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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
193972 pages. Nice cover illustration of the H.M.S. Repulse by Eric Aldwinckle. Articles: Civilization in Danger - Liddell Hart explains how France and Britain have been forced into a defensive position; This Way, Please - wonderfully nostalgic photo-illustrated article on the Motion-Picture Theatre Usher; Oil is Where You Take It - article on the 112,000 miles of pipeline in North America; Co-ops Sell Fish and Homes - informative article on the history of the North Island Trollers' Co-operative Association (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the the Tompkinsville co-operative housing project at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island; To Be Blind Like This - James McDonald of Alberta explains how blindness since age 6 has not kept him from a full and happy life; Streamlined Groceries - great vintage article on food merchandising circa 1939 and how it eases the burden on housekeepers. Fiction: Graven Image of a Boy; South Sea Saga; So Nicely Put; Deep Waters (serial). Great one-page photo ad for International industrial crawlers and tractors. Excellent two-colour (orange) one-page photo ad for Chevrolet trucks. Lovely one-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge car (orange). Colour Studebaker centrefold ad. 1939 Dodge truck ad. Bromo-Seltzer ad includes photo of Bridge expert Ely Culbertson. Photo of 97-year-old twins Hettie Brenton and Rhoda Dartt, born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Vintage one-page ad for Chrysler vans and pickup trucks. Willys Overland photo ad. Nostalgic colour-photo ad for Canadian Pacific's Banff and Lake Louise tourism features poolside ladies in bathing caps. Nice colour back cover 1939 Plymouth ad features a red Custom four-door Streamline Sedan. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue from the ominous months preceeding WWII. Book
195396 pages. Features: Cover art by Oscar Cahen shows different movie theatre lineups; One-page Birks Jewellers ad; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for International Trucks shows six trucks; Editorial - An Epitaph for Stalin; Why Derek Bentley Had to Hang; Backstage at Ottawa - Social Credit Feels Its Oats; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for GE's Roto-Cold fridge; The British West Indies Want to Join Canada - bonus-length feature article; How Elizabeth Was Taught to Rule - part 3 of 7 of a series on the family in Buckingham Palace - article with great royalty photos; Our Illegal Federal Elections - most of our lawmakers publish innacurate statements of their campaign expenses - who comes across with the money, and what do they get for it?; The Scramble for New Brunswick's New Millions - prospecting in the forests around Bathurst, N.B. - photo-illustrated article, including Jimmy Boylen, Pat Meahan and E.G. Eddy; The Long Night (short story); The Movies Stake Their Life on the 3-D (3D) Revolution; Louis B. Mayer Bounces back at age 67 as the Big Boss of Cinerama; How to Live With a Woman; Our Flabby Muscles Are a National Disgrace - great article by Lloyd Percival, Director of Sports College; Subject Centaur (short story); Leonard Walter Brockington - photo-illustrated article; Whitehorse is Heaven for a Single Girl - photo-illustrated article; Article on Diamonds, and how they remain popular; One-page colour Good Year ad features illustrations of fourteen vintage autos; Nostalgic one-page colour ad for Leonard Fridges; Sweet Caps (Caporals) cigarette ad features puffing majorette; Nice one-page colour Pontiac features a red 1953 Laurentian Sport Coupe and a blue Laurentian 4-door sedan; One-page colour ad for the 1953 Ford Customline; Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) ad features photo of young William Keeler of West Hill, Ontario; Very nostalgic one-page General Motors ad features photos of car-making at Oshawa, auto-parts making at St. Catherines, appliance-making at Scarborough and locomotive-making at London; Nice Nexzema one-page photo ad features lovely Betty Hickman of Toronto and Helen Schmick of Winnipeg; Nice one-page colour ad for Gibson fridges; One-page illustrated ad for 1953 Mercury Trucks; Vintage one-page Air France ad asks "Going to Calcutta?"; Gar Wood ad features photo of the home of Mr. McCallum of Chatham, Ontario; One-page Chevrolet Truck ad features "Comfort in the Cab"; Elegant colour Coke ad on back cover features ballet dancers; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Small chip from bottom corner of front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
195948 pages. Features: The front cover illustration of this issue will bring a smile to any red-blooded Canadian! The night scene depicts an extended family happily drinking beer while watching hockey on TV by their woodstove in a snug ice fishing hut - pure Canadian magic!; Why pass a useless Bill of Rights?; Going Steady - Is it ruining our teen-agers?; Holiday Weekend in Toronto - Jim and Ruth Dugan return to discover an exploding metropolis; Bedford's three-ring dukedom - The thirteenth Duke of Bedford - article with photos; Famous Families at Home - The Dr. William Blatzes - article with family photos; Is it really possible to see your own ghost? - the answer seems to be yes; Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst movies of 1958; How Ernest Rutherford launched the atomic age - article with photos; John S.T. Gibson and his family have been fishing the B.C. coast for 10 years - photos with article; Nice colour photo ad for Red Cap Ale; Uncommon colour ad for the Renault Dauphine on back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
2004Best.-Nr. 500260212Mijade 2004 15 2x0 4x18 2cm. 2004. Broché.
2008Best.-Nr. 500143609POISSON SOLUBLE 2008 48 pages 15x1 2x15 4cm. 2008. Relié. 48 pages.
1969IN 8. BR [MOY]. 70 PP. 35 ILL EN NOIR. [MOY]
1965189 pages. Index. Bibliography. Line illustrations. Black and white photographic plates. Very heavily worn former library copy with usual library markings. Reading copy only. Book
1958pp. xiv, 320. Illustrated. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight chipping at tail. The author traveled fourteen years through Tibet and is the only European woman with the title of Lama. She describes 'the events that brought me into contact with the religious world of the lamas and of the various kinds of magicians who surround them. the occult and mystical theories and the psychic training prac tices of the Tibetans'. There is an extensive and interesting chapter on 'psychic sports'. Much of the time Alexandra traveled in disguise as a Tibetan. Originally published by John Lane in 1932, entitled 'With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet'. This is apparently the first U.S. edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! OCC 8
1860Best.-Nr. 6630Paris, Librairie Académique Didier et Cie, 1860 ; in-12, broché ; (2) ff., 450, 8 pp. de catalogue de libraire.
1860Best.-Nr. 16155Paris, Librairie Académique Didier et Cie, 1860 ; in-12 ; demi-veau glacé vieux rouge, dos lisse à faux-nerfs et titre dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; (2) ff., 450, 8 pp. de catalogue de libraire.
1970Best.-Nr. 163871970 Paris, PUF (Collection Hier), 1970, in 8° broché, XII-218 pages ; cartes hors-texte ; couverture illustrée (petits défauts) ; quelques traits de crayon en marge.
1937Best.-Nr. 796931937 Paris, Alcan, 1937, grand in 8° broché, VII-264 pages.
Best.-Nr. 120476Milan, Jaca Book 1986, 310x240mm, 343pages, reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
fort in-8°, 636 pages, index, broche, couverture illustree Tres bel exemplaire, non coupe (Qq. traces de mouillures en debut d'ouvrage). [TX-9]
1973Paris, Éditions Aimery Somogy, 1973; in-8, 240 pp., reliure d'éditeur pleine percaline vert olive, dos lisse, sous jaquette illustrée. Collection « les Fondateurs des grandes religions », N° 3. Bonne analyse critique des livres qui traitent du sujet, ainsi que de la critique moderne. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs. Bon état.
2020Best.-Nr. 500113145Mango 2020 32 pages 19 81x24 13x0 76cm. 2020. Broché. 32 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 10979Editions Jacques Grancher 1997 243 pages 2x22x15cm. 1997. broché. 243 pages.
Best.-Nr. 90487La Pierre-qui-Vire (Yonne), Zodiaque 1985, 220x175mm, 385pages, reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette. Hormis petit accros sur au dos de la jaquette, très bel exemplaire, comme neuf.
1980Best.-Nr. 2090502113717670Not Available 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2000Best.-Nr. 12901Flammarion 2000 217 pages 13x20x2cm. 2000. Broché avec jaquette. 217 pages. Nicole de Buron aborde avec humour et tendresse le thème de la dépression et des baisses de moral en racontant l'histoire d'une femme dont les enfants sont grands le mari parti et les amies peu secourables. Le livre décrit de manière réaliste et drôle cette 'maladie du siècle'
1992Best.-Nr. 210021992 St Etienne, PUSE, CERCOR, 1992, in 8° broché, 428 pages.
Best.-Nr. 42854Paris: L. Potier (imprimé par Ch. Lahure), 1858 - In-16 (12,4x15,9cm) broché, de (18) pages sur beau papier vergé fort, en caractères gothiques, avec une vignette gravée sur bois - Fac-similé de l'édition ancienne avec une notice in-fine d'Auguste Veinant - Bel exemplaire de cette 23ème livraison (qui en compte 24) de la "Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques, etc. publiées d'après d'anciens manuscrits et d'après des éditions des XVe et XVIe siècles". "Parmi plusieurs collections du même genre, les bibliophiles ont remarqué particulièrement celle-ci, qui se distingue par sa belle exécution typographique et sa correction, que par le choix des ouvrages dont elle se compose." (Brunet II, 138) - Vicaire II, 884.
