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1965Features: The Great Travel Explosion - Suddenly everybody's got itchy feet; The Pleasure of Failure - what famed author Morley Callaghan learned when the bottom fell out of his world; When Sickness Strikes at Night - what can you do, where can you turn for help?; The Prickly Producer - now everyone wants John Hirsch; Montreal's Vieux Quarter - how a dedicated few led the fight to save a city's historic past, with many nice photos; This Army has only begun to fight - the Salvation Army turns 100, waging war to a new jazz beat. Great colour ad for the 1965 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan. Colour ad for the '65 Pontiac on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling with evidence of exposure to moisture. A less than pretty but sound copy. Book
1962Features: Nice color Pepsi ad on page 3; Merrily we Probe Along - Ralph Schoenstein talks about the analysis fad and a nation of psychic Peeping Toms; The World Needs the Truth about America - RFK proposes a plan to sell U.S. Ideals on an open market; Water-Hole Wonderland - man-made Lake Texoma; Hawaii's Hustling Shepherd - Rev. Abraham Akaka of Hawaii infuses new vigor into the Christian ministry; Don't Tell Me About Diets - Jockey Eric Guerin reveals the dieting truths he has learned during a 15-year struggle to avoid eating himself out of business; The Many Moods of Robert Mitchum - an exclusive account of the turbulent career and times of Hollywood's rugged nonconformist - many great black and white photos; Luxurious Mountaintop - the Burgenstock in Switzerland; Frank Robinson Comes of Age; Grand Tour for a College Combo - the Route 2 Tooters junket through Europe bartering their jazz music for a summer's fun. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196452 pages. Contents: Threats of New Violence in Quebec - Why We Should Take the "Army of Liberation" seriously; Are Hospitals Save? - a calm look at two deaths after surgery; Editorial - Of Course Hate-Mongering Should Be Stamped Out, But Not By Passing Censorship Laws - pressure on Justice Minister Guy Favreau to bring in hate laws; Greatness - Dr. Hans Selye describes what leads to the quality of greatness in the mind of a man or the life of a nation; Your Guide to the new federal split-level cabinet; Let's Give the Police More Power; Washington Hostess Perle Mesta; Your Health May Depend On Where You Live; A Weekend with the Ski Fanatics - article with photos; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Electrohome and "Canada's Largest Stereo Laboratory"; Art Fraud - some odd "Group of Sevens"; Whiz Jazz pianist Tony Collacott; Reflections on the Clay-Liston boxing match; Mordecai Richler looks at the new cliches of nonconformity; Colour-photo Canadian Club ad features rolling in a hoop; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features beauty holding her own black and white photo. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
194782 pages. Features: Nice RKO photo ad advertises 'I Remember Mama', 'Tycoon', 'If You Knew Susie' and 'Magic Town'; 1-page ad for Philco entertainment products; Brother Jazz - The Story of Eddie Condon - with color photos; Affair's End (fiction); How to Have Ancestors; They're Still Expendable - article and photos explain how unemployment, small-business failures and layoffs are hitting veterans harder than the rest of the nation; Fever (fiction); He Clicked for 30 Years - Highlights of the career of photographer George William Harris - article with photos; The Five Dresden Angels (fiction); Man Running (fiction); Demon from the Doldrums - Nature's most destructive force is the West Indian hurricane; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for International Harvester Industrial Power features photo of a large diesel crawler in a Florida limestone quarry; Nice 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Nice vintage 1-page color ad for Kraft Cheeses; Western Electric 1-page color ad shows telephone repairman talking housewife and children at front door; Ballantine Ale 1-page color ad; Half-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers; Pennsylvania Railroad nice 1-page color ad shows comforable scene on-board; Fall Guise - article with six color photos of men's fall college fashions; Nice 1-page DeSoto car ad; A Good Whipping (fiction); Fantastic 1-page 2-color ad for the movie 'Body and Soul' starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks; Nice 1-page color Budweiser ad displays several illustrated plates; Goldwyn ad features colour photo of Danny Kaye; Rislone and Karbout ad features cute color photo of cigarette girl; 1-page ad for Gillette one-piece razors; Smiling Girl (fiction); Nice color 1-page ad for Hamm's Beer; One-page ad for American Overseas Airlines; Luckky Strike ad on back cover includes nice color illustration entitled 'Bright Tobacco' by Fletcher Martin. Couple of chips from top of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194758 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Pontiac cars inside front cover; Tipping - Million Dollar Racket - interesting article with photos; 'The Lovely Lady' (fiction); Who Killed Ethel Kinrade? - Famous Canadian Crimes No. 6; 'Scared to Life' (fiction); Personality of the Week - Alexander Knox - photo illustrated article; Tiny Terror - the piranha kills for fun!; 'Blind Trail in Burma' (part 2 of 2); Job-finding tips for military veterans; 'Between Us and the Dark' - an article which gives hope to the mentally ill; Paris plays the horses again - great photo-illustrated article; Jazz King "Pops" Whiteman becomes a disc jockey - photo of him with Mel Torme; Movie Review - 'Dear Ruth'; One-page two-color ad for Canada Savings Bonds; Photos and brief write-ups o Ann Campbell and Kay Armstrong (who are building their own home), Rudolf Funke (the first German with special skill to be admitted to Canada since 1939), and Yvonne Taylor (directress of the International Cinema Theatre, Toronto); Woman of the Week - Ethel Stark; Where are They Now? - Jack Mulhall. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2000224 pages. Features: Novel take for a creative couple in Beverly Hills; Spinning the Bahamian colonial cottage of old into a design of its own place and time; Author Barbara Goldsmith's Park Avenue home; The 98-room Carolands is finally a home; The art of deco in Florida - invoking the jazz age in a dramatically redesigned Palm Beach residence; Neoclassical edge for an Austrian retreat; Modernizing a waterfront home in Greenwich, Connecticut; Jewels on the go; Outside the box in Vancouver, BC; Carleton Varney gives his son's New York apartment an infusion of color; A West Palm beach pool and theatre make it worth staying home to watch a movie. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1980108 pages. Selected Bibliography; List of Compositions; Discography. Includes sheet music for: Vierd Blues; Doxy; Slow Boat to China; Tenor Madness; Newk's Fade-away; Tune Up; Airegin; Hold'em Joe; Keep Hold of Yourself; plus several pages of patterns. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound working copy. Book
195184 pages. Features: Editorial - Death of a Diplomat - Dr. Hugh Keenleyside snubbed German banker Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently; The Writing on the Kremlin Wall, by Beverley Baxter; The Grits Write Off Ontario - by Blair Fraser; Dick Powell and June Allyson are featured in a Jergen's Lotion ad; Don't Let This Happen to Your City - dramatic lessons from Toronto to other fast-growing Canadian cities - article with many photos; De Bernonville - what the convicted French nazi-sympathizer did in France and how he stayed so long in Canada - article with photos, including images of damning documentation; High Priestess of the Jazz Age - Aimee Semple McPherson studied at Ontario's Ingersoll Collegiate and went on to her fantastic Angelus Temple in Los Angeles - gaudy custimes, stunts, planned hysterics chilled and thrilled thousands of her disciples - a Maclean's flashback; Alberta Oil - the Boom that Ran Away from Home - cautious Canadians sit back cautiously while more imaginative Americans pour in millions; Montreal's Bargain Night Out - The Bellevue Casino is Canada's biggest money-maker - article with great photos; The Great Vancouver Love Affair - How Superlative can a city be? - article with many photos; The First Fuller Brush Man - Alf Fuller of Nova Scotia - article with photos; The Rebellion of Young David - story by Ernest Buckler - illustrated by Rex Woods; Hungry Enough to Eat a Horse? - Thousands of Canadiians are eating horsemeat at half the price of beefsteak; I Guarged Winston Churchill, by Ex-Detective-Inspector W.H. Thompson - Conclusion; Nice colour photo ad for Northern Electric radios; Canadian Bank of Commerce -sponsored centerfold story "Lukey's Boat" by Michael Harrington, illustrated by Ed McNally; Colour Christie's ad for Ritz crackers, Premium crackers, and Graham wafers; Peter Whalley cartoon; Sweet Caps ad; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honours the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa; Nice Chevrolet truck ad; Coke ad inside front cover shows bottles open on a feast-laden table; Back cover ad for Margene margerine. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1977110 pages. Songs include: Sneakin' Up Behind You; Lovely Lady; What Can a Miracle Do?; Levitate; A Creature of Many Faces; D.B.B.; Some Skunk Funk; Keep it Steady; Oh My Stars; I Love Wastin' Time With You; Slick Stuff; Grease Piece; Sponge; Twilight; Night Flight; Rocks; If You Want to Boogie, Forget It; Dig a Little Deeper. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this absolutely stunning compilation. Book
200362 pages. Features: Matt Cranitch - Knee deep in Rushy Mountain; John McCusker - Modern Traditionalist; Hollis Taylor - from concertos to fiddle tunes to jazz to fences - playing it all; String Cheese Incident's Michael Kang; Norwegian Folk Festival Diary, Summer 202; Norway in a nutshell at the Telemark Folk Festival; Jan Beitohaugen Granli - Norway's 2002 Landskappleik Champion; Daniel Sanden-Warg - Swedish fiddler with a Setesdal accent; Mittenwald, Germany - a 300-year-old tradition of violin-making, featuring Anton Maller and Anton Sprenger; Mellie Dunham; Fiddle Tune History - "Oh, Ned!"; British Columbia's Frankie Rodgers; and much more. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this interesting issue. Magazine
194750 pages. Cover photo of Alice Wallace. Fiction: Fishbowl. Articles: Menace of the Abortion Racket - article with photo of Chicago Dr. Nathaniel Schaffner who was charged after the death of his patient, Mrs. Emma Laisure; The Velvet Fog - Photo-illustrated article on crooner Mel Torme; A Veteran Buys a Farm - Great photo-illustrated article on George Stieber, who gave up the controls of a B-29 for a Pennsylvania dairy farm; The Misunderstood Coroner - A.L. Brodie of Chicago; Broadway's Conscience - writer Jimmie Cannon; Can We Win an Atomic War?; Legion Conventions - Times Square revs up for the fun makers coming to town; Peace for Your Aching Head; The Man Who Married the Andrews Sisters - photo-illustrated ad on Lou Levy, who married Maxene but guided the three gals to millions; Their Number's Up - New York numbers game operators can no longer escape jail through tricky bookkeeping; River Pilot - Captain Jesse Hughes and his drawings of the Ohio and Mississippi. Special Features: Seafaring Funny Man; City Room Refugees - Richard Basehart and Don McGuire were newspapermen before becoming hearthrobs; Saturday Afternoon; Stealing the Pennant - great photo-illustrated article on base-stealing in baseball, with photos of Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, Skeeter Newsome, Stan Hack,Lou Boudreau, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Elliot, Ray Lamanno, Don Johnson and Jackie Robinson; Movie of the Month - Variety Girl - with photos of Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, and newcomver DeForest Kelley of later Star Trek fame; Sultry photo of Hazel Brooks; Photos of Billy De Wolfe; Mister Jazz - One-page article with large photo of Louis Armstrong; Gorgeous photo of beauty contest entrant Yvonne De Carlo; Editorial inside back cover features large photos of New York Vets protesting lack of proper housing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Cover photo of the U.S.S. West Virginia; New York's Little Joke on New York - a study of the prohibition referendum - an oasis that proved to be a mirage; The Sesqui-Centennial Nears Its End - article with photos; 'Coin' Harvey - Prophet of Monte Ne - he would build a pyramid in the Ozarks to tell posterity why our civilization has failed; Painless Taxation - The Refuge of Quack Politicians who advocate 'painless' taxation; The Greatest Need of the U.S. Navy - an adequate merchant marine; A Tale of The Islands That Dot Boston Harbor; Henry Ford's Page - today's farming problem; Editorials - Judge William S. Kenyon on Official Etiquette, Our new diplomacy, the very mushroom growth of jazz is enough to predict its ephemerality, New light on the Dawes Plan; Our Greatest Football Fable - The All American Team; The Tragic Story of the Jeannette Expedition - Part II of this photo-illustrated article ; Dances of Olden Times; The Lure of the Puppet - Marionettes date from the dawn of civilization; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; Great photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1973252 pages. Nice black and white photo section. "No yardstick can measure, no musicologist can trace the influence of Stan Kenton on popular music of the mid-twentieth century... The dimensions of his contribution are staggering... his band served as a training ground for a generation of musicians dedicated to keeping the flickering flame of jazz alive in an alien environment." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon half-title page, otherwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
194868 pages. Features: Early morning photos of nostalgic scenes in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.; Weston's / George Weston Limited one-page ad features the Canadian share owner; Very colourful one-page colour ad for the 1948 Ford Meteor (green); Reconstrukzija (Reconstruction) - excellent photo-illustrated report from Moscow describes daily life for her citizens; I'm a Hermit (short story); Morley Callaghan explains why he prefers town life to the joys of a summer cottage; Article on 1920's Jazz - songs the author would like to see stay; "Poor Little Fellers" (short story); Lawrence Skey, M.P., Criticizes Canada's "Paper Air Force"; Encounter with Cinderella (short story); What is at Stake in Palestine (Israel)? - article by Dr. H.L. Stewart; Remembrance of Things Past - a poem by E.J. Pratt accompanies photos of Old Niagara which are part of an Art Gallery of Toronto exhibit; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features their vessel the "White Empress"; Quarter-page ad for Thistle brand baby carriages; Photos of summer fair scenes; Gerhard Kennedy looks at women's fashions - with photos; Women - The All-time Flop in Politics! - article with photos of Mrs. Iva Fallis, Miss Agnes Macphail, Mrs. Martha Black, Mrs. Gladys Strum, Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Mrs. Cora Casselman and Mrs. Cairine Wilson; Lovely one-page colour ad for Frigidaire fridges show mom and son standing in front of loaded fridge; Recipes for preserves; One-page Chevrolet ad features green car; Battle of the Hair-doos - shops hope to regain business lost to home perms; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover includes tennis racquet and ball; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
2009Boldly signed by Dal Richards upon half-title page. 288 pages. Index. Reproductions of many black and white photos. "These are Dal's memories of the stars and the wannabes, the hustlers and bootleggers and hat check chicks, all of whom paraded through his life in the days when Vancouver's nightclub scene rivalled San Francisco's and Hollywood's big-name performers made it a regular tour stop." - from dust jacket. Very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Promotional bookmark and relevant news clipping laid inside front board. A lovely copy. Book
195580 pages. Features: I was a daughter of the Gold Rush - the exciting story of Klondy Nelson; The Face of America - Song of Old (photo); Rebirth of the Ohio River; This is My Story - Arthur Godfrey (part 8 of 8); Exiles of the Wasteland - Red Shaw and Lou Kley run an isolated Utah railroad outpost for the Southern Pacific Railroad; What Happened to These Children - fascinating explanation of the 700-year-old mystery of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; Cities of the world (#15) - Guatemala City; How to Handle $100,000,000 - The Philadelphia Board of City Trusts. Fiction: A Candle of the Lord; The Lady Hated Jazz; The Warmhearted Polar Bear; Kiss Me, Sergeant; The case of the Mission Poison (part 3 of 8); The Burning Hills (conclusion). Above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Long tear to back cover with related puncture/tear to last few pages. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
1985416 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography and Index. Reproductions of photos in black and white. "Not only an account of the shoals and reefs of Davis' life up to 1960 but a highly literate history of the social and cultural milieu of his times. Indispensable to anyone interested in music." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
1956250 pages. Chronological discography. Autobiography of this eminent jazz and pop vocalist. Fascimile dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Usual library markings. Rebound in decorated green library buckram sans the original photo-illustrated endpapers. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy first edition reading copy. Meadows 2173 Book
197540 pages. Includes trumpet sheet music for fifty songs including: Black Bottom Stomp; Chicago Breakdown; Dixieland Blues; Easy Rider; Jimtown Blues; Maple Leaf Rag; Mr. Jelly Lord; Sidewalk Blues; Sobbin' Blues; Steamboat Stomp; Sugar Babe; Tia Juana; Weary Blues; and many more. Undated but appears to be circa 1975. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
196115 pages. "By playing and analyzing someone else's ideas, the talented musician can stimulate his own imagination and discover ideas that formerly were beyond his scope." - page 2. Complete and unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Contents tanned with age. A worthy vintage copy. Book
195350 pages. Features: Super color cover photo of Rita Hayworth; Two large black and white photos of Miss Universe, Armi Kuusela of Finland; You Can Be Healthier, Be Happier - follow this expert's rules for living in nature's four great worlds - photo-illustrated article including half-page black and white photo of a dozen or so boys skinny dipping at the "Ole swimming hole"; Abducted Women - Emotional photo-illustrated article on the over 500,000 women forcibly detained during the partition of India in 1947, some of whom are now being repatriated; The Duel - brief photo-illustrated article on Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", as presented by the Ballets de Paris; Heaven on Earth - photo-illustrated article on a new sculpture symbolizing beauty and joy of life, The Fountain of Faith, recently unveiled at Falls Church, VA; I Was a Spy for Stalin - Nora Korzhenko Murray, an agent of the Soviet secret police, reveals her cloak-and-dagger career as a tool of the N.K.V.D. and a lure for Allied diplomats living in Moscow; Best photos of 1952; Babies in Jail - photo-illustrated article on babies born in jail to mothers who are pregnant when incarcerated; Flying Saucers - The Last Word! - exclusive interview with the world's best informed military man - Major General John A. Samford - on the world's most exciting modern mystery; Earl Wilson, America's 'Saloon Editor' picks his "Super-Six" - photos and brief write-ups of American beauties Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Van Deweel, Julie Wilson, Eva Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Virginia Mayo (no photo of her); Faith is a Star - belief in a benign and divine power is a refuge in a time of trouble; So Hot Soho - article on U.S. Jazz in London's Bohemian west end - with super photos of dancers in action; Hoop Houdini - Photo-illustrated article on Boston Celtic Bob Cousy (written by Curt Gowdy who went on to a great career in TV sports broadcasting); Great 3/4-page sexy photo of Rita Hayworth; Letters from readers; plus many great vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. PLEASE NOTE: lacking pages 33-34 which, we believe, contained the last page of the Flying Saucer article and a photo of Virginia Mayo. Otherwise, a sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1981pp. xii, 300. Index. "Provides a thorough survey of books, articles, and theses and dissertations written on or about specific jazz styles and jazz musicians from the turn of the century through 1978." - Introduction. Lists 2,563 items, some of which are annotated. Separate sections address: Pre-Swing, Swing, Bop, Modern, Biographies, Discographies, Histories, Technical Materials, and more. Former library copy with usual markings and moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. Binding tight. A sound reference copy. Book
1958Features: Cover photo on deck of U.S. destroyer in Taiwan (Formosa) Strait; There is No News From Auschwitz - Now nothing happens at Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, which fourteen years ago was a place of unutterable horror; Photos of famous people of the day; Captain of our Economic Campaign - banker-politician Douglas Dillon deals with foreign trade and foreign aid; Q. & A. With an American Tourist on a Moscow Street Corner; Professor in the Political Maze - Williams College Professor Jim Burns is a candidate for Congress in MA; Great Cliche Debate (continued); Golfer's Real Handicap - Pride; Glories of Versailles; Virtues of Veal; (Ladies') Paris Fashion Report - photos; Photo feature on a glass-walled home designed by Ladislav L. Rado; Teen-Age Tastes - Good, Bad or Inevitable?; Five photos of Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"; Three photos of Jerome Robbins' new ballet "N.Y. Export, op. Jazz"; and more. 44 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus lovely illustrated ads, some of which are in color. Small clipping from ad on page 39 - text unaffected. Doodling on ad on page 33, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1928Please note: This copy lacking its covers. First and last pages loose but present. Features: Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated article; The Crushing Horde - fiction from the north; Doctor to the Poor Fish - a free clinic for ailing aquarium pets; Canadian Sprinter Percy Williams (Peerless Percy) - Winner of the 100 and 200 metre Olympic sprints; Down Three Steps (short story); She Lika da Jazz (short story); Did They 'Get' Bulldog Kelly? - a tale of the North West Mounted; Prosperity's Leap From the Bush - The successful Canadian pulp and paper industry - photo-illustrated article; The Winking Satyr (short story); Our Population Problem (Part 4) - a suggestion that our need for people be solved by transplanting British industries; A Little Way Ahead (part 6); Beautiful one-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features waterfall and rainbow; Daily Newspapers Under Fire; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated ad for Quaker Puffed Rice features boy and girl at table; Nice one-page colour ad for Canadian National Steamships features their cruises to the Caribbean; Lovely one-page colour ad for Wahl-Eversharp Gold Seal Pens; Teaching Etiquette to Children; Crossword on page 78 has been completed; Jacobean Embroidery. A worthy reference copy. Book
1962An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Pictorial: Paris digs crazy American sex hit Le Streep! - article with great photos of Carole Von Ryva, Rapha Temporel, Maia Turov, Ghora DeVenise, and Poupee LaRose; A Day with Charity Leigh - article and photos of the ups and downs of a loving secretary. Fashion: Shirting the Issue - photo review of the fall sports shirt scene. Shelba - color photo feature of Miss Shelba Jean Britt. Fiction: First Kill; Allison and Saint Skippy. Humor: The Smuttybaggers; Fables for Flips; Joker. Articles: How to Live in an All-Night Movie - Lady Joyce guides you into the 3am world of fruits and nuts; The Bang Bang Boys - A Naked Portrait of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner; We Regret to Inform You That; The Gimmick and the Facelift - a salty study of the new cars for 1963; Are You Hombre Enough To Take a Mistress?; Jazz Review Board. Great one-page photo ad promoting investments in Florida land. Small reply ad clipped from page 3, affecting book review on page 4, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book