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196482 pages. Selected bibliography. Many detailed black and white photos of masks, helmets, knives, and many more artistic speciments of northwest native art. Average wear and soiling. Cup ring on front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1969Features: Georgian Silver Epergnes; The Leading Article of Employ - Bookshelves, Book Cabinets, Book Furniture; The Stained Glass Window in the Old Toronto City Hall; An Ambrosial Elixir - Benedictine; Reprinting Early Canadian Books; Flora Danica; Korean Ware. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196024 pages. Topics include: Voice of the People; "Clark Concurrent Resolution 83"; Scuttling the "Monroe Doctrine"; Patterns of Treason; Their Techniques; The "Genocide" Plot; UN-World Court - Moscow Conspiracy; Why the New Warning?; Povl Bang-Jensen Died to Prove it; Impeachments Can Save Our Country; Anti-American Organizations; The "League of Women Voters". Substantial content for such a diminutive booklet. Average wear. Unmarked. External sunning with some soiling to back cover. A sound copy. Book
1953Cover: Queen Elizabeth II Special Feature: Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. Includes: Article "Your Undoubted Queen"; The Ceremony in Pictures; Article-The Great March Past; The Royal Progress (photos); At the Palace and on the Route (photos); Article - Singing in the Rain; Article - Men in Full Dress; The Royal Family's Day (photos); Article - The Royal Family at Home and Article - The Royal Family's Fishing. Other features: Top-Gear Hawking; A Townsman in the Country: Reverie on Four Coronations; Sculptor of Animals - Herbert Haseltine; Country birds come to town; and Pattern for Ascot. Pages numbered 1053 - 1100. Average wear. Writing in ink pg. 1053. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Magazine
1962Features include: Epidendrums for the Sub-Tropics - and Elsewhere; Orchid Cultural Calendar for March: What to Do in Mid-America; What to Do in the Southwest; What to Do in the Pacific Northwest; What to Do in California; What to Do in Florida; What to Do in the Northeast; What to Do in Hawaii; Orchid Under Lights; Barkerias; Famous Orchid Collectors (Pt 2): The Rev. Charles Samuel Parish; An Oddity in Cymbidium Behavior; Thoughts on Growing Reed-stemmed Epidendrums; How I Grow Cyps in Michigan; Pots to Fit the Orchids; Orchids in a New Synthetic Growth Medium; and Collectors' Item: Epidendrum purpurascens and Epidendrum polychlamys. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
1970111 pages. An awesome collection of blues songs including: All Your Love, Back Door Man, Blues Get Off My Shoulder, Boom Boom, Bring it on Home, Call Me, Can't Hold On Much Longer, Carol, Checkin' Up on my Baby, Close to You, Don't Start Me Talkin', Every Day I Have the Blues, Evil is Going On, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, Goin' Down Slow, Good Morning Little School Girl, Here Tis', I Can't Quit You Baby, I Love the Life I Live, I'd Rather Go Blind, It do me so Good, Killing Floor, Little Queenie, Mellow Down Easy, Mother Earth, Reconsider Baby, The Seventh Son, Sitting on Top of the World, Smokestack Lightnin', So Many Roads, Spoonful, Steppin' Out, The Sun is Shining, Susie-Q, Tell Me, That's All Right, Walking by Myself, Wang Dang Doodle, Who Do You Love, Who's Been Talking, You Shook Me. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening to front cover at base of spine. A worthy copy of this superlative compilation. Book
193848 pages. Features: Excellent colour photo ad for International Harvester trucks plowing snow inside front cover; Nice black and white full-page Chrysler ad on page 4; Beaver Bogan, by Ben Ames Williams - to test a man, take him fishing - and if you meet a Frere Cereau you'll find drama as well; The Biggest Show on Ice - A Look at The Ice Ballet Business, with black and white photos; You Want Something Different, by Anne Wormser; How Deep is Down? - Leslie McFarlane (the Hardy Boys author) writes of sinking a mine shaft in the middle of a lake and other notable feats of Canada's mining engineers, with black and white photos; Old-Fashioned Fool, by Alice Maxwell - the story of a loyalty which was without price; National Health Insurance, by John W.S. McCullough, M.D. - "Sickness insurance is bound to come... it must be a unified national scheme... and preventative medicine must be emphasized"; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - How to Behave in English Society; Max Brand - The 7th (Seventh) Day - part of the story; Recovery on Rails, by Sydney Morrell - the story of how Britain's railwys climbed from depression to prosperity - with nine interesting black and white photos; Full-page black and white photo ad for 1938 Dodge cars on page 23; Interesting two-colour full-page ad for Heinz Tomato Ketchup; Fantastic full-page black and white photo ad for Fargo trucks and commercial cars featuring photo of a 1938 Fargo 3/4 ton commercial panel van with 136" wheelbase; Half-page ad for Willys of Canada which boasts of up to 40 miles per gallon; Crossword completed in pencil on page 35; Nice two-colour full-page Chevrolet ad on page 37; Nostalgic multi-photo ad for Castoria child's laxative illustrates a furious father anxious to stuff a nasty-tasting laxative down his child's throat; Hollywood Update by Ann Ross; Attractive colour-illustrated 1938 Ford V-8 car ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
193872 pages. Features: Two-colour black and white photo ad inside front cover for International Harvestor's Industrial Power Products; Out of the Indian Night, by William J. Makin - a tale of the Northwest frontier and teh courage that drives frail flesh to heroism; Britain's Unemployment Insurance , by Brian Meredith; Can War Cross the Pacific?, by Charles Lugrin Shaw who argues that adequate defenses are needed to protect Canada's west coast from attack; You Roll Your Own, by Kalman Phillips - she fell in love with a man who kep finding an octopus in a trout pool; The Bay Street Boys, by Frederick Edwards - life is just one up and down after another to the Dominion's 4,000 stock salesmen - with nice black and white photo of Bay Street, Toronto; The Exile, by Beryl Gray - it took them a long time to realize that love does not feed on selfishness; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - an address to the United States; Sable Island, by C.F. Blackadar - "While men sail in ships there will be wrecks on Sable's greedy sands" - with photos; The 7th (Seventh) Day, by Max Brand (part); Checks Please, by Lotta Dempsey - checks are very much in fashion; Mexico and Manana, by Madge Macbeth - Growing trade with Mexico opens new opportunities to Canadian business; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto ad on page 31; Two-colour Oldsmobile full-page ad on page 33; Black and white photo two-page centrefold ad for the Hudson 112 car; Black and white full-page 1938 Plymouth ad on page 45; Black and white photo full-page Dodge truck ad on page 49; William G. Gibson of Ladner, BC - world's champion wheat grower; Cougar Pets, by Francis Dickie - Marion, Pearl and Pansy Schnarr of Sonora, BC have brought up from babyhood two cougars - includes two photos; Page 65 missing; Small piece removed from page 67; Nice Kodak ad on back cover shows baby covering his mouth. Address label atop front cover. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
1955128 pages. Features: Meet Miss Universe, by Jack Vance; Just for Tonight, by Russ Winterbotham; Thing, by Ivan Janvier; Action-Reaction, by F.B. Bryning; Jack the Giant Killer, by Bryce Walton; The Big Jump, by Evelyn E. Smith; Brave New Strain, by Lee Priestley; The Sixth Season, by Jacques Jean Ferrat; Assassin, by Algis Budrys; They Are the Possessed, by Irving E. Cox, Jr.; Exiles of Tomorrow; by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Translation, by James Blish. Above-average wear and soiling. Great cover illustration by Alex Schomburg depicts flying saucers laying waste to interstate traffic. Reading copy only Book
189416 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Scarborough, england - from the spa grounds; Stuttgart, germany; Triumphal Arch of Septimus Severus; The Stock Exchange or Bourse, Paris; Romsdalhorn, Norway; The Palace of Gezireh, Cairo; Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem; Dai-Butsu - Kamakura, Japan; A Narrow Algerian Street - in Algiers; The United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.; The Royal Gorge, Colorado; The City of Vera Cruz, Mexico; Hyde Park Corner, London; Palace of Prince Bismarck, Berlin; Church of St. Marks, Venice. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Unmarked. Back cover very heavily worn and chipped. Book
193758 pages. Features: Britain's Mailed Fist; Beginning - Henrietta's Big Night, by Edwin Balmer; Hollywood's Income-Tax Jitters; Death for a Lady's Arms, by John Erskine; Why the Grand National (Horse Race) is a Bad Bet; Sweepstakes Winners - glimpses of some lucky and unlucky Canadians, including winner Wilfred Leblanc; Three-Cornered Square, by Alberta Williams; Love Letters of a Prizefighter and a Hollywood Extra, by Bert Green; America's Queerest Trial - the Case of the Murdering Millionaire, by D. Thomas Curtin; Discretion be Damned, by Elmer Davis; Studebaker ad (only $959!); To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; St. Patrick's Day in the Morning, by Helen Dore Boylston; What Queen Elizabeth is Really Like - an intimate look at a charming new monarch and her romantic rise from gloomy Glamis Castle to Britain's shining throne, by Princess Catherine Radziwill; Youth to the Rescue - the kids make good, by Beverly Hills; Will German Sea Power Challenge Great Britain?, by Rear Admiral Yates Stirling; Marching Dead Men, by Terry Brennan as told to Captain W.J. Blackledge; Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Magazine
195856 pages. Cover photo of sport fisherman using an outboard motor which 'has replaced oars for fishermen'. Features: The Golden Key, by Lee Russell; When the Risk Overshadows the Skill - Roger Bannister blames the 'criminal negligence' of braggarts for tragedies which mar sport; Classy colour ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee canned Ravioli; Canada's Busiest Party Givers - Mr. and Mrs. F. Ronald Graham of Marine Drive in Vancouver - with enough dishes for 700 people - nice photos; Dictatorship due for France? - article by George Langelaan with photos; The Low-Down on Hi-Fi - how to tell what you get for your money; My Love Affair with Canada, by Bing Crosby - with photos; I Always Love to Scrap - boxer Yvon Durelle - with photo; The Sinclair Luck, by Gordon Sinclair; Boats are Bustin' Out All Over - an examination of the quarter-billion-dollar canadian recreational boating industry; Predictions for the Oscar Awards; Colour ad for Goodyear tires features colour illustrations of vehicles for each year, 1915 through 1957; Sean O'Malley's Daughter, by Brian Cleeve; Young Man in a Hurry, by Margaret E. Barnard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
196830 pages. Features: 18th Century Wedgwood - Beeson Collection, Birmingham, Alabama; Master Potters of Quebec; Victorian Jewelry; Museum of Leaterhcraft; Defining Regency; Daniel Fowler, R.C.A. 1810-1894 - Part 2 - The Artist in Canada; Bermuda's Tucker House; Rouen Museum - Early Ironwork; Bermuda Fan Collection; The Cardinal's Strainer Dish. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
199029 pages. Black and white photography. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Book
1947A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
194968 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
194924 pages (pages 48-72). Contents: Your Washington Reporter; A Challenge to Foes of Organized Labour - President William Green outlines Labor's Objective for World Freedom; An American Labour Leader Abroad - Victor J. Sjaholm of O.R.C. is now in Sweden as adviser to Marshall Plan Unit - he provides a colorful account of experiences; Can German Labour Unite Humanity?, by Tom Gillespie, Labor Correspondent in Europe; Marshall Plan Working in Norway; Leslie Biffle; All our Lodges should affiliate with state federations of labor and city central bodies, by A.J. Bernhardt, Assistant General President; Updates from Robert Hewitt, Charles Burchfield, Henri Vaillancourt and J.T. Powell; News from various lodges; When can you retire under teh Railroad Retirement Act?. Address label on front cover. Five-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover which features a wonderful OshKosh B'gosh work wear ad on the outside and a masculine Lee work clothes ad on the inside. Both ads feature engineers. Book
194950 pages. Features/Articles: Ben Hur's chariot set the wheel base gauge for today's railroads; Canadian National Exhibits and Displays; Alberta's Hot Spot - The New Oil Fields near Edmonton, Leduc, Woodbend and Redwater; Canadian Nationial Telegraphs Blaze New Northern Trail - modern service makes the whole world neighbors of Red and Pickle Lake areas; The Cornerstone of a Community - The C.N.R. in Cornwall; An Approach to the Problem of Industrial Plant Location; Knowledge Pays Traffic Dividends; A.J. Lomas Named Vice-President Central Region; G.T.W. "Crop" Train set for mercy trip; New Railway Quarters in Victoria; Staff Changes; Around the Departments; Traffic; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. A sound copy. Book
197166 pages. Features: Photos of Vancouver's goals when Boston first visited the Canucks on February 16th; Charlie Hodge - an office between the pipes; John (Pie) McKenzie - He's the Spirit that buoys Bruins; Photos of team executives; Medicor - The Ice People; The Prize - the history of the Stanley Cup; Boston Bruins - 1969-70 Stanley Cup Champions - team photo and article; Bobby Orr - Superstar Supreme - page of photos; Slow'n Easy - That's Espo (Phil Esposito; Nice colour "Old Style" Beer ad; Bill Good Jr. - Proud and Humble - the youngest occupant of a National Hockey Leaguue Gondola - Hockey Night in Canada; Canada Dry ad with large photo of Mike Corrigan, Vancouver Canucks Star of the Month; Rosters of the Canucks and Bruins; Jerry Cheevers - he keeps the Bruins Loose - article with photo; Colour Yardley ad with Bobby Orr photo; Monkey Business in the Boston Garden; Ted Green Defies Doctors - recovering from being hit on the head with the stick of Wayne Maki; Around the Circuit, by Greg Douglas; Derek Sanderson feature on back page. Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this excellent collectible from the Canucks' first season. Book
198390 pages. Features/Articles: Airships - key to Canada's frontiers?; The Exciting First Dirigible Visit to Canada; - the R-100; Raising the Hamilton and Scourge - U.S. Warships sank during war of 1812; Huge warships were built on both sides of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; Young Inuit learn, earn at archeological sites; Old Montreal its old self once again; Wild Orchids - exquisite, irresistible, vulnerable; Fish Habitat re-created in Coquihalla River diversion; The Spectacular dunes of Prince Edward County; New Downtown for the nation's capital - $500 million facelift in Rideau Street area; Folk art on tour - A show organized by the National Museum of Man - From the Heart, Folk Art in Canada; The Lodgepole runaway gas well - the most fearsome natural gas blowout in the history of the Alberta petroleum industry lasted 68 days and affected almost everyone in the province. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. A sound copy. Book
2007104 pages. Contents/Features: Black Hole Blowback - a single black hole, smaller than the solar system, can control the destiny of an entire cluster of galaxies; Mapping the Cancer Genome; A Digital Life - New systems may allow people to record everything that has touched their lives and to store all these data in a personal digital archive; Down go the Dams - Many dams are being torn down to allow rivers and ecosystems to rebound, but risks abound; New Predictors of Disease - Tests that detect predictive antibodies in the blood years before people show symptoms of various disorders may allow preventative action; Diesels become Clean - Improved engines and exhaust scrubbers, combined with a new fuel will make energy-efficient diesels nearly as green as hybrids; Illusory Color and the Brain - the brain may not separate perception of color from perception of form and depth. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1987Contents: Dyslexia and its remedy; The structure of poliovirus - 3D detail should aid in battling other viruses; Cooling and trapping atoms - revealing basic physical principles; Monoculture - there are some advantages to growing the same crop on the same ground repeatedly; Optical neural computers; The rifting of continents; Thermoregulation in winter moths - some can exist in near-freezing temperatures; A mesolithic camp in Denmark. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1984Contents: "No first use" of nuclear weapons; The dynamic abyss - cold currents in the deep ocean; How genes control an innate behavior; The descent of hominoids and hominids; Excitonic matter; Muscle sounds; the adaptability of the house mouse; Florence Nightingale. Average wear. Two-inch opening at base of coverfold. Book
200580 pages. Features: A talk with Richard Goode; The Richard Burnett Piano Collection of antique instruments; The double-note technique in piano literature; Roger Vignoles on the art of accompaniment; Murray McLachlan on how to improve your chord-playing skills; Recounting the career of Witold Malcuzynski; The highs and lows of piano maker Aeolian; Part 2 of 2 on recordings of Chopin's Ballade in F minor since the 1970s; Vladimir Feltsman's pianistic experiences in Russia and the U.S.; a report from the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1983Features: Commodore 64 ad inside front cover; Israel's peace crusaders; Carol Goar on the results of the 1981 census; Ice-berg problems off the east coast; Bill Davis and Adrienne Clarkson in Paris; Ottawa rewires the TV World; The Pontiff's turbulent pilgrimmage to warring Central America; Bob Hawke wins in Australia; Argentina - lifting the veil on democracy; Cover Story on Queen Elizabeth II - nice colour photos; Governor-General Ed Schreyer article; OPEC's ordeal and Canada's dilemma; Brazil borrows time and relief - economic crisis; Peter C. Newman on the impending move of the Toronto Stock Exchange; Grand finale to a troubled season for Canada's women skiers - Laurie Graham; Designing a stylish recovery in Detroit/Motor City; Challenge to Judaic Tradition - which children are Jewish? Average wear. Book
