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1957126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with photo of Mrs. Lorraine Yarsinsky and her triplets; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - par 6 of 7 - his feud with Rudy Vallee, and the day he was arrested as a spy; We Flew Operation Sharkbait - Col. Charles F. Blair, Jr., USAF Res. recounts the harrowing tension-filled hoursin a jet fighter that spanned the Atlantic on a hush-hush test flight - the first Great Circle Route flight to Europe in a Thunderstreak Interceptor; Fishing at its Fanciest - article and great color photos from Palm Beach; My Ware with the Army - W.H. Von Rosenstiel got no mail for three months so went over his colonel's head - with astounding results; Should your child be a Librarian? Ads: Winston cigarettes (taste good); Pream coffee; Amana fridges (very nostalgic); Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing - with color photos of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Hal March of the $64,000 Question; 'Eggs Belong in Breakfast'; Presto appliances; Nice 1-page color ad for Boeing's 707; Ford cars - two-page color photo; Westinghouse washer - the famous 'sand test'; Tareyton; Pontiac cars - nice yellow Super Chief two-door hardtop; Baldwin Organs; GMC Air Suspension Tractors - two color pages; Union Pacific Railroad Vacations; RCA TV Service; Underwood Typewriters (golden gloves); Allis-Chalmers - 2-page ad showing their cement plant; USS United States Steel with illustration of futuristic bridge; GMAC color photo ad with old ladies telling young mom what to do; Nice two-page Borg-Warner ad in 'believe-it-or-not' format; Nice one-page color Pepsi adshows young painting couple; Magnavox High Fidelity TVs; MacGregor baseball gloves - featuring Red Schoendienst; GM two-page photo ad features Amanda, Ohio, home of GM supplier Mid-West Fabricating - with photos of Stanton Johns, Francis and Helen Crago, Dick Young, and L.E. Conrad; Evinrude outboard motors - nice color-photo ad; Ponderosa Pine Windows; Anchor Fence; IBM Selectric Typewriters; Santa Fe Super Chief; Briggs & Stratton engines; Nice Viceroy cigarette ad features bowler Don Carter; Chrysler 4-door hardtop Windsor - color photo; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake Mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195136 pages. Features: British Columbians All; Can We Learn From History?; Letters; Pioneer Pilots of the Skeena - article with great photos; Our We Slaves to Our Clocks?; 210 Miles on Horseback - in 55 degrees below - to attend the funeral of Charlie Fortier, Chief of the Chu Chua Indians; Nature Oddities; Wonder-Weed Ramie Grass Would Revolutionize Textile Industry; B.C. History - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events; Some Observations of a Rambling Angler; The Monument - poem by an unknown author; Frontal Attack - From the Rear! - a skunk story; The Mighty Hunter; "Pacific Pete" in Big Program - Westcoast's ammended all-Canadian natural gas pipeline route to Vancouver and cities of the U.S. pacific coast; Stewart, B.C. - article with photos; Nice ads on covers include Finning, the Yukon Brewery Syndicate, Port Hope Garage Ltd., and The Charles Hotel; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, some with photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2001790 pages. Bibliography. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Outlines the main trends in the past, present and possible futures of the diverse and stimulating societies of the world's most scattered region." - from Preface. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
196268 pages. Features: Two-page photo ad for the Lockheed GV-1 refueling a fighter; Small Unit Operations - Conterguerrilla War - Part 3 of a series; Great illustrated two-page ad for the M113 troop carrier by FMC illustrates seven of their fascinating military vehicles; "Red Mide" Edson and his story from Tulagi Island in 1942 - photo-illustrated article; Paper Tigers Cost Money; Tips on how an LPH delivers machines, men and gear - with photos; Pacific Strategy 1792-1945 - Part 1 - major article by Samuel Eliot MOrison, Rear Admiral USNR (Ret.); Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerrilla War - Tactics, Soldiers and People - Part 5 of 5; Keep Strong - Keep Fighting; SOPAC Revisited - nostalgic photos from the South Pacific where action took place in WWII; Transfers and Promotions; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195956 pages. Features: The farcical fraud of cheap QCs; A grim chapter in London's war on vice; What happens when John Foster Dulles goes?; Article and wonderful colourful photos of Windsor, Ontario; A fond farewell for the Casino - Toronto's Casino Theatre is about to fall to the wrecking ball - photos and article; The cruel conspiracy of public speaking; An even break for the peaceful timber wolf; How to talk to your spouse - and when not to; Nice colour photo ad for the 1959 Pontiac; Great colour photo ad inside back cover shows couple drinking beer (O'Keefe) and smothing cigarettes (Rothman's) while watching a scantily-clad woman on TV; Coke ad on back cover shows skier drinking; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage 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
1980131 pages. Glossary, bibliography, index. "Probes meticulously into the history and prehistory of Salish weaving and documents its recent revival. Known historical styles are discussed and compared, and the book includes a catalogue of all traditional Salish weavings known to exist in museum collections throughout the world. More than 100 black and white photographs and several colour plates exhibit these traditional weavings, the processes by which they were made, and the methods by which the art has been revived. Many helpful line drawings clarify technical questions, illustrating processes, artifacts and design distinctions... For the scholar and the layman, the student of the arts and the practising weaver, the interested browser and the serious collector, this is the book in its field." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy. Book
195996 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195948 pages. Features: Nice Orient & Pacific (Cruise) Lines ad inside front cover shows one of their boats at see with guests swimming and playing sports on deck; Nice colour Oldsmobile ad; Inflation can kill our nation; The two ordeals of Kikik - an Eskimo is forced to kill a man and then survive a frigid ordeal to try to save five children, only to be charged for murder by the white man's law - article with many photos; Can you loaf your way to a better figure?; How to Endure a Father (Robert Thomas Allen); Flora Lewis kept house behind the iron curtain - article with photos; The gay and gusty world of the college press - article with photos; Excellent centerfold ad for the new Ford Galaxie - wedding theme; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Coffee drop at top of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
1911334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
198678 pages. "Reviews the taxonomy, distribution, migrations, definition of stocks, and life history of spiny dogfish as background to an historical account of its utilization in the Northeast Pacific." - from Abstract. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1930140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
1971414 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition. Fold-out maps. "One of the most remarkable and historically important journals of early North American exploration." - from dust jacket. Top three inches of front free endpaper neatly removed. Prior owner's blind stamp atop half-title page. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book and price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
1960154 pages. Features: Incredible two-page colour ad for Green Giant canned vegetables, featuring the bottom half of the Green Giant himself; Many great full-page ads for products such as Avon cosmetics, Pond's lipstick, Wabasso bedding, Carnation Milk Powder, Pond's ad featuring Elsa Martinelli, Pacific canned milk, Crane plumbing fixtures, Arborite, GE appliances, Heinz tomato products; The Quiet Revolution of Chinese Women - article with photos; How Close are We to Test-Tube Babies? - article by Christina McCall Newman; The Queen's Other Family - Recently Elizabeth added her husband's name to her own, and thereby raised a question - just who are her in-laws? - a scattered family the world hears so little about? - article with photos; House-Warming - story by Jean Loggie; How the Kesners Came to Canada - Jo and Fred Davis are involved in bringing a refugee family to Canada; - photos and article; Have Gun Will Shoot, by Sheila MacKay Russell; Death Comes to the Island - novel by Florence Ford; A Chatelaine Guide for Women Who are Going back to Work; Dos and Don'ts of Dressing for the Job; Special 14-page Homes '60 section featuring decorating news, housing, furnishings, etc.; Ad for Minute Spanish Rice inside back cover. Nice colour photo Red Rose tea ad on back cover shows lady in white dress pouring tea. Somewhat above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. A worthy copy particularly worthwhile for its lengthy illustrated 1960 Home Fashion section. 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
1965Features: Our scramble to keep India's atom peaceful; Former Canadian diplomat, Arnold Smith, is newly elected first secretary-general of the Commonwealth - with photos; To Hell and Back - an anonymous writer's tale of alcoholism and drug addiction; The real meaning of dreams, by Ben Rose; Sweet Song of Success - Features story on Ian and Sylvia, with photos; Quebec's new Power Elite - Claude Morin, Arthur Tremblay, Guy Fregault, Louis-Phillips Pigeon, and Jean Deschamps; Sunday Driver - Commercial Artist and Canadian Racing Driver of the Year, Al Pease races his MGB; Is the Canada Council Squandering Your Money?; Talking with insects and animals (like dolphins) to learn how to talk to other worlds; Tai Chi - a new health kick, a thousand years old; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Article on how 1,300 BC doctors are 'cutting the cancer toll'; Corruption - a modern manual of Graft in Civic Office; Nice colour full-page ad for the Pontiac Parisienne Sports Sedan; The Hidden Kingdom of B.C.'s Holy Terrorists - The 3,000 Sons of Freedom may be losing their grip on 9.000 more peaceful Doukhobors; Lovely colour photos of seasonal wildflowers; What Thinking Machines are doing for us, and to us; Cuba's program to export revolution - William Eccles' notes after two months inside Castro's camp - many great photos; How Wade Hampton found his feet - on crutches - the disabled former ski champ now heads a company of 50 handicapped employees; There's more in whiskers than meets the eye. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1945Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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
1972Rare memento of this early high-speed endeavour to connect passengers travelling between Vancouver and Vancouver Island by sea. Claimed to connect downtown Nanaimo with downtown Vancouver in just over 45 minutes; downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria in under one and a half hours. Light wear. Few pencil notes. Undated. Circa 1972. Book
1977Signatures of Author and V.C. recipient George Pearkes upon title page. 388 pages including notes, index and black and white photographic plates. George R. Pearkes was decorated with the Victoria Cross in World War I, led Canada's Pacific Command in WWII, and served as Defence Minister in the Diefenbaker administration. He was deeply involved in the highly charged and hotly debated decisions of the cold war era, including Bomarc, the Avro Arrow, NATO, NORAD, and provisions for civil defense, and his views on them will be significant to those interested in Canadian political and military history. Moderate to average wear. Partial lean to spine. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book
1930Pages 189-276 plus 10 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: Nice one-page photo ad for the Royal Bank looks down the busy street of a large Canadian city; Nice illustrated half-page ad for The Film & Slode Co.'s "Filmo" movie Camera; One-page colour reproduction of Margaret Lougheed's painting of Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park; Adventuring on Baffin Island - article by J. Dewey Soper features photos of sled dogs and full-page photo portraits of Inuit men "Putaguk" and "Powlusik"; Memories of the Mountains - a profusely photo-illustrated article by Mrs. J. A. Wilson about her travels in the Canadian Rockies; Grand Manan - Island Gem of the Maritimes - article with photos and one-page map; Motor-Vagabonding on Vancouver Island - article with dozens of vintage photos from many parts of the island; The Great West Festival at Calgary - photo-illustrated article, including one-page photo of Mrs. William Blyth and her tapestry which took twenty years to make!; Vintage one-page ad for the 1930 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE); Nice back cover Canadian Pacific ad for its Banff service features reproduction of colour painting by A. Sherriff Scott showing a crimson-clad Mountie gazing down upon the Banff Springs Hotel. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage item. Magazine
1945288 pages. Features: One War to Go - The Coming Fight with Japan; U.S. Meat in This War - how boneless beaf solved the logistics of meat for the first time; Philips of Eindhoven - The big Dutch electrical company, in the U.S. to stay, shows no signs of changing its cartel tactics; The New Transport Planes - Consolidated Vultee's Clipper - the state of the art, how we got here, and what's in the future; The Bogey of Economic Maturity - Washington spenders claim capitallism is moribund; Commander Eugene F. McDonald of Zenith; The Medal - today's heroes are heirs to the great tradition of Pisanello; The Military Police - bully boys in the last war, this time they have won the G.I.'s respect; Battle for the Philippines - the U.S. settled the battle of the Pacific; and more. Many excellent vintage ads in color and black and white, perhaps being the one-page War Loan ad which features photo of Admiral Hirohito on horse, with inset photo of Admiral Halsey who has expressed his desire to ride the Emperor's horse, Shirayuki. Another great color ad by International Harvester shows U.S. troops storming Pacific beach with title "Till The Japs Say Uncle"; Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Spine lean. A worthy vintage copy of this sensational WWII-era issue. Book
1898Anchorages on the North Coast of Tubuai Island From the latest F rench Government Chart. Tubuai Island From the latest French Government Charts. London Published at the Admiralty, 25th Feb. 1898, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Sir. W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer.Small corrections: 1923. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Tubuai Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: 1898 [1923]. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 627x460 mm
900Guadalcanal and Florida I.s with a portion of Malaita I. The South coast of Florida I. and North coast of Guadalcanal including Savo I are from Surveys by Commander R.W. Glennie and the Officers of H.M. Surveying Ship "Sealark", 1910-12, the remainder of the work is from various rough and imperfect sketch surveys of earlier date. West coast of Malaita I and Alite Reef, adjusted to positions determined by Lieut. Com. R.L. Hancock & the Officers of H.M.S. "Sealark", 1914. London Published at the Admiralty, 6th Nov. 1893, under the Superintendence of Captain W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. Large corrections 10 th Jan. 1930. Interesting map of Guadacanal in which the capital Honiara is missing because it will be constructed only afet the second world war. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Guadalcanal - Solomon Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 658x983 mm
