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194566 pages. Loaded with black and white photos plus supporting text. Heavy external wear. Has been folded in half. A worthy reading copy. Book
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
2001238 pages. Index. "Relive these lost but not-so-distant days with stories and never-before-published photos of the sailors and their ships, the dory fisherman, and the raging sea that are as lively and invigorating as salt spray." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Front hinge open. A worthy reference copy of this wonderfully illustrated reference. Book
193495 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out map entitled "Doubly Equidistant Projection of the Sphere". Features: The Somali Coasts; Plotting the Vertical Photographs of the Second Mount Everest Flight; Archaeological Reconnaissances in Southern Persia; The John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean; The Sixth and Seventh Thule Expeditions of Knud; An Oblique Cylindrical Equal-Area Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. One inch opening to fore-edge of front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1981160 pages. Features: John Gardner - in his own words; Keeping the Water Out; San Francisco's Two Oldest Rowing Clubs; Basque Racing Sculls; Voga is again in vogue - Venice gest people back in the water; The Riverside Boat Company brings a 12 1/2 back up to its standards; PASTIME; Singlehanding an Old Gaffer - rigging ISKRA for ocean crossings; The plight of the canoe people; Ray Speck and the Sid Skiff; Sons of Hitches - more imporvements on a cylinder; Wooden ship building in World War I; Fixing a leaky shaft log. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1983429 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Author was born in England in 1908 and came with his parents to Vancouver, B.C. in 1910. Through the balance of his life he lived in Ocean Falls, B.C., Birmingham, England, and Masset, B.C. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. An excellent copy of this informative and engaging B.C. biography. Book
198294 pages. Features: Build your own Orson Welles; Farming the ocean floor; Self-Destruct Magazine; Theme restaurants that failed; and more. Light cigarette odor. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
187216 pages. Contents: Cover for can; square shawl worn as a hood; Small-talk about pastry; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, faille ribbons, flame-tinted roses, style of trimming, colored English crape, new veils, round hats, spring suits from Paris; Personal; shade for night lamp; work-bag with chenille embroidery; work-bag with chenille embroidery; evening and bridal slippers with bows; Mrs. Grey's Two Dreams, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration "Low and High Necked Waists"; Bridal and Evening Dresses; Paris Fashions; An Ocean Picnic; Buckwheat Cakes and Buckwheat; Evening Toilette; Useful recipes; London's Heart, by B.L. Farjeon - continued; Furniture and Dress; humor. Average wear. Book
1911Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1995458 pages. Footnotes. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Chronicles an often overlooked contribution to Allied victory and aviation history. By war's end the ferry service, through its various incarnations, had created the basis for the network of international air routes and procedures that commercial travellers now take for granted." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade cover. A lovely copy. Book
196924 pages. Features: WSP (U.S.) Conference of 1969; The Kennedy Family Passion Play; That Reformer Fellow, President Nixon; That High Cost of Living; "Reparations" Vs. World Socialism; N.D.P. Shell Game - Ed Schreyer assumes leadership of the Manitoba N.D.P.; Historic Words Live Long After Tragedy - "Bill" Pritchard, one of eight men tried in connection with the famous Winnipeg general strike of 1919, speaks again; Those Halls of Montezuma - looking back on Aztec history, and myths which surround it; Marx and the American Civil War; Do Loose Lips Sink Ships? - fascinating article claims German U-boats were had fore-knowledge of targets by gleaning information from European reinsurance companies who underwrote the risk of ocean shipments; Passing of Jeni "Chubbi" Kligman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194034 pages. 10.5" x 7.5" string-bound booklet prepared in the author's name to alert the world to the plight of China's "warphans" and request support for them. Memoranda for adult readers laid in. The American distributor affixed a 1917 image of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, taken at Wellesley College in 1917, inside front cover, along with an explanation of the great efforts required to get this work into readers' hands. Many reproductions of black and white photos of smiling Chinese warphans and Chinese scenes, including war damage. Color photo on front cover. Laid inside back cover is a four-page 'Cabled Postscript' from the author intended for adult readers as it contains harsher details of the condition of millions of children she is not yet able to help. This postscript includes a quote and photo of Rear Admiral Yarnell, U.S.N., plus details of 'Coin-A-Meal' banks which were used to raise funds. Average wear. Unmarked. A somber memento of this difficult period of Chinese history. Book
1935Pages 947-994. Features: The Diesel Automobile; Plating river beds with stainless steel; Ocean gloder the "Genial"; Auto Safety device warns of railway crossings; Photo of little Jean Darlington whose father communicates with her from afar by shortwave radio; Telephoning a Picture; Sleep Meter; Mechanical novelties; Vacuum lifts Planeless Aircraft - invented by John H. Davis; "House of Glass" Shell gas station; European Novelties; Finding the Source of "Cosmic Rays"; New Mechanical Ideas; Power from Ocean Waves; Exploring the Upper Air by Spectroscope; Metal Melts Like Wax; Newest Devices for the General Use; New Patents of Interest; Robot directs street traffic; Dry ice test of jewels; Where did the Moon Come From?; Mechanics of Magic; Making White Iodine; Practical Hints and Home Kinks; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. PLEASE NOTE: Most ads clipped and removed from pages 985-994. We believe no text was lost but please inquire if you are interested in any specific content so we can check. A worthy reading copy Magazine
198456 pages. Features: Woodchester Villa, Bracebridge; Doctored Sevres (by Henry Sandon); Cook Books From a Past Era; Collecting Antique Clocks; The Felony Fleet - Prisoners were transported on "Ocean Hells" to serve out their sentences in the colonies; Chatham Arms and Armour Show & Sale; Journey's End celebrates 20 years in Mirvish Village, Toronto; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
194572 pages. Features: Quink ink ad inside front cover; Seagram ad shows man of the future listening to self-reading book (like a computer disk of the future); Repair work on a shattered world; photo of camp of Manitoba Indian muskrat trapper Lewis Head; Nice colour ads for Maxwell House coffee and Waterman's Taperite pens; Sombre one-page two-colour ad by the National War Finance Committee shows the burial at sea of an 18-year-old ordinary seaman, on board H.M.C.S. Assiniboine, killed by U-boat fire; Why Germany's V-Weapons Failed - fascinating photo-illustrated article; "Per Andrea" (short story); Wilderness Suburb - photo-illustrated article on Ocean Falls, B.C.; The High Side (short story); Golf Swings to the Left - photo-illustrated article on Byron Nelson, with photo of him putting out on the 18th green at Thornhill, Ontario where he won the Canadian Open (also included is a photo of B.C. golfer Stan Leonard); Tiny Fingers (short story); So the Captain Stopped Smiling (short story); Man of the Month - Jackson Dodds, C.B.E.; Vintage one-page C-I-L ad illustrates the range of their products; Half-page Champion Spark Plug ad promotes Victory Bonds with illustration of Pan American Flying Clipper; Fascinating one-page two-colour ad entitled "Miracles of Make-Do" by Canada's Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages Canadian women to conserve textiles (#2 in a series of ads); Jergens Lotion ad features photo of Elyse Knox; Half-page ad for Blachford Shoes of Toronto; Woodbury Soap ad features newlywed photos of Ann Elizabeth Bowman of Montreal and her RCAF husband Hugh Basil Heath; Glo-Coat floor polish ad features Molly McGee; Is it Measles? - health article for juniors; Mexico's Public Enemy - illiteracy; Rolex ad; Advances in Science; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Ford Super Deluxe (red); Fashion illustrations; One-page photo-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Colourful Chase & Sanborn ad features Charlie McCarthy comic; Colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows birthday party scene; Colour Shredded Wheat ad shows boy in old-style football helmet; Photo of Jean Parker in Arrid ad; Portrait of Mrs. Randolph Scott in Tangee ad; Nice colour half-page ad for Clark's cream of mushroom soup shows chef; One-page illustrated ad for Helena Rubinstein White Flame perfume; Lovely colour illustration of Ava Gardner in Woodbury Powder ad; World Sayings; Fantastic colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific ad inside back cover celebrates their sixty years of progress; Back cover colour-photo ad for Jordan grape juice features lady at harvest; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
2005viii, 152 pp. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Author tells what it was like to be an ordinary seaman on HMCS Kamsack and Caraquet. The war took him from Ottawa through grim convoy battles to the D-Day invasion." - from back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194550 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196734 pages. "Prepared in response to requests from schools and from ship's personnel for information on, and pictures of, the multitude of local marine zooplankton. A simple key and brief descriptions have been prepared to assist in their identification. Directions are included for collecting zooplankton, together with a list of books written for the public about the sea and its creatures." - from page 1. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
1914Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1915Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
2009488 pages. Glossary. Index. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent arctic marine systems text. Book
1987284 pages. Unmarked. Back cover missing, otherwise appear complete. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this pleasing compilation. Book
200988 pages. Features: Towns on the Edge - Ocean Falls and Alert Bay, B.C.; Poems for absent friends; The longest season in Afghanistan; Crazy monkey carnival; Steam, sweat and tears. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive copy. Magazine
1960[11], 12-274 pages. Glossary, bibliography, index. Fourteen monotone maps and illustrations. "This study is confined to piratical and other foreign incursions on the Pacific coast from Panama north, beginning in 1575 or 1576 and continuing for the next 167 years." - Preface. Above-average external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Contents clean. A worthy reading copy. Book
196170 pages. Features: Fourteen young, successful, but not necessarily complacent people - Father Louis Laurendeau, Elaine Bedard, David Owen, Gordon Whitmore, Adrian Vilandre, Martin Lavut, Zubin Mehta, Lynn Seymour, David Ferguson, David Gauthier, Michel Gelinas; What six young politicians think and do about politics - Brian Mulroney, David Greenspan, John Brewin, Ted Rogers (later of Rogers media fame), Jean David, Jean-Pierre Fournier; Short Story by Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) - Ring Around October; A look at the Middle-Aged Young by a reporter their age who finds they are bored by easy success; Tony Gregson's getaway with two gold bricks - he vanished from Yellowknife in 1954 with $54,000; The Sea Diary of a Gay Dog - Colin Acton was entertainment officer of the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest ocean liner; Bouncing on a trampoline can teach a child to read - findings of Montreal psychologist Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch; The most powerful village in the world - Georgetown, D.C.; The hotheaded master of Moresby Island - Captain Horatio Robertson built a 1,600-acre Chinese empire in B.C. and ruled as stormily as an Eastern despot; Peter Martin; Dimitri Dimakopoulos; Stewart Fisher. How ironic that the story featuring prominent up-and-coming politicians includes a photo with Brian Mulroney seated at a table with Peter C. Newman, the man who would later write a book entitled "The Mulroney Secret Tapes", which feature the author's controversial taped conversations with Mr. Mulroney. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding sound. Please note: missing pages 65-66 which contained end of the Young Canadians article. Book
