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197330 pages. Features: VVAW [Vietnam Veterans Against the War] - Government Conspiracy; The Odyssey of Alton Foss; The Peace Movement - putting down roots; God Wrestling - encounter with Yiddishkeit; The New Anarchism; Fasting; Prison Notes - Vietnam; Radio Free America - shortwave's free language schools; The Greening of Norway; B-52 Pilot Michael Heck refuses mission; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1955224 page 1955 phonebook for these southern Ontario communities. At that time local phone numbers consisted of only five digits. Includes 29 pages of vintage Yellow Pages ads. Last page ad entitled "Speaking of Girls...." features illustration of smiling female telephone operators. Ink stamp and writing upon front cover. Minimal markings to contents. Average wear. Binding tight. A great local memento and conversation piece from the days of party lines and rotary handsets. Book
196118 pages. Features: The Living Land - Roderick Haig-Brown's account of the natural resources of B.C.; A Salt Water Fishing License?; Successful fishing in the Adams River gorge - article with photo of Warren Albiston; To the Labrador (dog) Hard Work is Fun - illustrated article; Illegal bass transfer on Vancouver Island; B.C. waterfowl counts; Mailbag; Meet Bob Maxwell - most fish have - with photo of Mr. Maxwell, owner of end tackle maker Maxwell Mfg. Co.; She Fished, He Dug Bait - photo-illustrated article by L.G. (Van) Egan of Maxine Egan (as shown on cover) fishing on Vancouver Island; Clay Chips - article with photo of George Bevan of North Vancouver; Boats; Black Label beer ad inside back cover; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new International Travelall station wagon; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
196018 pages. Features: Cover photo of beautiful salmon river on Vancouver Island; Mailbag; "Killer Confesses" - shooting crows, with photo of Gerry Haarbrusker; Old Vienna one-page ad features photo taken by R.J. Pop of a big sheep plus text of its current numbers in B.C.; The Unspoiled Salmon - fishing inland from Sayward on Vancouver Island; Fly Fishing; A Man Will Wonder - education in outdoor subjects; Boats; Fantastic one-page illustrated ad for McCulloch's Scott 7 1/2 outboard motor inside back cover; Pilsener Beer ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
195918 pages. Features: Nice illustrated ad for the Western Fishing Line Company shows fisherman smooching with gorgeous mermaid; Mailbag; Photo of Joe Reuther and Fran Vanerbour with dozens of rainbow from Clearwater; When the Westerly Blew - waterfowl hunting article by Doug. Michie includes photo of him and photo of Gerry Haarbriicker; Keep Your Guns Clean; Clay Chips; Sportsman's Corner - includes photo of Dave Dahlbren and Bob Tuohey with steelheads from the Coquihalla River; Several pages of boating information and ads; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
193666 pages. Eight vintage one-page black and white photo plates of elegant topless gals. Dozens of amorous unattributed black and white illustrations in text. Includes these titillating tales:: Satisfying Her Curiosity; This Way In; A Bouquet of Beauties; Squaring a "Rounder"; A Kiss - With All the Trimmings; Swell Mam'Selles; Party Love; Awakened in Morocco. Great color cover illustration of partially-clad party girl on shoulders of gent in tux. Contents clean and unmarked. Quite light external wear and soiling. Several middle pages free from top staple. Fantastic illustrated ad inside back cover for book 'Sex Harmony and Eugenics' claims to daringly reveal 'The Forbidden Secrets of Sex!' Back cover ad for Brazilian Mate claims to restore vitality. A very well preserved copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
2015196 pages. Features: True West - the period-perfect home of vintage-clothing guru Mark Haddawy; Restoration Politics - the new owners of Gerald and Betty Ford's California home have created a picture of elegance that is anything but conservative; Folk Revival - 90-year-old vaudeville house turned porn theater in Providence, R.I. gets new lease on life; A Moment in Time - Mary Russell reminisces about her life among some of the most stylish names of her generation; Cultivating Genius - Nicola Del Roscio spent nearly half a century in service to the artist Cy Twombly; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
196736 pages. Many colour and black and white photos. Features: The RCMP's four crime detection labs and Identification Branch - they make inanimate objects tell stories; Hon. James C. McRuer, former chief justice of the Ontario Supreme Court spent forty years studying the trial of Jesus Christ; Colour spring nature photos; William Coutts of the Coutts Hallmark greeting card company; Colour photos of cowboy-style women's fashions; LSD and a Diet - The Reshaping of [former weightlifter and wrestler] Big Doug Hepburn; The Real Georgy Girl - Lynn Redgrave; Doug Wright's Family; Nice colour-photo ad for the 1967 Dodge Polara inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1936Sheet music for Cabin on the Hilltop from the 1936 RKO movie production "Walking on Air". Nice cover illustrations of the movie's stars Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond on front cover. 6 pages. Faint store stamp on front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1925Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Satan - story of a pet monkey in the Ivory Coast; Exploring in Brazil - photo-illustrated account of a sixteen-hundred mile trip up rapid-strewn rivers in a tiny launch through territory almost unknown to Europeans; The "King of the Clearwater" - a man claimed an area in Clearwater country, about sixty miles west of the North Thompson River, as his own and would go to any length to keep out intruders; The Ivory Raiders - Part II - a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the Swahili ivory-raiders and Turkana warriors of Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf; An Isle of Unrest - a chatty account of a little tramping holiday in Crete, with nice photos; Aquarium Adventures - remarkable stories of aquarium predicaments related by curators of various institutions; The Cat - Photo-illustrated tale from near Boise, Idaho; In Quest of the Unknown - Part IV - Photo-illustrated account of "Our adventures among the Chucunaque Indians (conclusion); The Second Touch - one of the queerest things that ever happened in Alaska; After a Native Murderer in Rhodesia - A B.S.A. Police trooper's story; On the "Devil's Staircase" - a New Zealand trapper's dangerous experience in a mountain blizzard; The Burmese Buddha - A stolen image of Buddha, stolen from the Shwe Dagon Pagoday, Rangoon, is returned after forty years; My Jungle Jaunts - Part II - An Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos (conclusion); A Wild Goose Chase - A sportsman's account of his first experience with a wily Canada goose; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1924Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1926Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1928Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1929Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Was Buried Alive - Part I - The Amazing Adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert"; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part VI (conclusion) - John Gibbons wraps up his amusing walking tour of Southern Italy; A Himalayan Marriage Market - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a quaint annual fair where all eligible girls of the district assemble to be inspected by young men with a view to marriage; Filming in the Wilds - Part III of Major C. Lestock Reid's account of his major adventures attempting to film an adventure story in the Far East, this time in Indo-China - with two photos of Angkor Wat; A Deal in Diamonds - Dr. T. Hilding Svartengren was nearly swindled out of a fortune in Paris; The Town of Ghosts - Walter F. King discovers a deserted mining camp in the High Sierras which was abandoned in haste; Wreck-Hunting - For fifty years Herbert J. Gibson of Penzance, Cornwall, has built a photographic record of the ships driven onto the local rock-bound coasts - article with many dramatic photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part I - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Ship of Mystery - The strange last voyage of a vessel to Manila where a soldier of fortune hoped to profit by the ship's cargo; Premonition - Can a man prevent his death after he has had a premonition of it?; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1957Features: Cover photo entitled Propaganda in Peiping [Beijing]; Report on Peiping - Mao's regime stands squarely with Russia against the West, but its methods, says a visitor to China, remain orientally patient; Propaganda in Peiping; Israel's Port of Hope - Elath [Elat] will contribute much toward national self-sufficiency - if the gulf remains open; The Epic of Jamestown - 350th anniversary recalls the tragic but inspiring beginning of our nation; The Moral Issue That Confronts Labor - Some union leaders have come to resemble industry's 'robber barons'; Reports Cards For the Bosses - Large corporations are adopting systematic rating methods to evaluate their executives; Home Sweet (Homemade) Home - article on those who are building their own homes; A Comic Discourses on Comedy - Bert Lahr; President's Unknown Aides - Two pages of photos of some of the President's behind-the-scenes staffers, including safety man James Rowley, personal secretary Ann C. Whitman, recorder Jack Romagna, pilot Lieut. Col. William G. Draper, head gardener Robert M. Redmond, and six others; Clubs for Little Girls to Grow In; Two pages of fashion photos of ladies' 'Pajamas on the Beach'; Summer patio accessories; Photos from the movie "12 Angry Men"; and more. 80 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos. Dozens of lovely illustrated ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1971pp. 114. Black and white illustrations. Features: The U.S. Navy's Battlecruisers - five part article including a history of these vessels, a description of the (CB-1) Class, additional notes on the (CB-1) Class, gunnery notes on the (CB-1) Class, and a photo section; Five-panel fold-out diagrams of the U.S.S. Alaska (CB-1); Photo of the battleship STOCKHOLM, built in 1856 at Karlskrona; The Torpedo Vessels of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, 1875 to 1918; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this informative issue. Book
1942A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: John Mix Stanley, Pioneer Painter; Music Sheets for Stamp Collectors; Furniture of the Boston Tories; Antiques in Domestic Settings - Ante-Bellum Homes in Natchez; Cogdell and Mills, Charleston Sculptors; Here Lyes Buried - Taste and Trade in Charleston Tombstones; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of Early American Furniture; English Silver of American Interest; A Note on Nankin, Colonial Calico; Check List of the Works of Cogdell and Mills; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 161-220. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1945A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Frontispiece photo of English Delft in an American Setting; Some Notes on English Delft in the American Colonies; A Morse [painting] Puzzle; On Dating New England Houses - Part I - The 17th Century - Floor Plans and Framing; Painters of the Hudson River School; A Hudson Valley Portrait - The Moot Question of the "Master of the Stringy Hair"; Washington Square North; An Apartment on Washington Square - The Washington Square apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Dressner; George Washington Lived Here - Some Early Prints of Mount Vernon, Part II; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 129-192. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1946A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Silver Cake Basket by Edith Fennell (frontispiece photo); Bible Pictures in English Needlework; A Distinguished Collaboration - Illustrators Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson; Burnap Collection of English Pottery - Part II - The Early Wares; The Pingree House in Salem; New Light on a Silver Sugar Box; Wood Clocks - The Arts or Mystery of Their Manufacture; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 137-200. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1964Signed and generically inscribed upon title page by Simma Holt. 312 pages. Bibliography, index, and many pages of dramatic black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. "Shocking, tragic, unbelievable, is this account of the strange sect and its fanatic leaders who have defied the laws of Canada for over fifty years. A story of fanatical terrorism let loose in the name of religious freedom; of a Mafia-like organization growing more sophisticated in its criminal activities with each passing year." - dust jacket. Tiny ink stamp to bottom edge, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this extraordinary and fascinating history. Cuddy & Scott p.44, Spadoni & Donnelly 1728, Artibise 2907. Book
195436 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and ukulele chords for these songs: Rub-A-Dub-Dub; Yesterday's Girl; Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart; I'd Have Never Found Somebody New; Whoa! Sailor; You're Walking on My Heart; I Saw My Mother's Name; A Lonely Heart Knows; When You're Lovin', You're Livin'; You Don't Have the Nerve; I'll Sign My Heart Away; The New Wears Off Too Fast; Cryin' In the Deep Blue Sea; (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart; Swing Wide Your Gate of Love. Also Includes five pages of nice black and white photos with supporting text. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this great Country and Western collectible. Book
1998542 pages. Features: How to shop the Spring Collections; Perfect Evening Looks; Best Day Dresses; The Newest Shoes; Feeling Fat? - Dieting post-Fen/phen; Funny Face - triumph of the quircky model; and more. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
17666 vol. in-4, pp. XVIII, LII, 522 , XXXV, 480; XXIV, 529; LXXIV, 514; XVIII, 388; XII, 306. Solida legatura moderna in m. pelle e angoli, titoli in oro su dorso a nervi, copertine cart. originale conservate. Iniziali e finalini incisi, testo su due colonne. Importante collezione di poeti latini di origine pesarese curata da Pasquale Amati il cui nome compare nella Dedicatoria; i primi 3 volumi contengono i Poeti Latini maggiori, il quarto volume i minori, gli ultimi due i Poeti Cristiani. Esemplare in barbe, su carta forte, assai fresco di importante e vasta raccolta storico-letteraria sulle lettere a Pesaro nei secoli passati.. Graesse II, 215; Brunet, II, 134..