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1971414 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition. Fold-out maps. "One of the most remarkable and historically important journals of early North American exploration." - from dust jacket. Top three inches of front free endpaper neatly removed. Prior owner's blind stamp atop half-title page. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book and price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
194676 pages. Features: Politics in Khaki - The Inside of the Canadian Army High Command - McNaughton and Crerar stepped on Monty's toes - here's the record, revealed for the first time; Childhood's No. 1 Enemy - rheumatic fever; Battle of the Peacemakers - meeting at Paris; Witch of Endor - fiction; Kate Holliday gets a Hollywood makeup makeover; It rained poison after Bikini Islands' fifth atom bomb test - with photo; Hard rock miners; Honor of the Company - fiction; Flivvers in the Sky - fly your own plane; The Good Catch - fiction; Golfing Cop - Henry Martell - article with photo; Hell's Gate is open - upgrades allow Fraser River salmon to get further upstream - article with three photos; Nice ad for Waterman's pens with cheerleader theme; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Good Year tires features Mountie helping young lady in mountain valley; Superb Caterpillar bulldozer ad - "Boss of the Bulldozers"; Nice Fleet Aircraft ad; Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; Fantastic painted Coke ad on back cover features partying group of young people at table; and more. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1955132 pages. Fiction: Vacation at Home; Co-Hater; The Quarrel; The Star of Double Darkness; Forbidden Valley (part 3 of 7); The Magnificent Phoney (conclusion). Articles: We Like the Foreign-Service Life - Russ and Beatrice Ann Russell; Cities of the World - Buenos Aires - article with nice color photos; How Safe is Your Safe-Deposit Box?; I Pick Littler to Win the Open - great golf article with many photos; Too Much is Our Trouble - we pay millions to store excess food while others are desperately hungry; The Face of America - River Tragedy at downed bridge spanning the Homochitto 15 miles south of Natchez - J.E. Lay tries to save other drivers; The Doodads Women Wear! - Jeweler Sam Kramer of Greenwich Village - article with great photos; The Pooches Never Had it So Good. Ads: Northern Pacific Railway - North Coast Limited with the Vista-Dome; Republic Steel; Color-photo ad for KitchenAid appliances; G.E. Clothes Washers; Campbell's Soup; Buick Roadmaster - nice color-photo ad; Texaco - registered rest rooms; Philco appliances; Great color-photo ad for Sealtest features milkshakes; GM; GE Fridges; *Fantastic* two-page color-photo ad for GMC trucks; Chevrolet; Boeing ad features B-52; Fantastic one-page color ad for Seven-Up (7-up) features ice cream floats; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of White Morot Company salesman William N. Labarre as well as fleet owner Everett Lawrence of New Orleans; Very nice one-page color ad for Viceroy cigarettes features 'Facts About Cigarette Smoking'; Interesting two-page black and white photo ad for GE shows their generators and electric motors being used for experimental farm equipment; Nice color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Marilyn-like lady on bike; Betty Crocker pie crust mix ad on back cover. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Bit of unobtrusive writing at bottom of page 128. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197464 pages. Four pages of nice color photos of the boys and their band. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Coming to You; Didn't I Know You When; Lahaina; A Love Song; My Music; Pathway to Glory; Sailin' the Wind; Travelin' Blues; Watching the River Run; You Need a Man. Minimal light pencil markings to contents. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1901253 pages. Fold-out map of Glasgow. Twelve black and white plates. Fifty-two illustrations in text. A detailed and nostalgic snapshot of life in this wonderful city over 100 years ago. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Contents moderately tanned with age. A sound copy of this engaging and informative work. Book
1985135 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1964100 pages. Features: Fold-out front cover reveals a 3-panel colour ad for Ford cars; How Montreal's favourite cop chased away a persistent ghost - the Payfer familiy's apartment; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont; Our Double Image of Canada's North, by Blair Fraser; How Wealthy Sportsmen are plundering Tree River - the hottest spot in North America for the angler with an unlimited budget - article with photos; The Girl in the Forest - from novel by Fred Bodsworth; Arctic Hunt - a cruel contest where the prize is survival - great photos; An open letter to the French Canadian Nationalists, by Peter Gzowski; Sidney Katz argues that female spouses have the best of the marriage bargain; Montreal's fifth International Film Festival - article with nice photos; Quentin Reynolds describes how he went from smoking 4 packs per day to zero in five days; Nice two-page colour ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne; Norman Ward tells father Five Ways to Raise a Champion Non-Athlete; Nice two-page photo ad for Pilkington glass products; Sweet colour photo full-page ad for the 1965 Lincoln Continental; Nice two-page colour ad for the new 1965 Oldsmobiles; Don Francks - Canada's next big name on Broadway; Rita Ubriaco says Canada needs less birth control and more self-control; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features guy, girl and Jack-O-Lantern. Average wear. Address label on front cover otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1966Features: Gorgeous red photo ad for the 1967 Buick Wildcat Custom Sport Coupe inside front cover; Eilat hopes to be a tourist Garden of Eden; Montreal - how a big town became a great city - many great colour photos with article; Photos and brief write-ups for: Ulysse Comtois; John David Molson; Michel Robichaud; Louis Tavan; Hubert Aquin; Monique Leyrac; The Idler's Guide to Montreal; Can Israel cope with war adn peace? - Blair Fraser in Tel Aviv; Powell Smily reveals the living hell he experienced through Blackmail - it cost him $25,000 before he wrote this story; England Swings? - maybe the tiny, mini-skirted minority, but Alan Edmonds found the country depressing and he's glad to be back home; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Enjoying Montreal without speaking French; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Ad for the Bolens snowmobile called the Diablo Rouge; Crown Zellerbach ad features a majestic black and white photo of their log-laden train passing over the Nanaimo River on it's way to the Ladysmith booming grounds; The NFB - rudderless in a sea of talent - according to Don Bell; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: The 20 men who really run Canada, by Peter C. Newman; Ontario in the 1960s - a major article in which Peter C. Newman forecasts the progress of Ontario for next decade; Gentle Julie and her hard-bitten Romeo (Julie Harris and Bruno Gerussi at Stratford); The wonderful things we built in our basements; The trouble with middle-aged men - they're pasing through a change-of-life similar to menopause in women; The Olympic's most dangerous game - the 3-day equestrian competition; The mystery of the Merrifield - part 2 of 3; For the sake of argument - what Jews can teach us about divorce; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - her modest reappraisal of South Africa's whites. Why Winnipeg's little theatre keeps getting bigger; The lucky town with the rich uncle - Lord Beaverbrook's gifts to Fredericton. Front cover illustration of the Great Whale River airstrip on Hudson Bay. Great colour ad for a 1960 Chevrolet Kingswood Station Wagon. Colour Cinci Lager beer ad inside back cover. Colour Coke ad on back cover shows Great Dane in car with lady. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Chip from bottom edge of back cover. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Color Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice ad for International Harvedster crawler tractors; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color Packar Car ad - a Patriotit Hoarder!; Color Texaco ad; Washington's higher wage plan fails to meet U.S. strike crisis - Administration behind pay boost of at least 15%; Dodge truck ad; Behind Anglo-US Peace Line-up lies horror of Atom Bomb War; Irma Grese - the lady butcher confesses; Swiss Stake - war paid off, peace pockets are empty; Photo of General Yamashita and friends dining on Army chow in a Manila prison; Marshall weighs war and peace - 'Keep our arms, Train our men!' - urges year of service for America's Citizen Army; Color ad for Oldsmobile, with Hydra-matic drive; General Patton - The Mouth; David Dubinsky - leader of the 360,000 member International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Now Chemical War Secrets of the war can be told - with photos and long article; red Rio truck ad; Photo of schoolboys throwing banned Nazi flags and textbooks on a bonfire in Cologne; 1945 World Series; Color TWA ad; Higgins boat ad; Nice color Diamond T truck ad; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1961Features: The embarrassment of Louisiana - this state was glowing with prosperity until the integration conflicts broke out in all their ugliness; Abortion (part 2 of 3) - a reporter's portrait of the abortionists - who they are, and how they practice their trade; The face of America - River of Ice - photo of the Mendenhall Glacier; Pitfalls of buying a boat - Richard Bertram's Miami 'supermarket' sold $5,000,000 worth of sail and power vessels last year despite the disdain of competitors who think he's too high-pressured; A Call on the 'Candid-Camera' Man, Allen Funt; Can Ivan read better than Johnny? - Arthur S. Trace Jr. points out that Russian kids are far more literate than their American counterparts; Adventures of the Mind - The Hidden Heart of Nature, by Elliot Lovegood (E.L.) Grant Watson. Nice color Pepsi ad. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1945Features: Horrific opening photo of the ruins of Wesel bears the caption 'German cities are being pulverised to dust; photos of the British jet plane, the Gloster-Whittle; photos of the crossing of the River Rhine; Photos and details of Hitler's Berhof at Berchtesgaden; Photos of the capture of Mandalay; photos from Iwo Jima; The capture of Wesel; New equipment for use against Germans and 'Japs'; Pictures from Russia; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1931Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1957112 pages. Fiction: Summer Affair; The Selfish Kind of Love; Tugboat Annie and the Hoard of Heroin; Street of Fear; The Lady (part 1 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 3 of 7). Features: Memo to the Hungarian Patriots; This Place Can Save Your Life - the modern hospital's 'recovery room'; Religion Hits the Road - old camp-meeting methods are being used again; Is Yankee Pitcher Don Larsen a One-Game Wonder?; Rugged Bachelors of Okinawa - great photos and story; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - part 7 of 7) - he flopped as a movie star but smashed all records with his one-man show; American Sundown - beautiful photo of the Sundown Ranch in Slaughterhouse Canoy, California - home of the Lee Brooks family; The Lady Cops of the Dope Squad in Philadelphia - with photos of Gorothy Ferrabee, Dorothy Garvin, Geraldine Galcik, Margaret Logan, Lt. Glasgow Driscoll, Capt. Clarence Ferguson and Doris Fanning.. Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover features George Romney; GE pink appliances; Ford Fairlane 500 Town Victoria and Del Rio Ranch Wagon; Wonderful one-page two-color ad for movie 'Designing Woman' starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall; Florsheim Shoes - one page in color; 1957 Pontiac Strato-Streak; Lucky Strike cigarettes - inside diner; *Fantastic* two-page color Mack Truck ad shows illustrations of several models in color; Hertz Rent a car; GoodYear Tires; Nice two-page Chevrolet ad displays 20 of their models in color; Sweet Oldsmobile ad shows the Starfire 98 Holiday Coupe in a swank color waterfront scene; Totally wild color-photo one-page ad for National Cash Register (NCR) shows woman sitted in front of a massive Post-Tronic "The First Electronic Bank Posting Machine"; Colgate - romanti scene; Photo of Don Larssen with luscious Diana Dors; Nice color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Tasteful color photo ad for Hunt catsup; A&P Coffee; Cushman Road King; Great vintage one-page black and white photo ad for the new Jeep FC-150; Nostalgic color ad for Sunbeam electric lawn mowers inside back cover; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features cartoon artists Al Capp, W. Steig and Richter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195664 pages. Features: Cover art by John Little features Grey Cup final game at Vancouver's Empire Stadium between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes; The revolution that's changing your shopping habits - topsy-turvy trends produced by the frenzied battle for the consumer's dollar; Will they ever beat the Eskimos? - with their baffling split-T the Edmonton Eskimos have won the CFL's Grey Cup twice in a row - the task they pose is not to stop them but to find the ball; We adopted a family of criminals - Rev. Gordon Phillips and Bluebell Stewart Phillips took in prostitutes, murderers aand gunmen, and rejoiced when they went straight; Remember when we raved about the radio? - in the depression thirties, when there was little to laugh about, the comedians on radio convulsed a continent and made the radio in the parlor the centre of every family's life - many great photos; The Secret War of Charles Goodeve, Part Two - How they opened the door for D-day - with photos, including his floating bridge and rocket-propelled grapnel inventions; What would Carrie Nation do?, by Vernon Hockley; Amazing General Motors colour centerfold featuring a kitchen completely finished in pink; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of white water skiing in Austria's Salzach River, a sport (first called skiyaking) invented by Austrian champ Harald Strohmeier; Painter A.Y. Jackson recalls his most memorable meals - one in Tom Thomson's shack on Severn St. in Toronto, the other given by Lord Beaverbrook; Great colour vintage ad for Labatt's Chrystal lager beer shows man relaxing with smoke being served by his wife in front of the tv after he has been cutting grass; Expensive Sunbeam Bread promotion was Canada's biggest; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features old man in white rocking chair. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Magazine
1949140 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Kraft Cocoa Mix; 1-page color ad for Emery 'Magic Candle Bars'; Nice 1-page color ad for Pan American Airlines featuring Rio; The Truth About the Klan (KKK) Today - article with three photos including Dr. Lycurgus Spinks and Sam Roper; Stop That Shoplifter - article on shoplifters - mostly women - who steal $75 million per year; My Unsuspecting Bride (fiction); Kids Will Swallow Anything - the bronchoscope is used to safe children who swallow many strange objects - photo-illustrated article; It's a Man's World After All (fiction); Massive Foul-up - Our Planes, Tires, Tractors and Clothing - meant for the Nationalists - end up with China's Communist forces - article with photo; Mr. Technicolor - article on Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus with six color photos; The Hairbreadth Escapes of the USS Barb - article and photos of this US submarine which attacked Jap factories, made cities black out - and even blew a railroad train sky-high; The Du Ponts - part 3 of a photo-illustrated article on this family of industrial wizards; The Failure (fiction); Photo-illustrated feature article on Concord, New Hampshire; The Woman Who Wouldn't Run (fiction); Jack of Swords (fiction); Very attractive 1-page color ad for Campbell's soup; 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Homicide House (fiction); 1-page color Birds Eye Lima Beans ad featuring Carrie; 2-page black and white ad for Silver Star shaving blades features photos of Gene Cavallero, Wallis Rigby, Dr. A.W. Lindberg, Armand Denis, H. George Petrie, Rockwell Gardiner and Captain Arthur W. Pierce; Gorgeous colour 1-page Cadillac ad; Webster Cigar ad featuring large illustration of H.D. Hover, owner of Ciro's of Hollywood; Crosley television ad; Beautiful 1-page color ad for Studebaker trucks; 1-page 2-color ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; Borden's cheese ad features Elsie the Cow; 1-page color photo ad for Simmons hide-a-beds; 1-page color-photo ad for International Trucks mentions James Melton and the 'Harvest of Stars' radio show; 1-page color ad for Johnson & Johnson surgical dressings features reproduction of painting by Gladys Rockmore Davis showing boy tending to a girl's leg; Upjohn ad features reproduction of painting of young boy by Lawrence Beall Smith; 1/2 page color ad for Pixie cameras; 1-page Dumont tv ad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photo of Aqua-skiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher plus a photo of ace bowler Joe Wilman. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
194550 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1978Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1958104 pages. Fiction: Miss Carlsen is Mine; The Girl Who Had Accidents; Disaster oin the Outback; Botts Takes the Bait; Frame-up for Murder (part 1 of 3); The Chains of Fear (part 5 of 8). Articles: Our First Man in Outer Space - great photos of Scotty Crossfield who will be aboard the X-15; The Man Who Talks to Tapirs - Harry Gillmore in Sumatra - with photos; Our Houseboat Vacation; The Post Reports on Health Insurance - Part III - Is This the pattern of the future?; The Face of America - The Perfect Month - sensational large color photo of dozens of youths jumping from and swimming at the North Cove Bridge over the North Fork Catawba River; I Call on Lawrence Welk - great photos; Gold Rush Every Weekend.in California - great color photos of gold seekers in action. Ads: Very nostalgic color-photo two-page ad for Frigidaire's frost-proof refrigerator-freezer (blue); 1958 Ford cars; Chevrolet cars; Old Gold cigarettes; L&M cigarettes; Johnson & Johhson first aid ad shows boy diving into water beside lobster; Johnson Sea Horse outboard motor color-photo ad; Koppers ad includes large color photo of Ice Capades 18th Edition/1958; Lucky Strike color-photo ad on back cover shows young smokers playing golf, tennis and sunning. Slight loss to fore-edge of front cover. Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1877Pages 193-224. Features: The first church in Dover, and its Pastor - with illustration of Rev. George B. Spalding; Ancient institutions in Concord - The New Hampshire Patriot, The New Hampshire Statesman, The New Hampshire Historical Society; Did John Lovewell of Old Dunstable live to be 120 years old?; Hydrophobia, or Rabies; The Old Farm - a story in three chapters; New Hampshire men at Bunker Hill and Bennington; Chohass - the name of the great invervals on the Connecticut River at Haverhill, New Hampshire, and vicinity - with journal entries of Deacon robert Walker's and Matthew Patten's journey from Bedford to up Peezumsuch River in October and November 1764; The rationale of free government; History of Education in Nashua; Ad inside back cover for the patented Standard Broiler for beefsteak, made by D.Arthur Brown & Co. in Fisherville, NH. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this early issue. Magazine
1954116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1968343 pages. Bibliography. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. An informative history of Ontario's Haliburton County. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Prior owner's name in red marker along fore-edge. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this detailed reference. BISHOP p.1151. Book
194550 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Christmas at Fort Pitt; Hobby for Booklovers - the Canadiana book collection of D'Alton C. Coleman; The House That Mac Built - the log buildings erected by the North West Company in the north and west originated in French Canada - interesting photo-illustrated article on early building styles; Redcoats at Fort Garry - nearly a century ago, 300 foot soldiers, with artillery and engineers, came from England to Red River, brought by the HBC to stand on guard for Canada; The Cowichan Sweater - photo-illustrated article; Mining in the North; Sled Journey - photo study; Peter Rindisbacher - Red River Artist; Chief Factor Dr. John McLoughlin's Letters, 1844-46; Arctic fur show - photos of Eskimo ladies wearing fur fashions; Atmospheric Defence - how HBC 'brass-pounders' heled guard our northern approaches during WWII - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Veteran of Two Wars - the good ship 'Nascopie'; Vintage back cover two-colour (orange and black) ad for the HBC's Imperial Mixture of tinned pipe tobacco. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196182 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Pepsi ad inside front cover; 1962 Zenith TV ad; Political slush funds corrupt all parties; The Year the Government Sold the St. Lawrence River (power rights) to the Beauharnois power company; Last chance to save the world's rarest birds; 1961 - Summer of the Angry Forest Fires in the northern bush - article with colour photos; Brock Chisholm - Incredible Canadian; Disturbing report from inside the juvenile courts; A Weekend with the 'Wild Ones' at Wasaga Beach - short article with photos; UNESCO - the hope of the world - on paper; Cherchez La Femme de Montreal - photo feature; Julie de St. Laurent - portrait of a royal mistress; What it's like to lose the Irish Sweepstakes - Tom and Elsie Marsh of Squamish B.C.; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1987174 pages. Dozens of black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Our endeavour has been to collect and record the stories and pictures of yesterday so they will not be lost, and to record our present Springbend neighbours' stories for future generations." - from Foreword. First 135 pages present family histories and photos. Subsequent chapters include: Pioneers Remember; Springbend School; Springbend Community Club; Springbend Activities; Springbend Businesses; and more. Back cover map indicates major landowners of past years. Prior owner's name and details in bold black marker upon first blank leaf, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Slight musty scent. A sound copy of this excellent genealogical reference. Bibliographic reference: Hale & Barman #871. Book
