Hyrer, The Reverend Alfred H.MareMagnum
193946 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Charming 1930s explanation of the 'birds and the bees". "This little book is the answer to this most important question which all children ask sooner or later. A child's welfare and happiness throughout life may depend on the way in which its questions are answered. Most parents find difficulty in presenting the true answer. This little book is to help them in their great responsibility." - from title page. Chapters include: Fathers and Mothers, Babies and Love, Love Among Flowers, How Baby Fish Come Into the World, About Eggs, How Baby Birds Come, How Kittens and Puppies and other Babies Come, About Human Babies. Pencil gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1965108 pages. Features: Great color ad for a purple two-door Buick Grand Sport Riviera; Cover photo of Munick; Front cover fold-out photo of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot; Segretation Crisis - Chicago's Troubled Schools; Germany Twenty Years After Hitler; The Last 100 Days; Germany Today; A New World of Surgery; The Butler goes to College - California students work their way through college; Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox High Note; On the Set with Moreau and Bardot; Electric heat features color photo of Gene Carolan and family in Iowa; Edison Electric Inst. ad features photos of Edward Stansfield and family of PA, Giacomo Liggera and wife of Poughkeepsie, Oklahoma executive Kenneth White, Jr. and wife, and Kentucky Salesman Arthur Waits of Lexington, and family; Dove ad features photo of Mrs. Marilyn Konzet of Great Neck, Long Island; Lovely color-photo ad for the (yellow) 1965 Chrysler; Two-page color Del-Monte ad; Nice color-photo FTD ad; Vintage two-page colour-photo ad for Greyhound bus lines; Two-page Budweiser ad says "No additives, please!"; Color-photo ad for a maroon Chevrolet 1965 Chevelle; CBS radio network ad with photos of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Lowell Thomas, Phil Rizzuto, Marvin Kalb, Frank Gifford and Harry Reasoner; Classy color ad for a cream-colored 1965 Pontiac Bonneville (in Italy?); Wow! - two-page color-photo ad for the (red) 1965 Ford Mustang GT; All-American cities; Nice color ad for GMC pickup trucks; Back cover color ad for Chesterfield King cigarettes includes photos of Elly Travlou Dubinsky of Missouri, randall A. OSmon of Florida, and Donald C. Barnette, Jr., of Ohio; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
19256 pages. Features cover illustration of Miss Shelton Bentley. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Sheet music
1958116 pages. Short Stories: The Susceptible Scientists; Rich Man's Daughter; In Ememy Hands; The Third Man in the Boat. Articles: Con Man of the Country Clubs - David Goldreyer passed bad checks; The Hunt for HIdden Diabetics - Fresno, CA tracks unsuspecting victims; ; Biggest City in the World - great photo-illustrated article on Tokyo, Japan; "Background Music" - Persuasion in the Air; Robert Preston - The Happiest Actor on Broadway; What's New in Toyland? - lovely color-photo-illustrated article; Does Pro Basketball Have a Future? - with photo of Richie Guerin of the Knicks attacking referee Mendy Rudolph; Serials; The Midtown Bomber (part 1 of 5); The Case of the Greedy Grandpa (part 7 of 8). Ads: Nice Santa-theme Alka-Seltzer ad; Kaywoodie Pipes; GE TVs; *Fantastic* color ad for the Lincoln Continental Mark IV (maroon); United States Steel; Hammond Organ; Chanel No. 5; Nice Cadillac (yellow) evening ad; Stanley Tools Christmas ad; Vintage Shulton Old Spice ad; Lowry organs; Magnavox TVs (color photo); Campbell's Oyster Stew Soup; Fisher Body; L&M cigarettes; Arrow Shirts; Toastmaster Appliances (2 pages); 1959 Edsel; King Sano cigarette ad features photo of former U.S. diplomat John S. Young; Westinghouse Appliances ad feeatures color photo of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wearing crowns; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Pizza; Fantastic color-photo centerfold features family shopping scene with the 1959 Mercury Park Lane 4-door hardtop cruiser (beige); Viceroy cigarettes; Gem Push-Button Razor; Douglas DC-8; Norelco shavers; Avis; Black and Decker Tools; GMAC; Borden's Ice Cream; Singer Sewing Machines and Vacuums - color photos; Arvin Hi-Fi Stereo Radio; Thor Electric Tools; Lady Schick shavers; Cushman Scooters; Dormeyer appliances; Rex-Flex shoes; Kodak cameras. Back cover color photo Lucky Strike ad features Jack Benny writing his 'giving' Christmas list. Piece of masking tape on front cover which shows above-average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1927866 pages plus advertisements. Prior owner's details neatly written across from title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this lovely vintage Swiss household reference. Book
1983Features: Vintage colour Computerland ad; Q&A with Hugh Hefner; Sir Freddit Laker Flies Again; Searching for the multiple-murderer of Wells Gray Provincial Park in B.C.; The Mackasey Affair; Trading insults in B.C. provincial election; Chicago's first black mayor-elect, Harold Washington; Lech Walesa's May Day Challenge; Fears of a Police State in Britain amid rising lawlessness; Assam Sartawi's assassination - a dealy warning to moderates in the mid-east - photo of pistol-packing Yasser Arafat; Cover Story - Power in High Places - 26 charges recommended to the Ontario Securities Commission, including nine against Conrad Black; Clipping Canadair's wings - the Challenger 600; Colour ad for the Commodore 64 computer; Trouble with the Montreal Canadiens - Bob Berry out as coach; 'Not a Love Story' and the Charter's quiet legal revolution; Compulsory literacy; Teachers humbled by restraint programs; California's battered coastline - amazine colour photo of washed-out home . Average wear. Book
1901420 pages. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's details neatly upon front free endpaper. Minimal light pencil markings to contents. A well-travelled but sound copy of this vintage Canadian reader. Book
193324 pages. Contents: Buying Revival Delayed by Slowness of Credit Expansion - Bankers Must Help; Labor Shows Way for Farmers to Combine and Stop Production by Strikers if Necessary; Vintage ads; Photo of New York Mayoral Candidate LaGuardia; Foreign news; Illustration of Dr. Goebbels who met with the Polish foreign minister to request removal of the Polish-Jew boycott against German goods; Illustration of Maxim Litvinoff; Japan's Naval Chiefs Given Added Power - with illustration of Gen. Araki; Current Events; Illustration of Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings who is going after bad lawyers; Photo of Dr. J.M. Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol; Photo of Italy's wireless wizard, Senator Guglielmo Marconi; Illustration of Comptroller of the Currency J.F.T. O'Connor; National Recovery Administration; Financial history repeats - the crazy period just prior to 1929 was a depression-breeder; Marketing; Capital Chat; Photo of Rep. Mary T. Norton, Chairman of the House District Committee; Photo of Laurence of Arabia; Caricature of Marie Dressler; Science News; Flag Conversation Between Ships; Caricature of Charles T. Coiner, designer of the NRA emblem; Aviation - big naval orders in US and Britain; and more. 3 inch by 1 inch piece missing from cover. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193624 pages. Contents: How's Housing? - Not So Good - Building Costs and Rents Far Too High; Lindbergh's Third Flight; Neutraligy Laws and Treaties; Wagner Labor Act at Court; Foreign News; Chinese Vice-Minister of Railways Tang Yu-jen assassinated; Ethiopian Situation Still Cloudy and Italo-Ethiopian War Drags On; Current Events; Illustration of Rep. James P. Buchanan of Texas; Illustration of Brig. Gen. F.M. Andrews, Commander of the GHQ Air Force; National News; Off-Year Election results Not Always Reliable Forecasts; Is a World Crisis Near?; Marketing; Captain Anthony Eden, Britain's new Foreign Secretary; Illustration of Rep. John M. Bankhead; Science News; Vintage ads, including back cover ad for the McCleary Sanitarium and Clinic of Excelsior Springs, MO.; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193624 pages. Contents: Nobel Prize is Yours If You Can Solve This Distribution Problem; Political Lesson #1 - It's Fun to Be Fooled; Illustration of Senator Robert Wagner, Democrat of New York; Illustration of Hermann Goering, new dictator of the economic and financial policies of the Third Reich; Illustration of Austria's Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst von Starhemberg; League of Nations Delays Clear Way for Complete Conquest of Ethiopia; Illustrations of Francis B. Sayre and Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania; Congress; Photo of Senator Frederick C. Steiwer of Oregon; Control of firearms needed; Marketing; Photo of Rep. Sol Bloom of New York; Science News; Aviation - illustration of German dirigible, Hindenberg, bearing Swastika; Vintage ads; and much more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193724 pages. Contents: Battle over control of the nation's electrical power - with photo of TVA Director David E. Lilienthal; Photo of Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade; Photo of Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina; Conflict between General Motors and the United Automotive Workers of America - with photo of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Terrible Ohio River Flood; Rise of Militarism in Japan - with photo of Osami Nagano; Photo of Trotzky (Trotsky) who, from Mexico, claims the Moscow trial against him is "A giant frame-up"; Terror in Lisbon; Spanish Havoc - with photo of rebels praying; "Mirror Writing" - reversed writing; Old Turk exhibits his third set of natural teeth while Edmonton youth develops his fourth set!; Photo of Wendell Wilkie; Women in the News - Miss Mary Anderson; "Jane Bull"; Movie World - with photo of Martha Raye; Photo of Mrs. Molly TicklePitcher of Turnit Top Ridge, TN; Two-page article on Benito Mussolini - with photos; Photo of 'Little Corporal' J. Toussaint Bernard; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Most of back page missing. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: spectacular destruction of three of the Bedaux Canadian Expedition's caterpillar cars; photo of rock formation in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve where Indians practice pagan rituals - Canada's Stonehenge?; Evidence shows Germany storing up war material; Request for survey of sanitary conditions in Saanich district; Ad for Oak Bay home - $2,625!; Editorial page; Cartoon page (missing two-inch strip along edge with partial loss to 3 cartoon strips; two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 9-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Reign of terror on the Chinese Eastern Railway; Fire threatens Salmo, B.C.; U.S. might build B.C. part of Alaska road; Investigation of fire at Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company, Ltd.; Passing of R.T. Williams; Nazis start great drive for support; Photo of P. Caron and E. Duquette of Montreal who are walking across Canada; great photo ad for the Ford 4-cylinder 1904 car; Editorial page; Hudson's Bay Company; Social page; Page of ads by local schools; Nice illustrated at for the 5-floor Standard Furniture Company; ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 11-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Kidnapping of John S. Labatt; many international stories; Saanich will hold 65th annual fair in September; Cameron Lake photo; Photo of Father Bernard R. Hubbard mountain climbing in Alaska; Editorial page; Large ad for Standard Furniture Co.; Razing of main classroom structure of Corrig College in Victoria; Vacation page; photo of Dr. William Beebe and his steel diving ball; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Hitler smashes revolt; Death of mountaineer Alex H. Dalgleish; Pioneer and Bralorne mines in B.C. may rival famous South African workings; Bones of Cougar Ike found near Nitnat?; White fishermen push seven Japanese fish boats out of Bull Harbor and warn them not to return; Merrit Indians sentenced to hang for Murder of Indian department constable F.H. Gisborne - with photos of Richardson George, Eneas George and Alex George; Editorial page; City and District News page; Social pages; Entertainment page; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Howe Sound made area of wreckage by Squamish gale; B.C.-made lumber used in making ladder used in Lindbergh kidnapping; "Polly" Parrott of Victoria second in six-day bicycle race in Vancouver; Evidence mounts against Bruno Richard Hauptmann re: Lindbergh kidnap-killing; E.W. McMullen to retire from Bank of Montreal; Draft regulations for B.C. Marketing of local products; Editorial page; Social pages; Large Hudson's Bay Company ad; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 15-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Labatt kidnapping ransom and many other international stories; Successful Hudson's Bay employee cruise around Saltspring Island; Editorial page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-8, and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Plans to move 40,000 from drought areas of prairies; Court-martials in Cuba; Tension in Arizona re. Japanese agriculturists; Editorial page; Social pages; large share offering ad by Glenora Gold Mines; Vacation page; cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited. Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1937This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 15-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Chaotic dissension prevails in Russia as purge proceeds; Bilbao seized by terror; Tension mounts re: U.S. steel strikes; Police boat near wreck on Nitinat Bar; Nazis disallow church collections without government permission; Jack Fraser absolved by court in hearing of Hedley mine charges; Tainted head cheese causes multiple poisonings in Alberta; Excess profits tax planned as national defence contribution; Forest and Mines Camp schemes launched by B.C. for youths between 18 and 25 years of age; Price of gold will stay up; Editorial page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Above-average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-6 and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Lindbergh kidnapping news; Federal by-election results; Optimistic B.C. mining stats; Nome Alaska razed by fire; Editorial page; Ada Mackenzie medalist in Canadian golf; Business page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; David Spencer Limited ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling, especially to back page. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1936This listing consists of pages 1 through 16 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Ethiopa on alert for new Italian air bombardment; U.S. Freighter Iowa goes down in Oregon claiming 34 lives; Wilfred Hattie and Ellen Jenkinson feared drowned near Arbutus Point; Howard Hughes sets record for U.S. crossing by air; Photo of Empress of Ethiopa in Jerusalem where she sought refuge from Italian bombing; Editorial page; Travel page; City and District news briefs; Social pages; Sports pages with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about how his Canadiens defeated Chicago, plus photo and brief write-up of Howard McPhee, UBC sprint ace; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Somewhat above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-8, and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Communists pelt police upon release of communist Sam Carr; Slayings by firing squad ended in Germany; San Francisco waterfront brawl between strikers and police; large illustrated ad for McLaughlin-Buick Straight Eights, available through H.A. Davie, Ltd.; Editorial page; Social pages; Sports page; Business page; Cartoon page; Classified ads page; B.C. Mining News feature; large ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1922128 pages. Index. Circa 1922? "Prepared by a Ladies' Club in a friendly rivalry for the very best there is in tested recipes... With oven cooking guide for woodfire, gas and electricty, record of results, time table for cooking and other tables." - from front cover. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this pleasing vintage cookbook. Book
1911190 pages. Copiously and delightfully illustrated in black and white by the author. Some moth ball aroma. Although very heavily worn and soiled, the binding remains intact. School markings inside each board. Child's pencil drawings to preliminary pages. A worthy reading copy. Book
1914viii, 581 pages. This 1914 copy is a reprint of the 1886 first edition. Covers a broad spectrum of foods with clearly explained and carefully tested recipes. Hinges open. Average wear to attractively illustrated copper cloth-covered boards. A worthy copy of this delightful vintage cookbook. BITTING p.405, WHEATON & KELLY 5254. Book
