Harker, Douglas E. (Signed)MareMagnum
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An extraordinary copy. Signed not only by author inside front board, but also by an additional 20 important figures associated with the Regiment. Signatures upon front free endpaper include: LCol David L. Vaughan, CD (World War II Veteran and CO 1961-1964), LCol Archie M. Steacy, CD, (CO 1974-1978), LCol Grant B. Larkin, CD (CO 1970-1973), Honorary Lt Col John W. Toogood, CD (World War II BC Regiment Veteran and CO 1945-1949), Major Ernest Bowmer, MC, RMO (World War II British Army Veteran), Captain Arthur Goodson (World War I and II, BC Regiment Veteran) Musketry Expert, and Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth A. Parr, CD, RSM. Signatures upon back free endpaper include: Captain Robert Elrick (attached to BC Regiment from the Royal Canadian Dragoons), Major Robert Stanley (Squadron Commander), Captain Jack D. Drake (Squadron 2 I/C), Lieutenant Eric B. Foster (Troop Officer), Major Donald E. Hein (Officer's Mess President), Lieutenant Robert J. Baylis (Troup Officer), Lieutenant Norman A. Brown (Troop Officer), Lieutenant Robert B. Gauthier (Troop Officer), Master Warrant Officer Roger W. Prouse (SSM), Lieutenant Ralph D. MacRae (Troop Officer), Major Jack Tipton (Squadron Commander), Captain Brent R. Gray (Squadron 2 I/C), and Officer Cadet Tom Baker (Troop Officer). Printed name of Lieutenant (Donald) Hilton on front free endpaper. 438 pages. "Tells the story of B.C.'s earliest militia units from one of which the British Columbia Regiment has its descent. Describes the Regiment's participation in the South African War and in both World Wars, and much more." - dust jacket. Includes black and white illustrations, index, bibliography, fatality and casualty lists, repatriated prisoners of war (WWII) list, and list of honour and award winners. Contents unmarked. Binding sound. Average wear to book. Small faint coffee drop to bottom edge of text. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, bears somewhat above-average wear. We are indebted to LCol Archie M. Steacy, CD, CO (1974 to 1978) for his generous assistance in identifying the signatures in this copy. [Cooke p.130, Hale 1360] Book
274 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated. "The untold story of all those Chinese Canadians who contributed to Allied victory during the six years of war from 1939 to 1945. Also the story of a neglected aspect of Canadian military history. Chinese Canadians served in almost every theatre, after overcoming many obstacles - social, political, and military... The first documented account of their experiences, including personal comments from many of them... Original documents in the Ottawa archives as well as from London, England, and Canberra, Australia, have all been consulted." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Few markings to contents. Above-average wear. Binding sound. Slight lean to spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, barcode cut out on title page, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 144 pages with b&w photos, maps. Chapters include Origin of the Doukhobor social movement, False warnings, Important Doukhobor history, Emigration and settlement of Doukhobors from Russia, The integration of Doukhobors into Canadian society, Contributions of Doukhobors to Canada and to the world, Present and future of Doukhobors. Signed on title page by the author. First Edition.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Bright orange cover with slightly scuffed black lettering. Date stamped on bottom page ends. Slight sticker residue on cover. 256 pages. "For the historian, there are no banal things." Contents: Introduction: History from the Bottomless Cup; Faith, Efficiency, and the Modern Donut: Inventing a Mass Commodity, 1920-1960; "Our New Palce of Donut Pleasure": The Donut Shop and Consumer Culture, 1961-1976; "He Must Give Up Certain Things": Franchising and the Making of the Donut Shop, 1960-1980; Expansion and Transformation: Colonizing the Canadian Foodscape, 1974-1999; Eddie Shack Was No Tim Horton: Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada, 1974-1999; Conclusion: Commodity and Culture in Postwar Canada; Notes; Index.
Ex-librarty book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. -- though they have been peeled off the cover. Book is quite clean with still sharp corners, slight edge wear. No marking to the text/interior of any kind. Binding is solid. 256 pages.
In-16° pp. 174, leg. in cartonato edit. ill. priva del dorso.
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, text in English, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, and numerous coloured and tinted maps and plans (a number folding or double-page), contemporary surname on front free endpaper; original series binding of grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, marbled edges, primrose endpapers, silk marker, joints mildly rubbed else a good, clean copy. With series catalogue on front free endpapers; the folding maps and plans are on japon. Compiled and written by J.F. Muirhead, Baedeker's Canada was first published in 1894. This edition sees the first mention of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (incorporated in 1903 but to date partly constructed; the section on Alaska has been enlarged from the previous edition. Hinrichsen E265.
Boards darkened and with rubbing to extremities. Rear endpaper out. Light occasional foxing - not affecting readability or maps. Front hinge started; With 14 maps and 12 plans ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 420 pages
Light rubbing to boards and spine; With 13 maps and 12 plans. ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 331 pages
Light rubbing to spine. Edges a bit tanned ; With 10 Maps and 7 Plans; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 268 pages
Boards with light wear to extremities. A handsome and tight copy with all maps in VG+ condition. ; With 13 Maps and 12 plans ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 331 pages
Boards with light rubbing to extremities and a bit darkened. Front endpaper and half title page browned. One tiny chip to front free endpaper. Internally a handsome copy with binding tight and with all the maps in VG+ condition; With 14 maps and 12 plans ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 420 pages
Boards with light wear to extremities. A handsome and tight copy with all maps in VG+ condition. Front free endpaper top right corner missing; With 13 Maps and 12 plans ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 331 pages
155 pages. Colour plates throughout. Map endpapers. Tissue protected colour frontis of Sir John A. MacDonald. Clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
504 pages including 38 pages of fascinating advertisements at back. Includes obituaries and index of names. Topics of particular note include the Pacific Railway question and a very full chapter on the Militia. Front board, front free endpaper and title page detached as one, but present. Back board and last two leafs detached as one. Page listing leaders of Canada's federal and provincial governments loose but present. Usual library markings. Average wear. Requires rebinding. A wonderful piece of Canadian history. Book
373 pages. "... Reconstructs the background to Canadian policy during the Korean War... Canadian initiatives were taken on a multilateral basis through the United Nations with a view to moderating the exercise of US power; this is the theme which gives the book its title." - dust jacket. Contents clean and unmarked with light wear. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy. Edwards 403, McFarland 1383. Book
iii.98p.+ 8p.of plates, appendices, references and index Book
ii + 72pp. With illustrations in text + 6 maps out of text & 6 bl/w plates out of text + 1p. theses, 28cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation, hardcover in bordeaux cloth with gilt lettering, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, A112903
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 175 pages, b&w photos, Nice clean, hardly used book except for a mark on the cover and the usual library markings.
224 pages. Signed and dated by Ted Byfield upon front free endpaper. Mr. Byfield served honourably and effectively as a voice for right-thinking western Canadians for many years. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
(Codice SW/1836) Square octavo (23x19 cm) XXX-107 pp. B/w illustrations. Paperback. A very fine copy. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
44 pages. Featuring South-East Alberta. Black and white illustrations. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
272 pages. Documents the three phases of the Italian-Canadian fascist press, following its parabolic trajectory from the initial failure of hte 1920s, to the noisy success in the mid-1930s, and to its final demise in the early 1940s. Focuses upon three key publications: L'Italia; Il Bollettino; and L'Eco. A history of the Italian in Canada under the spell of fascist propaganda. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
508 pages. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Black and white photographic plates. "... The most fascinating of WW II Canadian campaign histories." - Legion Magazine. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. A high-quality copy. Book
pp. xvii, 434 + Frontis and full page photographs. Illustrated with text drawings. 4to. Original cloth binding, lettered in gold. Hardbound. The author/editor, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was the most important American botanist and horticulturist of his time. He graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1882. At Cornell University he was professor of horticulture (1888-1903) and dean of the Agricultural college and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station (1903-1913). Through numerous writings, and as chairman of President Theodore Roosevelt's Commission on Country Life (1908), he worked for the improvement of rural life. Bailey was influential in establishing horticulture as a respected science. He wrote many standard works on botany and horticulture. Nice copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W133 rear
