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1928Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing photos of unique trees; Chief Forester Greeley's Retirement; The Chinese Elm - a Valuable Tree; The Raindrop Family - a story for children; Shirley W. Allen Takes Up New Work; Snapshots of European Forests by an American Forester - Part IV - Finnish Forestry Pays, by John D. Guthrie - with photos; Boy Foresters Serve Denver - by David W. Thomas; Nice illustrated ad for the American KampKook gas range for the outdoor chef; A nice assortment of vintage ads; Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Centerfold loose but present. Cover holding by one staple. Somewhat above-average wear. Pencil markings to back cover. Magazine
192864 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
192916 pages. Black and white photos and diagrams. "Largely reprinted from Extension Bulletin No. 90, issued by The Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture for Manitoba. Undated. Circa 1929. A brief but fascinating work intended to show prairie farmers how to make use of their home-grown fuel (grain) to work their land with multiple-horse teams rather than purchasing oil products for their tractors. Provides clear and concise instructions for how to apply the multiple hitch - "The modern system for controlling big teams". Explains four and six horse hitches, seven to twelve horse hitches, the nind-horse hitch and the ten horse hitch. Above-average wear and soiling Unmarked. Binding intact. A wonderful reference whose time may come yet again. Book
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198868 pages. Colour cover photo of Canada's triumphant 100m Olympic world-record setting gold medal sprinter Ben Johnson.. prior to being stripped of his medal and record. Features: Ottawa offers compensation to Japanese-Canadians for their wartime humiliation; Ed Broadbent's Long Quest for Power; Marshal Inquiry testimony ends; Behind the boardroom doors of the Edper Group; Feature article on Ben Johnson - King of Seoul - with great colour photos; South Korea - Emerging Giant; Colour-photo one-page ad for Saga fox fur coats; Radon gas dangers; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith laptop computers; Special Report on Margaret Atwood's Triumph - article with colour photos; and more. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this memorable issue. Book
195136 pages. Features: British Columbians All; Can We Learn From History?; Letters; Pioneer Pilots of the Skeena - article with great photos; Our We Slaves to Our Clocks?; 210 Miles on Horseback - in 55 degrees below - to attend the funeral of Charlie Fortier, Chief of the Chu Chua Indians; Nature Oddities; Wonder-Weed Ramie Grass Would Revolutionize Textile Industry; B.C. History - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events; Some Observations of a Rambling Angler; The Monument - poem by an unknown author; Frontal Attack - From the Rear! - a skunk story; The Mighty Hunter; "Pacific Pete" in Big Program - Westcoast's ammended all-Canadian natural gas pipeline route to Vancouver and cities of the U.S. pacific coast; Stewart, B.C. - article with photos; Nice ads on covers include Finning, the Yukon Brewery Syndicate, Port Hope Garage Ltd., and The Charles Hotel; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, some with photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1916Pages 41-80. This issue deals with the Battle of Verdun and includes the following photos and illustrations: General Joffre with General Nivelle, a French bell to warn soldiers of German gas attacks, large photo of corduroy road on the French Front, French troops, one-page photo of devastation along a road after a German bombardment, a French mortar being loaded, scenes of destruction in Verdun, captured German soldiers carrying their machine gun to the French lines, trench scenes, fantastic one-page photo of a gangly French observation balloon at Verdun, the Fort des Paroches. Extensive damage and soiling to covers which are free of staples but present. Contents in sound condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1948220 pages. Dozens of pages of ads for Canadian businesses provide an excellent overview of Canada's broad and highly-developed post-war manufacturing base. Articles: B.C.'s Vast Potential Hydro Power; The Medical Department of Swift Canadian Co. Ltd.; The Cost-of-Living Index - how it is made and what it tells; The Role of canada's Weekly Newspapers; Patents Available to Manufacturers - Canadian Patents and Developments Limited; Industrial Gas in Canada; State Old Age Pension Plans; Representation Made Re. B.C. Sales Tax; Principal Changes in the Conciliation and Arbitration Provisions of the Alberta Labour Act; The Visit of G.H. Ward to Canada; Canada's Great Experiment in World Trade Promotion a Success; Industrial Defence Preparedness Committees Formed; Royal Commission on Prices Established; Alex Skelton Appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce; and more. Nice two-colour Dofasco ad on back cover features their gigantic steel casting program which serves the hydro-electric power industry. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
2004317 pages. Signed and inscribed by Deane Finlayson and author upon front free endpaper. "The story of a journey of one man's life, tracing his roots and then the starting and raising of his family, but mostly leaving an indelible mark on all who have met him." - from dust jacket. Mr. Finlayson was instrumental in Nanaimo history with prominent activity related to Woodgrove Mall, Piper's Lagoon, and Neck Point. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new Brodart cover. A beautiful copy. Book
1978206 pages including glossary, bibliography and index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. An anthology of more than 250 chronologically arranged exerpts and articles by proponents and opponents of psychiatry's most controversial procedure, which every year is administered to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. "A compelling and important addition to the lay literature in this field" - Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death. "What the rack and the stake were to the Inquisition, what the concentration camp and the gas chamber were to National Socialism, the mental hospital and electroshock are to Institutional Psychiatry... This book is a carefully researched documentation of psychiatry's final solution." - Thomas S. Szasz M.D., author of The Myth of Mental Illness and the Myth of Psychotherapy. Minimal high-lighting and prior owner's name inside front cover, else unmarked. Above average wear. Remains a useful working copy. Book
197328 pages. Features: One-Third of Canada lies north of 60; The Harding Family of Frobisher Bay; Housing inequality in Inuvik; Major oil and gas finds in the Mackenzie; Elijay Smith - Chief of the Yukon Native Brotherhood; James Wah-Shee - President of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories; Men Who Guide the North - Northwest Territories Commissioner Stuart Hodgson and Yukon Commissioner James Smith; Sea Lift to Spence Bay, the most northerly mainland port of the North American continent; Staying Warm in the North; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some sunning to edges of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
195664 pages. Features: How should we bring up our next child?; What you don't know about C.D. Howe; The double life of Injun Joe; The bear cub is everybody's baby; When the world went bicycle crazy. Excellent colour full-page ad for White Rose gas stations. Wonderful full-page colour ad for Leonard appliances. Interesting colour ad inside back cover is sponsored by Massey-Harris-Ferguson and shows a farmer hooking up a rooftop TV antenna - text explains how the lives of farmers will be improved. Above-average wear. Centrefold loose but present. Cover detached but present. Magazine
194088 pages. Features: Cover portrait of "Il Duce" Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, 1922-1943; Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Color ad for the Packard Super-8 160 car; Nice color one-page ad for The Transcontinental (Air) Line and Western Air, Inc. (TWA); Nazis claim to release secret American diplomatic documents captured in Poland; Max Moskowitz is too tough for thieves at his gas station; Homicide in Breathitt County, Kentucky; Article on Mussolini; Mackenzie Kings Wins - article with photo of King casting ballot; Photo-illustrated article on Japan's Crown Prince Akihito; First anniversary of peace in Spain; Color ad for Campbell's tomato juice; Allied Shipping Blockade in the Orient - article with map; Vintage United Air Lines ad includes photo of stewardess; Nice color one-page ad for Cadillac features a red Sixty Special; Color-photo ad for the Studebaker Commander car; Article on 'Negro Health'; Home-grown composer Roy Harris; Color Pabst Blue Ribbon beer ad illustrated by Bradshaw Crandall; Great stone faces in southern Mexico - Who carried them?; Running photo features photo of Gregory Rice; Photos of Joe Louis knocking out Johnny Paychek; Beautiful White Rock ad features bare-breasted maiden gazing into pond; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Chatanooga's newspaper publisher George Fort Milton; Nicely illustrated GMC truck ad features semi; Illustrated Ford V-8 truck ad shows man pulling tarp over load; Bob (Robert) Scherer and his Gelatin Products Co. of Detroit; Wilson golf products ad features headshot photos of "Johnny" Revolta, Eleanor Tennant, and Helen Hicks; Nice color ad for the Lincoln Zephyr V-12 inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features lovely polo player Peggy McManus of Santa Barbara, California; and more. Complete and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1922108 pages. Index. Colour and black and white photographic plates. Attractive embossed and decorated front cover. "In compiling this volume it has been our earnest desire to produce a book which would lighten the labors of every housewife."- from inside front cover. Published by an early Canadian manufacturer of household stoves. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality copy of this lovely vintage combination cookbook and household tip manual.. Book
196420 pages. Describes Michigan's economic climb, its advantages for industrial development and its outstanding facilities for recreation. Features: Large ad for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce inside front cover; New Spirit, Automobile Demand Lift Michigan to Economic Heights - article with photo of Governor George Romeny with school kids; Rare one-page Chrysler ad features large photo of their experimental turbine car and caption "It's Great to be born in Michigan"; Michigan Assumes Leadership (article); One-page American Motors ad features Michigan as the 'nerve center' of its operations; Labor Assists in State's Growth; Kellogg's (of Battle Creek) ad features boy on 'Rube Goldberg' homemade scateboard; Half-page ad for the National Bank of Detroit; One-page ad for the Consumer's Power Company; Nice color centerfold state map identifies industrial and recreational points of interest; Detroit Bank & Trust ad; Article on the state's energy supply, with photo of the Detroit-Edison nuclear plant in Monroe County; Article on Michigan's R&D capabilities; One-page photo-illustrated Detroit-Edison ad; Half-page photo-ad for Detroit's Hudson's department store; Back cover color ad for the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company; and more. Moderately tanned with age. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. A wonderful memento of brighter days in the Wolverine State. Magazine
193752 pages. Features: Supreme Court gives its blessing to Labor Relations Act and hands Roosevelt a victorious defeat - with photo of sit-downers and many related officials; Labor - Murphy medicine heals Chrysler strike - Ford and Vermont also prescribe for Sit-Downers - includes photo of Henry Ford, several photos of Hershey, PA - including a bloody-nosed John Loy - the aftermath of a riot at the American Gas Machine Co.'s Albert Lea, MN plant, and more; Photo-illustrated article on Britain's Stanley Baldwin, First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; A brief article on Germany presciently declares that Germany requires at least two more years before it wil be ready for total war - it also foreshadows Hitler's secret agreement with Stalin; Interesting brief updates with photos from Spain, China and Japan; Prodigy Mary Christine Dunn; Great article with five photos on the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team; The first commercial radio show using an all-Negro cast goes to air - with photo of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong; Federal Reserve supports market as institutions reduce their U.S. bond holdings; Hart Schaffner & Marx Celebrates its Golden Jubilee; Book revies; small news bits; and more. Many great vintage ads including a full-page ad for International half-ton trucks (vans), a full-page Chevrolet ad featuring two ladies, a luxurious full-page ad for the new Studebaker State President, and a lovely color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on the back cover which features a lady driving a gas-powered scooter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1944164 pages. Features: Three Main Ocean Routes Urged; $27 Million Ago - last month the Canadian government took over air bases established by the U.S. in the Hudson Bay area; Captain W.R. "Wop" May Goes North Again; de Havilland Assembly; The Magic Merlin; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Australia's Score; Air Board Claims Denied; "Gas Inn"; The Elusive Auster; Dinghy Drill; Children Save Pennies for Planes; Mark XIV Bombsight; Maintaining the Wasp Engine; Easily Made Wing Jig; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Front cover beginning to loosen. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1961Cover art painting by William Winter from a sketch made in the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. Contents: Editorial - Is the RCMP recruiting university students to spy on each other?; Battle Creek Health Centre - the world's leading scientific weight-control clinic; The Kellogg Brothers' angry road to fame - Will and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of the breakfast cereal fortune; The Anatomy of Success, by Sidney Katz; We're finally outlawing 'goofballs' - amphetamines and barbituates; Ypres - The price of Canada's first glory in battle, by Ralph Allen - includes photo of a gas attack in 1915; The Forest Path to the Spring, by Malcolm Lowry who took a shanty on the B.C. Coast for a honeymoon and never really left - This is the story of that shadowed idyll; British Politics; Abduction on the night train to Lisbon - Bruce Hutchison reports what happened to him; Great colour photo ad for Pepsi. Moisture stain to the top of the Malcolm Lowry article - text unaffected. Tears to back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1958Features: *First 1959 Cars*; Are you wasting money on premium gas?; Accident at Windscale - World's first atomic alarm; A Reversing Hot-and-Cold Machine - heats or cools at the flick of a switch; Atomic Engines to Power Rockets and Missiles - Nevada tests for sensational flying reactors; No-hands system to land Airliners; GM bets on Flaring Fins; Buick; Cadillac; Oldsmobile; Rambler boosts mpg; How automatic shotguns work; and more. Average wear. Book
1932Features: Sanity, Prohibition, and the federal deficit; A gasser blows in - heroic measures necessary to combat flames in oil fields; Where diamonds earn their keep - interesting life of a diamond in an industrial plant - whence it comes, how it is used, and how it ends; Editorials - radium waters - Philippine Independence - Frightfulness in warfare; A Nerve center of communication - how your radio or cable message is speeded through; Eclipses and the Sund's atmosphere - solution of an outstanding solar problem; Flying as fast as sound - considerations of what the future may hold for aviation - some physiological and mechanical aspects of the question; An early Christian cemetary - the Libyan desert gives up further secrets of antiquity; Viscount Grey and Lord Haldane - conclusion of a study of two famous World War personalities; Power from pipe lines to wires - natural gas used as fuel in steam electric plant; Watching the creation of the stars - more concerning the evolution of the galaxies; Unusual fishes - they build nests, walk on land, live in dried mud, and breathe air; Forty-noners starved in the midst of plenty - survey of plants and animals in Death Valley shows that pioneers could have survived the trials of the desert; Modern alchemy - photographing the birth of an atom; What next in elevator technology?; Inter-glacial man in England - human remains and artifacts tell an interesting story of pre-glacial migrations to and from England. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1931Features: A button industry from ocean pearl; Editorials - more speed in the air; voices across the world; Wild life in a fire; Flying instruction as it should be; How you are influenced by color - color requirements, particularly in foods, are so rigid that methods of color comparison are widely employed in industry; Interstellar space wholly empty?; A day with a locksmith; The perspective of modern physics - has modern science reached an impasse?; A tinted statue from Pompeii's ashes - portrait statue of Livia, a notable discovery of last year; It pays to be a pioneer - a salaried employee who developed a great corporation of his own for noise-eliminating work; Natural gasoline from oil wells - Kettleman Hills field produces gasoline and natural gas; Pose yourself for your portrait - new portrait cabinet removes mental hazards from photography; Into a hidden world - observation of microscopic life in stagnant ponds is a fascinating hobby; Asquith and Kitchener - conclusion of a biographical study of two great British war leaders; Form letters with a personal touch - an automatic typewriter; World affairs and the telephone - circuits now reach most countries; How ancient is modern man?; Cotton cloth fit for a king. Few small white blemishes to lower left corner of front cover. Back cover is a colour Lucky Strike advertisement graced with a painting of a lovely Emily Boyle of Bronxville, N.Y. beneath the caption "Consider your Adam's Apple!! Don't rasp your throat with harsh irritants." Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1957140 pages. Fiction: Let the Arctic Kill Him; Open Fire!; Come to the Wedding; The Women No One Needed; The Artless Heiress (part 2 of 8); No Blade of Grass (conclusion). Articles: The Worst Swindle - how these sordid criminals take $5 million/year from gullible women; How to Hire a Maid; Our Neutral Friends the Austrians; City of Silence - no one in Portsmouth, Ohio could use the phone for 61 days!; The Face of America - beautiful commencement photo by Don W. Jones; Gamest Fish in the Pond - Bass; Luxurious Wilderness - wonderful color photos and story about Jasper Park Lodge, Canada's 'zoo without bars'; America's Oldest Spectacular - Harvard's strange tribal rites before men are sent into the cold, cold world - with photos. Ads: Evinrude outboard ad; Nice color-photo De Soto ad features cowboy leaning on Fireflite 2-door Sportsman in Fiesta red and white; Charming two-page color Texaco ad shows crowd gathered at gas station around family car hauling a boat and motor; Interesting two-page GM ad features photos of John Cupler and his microscopic drills which he turned into National Jet Company of La Vale in Maryland; Buick Roadmaster 75; GE pink washer and dryer; Pall Mall cigarettes; Philco fridges; Salem cigarettes; Beautiful Dodge color photo ad features a swept-wing teale convertible at dusk; Nice color Underwood typewriter ad with 'Golden Touch'; Nice two-page color Chevrolet ad shows yellow Bel Air convertible on the beach; Tareyton; Kodak Brownie movie camera; Yardley grooming products; Rare Dixie Cup ice cream ad; GMC trucks; GE kitchen appliances; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of Paul Swartz, President of Swartz Oil Co.; Nice one-page color-photo Canada Dry ad shows girl with ice cream soda; The Antarctic watch by Croton; Coke ad on back cover features illustration of a scene at Lake Louise. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
196268 pages. Features: One-page illustrated ad for the FMC LCA (Landing Craft Assault) in action; Fantastic two-page photo-illustrated ad for The Technical Materiel Corpration illustrates their production line communication stations in modular concept - on wheels and ready to move; Viet Cong - a threat to peace; Photos and specs of Soviet Vehicle-Mounted Rocket Launchers; One-page illustrated ad for Avco's gas turbine-powered hydrofoil landing craft; One-page photo ad for the Sikorsky S-62 shows it afloat on search and rescue mission; Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerilla War - major article with photos and map (part 1 of 5); Lets Streamline Our Helicopter Assault Planning Papers; The Legacy of John A. Lejeune; John A. Lejeune - True Soldier - feature article with photos; Strategy in the Spectrum of War; Helicopter Assault - British Style; Take Cover in the Air - those helicopters need protection; Nuclear Weapons and Tactical Objectives; Promotions and Transfers; Back cover photo ad for the Kaman Seasprite HU2K-1 performing search and rescue; and more. Average wear. Center page loose but present. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1954136 pages. Features: What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers - Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, USAFR was in charge of Project Blue Book, the official Air Force investigation of UFOs, from 1951 to 1953 - this is what he learned about them - article with photos; Lord Calvert ad inside front cover features photos of Mr. Tom May of the May Company with stores in many states; Thirteen Against the Gods - P-32 and Corregidor; Beyond the Hindu Kush; The Artful Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers; Double-Duty Duds; Camera in the Wilderness - Herb Crisler; Stanley Ketchel Was a Wild Man; Sports Cars vs. Gas Bag (balloons); GI's at last are learning how ot shoot; The Great American Mystery (Fishing) Fly - the nymph; Bunyans of the Back Yard - garden tillers; Paintings by Remington; Lucky Strike ad features tennis player Jack Kramer; Wild ad called "Mental Poisoning" by the Rosicrucians of San Jose, CA; and more. Nibbling to upper half of backstrip means covers are partly loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Book
