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Very light wear to boards. ; A companion volume to "Return to the Islands, " the two describe Author Grimble's extended sojourn in the Gilbert Islands.; 8vo; 340 pages
Very light wear to boards. ; A companion volume to "Return to the Islands, " the two describe Author Grimble's extended sojourn in the Gilbert Islands.; 8vo; 340 pages
367p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition tattered d.j. fair
564 pages. Geographical and subject indeces. "Provides detailed descriptions of the different life phases through which each of the seven species passes... Some of the topics covered are geographic distribution, transplants, freshwater life, ocean life, development, growth, feeding, diet, migration, and spawning behaviour. The text is richly supplemented by numerous maps, illustrations, colour plates and tables." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
200 pages including index. Oblong. Numerous black and white illustrations. "As well as being a history of the Anglican Church on the southern mainland of B.C., this is a story of the society the church has worked within for 120 years. A story of brave, daring and eccentric men and women and of the bishops who were leaders of this spiritual Wagon Train." - from back cover. Gift greetings across from title page else clean and unmarked with light wear. Reading crease to spine. Solid copy. Book
20 pages with several in-text sketch maps and diagrams, plus a fold-out sketch map and a few photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author provides a detailed geological profile of the Solomons, from the Santa Cruz Group, Rennell, Bellona, the Shortlands, the Central islands, Western San Cristoval, and including also outlying coral islands. Featuring also Gaudalcanal and the Savo Volcano. Scientific observations were gained during his six years of prolific work. He remarks that Choiseul and the New Georgia Group were still 'largely unexplored', and expected to remain as such for another two years. John Grover was born in Sydney, Australia in 1920. He served in the Middle East and New Guinea during World War II with the Royal Australian Engineers of the AIF. He then followed a distinguished career in the earth sciences and mining industry in the South West Pacific, Australia and Africa. He received a Royal Society and Nuffield Grant in 1967 and managed the major U.N. Development Project in Ethiopia in 1975-77. His two books "The Struggle For Power" and "The Struggle For Cargo" are widely regarded as classics in the anti-uranium/nuclear and anti-mining movements. An Ambitious Undertaking for a Thorough Scientific Survey of the Solomon Islands.
A clean,unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 24 pages. B&W photos and illustrations.
55 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations on both sides of back cover. A supplement to thirteen telecourse lectures on topics including: Who are the Northwest Indians?; Living in an Indian Village; Not by Fish Alone; The Greateste Woodcarvers of America; The Women Spin and Weave; Living Together; The One-Sided Family; Warring with Wealth; Seeing the Supernatural; Spirits - True and False; Totem Poles and Their Legends; and more. Author was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Book
8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; 2 volumes complete, xx, 392; xxvi, 627 pp, frontis in each volume with tissue guard, plates from photos and drawings, other illustrations from drawings, 7 maps and charts (most colored, some folding), tables, indexes. original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, partly unopened, spines a little faded but lettering clear, cover lightly spotted, light foxing on endpaper, else near fine set. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A massive undertaking by this renowned naturalist. Volume I is on Vanua Levu, Fiji, with a description of its leading physical and geographical characters, including volcanic, hot springs, magnetic rocks, coral, etc; volume II is on plant dispersal, the latter being a detailed and pioneering study on the movement and drift of seeds and fruit in the tropics and across the Pacific. An important work and major contribution.
131 pages. Glossary, bibliography, index. "Probes meticulously into the history and prehistory of Salish weaving and documents its recent revival. Known historical styles are discussed and compared, and the book includes a catalogue of all traditional Salish weavings known to exist in museum collections throughout the world. More than 100 black and white photographs and several colour plates exhibit these traditional weavings, the processes by which they were made, and the methods by which the art has been revived. Many helpful line drawings clarify technical questions, illustrating processes, artifacts and design distinctions... For the scholar and the layman, the student of the arts and the practising weaver, the interested browser and the serious collector, this is the book in its field." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
211 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Over 30,000 whales were killed in the Pacific Northwest between 1905 and 1972, and the business of capturing and processing them created its own mythology. Here are tales of the monsters that almost got away, of whales that rammed the ships trying to capture them, and of the whalers themselves, who lived always on the edge of danger, risking life and limb in the pursuit of the biggest animals in the world... A very personal history of whaling on the west coast." - from dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket in archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
279 pages. A superb combination of generous writing style and practical angling advice. Prior owner's details whited out upon half-title page else unmarked. Crease to front cover. Average wear externally. Contents tight and square. Solid copy. Book
356 pages. Index. Colour frontisplate. Black and white illustrations in text. Prior owner's name and date atop illustrated front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. With dustwrapper panels mounted on front paste-down and rear free endpaper. Lion Six was the US Navy contruction unit that built the largest of all advance bases at Guam. SCARCE.
Libro in ottime condizioni. Non comune
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo [23 x 16 cm]; 286 pp, frontis, illus from photos, bibliog. original quarter cloth, boards, dj (short tears), fine in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A gripping adventure through the rain forests of Borneo with descriptions of the native peoples, their customs, culture and way of life. 'One of the most fascinating travel books in recent years' (Redmond O'Hanlon).
DESCRIZIONE: Mondadori Milano 1972 I^ Ed., br. ed. ca, con sovracc. ill. col., pp. 222 in 16°. Quattro battaglie - Libro rigoroso e ben fatto. CONDIZIONI: Buone sovracc. leggermente scolorita. PESO / WEIGHT: 300 gr. without package
In-16°, pp. 324, (11) di catalogo editoriale, copert. edit. Volume 169 ne "I libri pocket". Gli errori dei giapponesi che portarono alla loro sconfitta, le più grandi battaglie navali da Pearl Harbor a Okinawa.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
222 pages including index and glossary. Fold-out map at page 15. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is the outcome of forty years residence amongst the Haidas, and is an accurate description of what I have seen and heard in the villages and homes. Through my knowledge of their language I have been enabled to get all my information regarding their customs, traditions and social organization direct from the principal chiefs, men who at that time were from sixty to eighty years old." - from Preface. Chapters include: Queen Charlotte Islands; Early History; The Haidas; Haida Customs; Births, Marriages, Divorce, Death and Burial Ceremonies; Tools, Ornaments and Ceremonial Masks; Industries and Medicines; The Sa-ag-ga or Shaman; The Haida Pantheon; Haida Legends; The Haida Traditions of Creation; Chief Edenshaw; The Natural History of the Islands; Geology of the Islands and Natural Resources. Appendix lists cranial measurements. Average wear. Binding intact. Red cloth-covered boards. Black lettering and decoration legible upon spine. Prior owner's stamp to bottom edge, front fixed and free endpapers, and title page. Faint bookseller's stamp to back fixed endpaper. A sound copy. Edwards & Lort 1668, Thibault 2,231. Book
740 pages. Index, references glossary. Colour photographic plates. Black and white line drawings. "...Includes the fishes found in salt water off the Canadian (Pacific) coast." - from page 9. Includes gazetteer. Contents clean, tight and unmarked. Average external wear. Partial lean to spine. Sound working copy. Book
740 pages. "Analytical keys allow the identification of all recorded kinds of fishes. Species accounts contain new illustrations, and expanded information on life history, distribution, and role in the economy. A gazeteer and new glossary are included as well as specially prepared colour photographs of all Pacific salmons and selected other species." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
194 pages. References. "Identifies and describes the avifauna, and their pertinent habitats, in and around Pacific Rim National Park to provide for the needs of the visitors who are interested in the birds, the Park, and for those of the birds, themselves." - from Introduction. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Usual library markings. Decent working copy. Book