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Exhibition catalog for show at the Asian Centre, U. of B.C. Oct. 30 -- Nov. 7, 2004. Book is in excellent condition with light scuffing to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows very minor wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind (save signatures) . Signed by participating members of the show: Grace Ho, Ricky Kam, Margaret Kwok, Po-Lin Sit, Hing-Wah Tang, Clarisa Tsun, Mathew Wan, Sau-Fong Yip, Judith Fidler, Wai-Kong Kam, Margaret Kwok, Angela Leung, Celia Leung, John Leung, Doreen Tophan, Judy Wan, Ricky Kam. Book is in large format with examples of every artists' work in color prints.
72 pages. Features: Caribbean hostiility to Canada's $600 million of investment in the region - with illustration of Trinidadian riot cop after assaults on Canada's banks; Feature article on "The Middle Canadians" - the people who don't make the news; Rusty Staub - the making of a Muscular Miillionaire - major article with large colour photos; The Great Canadian Peace Festival at Parkhill, Ontario - that never was; Peter Stollery's 2,200 mile bike ride through Central America; Nice colour photo two-page ad for CP Air; The entertainment wall of tomorrow; Film in the high schools; From Men to Fiends at My Lai 4; Why the CBC is phasing out the tv show Bonanza; Nice colour photo Coke ad of beach scene on back cover; and more. Two smallish red marks atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
ill., ril. Maria Lai (1919-2013) è la più internazionale degli artisti nati in Sardegna, celebrata nel 2017 alla Biennale di Venezia e alla più prestigiosa delle rassegne d'arte contemporanea al mondo: la mostra Documenta, nelle due sedi di Atene e Kassel; nel 2018 sarà protagonista di un'importante mostra a palazzo Pitti a Firenze, promossa dagli Uffizi. Il volume ne ripercorre tutti i filoni di ricerca, attraverso opere selezionate presso le raccolte pubbliche ma in gran parte individuate nelle collezioni private internazionali. Gli sviluppi del suo percorso sono accompagnati da numerosi materiali inediti, indispensabili spesso a ricostruire azioni nate per restare effimere, dichiarate dalla storiografia come "primi esperimenti di Arte Relazionale" in ambito europeo. Lai ha infatti capovolto il rapporto fra artista e osservatore, facendo diventare la gente il vero autore dell'opera. È un modo nuovo di pensare e praticare l'arte che non elimina quello canonico, piuttosto gli si accosta e ne amplia il senso.
ill., br. Sul punto di raggiungere il traguardo degli ottant'anni, al culmine di una vita operosissima ma apparentemente incostante, tra lavoro solitario e azioni collettive ai margini del sistema dell'arte, Maria Lai si è imbattuta in un progetto che le era profondamente congeniale: celebrare la civiltà mediterranea dell'olio in un piccolo museo etnografico del territorio laziale, il nascente Museo dell'olio della Sabina nel borgo medievale di Castelnuovo di Farfa. In quel progetto gran parte delle sue ricerche ha trovato compimento, le sue inquietudini intellettuali una sintesi, i suoi temi poetici una valenza universale. E persino la sua vocazione più profonda all'esercizio di una paideia che, nel corso della sua esistenza, aveva declinato nelle forme più varie e originali, dalla fiaba alle performances condivise, al gioco, ha potuto raggiungervi la più libera espressione.
ill., br. Viene presentata, in occasione della mostra presso la Cantina Antichi Poderi di Jerzu, una significativa antologia della produzione artistica dell'artista sarda legata alla tematica dell'arte sacra: presepi, via crucis, ceramiche, tele, etc. Un testo di Micol Forti, curatore della Collezione di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea dei Musei Vaticani ci apre a un mondo ancora tutto da esplorare. Un libro, pubblicato in lingua italiana e in lingua inglese, che non mancherà di suscitare interesse fra gli amanti di questa grande artista italiana.
ill., br. "Quanti palpiti emotivi e quante suggestioni di straordinaria attualità ci trasmettono la ricerca, la produzione artistica di una donna venuta al mondo cento anni fa nel cuore della Sardegna più remota, in un paesino dell'Ogliastra, protagonista di una lunga e originale parabola creativa. Maria Lai. Tenendo per mano il sole sprigiona tutta la forza magnetica di una figura che ha esplorato diverse tendenze e interpretato molteplici linguaggi mantenendo, però, una sua traccia inconfondibile, inimitabile. Dovuta, credo, alla sapienza con cui ha saputo rappresentare e reinventare tradizioni locali, simboli e strumenti di una cultura arcaica e rivolgersi ai contemporanei toccando corde tra le più fragili, in una società oscillante tra l'oblio del passato e l'irresponsabilità verso il futuro. Sono davvero felice sia il MAXXI a presentare la prima grande retrospettiva di Maria Lai. La mostra curata da Bartolomeo Pietromarchi e Luigia Lonardelli - affascinante per ricchezza di semplici materiali, oggetti, colori e tecniche che accendono i nostri sguardi e la nostra immaginazione - con oltre duecento opere esposte, dai lavori degli anni Sessanta fino ai più recenti, si dipana in una densa trama sensoriale e intellettuale. C'è come un filo luminoso che sembra riprendere la stessa tessitura sapiente infusa dall'estro e dalle mani dell'artista nelle varie stagioni del suo cammino. I Telai. I Libri cuciti. I ricami. Le sculture. I tappeti. Le Geografie. Le Fiabe. Maria Lai ci ha lasciato un tesoro di arte intima e universale, con un messaggio ancestrale e globale: ci porta alle radici del rapporto tra umanità e natura, tra identità personale e ritualità collettiva, tra racconto di sé e condivisione di legami con l'altro. È quasi un unico 'album' di parole, immagini, manufatti, atmosfere che non celano una mera testimonianza ma trasmettono un insegnamento: mettere assieme il visibile e l'invisibile, secondo la sua felice definizione del significato più profondo dell'arte. La mostra è ideata e realizzata dal MAXXI con l'Archivio Maria Lai e la Fondazione Stazione dell'Arte, ha il supporto della Fondazione di Sardegna e si avvale della generosa disponibilità di più di trenta tra prestatori e galleristi." (dalla Prefazione di Giovanna Melandri)
326 pages. "This book gives a few reminiscences of my forty years in the Royal Canadian Navy which covers the last two months of World War I, the period between the wars when the RCN was almost eliminated because of lack of funds, and, of course, the whole of World War II. I have also put in a few words about the family background, and at the end of the period after I retired until the present time." - from Introduction. Numerous black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
119 pages. Includes piano music and lyrics to the following 40 songs: My true love hath my heart; Good night; Where shall the lover rest; Willow, willow, willow; Take, o those lips away; No longer mourn for me; Blow, blow thou winter wind; To Lucasta, on going to the wars; If thou would'st ease thine heart; To Althea, from prison; Why so pale and wan; Weep you no more; There by none of Beauty's daughters; Bright star; A stray nymph of Dian; Proud Maisie; Lay a garland on my hearse; A Welsh lullaby; When comes my Gwen; And yet I love her till I die; Love is a bable; Under the greenwood tree; On a time the amorous Silvy; Ye little birds that sit and sing; O never say that I was false of heart; Sleep; Nightfall in winter; Dirge in woods; Grapes; Armida's garden; My heart is like a singing bird; Why art thou slow; To blossoms; Rosaline; Dream pedlary; Why so pale and wan (earlier, unpublished version). Usual library markings. Covers almost detached. Above-average wear. Book
286 pages. Index. Joseph Stalin's prison camps - a survivor's account of the victims he knew. Author was the founder and General Secretary of the Communist Part in Palestine. He, along with thousands of other patriotic Russians, found himself summarily arrested and imprisoned. He spent 21 years in a dozen now notorious prison and labor camps.... Berger is believed to be the highest ranking political figure to emerge alive from Stalin's camps. Because of his steadfast refusal to speak anything but the truth under interrogation, he was repeatedly subjected to both mental and physical torture. More than once he lay close to death. But with indomitable will, he has survived to bear witness to the suffering of innocent people and to point the way toward a saner world." - from dust jacket. Book
pp. xi, 258, (4)[Publisher's catalogue]. Decorated title page. Early pencil ownership of E. A. Wells. Inked ownership. Foxed. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding decorated in black and red. Small loss at top of spine. Worn at extremities. ART 4
Book is in very good condition with faded spine, light scuffing, very slight wear to corners. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket has edge wear, now wrapped in protective cover.
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Centenary of Diocese - the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land was created in 1849; Thelewey-Aza-Yeth - Guy H. Blanchet searches the headwaters of the Thelon River; Committee's Punch Bowl - the little lake at the top of Athabaska Pass, which Simpson named after the Company's London Board, 125 years ago; Frail American Elizabeth Taylor braves the rigours of wilderness travel 60 years ago, just to see how she can take it; Woodland table manners; New York to Nome and Back - in 1920, eight fliers of the United States Air Service flew from New York to Nome and return - photo-illustrated article; Mistassinia Calendar - a year in the life of a Mistassini Indian - photo-illustrated article; HBC and Vancouver's Island - behind the establishment of Vancouver Island as a Crown Colony lay a tense international drama, and a great story of loyalty; Letters Outward 1679-94 - a review of the 11th volume of the Hudson's Bay Record Society; Expeditions to the Arctic - 3rd of 3 instalments listing the various expeditions to the Canadian Arctic from the year 1004 A.D., this part covering the years 1860-1918; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
54 pages including list of references. One in a series of publications written in non-technical terms for the lay reader. Covers the following birds: black oyster catcher, killdeer and semipalmated blovers, black-bellied and golden plovers, surf bird, black and ruddy turnstones, wilson snipe, hudsonian and long-billed curlews, upland plover, spotted sandpiper, wandering tattler, greater and lesser yellow legs, dowitcher and knot, aleutian sandpiper, white-rumped and sharp-tailed sandpipers, sanderling and pectoral sandpipers, re-backed and Baird sandpipers, "Peeps", buff-breasted sandpiper, marbled and hudsonian godwits, avocet and willet, wilson phalarope, read and northern phalaropes. Book
191 pages including index, bibliography and reference notes. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Author contends that in order to understand Chinatown today we must know about its past and the impact of Chinese traditional culture upon it. Explores the myths associated with Chinatown and explains their intent and purpose. In so doing he answers many questions that have long puzzled outsiders: How was Fan Tan Alley created? Are there still underground passages in Chinatown? Who is the God of Tam Kung? What are the tongs? Do the gambling dens still exist? What do the terra cotta animals on the Chinatown Gate represent? Illustrated with over 100 photographs, illustrations and maps. Author is a professor of geography at the University of Victoria and has been the Chairman of the Chinatown Redevelopment Committee since 1979. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1983 in recognition of his distinguished service in the Chinese community. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. This engaging story for children starts near the pulp mill at Powel River, B.C., the unlikely spot where two mother Canada geese make their nests and lay their eggs. Some of the goslings are hatched in an incubator, then end up at a stump ranch where they decide that Crocus the Chinese weed-eating gander is their mother. Unmarked but for gift greetings upon front flyleaf. Light wear to attractively illustrated glossy covers. Book
101 pages including index and glossary. Intended to provide a source of information for the lay person dealing particularly with marine snails, univalves or gastropods which reside between high and low tide on the coast of British Columbia. Covers: The following famillies: acmaeidae, haliotidae, fissurellidae, trochidae, turbinidae, littorinidae, fossaridae, cerithiidae, hipponicaidae, calyptraeidae, naticidae, lamellariidae, trichotropidae, tritonidae, pyramidellidae, eulimaidae, buccinidae, nassariidae, muricidae, purpuridae, columbellidae, olividae, marginellidae, acteonidae, scaphandridae, bullidae, siphonariidae. With many excellent black and white illustrations. Book
84p. Age stained. Early ownership of John A. Clark on title page and front pastedown. 155 mm. Original leather spine over yellow paper covered boards. Original paper label on front board. Extremities worn with slight loss. Boards rubbed and stained. Slight loss at head and tail of spine. Hardbound. Very good. This popular work is attributed to Sallucia Abbott (1801-1886), a school teacher in Maine. AI #13348 (4 entries). Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BOX 8
132 pages. Fiction: Vacation at Home; Co-Hater; The Quarrel; The Star of Double Darkness; Forbidden Valley (part 3 of 7); The Magnificent Phoney (conclusion). Articles: We Like the Foreign-Service Life - Russ and Beatrice Ann Russell; Cities of the World - Buenos Aires - article with nice color photos; How Safe is Your Safe-Deposit Box?; I Pick Littler to Win the Open - great golf article with many photos; Too Much is Our Trouble - we pay millions to store excess food while others are desperately hungry; The Face of America - River Tragedy at downed bridge spanning the Homochitto 15 miles south of Natchez - J.E. Lay tries to save other drivers; The Doodads Women Wear! - Jeweler Sam Kramer of Greenwich Village - article with great photos; The Pooches Never Had it So Good. Ads: Northern Pacific Railway - North Coast Limited with the Vista-Dome; Republic Steel; Color-photo ad for KitchenAid appliances; G.E. Clothes Washers; Campbell's Soup; Buick Roadmaster - nice color-photo ad; Texaco - registered rest rooms; Philco appliances; Great color-photo ad for Sealtest features milkshakes; GM; GE Fridges; *Fantastic* two-page color-photo ad for GMC trucks; Chevrolet; Boeing ad features B-52; Fantastic one-page color ad for Seven-Up (7-up) features ice cream floats; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of White Morot Company salesman William N. Labarre as well as fleet owner Everett Lawrence of New Orleans; Very nice one-page color ad for Viceroy cigarettes features 'Facts About Cigarette Smoking'; Interesting two-page black and white photo ad for GE shows their generators and electric motors being used for experimental farm equipment; Nice color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Marilyn-like lady on bike; Betty Crocker pie crust mix ad on back cover. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Bit of unobtrusive writing at bottom of page 128. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
63 pages. Features: Roz (Rosalind) Russel; The Day a U-2 Crash-Landed in Canada - it lay on frozen Wapawekka Lake in Northern Manitoba 46 days before the Powers incident - two colour photos with text; Bridge's Take-Charge Champion - Eric Murray of Toronto readily admits that he is the best player in the world; How a Bursting Star could change our world - British scientist C.M. Cade is an expert on exploding stars called supernovae; Canada helps Nigeria to learn - John G. Egnatoff of the Saskatchewan Teacher's College; Aping their betters - funny chimp photos; 4 in 1 hat; Three Clowns make a movie - Ten Girls Ago; Interesting centerfold entitled 'Seventh Grade Hop'; Le Hibou - hideout for highbrows - Ottawa's wackiest private club; What do your Dreams Mean?; His vision of peace came true - Pastor of Temple Pastures Mission, Dr. Frank Uhlir envisioned a retreat in the Gatineau Hills; Great colour photo of the H.M.C.S. Oriole at sail; Doug Wright photos of the Indianapolis 500; Ann Corio Brings Back Burlesque - a famous stripper's revue evokes nostalgia; Wives of R.C.A.F.-personnel find home-making in foreign lands takes some getting used to; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
