Sea Fury distinguished itself vs. the MiG; Flying the F-82 in Combat; Project Firefly - the Gooney Bird; The Mustang's Last Stand - the (P)F-51 Mustang reached the twilight of its combat career above Korea; The Sabre Saga; The Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star's Short-Lived Glory - it was no match for the MiG-15 over Korea; Flying the F-82 in Combat; and more. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1970Features: Old-Time Line Camp Christmas; Lost Tres Amigos Diggings in Baja California; The West of Gary Cooper; Rough Justice - astonishing incidents; Wealth of the Santa Clara - silver and lead; Horror at Midnight - a little cabin becomes a butcher shop in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Top Man of the Fearless Thirteen - Burt Mossman; Bill Fairweather's Luck - he struck it rich in Alder Gulch; Bachelor Miners - great photos of various cabin styles; When Charles A. Siringo was Marked for Death; The Virginian, by Owen Wister; Letters from the 'Bloody First' - the bleak life of an enlisted man in the 1860s; Just Baling Wire - photos of various uses!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1973545 pages including index. Chapters include: Commercial Explosives; Blasting Supplies and Accessories; Blasting with Safety Fuse; Blasting Electrically; Blasting with Detonating Cord; Loading Explosives; Blasting in Underground Mines; Blasting in Coal Mines; Tunnelling Operations; Surface Blasting Operations; Blasting Ditches, Stumps, Boulders, Gravel Pits, Fills, etc.; Seismic Prospecting; Use of Explosives for Special Purposes; Transportation, Distribution and Storage; Accident Prevention; Electric Blasting Caps - Average Resistances; Copper Lead Wire - Resistance and Capacity; Maximum Number of Electric Blasting Caps for Series-in-Parallel Circuits; Properties of C-I-L High Explosives; Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Approximate Average Weight per Cartridge; Approximate Average Weight of Explosives per foot in Column Loads; Properties of C-I-L Permitted Explosives. Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Loading Densities. Appendices include: Blasting Check-up Form; Calculations for a Large Electrical Blast; Average Weight of Various Materials; Abstract Revised British Table of Distances. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Hiking and Camping Forum; Canada's Quetico Park; San Nicolas - The Passing Island; The Golden Bird - the Yellow Warbler; Ice Caves amid Lava Beds - near Winona, Arizona; The Truth about Cloudbursts; Celia Thaxter - Poet of Nature; Birds lead Hazardous lives; Grass Bouquets; A Valiant Lance Bearer; Tracking Microcosmic Giants; Conservation - tests for hunting licenses; The Truth about the Black Bear; Duck 'Abundance'; Save Yosemite Sugar Pines; Vermin Hunts; Leopold on Waterfowl; Hercules - the Giant Sky-Figure. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1950287 pages. Index. Black and white photos. Detailed diagrams. Features "Canada Tru-Lay steel wire rope for every purpose". Contents include: Flattened Strand; Wire Rope Slings; Wire Rope Fittings; Care and Maintenance; Splicing of Wire Rope; Excavating and Contracting Ropes; Industrial Ropes for Material Handling; Ropes for Mining; Logging Ropes; Marine Ropes; Gas and Oil Well ropes; Elevator Ropes; Engineering data; Glossary. Diagrams of the High Lead, North Bend/Tight Skyline, Skidder, Slack Line, and Tyler Systems of log transport. Great series of photos demonstrating how to splice a very thick wire rope. Decorated black imitation leather covers. Prior owner's detaills inside front cover. Binding somewhat tender but intact. Average soiling and wear. A worthy copy of this nostalgic, interesting and informative volume. Book
1966Features: Where will Daniel Johnson lead Quebec? - article with photos; A Little Girl in a Big Big Town - girls like Barbara Fulton come to Toronto by the thousands for a career, a pad and a man - many photos with article; Sam Olan wanted to put on a good show (Opera) - so look where it got him - photos with article; Where's the Walking Woman Waling? - for the past five years Canadian artist Michael Snow has only painted walking women; Calgary Yanks - oil brought 30,000 Americans to Calgary; The Secret Life of Eddie Shack, Gourmet! - article and photo; One Man, One Wreck, One Cause - BC businessman Robert Malkin took action against lax drinking and driving laws after his son, Kit was killed, by Barry Broadfoot; Great vintage colour photo ad for Honda automobiles, the convertible and the G.T. Fastback Coupe; Postcript to death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's indictment re: Aiyoot and Shooyook, two Eskimos charged with murder; When the Ghost Walked at Barrett's Landing, by Helen Wilson; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Bob Trimbee argues for athletic scholarships to keep our whiz kids north of the line; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
197172 pages. Features: The Killing of Antoine Fiant - Nate, Clay & George Kinsley, Metis; Old LeMoigne's Lead Mine - John LeMoigne, Rhyolite, Nevada; They Didn't All Die with their Boots On - Bill Tilghman, Cole Younger, William Milton Breakenridge; Grass-Grown Streets in Sierra Nevada - Part III; Jose (Maria) Polancio - Killed by Indians; Loopholes and Nooses - George Webster; William S. "Bill" Hart; Legend of Howards Well; Victoria's Gayest Rogue - John Charles Butts, Victoria BC; Free "Homes" in the Pecos Valley - Bill Morgan, James Carper; Spanning the Monster Deschutes - Joseph H. Sherar - . Above-Average wear. Pen marks and highlighting. Sound working copy. Book
197179 pages. Circa 1971. Includes the following classic songs: I Feel the Earth Move; So Far Away; It's Too Late; Home Again; Beautiful; Way Over Yonder; You've Got a Friend; Where You Lead; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; Smackwater Jack; Tapestry; (you make me feel like) A Natural Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. One of the best songbooks of all time. Book
1947296 pages. Special Features: Justice and Common Cause; Educating Children for Failure; Do Men or Women Lead the Harder Life?; Someone to Talk To; Which is the Weaker Sex?; Cancer - I've Had It; Your Money Or Your Life!; Accentuate the Positive; If I Only Had More Confidence; How America Lives: "Peace, It's a Problem" - William and Mary Conrad; "Combat Fatigue" In Marriage; and Your Baby's Best Food - Mothers Milk. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Ilustrators include: Al Parker, Roy Spreter, Harry Anderson and Douglass Crockwell. Full page colour vintage print advertising including 1947 Ford Sedan, Welch's Grape Juice, Camay and Seven-Up. Full page colour ad with Claudette Colbert promoting Max Factor Hollywood. Full page black/white ad with Esther Williams promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Average wear. Few small openings front/back cover at spine and fore-edge. A clean copy. Magazine
1955Features include: An Amateur's Experiments; Beginners' Handbook: Using Names and Terms Correctly; Epidendrum moyobambae - Collectors' Items; Effects of Growing Orchids Under Full Sun with Circulating Air; A New Lead from an Eight Month Old Herbarium Specimen of Thunia alba; Ten Easy and Delightful Orchids for the Amateurm Collection and Merits and Demerits in Cypripediums. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
1936Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
1983Features: Exchanging prisoners in East Germany for West German money; Dian Cohen implores the Prime Minister to 'lead us or leave us' - two million Canadians are unemployed; Coverage of Trudeau's Asian junket; Cat and mouse - the RCMP and Soviet spies in Ottawa; Dollard Menard takes on the Generals; Cover Story - Donald MacDonald's royal commission on the economy; The 1930s nightmare revisited, by Anthony Sampson; Reagan fights for control; Leonard Rosenberg - Trust quagmire deepens; US-Canada lumber showdown looms; Checking in at Lloyd's of London; Big Oil extends its reach - Suny's gas stations secret connection with Imperial Oil; David Leighton leaves Calgary's Olympic planning team - replaced by Frank King; Ski industry in downhill slide; Russian satellite roulette - Canada threatened by Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402; Stress in the Recession - Behavior; Legal aid squeeze; Side effects of Depo-Provera; This year's version of the flu - the A Bangkok strain; Two-page colour photo ad for CP Air's Royal Canadian (First) Class. Average wear. A sound copy. Book