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223 p., frontis. Hardcover Very good condition; spine lightly faded & soiled
pp. xviii, 524. Illustrated. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, faded at extremities. Original dust jacket, chipped with loss. Second edition. Hardbound. Good. W11
Book is in excellent condition, appears nearly new in bright red hardcover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name inside front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, small tears, sunning at spine. Book explores the reasons for the migration of settlers from New England to the Western Reserve, the Northwest, Illinois and Iowa, and to Kansas before the Civil War. Chapters include The heralds of Moroni, the land of Michigandia, Putney, the Foresters, Pilgrims in Iowa, Gold, climate, pioneers in Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Cargoes of maidens, Lesser migrations, etc.
1984100138625OXFORD UNIV PR 1984 264 pages 14 22x2 29x21 84cm. 1984. Cartonné jaquette. 264 pages.
1798930273<p>The Works: London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson Paternoster-Row and J. Edwards Pall-Mall. MDCCXCVIII 1798 WITH Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second: London John Murray Albemarle-Street. MDCCCXXII 1822. Over 4000 pages and 177 full-page engravings. Seven volumes uniformly bound in Contemporary Calf over marbled boards. Gold Gilt on black leather title labels. Additional spine gilt stamping with decorative blindstamp. Some rubbing to bindings wear heavier towards extremities see image. Hand Marbled endpapers hinges unobtrusively reinforced with moire brown cloth. Internally clean Unmarked. Off-setting from plates with sporadic foxing particularly to plates and adjoining leaves as per usual. Full Collation of the papers used contents and plates on request. A Very Good Antiquarian Set Indeed. First Edition. Half-Leather Marbled Boards. Very Good. Illus. by 177 Full-page Engravings Fold-outs etc. 4to - over 11½" tall. Extremely Heavy Oversized Safely Securely Packed.</p> Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards hardcover
167 pages including index. Neatly typed presentation bookplate upon half-title page. The controversy that surrounds BC's forests has produced a mountain of contradictory words. Most people don't know what to believe. The Working Forest Project tries to solve that problem by showing the BC forest as it really is - in photographs. In the past two years the Working Forest Project, initiated by forester Ike Barber and led by forester Gerry Burch, undertook the most comprehensive photographic documentation ever attempted of the BC forest, showing the good and the bad. On the way it interviewed the professional foresters who manage the working forest, and writer Peter Robson put together a concise and factual explanation of the state of British Columbia's forests in the 1990s. This visually stunning book contains over 200 full-colour photographs and graphs showing an overview of forestry in British Coumbia. Special emphasis is given to the areas which have been logged over the years, with many time-lapse photographs comparing original clearcuts to the second-growth forests which have regrown on the sites. Book
1996318270Edmonton: Wolf Willow Press 1996. First edition. paperback. fair/no dustjacket. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp.449 signed and inscribed by the author on dedicatory page old water stain to back pages Wolf Willow Press paperback
0265633869.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1980Embry 190727Doubleday & Co. 1980. Later printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Doubleday & Co., 1980. Later printing. unknown books
pp. xi, 252 + Photographs. Stamped "employee book sale" on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket, slightly soiled. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. W10
0385158017.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
139 pages including index, basic vocabulary and grammar notes. "A collection of 450 pieces of Western Canadian Mennonite folklore - nursery rhymes, songs, and maxims, presented in both Plautdietsch and English. Also includes a concise description of these Mennonites - their history and language, plus a literary analysis of their folklore." - paraphrased from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. A nice copy. Book
1970121a6112British Columbia: Publisher 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 151 pages. Black and white illustrations. "This volume is the first authentic true story ever written and published completely by local Quesnel B.C. talent. Written during the author's years in the Cariboo Country northeast of Barkerville." - from insert. Illustrated endpaper. Clean bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Very nice copy. Publisher Hardcover
114 pages including glossaries. This book was prepared to help teachers and students understand the biology of cancer, and to provide guidelines for reducing the risk of cancers. Chapters include: what is cancer?; why study cancer?; types of cancer; skin cancers; cancers of the lung; cancers of the mouth; cancers of the blood; testicular cancers; breast cancers; cancers of the cervix; cancers of the colon and rectum; recent advances in cancer research. Suitable to support a unit on cancer in secondary school biology classes. Some knowledge about the nature of the cell and basic human biology and anatomy is useful to reap the full benefits of this manual. Book
2005745j0461Canada: Whitecap Books Ltd. Good. 2005. First Edition. Paperback. 1552856488 . "Rugged yet serene the coast of Vancouver Island is unlike anywhere else: wave sculpted rocks foaming water an array of wildlife and miles of white sandy beaches. It takes only one trip to get hooked but a lifetime to explore. This book is the ideal reference for visiting this remote and wondrous coastline. It is a comprehensive guide for anyone exploring the coast - adventurous travellers curious tourists and stay-at-home readers alike." - back cover. 368 glossy pages. Index. Loaded with colour maps and photos. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor evidence of moisture exposure to top edge of first 60 pages. A quality copy of this highly-regarded guide.; 8vo . Whitecap Books Ltd. paperback
224 p. Illustrated with photographs. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. W9 LEFT REAR STK
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: How I Saved My Husband From Execution - Mr. Yaro Galvon had been condemned to be shot by the Mexican Government; An Unknown Switzerland - Canada's Unknown Alpine Wonderland - The Canadian Rockies; Across the Atlantic in a Tug - Captain J.W. Penberthy spent 2.5 months taking a tug from Argentina to England; A Flying Man in South America - Part I - John G. Barron imported a monoplane to South America and spent 2.5 years their giving exhibition flights, often to people who had never seen an airplane - article with great photos; The Third Attempt - How I Escaped From Germany - Corporal John Southern explains how he succeeded on his third attempt; Seaman Blake Discovers Coney Island - an exciting day for two unsophisticated bluejackets of the Royal Navy; The Dogs of War - All abou the "Four-Footed" Soldiers of France, with nice photos; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part II - E.W. Hawkes travelled 3,000 miles in Labrador and Hudson Bay, gaining a vivid impression of its lonely trading ports and mission stations, and the curious manners and customs of the Eskimos - article with photos; "Back to the Land" - city-worker Frank Hemstreet decides to try his luck as an extra hand on a farm during harvest near Vanguard, Saskatchewan; "Red Rube" - an account of the lurid career of one of the most daring and successful train robbers to plague American railroad and express companies; The Saving of Paris - how the wit of a humble woodman's widow led to the preservation of the Western Railway of France in the early days of WWI; "What Happened to Glenholme" - a merchant ship is sunk by a German U-boat in the Mediterranean; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 483-572, [16] ads. Covers detached as one but present. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Backstrip almost entirely missing. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Decent copy. Book