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Second Impression. 76 pages. Illustrated with fifty-five diagrams and eight drawings by various architects. Small brown mark on back cover. Spine bumped top/base.
Book is in excellent condition with a little sunning to the exterior and a few small smudges on the front end paper as the only flaws. Heavy weave gray cloth HB covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Author was a columnist with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Washington Teamster, the KRAB Program Guide, Puget soundings, The North Central Outlook, the Vancouver Sun, and these essays are reprints from those publications.
88 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: Architect Antonio Guadi; Outdoor Music Festivals around the world; A Photographer's journey into the remote Trans-Himalayas; Paris at night; Weddings in Kerala; Ireland - the masters of brew; Under the Inca sun; Cross-country cycling; the Mongolian Nomads; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
208 pages including notes. Documents the near-demolition of British Columbia by the NDP during the 1990s. "A must for the thoughtful, and a stimulus for the forgetful." - Trevor Lautens, Vancouver Sun. Moderate wear. Gift greetings atop opening page else unmarked. A sound copy. Lest we forget. Book
230 pages. An abridged version of The Omnipotent Child II. Focussed solely on remedial parenting of the child already in adaptive growth difficulties. "An absolute blockbuster of a book... makes more sense of child rearing than anything printed in the last fifty years." - The Vancouver Sun. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
4 pages. "Because of the organ variation in the recording my first choice for the title was 'Peter Piper Goes to Church'. However, realizing that this might be somewhat unfair to the string players I renamed it 'Peter Piper'. I wasn't too far wrong the first time, for I soon found myself walking down the aisle to 'Peter Piper'." - Frank Mills. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 16pp of plates; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. 2 Bn Gordons was posted to Singapore in 1937 and fought through to the Surrender. This is the first published account of the horrors endured by the survivors at the hands of the Japanese: an inspiring story of courage and survival against overwhelming odds
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 10 3/8"w x 8 1/8"h. 152 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
Paris, Gallimard, Collection Soleil, 1968. In-8, cartonnage bleu de l'éditeur, 578 pp. Edition définitive numérotée sur bouffant alfa Calypso. Bel. ex.
157p. Text drawings by A. L. Helm and the author. Endpapers beginning to brown. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn and spotted. Hardbound. SPACE/4
Grand in-8°,.128 pages, nombreux dessins et photos in-t., broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [GD8/6]
124 pages. Features: The new blue denim look for anywhere, anytime; Vogue Patterns in blue denim; The Beautiful People put on their coats - Pilar Crespi, Patrice Calmette, Mrs. Leonard Holzer, Mrs. Wyatt Emory Cooper; Swans and Cygnets - Three Generations of Beautiful Guinesses; Colour's the thing for evening; Knit's the thing for day; Fashion for the sun run, photographed in Puerto Rico; Exercises for flabby faces; Ballerina's Change of Hair; Hairdressers tell you how to go six weeks without them; Breast Sculpture; Your Looks are as Good as Your Discipline; Sex and the Topography of Love; A Place to Raise Eyebrows - Mr. and Mrs. Norman Parkinson's House in Tobago; Puerto Rico - Where the Past Grows Young; Puerto Rico Now; Pilar Crespi and Lauren Hutton - Around-The-World Flight Trips; and much more. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy copy. Book
Features: The Makin' of a Brush Propper Cowhand - chasing mavericks in Arizona; Whiskey Traders of Fort Whoop Up - center of the trade in northern Montana and the south prairies of Canada - John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton; Sweet Trail to the Gallows - the Penascal murders; Search for the Old Overland (stagecoach); Alexis Godey's Kinship with risk; Land of the violent sun - Old Hachita; Doc Crumbine of Dodge City; Narrow-Gauge Royalty - The Slim Princess; Ambush and gold dust - a Black Hills tragedy; Mojave desert's wild Dutchman - Charlie Koehn; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
111 pages. An awesome collection of blues songs including: All Your Love, Back Door Man, Blues Get Off My Shoulder, Boom Boom, Bring it on Home, Call Me, Can't Hold On Much Longer, Carol, Checkin' Up on my Baby, Close to You, Don't Start Me Talkin', Every Day I Have the Blues, Evil is Going On, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, Goin' Down Slow, Good Morning Little School Girl, Here Tis', I Can't Quit You Baby, I Love the Life I Live, I'd Rather Go Blind, It do me so Good, Killing Floor, Little Queenie, Mellow Down Easy, Mother Earth, Reconsider Baby, The Seventh Son, Sitting on Top of the World, Smokestack Lightnin', So Many Roads, Spoonful, Steppin' Out, The Sun is Shining, Susie-Q, Tell Me, That's All Right, Walking by Myself, Wang Dang Doodle, Who Do You Love, Who's Been Talking, You Shook Me. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening to front cover at base of spine. A worthy copy of this superlative compilation. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
Features: The Old Fashioned Baby; Class of '92 - Commencement Fashions; Cutwork Apron - Linen Hostess Apron embellished with Cutwork; Pull-out Pattern - Ladies Nightgown, cutwork apron, Madeira Facings & Hankie; Elegant Hems - Focus on Hem Treatments; Fleurs de Soleil - A summer Design in Duplicate Stitch; Madeira Medley, Part II - pinstitched Facings and Companion Handkerchief; Waistband Magic - Professional Tips from Londa Rohfling; Stunning Stitcher - an interview with Primrose Sully by Carolyn Walker; Smock Plate - by Jeanie Baumeister; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Includes the following 9 isues from 1995: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Tale of a converted warm-water diver; Florida Keys; Pioneering in Papua New Guinea; Shooting Large Fast-Moving Targets; Wolfeels at Hunt Rock; Cook Islands; Old B.C. Cannery Sites; Cozumel; How to Get Published; Vanuatu; Dolphins in Bahamas; Fearney Bluffs, B.C.; Liveaboards in Australia; Octopus Characteristics; Flowerpot Diving - Fathom 5 Marine Park; The Chaudiere; 20 years- a retrospective; Back in the 50s; Cayman-Canadian eh?; Aquashot II; Hannes Keller - early adventures; Crabby Critters; Mo Bay, Jamaica; Waome; Sulawesi; Manado; Wolf - eels or fish?; Martinique and Guadaloupe; Browning Wall; Nautilus VII; Tubeworms; Fiordland New Zealand; Cinematographer Howard Hall; Deadman's Island; Aruba; Bonaire; Howe Sound, B.C; Sidney, B.C.; Nouvelle-Caledonie; Canadian encounters 'Whitey'; Guanaja's Posada del Sol; Quadra Island, B.C.; 1st Time in Tobermory; Active Pass, B.C.; Sinking the Mackenzie; The Magdalen Islands, Maui and Lanai; Barkley Sound; Wreck of the Burlington; Cortes Island, B.C.; The Wrecks of Kingston, Ontario; The Beluga of Chedabucto Bay. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
Features: War Babies - Trauma haunts the lives of children growing up on the Gaza Strip... Can a caring science heal their souls?; Roses from Rock - Against all common sense, a Flin Flon mine has become Canada's top greehnouse, producing a bounty of valuable plants in a place where the sun never shines; The Haunting Powers of God's Dog - the coyote... why does this mythical marauder trigger the beast in us?; The Body Electric - scars, tattoos, and piercings are actually as old a practice as the human race; Lessons from the Loneliest Lab - Scientists grinding their way to the North Pole do ice-breaking work on the Arctic's withering wonderland. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Montreal's theatrical Cirque du Soleil is taking the world by storm; The Lessons of Monteverde - Canadian funds, and grass roots initiative, provide a blueprint for the preservation of the world's rain forests; Caves of Mystery - A team of Canadians seeks adventure in - and beneath - one of China's most celebrated landscapes; A Matter of Taste - Niagara vintners confront an unsavoury past; The Illustrated Bird - A land of winged resources, Canada has attracted and produced some of the world's best avifaunal artists; Boneyard Enigma - Archaeologists in Alberta ponder the riddles of North America's oldest and largest buffalo jump. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Cover photo of a Gurney Nutting sedanca coupe. Features: Those Black and Red Sedanca Coupes - great 10 page article with many photos; Early Post-War Tech Seminar, or how to use an Oil Can, June 7-8, 1991, Mechanicsburg, PA; Repairing the Rolls-Royce Radiator Shell - 4 pages with photos; From the Shadow's corner - a 1964 Silver Cloud III transmission, a 1971 Silver Shadow starter and temperature gauge; Motoring Laws - nothing new under the sun. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages plus 8 page supplement. Features: Ladies' and Children's Winter Suits; Mince-Pies, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions; ; humor; and more. Average wear. Top half of page 787 missing; Paris Modes; Ladies and Children's dresses; A Siberian Breakfast-Table; The Thanksgiving at Johnny Guptill's, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Family life in a fashionable restaurant; useful recipes; Two illustrations of Thanksgiving-Day in the Northwest by W.L. Sheppard - "Dinner Waiting" and "No Dinner to Wait"; Full-page illustration "Family Life in a Fashionable Restaurant", by Sol Eytinge Jr.; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Love in the Winter Palace, or, the Czar Nicholas as match maker; Full page illustration "At Her Post", by Gaston Fay; The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia - illustration. Supplement contents: Blade-O'-Grass, by B.L. Farjeon - part I - with many illustrations. Small illustration clipped from first page of supplement. Average wear. Book
142 pages. Features: The Man Princess Margaret Married (Lord Snowden) - his stepmother tells what Tony Armstrong-Jones is really like; Should doctors tell the truth to a Cancer Patient?; The Fourth Richest Girl; Condensed complete mystery novel; $15,000-a-year man - how he spends his money - Herbert (Bert) and Carol Herrmann; Travel Wardrobe - how to dress well on practically nothing - fantastic colour photo fashion section; How I Got into the Movies, by Dolores Hart. Ads: Frigidaire Fridges, West Bend appliances; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee; General Electric (Pink) Freezers; Cutex nail polish; Metrecal diet drink; Wrisley bath products; Enna Jetticks Shoes; Ray-Ban Sun Glasses; Royal gelatin; Betty Crocker Cake; Red Cross Shoes; Ken-L Ration (with poodle); Avon; Breck Shampoo; Modess (Beautiful colour photo ad of elegant woman in gold gown; back cover ad for Duncan Hines new Coconut Surprise cake mix. Average wear. Chips from spine. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Dieudonn M'Bala M'Bala; No way to run a recession; How to Fix Canada's Parliamentary Question Period; The Soaring cost of Asper's Dream - the Museum of Human Rights; The People of Pakistan - pawns in a fatal game; Sarkozy's U.S. Love-fest hits a few snags; China's youth swallow the 'official' account of Tiananmen Square; Why Canadians have to wait for the latest gadgets; Game Guru - Don Mattrick of Microsoft; GM dealers remain positive; Sex, Drugs and Acrobats - a new expose on the rise and times of Cirque du Soleil billionaire founder Guy Laliberte; NHL Fitness Test; Woody Allen and Larry David; Gordon Ernest Thomas - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book