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1952Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "Our Ladies of Ladysmith" - 4 photos and text re: operators in this Vancouver Island town; Photos of equipment upgrade in Victoria; New Haney office; Emerald central office in Vancouver; W.S. Pipes Appointed General Manager; Company seeks permission to increase capital; R.S. Argue; Penny Wise; Statement of Development - # of phones operating per exchange; Company fails to earn full dividends; Two fires; Forty years in company trucks; Port Moody-Ioco cable photos; Victoria's largest phone cable; C.C.F. Hall fire; New Union Bay office; rate increase sought; new pole-setting technique with crane - photo; 4 pages of photos and captions from Courtenay; Exchange comes to Fruitvale; Post-war development program continues; Border line pole; H.W. Stevens; Kerrisdale reunion; Haney Conversion; Mission may join B.C. Tel.; Royal Visit; Prize-winning float; North, West and Richmond endorse extended service; G.L. Frost; Company seeks new rates at hearing; Earl Squire; Memoriam for E.P. LaBelle, "Recognized as one of the outstanding men in telephony". Mr. LaBelle retired in 1947 after spending 27 years as General Plant Manager of the company. An impressive concise bio is presented. (This book bears the ink-stamped name 'E.P. LaBelle' on the top edge of the text. Presumably, this book belonged to Eugene LaBelle Jr.); Vancouver City Hall joins Automatic Systems; Vancouver dial service completes move to new quarters; Haney cut to automatic; Automatic service for Yarrow; Charlie Davis (helped publish every issue of Telephone Talk from inception in 1911 to the end of 1951; George McCartney - memoriam with photo; Elgin installation; New Cable for West Van; J.D. Johnston ends long service; Mission's new building; North Central Office Expansion; Square Dancing; Surrey program pushes ahead - photos; Chilliwack equipment added; Elgin automatic unit now in service; Photo of men working above Rock Creek Canyon at Bridesville; Hastings Reunion; Vancouver Toll Expansion; Powell River Photos; New automatic system for Aldergrove; New outdoor pay stations (pay phones); photos of construction of B.C.'s portion of the trans-Canada telephone line; Hammond Photos; Victoria Expansion - photos and text; Abbottsford-Mission cutover; Chilliwack telephone personalities - photos; Nelson-Penticton Toll Line construction photos; our biggest cable goes underground in Vancouver - photos; J.E. Carlile retires; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Book
1883Mr. Pakenham passes away under allegedly outrages circumstances at Tamatave. Suez Canal difficulty - cutting a second canal parallel to the first. Echoes of the week. The Playhouses; Weather; National Sports; The Cholera in Egypt - Quarantine, with full-page engraving entitled 'Quarantine Examination at Brinsisi'. Crab-Catching in Cornwall - 9 sketches on one page (plus text on next page); News from the Court and Church plus Benevolence and Self-Help. New Townhall, Dover - with sketch; The Westminster Townhall - with sketch; The Swanley Homes for Little Boys - with sketch; Sketches in Egypt - Thebes. The Advantages of Wet Weather. Supplement includes: Chapter V of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn; The Savage Club at the Royal Albert Hall (which is featured on front cover illustration and pages 52 and 53); The Jesmond Dene Park, Newcastle; A dramatic two-page engraving entitled "Departure of Irish Emigrants at Clifden, County Galway (please note that this engraving bears a large tear); Obituaries; Chess; Wills and Bequests; Departure of Irish Emigrants; Classified Ads. The Jesmond Dene Public Park, Newcastel-on-Tyne - 8 lovely sketches. The Suez Canal - 3 pages of text and sketches, including map of the proposed Canal and sketch of M. Ferdinand De Lesseps, President of the Suez Canal Company. New Books. Musical Publications. Chipping at edges. Some pages loose but all appear to be present. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
1956Features: What will Robert Fowler say about TV? - a report on the head of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting and what he's likely to suggest; Karsh visits Hollywood; How Harry Orchard murdered twenty men - a Maclean's flashback in two parts; Why we're getting more disastrous hurricanes; The secret war of Charles Goodeve (conclusion - The weapons of tomorrow) - the Panjandrum, the Alligator, and Lily the floating airport... these revolutionary inventions created under the guidance of a little-known Canadian have yet to be tested in combat; The life and death mystery of our liver; Frank Merrill's winning way with horses; She didn't care what people thought - fiction by Ronald R. Smith; Does more money than brains go to collete? - Dr. Sidney Smith; Ross Thatcher's glum conversion; My most memorable meal - Maj.-Gen. J.M. Rockingham. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chunk missing from front cover which bears two closed tears ***PLEASE NOTE*** pages 15-20 are missing. They contained the Karsh story plus the first page of the Harry Orchard story. Two-page Chysler ad for PowerFlite pushbutton automatic transmission (missing 3"x 2" chunk from upper left corner. Cartoon clipped from page 82 has removed part of the Harry Orchard story. Magazine
1960Features: The Franciscans - they possess an inner peace that modern people seek, but rarely find; Pursuit of a Painkiller - the development of Phenazocine, a synthetic narcotic to replace the useful but addictive drug morphine; Adventures of the Mind - Life's Mysterious Clocks, by Frank A. Brown Jr.; A Christmas Letter; How to Speak French without saying a word - humor by Stewart Alsop; Winter's wildest sport - iceboating; Is European Education better than ours? - a five-nation survey of 4142 school children provides an astonishing report - long and detailed article with many photos. Great color Schlitz ad inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1926Features: Lew Brady's Partner, by Samuel Merwin; Ingram & Co., by J.W. Marshall; Jack Farrington's Beanstalk - VIII, by David Loraine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; The Lost Legacy, by C.A. Stephens; Greenland Ho! (with black and white photos), by David Binney Putnam; Model Airplanes - V, by F. Alexander Magoun; The Wonder Story of Steinmetz - VII - photo of Steinmetz with Edison, by John Winthrop HAmmond; How Nancy Ann's Grandfather Scared Three Bears, by Frances Margaret Fox. Nice ad for the "Hawaiian Banjo-Uke" on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1989Special Features: Dotty Lee's Soap Dolls; The Wright Bears; New dress for your Raggedy Ann!; Winter Wendy - coat and dress pattern for your 14" doll; and more. Light wear. A nice copy. Book
1987Build a better Bru - step-by-step instructions; Harold Payne's Handcarved Dolls; 11 Full-Sized Patterns; Treetop Teddy; Jointed Bears; Mexican Angel; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1986Features: Bears do the Darndest Things; Reflections of Teddy Contest - how Teddy makes life more bearable; Grand Prize Winner; Mr. Chuzzelwit Remembers Christmas Past; Decorationg with Teddy Bears - Thanksgiving and Christmas; Advertising Bears; Celebearities; Teddy Bear Artist Rebecca White; Show Santa Bear Got his Fame; Santa Bear and Miss Mouse; A Teddie from Eddie; Personality Dogs - Part Two; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1943Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
194312 pages. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Stories include: The Black Bears; The Deer; The Lion; The Bison; The Hippopotamus; The Tiger. Above-average but not excessive wear. Openings along coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1915Pages 485-577, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: With the Dynamite Squad - among warring factions in Mexico; A Sportsman in the Wilds - an African hunting trip; When the "Norther" Broke - windstorms off the west coast of South America; James "Jimmy" Inness of Juneau, Alaska and his feud against bears; Jimmy's Bear; Curiosities of the Holy Land - part I - peasant life in Palestine - many sensational photos; An Unexecuted Sentence - George Singer was condemned to be hanged; Harnessing a Million Gallons - a farmer builds a reservoir in South Africa; A Prisoner of the Gitanos - author was a prisoner of gipsies for six months; Lost in the Everglades; The Wanderings of an Entertainer, Part II - Robert Ganthony; My Escape from Venezuela - what happened to an Englishman who meddled in the politics of this nation; Odds and Ends. Average wear. Binding intact. Bit of clear tape at each end of spine. A sound copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
197650 pages. Features: Nice full-page ad for 'Survive'; Phantoms and Fantasies - interview with Brian De Palma; 'The Savage is Loose' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on motion picture cameraman James Wong Howe; The Berlin Film Festival; 'Marathon Man' - photos; Reviews - 'The Incredible Sarah', Obsession', 'Face to Face', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'Lina Braake', 'Die Marquise Von O', 'The Bad News Bears', 'The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday', 'The Scarlet Buccaneer', 'Futureworld', 'The Message', 'The Last Woman', 'The Stepford Wives', 'The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings; 'The Sentinel' - photos; 'Seizure' - photos; 'Chi dice donna dice donna' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
197850 pages. Features: Ad for 'A Murder is Announced' inside front cover; 'In Camera' column discusses 'Star Wars' with photos; 4-pages pictorial appreciation of the career of Charlie Chaplin; Photo-illustrated interview with Fred Zinnemann; 'The Last Wave' - photos; Tehran 1977 -article on this film festival; 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on the myth and magic of Jean Cocteau (conclusion); Survey of the 21st London Film Festival; 'The Choirboys' - photos; Reviews - 'The Amsterdam Kill', 'Assault on Precinct 13', 'The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training', 'Canal Zone', 'Eight Hundred Heroes', 'The Gauntlet', 'The Last Remake of Beau Geste', 'Mustang', 'Roller Coaster'; Photos on location of 'The Big Sleep'; 'Let's Get Laid' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1983391 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Several pages of nice photographic plates. The author, born in 1903, recounts his life with considerable emphasis on his times in the wild hunting, trapping and fishing. Unmarked. Tight and square with average external wear. A sound copy. Book
193996 pages. Features: Palestine Party - The Air Fleet Arm is sent into action to meet the Greatest Menace of the Arab Rebellion; Masquerade Murder - the Squire's 'Ghost Plane'; Raiders Ride High - A Hybrid Monster bears a load of venomous purpose; True Narrative - The Conclusion of a British 'Ace' who served in the War in the Air from First to Last; The Bloke in the Bowler - When certain Brain Guys from the U.S.A decided to go into aviation, Flt.-Lt. Kinley of the Secret Service was bound for adventure; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Upper right corner of front cover obscured. Book
1988136 pages. Includes 627 lots. Dozens of excellent colour and black and white photos. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1981Features: Contemporary happenings in the military aerospace world; HMS Invincible; Re-Engined 135 - Re-engining of the existing KC-135 tanker fleet may mean operation into the next century; HiMAT - this flying test bed is used to develop combat aircraft of the future; New York's Finest - visiting with the Voodoos of the 107th Fighter Interceptor Group; MiG Killer - an interview with a Marine fighter pilot; Greeks over Britain - the first ever visit by Royal Hellenic A-7s to Britain; Corsair II Markings; Lone Eagles - Hungarian Ju 88s battle the Russians during WWII; Turbo Trojan - flying the North American YAT-28E Turbo Trojan; Lightning Deployment - Royal Air Force Lightnings deploy for combat practice; Farnborough military report; Flugtag at Ramstein; Vought's Rugged Corsair II - part II of a markings feature on the Corsair II; "The Face of God" - the life and times of North Vietnam's leading ace; School for Aces - leadership program for NATO pilots; Sea Harrier goes operational; New tanker for the Navy - Modified Convair 8E80; Jaguars meet the Eagles - how California's 144th Fighter Interceptor Wing won top honours at the 1980 William Tell meet; RAF's new helicopter - the Chinook; Lizard fighting Falcon - experimental paint scheme for the F-16; Bear Intercept! - how the USAF Phantoms intercept and track Soviet Bears that prowl the North Atlantic shipping lanes; Canadair's Tutor - the rugged Canadian training aircraft shows no signs of slowing down; Salute to the Skyraider; Navy accepts first operational Hornet; These two pilots have recorded over 1,000 flying hours each in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird; Falcons of Georgia - History of Reserve Squadron VA-205; Igloo White - how we listened to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in stereo; Angel of another color - a new paint scheme for the Blue Angels aircraft; Fighting Falcon for Export - re-engined F-16 planned for sale to smaller countries; Marines fighting helicopters - how the USMC developed the helicopter into a fighting machine for aerial envelopment; Stratojet - looking back at the USAF's Boeing B-47 bomber; Scratch five MiGs - the story behind the only enemy aircraft ever destroyed by the Boeing B-52; Mirages over Spain - an exclusive look at a rarely illustrated fighter operated by the Spanish Air Force; Down by not out - last flight or new future for the B-1?; An old-fashioned dogfight - aerial combat during the early days of the Vietnam war were not unlike some of the free-wheeling fights of WWII; A time for change - the changing look in USN aircraft camouflage; New Sea Harrier Squadron - Fleet Arm Air takes on another Sea Harrier unit; The Aggressors - these specially tasked units are some of the most unique in the USAF; Tigershark - Detailed portrait of Northrop's new fighter; Mirage IIIE in Spanish Service; Strike Command - can the RAF's Strike Command stop Soviet air strikes in Britain and Europe?; Fists of the Fleet - a close look at the markings of USN Phantoms and Tomcats; Blowtorch built for two - the life and times of the two TF-86 training Sabres. Privately bound in blue hard cover. Book
1991156 pages. Covers: bush life; wilderness; adventure; love; stories; growing; things; dogs; recipes; cabin fever; rivers; hot saunas; languages; cloth; diapers; bears; potlatch; wood; horizontal life; storytelling; northern lights; Yukon sounds; stargazing. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful resource. 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
1920Unpaginated. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Nice colour illustration on front board. Many black and white illustrations in text. Cracks along each hinge. Two-inch piece missing from bottom corner of one page - text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a pleasing copy of this lovely vintage title. Book
1947Average wear. A sound copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Beavers - intimate glimpses of a colony in the wilds; Bad Boy - the story of an interesting hawk pet; The Sand Dunes of Indiana; Giants of Hornet Land; The Cruel Vine our Grandmothers Loved - the Cruel Vine or flycatcher; Conservation - solving the bureaucratic jig-saw puzzle; Salmon or Kilowatts - Columbia River Dams threaten great natural resource; Carving the Mountains; Do Natural Enemies destroy more game than hunters?; Admiralty Island's bears; Mr. Darling and Leadership; Shall ducks follow the Dodo?; Meteors as a Hobby. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1979Features: The First Men on the moon - the ultimate assignment, by John H. Faber; Caucasus Mountain Expedition - a naturlist returns to Central Asia; Sea Bears of the Pribilofs - will they survive human predation?; Saturation Diving - a new frontier of nautical archeology; Exploring Nepal's Rivers - the Talu Beri, Beri and the Karnali; Australia's Lake Eyre - when the rains came; East African Field Trips - students sample ethnic lifeways; Solar Energy - a return to basics; Sea Snakes of Gato Island - an exotic resource of the Philippines. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
193868 pages. Fantastic colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover bears the heading '104 International Trucks Prove Their Stamina Off The Highway for Dowell, Incorporated. Handsome Colour Ford ad on back cover features the 1938 De Luxe and the Standard. Full-page two-colour Pontiac ad on page 5 shows a woman shifting gears on the steering column. Features: Voice off Scene, by Herbert Dalmas and Maurice Geraghty; Why (Anthony) Eden Quit, by Beverley Baxter - with photos of Mussolini and Hitler; Mr. Hepburn's Treasure Hunt - a candid review of the administration of the Ontario Succession Duty Act, by Frederick Edwards; James C. Hendy nominates Hockey's All-Stars 1937-38, with head photos of Eddie Shore, C. Thompson, A.C. Siebert, Syl Apps, P. Thompson and Gordon (Gordie) Drillon; Springs of Courage, by Garnett Radcliffe - a story of the South Seas, 'the girl back home' and a magnificent gesture; Chundra the Elephant, by Paul Annixter; Little Corporals of Finance - Banker humour by C.W. McGannon; Zeballos Gold Rush, by Charles Lugrin Shaw - with black and white photos; The Seventh (7th) Day, by Max Brand; Wheat to Flour - photo page; Full-page black and white ad for General Electric Refrigerators; The Dotted Line - Braille, by Harris Turner; Page 26 cartoon of a smiling Hitler repapering an Austria wall with Swastika wallpaper; Ethiopian Chaos - a brief report on how the Italians have failed to consolidate their conquest; Bold centerfold Dodge ad featuring skater Sonja Henie; Sir Frederick Haultain - Pioneer Statesman; Full-page black and white Plymouth ad; Lovely full-page colour photo ad for the 1938 Studebaker; Full-page black and white ad for the Nash car company; Crossword completed in pencil on page 46; Full-page black and white ad for the McLaughlin-Buick; Movie News by Ann Ross; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto car ad. Above-average wear to covers which are detached from textblock but present. Page 9 loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Book
195532 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1955. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Features: British Columbia's Centennial Celebrations; Canada's Boy's Town in Malaya; Colombo Plan Steel Technicians in Britain; Ghana's Goodwill and Trade Mission; Designs of the Year - annual U.K. awards; Ceylon's Buddhists in London; H.M. the Queen Mother's World Tour; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Child Welfare in Pakistan; Modern New Airport in Nairobi, Kenya; New Zealand's expanding forests; The Craft of the Nigerian Potter; Spare-Time Studies in Britain; Uganda's New Agrucultural School. Bonus: includes 8-page Canadian supplement which bears a lovely colour portrait of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret. Second Bonus: 13" x 9" photographic portrait of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, suitable for framing. Covers detached from textblock but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
