Ralph E May (12 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Single issue magazine. no marks or writings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Binding tight; interior clean other than gift inscription (dated 1909) in pencil on ffep. Red and cream half-bound boards with gilt lettering and design; heavy wear and bumping at corners. A collection of stories, poems, and activities for children by various authors. Illustrated in black and white. Full-color frontis. Unpaginated, but approx. 94pp. Baynes, Hiram; Hambridge, Jay; Goodwin, C. L. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Bennett, R.O.; Broecker, Richard; Clarke, W.W.; Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Honore, Paul (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Clarke, W.W.; Fitzgerald, William O.; Briggs, Austin Eugene; Harper, George; Graham, J.C. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Cute colour cover illustration by Joachim Gauthier; Dignified colour ad inside front cover presents the new 1939 Ford cars, showing a dark green De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and a blue V-8 Tudor Sedan; News digest includes these headings - For a Cool Head, What Happened at Munich, Two Different Problems, The Belgian Parallel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and Books of the Season; One-page ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; "The Bells of Bethlehem" - Photo-illustrated Christmas article on the Holy Land; Before St. Mihiel and All That (short story); Mrs. Scodger's Husband (short story); Letters to a Former Husband (short story); Britain's Army Road Scouts - great photo-illustrated article on the British Automobile Association (A.A.); The Man Who Was Lucky (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 2 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Salute to Winter Sport - article with photos of ski jumper, bob-sledders and the honourable rite of 'bouncing' (in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec); Nice Kodak one-page ad; Hollywood news includes photos of Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Jane Withers, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Edward G. Robertson with his wife; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; Christmas dinner suggestions and recipes; Gorgeous colour ad inside back cover for this magazine features formal couple and many front cover images on jet black background; Handsome colour Nash car ad on back cover features an orange 1939 four-door; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Gauthier, Joachim (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Clymer, John F.; Holmgren, John; Burke, May C.; Clymer, John F.; Phillips, John; Rubin, Zig (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Circus cover illustration; Interesting one-page photo ad says "You Can Play 9 Holes of Golf on 3 Slices of Bread", includes image of woman putting from on top of three slices of bread; Nice one-page ad for Frigidaire fridges; Only Let Me Live (short story); The Romance of Albania's Soldier-King and his strange little Balkan State - photo-illustrated article on King Zog; Call of the Hell Cats (short story); Safety First (short story); The Organist (short story); Dust over Canada - interesting article on million of dollars are spent to fight soot, dust and dirt; The Judges Robbed Me! - photo-illustrated article on how ultra high speed movie cameras are used to decide the winners of horse races; Cornishman's Chance (short story); Canada's Place in Cricket - article with photo of the Canadian cricket team in Britain last year; Palmolive ad features images of the Dionne Quints; Richard Hudnut cosmetics ad features photos of Canadian radio stars Billie Bell, Jean Haig and Kathleen Kidd; Colgate ad features illustraion of the Dionne Quints; Movie news with photos of Paul Muni, Charles Winninger, Mirian Hopkins, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, and others; Half-page Quaker Puffed Wheat ad features four adorable photos of Shirley Temple on Vacation; Business News; Quarter-page ad for the 1937 C.N.E.; Nice two-page Oldsmobile ad shows a green Oldsmobile Six Coach with Trunk; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of daschunds "Wanda" and "Otto" owned by Mrs. Herbert Yuile of Westmount, Quebec; When the Sun Runs a Temperature - beauty article; Vintage one-page Heinz ad entitled "In the best regulated families" shows mother and kids with cans of soup; Cooking article; World Sayings; Colour Lifebuoy and Rinso ads inside back cover; Nice colour-photo back cover ad for Maxwell House Coffee features dancer Paul Haakon, tennis star Carolyn Roberts, accordion player Charles Wright, and Mrs. John Carver; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Hargens, Charles (cover); Holmgren, John; Clymer, John F.; Smith, Ralph C.; Burke, May; Valentine, A.C.; Lowthian, Louis R. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady in purple top feeding pigeons; Frigidaire fridge one-page ad; Colour-photo one-page ad for Singer sewing machines shows lady re-upholstering her chair; News digest includes these topics - The Coming Rowell Report, Democracy on Challenge, The Memories of 1867, United States Congress Keeps 150th Birthday, The Roosevelt Moral, Twenty Years of Fascism; Fisher Body one-page ad with elegant photo of member of the Class of '39; The Marvels of Mexico's Treasure House - interesting photo-illustrated article on Diomed Wray's visit to the land south of the Rio Grande; There's Lots of Time (short story); Bad Luck on the Baron (short story); As the Sun Dial Says (short story); Thomas Cook, Founder of the world-famous travel agency - nice photo-illustrated article; Not in Our Stars (short story); Perfect Service (short story); For Offshore Sailors Only - nautical article with photo of "The Wasp" (88' cabin cruiser), sea-fleas, and Georgian Bay sailboats; Nice two-page 1939 Chevrolet ad features black four-door; Palmolive ad features photo of Phyllis Carter of 2159 Tupper Street, Montreal; Half-page Canadian Pacific features their Jasper and Alaska destinations; Movie news and photos; Lux ad features photos of Claudette Colbert and Andrea Leeds; Miss Peggy Hunter of Toronto is featured in a Woodbury soap ad; Fashion illustrations; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features Alphonse and Gaston comic; Canadian National half-page photo ad features their Jasper destination; Willys Overland ad features photo of Canadian aviatrix Mary Spearing; Are You House Dreaming? - considerations for a new home; Crane kitchen fixtures half-page ad features great colour photo of 1930s kitchen; Pond's ad features The Lady Alexandra Haig, The Lady Grenfell and Lady Morris; Beauty article; Cooking article with recipes; New York World's Fair (brief article); World Quotes; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Halvern, Corinne (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Maltman, W.; Burke, May C.; Garland, C. George; Clymer, John F. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 80 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for Green Giant / Fine Foods ad inside front cover features Essex County of Ontario; Nice one-page Easter ad for Parker Pens; Fascinating editorial about Russia/Stalin/Trotsky; Nice colour one-page ad for Chateau Cheeses; The Crowing of our King-Emperor George the Sixth (IV) - photo-illustrated article; Big Business (short story); Account Balanced (short story); Tam McWhirker's Elephant (short story); Bustin' Open Patricia - excellent photo-illustrated article on the opening of the vast Patricia District of Northwestern Ontario by commercial aviation; The Evil Eye (short story); The Man with the Purple Claw (short story); Sport Pot Pourri - nice sports article with photos of tennis player Ellsworth Vines, Golver Tony Manero, and tennis player Herr von Cramm; Fantastic one page ad for Colgate toothpaste features large photo of the Dionne Quints with their doctor; Nice one-page ad for the Dodge Custom Six, four-door Touring Sedan; Nice one-page ad says you can play a period of hockey on 2 slices of bread, and includes photo of hockey players skating on a large slice of bread; Nice one-page Plymouth car ad; Palmolive ad includes photo of Montreal Society girl Peggy Oliver; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog 'Squeaks' owned by Mrs. W. Allan Black, Jr. of Montreal; Movie news includes photos of Deanna Durbin, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert, Lily Pons, and others; Great LifeSavers ad includes photo of small boy wearing huge boxing gloves; Richard Hudnut cosmetics ad includes photos of Gergrude Lawrence and Jane Pickens; Before and After - house renovation article with before and after photos; Great one-page colour ad for Westinghouse fridges; Beauty ad; Cooking article; Great One-page Carnation milk ad includes small photos of the Dionne Quints; One-page Heinz soup ad features formal dinner scene; World Sayings; Colour ads for Rinso and Lifebuoy inside back cover; Classy back cover colour ad for the 1937 Ford V-8 (maroon) shows evening scene with man bringing coffees to ladies in car; and more. Center page loose but present. Spine rolled. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Humphrey, Walter Beach; Maltman, William; Burke, May C.; Clymer, John F.; Smith, Ralph C.; Matteson, B.V.V.; Phillips, John (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady with horse; One-page Parker Pen ad with military theme; Colour Marboleum ad inside front cover shows vintage kitchen; One-page Singer sewing machine ad includes three photos of their ornate furniture; Wonderful one-page ad for the RCA Victor Globe Trotter Model A-31 radio includes airman; The General's Big Bull (short story); Known to Nobody (short story); Secrets of the German (Nazi) Air-Armadas - fascinating photo-illustrated article; The Ghost of Captain Renny (short story); Where the War Dollar Goes; Canada'a Forgotten Back Door - Will the Nazis Bomb Canada through Hudson Bay?; Beyond the Circle (short story); Carry On - football article includes photo of Squadron Leader Dave Harding at the Malton Airport with new military recruits asking him questions about his days with the Ottawa Rough Riders; Movie news and photos; One-page photo ad for Fleischmann's Yeast features great photos of man cleaning massive locomotive and horse-drawn wagon being loaded with sheaves; Woodbury ad features photo of Annabella; Anothe Woodbury ad features photo of Miss Nancy Weir of Toronto; Small ad for the Chesley Chair Company of Chesley, Ontario; The Ten Bob Note (short story); Homes of Tomorrow - photos of interior design ideas; Saturday Night Bath - tips on how to have a good bath; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for Lux soap features three photos of Carole Lombard; Illustrated instruction how to knit soldier and sailor dolls; Win the War in Your Kitchen - cooking article; Nice one-page Magic Baking Powder ad entitled "As Sure as the Sun Rises"; World Sayings; Magnificent red and black Canadian Red Cross ad inside back cover shows nurse with arms outstretched over servicemen and refugees; Great vintage colour Coke ad on back cover shows lovely young lady holding six-pack; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The National Home Monthly Magazine, October (Oct.) 1940 - Will the Nazis Bomb Canada Through Hudson Bay? cover illustration of lady with horse; One-page Parker Pen ad with military theme; Colour Marboleum ad inside front cover shows vintage kitchen; One-. Illustrated by Iligan, Ralph (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Burke, May C.;Garland, C. George; Clymer, John F.; Diamond, Samuel; (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News digest topics include - dark influences at work, the anti-Russian case, An Alternative Pact, A policy of wreckage, One's own business, the plight of German churches, 90% heroic, and the problem of Palestine; Baseball's Centenary? - argument over whether or not baseball's centenary actually occured in June - article with photos of Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Joe Vosmik, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, and others; Vernight Stop - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Wake Island; A Penny In Her Shoe (short story); The Genuine Tabard (short story); The Perdu (short story); Fairyland of the Boy-King Peter II of Yugoslavia - photo-illustrated article on his picturesque nation; If I Die Before I Wake (mystery); Half-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.) which offers 'a thousand thrilling things to see'; Hollywood news, with photos of Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. De Mille, N.S. Van Dyke, Arthur Nornblow Jr., Lubitsch, Anatole Litvak, Eugene Forde, Edward H. Griffith and William Wellman; Photo and bried write-up on Ellen Drew; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Nadine Beardmore; Dare to Smile - article for ladies; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Robert W. Armstorng of Toronto, and Blanche Brewer of Clarksdale, Mississippi; Small photo ad for Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario shows girls on horseback with school in background; Sayings from around the world; Back cover colour Coke ad features man in white double-breasted suite with lady, and inset black and white photo of soda jerk; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Smith, Hal (cover); Holmgren, John; Burke, May C.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl inside front cover with caption "Eat Fish!" in ad sponsored by the Government of Canada; Major editorial about CBC Radio; Brief news coverage of - Australia's 150th birthday, League or Anti-League, A Mediator's Difficulties (re: the League of Nations); Vintage one-page photo ad for the 1938 Dodge Custom Six, Four-Door Touring Sedan; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part 1); Listen to Your Heart (short story); Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The 'Lone Wolf' who put modern Turkey on the Map (Part 2 of this photo-illustrated article); A Hook for Murder (short story); Cherry Amber (short story); The Tale of the Angus Bull (short story); The Murder on the Links (conclusion of this short story by Agatha Christie); Photo-illustrated article on Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards; Nice one-page ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile - showing the Six Sedan with trunk and Six Coach with trunk; Woodbury Soap ad features photo of June Lang; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of Dale Carnegie; Lux soap ad features photos of beautiful Merle Oberon; Movie news with photos of Shirley Temple, Chares Butterworth, Jane Withers and Errol Flynn; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Eugene Du Pont, III; Scott's Emulsion ad features Old Scottie comic; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog Pal of Kezer, owned by 'Dickie' McMaster of Montreal; One-page ad for the 1938 Plymouth De Luxe Four-Door Sedan; Article on child-rearing; World Sayings; Nice colour Rinso and Lifebuoy ads inside back cover; Lovely 1938 Ford car ad on back cover features brown and silver cars - the V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe V-8 Fordor; and more. Moderate wear. Few faint pencil markings to front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, March (Mar.) 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (part II) / Horseman Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl ins. Illustrated by Hunt, Lynn Bogue (cover); Smith, Ralph C.; Garland, C.George; Maltman, W.; Burke, MAy C.; Diamond, Samuel; Clymer, John F.;Diamond, Samuel (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Palmolive soap ad inside front cover; News digest includes 'Nazi change in war strategy', Ukrainia, the Canada of Europe', 'The Black Sea Barrier', A New Front in Caucasia?'; Wanted - More Gridiron Speed - Canadian football article; One-page War Savings Certificates ad shows mother asking son "$5 for $4 Johnny, how would you like that?"; Why Hitler Must Lose the War - Otto Strasser explains; Nobody Ever Told Us (short story); "Isle of Adventure" - Photo-illustrated article on Herschel Island, off the mouth of the Mackenzie River; You Can't Ever Tell About Men (short story); After Midnight (short story); Boss of Britain's War-Workers - photo-illustrated article on Ernest Bevin; The Marquis of Medicine Hat (part 2 of 4); The Return of Laughter - entertainment article; Woodbury cold cream ad features photo of Dorothy Lamour; Sexy two-colour ad for 'almondized' Beautyskin Lingerie; 'Make-a-Light' bicycle generator promotion; Red Seal Cedar Chests ad; Give Your Eyes a Chance - article on proper lighting; One-page illustrated article entitled "Canada is Strong" shows miner drilling, sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast; Twentieth Century Aladdin's Lamp (short story); Nice one-page illustrated H.J. Heinz ad shows young lady rushing home from shopping to prepare supper; Fashion illustrations; photo of sleeping child submitted by H.C. Aitken of Kentville, N.S.; Nice colour subscription ad for this magazine inside back cover shows Santa; Quotes from around the world; Nice colour-photo Schick Injection Razor ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. House, Nathan; Mastri, Fiore; Burke, May C.; Smith, Ralph C.; Diamond, Samuel (illustrator). …