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500 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. Foxing at edges, upon endpapers and some pages. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy in decorated blue boards. Book
253 pages. Index. References. "Describes 98 plant species in the families Ranunculaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Ceratophyllaceae, and Berberidaceae, comprising the representatives of the Engelerian order Ranales that have been found growing wild, native or naturalized, in British Columbia." - from Abstract. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Tight and square. Sound copy. Book
140 pages. Features: Golden Newbies - BTO, Trooper, Prism, Doucette, Stonebolt, Nick Gilder and Chilliwack are making records in Vancouver - fantastic article with great photos of Bruce Allen, Sam Feldman, Jay Gold, Terry David Mulligan, and others; Microsurgery - Glen Whitehouse gets a new thumb; Alison Griffiths - Managing the U.S. Women's Ski Team; Victor Lee and the local Chinese Benevolent Association; When Trucks Went Logging - an incredibly informative and readable account of the adventurous development of truck logging in B.C.; Quircky reduction kiln - a long day and night at the high fire kiln; Gaawa-Hanas - The Enchanted Place, Poem by Peter Trower; and more. Above-average wear. PLEASE NOTE: Covers not included. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Gallery - some of the best Canadian design work of the past 50 years; Why does the work of Palmer Jarvis DDB turn to gold?; A roundup of what the major stock and royalt-free agencies are offering online; Direct Mail that works; Portfolio - Suzanne Duranceau; Portfolio - Karo (Toronto) Inc.; Portfolio - Philip Gallard; Hiring an Intern; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
200 pages. Black and white illustrations. "...Follows the author's adventures on the West Coast of Vancouver Island during the 1930's. While detailed and historically accurate, this story captures the essence of day to day life in rustic and rugged surroundings." - from back cover. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop first blank leaf, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
This concise pamphlet covers a history of gold, reasons for the gold crisis of the day, the Western World's monetary system, the Gold Standard, the coming readjustment in gold, how gold defends against communism, and Canada's gold - world salvation. 36 pages. Author was a contributing member of The United States Gold Committee, Inc. of Washington D.C. Details of the Saman Investment Corporation Limited are printed on back cover as it apparently offered this booklet to its clients. Staples rusted but holding. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this nostalgic yet informative snapshot of the prescient investment views of a Canadian gold bug in the years leading up to Nixon's dramatic closure of the gold window in 1971. 21 x 9 cm. Book
184 pages. Index. Thirty-one pages of black and white photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by Hinton upon front free endpaper. Presents the Yukon's lively history from the gold rush through to construction of the Alaska Highway. Average wear. Binding intact. Some sunning to back strip. A sound copy. Book
Pages 37-74. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for the CBC Weekend TV show includes Lloyd Robertson; Yellowknife - Capital City of the Northwest Territories - article with great aerial photo of city; The Pointer Boat - workhorse of Canadian rivers for over a century - wonderful article with great photos; Hot Springs of Western Canada; Town Symbols; Assignment in Punjab; Attractive color back page ad for Cadillac features a gold 1970 Coupe deVille. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
141 pages. Glossary. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "... This remarkable new book tells you how you can improve your eyesight and throw away your glasses!" - from back cover. Above-average wear. Binding tender but intact. Book
Pages 139-192. Includes index to Volume XLI. Contents include: Michel Butor or a Frenchman Goes to New Mexico; Traduction, Trahison; Napoleon's Marshals - Augereau. The Michel Butor article is signed and inscribed by its author, Jack Kolbert, at the top of its first page. Several typos have been corrected in this section. Ten pages at back list names of members of the Society. Bit of writing upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
122 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Author was for 40 years a lineman and telegrapher on the famous Yukon Telegraph Line. This is the story of those years. Explains how he came with his artist father from London to Canada to take part in the great gold stampede of ninety-eight to the Northland." - dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
xi, 394 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "Joe Boyle led many lives - sailor, sports promoter, entrepreneur, diplomat, soldier, spy - each life a testament to a romantic nature, a love of action, a blunt, single-minded devotion to doing what seemeed right and what needed to be done. Decorated by four European countries for outstanding services in war, he long remained unsung and all but forgotten in his own land. Now, using new material from the Boyle family archives never before published, this book recreates in colourful detail the exciting life of one of the last international heroes." - dust jacket. Book
75 pages. Features: Gunsmoke over Texas - The Texas Rangers; The Colt New Service; Sharps' Pellet Primed Revolver; The Cartridge Collector; Gun of the Month - The Colt-Root Model Revolver Presented to the Great Metropolitan Fair; Who Dunit - a most unusual repeating 22 calibre buggy rifle or pocket rifle; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
92 pages. Includes these songs: Affair on Eighth Avenue; Beautiful; Bitter Green; Canadian Railroad Trilogy; Carefree Highway; Circle of Steel; Cold on the Shoulder; Cotton Jenny; Did She Mention My Name; Don Quiote; early Mornin' Rain; (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me; If You Could Read My Mind; I'm Not Sayin'; Minstrel of the Dawn; Old Dan's Records; Rainy Day People; Ribbon of Darkness; Softly; Song for a Winter's Night; Steel Rail Blues; Summer Side of Life; Sundown; Wherefore and Why. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful Lightfoot compilation. Book
Features: Cover artist - Takashi Hara; Sogetsu School; Ichiyo School; Koryu Shohtohkai; Saga School; Traditional Art - a Storehouse of Accumulated Wisdom; I.I. Salutes Houn Ohara; Matsu - perennial favorite or heavenly heights; Ikenobo School; Ryusei-ha; Chiko School; Ohara School; Soami School; Shikoku Pilgrimage. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover art by Ryohei Tanaka; Anthurium - or Flamingo Flower; Enshoji; Gracia Hosokawa; Higo Morning Glory; State of the Art / I.I.'s Ikebana Portfolio; Haiku. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Undated. Circa 1930s? A wonderful compilation! Average wear. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Is the United Appeal Too Big - or Big Enough?; The Man Behind Canadian TV's most famous face - Larry Henderson; The Streets of Canada - Water St. in St. John's is the oldest street on the continent; Why the Amish want no part of progress; What I remember most about school; Klondike - Part II - Pierre Berton. Very interesting colour ad for Cellophane features an attractive model wearing a blue hat which more closely resembles an upside-down flower pot! Major damage and some moisture exposure to lower portion of back cover and last few pages. Please inquire if you require a higher-grade copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-8, and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Plans to move 40,000 from drought areas of prairies; Court-martials in Cuba; Tension in Arizona re. Japanese agriculturists; Editorial page; Social pages; large share offering ad by Glenora Gold Mines; Vacation page; cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited. Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: A Journey on the Roof of the World; Cockfighting; Where in the World is Kapingamarangi?; Biblical Hot Springs of Israel - Search for a Missing Link; Krill - the Gold of Antarctica; Tibetan Sky Burial at Drigung Dundro. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Cover photo Nome, Alaska resident Alfred Nakak; The Anik Satellite - a hard re-entry; Multitude of strikes at the Canadian Post Office; British Columbia's Mediation Act and Labour; Stuart (Stu) Griffiths of Bushnell Communications; Chicago - Turning Against the Gangs; Richard L. Barkley - the respectable rioter; Middle East - Between Hope and Menace; Nigeria - The Unconquerable Ibos; Alaska - The Great Land of Boom or Doom - article with six pages of great color photos; The Vanishing World of trapper Joe Delia; Review of movie "Joe" starring Peter Boyle; Passing of Dr. Eric Berne, George V. Allen, John J. Anthony, Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves and L. Wolf Gilbert; Kirk Kerkorian's Cold Streak; VD - a national emergency; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The man in the White House cares; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Our managing editor (Rosemary Entringer) pulls the throttle on a T-1; Badges of Distinction - or, the diamond wasn't exclusive to Lima; How Truckers, Firemen, and Lawyers are Designing Diesels - some not so subtle influences upon the builders; Railroad art by our readers; Central Keeps the Cake - the only complete and authoritative analysis of world-wide train speed; A very special 2-10-0 Bozkurt; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Line Camp Outlaw; My Mother, Ella Byler Dobie - Live Oak County, Texas; Prowling for Loot on Delaware Creek - Bill Cook's Train Robbery Loot; Lame Charlie Speaks - the solution to the old mystery of the Mainden's Grave?; Hell for Leather Ranger - William T. Henderson and Murrieta; Horny Toad Man of the Horny Toad Division of the Santa Fe Railway; Nick Eggenhoffer's West; Jornada Cattle Drive; Lure of the Gold Camps - Folks just had to get to California; The Search for Zonia - ghost town; Wild Old Days!; Washday in Indian Territory - with scrub board, tub and pails, the chore took all day. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Hogan's Orphan Mine - Dan Hogan - Arizona's Grand Canyon Region; Outlaw Money - National Bank Notes; The Hawken - A Rifle to Swear By; Lost Nail-Keg of Gold; John Swisher - Boy Soldier - fighting at the side of Sam Houston; A Badman's Long Exile - Sam Goodson, Alpine Texas; The Encircled Thirteen - Jasper Johnson; Legendary Treasure of Pavell's Island; Town of the Swinging Doors - the Tomboy Trail and some of its early types; First Non-Indian Woman in the Black Hills - Sarah Campbell; Copper Camp Ghost. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
