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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. there is wear and rubbing on the corners and edges; the previous owner wrote an inscription on the inside of the book; there are some "Discarded" stamped on the inner pages.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Blank page has started to pull away from the cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Grassick with an inscription and date of 1926. All about paisley/cashmere shawls and their history, especially those those from India and Central Asia. With one color illustration. Decorative page edges. Hardcover, 5.25x7.75 inches, 64 pages. Very good condition, corners worn. Signed by Author(s).

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Illustrated by Winter, William A.; Buckham, Robert M.; Grassick;Richardson, Aileen; Hallam, J.S. (illustratore). First Edition. 80 pages. Features: William Winter cover art shows Boy Scout campfire lighting; Nice colour Internationa Truck ad inside front cover shows red semi- driving past kids; RCAF one-page recruiting ad; Nostalgic one-page black and white photo ad for Canadian General Electric radios features the model C182, C150P, C66/67 and radio phonograph; Lionel Shapiro and photographer Ken Bell return to the WWII battlefields where they served - major article with many photos, including some before and after shots; The Startling Inside Scientific Story of the fiery Aurora Borealis; Beads to Billions - The Story of the H.B.C. (Hudson's Bay Company), Part II - photo-illustrated article; Spinnaker Spinster (fiction); How to Save Your Husband's Life - famous psychologist George Lawton gives instructions to help wives avoid becoming widows; Leonard Levinson's Impossible Pictures Inc. makes cartoons for 1/3 the usual cost; A Bush Wife's Life for Me - Women in the wilds get treated like duchesses by the grizzled guys of the mining camps, but there's no movie on the corner - with photo of Red Lake country writer Freda Woodhouse washing clothes by hand; George Young - Yesterday's Hero - at 17 Canada's boy wonder, and perhaps the world's greatest swimmer ever, swam his way into a fame that tore his life to shreds - once offered a quarter million dollars for a movie contract he is now penniless - photo-illustrated article; The Wind in the Juniper (fiction); Ten ways to Save Money on Clothes; School and Me, by Ernest Buckler; The Land of Black and White - Alan Paton tells the tragic story of his land, South Africa; Small clipping from ad on page 37 affects ad on page 38; Colour Westinghouse refrigerator centrefold ad; Nice color one-page RCA Victor ad shows their Models 9-W-91, 9JY and 9EY3 phonographs and coloured records; Massey-Harris one-page ad shows European village scene with tractor; Nice colour Hudson car ad; Back cover O'Keefe's Brewing ad features J.S. Hallam illustration of boy on tricycle passing bus. Please note: Very heavy wear to covers which are loose but present and bear multiple clear archival tape patches. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this uncommon issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept.) 1, 1949 - How They Solved the Northern Lights Mystery Wrigley Marathon Swimmer Santa Catalina Island California William Winter cover art shows Boy Scout campfire lighting; Nice colour Internation.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Bell, Ken (cover); Winter, W.A.; Grassick; Winter; Book,W.; Norris; Work, Jay; Woods, Rex (illustratore). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Cover photo of Dorothy Vanstone boating in Honey Harbor in Georgeon Bay; Great colour ad for International excavating equipment inside front cover; The Family of the Palace - the Windsors live on a pedestal where their people want them; Los Angeles - The Wackiest Town in the World - article wiith photos; The Night of Mr. Waddy - story by Will F. Jenkins - illustrated by W.A. Winter; Would You Live Better in the U.S.? - a detailed test to see if our lower prices make up for lower wages - not quite, but we're catching up; Runway to the World - Edmonton is the most air-minded town in Canada; Don't Get Queasy, Just Take it Easy - Tips for Travel Sickness; He Lured Success - Red Edgar and the Lucky Strike Bait Company of Peterborough, Ontario - article with colour photo of Mr. Edgar; Molson's ad gives kudos to Mr. Leslie Butcher of Windsor Ontario - a member of Canada's 1936 Olympic basketball team; The Bugs Strike Back - insects are adapting to our DDT and germs are gangin up on the 'wonder' drugs; You and Nothing Else - story by Paul Barbour - illustrated by W. Book; Career Girl Without Clothes - Helen Gaskin models nude for artists - story with photos; Royal Canadian Navy Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Hertz car rentals inside back cover; Front cover photo is incorporated into Johnson outboard motor ad on page 52. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine, August 1, 1949 Dorothy Vanstone boating in Honey Harbor in Georgean Bay; Great colour ad for International excavating equipment inside front cover; The Family of the Palace - the Windsors live on a pedestal where their people want them.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Grassick-Templeton (cover); Leake, Gerald; Summers, Gloyne; (illustratore). First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Great full-page colour military-theme ad inside front cover for International Harvester features tripical beach scene with earth movers; The German Prisoner Problem - Editorial; You Can't Try Socialism - scathing editorial; Full-page ad for the Trans-Canada telephone system; Home Won't Be Heaven Soldier - how some home-coming difficulties can be smoothed over; Trout Fever is Catching; River Demon (fiction); Those Sound Effects - production of background noises for radio - article with photos; Canada at San Francisco - what will Canada say at this meeting to shape the security of the post-war world?; The Man Behind Ilsley - Dr. W.C. "Cliff" Clark - Deputy Minister of Finance - article with photo; The "Herrenvolk" in Defeat - a look at the German people after the war - with photos from the town of Calcar; Russia and the Catholics; That Touchy Meat Problem - our failure to ration raised eyebrows in Washington; The Love Moon (fiction); The World's Oldest Company - The Hudson's Bay Company is 275 years old - article with photos; Cancer - medical science can save thousands of Canadians' lives if they seek treatment early enough; Ad for Maclean's $1,000 For a Story Contest; Full-page ad by Ford with caption "Looking Forward!" shows man in suit welcoming a Canadian soldier home from the war; Nice full-page colour GM ad reproduces an oil painting by Fred H. Brigden, R.C.A. overlooking distant autumn leaves with rainbow in background; Nice full-page Goodyear ad with colour illustration of doctor standing beside his car outside drugstore; Half-page Pepsi ad shows man 'buying off his dame' with a case of pop - "Be a Smartee! Pick a Pepsi!"; Nice full-page colour ad for GSW (General Steel Wares) shows young housewife at work in modern kitchen; Full-page ad by the Department of Veteran's Affairs informs readers that War Veteran's Insurance is now available; Kitchen Photography - wartime amateur Rex Frost explains how to set up a darkroom in your kitchen; Half-page Lifesavers ad shows soldier using this candy to improve smooching with his girl; Two-page Victory Bond ad; Ad for Arrid deodorant features photo of Ethel Merman; Gorgeous colour ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover. Only moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Hill, James (Cover Art); Grassick; Anderson, Don; Feyer, George (illustratore). First Edition. 104 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of blessing of the Cod fleet at Caraquet, New Brunswick; Lovely nostalgic one-page colour-photo ad for Weston's cookies features young lady sitting in Muskoka chair; London Letter - Why the Germans Don't Want a New Army; Fantastic one-page colour Popsicle ad features their $100,000 contest prizes and small inset photo of "Pinky Lee"; The Canadian Bank of Commerce half-page colour-photo ad features fashion show scene; One-page colour ad for 1955 Dodge cars features two yellow and black cars; Report on Eating - the dramatic changes in our eating habits in a single generation - article with great colour photos including Billy O'Connor, Austin Willis, Elaine Grande and Joan Fairfax; Are We Eating Too Much?; How Long Can the Earth Keep Us Eating? - article with amazing photos of child surrounded by thousands of pounds of the various food products she will eat in the course of a 70 year life; The Courageous Comeback of fiery Quebec chanteuse Alys Robi as she recovers from mental illness - photo-illustrated article; Osmond Kendall's Marvelous Music Machine - with the magic of electrons this inventive Canadian composes piano concertos and turns doodles ino the sounds of an eighty-piece orchestra - fantastic photo-illustrated article; The Lawyer Who Never Wins a Case - Crown Prosecutor Henry Bull QC - photo-illustrated article; The Great Herring Mystery - scientists attempt to discover where Atlantic herring vanish to, and why, once the herring run ends - photo-illustrated article; Not This August (conclusion of this story); The World's First Dog Psychiatrist - Alva McColl - photo-illustrated article; We're Off to Mars; The Best Way to Take a Holiday - Photo-illustrated article explains how Fred Bosworth's family of five camps for $2.08 a day each - cheaper than living at home; Nice one-page colour ad for the Meteor Rideau 4-door town sedan (aqua and white); Colour one-page Samsonite luggage ad features couple boarding train; Vintage one-page colour ad for Leonard home appliances; Classy one-page colour Chrysler ad features two-tone purple 250 hp New Yorker DeLuxe St. Regis; Colour ad for Christie's Digestive Biscuits; Colour ad for General Motors Locomotives; Colour Chevrolet ad features yellow 1955 Bel Air convertible; Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic ad features Fearless Fosdick comic; Nice colour-photo ad for Heinz baby food; Vintage colour ad for Thermos vacuum bottles; Nice one-page ad for 1955 GMC trucks; Jantzen fashion ad features tartan shorts for him and her; Colour-photo ad for CNR passenger rail features charming scenes on-board of well-dressed passengers; Barrett Company photo ad features D.A. Boem of Boem Construction, Order Clerk Peter Englholm and Frank Hartshorne; Nice BOAC ad features their Coronet double-deck stratocruiser service Montreal to Britain; Labatt's ad features photo of warehouseman Richard Simpson of Downsview, Ontario at work; Great colour GWG ad inside back cover features man relaxing with ladies after cutting grass; Back cover Coke ad features colour photo of handsome trio beneath read and white umbrella; and more. Average wear. Numerous short openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Mowat, H.J.; Grassick; Singer, Mal (illustratore). First Edition. 48 pages. Cover photo of convoy watcher. Features: Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle; Listen, Soldier! - a sergeant provides some army humour; Can the Conservatives Come Back? - at Winnipeg Canada's Conservative Party can resume its historic mission or write its obituary; All Are for the State - Canadian Editors tour Britain's military production facilities and are impressed - article with photos; London Letter - Should We Hate the Germans?; "The Crucial Moment" - Douglas Reed reports that war hope centres on a major victory in North Africa; He Saved Fundy's Eider - Taxidermist Allan Moses saved the American eider ducks from extinction; No Lady of Leisure - Elissa Landi, actress, author, ballet dancer, singer and lecturer will have a Broadway play produced. Fiction; Wimmen is Humans (by W.O. Mitchell); A Kind of Magic. Nice one-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Crew ("Women Too"). Half-page "Del Maiz" brand corn appears to be a predecessor to the Green Giant brand(?). Nice half-page ad for Waterman's pens includes illustration of Billy Bishop, a WWII airman, and a small photo of the company's plant in St. Lambert, PQ. Back cover colour G.M. of Canada ad shows brown armoured vehicles in action. Unmarked with moderate wear. Two neat vertical creases to front cover. Ads on half of page 3/4 missing. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, December (Dec.) 1 1942, Vol. 55, No. 23 - Arctic Convoy Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Casson, A.J.; De Nunzio, Gene; Woods, Rex; Grassick; Parker, Lewis; Crawford; Winter; (illustratore). First Edition. A.J. Casson cover art features robin hunting for worms amongst trilliums. 80 pages. Additional features include: Nostalgic colour ad for new KB International Trucks inside front cover - ad features photo insert of Jule Chartrand and Frank Bell - Champion Canadian truck drivers; Four-photo full-page ad for Ipana toothpaste features Eileen Cochrane of Montreal and her seven-year-old son Michael; Editorial - Are the Communists entitled to Liberty?; 2-colour full-page ad for DeSoto cars; Top Man in Totem Poles - Marius Barbeau is hot on the trail of that strange beast - the Canadian; Wives Have It So Easy, by James Bannerman; Nightmare Pills - Pierre Berton on Sleeping Pills; Fiction by Arthur Gordon - Listen to Your Heart; Can we Prevent Race Suicide?, by Arnold Toynbee; Newsboy - James Joseph Murph (Murph) has been selling papers outside the Canadian National Railways Building on the northwest corner of King and Yonge, Toronto's busiest intersection, for 58 years - with photo; Fiction - Double or Nothing by Henry Norton; Are Fishing Laws Bunk? - what use are limits when we make our rivers unfit homes for fish?; Nice full-page colour ad for Old English Rubbing (Floor) Wax; What's Wrong with Work?, by Gwethalyn Graham; The Old Man - Lionel Barrymore; You, Too, Can fly, by Eva-Lis Wuorio; Fiction by Arthur Mayse - Someday You'll Thank Me; Leper Colony on Bentinck Island in BC; Black and white Fargo truck ad; Nice two-colour Plymouth car ad; Full-page black and white Austin Motor company ad; Half-page colour photos Pepsi ad shows ping pong players; Lovely full-page colour Lifesavers ad; Dawes Black Horse Brewery ad honours weathermen; Great full-page colour ad for Pontiac cars; Very attractive Gene De Nunzio-illustrated ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover shows mother and daughter and their print dresses; Carling Breweries ad on back cover illustrates the main flyways of North American waterfowl; plus many more wonderful ads. Pages yellowed with age. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this wonderful A.J. Casson collectible. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustratore). First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue.