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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1958 Features: Up and down the Laurentians; the dramatic Deas Island Tunnel - article with great photos; Through the Annapolis Valley; Take your children to Storybook Gardens, a project of the London Public Utilities Commission (PUC); History with a high fence - Fort Macleod has captured much of southern Alberta's history and put a stockade around it; Time for all - public clocks in Canada; Imperial has already printed 25 million road maps!. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1959 Features: Cartier's Paradise - the Magdalen Islands; Highway to Yellowknife - two years ago, a wild dream... autumn, 1959 - a reality! - with photos; Huron Indian Village - Little Lake Park, near Midland, Ontario; Forest Magic - Bonnie Homewood and Homewood Forest near Vancouver, B.C.; How do you size up your motel?; Guns in the Lighthouse - Fred Light has 171 guns mounted on the ceiling of his Battleford Imperial Oil service station. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, Canada: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1960 Features: the Garden of Wonders at Montreal's LaFontaine Park; Tiny Chapel in the badlands near Drumheller; Saint John County Court House remarkable stairway - no posts; Stalactites in Ontario - the Bonnechere Caves; The West's First Post Office - on Winnipeg's Higgins Ave; Little Lake Manitou, Saskatchewan; Acadian heritage; Buddies on the Border - the New Brunswick/Maine border; Land of Monsters -Okanagan's Ogopogo; Little Britches Dude Ranch at Patricia, Alberta; Car Maintenance points to check. Small piece missing from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1959 Features: Ski trails of Banff National Park; Le Royaume du Saguenay; Nova Scotia "Campsite" - the Cabot Trail; Postage Stamp Motoring; Odd items about Canada - The "Coleman" Frog (as big as a dog!), Pount Pelee - south of the northmost part of California!, Ukrainian 'Bush' House of God, near Neepawa and Minnedosa, Farthest east home in Canada; Along the Yukon Trail; photo of Imperial's and probably North America's, first service station, opened in Vancouver in 1908; North to Buffalo Narrows. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1957 Features: Canadian Castles; Where Prairie and Mountain Meet - Waterton Lakes National Park; Anne's Gables are still Green on Prince Edward Island (PEI); The Healing Springs of British Columbia - Radium Hot Springs, Harrison Hot Springs; A Canadian Trail in Minnesota - a nine mile portage used by early explorers including la Verendrye, the Alexander Henrys, Alex. Mackenzie, David Thompson, and John Tanner, the first white boy to live on the Manitoba prairie - the portage connects Fort Charlotte with Grand Portage/Lake Superior; Catching and Curing Salmon... the Indian way. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1960 Features: How to pack your car or station wagon; Selecting your campsite; Setting up and protecting equipment; Weekend camping gear; Tips for camp cooking; Good camping books. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Imperial Oil/Esso, 1958 Features: British Columbia - a century of progress - with story and photos; Canada's cradle of celtic culture - St. Ann's, The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia; Rocky Mountain Motorcade - 100-car, 300-man motorcade pioneers 125-mile route from Rocky Mountain House to the Banff-Jasper highway - super photos!; Quebec City's 350th Birthday; Motoring at Fort Churchill; Echoes from an old coach road - highway 33 between Trenton and Kingston. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy of this vintage issue.. First Edition. Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Victoria, B.C.: First Baptist Church, 1945 Minister: Rev. G.A. Reynolds. Organist: Mr. Oliver Stout. Lists musical contributions by: Mr. Stanley Honeychurch, James Dinsmore, Mrs. H. Youson. Sermon was titled: "An Airman's Legacy" - a voice from the dead speaks to youth. Average wear. Unmarked. Fold mark across the middle. . Good. more information

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USA: Publication Management Corp., 1961 62 pages of adult-themed black and white cartoons, plus black and white photos of Marie Devereaux and the sultry Laya Raki. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A great collectible.. First Edition. Stapled. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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(Ad hoc) Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression, 1937 A thirty-one page, two-colour promotional booklet for many of the highest circulation magazines of the day, complete with contemporary subscription rates. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A wonderful vintage collectible!. Stapled. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Westinghouse Vintage advertising piece for the Westinghouse electric Household Laundry Iron, Turnover Toaster, "Magic" Electric Warming Pads, and Cozy Glow Heater. Also included are small diagrams of the Westinghouse electric curling iron, electric drying comb, electric home marceller, and domestic soldering iron. Some/all of these appliances could be powered by plugged into a light socket. Undated - circa 1930s? item # E. 98-150m-11-27-D.L. Moderate wear. Tiny nibbling along some edges. Unmarked. . Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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USA: King-Size Publications, 1957 128 pages. Features: Shield Against Death, by J.T. McIntosh; The Muted Horn, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Nut, by Ted Levine; Queen of Clothes, by F.L.Wallace; No Bems Allowed, by Walt Erickson; Next WEek, East Venus, by Robert K. Ottum, Shapes in the Sky, by Civilian Saucer Intelligence; Pawns of Tomorrow, by Nelson Bond; The Signals to Mars, by M. Bower; In Hoc Signum Vincit, by K.W. Bennett; Fillmore Y. Brightforks, by Howard Schoenfeld. Above-average wear. Spine slant. Binding intact. Unmarked. Reading copy only. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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USA: Great American, 1960 128 pages. Features: Dogfight, by James White; Deadly Birdcage, by Peter Hawkins; Ultimate Complex, by Donald Malcolm; Pseudopath, by Philip E. High; Beyond Surrealism, by E.R. James; Problem - Survival, by Colin Kapp. Above-average wear. binding intact. Small, faint doodles on back cover. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Nova Publications, 1961 112 pages. Features: Wind of Liberty, by Kenneth Bulmer; The Wages of Death, by Robert Silverberg; Machine Ricord, by Tevis Cogswell. Above-average wear. Water damage. Unmarked. Binding intact. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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USA: Ziiff-Davis, 1958 146 pages. Features: The Planet Saver, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Legacy of Terror, by Henry Slesar; World Beyond Pluto, by C. H. Thames; Mission - Murder!, by O.H. Leslie; Moon Glow, by G.L. Vandenburg; Clear View, by George Whitley. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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USA: King-Size Publications, 1955 128 pages. Features: Meet Miss Universe, by Jack Vance; Just for Tonight, by Russ Winterbotham; Thing, by Ivan Janvier; Action-Reaction, by F.B. Bryning; Jack the Giant Killer, by Bryce Walton; The Big Jump, by Evelyn E. Smith; Brave New Strain, by Lee Priestley; The Sixth Season, by Jacques Jean Ferrat; Assassin, by Algis Budrys; They Are the Possessed, by Irving E. Cox, Jr.; Exiles of Tomorrow; by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Translation, by James Blish. Above-average wear and soiling. Great cover illustration by Alex Schomburg depicts flying saucers laying waste to interstate traffic. Reading copy only. First Edition. Soft Cover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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McGill University Engineering Class of 1935 This wonderful collection includes: The 1970 Alumni Directory for the Class of 1935 - 12 pages; Program for the 40th Reunion of the Class of 1935 - includes over a dozen autographs; A 1956 reunion letter to the Class of 1935 from D.G. (Gord) Auld; Illustrated Fourth Annual Reunion Dinner Program for the Class of 1935 - bearing more than 25 autographs; Illustrated Second Annual Reunion Dinner Program for the Class of 1925 - attractively presented in blueprint format with customary young engineers depiced 'whooping it up' on front cover. All items in sound condition. . Good. more information

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London: The Daily Mirror Newspapers, 1959 Contains, bound as one, seven issues of London's Daily Mirror for the week beginning May 25, 1959 and ending Sunday May 31st, 1959. Contents include: Russian Cars (and Brandy) for Britain; photo of Monica Zetterlund; John Foster Dulles dies - article with photo; Mr. Clore Wants Watneys; Photos of Eddie Fisher with Elizabeth Taylor plus photo of Liz with her two children; Soviet Envoy's Wife in Hiding - Mrs. Nina Dmitriev; Soccer riot as Scots Brawl; Space Monkeys - Animal lovers protest; Gaoled Widow; 'Stupid Insult' - American cartoon of young Prince Charles raises ire; "I Was Hitler's Lover - First part/2 pages - Maria Reiter tells her story; Spotlight on 'Crisis City' Berlin, by Malcolm Muggeridge; America's Bongo Craze; B.E.A. Pilot Francis Hatchard is jailed in Sweden. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Some age-yellowing. A sound copy. Sure to fascinate and inform anyone curious about events during this week in history.. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Rhone, William R.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Canada: Blue Ribbon Limited Lovely circa 1950's 4-panel fold-out Blue Ribbon Premium Catalogue including 8 premiums/coupons. The Blue Ribbon company sold baking powder, tea and coffee. Tiny bit of writing on front cover. Light wear. Nice copy. Very nostalgic!. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Magazine. more information

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Norwich Cathedral 16 pages. Undated - appears to be circa 1940s. Provides information about the heroic British nurse who helped Belgian and British soldiers slip through German lines in the first world war, and was shot by the German authorities for her efforts. Unmarked with average wear. Foxing to first and last pages. Modest age toning to covers. Bonus: includes two unused black and white picture postcards, the first showing Mount Edith Cavell in the Canadian Rockies, the second a photo of the majestic Edith Cavell memorial erected in Brussels. . Stapled. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Warren Publishing, 1977 74 pages. Monstrous Alen Horrors Abject Vampirella. From outer space they attack! Small opening at base of spine. Three inch crease to top corners of front cover and first several pages, else nice condition lightly yellowed.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Warren Publishing, 1977 66 pages. The Blood Red Queen of Hearts Returns! The Blind Priestess Covets Pendragon's Heart... But she Will Destroy Vampirella's Sight! No tears. Moderate wear andl light yellowing.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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