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1909Pages 211-242. Features: New Hampshire Industries and Their Builders - The Rockwell Clough Company - article with one-page photo portrait of W. Rockwell Clough; The City of Geneva and John Calvin, 1509-1909; Pembroke Academy; Obituaries for Hon. John Noble, Mary E. Blair, Ellen Porter Champion, Mrs. James W. Henderson, Adelaide Cilley Waldron, M'Clure, David, Thomas S. Ellis, and Michael M. Stevens; Poems; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the Grand Trunk Railway System features the tourist route through Canada, with illustration of Hotel Wawa, Lake of Bays, "Highlands of Ontario"; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
196664 pages. Contains dozens of glorious archival black and white photographs, maps, and facsimiles of local time-cards and fare lists. "All M&SC operations came to an end in 1956... This book has been published to record some of the events in the line's 47-year history, and to preserve details of the system's operations for the future." - page 4. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight and square. Nice copy. Book
1915Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter C - Railways and the War. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Magazine
1916Pages 161-200. Cover illustration of a rifle grenade. Considerable text is supported by the following photos and illustrations: exploding German howitzer shell, blowing up barbed-wire entanglements, Private Morrow of the 1st Royal Fusiliers - an Irish V.C., great photo of a British heavy gun ready for action, British heavy howitzer on a railway mounting, snipers on the western front, one-page photo of Lieutenant Jean Navarre in flight, German airmen Immelmann and Boelcke, Lieut. McCubbin, Shell-makers at Woolwich lined up for dinner at YMCA, Lloyd George, Sir George Williams, J.J. Virgo, Lord Kinnaird, A.K. Yapp, photos of the YMCA entertaining troops at home and abroad, Lady Askwith, 'cabbage patch' in London, and more. Moderate external wear. Ink stamp atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
195736 pages. Densely packed with text and a multitude of marvelous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes: Color reproductions of two antique transfers and a ticket; The Mousam River Railroad; Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway; Portsmouth, Kittery & York Street Railway; Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway; Atlantic Shore Line Railway; York Utilities Company; Seashore Electric Railway; Tables of rolling stock; Route map inside back cover; Facsimile stock certificate on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this informative work. Book
1989100 pages. Diagrams. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Students of Railway Signalling will find this book a useful study into a particularly significant milestone in the development of interlocking and control equipment. The history, location, operation and application of the style 'L' frame are comprehensively covered by this book. It contains not only information for the general reader but fulfills more specifically the needs of those seeking to learn more about the art of Railway signalling." - from Foreword. Chapters include: General History; List of Frames; Construction and Operation; Locking Tables and Typical Circuits; Setting Up, Testing and Maintenance. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993455 pages. Bibliography. "For 44 years Morant crisscrossed the country on passenger trains, enroute to and from assignments to all the subsidiaries of Canadian Pacific. He chronicled the times, writing for the company magazine as well as photographing developments on the railway. These photos are the subject of this book... Here then is a book of photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway over the years, from 1929 to 1981, the span of Morant's career as a photographer... Our hope is that it will be the finest book ever produced on the CPR." - from dust jacket. Wonderful photography in colour and black and white throughout, plus supporting text. Front hinge taped. Two-inch application of tape at top of back hinge. Average wear. Relatively few library markings. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
1913Pages 135-166. Features: Col. John H. Bartlett - article with one-page photo portriat of Col. Bartlett; Kimball Union Academy - photo-illustrated article explains the part a New Hampshire academy is playing in the movement for better rural conditions; Old First Church in Tamworth and its Early Ministers; Reminiscences of Old Durham; The Real Old North Church - A Landmark of the Republic; Robert L. Smiley - a tribute of a friend; Obituaries for Hon. Edward H. Sturtevant, Rev. Josiah H. Hooper, Rodney M. Stimson, Christopher C. Shaw, Leonard C. Brickett, Franklin Pierce, Hon. Frank O. Briggs; Poems; Lovely illustrated back cover ad by the Central Vermont Railway/Grand Trunk System Great Vacation Route, with illustration of a vista of Canada's Capital, Otttawa and the Chateau Laurier Hotel; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
1989295 pages. Bibliography. Index. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. Signed by Editor, Alice Robins, upon title page. "Deals with the early settlement and development of the Township of Strong and the Village of Sundridge... Arranged in chronological order to how how the Free Grant Act of 1868, the arrival of settlers, the building of the Grand Trunk Railway and the geographical situation of Lake Bernard all contributed to the success of this community despite the exodus of many of the original settlers in the years 1892-1911." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon illustrated front free endpaper. Light wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy of this valuable genealogical reference. Book
1950342 pages. Signed and generically inscribed by author atop first blank leaf. Some black and white illustrations. The twenty chapters include such titles as: 'Workin' on the Railroad', The Transcontinental, Auction Sale!, Pioneering, We Become a Town, Fire!, The Settlers, Elephants Clear the Land, July 29/1916, Aftermath, The Road Back, Typhoid!, and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Minor lean to spine. A worthy copy of this vintage history. Book
197353 pages. The London Street Railway received its charter in 1873 and commenced service in 1875. This work commemorates a century of planning and service. Author retired as General Manager of the service in 1971 and completed two years of research in preparation for this work. Prepared from the files of the London Street Railway Company and its successor, the London Transportation Commission, from newspaper stories, memories of veteran employees, and many other sources. "Includes a brief outline of London from its beginning as a pioneer settlement in 1826 to 1875 when public transportation commenced, because the story of horse-drawn trams, electric street cars and buses is really part of the story of our community and the people who built it over the years." - from Foreward. Includes numerous black and white illustrations and maps. Tiny prior owner's address label inside front board else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Book
197311" x 8.5" x 0.75". "Contains articles prepared exclusively for the Loggers Handbook together with the official proceedings of the 63rd session of the Pacific Logging Congress and the condensed reports of its six regional conferences prepared by their respective secretaries." - from title page. Articles include: Archie W. Rafter; Moving Logs in British Columbia Waters; Renewing Productivity on Forest Brush Lands; Natural and Man-Caused Slash in Headwater Streams; Precision Logging - Management of the Future Forest; A History of Railroad Logging; Effects of Logging on Small Streams in the Thorne Bay Area of Southeast Alaska; The Tango; Forestry in Austria; Logging Engineering; Intensive Management of Coastal Douglas Fir; and more. Also includes many great contemporary logging equipment advertisements. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy with illustrated boards and endpapers. Book
1930Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
1930Features: Aluminum and its hard-boiled alloys; Super magnetic fields; Influence of the coconut on Philippine industrial life; Birds of a bleak arctic island; Fragmentary molecules of the sun; Beautiful bridges on new rail line - exceptional engineering problems on European railway; Sinanthropus - the Peking man; Coney Island's museum - the first institution designed to show play-reaction; Six great institutions now have naval R.O.T.C.; Linemen of the sea - with the men who splice broken transatlantic cables; Features of speed queen The Europa - faster than the Bremen; Is there an ether?; Better days for aviation; Tangled commerce abides where children smoke and swim - Manus are the pack peddlers of the pacific; Moving a substation underground; Power from the earth's hot interior?; Athens Broadway; an ancient bakery; Light furnishes Ballroom decorations. Camel cigarette ad on back cover features several suave temptors and a temptress. Top inch of spine missing. Cracks to spine. One inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Significant overall wear. Book
1931Features: Africa's first national park; Editorials - building for parity a false alarm - whose fault is it?; Power development on the Columbia River - the first power project on one of the most famous of North American streams; United States plant patent number 1 - only time will show the value of plant patents, the first of which has just been released; The hottest place in the universe - what keeps the stars shining?; Henry Ford, the Practical - the automobile manufacturer knows how to do things , and how to get them done; Are there creatures like ourselves in other worlds?; The birth, life, and death of a railroad ticket; Mercury vapor power to the fore - two new and larger units have been ordered; Australia's great meteorite; Paper's thinnest web - making tissue paper; Where not to look for oil and gas; Electrical aids to blind flying; Etruscan safety pin; Excavating Rome's seaport; A modernized university library - Sterling Memorial Library at Yale; Why question the reasoning of animals? - authentic stories seem to indicate their reasoning power. Page 293 is a full page tribute, with black and white photo, to thirty-year old Linus Pauling, hailed as "a rising star who may yet win the Nobel Prize." Light erasure mark at top corner of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196450 pages. Features: The U.S. and Us - Part 1 of 4; Colour full-page ad for the 1964 Pontiac Parisienne Sprt Coupe; Why One Hustling American Chose Canada - an interview with Ted Emmert of Hawker Siddeley; Report from the Frontiers of Friendship - Clen and Helen Wooldridge, Ray Dunn, Tom Schatzky, Cathy Thompson, Ozzie Schmidt and Anne Jones are members of Canada's "Peace Corps", CUSO; Can the Trains Come Back? - CN is trying to turn its passenger service into the cushiest way to travel since sedan chairs - article with photos; David Lewis Stein describes how he made $14 in the great penny stock book by working at it full time - with great photo of a Toronto broker's office; Country music is sweeping the cities; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young couple at picnic table; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1963Features: Nice full-page colour ad for Viyella; Canada's Next Boom - Robert Winters' Hydro-Power development at Hamilton Falls, Labrador - by Peter C. Newman; Getting to know wolves on a personal basis, by Farley Mowat; My Colleagues, the Witch Doctors - Dr. Raymond Prince, a Canadian psychiatrist's African journal; The triumph and troubles of Place des Arts; The great communist scare of the Thirties in Canada - a Maclean's flashback; To the Little Red (Canadian) School House; My long search for a cancer serum, by Dr. Gordon Murray; The Social Side of the Cold War, by Mordecai Richler; Journey down the railway that couldn't be built - the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Line; Colour Coke photo ad on back cover features many guys reaching from bus for Cokes from a girl outside. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1930193 pages plus xx pages of interesting illustrated advertisements at back. Index. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Great black and white illustrations and line drawings throughout. Chapters include: Advantages of Diesel Traction; Development of Diesel Traction; Railway Requirements; The Engine; Engine Auxiliaries; Transmission Systems; Mechanical Transmissions; Hydraulic Transmissions; Electric Transmissions; plus Appendix entitle Resistance of Diesel Vehicles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate fading to red cloth-covered boards. Quality copy. Book
1968343 pages. Bibliography. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. An informative history of Ontario's Haliburton County. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Prior owner's name in red marker along fore-edge. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this detailed reference. BISHOP p.1151. Book
1951xxiv, 129-192 pages. Features: 500 miles to freedom -nine men escape Rabaul after it is overrun by the Japanese in 1942; The land sharks - a story from Canada in 1925 about get-rich-quick schemes in real estate; Man-Eater - the brief but eventful career of a man eating tiger as recounted by a former member of the Burma Frontier Service; The Vale of the Gods the northern Punjab - photo illustrated article; The Ju-Ju Doctor - the facts of an amazing occurrence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - big scare on East Indian Island; Photo of typical Cyprus Brickyard; The Sea-Dyaks of Borneo - photo illustrated account of this little-known race of former headhunters and pirates; Section Man - an interesting glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - 3 People Were Shot Dead in Crawford County, Arkansas; The Bluffton Wolf - famous Texas wolf; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small pencilled name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
1950Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Bivouac of the 3rd King's Rifles, De Beers Diamond Mines at Kimberley during the seige, Lord Roberts's reception at the Modder River Camp (laid in), the remains of the suffolk regiment after Moedder Farm, Chieveley Camp (laid in), Major-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Photos with General French's Command near Colesberg, Canadian Mounted Police Leaving Halifax for South Africa, The Attack on Spion Kop (Centerfold), Photos with the South African Railway Pioneer Regiment, Photo of H.M.S. Viper running at record speed of 35.5 knots. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
