Shapiro ls b (13 resultados)
Editorial: Collins, 1956
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Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. The covers have shelf wear and creasing to the corners, hinges, and spine. The outer edges are stained and the spine is loose. The pages are lightly tanned due to age. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING.
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1944
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Librería: Irolita Books, Aurora, ON, CanadaIrolita Books
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Hardcover. Condición: VERY GOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: GOOD. First edition. Dust jacket is worn at tips and spine. Several short tears. Clean text, no writing/markings. New archival mylar dj cover. 21 cm. 191 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard pac…kaging, with tracking and insurance.
Editorial: DE LA PAIX
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Librería: Le-Livre, SABLONS, FranciaLe-Livre
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Couverture souple. Condición: bon. R200095402: NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Non coupé. 229 pages jaunies. Quelques pliures. 1 déchirure sur la jaquette.2 planches photos en noir et blanc. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 303.66-Guerre.
Editorial: Editions de la paix, 1946
Librería: Tant qu'il y aura des livres, Pontcharra, FranciaTant qu'il y aura des livres
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Condición: bon. broché, 232p. Avec 8 photos n&b.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February 1, 1945
Josephs, Ray; LeCocq, Thelma; King, Rt. Hon. Mackenzie; Fraser, Blair; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Baxter, Beverley; Lindley, E.K.; Mignon, Ulric; Shields, F/L W.A.; Mayse, Arthur; Lewis, Clark; Burkhardt, Eve; Campbell, Helen G.
Editorial: The Maclean Publishing Company, Toronto, 1945
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Interesting instructions on what *not* to ship soldiers overseas (so fires won't be started in the holds of ships); Full page ad for Sal Hepatica; Argentine Goose Step - "Hitler's Imitators have scupper…ed democracy right in our own hemisphere" - article with photos; The Great Fridolin (M. Gratien Gelinas of Montreal) - article with photos; Spark Plug - hockey fiction; What do the federal Liberals stand for? - Mackenzie King answers questions; That Roarin' Game - Curling is sweeping the nation; Why Rundstedt Attacked - after its Ardennes gamble the dice are now in Allied hands; The Disunited Nations; They Also Serve (fiction); Unfinished Anthem - a Canadian by choice tells why he made his choice; Our Pilots Don't "Black-Out" - Wing Commander W.R. Franks O.B.E. and his research to aid Allied pilots - article with photos; Nice half-page two-colour Aunt Jemima pancake mix ad "sho' hits the spot"; Nice colour half-page Pepsi ad; Nice half-page colour Canada Dry ad; Tarts for Dessert. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A high quality copy. Machtey; Yarwood (ilustrador).
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 September 1945, Vol. 58, No. 17: The Price of Housing / Russia's Quarrel With Japan / Arthur Rank
Baxter, Beverley; Smith, John Caulfield; Dingman, Harold; Thomas, Marcel; LeCocq, Thelma; Davis, Jerome; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Lindley, E.K.; Mayse, Arthur; Berrien, F.K.; Marx, J.; Marx, A.; Ormond, Clyde; Coates, Eleanor; Campbell, Helen
Editorial: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, Toronto, 1945
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Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Features: Color ad for International Harvester inside front cover features smoky combat scene and speaks of Canadian soldiers anxious for a crack at Japan as payback for Hong Kong in 1941; Editorial - Long-Service Men Should Get Home; Why Britain Went Left - Clement Attlee d…efeats Winston Churchill; What Price Shelter? - Four out of five families can't afford the favorite NHA home - labour and materias are in short supply; Meals Without Meat - Marcel Thomas, noted Chef-Steward of the Mount Royal Hotel, shows how he plans tasy menus on meatless days (resulting from rationing); The Amazing Mr. Rank - Arthur Rank put Britain's movie industry into the money; Russia's Quarrel With Japan - She needs an ice-free port, security for Siberia, and she has an old score to settle; How Hitler Lost the War - L.S.B. Shapiro claims German documents and witnesses make it clear that the Fuhrer's intuition upset long-term plans; Backstage Ottawa - Pearkes vs. Gardiner; Washington Memo - astonishment at Churchill's defeat; Howe Sound Salmon Derby!; Lie Trap - Photo-illustrated article on lie detection with what appears to be an early version of the polygraph; Hear No Evil (short story); Aunt Em (short story); Sawdust In Their Eyes (short story); School Lunches; and more. Nice ads for: Thor washing machines, Colgate dental cream (with sailor theme); Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring photo of radio singer Flora Montgomery, General Steel Wares, B.C. Pears, B.C. Peaches, Rolex watches (for returning troops), Pepto-Besmal (with illustration of little boy), Kreml, Vitalis, Caterpillar Diesel - featuring colour photo of dozer at work in a remote location, nice colour illustrated back cover ad by Mac Sheppard for Pep O Mint Life Savers features young pirates discovering hidden treasure. 52 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Gunther-Lipney; Skemp, R.; Jousset; Timmins; Sheppard, Mac (ilustrador).
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, January 1, 1946: Windsor, Ontario
Fraser, Blair; Harrington, Lyn; Jeffries, Hugh; Allen, Robert T.; Hewelcke, Geoffrey; Shapiro, LS.B.; Harris, Frank Mann; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Laird, Donald A.; McCormick, Ted; Young Scott
Editorial: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, Toronto, 1946
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Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Great New Year cover art by Harold Eldridge; Fantastic International Harvester ad inside front cover shows large crawler dragging a massive log through the woods; Interesting full-page ad for Canadian General Electric's fluorescent lighting; Strike Town -… A Close-up of Windsor, Ontario when 20,000 auto workers went on strike; Photos of prize-winning writers - Kay Webster (Mrs. Paul Belanger) of Vancouver, Jean Howarth of Vancouver and Anka Stewart of Sarnia; Money in Mushrooms - Charles Slack of Waterloo, Quebec is the British Empire's top mushroom grower - article with photos; Wilfred and the Two-Ton Romeo (fiction); They Sleep to Survive - article on animal hibernation; Field Marshal Alex (Major-General the Honorable Harold R.L.G.Alexander) - article with photo; When You Win You Lose - short story; How Fast Can We Fly? - Aviation article by Wolfgang Langewiesche; Hot-Heads (people with bad tempers); Laurentian Playground - article with photos; Nice half-page 2-colour ad for Aunt Jemima Buckwheats; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel inside back cover shows equiment moving a mountain near Charleston, West Virginia; Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, January 1, 1946 Great New Year cover art by Harold Eldridge; Fantastic International Harvester ad inside front cover shows large crawler dragging a massive log through the woods; Interesting full-page ad for Canadian. Illustrated by Eldridge, Harold (ilustrador).
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February 15, 1945 - Vancouver Pin-up Yvonne De Carlo
Frischauer, Willi; Fraser, Blair; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Hemming, Albert; Stursberg, Peter; Baxter, A. Beverley; Sinclair, Gordon; "Bunje"; Dudley, Fredda; Frayne, Trent; Carse, Robert; Findlay, D.K.; Campbell, Helen G.; Primeau, Joe
Editorial: The Maclean Publishing Company, Toronto, 1945
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Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Nice cover painting by Adrian Dingle shows a typical rural winter scene - man pumping water from well with workhorses and barn in background; Austria's Underground Fights for Liberation; Canada in Washington - article and photos, including one of Ambassador Lester "M…ike" Pearson; Until That Day (fiction); Dynamite Hockey - Article by Joe Primeau, coach of the St. Mike's Juniors - with two photos; "Stamp-Licker" Airstrip - the story of how Canadians invented the PBS airstrip which has revolutionized Allied airfield equipment in European battle areas; Your Glands and You; Woe to the Victor - the political situation in Italy, with photo of a black market; Swords for Slander (fiction); Goldfish King - George Aston produces more goldfish than all other breeders in the British Empire combined! - article with photos; Battle Close-Up (fiction); Vancouver Pin-up Yvonne de Carlo - photo with article; Nice colour comic strip-style ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee features Charlie McCarthy ice-skating on a lake; Kodak ad features colour photo of a maiden with very long fair hair flowing down her back; Nice colour-illustrated ad for Swift's Premium Bacon features little boy and butcher; Colour ad for Fry's cocoa shows mother and two children on sled; Nice colour Studebaker ad inside back cover features their tracked Weasel cargo carrier at military use in the Pacific islands; Old Dutch cleanser ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice vintage issue. Dingle, Adrian (Cover Art); Leake, Gerald; Saila, Clement; Machtey (ilustrador).
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 1, 1945
Ketchum, J.D.; Selinger, Jack; Fraser, Blair; O'Leary, Grattan; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Bazter, A. Beverley; Crawford, Kenneth, G.; Nichols, Charles; Bauer, W.W.; Frost, Rex; Mayse, Arthur; Raddall, Thomas H.; Cooke, William, C.; Campbell, Helen G.
Editorial: The Maclean Publishing Company, Toronto, 1945
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Paperback. Condición: Good. 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. Grassick-Templeton (cover); Leake, Gerald; Summers, Gloyne; (ilustrador).
Maclean's Magazine, July 15, 1944 *Cover Photo of Lieut.-Gen. H.D.G. Crerar, Commander-in-Chief, First Canadian Army - D-Day Coverage*
Shapiro, L.S.B.; MacRitchie, Com. Peter; Bauer, Dr. W.W.; Stursberg, Peter; MacDonald, Rt. Hon. Malcolm; LeCocq, Thelma; Eyssen, Marguerite; Hannum, Alberta Peirson
Editorial: Maclean Hunter, Toronto, 1944
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Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. Features: Nice colour-illustrated military-themed Canada Post ad inside front cover; Assault on Normandy, by Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro, with photos; "Stand By to Beach", by Commander Peter MacRitchie, RCNVR - D-Day Coverage - article with photos; Dinner for Four - ficti…on by Marguerite Eyssen; How Long will You Live?, by Dr. W.W. Bauer; So This is Rome, by Peter Stursberg - impressions of the eternal city after liberation; Britain After the War, by Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald; 'Stardom's No Joke' says Judith Evelyn, 1,000 times a star in Angel Street; Interesting news bits from across the country; Have a Good Time, John - fiction by Alberta Pierson Hannum; Johnny Longden Up, by Jim Coleman, with photos; Brilliant Business - Canadians are proving they can master the ancient craft of diamond cutting; Wedding Bells for another Woodbury (Soap) Deb - the former Thelma Bertha Bowell of B.C. and Lieutenant Wilbert Kennith Carter - ad with photos; Colour Kodak ad explains colour printing; Lovely colour ad for Dr. West's toothbrushes; Nice colour ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat; *RARE* full-page colour GM ad commemorates the contribution of the quarter-million vehicles they contributed to the war effort - caption reads "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!; Similar colour ad by Ford Motor Company inside back cover shows their trucks at work in war and at home; Heintzman & Co. piano ad; *Wonderful* colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover shows a sailor returning from war being welcomed to his industrial former place of work; Faint bit of writing and address label upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this important wartime issue. Machtey, Winter, W.A.; Grassick; Summers, Dudley, Gloyne; Brown, Bo; (ilustrador).
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 December 1945, Vol. 58, No. 23: Europe Won't Go Communist
Shapiro, L.S.B.; Laird, Donad A.; Dingman, Harold; Hewelcke, Geoffrey; Murray, Morley; Young, Scott; Baxter, A. Beverley; Lindley, E.K.; Smith, John Caulfield; beamish, Royd E.; Rackowe, Alec; Corps, Doreen; Hartsoe, Clayton; Campbell Helen G.
Editorial: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, Toronto, 1945
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Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Features: "Europe Won't Go Communist"; Funny Business - The Comic Strip Industry; Built-In Glasses - Contact Lenses; Beverage Room - Alcohol Controversy in Ontario; Ah Nuts! - Meet George Corsan of Islington, Ontario who, at age 88, operates the Echo Valley Nut Farm; London…Letter - Farce at Belsen; Washington News; Ottawa Debates Tariffs; Homes To Rent, American Style - An account of how the U.S. has tackled the problem of low-rental housing; Big Iron - The Steep Rock Iron Mine near Atikokan; and more. Short Stories: I'm the Girl; It Helps to Cry; Dream Acres. Ads include: A fascinating one-page ad by the bankers of Canada featuring a U-boat with black flag raised; One-page Imperial Oil ad entitled "The Story of a [oil well] Failure"; Aunt Jemima; Frigidaire; Peposident tooth paste with Irium; Canada Dry (Christmas moif); Longines watches; Eveready batteries ad features photo of Saskatchewan-born soprano Marguerite Gendron; Stanfield's Unshrinkable Underwear; Arrid ad features photo of Hollywood star Jean Parker; Seagram ad encourages investors to hold on to Victory Bonds; Two-page Maclean's subscription ad; Gruen watches (inside back cover); Community Silverplate (back cover). 68 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Willinger, L.; Jousset, Albert; Kettlewell, Bill; Grassick; Scott, John; Brown, Bo; McIntosh, Hal; (ilustrador).
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, March (Mar.) 15, 1943, Vol. 56, No. 6 - Cover Photo of Air Marshal H. Edwards, C.B., Commander-In-Chief R.C.A.F. Overseas / Shipshaw Power Development
Herald, George W.; LeCocq, Thelma; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Callaghan, Morley; Horn, Florence, et al
Editorial: The Maclean Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto, 1943
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Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 56 pages. Features: After Mussolini - Who? - photo-illustrated article argues Il Duce is tottering and Italy is ripe for revolt; Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn is about to retire; To Air Marshal the Hard Way - a brief biography of Harold "Gus" Edwards; Union Station - Morley…Callaghan describes in this photo-illustrated article how this Toronto station has become a communcal centre where the joy of meeting and the sorrow of parting (soldiers) makes living drama; Brief report on B.C. Premier John Hart and his efforts with the B.C. Electric Railway Company (B.C. Power); Privy Council ruling against Alberta creates debt problems; Shipshaw fascinating and informative photo-illustrated article on this massive wartime hydro-electric development on the Saguenay which will be used to support Aluminum smelting; Flower Factory - photo-illustrated article on the Dale Estate in Brampton, Ontario; Our Ally Brazil - photo-illustrated article explaining the major gain this strong nation represents for the Allies now that it has joined the U.N. Fiction: Something for George, by Arthur Stevens; Reconnaissance, by Roy Yonge and Lucien Zacharoff. Half-page photo-illustrated recruting ad for the R.C.A.F. emphasizes their need for women. Province of Quebec half-page ad celebrates construction of the Shipshaw development which will produce "New Power Against Hitler". Fantastic colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows young servicemen in uniform with supportive young ladies. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage wartime issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, March (Mar.) 15, 1943, Vol. 56, No. 6 - Cover Photo of Air Marshal H. Edwards, C.B., Commander-In-Chief R.C.A.F. Overseas Mussolini - Who? - photo-illustrated article argues Il Duce is tottering and Italy is ripe fo. Illustrated by Eldridge, Harold; Summers, Gloyne; (ilustrador).
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 November 1945, Vol. 58, No. 21: Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly and Real Great Escape from Stalag Luft III (Part I of 2)
Pengelly, Tony; Young, Scott; Wiggam, Albert Edward; Sinclair, Gordon; Fuller, J.F.C.; Shapiro, L.S.B.; Baxter, A. B.; Lindley, E.K.; Cameron, J.C.; Curtis, C.H.; Forsey, Eugene; LeBourdais, D.M.; Finnie Richard; Heylbut, Rose; O'Hagan, Howard; King, Alan
Editorial: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, Toronto, 1945
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Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 1 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen…; Nice cover illustration by R. York Wilson features brass band practicing; W.A. Irwin becomes new Editor of Maclean's - photo and brief article; Relax - It's Good for You; Bee Business - Ervin Hogarth has 150 bees near Tara, Ontario; Mars Gone Barmy - Maj.-Gen. J.F.C. Fuller argues atomic war cannot be won; Where Milk is Medicine - Europe's lack of food in the aftermath of WWII; Britian's Place in the World; Washington Memo - U.S. Strikers want to keep war wages (52 for 40 or Fight!); Backstage Ottawa - NRMA men (Zombies) were sent to the First Canadian Division on or after VE Day; Is the Union Shop Democratic? - arguments for and against; Sculptors Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Mani Hahn - Photo-illustrated article; "When the Ice-Worms Nest Again" - Brief article discussing Robert Service; Stretch the Meat; and more. Short stories include: Molly Was a Doctor; White Horse; Soft Music. Nice ads for: The Wartime Prices and Trade Board (encouraging the mending of clothes); Imperial Oil (featuring oil exploration); Frigidaire, Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese; Canadian Pacific (color illustration of driving of the last spike to celebrate 60 years of progress, 1885-1945); Pepsodent Tooth Paste; Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring image of Vancouver radio personality Thora Anders; Arrid deodorant - featuring photo of Gertrude Niesen; Nostalgic one-page Maclean's subscription ad; National War Finance Committee; Nice colour-photo Caterpillar Diesel ad inside back cover features two dozers preparing new rail bed through mountains. 68 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Wilson, R. York; Dawson, Isobel; Dresser, Lawrence; (ilustrador).
