Rohrbeck, Benson W.MareMagnum
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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
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
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
Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 296 pages with graphs, charts, tables, maps.
160 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Black and white illustrations. Presents the history of Bevan, British Columbia. Includes a wealth of genealogical information. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
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
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Grand Trunk Western and Detroit's only rail suburban service; Photo-illustrated Article on Trucks; Adding large chunks of ice to reefers; TVA to the Rescue - Its demand for coal keeps coal-hauling short lines in business; Photo Section; Nice photo centerfold shows the Polar Star pausing at Badminton Station at night; Inside Burlington - Part 2 - a detailed illustrated article; Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania - photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
408 pages including glossary, sources and index. Black and white illustrations. "A book about a time when a young boy could start in the mine as the lowest of workers and could become, through a lot of hard work and a little luck, a boss or even a millionaire." - from Preface. Author's signature upon title page. Usual library markings. Only light wear. A quality copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only, straight spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 63 pages with text to p. 48 then b&w photos.
120p. + Photographs. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Originally published in the Slovak language. PA PAMPH 20_15 BX7
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
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
40 pages. Features: To the Unknown Interior - excerpts from Frederich Whymper's book; Captain Cook Ceremony; Deserted Danish Settlement; Quinsam Lake coal mine update; Lasqueti Islanders oppose Transmission Line; Sea Otter Preserve Proposed. Light wear. clean and unmarked. Nice copy. 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
50 pages. Circa mid-1980s. "This is a book of images - fleeting moments in a construction project captured on film. "North East Coal" conjures up many different images: to those who negotiated sales agreements in Canada and Japan there is one set; to those who spent years styding and planning the development, other memories come to the fore; to those who worked on the construction projects across northern British Columbia there are other pictures; and to those who live in Tumbler Ridge and work in jobs created by the development yet still another set of images surfaces. We hope that the pages of this book will trigger all these memories." - from foreward. Wonderfully illustrated with colour photography. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Three closed tears to attractive dust jacket which bears light wear. Very nice copy. Book
8vo (215 x 135 mm), 194 + 16pp., of adverts printed in pink paper, pictorial title page, 8 engraved plates, illustrs., in the text, a couple of gatherings standing proud, orig. blind-stamped ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, head and foot of spine lightly chipped. All published of this scarce work on the Railway and Coal industry.
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".
361 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Footnotes, bibliography and index. "A rich social history which traces the events, from the decades leading up to the blast, the frenetic rescue operation and mass funerals, through the series of acrimonious legal inquiries, to the divisive relief effort and the continued commemoration of the disaster by the community of Mt Kembla." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Slight lean to spine. Minor bit of discolouration to top of dust jacket at spine. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. viii, 160 pages. Generously illustrated with colour photos and black and white reproductions of archival photos. Illustrated endpapers. "The information used in this book pertaining to the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century has been obtained from the most reliable sources possible. I am grateful to those that so willingly furnished photos to identify the Elk Valley Pioneers and authenticate the articles written by me." - from author's Foreword. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of the 1984 revised edition. Book
Oversize harback with red illustrated paper over green cloth boards. 10"w x 12 1/4"h. Elaborate color map endpapers of the Saint Lawrence River, several other maps inside. Back of cover has a presentation seal identifying the book as #4485, presented to "The N.E. Dairyman" in neat cursive pen. An introduction by the commissioners, after which the book has text on the L. page with a very large b&w photo on the right, captioned below, displaying some element of the Port or some aspect of the Montreal harbor, all on glossy paper.
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
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
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
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
