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1961Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
1961Features: Of Men I Have Known - Part I - Winston Churchill, by Dean Acheson; Adventures of the Mind - The Five-Billion-Year Clock - measurements of radioactive 'clocks' in the earth's elements are providing geologists with new knowledge about the history of man and his planet, by Patrick M. Hurley; ; Minnesota Grows Older - this prosperous, rugged northland may be facing a lean future; What Freedom has done to India - John Masters describes the sweeping social changes that have taken place since it gained independence; The Girls in Candy Stripes - making life more livable for hospital patients; They Chase the Speeders - at the unique Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) near Sacramento, candidates for the California Highway Patrol learn the hazardous art of police pursuit driving; Me and Old George (a horse) - Gene Coughlin learned that danger often disapears when you refuse to run away from it. Ad clipped from page 49 - text unaffected. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
1962Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1962Features: The case against fallout shelters, by Hanson W. Baldwin; Kennedy's Grand Strategy - how we can counter Russian aggression, yet avoid nuclear war; People on the way up - Barbara Dodd, Frederic Chapin, James Messler - the Star Farmer of America, Geraldine Pearson; Hell Creek Crossing - a story excerpted from the newest work of William Faulkner; Phyllis Diller - the unlikeliest star (funny!); Where are those dream cars? - a car that drives itself, uses no gas and runs without wheels is more than idle speculation (conclusion); Holidays at Sea - cruisemaster Mike Burke runs a profitable fleet of pleasure boats; Why do they call my husband crazy? - Jim Piersall's wife tells of her husband's illness - and recovery; Krishna Menon - the Wasp of New Delhi - India's left-leaning chief delegate to the UN - terrible-tempered, anti-American and prime planner of the Goa invasion. Front cover loose but present, otherwise average wear. Book
1927Features: Caleb Peaslee on being careful; The Queer Case of Mother - a story for all the family; Midshipman Bumpus's Efficiency - a fire at the Naval Academy; A Boy on the Matterhorn - a 16-year-old boy tackles the Alps; The Family Jar - Aunt Marietta sends a wedding gift; Cameron MacBain, Backwoodsman - V; The National Society for Ingenious Boys - Motors and Generators III - Alternating Current Phenomena. Unmarked with average wear. Front cover almost detached else a sound copy. Book
1926Features: The General Manager's Special, by Samuel Merwin; What the Man in the Moon Saw, by C.A. Stephens; In Channel Waters - III, by Mary Austin; Lost from the Fleet - V; by George Allan england; His Lone Adventures, by Franklin Welles Calkins; Nostalgic image of a young basketball player in Crowell Publishing ad on page 219; Plan for foot-powered sander; Ways and Means of Getting to College - how girls are doing it now; The Field of Evil Weeds, by Edward W. Frentz; and more. Nice ad for the Willys Overland Six on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1926Features: The Stream-Driver's Revenge, by Charles G.D. Roberts; Lost from the Fleet - VII, by George Allan England; In Channel Waters - IV, by Mary Austin; The Neighbors Said he Would't Amount to Much - Vic Donahey, Governor of Ohio; The Leap for Life, by Russell Gordon Carter; Illustration of Egypt's Makwar Dam on the Blue Nile, the largest dam in the world; Plans for building a tree house; Easter Bonnets - with photos; Little Josephine and her Thousand Buttons, by Frances S.M. Francks; and more. Ad for Proctor and Gamble's White Naptha Soap on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1970Features: Lean days for three West Virginia short lines; The Steam Event of the Year in South Africa; Rolling, Rolling... To Where? - a railroad report card; Drive-train dynamics; Turbotrain Revisited - is there a chance for the Northeast Corridor Project's Stepchild? (with piec on William D. Middleton, the man behind the train); Pullman - from the peak of troop travel to the impact of the jet - diary of a Pullman Conductor - 2; Mid-Continent makes a movie - Swedish filmmakers working on The Immigrants in 1969. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
1885Contains public acts relating to: Interpretation of Acts, Chinese Regulation (Immigration), Coroners, Constitution, Courts (Appellate Jurisdiction), Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius, County Courts, Debt, Sumas Dyking, Fences and Water Courses, Ferries, Game, Chinese Immigration (to prevent), Innkeepers, Jurors, Crown Lands, Land Registry, Licences, Liens, Married Women's Property, Municipalities, Penalties, Revenue, Supply, Public Schools, Spinks, J.M.M. (to authorize Commission of Enquiry respecting an alleged transfer of land from certain Indians), Stipendiary Magistrates, Cariboo Road Tolls. Private Acts relating to: Reserves, Esquimalt Water-Works, Nanaimo Water-Works. Heavy external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
1881Contains Acts relating to: Administration of Justice; Appeals to Supreme and Exchequer Courts, Canada; Bishops of British Columbia, Caledonia, and New Westminster; Cattle - transfer of brands and marks, and more; Coroner's Inquests; Supreme and Exchequer (Canada) Courts; Dogs - damage by; Drainage, Dyking, and Irrigation; Documentary Evidence; Fences and Water Courses; Firemen; Lien; Loan; Gold Mines; Municipalities; Poisons - preventing indiscriminate use of; Public Parks; Quesnelle Lake Dame Co.; Revenue; Supply; Swine - to prohibit running at large of; School Taxes; Provincial Revenue Taxes; Trustees; Vancouver Coal Mining Co.; Victoria Official Map; Victoria Water Works; Woollen Mill. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
1874Contains Acts relating to: Articles 2 and 12 of the Terms of Union; Crown Lands; Gold Mining; Coroner's Jury Act; Road Tax Extension; Oaths of Office; Public Boarding Schools; Administration of Justice; Agricultural Societies; Courts Merger Ordinance; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Breeding Stock; Ferries; Municipality Act; Victoria Water Works Debentures; Legal Professions; Vancouver Island Real Estate Taxes; Licences Ordinance; Fireworks - careless use of; Remedies of creditors against the Lands of their debtors; Real Estate Conveyance; Granting of Leases. Front hinge going. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Ex-Library
1989Special Features: Pat Kolesar's award-winning Sould Kids; Teddies to Hug & Cherish; Create Our All-American Babies; Nancy Lee and her fabulous fifties wardrobe; Cathie Hanna - teddy bear artist; New Life for Marie; When Old Friends Get Together; and more. Light wear. A nice copy. Book
1989Special Features: Martha Armstrong-Hand's Colonial Mother and Child; An 1829 Walking/Talking Wax doll; A Welsh wonderland of toys; Dolly Dingle and Other Delights; Recreating Yesterday's Wooden Playthings; and more. Light wear. A nice copy. Book
1989Special Features: 6 doll projects in color; Sculpting - the bones beneath the beauty; Gallery of Leprechaun Dolls; Anthony of Solvang - Father of Barbie; Desiree, the Pierrette (and Yvette, her Marotte); and more. Light wear. A nice copy. Book
1978Features: Ryusei-ha School; Soami School; Ohara School; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Riei's Flowers - Herbaceous peony, Persimmon, Maple; Sakura; Morimono of the Chiko School; Ikenobo School; Saga School; Sogetsu School; Ichiyo School; Seifu Enshu School; Japanese Castles. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1973Features: Wintering, by Jim McVie; New Trump 27 is an Aborn Smith design; The Standfast 40 - a Frans Maas-Palmer Johnson sloop; Monk 53 foot Motorsailer; Mary Otis - Rhodes Ketch circa 1936; Ellida - on the intracoastal waterway; The Cal 40 - Bill Lapworth's historic design; Highlanders on the Hudson; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
1974Features: Sea Hawk - profile of a cruising man's yacht - from navy launch to stately schooner; Dutchman in flight; William Crealock designs distant voyager - Westsail 42; Palmer Johnson SF 47, flush deck racer by Frans Maas; On Bonaire (off Venezuela) - like being at sea; 5-0-5 acrobatics; afternoon on the Indian River, Florida; Sally has a knockdown; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
1975Features: Florida sailor designs 19-foot coastwise, gaff-rigged cruiser - the Salt 19; Seidelmann designed Palmer 550 enrolls in Quarter Ton Fleet; Traditional cruising design finds speed, responsiveness with new rig - the enlarged version of the SERAFFYN; Aesthetics and comfort remembered in the Norlin 37 Mark II; Great gaffed mains, barn door rudders and plump hulls; Sailing for winter sports enthusiasts; in search of Spain - pictures and story by Dorothy I. Crossley; A ton of heavy racing; One by One - one last old Conway schooner survives to carry a fragment of the sail driven 19th century toward the last quarter of the 20th; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Please note: middle page loose but present. Book
1976Features: Racers find new allure in old watering hole - with the Navy out, yachtsmen are in at Key Point; Survivor of a rare class - ALTAIR, a little sloop designed by a lesser known Herreshoff; Admiralty Bay - home of expert sailors, beached whalers; Cal 20s out for a little knocking about; Trim the kite, mate; Wednesday night at Annapolis; Penguin - a boat for all seasons; The basement builder's darling; The Warrior - 29 foot cruising-racing cat; Sarah - modern, weatherly double ender; Soverel 26 - MORC winner in production; Payne 9.6 - 31'6" offshore one-design; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1915Pages 385-420. Please note: pages 399-406 missing. Features: Cover illustration of Lieutenant Miller of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) driving back Germans at Givenchy; Przemysl - Fallen to the Russians after a Long Seige; Illustration of how the enemy's mines float downstream resulting in the loss of battle-ships in the Dardanelles; Photos of Lord Kitchener at Liverpool and Manchester Parades; Two-page illustration by Richard Caton Woodville depicts an heroic attack by the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on German trenches; Photos of City (London) Volunteers as the National Guard marches to the Palace; Large photo of an unexploded german 42 cm. Howitzer shell; Two-page spread with photos, names and ranks of dozens of British officers killed in action; Two-page illustration by John de G. Bryan depicting the gallant attack on the Givenchy Ridge which contributed to the Neuve Chapelle Victory; Interesting photo-illustrated article on the disinfection of wounds; Fight for the Narrows - three photos including one of the French battle-ship "Bouvet" before it was lost to a mine; Photos of five ships prior to their being lost or damaged - H.M.S. Inflexible, the French battleship Gaulois, H.M.S. Irresistable, H.M.S. Ocean and the German cruiser Karlshruhe; Wonderful full-page illustrated at for Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies shows food ship coming up the Thames at night; Touching full-page Oxo ad shows commrades at the bedside of a wounded friend in Northern France; Beecham's Pills ad inside back cover; Wana-Ranee (Ceylon Perfume) ad on back cover; Many other magnificent vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
197428 pages. Features: What Teenagers Won't Think Up Next, They're Copying from the Fifties!; Benson & Hedges ad features men in manhole admiring a leggy model; "Who Brought Her Here, Steve?" - Valleyview Centre near Moose Jaw where Saskatchewan houses 973 of its mentally retarded citizens; Helene de Silaghi Sirag leaves her body to visit the cosmos; Fashion photos; So Who Did Kill the Donnellys? - Ray Fazakas is hot on their cold, cold trail; Captain Fats is a Nice Coach - Alex Delvecchio is coach of the Detroit Red Wings - article with great full-page colour photo; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1971120 pages. Features: Large Paris Spring Collections Report; The Great American Shirt Life with Jane Birkin; Rome - The Spring Fashion Collections; U.S. Fashion - The coat to wear over everything you own; Chanel's regime d'exuberance - suddenly there came a tapping; Silicone - a new aid to plastic surgery; "Alas, Poor Ilyich"; People are Talking about... Movies; My House is Paper... Glued with Love; Live Rich; Americans - making it in London; Spring Designing Portfolio; The Diamond Ball in New York; Vogue's School and Camp Directory; and much more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reference copy. Book
197332 pages. Features: Make Way For the Charming, Emotional Company President - A Heroine With A Business Degree; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Dr. Ballard's cat food features Lion with kittens; Hit Man - Feature article on junior hockey star Denis Potvin; Colour fashion photos; Sculptress Helen Granger Young; Crazy Auto - article and colour photos of such features as foxtails, bullet holes and other delightful non-essentials to fluff up your heap; Doug Wright's Family; Moe Koffman feature article; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
197332 pages. Features: Air Canada Across our Native Land - Six new versions of our national anthem by Jo Ouellet, Tam Deachman, Martin Myers, Hart Pomerantz, John Nichol and Maggie Grant; The Life of a Team Canada Hockey Wife - interviews with Marie Mahovlich (wife of Frank), Sandra Clarke (wife of Bobby), Nancy Ratelle (wife of Jean), Jan Ellis (wife of Ron), Ginette Cournoyer (wife of Yvan), Gail White (wife of Bill), Margaret Parise (wife of Jean-Paul), Eleanor Henderson (wife of Paul) and Joy Berenson (wife of Red); Nice full-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Chevelle; Herb Brigham's Brigham Pipes produces about 80% of the smoking pipes made in Canada - article with colour photos; Study in Studes - colour photo fashion pages; Doug Wright's Family; David Andrews Loves Small Witt Streetcars; Ernie Davison's fictional Death Ray; Nice colour photo ad for the Volkswagen Campmobile inside back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1937115 pages. Features: Insurgent Democrats of Indiana and Illinois in 1854; Early Science in the Ohio Valley; The Story of Consumer Co-operation in Indiana; Shirl Herr; A Hoosier Barn That Was a Church; Indiana Historical Society; A Glance at Indiana History; Civil War Letters and Dispatches; Two Uncertain Years; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
