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176 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. List of Some Canadian Merchant ships sunk by enemy action during World War II. List of some Newfoundland Sailing Vessels Sunk by U-Boats in World War I and II. "Author served 24 years as a master of various C.N. vessels including the William Carson and the Ambrose Shea. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant Marine Superintendant and then served as Marine Superintendant until his retirement in 1990." - from back cover. Book
Features: The General Manager's Special, by Samuel Merwin; What the Man in the Moon Saw, by C.A. Stephens; In Channel Waters - III, by Mary Austin; Lost from the Fleet - V; by George Allan england; His Lone Adventures, by Franklin Welles Calkins; Nostalgic image of a young basketball player in Crowell Publishing ad on page 219; Plan for foot-powered sander; Ways and Means of Getting to College - how girls are doing it now; The Field of Evil Weeds, by Edward W. Frentz; and more. Nice ad for the Willys Overland Six on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Stream-Driver's Revenge, by Charles G.D. Roberts; Lost from the Fleet - VII, by George Allan England; In Channel Waters - IV, by Mary Austin; The Neighbors Said he Would't Amount to Much - Vic Donahey, Governor of Ohio; The Leap for Life, by Russell Gordon Carter; Illustration of Egypt's Makwar Dam on the Blue Nile, the largest dam in the world; Plans for building a tree house; Easter Bonnets - with photos; Little Josephine and her Thousand Buttons, by Frances S.M. Francks; and more. Ad for Proctor and Gamble's White Naptha Soap on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features; Fisherman's Quiz; The Moose; Will Atlantic Lobster Breed in B.C. Waters? - article with photos; Bits About Bats; We Train Dogs - Brome Stages Kennels - great photos; Grouse are Where You Find Them; Skill Plus Determination Plus Luck equals Muskies; Wild Turkey; Recipes; The Woodcock Dog; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
78 pages. Articles: Bread within waters - using atomic science to banish world hunger; Carelessness - the child killer (part 2 of 2); How to get Whistled at - Ann Delafield makes women more soothing to the eye; Rifle-Arm Sammy - Sammy Baugh of the Redskins; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins - the Yalta agreement and the president's last days; Guy Lombardo's Tempo VI which holds the world's single-engine speedboat mark of 118.2 mph - photo with write-up. Fiction: Pardon my Symptoms; The Girl Who Was Nobody's Daughter; He Had No Reservations; The Shanahan Strad; The One-Eyed Poacher and the Long Night; Second Man on the Ticket (part 3 of 4). Ads include: Studebaker; Westclox; Zenith radios; Pontiac cars; Monarch packaged foods; RCA Victor radio-phonographs; Pabst beer features colour photo of Mr. and Mrs. Lauritz Melchior; Good Year (centerfold); Plymouth cars; Hickok belts; Lord Calvert full-page color-photo ad features movie producer Jesse L. Lasky; Nice full-page color Blatz beer ad features Don Ameche; U.S. Army (featuring Uncle Sam; Rainfair; Spring Mills; Back cover Camel ad features precision flyer Betty Skelton. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Features: In 1874 the North West Mounted Police set out on a 1,000 - mile to establish Canadian authority in the West; Trek to Manson Creek - When Charles Ace Overfeld, an eastern Pennsylvania boy-turned westerner, signed up for a mining stint at Manson Creek, British Columbia, he thought it was just the opportunity he had been waiting for to get rich quick - instead, it turned out to be his worst nightmare; Slocan Lake's Lost Silver Bullion - according to the legend, a boxcar loaded with silver bullioin, rolllling with the motion of the barge during a storm, smashed through the guard rails and vanished into the dark waters below; The Lost Strongbox of the Mount Royal - Ever since she sank in Kitselas Canyon on July 6, 1907, rumours have persisted that the Mount Royal's safe went to the bottom containing as much as $100,000 in gold. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
Pages 181-220. Features: Stelco ad inside front cover boast of their pollution reduction; Water Pollution and the Role of the canada Centre for Inland Waters; Sand; The Columbia Icefield; Shuswap Log Salvage; Volcanoes of Hawaii; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Air Canada's European service. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Pages 145-184. Features: The Canadian Northwest - Some Geographical Perspectives; S.S. Manhattan in Arctic Waters; Murray Edmund Watts - Massey Medal 1970; Annual General Meeting; and more. Nice Westinghouse ad inside front cover boats of their Northwest Passage breakthrough; Nice colour-photo ad for Inco shows underground scenes. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Colour ad for International Harvester LoadStar trucks inside front cover; The Atom Bombers Speak - the crew of the Enola Gay describe their later lives and tell how they feel now about duty, guilt, and the next bomb - with photos; How Carl Goldenberg breaks strikes; The Michelangelos in Montreal - cover photos of the only Michelangelos on this continent; The Great Traffic Ticket Game; A fighting chance for the hard-core jobless; Photos a holiday weekend at the World's Fair; The Soviet's Floating City in our waters - 25,000 Russian fishermen aboard a fleet of 200 ships are scouring the banks of Newfoundland - with photos; We on the Right have no vote, by Basil Dean; Great colour ad for Canada Steamship Lines inside back cover depicts their vessel, the Whitefish Bay, 'sailing' Montreal's Dorchester Blvd. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
173 pages. Black and white maps. Author served in Dartford, Narvik, Gibraltar, Liverpool, Durban, Benghazi, Tobruk, AcreBsharri, Cairo, London, Paris and Bonn in the second world war. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Glass Works Auction #24; After 23 Years, Rochester's Still a Hot Show; Digger McDirt B.I.P. (Bottle Identification Person); "Yellow Pages"; The First "Ball Show"; Mineral Waters From Yankee Country; Medicine Chest - Atwood's Bitters Made Easier; Granny Kath's Kitchen. A nice clean copy with sound binding. Magazine
280 pages. Maps and illustrations. Appendices. "The essential subject of this work is the instruction of the German officer, and the criticisms which it contains point out, therefore, not only our alleged faults and errors, but show also what, in the opinion of the Great General Staff at Berlin, we ought to have done." - from Preface by Translator. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Spine slant. Binding intact. Offered as is. A worthy reading copy. Book
165 pages. Fold out illustration inside back cover. Black and white diagrams. Two amendments hand-written upon page ii. Few other markings to contents. Last page loose but present. Chapters include: Propulsion; Steering Arrangements; The Behaviour of Ships when Turning; Handling Ships in Narrow Waters; Entering Harbour; Leaving Harbour; Handling Ships in Heavy Weather; Handling Ships in Ice; Handling Ships during Towing Operations; Handling Ships During Replenishment Operations; Handling Ships in a Fleet; Fleet Work in Pilotage Waters; Capabilities and Limitations of Machinery. Appendices include: Results of Turning Trials; Miscellaneous Tables; Grounding of H.M.S. Nelson in the Portsmouth Channel; Example of a Fleet Approaching an Anchorage. Average wear. Gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. A worthy copy. Book
52 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Black and white photos, charts, tables, map. Extensive reference list. Contents include: Historical review of pinniped food studies in British Columbia waters; Methods and materials; General habitat description; Distribution, numbers and migratory behaviour; Feeding habits; Effect of seal and sea lion predation upon British Columbia's commercial fishery. Stiff, protective library boards over original card covers. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Inscribed and signed by author and artist upon title page. Reprint of the 2002 first edition. "Features more than 130 great recipes, including Corn and Crab Bisque, White Chocolate Bread Pudding, Smoked DuckSpring Rolls, Sensation Salad, Zydeco Chicken, and Crab Cakes Monica. Thirty-four previously unpublished Wyatt Waters paintings, most created specifically for this book, add beautiful and colorful garnish to the sumptous recipes." - from dust jacket. Oblong 10" x 11". Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely copy of this gorgeous work. A wonderful gift idea. Book
105 pages. Index. A handy local cookbook which puts considerable emphasis on the salmon of surrounding waters, but also touches on other local seafoods. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Medieval Scene; A Little Bit of England - Dorothy and Bill Kitching and their cider cellar; Heather Ramsay - miniatures are her medium; Brooke Tucker's Yellow Rose of Texas; America's First Ladies, 1836-1845; Alan Waters and his miniatures from down under; Angela Peterson's worldly collection; Viola Williams' Portraits in Porcelain; Bobbie Walls - whimsical wicker; Miniatures in Scandinavia - Dee Snyder is your guide; Sally Plunkett - small gauge knitting; Think Spring with a Green Thumb; Ode to the Strawberry; Everyday Utensils from America's Past; Badminton Anyone?; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
274 pages. Features: Iggy Pop; John Waters; Giorgio Armani; Martin Amis; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
380 pages. Index of species mentioned. Literature list. Includes 108 figures in text and two fold-out maps. Text in English. Heavy external wear. Back cover loose but present. Binding very weak. A worthy reading copy. [Arctic Bibliography 6307] Book
Contains the landmark photo essay 'Seeking the Magic Mushroom' in which New York banker Robert Gordon Wasson describes his mission to southern Mexico to participate in the age-old rituals of natives who chew strange growths that produce visions. "The mushrooms were of a species with hallucinogenic powers; that is, they cause the eater to see visions. We chewed and swallowed these acrid mushrooms, saw visions, and emerged from the experience awestruck. [We] were the first white men in recorded history to eat the divine mushrooms, which for centuries have been a secret of certain Indian peoples." - p.101. Includes thirteen photos, eight of which are in color, plus life-size watercolor paintings of the seven kinds of hallucinogenic mushrooms so far discovered. This essay begins on page 100 and extends to page 120. Light musty scent. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this historic issue. Book
97 pages. "Presents for the first time to the medical fraternity at large and would-be visitors from abroad a survey of the facilities for treatment and rehabilitation available at the various German Health Resorts, Spas, and Watering Places." - Foreword. Chapters include: Balneo- and Climatotherapy; The Treatment of Certain Diseases at Spas and Health Resorts; Choosing a Climate to Suit the Individual Patient; The Marine Resorts of Germany; The German Spas and Health Resorts - their local characteristics, geology and travel facilities, The Uses of Bottled Spa Waters; Alphabet of the German Health Resorts - Spa, Seaside, Inland. Average wear. Binding intact. Minimal markings to contents. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A sound copy of this interesting and informative vintage guide from a time when these resorts had recovered from the effects of WWII during which they served as hospitals of various kinds. Book
Exhibition catalog for show of 1999; excellent condition with cream embossed covers, color and b&w prints, 74 pages. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Includes sections on bottlenecks, slides, picks, tuning, barred chords, stummin', turnarounds, tuning down, tuning up, string to string, tuning, with odes to Robert Johnson, Missipippi Fred, McDowell, Muddy Waters.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Fair slipcase with wear, tears, and discoloration. Red cloth spine. 6 3/4"w 10 1/8"h. 124 pages. Includes Sandglass insert. Decorative endpapers.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no flaws save slightly faded spine with creaseless covers and spine, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. 297 pages.
