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22 pages. List of references. "Between 1883 and 1980 various facilities and methods were used to cross the river at Medicine Hat. This work is a compilation of relevant excerpts from books, newspapers, research of historians and personal memoirs." - from title page. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Undated. Possibly circa 1960s. Moderate wear. Unused. Clearly illustrates Nanaimo's downtown waterfront in the days before the Cameron Island Development, the Departure Bay Ferry Terminal, the Coast Bastion Hotel, and much more. 5.5" wide by 3.5" high. Book
pp. xii, 271 + Plates. Text illustrations by Constance Enslow. Sm. 4to. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. First Edition. NAVAL BOX 2
432 pages including index. All towns and highways described in detail mile-by-mile. Accommodations. Campgrounds. Emergency Services. Ferry Information. City maps. Alaska Railroad. Local History. What to see and do. Underlining and marginalia upon several pages. Very light wear. Attractive colour glossy covers. Please note: fold-out map not included. Book
Measures 18"x12". Circa early 1950s. Shows existing and proposed ferry routes. Includes photos of the MV. Chinook and the MV. Kahloke, plus photos of local scenic attractions and related write-ups. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice collectible. Map
248 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. More than seventy black and white photos. "The first authentic account of the romantic rise to fame and ultimate disbandment of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the little-known Ferry Pilot service of the (second world) war. Starting with 30 amateur pilots, its numbers finally totalled over 700 who, between 1939 and 1945, ferried more than 308,000 aircraft of more than a hundred different types from the factories to the Royal Air Force." - dust jacket. Appendices include: Special Commendations; Honours List; List of A.T.A. Pilots Who Actually Ferried Aircraft at Pools; Ferrying Figures; Lists of All Types of Aircraft Ferried. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival Brodart, which is missing large chunk from top of backstrip, affecting front and back panels. Bonus: Laid-in is A.T.A. Association Newsletter No. VIII from 1955 which runs 16 pages, including a seven-page list of current members. Also, laid inside this newsletter is an obituary news clipping of the A.T.A.'s wartime second in command, Philip Wills, plus a letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Mather, O.B.E., dated 10 May 1996, which concerns the wartime record and award of Mr. James Bain, MBE, who served as Superintendent, Flight Engineers, A.T.A. ENSER p.376. Book
144 pages plus section with numerous full-page black and white illustrations. Captain Hayman was the skipper of the ferry crossing Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and Westbank before it was replaced by a floating bridge. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Canterbury Tale - a great British bus route; the story of Diamond in County Durham; Hugh Dougherty remembers the Glasgow ot Bundoran link; A modern Regent V; Ferry cross the Mersey; Green GS on red roads; More on Shamrock & Rambler names; An OB on the quayside; 100 years of Trent; Badge engineering; and more. Average wear. Couple of library markings. Clear tape along spine. Average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
118 pages. Index. Numerous reproductions of black and white photographs. Printed upon glossy stock. The story of the troubled birth and phenomenal growth of the British Columbia Ferry Authority, now operating as B.C. Ferries. Prior owner's stamp inside front and back covers, otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy of this informative work. Book
Ritratto a mezzo busto del politico francese. Testo al verso
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. 137 pages with a great many b&w photos. Chapters include: Human history in the natural scene, American Indians, Spanish explorations, American Explorations, The American frontier reaches the Grand Canyon, Forest reserve and national monument, Grand Canyon national park: period of establishment, .... Period of expansion.
Biographie et oeuvre politique (action scolaire et colonisation) de Jules Ferry, ministre de l'instruction publique (1879-1881) et président du Conseil (1880-1881 puis 1883-1885), où l'historien Maurice RECLUS (1883-1972) tente de "raconter une vie, de rendre compte d'un esprit, de pénétrer une âme, d'exposer, enfin, une oeuvre et surtout de l'expliquer"; avec citations d'extraits de discours et de correspondances de l'homme politique. Français
In-4, brossura. In buono stato di conservazione. In questo numero: “Giulio Ferry, nuovo presidente del Senato francese”.
In-4, brossura, in buono stato di conservazione. In questo numero: "La solenne inaugurazione della Va Fiera Campionaria di Milano. La Regina apre la grandiosa mostra del lavoro, tagliando un nastro tricolore teso al cancello d'entrata." “Attraverso la Maica. L’inaugurazione del servizio di ferry-boats tra Harwich e Zeebrugge che ha speciale importanza per le esportazioni italiane. Alla cerimonia di Harwich un ammiraglio e un capitano di corvetta rappresentavano l’Italia”.
Un volume broché de format in8° (12x19cm); de VIII pp. (faux titre, titre, préface) un frontispice; gravure à l'eau forte de Paul Vayson; 312 pp.; 16 pp. (catalogue du libraire). nombreux tableaux; 21 figures en noir dans le texte. Volume débroché, à relier éventuellement. Intérieur frais. Peu fréquent. Voir les photos. Cette étude comprend d'importants chapitres sur les sites naturels, les truffières artificielles, l'utilisation des truies, des chiens, des mouches.... Réf: Vicaire Gastronomique 359; manque à Oberlé et Schliemann.
118 pages. Features: Attractive color-photo ad for the 1960 Plymouth Fury - maroon two-door in front of dam; Two-page Marlboro shows slouching golfer on bench - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later!; Champion spark plug ad features photos of Mickey Thompson, Rodger Ward, Max Conrad and Hugh Entrop; Color ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista; Nice at for the 1960 Valiant (red); Two-page Chrysler ad announces their new slant 6 engine; Major coverage of Washington, D.C, with fold-out walking map; Rules for successful D.C. party crashing; Rare two-page color ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair co-sponsored by General Mills cereals; Pepsi ad; School integration without turmoil - in Washington, D.C.; Sister Margaret of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur trains girls to think; Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates is the Second Most Powerful Man in Washington; Nice Dutch Boy color ad; Vintage two-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Nomad Station Wagon (pinkish) parked on a city street; Every Man Can't Become President; Nice two-page color ad for the 1960 Ford Comet; The Wry World of David Brinkley; Washington's Gaslight Club; Color ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Vintage two-page color GM ad shows white 1960 Impala convertible and red 1960 Corvair on the Seattle-Winslow ferry in Washington state's San Juan Islands; Meet the French Ambassador's Wife - Nicole Alphand; Nice bright ad for Miller High Life beer; Nice color ad for the 1960 De Soto (red) in front of ritzy southern home; Big Wheels of Washington - great photos of the capitol's power players; They're giving their emotions to science - medial research with photos of Nancy Lou Comstock; 7up ad inside back cover features color photo of the Kingston Trio being yarded onto a ship, with a large supply of soda; Back cover color-photo Chesterfield King cigarette ad says "Big Clean Taste" and shows smiling couple in a choking haze of smoke; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
128 page b&w photo history: schools, local buildings, inside and out. giant pigs, local families, parades, etc. Oblong: 10 1/8"w x 7 3/4"h. Pictorial cover.
100 pages. Features: Cover art by Frankline Arbuckle shows horse-drawn potato diggers at work in New Brunswick's St. John River Valley near Grand Falls; Nice colour GWG ad inside front cover features macho scene of two men hefting a heavy wooden box; One-page colour Matinee cigarette ad shows high society equestrian scene; Article on Canada's wheat surplus; Notes on a journey to the Wagner Festival; Canada's Biggest Big Businessmen - with photo of Garfield Weston and grandson at his Riviera home, Samuel Bronfman, John David Eaton, Charles Dunning, Joseph Simard, James Muir, A.E. (Dal) Grauer, R.A. Jodrey, E.P. Taylor, and J.S.D.Tory, plus list of dozens of individuals, their number of Boards, and their main interests; How the Queen Talks and What She Says; Florencia Bay (part 1); What's Happened to the Suburb They Called Crestwood Heights? (an inquisitive study of Toronto's Forests Hills Village; Why I'm Quitting Hocky for Football - Gerry James chooses the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the Toronto Maple Leafs - article with photos; How a Teenager's Dream Came True at Stratford - Roberta Maxwell; Nostalgic BA ad for their Velvet 98 gas says a 'new star is born' and shows lady's face at center of star; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for Omega Watches says they are the official timepiece of Canadian Pacific Airlines; One-page colour ad for Canada Steamship lines features the lake freighter 'Georgian Bay'; 3/4-page Canadair ad features their CL-44 aircraft; Nice one-page Hammond Organ ad; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos in Switzerland where Theodor Wyrsch won a flag-swinging contest at St. Moritz; I Ate My Way Up the Waldord, by Antony Ferry; Marconi Radio ad; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank ad encourages modern husbands and wives to have individual chequing accounts; Vintage two-colour (black and red) Bank of Montreal ad features a long-forgotten logo; One-page colour ad for O'Keefe Ale features couple; Back cover Polysar ad features colour illustration entitled 'When Saturday Night was Bath Night', which shows mother bathing young girl in large wooden basin in kitchen with water heated on the stove; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Nice ad for the Dodge Coronet V*; The Family in the Palace - Part 1 of 7 by Pierre Berton - the absorbing story of the House of Windsor; What Karsh Saw in Toronto - wonderful black and white photos - a precous snapshot of Toronto in 1953; The Girl Who Became Melissa Hayden - Millie Herman has become one of the top ten ballerinas this side of the Iron Curtain - colour photos; The Row Over the Three Rs - short of staff and space our schools can't decide on what kind of education our chikldren should get - part 2 of the Crisis in Education; William Aberhart - the Mand and His Shadow - a Maclean's Flashback - nice photos; A Friendly Game of Cards - story by Antony Ferry, illustrated by Keith Dalgleish; What's Put Hockey on the Skids? - article with full-page photo of a scrum between the Bruins and Leafs; At Grips With A Grizzly, by Colin Wyatt - the true story of probably the only man who has fought a grizzly bear with his bare hands and lived to tell the tale!; Nice colour Buick ad; Colour Plymouth ad; Nice Heinz soup ad with girl's photo; Colour ad for General Motors of Canada shows several car and truck models; Bing Crosby in Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad; 1953 Mercury car ad inside back cover; Attractive Coke ad on back cover shows well-dressed hostess setting a nice table. Light wear. Unmarked. A pleasing copy. Book
40 pages. Features include: Seaspan's China Tow; St. Roch II - Voyage of Rediscovery; Takaya - Multi-Purpose Patrol Vessel for Vancouver Port; Understanding Cycloidal Propulsion; Osprey 2000 - Ferry with the Kootenay Spirit; 2001 Directory lifts, ways and drydocks; Rough ride on Green Cove. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
30 pages. Features: Nice full-page ad for the Cameron Island development, Phase II; Great full-page ad for Anton's restaurant on Victoria Crescent in National Enquirer format with photo of an alleged Elvis sighting at their restaurant; Jim Smiliey considers 1984 ten years later; All in the family - part I of a two-part series on family and community in Nanaimo; Family Business in the 90's; Where to locate Nanaimo's new Ferry Terminal? (which was ultimately located at Duke Point); Dozens of ads for local small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 32 pages. Small tear and slight liquid stain to dust jacket. Previous owner's name. Pictorial boards slightly bumped. Beautiful brightly colored illustrations. Large format: 10 5/8"w x 14 1/2"h.
6.75" x 3" six-panel brochure folds out to 13.25" x 9". Undated but appears to be circa 1960. One side features a map of the island, with points of interest indicated. The other side provides concise text with information about the island and local fishing, Driving instructions from Chicago, and a ferry schedule for the Washington Island Ferry Line. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage memento of this popular recreational destination. Book
Un volume broché de format in 8° de 494 pp.; couverture illustrée. Bel état. Voir photo.