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in-8°, 323 pages. Bon état. [CA32-6]
Album de caricatures grand in-8, broché. Bon état. [GD8-5]
198053 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon front flyleaf. Author was formerly a star writer for Daylight International magazine in London, England. He has travelled extensively and possesses broad academic background and interests. Book
197692 pages. Features: The Masdevallias of Kilometer X; Clerkmanship - the Art of Expediting Judging at an A.O.s. Orchid Show; Angraecum sororium - A New Angraecum Star; Different Phalaenopsis; Re-usable Disposables; Mormolyca, Trigonidium, cyrtidium and Cryptocentrum - Collector's Item; A Three-Dimensional Orchid terrarium. Bit of soiling to top edge. Light wear. Book
1932Features: Announcement, with photos, that after seven years of research, the Caterpillar Tractor Company has applied the diesel engine successfully to the tractor. Contains fascinating two-page wide graphic which illustrates and describes business cycles and patent applications from 1840 to 1932 Articles: The transmission engineer's job - to design a n electrical transmission line, tie in a number of power stations, and solve the many attendant problems oftern requires years of work; Editorials - too old at 40? - airplane engine reliability - peace in radio - expensive babies; Gold from goldfish - goldfish, once imported, now raised in great numbers here; Star colors and star temperatures - the problems with which astrophysicists deal in determining the heat given off by flaming heavenly bodies; The business man takes wings - an account of an actual business trip around the country in which much time and money were saved; New light on Sasanian culture - culture of the peoples whose lands were the scene of the wars of Alexander the Great, as shown by recent archeological finds; Concrete bridge makes new record - George Westinghouse Bridge has America's longest concrete span; Is space curved? - some confusing concepts of the physicists cleared up by simple scissors work; Looking at stresses - complex stresses in structures directly vivible by new method; Big Springs - Some springs in this country flow great rivers of water; Why a watch keeps time - two years' time is often required to design a watch that will consistently keep accurate time; Gun recoil control - simple muzzle attachment reduces recoil of guns and prevents lift of the muzzle off the target; Endurance cut from the hillside - stone for modern buildings is cut in huge blocks by methods that have felt the touch of the machine age. Moderate to average wear. Magazine
1931Features: Africa's first national park; Editorials - building for parity a false alarm - whose fault is it?; Power development on the Columbia River - the first power project on one of the most famous of North American streams; United States plant patent number 1 - only time will show the value of plant patents, the first of which has just been released; The hottest place in the universe - what keeps the stars shining?; Henry Ford, the Practical - the automobile manufacturer knows how to do things , and how to get them done; Are there creatures like ourselves in other worlds?; The birth, life, and death of a railroad ticket; Mercury vapor power to the fore - two new and larger units have been ordered; Australia's great meteorite; Paper's thinnest web - making tissue paper; Where not to look for oil and gas; Electrical aids to blind flying; Etruscan safety pin; Excavating Rome's seaport; A modernized university library - Sterling Memorial Library at Yale; Why question the reasoning of animals? - authentic stories seem to indicate their reasoning power. Page 293 is a full page tribute, with black and white photo, to thirty-year old Linus Pauling, hailed as "a rising star who may yet win the Nobel Prize." Light erasure mark at top corner of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1929Features: The new planetariums for Chicago and Philadelphia; Editorials - C.F. Brush, Sea safety code, Men's clothes, air country clubs; Licorice the versatile; Uncle Sam gives us new money - the process, in brief, of making paper currency; Why does an oil gusher gush?; Charting Canada's wilderness from the air - more accurate than with transit and chain; Our army's mechanized forces - development of the American fighting tank since war times (with interesting photos); What becomes of star light?; Is the diesel airplane practical?; Silvering the world's largest telescope; Foiling the burglar III - vault combinations and clocks; Sea Safety contest; the Zeppelin's American home - huge hangar being erected in Akron; Steam Come-back - outdistancing water for generation of electricity; Designing large telescopes; World's largest vineyard in California; Ancient history from aloft; Compressed air used in Novel hospital - diabetes, anemia, and other maladies treated in an unusual manner; the 'heat makes cold' regrigeration unit. Attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement inside back cover. Colour Lucky Strike advertisment upon back cover features a puckered damsel and the caption "To keep a slender figure no one can deny... Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." There are some rubbings/marks to this page. Page 198 is a full page advertisment for passenger aircraft manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan. Damage to bottom of spine. Unmarked. Magazine
1977Bound in duo-tang. Approx. 0.5" thick. Bilingual text in English and French. Prepared for the use of Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps and for information of the Cadet Corps Commanding Officers and Region/Area Headquarters responsible for Cadet Training. Chapters include: General Instructions; Drill; Small Arms; Map and Compass Using; Fieldcraft; Fundamental Training. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
198552 pages in colour-illustrated covers. Features include: 75 years of Canadian Naval History; Please don't call it Star Wars!; Kindergarten Soldier; First Blood - Fish Creek, 1885; Our Year in Photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
190511 pages. Copyright MDCCCCV. Includes works such as Heather Rose, Lost Chord, Cavatine, Traumerie, When Roses are in Bloom Waltzes, Melody in F; Heart's Joy - Concert Polka; Sweet Evening Star; Confidence; and Spring Song. Above average wear. Remains a decent copy. Book
1896406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
1951Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Raft - a group of Australians are set adrift in a vast inland sea during a disastrous inundation; The Haunted Tanker - as told by David Kellar, an officer of the Merchant Navy; The Black Pearls of Fatu-Hiva - A weird story from the South Seas as told by Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart; Bill Miner-Bandit - The amazing life-history of one of the most notorious outlaws who ever troubled Canada and the Western States; Act of God - An incident in Karachi, Pakistan; Shooting Star - Am amusing tale from the Sudan; River of the Dead - a gripping story from the little-known interior of Brazil involving the fierce Chavantes people; The Village of Ladders - the Swiss hamlet of Albinen is accessible only by a series of rough ladders; They Live in Trees - The Tree-Dwellers of Travancore State in India; "Living Native" in the South Seas. Illustrated in black and white. Back cover detached. Contents in good condition. Pencil name atop back cover. Magazine
198074 pages. Features: Found - Masada's fabled treasures!; Dowsing - bright star in THing's future; Iowa's huge murder caches; The Tesoro deep search VI. Average wear. Book
1991270 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Darryl Sittler's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Details in exciting play-by-play accounts, such highs as his record-setting ten-point game against the Boston Bruins and his overtime goal against Czechoslovakia that won the 1976 Canada Cup. Also recounts his lows, particularly toward the end of his career. "Sittler tells his story the way he played - bluntly and bravely." - Jim Proudfoot, Toronto Star. Book as new. Dust jacket price-clipped with very light wear. Beautiful copy. An excellent gift for your special Maple Leaf fan. Book
1994143 pages. Includes: The Addams Family; The Brady Bunch; Where Everybody Knows Your Name; Hill Street Blues Theme; (Meet) The Flintstones; Mr. Ed; Theme from Star Trek; and many more. Clean and bright with minimal markings. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
199243 pages. Features include: Norad Tracks Scuds; Strange Encounter - Vic Johnson; Cocky Trainees; The Other Enemy; Aerial Buffoonery; Spouses on Patrol; Bomb Site Revisited; Reunion in Italy; Flight into History - Buffalo No. 464; Lucky - the North Star was the workhorse of the RCAF; 417 Colors Laid Up; Convention '91; Burma Bombers; Helicopter for the Future - NOTAR system; Operation Preserve; Nighthawks stand down. Features include: Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Address label upon back cover. Nice copy. Book
199760 pages. Features include: Pathfinder - PFF; Mosquito Pilot - Bob Boyden; Whiskey Whiskey Papa (Welland W. Phipps - innovations in Arctic transportation; The Shadow Army - Safe House in Belgium; Dewy is Here - ATG (Air Transport Group); Cherry Blossoms in the Cockpit - North Star strikes trees in Japan; The Unknown Ally - A Mexican in the RCAF; Keeping the Rolls-Royce Merlins Flying; Lester Pearson meets the RFC; Address label on back cover. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
199431 pages. Direct and star in your own thrilling, action-packed adventure! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Please note: camera and instruction booklet not included. Book
1974160 pages. Index. Beautiful colour plates. "The fascinating histories of eleven magnificent thoroughbreds, predominant influences on international racing, preservers of their best bloodlines and peak turf performance. Nearco. Nasrullah. Bold Ruler. Ribot. Hyperion. Fair Trial. Tourbillon. Never Say Die. Northern Dancer. Aureole. Star Kingdom. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in an archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: Andean volcano in Chile - multiple horrific photos; Hawaiian effects of the Chilean earthquakes and the resultant tital waves - multiple photos; Soviet bug displayed; Turkish military coup d'etat; How to escape from a submerged car; Korean Queen; the Queen Mother in Rhodesia; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada; the U.S.S. Saratoga collides with a West German merchantship off North Carolina; Field Marshall Montgomery in China; 420 mph tidal wave damage in Japan; Draining of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell reveals a rubbish dump; The Simca Aronde Etoile; and more. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1941Stories: Adventure Ahoy; A Deal in Diamonds; Pattern for Blitzkrieg; Fairy Godfather; The House of Death; Fish and Chips; How I Won My Horse; The Lone Star Kid; The Promotion of Constable Sidi; The Battle of Santiago; The Crocodile-Charmers of Java; The Stolen Telluride. Above-average wear. Book
1988Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Wreck of the Empress of Ireland; Bonaire, Thailand's Exotic Waters; West Coast - a Garde of Eden; Kelp Beds of Lobster Bay; Are we destroying the reefs?; British Columbia - diving in a fisherman's paradise; Superb diving at Les Escoumins; Barkley Sound; Egypt; Fortress Louisbourg Shipwrecks; Tobago; Inflatables; Bahamas; Killarney, Ontario; St. Lawrence Seaway; Filming 'The Last Frontier'; Bruce Peninsula; Canada's Arctic; A Prehistoric Fishing Technique in British Columbia; Palau; Pacific Electric Ray; Monterey; Queen of Wrecks in Kingston, Ontario; The Caymans; Canada's Little Urchin; The sandstone cargo of the Zephyr; Treasure of the 'Governor'; Maui's Trio; Kona - star of the big island. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
1978239 pages including index and numerous black and white photographic plates. "I wrote these articles in the Star because I felt strongly that something had to be done to bring home to our young people, in particular students of politics, the historic significance of events since World War II which led to our Independence and nationhood." - from Preface. Author was the first Prime Minister of Malaysia. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Quality copy. Book
2001144 pages. Lubo's signature upon title page. "One of the most gifted footballers I have ever seen or worked with." - Celtic Manager Martin O'Neill. Gift greetings atop title page. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Book
1968Features: "The Military Profession - Lt. Gen. W.A.B. Anderson, Commander of Mobile Command; Biathalon Training; From North Star to Southern Cross - The Travels of a Yukon and its crew; Destroying a beached Second World War British Mine, lodged in driftwood on a Vancouver Island beach; Sea survival for Starfighter pilots; They were given a real bridge to blow up - 2 Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers brings down the old Hawkshaw Bridge, mid-way between Fredericton and Woodstock, N.B.; Shades of Alley Oop - a CH-113A Voyageur removes dinosaur bones from their ancient resting place; Classroom for the sea - Fleet School (Pacific) at Esquimalt (5 pages); The Buffalo Aircraft - Our newest tactical transport; Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile systems. Sound copy. Magazine