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1993320 pages. Index. "Written primarily to tell marine aquarists how to select and care for sea anemones... Has great reading and educational value for freshwater hobbyists and students of natural history as well." - from back cover. Loaded with great colour photography. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1965Features: I hate Paris in the springtime - Robert Daley; The Intellectuals and Vietnam - Stewart Alsop; Ceiling Zero (The Human Comedy); Massachusetts - Rogues and reformers in a state on trial - Ted Kennedy content (so what has changed?) - the Garage Scandal; Horses in the living room - the Assael family has many pets, including 5 miniature horses; "I Spied for the Russians" - Robert Glenn Thompson; India - downhill toward disaster - the year since the death of Nehru; Shirley Temple - her eyes are still dancing - great photos!. Colour Ford Station Wagon ad. Super colour Cadillac ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1995VHS tape with case. "Provides non-resistance approaches to preventing and/or solving the numerous difficulties that are common in handling and riding (horses). Trailer loading, biting, standing still for mounting, crossing water and overcoming fear of hazards are all covered in the common sense, detailed manner that Chris' videos are well-known for." - from cover. "Chris is a talented horseman, one of those rare teachers who can share his insights and understandings with others." - Horse Country Magazine. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Undated. Circa 1995? Book
1975111 pages. Index. Reprint of the 1971 first edition. Many black and white photos. Bottom two inches of backstrip open. Binding brittle with pages loose or beginning to loosen. Prior owner taped page 109 in place - backwards. A worthy reference copy of this informative work. Book
198688 pages. Features: Portraiture - greatest challenge, greatest satisfaction; Styling key to successful women's portraits; Male Portraiture - the art of character; People photography - a model's portfolios; Price lists and brochures; The psychology of child portraits; Pets are people too. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
2006120 pages. Features: Caralee Randall's Fight for Off-Leash Dog Parks; Could You, Should You, Clone Your Best Friend?; Meet Zelda Wisdom, billionaire Bulldog (of greeting card fame); Daisy Fuentes on her canine kids and life in L.A.; From the Dog Park to Dating - How to Meet Your Match; Pup Fiction - an excerpt from Sheila Burnford's classic 'The Incredible Journey'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great issue. Magazine
2007144 pages. Features: Rescued Dog Saves His Mistress; Ultimutt Gift Guide; Digging Dogs; Paula Abdul interview; Guide to Miami; Dogpark Discourse 101; Sibling Revelry; The Michael Vick Scandal; Dancing with the Canine Stars; Teach Your Dog to Jump; Pup Profiles; Calendar; The Modern Dog Photo Contest; Grooming in a Pinch; Ask Dog Lady; Healthy Treats Your Dog Will Enjoy; Top Trainers Answer Questions; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
2005120 pages. Features: Refugees of Hurricane Katrina; Dog Names Then and Now; Shannon Elizabeth - Actress and Animal Avenger; Does Your Dog Belong in the Office; What Your Dog Says About You; The Year of the Dog; Patrick McDonnell's Comic Canines; Puppy Mill Expose; Animal Past Lives; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
2007120 pages. Features: Are there dogs in Heaven?; 18 Awesome activities for you and your dog; Prejudice in the dog park; Guide to Austin, TX; A Toy Romance; Emily Holmes; Can Your Dog Be Famous?; The Doggie Diet; Helping dogs in a South African Township; Dark dog shines ray of hope for stranded cetaceans; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1957140 pages. Fiction: End of a Marriage; The Platoon of Pariahs; A Dream for Sale; Record Run; The Lady (part 3 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 5 of 7). Articles: The Glamorous Governor of New Jersey - Bob Meyner abandoned bachelorhood mid-term; The Seven Dictators of Broadway - Reviewers John McClain, John Chapman, Richard Watts, Jr.; Robert Coleman, Tom Donnelly, Walter Kerr and Brooks Atkinson; ; The Woes of Willy Mays - why 1956 was almost a nightmare for him; The Oddest War Ever Fought - The Aden-Yemen war has been going on for 2,000 years, with daily time-outs for prayers and narcotic binges - article with maps and interesting photos; The Face of America - Prize Babies (photo); Pals of My Childhood - Farley Mowat writes of his two hilarious pets; My Daughter's Silent World - Adelyn Pagenstecher was told her daugher Mari was deaf; A Bloom for Mother-In-Law - beautiful color photos of tulips and daffodils ; Wonderful Wooden Sandwich - how plywood turns waste wood into a useful product - with photo of Sol Walter (Tony) of United States Plywood.. Ads: Liberty Mutual auto accident insurance; Savage brand lawn mowers; Bunnygrans - one-page photo ad featuring Lucille Ball and son; Nice Easter-themed two-page photo ad for Buick cars; National Cash Register (NCR) adding machines; Fantastic three-page color ad for International trucks; Vigoro plant foods; One-page black and white photo ad for movie "The Spirit of St. Louis" starring James Stewart; Great two-page color-photo ad for the 1957 Dodge Swept-wing convertible featuring Lawrence Welk; Pink Westinghouse clothes washer; 1957 Frigidaire pink (interior) fridge; 1957 Ford - two-page color-photo ad; Pall Mall cigarettes - cowboy scene; Page & Shaw chocolates; Chevrolet - two-page color photo of four 1957 models; Elgin Watches (graduation theme); American Airlines - nice color two-page ad shows glamorous lady boarding plane; L&M cigarettes - nautical theme; Eaton tandem axle ad features Joseph J. Hock of Baltimore; Longines-Wittnauer Watches; Nice two-page color ad for Kodak's broad line of cameras; Hit Parade cigarettes; Kings Men aftershave "I don't want to be a tycoon"; Douglas DC-7 airliner; Viewmaster; Johnson outboard motors; Harrison car air conditioning; Pullman cars; Evinrude outboards; Springfield mowers and tillers; Richard Harding Davis is honored in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Vista auto wax; Nice color one-page Viceroy cigarette ad features tennis player Pancho Gonzales and his lovely wife Henrietta; Back cover Coke ad with sailing illustration. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1970160 pages. "Includes step-by-step retrieving with guaranteed results." - subtitle. Average wear. Binding tight. Bit of writing inside each board else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1934256 pages. Black and white frontis portrait of author plus dozens of wonderful black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Topics include: Origin and History of Wild Animal Training, Housekeeping for Wild Animals, The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants, Characteristics of Different Animals, Animal Instinct, How to Capture Whild Animals, How to Teach Wild Animals, The Principles of Training, The Animal Trainer, Guarding against Accidents. School stamps and a variety of pencil jottings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Above-average external wear. 3"x3" ink stain upon front board. Binding and hinges intact. A worthy reading copy of this most interesting work. Book
1972224 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Index of owners. Index of horses. Index of equitation riders. Clean and unmarked. Modertate wear. A quality copy. Book
1997371 pages. "A dictionary on the meanings of Close Encounters of Any Kind with animals... intended to assist you in interpreting what are the implications of significant contacts with animals in your life, ranging from recurrent events to notable single occurrences." - from Introduction. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1982112 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. "A complete work on the Kerry Blue Terrier. It contains information on just what a Kerry Blue should be, the breeding of Kerrys, and how to care for a Kerry and keep him in top condition. Interspersed among the information on the Kerry Blue are chapters containing general canine information." - from Foreword. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1961Approximately 24 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Illustrations include: Ideal Type Male Collie - full profile view; Ideal Type Female Collie - full profile view; Correct Forequarter Assembly (viewed from the side); Correct Hindquarter Assembly (viewed from the side); Correct Front - superficial muscles of front - skeleton; Correct Rear - superficial muscles of rear - skeleton; The Front; The Rear; Superficial Muscles; Skeleton; Headstudy of Ideal Type of Collie; The Bite; Head Faults. Prior owner's small ink stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
193934 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. "No matter how well you know your dog you will have a better understanding of him after you read this book. While educational in purpose and simply written this book maintains reader interest without a log. The illustrations are accurate in every detail. Truly, this book is an excellent addition to your child's library." - from page 3. Two-inch tear to fore-edge of page 31. 2" x 1" chunk missing from lower corner of front cover. Prior owner's name and date (1941) atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy of this charming work. Book
1923301 pages. Black and white sketches in text. Occasional black and white photographic plates. Reprint of the 1913 First edition. Colour frontispiece illustration. Charming colour illustration of Baldy upon navy cloth front board. Binding intact. Average wear. Front free endpaper removed. White lettering upon backstrip faintly legible. A sound early copy of this beloved sled dog classic. Wickersham 2282. Book
193872 pages. Features: Two-colour black and white photo ad inside front cover for International Harvestor's Industrial Power Products; Out of the Indian Night, by William J. Makin - a tale of the Northwest frontier and teh courage that drives frail flesh to heroism; Britain's Unemployment Insurance , by Brian Meredith; Can War Cross the Pacific?, by Charles Lugrin Shaw who argues that adequate defenses are needed to protect Canada's west coast from attack; You Roll Your Own, by Kalman Phillips - she fell in love with a man who kep finding an octopus in a trout pool; The Bay Street Boys, by Frederick Edwards - life is just one up and down after another to the Dominion's 4,000 stock salesmen - with nice black and white photo of Bay Street, Toronto; The Exile, by Beryl Gray - it took them a long time to realize that love does not feed on selfishness; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - an address to the United States; Sable Island, by C.F. Blackadar - "While men sail in ships there will be wrecks on Sable's greedy sands" - with photos; The 7th (Seventh) Day, by Max Brand (part); Checks Please, by Lotta Dempsey - checks are very much in fashion; Mexico and Manana, by Madge Macbeth - Growing trade with Mexico opens new opportunities to Canadian business; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto ad on page 31; Two-colour Oldsmobile full-page ad on page 33; Black and white photo two-page centrefold ad for the Hudson 112 car; Black and white full-page 1938 Plymouth ad on page 45; Black and white photo full-page Dodge truck ad on page 49; William G. Gibson of Ladner, BC - world's champion wheat grower; Cougar Pets, by Francis Dickie - Marion, Pearl and Pansy Schnarr of Sonora, BC have brought up from babyhood two cougars - includes two photos; Page 65 missing; Small piece removed from page 67; Nice Kodak ad on back cover shows baby covering his mouth. Address label atop front cover. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
1996122 pages. Index. Suggested reading list. Abundantly illustrated with some colour photography. "Provides answers to most questions likely to be asked in respect of housing, feeding, general care and also on the species themselves." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1925116 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "A treatise on the training of pointers, setters, foxhounds, beagles, airedales, spaniels, and police dogs." - subtitle. Unmarked. Front hinge opening, otherwise average wear. Book
198051 pages. Features: The Canary Fancy, by Wallace Dean; The Spotted Dove, by Paul Stevens; Bird Talk from Shady Grove - About Cockatiels, by Jo Hall; The Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo - by Arthur Freud; My Visit to Janss Road, by J.R. Greene; The Roller Female, by Haig Sarkisian; Exotic Cage-Birds, by Dr. Val Clear; Showing Budgies - Environment, Population and Strangers - by Jim Duke; Advice to Bird-shop Owners, by Don Thomas; Visits with Australian Birds; Show Winners. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from top edge of front cover. A sound copy. Book
198059 pages. Features: Cover photo - 75-year-old Amazon, 'O Boy'; Jottings from Trail's End - Breeding Finches, by Marie Olssen; Feeding Rollers, by Haig Sarkisian; Bird-Keeping at its most rewarding, by Carl Naether; The Garden Nook Aviary, by John House; Budgie Talk - a review of 'Babies dead in nest box', by L.H. Baumhardt; Inter-Relations of our Pet Parrots, by Linda Buttstead; Parrots and Other Hook-bills - some old parrots, by Arthur Freud; Searching for knowledge with Rollers, by Jose M. Huergo; A Baby Grey in my Dining room, by Jean E. Rider; Breeding Pair of Umbrella Cockatoos, by Ralph Small; Exotic Cage-Birds, by Dr. Val Clear; The Canary Fancy, by Wallace Dean. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from top edge of front cover. A sound copy. Book
197959 pages. Features: Cover photo of Joe, a Greater Indian Hill Mynah owned by Jean Hawthorne of San Diego; Life with a Greater Indian Hill Mynah, by Jean M. Hawthorne; Hand Feeding Baby Parrots, by Ralph C. Small; Scrutinizing the Characteristic Behavior of Doves; The Survival of a strain and the influence of a hen, by Rodney Russell; Canary Color Breeding for the Beginner; Amazon Husbandry, by Ramon Noegel; Bird Talk from Shady Grove - feeding and cockatiels, by Jo Hall; The Canary Fancy, by Wallace Dean; True Experiences with Birds, by Gino Abbate; Parrots and Other Hook-Bills - update on the African Grey, by Arthur Freud; Life on the Top, by William Stafford; Exotic Cage-Birds, by Dr. Val Clear; Yesteryear's comments on Canaries, by H.P. Macklin. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book