Mathews, W.H.MareMagnum
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194627 pages including bibliography. Black and white illustrations, Colour geological map (in back pocket). "Rocks of the map-area consist entirely of sediments ranging in age from Middle Triassic to Upper Cretaceous." - from page 7. Table of contents include Stratigraphy (formations - Fernie, Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Moosebar, Hasler), Quarternary geology, and coal deposits (distribution, number/thickness of seams, grade, analysis of coals). Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
1965Features: Monique Miller cover photo; Photo of Pierre Laporte on page 1; Nice colour photo ad for the 1965 GM Beaumont; Que se passe-t-il dans les hopitaux?; Septieme Nord - un teleroman de Guy Dufresne penetre dans l'intimite d l'hopital; Les Medicins de Famille se syndiquent; Des Avocats "Pas Comme Les Autres", par Adele Lauzon; Le Vol 831 - le 29 novembre 1963, 118 personnes trouvent la mort dans l'ecrasement d'un DC-8, a Sainte-Therese de Blainville - Qu'est-il advenu des familles des victimes?; Pierre Saint-Jean, Halterophile - il etait a Tokyo, en octobre 1964 - depuis son jeune age, il s'entraine en vue de l'obtention d'une medaille olympique; Nos Cuisiniers a L'ecole - objectif - accueillir convenablement les visiteurs de l'Expo dans TOUS les restaurants. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1966Features: Etobicoke almost banned bird houses!; The Tattoo that murder made famous; Age of the pari-mutuel supermarket; Growing restlessness with Rhodesia; Editorial - draft-dodgers are refugees, not criminals; Sensational 3-page colour photo Electrohome ad featuring their ultra-futuristic Circa '75 new home entertainment concept; "Governor General and Madame Vanier have made once-indifferent Canadians learn to care about an 'obsolete' institution - which somehow works - article and photos; The Intelligent addict's guide to color TV; Lady Auto Racers - article with colour photos - Inga Cordts, Diana Carter, Stephanie Ruys de Perez; "Let's Quit Worshipping the Kid with a B.A.", by Robert Thomas Allen; Two stories about the meaning of Death by Ian Adams and Malcolm Muggeridge; Night Street Boys/Shoe Shine Boys of Toronto - article with great photos; Dr. Robert McClure - God's Front-line Surgeon - article with photo; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; The artist, viewed as a young entrepreneur - Barry Burdeny sells paintings to corporations; "Unification will turn our army, navy and air force into a contingent of unemployed cops in green suits" - Admiral William Landymore, RCN (RTD.); and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1979Features: Bowman Island Expedition 1978 - a return to Ellesmere Island; Turtles from the age of Dinosaurs; U.S. Revenue Cutter Tahoma - pride of the Bering Sea Patrol; The Wary Bongo - escaped notice over a wide range; Iceland's Natural Energy Resources - its potential evaluated; Up North in Kenya; William Crawford Gorgas - mankind is in debt to his genius; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion - its time has come; Ladakh Journey - a flag report; A Leopard named Harriet. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1981Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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
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
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
1992141 pages including bibliography and index. "The magnificent Bigwin Inn once stood as North America's largest and most luxurious summer resort. With an unprecedented collection of historical documents, vintage photographs and vivid colour plates, this book takes you back in time to the fabulous Gatsby-like era of the resort's heyday, a golden age when sleek mahogany launches plied sparkling lake waters, glittering masquerade balls were held in the Pavillion, chamber trios played to Hollywood stars in the Tea House, and royalty lounged beside crackling fires in the Rotunda. Discover the magical secrets of this summer place. Its unforgettable story is a colourful chapter in Canadian history and an important part of our Canadian heritage." - from dust jacket. Light overall wear. Tight and square. Two short scratches to mid-fore-edge of front panel of dust jacket - please see our photo. Half-inch opening to dust jacket back panel near top of spine. Faint erasure atop maroon front free endpaper where prior owner's details removed. A quality copy of this treasured work. Book
199636 pages. Many black and white illustrations. "An objective and unbiased look at an important historical component of the European anthropological scene." - from page 1. Average wear. Some curling to corners. Unmarked. Book
1957Features include: Orchidtown, U.S.A.; The Frontispiece - Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen; A New Station for Cattleya maxima in Southern Ecuador; Cyps in the Bayou Country; Orchids of Africa: Large-flowered Angraecums; Variety, the Spice...; Leaf Age in Cattleya; Research on Orchids at Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Growing Vandas in Massachusetts. Above-average wear. Soiling due to water damage throughout. A rough but worthy copy. Book
1985132 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photography, primarily in colour, throughout. "... A fascinating book that shows with compassionate insight how deeply man's longing for extraplanetary contact is felt... These eccentric individuals may be tuning in, with faulty radios, to a universal message: we must be ready at any time to make the leap into Space." - W.S. Burroughs on back cover. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this most interesting work. Book
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
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
1999194 pages. Author describes her awakening while she lived in Peru for five years. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. 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
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
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
1972Features: Defining Neo-Classicism; The Neo-classical Age - Exhibitions in London; Rudding Park, Harrogate, Yorkshire; Neo-Classicism and the Evolution of Adam's Vase Designs in Silver; In Search of Thomas Hope; The Antique Taste - Neo-Classical Vases in the 1774 Derby Catalogue; Henry Eldridge 1769-1821 - a neo-classical Portraitist; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Book
1972Features: Antiques on Stage; The Age of Charles I at the Tate Gallery; Old Master Drawings at the Queen's Gallery; The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W.1; A Collection of Mortars and their Pestles; Later Leeds Creamware; The Ribbed and Wrythen English Ale Glasses 1590-1830; The Gubbay Bequest at Clandon Park; Value Added Tax and the Collector; Derby Porcelain from 1750-1770; 'Fanfare for Europe' - Exhibition at Christie's; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Book
2008106 pages. References. Black and white illustrations. "Is there a 'Secret Physics' with a different set of rules - hidden away from us earlier in this century, by a powerful elite who fear the technology based on it will strip away their power and wealth, and liberate us from their grip?" - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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
1970Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photos of the majestic interior of the Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon. My Great Adventure 'Up Over' - Australian organist Tony Fenelon's 31-day tour of the U.S.A in the fall of 1969. The Story of Rosa Rio - wonderful 4-page article with photos. What is Unification? - 4-page technical article. Don Thompson Concertizing in Western U.S. The Young Radical Comes of Age - bring understanding of the Theatre Organ up to date, given its return to the international music scene. Pipe'n Pizza makes Southwest Scene - the "Pasta with Pipes" Phenomenon. Hollywood Cavalcade. New chapter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has smash hit first concert. Tenth Home Organ Festibal at Hoberg's woodland resort in Northern California. *Marvelous* three-panel glossy colour centerfold ad for the Rodgers 33-E Theatre Organ. Reader contributions. Obituaries for Douglas Erdman and Mrs. Felix (Jean) Wiener. The Pipe Piper - a listing of any theatre pipe-organs known to be playing. Chapter news. Letters. Lyn Larsen's Fall Concert Tour. Record reviews. The Music of Jerry Mendelson Captivates Rahway Audience. CATOE members restore Pickwick Wurlitzer. Roland J. Treul moves Barton to his home - story with photos. Nuggest from the Golden Days. A Tribute to Dan Papp. California Miss Debuts on Covina "Wurlimorton" - Carol Jones. Classified ads. Chapter news. Conn Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Bonus: prior owner's A.T.O.S. membership card stapled to table of contents. Book
1969Nice Wurlitzer theatre organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Lovely photo of the interior of the Paradise Theatre, Chicago. The Second Age of Theatre Organ - The Grande Barton Pipe Organ in the Virginia Theatre - nice illustrated 3-page article. Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana is probably the first Junior College in the United States to have a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ installed on its campus - illustrated article. Technical Article - Repairing and Rewinding Wurlitzer Magnets (part 2). The Ashley Miller Story - nice two-page article with photos. Mark Del Castillo concert for L.A. Chapter. Chicago 1926 - Article on Henri A. Keates. Chicago's Radio Theatre Pipe Organs - Pipe Dreams, Chicago, USA (part 1 of 2) - fantastic article with photos, including Al Melgard. John Muri on different syles of playing. Billy Nalle at Longwood Gardens. Welcome to the Hoosier Theatre - Dick Smith plays in Whiting, Indiana. Lee Erwin Captivates Rochester. Gaylord Carter Presides at San Diego Morton Organ Rededication Show. The Fabulous 'Beer Can' Organ and Art Stopes. Obituaries of James Allen Orcutt and Frank D. Rogers. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Reader contributions. Classified ads. Chapter news. Hollywood Cavalcade. Record Reviews. Nice Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
