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1962Features: Cover photo of the RCMP National Ride; The Cannibal Cities - how urban sprawl is eating Canada alive, by Jane Becker; The Magical RCMP Musical Ride - with colour photos; Can you trust a Chiropractor with your Health? - two million people do; Does anybody here speak Canadian? - by Barbara Moon; Nights and Days of a Ward Boss - Frank (Banjo) Hanleyand how he runs his polyglot political kingdom on the seedy side of Montreal; Ask the Name of the Lion, by Ralph Allen (conclusion); Nice colour photo centerfold displays seven models of Kodak cameras; Nice colour photo Molson Canadian ad inside back cover shows picnicking family with the bridge over the Welland Canal under construction near St. Catherines. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1985240 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many archival black and white illustrations. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Pages just beginning to yellow at edges. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1936Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
1983Contents: The Politics of Pot; The federal government's six and five program stays alive; Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Canada; The NDP's quiet revolution; Quebecair for Quebecois; The Way We Are - latest national census results; The rise of a bilingual Canadian elite; Tales of five vibrant cities in transition - Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax; Walter Mondale vs. John Glenn; Pope John Paul's challenge of hope for Poland; Yasser Arafat's movement is faced with disintegration; Striking back at Pinochet in Chile; Takeover battle for Canadian Tire; Peter Newman writes about how the next Japanese export to Canada will be money; Carling Bassett's brush with tennis glory; Battle over the Health Act; The Garrison Diversion Scheme; Thomas Barton's device eats PCBs; Nice ad for Apple personal computers; Rev. Kaye McKibbon founds organization to support ministers in conflict with the church; Allan Fotheringham's humorous take on the federal Liberals sniffing the wind for a successor to Trudeau. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1982Features: Toyota 1982 Corolla SR5 Hardtop ad; Peter C. Newman - Canada is the world's luckiest land; The Subtle art of clowning around, by Michael Clugston; Delaying democracy - the Liberals delay calling by-elections; Three dead at Archambault Prison; Canada's antiquated sex laws, by Susan Riley; The grim resort to desert law - Beirut; Mad Mike Hoare jailed; Indira Ghandi visits Washington; Somalia - lessons for a shaky leader; Confidence crisis over the Canadian banks; Penn Square Bank failure; Lietzke win's Canadian Open; Cover Story - After-Hours Learning is our most popular pastime; Photo of Miss Universe Karen Baldwin; Photo of Prince Charles and Lady Di with baby Prince William; The little towns and villages that grew - people moving out of the bigger cities; Airdrie Alberta - a town gone wild; Money Mart - cashing cheques with or without ID; The Synchro-Energizer; Nationalizing antiquity in Greece; Injecting soul into a new machine - the band TBA; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1941Features: Nuffield Organization ad inside front cover; Photos of U.S. Shipping Aid, Wing Commander John Gillan; Anzac Lumbermen; Brooklyn USA Dockland Fire - great aerial view; Great large photo of a long line of "Valentine" tanks in use with the Polish tank corps; Photos of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat - shot by Paul Collette on August 27th; 10 wonderful aerial photos of Ancient Persia's Ruined Cities - the Palace at Persepolis, etc.; Article on the situation in Thailand today; When Oil Fails - illustration of German tanks used as fortified posts; Super war photos from the Soviet Untion; Article - The War with Nazi Germany - Russia and Iran; Photo of Iran's peacock throne; Four awesome large photos of the Low-level R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam on August 28th; Centerfold painting of British Aircraft No. 6-A "Swordfish" swinging away from H.M. Aircraft-Carrier "Illustrious"; 10 interesting photos illustrate made-to-measure lifeboats and other equipment for imperilled R.A.F. pilots; Photo of Queen Wihhelmina inspecting Dutch troops in the Midlands; Variable-Pitch air screw education by de Havilland; Article about Sea Cucumbers, with illustrations; Colour Dewar's "White Label" Scotch ad on back cover shows men playing darts. Minor inkstamp to front cover and twice to contents. Clear tape inside each cover along spine and externally along spine. A sound copy. Magazine
1941Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
195058 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1967Contents: George Wallace; What is Art Today? - a Time essay; Chiang Kai-Shek; Nice full-page color-photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Goa; Disputed farmland between Syria and Israel; Bart Starr; Great Ford color photo centerfold ad features the Mustang, Cougar and Thunderbird; Numerous color photos of smog over American cities - and article on smog; Photo of electric-powered Dauphine car with silver-zinc batteries; Nice color photo ad for the Lincoln Continental with suicide doors; Fire at McCormick Place - with photos; Widmer's Winery; New Larynx for Lance Corporal Walter Lopata; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1967Contents: New Haven urban renewal; Urban Coalition; A Program for Cities; George Lincoln Rockwell and the National Socialist White People's Party, and Rockwell's murder by John Patler (Patsalos); Photo of maiden flight of Navy F-111B; Trainees at For Sill P.O.W. Course - preparing for the worst - with photo; Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard awarded Medal of Honor - with photo; Smoking and Safety; Forest fires in the Northwest; Vietnam War update; Macnamara on Bombing the North; Arab Refugees after war with Israel; Review of Israel's victory; Photo of North American Aviation's XB-70 and X-15 supersonic aircraft; Ch'u Silk Manuscript; Photo after marriage of George Scott Romney, oldest son of Michigan Governor George Romney; Photo of Bobbie Gentry; Bus Mosbacher; Swimmer Debbie Meyer; Gaylord Perry and the Spitball; Sandy Dennis - article with photos; Photo of Edgar M. Bronfman who purchased shares in MGM from Philip J. Levin; The death of Henry John Kaiser - story with photos; "Alligators" - LaCoste sports shirts; Clarence Jackson of Phoenix, AZ and his fight with Sears; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear to cover. Book
196060 pages. Features: Nice color ad for the SS President Hoover; The 8,708,000 Members of the Communist Party of Russia - article with photos; What Makes a Good Spy?; What is the Proper Role of the U.S. Supreme Court?; Franco-German 'Twins' - The cities of Mainz and Dijon are twinned; Plea for Fairer Ladies; Another Summit - pictures of the trek up Everest; Senate Subcommitte on policy planning is spotlighted by the summit collapse and the U-2 affair; Fantastic color-photo ad for the General Dynamics USAF B-58 "Hustler"; Exodus - photos of the making of the movie; Nice fashion photos - Summer in Stripes; Opening the Door for a Deaf Child; and more; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
196032 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Jonathan Logan/Lord & Taylor; Not the Goal, Only the Means - a warning to not let the virtue of private enterprise to become a vice; The Words of Freedom - photos from the National Archives Building; A Politician Must Watch His Wit; First Visit to a Muffled Colossus - Moscow is almost the last of the unknown cities; When Lewis Walked Down Main Street - the novel "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis; Nice color-photo ad "Carol Craig goes to Mission Valley"; The Chants of Childhood; Our Vital Non-Summit Conferences; Nice color-photo ad for Ballantine Beer; Nice fashion photos "Meanwhile - Back at the Ranch" by Hiro; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
195268 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage 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
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
