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2249o.J. 8°, Seiten 328-377. Orig.Umschlag.
Collana Specchio del mondo 1 - Sezione Arte 1 - Traduzione di Felice Dess? 1 18,5x20,5 cm., legatura editoriale cartonata con piatti illustrati, pp. 101 (5), numerose illustrazioni in b/n e colori, prima edizione italiana, buone condizioni.
Signed and dated by author on blank leaf following half-title page. Approximately 70 pages. "All of the stinging and difficult realities of colonialism are confronted head-on and with ferocity." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
Mm 170x240 Volume cartonato rigido di pagine 480 con 36 tavole fuori testo in bianco e nero e a colori. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1950Bü068-tBremen: Selbstverlag 1950. 120 S., 12 Abb. auf Tafeln. Gr.-8°, Broschur.
Torino, 1929, 24 novembre, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo di pp. 16 de “Illustrazione del popolo" - Supplemento della ”Gazzetta del Popolo" .
2008742292008 De Vecchi, 2008, 1 volume in-8 de 206 pages, broché.
73822Barcelona, Self-Published by OFF, 2019. Origi.Pappband, 4°, 187 Seiten.
Features: Good showing by Northern Pacific Railway Co. in Annual Report; Railway News in Brief; Fire Fighting on Locomotives; Editorial by Lewis Nixon discusses Panama Canal Tolls; Bernard N. Baker admits his Atlantic & Pacific Transportation Co. lacks funds to carry mail between the Atlantic and Pacific; The Grand Trunk's New Hotel, Chateau Laurier - feature article with excellent illustration of this fine new Ottawa hotel located on the busy Rideau Canal near Canada's Parliament Buildings; Interesting business biography of C.D. Dunnan aka "Totem Pole Charley" of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., the man who saw the great possibilities of specially conducted Alaskan cruises; Appointments, Changes, Personals, etc.; Steamship Mariposa purchased by the Alaska Steamship Company; The Panama Canal and American Commerce; How the City of Los Angeles Has Built Her Harbor; Descrimination at Panama?; Panama Canal Free Toll Question Must Be Settled; Steamer Magnolia to run between Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle; Captain Buck Bailey Saves Lives and Property - He captained the tug Tatoosh which saved 48 souls aboard the steam schooner Washington on Nov. 23 - one of the most daring rescues in the annals of North Pacific Coast shipping - major article with illustration of Capt. Bailey; Annual Report of Supervising Inspector George Uhler; Capt. John Bermingham of San Francisco near death - article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Pacific Coast casualties - tug Chemainus burns, steam schooner Westerner sunk, steam schooner Washington towed to safety, New Steamer Princess Alice a Beautiful Vessel - feature article with photo; General Shipping News; Repairs, Drydocking and Other Work; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A sound copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
119 pages. Features: Studying British Columbia - A Recent Burgeoning; The Indians of the Northwest Coast; Discovering Totem Poles; Cook at Nootka - The Engraved Record; Preserving a Precious Heritage - The Totem Pole; An Interview with Bill Reid; Fort St. James; The Royal Engineers in British Columbia; The Restoration of Historic Barkerville; The Architecture of Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury; The Restoration of British Columbia's Parliament Buildings; British Columbia Painters; A Chinese Herbalist in British Columbia; Artifacts of British Columbia Technology; Domestic Interiors; Two B.C. Samplers - Susan Irving and Mary Irving; Early Banks, Coins and Stamps of British Columbia; Restoring Victoria; Conserving Vancouver; Heraldic Stained Glass in Vancouver; Mission Churches; Maritime Legacy; The Crystal Glass Company - British Columbia's First Glass Factory; Chinese Decorative Art in British Columbia; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Carving with Roger Andre Bourgault; The sky's the limit for Chuck Kubilos; The Idaho Twins - Elaine Allen of Boise and Eileen Schrier of Lowman; Don't Skate on Thin Ice; Paul Luvera retires from totem carving; Carve a little owl neckerchief; Let's Carve a Mule; Carve a Whittler's Poke; I'd like to try woodcarving; Carve a Chow; Stamps honor hand-carved carousels; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Magnificent Ursis Horribillis (bear carving unveiled at Ursinus College, PA; Totem Pole honours Willie Keil Memory; The Hegler Workshop; Thomas Glover White is Top Winner; Exploring Power Carving - carve a realistic bear from laminated pieces of wood; Jan Low - Country-Loving Carver; English Bull Dog pattern; Extensive list of sources of supplies and books; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
88 pages. Features: John Hagensick; Carving Carousel Animals - new book; Kevin Lager; Carousel rooster sets record at Sotheby's; Let's Carve! - St. Francis Plaque; Amazing Bobby Orr carving by Armand LaMontagne; Spaniel Techniques; Knife-building - Part 2: A woodcarving hobbyist; Fred Cogelow; Burning Techniques; Richard L. Stanfill; Ivan Denton - the drifting, whittling cowboy; Bob Dewar - totem pole carving expert; Many show photos and reports; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Eel fishing in the Richelieu at the twin towns of St. Jean and Iberville; Writing on Stone - Milk River, Southern Alberta; East Coast Totem Pole - John L. Bradford of Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia; Lillooet's Ice Cave - a freak of nature discovered near Lillooet, B.C. by Martin Chernault; Protecting Our Heritage - the work of Ducks Unlimited; The "Tent" that's Permanent - the Shakespearean Festival Theatre at Stratford, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Funding for the Kinsmen Club's new health unit; Doukhobor women denounce Stefan Sorokin and the Fraternal Council in preference to John Lebedoff; E.C. (Terry) Whitelock - His paintings of Napoleonic era uniforms win world respect - nice photo with article; Renovating the Nelson Canadian Legion; Palm Dairy gets rid of milk bottles in favour of Pure-Pak cartons; Kootenay Cadets - with photos of Mike Molloy, Harry James, Vic Young, and others; Continuing sabotage by Doukhobor radicals; Should Nelson sell the North Shore Power Line?; Dozens of wonderful local vintage ads, our favourite being the Gala Opening of Totem Burger. Average wear. Yellowed with age. Moisture markings. Bit of writing on front cover. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Newspaper
120 pages. Features: Our Frosty Welcome to Richard Nowalinski; International Harvester Fridge ad; Nice corn flakes ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell shows girl in pink top and hair bow; A New Senate - and why we need it; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Willards chocolate bars - Swee-Marie, Cherry Ripe, Coconut, Swell and Cheerio!; The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain - part 3; I Married the Klondike, by Laura Beatrice Berton - part 1 of 3 - article and photos; How to Get Along with Older People; The Home Movies People Pay to See - The Crawley Family and Canada's biggest commercial film business; What You Should Know About the "Miracle" Fabrics; The Strange Case of the Mail-Order Prophet, short story by Antony Ferry; I Hate Dogs, by Robert Thomas Allen; Ben Kravitz' Conquest of the New World - a former Lithuanian with a passion for work and the recipe for Ben's Smoked Meats - article with photos; The Romantic story of how John McIntosh, his family and a wondering stranger saved and spread the McIntosh Apple Tree - with photo; Nature's indispensable Fall Guy - rabbits are the animal kingdom's Caspar Milquetoast; Her Garden in the Sea - Connie MacFarlane studies Nova Scotia's coast - she lives for seaweed; Gilbert Harding - The Rudest Man in England; 1954 Ford V-8 Crestline ad; Nice DeSoto car ad; centerfold ad loose but present; Nice two-colour GMC truck ad; The Sakau'wan totem pole; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows man in denim overalls talking with friend; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Book
48 pages. Cover illustration by Eric Aldwinckle shows dapper tourist inspecting totem pole. Contents: Short article with photo on North American drought - photo shows sand drifts two to five feet high on the road allowance at Kisbey, Saskatchewan, 4 June, 1937; Uncommon full-page ad for Nesbitt, Thomson & Company - Gold Prospecting Theme; Parcker Vacumatic Pen Ad; The Man Who Was Careful - story by Elmer Davis; Via the North Pole - Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon on what Russia's trans-polar flights mean to the future of aviation - with photos and map; The Road Never Dies, story by Bruce Hutchison; Television Broadcast, by Thomas Wayling - a layman's description of how the new wonder of the air works its miracle - with photos; Beverley Baxter on What's Happening in Europe; - with photos of Von Ribbentrop and The Leipzig; Yellow Cargo - story by Gordon Carroll; How's Your I.Q., by R.E. Knowles, Jr.; No More Bad Men - Dink Carroll writes about Rabbit Maranville, Manager of the Montreal Royals - with photo; Murder in Amber - story by Colver Harris; Animal Anecdotes - Fighting Turtles, by Phil H. Moore; Cigarettes, by Frederick Edwards - article with many great photos of cigarette production; Palmolive Soap ad features the Dionne Quintuplets; Full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee ad bears the caption "What a Gay Dog You Are!" - as a woman dressed as Cleopatra chides her sullen husband dressed as a clown; Page of wonderful ads for thirteen private schools, including photo-illustrated ad for Ontario Ladies' College; Quarter-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition's Coronation Year; Lovely half-page four-photo ad for Quaker Puffed Wheat featuring Shirley Temple; Article on How to Ice a Cake, by Helen G. Campbell; Lovely colour ad for Westinghouse radios on back cover features violin-maker Antonio Stradivari; Many more vintage ads. Moderately above-average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great issue. Book
26 pages. Features: The Town that Hit the Jackpot - Nickie Rubuliak and the residents of Smoky Lake, Alberta who defeated Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest; The Mob - Part 5 - A foothold in Ontario; Dignity in Decay - Totem Poles along the British Columbia coast; Four-page feature on mothers having *two* sons playing hockey in the NHL; Glenn Martin of the Pine River Cheese and Butter Company near Goderich, Ontario; Funny Doug Wright's Family comic strip. Average wear. Unmarked. Short closed tear to back coveer. A quality copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 9-12, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Examination of the Cariboo Gold Quartz property at Cow Mountain; Tourist travel to B.C. shows largest increase in years; J.R. Matson wins Totem Pole Golf Trophy at Jasper; Province tightens collections under taxation of income; Unusual photo of the Great Taseko Valley; Protests to Japan over torture case; B.C. payrolls last year approximately $100 million; Editorial page; list of public and high school textbooks; social page; large school supplies ad by David Spencer Limited; Entertainment page; Travel page; Business page; pages of classified ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
240 pages. Valedictory address by Val Sears laid in (Mr. Sears, of course, went on to become a well-known Canadian journalist). May 1949 Graduation Program also laid in. Clean and unmarked with mild wear. Binding tight and square. Quality copy. Book
336 pages. Clean and unmarked with surprisingly light wear. Binding tight. Very nice copy. Book
Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
Features: The Terrible Swede - a writer returns from a year in the South Seas; Search in Saigon - a mystery by Lawrence Morgan; Queen of the Windjammers - The Lawhill; Terror Strikes Karunga; Trapped in the Ice - Eskimo Transportation; Sentence of Death - the adventures of French Foreign Legionnaire John Seymore Townsend; Birdin' on the Furneaux; 10' a week for paradise Skokholm - I Know an Island, Part II; Beloved Elephant; War Breaks out on Friday - the Moro Naba of French Sudan; World's Tallest Totem Pole - Victoria, British Columbia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
224 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Prior owner's name and details upon front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
