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1977Features: 30 years and still not out! The story of the Canberra; Hellcat Nightfighters - WWII's best; "Gee Bee's" Q.E.D. - the Sky Conqueror; Boeing's PW-9. Art: Martin B-57 Canberras' Combat Canberras in Vietnam; Sarabia's "Sky Conqueror"; 5-view "Gee Bee" Q.E.D. Book
1976Features: "Sky Bolt" - the story of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning - First of 6 parts; The Air Corp's Biplane Hawks; The Great Aerial Duels over Europe - Part III of a Mustang Ace's Memoirs. Art: Curtiss P-6E Hawk; P-51D "Cripes a Mighty 3rd"; P-51D "Ferocious Frankie"; Lockheed XP-38 Book
1931Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
1974223 pages including index. Presents the four stages in the development of western art, each with its own particular characteristics. Despite these evolutionary differences, however, an underlying common quality is unmistakable - the overwhelming influence of the environment. Distance, isolation, clarity, beauty, harshness - again and again these are the forces that control interpretation. And foremost of all the determining factors stand the two elemental absolutes - the mountains and the sky. Book in excellent clean unmarked condition with very faint wear to maroon cloth boards. Numerous closed tears and sticker scar to price-clipped dust jacket. Works displayed in colour, and black and white. All works belong to the Glenbow-Alberta Institute of Calgary, Alberta. Book
1980229 pages including bibliography and some black and white illustrations. "Near the sleeping waters of Lake Whatcom the sentinel firs reach tall into the sky. Their strength comes from the nurturing earth, but their yearning is clearly for the heavens above. No symbol could be more appropriate for the men and women whose spiritual strength and towerintg faith have built, through six decades, the camp and conference ministry known widely as The Firs." - from Foreward. Book clean, square and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
1951Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Haunted Mine - Author's experiences at a Canadian gold-mine; The Rest-Cure - A sea captain's story of a voyage across the Atlantic with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest - Frank Norfleet, a Texas confidence victim, pursued the pertetrators for three years before achieving vengeance; The Living Death - An eccentric chemist marries an Aztec royal descendant to ferret out the secrets of the ancient Aztec dyes; The Sky Riders - Canada's RCMP, the world's first 'flying policemen'; The Lawra Lion - a lion adventure on the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - A remarkable experience which befell two British officers in the Himilayan foothills; A Matter of Witchcraft - A strange story from New Guinea; The Australian Stockman - the drover of Australia's outback; Tears to spine with chips missing. Contents in good condition. Magazine
1995179 pages including notes and index. "Has Atlantis finally been found?... Presents some startling - and convincing - evidence that it has. That, in fact, Antarctica is the lost continent of Atlantis." - from dust jacket. Rand Flem-Ath's Signature and inscription upon half-title page. Discard stamp upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket in protective cover neatly taped to book. Excellent copy. Book
1996123 pages. An assemblage of poetry ranging from the late Ted Walker's hilarious poem of a mermaid and her lover on Hornby Island, to Jane MacCallum's moving lament over a lost son. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
1968214 pages including index, bibliography and black and white illustrations. Pays tribute to all those who served as flyers in the Royal Canadian Air Force (fighter, bomber, coastal, and transport commands). Tells the individual stories of the Canadian pilots, gunners, navigators and bomb aimers who flew in the greatest war the world has ever known." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Book
1970Features: Terror tactics of a strike - Pilkington's; The Stock and Loan Scandal; Recipe for a fake antique; Healey fights a phantom ware - east of Suez; Miss Grundy - Postmistress of Footle-on-the-Crouch; City in the sky; Perfection in the city of slaves - ancient Athens; Edinburgh - an idea expressed in stone; Japan - a country with no illusions; The Roast Beef of Old France; The man who gave kingdoms away - Charles V; Was this the birthplace of the Greeks?; The signs that spelled protection; Britain's national wardrobe; and more. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1967Features: De Gaulle's final rejection; Foot-and-mouth - is there an answer?; Scientist's new home; Threat to German democracy; National theatre's new plan; A colourful eye in the sky; Victoria line nearing completion; John Moore's ten years service to art; Tombs of warrior kings - Cyprus; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1973137 pages plus 32 colour plates, 26 black and white illustrations and index. "Not only a biography of an unusual individual but also an outline history of art in Saskatoon for three decades, decades which were most significant in the realm of art in that city and in Canada." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
1994208 pages. Topics include: Kelowna Regatta; The Stephanie; Sky Line Trail; Valecairn Farm; Okanagan Falls; Armstrong Legion; Children Venturers. Average wear. Usual libary markings. Sound working copy. Book
193796 pages. Features: Thriller - The Frog that Fell out of the Sky; Modern Adventure - Four R.A.F. Planes disappeared before Flying Officer Vickers unmasked the treachery that was to set the frontier aflame with Revolt; The Sky Clown - a joke costs a brave man his courage and makes a fighter of a fool; Call Me Jennie - Major Sharpness made Tigers out of Rabbits - but his first Creation won a most Untigerish name; True Story - The Epic Story of Famous R.F.C Unit - No. 56 Squadron; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1935Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1996140 pages. Features: Gene Chase's Davis D-1-W; GlaStar;Sky Arrow; Minimoa; Climbing Everest; OX-1-1/4?; The Seasprite. Light wear. Book
198590 pages. Features: Star-lite; Martin Lowe's Travel Air B-4000; Weight and Balance; Sky Gypsy; Tony's Mooney 'Mite'; Leo Loudenslager, Archetype of Aerobatic Pilots. Moderate wear. Book
199446 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: The Gold Boulder of Kootenay Lake; West with the (Wheat) Harvesters - an army of 1,500 adventurers; Medicine of Earth and Sky - Native ways of curing illness, healing wounds and easing pain; Fort Victoria 1850-1853 (Part II); Shootout at Seven Oaks - bloodshed between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1986Features: Lighted houses in the sea; listening to the grey whales; the mystery of Erebus and Terror; The inflatable sharks - survival of the fattest?; Trivia; Oceanography's new eye in the sky; the fuzzy sponge thing; Kiel Canal - Busiest ship canal in the world; Making light of lifting. Sound copy. Book
1955Features: Always look back - a portfolio of steam today - smoke over the prairies; 15,806 feet up... switchbacks to the sky! - Central Railway of Peru; Railroad news photos; Miss 2,000,000 miles - after over 800 trips between New York and Miami Seaboard's favorite blonde stille finds trains an adventure; The Power of Pickering - high in the Sierra Nevada hurried exhaust tells of a logging operation which has not exchanged the rubber tire for steam and gears; Steam rules the New York & Long Branch; Toledo, Peoria & Western adds a booster unit; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
1971Features: Ghost riders in the sky - tornadoes; Devil wind of the prairies - early tornados; Bonanza in the Mogollons; A county, a courthouse, a hanging - convicted murderer James Cason in Weatherford, Texas; The case of the brass nuggets; Kit Joy's gang - train robbers; Finding a hideout cave; horseplay was often fatal - Lima, Montana and Colonel William Boule; The Choctaw who lived like a king - Robert M. Jones; A long talk with Chuckawalla Wilson - years on the track of the Lost Padre Mine; The Wandering Winnebago - forced to move for 32 years; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice 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
1966Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1956Features: Killer Whale in the Net - Alaskan Diver Virgil Burford tells his tale; Take off to Trouble - Blizzard forces a crash landing in Greenland for Gerald Abrahams; Night Duel with a Bear - Young men out for fun on the Queen Charlotte Islands have a near-tragic experience; How I became a White Fulani Warrior; Toopua - I Know An Island - Part I; Soldiers of the Sky - Paratrooper John Seymour Townsend; Hekla - Gateway to Hell (the worst volcano in the world); The Night it Rained - a Northern Quebec Adventure by Ronald H. More; The Belles of Mbowe; Ask the Man Who Owns One - a story about dogs by Lt.-Col. T.A. Lowe; Little Sir Echo - Bats; Ham-Handed Hero - Harry Higgs; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book