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200484 pages. Features: Russia buries its head at Beslan - and vows revenge; Ottawa and the Canadian cattle industry battle the U.S. ban; WestJet and Air Canada admit they spied on each other; Two columnists have their say on Conrad Black; A Modern Ghost Story - how technology helped and isolated Jim Sulkers of Winnipeg; Toronto Film Festival. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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
1990224 pages. Full-page colour illustrations on every second page. "An entrancing picture of an exotic land and its people as they appeared to Western eyes 200 years ago." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
195764 pages. Features: Katy - Cause & Effect; "I'm Getting a Ticket"; "I'm a Railroad Fan - Alfred Edward Perlman - detailed article with photos"; Steam in Indian Summer - paying final respects to the beetle-browed power of Grand Trunk behind a snorting bone-shaker of a geared 0-2-2-0; Would You Believe it? - Synchromesh 0-12-2; Railroading As They See it - a peak at the world's most unknown railroading in Russia and China - article with many photos, including an INCREDIBLE black and white centerfold of a Chinese train surrounded by crowds; ; Nomad of the Nineties - Sam Vauclain, grand old man of steam and his compound Baldwins - includes amazing photos of twenty, (yes 20!) new Forney 0-4-4s in a column; This Device Spots Broken Wheel Flanges; All About Signals - 1 - John S. Armstrong explains in easy steps the progress from crude but effective manual-block safety to the speed insured by 1957's complexity of wires, relays, motors and lights - superb article with many helpful diagrams; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1916Pages 81-96 (16 pages in this issue). Features: What War Teaches Peace, by Frank Koester; India and Ireland - by Ernest P. Horrwitz of Dublin University; Lifting the Mask From England, by Aleister Crowley; Wilson Wants War - Why Henry Ford was Snubbed by the President, by George E. Miller of the Detroit News; Russian Corruption, by Louis Viereck; Behind the Scenes at the Capital; Stupifying the People - A Random Example of How a Harvard Professor Disseminates the Poison of Ignorance and Slander; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; Various editorial topics; War bond ads; List of contributors to the Emma Duensing Fund; Many interesting ads; and more. Opening along coverfold. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
187116 pages plus 8 page supplement. Features: Ladies' and Children's Winter Suits; Mince-Pies, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions; ; humor; and more. Average wear. Top half of page 787 missing; Paris Modes; Ladies and Children's dresses; A Siberian Breakfast-Table; The Thanksgiving at Johnny Guptill's, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Family life in a fashionable restaurant; useful recipes; Two illustrations of Thanksgiving-Day in the Northwest by W.L. Sheppard - "Dinner Waiting" and "No Dinner to Wait"; Full-page illustration "Family Life in a Fashionable Restaurant", by Sol Eytinge Jr.; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Love in the Winter Palace, or, the Czar Nicholas as match maker; Full page illustration "At Her Post", by Gaston Fay; The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia - illustration. Supplement contents: Blade-O'-Grass, by B.L. Farjeon - part I - with many illustrations. Small illustration clipped from first page of supplement. Average wear. Book
196060 pages. Features: Nice color ad for the SS President Hoover; The 8,708,000 Members of the Communist Party of Russia - article with photos; What Makes a Good Spy?; What is the Proper Role of the U.S. Supreme Court?; Franco-German 'Twins' - The cities of Mainz and Dijon are twinned; Plea for Fairer Ladies; Another Summit - pictures of the trek up Everest; Senate Subcommitte on policy planning is spotlighted by the summit collapse and the U-2 affair; Fantastic color-photo ad for the General Dynamics USAF B-58 "Hustler"; Exodus - photos of the making of the movie; Nice fashion photos - Summer in Stripes; Opening the Door for a Deaf Child; and more; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
195488 pages. Features: What Two Canadian Artists Saw in Russia - Fred Varley and Eric Aldwinckle - includes illustrations by each; The Weird and Woolly War Against the Lobster Poachers - article with photos; The Richest Woman in Town - fiction by James McNamee; We Went La Verendreye's Way - West from Superior the adventurous six took the Voyageurs' Trail - Dr. Omond Solandt, Eric Morse, A.H.J. (Tony) Lovink, John Endemann and Sigurd Olson; The Surest Way to Get a Job - article by Robert Thomas Allen; How the Auto Beat the Horse - Part 2 of a feature on Col. R.S. (Sam) McLaughlin; The White and the Gold, part 14; How a Blind Saskatchewan Man Runs His Farm - Emil Strand - photos and article; A Cage for the Bird Man - story by David Stuart; Corn Flakes ad shows red-haired boy digging deep into the box; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for Sylvania TVs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1944Cover: The Conquest of the Palau Islands. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Bath" by R.A.L. Smith; The Great World War: A New Situation in Russia; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Vegetable Oils in Warfare. Pictorial Journals include: The Palau Isles, Last Stepping-Stone to the Philippines: Landings on Peleliu; Sidelights on the Battle for Aachen as Fighting Rages for the Ancient City; Inside the Battered City of Aachen; Battle Scenes Amid the Smoking Ruins; Watching Germany: British Artillery Observers Overlooking a Countryside Littered with Gliders and Parachutes South-east of Nijmegen (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Advancing on Overloon: British Troops of the Second Army Fighting Eastward From the Nijmegen Salient (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); War News in Pictures; A Birthplace for Robots: Planned for 100 Flying Bombs a Day; Britain's Tempest Fighter; German Jet and Rocket Aircraft; "General Mud" Again Comes into Action on the Eighth Army Front: Italy; Fighting the Japanese in Burmese Jungle During the Monsoon Months; and The Village of Burnham Thorpe - Birthplace of Lord Nelson. Page 453/454 and 471/472 missing. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
1993Signed and inscribed by O'Driscoll to a fellow professor upon half-title page. 395 pages. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Using new original documents from The Soviet Union, The Vatican, the United States, Europe, and the results of an academic field study in the Middle East, this book cuts through the facade of national governments to the raw realities of world-power politics, presenting page after page of startling but fully-documented facts, unmasking the forces behind our present world chaos, a chaos that has been deliberately induced and proceeds to the certain annihilation of that which is, on order to clear the way for the creation of what will be antiChrist, the unique creation of man on earth." - from back cover. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality signed copy of this uncommon and important expose. Book
1995247 pages. Index. "...Explains the devious secret intent behind the Leninist strategy which the 'former' Communists are pursuing under the fake 'reform' and 'progress towards democracy''. Author served in the KGB before defecting from the Soviet Union to the USA in 1961. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate external wear. Crease to front cover. Binding tight. A sound copy of this important work. Book
197844 pages. Features: Dolls of the Grand Duchess of Russia; Focusing on - Dolls at Auction; Realistic Baby Dolls; Thuringian Creche Figures; Patchoque Doll Fanciers Luncheon; Antique Rubber Dolls; U.F.D.C. Convention in Denver; Christmas Dolls of the 1920s; This is "Bubbles by Effanbee" - part I; Photographic Essay - Lenci Dolls; In Time for Christmas 1900; Compo Corner; Dionne Quint Baby Doll Pattern; As the Doll's Dressmaker; Paper Dolls - large or small, take your choice; Eunice - the mother of the Paper Doll Family; From Elspeth's Inkpot; John Zweifel - "Our" man in the White House; Slide Programs - delightful or deadly. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
194756 pages. Features: Hockey Forecast - article with sensational photos including Vic Lynn (full page), Turk Broda in action, Conn Smythe, Dick Irvin (Sr.), and Bill Durnan, ; Help For Poland; - Relief officials deny Russia grabbing Polish supplies as Canadians asked to donate $1.5 million - article with large photo of emaciated Polish child; Profile of America's top disk jockey, Al Jarvis of Winnipeg - article with photos including Abbott and Costello and Edward G. Robinson; Torture Murder of Mrs. Viola Jameson of Fort Frances, Ontario - Famous Canadian Crimes #12; Canadian Photo Exhibit; Dorothy Jane Goulding; Alice Caroline Clift; Gabrielle Roy; Teensters Jilt Frank Sinatra for Roy Roberts of Kitchener - photo with article; Mary Lou Dilworth; Veronica Lake and Kristine Miller's identical hair-doos cause a stir - write-up with photos; Red Skelton's favourite laugh. Stories: One Dollar's Worth; Ice Trap; Adrift in a Boneyard . Ads: nice colour ad for Chevrolet inside front cover; Great colour ad for Walt Disney's "Fun and Fancy Free" full-length cartoon feature inside back cover; Back cover colour Coke ad features illustration of lengthy row of Coke bottles freshly bottled. Average wear. Soiling to top of front cover. Bits of nibbling to coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1928Pages 41-80. Features: The Saddest Woman in the World - Marie of Russia - article with photos; Buried Treasure - a complete story; Photo tips of what not to do with your Gramphone; Most People Have a Double - but is sometimes means trouble - article with photos; Does Marriage Mean Going ThroughThe Mill? - a story that answers the problem; Lovers or Friends? - Woodbine Willie discusses the truth about companionship between the sexes; Wit of the Week; Open That Window! - and help yourself to health; "Stop & Look" pictures include Copenhagen church in the shape of an organ; Why George Tupper wished his wife many unhappy returns (fiction); In a Floating "Hell" - horses break loose aboard a storm-tossed ship enroute to Russia from Canada; Angel Esquire (continued); The Story of the Birmingham Municipal Bank; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1970192 pages. Features: Cover photo from 'Sanctum', a dance choreographed by Alwin Nikolais; Color Jade East ad; Many wonderful color fashion ads; Wittnauer watch ad; Omega Speedmaster watch ad on surface of the moon; Maximilian ad for Russian sable; Beautiful swimwear ad for Rose Marie Reid; Two-page Lan-Chile ad features gorgeous ladies; Steven Roberts returns to Bayonee High School for his tenth reunion with Arlyne Greenhill; Photo-illustrated article with Karl Hess - from Republican to Anarchist; The Testing of Pierre Trudeau - did he overreact to the FLQ crisis?; The Soma-Environmental Revolution, Pornography, Synergistic Consciousness, Sex with Patients - what was discussed at the American Psychological Association's convention; Kris Kristofferson - the new Nashville Sound; Choreography, Music, Costumes, Sets, etc. by Alwin Nikolas; The Burger/Blackmun (Supreme) Court; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Nice Patek Philippe watch ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Gradiaz Annis Cigars; Interesting two-page ad for "The New Miami Beach"; Very nice Elgin watch ad features Babe Ruth image; Fashion photos of ladies' party dresses; Lars-Eric Lindblad adventure travel ad for trips to the Seychelles and Russia in winter; Photo of the Richard and Marianne Koerner family as part of a Save the Children Federation ad; Average wear. Crossword completed in pencil. A sound vintage copy Book
2004Approximately 140 pages plus xxvi page appendix. Maps. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Originally published in German in 2002. Recounts the dramatic family history of folks displaced from their home village near the Kuban River. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A wonderful genealogical reference for the Krause, Wieler and Ewert families. Book
196768 pages. Features: Jacqueline Kennedy's 'Victory' re: William Manchester's "The Death of a President"; The FDR Memorial; R. Sargent Shriver's Last Stand?; Adam Clayton Powell; Clark McAdams Clifford - man for all Caesars; War of Ambush in Vietnam; Photo of Ho Chi Minh; Turkey's Premier meets Kosygin; How to Build a Publishing Empire - Otis and Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Fernand Petiot - the Bloody-Mary Man; Sensuous KDKA-TV ad; Buel Ray Wortham and Craddock M. Gilmour, Jr. in trouble in Russia; Charming Japan Airlines ad announces their new New York to Tokyo direct flight; The Reichstag fire and the Remagen Bridge capture are back in the news in Germany; Color-photo centerfold IBM ad features large image of astronomer Dr. Wallace J. Eckert; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) with Marianne Moore; The Times-Mirror Co.; Edward (Zeke) Bratkowski; Rosemary Casals; Atomic test code-named Greeley; Father Charles Davis; How to Float on a Sea of Red Ink - The U.S. Post Office; Disney's Legacy - with photo of Roy Disney; Ravi Shankar; Lawrence Stehen Lowry; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1972188 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Footnotes. Selected papers presented in a seminar held at McGill University 1969-1971. Titles include: Finland's Military Significance for 19th Century Russia; The Russian Miliary Under Alexander; The Baltic During the Crimean War; The Russian Army in the Balkans 1877-1878; and eleven more. Light wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
1918Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
194660 pages. Features: Lovely colour one-page Banff Springs Hotel/Canadian Pacific ad; On the Eve of the Peace Conference; Photo of Lt.-Col. Henry "Kit" Carson; Photo of C.W.A.C's Pat Lebbiter of Ottawa, Lillian Cairns of Winnipeg, and Marion O'Connor of Toronto; Colour Maxwell House Coffee ad features "Omar and the Gorgeous Coffee Bird"; One-page colour Seagram's ad features illustration of man using fanciful/futuristic disks which resemble electronic memory devices which came decades later; One-page ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone system; Hay in Her Hair (short story); Marrow to His Bones (short story); The Charm of Nova Scotia - article with nice colour photos; The Soviet Chooses - photo-illustrated article on the world's biggest General Election, with nearly 110,000,000 citizens electing the Supreme Soviet; Sweet Water Moon (short story); Nice one-page photo-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Photo of Gale Storm in Jergens Lotion ad; Woodbury soap ad features multiple photos of newlyweds June Graham of Ottawa and Flight Lieutenant Edward Carl Likeness RCAF; Advances in Science; One-page colour ad for Frigidaire fridges; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for Heinz condiments; Arrid ad features photo of lovely Ilona Massey; Sexy one-page colour-illustrated ad for NuBack undergarments features young blonde holding kitty; Style and cosmetics articles; Tangee ad features Mrs. Adolphe Menjou; Nice one-page colour ad for Waterman's Taperite pens features city skyline; Nice colourWabasso Cottons ad inside back cover features mother, daughter and cats; Fantastic colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover features soda shop scene with young man singing into napkin container like it's a microphone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194164 pages. Features: One-page Parker Pen ad shows 'active service set' which complies with military regulations; "Canada is Strong" - one page illustration of man harvesting grain, sponsored by Fleischmann's yeast; News digest includes 'Defining War Aims', A Roosevelt - Churchill Message to Europe'; Sombre one-page War Savings Certificates ad by the War Savings Committe features photo of British tots being led into bomb shelter; The Marquis of Medicine Hat, part 1 of 4; The Hitch-Hiking Trojan Horse (short story); The Battle of the Atlantic - great photo-illustrated article; Expert Touch (short story); Aid to Russia Through the Arctic; "Jack is a Prisoner of War" - great photo-illustrated article explains how the International Red Cross supports POWs, with photos of volunteers at Chorley Park, Toronto; Superfluous Murder (short story); What Happens in World Series Baseball, by J. Robert Shawkey; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quintuplets; Woodbury soap ad features photos of Miss Monique Jobin of Montreal and Eleanor Frothingham; The Oriental Box Office - photo-illustrated movie news; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Loretta Young; Kaaren Verne - photo and write-up; Rare 1/4-page Longines ad features photo of Walt Disney; The Plastics Era - how they are being used for home products; Beauty article; Wives without Husbands - how one English wife copes with wartime separation; Article on food storage; Nice one-page colour Nabisco shredded wheat ad shows military officer walking with his lady; Colour ad for Canadian Canned Lobster; Fashion illustrations; Photo shows ladies wearing Hudson's Bay 'Point' blanket cloth adapted to fall coats; Quotes from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows smiling man in suit aboard train; Colour Ritz cracker ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
1985Signed by author on dedication page. 217 pages. "...The World Order, in its anxiety to maintain control of every aspect of our lives, has banned passion. As a poor substitute, it gives us drugs and degeneracy. There are many facts in this book which you, the reader, will not wish to accept. I ask you to accept nothing, but to make your own investigations. You may find even more astonishing true facts than I have managed to glean in thirty-five years of intensive and in-depth research." - from Foreword. Chapter titles include: The Rothschilds; Soviet Russia; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; The Business of America; The CIA; The Bechtel Complex; The Foundations; The Rule of the Order. Unread. Slight external wear. A superb copy, signed by possibly America's preeminent conspiracy researcher. Book
1958390 pages. Name index. Game index. Translated from the Russian. Reproductions of black and white photos. "The authors have endeavoured to show the sources of the vigour of Soviet chess and to outline its distinguishing features. The games and endings give an idea of the play of leading exponents of the Soviet school. They make it clear that unity in creative approach by no means excludes a wealth of individual variety." - from Introduction. Somewhat above-average overall wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reference copy. Book
1988161 pages. Bibliography. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "A chapter of twentieth century late tsarist and early Soviet living and learning. Presents a facet of the Russian Mennonite experience previously unknown." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper, otherwise as new. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
