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196840 pages. Features: Can Olympic Organizers Keep the Competitors in and the Consumerism Out? - article with great photos of Canadian Olympians at Grenoble; Middle age can be good for you; Sunbeam auto ad shows their Imp, Alpine and Arrow; Nice colour Fashion '68 feature; Prince Charles - Preparation of a Prince - article and nice colour family photo; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: pages 27-28 and right half of page 21 missing. It appears to have contained an ad by Celanese and some fashion illustrations. Otherwise, this is a quality vintage copy. Book
1956Features: Banff tea house survives roaring avalanche (ad); Leon Koerner's one-man giveaway program - Canada's happiest spender is this Czech millionaire who arrived here 17 years ago; A blueprint to stop our cities' decay - one in every 8 Canadian homes is slowly falling apart, soon to become part of a slum with its by-products of disease and distress - here's what Baltimore, Maryland found; Can science beat the virus diseases?; We're wasting millions on an obsolete air force - Guy Simonds charges that in this atomic age of guided missiles we're still committed to a costly, outdated concept of military strategy based on the airplane; We gambled our love on freedom - James Pegg, a British soldier, met Olga, a Ukrainian slave worker in a German prison camp - they had to choose... stay and be parted, or escape together into unknown dangers; The town that wants to stay old fashioned - Niagara-on-the-Lake; The secondhand love letter, by Edward Kaylin; The private lives of Byng Whitteker; Throw out our cruel divorce law - Kent Power, QC. Nice colour Chevrolet ad on page 5. Front cover heavily torn with chunks missing - it illustrated the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Colour Coke ad on back cover. Magazine
1942228 pages. Features: Unified Command - examing the war cabinets of America, Britain, and Germany; Andre Cheradame's Plan for the UN to arm the enslaved people of Europe; The Hard Facts of Air Cargo - it can deliver a quick punch but is limited by raw materials and fuel; Making the best use of our limited steel; Housing for War - Billeting and Requisitioning are necessary for war workers - with emphasis upon Mobile, Alabama; War on the Western Ocean - a personal account of two Atlantic crossings by Stoyan Pribichevich; Machine-Tool Maker's Dilemma - Warner & Swasey has boosted turret-lathe production 700% and will be faced with no demand after the war; Lend-Lease To Date - how and how well it works; Hero - Edwim M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War; The New Age of Wood - describing its many untapped possible uses; Washington Fiscal Policy; The Edge of the Abyss - by Alfed Noyes; and more. Dozens of great vintage ads in color and black and white, including a very attractive military-themed color ad for Harrisburg Steel. Great color ad for Gruen watches on back cover offers Melbourne Brindle-illustrated cockpit view of bombers over Tokyo and caption "How To Get Home From Tokyo!" Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
196624 pages. Features: Nelson Rockefelller explains how things are different since both his grandfathers quit school early to take jobs; Nice one-page color photo ad for Hunt's Catsup; The Last Basket - Wayne Estes of the Utah State basketball team had a strange premonition just before he died - article with nice photo of Estes at the basket; They Chose Paris - Six American career girls who moved there, and stayed - article with photos of Dorian Leigh, Janice Wells, Vicki Howard, Elmore Carruthers Richmond, Florence Gilliam and Rita Johnson; Nice 1/3-page color ad for Sophie Mae Peanut Brittle; The Baker's Art - recipes; Magic sciene tricks for kids; Diam "M" For Help - fictional story about when to tell your troubles to your Minister - and when not to; Zipcode USA - Teen Q&A - with photos of Lesley and Michael Gore; Inca Gold - historic items loaned to the U.S. by the government of Peru; Sensational color back cover ad for James Bond thriller books features action photos - including Pussy Galore pointing gun at James - a super Bond collectible! Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
193658 pages. Features: Nice Ipana photo ad inside front cover; To Girls Who Want to Get Married; - Lux ad; Candles Without Cake (fiction); Night Call (fiction); The Better Man (fictitious tale of a young pretty newspaper woman in Ethiopia - "From every side black men closed in, howling lustily, frothing themselves up..."; Shadowed Wedding (fiction); Look Your Best - tanning/makeup advice for the summer; Love Doesn't Last (fiction); 45 and Glad of It - middle age can make a woman a master or a slave; Nice full-page colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup includes the Campbell kids; Full-page colour reproduction of a beautiful flower painting by Archibald Barnes, A.R.C.A.; Nice full-page Cream of Wheat ad features photo of cute little girl and small dog; I Nursed the Quintuplets - part 2 of Madame Louise de Kiriline's story of her work with Canada's famous Dionne quints - story with photo; Fashion photos; Photo of Bette Davis in Quaker cereal ad; The Movie Go-Round - a dependable monthly guide to good movie entertainment for the family; Honourary life membership in the Canadian Public Health Association awarded to Dr. McCullough, a columnist in this publication; Pie-making; The Weekend Guest - advice for hostesses; Meals of the Month; News Bits by Lotta Dempsey; Nice colour cartoon-style ads for Rinso and Lifebuoy inside back cover; Gorgeous colour ad for Buckingham cigarettes on back cover features young lady golfer. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A nice vintage issue. Magazine
1958112 pages. Features: He Works in God's Back Pastures - Young Minister Sam Varnell chose to work in the "knob country" of eastern Tennessee; The Horse That Was Hard to Believe; The Story Behind Quemoy - How this small island on the coast of China has led America to the brink of War; They Can't Wait to Grow Old - tricks used to illegally receive Social Security payments; Adventures of the Mind, 16 - The Power Holders of the American economy; Battle Against the Lake - great photo-illustrated article on how the Southern Pacific Railroad is laying a roadbed across the Great Salt Lake. Fiction: The Swindler's LIfe; Hopeless Case; Marriageable Age; Ambitious Cop; The Midtown Bomber (part 2 of 5); The case of the Greedy Grandpa (conclusion). Ads: Nice color-photo Ronson lighter ad inside front cover; Fantastic one-page photo-ad for the Philco Predicta TV (which looks like something out of the Jetson's); Nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Studebaker Lark station wagon (blue); Nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for Gulf shows snow white Cadillac with back seat loaded with Christmas gifts in service station; Nice color one-page ad for the Ford Edsel (yellow); Whitman's Chocolates color-photo ad features Santa; One-page black and white photo ad for Motorola TVs; One-page color ad for the 1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sportsedan and Dynamic 88 Holiday Scenicoupe; AC Oil Filter ad features color photo of Dale Robertson of the "Wells Fargo" TV show; Wonderful two-page color-photo ad for 1959 Lincoln cars (white) and Helen Hayes; Idyllic three-color-page wedding-themed ad for the new for Ford Galaxie; Color-photo ad inside back cover for the 1959 De Soto station wagon (yellow) filled with dalmatians has some discolorations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
1995308 pages. References. Glossary. List of species. "...Intensive clearcut logging of Alberta's aspen-dominated boreal mixedwood forests at 60-70 year rotations may alter the age class structure of the forest landscape and result in a change in forest structure and biota... The information in this study will serve as a reference against which structure and biota in harvested forests can be compared." - from Executive Summary. Prior owner's name atop title page, otherwise tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1803Best.-Nr. 7243Bourg, Bottier, an XII - 1803 ; in-18 ; bradel demi-percaline vert kaki, pièce de titre vert sapin, non rogné (L. Guétant) ; 319, (1), VI tt. (table), (2) ff. bl.
Best.-Nr. 8870P., Daumont,1760.
Best.-Nr. 8877Sans lieu ni date, (fin du XVIIIème).
Best.-Nr. 8853P., Basset, (fin du XVIIIème).
Best.-Nr. 8854Sans lieu ni date, (fin du XVIIIème). (Gravures d’un moulin contrecollées au dos).
1855Paris, Furne & Cie, 1855; in-8, 490 pp. + 482 pp. + catalogue d’éditeur, reliures demi-veau rouge, dos orné à nerfs. Les 2 volumes. Très bon état.
1948Best.-Nr. 520861948 Sans lieu, Editions du Galion, 1948, grand in 4° en feuilles sous couverture rempliée illustrée en couelurs, sous double emboitage de toile de jutte (petite tache d'encre rouge en queue du dos).
1746Best.-Nr. 840981746 La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1746, 2 volumes in 12 reliés plein veau ancien, dos lisses ornés, étiquettes de titre maroquin rouge et de tomaison maroquin vert ; minuscules frottis.
Best.-Nr. 8885P., Basset (mi XVIIIème). (Petit trou de ver).
Best.-Nr. 8867P., Beauvais, (fin du XVIIIème). (Deux petits trous de ver).
1883Best.-Nr. DZN-235Paris Hachette 1883, 4 volumes grand in-4, 797+765+795+701 pages 36 planches hors-texte en chromolithographie (manque la planche "Adoration des mages , et présentation au temple" de la 2ème série), 187 gravures pleine-page en noir et 1256 gravures in-texte d'après les documents et les manuscrits de l'époque.. En feuillets libres, sous chemises cartonnées à lacets, plats imprimés; les dos ont été refaits avec une percaline bleue muette, un mors fendu, plusieurs lacets manquants. Un des 100 exemplaires (n°8) numérotés sur papier Vélin de cuve.
1880Best.-Nr. 134591880 P., Librairie de D. Dumoulin et Cie, 1880, 1 vol. grand in-8° (280 x 187 mm) reliure d'éditeur 1/2 chagrin rouge, dos à 3 faux-nerfs, caissons ornés de 2 fleurs-de-lys et d'un fer représentant Saint-Louis assis sur un trône, plats de percaline rouge, plat supérieur orné d'une grande plaque représentant le sceau de Louis VII attaché à un parchemin dans un encadrement de filets dorés et d'un filet gras noir, plat inférieur orné d'une plaque dorée répresentant un sceau de Louis VII à cheval, même encadrement que le plat supérieur, toutes tranches dorées (ENGEL Rel.), de (2) ff. (faux-titre et titre) - 496 pp.Coins supérieurs percés, rousseurs, très bel exemplaire au cartonnage illustré très frais par ailleurs.
1856Best.-Nr. GIT0095fGrenoble Paris Charles Vellot et Cie, Dumoulin 1856-1857. 2vol in-8 broché 634 712pp. Très petit manque sur le dos du Tome I.
1904Best.-Nr. 134811904 demi-chagrin rouge, tête dorée, in-4, VIII-315, hors texte en couleurs, P. Didot 1904
1864Best.-Nr. 30636Évreux Auguste Hérissey 1864 3 volumes In-8 XXXV - 576 + 632 + 682 pp, des traces d'humidité en fin du tome 1 sinon bon exemplaire
Best.-Nr. 20841A Paris, chez Jean Billaine, 1652. plein velin d'époque, plat supérieur en partie renforcé, ainsi que les contre-plats, petites coupures de 2 cm au dos. In-4, portrait sur pied de Saint-Benoit, gravé en frontispice (dos renforcé), page de titre en 2 couleurs, renforcée, recouverte d'une écriture manuscrite d'époque, (26)-450-(8) pages, lettrines, bandeaux et culs de lampes, quelques annotations manuscrites d'époque, charnières en partie renforcées, texte manuscrit au dos du frontispice.
1891Best.-Nr. gb309Honoré Champion Relié 1891 RARE. In-12 (14,8 x 19 cm), reliure demi-chagrin, dos lisse orné de dorures, tête dorée, couverture conservée, 189 pages ; deux petites épidermures au dos, par ailleurs bel état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1895Best.-Nr. 1245791895-1899 Lyon, Bernoux et Cumin, Editeurs - 1895-97-99 - Relié en 6 volumes (2 volumes pour chaque tome), In-4 (20x28.5cm environ), reliure demi cuir rouge à coins, dos à 4 nerfs (nerfs sautés) avec titres et tomaisons et emblème en doré, gardes marbrées, signet rouge, reliés avec les couvertures d'origines - 614 + 668 + 666-xxiv pages
