Cullins, Warren; Cullins, LauraMareMagnum
31 résultats
219 pages. Many archival black and white illustrations. Signed and inscribed by Warren Cullins atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
82 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Fold-out maps. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this pleasing vintage reference of early days of transportation in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley. Book
276 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. "Illuminates the origins of the 1912-14 strike by examining the development of the coal industry on Vancouver Island, the founding of Ladysmith, the experience of work and safety in the mines, the process of political and economic mobilization, and how these factors contributed to the development of identity and community." - from back cover. Book
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Scarce
288 p. Illustrated with numerous paintings and photographs, many in color. Pictorial end papers. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped, slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. W2 LStk
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
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
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
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.
Institutional ex-library book with interior library marks, but unmarked cover. 240 pages. Many photos. Crease on spine.
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
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
[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
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.
One of the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series. 288 pages. Comes with letter from the publisher to Dr. Timothy Sicks.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
