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24 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: Vintage ad for B.C. Tel's mobile radiotelephone service inside front cover; Kwakiutl Art - B.C.'s Unique Heritage; Emergency Road Service; Small ad for Canadian Pacific's ferry service from Vancouver to Nanaimo on the 'Princess of Vancouver'; Nice one-page photo-illustrated ad for 1965 Chrysler cars including the Signet (convertible), Barracuda, Custom 200, and Custom 100; Fifty Years Ago; Horne Lake's Wonder Caves; Small ad for the Empress Hotel; Photo of the B.C.A.A. office in New Westminster; Travel Tips; Nice colour-photo back cover ad for the 1964 Datsum 'Cedric'; Bonus B.C. native art articles from other publications laid-in. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked copy. Previous owner's label inside.
8vo. Pp. 477, 32 pls. of photos, 86 figs., 14 tabs., bibl., index. Orig. boards in dust-jacket. Small stain on top edges, very good otherwise.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, and folding table and very large folding map (both on japon); original pictorial wrappers printed in green and brown, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, and a very large folding map on japon; original pictorial wrappers printed in green and brown, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
With 28 illustrations. Fading to covers on spine and top edges. Wear to cover corners and spine bumped top/tail. Light browning/foxing to half-title and following pages.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Small 4to. (26 x 19 cm). In Turkish and English. 87 p., color ills., and 1 folding map. Turkish caves.= Türkiye magaralari.
Haroun Tazieff was a member of the exploration team of the caves at Gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin in the Pyrenees at the border between France and Spain, the deepest cave of the World. He was a volcanologist, geologist, photographer, scientific writer and film director Text in French. Gilt title on spine and illustration on front cover. Has clear wrapper with the title; tear to top of cover and loss at lower back edge.
Large-format staple-bound publication with content and advertising about such topics as legal rights, prisons, education, farming, outdoor living, caves of Washington, floating homes, the geoduck, skid road, dome plans, "Is non-sexist pornography possible?" and more from the halcyon hippie days of 1971. 62 pages.11"w x 15 1/2"h.
8vo. Pp. 220, several pls. and text illus. (some fold.), refs. Orig. cloth.
112 p. + Portrait Frontis of the Alpine Club, one gentleman with a crutch, and full page plates with original tissue guards. Front inner hinge cracked. Paper fault on margin of page 15. Old newspaper stain on pages 12 and 13. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. 230 mm. Original full gray cloth binding, soiled. Beveled edges. Front board in silver and black with designs of mountain and falls. Embossed lettering in gilt gold. Extremities bumped and worn. Presented by the author to Capt. O.C. Applegate, May 28, 1899. First edition. Steel's aim in writing this work was to provide descriptions of Mount Hood and Crater Lake. He calls the latter 'one of the grandest points of interest on earth. Here all the ingenuity of nature seems to have been exerted to the fullest capacity, to build one grand, awe-inspiring temple'. Also contains details of the formation and constitution of the Oregon Alpine Club, predecessor of the Mazamas, together with short biographies of its first three presidents. At the end is an Oregon bibliography. ACLC p. 298; NLS M500; Neate S160; Perret 4141. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W10
Small guide book ro the Perama Caves near to Ioannina , Epirus. 23p. text +32p illus (b & w /col] map [Only 2 copies in WorldCat for the USA] Book
Light foxing to a few pages. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slightly marked covers and no bumping to corners. 28pp. Front pull-out map of the Cavern taken from the 1934 survey. Rear pull-out logarithmic chart of world evolution showing events through time. Both pull-outs in excellent condition.
Octavo in stapled white illus wraps; 47 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Uncommon. Numerous worthwhile b/w photos. Covers the first and second expeditions. || Caves -- Virginia. Speleology -- Virginia. Endless Caverns (Va.); Subterraneana
The 1971 edition of the annual publication of NOTG. Each issue contains beautiful illustrations of the country and it's rreasures.This issue has feature articles on"The Caves of Greece"[pages 131-135] and "Greek Popular Art" [pages 135-143] Book
1st edition. VG pbk. Stickers pasted down. (Nature Program). 15059. eng
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Bumping to top of spine. ; Contents: The North Cave and courtyard; South Cave complex; Description of Plates; Chronology of South Cave Complex; Nabataean Sculpture; Derivation of the Rock-Cutting at Petra; Appendix I. Games; Appendix 2. List of Plants. 41 Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Published by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch
Features: Montreal's theatrical Cirque du Soleil is taking the world by storm; The Lessons of Monteverde - Canadian funds, and grass roots initiative, provide a blueprint for the preservation of the world's rain forests; Caves of Mystery - A team of Canadians seeks adventure in - and beneath - one of China's most celebrated landscapes; A Matter of Taste - Niagara vintners confront an unsavoury past; The Illustrated Bird - A land of winged resources, Canada has attracted and produced some of the world's best avifaunal artists; Boneyard Enigma - Archaeologists in Alberta ponder the riddles of North America's oldest and largest buffalo jump. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: the Garden of Wonders at Montreal's LaFontaine Park; Tiny Chapel in the badlands near Drumheller; Saint John County Court House remarkable stairway - no posts; Stalactites in Ontario - the Bonnechere Caves; The West's First Post Office - on Winnipeg's Higgins Ave; Little Lake Manitou, Saskatchewan; Acadian heritage; Buddies on the Border - the New Brunswick/Maine border; Land of Monsters -Okanagan's Ogopogo; Little Britches Dude Ranch at Patricia, Alberta; Car Maintenance points to check. Small piece missing from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Hiking and Camping Forum; Canada's Quetico Park; San Nicolas - The Passing Island; The Golden Bird - the Yellow Warbler; Ice Caves amid Lava Beds - near Winona, Arizona; The Truth about Cloudbursts; Celia Thaxter - Poet of Nature; Birds lead Hazardous lives; Grass Bouquets; A Valiant Lance Bearer; Tracking Microcosmic Giants; Conservation - tests for hunting licenses; The Truth about the Black Bear; Duck 'Abundance'; Save Yosemite Sugar Pines; Vermin Hunts; Leopold on Waterfowl; Hercules - the Giant Sky-Figure. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Stories: El Dorado of the Fogs; Forbidden Territory; The Man Who Didn't Understand Pictures; The Haunted Woman; The Great Idea; The Old Gent Gets Tough; The People of the Caves; The Wooden Horsemen; When the Rain Came; Hunting the Giant Octopus; Dennis; Delayed Action; Fourteen Days. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
Stories: Canada's Radium Rush; Del Fut Bol; Floating to Freedom; Loosewallah; Into the Unknown Triangle - Part 2 of 2 - Captain F. Kingdon-Ward and Lord Cranbrook travel to Burma to explore the Upper Irrawaddy and collect rare botanical speciments - article with eight photos; Dangling in Space; Lions with a Vengeance; The Tiger that Forgot Itself; The Dingo-Trap; Cycling to Eldorado; My Tragic Honeymoon; The Keeper of the Crocodiles; What Happened in the Bat Caves; The Mountain of Gold. Average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
72 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
