Wilson, Wendell E.; Bobrink, TedMareMagnum
31 résultats
145 pages. Index. Footnotes. Reference list. Supplemental 1984 price guide laid-in. "Contains nearly 450 illustrations covering every type of candlestick brand-name model, plain to fancy blacksmith models, folding and mechanical models. Also included are many wonderful underground photos from the turn of the century showing mine candlesticks in actual use. Includes a discussion of history, collecting pointers, and guides to cleaning and recognition." - from photocopy of publisher's book list laid-in. Wilson's superbly detailed diagrams exquisitely present these artifacts in their original form. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this magnificent reference. Book
8vo., First Edition, free endpapers very lightly browned; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Classic novel set aginst the rise of Communism in the Yorkshire mining industry. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Book shows very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 402 pages in oversize format with b&w photos throughout. Very detailed study of the area and surounding region, heavily footnoted with chapters on Fur trappers, Explorers and scientist, Prospectors and miners, Homestading, the Frontier community, Cattle ranchers, Reclamation and irrigation, Dude wranglers, Tourists, Park of the Matterhorns, Grand Teton National park
Covers show light wear only. Book is otherwise in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Black and white illustrations, often full page. 182 pages. "Frances Benjamin Johnston was a prominent studio photographer and photojournalist at the turn of the twentieth century. She presented three bodies of work at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900: a collection of photographs by American women, a series of photographs of students in the Washington, D.C., school system, and a series of photographs of students from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. These exhibits all promoted the nationalistic agenda of progress at the Paris Exposition, illustrating American advancement in art, education, and society." ; "Johnston was a significant-and arresting-figure in early twentieth-century photography.Johnston produced a good deal of the usual society portraiture of the time-including a nude photograph of a debutante that prompted the girl's outraged father to file a lawsuit-but she was also an important photodocumentarian. Students of African American history can reexamine life at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) or Tuskegee using hundreds of photographs made by Johnston at the turn of the last century.through Johnston's work we can see Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris. Johnston's major project on early vernacular architecture of the American South preserves scores of buildings that no longer exist except on her film." ; photos of the famous include Thordore ROosevelt, Susan B Anthony, Mark Twain, William McKinley, Joel Chandler Harris, Admiral Dewey, Booker T. Washington, Jacob Riis, Alexander Graham Bell, Jane E Clark, Andrew Carnegie, George Washington Carver, John Phillip Sousa, Helen Hay, John Milton Hay, General LEonard Ward, Julia Marlowe, Richard Hovey, Margaret James, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Albert Beveridge, Edith Wharton, DIfford Pinchot, Jane Cowl, and Ryan Tillman
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and minor traces of handling. 160pp. Easington District was the last area of Durham's huge coalfield to be exploited. This book tells the story of the heroic struggle by the people of Easington District with tragic disasters, defeats and triumphs in their mining industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Illustrated by a stunning collection of drawings and photographs, some in colour. A very scarce book.
Book shows considerable shelf wear to oblong covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 119 pages with a great many full page b&w photos: dead soldiers, miners, mines, landscapes, seascapes, rock formations, waterfalls, lakes, mountains in Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Grand Canyon, etc.
379 pages. Footnotes. Index. Glossary. Footnotes. Maps. Reproductions of many black and white archival photos. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. Chapters include: Before Gold, Discovery on Pine Creek, The Trails to Atlin Creek, 1899 - The Boom Year, Bureaucrats and Bunglers - The Role of Government; The Placer Creeks, The Japanese Incident, Quest for a Mother Lode, The Political Scene, Commerce and Industry, Keeping the Peace, Men of God and Their Churches, Care of the Sick, Fire Fighting, Mining Camp Schools, Gold Camp Society, They Lived Off the Land, Some Women of Atlin, Tourism. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Book
280 pages. Index. Excellent black and white photographic plates. Reviews the dramatic history of coal mining and coal miners on Vancouver Island. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Please note: Front free endpaper removed. A sound working copy. Book
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. 211 pages with occasional photos. Contens include sections on the Industrial Workers of the World, Western Miners Union of America, Roslyn, Cle Elum, Ronald, Washington, Ellensburg, labor history.
312 pages. Presents high quality black and white photos and brief biographies of retired and active coal miners from across Canada. Most nostalgic and enjoyable to peruse! Clean, glossy and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy of this wonderful photographic compilation. Book
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Collects six of the most important nineteenth century accounts of the Cornish mining economy.
pp. vi, 122. Illustrated with photographs. Tall 8vo. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Includes interviews with members of the community. PA PAMPH 20_14 BX5
224 pages. Paints scene after scene of life in the Yukon in the thirties, forties and fifties. Reminds us that life is not really composed of great events, but rather it is a gathering of thousands of moments. Contains several colour plates. Book is unmarked and in good condition but for major leaning of the spine to the right. Book
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, WANTING ALL PLATES; original red cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, expertly recased with new hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, sound working copy. With the bookplate of 1st Lanarkshire Volunteers, Royal Engineers, Officers Library on front paste-downs. Wanting the seventeen plates coloured plates of uniform, but textually complete. THE FIRST PUBLICLY PUBLISHED HISTORY OF THE CORPS. SCARCE. White p.36.
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Signed by author on title page.
348 pages including index and select bibliography and photo gallery. Topics include: the native people, the Lillooets, and their first known contacts with Europeans; Hurrying miners of the Gold Rush; isolated pioneer farmers; the eventual dyking and drainage of the valley which resulted, finally, in a road to Vancouver. Text is graced with many historical black and white photos. Moderate wear and soiling. Unmarked. Tight and sqaure. A quality copy. Book
One of the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series. 288 pages. Comes with letter from the publisher to Dr. Timothy Sicks.
Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper - otherwise 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Six months after the miners' strike of 1984-5, the author visited the north-east of England where he interviewed people on both sides of the dispute - miners, their wives, Union officials, policemen, shopkeepers, young people, Coal Board officials, schoolteachers and many others. This vivid social documents sets out their words. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
[8], 9-222 pages. Occasional black and white illustrations. Undated but appears to be circa 1937. A collection of approximately 180 Canadian mining verses compiled, in part, because "a good deal of verse associated with the industry's remoter past was in danger of becoming permanently lost." - Foreword. Includes works by Robert Service, J.C. Murray, Alpine MacGregor, and many others, brief biographies for fourteen of whom are included at back. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's illustrated brown buckram-covered boards. Front hinge starting. Narrow opening in binding at title page. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A worthy vintage copy of this nostalgic Mother Lode of Canadian verse. Book
384 p. Numerous illustrations. Ownership label. 4to. Original cloth spine over glossy paper covered boards. Extremities rubbed. Original dust jacket worn and chipped with small loss. Second printing. Hardbound. Very good. W2
335 pages. Index. Glossary. Black and white photos in text. "Features true stories from miners that worked in the largest lead and zinc mine in the world, Kimberley's 'Mighty Sullivan' in southeastern British Columbia." - from back cover. Few spots of soiling otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Institutional ex-library book with interior library marks, but unmarked cover. 240 pages. Many photos. Crease on spine.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and plates in monochrome; black ribbed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper.
240 p. Profusely illustrated. Bottom corners damp stained. Small 4to. Original faux leather binding embossed in the style of saddle leather. Front board decorated with a color oval drawing. Hardbound. Very good. W9
11 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "One of the last of the old miners, Captain Norman Evans-Atkinson, discusses the declining days of gold mining in British Columbia". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
