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1928Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1979482 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Endpapers decorated with historic local cattle brands. Moderate wear. Writing atop copyright page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this very informative local history. Book
194882 pages. Articles: Headline Heaven - The National Press Club; Our Poisoned Waters; How E.H. Crump, the boss of Tennessee politics, was Licked; She Dies for Old Columbia - Loretta Little is the wife of Columbia's football coach Lou Little; Joe Palooka and Me - Ham Fisher on his comic strip; Amos 'n' Andy - Ain't Dat Sumpin' - Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden; Bright Kids Can Fail; Uncle Sam's Latin Salesman - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre of Peru; Texas' star end Peppy Blount. Fiction: A Nice New Pair of Wings; Saturday Fever; A Man For Dalphine; Good-By, Good-By; The Impudent Rifle (part 1 of 6); Marriage '48 (conclusion of 5 parts). Ads include: Studebaker; GE radios; Ethyl; Florsheim shoes; Vitalis (with Sid Luckman); Union Pacific Railroad; Philco phonographs; International Trucks; Westinghouse radios and phonographs; Mercury cars; *Outstanding* Dodge Truck centerfold displays 29 of their 248 different basic chassis models; GE coffee makers; Botany 500 fashions; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page photo-portrait of Fulton Lewis Jr., radio commentator and news analyst; Sheppard Diesels; "Red River" movie with John Wayne; Goebel beer; U.S. Army; Blatz beer - featuring actor Victor McLagen; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1956120 pages. Features: Cover painting of Okanagan apple harvest by James Hill; Great macho colour ad for GWG workwear inside front cover features hardy men building pipeline; Don't damn the U.S. for facing up to segregation; Let's stop leaving our future to old men; We're not so smart about the U.S.; Nice one-page colour Canadian Pacific ad features the luxurious new Empress of England; Nostalgic one-page colour ad for the GE pushbutton range (yellow); Your stake in teh U.S. Election between Eisenhower and Stevenson; The Next Ten Years of TV - amazing article foretells remote control, recorded programs (i.e. VHS), and TV in cars; Our Hidden Canadian Art Treasure - a new National Gallery promises to give breathing space to it - article with six pages of colour illustrations; They're Building a Vest-Pocket Empire on the Fraser - the Duke of Westminster bought agricultural Annacis Island in the Fraser River and plans to turn it into an industrial colossus - article with great photos, including aerial photo of the island before work started on industrial sites; From the Notebook of Dr. Hans Selye - this famous Canadian doctor, whose theories on stress inspired a new approach to medicine, looks at our ills, worries, hopes and failures and offers fascinating findings; The Killing Ground - complete novelette; Photo-illustrated article on young Canadian actress Jacqueline Ellis; The spectacular farewell of Wellington Axminster; The Black Day the Quebec Bridge Fell - on August 29, 1907, 75 people were killed when the world's biggest cantilever bridge collapsed while under construction - photo-illustrated article; Bill Dawe transports 740 mink 4,000 miles from Vancouver to Newfoundland in pursuit of cheap whalemeat - photo-illustrated article; Nice colour ad for the Omega Sapphette ladies' watch; Attractive lady featured in one-page colour ad for Philips TVs with 'Focalite' tuning eye; One-page colour ad for Massey-Harris-Ferguson features painting of pastoral farm scene with Holsteins in the field and farmer driving seed drill back to barn; Nice one-page Hammond Chord Organ ad; Nice one-page photo ad for the Schick '25' electric razor features red-headed man in suit and tie; Rexall centerfold ad features dozens of sale items at 1950s prices; One-page ad for GE's Ultra-Vision TVs; Vintage Allied Van Lines ad; Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ad for O'Keefe's Ale features man hanging from end of train swinging yellow lantern; One-page ad for Birks Silversmiths advertises their Birks Sterling; Colour Wiser's Whisky ad features elegant couple; Champion Spark Plug ad features inset photo of Alick S. Dick, Managing Director of the Standard Motor Company; Colour-photo one-page ad for Canadian Club features condor catching in Peru's Andes; Dr. Heinz Unger recalls a birthday feast during the Russian Famine; Crane heating ad features illustration of men sitting around comfortable pot-bellied stove in country store; Sidney Katz' system of writing; Funky one-page colour ad for Simmons Hide-a-Beds features lady in orange dress on green hide-a-bed; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1980vi, 671 pages. Map endpapers. Hundreds of black and white reproductions of archival photos. Unmarked with moderate wear to illustrated saffron cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A sound copy of this precious northern Alberta local history and genealogical reference. WETHERELL 6-30, KROTKI [2e] 448. Book
1975Presents the local history of an area of southern Alberta along the U.S. border which includes the communities of Aden, Foremost, Grain, Grassy Butte, Indian Rock, Knappen, Myrtle Dell, Pinhorn, and St. Kilda. About half the book is devoted to biographies. 220 pages including list of names/biographies. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Average wear. Openings between front cover and each end of backstrip. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this informative local history and invaluable genealogical reference. Krotki [2e] 488, Strathern 3070. Book
194052 pages. Features: Outstanding colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover shows their products being used on a gigantic Rio de Janeiro water conductor project; Nice ad for the Ford V-8 Truck (van); Canada Dry ad; "By the Lovely Dove" (fiction); Beverley Baxter reports on his trip to the war front; Sneed and the Loud Suit (fiction); An Industry with a Creed - The story of the world's biggest asbestos mine at Asbestos, Quebec - article with photos (no breathing protection in sight); A Menace to Navigation (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 5 - The Servicing Units - article with photos; Wings of Hazard (fiction); Mary Rose Thacker - Winnipeg's North American figure skating champion - article with nice photo; Great colour full-page ad for DeSoto cars says "Enjoy Life!"; Nice highbrow colour full-page ad for Chrysler cars; Gordon Dunstan's Quiz; Nice Pontiac car ad; Nice colour ad for Nash cars on back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A very pleasing copy. Book
194878 pages. Articles: Kansas Staggers to the Polls - bootleggers will be out of luck if the state votes wet this fall; Why Ike Said No - a close friend explains Ike's refusal of the nomination; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 14) - Three Titans Spin the Globe - revealing the conversations of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; Carelessness - The Child Killer; Air Transport - the answer to air power - in global warfare, cargo planes are as vital as fighting planes; Suited for the Campus - autumn style notes for college men from Maine to California. Fiction: Second Man on the Ticket; Someone to Watch Over Katie; Boy's Best Friend; It Wouldn't Be Fair; Rain in August; An Affair of State (conclusion). Ads include: Fortune shoes for men; DeSoto car; Bell Telephone; Seiberling tires; 1949 cars; Plymouth; RCA Victor radio-phonographs; Pendleton shirts; Hickok belts; Admiral portable radios; U.S. Rubber (centerfold); Dodge Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Jantzen sweaters; Evelyn Neblett in Pepsodent ad; Rand shoes; Loretta Young in Auto-Lite ad; Springs Mills; Indian motorcycles; Dan River; TTD; Kodak; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring diving star "Jim" Fairbrother. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1952104 pages. Fantastic black and white photos throughout. Autographs and inscriptions inside each board and scattered throughout. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Bonus: Laid-in is a stapled list of mailing addresses for students in this book, perhaps circa 1980s. Book
1926Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1899Pages 588-610. Features: Cover illustration by Ernest L. Blumenschein entitled "Wards of the Nation - Their First Vacation From School" depicts a Native American scene; British Problems in Asia; This Busy World; The Passing of John Barrett, United States Minister to Siam; Photos from the Philippines - Admiral Dewey Going for a Drive Around Manila, Admiral Dewey at the Office of the Captain of the Port at Manila, Dakota and Montana Troops Crossing Wrecked Bridge over the Rio Grande; The Philippine Revolt - The Malolos Campaign; Photos and write-ups of these men in the news - Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Major Arthur M. Diggles who was lost in the Malolos Campaign, Augustin Daly, Rev. W.H.P. Faunce of Brown University, and George K. Nash, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio; Full-page illustration by W.A. Rogers entitled "Conquering a Desert in Southern Arizona"; A page of photos and illustrations along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal; The Nicaragua Canal in Sight - article by Francis E. Leupp; Ballad of Leiutenant Miles; Two-page centerfold compilation of photos and illustration depicting the proposed Nicaragua Canal, the country through which it will pass, and the people along the route; Hawaiian-America; An American Sovereign (continued); Amateur Sport - considerable text with six photos; Poem To Augustin Daly; The Conspirators (continued); Great vintage ads, including an illustrated one for the Columbia Bevel-Gear Chainless Bicycle from the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
1984x, 103 pages. Bibliography, maps, diagrams and black and white reproductions of photos. "A comprehensive history of the trail between Grouard [Alberta] and the Peace River 1792-1919" - Wetherell 7-54. "Of the thousands who had occasion to travel this trail, the reminiscences and notes of David Thompson, Father Grouard, Inspector Snyder and Agnes Deans Cameron, among many others, give us an intimate look at the many moods of this forgotten route." - Introduction. Evidence of two stickers removed from upper corner of illustrated front cover. Prior owner names atop first blank leaf. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative and well-researched history. Book
1962An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Kama Sutra - A Marriage Manual for the Maharajah, article by Gary Jennings; Navy Blues - Three-page pictorial essay on a sailor's one-day pass; Photo feature on Dina Frost, a native of Johannesburg, South Africa; Red River Red River - fiction by W.W. Russell; How to Bag a Starlet - humor by Jason McNichols; Photo essay of Mirian Mickelson and Conrad Pringle rehearsing for the Dance of Life; Wine, Women and Rhyme - article by Morton J. Golding on how skill with words can get you plenty of action; Frank Sinatra Speaks - interview with Jay Rosenburg; The Rose Mustache - fiction by H.C. Neal; Dear Old Dad - satire by Lee Steeger; Photographic essay of new Italian starlet Rosanna Schiaffino in"Two Weeks in Another Town" boat scene with George Hamilton; A Myth Punctured - fiction by H.D. Birns; Reduction AD - fantasy by A.M. Andres; Photo essay of Miss Louise (Lou) Lawson; Surfing photos from Hawaii; Photos of Bernardin training actress Francoise Brion how to strip; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1925Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1978357 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with wonderful archival black and white photos. "The district covered by this book is from the Smoky River to Sturgeon Lake, comprising those areas served by the post offices of Goodwin, DeBolt, Crooked Creek, Clarkson Valley, and Sturgeon Heights." - from Foreword. Prior owner's name written and stamped atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A solid copy of this informative work. WETHERELL 6-38, KROTKI [2e] 744, STRATHERN 3165. Book
195072 pages. Features: Why We Are Loosing the Cold War - what does it profit America to have the world's biggest bomb if it has forgotten the ideals that made it great?; The Busiest Woman in the World - Kate Aitken keeps 21 secretaries punch drunk with 260,000 letters a year, she makes 600 broadcasts to 5 million listeners, takes tea with the Queen - but she can't knit - article by Gordon Sinclair with photos; Rendezvous in Riga - Part One of the tale of how Bill Cosgrove got his wife Anna from behind the Iron Curtain; The Mighty Saskatchewan River; Maverick Member from Fernie, B.C. - Tom Uphill has parlayed political pranks into a record eight-session term at Victoria; I Tried Suicide; Eggs Are What You Make Them - a fun article by Robert Elliott; The Girl in Stateroom 9 - story by Allan R. Bosworth - illustrated by Jack Bush; Pogo's Pal Kelly - Walt Kelly's swampland satire is the hottest newcomer in the comic strip parade; Tinned Meat and Old Masters - After being swept from Europe by the Nazis Fred Mendel brought jobs and glamour to a startled Saskatoon - article with photos; Exercise is the Bunk - Relax!; Dow Brewery ad honours bus driver Russell Millen of Huntingdon, Quebec who evacuated his school bus before it was struck by a train; Nice colour Chevrolet ad; Little Lulu featured in Kleenex ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features Coke machine with caption "Host of the Highways". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1911Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1965Features: A River Dies - and is Reborn again - New Jersey's Raritan River; We are deluding ourselves in Vietnam - Hans J. Morgenthau; Even if they can't read, They should have the right to vote - Andrew Hacker; After Fifty Years the cry of Ypres still Echoes - 'Gas!' - the beginning of chemical warfare in 1915 - chlorine and tear gas; Secret of the Nureyev Spell; The New York World's Fair - Act II; Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: The Berkeley Affair - Mario Savio vs. UC President Kerr over free speech; A Japanese remembers Iwo Jima - Toshihiko Ohno; Could Reginald Maudling win for the Tories?; We are too deep in Asia and Africa, by Frank Church; It's Middletown - On the Potomac - a Washingtonian considers the recurrent 'passion for reshaping the city; Two men from Moscow pay a call - journalists A.N. Druzhinin and Stanislav Kondrashov; Driving tests should be tougher; What will become of the Hudson River?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: The village of Kibweta in the war-torn Congo; The hard limits of government by consensus - LBJ is up against it; Daily Dilemmas of the Attorney General - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Commuters of Rio de Janeiro gripe but they love their city on its 400th anniversary; The American Dream and the American Negro; Venezuelan artist Marisol (includes picture of her with Andy Warhol); New York's street gangs no longer 'Bop,' they 'Jap'; Playwright Neil Simon's Prescription for Comedy. Crossword completed otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1928Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
197060 pages Photos of Boots in color and black and white. Includes sheet music for B flat tenor sax, E flat alto sax, and piano for these songs: Ave Maria; Crackety Jacks; Games People Play; King of the Road; Little Big Horn; Lost Sinner; Mickey's Tune; Moon River; Night Train; Yakety Sax; Yodelin' Sax. Rare and wonderful songbook by the genius composer of Benny Hill's theme song 'Yakety Sax'. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1927Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1976431 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. "The area covered by this book extends from the Kananaskis on the west to the Little Bow on the east of Stavely as the nucleus." - from page four. Former library markings. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Decorated yellow cloth-covered boards. A worthy reading copy of this very informative local history compilation. Book
194640 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of snowy Quebec church scene; Colour Canada Dry ad; How Much Was Exploded by the Atomic Bomb?; Photo of tractor train pulling into Yellowknife from Lower Hay River; Jergens Lotion ad with photo of beautiful Marie McDonald; The Prime Minister Sweepstakes; Knocking at the Door (short story); British Columbia (B.C.) Counts Her Trees - a general plan is required for the perpetuation of the province's timber stands - photo-illustrated article with aerial photo of Ladysmith fire, July 7, 1945; Laurie is so Optimistic (short story); Home Aides; Advances in Science; Buffalo Farmer Ed Butters of Michigan - photo-illustrated article on man who purchased a 250-animal herd in South Dakota and moved it east; Nearest My Heart (shrot story); Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Pontiac (maroon four-door Silver Streak); Photo ad for Woodbury soap features three photos of newlyweds Mabel Lucille Holland and ex-RCAF officer Thomas Mitchell Mills, both of Montreal; Charming colour Fry's Cocoa ad with kids running home from school; Photo of Gypsy Rose Lee in Arrid ad; The New Fashioned Woman; Back cover colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows trio admiring large cut of meat; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
