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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
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
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
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: 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
193488 pages. A rare surviving copy of this vintage Canadian gardening periodical. Contents include: The Pansy; Roses for the Garden; The Scree - What is it?; Some Further Notes on the Iris; The Lily Pool - a new idea in pool construction; Youth in the Garden - building cold frames for pocket money; Glass substitutes in gardening; Some of our garden pests; and more. Many interesting contemporary ads plus a major Annual Directory of the Trade in Canada for 1934, including retailers, wholesalers, nurserymen, seedsmen, allied trades and buyers' guide. Back cover features ads by Empire Garden Nurseries, Sidney Roofing and Paper Col, Layritz Nurseries Ltd., and H.M. Eddie & Sons Ltd of Sardis, BC. Minimal pencil markings. Somewhat above-average external soiling and wear. Book
1919Pages 146-167. Features: A short history of British Architecture (Part IV); Ferro-Concrete at Bournemouth; Housing Scheme at Peterborough; Converting a chest of drawers into a dressing table and washstand; New Patents; Q&A; Numerous contemporary ads; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1885279 pages. Authorized for use in the public schools of Ontario by the Minister of Education. Nice black and white illustrations. Extensive markings inside each board. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Still a worthy copy of this vintage Canadian reader. Book
1921A farm and home weekly for Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Hundreds of vintage ads for such products as tree killer, rat-killing virus, one-man log-saws, organs, Kerosene engines, C.O.D. Revolvers (pistols), Dynamite (to dig ditches), Columbia Grafonola. Articles include "Are Tractors a Good Investment". Average wear. Usual library markings. Yellowed with age. Binding sound. Measures 14" x 10" x 1". A treasure trove of farming history. Book
195622 pages. Features: Nice Simpson's fashion ad inside front cover; List of entertainment events in Toronto this week; Many vintage ads for Toronto businesses; List of local places of interest for guests of the hotel; Full-page ad for the Imperial Room featuring the romantic rhythms of Johnny Lindon and his Orchestra, with Betty Jean Ferguson; List of amenities offered by the hotel; Phone numbers for various Toronto services of use to travellers; Centrefold map of Toronto with list of places of interest plus location key for advertisers; Two-page promotion for shipping on Canada's "Fifth Avenue" - the Yonge, Bloor, Bay district; Holt Renfrew and Bank of Nova Scotia (with photo) ads inside back cover; Nice Eaton's ad on back cover features illustrations of their Main and College St. stores with written details for each. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A wonderful vintage piece of Toronto ephemera. Magazine
195352 pages. Features: Riding by Reasoning, Part II; King (by Zantanon, by Little Joe, by Traveler) - owned by Jess Hankins; Halter Breaking Headgear; Whither the Quarter Horse?; Great Foundation Sires of the American Throroughbred VII, Lexington and *Leamington; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Chief Joseph of the Wallowa band and his War Horse, Ebenezer; Reining 'em in the Hackamore; Down the Straightaway; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Week-end Waddies; Horse Kachina of the Hopis; and more. Levi's jeans ad on page 39. Fox Western Hat ad on page 4. Sexy color ad inside front cover for "Friskie Babe" blouses and halters by Tem-Tex Western Shirts; Volney Hildreth Quarter Horse Sale ad on page one. Nice ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons, Inc. Boots on back cover; Gray Trailer Company colour photo ad inside back cover features vintage designs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1903714 pages. Contents include: How Mrs. S.E. Waller's Pictures Have Been Painted; The Money Kings of the New World, by W.T. Stead; Dr. Niels Finsen and his remarkable discovery of healing rays - with wonderful photos; The Making of a Flume - with great photos; The Tame Fish of Logan; The New Khartoum - with many photos; The Floor of the Pacific, by The Hon. W.E. Meehan, Fish Commissioner of the State of Pennsylvania - with photos; The Money Kings of the Modern World II - The Rothschilds, by W.T. Stead - with several photos and illustrations; The Momentous Motor - great vintage technology article with photos; "Skin O' My Tooth" - Edited and Compiled by Baroness Orczy; Bird Babies; Strong Mac; The Making of a Mandolin - with photos; The Money Kings of the Modern World - Part III - Mr. J. P. (Pierpont) Morgan; Municipal Ambulance Work - with fantastic photos of horse-drawn ambulances; Baron Shibusawa of Japan - with great photos; The Game of Sticke - its evolution and progress; The Fiscal Policy of The Empire, by John Holt Schooling; Coalport Porcelain - the story of an ancient and famous industry; The Most Wonderful Map in the World - France, in Jasper, Set with Jems; Hints on Sea-Swimming - Mr. Montagu A. Holbein give advice, and suits the action to the world for photographic illustration; The Nelson Room at Trafalgar House; The Money Kings of the Modern World - Some European Potentates - M. Witte, Baron Hirsch, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Beit, Herr Krupp, M. Jean de Bloch; The Fiscal Policy of the Empire - Part II; A Painter of the Sea-Coast - Mr. Elmer Keene and his Art; Sir James Brooke - Rajah of Sarawak; Pictures in Postage Stamps - using old postage stamps to create art; Capturing A Sperm Whale - with awesome photos; plus many fictional stories. Backstrip all but detached. Front free endpaper and first several pages loose but present. Several other pages loose. Hinges open. Above-average wear. Reading copy only, but remains a very informative and enjoyable reference. Book
1831This copy includes pages 11 through 160 so is missing the first few pages plus title page, etc. It appears that a page or more are missing from the end as well. Very heavily worn and soiled. Despite these glaring defects, this very old reader remains an absolute treat to hold as you imagine the many generations which have benefitted from it for over a century and a half. Possibly a first edition but we are describing this copy as a reprint until we can prove otherwise. Book
199268 pages. Contents: The Sedgwick Saga - a 3/19 Deluxe Moller, opus 5230 - article with photos; The Golden Frame - Presenting the Silent Film, by Jeff Weiler; The Granada Theatre, San Francisco (Paramount) - article with archival photos; Toward Higher Standards in Theatre Organ Installations; The Vintage Morton - The Rest of the Story - the original 2/11 Robert-Morton installed in the San Francisco Castro Theatre in 1922; An Enchanted Evening - Twirling at Turner's Musical Merry-Go-Round in Northampton; Obituaries for Al Bollington, Garo W. Ray, Harold A. Roque and Bob R. Burkhart; Considerable chapter news. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1980128 pages. Features: Triumph TR Supplement; Development of the Breed - TR2 through TR6 - a wealth of information over many pages of text, diagrams and reproductions of photos; Rolls-Royce - How they are making the best cars in the world even batter - article with photos; HWM - a look at the men who created HWM8s - John Heath and George Abecassis; On the Road with - Daimler Double Six; Sunbeam Talbot - article with photos; 1980 T&CC Concours; Classic Sport - Donington Park International July 19/20; Classic Climb - Shelsley Walsh revisited for the 75th anniversary year; Paris-Nice classic and vintage car rally; XK Engine Re-Build - this, part 1, covers cylinder head overhaul; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
195496 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Italian Cruise Lines inside front cover; Nice color one-page ad for the 1954 Ford V-8 Crestline Sunliner - featuring a red convertible; McCarthy's case #54 and economist Val Rogin Lorwin; Death aboard the U.S.S. Bennington - six die after below-deck explosion - with photo of the deceased; Two pages of photos of the Delta Mission in Indo-China (Vietnam); Sir Gerald Templer of Malaya; Wonderful one-page color vintage ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring lady in white dress holding bouquet; Mayor Giorgio La Pira of Florence; Photo of publisher Angelo Rizzoli and story about fake letters he published; Photo of Marshal Tito celebrating a birthday; New folding money coming to Canada from the Bank of Canada; The art of Moritz Liebling - 51 of his charcoal and pencil drawings from Auschwitz 2are displayed in Montreal; The passing of Lionel Conacher; TV wedding of Mr. Peepers (Wally Cox); Nice one-page two-color ad for Babcock boilers features their new installation at Ford's new Oakville plant; Feature article on Humphrey Bogart with photos; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System (Long Distance); Article and photo of boxer Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson; The passing of photographer Robert Capa - article with photo; Sentational vintage one-page color IBM ad features illustrations of tube electronics, man operating a new 701 computer, and Chinese man using abacus; Color paintings by frontier reporter George Catlin; Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz - article with photo; Nice color ad for English Electric inside back cover shows large manufacturing project; color Johnnie Walker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice issue. Magazine
