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2001DADAX1793605211Lexington Books 2020-01-20. hardcover. New. 6.34x1.00x8.95. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
189979680Denver: The Denver Litho Co 1899. Engraved and printed in black green and red on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 54 unsigned. $500 six percent bond issued by the town of Nevadaville in Gilpin County to help fund a “gravity system of water worksâ€. The total issue was $20000 and the bonds’ mature date was 10 years. Includes 30 coupons valued at $15 each.<br /> <br /> Nevadaville was founded in 1859 and is now a gold mining ghost town. It was once one of the most important mining settlements in the area and originally part of the Kansas Territory. It grew to house the miners working the Burroughs lode and the Kansas lode and the population was predominantly Irish. The Denver Litho Co unknown
026576288X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1971R1059New York: Putnams 1971. Paperback. New/new. New York: Putnams 1971. New/new. Putnam New York 1971. Cloth. Book Condition: NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW clipped. First American Edition. Po signature. A handsome copy in orange and green cloth. A great collectible copy. Putnams paperback
19235280Various locations in the American Southwest and West 1923. About very good. Two oblong folio photograph albums bound in brown pebbled leather each titled in gilt on front cover "WANDERLUST" containing a total of 266 full-page vernacular and professional photographs. First albums: 146 leaves illustrated with 128 full-page landscape photographs each around 6 x 8 inches or slightly larger and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages and maps. Second volume: 148 leaves illustrated with 138 photographs and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages. All contents mounted one per page to recto of each leaf. Spines perished but holding strong boards worn scuffed and soiled. Contents noticeably curled with minor to moderate dust-soiling throughout. A studio photograph of a young man is laid-in to the first album likely the compiler of the albums but sadly unidentified. An elaborately-produced pair of vernacular photograph albums documenting an epic cross-country train excursion in 1923 by a well-to-do but anonymous traveler from New York comprised of over 260 full-page photographs. The photographs are a mixture of silver gelatin images printing out paper prints handcolored photographs and a handful of cyanotypes. Most of the images appear to be taken by the traveler en route but some images may have been bought along the way. The images largely picture the landscape or architecture seen along the way with a healthy number of images showing the railroad and the railcars themselves with many images taken at train depots. The occasional manuscript sectional title pages denote the regions of travel as the compiler moved west to California and then eventually back east towards home.<br /> <br /> The first album begins with a manuscript title leaf quoting the text of Gerald Gould's poem "Wanderlust" supplemented by two small drawings and two thumbnail photographs. A map on the second leaf traces the voyage from New York down through the American South and Southwest to California and back to New York through Arizona Colorado and the Midwest. Thereafter the album is comprised mostly of full-page photographs grouped together by location with anywhere from a few to several images per section. The first section in the first album shows the first major stop on the trip -- Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon; this section contains photographs of the Capitol the Lincoln Monument other D.C. buildings and several on the grounds of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. The album then includes sections featuring New Orleans six photographs; the route between New Orleans and El Paso five images including the train depot at Langtry Texas; El Paso five shots featuring the city and street views; Juarez Mexico eight shots mostly either street scenes or a bullfight; "Thru New Mexico and Arizona" four images; The Apache Trail in Arizona nineteen shots mostly desert landscapes but with some buildings along the trail; and onward through the Carriso Gorge seven photos to California beginning at Coronado Beach eight photographs. The remainder of the first album features California locations namely San Diego sixteen images mostly missions; Pasadena ten photos mostly featuring gardens; Catalina Island eight shots of the island scenery or the bay; Los Angeles eight views in Santa Monica Venice and Ocean Park; and ending with fourteen images featuring missions and other notable structures in Santa Barbara.<br /> <br /> The second volume picks up the excursion in Del Monte California featuring fifteen scenes in Carmel by the Sea and Monterey. The photographic journey of California then continues to Santa Cruz and the Big Trees five shots; San Francisco eleven views around the city and in the Japanese gardens; Mt. Tamalpais a dozen shots of elevated vistas big trees and forests; Yosemite National Park twenty park views; Mariposa Big Trees seven shots; and ends with the Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside twenty-two images of the hotel grounds and other local scenery and missions around Riverside. The remainder of the album features photographs from the Grand Canyon in Arizona twenty-six images mostly landscapes but with a few featuring Native American ceremonies and Colorado Springs twenty landscapes and other views of the city surrounding desert Pikes Peak and so forth. Concerned mostly with scenery of the American South Southwest and West Coast the compiler did not see fit to record photographs of the remainder of his trip back home to New York. In addition to the information contained in the photographs here the elaborate materiality custom matching albums with matching gilt titles to the front board handcrafted sectional title pages the hand-drawn and traced map and the nature of the organization of the albums arranged in the order of travel from east to west and back east again speaks volumes about the importance the compiler placed on the trip.<br /> <br /> Substantially documented western travel albums are growing rare in the market and the present example is one of the most carefully-assembled examples we have ever seen. unknown
1984318c6701Canada: Hancock House. Good. 1984. First Edition. Paperback. 0888399820 . 103 pages. Index. Many archival black and white illustrations. "The B.C. sagebrush desert was transformed into orchards through the imagination and industry of English settlers from 1907 to 1914. Then the men left to fight and die for king and country. A storm wrecked the vital irrigation flume. Now all that remains are ghosts of the flume trees and homes which mock this once thriving settlement." - from back cover. Address label remnant atop title page. Average wear.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Walhachin: Catastrophe or Camelot British Columbia Okanagan Settlers English Pioneers Irrigation . Hancock House paperback
1995318c7718Canada: Fifth House Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. 1895618665 . 184 pages. "Combines early impressions of breathtaking grandeur with photographs of exploration surveying the building of roads and railways the extraction fof resources and the establishment of communities. Contemporary viewers witness through these compelling images the remarkable accomplishments of men and women labouring under extraordinary circumstances." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy of this wonderful compilation.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Waiting for the Light: Early Mountain Photography in British Columbia and Alberta 1865-1939 Canadian Pictorial Works . Fifth House Publishers hardcover
1988713H2005Penticton BC Canada: Skookum Publications 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 92 pages. Map. Numerous black and white reproductions of archival black and white photos. "Returns the reader to an era in Canadian history when raising training trading and selling and the general use of horses were in their last decades of necessity and popularity. The Patterson herds were not animals raised in the neatly fenced paddocks of today. Range bred horses were left in the mountains until maturity then corralled castrated and branded. This story deals with these wild horses and the lifestyle of those men who worked with them and depended upon them." - from Introduction. Patterson's family was droughted out of Alberta and travelled by covered wagon to British Columbia to make a new start. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this adventurous depression-era history. Skookum Publications Paperback
19652082402113505078Japan Productivity Center 1965. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Japan Productivity Center paperback
1980111c5982British Columbia Canada: Self-Published 1980. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 154 pages including copies of black & white photos. Personal Memoirs of W.T. Burkitt Theo born in England who immigrated to Canada early 1900's. Patriarch to Burkitt Family of Salt Spring Island British Columbia. Depicts history of early Vancouver Island military service politics and family life from a personal point of view. Hand typed. Handwritten greetings on title page read "To Marjorie and Gerry With Best Wishes" presumably written by the author. A nice clean copy with sound binding. Self-Published Paperback
1983325a2215Canada: Douglas & McIntyre 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 464 pages. References. Index. "Political biography of the highest order a skillful mesh of insight analysis and narrative power which brings wonderfully alive the people and events of a signature era." - from dust jacket. Black and white photographic plates. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper else unmarked with moderate wear. Partial lean to spine. A sound copy. Douglas & McIntyre Hardcover
23934Without date or place but late Victorian. Each of the two items attributed to Wright in pencil note on reverse. Both in good condition lightly aged. ONE: On 11 x 17.5 cm piece of paper. At head: ‘Book Plate of Morrall A vox stellarum vox Dei’. At foot: ‘M. J. Morrall’. Unlikely to be the Brooklyn architect of this name active at this time. Up left-hand margin: ‘Mr. Edward Morrall / Mayor 1885-6’. Down right-hand margin: ‘Presented to Mr Edward Morrall Quay House Bridgnorth’. Full achievement from crest to motto with colours indicated. TWO: On back of 9 x 11 cm printed ‘at Home’ card. Text at foot: ‘Three Roses on bend are red’. Less detailed illustration of coat of arms with crest and helmet but no motto. See image. Without date or place, but late Victorian. unknown
1979334259London: Q Centaur Ltd 1979. Magazine. 55p 8x12 inch staplebound magazine containing explicit photos in black and white and color of male nudity stories ads; in very good condition. Scarce in commerce; only 3 copies in OCLC as of May 2025. Vulcan was created by Q International editors in 1978 when they wanted to focus on gay entertainment. Q Centaur Ltd unknown
1991GB000RZNG9KI2N001991. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. hardcover
1991GB000RZNG9KI4N101991. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. hardcover
99333Princeton Princeton Univ. Press 1973. 17269 p.; 356 ills. on 106 pls. Cl. 29 cm Heavy book may require extra shipping costs unknown
2002318c6460Canada: R.S.P. 2002. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 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. R.S.P. Paperback
2008664G2693Canada: Salal 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 365 pages. Index. Select bibliography. Footnotes. Numerous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Signed by author upon title page. "Set against a background of rapid social and economic change this work examines the years 1899 to 1929. This era saw the demise of the fur seal trade the coming of scheduled steamships and the development of commercial whaling logging and fishing. Zealous missionaries radically altered the lives of native people while the upstart settlement called Tofino gradually eclipsed nearby Clayoquot as the dominant community in the area." - from dust jacket. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Salal Hardcover
2010166j2267Canada: Douglas & McIntyre Educational Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 1553654951 . "Stories of those who lived and worked around the building of British Columbia's Peace and Columbia River hydroelectric projects early in the 1960s. More than 120 illustrations maps and photos." - dust jacket. 312 pages. Index. Footnotes. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality example.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Voices from Two Rivers: Harnessing the Power of the Peace and Columbia Rivers British Columbia Energy Hydro-Electric Power W.A.C. Bennett BC Hydro and Power Authority . Douglas & McIntyre (Educational) Ltd. hardcover
1998231G1799Canada: Self Published. Good. 1998. First Edition. Paperback. 57 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed by author upon title page otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Nice Vancouver Island poetry. A quality copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Voice of the Salmon River - Poetry of the Sayward Valley 1941 to 1950; Signed by Authors . Self Published paperback
2011663G3907Ireland: P.F.P. 2011. Book. Illus. by Campbell Dave Signed. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 138 pages. Signed by photographer upon half-title page. "A photographic record of time spent in one of the last surviving tracts of temperate rain forest on earth. A celebration of the grizzly bear taking you on a journey into one of the hidden corners of our fragile planet." - from dust jacket. Oblong 13" x 10". Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A lovely copy. P.F.P. Hardcover
1932647G0877British Columbia: British Columbia Provincial Board of Health 1932. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 222 pages with printing on one side. Published upon British Columbia's 60th birthday to show what had transpired in the province over the course of those years. "The chapters following are devoted to the General History of the Vital Statistics Branch of the Provincial Board of Health; the changes from time to time in Legislation covering both "Vital Statistics" and the "Solemnization of Marriage"; the History of the Registration Districts and extension of registration facilities to the people of British Columbia; a review of the forms prescribed and used pursuant to the provisions of both Acts; Population and Census and finally to the General Statistics of the Branch" - from Introduction. Above-average wear. Number stamped inside front board otherwise unmarked. Front board almost loose. A worthy copy of this highly informative and uncommon reference. British Columbia Provincial Board of Health Hardcover
19952355mint oversize pb filed with Visual Voices Yunnan Min Zu Chu Ban She paperback
1974738G3771Canada: University of British Columbia Press 1974. Book. Illus. by Robinson Frances M.P. Photos. Fair. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 139 pages. Glossary. List of sources. Black and white photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by Chief Harris upon half-title page. "Told at their gatherings by the Indians of the Skeena and Nass Rivers region for countless generations the eight myths in this volume are translated for the first time by one of their chiefs. Simple in style the myths deserve a close reading to reveal their full effect. The introductions notes and glossaries which have been added help explain the important symbols and hereditary titles of these Northern British Columbia people. Chief Arthur McDames recorded the tapes from which these translations have been made." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's names inside front cover. A worthy copy. About Indians 836. University of British Columbia Press Paperback
1963644c9714British Columbia: Publisher Not Stated 1963. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Undated but appears to be early 1960s. Many colour photos and other illustrations. Provides a comprehensive snapshot of the many tourist attractions and services of these areas several decades ago. Unmarked with average wear. A great piece for those interested in the history of the tourism industry in these regions. Publisher Not Stated Paperback
