Maitland, Alan: Selected ByMareMagnum
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1995296 pages. Twenty-nine festive favourites, selected and introduced by Canada's best-loved storyteller. Bright colourful dust jacket pictures Santa (or is it Al?) in front of a warm Christmas fire. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
1960Features: The Grand National Steeplechase; Glasgow Fire; Volcanic Eruption of New Guinea; Khrushchev visits De Gaulle; Master Works of Ancient Iranian Artists; Makerere College, The University College of East Africa; The Rover 80 and 100 - automobile feature; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1958Features: The first transatlantic jet airliner service; Princess Margaret's informal visit to Belgium; Regimental Fire; H.M.S. Leopard Commissioned at Portsmouth; Rugby School; Labour Party Conference at Scarborough; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
194776 pages. Features: John L. Lewis vs. the People - the man who ran the coal mines in wartime says the U.S. must break the power monopoly of John L. Lewis; Look Out when you Eat Out; What to do in a Fire; Hundred-Year Harvest - Farmers in 72 lands use Massy-Harris equipment; Elizabeth and Philip - Close-up of a Royal Romance; Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; The Nahanni Valley. Nice colour ads for: The Banff Springs Hotel; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Stetson Hats; Canada Dry; SOS Pads; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Maxwell House Coffee; Kellogg's Corn Flakes; Good Year Tires; Carling Breweries; Studebaker automobiles. Average wear. Covers partially detached. A worthy copy of this very nostalgic issue. Book
1877359 pages. Recalls the tragic ruination by fire of Saint John New Brunswick in 1877. "It is a hideous story at the best, full of the very saddest events and the most exciting scenes. The contemplation of that disastrous evening, that lurid night, that pile of spectral ruins, makes us hesitate to dip the pen; yet it should be written." - from Preface. Illustrated. Front free endpaper removed. Heavily worn. Various defects. Reading copy only. Book
1962Features/Photos: Iranian earthquake kills 20,000; Farnborough 1962; Politburo versus Willaya IV - Algeria; Royal Tomb at Igbo, Nigeria; Mariner II - tearing the viel from Venus; Colour photos of nuclear explosion 200 miles over Johnson Island; Southern California Brush Land Fire; and more. Centerfold loose from one staple. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1942Stories: Sea-Wolf of the Arctic; The Dam that Didn't; The Odyssey of the Olga; Fire in the Forest; Some Adventures with Grizzlies; An Eventful Inspection; The Purser's Tale; Adventure Ahoy; Find the Woman; A Little Oversight; The Horns of a Dilemma. Covers detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
1939Stories: The Great Porcupine Fire; Asking for Trouble; Singing Our Way Through Europe; Feats of Indian Fakirs; The Wyoming Outlaw; Worms that have Turned; Our Township; The Road-Makers; A Californian Lion Farm; Vanished Ivory; Pieces of Eight; Bird of Bad Luck; Two Collisions. Average wear. Book
1990Songs include: Tragedy Trail, How the Mountain Came Down; Shanty Town Sharon; Fire in the Mine; Somewhere, There's Sorrow; Don Valley Jail; Benny the Bum; Black Donnelly's Massacre; Battle of Despair; Reesor Crossing Tragedy; The Little Boy's Prayer; Around the Bay and Back Again. Average wear overall. Great Stompin' Tom collectible. This album was originally recorded in 1968 but this tape was probably made circa 1990. Book
1970Approximately 50 pages. Undated - circa 1970?. At time of printing, 2 digit phone numbers existed in nearby Nanaimo! A nice local keepsake with the personal recipes of many well-known ladies plus contemporary advertisements. Average wear. Front cover appears to be a facsimile with balance original. Book
1968Features: A History of Military Pyrotechnics - Part I of III; Army Marksmanship Beginnings; Smith and Wesson Extension Stocks; French Oval Bore Pin Fire Revolver; Davis Museum. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1915Front cover portrait of General Sir Standish Monteith Hamilton, G.C.B., D.S.O. The Fight for the Dardanelles. Centerfold photos of the great attack on the Turkish defences of the Dardanelles/ Kum Kale Fort on fire. Photos and Illustrations include: Channel Islanders in wartime; Photo of shrapnel bursting over the Belgian trenches in Flanders; Australians on the Gallipoli Peninsula and ready to advance in the Dardanelles operations; The sinking of the H.M.S. Irrisistible; The last of the French Battleship Bouvet; Turkish torpedo attack on the British transport Manitou; and more. Covers secured by tape. Above-average wear. Book
1916Cover portrait of Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has entered the Cabinet as Minister of Blockade and Contraband. Feature: The Clash of Teutonic and Anglo-Celtic Interests in the United States. The Germanic Conspiracy against the United States. Photos re: German Lieutenant Robert Fay, in the U.S. Photos of American munitions factories destroyed in the name of Kaiserism. Photos of a motor convoy transporting $52 million from the Bank of England to Wall Street. Photos of the Royal Flying Corps in training. Portrait photo of Lieut.-General Sir E.H.H. Allenby. Centerfold photos of the U.S. Destroyers Benham and Parker (trailed by immense clouds of black smoke!). Photos of Canada's burning Parliament building - captions says fire was started by German incendiary bombs (if true, this history has been suppressed in Canada). Three photos of Viscount French of Ypres inspecting men of his home command. Covers secured by tape. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1994VHS video tape 28 minutes in length. "An epic ski mountaineering journey to the sleeping volcanic giants of the Pacific Northwest: Mounts Shasta, South Sister, Bachelor, Hood, Adams, St. Helens, and Garabaldi Park, British Columbia." - from cover. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
1982160 pages. Numerous great colour illustrations and statistics. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Please note: mild waviness to pages, presumably due to past moisture exposure. No stains or odours. Book
1989Features: Pro Patria - searching for truth, duty and valour at the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada; The Duck Dilemma - Plagued by drought, loss of habitat and predation, North American waterfowl hit an all-time low; Symphony of Fire - Pyrotechnical wizardry at the world's largest offshore fireworks competition on the shore of Lake Ontario. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1999Features: Cowboy Culture - Alberta's cowboys still rule the open range; Joy at the Present - after 25 years in Tuscany, a Canadian sculptor Robbie Bell has found a harmony in where he is and where he is from; The Fire Next Time - Nicaragua's most active volcano has erupted more than 20 times; Home Waters - The shoreline of Cape Breton's Bras d'Or Lakes is bold and the water deep; Caribou at the Crossroads - the fate of the Peary Caribou lies in the hands of politicians. Light wear. Sound copy. Book
1974Features: Fire in the Mexican Gulf; The Marine Art of Arthur Briscoe; P & O Liner "Canton" of 1938; Ships on Stamps - The Chichester Breed; Dover Re-visited; Malta's National Shipping Line; The Barge Carriers - 3 - "LASH" on the North Atlantic; The John Herron Line. Book
1917Illustration Features: Surrending Germans pass through the French lines; The Battle of the Nieuport Dunes - Matchless story of the Northamptons and the King's Royal Rifles (article by Max Pemberton); Canadian Pioneers at work and at Liesure (5 photos); Men of many climes who fight for France; Italians in the Alps and in the air; These Three historic years - article by Lovat Fraser; Aerial activity of four warring nations; Immortal Heroism of K.R.R.C. & Northamptons; Incidents in the Battle of the Nieuport Dunes; British Women's Mission of Mercy in France; How the Hun encourages neutral powers; 'Pipsqueaks' that served to alarm all London - 5 photos of air raid sound rockets; When Paris was in Peril - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Fire and Fury Flaming upon the foe in France. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
195896 pages. Few school markings else clean and bright with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1977Features: Civil Turbofan - the reasons for the success of turbofans with ever-higher by-pass ratio, Good results with bigger models and prospects for the 10T thrust class, future tendencies; Spruance Class - monorama special report with super colour fold-out illustration and much more; Shipboard Fire Control Systems - their characteristics and applications as adopted by the various navies; Japan's satellite program; The Mounties of the Sea - De Havilland DHC-7R; Aero-Caster used by Vancouver Shipyards; Ilyushin's Aircraft; Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (II); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1961Features: Defense money is not wasted - General Nathan F. Twining; Hospitalized at Home - home care preserves scarce hospital resources; How Smart are Computers? - Doctor John R. Pierce; People on the Way up - Mary Fran Leuckee, Richard Goodwin, Eugene Shinn; The Master Planners - here are the men who largely decide what you may and may not see on TV; Fire Pilots - Airborne firefighters; Football's League of Headaches - an inside report on the problems that threaten the life of the American Football League and the San Diego Chargers; Battle for New York - Candidates Wagner, Lefkowitz and Gerosa battle for New York's Mayoralty. Average wear. Book
1987Steiff's 1st - 'Fire Brigade'; 'Sunday Best Outfit'; Mink Teddy; Bearplane Wall Hanging; Pear Prices; Animal Maker of France; 3 free pattern projects; Aux Nations, Part 1; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
193796 pages. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos and illustrations. Substantial text describes the development of the company, its products, and their manufacture. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A qualty copy of this very nostalgic and informative Colt memento. Book
2000200 pages. Index. Printed upon glossy stock. Many reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos and illustrations. Oblong 9"x12". Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this very informative and nostalgic work. Book
