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1951341c6560Vancouver B.C.: McLennan McFeely & Prior Limited 1951. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 1025-1124 99 pages in total. Includes index and prices. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Intended to be read by shop owners. Presents a wonderful cross-section of "the most complete stocks in Western Canada" - from page 1024. Extensive listings of firearms and related products. Also included are products for dogs traps thermos and related products flashlights and batteries lighters harmonicas cards baseball tennis badminton golf football hockey soccer volleyball basketball boxing lawn bowling croquet roller skating snow shoes bicycles and ski equipment. Above-average but not excessive wear. Front cover taped in place. Back cover missing. A very enjoyable and nostalgic item. Young readers will be amazed to see how far today's gear has advanced in the past 50 years particularly ski equipment. McLennan, McFeely & Prior, Limited Paperback
1956842a0705London: George Newnes Limited 1956. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features: Killer Whale in the Net - Alaskan Diver Virgil Burford tells his tale; Take off to Trouble - Blizzard forces a crash landing in Greenland for Gerald Abrahams; Night Duel with a Bear - Young men out for fun on the Queen Charlotte Islands have a near-tragic experience; How I became a White Fulani Warrior; Toopua - I Know An Island - Part I; Soldiers of the Sky - Paratrooper John Seymour Townsend; Hekla - Gateway to Hell the worst volcano in the world; The Night it Rained - a Northern Quebec Adventure by Ronald H. More; The Belles of Mbowe; Ask the Man Who Owns One - a story about dogs by Lt.-Col. T.A. Lowe; Little Sir Echo - Bats; Ham-Handed Hero - Harry Higgs; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. George Newnes Limited Paperback
1952842a0759London: George Newnes Limited 1952. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features: The Envelope - The author worked in the wilds of British Columbia on a ranch where he was involved with a mix-up involving illegal whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Tough and Go - a boundary dispute in the former Italian Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - an account of an experience in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown clear up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt - photos; The Strangest House in Iceland; Timber Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech - a story from Ceylon; Australia's Black Trackers; Tough Prospector Breaks Curse of Lost Creek Mine British Columbia facsimile of news clipping; Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip though Southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota by Austin H. Phelps; Mahoney's Folly - a wierd story from Ireland related by a doctor; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Average wear. Binding sound. George Newnes Limited Paperback
1985166j2433British Columbia: Self-Published. Good. 1985. First Edition. Paperback. "This is the story of the pioneers. Where they came from; why they came and what their lives were like." It is the story of their descendents who remember Vernon when it was a small town of just over one thousand. In their lifetime they have seen the horse and buggy replaced by the railway the car the airplane and space travel. For those who grew up many years ago this book is a trip down memory lane. For children and their parents it is a glimpse into the past - something with which to compare the present - something to give hope for the future." - back cover. xii135 pages. Bibliography. Index. Colour and black and white photos. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound example. Hale & Barman 685. ; 8vo . Self-Published paperback
1988106a1014Canada: Diamond Family 1988. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 245 pages. Index. Bibliography. "In 1926 four months after leaving his father's once-prosperous farm in Galicia then a part of Poland Jack Diamond - age 17 - got off a rickety old boat in Quebec City with a straw suitcase and barely enough money to get him to Vancouver. Ten years later he was battling Canada's national corporations for control of British Columbia's meatpacking industry. Follows Diamond from horse-and-buggy potato pedlar to king of B.C.'s thoroughbred racing; from butcher to university chancellor SFU. Along the way his story is interlinked with the collapse of three European empires the growth of Vancouver into a burgeoning metropolis and influential people including W.A.C. Bennett and Supreme Court Justice Angelo Branca." - from dust jacket. A well-researched and very readable biography of this amazing sportsman businessman and philantropist. Will be of special interest to those whose ancestors lived in Galicia early in the last century. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Diamond Family Hardcover
198353AH3172Victoria B.C.: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1983. Book. Illus. by Maynard Max Singleton. Fair. Paperback. First American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 48 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Selected Bibliography. Exhibition List. Eight informative biographical pages including archival photos. Looks "primarily at Maynard's painting in the years before he concentrated on his academic pursuits. Included also are examples of his later and more recent work which completes the circle of his artistic endeavours." - Foreword. Former library copy with above-average wear and usual markings. Hinges taped. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paperback
1997713c5353Canada: T.P. 1997. Book. Very Good. Spiral-Bound. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 360 pages. A comprehensive review of 100 years of soccer on Vancouver Island including many archival photographs of past teams. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. T.P. Paperback
ria9781107111769_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This important work illuminates the early modern roots of two very contemporary concerns real estate values and pension/annuity funding. It places in historical context the work of an active group of eighteenth-century mathematicians hardcover
147395343X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1803H3647Lancaster: William Hamilton 1803. Hardcover. Good. Published 1803. Original paper covered boards 2 154 2 24 pp. Good copy in original paper covered boards recent spine paper some tanning and soil to endpapers contents a little foxed but very good untrimmed. Other copies mention only a 14pp appendix; ours has a 24 pp appendix. William Hamilton hardcover
193658355Santa Barbara CA: United Motor Courts Inc. 3230 Hollister Ave. 1936. 4to. 8 x 9 in. 15 1 pp. Printed in red & black photo- illustrated throughout w/ strip maps printed in red & black in landscape double-page formated self-printed colour illustrated softcovers cover art of scenic Spanish Revival style bungalows w/ 1930’s style sedans pulling into a California motor court minor dustsoiling shelfwear small tear to upper right corner still VG- copy w/ stamp of Beechwood Auto-o-Tel on back cover. Fourth revised edition of this well-illustrated motel guide for Western automobile travelers as the country slowly emerged from the Great Depression. This association based in Santa Barbara California was one of the earliest motel referral services in the U.S. and managed to garner independent motel and motor inn operators across the country to subscribe and maintain their standards of comfort and courteous service. These illustrated guides prove invaluable in charting roadside architecture across the West amenities to be found by travelers and the variety of signage. This guide combines elements of the earlier Photo-mobile Western travel guides with mileage information phone numbers and images of the well-appointed motels. Scattered across the West these include the Utah Motor Park Sunset Cottage Court in Pocatello ID the Home Motel in Las Vegas NV the Craftsman inspired Wa-Wona Court in Corvallis OR the Jones Autel in Merced CA featuring a service station & cottages Bear Creek Lodge on the Yosemite Highway and many more. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Andrew Wood The Rise and Fall of the Great American Motel: Mom and Pop Motels once dominated American Highways Smithsonian Magazine June 30 2017. United Motor Courts, Inc., 3230 Hollister Ave., paperback
193763858Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1937. Tall 8vo. 277 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing w/ d.j. minor creasing edgewear slight chipping head of spine scuffing still VG/VG copy signed by Hawthorne Daniel and mounted signature of James H. Kyner on ffep. First edition signed of this memoir awarded the Gold Medal of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association in 1936 recounting the life of the main contractor for the Oregon Short Line Railroad through Idaho and other Western railroads during the Gilded Age. He details the railroad camps with photos through Wyoming Colorado Nebraska and Idaho fighting off stagecoach bandits and coping with the Herculean projects to complete the lines. Kyner 1846-1936 enlisted in the Civil War with the 45th Ohio Regiment at the age of 15 fought under General Tecumseh Sherman lost his right leg below the knee at the Battle of Shiloh and would later homestead in Nebraska near Norfolk and later served as legislator in Omaha before beginning his railroad building career. Very rare to have both signatures. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover
3021Boston: The Company; Dutton and Wentworth's Print. 1840. . 8vo pale blue wrappers front printed; ownership signature of the Hon. John Davis on front cover Boston: [The Company]; Dutton and Wentworth's Print., 1840. unknown
199359803Salem OR: Your Town Press & Edward Gray 1993. 4to. 6 222 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations maps. Embossed & decorated beige cloth copper lettering on front cover & spine w/ brands on front cover F copy. First edition of this fascinating work set in the desolate regions of Crook Deschutes Harney and Lake Counties at the end of the 19th century when Bill Brown was known as the Horse King of the Northwest. He owned the largest branded horse herds on the Pacific Coast and was caught between two factions in the Wagontire Mountain Range Feud employing at one time nearly all of the participants. Your Town Press & Edward Gray], hardcover
191642739N.P.: Van Noy Inter-State Co. n.d. ca 1916. 1916. 9" x 12" in colorful pictorial wrappers showing the Golden Gate at sunset on the front wrapper. Two pages of text explaining the subjects that are illustrated in the book followed by beautiful colored 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" full-page illustrations attached to one side of each page. Includes pictures in Utah Nevada and with several in California. Pictures include the Temple Square Saltair Pavillion the Great Salt Beds Feather River Gold Lake Feather River Inn Williams Circle Ben Lomond Peak Arch Rock the Great Western Power Company Plant Blue Gorge etc. Light shadowing to pages of text and with light soiling to wrappers. Very good plus. A very nice presentation. Van Noy Inter-State Co., n.d. [ca 1916]. unknown
4031Hoboken:: The Railroad. . Single sheet 9 3/8 7 1/4 inches printed on one side only. Hoboken Hoboken The Newark and Bloomfield Railroad was chartered in 1852 and opened in 1855 as a short branch from the main line at Roseville Avenue/Bloomfield Junction northwest to Montclair via Bloomfield. It was built by the Morris & Essex Railroad and largely owned by them. The M&E leased it on April 1 1868. At this point the lessee was The Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad a.k.a. The Lackawanna.Signed in print by S. Schoch Superintendent. Samuel Schoch 1835–1895 started his career with the Morris and Essex and then the Lackawanna; he was with that company for twenty years resigning in 1872 when he went to Texas and became the General Superintendent of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad. He spent one year in this post moving to the Midwest in 1873 to join the newly formed Marquette Houghton & Ontonagon Railway where “he has had the management. . .and the successful condition of the affairs of the company are owing to himâ€â€”From History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 1883. Hoboken:: [The Railroad],. unknown
197075403647Courtenay BC: Island Books. Good. 1970. Second Printing. Paperback. 128 pages plus fold-out map. Black and white illustrations. "There is scarcely a settlement of any size on Vancouver Island which is not mentioned in detail to some degree by the authors of this most interesting volume." - Nanaimo Daily Free Press. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Norcross E.Blanche; Tonkin Doris.Farmer Frontiers of Vancouver Island History Frontier Black and white illustrations. "There is scarcely a settlement of any size on Vancouver Island which is not mentioned in detail to some degree by the authors of th . Island Books paperback
1899127865The Railway 1899. Good. 8 ratesheets issued between July 10 1899 and December 20 1899. 28 cm. Single and folded sheets. Some ink and pencil notations. Tears to edges on some pages. <br/><br/>Tariffs pertaining to lumber and wood products. Joint freight tariffs of the Railway and Baltimore Steam Packet Company Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. Old Dominion Steamship Co. other railways etc. Listings of stations and rates. Alphabetical list of railways from Allegheny Valley to York Southern. The Railway unknown
194725851Perth: Department of Lands and Surveys 1947. Cadastral map showing land use and zoning with notes on soil and vegetation.<br /> Includes locality plan. Originally dated 22.9.37 this is "Reprint 26.3.47". Manuscript additions in pencil in the top margin.<br /> <br /> The SLWA holds the 1937 version-<br /> "Townsite of Manjimup Nelson District cartographic material<br /> Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys.<br /> Map Dept. of Lands & Surveys W.A. 1937.<br /> Available at 3rd Floor Map Stack Call number: 35/11/MANJ 1937 plus 1 more.<br /> 1 map ; 54 x 69 cm. encapsulated in plastic.<br /> Notes <br /> "22/9/37"<br /> Cadastral map showing land use and zoning with notes on soil and vegetation.<br /> Includes locality plan.<br /> Part of collection: Townsite maps Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys unknown
0757573665.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
DADAX0739191756Lexington Books 2015-12-24. hardcover. New. 6.19x0.77x9.38. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
SONG149854245XLexington Books 2017-10-11. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.30x0.94x9.31. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
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2012DADAX140944371XRoutledge 2012-06-22. 1. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.69x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
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