Published by Taylor & Francis, 2006
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding has some wear; fore-edge margins at front have small, minor crease; tight, text clean. 431 p., well illustrated. Includes Julian P. Hume's 25-page illustrated article about the dodo, "The history of the Dodo 'Raphus cucullatus' and the Penguin of Mauritius." Large, heavy volume. [B1:9:4].
Published by Stovel / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg, 1945
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Morant, Nicholas (cover photo); Shregge; Holmgren, John; Iligan, Ralph; Jousset, Albert; Lowthian; Humphrey, Beech; (illustrator). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Cover photo of lady tennis player in front of totem pole; Colour Parker pen ad inside front cover shows executive at desk; Colour Canada Dry ad; "Socialism" Gets its Chance in Britain; photo of high-ranking Nazis at internment camp in Germany; Colour Gold Seal Salmon ad includes Walt Disney illustrations; Col. R.S. McLaughline - Man of the month - article with portrait; Canadians are Fortunate; Tinks (short story); Milk Run (short military story); Sidelights from San Francisco - photo-illustrated article on United Nations meeting at San Francisco; Bobbysockie (short story); A Richman's Poorhouse - the Andrew Freedman home in the Bronx; Are Racketeers Getting the Soldiers' Re-establishment Grants?; The Leighton Story (fiction); Fantastic wartime Champion Spark Plug one-page illustrated ad shows tail-section of B-29 in China; Photo of Frances Langford in Jergens Lotion ad; Interesting illustrated quarter-page ad by the Canadian Ice Foundation shows deliveryman carrying large block of ice; Vancouver, B.C. - Port of Missing People; The Misuses of Laxatives for Junoirs; Multiple photos of newlyweds Lois Anne Richardson of Montreal and Burton William Grant, R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer in Woodbury soap ad; Nice Charlie McCarthy colour-comic half-page ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Ladies' fashion illustrations and article; Nice photo of Joan Blondell in Arrid ad; Science advances; World Sayings; Colour Ford car ad inside back cover shows happy family in crystal ball; Back cover ad for Waterman's pens; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy.