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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Textured metallic silver wraps with light edgewear, slightly bumped spine ends and corners, trace soil, and a minor paperclip indent to upper edges of front cover and first few pages. Binding starting to crack in one place but is overall still sturdy and will withstand careful handling. Spine lightly creased. Text clean. Interior lightly toned. Paper is watermarked "Warren's Olde Style". Small illustration to title page. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 22 pp. A rare copy of a short story about a family, their Ford automobiles, and a silly little license plate game that the parents play throughout the years, which culminates with the number 666.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 7 x 5", stiff wraps with title label attached to front cover, 22pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, textblock edges toned; still a good copy of this short story about a family and their succession of Ford cars. RARE.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Paginton, George; (illustratore). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Cahen, Oscar (Cover Art); Simkins; Miller; Turofsky;Croydon, Peter; Norris, Len; Macpherson, Duncan; Johnson, Bruce (illustratore). First Edition. Features: Oscar Cahen cover art; Nice colour ad for the 1953 Mercury Monterey Custom Coupe inside front cover; Life with Five Governors-General (part 1 of 2) - the Bessboroughs, the Byngs and the Willingdons; The Binghams Came to Blows (fiction); Who will succeed Sir Winston Churchill?; How to sell a house (humour); Tom Thomson - The Rebel Painter of the Pine Woods - article with photos and colour reproduction of "The Pointers"; The Keys to the Car (fiction); Barrister Arthur Martin, QC - His clients never hang; The Corpse That Hoaxed the Nazis (conclusion) - the elaborate story of how the Allies tricked the Nazis into thinking Sardinia would be invaded, rather than Sicily; Fantastic 'mom and apple pie' General Motors of Canada centerfold colour illustration shows a 'Happy Community" - smiling pedestrians, sunny sky and roads full of GM of Canada cars; Gorgeous full-page colour ad for a yellow Oldsmobile '98' Holiday Coupe; uncommon ad for IEL (Industrial Engineering Limited) power chain saws; Interesting colour ad for Atlas tires on back cover shows the 61 license plates of the US states and Canadian provinces; and more. 56 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, June 1, 1953 1953 Mercury Monterey Custom Coupe inside front cover; Life with Five Governors-General (part 1 of 2) - the Bessboroughs, the Byngs and the Willingdons; The Binghams Came to Blows (fiction); Who will suc.