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elala5441London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Limited c1912. First Edition. Describing a trans-Atlantic crossing on R.M. Steamship Empress of Britain a trip across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway a trans-Pacific crossing on SS Empress of Japan and travels in Japan China and Hong Kong. 4to. pp. 118 xliads. numerous text illus. some full-page incl. frontis. most after photos. padded morocco-grained cloth t.e.g. cloth soiled small hole in upper cover & waterstaining to rear cover. elala5441 London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Limited, [c1912] hardcover
48 Pages. Features: Dominion ammunition ad inside front cover; Full-page Sun Life Assurance ad; List of open seasons for game, 1931-1932; Sky Trails Above the Rockies - Hal Roach followed route of pioneer fur traders (along with Kenneth Allen - guide, Clair B. Brunson, and Harvey Crate - guide; The Perils of Woods Travel - by Grey Owl; Above the Timber Line - unusual animal, bird and tree life; Mowitch to the Minute - a true story of the hunt - why the big ones always get away, by Hamilton M. Laing; ; The Practice of Tree Surgery - article with great photos; The Plant as Artist and Architect; From Dwelling Place to Home - Herman Larsen, a prairie farmer and tree lover, shows how trees make home prosperous and beautiful; New Forests that Follow Fires; Forest Fires in 1930; Logging on the Pacific Coast - How B.C. Giant Timbers are Harvested - article with photos, by James Kay; Fenders Best Quality Spruce - a new use for spruce left following pulpwood operations; Little Puzzlements in Conservation, by Ozark Ripley; Half-page ad for the Waterous Twin Engine Feed for portable and small sawmills; Davey Tree Surgeons ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note: missing pages 19-22. Book
1990S5979San Francisco:: Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1990. 1990. 4to. 39 pp. Figs. glossary bibliog. Pictorial wrappers; lower corner bumped. Very good. Three articles and a glossary present technical data on the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, (1990). unknown books
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
1992177300San Francisco: GAPA 1992. 16p 5.5x8.5 inches program booklet featuring short bios of those involved photos ads very good stapled wraps staples rusting. Asian Pacific Islander version of the Court system. GAPA unknown books
Oversize 127p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
196936147Portland OR: North Pacific Division 1969. First Edition. First Printing. fair ex-lib. Approx. 125 wraps illus. maps usual library markings spine torn and chipped covers worn/soiled with ink marks and staples. Distribution memo stapled inside front cover. North Pacific Division paperback
First Edition, small 4to, xvi, 333pp., orig. cloth.
White DJ a bit tanned and with light rubbing to extremities ; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 267 pages
DJ browned and worn with small open tear upper right rear. ; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 267 pages
190151889Forest Grove OR & Portland OR: Pacific University; Press of Mann & Abbott 1901. Tall 8vo. 160 pp. Photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads. Green cloth illustration of oak tree in black gilt decorative lettering on front cover minor shelfwear rubbing slight bumping to corner still VG copy. First edition of this scarce and early yearbook for the noted Liberal Arts College in Forest Grove founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy. Worldcat locates 2 copies. Pacific University; Press of Mann & Abbott, hardcover
0243286872.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Honolulu (Hawaii), Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1942, 117pp., linen cover, VG, T22074
198424368London, Batsford, 1984. 4 n.n. Bll., 164 SS., einige meist ganzseitige s.w. Abbildungen. 8°, original Pappband, Rücken goldgeprägt, im illustr. original Schutzumschlag.
8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; [xii], 272 pp, illustrations from photos. original cloth backed boards, dj (bit rubbed), else very good overall. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author's travels to Tonga, Makogai, Samoa, etc.
Light wear to DJ. ; Author Andersen-Rosendal journeys to the island of Tonga to see if the stories of jolly natives are true; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages
174 pages including index. From 'Explorations', a Canadian social studies program for elementary schools. Abundantly illustrated in colour and black and white. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.124.
VG/GOOD+. dj shows rubbing, creasing and some small splits to edges. the rear inner return flap is detached but laid in - a simple tape needed to re-attach. no significant faults with book. no inscriptions or marginalia. Because of Fox we have freedom of the screen, won in a memorable court decision which crushed the monopoly of the Motion Pictures Patents Company.At one point Fox owed the banks and the American Telephone and Telegraphy Company one hundred million dollars. He defied the Establishment and battled its lawyers until the wolves of Wall Street chased the exhausted and bankrupt Fox into a Pennsylvania penitentiary, where he was a prisoner for a year and a day
433p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1869288969New York: American Photolithographic Company 1869. paperback. very good. Map: lithograph. 16" x 28.5". In very good condition. <br><br>Pamphlet: Thin 8vo. 31 pages. Staple-bound stain to paper cover binding fragile. Washington: Government Printing Office. In very good condition.<br/><br/> Map is tipped in at back cover of pamphlet and shows Northern & Southern Pacific Trunk Lines railways completed and railways projected. The majority of the committee that wrote this report included W.M. Stewart Chas D. Drake John Conness Alexander Ramsey J.C. Abbott B.F. Rice<br/><br/> American Photolithographic Company unknown books
2617S.l.: The Company 1915. . Oblong 8vo pale gray printed wrappers S.l.: [The Company, 1915]. unknown books
200924285Dee Why West, Australia, 2009. 279, (13) SS., sehr zahlreich farbig und s.w. bebildert. 4° (ca. 32 x 26 cm), original Leinwand, Rücken und Vorderdeckel goldgeprägt, im illustr. original Schutzumschlag.
21 pages, including an in-text sketch map and a few sketch illustrations. Plus 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. This is a fascinating report on the geographical, geological and biological aspects of the amazing Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system off the coast of Queensland, Australia, given by Colonel Lenox-Conyngham and Mr. Potts, which includes investigation of the biological problems which coral reefs and islands present, the origin of the reef, as well as, how the corals live, how they form the reef, at what rate they grow, what affects their growth; and what binds them together into a solid rock, and the disastrous effect of silt and sand on corals. The islands visited by the authors were Dunk Island, Lindeman Island, Thursday Island, and Murray Islands - a small group of three volcanic islands. Also with mentions of Charles Darwin and Jukes of the HMS Fly.
188249882Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1882. 1882. First edition. 9" x 6" in color pictorial wrappers printed in red blue & black with vignettes of wheat threshing cattle mining and logging on front wrapper. 82pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Contents. Illustrations. Maps. Uncommon Northern Pacific Railway land promotion detailing the sites and possibilities along the Northern Pacific route at the end of the 19th century. The work details the history of the NPRR divisions branch lines development opportunities for homesteaders and businesses in Western Washington the inner-mountain West Montana Yellowstone National Park the Dakotas Minnesota and specific land grants available from the NPRR in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Large color map attached to inside rear wrapper. Map fine. Light chipping to wrapper edges and with a few small closed tears to wrapper edges along with light soiling and rubbing to spine. Very good. Rand, McNally & Company, 1882. unknown