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194370 pages. Black and white photos. Honour Roll. Nostalgic ads for local businesses. Printed upon glossy stock. Prior owner's details inside front cover. Numerous autographs on last few pages and back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this WWII-era yearbook. Book
1981x, 326 pages. Index of family names. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Photo endpapers. Illustrated tan cloth-covered boards. Presents of history of this rural community, supplemented with almost 200 pages of family histories. Prior owner's name inside front cover. Moderate wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this precious genealogical reference. Book
1967136 pages. Maps. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Many family histories. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding tender. A worthy copy of this wonderful local history and genealogical reference. Hackett (2) 237. Book
194548 Pages. Features: Cover photo of bombing crew mission debriefing session; Nice one-page color ad for Woodbury film-finish powder features Sonja Henie; Temple radio ad; We must not delay rebuilding the world; Photo of B-17s over the Reich; Photo of Allied infantry and armor fighting along the German Westwall; Dramatic photo of B-29s thundering over Mount Fuji on way to Tokyo; Photo of American troops in landing barges on way to a Pacific Island; Last Fortress of the Nazis - article and photos explain how in the Alps east of Switzerland Hitler's henchmen are expected to make a final stand - includes caricatures of Hitler, Himmler, Goebels and Goering; The Soviet Soldier Does Not Forget - he remembers the long ordeal of his people and says it must not happen again; The Censor Defends the Censorship - Director of Censorship Byron Price replies to those who complain that too much news is kept from the public; General Lewis A. Pick of 'Pick's Pike' - photo-illustrated article of the builder of Stilwell Road, the 620-mile land route to China from Burma; One-page color ad for the Parker '51' pen; Poem - "Lincoln's Last Birthday"; One-page color ad for Benson & Hedges Virginia Rounds cigarettes; The Horace Mann-Lincoln School of teachers College; Photo and article on Shirley Temple - who tells how she evolved from gurgling to glamor; ad for Philharmonic radio-phonographs; William Gallacher - the only Communist M.P. in Britain, and one of the most persistent Churchill-baiters in Parliament - article with photo; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Great letter about jobs for men and women by Ann Maulsby; Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dittmar is 'The Voice of the Wehrmacht" - article with photo; Color ad for Nestle's evaporated milk; Nice color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Meals with Little or No Meat; Color Crisco ad; The Bare Arm Look (fashion); Decorating Ingenuity; Kingergarten Enterprises; Cocomalt ad features boy on stilts; Lovely two-page fashion section features attractive photos of formal fashions; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes features lady in red polka-dot summerwear; Postman's Daily Rounds - article on letter carriers of the New York area distribute 80 tons of mail daily; Color one-page ad for Fabrics by Stafford, sold by Goodman & Theise; Fantastic color-photo back page ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, bowling. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
1979482 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Endpapers decorated with historic local cattle brands. Moderate wear. Writing atop copyright page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this very informative local history. Book
193158 pages. Features: Nice color ad for General Electric radios inside front cover; Hudson Essex car ad shows mother dropping kids at school; Nice full-page ad for Mimeograph; They'll Come Shooting (short story); Power and Glory - the gutsy story of Boies Penrose, one of the most prodigious figures in American political life - article with photos; Wild Geese (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Naughty Girl - Lenore Ulric serves allure in generous portions - article with photos; The Meanest Beast - battle between black leopard and shark; The Road Back (part VI of short story); You Couldn't Hate Patrick (short story); Thoughts that Win - Advice by champion golfer Jerome D. Travers - article with photo; Nice full-page color ad for Seald Sweet grapefruits; Full-page ad for Canada Dry ginger ales; The Scotty Dog (short story); Fantastic centerfold two-colour ad for Colorado tourism; Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad full-page ad; Full-page ad for Philco radios features photos of Gary Cooper; Nice Chrysler ad; Full-page Fleischmann's Yeast ad encourages readers to eat three cakes per day (!); Back page article on prohibition; Attractive color Ford ad inside back cover shows doctor making housecall in the evening snow; Color Ipana ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1983316 pages including black and white illustrations and an extensive index. Records the first half-century of settlement in Metchosin on southern Vancouver Island. Frontis illustration by Sue Coleman. Minimal wear to book which remains clean and bright in blue boards. Prior owner's ink stamp upon half-title page and endpapers, both of which are decorated with an ornate old-time map of the area. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, shows average wear and sticker removal patch atop front panel. A quality copy of this important genealogical reference. HALE & BARMAN 399. Book
1988509 pages. Iindex. Map endpapers. Covers the area including all the school districts lying south, west and east of Colinton, Alberta to a distance of approximately twelve miles each way. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Chapters include: Colinton - Our Community; The Schools; Family Histories; Armed Forces; Churches; Meanook Area; Anniversaries; Athabasca Trail; Sports in Meanook; Ferguson District; Miscellaneous Documents; Miscellaneous Pictures. Prior owner's names and date atop table of contents, otherwise unmarked. Gilt lettering and decorations upon publisher's green cloth. Moderate wear. Beige stain to inner half of top edge, contents unaffected. A quality copy of the invaluable genealogical reference. Book
1980346 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Published on the occasion of Saskatchewan't 75th Anniversary in 1980. "Written in order to inform our present and future generations of the life and achievements of their ancestors who laid the foundations for a rich life in this community." - from Dedication page. "Provides the family histories of the settlers of the Fosston district from the time of 1905 until 1980. The numerous photographs tell their own story depicting types of homes, modes of transportation, farming procedures, sports enjoyed and growth in community life. Since schools were great focal points of interest in the life of the residents we have a selection devoted to the school districts of Fosston Rural, Hopeful, Mallard, Hoosehorn #2, Orpington, Ponass Lake and Fosston Hamlet. The spiritual life of the early setters is very evident as we note the faiths which made it possible to erect the churches of Bethel Lutheran, Bobulynci, Evangelical Free, St. Mary's Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Orthodox, and the St. John's Greek Catholic Church." - from Foreward. Bright gilt lettering and illustration upon front board and spine. Clean and unmarked but for ink stamp and 2"x3" application of liquid paper upon front free endpaper. Binding tight. Quality copy. Book
1958Features: Letters about Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum - marvel or monstrosity?; Seeds of Revolt in Red China? - Richard Hughes writes of the chances of Chiang returning to the mainland; Close-Up of the First Earth Satellite - The U.S. will soon re-attempt to place a satellite in orbit some 225,000 miles up to study the moon; Children in a Crucible - "An account of the impact of the process of desegregation upon both white and Negro children at the high school in Clinton, TN, which was bombed after twelve Negro children were integrated with the 700 white students two years ago, as described by teacher Margaret Anderson; In Defense of the Politician - by Senator Richard L. Neuberger; 'To Learn and Teach the Truth' - Evaluating the performance of UNESCO; How to Mix a Cocktail Party ; A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story - A Cezanne masterpiece sold last month for $616,000, exemplifying its soaring prestige; Why Russian Women Work Like Men; End of the Boffolo Texensis; Marks of Office - Photos of interesting items in Washington offices; Visitors to the U.N. headquarters in New York; Great color-photo ad for Rheingold Extra Dry beer features photo of Madelyn Darrow, Miss Rheingold 1958 in motorboat; Classy one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Noel Coward sipping tea in pounding surf; Article on Boy Scouts; Photos of women's fashions for enchanted; Photos of various fashionable home heating stoves; Four photos from the making of "A Night to Remember" about the Titanic; Six photos of the Aga Khan IV at Harvard; The New York Horse Show; and more. 92 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195976 pages. Features: Cover illustration of an evening scene on Montreal's Des Erables St. shows residents watching baseball game in distant Delorimier Stadium; One-page ad for Sparton TVs; Vintage one-page Bank of Montreal (BMO) ad features family finances; Wedding photos of Meribah Baxter and her husband-to-be, Lieutenant Brian Stark; One-page Holland-America Line ad features photo of their new flagship, the Rotterdam; One-page colour-photo Royal Trust ad features wealthy grandmother with grandson; The Day Canada Went to War - September 10, 1939 - excellent photo-illustrated article; My strange encounter with the world's most mysterious assassin - Terence Robertson's photo-illustrated article on the anonymous killer ('Jacson-Mornard-Mercadcer') of Leon Trotsky, who has been imprisoned in Mexico for 19 years; How TV Writers Get That Way - article on Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth with photos including Julie London and Andy Williams; Portrait of a High School - wonderful photo-illustrated article on Vancouver's King Edward High School; Are the British Better Off Than We Are? - photo-illustrated article; The Tragic Failure of Organized Medicine, by Harry Paikin, M.D.; "My Week In and Out of Modeling Schools' - R.T. Allen's great photo-illustrated article; Attractive colour one-page Black Label beear ad features golden prairie scene looking to the horizon; Northern Electric one-page colour ad features Saskatchewan theme; Canadian National (CN) passenger rail ad features photo of traveler and black porter; One-page Electrohome features their TVs, stereos and furniture; Waterloo County's Great Tombstone Mystery - tombstone of the two young wives of Dr. S. Bean; One-page Caterpillar ad features large aerial colour photo of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting's Flin Flon, Manitoba operation; Colour-photo ad for La Renault Dauphine car; GE Ultravision TV one-page photo ad features a young Robert (Bob) Goulet; Nice Hammond organ ad; Hertz ad on back cover features four photos of a ghastly pink 1959 Chevrolet; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1940116 pages. Features: Fantastic color-illustrated ad for International School Buses inside front cover; Lovely one-page color-illustrated ad for General Tire features young couples heading out to picnic; Attack! - part 1 of a 4-part serial by Leland Jamieson; The World That Was - Could the miracle of our auto industry happen now? - article with photo of the 87-acre employee parking lot at the Ford Rouge plant; Trotting Ain't Racing - short story by David Lamson; The King of the World - short story by William Fay; To Have and To Hold - Fletcher Pratt considers if we can defend the Panama Canal from air attack - article with color photos; A Name For a Boy - short story by Glenn Allan; Convoys Don't Advertise - Leslie Roberts describes how the Allies guard their sea lanes - article with photos; This Time It's Different - short story by Marian Spitzer; "Canadian Invasion" and Black Tom - Secret agent Emanuel V. Voska's story of the Black Tom Explosion - The story of Espionage and counterespionage in America - photo-illustrated article; Never Another Jones - What made golfer Bobby Jones so good?; Full-page Lucky Strike cigarette ad features color photo of tobacco buyer Fred Evans with tobacco farmer; Quick Service - part 6 of an 8-part serial by P.G. Wodehouse; Nice color one-page Chrysler ad features 'a drawing room on wheels'; Two pages of photos and information about Henry Ford's "Camp Legion" near Dearborn, Michigan - including photo of Mr. Ford; Lovely one-page color-illustrated Pontiac ad. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A well-preserved copy of this fabulous wartime issue. Book
195076 pages. Nice cover illustration of young couple discovering they have each bought a Christmas tree. Articles: Ill Take Sled Dogs for Rough Going - Alaskan ranger Grant Pearson travels by dog sled; Spare Parts for Human Bodies - The U.S. Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland maintains an inventory of replacement parts for wounded soldiers; The Ladies Like 'Em Rugged - John Wayne is Hollywood's No. 1 he-man; The Kids Don't Remember a Thing - a new generation of young Americans flies over England, defending her against the Reds; All-Time Champ of the Lobbyists - Sam Ward was the most engaging scoundrel to ever afflict Washington; It's Tough to Go to School in New Mexico - color-photo-illustrated article about kids in Catron County who commute up to 50 miles one way through savage territory and wicked weather; Our Softhearted Warriors in Korea - US Troops care for pathetic Korean war orphans; India Opens Her Hidden Storehouse - American machinery is tapping rich farmland in India; Article on Napalm a.k.a. Bouncing Fire; Every Brick of the Vernal, Utah Post Office was shipped in by Mail! Short Stories: Child of Divorce; Company for Christmas Dinner; Granny Hite and the Angry Mob; Small-Town Doctor. Serials: The Desperate Woman (part 5 of 6); The Great Mail Robbery (conclusion). Ads: Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Cyanamid features artist Andre Dugo painting Christmas Seal illustration; Fatima Cigarettes; Color-photo Caterpillar ad features two Cat dragging loads of Christmas trees from bush; Nice color-illustrated ad for Studebaker trucks inside back cover; Sunkist naval orange ad on back cover. Small chip from lower tip of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear and soiling. Faint pink discoloration near lower corner of several pages. Complete and intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1952104 pages. Fantastic black and white photos throughout. Autographs and inscriptions inside each board and scattered throughout. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Bonus: Laid-in is a stapled list of mailing addresses for students in this book, perhaps circa 1980s. Book
1967120 pages. Features: Robert McNamara Cover Photo; Many gorgeous color-photo fashion ads; One-page ad for soundtrack to movie "I Do! I Do!", starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; Great ad for Sony Superscope tape recorders in children's birthday party scene; The Myths That Divide India and Us; The Prevalence of Hobbits - thirty years after they were invented by a bored Oxford don, the hobbits - "a benevolent, furry-footed people" - have taken a new generation by storm - illustrated article with photo of Tolkien; Are We On the Brink of Another Arms Race? - photo-illustrated article; The Two Extremes of Avant-Garde Music - Milton Babbitt and John Cage; Sauvage of Seventh Avenue - Jacques Tiffeau Understands Today - photo-illustrated article; Judge Botein - a Judge with 'Disciplined Indignation'; Lovely color-photo centerfold of Springmaid's Miss January, Martha Branch; Great nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for General Motors features photos of eight of their station wagons; A High School Principal Reports "The young... are going for uglification and unlovableness faster and faster"; Uncommone one-page color-photo ad for Mott's Figure Control Meals which are a 'wicked way to lose weight'; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp on first page. Covers almost loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1899Pages 588-610. Features: Cover illustration by Ernest L. Blumenschein entitled "Wards of the Nation - Their First Vacation From School" depicts a Native American scene; British Problems in Asia; This Busy World; The Passing of John Barrett, United States Minister to Siam; Photos from the Philippines - Admiral Dewey Going for a Drive Around Manila, Admiral Dewey at the Office of the Captain of the Port at Manila, Dakota and Montana Troops Crossing Wrecked Bridge over the Rio Grande; The Philippine Revolt - The Malolos Campaign; Photos and write-ups of these men in the news - Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Major Arthur M. Diggles who was lost in the Malolos Campaign, Augustin Daly, Rev. W.H.P. Faunce of Brown University, and George K. Nash, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio; Full-page illustration by W.A. Rogers entitled "Conquering a Desert in Southern Arizona"; A page of photos and illustrations along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal; The Nicaragua Canal in Sight - article by Francis E. Leupp; Ballad of Leiutenant Miles; Two-page centerfold compilation of photos and illustration depicting the proposed Nicaragua Canal, the country through which it will pass, and the people along the route; Hawaiian-America; An American Sovereign (continued); Amateur Sport - considerable text with six photos; Poem To Augustin Daly; The Conspirators (continued); Great vintage ads, including an illustrated one for the Columbia Bevel-Gear Chainless Bicycle from the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
194548 Pages. Features: Cover photo of house-to-house fighting in Germany; Nice one-page photo ad for Freed-Eisemann radio-phonographs inside front cover; Great one-page color-photo ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd; Illustrated Fairchild ad shows airplane being loaded for a landing in Japan; What kind of Peace? - this article says the men on the front want hard peace terms; Dramatic photos of the battle for the Rhine; Article arguing that Hirohito's Palace must be bombed; Troop carrier planes defy the weather and also serve as supply ships and ambulances (C-47 shown in photo); Poets in battle; To Prevent War - No News Blackout - so argues the Exec. Director of Associated Press; Nice one-page color ad for Virginia Rounds cigarettes shows stylilsh cigarette case; Housewife or Career Woman? - making the case that the housewife's life is better, as are those of her husband and children; Great one-page color ad for Florida Oranges (Juice); Notes on a theatrical revolution; Children create their own fictionat the Hunter Elementary School; A Schoolma'am's Farewell to Teaching; Color ad for Borden Cheese; Classy color-photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Nice one-page color ad for Betty Crocker Pea Soup; Ceramics from California; Growing Independence in Children; Nice Cocomalt ad shows playground scene; Two pages of lovely formal fashion photography - New York Couture; One page color ad for Woodbury Beauty Cream features beautiful image of Shirley Temple; Marlboro cigarette ad features fashionable woman in black dress with purple accessories. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
1945Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Book
1971120 pages. Features: Large Paris Spring Collections Report; The Great American Shirt Life with Jane Birkin; Rome - The Spring Fashion Collections; U.S. Fashion - The coat to wear over everything you own; Chanel's regime d'exuberance - suddenly there came a tapping; Silicone - a new aid to plastic surgery; "Alas, Poor Ilyich"; People are Talking about... Movies; My House is Paper... Glued with Love; Live Rich; Americans - making it in London; Spring Designing Portfolio; The Diamond Ball in New York; Vogue's School and Camp Directory; and much more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reference copy. 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
195464 pages. Features: Nice colour RCAF ad inside front cover; Dispute Still Surrounds Duff Cooper; More Canadians than Jobs; Lovely colour full-page ad for 1954 DeSoto automobiles; The Seven Living Ghosts of Nuremberg - an uncensored first-hand report from behind the bars of Spandau where Rudolf Hess, Karl Doenitz, Baldur Von Schirach, Walther Funk, Erich Raeder, Albert Speer and Baron Konstantin Von Neurath - top Nazis - imprisoned for crimes against humanity wait out the tortuous years while the world forgets they exist - with photos; Athabaska's Atom Boom - Albert Zeemel's discovery of Uranium sparks the development of Uranium City, Saskatchewan - great article with many photos; The Maps that Charted our History - a famous collection, published here for the first time, show the slow evolution of Europe's knowledge about Canada; How Early Map Makers Saw the Great Lakes; The Brainiest School in the Country - Dalhousie Law School - article with photos; How Papa Masella Made His Boys Make Music - Frank Masella of Montreal and his eight musical sons; In the Lost World of the Cypress Hills - this strange mountain on the prairies harbors tropical scorpions, petrified figs, fourteen kinds of orchid and a lawless past that sparked the formation of the Mounties; Are People Monkees? - fiction by James McNamee; Ford colour V-8 ad; 1954 Plymouth ad; Colour Buick ad; Chevrolet truck ad; and more. Average wear. Couple of small chips from covers. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1971128 pages. Features:The Great new ready-to-wear looks from paris, Italy, and Spain - all available here and now; The New York Collections Evening Report; Chanel 1883-1971; The Beautiful People in the Snow; All the fashion you want for your feet and legs this spring; Vogue's Super Diet; John Marin; Marin on Marin; Yes, Yes, Nanette; Sex - up with the stock market; Solzhenitsyn - Three Short Stories; Detonations in London; On Guadalupe - the live-and-work studios of Jean Schlumberger; A Cruise into Irresponsibility; British Embassy Ball in Washington; Vogue's School and Camp Directory; and much more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
1975viii, 867 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival family photos. Second printing of the 1974 first edition. "Devoted primarily to biographies arranged in alphabetical order according to district, concentrating on settlers who arrived prior to WWI. Includes the following districts: Ashvale, Beauvais, Beaver Mines, Burmis, Chipman Creek, Cowley, Crook, Cyr, Drywood, Fir Grove, Fishburn, Gadshill, Gladstone Valley, Halifax, Heath Creek, Hillsboro, Lee School District, Lundbreck, Marr, Maycroft, Mountain Hill, North Fork, Olin Creek, Robert Kerr, Spread Eagle, Spring Ridge, Summerview, Tanner, Tennessee, Todd Creek, Twin Butee, Utopia, Waldron, and Yarrow. Two words highlighted on page vii otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Short opening to top of backstrip. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent local history and invaluable genealogical reference. Krotki [2] 827, Strathern 3197. Book
194894 pages. Articles: How Truman Did It; The Barbizon Hotel - For Women Only - article with nice photos; Dogs are Big Business; I Saw the Reds Taste Freedom - Col. Robert Bishop's dramatic recollection of Bucharest, Rumania's brief taste of liberty in 1944, with great photo; How to Give Money Away; My Life in a Cooking School. Fiction: You Can't Win 'em All!; Girl With a Horse for Sale; The Miracle of Tepayac; Make Something Happen; Passage to Panama (part 6 of 7). Aviation Features: My Story of the Wright Brothers; Cavalcade of Trnasportation; The Collier Trophy - for flight beyond the speed of sound - won by John Stack, Lawrence D. Bell and Captain Charles "Chuck" E. Yeager, USAF; Diary of the First Flight; Our Aerial Arsenal - great compilation of color illustrations of US military aircraft; ; The World the Kitty Hawk Made; Super color aerial photo of Niagara Falls with Rainbow Bridge in backbround. Illustration of basketball player George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers; Ads include: Nice color Canada Dry ad inside front cover; Martin 2-0-2 Airliner; Pan American World Airlines; American Airlines;; B.F. Goodrich; Plymouth cars; International Trucks; Douglas Aircraft - attractive military theme; Good Year's Cross -Wind Landing Wheel; TWA Airlines; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Hiram Walker's liquor; The 1949 Frazer car; Pabst beer features color photo of Mrs. Winston Guest; "Enchantment" movie starring David Niven; Bell Aircraft ad features illustrations of their helicopters and X-1 jet; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows Santa reaching into a fridge for a quick drink. Covers pulling from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
195380 pages. Features: Many sensational color ladies' fashion ads; Cover photo of Dwight Eisenhower with Robert A. Taft; Interesting one-page RCA ad featuring the transistor; What Course for the Powerful Mr. Robert A. Taft?; The Iron Barrier - photos from seven frontiers where the Communists face the rest of the world - Korea, Turkey, Austira, Indo-China, Yugoslavia, Germany and Iran; Anatomy of the Russian Communisty Party - from a small band of hunted revolutionaries it has developed into a sanctuary for the privileged; U.S. and U.N. - The Choices Before Us - criticisms from the American public; We can live longer - but for What?; Danger in What We Don't Know - high school seniors show appalling ignorance of the world they live in; Class of '53 - The men leaving college this year are perhaps the most popular in years - with business, industry and the military competing; Bill Mauldin's cartoon art from three wars; Then and Now - Celebrated German Aeronaut Hugo Eckener; One page photo-illustrated ad for State of Israel Bonds entitled "Out of the Desert... A Great Chemical Industry" with photos of the new fertilzier and chemical plant at Haifa; Nice one-page ad for the 1953 Nash Rambler; Fantastic one-page color ad for colorful Crosley plastic (bakelite?) radios; Nice color ad for Cheer laundry detergent; Photos of home interior designed by architect Oskar Stonorov; Samuel Plotkin - New York City's expert on food contamination, detects it largely by tasting; Rare one-page color ad for F.W. Woolworth Co. Easter treats; and more. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
