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2000214 pages. "A must read for those with a hungry heart." - from back cover. The story of a man who left the Catholic Church in search of greener pastures. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
1994356 pages including index. Offers clear explanations to common questions about Christianity. Provides a source for answers in a society that constantly challenges the thoughtful Christian. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
197648 pages. The result of a study of mountain slopes and their potential for providing for human settlement. It grew out of a belief that mountain slopes could be developed into an exhilarating and satisfying environment in which to live, as well as from the recognition of a need to relieve population pressures on agricultural flatlands through the development of mountainous areas. Applies in particular to British Columbia, Canada. Illustrated. Contents include: Climate; Mountain Hazards; Human Attitudes to Physical Setting; Financing Transportation and Pedestrian Movement; Landscaping and Design; Slope Designation, Platform Creation and Construction; Mount Ekos - Sketch of a Prototype. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
1973172 pages. "With his father (Max) - and at times his mother - in prison, author grew up struggling to stay in school and later to keep jobs. His outspoken Christian faith and his father's ceaseless opposition to Communism kept Michael under surveillance of the secret police." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1926221 pages. High character and heroic actions are the dominating notes of the careers described in this volume. The nine stories include: Tamate - and his stirring adventures in New Guinea; The siege of For Michilimackinac - the exciting experiences of a fur trader among red Indians; Basil of Caesarea; Daniel Wilson, the Lion-Hearted Bishop of Calcutta; David Livingstone, the Greatest of Explorers; Anecdotes of Livingstone; Bishop McIlvaine of Ohio; Ambrose of Milan - the Archbiship who never feared the face of man; David Brainerd, the Apostle to the red Indians. Three colour plates including frontis. Nicely illustrated spine and front board. Average wear. Front free endpaper missing. Moderate yellowing. Front hinge almost fully open. Above-average but not excessive soiling. Decent copy of a nice volume. Date inknown. Circa 1950? Book
199543 pages. Nicely illustrated juvenile literature. "An adventure that will inspire young and old alike: Livingstone's determination to reach his goal, his humility and love for the African people and his storng faith in God." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
199551 pages. Hudson arrived in China with an impossible task... yet he won the world's greatest nation through prayer. Juvenile literature. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1952Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
1952Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1917Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
1937645 pages. Index. Frontis portrait of Thomas Wildey, the Founder of the American Odd Fellowship. Author presents his thoughts about the principles of the Odd Fellowship, and the history and practices of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Chapters include: Immortality, Friendship, Love, Truth, The Besetting Sin, Rebekah, Service, Loyalty, Faith, Hope, Charity, Universal Justice, A Machine, Home, A Challenge, The Jericho Road. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
1982818 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Topics include: The Early Days; Town Growth - hospital, businesses, recollections; The Halls of Learning - country and town schools; The Faith of Our Fathers - churches; Organizations; Sports and Recreation; Family Histories; Our Unsung Heroes - pictures of veterans; Memories. Decorated blue cloth boards. Endpapers illustrated with a wonderful photo of an obviously hardworking man posing proudly in front of his log house. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for two tiny ticks to index on the last page. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
193792 pages. Index. "What British-Israelites believe has been so much distorted by the uninformed that it seemed good to present a simple and condensed statement of the fundamentals of our faith." - from Foreward. Bit of writing upon front free endpaper. Few light pencil markings to contents. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A rare first edition copy in orange cloth-covered boards. Book
1936Features: The Heart has Wings, Part I - flight into romance, the new serial (Faith Baldwin); Flowering Jade - Love and the Chinese War, the curative methods of Doctor Johnny Scott (Sidney Herschel Small); Cold Gold - Canada's Treasure - a planned and scientifically stage-managed gold (and radium) rush in the Northwest Territories, with photos(Leslie Roberts); The Great Snatch - Gorilla tactics (Frank Condon); Football Follies - Fun on the gridiron (C.E.'Tiny' Thornhill with Frank J. Taylor); The Bluff - he found himself out (Charles Bonner); Dark Tropic Sea, Part III - Island mystery (Alan LeMay); Sorority Hero, by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Keep up with the world - the least you can learn (Freling Foster); The man without a soul - mechanical monster (Quentin Reynolds); Slade the Terrible - blood and thunder (Owen P. White); So can you - magic, with a can opener (Barbara Blake); Inn about town - accommodations for all (Kyle Chrichton);; Take a look inside - say 'ah' please - a bronchoscopist removes a nail from a child's lungs (Hannah Lees). Nice colour Canadian Club whiskey ad inside front cover. Colour Camel cigarette ad. Nice colour RCA Victor radio ad. *Fantastic* colour centerfold ad for the 'completely new' Hudson automobile. Splendid Coca-Cola colour ad inside back cover shows man sitting with his dog. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1936Features: You've got to be human - a girl who improved herself, too much (Frederick Hazlitt Brennan); Camera Shy - Madeleine Carroll in pretty confusion (Kyle Crichton); The Heart has Wings, Part II - Dangerous Ground (Faith Baldwin); There's Magic in the air - heroism alow and aloft at Langley Field, the new 500 mph NACA wind tunnel is the largest high-speed tunnel in the world (W.B. Courtney); The Baron's Lady - She had a flair for success (Gouverneur Morris); Million Dollar Contract - They asked for it (Lucian Cary); Head First - Win or lose before the whistle (C.E. "Tiny" Thornhill with Frank J. Taylor; Dark Tropic Sea, Part IV - a sharp instrument (Alan LeMay); Nocturne - a busy evening at home (Dorothy Bennett); Beauty Treatment, by Dana Burnet; Duck Bills - the mallards take heart (Ray Benson); You Need a Change - Habits to get rid of (Dr. Victor G. Heiser); Keep up with the world - Odd ones (Freling Foster). Fantastic colour centerfold (loose but present) features Bendix auto parts. Nice colour Glenmore Whiskey ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1999Features: Sansai - Edible Wild Plants Japanese Style (includes glossary); Beyond Romance - Kobe Earthquake Fails to shake the Faith of Chiko School Iemoto; Floral Focus - Nandina; Ikebana Portfolio; Noh - Silence Between Sounds; From Point to Plane - The Creation of Moribana. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
195968 pages. Features: Schools should teach religion as a subject, not a faith; Macmillan's 30 fateful minutes in Moscow; *Fantastic* two-page colour ad for International trucks shows five different models; Gorgeous colour photo ad for the 1959 Buick Le Sabre convertible; How Dangerous is Natural Gas? - some people are concerned; Can the University of Toronto (U of T) survive sheer size? - article with photos; The hectic scramble for the class of 1959 - courted by hundreds of company recruiters; Canada needs a lobby in Washington; The Sleuths who probe our air disasters - with photo of the remains of a DC-4 which crashed in Quebec in 1957, killing 79 people; James Wilson Morrice - the painter we weren't ready for - article with colour illustrations; Nice Canadian Pacific centrefold ad for Canadian Pacific shows a large map of the world and their various transporations services; Nice Black Label beer ad shows massive glass of beer in the wilderness; Two-page black and white photo ad for Toro lawn mowers; Nice colour photo ad for Old Vienna beer inside back cover; Colour ad on back cover for S.O.S. pads and how they can be used to clean white wall tires; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
193648 pages. Features: Nostalgic Goodrich Tire photo ad inside front cover shows grieving family and their car after a blowout; Nice full-page photo ad for International Harvester heavy duty industrial equipment; Nice full-page photo ad for Canada Dry beverages; Horse Doctor (fiction); Our Olympic Chances - article with photos of athletes Hank Ciemen, Sammy Richardson and Phil Edwards; Honors Easy - fictional story of what happened aboard an Atlantic liner when two card sharps picked a 'sucker'; Revolt in Quebec - second in a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian's interpretation of Quebec's reform movement and the viewpoint of French Canada toward Confederation; Nemesis in Hind - a story of glamorous India, the India where death strikes mysteriously and superstition holds sway; Treasure Under the Arctic's Rim - the mineral wealth of Great Bear Lake; A Man and a Hundred Maids - a story of how too many girls may be worse than none at all; Gun-A-Noot - the strange case of the Indian who defied police for thirteen years and emerged from his trial as a hero; Beautiful full-page black and white photo ad for Sweet Caporal cigarettes featuring horse "Margo C", owned by Miss Faith Lyman of Montreal; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover holding loosely by one staple. Book
1952Features: Religious Censorship and the CBC; Photo of Eva Peron in Beverley Baxter's Letter from London; Nice full-page two-colour Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ad inside front cover features young woman in uniform and advice that limited numbers of women are now being accepted; The Warrior Who Fights From Paradise - Mahomet of the Islamic faith - article with numerous photos, including four muslim dignitaries murdered in recent years; Ten ways to save money on food; Conn Smythe - that man in the greens (part 1) - article with photos; The Land of Might-Have-Been (short story); From Paris with Penny to Pusan - Evelyn Caldwell (Vancouver's Penny Wise) - article with many photos; The McCallum family of Vancouver and their son Ricky - a "Mongolian Idiot" - who will never grow up - article with photos; The Queen's Own Rifles are featured in a colour ad for O'Keefe's Brewing; Fantastic colour-photo ad on back cover for International crawlers shows them being airlifted to work the fabulous iron ore discoveries of northern Labrador; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Pages 21-28 missing. Unmarked. A worthy, if incomplete, vintage copy. Book
195652 pages. Features: Napier Moore argues a Canadian health plan won't work; What the Dead Sea Scrolls Mean to the Christian Faith; Remember When the Comics Were Funny? - a look at comic strips in the 1920s; A moving new portrayal of the Nativity story in a CBC half-hour film - many colour photos of the child cast; The West's Happiest Hunting Ground - For one month of the year Brooks, Alberta is a carnival, shooting gallery and crossroads of the rich and famous - all because one resident once brought home a handful of pheasant eggs - article with great photos; How Can Santa Find Me? - an illustrated Christmas story for children; Constance Tomkinson aand her life in the Folies-Bergere - article with photos; *Magnificent* colour photo centrefold ad for the 1957 Buick Super - 2-door Riviera; Nice colour Cadillac ad along the bottoms of pages 50 and 51; Nice Coke ad on back cover show Santa relaxing with a baby (rein)deer at his feet Unmarked. Average wear. A nice vintage issue. Magazine
194886 pages. Articles: The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, part 1 - he wanted to be President; God's Underground in Russia - Priests work in secret to keep Christian faith alive; Open Letter to Jimmie Fidler - spotlighting the man who tells Hollywood how it should behave; Teen-age talent - winners of Collier's fourth annual high-school art contest; Flying High - the role the kite has played in sport and aviation; Go to Sleep - unusual theories about somnolence and insomnia. Fiction: Custom of the Country; Rich Girl, Poor Man; The Far-off Bugle; Shakespeare should drop dead; Ham and cheese on Rye; Shadow of Fu Man Chu - part 4 of 6. Ads include; Douglas shoes; Ocean City Reels / Montague Rods; De Beers Diamonds - portrait of Miss Caroline B. Johnston of Baltimore, MD; Philco phonographs; Dodge trucks; Pennsylvania Railroad; Chevrolet (color centerfold); Canada tourism; Fortune shoes; "Homecoming" movie staring Clark Gable and Lana Turner; Great Northern Railway; Holland-Racine Shoes; Buick cars; City Club shoes; Wilson Brothers; Black Flag insect spray (very nostalgic); Fox Head beer; Winthrop shoes; Clark's Tendermint Chewing Gum; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows young ladies with soda jerk. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
1952220 pages. Fiction: Botts Runs For His Life; Weddings are For Women; Slum Kid; Murder Island; Anything for a Pal; Broken Promise; The Disappearance of Dolan (conclusion); Nothing to Lose (part 5 of 8). Articles: A New Trap for Runaway Husbands - the Fugitive-Husbands Law; Loveliest Wilderness in the World - Kew Gardens - color photos; The Amazing Mr. Churchill - Wonderful Winston, the Prisoner of War, part 3 of 8; So That's What You Dream About!; The Man Who Sets Off Atom Bombs - Dr. Alvin Graves; Sardi's - New York's Glamorous Hash House; The Pilots Who Lost Their Wings - Japanese Pilots; The Curious Ways of Manhattan Cliff Dwellers; Will Blood Flow Next in Morocco?; Our Most Arrogant Bureaucrat - Michael Straus, Commissioner of Reclamation. Ads: Studebaker Trucks; New York Life; Allis-Chalmers electric motors; Nescafe; American Gas Association ad features Mrs. Leslie Bonney of Cambridge, MA, Mrs. R.B. Butler of Tulsa OK, and Mrs. Geraldine Work of Santa Cruz, CA; Motorola radios; General Motors; Westinghouse Appliances; Ford cars; Inland Ice Cube Trays; Packard Cars - nice 2-page color-photo ad; General Electric Appliances; Eaton Truck Axles; Crosley Fridges - with Faith Baldwin; Handsome color United Air Lines ad; Great two-page color TWA ad; Nice two-page color Nash auto ad features the Ambassador Custom; Pall Mall cigarettes; Two-page color Chevrolet ad; Nice one-page color ad for Jarman shoes; Nice one-page Squibb ad shows faithful dog holding child's dress to prevent her from running into street; Nice one-page color ad for movie 'Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick' starring Dinah Shore; Two-page GMC truck ad; Color photo of Randolph Scott in ad for Stereo Realist 3D cameras; Olympic televisions; Permutit water softeners; Clorets; Johnston Lawn Mowers; Telechron clocks; Majestic Rotomatic lawnmowers; Homko mowers; Nice one-page two-color ad for Jacobsen power lawn mowers; Johnson outboard mowers; Nice one-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features noted sportsman-engineer Paul Henry; Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and caps on counter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1945Contents: Great military ad for Chevrolet military equipment; Doomsday strikes for the Nazis with Berlin dying, nation split - photo of American soldier mocking Hitler from the stadium box where the Fuhrer once harangued Nazis; Great full-page illustration of "Hitler's Two Fronts - Last Phase"; interesting photos of captured Germans, some being Nazi-saluted by passers-by; Lucky Count von Luckner is prize of Task Force Newman; photo of Russian tanks in Vienna; Davao (Little Tokyo) at bay; Government by co-operation is theme of President Truman's actions during first days in office; Great photo and coverage of Presidential press conference; GM Truck and Coach ad - with Leyte theme; Polish issue - Soviet failure to observe promises Stalin made at Yalta poses question of good faith; San Francisco prepares for United Nations conference; Nazi policy of organized murder blackens Germany for all history - civilized world shocked by evidence, living and dead, of Herrenvolk's brutality - article with graphic photos; Henri Dentz - a traitor's death; Vintage International Harvester Truck ad with caption "Till the Japs Say 'Uncle'"; English lady harnesses goats to pull her to market - uses almost anything for fuel!; Luis Carlos Prestes released from Jail in Brazil; OPA retreats under pressure of general public indifference - fight against inflation is revealed in Newsweek survey as losing on most fronts; Ernie Pyle shared the Doughfoot's lot, even to death in a roadside Okinawan ditch - photo and article; Seiberling Tire ad in color; Dr. Frondel's work with x-rays at Harvard; Nice Chesterfield cigarette color ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Two-inch opening to top of cover-fold. Cover attached by one staple. Book
1944Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book