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1923Well over 590 pages with many vintage advertisements. Red decorated flexible boards. Contains the following sections: Steam; Steam Generation; The Steam Engine; Steam Turbines; Condensers; Gas and Oil Engines; Air Compressors; Air, Ventilation and Heating; Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery; Machine Tools; Pipes, Beams, Girders, Columns, etc.; Friction and Power Transmission; Gas for Heating, Lighting and Power; Pyrometry; and more. Front hinge gone. Former owner's name inside back board. Creasing to each boards has caused some wrinkling to fabric. Quite a nostalgic volume. Book
1976337 pages including index and two sections of black and white photographic plates. "This book is an attempt to tell the moderns what hockey was all about in the vintage years. Those *were* the days, my friends, and here are the men who lived them." - from Preface. Gift greetings upon half-title page else unmarked. Endpapers decorated with photographs of great moments in hockey. Prior owner (not a library) taped dust jacket to boards with four small pieces of invisible tape. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and in good condition with a number of small tears and average wear. Book
1945472 pages. Very rough copy of this vintage elementary school reader. Book
1994197 pages. Occasional black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1992135 pages. Captures, in 51 stunning full-colour paintings by 15 brilliant Canadian aviation artists, the wonder, intricacy and the infinite variety of aeroplanes: the nostalgic charm of vintage aircraft; the incredible fighter planes of the First and Second World Wars; and the sleek, gleaming contemporary aeroplanes of today. Tells the history of aviation in Canada. Front free endpaper removed. Moderate wear to book.. Average wear to and small chip from dust jacket which is now in an archival-grade brodart cover. Unmarked. Solid copy of this attractive work. Book
1925100 pages. Personal signed copy of Albert Quine, business manager of this publication. Contains numerous autographs and inscriptions of graduating class notables, including Student Body President Roy Sohns. Contents in nice shape. Chipping and short tears to black covers. Lettering and decoration upon front cover worn but visible. Two identical news clippings ca. 1980s laid in. These clippings show Dr. Gunnar Berg, the first principal of the school, and his wife arriving at a reunion of the Class of 1925. Representative of its vintage, this yearbook stylishly presents and preserves the wonderful Gatsby-era fashions of the day. A truly unique and wonderful item. Book
1971352 pages. Includes numerous old maps of Ontario and wonderful contemporary automobile and other advertisements. An extensive reference. Some yellowing to pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Average wear externally. Binding sound. Solid copy of this now delightfully nostalgic work. Nice gift for your special vintage auto enthusiast. Book
1930134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
1952122 pages plus index and vintage advertisements. Features: Trends in North American Forestry, North American Forestry - a Summation; Good Logging Practices increase Forest Yield; Effect of Recent Pulp and Paper Developments in B.C.; Interpreting Forestry to the Layman; The Correlation of Silvicultural Systems and Wildlife Management; a Technique for Determining the Year of the Outside Ring of Dead Trees; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1950Vintage advertisements. Features: Teamwork in research; climate, soils and forests of Canada; Farm woodland management in the south; a gall disease of western hemlock in B.C.; Historical aspects of applied silviculture in eastern region; action needed for woodlot management promotion; silvicultural results of forest policies and practices in Manitoba and Saskatchewan; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1954Vintage advertisements. Features: Inbreeding experiments with the Douglas Fir; Panel on Forest Proection; Panel on Forest Administration; Vital Statistics for Forestry in Canada; Viability and germination in yellow birch; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1953Vintage advertisements. Features:The forestry situation in Canada - present and future; Performance of Scotch Pine races under prairie conditions; Stereum Pini incorrectly reported as cause of decay in Lodgepole-Pine; Observations of Armillaria Mellea in Immature Douglas Fir; Trends and new developments in the transportation of wood in eastern Canada; The tree decadence classification for mature conifer stands; growth of immature Douglas Fir by tree classes; Forest Research Development in Sweden; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1953Vintage advertisements. Features: A survey of coniferous forest succession in the Eastern Rockies; Decay in White Spruce at the Kananaskis Forest Experiment Station; 'Selective Cutting' and the all-aged stand; Relative efficiency of some specific plot-sizes in estimating timber volumes in some specific timber types; the Saskatchewan Forest Inventory; Studies on White Pine Blister Rust in Nova Scotia; The Hatchet Planimeter; Forest sites - a discussion; seeding of cutovers and mechanical logging; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1904158 pages. Copyright 1904. Undated. Black and white illustrations. Nice old elementary-level school text which begins with the words "This is a story of long ago. It will tell you of the first people we know anything about. It will tell you how they lived before they had fire. It will tell you how they worked before they had tools..." Includes student activities and Suggestions for teachers. Unmarked externally. School markings upon endpapers else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
1991Features: The Oriental Textile Mill Tower Clock; Henry Warren and His Master Clocks; Vintage Wristwatches - Their History and Appeal; Aaron Dodd Crane Revisited - 1991 Update; The Connecticut Apprentice; Peter Cooper's Clock; The Watch and Clock Museum of the NAWCC; Making a Lux Cat's Tail or Necktie Pendulum for the Pendulette; and more. Aside from a tiny ink mark in upper corner of front cover, clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
193836 pages. Wonderful vintage depression-era hardware/farm catalogue from the Canadian prairies. Marvel at how much a dollar used to be worth. Macleod's had locations from Manitoba to Alberta so the goods presented truly offer an accurate glimpse of prairie life in those days. Items of particular interest include: radios, bob sleds, wheels, horse harnesses and collars, wagon parts, grain grinders, tools, fasteners, cream separators, dairy equipment, auto parts, tires, lighting plants (generators), work clothing, long underwear, breeches, gloves, winter wear, overshoes, boots, coats, a wind-powered electrical generator(!), radio batteries, and more. Lots of wear but binding still intact. Unmarked. A truly amazing keepsake from simpler times. Would make a great gift for someone who still remembers those days. Book
1997Features: Steam Travel and Photography Forty Years ago - 1957, a vintage year, Part I - Germany and Austria; Golden Snake Bites the Dust - the last Chilean State Railways (FFCCE) type 29 2-Co-Co-2 electric locomotive; Narrow Gauge Railways in the Ukraine - Part 2; Swiss Railways 150; The World's Southernmost Railway - in Argentina; Preserved Steam Locomotives of Ontario; Vintage Steam in Denmark; Back Track; K1 Garratt Restoration. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1972Features: Fort Langley - restocking a fur trading post; Canadian Art - a growing awareness in the U.S.; T. Mower Martin - Grand Old Man of Canadian Art; Irish glass; Decorating with antiques; Mourning Rings; Glass paperweights; Down under vintage cars; Hester Bateman Silver; Cotswold Inns; Old Tin; Vaudreuil Glass Industry. Average wear. Unmarked. No tears. Address label upon front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
1934163 pages. Occasional line drawings. Delightful and educational geographical stories and games for students at the grade three level. May be a reprint - stated printing date is 1934 but date of author's introduction is 1928. Prior owner's details inside front board. Binding sound. Average wear. A sound copy of of this rare and precious item. Book
1994Features: Earthly Treasure - Join a harrowing and humbling raft trip through B.C.'s Kitlope rainforest - cradle of native culture and a global ecological gem; Designer of Do's and Don'ts - pictogram pioneer Paul Arthur gives orders to the planet - without using a single word; Last Call? - are we silencing the loon's classic cry?; The Reel Thing - could the modern evils of TV and rock 'n' roll kill the vintage art of Celtic fiddling? - not in Cape Breton; Doctored by DNA - scientists are on the edge of engineering cures fro the deadliest diseases of our time. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1911Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
1972746 pages. Index. Mini-skirts, hot pants, polyester men's wear and psychadellic beddings are but a few of the highlights in this vintage catalogue. Bit of writing on back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Guaranteed amusement. A great gift for anyone born in 1972! Book
1938429 pages. Index. Authorized by the Departments of Education for Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner details upon front free endpaper. Staining to front board and part of backstrip. A worthy reading copy. Book
191815 pages. A very well-used original copy of this lovely booklet. All pages present but many loose. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
1930120 pages. Each page illustrated, most in colour. Both free endpapers neatly removed. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Several openings to early pages. Still a sound working copy of this rare vintage reader. Book