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95 pages. Kluckner has "drawn inspiration from his travels around the province, in most cases not from 'the days when I was drawn like a moth to the candle of a doomed building, or a doomed piece of landscape'... Records the mansions, cabins, churches, front porches and gardens, roadside shacks and grand panoramas that are the essence of the province." - from front flap. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life (photo); Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion, Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett, 19, - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam, with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18,000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam, with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk, Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
64 pages, illustrated, plan. eng
0070125333.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Q-0070125333McGraw-Hill. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill hardcover
200410407Los Angeles CA: Four Stops Press 2004. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Beautifully inscribed by author sans dedication in black fountain ink on verso of ffep: "To Peace in Our Lifetime" signed and dated 9/2004. Essay by Jane C. Loeffler. Cultural Montages by Keya Keita. As new firsst edition first printing in gray cloth boards with map endpapers in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. LADA <br/> <br/> Four Stops Press hardcover
numerous b/w photographs, tables, plans and sections, minor chipping to tail of spine, slightly wear to corners of cover, light soiling to page block, minor creasing to bottom corners of back cover and last pages, otherwise text clean and tight Ex-Library
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 161pp. An extremely well illustrated study of the buildings, history and architecture of the old North Riding of Yorkshire, some parts of which became North Yorkshire in 1974. It covers from York in the south to Middlesborough in the north and from Hawes in the west to Scarborough in the east, including Whitby, Northallerton, Richmond and Thirsk.
FBV935MUsed - Very Good. Tight Binding Clean pages Clean Text. Unread. !00% Satisfaction Guaranteed Tight Binding Clean pages Clean Text. Unread. !00% Satisfaction Guaranteed unknown
Kingston is known for its historic properties, as reflected in the city's motto of "where history and innovation thrive". Including World Heritage Sites, National Historic Sites, Provincially Significant sites, municipally designated heritage properties, and listed or non-designated heritage properties, the city has 1211 properties listed in the heritage register it maintains pursuant to the Ontario Heritage Act.[61]the 1970 City of Kingston Act gave it authority to protect this architectural heritage. This volume published in1971 by the City Architectural Review Committee is the first part of the formal inventory of such buildings. A typescript of 104 leaves with illustrations. maps and appendices bound in paper covers. ame of previous owner , else fine Book
In-folio (cm. 25), hardocover, dustjacket, pp. 469, illustrated (b/w and colour), ISBN 158685237X. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, front corners slightly curled, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 185 pages with b&w photos, architectural drawings throughout. Chapters include: Washington's first builders, Buildings of the early frontier, Bountiful harvests, Trails, ships and rails, Factories, Mines, and mills, Merchants on main street, Washington at play, at home in Washington, Building for tomorrow, etc.
18781259069Straßburg, R. Schultz, 1878. 4to. 290 S., 1 Bl., 106 S., 1 Bl., 5 lithograph. Tafeln u. 2 Photolithographien. Moderner Ppbd m. eingebundenem OUmschl. (Us. m. teils hinterlegten Fehlstellen, leicht gebräunt u. vereinzelt gering fleckig).
63222Tome LVI - 1955 - 62ème année - Carcassonne. Imprimerie E. Roudière. 33, Rue Courtejaire - revue illustrée - Hors-texte - in-8 Broché - 184 pages
19770159061977 En feuilles
34 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
Very Good Turkish In contemporary red cloth bdg. Ex-library stamps on imprint. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [vii], 159 p., 18 and 192 numerous b/w plates., and plans. Bursa'da Ulucami. In this work, Baykal introduced this magnificent temple with all his detail and cultural richness. Introducing the inscriptions and calligraphic plates of this mosque, which is a "Museum of Calligraphy", adds a distinct value to the work. Preface of this work dated March, 17, 1948. A comprehensive only study on 'Ulucamii' (The Great Mosque) in Bursa city. First Edition. Sixteen copies in OCLC: 23699098.
199 pages. Footnotes. Blbliography. Oblong 11" x 8.5". Profusely illustrated with reproductions of marvelous archival black and white photos and trade literature. "Most prairie settlers had to purchase materials for their homes and farm buildings. This work describes the massive lumber industry that grew to supply this vast market and the influence the industry exerted over farm building design during the formative years of 1880 through 1920." - from back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Light external wear. A quality copy of this fascinating work. Book
1970ARCH0160Athen 1970. Fol., 7 nn. S. Text (griechisch, französisch), klammergeh. u. 52 Pläne, zusammen in OKart.-Flügelmappe, an der Mappe Gebrauchsspuren, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Pläne (Grundrisse u. Fassadenzeichnungen) von Gorgoepikoos, Kapnikarea, Agioi Theodoroi Athinon, Metamorphosis Plakas (Kreta), Katholikon Monis Kesarianis, Katholikon Monis Agios Ioannou Kunigou, Katholikon MJonis Agiou Ioannou Karea.
19913856Couverture rigide Techniques et Architecture 1991 Paris 27x24,5 cm
200022053teNeues Verlag GmbH + Co KG, 2000. 400 Seiten Taschenbuch
Oversize, 258p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (helicopter) flight in 1907?. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book