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1987Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
1927Contents include: Manavilins - III; The Great Ship Swallower; Private Trading; Those Puzzling Star Names; Collections Lost at Sea; In Memoriam - the British Square Sailer; Speed Sound Signals - stoppage - Collision; Dramatised Versions - V. Hotkins' Code; Wanted - an Esprit de Corps of the Sea; The Good Old Days; The Marine Services of Nigeria - III; Ships of South Kensington; Swediish East India company; Watermen of the Thames - a company centenary; Leaves from a Longshore log; and more. Above-average wear. Spine leaning. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy of this fascinating periodical. Book
1974Features: Indians and Treasures don't mix! - Jacob Snively's search for fortune; Monument to Bitterness - in the cemetery of Hiawatha in northeast Kansas; The Lost Butte Gold; New Show in Town - the troupes who played the communities of the West; Gold in the Bottom of the well; Cass County Poor Farm - to be on charity in pioneer times held a special dread; El Dorado - from 'Oregon and California in 1848"; Drop in, cut loose, and dance in earnest - ranch life's bright side; Kang's Gold - a young Chinaman in Arizona; A rope for Mary Rose - townspeople avenge her death; Ghosts of the Star Range - along the Nevada border; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1967Features: Reprint of scarce book - Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier by Captain John M. Elkins; Apache Tears - Nino Cochise; The Wake of Whiskey Bill; The First War Correspondent, 1846; Treasure rode in the boot; Mysterious trapper Billy Nay; Bill Hickok's girl on the flying trapeze; Alias 'Shooting Star' - a drifter covets a horse; The day the glue pot became a cauldron! - the Seattle fire of 1889; A cavern of gold in New Mexico?; The Army's 'stubborn fact' - the Army mule driver; A hard man to understand - Stephen W. Dorsey; people of the Laramie Plains; Ghost Ferry in Hoodoo Valley - Seneaquoteen Post; Rufus 'Potato' Clark of Denver; Pioneer Child - Nettie Hight Yarbrough; James Case's Last Frontier. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1960386 pages. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers and pages are punched for storage in a three-ring binder (not included). Book
1917Cover portrait of King Alexander, Constantine's Second Son and Successro. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: effect of the 'Battle of Athens", December 1916; Exposure of Constantine's hostility to the entente; The history of modern Greece; entente doubts and difficulties; position of Italy; Exchange of Notes; Effect of Russian Revolution and American Intervention; The Thessalian Crops; Entente Discussions; M. Jonnart appointed High Commissioner; Adbication of King Constantine; The New King, Alexander; Constantine's departure from Greece; M. Venizelos becomes Prime Minister; Persecution and massacres of Greeks in Turkey and Macedonia. Contents also discuss 'Care of Disabled British Soldiers'. Topics include: Pioneer work in France; Science of orthopaedics; Sir Robert Jones's work at Liverpool; Restoration of Function; Nerve Sutures; Muscles, Tendons and Bones; Sliding Splints; Shepherd's Bush; Curative Workshops; Training for Trades and Professions; Limbless Soldiers; Roehampton; Erskine House, Glasgow; Surgery and Disfigurements; The Blind; St. Dunstan's; Nervous Disease; The Star and Garter, Richmond; A Catechism for the Disabled. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. It is suggested that this issue be read in conjunction with the following issues: Part 21 - The 1st Austrian Invasion of Serbia; Part 28 - The Intervention of Turkey; Part 36 - The 2nd and 3rd Austrian Invasions of Serbia; Part 88 - The Tragedy of Serbia; Part 144 - The Salonika Expedition, Oct. 1915-Nov. 1916; Part 165 - Greece and the War, 1914-1916. Magazine
1978Features: "Stringin' a Greener"; White Horse, Black Horse - Murder!; Zane Grey's Original 'Lone Star Ranger'; A Hoodooed mine; The Squaw Line; Two Men Named John; Espionage Agent Pauline Cushman; 'Cat Hanging' with Greyhounds; Lottery in Laramie; Trapped Alive!; Grandma was an old-time Ranch Cook; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
196730 pages. Features: Spotless Pigs, and Radios for the Hens - the change in Canadian farming is staggering, and so is the investment - Robert and Harold Lawrie sell only superior pigs, Aubrey Livingston operates an automated dairy farm; Reginald Hartman sells 14,000 rabbits a year, Feathercrest Farms partners include Jack Ungerman, Samuel Mandel, William Garfat, and Leonard Rosenberg; The Night George Drew Smashed a Reporter in the Face - and other exotic, fantastic and entirely ridiculous true adventures from an upcoming book by, yes folks, Old Rawhide himself, Max Ferguson; Fantastic 2 page colour ad for 3 Chrysler Models for 1968 - the Fury, Monaco and New Yorker; Here is a peak that soars two miles above the Yukon - Mount Saskatchewan - and here are the four intrepid mountaineers who tamed it (well, almost) - Gertrude Smith, Wendy Teichmann, Andrea Rankin, Helen Butling; Thou Shalt Not... - Bylaw Abiding Etobicoke, by Tom Alderman; "You Get Stompted on a lot in 19 Years" - Winnipeg Blue Bomber Quarterback Ken Ploen; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1967Close-up of a Super-Hippie and why he matters to you - The CYC's David DePoe - a look at hippie life in Toronto; Fashionable coats; Robin Hood is Alive in Edmonton - Sherwood Park's Annual Tourney; How to do the Flambe bit, with colour photos; One Girl's Struggle with the Eternal Triangle, Canadian Style - Alexandra Stewart stars in our first attempt at an all-out box office film, with seven photos; The Father Who Beat his Baby, Ricky Lozecki, to Death; How the Japanese Pamper Drunks - "When a Nippon Playboy gets drunk the cop is his friend, and his worst punishment is listening to a tape of how he sounded when he was loaded; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1994Features: In the Belly of the Dragon - a Vancouver team leads the pack in an ancient Chinese challenge; Ellesmere Epiphanies - welcome to the park on the top of the world; Creature Cures - Can a chimpanzee play doctor to fix its own ills?; The Global Village Schoolhouse - a yearbook tribute to the kids who'll make this country work in the multicultural millennium; King of the Comet Hunters - this summer's cosmic smash-up on Jupiter makes amateur comet hunter David Levy a sky-watching star. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1979Features: Cruise Liner for the Mersey; Singapore's Golden Line; White Star Liner "Laurentic" of 1927; Sail in Norway; Ferry Scene - A Golden Anniversary; Drake 400; Drawing Ships is Fun; A Celtic Venture; A Master and his Ship - Capt. Mike Forwood and the "Lion"; The Bulldog "Affair". Book
1978Features: Dwindling Brocklebank Fleet; 100 Years of Collier Loading; White Star Liner "Coptic" of 1881; Excursions of Helgoland; Sail Review - Local Preservation Projects; Life in the 'Castle' Liners; Ships on Stamps - Falkland Islands Mail Ships; Shipping Entrepreneur par Excellence; Steamboats on Windermere; Ferry Scene - End of the A.L.A.; The Future of Sail - Province Race Plan; The Captains Watson and the Empire Line - Part II. Book
1909Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1916Cover portrait of Brig.-General Sir Percy M. Sykes - in command of the British column which entered Kurman, Southern Persia on June 12, 1916 with the co-operation of the Shah's Government. Features: Italy after one year of war (conclusion); Strategy and Tactics of the Great War, by Major G.W. Redway; centerfold portrait of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Francis Davies, Military Secretary to the War Minister; Centerfold portrait of General Joffre investing General Balfourier with the Star of the Legion of Honour. Only moderate wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1918Cover illustration of a distraught Kaiser. 'Cease-fire!' 11am, November 11th, 1918. 'Twilight of the German Gods' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. London's Delirious Joy at the Coming of Peace - photos. Star of Mons in the Ascendant - the closing battles of Britain's victorious armies - article. Sweeping the Sea of the Hun - photos. Canada Conqueror of Vimy takes Valenciennes - photos. Victory Leaders' 'Great Week' at Versailles - deciding the terms of Germany's Surrender - illustrations. Typical Hun Theft and Treachery - photos. Our adaptable army - photos. How the Army will be Demobilised - article by Basil Clarke. The Historic Armistice - article with illustration and map. The Empire's Roll of Honour. A Kaiserless Germany - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
1946Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points Book
1977Features: Clay Allison & "Mr" Pecos; Spotted Wolf and the Dodge City Toughs; Agricola's "Waybill" - perhaps the world's most ancient and enduring guide to humanity's quest for gold; The Shoot-out - a mutual protection plan may have gone wrong; New Slant on the Murder of Julia Bulette, Virginia City, Nevada; Life and Confession of John Millian; Booger Red - the great rider; Jack Pickens - man with a secret, Summitville and the Little Annie Mine; Photos of Amelia Earhart; The Whistling Mail Truck - the Star Route out of Calhan, Colorado; Elizabeth Lochrie - painter of the winsome and the noble. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
198682 pages. Features: Surprise Poster #666 - Babby in a Blender; Sixty Seconds; True Facts; Foto Funnies; Cosmo! Live!; The Star Wars Secret Plans; Whatever Gets You Through the Day - The Reality of My Fantasy Life; At the Movies - The Splatter Version; Thirty-three Uses for a Dead Yuppie; Invasion of the Junk Food Killers; Veepshow - the haunting of George Bush; Where Do I Get My Horrible Ideas?; Mother; Tragedyland; and more. Average wear with some creases. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
198980 pages. Features: Carving to honor film star Jimmy Stewart; Lew Ballinger; Carved Floral Reliefs - part 2; Peter Newton; Barrel Carving; Tom Swearingen; Let's Carve - Magi; Bob Lundy; Try carving an alligator; Nick Milunovich; Buring Techniques; How to Carve a Rose; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
196239 pages. Features: U.S. Crime Syndicates are Moving in on Canada (first of two articles); Belles of the Ball - Canadian gals take to bowling in rapidly-increasing numbers; World of Colour the Eye Can't See - crystals viewed under the microscope; Brain Waves Comic; Canadians in a Great Adventure - The Undercover War Pays Off - Men of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) risked their lives in a task that helped to free war-torn France; Northern Dolls are a hit down south - Eskimo/Inuit art; Shirley Calling Tokyo - Shirley MacLaine talks to husband Steve Parker; Nice colour photo and write-up of Boston Bruin star Don McKenney; Story about the NHL players with the highest goal/shot ratio; Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads including super Eaton's centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
196239 pages. Features: My holiday ended in a red jail - Milorad Cop went to see his son in Prague and was accused of spying; Marie St. Laurent at the Florida Message Centre helps Canadians down south; Skiing for Eight - On a Budget: Fun-filled weekends are a way of life for the Moore Family (son Tim went on to great success with AMJ Campbell Van Lines); Arlene Phillips Braves the Heights - goes atop buildings with her high-steel worker father Joey Phillips, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Caughnawaga Indian reservation near Montreal; I live for work and love says Melina Mercouri - the star of Never on Sunday; Seat of Trouble - comic; Great colour photos with story about NHL goalies Gump Worsely and Jacques Plante; The Rockefellers Change with the Times - the fourth generation of the family has a different approach to wealth - inclues 8 interesting black and white photos; The Fleet Nobody Wanted - British Columbia's government-owned ferry service (B.C. Ferries); Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
196247 pages. Features: How the tiny St. Roch sailed into fame - with a crew of eight mounties she navigated the Northwest Passage - Skipper Henry Larsen; Mom's A Ballerina - Toronto-born Melissa-Hayden deftly runs home and career; Marsh where the shy swans rest - the peace of Lake Erie beckons to whistlers after their long trip; Camp of Despair in the Congo - UN Soldiers patrol the camp which houses 50,000 Balubas at Elisabethville - graphic photos; Susannah York - a star in the making; Swedes fight to stay neutral - their plan for survival calls for compulsory military training and enormous blast shelters; Beauty and the Beasts - English gals volunteer for amazing stunts with elephants; Major League Baseball in Canada - Walter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers tells us how to get it (colour photo of O'Malley shows him with Emil "Buzzie" Bavasi, father of Peter Bavasi who later became the first G.M. of the Toronto Blue Jays); Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196263 pages. Features: Roz (Rosalind) Russel; The Day a U-2 Crash-Landed in Canada - it lay on frozen Wapawekka Lake in Northern Manitoba 46 days before the Powers incident - two colour photos with text; Bridge's Take-Charge Champion - Eric Murray of Toronto readily admits that he is the best player in the world; How a Bursting Star could change our world - British scientist C.M. Cade is an expert on exploding stars called supernovae; Canada helps Nigeria to learn - John G. Egnatoff of the Saskatchewan Teacher's College; Aping their betters - funny chimp photos; 4 in 1 hat; Three Clowns make a movie - Ten Girls Ago; Interesting centerfold entitled 'Seventh Grade Hop'; Le Hibou - hideout for highbrows - Ottawa's wackiest private club; What do your Dreams Mean?; His vision of peace came true - Pastor of Temple Pastures Mission, Dr. Frank Uhlir envisioned a retreat in the Gatineau Hills; Great colour photo of the H.M.C.S. Oriole at sail; Doug Wright photos of the Indianapolis 500; Ann Corio Brings Back Burlesque - a famous stripper's revue evokes nostalgia; Wives of R.C.A.F.-personnel find home-making in foreign lands takes some getting used to; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196147 pages. Features: Judy Garland - a star is reborn (with picture of baby Liza and her parents); Sisterly love that saved a life - Johanna Nightingale of Steinbach Man. receives kidney from her sister Lana; Earl Cox - gardener to a million homes; Justice Minister Davie Fulton visits the Arctic; Ipso Facto's a Lhasa Apso - Virginia Langton's dog; Ginger Coffey is brought to the TV screen - Montreal novelist Brian Moore's book comes to life for a CBC television show; He flips his lid to go fishing - trailer cover doubles as dinghy; Reaction to claims that little league ball is harmful for youngsters - includes photo of Montreal's entry in the 1952 Little League World Series; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. 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
