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1963Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
195158 pages. Features: The Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad on Hawaii - article with photos; The Rail Detector Car Identifies Faulty Rails - article with photos; Staten Island Rapid Transit - a B&O Subsidiary - article with photos and map; Photo Section including wonderful centerfold photo of a Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 on a curve west of Cumberland, Md.; Behind the Statistical Nightmares of the Pennsylvania Railroad's first 100 years - a story of a transport colossus - article with photos; Riding the "Dixie Line" NC&StL from Nashville to Atlanta; Photos of immense locomotives in the process of being scrapped; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195160 pages. Features: Illinois Central's Floating Bridge - great photos; Jersey Meadows - Railroad Workshop of the East - photos, map and good article; In the Land of Evangeline - a look at Nova Scotia's transportation system; Photo section; The last passenger run for the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railroad; Twilight of the Trolley - Columbus, Ohio's interurban network was dying - photos and article - the Columbus, Urbana & Western; The Presidents - B&O's Super Pacifics - great photos with article; Every Day is Wash Day - how streamliners are cleaned daily; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Lake St. Tower - focal point of the entire Chicago & North Western Railway is the six-track terminal throat; Off the Beaten Track - Round Trip Tickets are Honoured over this interesting mountain branch of the Northern Pacific; Passenger Agent - Making friends by satisfying passengers is his job - satisfied passengers ship freight too; Mother Hubbard Locomotives - Wide fire boxes of anthracite-burning locos crowded the cab forward; Keeping the Line Open - The railroads, more than any other private enterprise, strive to maintain service and give relief in major disasters; Now and Then - Cripple Creek Short Line in Colorado; Cross Roads of the North - Rouses Point, New York, first served by Champlain & Ogdensburg Raiway, now part of Rutland system; A Streamliner is Born - Dixie Flagler is one of three new high speed trains, pioneers in fast Chicago-Miami service; Wabash Railway at Chicago - best time of year for photographing Wabash locomotives is now - best place is Landers Yard - many locomotive photos; Illinois Central 4-6-0. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1966Features: Tales of Colorado Mining Camps; Papa's Straw Hat - a man and his mules; I knew them all - rodeo's favorite girls and favorite horses, rodeo's best and toughest men; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Justice After Dark - a popular lawmen ends up behind bars - the town of Albany; Eagle - Fifth in the series of 'Ghosts Along the Yukon'; Bows and Arrows vs. the Muzzle Loader; Who Killed Oliver Yantis?; Dissertation on the Cow Chip; John B. Townsend - farmer by day, stalker by night; Old Town - Nara Visa; Vengeance Riders of the Monte - the unique vigilante group of Camp El Monte; Monument to Hate - tombstone tells the ugly facts; Identify these old western objects; Wild Old Days!; Violence - spawn of Raw Gold - Idaho's Lemhi County; Robert W. Service - bard of the north; My Friend, Crazy Horse - W.C. Shafer. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: Bullets for breakfast in Naco, Arizona; The Lost Keyes Mine in the Badlands of Montana; A Trail Blazer and a Sculptress - Maud Maple Miles; The 'Shanghai Chicken' - Johnny Devine; Joe and I are going home - Gus Wilson, McKinney, Texas; Boyhood of a Choctaw - Bud Goodson; Mystery at Trumbull Lake; Nebraska's Mrs. Sawbones - Georgia Arbuckle Fix was a tough woman doctor, Western Nebraska; Those Famous Boone Brothers - remember Bob and Pate and Dee?; Custer - 100 Years later; Hiram Everman - White Man For Sale - there was no penitentiary to receive him. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: Vinegroon - the saga of Judge Roy Bean, "Law West of the Pecos"; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Dawson (Klondike/Yukon)- Paris of the North; Liver-Eating Johnson's Last Trail; Guns of the Old West - the Colt Forty-Five; Al Wetherill of the Mesa Verde; Geronimo/Fimbres; Cavalryman vs. Cowboy - a famous race; The Grizzly Bear - King of the California Wilderness - Grapevine Canyon; Two Minutes to Live; Maryhill Castle - Sam Hill; Bottle Bugs - old western bottle; Wheelock Academy and the fighting brothers; Cedros - the magic island; Blood for Blood - the Snake Indians on Bear River in California; Death Rode the Snows - 56 die in Rogers Pass slide; Wild Old Days - underwater - Parker Canyon Lake. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1979Features: A Folsom Graduate - William M. Fredericks; Attacked by a Rabid Horse! - Thurman, Iowa; Barclay (Bat) Masterton's Rescue of Bully Bill Thompson; The Indian outbreak of 1855 - The Dalles, Oregon; Owen Wister's Pop Call to Texas; Widow Woman (Mary Ross) - by sod or by grass? - no one ever asked; Trail City - it may have been the last escape hatch for Texas cattle and their dreaded ticks; Many of the Wild Bunch have been accounted for, but 'How Come They Never Caught Hugh Whitney'; Top Western Photographer - H.C. Eklund; Canyon Country Cowpuncher - Walt Goldsmith; Those Thousand Colts that went to war - Sam Colt and Sam Walker, from official company publications and Rip Ford's memoirs; Woman-Hater Nick Mersfelder. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1983Features: Why I Wrote the book about Buffalo Bill - Nebraska writer Nellie Snyder Yost Tells all; Love and the Sexes on the Western Frontier; How to be a Ghost Towner - The Best Way to re-live the Old West is to visit the places where it once thrived; California's First Gold Rush - Gold was mined in California at least as early as the early 19th Century, if not before as Indians brought gold to the mission padres for trading purposes; Mysterious Disappearance of a Utah mine owner, Mike Sullivan; Christmas at Old Fort Concho, Texas; Bodie, California - Pictorial views of the Boom and the Bust; Lost Yocum Silver Mine - This Missouri Farmer thinks he's sitting on Riches; Gunnison's Ghosts (in Gunnison County, Colorado); Palace Station - overnight stage stop for travelers between Prescott and Phoenix; Head Cheese and Other Cheeses - Forgotten Frontier Food, Part II; Fooled by Real Gold at Sheep Ranch, California. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1911390 pages. "Provides a record of the men and women who... are contributing to the building up of Western Canada.... Includes the politician, the pioneer, the railroader and the litterateur, the man of affiars and the farmer, the merchant and the professional man." - from Preface. 88 pages of interesting black and white photographs of Western Canadian notables including James Dunsmuir. Balance of book consists of detailed entries. Front free endpaper and all pages prior to preface missing. Both hinges taped. Above-average wear and soiling externally. Possible whiff of must. Remains a useful and fascinating reference. Book
19621293 pages including index. 74 chapters divided into the following nine sections: The Ingredients of Western Civilization; The Early Middle Ages (400-1000); The High Middle Ages (1000-1300); The Age of Transition (1300-1500); The Age of Religious Revolt and Reform (1500-1600); The Age of Dynastic Statecraft (1600-1775); The Age of Revolution (1775-1850); The Age of the National State (1852-1919); The Age of Total Politics (1919- ). Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Bookplate upon front endpaper. Minimal wear. Unmarked. Bright silver lettering upon navy boards and spine. Excellent copy. Book
198144 pages. Features: Artistic Interiors, with views from Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Calgary; Vancouver's Public Sculpture ; Anthony Caro - tradition and innovation; Framing and Preservation of Works of Art; The 'Elements' of Interior Design. Many attractive colour ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
2014136 pages. Features: Tammy Garcia - Mastering the Clay; How Fred Harvey Shaped America's View of the West; Maria Martinez and Her Family; Wildlife Stories - Luke Frazier; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
195134 pages. Features: Let's Do Some Mixers; Obituary for "Uncle" Carl Myles; Asilomar Square Dance Institute; Eastern Trip; Box the Gnat; Sashay Out and Sides Cut In; Squares of the Month - Bea and Barry Binns; Fremont High School Party in Los Angeles; Kern County Callers' Roundup - many photos of callers; Western San Gabriel Jamboree; Riverside Breakfast Club in Glendale, California hold benefit dance; Photos of Ross White and Lee Bedford, Sr.; Third Man Theme; Music Box Waltz; Photo and brief write-up of Merle Coleman, a staffer for this magazine; Large beautiful photo ad for Kathy's Cottons inside back cover features Joan Vohs, M.G.M. starlet; Other nice vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1960190 pages. Index. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this favourite western Canadian vintage cookbook. Book
1981280 pages. Index. Reference notes. "An engaging and endlessly fascinating study - the major work of an author of startling originality often described as an iconoclast who drew on the English Marxist school, the theories of Harold Innis and his own western Canadian background in a remarkable exploration of the roots of labour and capitalism in Canada." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book
194616 pages. Welcome home veterans! Welcome back to Ken Clifford. 30 year anniversary for William H. Gibbs with the company. Photos of 15 lovely young ladies who serve on Eaton's new Junior Fashion Council, including: Helen Steinburg, Betty Jean Hamilton, Doris Nufer, Marian Dittrich, Joan Taylor, Betty Derraugh, Betty-Lou Bakewell, Lorraine Blair, Colline MacDonald, Lois Nichols, Helen Poulis, Gretta Marlatt, Doreen Bradley, Jane Emery and Robin Munson. Published monthly in the interests of employees of the T.Eaton Co., Western Ltd., Edmonton. Photos of seven Eaton family members who came to Calgary to honor company war veterans from Alberta and British Columbia at an event at the Palliser Hotel - includes article and photos; Great centerfold photo of Edmonton Eaton's returning war veteran employees, complete with names, who attended a welcome home luncheon in Calgary - dozens of people invovled; Welcome home photo on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Minor soiling to front cover. A sound copy. Book
1958Features: C-I-L Ammo ad inside front cover features photo of woodchuck in crosshairs; Steelhead in Western Waters; Let's Try Nymphs for Trout; This Year Holiday in Quebec; Map and list of parks and fishing reserves of Quebec; Enlightened Move for More Ducks; About Fishing Forecasts; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
197950 pages. Features: Ads for 'Pretty Baby' and 'Butch and Sundance - The Early Years' inside front cover; ads for 'Once in a Lifetime' and 'Lost and Found'; Joe Rosenthal's historic Victorian war films to be auctioned; 'Dracula' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with John Schlesinger; Photo preview of John Schlesinger's 'Yanks'; Interview with Debra Hill about her role as producer, and her collaboration with director John Carpenter; 'Escape from Alcatraz' - photos; Reviews - 'Pretty Baby', 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure', 'Caravans', 'The China Syndrome', 'Dracula', 'Fedora', 'Hill's Angels', 'The In-Laws', 'My Love Has Been Burning Phantasm', 'Quintet', 'Why Not Stay for Breakfast'; 'Lost and Found' - photos; 'Quadrophenia' - photos; 'All Quiet on the Western Front' - photos; 'The In-Laws' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1944386 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many black and white illustrations. "A tribute to the able and courageous founders of the Medical Department of the University of Western Ontario with nearly all of whom I was intimately associated and all of whom, sade to relate, have now passed away." - from Foreword. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with pleasantly moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this important work. Book
195134 pages. Features: Standardization Committee Report; Adam and Eve; The Houston Star; Guest Caller - Frank Pecinovsky; Callers Clinic in Southern California; Sell newcomers on the fund of square dancing through the 'One Night Stand'; Doll Dance - the Neptunian Club of Manhattan Beach - includes photo of Treg Brown; "Pop" Singer; Photo and write-up on Irma Sturrock of this publication; Nice vintage ads. Subscription renewal form neatly clipped from page 25. Average wear. Few pen doodles to front cover and page 15. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
196216 pages of densely packed text and numerous black and white reproductions of excellent photos. Features: Dim future for Boston's MTA trolley-Subway; Philadephia & Western Scrapbook; The Norristown Rail Division of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. - includes roster and map; Bullet Cars - article with photos, weights and grainy reproduction of blueprint; Brief news bits from Chicago, Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and San Francisco. Laid-in photocopy of track map, dated 1945, of the Phila. & Western Rwy. Co., Book
1974157 pages including index plus 8 black and white plates. Documents the First visit, February to April 1861 and the Second Visit, April to July 1870. Illustrations include: Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1861; The Royal Engineer's Camp Near New Westminster in 1861; Yale in the 1860's; Oregon City in 1858; San Francisco in 1866; The American Camp on San Juan Island c. 1870; The Flying Squadron in Esquimalt Harbour, 1870; Sitka, Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Remnants of two price stickers at bottom of front cover. Crease to back cover. Solid copy. Book
198164 pages. Features: Judith Jedlicka collects baskets; Boehm keeps spreading its wings; The collectible Creche; Christmas ornaments to collect; A new look at Peter Max; Arlene Francis - her TV fans have been showering her with symbols of love for years; The Western Art of New Yorker Gregory Perillo; What's all this flap about flappers? - desired objects of the jazz age; A Horatio Alger Anniversary; Ellis Nassour's elephant collection; Unknown Hummel Madonna with wings found. Ask the experts. Average wear. Name upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1951Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Raft - a group of Australians are set adrift in a vast inland sea during a disastrous inundation; The Haunted Tanker - as told by David Kellar, an officer of the Merchant Navy; The Black Pearls of Fatu-Hiva - A weird story from the South Seas as told by Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart; Bill Miner-Bandit - The amazing life-history of one of the most notorious outlaws who ever troubled Canada and the Western States; Act of God - An incident in Karachi, Pakistan; Shooting Star - Am amusing tale from the Sudan; River of the Dead - a gripping story from the little-known interior of Brazil involving the fierce Chavantes people; The Village of Ladders - the Swiss hamlet of Albinen is accessible only by a series of rough ladders; They Live in Trees - The Tree-Dwellers of Travancore State in India; "Living Native" in the South Seas. Illustrated in black and white. Back cover detached. Contents in good condition. Pencil name atop back cover. Magazine
