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1985Features: Vision in marine animals; The sea birds of northern Britain; Ex Libris - Neptunus Rex; In search of spiny lobster larvae; the unspoiled Little Barrier Reef of Saudi Arabia; Winter kill of summer flounder; The ancient sea that became a state; Master of disguise. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Oregon's sea lion cave; the topsy-turvy world of capillary waves; Ciguatera - Scourge of seafood lovers; Aggressive behavior in reef corals - a stragegy for survival?; Dredging up old myths; Postal coup for Palau; Antifreeze in polar fishes; Red abalone - the treasure off California's north coast. Covers taped together else a sound copy. Book
1987Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
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
1955Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1955Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
196348 pages. Features: Money - Suddenly everybody's owing it - Nine out of ten Canadian families are now living and playing with things they haven't paid for; Which Way Will Mexico Lead Latin America?; Lynn Seymour - what it takes to become an international star - many photos; The new assault on smoking; The anatomy of John Profumo's big lie - behind the greatest scandal of the century; I was shipwrecked on a coral reef - a girl sailor's log of a classic adventure at sea, by Myrna Birch; Great colour photo ad for Sterling London Dry Gin. 5"x4" clipping from Metropolitan Life ad on page 10 does not affect any meaningful content. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1991Features: Cueva Cheve - a trilogy of Recent Deep Cave Discoveries; Coral Sea Reef Sharks; Searching for the King Nautilus in the Admiralty Islands, PNG; The Literary Contributions of Ernest Ingersoll. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Features: Rabaul in the Fall - Search for the Reef Coral - Lithactinia novahibernia; Seven Passes - from Gilgit to Katmandu; A non-event of History - Laperouse in the Pacific; Searching Marmara for Ancient Shipwrecks; Searching for Medicines in the Vanishing Amazon; In the Hoofprints of Ghengis Khan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
195188 pages. Features: Humourous cover art by Oscar Cahen; The Censorship that Helps the Enemy - The bad events of March 17, 1951 in the Korean War involving the Princess Patricias - Editorial; There'll Always Be a Massey - Canada's most famous family started on the road to wealth from a tiny implement forge near Port Hope, Ontario - article with photos; You Laughed at My Father - story by James Aldridge; The Hottest Square Mile in the World - under the humpland between Ace Lake and Beaverlodge lies an abundance of Uranium, and here Uranium City will be built - article with photos; The West Coast's Worst Disaster - The Tragedy of the Princess Sophia which disappeared off Vanderbilt Reef and took 343 people to their deaths in icy Alaskan waters - a Maclean's flashback; How to Raise Ten Kids in Six Rooms - Frank and Helen Teskey of Toronto have ten kids under fifteen and they'd welcome more; One-Man Powerhouse - John Deagle of Whitefish Falls, Ontario runs his own electric power company! - article with many photos of this incredible man; Sherbrooke, Quebec - where French and English share a city in harmony - nostalgic article with photos; The Battle to Beat Leukemia - doctors search for a cure; Footlights Round My Heart - story by Ronald R. Smith; Sensational full-page colour Coke ad features illustration of young lady and the caption "Want Something Good?"; Nice colour Chevrolet ad; DeSoto car ad; Full-page ad for Birks Jewellers features watches including the Challenger Eterna-matic; Plymouth car ad; Canada Savings Bond ad features James F. Johnston, Superintendant of Palm Dairies Limited in Regina; Great colour photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows horses pulling vintage auto through the mud. Light wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A quality copy. Book
1976280 pages. Lots of autographs and written comments. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful Pacifica yearbook. Book
1946Pages 1-53 plus nine pages of nice ads. Features: The National Museum of Canada; Australia's Great Barrier Reef; Turtle-Hunting in Coral Seas; Cartier at Montreal; An Eminent Geographer; Civil Engineering in Frozen Soil; Fur Production in the Northwest Territories - article with many great photos plus production statistics; The Scottish Borderlands; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Small name stamp inside front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1971104 pages. Features: Many gorgeous fashion ads; Nice color ad for the Zodiac SST Astrographic watch; Amazing one-page color-photo ad for Johnny Carson Apparel feature man in red (yes, red) jacket and pants!; One-page photo ad for Texfi features Gary Thorpe, Vice-President of Johnny Carson Apparel; Funky one-page color photo ad for Hggar's pants features three jaunty mustachioed gents; Fantastic one-page ad by the Village Voice features large photo of Richard Nixon look-alike in regal attire flashing his V for victory hand signals beneath the caption "Be Prepared"; Nice Omega watch ad; The Joe Alsop Story - feature article on this Washington columnist; In Anguilla it's the Spirit of '71 - St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla; The Little Priest Who Stands Up to Brazil's Generals - Dom Helder Camara, the Archbishop of Recife; The Return of Charles Lindbergh - at 69 he ends a quarter-century of silence to champion conservation; Expatriate Chess on the Other Side of the Wall - article with photos of Stefan Heym, Erich Honecker, Hilde Eisler and John Peet; Save the Children Federation ad features gaunt, haunting face of child Van Ky; Nice color-photo ad for Seiko watches; Foster Parents Plan ad features photo of poor Korean child Son Yoon Ja; Vintage Westclox ad features clock radio; 'Soft, Clinging - and Pretty' fashion photos; Nice color-photo ad for three varieties of Carlsberg beer; Photos of architectural design of a city co-op unit by Larry Durham and Barbara Greene of GKR, Inc.; and more. Tiny ink stamp atop page 59. Average wear. Minor markings to front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1938106 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Old Angus Scotch inside front cover; One-page ad for LaSalle cars; What Price English Justice?; Multiple cartoons with Nazi personages; The Secret Fuse Under Mexico - the country is rife with covert operations by Germany, Japan and Italy - article with reproductions of pertinent documents; Fascism's New World Thrust - Germany, Italy and Japan have taken over the lion's share of trade with Latin America; Mussolini Vs. His Past; Smutting Up the Circulation - Sex sells publications; Yesterday's Wrong Turning - Two million died in WWI as a result of the decision of a few men; Inside the Queerest Shipwreck - the SS President Hoover rammed a reef off Formosa; FDR's wife wonders why babies should be kept alive if there will not be a job for them when they get older; Norway, The Next Belgium - fascinating article foretells WWII events about to unfold in Norway; Henry Ford buys 1.25 million acres near Punta Gorda, Florida as a favor to Thomas Edison; Dying, Well or Badly - By Ernest Hemingway - article with grotesque large photos of dead soldiers; A Measure of Recovery - Labor fights for control of New Orleans; Kemal Ataturk - Hoodlum as Hero - his record with women is indubitably the worst; Santa on Route 17 - W.E. Riker and his two-hundred yard 'holy city' in California; Exit the Gentleman Officer - Richthofen was buried by his enemy with full military honors but his memory is mocked by the crumpled corpses of women and children in Guernica; Bidding the Guild Good-Bye - The Theatre Guild takes the bumps toward the ash can; Inside the Third Reich - article on the prohibition of criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany; The Men Who Helped a Hero - the sixteen men who were with Alvin C. York when he 'singlehanded' captured 132 Germans; They Still Want to Get In - article on illegal aliens entering the U.S. across the Mexican border; Man with Six Countries - A European journalist sells the plans for the defense of Pilsen to the Germans; Wrong Man, Time and Place - Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball; Thousand Mile Gun - Britain's rulers seem to believe Germany possesses a long-range rocket-gun; Nostalgic 2-page illustrated ad for Look Magazine; One-page ad for Parent's Magazine features photos of George J. Hecht and Clara Savage Littledale; The Fable of Man's Salvation; Classy half-page ad for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Nice color ad for Eagle pencils features their Mikado, Verithin and Turquoise products; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco expert in white suit and hat. Above-average but not excessive wear. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
198548 pages. Text in English. Features: Kodak's instant Prints; Perfection in animal photography - Julius Behnke; Looking behind the mask - Hans H. Siwik - photography below the surface; Super sharp - 280mm f/2.8 Apo-Telyt-R with 2x Extender -R; Portraits with ISA-1000 film; Notes from my moor diary - Robert Hausser; Diving stations - Wilfried Thiesen - with the RF along the coral reef; Focusing Leica M-cameras in comparison to an SLR; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1937Features: Sensational colour-photo ad for red International crawlers inside front cover; Secret Reef (fiction); The Facts about "Infantile Paralysis" - Panic, Publicity and "Polio" - article with photo of patients in iron lungs; Man of Action (fiction); Informative four-page photo feature illustrates all the jobs created by Canada's auto industry; A Show is Built - Canada's National Motor Show in Toronto, and J.L. Stewart, its mastermind; The Red Lake (Ontario) Marines - Gread photo-illustrated article explains how freight is delivered to this isolated mining community by marine railway and winter tractor; The Fur Masters (fiction); Seal Hunter - Captain Abraham Kean brought a million pelts from the Arctic icefields; Frank Calder - Hockey's Biggest Asset; Just So, Jitsu (fiction); Nice half-page illustrated ad for the Honderich Furniture Co. of Milverton, Ontario; Wonderful two-colour, two-page ad for the 1938 Chevrolet (yellow); Excellent two-colour, one-page ad for the 1938 Oldsmobile (red); Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) ad features champion cocker spaniel 'Max', owned by Mrs. Paul Armstrong of Montreal; Crossword completed in pencil. Please note: this copy missing pages 1-6, 33-44, and 53-54. Covers and pages 71-76 loose but present. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this incomplete but hard-to-find issue. Book
1945282p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
199972 p. : col. ill., 1 col. map ; 22 x 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
réf. 0721650236-11-1Saunders. 1. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Saunders unknown
2024réf. x-9048566142Amsterdam University Press 2024. Paperback. New. revised edition. 288 pages. 9.25x6.12x9.17 inches. Amsterdam University Press paperback
2017réf. x-025302420XIndiana Univ Pr 2017. Hardcover. New. 520 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. Indiana Univ Pr hardcover
2002réf. 208532New York: Clarion Books 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Clarion Books hardcover
2024réf. 1-1665957352Little Simon 2024. Paperback. New. combined edition. 512 pages. 7.31x5.50x1.28 inches. Little Simon paperback
2004réf. AME_9780816049011Facts on File Inc. 2004. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Facts on File Inc. hardcover
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