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1974Features: Cover photo of Ab Jenkins and his 1933 V-12 Pierce-Arrow; Obituary of Arthur Kumpf inside front cover - Mr. Kumpf had a long association with the Pierce-Arrow, including service as a racer and endurance driver in the U.S. and Europe; list of Ab Jenkins' Driving achievements; Fredericksburg Meet Photos on pages 13 through 20; items on pages 4 through 9 are from the March 31, 1930 issue of 'The Pierce-Arrow News' (which was a large 'newspaper format' factory publication); Some Pierce-Arrows at Harrah's - with text and photos; New Parts Set-Up Gives Rush Service; Downton Window Display Proves Successful for Holden-Nelson; Here's the way your parts orders are handled; Speech of Col. Charles Clifton, 1917; Speech of Mr. Day about factory plans for the maintenance and up-building of Pierce-Arrow quality; Paint Shop Memories, by William L. Fischer; Many great photos from the 1974 PAS meet; Text of talk given at meet by Maurice A. Thorne. Back cover features reproduction of an ad for the Pierce-Arrow Travelodge, an early house/travel-trailer which could be pulled by car. Moderate wear. Umarked. A quality copy. Book
1945Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Boeing ad boasts of their record coast-to-coast flight by a C-97, 6 hrs, 3 min, 50 sec.; Reo Truck ad; Full-page ad for a radio show called "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman on the Blue Network (ABC); Fisher Body color ad; Allies strike at Rundstedt's finest after 8-day race to the Rhine - Wehrmacht escapes disaster but loses heavily in pulling out and blowing up the bridges - great map; Sample of a 'safe conduct' pass showered down on Germans, as well as a humorous satirical German response; Two photos taken during the Bataan death march (stolen from the Japanese); News from Iwo Jima; Eighteen-year-olds fight and die as nation debates their status - European and Pacific wars were speeded by using youths Stimson says in defense; Photo of Erich Gimpel and William C. Colepaugh as they are led into court prior to being hung as Nazi spies; 67 Army nurses captured by the Japs on Bataan and Corregidor return the the US; Troubled return of vets - Mr. Jobe in Chicago; Britain accepts the Yalta Charter but U.S. keeps fingers crossed - F.D.R.'s report to Congress is received with reservation despite its urgent tone; Poland - scores to settle - General Anders; White Truck ad in color; Canada Calling - new CBC 50,000 watt short-wave transmitter; America's join in Alliance to keep hemisphere peace - the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, in Mexico City; Interesting ad for Bituminous Coas - presents its varied military uses; Coal owners are unlikely to sign UMW contract calling for pertentage on each ton; Kansas corn piled outside for lack of freight cars; Vintage color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and her family; Photo of 26-year-old Frank Sinatra with details of his draft classification; Wacs at work; Photo of Martin (The Blimp) Levy, a 640 pound wrestler; Studebaker color military ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1944Contents: Cracks appear in Axis line-up as satellite states look for exits - Finland has best chance to succeed as talks with Moscow open possibility of escape; Two disappointing slow-downs hamper allies' invasion plans - dragging Italian campaign and clash of ideas over Burma; The Admiralty Islands - springboard for combined drive on Philippines; Photo of the "Money Masters" - Presidents of eleven of the nation's twelve Federal Reserve Banks and a vice president of the twelfth; Smog and bombs force 268-year-old Greenwich Observatory to seek a new site from which to measure the world's time; Photo of Joe Louis (Barrow) in training at Camp Sibert, Ala.; Oscar winners of 1944. Above-average wear. Faint ink stamp atop front cover. Varying levels of staining to all pages. All text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
196110 pages. Features: CN's new visual redesign programme for passenger trains; Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Preservation Company Limited; New CN colours in use; Montreal Street Railway No. 274; Early Locomotives on Vancouver Island, by I.E. Barr; Two Nova Scotia Colliery Lines to Close; Observations. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1970Features: Through the Rockies on N-Gauge; Elections and Appointments for 1970; What about "Canadian Rail"; 1969 Report of the Canadian Railway Museum; Trip Committee Report - 1969; From Edmonton the word is 'Energetic' - CRHA/APRA's no. 73; Ottawa Branch Report; Observations; Back cover photo of Mount McKay & Kakabeka Falls Railway 2 Otis Dump Car. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1974Features: Work-Train to Tye - Nelson, British Columbia; Montreal to Megantic! (part II); Waybills. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1981Features: Canadian Pacific 1881-1981, Part Two - a brief history of the company, with many great b/w photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1968Features: Andy Pandy and his friends; Mokey's Travels; The Twins - Simon and Sally; Bizzy Beaver; the Flower-Pot Men; Nutty Noddle; Super Bear; Sam and Huff; Dozey; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1997Features: Meeting the Challenge of Adaptive Re-use - in the city of Kitchener, Ontario - 410 King St. W., the Kaufman footwear complex; Downsizing and Privatizing in the Good Ol' 90s; Charles B. Ross and his Sash and Door Factory in Blackville; The Victorian Factory Phenomenon - Tales of the Cotton and Candy in New Brunswick - the Ganong Chocolate factory in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Modest moisture exposure near one corner else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A worthy copy. Book
1960Features: How Toronto's 2,500-man police force really works - a rare behind-the-scenes look by Chief James Mackey; Gisele Mackenzie - My Perilous Plunge into the Big Time; I went to Florida - by Canoe! - Ward Seeley; A Rare Peak at Russian Art - many colour illustrations; A visit with Patricia Joudry and John Steele; How Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater conquered the New World. Middle page loose but present. Half of page nine, most likely an ad, has been removed. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1962Features: The sweaty fight for a single seat - the current federal election campaign; The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy - almost ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959 are walking and working again - a Canadian medical team helped in the most devastating medical story of our time in Meknes, Morocco; The case for taking children away from their parents - Dr. Karl Bernhardt; Jeanine Beaubien - the woman who stages plays in 5 languages in Montreal's Powderhouse; How to spot a home-grown (Canadian) image; How Zoo Animals get their kicks - with photos; Ralph Allen's 'Lost Art of Fishing for Fun'; Nice colour photo full-page Pepsi ad; Toronto and Montreal should be provinces, by Donald C. Rowat; The Medical Care (Medicare) War - Ralph Allen reports from Saskatchewan. Moisture stains to upper corner of all pages. Average wear. Address labe. Binding intact. Book
1965Features: Fantastic two-panel fold-out colour photo ad for the 1965 Ford Galaxi 500 LTD; Year 1 of the LBJ Era - Canada's destiny, too, is hitched to this president hell-bent for greatness; Awesome colour full-page ad for the 1965 Buick Wildcat (Sports Coupe); How to be a Widow - if you are a wife, the probability is that you will outlive your husband; The Newfoundland - the ever-loving web-footed dog made in Canada; Our second chance at public housing - Toronto's Regent Park opened 15 years ago, but social stigma, shortsightedness and red tape all combined to dim this bright prospect; They can get Canada for you Wholesale - Toronto Promoters Terrance Howes and John Heaven; Hawks, Chicks and a Swinging Nest - it is now chic for girls all over the civilized world to come on skinny and to wear long hair and wispy little Mod dresses, and for boys to deck themselves out in a lot of buttons and leather - the chic-est is to manage somehow to look and act elegant and seedy at the same time - many photos; Robert Thomas Allen's sentimental journeys - #1 England; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Coverfold almost entirely open. Covers just holding to contents. Small calculation atop front cover. A worthy copy. Book
1968Features: Cover photo of mixed marriage partners, Roslyn Hees and Durward Taylor; Editorial - remarkable record of 'do-nothing' Prime Minister Lester Pearson; Interview with Farley Mowat; Edmonton - lengthy article with many photos in colour and black and white - brief text and photos of provincial chief censor John Day, Don Getty, Tommy Banks, Jim Martin, Joe Shoctor; Bev Brooker; Can George Hees's beautiful daughter Roslyn find happiness with a handsom Washington Lawyer who happens to be a Negro? - with photos; Robert Stanfield - austere, Calvinist patrician; *AMAZING* colour two-page psychadelic Tory (Progressive-Conservative) poster which reads "Turn on with the Tories"; Why Pierre Berton Works so Damned Hard, by Jon Ruddy; How I Learned to Hate Hard Work, by Pierre Berton; Colour fashion photos for Rainwear; A Matter of Image - Liberal leadership contenders are rated on image, sex appeal, youth appeal, their face, their clothes; Colour centerfold featuring three Chevrolets - Chevy II Nova, Chevelle, and Impala; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
192832 pages. Circa late 1920s. Includes piano music, chords and lyrics. Songs include: The Desert Song; Drinking Song; Golden Days; One Alone; The Riff Song; Serenade; Stouthearted Men; Students March Song; West Point Song; Your Land and My Land. Heavy wear to covers which are detached from book but present. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Scenic Highway Policy - too little thought given to Road Programs; Big and Little Storms - the how, where and why of sundry dusty doings in the air; Burro Language; Irises from Bulbs - there is a wider range than most gardeners seem to realize; Andy's last chapter - a Florida sandhill crane - how he helped to dissolve the barriers between his own kind and man; The carriers of Death - the microscope reveals how insects transport disease; The Giant Water Bug - a picture story of a strange insect; The Story of the Red Giants; A Unique Nature Club - The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
191020 pages. Black and white photographic portrait of Lieut. E.G. Monro. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Book
1909Photo and brief write-up of The Lady Pentland of Lyth. Our Recruiting Campaign, by Mr. W.E. Grey of the Daily Mail. Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, 14th Battalion County of London Regiment (The London Scottish). Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Book
1909Features: Photo of Mrs. Romilly (and her dog) who is to honour the London Scottish by presenting the Battalion Prizes on December 9th; Company Notes; Shooting results; Scots Abroad - a rifle club in the Falkland Islands; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Editorial; Hallowe'en; Archibald Forbes, War Correspondent; "A" Company March; Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men; "The Bonnet"; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
1907Features: Photo portrait and write-up on Major G.A. Malcolm; Company Notes; Our Regimental Plate - No. VII. - The Geddes Mackenzie Cup - photo and description by Ian Bhreatannaich; Photo portrait of George Mackenzie (the late) - First Captain "A" Co. London Scottish R.V.; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Photo and write-up on Lance-Corporal L. Graham H. Horton-Smith; Company Notes; Football Results; Our Regimental Plate - No. II - The Lord Elcho Cup - photo and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Scots Abroad - a letter from John MacDonald in Bulawayo; Editorial; Buglers; Class Firing - the conditions under which Class Firing will be conducted for the current year; The History of the Glenworple Highlanders - Chapter III - Assyria; Photos of the "H" Co. Cup and the Sergeant's Mess Cup; Assault at Arms; Peninsular War - Second Campaign... Corunna (October 1808, to 16th January, 1809), Lecture by Major F.H. Neish (with map); Correspondence; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Frontis photo of the "Daily Telegraph" Cup Team, with names of members in photo; Company notes; Our Regimental Plate - No. IV - "The Anson Cup" - with photo and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Shooting results; Notes by the C.O.; The Route March in Scotland; Chaps are saying; The Regimental Canteen; Smoking Concert; Intelligence and Information in War - Part III of a lecture by Col. R.N. R. Reade; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Frontis portrait and write-up about Captain Walter Edward Webb; Company Notes; Presentation to the late Q.M.S. Mr. R.S. Darling; Regimental Athletic Supports; The Route March in Scotland (continued from a prior issue); Shooting results; Notes by the C.O.; Editorial, including photo of inspection day at the saluting base; The late Major David Laing, V.D.; Whitsuntide Signalling; Company Lectures - concentrated notes which must be diluted when used; Blair Castle; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on Captain Francis Howard Lindsay; Company Notes; The Bisley Meeting, with photo of the King's Prize Winner; The Route March in Scotland - continued from prior issue); The Clan Chattan; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on The Marquess of Tullibardine (John George Stewart Murray); Company Notes; The Route March in Scotland, story with photos and cartoons; Great full-page photo of Major Malcolm atop the Cumberland Stone, Culloden, explaining to all assembled how he intended fighting his way to Inverness; Impressions of the March; Chronicles of the Cookhouse - Scotland, August, 1906; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Chaps are Saying; Shooting - K Company prize meeting; Private Denis Kelly of the "Michaels" - his observations on military matters; and more. Faint pencil erasure atop front cover. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Please note: a quarter of the first page of advertisements has been removed. Book
