Wilson, H.W.: EditorMareMagnum
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1915Front cover illustration of General Gallieni, the Military Governor of Paris. The march of events from Austria's debacle at Lemberg to the turn of the tide in the west. Photos and illustrations include: The Belgian Mission in London; Eager young recruits for Lord Kitchener's new army; The Defences of Paris; Glimpses of Paris under the threat of another siege by the Prussians; Entry of the Huns into Picardy; centerfold illustration of French infantry hurrying forward to meet the hereditary foe on the battleground of Northern France; The horse in the war; Canada's aid in the war - superb rally of 108,000 men for active service; infantry of the First Canadian Contingent passing Stonehenge on their way from Salisbury Plain to London; Italian demonstration at the Queen's Hall, London; The Battle of the Marne; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1915Cover portrait of M. Poincare, President of the French Republic. The Battles of the Ourcq, Morin, and Marne Rivers. Centerfold - On the Heights above Lenharee. Photos and illustrations include: Zouaves on the march; Diagrammatic bird's-eye view of the advance of the German armies across the plains of France to the turning point on the Marne. Wreck of Red Cross Train near Lizy; Driving the Teutons beyond the Marne; and more. One inch puncture to front cover else unmarked with average wear. Book
1915Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-Commander Norman D. Holbrook, V.C. The Development of Submarine Warfare. Przemysl and the battles of the Mountains and Rivers. Centerfold illustration of the Lusitania going down - Germany's 'Grand Coup' in crime. Photos and Illustrations: simulation of the hole blasted in the side of the Lusitania; Destruction of the Dresden off Juan Fernandez; The March of Millions - Russian troops on the way to Crakow; and more. Covers secured by tape. Above-average wear. Book
1916Cover portrait of Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has entered the Cabinet as Minister of Blockade and Contraband. Feature: The Clash of Teutonic and Anglo-Celtic Interests in the United States. The Germanic Conspiracy against the United States. Photos re: German Lieutenant Robert Fay, in the U.S. Photos of American munitions factories destroyed in the name of Kaiserism. Photos of a motor convoy transporting $52 million from the Bank of England to Wall Street. Photos of the Royal Flying Corps in training. Portrait photo of Lieut.-General Sir E.H.H. Allenby. Centerfold photos of the U.S. Destroyers Benham and Parker (trailed by immense clouds of black smoke!). Photos of Canada's burning Parliament building - captions says fire was started by German incendiary bombs (if true, this history has been suppressed in Canada). Three photos of Viscount French of Ypres inspecting men of his home command. Covers secured by tape. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1917Cover photo portrait of Lieut.-General George Francis Milne - Commanding the British Salonika Army. Germany During the Year 1916 (conclusion). The Balkans - the Allied Offensive of 1916 - The Capture of Monastir, and the Greek Imbroglio. Full-page photo portrait of Lieutenant-General George Milne - commanding the British Salonika Army. Full-page photo portrait of M. Eleutherios Venizelos, head of the Greek Provisional Government established in 1916. Cover-fold fragile. Above-average wear. Book
1917Front cover photo of M. Eleutherios Venizelos - ex-Prime Minister of Greece and Head of the National Provisional Government. The Balkans and the Greek Imbroglio (conclusion). Full page photo showing Kaymakchalan after its capture from the Bulgarians, September 28th-29th, 1916. Marvels of the British Transport Service on the Western Front. Photo of Nissen huts, an invention which vastly reduced the hardships of the third winter campaign. Many photos of the many forms of transportation employed. Front cover secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. 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
1944Photos: Pictures from the Korsun area of the Russian front during the encirclement operations; Destroying the Lutfwaffe's aircraft factories - the biggest day raid of the war, carried out by 2,000 American planes; The return of the blitz to London; Photos from inside the Warsaw ghetto; equipment pours into Britain; American action againt the Japanese; Anzio Fighting; Photos from Finland; The German Battleship Gneisenau out of action - photos; and more. Front cover loose but present. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
1944Photos: Materials being unloaded at Anzio bridgehead; Landing craft No. 349 is wrecked off the Italian coast; Berlin by daylight - as seen by American bombers; new pictures from the Russian front; stocking up the invasion supplies; and much more. Above-average wear to covers, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1955Features: A Boy in the Bush - a young boy kills wild scrub bulls for bounty in Australia's outback; In the Dark - An Australian is tasked with catching gold thieves in a mine in Southern India; The town that was reborn - Williamsburg, Virginia; The Seaquake - adventure on a voyage from British Honduras to Yucatan; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang (conclusiont) - the worst band of desperadoes to ever trouble the south-western States of America; Frontier Gateway - Peshawar (great photo of a 'walking teashop); The Forgotten Islands - The Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia - several photos; Arctic Derelict - a strange sea-story from the Canadian Arctic; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
195866 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent copy. Book
1917Front cover illustration of the red flag at the gate of the Tsar's Palace. Abundantly illustrated in black and white with excellent contemporary photos. Contents: Chapter CXCVI - The Adbication of the Tsar... Russia in 1916, The Stuermer Premiership, Growth of Discontent, M. Protopopoff as Minister of the Interior, Meaning and history of the autocracy, character of the Tsar, why the revolution failed in 1905-7, The Empress Alexandra, Forces behind the throne, Rasputin, His Murder, Economic Chaos in Russia, Responsibility of M. Protopopoff, The Revolution, March 1917, Police Provocation, Diary of Events in Petrograd, Provisional Government under Prince Lvoff, The Duma, Recognition of the new government by the Allies. Very important history. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1969Hundreds of pages here. Topics include: Propeller shafts, Rear axle and suspension, Front axle and suspension, Steering and linkage, Brake system, Chassis, Cooling system, Fuel system, Exhaust system, electrical equipment, Instruments and controls, Body, Wheels and tyres, Lubricants and servicing materials, Tools. Average shop wear and soiling. Binding sound. Mouse nibbles to upper corner of first 20 or so pages - text unaffected. Over one inch thick. 1.6kg. Overall, a sound working copy. Additional photos available upon request. Book
1982Features: Orca, The Sociable Whale - Life among British Columbia's Most Intelligent and Awesome Predators; A Cuban Odyssey - Foot-loose in the Shadow of Fidel, An Underground Traveller's Report; Cosmic Crucibles - Scientists Probe the Workings of the huge Nebulas; Christopher Pratt and Mary Pratt - The First Couple of Contemporary Art; Bone Age Man - Canadian Find Sparks One of the Hottest Archeological Debates of the Century. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1979Features: "Sea Princess" Makes her Bow; Loss of the "Kobenhavn"; Atlantic Transport Liner "Minnewaska" of 1909; Inland Craft - Germany; Sail in Brittany; Booth Line's Rise and Progress - Part III; Coasting in the "Stanley Force"; Sealink Charter "Stena Normandica". Book
1978Features: Ships in the News - Flashback to Wartime; Royal Holland Lloyd Liner "Flandria" of 1922; "Oropesa" the Fourth; With Prince Line Round the Land; New Ships - North Sea Diving Support Vessel; Fleetwood Memories (2); Ships on Stamps - Steam Yachts and Cargo Vessels; French Line on the North Atlantic; Ferry Scene - Manx Challenge; Danish Sailing Coasters Decline. Book
1977Features: Ocean Buys from Russia; P & O Liner "Mongolia" of 1923; The Future of Sail - Merits of the Dynaship; European Tug Activity; Oslo Revisited; Sail Review - The North American Scene; Ships on Stamps - Montserrat Oddities; Weather and Circumstances Permitting - 4 - Ordeal of the "Queen"; Under the Byzantine Cross; Ferry Scene - Swedish Lloyd Links End; The Steam Conquistadors - Part II. Book
1918Features: Anzacs' Great Record During 1917 (conclusion); The Organisation of Youth in the War (by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and E.K. Nugent). Colour illustration laid in bears the caption "At a Franco-British Outpost in the Great German Advance, March, 1918". Centerfold illustrations of the Australians in the Holy Land. Average wear. Staples have disintegrated. Book
1918Features: Scotland's Share in the Great War to the End of 1917; The Defeat and Recovery of Italy I - The Carso Battles and Storming of the Bainsizza Plateau. Centerfold illustrations of Scots in action. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1918Cover portrait of General Sir Edmund Allenby, K.C.B., The Captor of Jerusalem. Photogravure (laid in) is entitled "The Navy's Nerve Centre". Features: Allenby's Victorious Advance into Palestine and The Surrender of JerusalemCenterfold photos of Allenby in Jerusalem. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1918Features: The Conquest of German East Africa Completed; Prizes of War - The Romance of Contraband and Captures as Revealed in the Admiralty Courts. Cover illustration of Rt. Hon. Lieut.-General Jan Christiaan Smuts, P.C., K.C. Centerfold photos of the British in Africa. Large portrait of Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, K.C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C., promoted Rear-Admiral, January 1918. Back cover features National War Bond Ad which states "National War Bonds Buy Tanks and Save Soldiers' Lives." Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1916Features: One page photo of two Canadian-built submarines at dockside; Anzac gunners at work; The Black Watch on the march; The 27th Bengal Infantry Regiment; Washing day aboard a French prison ship; Her Majesty the Queen inspects East-End street rolls of honour; With the British troops at Salonika; Two-page photo of a massive British gun at the moment of firing; Italy's Victorious Advance; Crippled Austrians practising walking with artificial limbs; Air-torpedo in a gun; Short range pieces effective for trench bombards; Sir Charles Wakefield entertains wounded soldiers - and General Mackintosh - at The Karsino, Hampton Court. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1963Features: Rambler and Ford Owner's Reports; Hurricane Killers Learn Where to Aim using silver iodide crystals; How Space Detectives Rate the Red Moon Probes; Complete plans for PM's point-riding funabout; water-skiiing at 106 mph; The newest on the water; How Water Dragsters do it; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1994Articles: Toronto Harbour and the Defence of the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1870; Dodging in the Bight, a good place for a Whale - Environmental Factors Affecting Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Whaling in Davis Strait; Reassessing the Dreadnought Crisis of 1909 and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy; The Last Murmansk Convoys, 11 March - 30 May, 1945; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
