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196020 pages. Features: New company directors - John Wallace Eaton, David Kinnear; Mr. Earl Chestnut retires; Mr. Len Dell promoted; Saskatoon rink wins Ladies' Provincial Curling title - Joyce McKee, Syl Fedoruk, Donna Patton, Muriel Coben; Osler rink of Regina wins Eaton Trophy - D. Brault, Cam Osler, Lynn Wilkinson, Bob Waller, Don Anderson; Standings of Ladies' and Men's Curling Club February Standings, with 4 photos; Hazel Smith and husband Gordon report on their Pacific cruise - with photos; Parting gifts for Mrs. Josephine Shepperd and Vi Collins (with photos); News from Prince Albert; Moose Jaw News; Great photos of employees playing outdoor hockey at Optimist Park; Mr. William C. Bores Retires - write-up with nice group photo. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Handwritten greetings on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1993Features: Rabaul in the Fall - Search for the Reef Coral - Lithactinia novahibernia; Seven Passes - from Gilgit to Katmandu; A non-event of History - Laperouse in the Pacific; Searching Marmara for Ancient Shipwrecks; Searching for Medicines in the Vanishing Amazon; In the Hoofprints of Ghengis Khan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Features: Albanian Alpine and Black Drini River Expedition - The Wild Mountain Region of Albania; Mt. Doonerak - the Spirit of the Eskimo; Notes from the North Pacific Rim; Har Karkom Expedition 1992 - a preliminary report; Of Picket Knives, Compasses, and Things; The Mysterious Round Towers of Ireland - Low Energy Radio in Nature; 1992 Excavations at Idalion on Cyprus. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1968Pages 73-143. Features: Christians and Christian Nations; Japanese Churches and World War II; War and I; Policies for Peace in the Pacific; Vietnam- Dilemma for Missionaries; Reflections on the Students at Sasebo; Bainton Sketches Japan - an 8-page special feature of verse and pictures by Roland H. Bainton; Missionary Service in "Secular" Schools; Towards a Christian University in Japan; English and Indigenization; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
195058 pages. Features: Narrow-Gauge Summer - nice photos; Railroading on Chesapeake Bay - Pennsylvania Railroad's saltwater fleet serves Norfolk and provides an alternate north-south route along the Atlantic Seaboard - article with photos; Third Morning Delivery - U.S. and Canadian Roads cooperate in hauling perishable and manifest freight the long way 'round from Chicago to the East - long article with map and photos; Photo Section; Nice centerfold photo of the Cornwall Railroad of 1895 - the American Standard locomotive Penryn is standing at the Lebanon, Pa. station; $7.50 to L.A. - That's the price Southern Pacific charges to ride the 470 miles from San Francisco - long article with photos; Last Train from Carson City - Virginia & Truckee closes its books - Photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195058 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; Railroad News - Shades of Jay Gould!; Short article and photo of the world's fastest train - the S.N.C.F. CC-7121; Tales of the Century - The 20th Century Limited - article with photos; Cover Story - The Story of Speed - America's fastest trains of 1954; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of a Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) 4-4-0; When Steam Ruled Cajon Pass - great photos; In 1953; Nobody wanted a steam locomotive for the first time in 125 years; In Search of Steam - 2 - along an obscure branch in New Brunswick is the oldest living locomotive in Canada; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
1959Features: Northern Pacific - the railroad that likes passengers!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Nikita Khrushchev Rides the Rails of the Southern Pacific; The Railroad Image; Russian Notebook - what the alert train-watcher is apt to see today inside the U.S.S.R. - many photos with text; Photo Section - Happy Birthday, Long Island!; Last Train from Baltimore over Maryland & Pennsylvania on August 5, 1958; and more. Small date-stamp atop front corner else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
1958Features: Soo Line - what makes them run so fast? - excellent illustrated article; Railroad news photos; Photo Section; Samples of printed cards issued to customers by a Southern Pacific commuter train out of San Francisco when its passengers were delayed; No Passenger Trains by 1970?; Are Freight Trains Too Long?; Photo of Southern's wondrous Ps-4 Pacific; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
195666 pages. Features: Railroad news photos; America's wonder train of 1929 - meet Blue Comet; Union Pacific to Canada?; Tractive Effort of the Adjective; Roanoke Alamo for Steam; photo of Vancouver Island's Dayliner in midair; GM's Aerotrain; Balloon stacks and link-and-pin couplers; Argent Lumber Co; Coffe on a shoestring - by latching onto a 1.5:" cable these Brazilians can hoist a 1,000 ton train a half mile through the clouds in 3 hours flat; and more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1958Features: The Fan Trip - nicely illustrated article; Railroad News Photos; Photo of local at YM, March 18, 1956; How to Run Streamliners - Atlantic Coast Line - long, nicely illustrated article; 2.5 miles - a very short short line - Maryland's Preston Railroad doesn't even rate a caboose; Wonderful sunset centerfold photo of Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4008 near Creston, Wyoming; The Railroad that time passed by - 100 miles of narrow gauge in deepest France - nice article with photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
195066 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
196858 pages. Features: News photos, including diesel headliners, fresh faces and names; Phots of B&M's beautiful Baldwins; Commuters on the Go Train - Southern Ontario's commuter service - feature extensive article with multiple photos; Photo section; Bivouac for World War II Railroaders - G.I. rails took their basic training on the Crime & Punishment - 711 Railway Operating Battalion at Fort Belvoir, Virginia - article with photos; K4 vs. J-1 in 1931 - Pacific and Hudson/New York Central; 8 Motors x 16 Drivers equals 1080 H.P. - Oregon Electric Railway's 123-mile Portland-Eugene main line. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993226 pages. Features: V-8 S-10; It Ain't Ugly; S-10 Contest Winner; Pro-Flare Ford (cover photo); Renegade Ranger - custom '70s Ford; Ranger Splash - Ford's new youth truck for the '90s; WYBUYNU - Brandon Murrill's cool classic; Attention Getter; Dave Hill's alternate Scout; Pro-Faction pro-street Slantcab; Fully restored GMC Suburban; Pacific Coast Suburban; Post War Panel; Mini-Addiction; Battery operated Nissan pickups?; Late Start - Mom's mini Isuzu; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1982Features: Henry Turkeyfoot - the last of his kind - he lived by the gun; Charles Banks Wilson - artist; James (Jim) F. Wardner and his Black Cat Farm - on a 2,000 acre island in Bellingham Bay, in upper Puget Sound; Why Woollies give mankind the Willies - James W. Gilmore and sheep; Wolfville, Arizona; Isaac Rouse of Fort Worth - "Coyote Bill" Banty - a bunkhouse murder touched off one of Idaho's biggest manhunts; A Herdsman for Cowman - Walter Gann; Heading South to Taos, by Fred Girard; A Central Pacific Ghost Ride - East to Promontory; The James-Younger Robbery in Columbia, Kentucky; The Desert will do its part - when a man wants to stay a live; Grave/Tombstone photos; Wild Old Days! Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
199552 pages. Features: Cover photo of cruise ship Southern Cross; On the Waterfront; 'Kakadu 2'; A Captain And His Ship - Alain Gindroz and the Great Lakes bulk carrier Algocape; HMS Glory - Peter Barrett reviews the career of the 'Colossus' Class aircraft carrier which received the surrender of Japanese forces on her flight deck; The Friendly Port of Teignmouth; European Ferry Commentary; Ships Colour Pictorial; Naval Review; The Last Days of the 'Empress of Russia' - the eventful career in peace and war of the Canadian Pacific liner; Japanese Shipping - photofeature; The Darling of the Dutch, the Nieuw Amsterdam - part 2; Ports of Call; Voyage Report - Voyage to Burma - Michael Beilby looks back nearly sixty years to recall a voyage in the Henderson Line passenger/cargo vessel Kemmendine; Large colour photo of the Hansa Carrier; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
2010184 pages. "A captivating collection of 600 photographs that document over 100 years of the history of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and surrounding area." - dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this attractively presented local history. Oblong 32 x 24cm. Book
1970142 pages. Index. Includes Many dozens of recipes plus a brief company history. Undated but appears to be circa 1970. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
199552 pages. Features: Cover photo of HMAS Sydney; On the Waterfront; Ferry Focus - Isle of Innisfree; Ferry Fleets Update; The Darling of the Dutch - The Career of the Nieuw Amsterdam, Part 1; Ports of Call; My 'Hexhamshire Lass' - Douglas Laybourne describes his 'friendship' with the hopper/dredger that he first encountered in the Tyne, rediscovered in the Solent and finally traced to a Southampton breaker's yard; The World's Navies - Australia and New Zealand; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; Role played by the British Pacific Fleet during the last months of the war against Japan; New Ship News; Voyage Report - 'Golden Harvest' Home, by Captain Sandy Kinghorn; August Ferry Movements at Portsmouth; A Captain and his Ship - James Read and the Hoverspeed Great Britain; Large colour photo of the Isle of Innisfree; and more. Centrefold holding by one staple. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1982292 pages. Index. "Identifies opportunities for reorganizing the commercial fisheries to put an end to their chronic instability and poor economic performance and start them on a healthier course of development, for preserving and enhancing sportfishing opportunities, and for securing Indians' traditional access to fish." - from preface. Few markings to contents. Light wear Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
2015191 pages. List of sources. Index. Oblong 8.5" x 11". Profusely illustrated with reproductions of marvelous archival photos - most in black and white plus some in colour. "Alidor Vanden Wouwer was among the first to buy a lot in Bamfield, build a house, and settle down. The story of his Bamfield family begins with his arrival in Canada in 1889." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
1940316 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Diagrams. Map endpapers. Author and her family of three spent many idyllic years aboard their motor cruiser discovering the beauty of the Pacific coast from Puget Sound north along the British Columbia coast to Alaska. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality vintage copy. [Edwards & Lort 2825, Tourville p.432, Ricks p.172] Book
1995248 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The blend of adventure, humour and detailed reporting is wonderful... This book is indispensable for anyone preparing to travel the Inside Passage." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A pleasing copy. Book
1940Circa 1940. 22 pages Victory Guide contains advice for: Emergencies; Alarms; Blackouts; Air Raids; Bombs; Fires; Gas Attacks; First Aid; Nine Vital Points; Morale; Insignia of Civilian Defenders; Safety First; Car Conservation. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Laid in is an 8.5"x11" sheet announcing "Proclamation of Rules and Regulations for TEST BLACKOUT NIGHT March 7, 1941 at 10:40 P.M in Seattle, WA. Sheet contains detailed instructions which conclude with the name (not signature) of Mayor John E. Carroll. Second sheet is 8.5" x 14" and bears the title "City of Seattle - Department of Lighting: Time Table relative to enforcement of public proclamation #12 - effective from sunrise to sunset", dated 10-27-42. Balance of sheet contains sunrise and sunset times for every day of the year. Book