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Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
Book is in excellent condition, showing very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, a few small tears at edges. Map endpapers.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 255 pages.
pp. x, 333 + Portrait Frontis. Illustrated with maps. Softcover. Bison paperback. Very good. W11
in-8°, 263 pages, illustr. h-t. n., 2 cartes, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [GE-2] Trappeurs et prospecteurs du Grand Nord canadien.
pp. xviii, 190 + Index. Illustrated. Top edge lightly foxed. Softcover. First Bison Book paperback printing. Title continues: "Edited from the original manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale University Library; with a biography of Osborne Russell and maps of his travels while a trapper in the Rocky Mountains by Aubrey L. Haines. Hardbound. Very good. W1
P., Chêne, 2005. Petit in-8 carré, cartonné383 pages illustré par les photographies du film Etat neuf
Light stains on front cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Wrinkle on pasted down endpaper. 6 7/8"w x 8 5/8"h. 56 pages. Black and white illustrations.
266 pages plus fold-out map. The autobiography of a man whose life has spanned the modern history of British Columbia. Takes us from the early days of pioneer life on Saltspring Island, through his boyhood adventures as a hunter and trapper, to his subsequent exploits as an entrepreneur and innovator in several of the West Coast's burgeoning industries. Author's signature upon title page. Erasure to top of half-title page. Moderate wear. Brown staining to lower edge of covers and some pages. Book
Features: Crow's nest (editorial); Counting dolphins - new answers to an important question; Coral landscapes; Germany's scuttled imperial fleet; Chilean seafood oddities; Baffin Island Fjords; Tender Trapper; Do Dolphins think without language?; Chesapeake Bay's Underwater forests. Sound copy. Book
pp. 382, 2 [Publisher's catalog] + Frontis and full page plates. Age stain. Lacks first fly leaf. Rear hinge taped. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full blue publisher's cloth binding, worn with loss on spine. Spine repaired. Boards very fragile. Title continues: "Comprising Wild and Romantic Exploits As a Hunter and Trapper In the Rocky Mountains: Thrilling Adventures and Hair-breadth Escapes Among the Indians and Mexicans; His Daring and Invaluable Services As a Guide To Scouting and Other Parties, etc., etc. With An Account of Various Government Expeditions To the Far West". Hardbound. Fair. W4
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine and light wear to cover. 9 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. 392 pages.
382 p.+ Frontis and full page plates. XLib marks and bookplate of Juniata College. Early oOwnerships of Will Bayner and Leland Wright on first fly leaf. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full publisher's cloth binding. Front board decorated with a drawing of Kit Carson. Library call mark on spine. Title continues: "Comprising Wild and Romantic Exploits As a Hunter and Trapper In the Rocky Mountains: Thrilling Adventures and Hair-breadth Escapes Among the Indians and Mexicans; His Daring and Invaluable Services As a Guide To Scouting and Other Parties, etc., etc. With An Account of Various Government Expeditions To the Far West". Hardbound. Very good. W4
pp. (2), 7-586, (10) [R.S. Rhodes address before the Fourteenth Convention of American Teachers of the Deaf, at Flint, Michigan. The Audiphone the best instrument for conveying sounds to the Deaf and Dumb and Publisher's catalogue] + Numerous full page reproductions from photographs and drawings by H.S. DeLay. Many portraits of Indians. Text drawings. Apparently lacks a frontis plate. Age stain. Pages worn, some margin loss. Browning and brittle. Front inner hinge cracked. Lacks first fly leaf. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original full cloth binding, decorated and lettered in silver. Binding worn and rubbed. Loss at head and tail of spine. Title continues: "An Authentic Record Of A Life Time Of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting And Indian Fighting In The Far West. Copiously Illustrated By H. S. DeLay. And Many Reproductions from Photographs". Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W4
Features: Reprint of scarce book - Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier by Captain John M. Elkins; Apache Tears - Nino Cochise; The Wake of Whiskey Bill; The First War Correspondent, 1846; Treasure rode in the boot; Mysterious trapper Billy Nay; Bill Hickok's girl on the flying trapeze; Alias 'Shooting Star' - a drifter covets a horse; The day the glue pot became a cauldron! - the Seattle fire of 1889; A cavern of gold in New Mexico?; The Army's 'stubborn fact' - the Army mule driver; A hard man to understand - Stephen W. Dorsey; people of the Laramie Plains; Ghost Ferry in Hoodoo Valley - Seneaquoteen Post; Rufus 'Potato' Clark of Denver; Pioneer Child - Nettie Hight Yarbrough; James Case's Last Frontier. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Warm Weather Ne'er-do-wells; Get Up, Mule... Please!; Gold Cache at Cedar Hill; End of a Madman's Trail; The Price Was Right; Two Sides of the Green Boys; Battle of the Beard; Trapper Man; From No-Account to Plain Mean; Old Fort Robidoux; Stub's Express; A Different Kind of Race; Deaf Smith Versus Santa Anna; Night of Terror; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
266 p. Illustrated with numerous full page photographs. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Slightly chipped. First Edition. The bibliography of Arthur H. Clark publications ('An Americana Century' #279) states that there were 2000 copies produced, but only 1006 were bound. Number VII in the "Western Frontiermen Series." First Edition. William Frank "Doc" Carver (1851-1927) was probaly the greatest sharpshooter in an era of intense shooting competion. He was also the creator of the famous 'diving horse' attraction in Atlantic City; as well as one of the founders of the Wild West Shows. An excellent book about a remarkable man. W5
64 pages. Features: Cover photo Nome, Alaska resident Alfred Nakak; The Anik Satellite - a hard re-entry; Multitude of strikes at the Canadian Post Office; British Columbia's Mediation Act and Labour; Stuart (Stu) Griffiths of Bushnell Communications; Chicago - Turning Against the Gangs; Richard L. Barkley - the respectable rioter; Middle East - Between Hope and Menace; Nigeria - The Unconquerable Ibos; Alaska - The Great Land of Boom or Doom - article with six pages of great color photos; The Vanishing World of trapper Joe Delia; Review of movie "Joe" starring Peter Boyle; Passing of Dr. Eric Berne, George V. Allen, John J. Anthony, Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves and L. Wolf Gilbert; Kirk Kerkorian's Cold Streak; VD - a national emergency; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features include: A Matter of Magic - a battle of wits between a white man and an East African witch-doctor; Hill Section - a 115 mile section of railway linking Northern and Southern Assam; The Amateur Elephant Hunter; The Lead-Dog's Warning - Told by a Canadian trapper, illustrates the perils awaiting dwellers of the far north; The Captain's Mutiny - Captain Arnas Loivikas in 1931; The Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 3); Philo's Dream - an amazing affair in a tribal village in Papua; Monkey Business - A Moroccan Story; Spawn of Evil - A wild stallion the author endeavoured to break; Memorable Voyage - A South African Story; Pennies for Fools - The Australian Prospector; Four Shark's Teeth; Chasing Red Sea Smugglers - a breezy account of a decidedly interesting job; Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to covers. Contents good. Name atop back cover. Magazine
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
88 pages. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Theriau was "Once almost a legend in the North because of his ability to survive in solitude while tending unusually long traplines." - from Introduction. Undated but appears to be circa 1978. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. A worthy copy. Book
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
58 pages. A wonderful vintage copy of this popular and long-running Canadian farming publication. Great cover illustration of cowby at work. Super back cover colour photo ad for the Minneapolis-Moline Power Equipment company includes 8 photos of their products at work. Features of contents include: Nice tribute to the Royal Canadian Navy by Crucible Steel Company of America; Activities of co-operatives in British Columbia; War News Updates, including cartoon of Stalin and Allied Soldier cracking swastika in nutcracker; Photo-illustrated article on the Coyote "The Yapping Yodler" - the crafty animal which thrives with settlement and is increasing in number; Peace River Co-operative Seed Growers are outgrowing their facilities and are ripe for Expansion; Research boosts Bacon Quality; Square All Round - a trapper story by Paul Annixter; Dairy Farmers of Canad Meet at Regina to Discuss the Postwar Situation - result is increased subsidies; The Farm Goes to the University - farm week at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon; Overnight Guest, a story by Ben Ames Williams; A Dutchman in the Red River Valley - A. A. Verheul - with photos; Great full-page ad by International Harvester with image of farmer and tractor in the background; John Deere tractor photo ad; Monthly Commentary by United Grain Growers Limited; The Countrywoman - the U.F.W.A. Meeting; Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting; Planning the farm house - article; plus much more. Address label on front cover, otherwise unmarked. Modest external wear. Binding tight. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover art by Fenwick Lansdowne; Nice colour ad for GWG inside front cover features casual fashions for ladies; Tim Buck's Future; The Bankruptcy of George H. Ridout's Ontario real estate empire; Will Maggie Muggins be Canada's next movie star?; Bruce Hutchison argues 'We're Being Corrupted By Our Boom'; One-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada features Forester Ken Mulholland; Diary of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke pictures Churchill as a happy genius without judgement; One-page Chevrolet ad features pink 1957 Chevy coupe with white roof; Is B.C.'s fanfare for Wenner-Gren another false alarm? - he has an Olympian plan to develop the B.C. Trench - photo-illustrated article; Siobhan McKenna and the Statford Festival - photo-illustrated article; Fenwick Lansdowne and his Unbelievable Bird Paintings; How the Russians are trained to hate the west - interesting photo-illustrated cold war-era article explains that the Russian people are not fooled by their state propaganda; The Wonderland of Louis B. Mayer (conclusion) - fantastic photo-illustrated article explains how the thirties were a bonanza for this Canadian star-maker who made Garbo talk, discovered Judy Garland and hit the jackpot with 'Gone With the Wind'; Was Our Biggest Historical Find Our Biggest Hoax? - awful suspicion that Viking relics 'found' in Northern Ontario and proudly displayed in our largest museum are probably fake - fascinating photo-illustrated article about relics 'found' by James Dodd and Fletcher Gill in 1930 on a Beardsmore, Ontario mining claim; Why the (Toronto Maple Leafs) Kid Line became a legend - sensational photo-illustrated article - part IV of the story of the Conachers; Will the nickel book make a new man of Manitoba? - Trapper Walter Johnson staked the Moak Lake area then sold his secret for a fortune - photo-illustrated article; Fantastic one-page colour Meteor car ad features yellow and black car with white roof, plus endorsement by Ed Sullivan, whose photo appears in lower left corner; Sensational colour two-page Meteor car ad includes illustrations of sixteen cars!; Black Label Beer ad features 'Mabel'; When Louis Mayer sang to Jeanneatte Macdonald; Nice one-page colour ad for 1957 Chrysler cars features a red Windsor 2-door hardtop (with white roof); How Pal became Lassie and how Elizabeth Taylor started on a fast climb to stardom; Colour ad for Jello-O orange instant pudding; Colour centrefold ad for Simmons mattresses; McCulloch chainsaw ad features the Model 39; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the living room of the J.L. Silverman home in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Wonderful one-page colour ad for the 1957 Monarch Turnpike Cruiser car features their new dual-curve windshield; Nice colour ad for Dow ale; Max (Rawhide) Ferguson describes his most memorable meal; Baby photo of footballer Normie Kwong; Nice one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features white car in front of fashionable city location; Colour ad for Molson Golden Ale; 1957 Dodge ad inside back cover features yellow car with white trim and roof; Coke ad on back cover features Hawaiian get-together; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "The White Brother of the Sheik" - Part I - W.B. Seabrook's strange experiences among the nomad Bedouins - the Brethren of the Black Tents - and the weird sects of the Whirling and Howling Dervishes, all on his way to meet Mitkhal Pasha El Fayiz, Sheik of Sheiks of the Beni Sakhr - with photos; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part II - C.V. Warren describes a tea-planter's life in Ceylon; The Blank Space on the Map - A district officer ventures into the unexplored interior of British New Guinea; A Trip to Eskimo-Land - C.V. Tench had a memorable summer vacation steaming 2,000 miles from Waterways, Alberta to Aklavik in the Arctic Circle - with many nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II - The continued amusing account of John Gibbons' tramp from the coast of France to Lourdes; Captured by the Liquor-Pirates - A British ship is seized and its entire cargo stolen by American prohibition-era thugs; In Search of a "Missing Link" - A trip to the Republic of Dominica to observe the world's rarest animal, a strange beast called the Solenodon Paradoxus The Strangest House in the World - "Spirit Home", built by Sarah L. Winchester in the Santa Clara Valley of California - with photos; Mistaken Identity - A Canadian trapper in the Rockies has an unpleasant ordeal; Recalled to Life - Certain castes of Hindus firmly believe that the wandering priests known as Yogis have uncanny powers in connection with snakes which can even restore the dead to life!; Sandy Haggett's Secret Mine - Seeking to retire from the strenuous goldfields to the life of a storekeeper, the author and his brother are soon enmeshed in a puzzling affair. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
