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218 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and cartoons. A unique paddling guide by a who's who of the sport's foremost experts. Discusses: canoe technique; kayak technique; raft technique; canoe sailing; ocean surfing; canoe poling; family camping; white water sport; wilderness travel; racing; boat types; conservation; history. Bonus: directory of canoe clubs. A very well worn copy which is unmarked and remains intact. Book
263 p. Essays on the Atlantic Ocean by various writers in tribute to the work of Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Professor Emeritus of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. Hardcover Very good condition good A festschrift in honor of Robert G. Albion
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
203p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
203p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
203p., illus. Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
283 pages. Index. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. "The UNITED STATES represents the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Her design, her financing, her construction, her trials, her capturing the world's speed supremacy - all these were the crowning achievements of an amazingly successful life - the life of William Francis Gibbs... Tells the story of The Big Ship, as she was known at 21 West Street, the offices of Gibbs & Cox, where she was designed... She was drydocked in 1980 and passed with flying colours... So here's to the safest liner ever built, the fastest big ship ever and one of the world's masterpieces!" - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear and some spine sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 138 pages. "A chilling first-person account of the author's experiences of war at sea while in his late teens. On December 26, 1942 as a Merchant Navy radio officer he sailed on the 'Scottish Heather' into the infamous 'black pit,' an area where German U-boats could operate freely on the surface without fear of attack from the air." - back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
47 pages. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
429 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Author was born in England in 1908 and came with his parents to Vancouver, B.C. in 1910. Through the balance of his life he lived in Ocean Falls, B.C., Birmingham, England, and Masset, B.C. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. An excellent copy of this informative and engaging B.C. biography. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: On the Town - Spark's Pub South; Show Business - the "New" American cinema; Let's Broaden Your Education - Photos of gorgeous Maya Martinez; A Girl Called Boom Boom - fiction; A Fresh Look at the Boss-Secretary Relationship - office affairs can be beautiful; Problems of the Unwed Father - sociology; Limericks for the High-Living Hobbyist - humor; Ocean Liner Gigolo - Interesting Occupations No. 76; Wine, Women and Wenzel - cartoons; Star Gazer - Photos of buxom Liz Miles, including color centerfold; The Business of Bareness - "Nude figure photography" in San Francisco and Los Angeles; You Are Invited to an Orgy - the good old days; The 'New' Sex Revolution in Scandinavia - travel guide; Ah, The Cruelty of Virtue - ribald classic tale of an Italian who was duped by the young maid he had hoped to ravish; Let's Play Statues - Photo feature of Jill Adams; With Additional Dialogue by Manny Silverhorn- film fun; Interesting ad inside back cover for Erotica and Erotica 2, LP records which provide "the actual, almost unbelievable sounds of erotic love"; Vintage color-photo ad for Mr. H.Esq on back cover features young man in Danish-inspired ski-wear. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's label inside. Price-clipped dust jackets with small tears and edge wear. Full light aqua blue cloth boards with a crab gracing the front corner of the cover. Very cool decorated endpapers with black and green wavy lines. 276 pages. 5 3/4"w x 8 5/8"h. Black and white illustrations throughout by Bob Hines. Second printing.
Features: On Wildlife - Education - the key to Understanding; Mission Planet Earth - the future of Underwater Exploration; Diving Solo to 1,000 Meters and Beyond; Ocean Everest - Reaching Earth's Greatest Depths; Arms Race of Antiquity - a Quest for Naval Supremacy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
147pp. 30 cm. Paperback Very good condition
95 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out map entitled "Doubly Equidistant Projection of the Sphere". Features: The Somali Coasts; Plotting the Vertical Photographs of the Second Mount Everest Flight; Archaeological Reconnaissances in Southern Persia; The John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean; The Sixth and Seventh Thule Expeditions of Knud; An Oblique Cylindrical Equal-Area Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. One inch opening to fore-edge of front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrapper, a near fine copy. The author's first maritime novel, written before commencing his immortal Aubrey/Maturin sequence. Featuring Peter Palafox, it tells the story of Anson's circumnavigation. First published in 1956; reissued for the first time (Macmillan) in 1970 and now again here to entrance yet another generation.
8vo., First Edition thus; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first maritime novel, written before commencing his immortal Aubrey/Maturin sequence. Featuring Peter Palafox, it tells the story of Anson's circumnavigation. First published in 1956; reissued for the first time (Macmillan) in 1970 and now again here to entrance yet another generation.
Folio 96p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Verona, 1988, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 421/438 con una figura, 2 cartine, 4 illustrazioni fotografiche e 2 tavole illustrate, ripiegate. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Pages 385-420. Please note: pages 399-406 missing. Features: Cover illustration of Lieutenant Miller of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) driving back Germans at Givenchy; Przemysl - Fallen to the Russians after a Long Seige; Illustration of how the enemy's mines float downstream resulting in the loss of battle-ships in the Dardanelles; Photos of Lord Kitchener at Liverpool and Manchester Parades; Two-page illustration by Richard Caton Woodville depicts an heroic attack by the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on German trenches; Photos of City (London) Volunteers as the National Guard marches to the Palace; Large photo of an unexploded german 42 cm. Howitzer shell; Two-page spread with photos, names and ranks of dozens of British officers killed in action; Two-page illustration by John de G. Bryan depicting the gallant attack on the Givenchy Ridge which contributed to the Neuve Chapelle Victory; Interesting photo-illustrated article on the disinfection of wounds; Fight for the Narrows - three photos including one of the French battle-ship "Bouvet" before it was lost to a mine; Photos of five ships prior to their being lost or damaged - H.M.S. Inflexible, the French battleship Gaulois, H.M.S. Irresistable, H.M.S. Ocean and the German cruiser Karlshruhe; Wonderful full-page illustrated at for Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies shows food ship coming up the Thames at night; Touching full-page Oxo ad shows commrades at the bedside of a wounded friend in Northern France; Beecham's Pills ad inside back cover; Wana-Ranee (Ceylon Perfume) ad on back cover; Many other magnificent vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
London, The Book Club, s.d. (anni 50 del '900), in-16, tela editoriale con sovraccoperta a colori, pp. 250. Con una cartina e 10 illustrazioni fotografiche fuori testo (che mostrano l'autore - esploratore e scrittore norvegese - e i suoi compagni sulla zattera con cui effettuarono nel 1947 la spedizione storico-scientifica per mare verso la Polinesia).
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 128 pages. Oblong format: 10"w x 7 1/2"h. Many black and white photos.
185 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Recounts the voyage in 1944 of the St. Roch from Halifax to Vancouver via the Northwest Passage. While this was not the first time the passage had been traversed, the first passage by Amundsen took several years. The voyage of the St. Roch lasted only 86 days and took a more northerly route than that blazed by Amundsen. It was the first time that this shorter route - first attempted by William Parry in 1819; tried by other explorers in the nineteenth century (and later taken by the supertanker, Manhattan in 1969) - was successfully navigated. The St. Roch was a small wooden vessel only 104 feet long, constructed in 1928 by the Burrard Dry Dock Company in North Vancouver. In 1942 this vessel had become the first vessel to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Arctic Ocean. With the completion of its 1944 mission, the St. Roch became the first vessel to conquer the Northwest Passage in both directions. Light wear. Small bump to top of spine. Book
176 pages. "This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the most exciting underwater adventure of the decade - the finding and raising of the Nanking Cargo." - from dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book