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1995221 pages. Bibliography and footnotes. Promotional leaflet laid in. "Intended to lay before the average Canadian public the reasons for the deficit and debt of governments, to publicize the debt of corporations and the general public, and to offer a plan for ridding ourselves of this unacceptable predicament and the effects it has on an unsuspecting population." - from mission statement. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and squiare. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
1975250 pages. Index. Exceptional bibliography. "A study of the origin of certain banking practices and of their effect on the events of ancient history, written in the light of the present day." - subtitle. "... Illustrates how, even in the earliest of times of which written record remains, the days of Babylonia or before, a so-called monetary science undoubtedly existed; being then, as in today, never more than an instrument by which its secret and cynical controllers wittingly influenced the destinies of individuals, Nations and Empires as to (temporary) glory or (final) disaster." - from dust jacket. Signed and dated by author upon title page. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book
195466 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
1967Contents: Japan - Island of Stability in Asia; Color-photo ad featuring the Dodge Coronet 440 "White Hat" special; Apollo cockpit fire investigation; Essay - Why Should Man Go to the Moon?; Japan feature article; Red Guards laying Siege to Soviet Embassy in Peking; Nice color-photo centerfold ad for the Jeepster; Beyond LSD; The Dollar and Gold; Nice color ad for the Ford Mustang on back cover; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Cover illustration entitled "Far Away"; How Women Become Morbid; Verbal Fastidiousness; New York Fashions - dress-making, fall goods, silks, woolens, cloakings, driving and breakfast jackets, embroidery, fall bonnets; Personal; Dress-making - two-pages of text, illustrations and diagrams cover taking the measure, increasing or diminishing the pattern, making the waist and skirt, making trimmings, methods of looping, sewing seams in heavy woolen materials; Bound to John Company - continued; Outwitted; Great humourous centerfold illustrations entitled "Husband Hunting Sketches"; Tolerance; Evening Parties; The Derby Day; Sola - continued; Toleration of women; Paris gossip; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Jacket tripped with gold braid; Blot-Ting Papers - Culinary Grievances; Holiday Gifts; Cashmere Scarf with Netted Guipure Trimming; Beret for Child under one year old; Cashmere scarf with crochet and tatted fringe; fishu with revers for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Satin Ribbon and Lace Cravat; Flanel Blouse; Close-fitting jacket with Revers; The Evergreen Message - a Christmas Story; Gossip on Crests and Monograpms; Mrs. Burton's Mince-Meat; Centerfold illustrations present twenty-one girls and ladies wearing a lovely variety of dresses and casaques; Debenham's Vow - continued; Design for bell pull satin stitch; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: House costumes; The etiquette of evening balls and parties; New York Fashions - cloths and trimmings, coatings, vestings, trimmings, buttons, general remarks, shirt-collars and bosoms, gloves, rings and pins, hats, boots and gaiter shoes, children's fashions; Personal; Embroidered silk mouchoir case, point lace collars, squares in netted guipure, crochet rosette for covers, antimacassars, etc., Foundation figures on lace; Acolyte's Rochet or frock; Pocket brush with dressing-case; Women as Bread-winners; Bound to John Company - continued; The Rule of Three; Gentlemen's Fall Fashions; Great full-page illustration entitled "Gentlemen's Fall Fashions; Nice full-page illustration entitled "A Wreck Ashore"; Debenham's Vow - continued; Opera Toilette; Full-page illustration of alphabet with embroidered vignettes - white needle-work; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Infant's Baptismal Robe with Netted Guipure Trimming; Looking into the future; Blot-ting Papers; New York Fashions - Misses and children's dresses; Personal; Tyrolean hat; Apron for girl from 1 to 3 years old; Netted Guipure Insertion; Embroidered Flannel Cradle Blanket; Stuart FraiseMuslin and Lace Fraise; Where do some things come from; The perfect man; Baschlik trimmed with gold braid; Debenham's Vow - continued; Sayings and Doings; Lovely jackets and dresses in two large illustrations on page 792; Basque for elderly lady; Dress with bretelles and sash; Mothers of men; The art of coaxing; Paris Gossip; Sir Philip's Wooing, by Babington White; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Spring Toilettes; Superfine Women; Trust in Youth; New York Fashions - street suits (note: large clipping from bottom of page 211); Sofa-pillow in satin stitch and netted guipure; sofa-pillow with crochet cover; Rosette in Venetian embroidery; Tatted insertion; crochet square for coverlet, cradle or table cover; The Cashmere Bouquet; Paris Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Wonderful full-page illustration "Worshiping the Idol", by Thomas Worth; Full-page illustration "After Church" by W.L. Sheppard; My sister Caroline - continued; Large illustration of house dress; The Exclusiveness of Women; Large illustration "A Juvenile Ball"; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Features: Meditations among the tombs of the Washingtons; The Legend of Jubal; New York Fashions - infants' layettes; Personal; Silk brush; Infant's knitted bathing sponge; breakfast cap of muslin and linen bands; parasol covers in point lace and muslin; Water-proof cloak for girl from 10 to 12 years old - front and back; Rings in Fable; dress with point lace trimming; black cashmere jacket trimmed with gold and silver braid; Full-page of illustations of eight ladies wearing a variety of lovely street suits; Full page of illustrations of a wide variety of infants' clothing; Paris Gossip; The Cryptogram - continued; Mrs. Justice Morris (Esther M'Quigg) - with illustration of her; humor; and more. Average wear. Small clipping from page 323. Clipping from page 235. Book
187116 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Suits; Rudimentary Organs; The Embroidered Surplice; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' summer hats and bonnets; walking or traveling suite (dress with mantelet); The Popular Names of Plants; Sigismund Thalberg; The Lovels of Arden - continued; humor. Average wear. Note: Three clippings from page 373. One large clipping from page 381. Book
195464 pages. Features: Geoffrey Bocca and the Duchess of Windsor; Why Live in the Suburbs? - here are the facts on the great migration that has changed the face of Canada from Coast to Coast; Solution - Rob a Bank, fiction by Michael Sheldon; The Story Behind Walter Murdoch and the Entertainment War; How to Manhandle a Child's Allowance; Remember those Harvest Excursions? - a Maclean's flashback to the years when Canadians flooded to the prairies to help with harvest; The Thirty Years' War with the Commies - how the Mounted Police handle their most dangerous and difficult assignment - article with photos; Should it be called Wawa or Jamestown? - this question has lingered for seven years; The Hero Who Had no Friends, by Thomas B. Costain - part 12; Nice two-page illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division; Chevrolet ad; Half-page two-colour ad for movie The Caine Mutiny; Full-page two-colour Chevrolet truck ad; Lovely bunny ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover; and more. Average wear. Front cover nearly detached, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Book
2009104 pages. Features: Ben Wittick and the Keam Pottery Collection; Exhibition review of Fritz Scholder - Indian or Not Indian; The Szwedzicki Portfolios of American Indian Art, 1929-1952, Part 2 - Sioux Indian Painting, American Indian Painters & North American Indian Costumes; Mothers and Daughters - Stories in Clay; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
198820 pages. Features: Doukhobor Embroidery; The Leonida Leatherdale Award Seminar 1988; The Art of Rug or Mat Hooking in Newfoundland; The Textile Museum; Wee Treasures; The Winnipeg Embroiderers' Guild Show; Stitching Trivia; Creative Crewel; Mingei - Japan's Enduring Folk Arts; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
193624 pages. Features: The Problem of Raising Sanctions Against Italy; The Kind of Insurance Which is Untertaken at Lloyd's (of London); The Prejudice Against Finger-Printing; How Governor Landon Got His Nomination; Why the Nations of the World Should Form a Trading Club; "An International Policeman Somewhare in the Background"; Access to Raw Materials; "My 60 Years In the Law" - by a Judge's Clerk Mr. F.W. Ashley; The Small Boy At Any School Sports On Any Saturday Afternoon; "Behind the Real Smile in Japan" - Mr. E.K. Venables; Miss V. Sackville-West Discusses Joan of Arc's Visions; Dr. Rufus Jones on Psychology and Religion; Mrs. Elinor Glyn and Her Allegory of Gold & Silver; The Spirit of Sussex Downs; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Center page holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
189263 pages. A detailed description of how mines were intricately surveyed in 1842 - 1892. "Be the mine limestone, ironstone, coal or clay, the same process is gone through." - from chapter one. Maroon cloth cover with gilt lettering. Page 56/57 binding loose but intact. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Minor foxing to sides of content on pages that fold out. Otherwise content unmarked. Minor wear to spine and corners. A worthy copy. Book
193840 pages. Contents: Little Businessmen Called to Confer With Mr. Roosevelt: President Seems to Count on Recession Righting Itself in Next Month or Two; 'Our Duty', a Navy Second to None; Filibuster: (Robert) Wagner Is Unaware of What Every Senator Knows; (Frederick) Steiwer Tires; Infantile Paralysis: President's Campaign Reaps a Harvest of Dimes and Dollars; Boneyard-Bound (Vaterland-Leviathan); (Paul) Van Zeeland Report: A Dream Foredoomed by Realities - Belgian's World Survey Stresses the Startling Fact That Autarchy Works; Light over Holland: A Girl to Carry on the Line of William the Silent; The Lingering League: Britain, France, Russia Save Geneva From Last Dishonor; Duce's Eaglet (Bruno Mussolini) Flies Down to Rio; Far East: American Faces Slapped but 'There Ain't No War in China'; Spain: No 'Military Objective Explains the Bombs'; New Yorker Discovers a Bullet or Two in the Brain Makes Little Difference; Microscope's Efficacy for Checking on Diagnosis: New Facts in the Case; Priest (Simon Buick) Wins Permission to Spread the Catholic Faith Among Bali's Hindus; Businesslike Exchange Plan Envisages Peace With SEC (Securities Exchange Commission): Wall Street Welcomes (Carle C.) Conway Committee's Ideas for Reorganization; Miners' Meeting: Troubles Within; and City Housing: New York Mayor (Fiorello H. La Guardia) Evolves a Slum-Clearing Program. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198988 pages. Features: A Cold Trail; Appendix "I" to the 1939-40 Report on Dogs of the R.C.M. Police (Commissioner's Report 1940); Death By Hanging - Nazi Brutality Ends in Murder of Prisoner of War in Canadian Prison Camp; Memories of Rumrunning, by J. Don Fraser; Laughter and Security, by Stephen H. Lett; The Scarlett Trumpeter, by Gray Campbell; The Brandon Patriots, by Ronald S. Brown; Prince Albert's Early Police Protection; Nominal Roll 1988; The Murder of Constable Malcolm MacLennan in Vancouver. Somewhat above-average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965111 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. A series of articles by Andrew Baird which appeared in Western Miner magazine and are now compiled into book form. Baird left his native Australia and spent sixty years in the Klondike. He acquired fifteen claims on Sulphur Creek and for ten years carried on an individual placer mining operation - so he knows of what he writes. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
198158 pages. Features: Chinese Hand Puppets; The Pottery of Clarice Cliff; Fire Fighting Equipment; The Classical World of John Flaxman; Miniature Books of the Kingsport Press; Movie Magazines; Doll, Doll Figure, or Figurine?; 35 Years ago in the Antiques Journal - Scriptures and Hearthstones; Table-bed revival; Old Umbrellas; Elite Military Badges & Insignia. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative vintage issue. Magazine
1992349 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Map endpapers. Signed by author upon back of front free endpaper. In 1947 the author re-trekked and re-lived the 'Gold Trails of '98' made famous by Robert W. Service - with only a clarinet, a typewriter and a dime. Sllight lean to spine. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this wonderfully high-spirited tale. Book
196520 pages. Features: Jim Bouton of the New York Yankees - a Pitcher Who Paints; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Purina SeaNip Dinner for cats; Between Waking and Sleeping - article on hypnosis; (part 2 in the study of hypnosis); Truth or Consequences (fiction); Nice three-color retro Rexall centerfold ad; One-page color-photo ad for Safeguard Soap shows floating bar of soap; Recipes for "No-Cook Cooking"; Photo of Sue Cole of Irwin, PA meeting the Beatles; Teen Q&A; Nice half-page color ad for Open Pit brand BBQ sauce; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of chef Finn Gurholt, marine supply distributor Malcolm W. Frasier and Marion Brand; How did Security Agent Selena Mead know? - with photo of her author, Patricia McGerr; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Hidden Magic Hair Spray features smiling model in witch costume. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
196620 pages. Features: Dr. Frederick J. Gaudet of the the Stevens Institute of Technology is interviewed, and says we will soon cut our auto accident rate in half; Fidel Castro and the Ex-nurse - photo-illustrated article on Pepita Riera - whose Miami-based broadcasts are such a threat to the Cuban dictator that he's tried to kill her 15 times; A Grain of Mustard Seed (fiction); Those Crazy Computers! - do you think they are infallible, or are you one of thousands of Americans who know they screw up? - with great cartoon illustration of people protesting beside a huge computer; One-page color ad for miniature fruit-bearing trees - orange, lemon and lime; Letters from kids to the FBI; Half-page ad for country music record features photo of Don Wilson; Meat loaf recipes; Half-page color-photo ad for special grapefruit spoon features 'groovy' sixties colored lettering; Zipcodes USA - teen Q&A featuring photo of model Colette Bablon; Great 1/4-page black and white retro ad for "Strange Prophecies" includes photo of Marguerite Carter; Great article on hidden qualifications of celebrities - for example, Winston Churchill held a union card in a British bricklayer's local!; Super back cover color ad for the detective mystery books of Erle Stanley. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1990502 pages. Index. Reference list. Glossary. Pioneer list. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
1970Pages 139-192. Includes index to Volume XLI. Contents include: Michel Butor or a Frenchman Goes to New Mexico; Traduction, Trahison; Napoleon's Marshals - Augereau. The Michel Butor article is signed and inscribed by its author, Jack Kolbert, at the top of its first page. Several typos have been corrected in this section. Ten pages at back list names of members of the Society. Bit of writing upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book