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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
195164 pages. Features: Great colour full-page ad for Jane Wyman and the movie The Blue Veil; Why Red Hill Did It - For a hundred years the Hills of Niagara have courted, cajoled and defied the waterfall with a strange and fatal passion - article with many superb photos; What it's Like to Be a Movie Star - Robert Ryan; The Exotic Dream of Adam Draycott - story by J. B. Morton; How to Live Without Arms - Herb Gott has no arms but has made a useful and interesting life for himself as Canada's most 'off-hand' actor - article with photos; The Saintly Figure Who Changed Canada - J.S. Woodsworth - article with photos - a Maclean's Flashback; Hockey's Greatest Scoring Machine - Maurice Richard - article with photos; I Guarded Winston Churchill, by Ex-Detective-Inspector W.H. Thompson - with photos - part 2 of 3; Maggie Ingraham's Leaving Cape Breton for Toronto - each year thousands of youngsters like her leave seashore and prairie for the magnet of the big cities - article with photos; Nice colour Buick ad; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Full-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs shows boy on sled; Black and white photo of Gordie Howe on ice as part of ad for Prest-o-lite batteries; Nice ad for Yardley English Lavender inside back cover; Bulova ad on back cover features watch bands. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A high-quality copy. Book
1989492 pages. Index. With 1 chart, 389 figures and 19 tables. Colour map stored inside back board. "I hope this book helps foreigners as well as Chinese to understand the urban development process..." - from Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
1928xx, [2], 200 pp. From the "Das Gesicht Der Stadte" series edited by C.O. Justh. Foreword in German. Two-hundred full-page sepia-tone reproductions of photos accompanied by brief captions in English, German, French and Spanish. Subjects include architecture, religion, common scenes and the people. Attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon deep azure cloth-covered front board. Large gilt letters upon backstrip partly rubbed. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Small recent bookstore label inside back board. Moderate external wear. A sound copy of this exquisite trip back to Beijing in the 1920s. Book
197796 pages. Features: Suburbia's gift to the cities; Tamerlane of the Performing Arts; What is Education? Who is Educated?; Patriotism of the Scots; Modern America Makes a Breakthrough; Fashions in Fashion Photography; Noise; Duane Hanson's Down-Home Folks; Squash, paddle, and racquetball in the city; Germany's new wave of young film makers; Growing up cynically with TV; and more. Average wear. Address label remnant upon front cover. Magazine
197948 pages. Features: Cover photo of Jerusalem sidewalk shoe repairman; Census of Agriculture; The Usefull and the Beautiful Urban Parks in China; Reflections on the Landscapes of Memory; Public and Private Space in Soviet Cities; The Framed Landscape; The Kleingarten - Evolution of an Urban Retreat; Strong Opinions - The Modern British Guidebook. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198148 pages. Features: Sacred Sands - The Civil Religion of the Indiana Dunes; The Diffusion of Silos; A Short Discourse on Cattle in the Hothouse; Recapturing History - a Plan for Gritty Cities; Wisdom and Wilderness; Juxtapositions; The Imprint of the Enlightenment - Tuscan Hill Farming in the Eighteenth Century; The Boutiquing of Cannery Row. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
200696 pages. Most text in English plus some in French. Features: Infrastructure as Architecture; Junction City; Urbi et Orbi; Modern Architecture and Flight; Ubiquites Publiques - Desynchronized Public Spaces; Clean, Plastic, Stainless, and Ruined - the Dream Cities of Douglas Coupland; Walled City. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1943Pages 1-50 plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Newfoundland - the watchdog of the Atlantic - with many great military photos; In the Heart of British Columbia's Coast Range; The Watermills of Old England; Occupational Therapy Across Canada; Some Canadian Cities (meaning and origin of names); Canada's Postcard Commandos - using photos to identify and target assets of our military opponents; The Balkans; and more. Some of the best ads include: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (with artillery illustration inside front cover); Quebec Liquor Commission ("Please Use Less"); Empress Hotel/Chateau Frontenac Hotel (combined photo ad on back cover). Moderate wear. Small name stamped inside front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
2006144 pages. Chronology. Signed by John Hartman upon half-title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. "Offers an artistic vision of cities as living organisms, deeply intertwined with the natural terrain of a geographic site." - from dust jacket. Generously illustrated with black and white and beautiful colour reproductions of the author's works. Quite faint visual evidence and waviness to bottom of book and dust jacket from moisture exposure. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this handsome work. Book
1923Pages 177-264 plus 16 pages of wonderfully nostalgic ads. Features: Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part 1 of the amusing account of the travels of a husband and wife with their donkey; The Diamond Smuggler; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part 6 of 6; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part 4 of 4 of an important cinematograph expedition to the interior of Africa to film wild animals - article with many great photos; Two Robinson Crusoes - surviving three months on a desert island; Sorcery and Spiritualism in Papua - restoring the dead to life, table-rapping and curses that kill - photo-illustrated article; The Little Brass God - a planter's odd experience in India; Poaching on a King's Preserves; Through the East by Air - Part 6 of 6 of a wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a ten-month expedition to view middle-eastern cities by air; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 1- the amazing life story of a man who was once banished to Guiana; Afloat with a Madman - a fireman goes mad aboard the "Algerian Prince" in the Bay of Biscay; Capturing 'Coperhead' - the story of a murderous Kentucky feudist in the mountains near the Kentucky - West Virginia border; photo of man standing in front of the largest saw blade in the world, a 108" diameter product made by Henry Disston and Sons, of Philadelphia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1981108 pages. Features: Color-photo Volvo car ad; Nice color-photo ad for the Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 7000; Brooklyn Ghetto Child Baby Love; Ronald Reagan decides to build the MX missile and the B-1 Bomber - article with great color photos; Selling AWACS to the Saudis; Two-page Itt Canada ad features their numerous Canadian industrial applications; Is John Hinckley crazy about Jodie Foster?; South Florida swamped by refugee needs and violence; Graft in Oklahoma; How to cut benefits without hurting the truly needy - school lunches; Nissan Stanza ad; Nice one-page color photo ad for CP Air's Empress Class service; Ad for the Olivetti S6000 computer; Nice color-photo ad for the 1982 Mazda RX-7; Unemployment Plague in Western Europe; Solidarity sticks with Lech Welesa, but his policies are attacked; West Germany sends superspy Gunter Guillaume East; Bloodshed in the streets of Iran; Buick ad for the 1982 Riviera, Electra and Estate Wagon; First Person Account of Life in a Khomeini Prison; Wiser's Whisky ad features photo of master blender Keith Baldwin and many co-workers at the Thurlow Township distillery; Taipei rejects Beijing; 8-page color ad feature for Sheraton Hotels; Soviet Rockers - Woodstock, Yerevan style; Whiff of Panic on Wall St. - article with inset photo of Joe Granville; Sonny Cough and a once-only tax-free deal; Color-photo Luxman stereo ad features inset color photo of Boris Brott, conductor of the Hamilton Philharmonic; The Bath Iron Works in Maine; Color-photo ad for the 1982 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue; Coping with the high cost of moving employees; Art Feature, "Paris 1937-1957 - An Elegy"; Celebrity color photos of Chester Gould, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner and Alfred Kahn; U.S. Cities look to Europe for more livable streets (trying to tame the automobile); Nice color-photo ad for the Toshiba Beta V-8500 VCR; Two-page ad for the Peugeot 505SR car; Photo-illustrated article on singer Pat Benatar; Pulp industry ad includes color photo of waterbomber in action; Color photo ad for the Chevy Cavalier; Large protest for black colleges in Atlanta; Karpov and Korchnoi meet in chess; The Hinckley Case and the Insanity Plea; Passing of Romulo Betancourt, Robert Montgomery and Harry Golden; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
192632 pages. Features: The Loneliest Man in New York - an intimate study of Frank A. Munsey by one of his former newspaper executives; Through the colored glasses of Freudism the doctor looks at Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady - and decides that Freud should be repudiated; Building Good Roads by Gasoline - income from tolls, gas tax and licenses pays for U.S. roads; America's Scattered Children - the American flag flies in Alaska and more than halfway across the Pacific on thousands of islands; 'Bad English' is a Heritage from Olden Times - much of the grammar now classed as incorrect has come down to us by word of mouth from the time of Chaucer and before; Henry Ford's Page - understanding how the public mind moves from interest to disinterest; Editorials - the defeat of Mrs. Ferguson in Texas was actually a repudiation of her husband, Jim Ferguson, corn is a huge commodity, taxes hurt the British whisky-making industry; Voyage of the Victoria - The Passage of the Strait (part 9); The Women of Mexico Awake - they claim freedom which their American sisters enjoy; Pity the Poor Baseball Scout! - he deals in human ivory; Phoning in the Woods - photo-illustrated article on phone lines serving fire-fighting Forest Rangers in Montana; Chats with Office Callers - New Yorker article explains how for three times in a row the writer attended church, only to witness the uplifting of those of another religion; Rare Americana in a Unique Setting - the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Some Vanished Towns of Kansas - cities that died before they had lived/State Capital which could not be found; Interesting tree photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1941Pages 493-524. Features: Photo of Greek Prime Minister M. Alexander Korizis; Nice one-page cutaway illustration of British No. 1 Infantry (heavy) tank Mark IIA in action; Lovely two-page illustration of Britain's womanhood as mobilised for victory in national war services - in their many uniforms; Two-pages with fifteen illustrations of the gentle art of baling out of an airplane (escape technique); Six photos of Italy's defeat and humiliation in Libya, where the Nazis have taken over; The War with Nazi Germany - The Peril in the Near East - article with map showing the German advance in North Africa and one-page relief map showing Germany's sphere of Mediterranean operations from the Balkans and Libya, aimed at the oil filds of Iraq and the Suez Canal; Map of the entire Balkan theatre of war; Seven photos illustrate the "New Order" at work in France, Yugoslavia, Japan, and Bulgaria - Mr. Matsuoka in Germany, capture of Otto Kretschmer, large French crowd giving Nazi salute to Marshal Petain, and Nazi tanks being welcomed to Bulgarian village; Two pages with nine photos illustrate 'Germany's Hammer Blows in the Balkans - important cities and sites in enemy hands in Yugoslavia and Greece'; Centerfold illustration of Lysander tailgunner eyeing a tempting target during exercises somewhere in England; Six excellent photos illustrated victory of the Sons of Hindustan in Eritrea; Excellent photo illustrates planning for the capture of Keren; Photos of fourteen personalities of the week include Maj.-Gen. Carton De Wiart, V.C., Leiut.-Gen. P. Neame, V.C., Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. O'Connor, Maj.-Gen. M.D. Gambier-Parry, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Maitland Wilson, Queen Mary of Yugoslavia, Hitler shaking hands with Rommel, Rashid Ali Gailani, and M. Laszlo De Bardossy of Hungary with Hitler; Photo of the Air Council in session at the Air Ministry, with nine men in attendance; Fascinating one-page article with four photos describes how 'health-giving rays, 240 times more powerful than sunshine, help the war workers; Photo of Danish ships in custody in the U.S.; Photos of Italian ships seized by the U.S.; Photo of Italian ship sabotage damage in US waters; Victorious return of H.M.A.S. "Sydney" to Sydney Harbour; Four photos of "Catalina" flying boat used in the U-Boat War; Illustrations of eighteen victorious fighter pilots from the Battle of Britain; Article on the Sturgeon (fish) and its ancestors; Lovely half-page photo ad for Bentley cars; Many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Nibble from bottom corner. A quality copy of this dramatic wartime issue. Book
1941Pages 693-724. Features: Photo of Major John Bagot Glubb Pasha, reportedly killed in action in Iraq; Four photos of British evacuation from Greece; Informative two-page, seven-illustration feature describes the winged invaders of Crete - troop-carrying gliders - and the JU '52' sky tug; Excellent two-page illustrated feature entitled 'War in the Stratosphere' explains some problems presented by the enigma of flight miles above the earth; Six photos beneath the caption 'Eagle Wings of the Royal Navy - The Victorious Fleet Air Arm; H.M.S. Hood lost May 24 - photo of the ship and photo of part of her crew on deck during firing practice; Photo and illustration of the "Bismarck," sunk on May 27; The Battle for Crete - article; Three maps showing the strategic importance of Crete and Cyprus; Centrefold illustration depict Germany's air invasion of Crete - the first major attack by air-borne troops, across over 200 miles of sea; Photos of the "Beaufighter" night-fighter-bomber and the famous U.S.A. "Catalina"; Photos of thirteen personalities of the week include Igor I. Sikorsky setting record in Connecticut, Vice-Admiral L.E. Holland, Captain R. Kerr, Lord Austin of the well-known automaker, General Smuts, Sir Horace Rumbold, Flight-Officer F.H. Hanbury - first member of the W.A.A.F. to receive the M.B.E.; Two pages with twelve photos from Libya illustrate "Where Panzer Units Become Junk" - The Gallant Defenders of Tobruk; Five photos illustrate fighting in the western desert of North Africa where British patrols harass Nazis; Air photos of the cities of Rakki, Palmyra and Falluja; Photo of the King inspecting paratroops; Photo of truck carrying the wreckage of the ME. 110 fighter which Rudolf Hess flew to Glasgow; New discoveries in Iran exemplify the superb art of Persian goldsmiths over a period of seventeen centuries. Nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative wartime issue. Book
197120 page magazine. 9 x 6". Reproductions of black and white photos. A monthly publication intended as a medium of information concerning the Jews, Israel and the work of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. Features: Salutation by Daniel Fuchs; Q & A; Jewish News; Incidents from the Field; The Story of a Retired Missionary; Passover Banquet in the Twin Cities; Messianic Youth Fellowship Goes All Out for Jesus; Israel in the Spotlight - Chapter 13; Includes nice photo of the Breslaw family; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
197220 page magazine. 9 x 6". Reproductions of black and white photos. A monthly publication intended as a medium of information concerning the Jews, Israel and the work of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. Features: Salutation by Daniel Fuchs discusses the use of radio by this Ministry; Q & A; Jewish News; Incidents from the Field; A New and Exciting Life - by Gittie Pampillonia; Open doors for the Gospel in the Twin Cities; Chicago Action!; Israel in the Spotlight - Chapter 13 (cont'd); and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965108 pages. Features: Great color ad for a purple two-door Buick Grand Sport Riviera; Cover photo of Munick; Front cover fold-out photo of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot; Segretation Crisis - Chicago's Troubled Schools; Germany Twenty Years After Hitler; The Last 100 Days; Germany Today; A New World of Surgery; The Butler goes to College - California students work their way through college; Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox High Note; On the Set with Moreau and Bardot; Electric heat features color photo of Gene Carolan and family in Iowa; Edison Electric Inst. ad features photos of Edward Stansfield and family of PA, Giacomo Liggera and wife of Poughkeepsie, Oklahoma executive Kenneth White, Jr. and wife, and Kentucky Salesman Arthur Waits of Lexington, and family; Dove ad features photo of Mrs. Marilyn Konzet of Great Neck, Long Island; Lovely color-photo ad for the (yellow) 1965 Chrysler; Two-page color Del-Monte ad; Nice color-photo FTD ad; Vintage two-page colour-photo ad for Greyhound bus lines; Two-page Budweiser ad says "No additives, please!"; Color-photo ad for a maroon Chevrolet 1965 Chevelle; CBS radio network ad with photos of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Lowell Thomas, Phil Rizzuto, Marvin Kalb, Frank Gifford and Harry Reasoner; Classy color ad for a cream-colored 1965 Pontiac Bonneville (in Italy?); Wow! - two-page color-photo ad for the (red) 1965 Ford Mustang GT; All-American cities; Nice color ad for GMC pickup trucks; Back cover color ad for Chesterfield King cigarettes includes photos of Elly Travlou Dubinsky of Missouri, randall A. OSmon of Florida, and Donald C. Barnette, Jr., of Ohio; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1921Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. 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
197690 pages. Features: Celebrating the Bicentennial; Immigrants celebrate coming to America; Nancy Donnelly is removed from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Italian election results; Shock waves from Soweto Riots; Arab peace-keepers arrive in Lebanon; Lopez Portillo in Mexico; Seychelles President James R. Mancham; Color photos of impressive new buildings in multiple American big cities; Dan Burden and Bikecentennial '76 which saw cyclists pedal from Astoria to Williamsburg; Great color photos of the ol' RWB (red, white and blue); Washington Cathedral - article with color photos; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
196726 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Feature article entitled "Cities of the Future" focuses on the Illinois River Corridor. Considers Temenopolis I and II, Hennepin Two, and the central core (centrum) of Indianapolis; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Creases to covers. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
196714 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Feature: Photo-illustrated excerpts from two-page article on Theater-Building for American Cities by Dankmar Adler which appeared in The Engineering Magazine in 1894; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
197330 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Stellar Design Work - SOM's (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's) Four Major Telescopes; Stark in the Park - The Chicago Historical Society Wing; Champaign-Urbana at the Crossroads - a time of decision for the twin cities; and more. Moderate wear. Tanning along front cover fold. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
197526 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Greening of Landscape Architecture; In the Spirit of Jens Jensen and Alfred Caldwell; The Garage with the big plaza on top - part of a redevelopment in Tulsa; David Kropp - Bring Back the Prairie; The works of Novak-Carlson and Associates; How to develop new open space inside our cities; The Springfield landscape - a bid for licensing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine