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Features: Railroad news photos; 19th Annual Motive Power Survey - How to Merge Motive Power - article and photos; Pullman Prolificacy - when Pullman was America's passport to everywhere; Photo section; Coal - going, going gone? - replaced by nuclear?; Why is wartime so synonymous with railroad Wrecks? - article; 11 hours with 111 year-old locomotive - The General, the venerable (Rogers 1855) Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 employed in the daring, ill-fated Andrews Raid in the Civil War - photos and text; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
78 pages. Features: cutting and polishing stones is a lot of fun; 14 ways to hunt 'worked out' areas; Coinshooting old homes; Detecting accessories improve hobby; Arkansas pearls; Digging a Minie Ball "Gloryhole"; How to find coins around old swimming holes; The mystery of the beautiful bottle; A dump by any other name; Find where the ancients wandered; Roubaix and the Uncle Sam gold mine; Coal Town - Pennsylvania. Above-average wear. Book
Book is in excellent condition with Very light shelf wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 92 pages, local history of Rosalyn , Washington.
802 p. + Colored maps; engraved portrait illustrations; and plates showing architecture, etc. Title page loose and torn with some text loss. 4to. All edges gold gilt. Boards detached; spine lacking. The colored maps and architectural plates really make this a stand out among PA county histories. PA 1
4to. Pp. iv,193-224, several photos on 9 pls., 3 tabs., 4 figs., refs., index. Orig. wrs. - Carboniferous.
86 pages. Index. Topics include: The Founding of Fort Langley; Fort Rupert, Its Coal and its Spar Trade; Miners and Managers - The Organization of Coal Production on Vancouver Island by the Hudson's Bay Company, 1848-1862; James Douglas - The Gold Governor in the Context of His Times. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall eng
314 pages. Many black and white illustrations. "The Story of this 'Island to the West', its past, and its present" - from title page. Signed and inscribed by author atop title page. Somewhat above-average soiling and wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
559pp, 560-1229pp + maps + errata VG/none First edition, in French. Editorial red cloth with gilt author and title on front board and spine, slightly worn with small stains, minute dent on the spine of vol.I, Royal Statistical Society sticker on the rear boards, one leaf in vol.I torn (no loss, repairable), unobstrusive stamps of the RSS throughout incl. Title page, Author's signed presentation on preliminary leaf detached in vol.I, small loss on margins in frontespice of vol.II, paper slightly browned on margins. Despite the defects observed it remains a nice set, tight and clean. Comprehensive work dedicated to the British coal trade, profusely illustrated by tables, large attractive folding charts and maps, some in colour. Two large coloured folding maps are included in a back pocket in vol.II. "Researches on the power of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. With charts, maps and graphs. Production and consumption of coal, lignites and petrol in the world and in the British Colonies, Navy and Army.". Heavy volumes (almost 3kg) attracting extra postage charges. Prima edizione, in francese. Due volumi tutta tela rossa con autore e titolo dorati al piatto e al dorso, leggeri segni di usura e qualche lieve macchia, piccola tacca al dorso del vol. I, etichetta della Royal Statistical Society al piatto posteriore, una pagina constrappo (senza mancanze, riparabile), discreti timbri della RSS all'interno. Presentazione autografa dall'autore sul foglio preliminare, staccato, nel vol.I, piccole mancanze al bordo del frontespizio del vol.II e carta lievemente brunita ai margini. Nonostante i difetti indicati i due volumi sono in condizioni piu' che buone. Completa ed esauriente opera dedicata al carbone delle Isole Britanniche con molte mappe e diagrammi. Due cartine di grande formato piegate sono presenti in una tasca nel vol.II.
149 pages. "This engaging illustrated history of Vancouver Island's east coast tourist and distribution centre spans the centuries from its Coast Salish Indian days to its boom town present." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Book
23 pages. "...An abbreviated record of 105 years... A summary of the finding of coal at Nanaimo, of the names and dates of the companies involved, and of the locations of the main mining operations... A map is enclosed showing the locations of the main mine shafts and mine entrances and the approximate routes of the mine railroads." - from Preface. Discusses coal mining methods, remaining evidence of mining around Nanaimo, and extent of coal production at Nanaimo. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
20p. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps, slightly worn. Published by The League of Women Voters Education Fund under a grant from Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. PA PAMPH 20_16 BX2
Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 327 pages, 22 articles on the subject.
"In some of the most dangerous mines in the world, fortunes were made and hundreds of lives were lost. The origins of the present volatile labour climate in British Columbia can be seen in the long and frustrating fight for a union which began in the 1850s and ended eighty years later in Nanaimo when management finally recognized the United Mind Workers of America just six weeks before the largest mine on the Island closed forever. This lively presentation combines archival footage with the reminiscences of retired miners." - from cover. Please note: This is a VHS video tape which appears to be circa 1980s. Book
128 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The early history of Sirhowy and Tredegar is more or less the history of the Industrial Revolution in microcosm." - Preface. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
159 pages including glossary and black and white photographic reproductions. Author began his career as a hand miner in England when he was thirteen and, after a few years of prairie farming, spent his working life in the industry, eventually becoming District Superintendant of the mines at Cumberland on Vancouver Island. In the intervening years he worked at nearly every phase of the coal mining process. This autobiography provides real insight into the life of the miner and how men worked in the mines. A most valuable record. Unmarked. Moderate wear and soiling. Binding solid. Nice copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/2"w x 11"h 148 pages. Laid-in folded map of Coal Mines of the Lethbridge District 1874-1982. Many b&w photos.
315 pages. Archival glossy black and white illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Chapters include: The Dreams of Men; Buildings and Memories; Community Organizations; Ethnic Backgrounds; Misguided Dreams. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. HALE & BARMAN 446. Book
392 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. Signed atop title page by an executive of the Ladysmith new Horizons Society, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Bonus: includes two-pages of information regarding the history of the local Michael family laid inside back cover. HALE & BARMAN 445. Book
4to. Pp. 52, 62 photos and figs. of thin sections (14 in colour) on 13 pls. 4to. New wrs., orig. printed front cover mounted. - The author made several contributions to the techniques of making thin sections of coal, and the present memoir is, according to Andrews, "an especially informative account".
350 pages. Many detailed diagrams. A serious and highly-informative treatment of these topics which were vital to profitable operation of underground mines at the turn of the last century. Two names upon verso of front free endpaper. Name stamped inside back free endpaper. Binding firm. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
79 pages including index and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Geological maps (back pocket). Table of contents include stratigraphy of Bullhead Succession (Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Monach, Brenot, and Crassier Group formations), description of localities and sections (French Petroleum Co, Grant Knob, Peace River Canyon, Rainbow Rocks) and economic geology (coal, oil and gas). Somewhat above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
328 p. + Wood engraved frontis portrait, and "Indian Map of Capouse Meadow". Both plates browned. Old damp stain. Early penciled ownerships of Newton?, Montville, Lancaster county, PA and J. F. Steward on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Head and tail of spine slightly worn. Excellent early history of an important region of Pennsylvania, famous for its coal and railroads. Howes H588. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 30 x2
86p. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and charts. 4to. Original pictorial wraps slightly soiled. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, Number 15. Second printing. PA PAMPH 20_1 BX6
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
