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8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Barbara Walton
119 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated in black and white. "...Brings the reader as close as we can come today to a leisurely tour of this beautifully situated, richly furnished village as it existed when it was first seen by non-Indian eyes." - from dust jacket. Very heavily-worn. Front hinge open. A worthy reading copy. Book
20151-161628871XWeldon Owen 2015. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 10.00x7.75x1.00 inches. Weldon Owen paperback
1878WRCAM14796Np 1878. 24pp. Crude modern wrapper stapled. Ex-lib. with perforation stamp on front wrapper rubberstamp in text and number on titlepage bit tanned. Good. Discusses the route of the railway and its projected costs as well as the provisions of the Texas and Pacific Railway bills then before the Committee. unknown books
19799528Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1979. First Edition. Fine/near fine. 8vo. 181 pages. -- Signed twice on the title page D. B. Newton / Dwight Bennett. -- Tiny amount of wear to the extremities dust jacket price clipped. -- No other notable defects. "Dwight Bennett Newton was an American writer of westerns. He also wrote under the names Dwight Bennett Clement Hardin Ford Logan Hank Mitchum and Dan Temple. Newton was one of the six founder members of the Western Writers of America. He was a writer and story consultant for various television shows including Wagon Train and Tales of Wells Fargo."-wiki. Doubleday & Company unknown
Title: The Tedi River District of Papua. Author: Leo Austen Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1923. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: As early as six years prior to Charles Karius and Ivan Champion launching their famous 1926 expedition to cross New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik, Australian army officer Leo Austen who would soon after become an anthropologist, led several pioneering patrols into the area. In 1922 he was placed in charge of an expedition to explore the country surrounding the Alice River [now known as the Ok Tedi River]. His party included one other officer, a Malay interpreter, twelve armed Papuan natives, and thirty-five Papuan carriers. As he notes the river's navigability and other important geographical features, he also observes various people groups settled along the banks and slightly inland. The Yonggom people and their customs are described at length. Piercing and tattooing, specific superstitions, confessions of cannibalism, fire making practices, cooking on hot stones, plaited fibre and sago leaf skirts for loin cloths, raised dwellings made of dirt and sago leafs with woven rattan doorways and constructed on posts or stilts, principal food staples, the use of long bamboo sticks for preserving water, and European influenced tobacco smoking, are some of the topics discussed in an unbiased manner. Both informative and engaging, Austen's firsthand account of a survey of the Ok Tedi District, formerly known as Alice River, describes a natural paradise, as it was in its virgin, undamaged state, three decades before Kennecott discovered the fabulous copper and gold deposit at Mount Fubilan near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi. He also visited several villages at the foot of the Star Mountains. 8vo. 15 pages, plus a full page sketch map for illustration. 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. Leo Austen (1894-1956) was born Leopold Novak Augstein in Brisbane. He was working as a clerk when World War I began and immediately enlisted. He landed with the first troops at Gallipoli and served in France where he was wounded. He returned to Australia in 1918 as a lieutenant and, with his brothers, changed his Austrian surname to Austen to avoid the anti-German sentiment after the war. On 3 April 1919 he joined Hubert Murray’s Papuan Service as a temporary Patrol Officer based at Daru in the lonely Western Division. He went on to lead many great patrols, there and elsewhere. In 1926 a Chair of Anthropology had been set up at the University of Sydney, partly to train Cadet Patrol Officers of the then separate New Guinea Department of District Services. Hubert Murray allowed some of his officers, including Leo, to attend the lectures. Leo eventually obtained qualifications as an anthropologist and began a parallel career producing many learned monographs and a book on Papua. The 1930s saw a massive upheaval of traditional societies in Papua due to increased European influence. Leo sought to restore and maintain the traditional cohesion of those societies, and was particularly successful in encouraging the revival of the paramount luluais in his favourite haunts in the Trobriand Islands. Leo became part of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) during World War II and attended the major ANGAU conference in February 1944. Towards the end of the war he was the presiding magistrate at the trial of a number of local people accused of collaborating with the Japanese. Later he Leo obtained a position with Aboriginal Welfare in Casino New South Wales, and continued to advocate for aboriginal rights, in various ways, until his final days.
20221-0812997646Random House Inc 2022. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 7.25x5.25x1.00 inches. Random House Inc hardcover
50453941like new. unknown
19254281San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad 1925. 15pp. Square Octavo 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Vertical fold as issued. Very good. Promotional piece for Southern Pacific's Sunset Route that ran from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Illustrated description of the sights along the way. Double-page pictorial U.S. map at the center with the Southern Pacific lines marked.<br/><br/>"Along the Sunset Route are found constant reminders that this was first the trail of Spanish adventurers. Old Spain's influence still lives in the life color and architecture all along the way from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco." - rear cover. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
1124143San Francisco: Pub. exclusively for Van Noy-Interstate Co Book. Very Good. Paperbound. printed paper wraps with full color paste-down illustration Indian Head Mountain Arizona string tie at spine 4 title description of plates map 24 mounted colored plates 1 folding panorama light soil to wraps lower edge at spine of front cover damaged see scan all illustrations in very good condition Size: Folio24 x 31 cm. Pub. exclusively for Van Noy-Interstate Co Paperback
365 pages. A public health inspector spends twenty-five frustrating years trying to be of service to his community (Victoria, British Columbia). At fifty he resigns and goes in search of a more satisfying life. He finds it in tropical Northern Queensland. This is his story. It is a novel and an anthology. Essays, verses, short fiction, travel, observations, character sketches. It is the compellingly written, informative, enlightening, thought-provoking, always entertaining experience of a man with intelligence, wit, and humour. The reader will find that she/he is seeing himself and his own community, because this book is not just about a small Canadian city or one corner of the sunny South Pacific. Nor is it just about one man's escape from a frustrating job. It is a forthright assessment of a society in trouble by a man who has a wider view because he deliberately stepped outside. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Slightly rambling account of the Panama Canal area, Polynesia, the Pacific Ocean, etc. ; 8vo; 387 pages
Consists of two unpaginated parts bound in one cirlox-bound volume. Part 1 consists of 100 one-sided pages encompassing the textual component of the report, supplemented with occasional diagrams of roundhouse layouts and photocopies of photos. The report is divided into: Introduction; The Building, its Elements, Materials and Construction; Roundhouse Memorabilia; and Conclusions, plus a bibliography. The heart of the report lies in the Memorabilia section which provides historical and diagrammatic information about the roundhouses at North Bend, Revelstoke, Field, Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail, Penticton, Coquitlam, Vancouver, and Victoria. Part 2 consists of approximately 75 one-sided pages of black and white photocopied reproductions of photos of roundhouses from across British Columbia. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Presumably most, if not all, the roundhouses documented here have since been demolished, thus this report, prepared by students of the UBC School of Architecture, serves as an important historical and architectural record. Book
194611530Raleigh North Carolina: Hillsborough House 1946. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The Story of the Fifth Bombardment Group Heavy published in 1946. Octavo 104pp. Publisher's faux red leather title embossed on front cover. Light wear to tips some shelf wear solid text block. Free of any marks or notations. Complete with many black and white photographs maps and illustrations. Full title reads: The Story of the Fifth Bombardment Group Heavy. The History of the Bomber Barons of the Thirteenth "Jungle" Air Force as compiled by the 5th Group Historical Officer and released for publication by the 13th Air Force Public Relations Officer. Hillsborough House unknown
0656066806.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Q-0374534284Farrar Straus and Giroux 2014-08-05. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback
1982012418Carson City NV: Nevada Historical Press 1982. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paper covers. xx 240 pages. Nicely illustrated. Four fold-outs. Index. Name on title page blacked out. A solid copy with only light wear. Uncommon. <br/> <br/> Nevada Historical Press paperback
1975012544Carson City NV: Nevada Historical Press 1975. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. xiv 89 pages. Illustrated. Fold-out panoramic photo. Index. A clean attractive copy. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Shamberger. Subtitled "A little about Weepah its people its towns its quest for water and its promoters all of which made an interesting chapter in the mining history of Nevada. <br/> <br/> Nevada Historical Press paperback
192361902St. Paul MN: Northern Pacific Railway 1923. 12mo. 24 pp. Title photo illustrated and photo illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of young Flathead Indian child slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition thus of this well-illustrated Northern Pacific brochure extolling and detailing the Northern Pacific Railway route following that of the Lewis & Clark Expedition to the Pacific Northwest through Montana Idaho Washington & Oregon including Yellowstone and along the Columbia River. Of particular interest are the photos by U.S. Forest Service & Haynes. Not in Worldcat. Northern Pacific Railway, paperback
192052056St. Paul MN: Northern Pacific Railway ca. 1920. 4to. 16 pp unpaginated. Title illustrated & printed in red & black map in red & black numerous photo illustrations rubricated initials. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art of wagon train by Frank B. Hoffman 1888-1958 noted Western commercial artist who illustrated many travel posters and brochures for the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific slight shelfwear NF. First edition thus of this well-illustrated Northern Pacific brochure extolling and detailing the Lewis & Clark Expedition to the Pacific Northwest and the parallel route adopted by the NPRR over 75 years later. Of particular interest are the photos by Curtis Haynes Gifford & Schlecten of Montana Astoria Fort Snelling Sitting Bull & Buffalo Bill General Custer Gold Creek MT Last Chance Gulch Indian Scouts at Custer Battlefield and more. Northern Pacific Railway, paperback
0265956366.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1939145615Canadian Pacific Railway 1939. Softcover. Very good. 59 p. 34 cm. 12 full page colour sketches 1 photo 1 colour 2 p. map. Card covers. Edges a bit creased. Small tears around staples. Separate page lists Their Majesties' itinerary across Canada. <br/><br/>The section on P.E.I. is by Lucy Maude Montgomery New Brunswick by Charles G. D. Roberts Ottawa by Duncan Campbell Scott and British Columbia by Nellie McClung. A superb production. Canadian Pacific Railway paperback
78 pages. "Reviews the taxonomy, distribution, migrations, definition of stocks, and life history of spiny dogfish as background to an historical account of its utilization in the Northeast Pacific." - from Abstract. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
174 pages. Author's signature upon title page. An adventure mystery - and a tale of horror, a dark 'Kidnapped.' Set in the rich wilderness of the Oregon coastline of the early 1800s, James White's novel has skillfully interwoven fact and conjecture centered on one of the most enigmatic figures in northwestern lore - Jack Ramsay, or "Lamazee." Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
