Laing, Hamilton M.MareMagnum
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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
Signed and inscribed by Mel Fisher [1922-1998] and his wife, Deo [Delores] Fisher [1936-2009], upon half-title page. x, 246 pages. 8vo. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "In 1622 the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank off the Florida Keys on its way from Havana to Spain. Since then men have dreamed of salvaging her treasure of gold and silver, now estimated at $140 million. For more than three centuries, however, their dreams have ended in bitter, often tragic, failure. In the 1960s Mel Fisher committed his life to this search and his story has become a fascinating part of the Atocha saga." - dust jacket. Six years after publication Fisher actually discovered the wreck, and its 40 tons of precious metals, on July 20, 1985. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 234 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Laing "was a long lived, widely published, notable Canadian naturalist. His love was birds but his writing and his collecting expeditions ranged further... After living around North America he settled in the bird paradise of Comox, BC. This biography explores a man and a philosophy of conservation that insisted the naturalist be a good man with a gun." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 207pp. The insider's guide to interviews, counselling, psychometrics, networking, head hunters, applications, assessment in employment and work.
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Christmas Holyday; Hunters on Sea Ice - photo study; Tyrrell of Canada - Great photo-illustrated article on Joseph Burr Tyrrell, distinguished mining engineer, now in his 95th year, knew the West before the railway came, and was the first white man in many parts of the North; England on the Prairies - the people of Cannington Manor tried to bring a bit of their English life to the Saskatchewan prairies - article with photos; The Indian - today and yesterday - interesting photo-illustrated article; With Sir William Butler on the Omineca; Clarence Tillenius provides a study of animal tracks; How a Chipewyan squaw arranged a treaty between warring tribes, which led to the foundation of Churchill, Manitoba; Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper Retires; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Life - A Million Miracles; Mailbag; Photo of Earle C. Westwood, Minister of Recreation & Conservation; Announcement of Chilliwack Steelhead Derby; Plastic Aids for Fishermen - second in a series about plastics, their properties and their use in the outdoors; Clay Chips; Centrefold map of the Englishman River, including small photo and some text; Basic Fishing Knots; New World Record - photo of Heinz Wichmann of Terrace, B.C., and his 92-lb Tyee!; Ahead of the Game - how to prepare your trophies; Do You See Red? - vision issues for hunters; Nice back cover Old Vienna ad features photo of B.C. hunter with huge moose he just bagged; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
26 pages. Features: Brown Trout - illustrations with brief history of it's history in B.C.; Net Finesse Nets Results; The Honkers of Hungry Valley - hunting Canada Geese; One-page ad for Imperial Shotshells - the best you can buy; Pioneer Brand outerwear ad; B.S.A. gun ad; Ask (for permission to hunt) - It's Only Good Manners; Husqvarna Rifle ad; Hunters Welcome?; Hunters - Don't Kill Your Heart - heart attack precautions; Fantastic one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Ridge Runner (mini-bike) made by Cascadian Mfg. Co. of Vancouver; Guns and Shooting; Vancouver Angling & Game Assoc. News, with photo of George Walker; Winter storage of your outboard; Illustrated info. about the Ruffed Grouse and Blue Grouse; Many more nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. 280 pages.
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
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: 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
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
64 pages. Features: Sidney Katz reports on the RCMP's controversial spy hunters - the S&I men of the Directorate of Security and Intelligence - includes great photo of Commissioner C.W. Harvison with Assistant Commissioner J.R. W. Bordeleau; A cool look at the hot race into space - many rocket photos; Austin Clark - a Black Man - talks about Race Prejudice in White Canada; What Americans really think about us; Life in Eaton's Catalogue, or, How I wrestled my Uncle Ernest in my medium-weight thermal underwear, by Peter N. Allison; Farmer A.A. Kingscote's article complaining about how hunters cause annual problems; Pierre Berton on the grave flaws in private medicare. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Nice Ganong's ad inside front cover; Impressive two-colour full-page ad for General Motors of Canada shows photos of their major Canadian facilities and provides details of their sizes and dates; Nostalgic General Electric full-page colour ad presents 6 of their appliances as possible Christmas gifts; Look What We've Done to Christmas - examines how Canadians spend more on drink than on charity, and pile on debt during the Christmas season; Karsh's Edmonton - The Threshold of the Frontier - Six pages of photos; Sir Giles and the Knightfighter - story by Jacob Hay, illustrated by Len Norris; King of the Crazy Marathons - a flashback to Torchy Peden of B.C. who made twenty-thousand dollars a year racng his bicycle; Please! No More Office Parties - humor by Robert Thomas Allen - illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Ten Worst Mistakes Parents Make; The Inspired Doodles of Norman McLaren - a specialist in gentle violence - article with photos; The Mystery of the Mighty Buffalo - Was it really gun-crazy hunters who wiped out the Buffalo?; Bold and colourful General Motors centerfold ad promotes their range of brands; Photo of David Niven in Labatt beer ad; Magnificent Coke Christmas ad on back cover features smiling Santa at top with two youngsters opening presents below. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A very nice copy. Book
Features: Nova Scotia's Special Place - A tiny section of the Tusket Valley is home to some of Canada's rarest plants; Are Hunters an Endangered Species? - as wildlife and wilderness disappear, our attitudes are changing; Beached Belugas are helping scientists build a damning case against chemical pollution; Do Birders Help or Hinder?. Average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. Sound reference 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
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
Pages 433-472. Features: From Chorus Girl to Star - Being the Real Life Story of Gwen Rae (part one); Big Fights with Nature Number Ten - Lighting the Coasts - with great photos of lighthouse construction; "Weather Permitting" - a football article with photo of Newcastle v. Bradford City game which was stopped by the awful blizzard of January 11th; Nameless Island - The Thing in the Pool, another adventure of the Specimen Hunters; Land of Luck - article Number Four - Fire-Fighting in Canada - describes the terrible danger of forest fires, and tells how they are fought, with photos; Jerry Gray - Soldier, a Clockmaker's Romance; The Shadow - A Tale of Mystery (part one); When Greek Meets Greek - a Sexton Blake adventure. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
This special issue most notable for its article beginning on page 238 which introduces hemp as a new billion dollar cash crop for American farmers. Pages: 161-320 plus 128 pages of great vintage ads. Other features include: The Lockheed Electra - Flying Wing of the Future (with cover illustration); Chemistry and You - Part 3; The Rough Road to Glory; The Toy That Grew Up; Hunting Oil with Earthquakes; Short Waves Rule the Seas; Shoot When They Don't Expect It; The Puzzle of the Ice Ages; Game Wardens with Wings; Adventures of the Hurricane Hunters; The Hit and Run Fleet. Advertising page 113A is a fantastic one-page black and white photo ad for Harley Davidson motorcycles entitled "You Can't Beat Fun". Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A worthy copy of this historic vintage issue. 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
