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American Homes and Gardens Magazine, July 1909, Volume VI, No. 7 - "Red Oaks," The Summer Home of John M. Carrerre, Esq., White Plains, New York

By: Ferree, B.; Douglass, B.; Thurston, P.; Walbran, G.; Du Puy, W.; Powell, E.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, Munn & Company: 1909

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201H0843

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 253-292 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The Campaign Against the Housefly; Homes of American Artists - "Red Oaks," the Summer House of John M. Carrere, Esq., White Plains, NY; The Wild Mushrooms; A Reclaimed Dwelling - how a farmhouse at Stokes Pogis, Villa Nova, PA, was Reclained and Transformed into a Habitable Dwelling; Curtains for the Summer Home; The Healthiest House in the World - designed by Milton Dana Morrill, of Washington; Trimming Old Trees; The Garden Gate - wonderful photos; Forest Conservation at Biltmore, the No...
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Vancouver's Voyage: Charting the Northwest Coast, 1791-1795

By: Fisher, Robin

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Univ of Washington Pr: 1992

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 746C6455

ISBN: 0295971916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

0295971916 131 pages. Reference notes. Recommended reading list. List of colour plates. Index. "Reveals much of Captain Vancouver's personality, life aboard his ships, the techniques of mapping, and his views of the native peoples he encountered. Historical engravings and maps, reproduced directly from the first edition of Vancouver's famous account of his voyage, richly illustrate the land and events. These are enhanced by over 30 stunning colour photographs, taken especially for this book." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Bookseller's label on half-title page. A...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February 15, 1945 - Vancouver Pin-up Yvonne De Carlo

By: Frischauer, Willi; Fraser, Blair; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Hemming, Albert; Stursberg, Peter; Baxter, A. Beverley; Sinclair, Gordon; "Bunje"; Dudley, Fredda; Frayne, Trent; Carse, Robert; Findlay, D.K.; Campbell, Helen G.; Primeau, Joe

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Toronto, The Maclean Publishing Company: 1945

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 144G1282

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

52 pages. Features: Nice cover painting by Adrian Dingle shows a typical rural winter scene - man pumping water from well with workhorses and barn in background; Austria's Underground Fights for Liberation; Canada in Washington - article and photos, including one of Ambassador Lester "Mike" Pearson; Until That Day (fiction); Dynamite Hockey - Article by Joe Primeau, coach of the St. Mike's Juniors - with two photos; "Stamp-Licker" Airstrip - the story of how Canadians invented the PBS airstrip which has revolutionized Allied airfield equipment in European battle areas; Your Gl...
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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance: February 26, 1940 - Cover Photo of Finnish Soldiers

By: Fuqua, Stephen O.; Pratt, William V.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Dayton, Ohio, USA, Weekly Publications: 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 302G3277

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

64 pages. Features: Nice ad for Dodge Trucks inside front cover shows eight of their models; 2/3-page two-color ad for Heublein's Club Cocktails; Birthday photo of boxer Max Baer; Marriage of Artie Shaw to Lana Turner; Vivien Leigh divorce; Annie Lyon Howe, the mother of Christian Kindergarten in Japan, is honored; Obituaries for Col. R.E.B. Crompton, Frederick E. Murphy and Rudy Wiedoeft; Nice color ad for the La Salle Special 5-Passenger 4-Door Touring Sedan (Green) with white wall tires; Pullman ad shows men getting productive work done while on train; Nice one-page photo ad for 1940 Plymo...
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The West - True Stories of the Old West: February 1970

By: Grayson, Milt: Editor

Price: $79.95

Publisher: New York, U.S.A., Maverick Publications Inc.: 1970

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 824C5975

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

74 pages. Features: Lincoln's Friend, Sculptress Vinnie Ream; Death in Pleasant Valley - Ed Tewskbury; The Saga of Governor Lew Wallace; Jedediah's Jinxed Journey - Jedediah Smith; Of Big Brave Bulls and Gentle Cows; No Wood for a Casket; Mountain Man Capitalist - Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick" Wootton; Another Pioneer - George Washington Bush; Five Swindlers Caught Triple Trouble - J. Frank Norfleet; Pocahontas of the Southwest; Christopher Columbus - Just a Tourist? Average wear. A worthy reference copy.
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House & Garden Magazine, August (Aug.) 1985 - Marc Rosen and Arlene Dahl's Hudson River Classic

By: Greene, Elaine; Filler, Martin; Yoshida, Kojiro; Pryce-Jones, Alan; Freudenhein, S.; Keswick, M.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: New York, Conde Nast: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 551H1874

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

170 pages. Features: Marc Rosen and Arlene Dahl's Hudson River Classic; George Washington's Mount Vernon home restored; Ingenious addition to New York's Whitney Museum; Restoration of a merchant's house in old Kyoto; Eccentric charm in Newport; 17th century Spanish still lifes; Buzz Yudell and Tina Beebe transform a tiny L.A. home; Peter Preller creates a perfect fit for fashion designer Jil Sander; Two barns converted by Carlos Brillembourg with Jonathan Lanman; Improvisation on an upstate New York home; D.C.'s Jade Garden; Great impressionist collections in the Palm Springs home of Ambassad...
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The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 (Publications on Russia and Eastern Europe of the School of International Studies)

By: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi

Price: $399.95

Publisher: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Univ of Washington Pr: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 112A1833

ISBN: 0295957654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

0295957654 652 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. "By presenting an interpretation that the February Revolution was the combination of two revolts (a revolt of the masses against the existing order and the alienation from the regime of the liberal opposition), Professor Hasegawa sharply differs from other historians on the revolution. George Yaney, professor of history at the University of Maryland, said 'This will be one of the most valuable works ever published on Russian history... For the first time, we are able to see real people blundering around in their...
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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, January 20, 1947: Cover Photo of General George Marshall

By: Hazlitt, Henry; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Weekly Publications: 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 302G3316

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

100 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Up from the Ranks - two-page Bell Telephone ad features photos of 17 Presidents of their operating telephone companies; Classy color Dodge ad features red car and snowman; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Claude Pepper; Kenneth Romney; GI Wives "Living in Squalor"; Very classy color ad for Monnet Cognac; Observations on General Marshall; Europe - cold hands and empty plates; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Northwest Orient Airlines; Exploded truce in Palestine - bombing at Haifa police station; Russia acts for Spitsbe...
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National Home Monthly Magazine, June 1939 - Wings Over Britain / What Do the People of Germany and Italy Desire?

By: Healy, W.; Stewart, Dr. H.; King, S.; Bentley, E.; Wallace, E.; Drummond-Hay, Lady; Brown, J.; France B.; Bayne, E.; Chown, Dr. B.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Winnipeg, Stovel / National Home Monthly: 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201G4812

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

68 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration blonde beauty clutching her list of suitors; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick features green car and flower saleslady; News digest includes 'President Roosevelt intervenes', 'The Washington Proposal', The 'Halt-Hitler' movement; 'Parallel Perfidies', and 'Albania and Poland'; If I Die Before I Wake (part I); Thank-you Too Much (short story); Wings Over Britain - photo-illustrated article on the balloon barrages and fighter squadrons defending against hostile bombers; The Sweet Shot (short story); Behind the Goose Step - photo-i...
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WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat) Magazine, November/December 2009

By: Hill, Tom; Compton, Nic; Randall, Shelly; Jepson, George D.; McKenna, Robert

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, WoodenBoat Publications: 2009

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 543G1624

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

136 pages. Features: The Pursuit of Two Gallons per Hour; Remembering Phil Bolger; Build the Jericho Bay Lobster Skiff - Part II; The Final Voyage of STAVANGER; Building and Using Wooden Boats at Cama Beach, Washington; Building a Swedish Blekingseka; The McCoy Brothers - Respected Boatbuilders, Revered Rumrunners; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reference copy.
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An Album of the American Revolution Illustrated with Maps and Photographs - A Franklin Watts Library Edition

By: Ingraham, Leonard W.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: U.S.A., Franklin Watts Inc.: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 33505230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Second Printing. Library of Congress Number 73-134657. 96 Pages including index. Pictorial boards. Fine aside from very light rubbing on corners and a touch along bottom of front board. NOT ex-library. Hard to find a better copy.
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Image for Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, November (Nov.) 12, 1955 - Buck Crump and the CPR / The Unconquered Warriors of Ohsweken / Death of Jumbo the Elephant / Ben Ward-Price

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, November (Nov.) 12, 1955 - Buck Crump and the CPR / The Unconquered Warriors of Ohsweken / Death of Jumbo the Elephant / Ben Ward-Price

By: Katz, Sidney; Bodsworth, Fred; Callwood, J.; Young, Scott; Dickson, Doris; Staebler, Edna; Maclure, John; Bannerman, James; Porter, M.; Croft, F.; Cummings, P.; Kerr, Illingworth H.; Wright, Theon; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Maclean Hunter: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201G4723

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

124 pages. Features: Peter Whalley's cover illustrations depict the many phases of deer hunting; Editorial laments the 'sickness' of TV giveaway shows; How Iron Man Sir Anthony Eden Made Good; Half-page Wawanesa Insurance ad features photo of 1948 Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott figure skating; Great two-page colour ad for a white on red 1956 Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Four-door hardtop; The New Wonder Drugs That Fight Insanity - photo-illustrated article on Chlorpromazine and reserpine; Buck Crump's Love Affair with the CPR - photo-illustrated article on the rise of Buck Crump from machinist'...
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Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, October 1926 - Lockerbie Street - the Home of James Whitcomb Riley

By: Lemmon, Mrs. Robert S.; Wilcox, Uthai Vincent; Kains, M.G.; Martini, E.A.; Sherlock, Chesla C.; Et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Meredith: 1926

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 316G2259

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

100 pages. Features: Possibilities for planting wall gardens - rock walls; Showing civic pride with trees; The proper way to remove branches - photo-illustrated article on pruning trees; The third season in my garden; How shingles help in remodeling; Homes of famous Americans - part XLVI - Lockerbie Street, the home of James Whitcomb Riley; Let's have a fireplace; Nice one-page Johnson's Polishing Was ad features illustration of mother and child waxing floor; Preparing for your garden next year; Nice one-page color ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles features illustration of castle under ...
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The New York Times Magazine, September (Sept.) 29, 1963 - The Southern Negro Drives for the Vote

By: Lilienthal, David E.; Toynbee, Arnold J.; Sitton, Claude; Lisagor, Peter; Braestrup, Peter; Payne, Robert; Daley, Arthur; Kimble, George H.T.; Mayer, Martin; Keats, John; Boroff, David

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times & Arno Press: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 202G4094

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

116 pages. Features: Cover photo of U.N. Delegates in Session; RCA Victor "Dynagroove' record ad features Henry Mancini, Peter Nero, Ann Margret and six other stars; Beautiful fashion ads for men and women; Columbia Masterworks one-page photo ad features Isaac Stern playing with kids; Skeptical Looks at 'Scientific Experts'; WWII Cartoons by David Low; Toynbee considers if a race war is shaping up between the white and colored races - particularly if Communist China makes a bid for world dominion; What Next after the march on Washington and the Birmingham Bombing? - Five Negro Leaders Rep...
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Haida Art

By: MacDonald, George F.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Univ of Washington Pr: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 738G4563

ISBN: 029597561X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

029597561X 242 pages. Index. Bibliography. "This superb volume, the definitive volume on Haida art, presents the most treasured works in what is considered the world's best collection, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization... Richly illustrated with 90 full-color photos of artworks (such as masks, pipes, rattles and other ceremonial objects)... and 95 black and white photos of artworks and rare historical images... The descriptive text... provides an informed overview of Haida art in a historical, cultural and cosmological context." - from dust jacket. Printed upon glossy stock. ...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, August 1927 - Through Spain in Disguise

By: Malmignati, The Countess Guerrini; Mossman, Frank; Bowen, Patrick; Low, Captain John; Martyn, Frederic; Sprange, Grace; Clarke, Charles J.L.; Willard, Reta G.; Terry, Michael; Ingwersen, A.; Beaman, Sir Frank; Hawkes, Ernest W.; Stuart-Reid, G.E.

Price: $249.95

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123G1461

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while trampi...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, October (Oct) 1, 1955 - Crackdown on Montreal Vice / Connaught Laboratories History

By: Manning, Herbert; Callwood, J.; Frayne, T.; DePoe, Norman; Dacre, Douglas; Porter, M.; Phillips, A.; Dunwoody, Derm; Keasler, John I.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Maclean Hunter: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201G4721

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and ...
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Image for The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine of Literature, History, and State Progress, April 1881, Vol. IV, No. 7 - Hon. George Washington Nesmith

The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine of Literature, History, and State Progress, April 1881, Vol. IV, No. 7 - Hon. George Washington Nesmith

By: McClintock, J.N.; Quint, Rev. A.H.; Carr, Laura Garland; Tullock, Hon. Thomas L.; Walker, Joseph B.; Lane, F.W.; Pillsbury, Parker; Tullock, Lida C.; Shirley, John M.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Concord, New Hampshire, J.N. McClintock: 1881

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 302G3005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Pages 258-306. Features: Hon. George Washington Nesmith - article with excellent one-page illustration of subject; Leiut.-Governor David Dunbar's Connections; Dead; Capt. Robert Neal, Senior, and his Wife, Margaret Lear Neal; History of the Four Meeting-Houses of the First Congregational Society in Concord; The Ring; Nathaniel Peabody Rogers; Easter; Bibliography of New Hampshire; The Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike. Above-average external wear and soiling. Faint prior owner's name atop front cover. A worthy reference copy.
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1929, Vol. LXIII, No. 376: Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland / A Gringo in Old Mexico

By: McDermand, Charles; Curtis, Dean; Harley, Vivian; Montagnes, James; Chadwick, W.S.; Cameron, Donald R.G.; Newman, Bernard; Fitzpatrick, Capt. J.F.J.; Coffman, Margaret S.; Galloway, F.W.; Gribble, Francis; De Hamel, Major H. Barry; Brown, Sinclair; Mossm

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346H5273

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A "Gringo" in Old Mexico - An engineer escapes with his life, less a friend and his money; "The Old Small Cat" - Cornered by Shanghai Police, a Chinese bandit only succumbed after a 19 hour battle involving many weapons used against him - includes photos; Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland - A fascinating photo-illustrated article showing how the Far North of Canada is being opened up by passenger and transport aircraft; South African Outlaws - Two prominent law-breakers, Jack Howard and Reilly; ...
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The Saga of the West Coast Loggers

By: McInnis, George L.

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Self-Published: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 751C7707

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

108 pages. "What I have learned of the logging and loggers has been picked up in the Coast districts of Washington and British Columbia. That I have tried to picture unusual characters amongst loggers, and have said little of the unnumbered thousands of fine upstanding, many men in the industry, is not that I'm unaware of them. The unusual always get more attention. In the Saga I speak from personal knowledge, not heresay. And the characters I attempt to picture are not fictitious, nor are the incidents in which they are involved." - from author's note to the reader. Contains fif...
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