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No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to top of spine. 141pp. The author describes eighteen hectic months in the life of a professional poacher and his associates who live off the land and the sea.
80 pages. Vintage Vancouver Canucks program for their game against Barry Beck and the New York Rangers on February 3rd, 1985. Cover photo of Barry Beck battling Moe Lemay in front of the Ranger net. Mark's Work Wearhouse ad inside front cover features Stan Smyl with gang of cowboys; AM radio WX 1130 ad features photo of Kay Quinn, Jim Fraser, Greg Douglas, Phil Reimer and Campbell McCubbin; Nice color one-page photo ad for Jantzen clothing featues Cam Neely, Darcy Rota, and lovely Tracey; Article on Reijo Ruotsalainen; Color photo ad for CKNW 980 features Jim Robson and Gary Monahan; BCTV news hour colour one-page ad features Tony Parsons, Norm the weather guy and Bernie Pascal; Individual photos of players on the Canucks and Rangers; Carol Alt describes here marriage to Ron Greschner; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality copy. Book
127 pages. A pictorial history of Vancouver's first 2 decades in the NHL. Photos in colour and black and white. Recounts many noteworthy events and participants. Includes a reference of every player to ever play a regular season or playoff game in a Canuck uniform. Begins with the fascinating history of hockey in Vancouver prior to the NHL's arrival. Very attractive dust jacket features colour montage of Canuck favourites. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected with glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A must-have item for the die-hard Canuck fan! Book
Madrid, Aro Artes Gráficas, 1965, 24,5 x 16,5 cm., cartulina editorial, 59 págs. + 2 hojas. (Ejemplar intonso. Tirada de 500 ejemplares numerados en papel de hilo Guarro).
46 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Bill Maximick - Profile of a Western Artist - one of British Columbia's most respected marine artists; When Whales Were Fair Game - Between 1910 and 1943 Rose Harbour and other whaling stations whaled the Pacific; Amur, Danube & Tees - Three Pioneer West Coast Steamers that carried gold-seekers to the Klondike; Blue-Coated Mounties - The Alberta Provincial Police; Klondike Joe Boyle. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Collana: La Scala, gennaio 1988. Traduzione di Carlo Alberto Corsi. Titolo originale: Razor Game. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
96 pages. Attractive large colour pastedown on front board. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket heavily worn with many tears and chips - now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this charming work. Book
Fine Arabic Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 48 p., richly color and b/w ills. [RETRO GAMES and CONSOLES in ARABIC] Al-hab al-qayed yev wa al-kombuter [= Computer and video games]. Translated into Arabic by Vafa Ashraf. Introduction by Yakoub Mahmoud Ishaq. First an Only Translation into Arabic of 'Computer and video games' by Graham and Watts, printed in 1982 first in London by Usborne Electronics. Not in OCLC. Extremely rare.
76 pages. Features: Cover illustration of an evening scene on Montreal's Des Erables St. shows residents watching baseball game in distant Delorimier Stadium; One-page ad for Sparton TVs; Vintage one-page Bank of Montreal (BMO) ad features family finances; Wedding photos of Meribah Baxter and her husband-to-be, Lieutenant Brian Stark; One-page Holland-America Line ad features photo of their new flagship, the Rotterdam; One-page colour-photo Royal Trust ad features wealthy grandmother with grandson; The Day Canada Went to War - September 10, 1939 - excellent photo-illustrated article; My strange encounter with the world's most mysterious assassin - Terence Robertson's photo-illustrated article on the anonymous killer ('Jacson-Mornard-Mercadcer') of Leon Trotsky, who has been imprisoned in Mexico for 19 years; How TV Writers Get That Way - article on Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth with photos including Julie London and Andy Williams; Portrait of a High School - wonderful photo-illustrated article on Vancouver's King Edward High School; Are the British Better Off Than We Are? - photo-illustrated article; The Tragic Failure of Organized Medicine, by Harry Paikin, M.D.; "My Week In and Out of Modeling Schools' - R.T. Allen's great photo-illustrated article; Attractive colour one-page Black Label beear ad features golden prairie scene looking to the horizon; Northern Electric one-page colour ad features Saskatchewan theme; Canadian National (CN) passenger rail ad features photo of traveler and black porter; One-page Electrohome features their TVs, stereos and furniture; Waterloo County's Great Tombstone Mystery - tombstone of the two young wives of Dr. S. Bean; One-page Caterpillar ad features large aerial colour photo of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting's Flin Flon, Manitoba operation; Colour-photo ad for La Renault Dauphine car; GE Ultravision TV one-page photo ad features a young Robert (Bob) Goulet; Nice Hammond organ ad; Hertz ad on back cover features four photos of a ghastly pink 1959 Chevrolet; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Gorgeous two-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; Nice colour photo ad for 1968 Polaris snowmobiles; Bruce Hutchison's Unknown in Canada; How Laurier Lapierre Stays Famous; Can the Lapierre Generation Make the NDP Win?; Relic Steam-Age Tractors are now the pride of collectors - article with great colour illustration and photos; Clare Graves - the U.S. College Professor and his theory which explains why China is belligerent, why hippies act so cool, and why you're not getting along with your boss or your mate; Fur fashion article with great black and white photos; A Priest and a Psychiatrist reveal how they explore and cope with agonizing depression, self-doubt and disappointment - their own and that of the people they are trying to help; Recipes for Ontario's fall festivals - fruit, game and cheese; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Sony's portable 7" TVs; Does it Pay to Go Bandrupt?; Great two-page colour photo ad for four models of the Ford Torino; The Salmon are back in the Great Lakes! - transplanted Kokanee; There's a New Way to Have A Baby - Psychoprophylaxia; Nice two-page photo ad for Ontario Hydro shows the Pickering Nuclear Generation Station and the Mountain Chute dam under construction, plus a crew loading collant assemblies into the reactor at Douglas Point; Nice full-page photo ad for CKEY/590 features traffic man Bob Carter; Nice colour-photo half-page ad for Ski-Doo; Nice 3/4 page colour photo ad for International small trucks/Travelall; Half-page beautiful colour photo ad for the Chrysler 300 2-door hardtop; Nice two-page colour Chevrolet ad featuring the Camaro, Corvette, Chevy II Nova, Chevelle, and Chevrolet; Beautiful two-page colour photo GM ad features the Cutlass "S" Holiday Coupe, Cutlass Supreme Town Sedan, Delta Custom Holiday Coupe and the Ninety-Eight Luxury Sedan; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, and very numerous plates; original red coarse-grain cloth, upper boards lettered in gilt, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Winram of Aberdeen on front paste-downs.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small label scar on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, mild tape marks on covers else a very good, clean copy.
Book show light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's note at front endpaper. 273 pages with b&w historical photos throughout. Chapters include: Doctor Boals, Garibaldi, Logs and lumber mill, Tales of Tillamook folks, Logging, Schools and kids, airies and cheese, Hunting, game and dogs, Prohibition. Book contains one page laid-in handwritten letter at back from author to Dr. Stevens describing the editorial process through which the book was written. Signed by author on front end paper under note from Stevens family.
Pages 1670-1732 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Zenobia, in "The Blithedale Romance"; Hawthorne's Heroines; My Translatophone (part II of II); The Care of the Voice; The Typical Woman of the New South; Babs the Impossible (continued); Autumn's Queen of Flowers; French Fashions for Autumn; New Gowns for Evening Wear; Fashion Notes; Cut Paper Patterns - a Review; Present Fashions in Glass; News of Women's Clubs; An Autumn Morning; Chafling-Dish Recipes; The Child and its World - part VII - The Child and Money; Home-Made Christmas Gifts; A Game Dinner; and more. Many nice ads int this issue, our favurites including Redfern Corsets and a one-page color ad for Shredded Wheat which features many foods to serve it with; Fantastic back cover Proctor and Gamble ad features "Respect for the Flag" i.e. keeping it clean.. Few library markings. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
353 pages. Index. Many wonderful black and white photographic plates. Gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip still legible. Lacking frontispiece and its tissue guard. Illustration from front board either missing or entirely faded. Writing inside front board. Hinges open. Moisture stains near spine to prelims and first 17 pages. Heavily worn but still a worthy reading copy of this great vintage hunting work. 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
Sin lugar ni año, cartoné original, 19,5 x 14 cm., láminas, 188 págs.+ 2 h.
N.9 della collana, a cura di Sergio Valzania, traduzione di Katia Lysy e Sergio Valzania, pagine avorio in buonissimo stato di conservazione, con illustrazioni a colori nei testi, leggermente ingialliti i tagli, brossura editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata, alone come per adesivo rimosso al posteriore ed usura da scaffalatura. Numero pagine 123 USATO
34 pages. Features: B.C. Federation of Fish & Game Clubs' Convention - article with photo of president Dave Maw of Vancouver and photo of E.L. "Ted" Barsby of Nanaimo, past-president and chairman of the convention; Mailbag; B.C.'s Game Conservation Project Fund; Sea Gulls - G.L. Henderson writes an article about how their numbers should be moderated - with photo of game wardens George Lyons and "Butch" Tyler; Half-page ad for B.C.'s Department of Recreation and Conservation features photo of Minister The Hon. Earle C. Westwood; One-page Crown Zellerback Canada ad with heading "Hunting Not Prohibited Here"; Photos of Ken Hodgson, Charlie Miller, Bert Farr, Charlie Hodgson, Jim Treadgold, Ralph Shaw, Jim Martin, Jim Haslam, and Earl Popham; Seven bighorn sheep released in the Steens Mountain area; Dream House away from home - ideas for hunting cabins; Potential fishing to be had at Stump Lake; One page ad for the split bamboo rods offered by Hardy Brothers and Milwards of England; What is Pollution?; Ontario conducts first Canadian fishing survey; Clay Chips - article with photos of Don Stewart, Jim Couse, Wally Stakowski and Mrs. Grayce Freeman; Three photos and write-up of the pet wolves owned by Indian Agent Wilf Desmarais of Burns Lake, B.C.; Winchester Moves into Canada; Boats - article with photo of Gerry Palmer at the helm of the Belisarius; New outboard drive units; Nice illustrated Lucky Black Label beer ad on back cover shows man in barber's chair; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
xv, 225 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. The ultimate source book on elk and elk hunting from past to present, for the beginner and expert alike. - subtitle. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
Buenos Aires, Edit. Kraft, 1955. Traducción de Lino Novas Calvo. 163 p. 8º. Rústica editorial ilustrada algo deslucida, con algunas arrugas. Buen ejemplar. Edición temprana en español de la narración de Hemingway.
50 pages. Cover photo of Alice Wallace. Fiction: Fishbowl. Articles: Menace of the Abortion Racket - article with photo of Chicago Dr. Nathaniel Schaffner who was charged after the death of his patient, Mrs. Emma Laisure; The Velvet Fog - Photo-illustrated article on crooner Mel Torme; A Veteran Buys a Farm - Great photo-illustrated article on George Stieber, who gave up the controls of a B-29 for a Pennsylvania dairy farm; The Misunderstood Coroner - A.L. Brodie of Chicago; Broadway's Conscience - writer Jimmie Cannon; Can We Win an Atomic War?; Legion Conventions - Times Square revs up for the fun makers coming to town; Peace for Your Aching Head; The Man Who Married the Andrews Sisters - photo-illustrated ad on Lou Levy, who married Maxene but guided the three gals to millions; Their Number's Up - New York numbers game operators can no longer escape jail through tricky bookkeeping; River Pilot - Captain Jesse Hughes and his drawings of the Ohio and Mississippi. Special Features: Seafaring Funny Man; City Room Refugees - Richard Basehart and Don McGuire were newspapermen before becoming hearthrobs; Saturday Afternoon; Stealing the Pennant - great photo-illustrated article on base-stealing in baseball, with photos of Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, Skeeter Newsome, Stan Hack,Lou Boudreau, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Elliot, Ray Lamanno, Don Johnson and Jackie Robinson; Movie of the Month - Variety Girl - with photos of Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, and newcomver DeForest Kelley of later Star Trek fame; Sultry photo of Hazel Brooks; Photos of Billy De Wolfe; Mister Jazz - One-page article with large photo of Louis Armstrong; Gorgeous photo of beauty contest entrant Yvonne De Carlo; Editorial inside back cover features large photos of New York Vets protesting lack of proper housing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and title; blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip mildly sunned (but all lettering entirely legible), backstrip chafed (without material loss) at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. A classic of game fishing literature. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Acuatinta original en colores de mediados del Siglo XIX, dibujada y grabada por Havell, artista norteamericano (1800-1899), 21,5 x 30,5 cm.
34 pages. Features: 1961-1962 Simplified Hunting Regulations and Game Management Maps; Dr. James Hunter explains changes to Game Regulations and predicts hunter success for the fall; Carcass Care - illustrated guide to processing a deer carcass; Clay Chips - article with photos of shooters Doug. Reynolds, Laurie Parkes, Alex Shymkowich, Dick Hornby, and Jim "Reliable" Mathieson; Many nostalgic ads; Two at the Same Time - article on Tyee fishing, with photo of Eric Sismey with Mrs. Elsie Ahlquist and two large Tyee; One-page ad by the Department of Recreation and Conservation entitled "Ready for the Field?" provides six tips - suitable for framing; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book