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CHEZ L AUTEUR.. 1967. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos plié. Intérieur frais. 504 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte.
398 pages. Author's signature upon page ii. A large collection of stories based upon columns the author wrote for local newspapers. Each story is a fragment of Whitby's history. Taken together, they make truly fascinating reading. Abundant archival black and white illustrations. Examples of the many dozens of stories include: The Day the Railway Came to Whitby; The Day Brooklin was Nearly Washed Away; Gun Fight at Myrtle Station; Tom Thomson Learned his Art From Whitby's Florence McGillivray; Whitby Fared Better Than Most Communities in the 1918 'Flu Epidemic'. Mr. Winter has spent nearly 40 years studying and compiling the history of Whitby, Ontario. Beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part VI - Robert Wilton, a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, recounts his experiences, tells the true story of the tragic end of Rasputin, and discusses claims that the Czar is alive - article with photos of the Czar, his family, and Rasputin; The Most Savage of Beasts - John A. Jordan describes the strange tactics and danger of hunting the African Buffalo; A Hero of the Soudan - How the first Civilian's Victoria Cross was won by Sergeant J.J. Farmer - article with photo; My Niggers - humorous account of the writer's experiences of Gyppies at a camp along the Suez Canal; My Wanderings in Little-Known Angola - interesting article with many excellent photos; The Mechanically-Minded Skipper - Tobias Meddling of the 8-thousand ton ship Peerless; Capturing Seventy-Nine Germans Single-Handed - Canadian officer Captain MacDowell tricked Germans into surrendering at Vimy Ridge; The Battle for the Lake - German warships are ousted from the great inland sea in Central Africa, Tanganyika; Our Grizzly Bear Record - Francis Dickie and his companion set a new world's record for killing Grizzly bears in the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; Pipe Town - where Brier pipes are made for the "Tommies" and the "Poilus" - article with excellent photos; A "Rice Wedding" in Java - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Some Strange Escapes From Germany - Part I - how prisoners of war escaped from the Germans in WWI; My Escape From Russia - Madame Semenoff describes her escape from Petrograd after the Bolsheviks took over; Canada's Water Miracle - The Bassano Dam, the world's longest, built in Alberta, Canada - article with excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - Part I - a member of the Natal Mounted Police describes how an Englishman was murdered by a Zulu medicine-man and accomplices so a portion of the body could be used to make an effective love medicine; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 268-352, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
85 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, with photos. (Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918); The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama, Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang, the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville, Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes, by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway, from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada, with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
286 pages including index. An ambitious and engrossing portrait of an insecure, ambitious and not always scrupulous young man who invented a personality, and a myth, to make it to the top. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
146 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Explains how John Wilson and his family made their dreams of a natural home come true. Find out how much it cost. Learn how to get a wind turbine, solar panels, the hydro meter running backwards, grass on the roof, and a furnace the size of a bread box that doesn't burn fossil fuels" - from promotional sheet laid-in. Also laid-in is a signed personal letter from the author to the prior owner of this book. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
269pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Cover portrait of Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has entered the Cabinet as Minister of Blockade and Contraband. Feature: The Clash of Teutonic and Anglo-Celtic Interests in the United States. The Germanic Conspiracy against the United States. Photos re: German Lieutenant Robert Fay, in the U.S. Photos of American munitions factories destroyed in the name of Kaiserism. Photos of a motor convoy transporting $52 million from the Bank of England to Wall Street. Photos of the Royal Flying Corps in training. Portrait photo of Lieut.-General Sir E.H.H. Allenby. Centerfold photos of the U.S. Destroyers Benham and Parker (trailed by immense clouds of black smoke!). Photos of Canada's burning Parliament building - captions says fire was started by German incendiary bombs (if true, this history has been suppressed in Canada). Three photos of Viscount French of Ypres inspecting men of his home command. Covers secured by tape. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
117 pages including bibliography. Light to moderate soiling and wear. The first of a series of volumes on the Indian history of British Columbia, a history which begain at least a hundred centuries before the Province itself was born, and which is still being made. This volume covers the post-contact or historic period, roughly the past two centuries. Book
Very faint spots to one page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Extremely scarce. 72pp. An autobiography with a strong religious element, covering times spent in Japan, South Africa, Canada, America, Ireland, Rhodesia and Liberia. Undated but mentions 'writing the book in mid 2005'.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 236 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
Brand new book is in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 236 pages, heavily illustrated with clippings, ads, b&w and color photos, logos, drawings, and maps.
(Codice CU/1919) In 16° 403 pp. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Volume freschissimo, mai letto. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the cross-Channel ferry nf Tiger; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; Ports of Call; HMS Canada - J.W. Duckworth describes the career of this First World War battleship which became the last surviving warship to have seen active service at the Battle of Jutland; Ferry Fleets Updates; Bristol's Collier Fleet - the story of Osborn & Wallis Ltd.; New Ship News; Sail on the Tyne; Passage in a Paperboat - the shipping company of the mighty Bowater Paper Corporation; Ship Sales; Full-page photo of the Scol Venture; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
206 pages. Topics: The Stendall Site (C3-Wa-1) in the rural municipalilty of Wallace, Manitoba; A Salvage Survey of the Upper Highwood and Elbow River Basins and the Adjacent Upper Kananaskis Basin, Alberta; Preliminary Investigation in the St. Mary and Belly River Regions, 1973; Preliminary Description and Interpretation of the S.S. Burmis Site (DjPn-62) 1974; Chipman River Survey and Excavation, Black Lake; The Bakken-Wright Site - a multi-component bison kill in southwestern Saskatchewan. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
88 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. The very engaging autobiography of Archie Wills who was born in Victoria, BC in 1892, servied in the first world war and later worked as a reporter. Includes historical information about the Butcharts and Dunsmuir families of Vancouver Island. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
228 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Updates the information found in the last edition and focuses on issues that have effected First Nations peoples at the turn of the millennium." - from page ix. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unused. An excellent copy. Book
278 pages. "With best wishes, Jeffery Williams" written upon title page in the author's hand. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "...Balanced, absorbing and long overdue." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's small inkstamp atop front free endpaper else unmarked. Clean with light wear. Foreward laid inside front board. Dust jacket price-clipped. Nice copy. Book
222 pages. Index. Wonderfully illustrated in black and white. Gift greetings upon title page else unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Binding tight and square. A sound copy. Book
92 pages including index. Small dab of liquid paper upon half-title page. A readable account of the origins and mission of an Anglican parish founded in 1866 in the Cowichan Valley region, of wich the present city of Duncan is now the centre, on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The work traces the many links past and present between the parish and its people and the communities in the region, including Salt Spring Island, as well as with the extensive native community. There is a full description of the historic cemetery, still in operation, as well as biographical sketches of some of the many interesting former parishioners who lie buried in it. Book
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial laminated boards, brown endpapers, a near fine copy.
Excellent condition in every respect with no marking of any kind to the text/interior, sharp corners, with slight shelf wear only, no creasing to spine or covers.
Excellent condition in every respect with no marking of any kind to the text/interior, sharp corners, with slight shelf wear only, no creasing to spine or covers.
612 pages including index. Copyright date 1945. Written prior to the end of WWII hostilities, this volume presents a fascinating province-by-province look at Canada's greatly expanded wartime industrialization, her governmental departments, and the companies and men responsible for this great development. Also presents Canada as a land of limitless forests, quick running streams producing tremendous waterpower, ocean-like lakes, vast stillness, and abundant wildlife. Book was published to introduce Canadians and friends of Canada abroad to this country's industrial capacity since, upon the termination of hostilities, it would be positioned to produce far more than this country of twelve million could consume internally. Large bright gilt title and Canadian Coat of Arms upon front board. Gilt title upon spine. Contains many dozens of black and white archival photographs of significant personalities, smoke stack industries, hydro-electric installations and much more. Former owner's bookplate inside front board. Five inch tear to page 395. Moderate soiling to front board. Light bumping and moderate wear to boards. Some soiling to lower edge. Pages have little to no wear and are almost free of soiling. Book
