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197790 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: The Glory of the Sunset - colour photos; The Dreams of Barren Garden - colour photos; The Brightening Day - colour photos; Sylvia Chang - one-page colour photo; The Li Hsing I Know; Siau Yao; Deborah Leung; Ti Lung; Article on Dana; Chen Chen and Liu Chia Chong to marry; Hu Yin Mung; King Wu Starts Working; The Blowing of White and Snowy Flowers; Oh, My Dear!; The Brightening Day; The Deadly Silver Spear; Showdown at the Equator; Ma Yung Lin's car accident; Robert Redford; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1974A compilation of some the finest songs to come from the early 1970s. 64 pages. Includes many black and white photos of Jim plus sheet music for piano and voice plus guitar chords for: Photographs and Memories; Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown; Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy); Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels); New York's Not My Home; These Dreams; Workin' At the Car Wash Blues; I Got a Name; Lover's Cross; Roller Derby Queen; One Less Set of Footsteps; You Don't Mess Around With Jim; I'll Have To Say I Love You In a Song; Time in a Bottle. Store stamp on title page, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this true American classic. Book
1945116 pages. Features: Cover photo of revolution in Venezuela; Color ad for American Airlines System inside front cover; Alcoa ad for America's first aluminum boxcar; Ad for the Douglas DC-6; Nice black and white ad for Blackstone Cigars features George Raft and Charles Judels of the movie "Whistle Stop"; Color Ford car ad features tranquil mother and children in back seat; Fairchild aircraft ad; Truman struggles with inflation; The Gavin clemency case; 635,000 people tour the battleship Missouri in New York - and do considerable damage to the vessel; The Untold story of the Nazi saboteurs - George Dasch, Ernest Burger, Richard Quirin, Henrich H. Heinck; Crisis on Atomic Bomb secret bring determined Attlee to this side; One page color-photo ad for Columbia masterworks records features Lily Pons, Nathan Milstein, Basil Rathbone, Martial Singher and Dimitri Mitropoulos; China - divided it stands; Marshall finds Safety slipping as U.S. Armed Might Dwindles; Color Good Year Rubber ad - the hose that fought a hurricane - and won!; Labor strife at Windsor Ford plant; The South American cycle of revolt - Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina; One-page RCA ad includes aerial photo of their laboratories at Princeton, NJ; Andrew J. Higgins, boiling mad at unions, closes his New Orleans boat-building business; Eli Witt; Sailors and Sex - prostitution flourishes in Japan; Oliver K. Bovard; Harry Gilmer of Alabama; MIT math robot revealed; Seeing Cane invention; Nice red International Truck ad; Nice color photo Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Signe Hasso. Somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
195822 pages. Features: Mailbag; Clay Chips - article including photos of Eric Price, Doug Reynolds, Bert Whelan, Ross Duncan, Dick Hornby, Phil LeBrun, Webb Bird, Freddy Mitchell, Bud Wiley, and Wayne Duncan; Funky one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Sea-Esta inflatable air mattress features shapely young lady in swimwear; Camping is Fun!; Vacation Time; Great photo ad for Ted Peck of Brown Brothers Motors features photo of Peck with lots of fishing gear and his car adorned with lots of related text and fish picture; Photo Fan; Half page of illustrations of how to cook over an open fire; Boats; Junior Project - article by Mrs. John Gray which includes photo her with deer she shot in 1956; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
197564 pages. Full-page black and white photos of each band member. Two-page black and white photo of the band on-stage. Includes sheet music for voice and piano, with guitar chords, for these classic Beach Boys songs: Barbara-Ann; Custom Machine; Dance, Dance, Dance; Do It Again; Do You Remember?; Do You Wanna Dance?; Don't Back Down; Drive-In; 409; Good To My Baby; Hawaii; In the Parkin' Lot; The Little Girl I Once Knew; Little Honda; Pet Sounds; Please Let Me Wonder; Salt Lake City; Spirit of America; Surfer's Rule; This Car of Mine; We'll Run Away; When I Grow Up (To Be A Man); Wild Honey; Wouldn't It Be Nice?; A Young Man's Gone. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this great Beach Boys memento. Book
1981[11], 252, [2] pages. Maps. Several black and white reprodutions of photos. "In this honest and often very moving book, James Roberts looks back over a business, military, civil service and diplimatic career, recalling the ups and downs and above all the people he has known and loved in a long and active life. Roberts served for Canada with distinction in WWII and rapidly rose to the rank of Brigadier at the height of the battle for the opening of the strategic Scheldt estuary. The next year, from within the German lines, he negotiated details of the unconditional German surrender on the Canadian front." - dust jacket. Few tiny markings to military map printed upon front endpaper otherwise book quite clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor lean to spine. Quarter-inch opening in publisher's olive cloth at lower tip of back board. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating life story featuring significant WWII involvement. Book
1949160 pages. Features: Lovely color-photo ad for General Electric televisions; Great 1-page color-photo ad for the Kaiser Traveler car; *Gorgeous* full-page color 7up (Seven Up) ad features huge illustration of bottle; Nice 1-page color ad for White Trucks features the new super power 3000; Very cute 1-page color ad for Monarch peas features classroom scene; *Magnificent* two-page color ad for movie 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' with large illustration of John Wayne in cavalry gear; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Whitman's Chocolates; What's Happening to Germany's Jews? - photo-illustrated article reports on how Germany's Jews are trying to pick up the threads of normal everyday life; Malice Aforethought (fiction); I'll Gyp You Every Time - double-length photo-illustrated article in which a carnival sharpie explains how he clips the chumps on midway games of 'skill'; Where are we now on Polio? - photo-illustrated article on what we know, and don't know, about the most dreaded of youthful afflictions; Perfect Secretary (fiction); Nobody but the People Liked it - it's been 162 years since the American Constitution was written; Pigskin Preview; Color-photo illustrated article on Rockefeller Center; It's Never Too Late for Romance (fiction); Digging the Japanese Out of the Philippines - part 6 of 'Our Bloody Jungle Road to Tokyo' - photo-illustrated article; Bright Inferno (fiction); Feature color-photo illustrated article on the Isle o' Pines Resort operated by the Hadley family of Minnesota; Wanted for Murder (fiction); Glorious 1-page color Cadillac ad features green 2-door convertible and Harry Winston jewels; Renegade Canyon (fiction); Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features smiling lady; 1-page color ad for Plymouth cars; 1-page color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Nice 1-page color ad for Packard cars features a green Golden Anniversary Packard Eight, 135 HP Club Sedan; Two-page Philco television ad; Nice color half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes; 1-page 2-color Ford ad promotes their $100k car-safety contest; 1-page color-photo ad for Caterpillar illustrates a primitive form of landfilling next to a golf course; Beautiful color-photo 2-page ad for the new 1950 Studebaker features a red car with night city skyline in background; Nice 1-page color ad for International Trucks; 1-page photo ad for the Eaton 2-speed axle features Mr. Kevah Konner of Kevah Konner, Inc., bus operators of Pine Brook, NJ; Attractive color-illustrated 1-page ad for American Airlines features young lady and older man at airport; Nice 1-page color ad for Rice Krispies; Handsome 1-page color ad for Stetson hats features actor Dana Andrews wearing the Flagship in Cadet Blue with passenger aircraft in background; Nice 1-page Dodge Truck color ad features scene at boxing tournament; Nice 1-page color ad for Ritz Crackers; Beautiful one-page color-illustrated ad for Libbey-Owens-Ford Plate Glass shows picture window of character home being replaced; Nice 1-page color-illustrated ad for Kaywoodie pipes shows Colorado River scene in the Grand Canyon; Investors Diversified Services Inc. ad features photos of their successful salesmen Lewis Hunsaker of Utah, Arnold T. Baland of Minnesota, W.H. Walton of Georgia and Herbert G. Elsinger of New York; Nice color-photo 1-page ad for Allis-Chalmers shows corn cob harvesting scene; Nice Statler Hotel ad features cartoon by Tony Barlow; Color ad for Jeep trucks inside back cover; Wheaties 'Breakfast of Champions' ad on back cover features the Philadelphia A's Eddie Joost and members of his family. Several middle pages free from staples but present. Small clipping from page 108 affects Rice Krispies ad. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this interesting issue. Magazine
199452 pages. Features: Cover photo of car ferry Juno; On the Waterfront; European Ferry Commentary; New Warships for Old (?) - a review of additions and deltions to the fleets of the Royal Navy, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service; P&O's 'C' Class Liners of 1925 - Part 1; Voyage Report - Gordon Turner describes a memorable laker trip in the Great Lakes bulk carrier Peter Misener; Ships Pictorial; Singapore Shipping - colour photorfeature; Forty Years of Clyde Car Ferries; 'Ships Monthly' Ferry Cruise '94; A Captain and His Ship - Ronald Regan is master of the trailing suction dredger Sand Harrier; Naval Review; The Last voyage of the Olivebank - part 2 - towards Australia; Eagle Oil Tankers - photofeature; Ports of Call; Large colour photo of the HMS Westminster inside front cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
198248 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Russian three-masted barque Tovarisch under full sail; Great photo of Northern Star in 1962 inside front cover; Nice photo of the QE II returning from its role as a Falklands troop ship; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Ships Pictorial; European Ferry Commentary; Dutch Motor Coasters - part 2; Southern Cross and Northern Star - Part 1; Heroines of the South Atlantic; Ships that made Falklands Victory possible; Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race - a review of the sail training ships at Falmouth and Southampton; Car Ferries to the Western Isles - the ships and services operating from Mallaig, Kyle of Lochalsh and Ullapool to Skye and Lewis - part 3; Ship Sales; Letters, Nice photo of the HMS Argonaut in 1946 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198248 pages. Features: Cover photo of HMS Glamorgan; Great photo of Cunard`s Caronia in 1959 inside front cover; Nice photo of Home Line`s new cruise ship Atlantic in New York; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; The Dutch Coaster - a review of its rise and decline - part 1; Car Ferries to the Western Isles - Part 2; Naval Review; New Ship News; New Era for Cruise Ships - a review of the new generation of cruise ships being built for the 1980s; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Falklands Task Force Pictorial; Ferries to the Falklands - several British short-sea ferries undertake ocean passages to the South Atlantic following their requisition by the Ministry of Defence; European Ferry Commentary; On Target! - the time-honoured practice of gunnery practice by shooting at towed targets; The Great Clyde Steamer Race - the great days of Clyde steamer racing of the last century are remembered; Ship Sales; Letters, Nice photo of the HMS Ramilles in 1939 inside back cover; and more. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1940116 pages. Features: Fantastic color-illustrated ad for International School Buses inside front cover; Lovely one-page color-illustrated ad for General Tire features young couples heading out to picnic; Attack! - part 1 of a 4-part serial by Leland Jamieson; The World That Was - Could the miracle of our auto industry happen now? - article with photo of the 87-acre employee parking lot at the Ford Rouge plant; Trotting Ain't Racing - short story by David Lamson; The King of the World - short story by William Fay; To Have and To Hold - Fletcher Pratt considers if we can defend the Panama Canal from air attack - article with color photos; A Name For a Boy - short story by Glenn Allan; Convoys Don't Advertise - Leslie Roberts describes how the Allies guard their sea lanes - article with photos; This Time It's Different - short story by Marian Spitzer; "Canadian Invasion" and Black Tom - Secret agent Emanuel V. Voska's story of the Black Tom Explosion - The story of Espionage and counterespionage in America - photo-illustrated article; Never Another Jones - What made golfer Bobby Jones so good?; Full-page Lucky Strike cigarette ad features color photo of tobacco buyer Fred Evans with tobacco farmer; Quick Service - part 6 of an 8-part serial by P.G. Wodehouse; Nice color one-page Chrysler ad features 'a drawing room on wheels'; Two pages of photos and information about Henry Ford's "Camp Legion" near Dearborn, Michigan - including photo of Mr. Ford; Lovely one-page color-illustrated Pontiac ad. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A well-preserved copy of this fabulous wartime issue. Book
1951A wonderfully rare and quirky issue of this presumably short-lived publication which billed itself as "The Nanaimo Fortnight Newsmagazine". 22 pages. Features: Front cover illustration of the Woodward's store in Port Alberni, "The most modern and complete store on Vancouver Island"; Two-page ad for Standard Agencies Ltd. which sold Kaiser cars at the corner of Crace and Haliburton Streets; Article on the first ever woman to serve as a Nanaimo Alderman, Elsie Hall; Business card-sized ad for Herbalist Isobel Bradwell, located at 204 Commercial St.; Three pages of info on movies of the day and the local theatres where they were playing; List of Best Selling Books of the Day; Article on H.R. MacMillan experimenting to get more pulpwood from forests; Brief article on plans for a $150k rest home for Fords Cove on Hornby Island; Ad for Endrizzi's Grocery and Confectionery at the corner of Selby and Franklin opposite John Shaw High School; Ad for Central Dairy - operated by J. Dunbar & Sons; Two-page centerfold ad for Acme Motors Ltd., a Plymouth dealer located at 5 Commercial St.; Article about rising passenger fares on B.C. coast vessels (ferries); Ad for Wilton Motors - an Austin dealer at 175 Fraser St.; Photo of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Batey of 3435 Carter Dr., Victoria, in the log home they built themselves; One-page ad for Johnson Bros., a Javelin car dealer at the corner of Comox and Howard; Travel schedules for local ferries, trains, buses, and flights; Large ad for Crescent Motors, a Studebaker dealer at 16 Nicol St.; Ad for Weeks Motors, a Morris car dealer at 322 Selby St.; Ad for Thompson Lumber Company, located at 1 Prideaux St.; Two-page ad for Newcastle Motors Ltd., a Pontiac dealer at 26 Front St.; Back cover ad for Woodward's, 'Your Family Shopping Centre", in Port Alberni. 25.5 x 18cm. Printed on newsprint. Unmarked with average wear and soiling. A great local vintage conversation piece! Book
1926Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Secret Submarine - Part I - A strange story of adventure in the romantic Spanish Main; The Largest Map in the World - on display in the lobby of the Ferry Building in San Francisco; The Phantom Gunman - A 19-year-old boy leads Johannesburg police on a merry chase before he is finally jailed; The Last of the Sea-Elephants - Dr. L.M. Huey visits the lonely island of Guadalupe to capture live specimens of these creatures, some of which weigh 2.5 tons! - with photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part III (conclusion) of one of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Land of Mystery - Part I - Colonel E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Gallowhur were among the very few white men allowed to enter "forbidden" Nepal, with photos; A Car Climbs Table Mountain, the mighty mass of rock that dominates Cape Town - with photos; The Boy Who Sought Adventure - Part I of the fascinating travels and adventures of B. Wicksteed; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - Part II of a three-month river and canal journey through France; The Secret of Black Horse Mountain - Dark happenings involving a farmer and a tramp who meet up again a thousand miles away; Teaching on the Frontier - A young teacher runs into trouble working in remote New Mexico; The Pennsylvania Witch-Murder - Three young men argue they were justified in their action to prevent evils spells from bewitching them - with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1936Pages 843- 890. Features: Front cover photo portrait of Mussolini with King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Abyssinia; Nice photo of Mrs. Amy Mollison, who made a record flight from Gravesend to the Cape of Good Hope; Photos of King Faruk returning to Cairo from England;M. Drouillet is arrested after gallant escapade in the impounded airplane of the Emperor of Abyssinia; Photo of first funeral service in an RAF plane, for aircraftman William Watkin; Photo of the car in which King Alexander and M. Barthou were assassinated being presented to Yugoslavia by France; Photo-illustrated article entitled The Doom of the Mountain Zebra; Photo of Dr. Herms' insect killing lamp; Interesting one-page photo of an unusual French military ceremony - the presentation of the standard of the 505th Regiment of tanks, at the Vannes; One-page photo of the stratosphere, "dust sphere", and the Earth's curvature - from the highest point ever reached (72,395') - taken over South Dakota during a record-breaking balloon ascent; One page photo of the highest vertical photograph ever made - South Dakota from over 13 miles above it; Two pages of photos illustrate the ongoing discovery of unexploded World War I munitions (these shells are salvaged by a French Desobusage company); Photo illustrated article on a "Mystery" tomb found intact beside the second pyramid; Large photo of huge crowd assembled to hear Mussolini announce Italy's sovereignty over Abyssinia; Photo of Mussolini presiding over the fascist Grand Council; Two pages of photos show the defeated Emperor of Abyssinia in exile - Haile Selassie and his Empress take refuge in Palestine; Photos of personalities of the week include Prince Mohamed Aly, H. G. G. Payne, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Edward Laurillard, Miss Jean Batten, Mr. Charles Laughton, M. Serge Lifar, Sir Alfred Watson, S. J. Camp, Louis Silken, Dr. Oswald Spengler, and the Duke of York; Page of photos of prominent figures in the inquiry into the alleged leakage of budget information; Recommended site for statue to memorialize King George; Photo inside the Moose River disaster - where the entombed man spent most of their 242 hours below ground; Photo of funeral for Mr. Magill who died in the Moose River mine disaster; Photo of the Princess of Nagode after her marriage to the Maharajah of Sirmur; Two pages of photos of birds of Galapagos; one-page Guinness ad features Alice in Wonderland motif; One-page Harrods ad features bedroom suite; Photos of the wind tunnel at Chiswick which are used to test transit buses; One-page Austin Reed men's fashion ad; Halfpage photo ad for the Alvis limousine; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart (Stuart House of London). Faint store stamp to advertising front cover. Please note: pages 867-868 not included. One page loose but present. Moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1969116 pages. Fiction: Lucas; Sahara Roses. Features: A Kensington Garden; Interview with Agatha Christie; On Getting Out of America; I Love Stately Homes; Three Country Cottages; Follow That Car; A Kind of Magic - Mollie Harris recalls an Oxfordshire village; The Vanishing Village; Recipes; Journey to the Massif Central; Fashions for Women and Children; Temporary Homes; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1945Features: GE Dishwasher ad features photos of the Floyd Russell family of Macomb, Illinois; Lovely one-page color ad for the 1946 Ford (maroon); Whittle Life Down To Your Size - if you prefer your youthful days to life as an adult!; Yes - The Blind Can and Do Garden! - testimony of the Reverend Marinus James of MA; High Home Style on a $200 Budget; How Mirrors created the miracle of space in the home of the Joseffs in Burbank, CA; Mrs. John J. Beck Celebrates Her Own V-Day; Mrs. Raymond V. Ingersoll and her "fan garden," on Duck Island off Long Island; How to make comics less of a menace for kids; Rules for Good Behavior on Dates; What Will the Future American Home Be Like?; Rug Making - A Satisfying and Fascinating Hobby; Nice color one-page ad for Sonora radios; Joan Crawford is featured in an ad for Trimz wallpaper; Nice ad for Hammond organs; Tips for traveling by car with a Dog; Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Recipes; American Meat Institute ad features photos of convalescent military men Pfc. Delbert Scott of Dover Delaware, andEdward M. Rose of Seminole, Oklahoma; What's New in Appliances?; Nice color ad for Norge ranges with humorous military theme; and more. 118 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this charming vintage issue from the final days of WWII. Book
1920Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
1963An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Simon Sez 'Sex" - advice; Some Guys Got It - fiction; Fifty Miles a Day for J.F.K. - satire; The First Daze of Vacation - humor; Mirror, Mirror... - photos of Lupe Lopez; "Dear John's" First Date - fiction; The Car of Kings - "La Royale" built by Ettore Bugatti; Beyond Words - humor; He Plays With Dolls - photo essay on French cartoonist Peynet who had a love affair with a doll named Damour (of which he sold two million copies!); The Most Passionate Professions - Survey; Pooling Her Resources - photo essay of Paula Angelo; The Man Who Felt Persecuted - fiction; Festival Girls - The Movie That Out-Dolces "Vita" - pictorial essay; George Q. Lewis's Comedy Workshop in New York, a College for Comics - article with photos; Going Up - pictorial essay on Angela Jones; In Training For What? - fiction; Ah! La France! - pictorial essay on Lena France of Boston; Hue and Cry - correspondence; Sound On - records; Checkmate - shopping; Back cover color-photo ad for Mr H. Esq. features young man in black sweater with red and grey trim. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1962An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Photo feature of Lynne Vandmar, originally from Philadelphia; Snug as a Bug - humor by John Novotny; America's Brand of Sick Humor is Catching Europe With Its Quarantines Down - article by Bob Abel; The Female of the Species - fiction by Mike McGrady; Wasteland Watchwords - TV expressions applied to bawdy photos; Go Sell it on the Mountain - satirical article by Ralph Schoenstein; Note to the Shape Shapers - Robert G. Elliott's humorous response to couteriers attempting to flatten women fore and aft; Love in the Shrouds - fiction by Jerry Bumpus; Richard Brooks - the director of Elmer Gantry and Lord Jim has unusual thoughts about movie censors, movie sexpots and movie critics - photo-illustrated article by Dave Jampel; Men's sportcoat fashion photos; Peter, Paul and Mary - brief article and photo of this rising group; My Name is The Wind - fiction by Evan Hunter; Pictorial essay of a New York car rally; Gypsy - tasteful black and white photo feature of Rosa Sylvia Teiros, a U.N. translator of gypsy extraction. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1918Features: Title page illustration of burial of first United States soldiers killed in action in France; The Threatened German Offensive (article); War Weariness in the Napoleonic Period (article); The Food Value of Our Rations (article); Photos and brief write-ups of nine people in the news, including Sir John Forrest, M. Trotsky, Lord Beaverbrook, Capt. Sir Douglas Brownrigg, Jemadar Gobind Singh V.C., Mr.s Burleigh Leach C.B.E., Capt. Peter McLean, The New Marquess of Dufferin, and Sir Henry Norman BT MP; Two-page illustration of Supreme War Council at Versailles; Six photos of the opening of Parliament by the King, and his Procession; Illustrations of British airmen and soldiers fighting Turkish infantry in Palestine; G.K. Chesterton writes of the end of WWI, with illustration of Captain Bouchardon of France; Three pages of photos of troops above the snowline on the Northern Italian Front; The Art of [Air] Raiding the Enemy - photo-illustrated article by C.G. Grey; Four illustrations of the winter palace of the Tsars, sacked by the Bolsheviks; Centrefold illustration of British troops advancing across 'no man's land' following an artillery barrage; Photos of British dummy (wooden) battle-ships; One-page illustration of the sole survivor of two British destroyers lost in a snowstorm off the Scottish coast; Excellent one-page photo of Paul Bolo on trial for receiving German money to influence French opinion; One-page photo of the Malvy Trial - M. Malvy, French Ex-Minister of the Interior, was charged with giving information to the enemy; Article on food rations and health; Roll of Honour - page of photos of 20 officers; "Jenny Wren" - The Handy Woman of the "W.R.N.S." - article with photos; Photo of a large machine shop of the Swift Motor Car Company; Photo of the Humber Company's undefeated ladies' football team; and more. 36 pages including eight pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. An ad for Carters includes photo of badly wounded soldier in their "Embassy" adjustable reclining chair. Bold two-color back cover ad for "Greys" cigarettes features member of military band on horseback. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
1918Features: Title page illustration of British soldiers in a captured German "Communication-Trench" beneath the Hooge-Menin Road; The Merchant Seaman's Badge of Honour (article); Red Cross Pearls - A Meditation (article); The Herb Garden - Homely Plants (article); One-page illustration of the destruction of Captain Baron Von Richthofen; Two photos of German planes brought down over London; Photos of The Countess Markievicz, Novelist Darrell Figgis, Joseph McGuinness, Count Plunkett, Edmund De Valera, John McGarry, Dr. Thomas Dillon, William Cosgrave, Lord Glenconner, The Duke of Atholl, and Lady Glenconner; Photos of large allied bombers as they prepare to strike Cologne and Western Germany; G.K. Chesterton discusses translations of the words of the German Emperor - who can speak and write English; Grounding the Flying Services (article); Photo of British airmen inspecting a captured German "Kamerad"; One-page detailed illustrated explanation of the British food control organisation/The machinery of Meat Supply; From Field to Kitchen - Fascinating one-page illustration with text explains the controlled distribution of meat in Britain; One-page illustration of a French armoured car, out of ammunition, driving through a crowd of German soldiers; Wonderful centrefold illustration of a sky full of fighting German and British planes; Article on how wartime food rationing has forced some knowledge of chemistry onto people; One-page illustration inside the newly opened Chapel at Hampton Court; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers, including Capt. R.P.L. Dallas, M.C., KIA; Front and back photos of members of the American Expeditionary Force in France with captured German flame-throwers; Photo of W.A.A.C.'s playing basket ball with convalescing Tommies in France; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
1918Features: Title page illustration of French Cavalry on the Oise Front; Two pages of illustrations of Royal visit to 'Khaki Country' - among the mills of the West Riding; Reserves and Their Employment (article); The Patron Saint of the Allies (article); Concerning National Kitchens (article); Photos of events in Italy, Portugal, Greece and France, including two photos of the funeral of Sister G.M.M. Wake, a Canadian nurse killed by a German bomb; Article on current events by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of John Robert Clynes, M.P., Sir Richard David Muir, The Duke of Rutland, Sir William James Tatem, and Sir John Merry Le Sage; Text and two illustrations describe the American's First "Big Thing" in France - The Cantigny Fight; The Moral and Material Effect of Bombing Germany (article by C.G. Grey); Six photos of British and U.S. Observers training Aerial Gunnery together; Wonderful 11-photo spread over two pages of the United States Army at the front where it is 'taking a gallant share in resisting the German offensive; Three illustrations and text describe the shelling of Paris from 74 miles by German super-gun "Long Bertha"; Seven photos of Sea-Warfare mementos from Zeebrugge - war museum additions; Centrefold illustration "The Last of the Albert Madonna - British Artillery In Action Near The Town; Photos of injured German POWs; Article on the saving of clerical labour; Two half-page aerial photos illustrate a British air attack on the main railway station at Metz; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers including Lieut.-Colonel James Hugh Coles, D.S.O.; Several lovely car ads; Fantastic two-colour back cover ad for "Erasmic" The Dainty Soap features well-dressed lady in boudoir studying her mirror; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
1918Features: Two-page illustration describes the British share in "the magnificent Italian Victory" - artillery counter-preparation near Asiago; Article by G.K. Chesterton on Mr. Robert Dell who was expelled from France; Photos of Sir Gilbert F. Garnsey, K.B.E., General Guillaumat, Governor of France, and General Diaz of Italy; One-page illustration of British Aeroplane over the recaptured Montello - an air view of the Piave; Potsdam's Disappointment (article); The War Game of the Japanese (article); "The Beef Trip"; Two half-page photos show the raised Piave River; Article about air bombing and bombers; One-page illustration of the Montello, "Entirely retaken with elan from the Austrians by the Italians"; From Virgin Soil to Complete Shipyard in 165 Days - Three pages with fourteen photos marvelously document the rapid construction of the world's largest shipyard on Hog Island, in the Delaware River, just outside Philadelphia; Centrefold illustration of "The Beef Trip", the British Navy's way of securing the nation's food supply; The Conservation of Wild Life in War-Time (article); Detailed diagrams and text describe the Madsen Gun; Full-page illustration compares Britain's liberal rations compared to those of Germany; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers including Lieut.-Col. Bertrand D. Gibson; Photos of U.S. Army nurses under gas-mask instruction at Cape Kearney, California; Illustrated ad for the "Kooksjoie" Range warns of imminent coal restrictions; Nice car ads; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Beecham's Pills features reflection of lady in mirror; Back cover ad for Edwards' Harlene hair treatments; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
