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Stories: Adventures in Bunk; The Daybreak Raid; Live Wires; A Man-Hunt in Jamaica; The Lizard-Master; The Last of the Seris; Prospecting in Peru; Down the Mine; A Call in the Night; A Grips with the Head Hunters; Death in the Air; That Christmas Dinner; Pay-Day at Anna Regina. Average wear. Covers present but separated from textblock. Book
250 pages. Alan Fry's signature upon title page. In this irreverent look at backwoods life and politics Wilf Taylor recounts his dealings with zesty bears, inept supervisors, and overzealous hunters. Reveals the human side of a rugged and unforgiving land. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket protected by clear glossy protective cover. Excellent copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 68 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Ad for Mein Kampf, part 2, inside front cover; French Premier Daladier and Admiral Darlan aboard U-boat hunters; 5 photos of French women working in aircraft factories; four photos of Polish sailors fighting with the British Navy; Three photos of night on the British front in France - with gas masks in use; End of another German submarine, the U.39; How the colonial empire of France comes to the aid of France - illustrated article; Newfoundland answers call to arms; With the Finnish army at the front; full-page photo portrait of General Vuillemin, Supreme Commander of the French Air Force; Illustrated centerfold displays the range of Allied and German aerial gun-power; two photos of a downed ME 109; large photo of a downed Dornier 17 afire in a French field; Australian airmen join R.A.F. Coastal Command - working with the Short Sunderland flying boat; Article - U.S. and the War - President Roosevelt issues a warning to Americans; Photo of American bomber over the New York World's Fair; Photo of massive French railway artillery; Training men as stokers for the Royal Navy; New Zealand troops in training at home; A commentary on the war this week; Training men from the ranks as officers; Ad for "I Was Hitler's Maid" inside back cover; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Caribou in the Yukon; Editorial - How to Disarm Citizens; Who's Got the Gat? - J. Warcup Morrison objects to being disarmed by Legislation; A New Look at Archery; Our Battle for Old Man Mose; The Windage Adjustable Rear Sights; The Bloodlust Hunters; How About a Houseboat?; The English Pointer; Rainbow Trout Answers; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Taking Mule Deer Along the Peace River; Reloading is Easy; Winter and the Angler; Make Your Own Line Drier; Western Salmon Come East; The Value of a Good Hunting Dog; Today's Wild Hunters; Smell to Success; South Paw Rifle; Camera Hobby Popularity Expands; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Pacific Peril - British Forces search for two missing Naval Sloops; The Spy Hunters - Vital information reaches the enemy under the very noses of an R.F.C. Scout Squadron; Triplane Trickery - A Spinning Bristol might be a Trap for Tripehounds; Lone Eagle - Transport pilots have their moments; True Story - The Personal Narrative of a Young American who Fought and Flew in Spanish Skies against the latest German and Italian Warplaines in General Franco's Service; True Stories - Flying Tricks and Fighting Tactics of Britain's War-time Aircraft; No. 72 Squadron, R.F.C. - A Gallant Scout Squadron makes R.A.F. history under Mesopotamian skies; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: The Shediac Lobster Festival; Vancouver Playground Traffic School; A Bronze for the Best Bulldogger - Charles Beil, Alberta's cowboy sculptor; Wishing Wells Across Canada; Hamilton for History Hunters; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Beavers - intimate glimpses of a colony in the wilds; Bad Boy - the story of an interesting hawk pet; The Sand Dunes of Indiana; Giants of Hornet Land; The Cruel Vine our Grandmothers Loved - the Cruel Vine or flycatcher; Conservation - solving the bureaucratic jig-saw puzzle; Salmon or Kilowatts - Columbia River Dams threaten great natural resource; Carving the Mountains; Do Natural Enemies destroy more game than hunters?; Admiralty Island's bears; Mr. Darling and Leadership; Shall ducks follow the Dodo?; Meteors as a Hobby. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
26 pages. Features: Diluted Bubbles - a fishing tale; Keep Out! - Does This Mean You? - Farmer/Sportsman relations become more important as hunters increase and land available drops; Nice illustrated at for Bushmaster leather boots by Sisman; A Moose for Harry - Old John Broadhurst turns his attention to Moose; Spinning With a Fly; Senses of Fish - can they smell, taste, touch or feel pain?; Hunting Dogs - you can trust that nose; Clean and Polish your Tackle before Storage; We'll pay tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway A Kind Word for Crows; Trapshooting since 1750; Handling Game Meat; Cartridge Collecting; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
132 pages. Features: The Artwork Collection of the National Anthropological Archives - An American Treasure; Searching the Source - Origins of Indian Painting in the National Anthropological Archives; Hunters of the Hunter's World - Some Reflections on Innu and Inuit Drawings in the National Anthropological Archives; Collecting Lakota Histories - Winter Count Pictographs and texts in the National Anthropological Archives; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 7-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Honours for Victoria man F. A. Lindsay, B.C. Amateur Golf Championship, Mussolini talking war, Canada-US Fishery treaties, B.C. commences hunt for natural gas, Saanich arsonist, hunters attacked by eagles at Bull Harbour, Smuggling of tools suspected for use in construction of stills, and many more; Photo of Royal Oak Burial Park being developed; editorial page; Social pages; Hudson's Bay Company ad; Fred L. Foster comes to B.C.; photo ad for Dodge trucks sold by Begg Motor Co., Limited; Entertainment page; large ad for Daily Colonist amateur Snapshot Competition; David Spencer Limited ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. Bit of writing atop page one. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: The DeGress "Tiffany" Grips; The Breechloaders of James Durell Greene, Part III; An American Confederate Bowie Knife Pistol; The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; America's Fighting Men. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Civil War Prices of Arms, Parts and Appendages; The Dickson-Nelson Co. Rifle; Colt Navy Conversions; The Chasseurs Carbine; Civil War Carbines. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
72 pages. Features: McNelly's Rangers; Three Years' Gamble; River of Gold in the Desert; Deep Ran the Blood in Buffalo; Last of the Invaders; America's Royal Palace; Montana Bill; The Campfire Massacre; Scout for the Apache Hunters; The Bannock and Paiute War of 1878; Story of the Marlow Boys; The Town that Committed Suicide; Death Wore Buckskin and Braids; Land of the Dakotas. Two inch opening at base of cover fold. Magazine
72 pages. Features: The Indians are Coming!; Truly Western; Mercy Express to Dragoon Springs; The Claim Jumpers; I Danced with Belle Starr; Death Messenger of the Indians; Grass-Grown Streets in Sierra Nevada; Ghostly Happenings around Old Fort Washita; Barren Victory of the Stallion Hunters; 100 Hours of Terror; Trails Grow Dim; Where the Mills Turned; Peg Leg; Tumbleweeds. Magazine
Features: Hunters' Tales; A Report to Canadians on Wolves in Quebec - amazing photos; An Old Lady's Stories; Fisherman's Quiz; 1967 Fishing Contest Winners; The Winners' Pictures; Canadian Champion Fish; A New Dog; A Permanent Expo; Canadian Sportsmen's Corner; On Directness of Statement in the Bush; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in heavy weave dark red cloth with gilt print and cover and spine with romanesque drawing on cover and gilt top page ends. Handsome book. Corners are lightly bumped, light scuffing to covers. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 372 pages with 112 ilustrations throughout in b&w with prints and photos. Not a cheap knock-off.
250 pages. Author recounts his dealings with testy bears, inept supervisors, and overzealous hunters. Reveals the spirit of the true backwoods survivors, those who make do with very little and, when necessary, bend the rules to make things work. Told with humour and compassion. Clean and unmarked. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
205 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Black and white illustrations. This book was "conceived in the campfire glow of four big-game hunters in the mountains and forests of British Columbia, and grew slowly over the twenty years they hunted together.... Shares not only the beauty and challenges of this beautiful land, but also the tales they told as they whiled away the fire-lit evening hours of their hunting years - of their youth in the dust-stormed depression years on the Canadian prairies; roding the rods; ice train hauling freight in the frozen north; wartime from the standpoint of an infantry platoon commander and a Navy sub-chaser; the real life of an underground coal and hardrock miner; high lead on big timber logging; commercial fishing on the Pacific, and much more." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Miln Ulrico Hoepli 1905, In-12 cartonnage éditeur. IXV + 344 + 64 pages. 48 illustrations. Mention de 3° édition. Texte en italien. La reliure est trés abimée, des pages présentent quelques taches ou traces de salissures. Mériterait la reliure.
160 pages. Features include: USS Perry; Communist China and the Arab-African area; The Naval Academy of Today and its Mission; Collective Security in the Pacific: 9 years of the ANZUS pact; The US Navy's Hurricane Hunters; The Development of Nuclear Propulsion of the Navy; Bellingshausen Sea Operation; and more. Above-average wear, particularly to spine. Unmarked. Worthy reference copy. Book
249 pages. References. "Brooks was a remarkable Canadian known to few Canadians. Naturalist, artist, soldier, sniper, hunter, scientist, his goals were to excel, his achievements therefore were among the best. English to the core, he was Canadian more than he knew, and home through most of his life was his beloved British Columbia." - from Foreword. Illustrated primarily in black and white with several colour plates. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: In the Belly of the Dragon - a Vancouver team leads the pack in an ancient Chinese challenge; Ellesmere Epiphanies - welcome to the park on the top of the world; Creature Cures - Can a chimpanzee play doctor to fix its own ills?; The Global Village Schoolhouse - a yearbook tribute to the kids who'll make this country work in the multicultural millennium; King of the Comet Hunters - this summer's cosmic smash-up on Jupiter makes amateur comet hunter David Levy a sky-watching star. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Everlasting Oasis - Canadian Archaeologists unearth 200,000 years of human habitation in Egypt's great Western Desert; Beluga Hunters - 'from time immemorial, this has been our life'; Traditions in Wood - hand-carved wildfowl decoys lure a new generation of collectors; Muddy Waters - Lake Winnipeg's rich fisheries and folkways face a stormy future; History's Lessons - a new atlas provides a fascinating vision of Canada and its development; The Daedalus Factor - Space-age materials replace the mythical wax and feathers in today's human-powered vehicles. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
