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18 page board book. On the way to Bethlehem along the dusty road, a little donkey carries a very special load. For ages 1 to 3. Delightful rendition of the Christmas story. Wear to top corner of last board. Book
20 page magazine. 9 x 6". Reproductions of black and white photos. A monthly publication intended as a medium of information concerning the Jews, Israel and the work of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. Features: Salutation by Daniel Fuchs; Q & A; Jewish News; Incidents from the Field; The Story of a Retired Missionary; Passover Banquet in the Twin Cities; Messianic Youth Fellowship Goes All Out for Jesus; Israel in the Spotlight - Chapter 13; Includes nice photo of the Breslaw family; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 129-192. Black and white illustrations. Recommended for use in the public school libraries of British Columbia. Chapters include: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle; Soldiers' Stories of Neuve Chapelle; The Dardanelles; How We Failed at "The Narrows"; The Story of Hill 60; The Poisonous Cloud. Undated but presumably printed circa 1920. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 65-128. Numerous black and white illustrations and maps. Recommended for use in the public school libraries of British Columbia. Chapters include: Winter fighting in Champagne, the Argonne, and the Vosges; The Submarine Blockade Begins; The Sinking of the "Lusitania"; Stories of Submarines; More Stories of Submarine Warfare; Winter Fighting in Poland and East Prussia; A Battle of the Middle Ages; The Fall of Przemysl; Stories from Eastern Battlefields. Undated but presumably printed circa 1920. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
Edge wear and fraying to dark blue cloth cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 258 pages. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Previous owner's name inside.
46p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Stamped ownership of Mrs. Frank T. Griswold. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Original floral pattern slip case, with small loss at top and bottom. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Seventh Edition. Nice copy. PRESS/W39x2
pp. xix, 42. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Tall 32mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps decorated in red and brown. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
55 pages. Black and white illustrations. Articles include: A Photo Voyage Around the Charlottes; Seabirds on the Charlottes - Thumps and Grunts in the Night; The Story of the Ninstints; The Haida - an outline of early contacts with Europeans; Captain Dixon on the Coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1789; Notes on a Haida Text -1; Early Years in Masset, 1909-1915; Hudson's Bay Company Post at Masset Queen Charlotte Islands 1869-1898; The Sandspit Saga; The One Room School of Yesteryear; A Few Adventurous Years; The Last Trip of the Gas Boad 'Mabel'; Memories of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198 pages including bibliography. Subject came to Canada from England in 1908. From his early days as a junior engineer in England, through his work as one of the founders and then president of the Dominion Construction Company, Charles Bentall was devoted to serving his adopted city of Vancouver through his business endeavours and his church and community activities. When he died in 1974 at the age of 92, he left behind a successful company with an unequalled reputation for reliability, service and workmanship. Published to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Dominion Construction Company. The story of a rare man who was truly successful in life, by any measure. Business card of Donald Graham of the Bentall Group paper clipped to front free endpaper. Clean, bright and unmarked. Tight and square. Excellent copy in giftable condition. Book
234 pages. A remarkable novel, a story of savage and powerful impact, an exploration of the dark recesses of the human mind and soul. Tight and square with light wear. Clean and unmarked. Pages yellowed. Nice copy. Book
240p. Illustrations by Edith Allard. 8vo. Penguin Paperback. Nice copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W69
188 pages plus index. "The centennial history of an immigrant family, telling how it settled into the Canada of the 1880s and the way it was able to contribute to the development of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. An entrancing account, written with humor and insight, about a very full century in Canada's important Okanagan region." - from back cover. Prior owner's details inside front cover. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
115 pages. Index. Bibliography. Presents "the failures and minor triumphs of the Canadian penal reformists.... It behooves us... to ask ourselves why the Canadian story of penalogy is as it is - and why in this year A.D. 1946 a John Kidman is required to advocate measures and reforms so transparently necessary." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket nicely preserved in Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
206 pages including index. An operational and geographical study of the Canadian National and its equipment from its formation in 1919 through 1975. Told with knowledgeable text and over 400 fine black and white photos, maps and equipment rosters, enough to thrill and delight the hearts of al railroaders and railroad fans. Light wear to clean unmarked book. Dust jacket is price-clipped, moderately worn and bears several small tears each under one quarter inch in length. Very nice copy. Book
Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
Features: What Canadians don't like about each other; Wives who live with fear - some men aren't happy unless they're risking their lves... but for their wives, it's a different story - Monique Ouellet, Sheila Roberts, Beverly Lancaster, Krysia Reid, Lana Dodds, Annie Vallis, Margaret Ion; My name is Rosemary Radcliffe - and I'm not making faces just for the fun of it; Bill Cole will jump off the highest building in Canada for $20,000; When you see the same movie 1,045 times - Projectionists Sam Bowes and Wally Brown will miss "2001- A Space Odyssey" when it moves on from Toronto's Glendale Cinerama; The Problems of Being Establishment - if you're one of Nova Scotia's Olands, you're 'expected' to make beer - The Oland Family; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A quality copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the national congress of Chambers of Commerce in Montreal, August 1903 - with article by Ernest H. Cooper; The Threshing of the Grain - article by W.H. Belford with wonderful photos; Canadian Celebrity - Hon. Clifford Sifton; Two Lost British Columbia Towns - Douglas and Seymour; Roman, Greek, English and American Conceptions of Liberty; The British Embassy at Washington - article with photo; The War of 1812 - tenth instalment; The Pensionnaires, by Albert R. Carman - continued; Beneath the Dog's Fang - a Story of the Jacobites; Kingdom's "Break-in-Two", by J.W. Fuller; Current Events Abroad, by John A. Ewan; Woman's Sphere - edited by M. MacLean Helliwell; People and Affairs; Wonderful reproduction of a curling photo taken in 1872 on the Don River; List of contents of Volume XXI of this publication, May through October 1903. Many pages of amazing nostalgic Canadian ads, including photos ads for several private schools. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover and backstrip missing. Back hinge taped in place. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
188 pages including index and suggested reading list. Recounts the story of labour from the mid-19th century to the present day. A masterful overview that encoumpasses all regions of the country, the book paints a vivid portrait of labour's varied past, covering the birth of craft unionism before the turn of the century, the growth of industrial unionism prior to World War I, the setbacks of the interwar years, and the post-World War II breakthrough that gave unions a permanent, if still constrained, place in the nation's economy. Significant ink underlining and highlighting. Average wear overall and moderate yellowing to pages. Binding intact. Book
20 pages. Features: The Day the H-Bombs Fell on Spain - the frightening inside story of history's biggest and most fateful bomb-hunt; Canada Will Break with the Crown by 1980 and Become a Republic; Inside the New Russia - article with photos; Educational TV - Does it Work?; Uncommone one-page colour-photo Canada Dry ad features photo of Canada Dry Table Water on gold-trimmed red pillow specially prepared "in honour of Royal and State Visitors to Canada" since 1939; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Unpaginated. Wonderful detailed drawings throughout. No text. Allows child readers to make up their own story as they go. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear to blue illustrated boards. One inch tear at top of spine. ISBN number partial worn from back board. Book
Unpaginated. Illustrated hockey story for young readers. From the Bungalo Books series. Zero wear or markings. Super copy in glossy illustrated covers. Book
235 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Average wear externally. Contents clean. Binding sound. Solid copy. Book
1st Fontana edition. 12mo, 191 pages, not illustrated. Good condition paperback, hinges repaired, light creasing to the covers. 39439. eng
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.