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195360 pages. Features: Great cover art of a Sunday School teacher struggling to maintain order; Editorial - a fond farewell to Harry S. Truman; Great ad for International Harvester excavating equipment; Our Sorry Record on Housing - Canada rates last among western nations since WWII - article with photos; Youth and Age in a Timeless Seaport - Karsh photographs Saint John, New Brunswick; Queen of the Sob Sister - a Maclean's Flashback to Mrs. Kathleen (Kit) Blake Watkins, the world's first woman war correspondent; Rory Peter's Last Run - story by David MacDonald - illustrated by Jack Bush; How Margery Anderson Came Back from Insanity after a nervous breakdown in 1945; When Ignorance is Bliss - humour by Robert Thomas Allen illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Do Civil Servants Earn Their Salaries? - The Government (Ottawa) Girl - red tape, the frustration of routine work and Ottawa's man shortage often bring disillusionment to her - article with photos; Nice colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers excavation equipment - Ungava theme; 1953 Dodge ad; Excellent Coke ad on back cover features man in a foundry. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An excellent vintage copy. Book
1965Features: The Built-in Lie in our Immigration - thugs are let in, pacifists banned, and nothing, it seems, can be done; The Stratford Star Nobody Knows - Douglas Rain; Holiday Trails of Canada - W.O. Mitchell on the Kananaskis; Ontario's Controversial Coroner - Morton Shulman, the doctor who enrages everyone but the public; An Era Ends for Yesterday's People - a report from Easter Island where the stone age is meeting the jet age; Will Charm Spoil Susan Dexter? - or, how one girl writer took a ride on a beautification assembly line (charm school). Nice colour 1965 Chevrolet ad inside front cover. Average wear and soiling. Considerable water staining. Book
195184 pages. Features: Editorial - Death of a Diplomat - Dr. Hugh Keenleyside snubbed German banker Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently; The Writing on the Kremlin Wall, by Beverley Baxter; The Grits Write Off Ontario - by Blair Fraser; Dick Powell and June Allyson are featured in a Jergen's Lotion ad; Don't Let This Happen to Your City - dramatic lessons from Toronto to other fast-growing Canadian cities - article with many photos; De Bernonville - what the convicted French nazi-sympathizer did in France and how he stayed so long in Canada - article with photos, including images of damning documentation; High Priestess of the Jazz Age - Aimee Semple McPherson studied at Ontario's Ingersoll Collegiate and went on to her fantastic Angelus Temple in Los Angeles - gaudy custimes, stunts, planned hysterics chilled and thrilled thousands of her disciples - a Maclean's flashback; Alberta Oil - the Boom that Ran Away from Home - cautious Canadians sit back cautiously while more imaginative Americans pour in millions; Montreal's Bargain Night Out - The Bellevue Casino is Canada's biggest money-maker - article with great photos; The Great Vancouver Love Affair - How Superlative can a city be? - article with many photos; The First Fuller Brush Man - Alf Fuller of Nova Scotia - article with photos; The Rebellion of Young David - story by Ernest Buckler - illustrated by Rex Woods; Hungry Enough to Eat a Horse? - Thousands of Canadiians are eating horsemeat at half the price of beefsteak; I Guarged Winston Churchill, by Ex-Detective-Inspector W.H. Thompson - Conclusion; Nice colour photo ad for Northern Electric radios; Canadian Bank of Commerce -sponsored centerfold story "Lukey's Boat" by Michael Harrington, illustrated by Ed McNally; Colour Christie's ad for Ritz crackers, Premium crackers, and Graham wafers; Peter Whalley cartoon; Sweet Caps ad; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honours the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa; Nice Chevrolet truck ad; Coke ad inside front cover shows bottles open on a feast-laden table; Back cover ad for Margene margerine. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1982Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1981Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: 1980 - the turbulent year that was; Shelly Hack; Farley Mowat; U.S. Heads into Recession; Terry Fox Cover Illustration; Trudeau wants to patriate the constitution; Indonesia's struggles; Kayakers visit the rivers of the Himalayas; The NHL Comes of Age; Italians are returning home from Canada; The stench of political patronage in Quebec; Economic harship in Britain; Margie Gillis; Truedea's quest for a foreign policy; John Dowd creates the Ronald Reagan survival kit; Kim Mitchell - Max Webster is about to trade its cult status for international glory; Possible break in the hostage crisis; Frank Sinatra at centre of political storm in Washington; Enemy fire at Jean Chretien; Hostages Come Home; Crazy Weather; Jo Penney; Royal Trustco-Campeau hearings; Doris Anderson; Cover photo and story of Karen Kain; Roger Jouret/Plastic Bertrand; Jean-Luc Godard; CIA hostages return home; Saudi officials try to entice Chad from Libya's grip; Steve Podborski story and cover photo; Trappers; Nuclear mishap in France; van Gogh at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); Raquel Welch sues over firing from film Cannery Row; Trudeau and Thatcher - who will stand down?; Sigourney Weaver; Did Ottawa encourage Inco to poison the skies?; The Schreyer family in Rideau Hall; Who will pay for the RCMP?; David Stockman - wunderkind in cabinet; Cover illustration "The Day Alberta Turns off the Oil; The Pope in Asia; Joe Clark faces severe damage; Carol Connors; Donald Sutherland; 4,000 year-old settlement unearthed in Labrador; Tony Tanti; Our Next Queen - cover photo of Lady Diana Spencer; Joe Clark survives leadership with likely mortal wounds; Reagan's team aggressive toward Moscow; Joe Granville says 'Sell!"; the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell; Voyager I renews interest in Titan; Ontario's Crucial Vote; Ouellet's combines sleuths write seven green volumes on price-fixing by oil's big four; Atlanta - beseiged by fear; Lynn Seymour; Sally Field's roll in Back Roads; John Gray is home from Broadway; Alberta's sulphur industry; Will Reagan Deliver?; Canadians flock to the south; Kim Cattrall; passengers endure two weeks of desert runway heat; Compulsory measles vaccination; Panic buying in the home market; Khmer Comeback; Alice Arm, B.C. mine tailings dumping; Dave Broadfoot, and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
1990Features: A Century of Change - from the Golden Age of Victorian Splendor; Bring a Victorian Dollhouse to Life; Showcase - modern and turn-of-the-century kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms, plus a turn-of-the-century store and romantic picnic site; Collections - turn-of-the-century scenes and helpful building tips; Bits and pieces for your next project; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
195135 pages. Black and white photos in text. Features: Our business premises; Autobiography of a Great Anthropologist - Noel Robinson; The Pleistocene Age of British Columbia; The Tuatara; The Flora of Fairmont Hot Springs; The Passenger Pigeon; Reverend Jonathan Green; The Burnaby Lodestone. Average wear. Unmarked. Moisture marks to lower portion of all pages and covers. A sound copy. Book
195138 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. Contents: Melanope - The Ship of Tragedy; Time, and the Indian; Panechates, Son of Hatres; The Pleistocene, or Ice Age of South-West British Columbia; Birds in the Cariboo; The Fine Arts; The Museum is a School of Visual Education; The Cinder Cone Buried Forest, Garibaldi Park, British Columbia; Pioneer Wesleyan Missionaries in British Columbia. Average wear. Binding intact. Moisture marks to periphery of all pages and covers - legibility unaffected. A worthy copy of this informative issue. Book
1982Features: Appointment with Halley's Comet late in 1985; An unexpected flower show amidst the sand flats of a high arctic island; Terra Nova National Park - a naturalist's-eye view; Tree Rings tell us much more than just the age of trees; Salt enlivens the avian diet; Images of Ellesmere. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1987Features: Cheryl Adams portrays the simpler times of yesterday; Bonnie Franklin's Childhood Capers and Bear Facts; Maude Boehnert re-creates the great outdoors; Vacationing and Miniatures Hunting - a great combination!; Lloyd McCaffery's Voyage Through Time - historic ships; Dolores Duran-Cerda - a miniaturist since age 5; Faberge - treasures to delight royalty; Britannia House - a peek inside; Hollywood of the 40s is captured in several panoramic displays; Tu Moonwalker and her woven heritage of native designs; Lovely sewing chest and accessories; Rush weave this elegant chair; Camel back sofa; The perfect Pergola - a flat-top pergola and patio furniture for outdoor settings; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1983Features: The Essence of Tiffany's; Robert Chucka - the Olde Cabinetmaker;; Ballet-Rouse; Bob Bernhard - Dolphins and Dollhouses; In Santa Fe - The House That Jean and Julie Built; Ken Dettling - A Cowboy at Heart; Susan Forrest - Painted Prairie Flower; Sylvia Brinkley - Dollmaker with Empathy; DIY - Sweets for your Sweetheart; Joann's Roses and Valentines; Room of the Month - Furnishing the Great Outdoors; Playtime Pals; Nova Kilns - space age technology for miniaturists; Building with Bob - Electrification; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1991Features: Brickwork Basics; Furniture by Davault; The Golden Age of Wicker - Mary Lee Marston-Robinson; Betty Cinnamon's Country Style; How to launch a dollhouse raffle; Lillian Russell; The Miniatures Photographer VI - Developing Control; Adding personal books and photos; Create a romantic reception with roses, candle rings, and cakes; Have a Seat - 5 easy pieces to sit in your honeymoon cottage; Kit Renderings - 2 chairs from 1 simple kit; Small figure sculpture III - creating arms and legs; Along the Mall VI - a Bridal Shop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
1975Features: How to Forge a Ring; New Mexico's Catron Country; Casting with Water-Soluble Wax; Mexican Wulfenite Discovery; Beads and Bear Claws; Ben Mayo - Space Age Silversmith; Make a Bead Punch; Seashell Roses; The Precious Plumes of Graveyard Point; Rack'em Up; Pt. Mugu Coquina; Working with Opals. Above-average wear. Date stamp and company stamp to front cover. Magazine
1987Contents: Diet and Cancer - confronting the modern diet with stone age physiology; Helium-rich supernovas; Artificial chromosomes; Synchotron radiation; The ancestry of the giant Panda; Demons, engines and the second law of thermodymanics - Maxewell's invention of a molecule-sorting demon; Early farming in northwestern Europe; Modeling Tidal Power. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1983180 pages. Features: Modern icebreakers; Io - one of Jupiter's moons; an early iron age farm community in central Europe; the DNA helix and how it is read; Quantum gravity; prey switching in a simple ecosystem; the aerodynamics of human-powered land vehicles; the interpretation of visual illustions; and more. Faint initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1970Features: Unit Trust Art Buying; Audley End, Essex - the Historic Seat of the Earls of Suffolk and the Lords Braybrooke; Cameo Cutting - an age-old craft; York Silver - after the re-opening of the Assay Office (Part II); Famous Swiss Art Collection; Clues to the age of long-case Clocks; Restored and unrestored pieces of Early Oak furniture; The 4th Annual Gleneagles Hotel Sale; A Grinling Gibbons Front Cover (City of London Treasures Exhibition); The Achievement of Plymouth-Bristol Wares; and more. Minimal markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1969Features: Collecting myths and misnomers; First Exhibition of Irish Portraits; Dyrham Park - the Gloucestershire Home of the Blathwayt Family; Some Early Furniture of the 16th and 17th centuries - previously unrecorded examples; Picture Collecting in 1969; A Galaxy of Teapots - the Shand Kydd Collection, Part 1; The Golden Age of Claude Lorrain - first exhibition of his art comes to London from Newcastle; The London Sale-room in December; the Crowned Ladies of Innsbruck - 16th century masterpieces in Bronze that guard an Emperor's Memorial; Capodimonte Porcelain in demand; and more. Moderate external wear. Minimal markings. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
199456 pages. Features: The great debate - Lincoln versus John A. Macdonald on the speaker's platform; The art of J.S. Hallam; The strange expedition of Alexander McArthur - amateur ornithologist; The voyage of the 'John Barry' - from Cork to Canada in 1825; Hockey's first golden age and the men who made it; 999 Queen St. West - George Brown and the Toronto Asylum Scandal. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
197030 pages. Features: How to Actually Enjoy Winter; The Moosemeat Special - the train that runs from Sault Ste. Marie and stops for two liquor stores, whenever a hunter wants on or off - and whenever it hits a timber wolf; How to actually enjoy skiing; Southern exposure - fashion feature; Maggie Grant; The Granddaddy of Draft Dodgers - Jim Blake and his brothers fled into the mountains to escape from Prime minister Borden's conscription law at the time of the first world war; Myrna Lorrie - getting back on track at age 29; Everything about cats with Dr. Robert Williams; Doug Wright's Family. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1937This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 15-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Chaotic dissension prevails in Russia as purge proceeds; Bilbao seized by terror; Tension mounts re: U.S. steel strikes; Police boat near wreck on Nitinat Bar; Nazis disallow church collections without government permission; Jack Fraser absolved by court in hearing of Hedley mine charges; Tainted head cheese causes multiple poisonings in Alberta; Excess profits tax planned as national defence contribution; Forest and Mines Camp schemes launched by B.C. for youths between 18 and 25 years of age; Price of gold will stay up; Editorial page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Above-average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1992Features: In the Wake of Columbus; West Through the Northeast Passage; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Part I, Journey to a remote stone age rock quarry center and discovery of a unique fire starting tool; Did the Norsemen sail from Greenland to Ungava Bay for Lumber?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1992Features: Mountains of the Jinn; Volcano Magic - Photographing an Eruption at Night; Cuzco-Tuyo - The search for a lost Inca fortress; Culture and Spirituality in Majorca; Angkor Wat Conservation Debate Erupts; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Part II - the Yeineri Rock Quarries; The Sea's Last Refuge; Explorer Earns Honor from Nobel Institute; Celebrating a Tradition of Exploration - The Explorer's Club Space Dinner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198090 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Tien Nei; Nine pages of colour movie ads; Lung Chun Erh; Hsu Feng; Colour photo series of martial arts-related photos, featuring a muscular fellow with movie camera; Chin Han's estranged wife won't let him go; Age and Appearance no barriers for Kwai Ah Lui; Tsui Fong smiles again; Wang Tao; Sexy-eyed Yin Choi Ling; New Wave Co.; Yuen Qui gets his reward; Lau Ka Wing seeks to revitalize Kung Fu films; Movie Diplomacy and the 1979 Golden Horse Awards; The Big Knife; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1955160 pages. Features: John Falter cover illustration; Nice color photo ad for the 1956 Mercury autos; Fantastic 2-page color ad for the 1956 Buick; Colour photo ad for RCA Victor televisions; Aurthur Godfrey - This is my Story - part 1 of 8 - lots of great photos; That Susceptible Age, by Robert Terrall; Bangkok - article and great color photos; Madman's Chain, by Gilbert Wright; Coach on the Spot - Bowden Wyatt is lured to Tennessee from Arkansas; We Licked the Veteran Problem - military veterans are concerned their pensions may be cut; The Mayor and Miss Casey, by Nord Riley; Those Half-Pint A-Bombers - jet pilots are proving it doesn't take a big, fat plane to delivery the Sunday Punch; One Night Together, by Jean Bell Mosley; Big Back Yard - large colour photo of goat ranchers in Texas; So You're Selling Your House! - how an exhuasted houseowner spent 78 frustrating days and sleepless nights disposing of his middleaged bungalow; Death in the Wind, by Edwin Lanham; Big Power Plant in the Sky - the possibilities of tapping solar energy; Adventures of Slippery Leo - Leo Irby - Escapologist; He was part of this land - Mitchell Stuart of W-Hollow, Kentucky, by his son, Jesse Stuart; Sensational 3-page color ad for Cadillac for 1956; The Golden Journey, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Nice color photo 2-page ad for 1956 Plymouth, with all new push-button driving; Two-page ad for Ford Trucks; Lovely 2-page colour photo ad for Philco televisions - with remote control!; Nice 1-page color ad for Sealtest ice cream; 2-page color '56 Pontiac ad; Crosley Custom V television ad; Color ad for Zenith televisions; Color ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Italian-style Ravioli; Nice color 1-page ad for Karo waffle syrup; Color Betty Crocker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
