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1906Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on Captain Francis Howard Lindsay; Company Notes; The Bisley Meeting, with photo of the King's Prize Winner; The Route March in Scotland - continued from prior issue); The Clan Chattan; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1906Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on The Marquess of Tullibardine (John George Stewart Murray); Company Notes; The Route March in Scotland, story with photos and cartoons; Great full-page photo of Major Malcolm atop the Cumberland Stone, Culloden, explaining to all assembled how he intended fighting his way to Inverness; Impressions of the March; Chronicles of the Cookhouse - Scotland, August, 1906; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Chaps are Saying; Shooting - K Company prize meeting; Private Denis Kelly of the "Michaels" - his observations on military matters; and more. Faint pencil erasure atop front cover. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Please note: a quarter of the first page of advertisements has been removed. Book
1993598 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Born on a farm in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, the author spent much of his childhood and adult years in the Duncan area of British Columbia. He demonstrated all the attributes for which Canadians have become known; independence, innovation, imagination, perserverance and compassion. His life involved flying, logging, land development, road construction, and helping his fellow man. Light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
1953Pages 549-592. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Hawker Siddeley Group shows young boy above caption "How Much is a Little Boy Worth?"; Title page photo of Governor-General Sir Robert Howe addressing Khartoum crowds at great holiday parade; North Sudan welcomes the Anglo-Egyptian agreement; Photos of life in southern Sudan; Designs for the decoration of the Coronation route; Two-page illustration of multiple aircraft forms; People in the public eye; The Queen visits Wiltshire, goes racing and attends church; inventions of the day; Dramatic centrefold photo of fire aboard the carrier H.M.S. Indomitable; Trespass in Antarctica; Photos of Ruth Draper - the woman who single-handedly fills an empty stage with scenery and a vivid host of characters; Discovery of the oldest known Greek house; Official residences Sir William Slim will occupy in Australia; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1960157 pages. Chronology. Bibliography. Black and white plates. English adaptation of the Bengali "Palasir Yuddha" - the real story of modern Bengal. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
1994218 pages. An interesting look at the history of the northern shore of Lake Superior. Chapters include such topics as: Many Billion Years Ago; The Wisconsin Glacier; How Rocks Write Their Own History; The First Inhabitants; Early Explorers and Notable Events; A World Famous Canal System; The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR); Early Industries; Shipwrecks on Superior; Prisoner of War and Internment Camps; Communities Lake Superior's Circle Route. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative work. Noteworthy for its 20 illustrated pages on the region's World War Two POW camps. Book
197368 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Interview with Ken Dryden; Sam Pollock is afraid of planes; The Big M, Frank Mahovlich, comes to town; Canucks Quiz; How the Canucks fared vs. the Montreal Canadiens last year; Jean Beliveau article; Great photo of Bobby Schmautz in fancy leather coat ad; Photos of Canuck players, staff and management; Photos of Montreal Canadiens players; Borgeson Ice Rinks ad; NHL history article with photo of Max Bentley; Photo feature page on Gary Smith; Jim Robson caricature in CKNW ad; Michel Plasse featured in VanCity ad; John Wright - Player of the Week; plus many great vintage ads. Centre page loose but present. Unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
19318 pages. Nice photos on front cover include: Ken Maynard, Ken Maynard with Ruth Hall, and two scenes from the movie Strawberry Roan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Sheet music
1979Signed, without inscription, by author upon first blank leaf. 238 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. First published in 1946 as "55 Axis." The thirteen chapters include: Defence of Britain; Conquest of Sicily; Fighting Pursuit from Reggio; The Moro River and Ortona Road; The Adriatic Barricade; The Liri Valley Campaign; The Battles of the Gothic Line; The Po Valley Denial; Victory in the Netherlands; The Kiska Connection; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Armorial bookplate upon first blank page. Front cover partially sunned. Binding intact. A sound copy. Cooke p.170 Book
1945This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. Book
1978112 pages, including nine beautiful pages of color photos of Crystal. Includes piano sheet music with lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Beyond You, Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger, Cry Me a River, Why Have You Left The One (You Left Me For), Too Good to Throw Away, Hello I Love You, Heart Mender, Paintin' This Old Town Blue, Talkin' In Your Sleep, Somebody Loves You, We Must Believe in Magic, Someday Soon, The Wayward Wind, I Still Miss Someone, When I Dream, I'll Do It All Over Again, Let's Do It Right, Going Down Slow, ready For The Times to Get Better, I'll get Over You, One More Time, You, This is My Year For Mexico, Right in the Palm of Your Hand, River Road, The Green Door, High Time, Coming Closer, What You've Done For Me, All I Wanna Do In Life, I'm Not So Far Away, Wrong Road Again... and more! Store stamp on title page otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful compilation from back in the day when Crystal Gayle was at the top of the music world. Book
197664 pages. Features Gross's great song Shannon. Photos of Henry Gross in color and black and white. Other songs include: Juke Box Song; Lincoln Road; Overton Square; Springtime Mama; Moonshine Alley; One Last Time; Something In Between; Someday; Pokey. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
196088 pages. Features: Cover photo of Hugh Downs and Jack Parr; Nice Jell-O ad inside front cover shows Chocolate Ribbon Parfait; Two-page Marlboro ad shows predecessor to the 'Marlboro Man', a young fellow in straw hat slouched on a chaize-lounge; Interesting Armstrong Tire ad shows fingers extending from tire to grip the road; One-page Coke ad shows ice fishing scene; Europe 1960 - Americans are swarming there - many photos of this travelogue; Charming Campbelle's Tomato soup shows twins eating; What I Think Jack Paar is Really Like; The Chase That Doomed Adolph Eichmann; Kraft ice cream toppings; Lovely photos of Paris fashions; Albert Lasker and his crusade against disease; Nice photos of Donna Reed and family in Kodak ad; Huge color photo of freckled red-headed boy eating massive slab of watermelon; Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox - The Magic Glove - article with many photos; Nice Pepsi ad shows BBQ scene; Color-photo-illustrated article on the "House with a Hole in the Roof" - built by Eichler Homes, designed by Anshen & Allen, in Orange, California; Photo Quiz; Hogarth - a man's painter; Brigitte Bardot - problem child - photo-illustrated article of her and her family; 7up ad inside back cover shows lady painting on man's back; Groovy Winston cigarette color-photo ad on back cover features male and female disc jockeys; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
198888 pages. Colour photographs. Includes music and lyrics from the super-popular 1980s album of the same name. Songs include: Sultans of Swing; Down to the Waterline; Portobello Belle; Twisting by the Pool; Romeo and Juliet; Where to you think you're going?; Walk of Life; Private Investigations; Telegraph Road; Money for Nothing; Brothers in Arms. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1961132 pages. Features: It is Happening Here - Current Misconceptions about Communism, by Revilo Oliver; Lincoln's Greatness - 1865; Are Churchmen Burying Us?; Thunder Frightens - Lightning Kills - The Soviet Union and Psychological Warfare; African Witches' Brew Concocted in Moscow - by Major George R. Jordan, author of "From Major Jordan's Diaries"; The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped - "The most infectious point of the disease is the family mailbox. It is here that so much of the pornographical sewage is dumped into the hands of so many of our children"; Let's Take a Look at the Good Guy; "From Your Valentine"; They Make Earthquakes - using seismic technology to find oil; Is Cultural Diplomacy the Road to Peace?; Hollywood Makes Me Laugh - M.J.R. Arthur's journey to the Panamanian jungle; From Religious Rite to Billion-Dollar Business - the origin of the popular pastime of bowling may astonish you; Alcoholism - a major problem; Slave Labor - USSR; What Kind of "Tic" Do You Have?; Foreign Aid Summary; Subjection... Disguised as Rebellion - progress that veers left tends toward subjection; research is Risky Business; We Adopted Two Orphans - Madeline Angell and two squirrels; Socialism by Default; Food for Peace and the UN; Benefit Program; The Administrative Agency Colossus - how laws are made and perverted with neither Congressional action nor judicial review; Guard Our Youth; A Growing Indignation - distrust and resentment to decisions from the Supreme Court; That Temporary Act - enacted as an emergency 26 years ago the TAA has been a millstone around the neck of U.S. industry; How to Win a War; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
192354 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1973408 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Two fold-outs. Many archival black-and-white illustrations. Hand-numbered copy number 811. "The history is traced from the first surveys of Pickering Township, to the establishment of Brock Road, then Bentley's Corners and finally Brougham. All aspects of this typical Ontario village are covered - social, educational, recreational, government and business - from its infancy in pioneer days to 1973. The final chapter deals with the controversial airport, proposed by the federal government, which would have obliterated this historical village." - from dust jacket. One of the better local histories from Ontario that we have seen. Moderate wear to clean, unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. Prior owner's name clipped from top of title page. Sound copy. Book
1927192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
192492 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Eskimo-American Girl by Neysa McMein; Lovely full-page black and white ad for Victola on page 3 (featuring model No. 360); Full-page black and white ad for P and G Naptha soap on page 4 entitled 'From Arizona to the Adirondack'; "A Great Rushing of Wings, by Emma-Lindsay Squier - illustrated by Maurice L. Bower; The Midnight Revel, by Thomas Hardy - illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; The Candle in the Window, by Margaret Hill McCarter - illustrated by Edward F. Ward; Christmas, by Gene Stratton-Porter - woodcuts by John J.A. Murphy; The Splendid Road, by Vingie E. Roe - illustrated by Robert W. Stewart; Reversion, by Robert W. Chambers - illustrated by Gerald Leake; The Loring Mystery, by Jeffrey Farnol; The Gods He Served, by Melville Davisson Post - illustrated by C.D. Mitchell; Spanish Sunlight, by Anthony Pryde - illustrated by James H. Crank; Charming 2-colour Campbell's Soup ad features Campbell kid with calendar and title 'Never let a day go by without eating soup!' - 21 kinds, 12 cents a can; Fels-Naptha ad; Pond' cream ad; Brown Durrell Company - Gordon Hosiery ad; Awsome colour ad for Mazola salad and cooking oil; Nice Eureka vacuum cleaner ad; Forest Mills Underwear ad; Davenport Bed ad; Montgomery Ward Catalog ad; Wonderful full-page color ad for Diamond Walnuts; Fantastic full-page color ad for Kraft Cheese; Page 64 contains a complete Christmas game which can be cut out and played; 13 pages of wonderful vintage clothing styles for women and children; Full-page ad for Fleischmann's Yeast; Lovely color Colgate ad on back cover features Christmas gifts 'that are sure to please'. Unmarked. Average wear to contents. Covers detached and heavily worn, but present. Please note: One-third of page 41 has been removed - it appears to have contained a 'tempting hint for holiday cheer'. Book
19048 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Zemstvos Gathering in Russia; Elections in the Interior; West Hastings Ballot Box Case; Fighting the White Plague - Enthusiastic Gathering and Sale of Work at Balmoral Hotel; Canadian Northern Track Layers Making Good Progress; Atlin Flourishing; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Half-Acre Lots: Just off Gorge Road, For Sale at $200, $225 and $250. (A Good Speculation)" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
1970Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1970Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
1970Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
1953Cover: Queen Elizabeth II Special Feature: Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. Includes: Article "Your Undoubted Queen"; The Ceremony in Pictures; Article-The Great March Past; The Royal Progress (photos); At the Palace and on the Route (photos); Article - Singing in the Rain; Article - Men in Full Dress; The Royal Family's Day (photos); Article - The Royal Family at Home and Article - The Royal Family's Fishing. Other features: Top-Gear Hawking; A Townsman in the Country: Reverie on Four Coronations; Sculptor of Animals - Herbert Haseltine; Country birds come to town; and Pattern for Ascot. Pages numbered 1053 - 1100. Average wear. Writing in ink pg. 1053. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Magazine