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Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. and Walkerville, Ontario: Parke, Davis & Co.. Three pocket-sized pamphlets, all with black-and-white illustrations, all clean and unmarked; Nema Worm Capsules for Stomach Worms...Sheep and Goats, 36 pages, stapled; Nema Capsules...Livestock and Polutry, 16 pages, folded twice; Nema Worm Capsules price list, 4 pages folded.. Good ++. more information

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London: W. Foulsham & Co., 1993. Digest-sized softcover, 46 pages; clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Raphael's Almanac Prophetic Messenger and Weather Guide 1937.. First Thus. Very Good. more information

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Department of Travel and Publicity . Stapled softcover, undated (but pre-1955) Advance Proof copy with small errata sheet bound in, unpaginated (but 47 pages), illustrated throughout by drawings and maps; introduction inside front cover by the then Premier Leslie M. Frost; back cover lightly soiled, very tiny corner bumps, but interior very clean and unmarked. . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Department of Travel and Publicity , 1955. Stapled softcover, 47 pages, illustrated throughout by drawings and maps; introduction inside front cover by the then Premier Leslie M. Frost; back cover very lightly soiled, very tiny corner bumps, but interior very clean and unmarked. . Soft Cover. Very Good +. more information

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Paris: Les Editions En Anaglyphes. Cardboard wrappers, plain back, pictorial front; 16 photographs of famous Paris landmarks (one leaf of 2 pages/4 photographs is detached but present, undamaged); complete with viewing glasses in (torn) pocket attached to inside of front cover. Great effect! Great Fun! Undated, but c.1930's, 1940's. Overall Good +: light wear and bumping along wrapper edges, wear along spine, several light stains on front but minimal affect on pictorial. Size is 21 x 27 mm (8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in).. more information

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West Plains, MO, USA: Gemstone Publishing, 1998. Stapled softcover full colour comicbook, 32-page facsimile reprint of the 1953 classic.. Soft Cover. Fine. more information

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London: King George's Jubliee Trust , 1937. Oversized stapled softcover, 32 pages including black-and-white illustrations and a 2-page Coronation Procession route map (plus the beautiful full colour Royal Coat of Arms on the front cover); cream-coloured covers very lightly soiled (more so on back than front), but the interior is clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Stephen King-Hall's The Crowning of the King and Queen.. Very Good. more information

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Ottawa: Dominion of Canada Department of Agriculture , 1941. Stapled softcover, 15 pages; covers soiled and lightly worn, but tight in binding, interior clean and unmarked. . Good. more information

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Keswick, UK: Gomis. Stapled softcover, unpaginated (but approximately 32 pages); 5-word ink gift inscription inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout.. Soft Cover. Very Good +. more information

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Lynchburg, Virginia, USA: The Daily Advance, 1941. Twelve-page local newspaper, "Tuesday Evening" edition; lots of war news but also coverage of national, state, and local interest; great contemporary ads ("Gone With The Wind" playing at the local movie house); cartoons; personal ads (my favourite: "If Ruptured Cut This Out...and mail it with name and address to..."). Very Good condition: age discolouration, some edge tears and chipping, but intact and complete, clean and unmarked.. more information

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Toronto: Canadian Living, 1987. Magazine, 80 pages; features a profile of, and recipes from, Edna Staebler, the late author of the classics Food That Really Schmecks, and More Food That Really Schmecks (for which, see our listings). See also our listing for Carol Ferguson's still popular The Canadian Living Cookbook.. Soft Cover. Fine. more information

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Toronto: Ontario Department of Agriculture , 1938. Stapled softcover, 116 pages, illustrated by 75 black-and-white photographs and drawings; covers lightly soiled and well worn, but tight in binding, interior clean and unmarked; (text starts at page 3, I assume the missing page is copyright details and table of contents). . Good. more information

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London: Illustrated London News, 1953. Oversized stapled softcover, 68 pages, "With 16 Colour Plates and 594 Portraits and Illustrations in Photogravure"; intact and complete.. Good. more information

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Selkirk, Scotland: A. R. Edward & Son . Photographs approximately 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 (21 mm x 14 mm), each with caption, stapled inside brown kraft folder with oblong front cover cutout, no other text. Photographs are fine, except for first one which has a faint mark; folder is good, chipped and creased along edges; photographs tight in folder binding.. more information

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Aurora, Colorado: Highlands Station, 1998. Magazine format, 86 pages.. Very Good ++. more information

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Toronto: Kellogg's, 1982. Stapled pamphlet, 8 pages, illustrated; very good except for butter staining along spine (no, wait, let me check, it's OK, it's a fibre stain!).. more information

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Wall map, 48 in X 34 in; gorgeous colourful relief map by "The U. S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior" on one side; on the other, 21 black-and-white photographs, an outline map of the continental United States with Alaska superimposed, photo captions, statistics, and a welcome to Alaska as the 49th state, dated 1958; other than the fold marks and tiny traces of bumping, almost as new and very suitable for framing or reference.. Fine. more information

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London: The Royal Jubliee Trusts, 1981. Oversized stapled softcover, 32 pages, clean and unmarked.. Very Good ++. more information

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2-page explanatory pamphlet with the name Crosshill at the end (but otherwise no other dating, manufacturing or publishing information), in a case, shaped like a book, containing 12 unused golf balls made from obsolete molds during the period 1899 to 1938, plus 2 apparently modern balls, a SilverScot 1 and a Victor 6; Victor is also stamped in gold on the "book" case spine; light shelf wear at corners and bottom edge, tiny bump at bottom of spine, but overall very attractive and presentable, gift quality.. more information

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Lever Brothers, 1941. Stapled magazine-format softcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout by photographs of the finished products, a 2-page section of drawn knitting instructions; includes appropriate items for armed forces service men then on duty; worn covers are intact but detached from the text block which is very clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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London: W. Foulsham & Co., 1936. "Includes the astronomical ephemeris of the planets' places for 1937, Predictions of the destiny of nations and individuals, By Raphael, The Astrologer of the 19th Century". Digest-sized softcover, 154 pages, black-and-white illustrations. plus over 40 pages of various Tables. Good ++: covers worn, some looseness developing in binding, but interior clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planets' Places for 1930.. First Thus. more information

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Cincinatti, Ohio: United States Playing Card Company. Stapled softcover pamphlet, undated (but probably 1955-1965), 20 pages, illustrated by cartoon drawings; covers faded, but very clean and unmarked.. Very Good -. more information

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: The War Office, Royal Canadian Army, 1945. Stapled softcover, "Reprinted in Canada (with amendment No.1 - Jan.46 and amendment No. 2- Jan. 48", 185 pages, illustrated throughout by drawings; complete and tight, spot of soiling to back cover, but overall surprisingly clean and unmarked except for ink notations on 2 pages and pencil notations on 3 more.. Very Good -. more information

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three stapled magazines, the undated inaugral edition, the 1922-1923 edition and 1924-1925 ("the fourth edition"), with 39 numbered pages, 70 pages, and 85 pages, respectively, with an additional 12-16 pages of wonderful contemporary advertisements from local Montreal businesses (Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal Trust Company, Bank of Montreal, Ice Manufacturing Company) as well as for now long-forgotten products (ADS Peredixo Tooth Paste, British Consuls Cigarettes, and my favourite, Unusual Hars); the inaugral edition is amazingly in Very Good condition, age darkening of cream-coloured covers, but tight, clean and unmarked; 1922-1923 is Good ++, same darkening with added chipping of all edges, very tight, also clean and unmarked; 1924-1925 is Poor, darkened and soiled covers taped together, text block complete but detached from covers and separated into 3 pieces. . more information

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New York: Amsco Music, 1935. Magazine-format softcover, 96 pages; worn covers are intact but attached to text block with tape, interior very clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: United States Playing Card Company , 1950. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 47 pages; traces of shelf wear, otherwise as new.. Fine. more information

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Magazine, 122 pages; features John Updike's The Afterlife. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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New York: Dell Purse Books, 1963. ESSO "Free-for-all little books" series, probably 1970s, pocket-sized stapled softcover, 64 pages.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Long Beach, California: Douglas Aircraft Company, 1965. Oblong softcover with stay-flat spiral binding, 79 pages, illustrations and/or detailed specifications on every page; covers worn, particularly at binding, a few scattered tiny ink marks, otherwise clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Very Good -. more information

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Magazine, 92 pages; features Alice Adams' Return Trips. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Montreal: Murphy Paint Company. Magazine-sized stapled softcover brochure, undated (probably 1950s/1960s), 23 pages, fabulous full colour illustrations on every page (great for period set designers). Very Good. more information

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Magazine, 130 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: International Society for Educational Information , 1985. Three stapled softcover pamphlets, all later printings, all with black-and-white illustrations, all with just very light traces of shelf wear, but all very clean and unmarked throughout; Elementary, 28 pages; Junior, 36 pages; Senior, 47 pages. See also our listing for Experiencing Japanese Culture: An Activity and Q-A Based Approach.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++. more information

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Magazine, 110 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1958. Digest-sized stapled softcover, 68 pages, extensively illustrated throughout with small black-and-white photographs, drawings and full page full colour photographs.. Very Good. more information

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Magazine, 98 pages; features Amy Clampitt's Venice Revisited. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1958. Digest-sized stapled softcover, 68 pages, extensively illustrated throughout with small black-and-white photographs, drawings and full page full colour photographs; scattered food stains.. Very Good -. more information

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Magazine, 90 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Waterloo, Ont, Canada: Waterloo Music Company, 1953. Stapled softcover, 84 pages, 97 songs (some of them very short indeed!); very light cover wear and age darkening, one bottom corner cover crease, front cover ink signature, but tight in binding, otherwise very clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Magazine, 92 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company. Magazine, 63 pages; articles include: Watching Beaver, Chinooks and Blizzards, In the Pilot's Seat (Arctic flying), Indian Tribes: The Iroquois, From Red River to the Columbia.. Fine. more information

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Commemorative pamphlet dated "Sunday - 13 July - 1975" in honour of the 100th anniversary of the death of Brown, a renowned son of Herring Cove; front cover photograph of Brown in his racing shell, suitably attired, and a back cover archival photograph of "Herring Cove in the days of George Brown". For another renowned son of Herring Cove, see our listing for Claude K. Darrach's From a Coastal Schooner's Log.. more information

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Magazine, 136 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Michael O'Mara Books in association with The D-Day Museum Portsmouth , 2004. Sturdy cardboard military-style string-enclosed glossy pictorial envelope containing the Museum's 16-page stapled softcover The Story of D-Day, plus 12 facsimile documents; envelope has very tiny corner bumps and its flap has a corner crease, otherwise all is as new.. Soft Cover. Fine. more information

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Magazine, 82 pages. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Food and Nutrition Section, Home Economics Branch , 1995. Stapled digest-sized softcover, 95 pages, illustrated by drawings and black-and-white photographs; white covers very lightly soiled, tiny spot stain to fore edge, otherwise appears unused.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++. more information

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Washington: War Department, 1943. TM 30-302. "...published for military personnel only...By order of the Secretary of War: G. C. Marshall, Chief of Staff". Pocket-sized stapled softcover, 62 pages ; 6 amusing cartoons illustrating points of language. Dark blue covers with off-white lettering and American coat of arms; cover worn through at base of spine; small fountain pen ink stain at base of front cover has seeped through several pages but no damage to text; otherwise clean inside, no markings; overall a GOOD + copy.. more information

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Montreal: Studio 123, Studio Artistique, 1977. Oversized square stapled softcover (size of LP record album), 50 pages, colourfully illustrated throughout.. Very Good. more information

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Magazine, 92 pages; features John Updike's One More Interview. See also our listing for The New Yorker Album of Drawings.. Very Good. more information

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Stapled softcover advertising history pamphlet, undated (but probably late 1960s as last date mentoned in text is 1967), 12 pages, black-and-white photographs (including a very young Johnny Carson, a very happy Jimmy Durante surrounded by beautiful ladies in pre-Playboy Bunny style costumes, and a frenetic Phyllis Diller).. Soft Cover. Very Good ++. more information

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