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196730 pages. Features: Cover illustration of "Culchillum, son of the head chief of the Cowitchins", by Paul Kane; The Half-Buried Hatchet, by W.A. Kenyon; Haida Art in Argillite, by S.W.A. Gunn; Indian Trade Silver, by Donald B. Webster; Early Canadian Iron; Tshmishian and Tlingit - northwest coast native art; North Pacific Coast Indians; Early Canadian Kitchen Utensils; Coast Indians produced Matchless Native Art, by Mildred Valley Thornton. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1978Features: Victoria's Crystal Garden - a landmark in iron and glass; The Art and Science of Josiah Wedgwood; The Canadian National Exhibition 1879-1978; An Unrecorded View on 19th Century Earthenware; The Historic Naval and Military Establishments - Penatanguishene, Ontario; Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald - Painter; Niagara Furniture Makers - IV; Prince Edward Island Silversmiths. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198038 pages. Features: An Iron Man - Carved of Wood; The Masks of Lotschenthal; Yorkarvers Stage Splendid Exhibition; A Message to Fellow Carvers/Sculptors; Exploring Power Carving; Into Michelangelo's Steps; Carving a mantelpiece is fascinating challenge; Robert Miller - Woodcarver Extraordinaire; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy copy. Book
195996 pages. Features: Dean Martin has the Last Laugh (without Jerry Lewis); The Beast of Belsen and the Dragon Tattoo; The Shrinking Violet - a story for lads with taller sweeties; Sucker in Paradise; Those Brooklyn Indians - 5,000 Mohawks in New York's most famous borough - Iron Workers, Big Chiefs of High Steel Construction; "My Favourite Girl" Photo Contest; The Man Who Married Annie Oakley - Frank Butler; The Great Football Swindle; Chinatown's Bloody Emperor - Fung Jing Toy evaded 200 attempts on his life; The Real-Life Drama of Willie the Actor - Willie Sutton; Yankee Lynch Mob - an angry crowd goes berserk at Port Jervis, New York; A Sight for Tired Eyes - Gale Fagan; Killer Trail of the Glanton Gang. Many nostalgic ads. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
194978 pages. Features: Gaffney the Accused; 'Jap Kids Are Our Job'; The Paper Trail; Pride's Castle; Trouble is My Middle Name - article by Rocky Graziano; Mickey Mouse, and How He Grew; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Iron Man (Alben William) Barkley; Truth or Consequences; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (Part 2 of 2); Let's Eat with the Harvey Boys - the Harvey network of Hotels, restaurants and shops; Alice in Wonderland; and more. Nice colour advertisements include: 1949 Mercury auto ad.; De Soto Auto ad; super 2-page centerfold Plymouth ad!. Above-average wear. Some library markings. Covers discreetly reinforced with flexible kraft paper. Binding intact but tender. A particularly interesting and entertaining issue. Book
1979Features: Fiery Vesuvius; The Peregrine Falcon's Return; Marine Chart Revisions Urged; In the Wake of Typhoon Pamela - survey of the effect on the Guan Reefs; Offshore Migration of Land Birds - Weather Fronts assist long-distance fliights; Meteors; Underwater Archeology - Photogrammetry of artifacts near Bimini; Native Iron in Western Greenland - discovery and interpreation; Semiotics; St. Lucia Expedition - to collect and photograph wildlife. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1978Features: Have you thought about patio?; the elegance of wrought iron; pests of ornamental plants; Golden wedding; the lady of the rose; flowers through the ages; my garden - the Duchess of Norfolk; The Arundel Floral Carpet; A flower arranger visits Singapore; Cutting material from a very small garden; It's in the pot; summer in the garden; colour it blue; shell scripture; the preservation of roses; the rose as a traditional Chinese brush; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1994112 pages. Many excellent black and white photos and diagrams. Articles include: Brunel and the Crystal Palace; Industrial Heritage of the Iron and Steel Industry in the Lower Rhineland; Excavation and Survey at Higher Woodhill Mill, Bury; The Glass Industry Revisited; 'The Name Liveth' - A remote sensing survey to decipher the illegible inscriptions on St. Mary's War Memorial, Nottingham; Coke ovens at Vobster Breach Colliery; Housing the Loom - a comment. Government stamp to title page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1983Features: The Transfer Block; Two for the Men; A Custom Bola; The Art and Science of Automatic Jewelry Finishing; Advantages of Crown Apex Facets; The Sirius Cut; Crafty Craftsmen; From Printer's Box to Coffee Table; Opal Triplets; Polishing on Cast Iron; Agate Near Beaver, Utah; On to the Expo of Gems by way of Oregon; Mission Trails Gem and Mineral Show; Microscopic Inscriptions on Gems; the Sabre-Tooth Cat; Men Wear Jewelry Too. Above-average wear but still a sound reference copy. Date stamp to front cover. Book
1993Features: Gold, Diamonds and Overhead Electrics - West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd. - South Africa's last original Narrow Gauge Surface gold Mine Tramway; Mallet Locomotives; Cab Forward - Part 2; Post 1945 Polish Industrial Steam Locomotives - Part 2; Ecuadorian National railways - the last steam-worked Andean railway - Part 2; Notable 2FT Gauge Lines - Estrado do Ferro Perus-Pirapora; The Origins of Narrow Gauge Steam Railways; Back Track. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
192972 pages. Magnificent cover art from the Canadian Life Series by A.C. Valentine entitled "The Habitant". Contents: Nice colour Heinz Tomato Ketchup ad inside front cover. Hudson Motor Car Company ad for its Essex model; The Parts Pigs Play, by G.R. Stevens; Canada's Fighting Airmen - Part 3 - Billy Bishop Earns His Second Decoration, by Major George A. Drew; The Tides of Hymen, by Leslie Roberts; Letters of a Woman M.P. - humour by H.F. Gadsby; The St. Lawrence Question - Part 2 - The Dangers of Non-Co-operation - debating the deepening of the St. Lawrence, with photos; Gamblers, by Victor Lauriston; Canada in the Caribbean - our trade efforts in the West Indies, by Harwood Steele, with photos; Gurl's Garters, by Hubert Evans; Give the Girls A Hand - Canadian Women have crashed open the gate of sport, by H.H. Roxborough; Vimy V.C.'s - Another Chapter from the record of the Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War, with photos of Major T.W. MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O., Lieutenant R.G. Combe, V.C.,k Private J.G. Pattison, V.C.; To Love and to Cherish - Part 4, by Constance Travers Sweatman; Nice Chrysler ad featuring the new '75' Royal Sedan; New Dodge Brothers Six car ad; Durant Motors of Canada ad for their "40" De Luxe Sedan; Strombert-Carlson Radio ad; Nice 2-colour ad for Swift's "Silverleaf" brand pure lard; Full-page Canada Dry ad with New Orleans theme; Nice Ford car photo ad promotes the concept of homes having two cars!; Nice Ovaltine ad; 10-minute Salads; Great vintage full-page ad by the Wallaceburg Brass & Iron Mfg. Co. for their Wallrich Shower and Waldorf Sink Faucet; Furniture finishing article; Business and Investments section; Great colour ad for Libby's Pork and Beans inside back cover; Very attractive colour ad for Parker Duofold DeLuxe pens. Address label upon front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Middle page loose but present. Cup ring on back cover. A worthy copy of this marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
1954Features: Nice colour ad for the new 1954 Mercury Meteor inside front cover; Nice full-page colour Chrysler ad; My six weeks with the comrades - story and pictures by John Lofft, who went to a 'peace' rally behind the Iron Curtain with a Communist-front group - a bonus-length feature; How Lethbridge licked the drought with 'The Ditch"; Grammar is a waste of time! - by Dr. Rudolf Flesch; Hamilton - the busiest city in Canada - Yousuf Karsh finds Hamilton brimming over with the same kind of energy that won the Grey Cup for its Tiger Cats - includes amazing full-page colour inside the Lifesavers candy plant; Karsh Portrait (in words and photos) of a Hamilton Steelworker - Paratrooper George Marshall; The Fire that wiped out South Porcupine in 1911 - a Maclean's flashback, with photos, of the bush fire that roared down on an isolated mining settlement; The 3-D courtship of Benny Crambo - by John Bonett; Great colour centerfold of a yellow 1954 Star Chief Pontiac. Somewhat above-average wear with openings at each end of cover fold. Address label on front else unmarked. Minor moisture staining to some fore-edges. 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
1948Features: What about the Comics? - are they good or bad for your children?; Daredevils of Mercy - RCAF rescue crewsfly the most dangerous job in peacetime aviation; Princess Margaret Gets Her Own Way - precocious, giddy and a little spoiled, she intends to enjoy life and be England's best-dressed woman; Bright Angel by Charles Bonner; Maclean's All-Canadian Football Team; The Red Tide Has Turned - has Karl Marx lost the hundred years' war? (short piece); At Summerhill School, the Kids are the Boss; Soldier of the Lord - The Salvation Army's Edith McLean; Ungava strikes it rich - enough iron to keep Canada going for 150 years, and that's just a start; Rhyme nor Reason - by Phyllis Lee Peterson; He was a lonely slave - stories gush from the mind of Thomas P. Kelley; Don't be cruel to your steak - Robert Elliott; Half-page colour Pepsi ad on page 36. Nice colour Lifesavers ad on page 38. Above-average wear. Chunks missing from pages 1-4 - content unaffected. Some water stains. Book
196060 pages. Features: Illegal housing in Vancouver; Roy Thomson tries to sell 5-pin bowling in Britain; Bank of Montreal ad inside front cover; Dorris Dodd and her battle against religion in the classroom; McKenzie Porter writes an early column in favour of free-range poultry; Nice colour full-page ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Colour ad for RCA Victor Stereos; Why the Things You Buy Don't Last; Colour full-page ad for Black Magic chocolates; Canada's Final Agonizing Choice on Nuclear Arms - Peter C. Newman article; Twelve Days of Christmas; Yoga Anyone; The Communists are Hard at Play - Marika Robert's astonishing account of the lighter side of life behind the Iron Curtain; The Weirdest Secret Weapon of the War - Geoffrey Pyke sold Winston Churchill a vision of unsinkable carriers made of unmeltable ice; How to Improve Your Ploy - or, How to interview Stephen Potter, who discovered Gamesmanship; Football Weekend - The songs, the parties, the fallings in and out of love - even the fake cannon blast that knocked an old grad down - on the weekend when McGill came to Toronto, ostensibly to play football - by Peter Gzowski; Cartoon by Ab Sens; Canada Packers full-page colour ad featuring Christmas turkey; Two-Page centerfold colour photo ad for Remington Roll-a-matic and Lektronic electric shavers; Colour ad for Kodak cameras; Seagram's V.O. colour ad; Full-page ad for Molson's Canadian; Nice 2-page ad for the Pontiac Tempest; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Black Label Beer; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe Ale inside back cover; Wonderful Coke Santa ad on back cover shows Santa in green armchair having a drink poured for him and his slippers being put on by a group of elves. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound, vintage copy. Magazine
195252 pages. Features: Nice cover art depicts an active school gym; Bagdad on the Thames - London Report by Beverley Baxter; Cigarette Smugglers Beware - Ottawa Report; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; The Riddle of Louis Riel - Maclean's flashback - article with photos, part 1 of 2; South Africa's Ku Klux Klan - the Broederbond believes God made the white man to be boss - article with photos; Blizzard in the Banana Belt, by Farley Mowat - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Vancouver Takes to the Hills - Skiiing in Vancouver - article with colour photos atop Mount Garibaldi and Grouse Mountain; Why I Work for God - The Reverend David S. Duncombe of Holy Trinity Church, Hicksville, Long Island - article with photos; The Shy Midas Behind the Ungava Iron Development - Julles Timmins- article with photos; She Cooked Dinner for the Princess - Maria Colquhoun - she is probably one of Canada's best cooks at Eagle Crest Lodge near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island - article with photos; How to Catch an Eagle - Winnipeg's Charles Broley is an international authority on banding eagles - article with amazing photos; "All Aboard..." - humor by Eric Nicol, illustrated by l'Amare; Bold colour centerfold ad for the 1952 Pontiac; Classy ad for the 1952 Chrysler cars; 1952 Studebaker ad inside back cover; Book
195380 pages. Features: Nice ad for the Dodge Coronet V*; The Family in the Palace - Part 1 of 7 by Pierre Berton - the absorbing story of the House of Windsor; What Karsh Saw in Toronto - wonderful black and white photos - a precous snapshot of Toronto in 1953; The Girl Who Became Melissa Hayden - Millie Herman has become one of the top ten ballerinas this side of the Iron Curtain - colour photos; The Row Over the Three Rs - short of staff and space our schools can't decide on what kind of education our chikldren should get - part 2 of the Crisis in Education; William Aberhart - the Mand and His Shadow - a Maclean's Flashback - nice photos; A Friendly Game of Cards - story by Antony Ferry, illustrated by Keith Dalgleish; What's Put Hockey on the Skids? - article with full-page photo of a scrum between the Bruins and Leafs; At Grips With A Grizzly, by Colin Wyatt - the true story of probably the only man who has fought a grizzly bear with his bare hands and lived to tell the tale!; Nice colour Buick ad; Colour Plymouth ad; Nice Heinz soup ad with girl's photo; Colour ad for General Motors of Canada shows several car and truck models; Bing Crosby in Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad; 1953 Mercury car ad inside back cover; Attractive Coke ad on back cover shows well-dressed hostess setting a nice table. Light wear. Unmarked. A pleasing copy. Book
1992Features: Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940; Thomas Edison - the battle of the systems and the persistence of direct current; The Persistence of Draft Oxen in Western Agriculture; Technical Advance and Stagnation - the case of nail production in nineteenth-century Montreal; The Influence of Resource Quality on Technological Persistence - Charcoal Iron in Quebec; Time for a Change? - Technological Persistence in the British Watchmaking Industry; Change and Diversity within traditional Cooperage technology; Randolph Hersey and the Montreal Nail Industry, 1852-1903; Revolution Forgotten - The Peters' Combination Lock Co., Moncton, N.B.; and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
1960Features: Swedish spike belt; Tiny German Brutsch Mopetta; "We can death-proof our highways"; Big Boom in Dinghies; HO Electric Cars; Talking Teeth; The $200,000 Pipemobile, built by The American Pipe and Construction Co.; Preview of the 1961 cars; Test of the Hillman Minx; Florida Speed Museum; McCahill tests the Ford Tunderbird; The Amphicar from Germany; Russian Iron - photos of 8 Russian automobiles; Care for your Rambler American; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1986Features: Repro/Reflections - an alternate to expensive antiques; The Bye-lo - the million dollar baby; antique Christmas toys - toys that Grandma played with; Make a miniature Christmas Doll; - complete pattern details; Bye-lo Christening dress - for that special million dollar baby; Stories and Pictures of 'the big babies'; the Fabulous doll collection of Alex Jordan; A Christmas tree of dolls; the story of Mary Lou - Effanbee "Sugar Baby"; From behind the Iron Curtain - a doll sent out of love; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194696 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Mercury cars inside front cover; Photo of Dr. Bertha Lutz of Brazil; Nice early one-page ad for Northwest Airlines includes large table of their new flights and low fares; Great color-photo ad for Caterpillar called "Grand Canyon of the Mesabi" features massive iron ore excavation; Nice one-page ad for International Trucks; Food - that a hungry world may eat; Photo of fire at Barrett plant of Allied Chemical in Philadelphia; Photo of baby Betty Lou Hall kissing President Truman; Juvenile delinquency; Is 1946 another 1920?; Great one-page Boeing ad for their Stratocruiser shows cute little boy in cabin gazing out window; The Lichfield trial over brutality to prisoners; Nice Kaiser-Frazer car ad; Great one-page color Cadillac ad shows imposing red grill; Conflict in China; Prince Morimasa Nashimoto leaves Sugamo Prison; Photo of General Douglas MacArthur inspecting honor guard in Tokyo; Nice one-page ad for Good Housekeeping Magazine shows fashionable lady reading; Before and after photos of the hanging of Hungarian police major Laszlo Baky; The controversy of the Anglo-American command; Nice one-page color ad for TWA announces they are the first to put the Constellation in the air; Photo of blind war bride Mary Martin who married Sgt. George Alkenbrack and now lives in Napanee, Ontario; One-page ad for the Country Gentleman Magazine shows crop-duster in action; brief obituaries for Harlan Fiske Stone, Arthur Chevrolet, Walter E. Dandy, and John Maynard Keynes; Creepy photo of soldier wearing night vision equipment called snooperscope; Superman article features photo of Clayton Collyer, the radio actor-announcer who plays Superman; Gold - the South African find and the world's wealth; Stocking - leg bootleg; Color ad for National City Bank of New York features paingint of rubber tappers in Malaya plus photo of Raymond G. Hill, Singapore Supervisor; Nice ad for Trav-Ler radio; The OPA reaps the whirlwind; One-page ad for Redbook Magazine; New York Yankee Pitcher Spurgeon Chandler; Legend for Canadians - photo of Coulter and Willan who used folklore for Canada's first opera; Photo of Beverly Anne Cort performing a risque dance in the Detroit suburb of Van Kyke; Nice one-page color Budweiser ad features young boy returning from fishing with his catch, while envious adults look on; Nice color-photo ad for Canadian National features Jasper, Alberta and its lodge (with small inset color photo of Minaki Lodge in Ontario); Vindictive treatment of Stalin by Trotsky; The Faith of Harold Stassen; Nice color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Juan Belmonte, Spain's great bullfighter; Nice back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features man in suit who learned his ABCs (Always Buy Chesterfields); and more. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194968 pages. Cover: General Dwight Eisenhower Contents: Our Frontier, the Iron Curtain; Politics: Getting the (Harry F.) Byrd; Ike, the Atom, and '52 - General Dwight Eisenhower; Crime: Slugs on Sunset Strip - Mickey Cohen and Dee David; The Cardinal (Spellman) and the Lady (Eleanor Roosevelt); Jackie Robinson Pitching; Flare-Up in Florida - Ku Klux Klan, Willie Padgett; China: Showdown Time for the U.S. - Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, U.S. Ambassador to China; Britain: (Winston) Churchill Speaking; Yugoslavia: Buttressing (Josip Broz) Tito; Trials: British Vampire - John George Haigh; Pacts: The Anglo-Russian Deal; Russia: 10 Million Slaves; Guatemala: Coup That Failied; Mexico: Oil and Dollars; Medicine: Penicillin Prophylaxis; Bedlam Subdued - Research and Development Board and Dr. Karl T. Compton; Business: Who Says Depression?; Civil Answers to Shrewd Questions; and Perspective: Feeding Hungry Horses. Binding intact. 4.5" X 1.5" piece missing fron front cover. Large clippings missing from pages 19 and 20. Some foxing to front cover. Two chips from back cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
1990Features: Small Scale Surprises; Reflecting on Windows - Part II; Kilgore Cast Iron Furniture; Tour Guilderville; Mina (Ralph Lauren) Polo Shop; The secret to getting your kit house started... and finished; Three slices of life in a converted brownstone apartment house; Cabriole Leg Arm Chair; 1/4" Scale Beds; Upstairs/Downstairs - a 1/2" scale room box kit; Claycrafting Sunny Bear; A Turn-of-the-century Kitchen; The Kitchen Garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1966Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1967Features: Reprint of rare book 'Twelve Years in the Saddle for law and order on the frontiers of Texas, by Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Texas Ranger; an Indian fight in Jackson Hole - the Bannock Indians; Canadian Gold on a California Reef - Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan; The Dogie from Kickapoo Creek - John Boon Formwalt; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; The Lost Love of Jim Younger; Rocky Mountain Iron Man - Bruce Neal; Spokane's Fighting Marshal - Joel F. Warren; Tales of Tonopah, Nevada; . J. Wright Mooar and John W. Mooar put a price on the head of the buffalo! ; Slick faced and Sweet Smelling - early barbers; I saw Jim French Die - Catoosa, I.T.; Father Thought the world of Charley Russell; Old Fort Moroni; 'X' marks my room - early stagecoach travel; 'Denver has always been a good show town'; and more. Clean and unmarked (aside from 3 works underlined on page 7) with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
