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68 pages. Features: Treasure hunters' paradise - an Ohio spot; Indian Treasure found; Treasures in the Gulf Coast beaches; How a detector helped after heart surgery; Amateur archaeologists unite; Yukon John's Cascade gold strike; Involvement determines lapidary costs; Rubies discovered in Australia; Don't assume that it's been run - many places in the country are virtually untouched; Detector's life is a four-letter word - how to keep it in working order; Steel traps no important collectible - an unusual relic often overlooked; Two outstanding collecting locations in the El Paso Mountains; Research and the successful treasure hunt - the key to success is to use these basics. Above-average wear. Book
78 pages. Features: a look at some fine young treasure hunters; getting the drift on wood; what to do for an 'overshoot' signal problem; old house reveals forgotten treasure; down in the dumps; testing the Daytona Rangar metal detector; Coral Fever; Helpful hints for the gold rush, 1980; Sapphire, trout, gold and gemstones in Maine; Beware of Cacti; Winter fun areas pay off in summer; Mining for gold rush artifacts in Alaska; storm shooting Above-average wear. Book
62 pages. Features: The Beaverhead Stage stop; Gold finding for the weekend; Good slabbin' means good cabbin' - suggestions for cutting gem rocks; Those Prolific Pops - bottle variety; The Modern Treasure Hunters; The Lost Ferry Boat Treasure - Lake Erie still holds 120 railway cars; History carved in rock - Louisiana rock formations; Are you a successful treasure hunter?; Dig yourself a whet stone; Boy scouts and treasure hunting - Fort Cureton relics; Learn your own soil conditions; Hawaii calls. Somewhat above average wear. Book
62 pages. Features: How to have your own gold rush; coins found at old railroad spur; selenite chrystals on the salt plains; the wonderful world of lost wax - making fine jewelry; Food bottles from the past; Good old Long Island; Looking for Arrowheads? Try Nevada; Better understanding why treasures were buried; Mid-America Treasure hunters; How deep do coins sink?; Treasure hunters turn to 'topo' maps; Searching out clues aids coin, relic hunting - how to be a 'Sherlock Holmes'. Average wear. 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
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
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. 280 pages.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
144 pages. Features: The Terrible Williamsons - this elusive clan preys on suckers; Red Alarm in the Middle East; He Always Says 'We'll Win" - Stanford Coach Chuck Taylor; Hunters Never Had it So Good; Duke of the Disc Dealers; Inside the Asylum - part 4 - psychiatrist at work; The Secret of Shining Brook - part 1 of 8; The Guns of Navarone - part 6 of 8. Short Stories: A Sporting Proposition; The Sensible Type; The Fix is On; Breakup. Ads: Magnavox Videorama - the world's finest television; Beautiful two-page ad for the (orange) 1957 ('57) Chevrolet (Chevy); International TD-24 crawler-dozer; Two-page color ad for International dump trucks; Campbell's Soup; General Electric TVs; Texaco gas stations; Hotpoint TVs; Jell-o; Acme Cowboy Boots; Caterpillar; Hertz - 2-page ad featuring the '57 Chevy; Lifesavers; Browning shotguns; Remington Rand calculators and adding machines; Detroit Diesel - with mining illustration; Eaton Tandem Axles ad features trucker Gerald E. Riddle of Gary, Indiana; Mack Trucks - two color page ad featuring a petroleum well-drilling scene; Hart Schaffner & Marx; Ford Trucks ad mentions Mickey Adley, Clarence Landwig and Clyde Freeman; Color-photo Coke ad on back cover features formally dressed couples. Above-average wear. Moderate moisture exposure. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 70 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: And So To Bed (story); Broadway - Something For Everybody - article with photos; Photo feature of Dani Dior; The Shape of Sports Cars To Come; Give and Take (story); The Big Dame Hunters; Humor '60 - The Abomunist Manifesto; From Mops to Movies - photo feature of Valerie Lagrange; The Brewer's Best; Men's Fashion; The Beauty and the Rupee - a story of success; Day Shift - photo feature of Iris from England; The Cocktail Hour - cartoons; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
124 pages. Features: Peter Whalley's cover illustrations depict the many phases of deer hunting; Editorial laments the 'sickness' of TV giveaway shows; How Iron Man Sir Anthony Eden Made Good; Half-page Wawanesa Insurance ad features photo of 1948 Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott figure skating; Great two-page colour ad for a white on red 1956 Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Four-door hardtop; The New Wonder Drugs That Fight Insanity - photo-illustrated article on Chlorpromazine and reserpine; Buck Crump's Love Affair with the CPR - photo-illustrated article on the rise of Buck Crump from machinist's apprentice to 51-year-old president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR); The Cooney's and their seven adopted children - photo-illustrated article on the family of Lillian and Joe Cooney of Toronto; St. Boniface (Manitoba) is Nobody's Suburb - photo-illustrated article on the largest French-Canadian settlement outside Quebec; Where to buy an ancestor cheap - Ben Ward-Price runs Canada's busiest auction gallery, Ward-Price Ltd. - photo-illustrated article; Uncle Charley's Secret Treasure (short story); The Unconquered warriors of Ohsweken - photo-illustrated article on the Iroquois and their unknown 'republic' in the heart of Ontario; How the Highlanders Took Nova Scotia - they are making the place more Scottish than Scotland - photo-illustrated article; Flashback article on the September 15, 1885 tragic death of Jumbo the elephant at St. Thomas, Ontario; God's Little Fleet - Rev. John Antle and the Columbia Coast Mission visit the raft villages of B.C.'s coastal loggers - nice photo-illustrated article; Two Hunters (arctic short story); Want a Moose in Your Parlor? - photo-illustrated article on taxidermist Clifford McCutcheon and his Oliver Spanner & Co. Ltd. of Toronto; What's Your Day to Shine?; One-page colour-photo ad for NCR (National Cash Register Company) shows lady working adding machine; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria (white on salmon colour); Nice Sylvania TV ad; One-page photo-ad for Ronson lighters; Bright two-page colour ad for the 1956 Dodge Mayfair 4-dr hardtop (black on yellow); Beautiful two-page colour ad for the new 1956 De Soto Fireflite 4-door hardtop (white on blue); Colour Seabreeze ad shows eight of their record players; Rare one-page two-colour illustrated ad for McCulloch chain saws shows lady cutting log; Fantastic One-page illustrated Dunlop Tire ad explains how hero Edward Chipman of the Elmhurst Dairy in Montreal entered a burning home three times to save children on the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation just before Christmas 1954; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features photo of their new Empress of Britain; Molson's Golden ale ad features colour illustration of 'Goldie' the lion playing checkers; Colour ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Admiral TV ad features their 'Regina', 'Manitoba' and 'Collingwood' models; Canadian Wine Institute colour ad features M. Andre Vaucher and Mlle. Micheline Dubois, both of France; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington shows its huge banquet room; Barrett Company ad includes photos of F.E. Shaw, Tim Kier, George Goddard, L.O. Heron and John Hawthorne; Labatt's IPA ale ad includes photo of Toronto crane operator Leo Maltais; Interesting 1/3-page piece on artist Simpkins and his cartoon bear Jasper; Canadian Anecdote - When B.C. Had a Navy; Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows terribly muddy backroad and explains how the state of Kansas has performed major upgrades to its roads; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover has one-inch stain at top; and more. Discrete clear archival-tape repairs to coverfold, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A pleasing vintage copy of this nice issue. 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
18 pages. Features: Poly-Choke full-page illustrated ad; Editorial on the controversy between conservationists and power interests over the use of park lands; Goat Galore! - article including photo of Keith C. Smith, big game artist, with a nice Chilcotin nanny; Vernon's Second Annual Retriever Trials - article with photos of George Douglas, John Ricketts, Bob Carswell, Jim Harvey, Roy Lambert, Fred Hoffman, Jeff Balcombe, and Mr. Laidlaw, photo of Mrs. Bill Edgerton, Mrs. Ella Furrie, Bill Sinser, Mrs. Betty O'Keefe, and Jim Holt, photo of Jim Holt congratulating Charlie Bunker, photo of Oliver Krog with Austin C. Taylor, Photo of Roy Lambert, Photo of Fred Hoffman, and photo of Jim Holt with Cyril Gilbert; Brief article on power decoys; Interior Trap Championship - brief article with photos of Cece Wills, Ken Glagbourne and Gordon Finch, photos of A.S. Baillie, Jr., J. Genier, Johnny Goffinet, and Jim Treadgold; Fantastic centerfold features letter from Alfred H. Schmidt of Portland, Oregon, which describes his month spent with son Gregg in the Kamloops country in June 1955, and around the letter appear five photos taken during their trip, including one of Gregg holding a fish; Pistol Corner - shooting results; Cruise of the Good Ship "Putzy Too" - Henry Furniss and his new 22-foot outboard cruiser; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover entitled "Going Afield" offers tips for hunters; Back cover ad by the B.C. Natural Resources Conservation League entitled "URGENT - A Sportsman's Paradise is Being Destroyed" and goes into detail about a government proposal to clear timber on the shores of Buttle Lake before raising the lake by 19'; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features include: The Tropic Seas for Trochus - author's experience with the hunters of these sea-molluscs; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County - Part I of the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois; Born Lucky; South Sea Solomon - The disastrous tale of a man with big ideas in the South Seas; The Runaway Steamer - The illegal voyage of a New Zealand river-steamer, the Ruawai, from Helensville to Auckland; Amazon Wonderland - author's experiences with Amazonian wildlife; Corporal Garaba's Return - A remarkable story from West Africa; Bushed - Lost in the Australian outback; Magic or Moonshine - A veteran inspector's puzzling stories of 'black magic' in Africa; Giuliano - Bandit Extraordinary; Close-Up - Peacock's Feathers; The Beehive. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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
214 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. "... Deals with the history of the Alaska Boundary from its definition in the Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825 up to 1920 when the main surveys were completed... Balances an account of the purely political issues involved with the stirring first-hand reports of surveyors in the field." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's small name inkstamp upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, bears moderate wear with small chip from and short opening to upper corner of front panel. A quality copy. Book
236 p. Profusely illustrated in color. Small 4to. Original faux leather binding embossed in the style of saddle leather. Front board decorated with a color oval portrait of The Trapper by Charles Deas. Hardbound. Near fine. W9
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
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
