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USA: Curtis, 1963 Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1984 Features: Rodolpho Fierro - Bloody Butcher for Pancho Villa; Guthrie - Grand Old Lady of Oklahoma; Ten Days to Die - the battle of Fort Ridgely; Green River Knives - They Played a Role in Opening the West; The Pioneers Talked Turkey - old west cookery; Kansas State Historical Society Museum opens; Recollections of an Early Montana Cowboy - Roland Matthews. Western Hunting Knives; Bowie Knife - Legend in Steel; Jim Bowie and the 'Sandbar' Fight; Mississippi Rifle on the Plains 1848-1860; Mountain Man Rendezvous; She faced the Cheyenne alone - Ada Reed; Kerrville, Texas - home of the cowboy artists of America. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. . First Edition. Stapled. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Newsweek, 1945 Contents: Color ad for American Airlines System inside front cover; Alcoa ad for America's first aluminum boxcar; Ad for the Douglas DC-6; Color Ford car ad; Fairchild aircraft ad; Truman straddles on Wages, Prices Hardens Critical Trend of Nation; 635,000 people tour the battleship Missouri in New York - after doing considerable damage to the vessel!; The Untold story of the Nazi saboteurs - George Dasch, Ernest Burger, Richard Quirin, Henrich H. Heinck; Crisis on Atomic Bomb secret bring determined Attlee to this side; China - divided it stands; Marshall finds Safety slipping as U.S. Armed Might Dwindles; Color Good Year Rubber ad - the hose that fought a hurricane - and won!; Labor strife at Windsor Ford plant; The South American cycle of revolt - Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina; Andrew J. Higgins, boiling mad at unions, closes his New Orleans boat-building business; Eli Witt; Sailors and Sex - prostitution flourishes in Japan; Oliver K. Bovard; Harry Gilmer of Alabama; MIT math robot revealed; Seeing Cane invention; Nice red International Truck ad; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1982 Features: Henry Turkeyfoot - the last of his kind - he lived by the gun; Charles Banks Wilson - artist; James (Jim) F. Wardner and his Black Cat Farm - on a 2,000 acre island in Bellingham Bay, in upper Puget Sound; Why Woollies give mankind the Willies - James W. Gilmore and sheep; Wolfville, Arizona; Isaac Rouse of Fort Worth - "Coyote Bill" Banty - a bunkhouse murder touched off one of Idaho's biggest manhunts; A Herdsman for Cowman - Walter Gann; Heading South to Taos, by Fred Girard; A Central Pacific Ghost Ride - East to Promontory; The James-Younger Robbery in Columbia, Kentucky; The Desert will do its part - when a man wants to stay a live; Grave/Tombstone photos; Wild Old Days! Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1964 Features: Railroad news photos; Steam news photos; The Rathole Division is no more - super two-page photo of a train at mid-span of the New River Bridge plus photos of the Keno Road Cut, the Grassy Gap Cut, and more; Our GM Scrapbook - 2 - 9900 to 9908 the Custom Years - nicely illustrated article; Super 2-page photo of a 0-8-8-0 in the shops at Colonie, N.Y. in 1927; Switchbacks and Shays - passengers are scaling 10 percent grades iup West Virginia's Bald Knob - great article and photos; American Railway Progress Exposition Track Exhibit in Chicago - article and photos; Photos of diesels bucking snow in New England; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1939 114 pages. Special Features: Fit For Adoption; What do the Women of America Think About Advertising; As the Twig is Bent; Healthy Feet - The Foundation of Good Health; and Are You A Problem Parent? Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking, short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Ivory Soap, Coca-Cola, Ford De Luxe V8 and 1939 Chrysler Royal Sedan. Full page colour vintage print advertising with half page Norman Rockwell illustration of the "Last Ear of Corn". Full page colour movie poster for Samuel Goldwyn's "Wuthering Heights" starring Laurence Olivier and David Nivens. Average wear. Small mailing label top right corner. A clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1965 Features: BR (British Rail) - a new image; South Vietnam - progress under fire; Railroad news Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of Mexico's National Railway TR-3 Mountain type No. 3306; 17th Annual Motive Power Survey - The Common Denominator - 2,500 HP; A generation passes - Southern Pacific's locomotive 6153 ends its 15 year career; The Aging Dignity of Chicago Union Station - many photos; 4-panel colour fold-out centerfold ad by GM's EMD; Identify 10 diesels by looking at their wheels; If New York Central Says Yes - Central's second look at commuters; Photo of Cass Scenic No. 7, a balloon-stacked three truck Shay, in action in 1964; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1943 154 pages. Special Features: On Hate; Only Grandmothers Need Apply; Winning on the Home Front; How America Lives: Meet Officer Naton - Peter A. and Kate Naton; and Teething. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Campbell's Soup, Swan Soap, and "U.S. Crop Corps" Chesterfield Cigarettes. Full page colour vintage Lucky Strike Cigarette print advertising with American Artist John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) "Old Belt" painting. Full page colour ad with Lana Turner promoting Woodbury Powder. Full page black/white ad with Betty Grable promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page black/white ad with Judy Garland promoting Max Factor Hollywood. Average wear. Front hinge partially open. Small mailing label right corner. A sound copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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New York: Life Publishing, 1905 22 pages. Headings include: The Captain's Soliloquy; The Wants of the American Theatre Public; Charles Dana Gibson; Mr. Brockway, Mayor of Elmira; This Bubble World; Horatius at Bridge; The Dramatizing of Lady Kitty Ashe; Music; The Latest Books; Aut Scissors Aut Nullus. Excellent illustrated advertisements, including a notable one by Smith & Wesson. Covers held by nearly invisible tape. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. . Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1947 304 pages. Cover: Painting "Vase of Flowers" by Paul Cezanne. Special Features: A Housewife Looks at Soap Opera; Why Religion Helps Mess Up the World; American Art: George Inness 1825-1894 (inc. full page "The Lackawanna Valley" painting); I Wanted a Baby Now!; We Don't Want a Baby Now!; Salem, Massachusetts; How to Think a Thought!; Let's Make It "The People's Red Cross"; The Red Cross: Memphis, Tennessee; In Youth Prepare for Old Age; Reading that Made History; How America Lives: "Growing Pains" Meet Lois Sutton; Don't Call Them Silly; and Immunizations in Childhood. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Ilustrators include: Al Parker, Jon Whitcomb and Haddon Sundblom. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Plymouth, Welch's Grape Juice, Florida Orange Juice and Seven-Up. Full page black/white ad with Rita Hayworth promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Average wear. Few small openings front/back panel at spine. A clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1973 Features: Accursed and frightful Potter's Point - a look at the forerunners, and many times the sires of the later colorful and often dangerous people who made the Old West famous; Mud Glacier Gold - Marcum's lost gold in Alaska; Village of my red brother - Mormon Indian missionaries; Seattle's Little-known Dymano - Hans Pederson and the early development of Seattle; Battle of Prairie Dog Creek; The Solid Muldoon; Ghostly Fort Dilts; Coal Oil Jimmy's Gang; Geronimo's Long Debt for a Pony - Jimmy Stevens; Missouri Scout - Greyson Welsh; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy.. Stapled. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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New York: The New York Times Company, 1964 144 pages. Features: China's 'Manhattan Project', or, How Mao Learned to Love - and build - the Bomb; Communists of the World, Unite? - Richard Lowenthal concludes that Communism cannot put it right even with Krushchev out of the way; The Kremlin Plays Russian Roulette - Krushchev's ouster points to the Soviet's inability to transfer power without a self-destructive power struggle; When Man Steps out into Space; The Case Against Goldwater's Economics; Cassius Clay, Cassius X, Muhammad Ali; How an Advertising Agency handles the White House Account; How Big is the Bloc Vote (Re: the LBJ vs. Goldwater election); Vision of a Crashproof car - as the slaughter on our highways mounts; The Negro's Middle-Class Dream; Scenes from Mao's Chinese movies; Japan's birth rate turns lower; The American Communist Party Still Functions; Nice colour Cadillac ad; Playwright John Osborne of England looks forward in Anger. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. A sound copy. . First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1966 Features: rare book reprint - West Wind, the life of Joseph Reddeford Walker, by Percy H. Booth; Men who wore the Oregon Boot (Gardner Shackle) - life in a makeshift territorial prison; Prairie fire - Walt Coburn; A ranch on the Nueces - Jim Ray builds a new home in Texas; the strange story of Quantrill's Surgeon - John W. Benson; Helena's hidden channel of gold; the freighter from Scotland - William Duff Stewart; Fortune's Little Casinos - scattered through Colorado's canyons; 'Tramp' General - Jo Shelby; Ghostly Camp Crittenden; Headhunting was their hobby - savage Haida raiders drew the last blood in their feud with Puget Sound pioneers a century ago... Their grim code demanded a white man's head for every Indian slain; He killed a heap of men - George Marlow; the day the brewery died - Gold Nugget Beer and the Black Hills Brewing Company of Central City, South Dakota; the boy Geronimo missed - clubbed and left for dead, he lived another hundred years!; 'she's taken bad, doc - early medicine in Big Spring, Texas; the twenty mules of Death Valley; Anvils and Coal Smoke - the old time blacksmith; One step at a time - early dreams in Wyoming; Trapped on Vick's Peak; Steamboats 'round the bend - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Ira Terrill - lawbreaker, madman or political scapegoat?; Savage days in Springtown, Texas; Black Hills Album. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.. Stapled. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1960 Features: The Marvelous Mayos - the absorbing story of the Mayo Clinic (part 1 of 3); Adventures of the Mind - How Life Began, by Earl A. Evans Jr.; page 27-28 missing (they appeared to contain an illustration and half a photo of turkeys); We Call the Penalties - a veteran football official (Jim Henry) reveals how he and his colleagues make sure the game is played on the up-and-up; Africa's Peaceable Oasis - why tiny Liberia thrives while the rest of the continent smolders in discontent; I Call on Perry Como (conclusion) - Perry tells how his fabulously successful TV show is put together; The Mountain that nearly Killed Me - John S. Day recounts a harrowing accident - and historic rescue - on North America's highest peak, Mt. MkKinley. Great 2-page colour ad for the (black) JFK-style Lincoln Continental - suicide door illustrated. 2-page colour illustrated ad for Bulova's Accutron watches. Eight center pages loose but present. Part of page 103 clipped away. Above-average wear. . First Edition. Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1978 Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1962 Features: We're Cheating our Children - Betsy Fancher argues that a parent-sponsored junior rat race has warped the meaning of childhood; Nice four-page colour-illustrated advert. for Chevrolet cars (all white); Patients for Profit - high-powered promotion, limited services and pursuit of the fast bucks are bringing many proprietary hospitals under attack; He Takes the Starch out of Protocol - Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke has pioneered dramatic changes on the Washington scene; The Kind of Gal I Am (Part 1 of 3) - Rosalind Russell - many nice colour photos; The Party Chairmen - Bill Miller and John Bailey; Handsome colour ad for the 1963 Chrysler New Yorker; 6 nice pages of color ads for Ford cars; The Durable Huguenots - persecuted for centuries, the Protestant minority today is a cultured, successful and proud elite in Catholic France; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (conclusion) by Vincent Riccio - the death of Tommy Hanlon; Masters of Second Place - the San Francisco 49ers; Another Western - Who Needs it? - The Virginian is converted into a 90-minute TV Series. Average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Sepulveda, CA: Century Distributors Inc., 1969 66 pages. Cowboy Issue. Features: Story of the Cowboy; Massacre at Bear River; Legend of the Lariat; The Day the West Went Fence Crazy; Cattleman's War Against the Gray Killer; The "Ten Gallon" Umbrella of the West; The Hired Killer; The American Bronco; Guns That Tamed the Western Frontier; The "Million Dollar" Jackass.. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1973 Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Newsweek, 1945 Contents: Color Nash car ad inside front cover; Caterpillar Diesel ad; Color Mallory hat ad; Uneasy lies the nation under confused labor, price policies; Victims of muscular dystrophy; American Diplomacy loses face over occupation force bickering - Sharp retort by Acheson to MacArthur's 200,000 estimate exposes disunity to world (photo of MacArthur in front of Daibutsu/large Budha in Japan); Cleavage between Russian and Anglo-American viewpoints comes out in London Peace Talks; When Yank meets Russian - Korea under two flags; Photos of Germans and Japanese in their defeated lands; photo of the charred body of Joseph Goebbels; Stimson retiring, warns U.S. to keep military might in peace; Photo of Private Harold Atkinson, first of the Winnipeg Grenadiers returns home to Winnipeg (photo); Home builders see green light but fear Bowles price controls; Cyrus Eaton; Educators hope to make good Japs out of bad ones; Color Budd car ad; color DC-6 ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1978 Features: Artist W.H.D. Koerner; Just Married - First Stop Tombstone - Minnie Chenhall Vincent - "Memo"; Fortune Lost in a Cattle Drive - Indians attack the owners of a herd; Did "Western" justice prevail? - Fort Sill, Indian Territory; John Snook - By-The-Book Lawman in Alaska; The Treasure of Oklahoma's Lookout Mountain; Headwaters of the Gila; On the Road with the Knights of Columbus Rodeo; A Ride into the Third Decade - by the old Bookaroos; Jim Levy - Top-notch gunfighter; The Bundy Avant Story (Conclusion); Dutchallover - Apache land enigma - the Dutchover family of Antwerp Belgium. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. Stapled. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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New York: The Metropolitain Opera Guild, 1954 Contents include: Adventurers Abroad; Oberon at the Paris Opera; Tebaldi's Traviata in Naples; Glyndebourne at Edinburgh; New Artists at the Metropolitain; Overture to the West; Nationwide Opening Night; Tanglewood Crosses the Centuries; Cain and Abel in Denver; Open Doors for Opera, by Rudolf Bing; San Francisco 1954; Echo from 1883; Survey of Opera in the U.S.; Butterfly at Santa Barbera; Andrea Chenier - The Poet; The Composer - A Granddaughter's Memoir by Maria Petrucci; The Background, by Mary Jane Matz; An interview with Conductor Fausto Cleva; Who was Who in Andrea Chenier; Herman Krawitz, Administrator; Meistersinger's Inexhaustible Treasure; New York Academy of Music - A Centenary, Parts 1, 2, 3; Chicago's Lyric Theatre; Public Relations for Opera; Die Meistersinger Von Nuernberg; Opera in Germany Today; The Siren Manon; The Damnation of Faust; Traveller's Guide to Manon; The Barber's Mad Scene; Fourteen Hundred Times Figaro - a visit with Riccardo Stracciari; Students in Siena and Spoleto; Official Photographer; Il Barbiere Di Siviglia; Peppina Redeemed; Violetta Assoluta; Parmesian Sauce; Aida; La Traviata; Paris Appraises Verdi; Salome -a musical paradox; We introduce - Christel Goltz; The Conductor Speaks - Dimitri Mitropoulos; Vittorio; Salome; Figaro's Perpetual Motion; Paisiello to Pizzetti in Naples; Mozart Mutilations; Mozart's Unwritten and Unfinished Dramas; Le Nozze Di Figaro; Black Masks at Midnight; Children of the Soil; Masquerade - the Essence of Opera; Lights!; My Friend Mitropoulos; We Present Giuseppe Campora; Un Ballo in Maschera; German Opera Experiments; Wagner - Alchemist of Folklore; The Old and the New in Tannhauser; Dvorak and American Opera; Jacobins in Wiesbaden; We introduce - Rudolf Kempe; An interview with Astrid Varnay; The Saint of Bleeker Street; Tannhauser; American Friends of Bayreuth; Bartered Bride in Waukesha; Interview with Rise Stevens; Interview with Lucine Amara; Carmen's Ancestors; Korean Carmen; La Scala Opens; Carmen; Summary of the career of Blanche Witherspoon - departing chief executive of the Metropolitain Opera Guild; Cadence of Grief - Don Giovanni; A Fiend for Punishment; Mozart Mutilations (part 2); The Devil's Domain; Faust - prototype of French Romanticism; The Wan Don of Dumas; Robert Herman - Metropolitain Opera Shortstop; Viorica Ursuleac - the first Arabella; We introduce - Ralph Herbert; Light on the later Strauss; Arabella; First American Arabella - Harriet Henders; Verdi and Schiller; An interview with Richard Tucker; Accents on Don Carlo; Forza Revolves in Rome; Don Carlo; The Moor - in speech and song; Two Climates for the Moor; Small Magic for the Paris Flute; Otello Storms New York; Forgotten Otello; Interview with Mario Del Monaco; We introduce Renata Tebaldi; Tristan - madness and method; Isolde between the lines; Tristan und Isolde; We introduce Albert Da Costa; A Rondo at the Momus; Traveller's Guide to La Boheme; The Shadowy Third; La Boheme; Bioto-Gorrio - the Critic; We introduce Giorgio Tozzi; Gioconda of Padua; La Gioconda; My Teacher Dean De Reszke; Orfeo in Equilibrium; Rise Stevens discusses Orfeo; Many Guises for Orpheus; Gaspare Angiolini; Gluck's Early Days; Orphee or Orfeo?; Orfeo ed Euridice; A Tribunal for Chenier; New Life for Berlin Opera; George A. Sloan Resigns; Tosca for Tomorrow; Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Some front covers removed. . Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1977 Features: Lima's Last Narrow-Gauge Shay Lives!; Colour photo of T-1 4-8-4 No. 2101 dressed up in Chessie Colours; Many photos; Virginia's natural tunnel - carved by Stone Creek; Trains for Tomorrow - 1 - railroading is not philantropy or a Lionel set or mere exercise; Bob Hale's Favorite Railroad Photos - in colour and black and white; Life for a junior foreman in a secondary engine terminal in the last days of steam on the Canadian Pacific; photo of the train that hit Washington in 1953; Instant news coverage of a wreck on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad (W&LE) in 1904; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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USA: American Carpenter and Builder Company, 1917 202 pages. A very interesting look back to the days of World War I on the home front. Topics include: Building a House a Day in Kenosha; Concrete Construction; A Portfolio of Beautiful Homes; Wall Board; Steel Square; Brick Construction for Modern Carpenters and Builders; Out of the Job; What's New; and more. Dozens of pages of marvelous contemporary advertisements including a broad assortment of cement mixers. Binding intact. Unmarked. Some chipping to periphery, sunning to spine and fly spots near spine on front cover. A wonderful snapshot of the building construction technology of almost 90 years ago. . Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1957 Features: Long Island Rail Road - the nation's busiest passenger railroad - extensive and well-illustrated article; Railroad News Photos; Great 2-page photo of Great Northern's S-2 4-8-4, No. 2580; Over Niagara on a Wire - only four men in the world believed the railroads could span the boiling Niagara gorge with a thin cable... Two attempted the task and one achieved it - illustrated - Wow!; Chesapeake & Ohio presents 2-8-4 2727 to the Museum of Transport, St. Louis; Trainmaker - an idea to keep freight cars rolling more often; Oil-burning Pacific #153 preserved south of Miami; Nice color Pullman ad; and more. Date stamp on front cover else unmarked. Cover fold partially open else a sound copy.,. First Edition. Stapled. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1943 162 pages. Cover: Al Parker Illustration. Special Features: The Future of Europe; Hot Money; The Red Cross in the South Seas (written by Eleanor Roosevelt; How America Lives: Meet the Hall Family - Dr. James Hinquong and Lan Mei Chee Hall; How America Lives: Meet the Chmielewski Family - Konstanty and Marianna Chmielewski; How America Lives: Meet the Hille Family - Reinhold and Anna Hille; Can Anybody Become an American? and His First Shoes. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Campbell's Soup, Libby's Foods "Food Fights for Freedom", and Dr. Pepper. Full page black/white "Women in the War - Bodies for Bombers" Chrysler Corporation advertisement. Full page colour print ad for Coca-Cola illustrated by Haddon Sundblom. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Short stories illustrated by Al Parker and Arthur W. Brown. Above-average wear. Front/back covers loose but present. Few small openings back cover fore-edge. Small mailing label right corner.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1938 120 pages. Special Features: 'Tis of 'Thee; Mr. & Mrs. Mussolini; What do the Women of America Think About Relief; With the Kennedy Family in London Town; Can You Believe Your Eyes? and Rheumatic Heart Disease. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking, short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Coca-Cola, Green Giant Peas, and DuPont Cellophane. Full page colour Wrigley's Double Mint Gum ad with Claudette Colbert. Half page black/white ad with Loretta Young promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Above-average wear. Pages 81 - 120 partially loose from binding. Small mailing label top right corner. A sound working copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1971 Features: A test of courage - Sitting Bull, last Sioux to lay down his gun; Last of the horseback outlaws - 'Arkansas Tom' Daugherty; Old Pete's (Pete Peterson's) Lost gold mine; Horse king of the northwest - Charlie Newell - Goldendale, Washington; Ghosts of the Rio Puerco; Motion Picture Vignettes; Murder at Rincon - Amasa Barton killed by the Navajos; High-Wheeling to Denver - bicycles were a status symbol in 1889; A Search for Home; Wes Cates - A Lawman's life in pictures; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy.. Stapled. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis Pub Co, 1965 Features: What's wrong with germ warfare? - Dr. Clifford F. Rassweiler; Blandness in the White House; The Future of the Republican Party, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Klu Klux Klan - We've Got Nothing to Hide (many GREAT colour photos and article); Bosses make lousy lovers - Helen Gurley Brown; Mastah Freddy's modest miracle - Lt. Fred Hargesheimer couldn't forget the natives who saved his life when he crashed in New Britain during the Pacific War; The house that art built - MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art; Filet of hippo, anyone? - the National Zoo Restaurant in Washington, DC; The masquerade of a counterfeit doctor - Thomas M. Novak. Several great full-page colour car ads, including the Ford Mustang. Great colour ad for a Honda 50 which gets 200mpg. Above-average wear to covers which have some tears, otherwise clean and unmarked. . First Edition. Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1969 Features: New Mexico's tumultuous twin towns - Kingston roared like a lion, Hillsboro - out of a hat!; Lola Montez - Man Breaker; The men who don't fit in; Gunplay! - a California Feud; Reporting a Gold Rush - the Black Hills, 1875; The Thousand Dollar Tree - a tree doubles as a bank; Destruction of the Devilfish - whaling off California; Remember the Chili Queens?; Jack Abernathy - Oklahoma Legend; Experiences of a forty-niner during a third of a century in the gold fields, by C.D. Ferguson (Part one); and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. . Stapled. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1961 Features: Presidents in Retirement; The Changing Far East - vivid contrasts between the traditional past and the tumultuous present mark the rapid emergence of the Orient into the modern world; Little Singer with a Big Ego - Bobby Darin is the 25-year-old enfant terrible of show business; Can the Commuter Survive? - some measures that may reduce the hardships of America's inadequate railroads and overburdened highways; Milwaukee's Sausage Artists - for 80 years the Usinger family has created Wursts to please the fussiest Feinschmeckers this side of the Rhine; Nation of Gamblers - amid a chorus of misgivings, the British have made wagering legal. Above-average wear. Back cover missing. . First Edition. Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1961 Features: Why are they Spoiling Florida? - Philip Wylie; Can Christians Unite? - by John A. O'Brien; The Berlin Crisis - Khrushchev's Strength - a report on life in the Soviet Union; People on the Way Up - Margaret Post, Knerr and Melin (founders of Wham-O), Janet Margolin, Pedro Sanjuan; Reprieve for Heart Victims - the mechanical resuscitator and other developments; Blackout on News - Burton W. Marvin describes lack of press freedom in Iran during his stay, 1960-61; The Wonderful Merry-Go-Round; Youth - The Cool Generation (long article with many great colour photos); Big Ego, Big Talent - Robert Horton, 'Wagon Train's' Flint McCullough. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Four middle pages loose but present. A worthy copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1962 Features: Iran's Good King - a report from the imperial realm of 'our staunchest ally in the Middle East'; People on the Way Up - Val Forgett, Norma Gibbs, Charles Swibel, Catherine Anouilh; The Menningers of Kansas - Part 2 - the hopeless patient is a myth; nice color ad for Seattle's World's Fair 1962; Reading - a way upward - school officials in St. Louis are showing that good books provide a way out of poverty; Posh Palace of Fashion - New York's Bergdorf Goodman; Nice Cadillac ad on page 65; An Answer to Teller - a reply to Edward Teller's S.E.P. articles in Febrary 1962; The Met's Second Caruso - Richar Tucker. Average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1976 Features: A Horse Beneath Me... Sometimes - Fannie Sperry Steele, World's Lady Champion Bucking Horse Rider; Broncs and Stompers; The President and the Gunfighter - 19 surviving letters between Bat Masterton and Teddy Roosevelt spanning 1905-1917; Dave Breckenridge - Artist in Iron; J.P. Jones - Fortune's Favorite; Orton Circus - for 78 years a brave little one-top plowed through the mud to the west's smallest communities; Wild Old Days - rail fences; Fantastic Money Pit - Oak Island, 45 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Major Magazines, Inc., 1974 Features: Dead Men's Gold - the Argonauts declared Jim Carson dead and began dividing his estate, when suddenly he returned!; Astride the Iron Horse and Riding West! - a harrowing adventure; Governor Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Wild Rose O'Neal - South's Astonishing Spy; The Greatest Apache Warrior - Jolsanny; The Wagon Train of 1843; The Legendary Jack Slade; Monterey's Chinatown - met its end in needless flames; The year of the turnip - actual recipes used by the pioneers; Men with the strength of mountains - mountain men didn't know when they were licked; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1977 Features: Clay Allison & "Mr" Pecos; Spotted Wolf and the Dodge City Toughs; Agricola's "Waybill" - perhaps the world's most ancient and enduring guide to humanity's quest for gold; The Shoot-out - a mutual protection plan may have gone wrong; New Slant on the Murder of Julia Bulette, Virginia City, Nevada; Life and Confession of John Millian; Booger Red - the great rider; Jack Pickens - man with a secret, Summitville and the Little Annie Mine; Photos of Amelia Earhart; The Whistling Mail Truck - the Star Route out of Calhan, Colorado; Elizabeth Lochrie - painter of the winsome and the noble. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. Stapled. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1968 Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Fast and Frequent Railroad - an operating ratio isn't necessarily holy writ; The Tennesse Railroad of Oneida, Tenn. - article, photos, list of locomotives, map; Photos of a derailment in progress!; Photos - these sharks survived; Pleasures and Pitfalls of a Railroad Museum - the Kentucky Railway Museum; Rail Recollections by C. Grattan Price Jr.; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Des Moines, Iowa, USA: Cowles Magazine, Inc., 1965 90 pages. Cover: Julie Andrews Special Features: CONSPIRACY (4 articles) Conspiracy USA; A Visit with Arthur Larson: A Republican Looks at Extremism; A Plot that Flopped; The Far Right's Fight Against Mental Health. Other features include: Julie Andrews's star rises higher with "The Sound of Music"; Montessori: Education Begins at 3; Home-Model Witch: Elizabeth Montgomery; Let's Keep Politics Out of the Pantry; and Hockey's Golden Boy - Bobby Hull. Average wear. Few openings front cover fore-edge. Small mailing label front cover bottom left. Binding sound.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1977 Features: Snow photos - storm of 1977; The AB&C Railroad; A case of railway mania - the railroad system of the United States was greatly overbuilt; 7,000 miles from here... - Narrow Gauge, Wooden Coaches, and a Steam Engine - the Kingston Flyer; Color Centerfold of 'The City of Denver behind a Milwaukee Road FP45/FP7 duo; Queen of the Red River Valley - Passenger Trains 31 and 32 of the Texas & Pacific; Piggyback and the Portager Dream - 2 - In a sea of Clejans, TTX's, NITX's, Flexis, and Railvans... Portager Drowned; Selected Railroad Verse; and more. Average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy. . First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, PA USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1947 220 pages. Cover: Al Parker Illustration. Special Features: Don't Pursue Happiness; Lend Money the American Way; Minorities...Hatreds Can Be Cured; Philadelphia Fellowship; Give Me a Noble Wolf; French Art: Henri Julien Rousseau, 1844-1910 (inc. full page colour "The Equatorial Jungle" painting); Nutrition and Intelligence; What Happens When Trained Nurses Won't Nurse the Sick?; Help!; How America Lives: Never Too Many Kids - Al and Peggy Welch; When Children Quarrel; and The Overweight Child. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Plymouth, Campbell's Soup, Scotch Tape, Coca-Cola (Christmas Coca-Cola Santa illustrated by Haddon Sundblom), and Seven-Up. Full page colour Chesterfield Cigarettes ad with Alan Hale. Full page black/white movie poster for "Green Dolphin Street" starring Lana Turner. Full page black/white movie poster for "So Well Remembered" starring John Mills. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. American Illustrators include: Al Parker, Roy Spreter, Haddon Sundblom, Jon Whitcomb, and Robert G. Harris. Average wear. Few small openings front cover fore-edge. A clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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Des Moines, Iowa, USA: Cowles Magazine, Inc., 1960 84 pages. Cover: Mussolini. Special Features:The Bloody Story of Mussolini "The first fascist was a power-hungry socialist who pushed Italy to war and disaster". and Why the Cold War Turned Hot - Nikita Khrushchev. Other features include: Why our Hospitals are in Trouble; TV's "Nature Boy" - Jack LaLanne; Queen Elizabeth and her Daughter...Royal look-alikes (inc 5 pages of photos); The Lives and Loves of Simone Signoret; School for Sit-Ins and Rookie on a Romp - Baltimore Orioles Ron Hansen. Full page colour vintage print ad with Harriet Nelson promoting Eastman Kodak Company. Full page black/white Peanuts Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz print advertising for 1960 Ford Falcon. Above-average wear. Water stains throughout. Small mailing label front cover bottom left. Binding sound.. First Edition. Soft Cover Stapled. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1969 Features: Tom Mix Was My Boss!; The Clay Pot Nuggets; They're Hanging Doc Vincent Today!; Let Diamond Cut Diamond - Omaha, Nebraska; The Passing of Paddy Graydon; Too Lonesome for Ghots - Fish Springs; Indians and Army Wives on the Far West; Outlaws Black and Yeager; Bennett Howell's Cow Country - a page from the life of John Chisum's Foreman; The Tanana Valley Narrow Gauge; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. . Stapled. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1961 Features: Defense money is not wasted - General Nathan F. Twining; Hospitalized at Home - home care preserves scarce hospital resources; How Smart are Computers? - Doctor John R. Pierce; People on the Way up - Mary Fran Leuckee, Richard Goodwin, Eugene Shinn; The Master Planners - here are the men who largely decide what you may and may not see on TV; Fire Pilots - Airborne firefighters; Football's League of Headaches - an inside report on the problems that threaten the life of the American Football League and the San Diego Chargers; Battle for New York - Candidates Wagner, Lefkowitz and Gerosa battle for New York's Mayoralty. Average wear. . First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1969 Features: Land of the Noose - Yegua Knobbs; The making of a renegade - Navajo Frank; John Elsner's Dark Fortune; It was hard to stay sober in Neihart, Montana!; Eagle Tail Won't Talk; Bars instead of Bullets - Sheriff Tillman D. Taylor; 'Indian' John Nelson; Fresh Air and Ants - old time picnics; The man who 'took' Wells Fargo - Charles Wells Banks; 'Higher than the fish can go' - the Deadwood mining district of Valley County, Idaho; Badmen as I knew them - Walter Rodgers; Creatures of the night - coyotes; Scarce Book - 'A Drummer's Experience' by J.S. Dearing. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.. Stapled. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1961 Features: Speaking out - The South Will Change, by Ralph McGill; *GORGEOUS TWO-PAGE COLOUR AD FOR THE 1962 CHRYSLER IMPERIAL*; The New Millionaires of Phoenix - penniless and fiercely ambitious young men swarm into this sun-baked city with just one aim - money; HiJack - Robbery and Murder on the Alaska Highway (part 1 of 2); People on the way up - Harry Goldie, Space Shipwright - Joanie Sommers - Toothsome Thrush, Jack Zajac - Master Painter/Sculptor, Regina Vilutis - Bewitching Bacteriologist; Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) - Does it cause plane crashes, missile failures and communications blackouts?; What Mental Patients Teach Me - the superintendant of a metropolitan asylum, Dr. Eugene L. Sielke, tells of the surprising way in which the mentally ill help us all; Nice colour Cadillac centerfold ad; My Own Story - Casey Stengel; Elsa's (Lion) Cubs - Living Free, by Joy Adamson, author of Born Free - many colour photos; Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia - Cold War Middle Man. Centerfold holding by one staple. Average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications Inc., 1977 Features: He Met the Devil; Pet Brown, Championship Wrestler; When Annie Oakley was Accused of Theft; Butch and the Fine & Dandy Kid; Bucketfull of Pay Dirt; A kind word for Lucius; Trails Grown Dim; The Deadly Garment; Death Hollow; Six Horses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Curtis, 1962 Features: Danger on the Right, by Senator Stephen M. Young; Our Negro Aristocracy - a little-known world of wealth, culture and glamour; People on the Way Up - John Brademas, Dany Saval, Donna Deitch, Kenny McLean; Adventures of the Mind - How Human is Human Nature, by Eric Hoffer; "... To Help a Boy" - how Big Brothers help boys from fatherless and troubled homes; Backstage with Shirley Jones - she explains how she plays ingenues and prostitutes with equal conviction - nice color photos; Eighteen Angry Men - the hard-driving colonels who work against crucial deadlines to ready our missile-launching sites - photo of construction at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana. Average wear. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1976 Features: A Case of Forgery in Old San Francisco - Isaiah Lees was a great criminal catcher; The Brookings - a family history; Waybills of the Virginia & Truckee RR.; Nancy Parker a - a lady backed to the wall on the Texas Frontier; Burn-out of a Boom Town - Keifer, Oklahoma; R.I.P. Henry Wickenburg - the discoverer of the Vulture Mine; Soul Saving - Kind words for the family of the circuit rider; Life Along the Canadian River - it flowed through Comanche land; Josanie - Apache Warrior. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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Birmingham, Alabama: The Progressive Farmer, 1921 A farm and home weekly for Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Hundreds of vintage ads for such products as tree killer, rat-killing virus, one-man log-saws, organs, Kerosene engines, C.O.D. Revolvers (pistols), Dynamite (to dig ditches), Columbia Grafonola. Articles include "Are Tractors a Good Investment". Average wear. Usual library markings. Yellowed with age. Binding sound. Measures 14" x 10" x 1". A treasure trove of farming history.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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USA: Western Publications, 1974 Features: Sam Butler - Cowboy Lawman; A Highwayman's Gold Bars - the holdup of the Camp McKinney gold wagon near Midway, British Columbia; Cherokee Bill's Brother kills Ike Rogers; Everything was magic in the Okanagan - Toroda Creed Valley; The Duncans and Charlie Russell - the days of dudes and roughnecks; Snake Tales; Search and Seizure - Prohibition agents and local lawmen; The Case of the Smuggled Bear - Clell Lee's hounds tree Maggie the bear; Elwood Texas has gone to Grass; Major Collins' Lost Mine - a hike from Tarryall Creek a working man average $100/day in gold; Wild Old Days!; A Cycle Problem Solved - connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena by a Cycleway. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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USA: Kalmbach, 1961 Features: How the Rails Won Back the Automobile Business - the story of one of the 180,000 new automobiles L&N delivered this year; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Great photo of a steam engine terminal at Ridgely, W.Va in 1952; Photo section; Why We Don't Electrify - a rebuttal to an article in April 1962 Trains; and more. Average wear. Sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. more information

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