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1995380 pages including index and some black and white illustrations. Author's signature atop title page. "What was it like to serve in the Canadian Army during the Korean War? Here are their unpublished stories, from lieutenant to private, their everyday life in a peculiar war. This book is a soldier's view of the war, some stories startling, all interesting, and often in stark contrast to the official version of the war. A once in a lifetime of treasured memories, experienced by a few, who are now willing to share their experiences with you." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear to red illustrated covers. Tight and square. Excellent copy. Book
1991"Be the man your lover has always dreamed of! Don't leave your personal life to luck or chance. Take the most valuable part of your life, your personal relationship, and make it more than you ever dreamed it could be. Start listening and start kindling that flame today!" - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely set. Book
1995295 pages including index and lists of sources. Author's signature upon half-title page. "Fifty years after a defecting Ottawa Soviet embassy cipher clerk (Igor Gouzenko) brought the RCMP a shirtful of incriminating documents about an espionage ring operating in Canada, this book provides us with the first insider's account of the incidents which many feel triggered the Cold War." - from back cover. Author was a Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces and speechwriter for Paul Martin Sr. His story differs in many respects from the officially sanctioned version. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1995207 pages. Includes black and white photographs. On February 14, 1927, Conn Smythe led a group of investors to purchase the National Hockey League's struggling St. Patricks franchise. The new team would be called the Toronto Maple Leafs, and over the next seven decades the Leafs would delight their fans with countless displays of the sort of hockey excellence that wins eleven league championships. Author has mined the rich past of one of the NHL's most interesting and colourful clubs. The result is a glorious tribute to Maple Leaf history. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket protected by clear archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
1970346 pages including index and black and white photos. The first inside book of rock music, as viewed by a brilliant young ex-philosopher, ex-dropout, ex-prizefights+concert critic, ex-rock lyricist and extraordinary. A kaleidoscope of the rock experience. Glossy illustrated covers with minimal wear. Small slight crease to lower front corner of front cover. Contents unmarked with light yellowing at edges. An excellent copy. Book
1994Includes the following issues from 1994: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics include: The Red Sea; Mexico Revisited; Dugong - Homely Mermaids; Slingsby Channel, B.C.; Flagship of the Muskokas; Thailand Daytrips and Liveaboards; New Caledonia; Lake Erie Shipwreck - Carlingford; Indonesian Princess - Island Hopping; Nova Scotia; Dive the Brae; Cayman Islands; Cetacean Encounter - Dolphins; Ten Best Dives in the West; Choose a Suit; Disable Divers; Swimming Scallops; U.S.S. Monitor Update; Coral in the Maldives; Beach Access in B.C.; Shipwreck - President Coolidge; Nova Scotia's 'Vienna'; Choosing a Mask; Shooting at Night; Spacious 'Lady Goodiver'; Lost Steamer 'Colonial'; Palau - 10 Great Sites; B.C.'s Magnificent Red Coral; Elusive Cuttlefish; Port Colbourne - Raleigh; Adams River Salmon Run; Grunt Sculpins; Is Liveaboard Diving For You?; How to Win Underwater Photo Contests; Snorkelling Gear for Summer Fun; Seymour Inlet Lodge; Sinking of the HMCS Saguenay; God's Pocket; Kona Coast, Hawaii; Fiji; Solomon Islands; Light Meters; Underwater Time-Keeping; Ghost Ship of the Muskokas; Duel at Swordfish - Victoria, B.C.; B.C. Garden of Sponge; Voyage Aboard Nai'a; Best of the Caribbean; Anemones - they're everywhere!; Diving is the Pits - in Minnesota; Whytecliff Park, B.C. - a favourite local dive; Telegraph Cove, B.C. - North Island Diving; Canada's Arctic; Sipidan and Sangalakki; Cape Cod. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
196540 page catalogue of Inuit art in black and white. Includes works by Lucy, Pitseolak, Sharni, Kananginak, Inukjuarjuk, Parr, Pannichea, and many others. Moderate wear to illustrated covers which have yellowed at spine and fore-edge. Light soiling. Unmarked. Bonus: Original four page stapled price list for items in catalogue, plus contemporary Canadian Handicrafts Guild brochure are laid inside front cover. Nice copy. Book
187016 pages. Features: light gray poplin wrapper; Old Pensioners; Leaning on our petty vices; New York Fashions - under-clothing, sets of under-wear; Personal; chemise yoke and sleeves of jaconet tucks and insertion; trimmings for under-clothing; crochet edging for lingerie, etc.; tatted rosette for trimming under-clothing, lingerie, cravats, etc.; rosettes for trimming lingerie, or making fanchons or caps; Aunt Patty's Boy; Professions for Women; Excellent centerfold compilation of dozens of items of night-wear; The Magic Jar; Self-Reliance in Children; The Cryptogram - continued; Circumstantial Evidence; Illustration "Angels of Mercy" shows nurses tending to the ill; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
1957Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
1969Features: Please note: standup figure of Bobby Moore not included; Cover colour photos of Eusebio and Bobby Moore; Bobby Moore writes - 'Top clubs beware - the giant-killers can cut you big boys down to size'; b/w photo of Les Latcham (Burnley) vs. Bobby Tambling (Chelsea); Francis Lee - Finished with Football! - he almost gave up the game - now he's England's most exciting player; No one wanted to win the F.A. Cup in 1960; Colour photos of Bruce and Neil Rioch (Aston Villa); Colour photo of Jack Charlton (Leeds United and England); Kidology! - the secret of being a successful manager; Aladin's Lamp saved Huddersfield!; Nice colour centerfold team photo of the Sky Blues - Coventry City; b/w photo of Willie Whigham (Middlesbrough); b/w photo of Alan Stephenson (West Ham) vs. Wyn Davies (Newcastle United); You Can't be on top without a Scot!; My Most important Goal! - by Jeff Astle (Albion); Colour photo of Barrie Jones; Focus on John Holsgrove (Wolves); Great goalmouth photos; Have the Welsh Dragons lost their fire?; New boy Eusebio joins the Champions Benfica and... The Eagles Swoop to Conquire Again!; Colour photo of John O'Rourke (Ipswitch) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
1933Features: History in the talkies - a vast amount of research is necessary for accuracy, but is combined with a certain amount of legitimate trickery; Our point of view - is beer intoxicating? Naval economies, Soulless machines; Television in England - a brief survey of envents of 1932 that are indicative of the general trend; More about meteors - astronomers also concern themselves with bodies no larger than bepples and distant only with the width of several counties; Leveling out the hills with more precise molecules - how a study of an automobile's digestion points the way to more power with which to climb hills; A world's fair in the making - a few of the striking effects in architecture and lighting at the century of progress at Chicago; Underneath the artist's paint - a new device takes from a painted panel a minute core which experts may then examine to detect forgeries; Seeing an unseen world - an introduction to a fascinating hobby for the amateur (microscopy); The amateur rides a new hobby - a number of people have found gem stone cutting and polishing "exceedingly Interesting" and have had excellent results; Reinforcing a weak spot in our diet - cobalt, iron, copper and many other common minerals in our diet; Water conservation - the key to national development; A vegetable from the dark - the succulent mushroom requires great care in selection of spawn, cultivation, and harvesting; The telephone goes to sea - phoning from the fishing fleet is now as easy as phoning from your own home; "Cheap" light bulb fallacies - imported oriental lights cost less but use more electricity. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
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
1994196 pages including index. Provides a uniquely broad view of the subject which embraces all aspects of the commercial exploitation of living organisms and their components. Ranges far more widely than industrial microbiology. "There cannot be too many books of this kind, which introduce the general reader to a complex subject in a simplified way... the book is an excellent review of biotechnology as a whole and manages very successfully to combine the science with its practical application." - Genetic Engineer and Biotechnolist. Minor quantity of very light pencil markings and underlining. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1982658 pages. Index. References. Few library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
196088 pages. Features: One-page ad for the 1960 Ford Falcon Tudor Wagon; Two-page color Cadillac ad shows green 1960 Coupe de Ville in Mantucket; 1900-1956 - the fun and fury of 15 Presidential campaigns - great photos; Frigidaire fridge ad shows mom and daughter in blue dresses with yellow fridge; Photo-illustrated article on a visit to Nepal; Photos of babies in bikinis; Canadian Club ad with colour photos of Indian tiger hunt; Wonderful world of light -photos; Adolph Eichmann - Nazi Butcher - his crimes, his escape, his 15 years of hiding, his capture; Nice Chesterfield King ad with photo of couple of beach; Color ad for Gravy Train dog food; Nice Budweiser ad shows lady with puppies; Albert Asker - money alone was not enough; The story behind the painting of Toulouse-Lautrec; Plastic surgery gives a young housewife the kind of nose she always wanted; Park your child in Denmark; John Wayne - The Big Man of the Westerns - great photo-illustrated article on him and his family; and more. Opening to bottom of coverfold and bit of loss to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1968344 pages. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. References. Black and white illustrations. "In a single century man freed himself from the dark and changed his pattern of work and leisure. This is the first detailed story of the technological revolution in North America. It is told in the setting of the Canadian home, but the developing technology of lighting was common to both sides of the border, thus this book is of equal importance to collectors and historians in the United States." - from dust jacket. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked but for gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket heavily worn but we've made a few cosmetic touches and preserved it in a new archival-quality Brodart cover. Overall a sound copy. Book
197961 pages. Les livres de R. Scarry ont depuis des annees deja un succes certain. Non seulement les tout-petits mais aussi les enfants et les adultes sont attires par les nombreux personnages crees par R. Scarry. Unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Lovely copy. Book
192450 pages. Features: Color Purina Chicken Chow ad inside front cover; One-page photo of old elm tree which has been saved with concrete, chain and iron rods; The House That Was a Barn - article with photos; Fall Planting for Spring Blooms - now is the time to prepare next year's bulb garden - with page of suggested varieties from which to choose; Now is the best time to plant peonies for the best results; Get Your Family Roots into Your Own Soil; Photos of how Shrubs and Flowers Add to Your Home; Homes of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article on William Penn House, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia; How Insulation Provides Comfor and Health in Your Home - article with photos; Landscape Planning Service; A New England Colonial Home; The Renaissance of the Fireplace - aritcle with photos; Lighting the Garden - photos; Relaxing after meals - article and photo in which the dishwashing problem is made light of; Storage of Fruit and Vegetables - article with diagrams; How to Buy and Cook Meats; The What and How of Beef; Back Yark Fruit Experiences; Nice 2/3-page illustrated ad for the Kalamazoo Stove company; From Garden to Table; A Backyard Poultry Flock - article with photos; Nice 1/3-page photo ad for the Blue Streak Coaster Wagon; Your Children's Music Lessons; Embroidery Designs; The Garden Seat - photo-illustrated article; Nice color ad for Congoleum Art-Rugs inside back cover; soiled Colgate dental cream ad on back cover. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1981128 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos plus modern glossy colour photos. The product of the 60th Anniversary project of the Town of Smithers. Chapters include: The Telegraph Trail; Ploughshares, Picks and Picaroons; B.C.'s First Village; Before the Crash; Mining's Bright Decade; Life in The Thirties; The War Years and Beyond. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Average wear to colour photo-illustrated boards. A sound copy. Book
1995112 pages. Tells the inside story of how the greatest game on earth came to Vancouver. Here's all the background to the franchise bid, the team building process, plus facts and statistics about the Grizzlies' first players. A dynamic full-colour gallery of the greats conveys all the magic of today's high-flying, gravity-defying superstars, including Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Grant Hill and more. A high quality glossy colour production. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1935296 pages including black and white illustrations. Intended primarily as a text for students in Money and Banking in the senior courses of commercial high schools in Canada. Chapters include: Rise of Money; Canada's Monetary System; Credit and Credit Instruments; Monetary Standards; Rise of Banking; The Banking Business; Branch Banking in Canada; Deposit Accounts and Reserves of Canadian Banks; Loans and Investments of Canadian Banks; Supervision of the Canadian Banking System; Crises and the Canadian Banks; History of the Canadian Banking System; Stock Exchanges; Domestic and Foreign Exchange; Inflation of Currency; The English Banking System; The French Banking System; The Banking System of the United States; Other Banking Systems of the World; The Central Bank of Canada. Very light wear. Contents clean and bright. Prior owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp upon back endpaper. No other markings. Binding like new. Light blue cloth boards. Splendid copy of this excellent reference. Book
1910305 pages. Index. "Intended not merely as a textbook of illumination engineering, nor as a textbook on the physics of light and radiation, but rather as an exposition... from the engineering point of view, of that knowledge of light and radiation which every educated man should possess, the engineer as well as the physician or the user of light." - from Preface. Requires no special knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Front free endpaper removed. Relatively few library markings. Maroon textured boards. Gilt lettering upon spine. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid working copy. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
195640 pages. Biography of Hank Thompson, "one of the most unique attractions in the country today" inside front cover. Black and white reproductions of twenty-three great photos of Hank, his wife, his parents, and many more. Includes piano sheet music (plus some lyrics and ukulele chords) for these songs: Don't Take It Out On Me; Honey, Honey Bee Ball; Wildwood Flower; The Blackboard of my Heart; Wake Up, Irene; The New Green Light; If Lovin' You is Wrong; Honky-Tonk Girl; Go Cry Your Heart Out; We've Gone Too Far; Breakin' The Rules; Breakin' In Another Heart; Annie Over; A Fooler, A Faker. Few markings. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1982101 pages. Circa 1982. First annual yearbook of Vancouver Radio Station Coast 800. Light wear. Unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
