Hick, W.B.M.MareMagnum
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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. 450 pages with a great many photos, mostly in b&w. Chapters, with a large number of sub-chapters, include Rail corridors through the Cordillera to Canada's two Pacific gatways; The first Pacific gateways to overseas treade; The gateways 1917 to 1929 -- Panama extends Vancouver's reach to atlantic markets; A visual record of the gateway ports and the men who moved to cagoes 1843 to 1918; The depression years 1930 to 1938; The war years 1939 to 1945; The gateways 1946 to 1970 -- new markets for bulk commodities -- etc. for a total of eleven chapters ending with The facilities needed to handle overseas treade to 2020.
334p. Paperback Very good condition Review copy. Signed by the author
166 p. + Frontis. Bookseller's label, E. H. Stick, Scranton, Pa. on front paste down. 12mo. Pictorial color paper boards, slightly soiled and worn at extremities. Tale of the coal mines written in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. PA 28 x2
257 p. + Color frontis map. Marbled end papers. All edges marbled. First signature loose. 8vo. Original quarter leather over cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Edges scuffed. Hardbound. Very good copy. In the summer of 1902 the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for over 160 days and sent the nation into a panic over a possible coal shortage, prompting President Teddy Roosevelt to intervene. Includes sections on: the coal region and its production; market conditions; hazards of mining; losses from the strike; and the commission's findings - with appendices of names of companies and individuals affected by the work stoppage. Quite important, though rarely consulted. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 42
Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 238 pages with graphs, charts, formulae, tables. 4 appendices and index.
Illustrated history of coal production in West Yorkshire and its significance for local industry, transportation and history. [Images of England series] 138p. illus [10 copies found inWoldCat] Book
Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon title page. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Illustrated map endpapers. Extensive index. vii, [1],332 pp. "One of the most ambitious and lavish local histories ever undertaken in B.C. for such a relatively small community. Originally called Union Wharf, the town on the old Island Highway south of Courtenay arose when the Union Coal Company opened its Cumberland mines in 1888." - BC Bookworld website. Very light wear to burgundy cloth lettered with gilt. Binding tight. Prior owner's bookplate upon verso of front free endpaper. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A lovely copy of this particularly excellent local history. Gift quality. Hale & Barman 331 Book
P., mercure, 1943. In12 broché, 202 pp. Dos insolé, sinon bon état.
504 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out maps. Maps in text. Obituary for William Sloan, B.C. Minister of Mines for over eleven years. "Statistical tables provide the total mineral production of the Province and show by Districts and Divisions the output of the various metals and minerals for the year 1927 and comparative figures for previous years. The reports of the Resident Mining Engineers give much information about the progress of mining, development, and prospecting throughout the province. The reports of the Inspectors of Mines cover fully coal-mining in British Columbia." - Provincial Mineralogist. A comprehensive and extremely informative snapshot of the state of mining in B.C. in 1927, the archival photos and maps being of particular value. Average external wear and soiling. Blue card covers nearly detached from textblock. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Book
197 p. Numerous charts and tables. Blue cloth. XLib. (Bureau of business research monographs, number 4). .
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of office of the Oxbow (Saskatchewan) Herald newspaper showing Joe Pedlar, owner; Dorothy Thompson argues that "We've Earned the Arabs' Hatred"; Nice colour ad for Bluestone shirts of Montreal; Interesting full-page illustrated ad for B.C. Plywood boasts of how the Banff Chairlift Terminal Building survived an avalanche due to the strength of their product; Fantastic two-page colour-illustrated ad for the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Victoria; The "Religious Crisis" in Quebec politics - two priests indict their province for "political immorality" - article wth many photos; Who Says Business Isn't Fun? - Lionel Avard Forsyth, the heavyweight boss of Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation is Canada's biggest employer - article by Peter C. Newman with photos; This is Why I Killed Them (short story); The Ryerson Institute of Technology - The versatile college with the concrete campus - article with photos; Colour photo feature on the Bay of Fundy with article; Hammering Herb Trawick - The Gentle Bone-Crusher of the Montreal Alouettes - article with photos; The Bizarre Mystery of B.C.'s "Champagne Safari" - Charles Bedaux squandered a quarter-million dollars on a Canadian wilderness trek mid-depression - article with photos; You Take the Suburbs - I Don't Want Them; Unmarked. Average wear. Ads clipped from page 67, 73, 81, 87 and 95 affecting only the end of the Trawick story and a small portion of the Forsyth article; A nice vintage issue. Book
63 pages. A detailed description of how mines were intricately surveyed in 1842 - 1892. "Be the mine limestone, ironstone, coal or clay, the same process is gone through." - from chapter one. Maroon cloth cover with gilt lettering. Page 56/57 binding loose but intact. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Minor foxing to sides of content on pages that fold out. Otherwise content unmarked. Minor wear to spine and corners. A worthy copy. Book
108p. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good copy. AMERICANA BOX 4
Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 293 pages with graphs, charts, tables. Sections on fluidized-bed combustion, surace coal gasification, advanced coal cleaning, coal-fueled diesel engines, Coal-fueled gas turbines, Advanced combustors, fuel cells, alternate fuels, hot gas cleanup,
Proceedings from a symposium at the American Chem. Soc. meeting, Aug - Sep 1976. Usual library labels and stamps. Cover rubbed and dirty. 2cm split at top of spine. Contents clean, tight and bright. Ex - Library
16 pages. "With facts and figures to help you understand 'The Crisis'" - subtitle. Author was Chairman of the I.L.P. Topics include: labour and the crisis; the export target, what should be done, economic tendencies in Britain, ineffectivenss of labour policy, increase profits, huge national incomes, fuel and power, apply science to coal, I.L.P. immediate plan of action. Numerous data sets include: balance of payment, sale of gold and assets, loss of national wealth, cost of the war in British human life, dwellings destroyed and built, how many rich and how rich are they?, capital levy - opinions of two experts, and more. Printing date unstated but appears to be circa 1948 based on data cited within this booklet. Average external wear and soiling. Handwritten price on front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this interesting work. Book
129 pages. Bibliography. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos, maps and documents. The story "of a few pioneers who, [south of Brandon, Manitoba], invested their substance and sweat in a mining venture that was only mildly successful". - Foreword. Includes photo-illustrated orange dust jacket. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this informative history. Book
8vo, 21.8cm. Pp. xxviii,825, 627 figs. in text. Orig. printed cloth, marbled edges. Title on backstrip partly faded, very good otherwise. - Comprehensive handbook of coal mining. This second edition was considerably enlarged.
Armand Colin 1930, In-8 broché, 424 pages. Couverture tachée en bord néanmoins bon exemplaire.
Reprint of the 2006 first edition. Bibliography. Footnotes. Index. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Appears to have been privately printed in limited quantity. "The modern history of Departure Bay began in the 1800's after the discovery of coal in Nanaimo. For a short time it was the centre of a hub of commerce and industry, only to settle back into relative obscurity. This is the story of the place and its people." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy of this highly-informative work. Book
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
Large 8vo. Pp. 808, wood-engraved figs., 1 large chromolithogr. fold. "map of the anthracitic coalfields of Pennsylvania" (55x85cm) with decorative border, index. Orig. cloth gilt. Recently expertly re-set in re-backed binding retaining original backstrip, new end-papers, neat repair to some folds of map, very good otherwise. - Rare early mining and oil handbook. The section paginated 675-808 is called "Appendix" with a separate title-page with imprint: "Philadelphia: King & Bird, 1866." It includes an interesting illustrated chapter entitled "Description of mines" with some nice wood-engraved views of collieries, covering pages 731-779.
243 pages. Tissue-protected frontis photo portrait of author. Attractively decorated maroon cloth-covered front board. All seventeen black and white plates present. "An autobiographical account of the author's first twelve years (from 1862 to September 1873) as a Methodist missionary among the Cowichan and Nanaimo Indians." - Lowther. Average wear. Prior owner's name in light pencil upon front free endpaper. Faint moisture marks to fore-edge of first twenty-five pages. Hinges starting. Issued without dust jacket. LOWTHER 1556, RICKS p.75, AMTMANN 3499, SMITH 2134, WALLACE p.52, MATTHEWS 295, TOD & CORDINGLEY p.85. Book
Book is in excellent condition with tiny indication of wear or use only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover.
Abundantly illustrated with contemporary black and white photographs. Contents: Switzerland's position among the nations; the army; mobilization and its effects; declarations of neutrality; frontier incidents; German-Swiss and French-Swiss opinion; Herr Spitteler's Speech; Gradual change in public opinion; Swiss dislike of militarism; Methods of the General Staff; The Arrest of 'Times' correspondents; The Affair of the Two Colonels; British Ministers in Switzerland; Federal Council and President Wilson; Swiss Protest against intensified blockade; M. Ritter's action in Washington; The Hoffmann-Grimm Affair; Colonel Stegemann; The economic situation; Establishment of the S.S.S.; The 'Fiduciary Bureau; Coal and Cotton; Swiss-German Agreement; Smuggling - The Financial Situation; Various Loans - Swiss good works; Refugees; Rapatries; Evacues; The Missing; Visits to Prison Camps; Medical aid to belligerents; Grands Blesses; Internes; Protests by the Federal Council and International Committee of the Red Cross Against German Inhumanity. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. It is recommended that this issue be read in conjuction with: Issue 89 - Sea Power and Neutrality. Magazine
