Burt Gresham (2 results)
Published by The Winnipeg Free Press N.D. [Circa 1935], Winnipeg, Manitoba 1935
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, CanadaBlack's Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated [pp. 24]. Oblong 8vo., measuring 22 x 29.5 cm. Light blue, twice-stapled, textured card covers. Small illustration of a plane in flight with navy-blue lettering to the front cover. Excepting a short foreword, it is chiefly comprised of a series of twenty black-and-white a…erial images capturing the city of Winnipeg in the early part of the last century. Lightest rubbing to the extremities, some light wear along the edges, contents remain clean, and unmarked with tight, sound stapled binding. Overall, very good. Rare in commerce. See Peel Citation No. 5966. Corresponds to OCLC #56528976 indicating only three institutional holdings at time of cataloguing. The Winnipeg Free Press takes pleasure in presenting this series of aerial photographs of the city of Winnipeg and surrounding suburbs, taken by Burt Gresham, staff cameraman-reporter, during the fall of 1935.
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 15 June 1931 - "Pat" Burns Feature Article
Swanson, W.W.; Malloch, G.R.; Gresham, Burt; Wallace, W.Stewart; Hatch, Eric; Wynne, Anthony; Price, Elizabeth Bailey; Evans, Hubert; Beck, Frederic; Dingle, Captain; Campbell, Helen G.; Scott, F.L.deN.; Blue, A.W.
Published by The Maclean Publishing Company, Toronto 1931
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne M…organ, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustrator).
