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186858083NY: Carlton & Porter; 1868. First Edition. 8vo. embossed maroon cloth stamped in gilt; 223 pages. Very Good some wear covers gilt still bright; contents clean & tight with library stamp and a "Rules" plate on the endpapers. Carlton & Porter; unknown
Very faint musty smell. Gilt titles upon front board and spine with some wear but still quite legible. Written as a gift from author to the Alumnae Association of the School. Contains the text of original documents bearing on the establishment of the School and shows how the nursing needs of Winnipeg were met as the demand arose. Complete with a variety of archival black and white photographic reproductions. Book
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Haunted Mine - Author's experiences at a Canadian gold-mine; The Rest-Cure - A sea captain's story of a voyage across the Atlantic with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest - Frank Norfleet, a Texas confidence victim, pursued the pertetrators for three years before achieving vengeance; The Living Death - An eccentric chemist marries an Aztec royal descendant to ferret out the secrets of the ancient Aztec dyes; The Sky Riders - Canada's RCMP, the world's first 'flying policemen'; The Lawra Lion - a lion adventure on the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - A remarkable experience which befell two British officers in the Himilayan foothills; A Matter of Witchcraft - A strange story from New Guinea; The Australian Stockman - the drover of Australia's outback; Tears to spine with chips missing. Contents in good condition. Magazine
Features include: They Servant The Elephant - written by a man who spent half a lifetime in the forests of Southern India; The Rowboat Mystery - A decidedly awkward problem confronted the detective department of the Seattle (U.S.A.) police; The Smoke Jumpers - the latest development by the U.S. authorities against forest fires; Unlucky Launch - an amusing account involving a shipyard; The Money-Maker - An amusing confidence trick tale from the files of a Gold Coast District Officer; The "Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 1) - Tanganyikans are suspected of posing as murderous lion-men; The Accessory - rifles suddenly disappear from a battalion in India; Jim Darling's Last Shot - a store clerk catches 'gold fever'; Patrolling the Arctic - Adventures of the hardy members of the R.C.M.P. in the vast wastes of Canada's north; Forests Afloat - Benson Log Rafts; Wolf-Hunting in Finland. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear. Faint pencilled name atop back cover. Tears to spine. Magazine
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
Features include: How They Saved the "Ningpo" - A rare occasion when the tables were turned on Chinese sea pirates in 1945; Before the Fact - A missionary's puzzling story from primitive Africa; Seeking Sheba's "Lost" City - Author describes his adventures in Arabia and his accidental discovery of a practicable route to the mysterious city - abandoned for centuries; Over the Iron Curtain - Two R.A.F. officers endeavour to rescue a young Italian from Budapest in December 1945. The "WAFF" goes recruiting - Some amusing aspects of recruiting young tribesmen in West Africa; Wild Boars and Cattle Thieves - An adventure on a lonely island off the California coast; Zombies - a Haitian story; Island of Ships - Rouad, off the Syrian coast. Front cover detached but in good condition. Back cover almost detached. Most of spine missing. Contents in good condition. Name in pencil atop back cover. Magazine
Features include: Hopper No. 47 - Tragic happenings to an apprentice pilot in Home waters; Mra Toons "Lemon" - A former Revenue Officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching - Describes a new industry; Water Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful account of a motor-car trip into the interior of Venezuela; Marijuana - describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of "dope" involved the narrator; By Pony to Ladakh - An account of a trip through a little-known region of the borders of mysterious Tibet; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - Author sets out to track down a sinister Malayan terrorist leader. Black and white illustrations throughout. Above-average wear externally. Chips missing from spine. Contents in good condition. Unmarked. Magazine
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
Features include: Sunken Treasure - In 1799 the British frigate Lutine sand off the Dutch coast and in 1933 a new method of salvage was attempted; A Burmese Houdini; Tiger's Teeth - An English Adventure; The Major's Panther - Amateur big-game hunters get lucky; #20,000 - the eventful life of a banker; On the Trail in Wonderland - Travels through Navajo Indian country; Three Queer Mysteries from Malaya; Our Trip to the Buffalo Country - An Australian Journey; Looking Down the Devil's Throat - A trip to Iguassu Falls in Brazil; The Naga Head-Hunters of Assam; Where Water Burns - An Alberta Story; Passed with Honours - by Lieut.-Col. M.C.A. Henniker. Illustrated in black and white. Somewhat above average wear. Openings at each spine end. One inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Magazine
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
19662082702114611119Iwanamishoten 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Iwanamishoten paperback
310 pages including bibliography and index. Will aid those interested in the practical art of horology. Intended to serve as a course of study, as a means of reference, and as a textbook or working manual to be used in the school, at the bench, or in the library. Completely revised to include new material on automatic watches, shock-proof watches, and other recent developments in watchmaking. Features a handsome set of handsome illustrations in full colour showing exploded views of alarm and self-winding watches. Rubber stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some foxing to top edge. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is missing some chips and is partly sunned at top of front panel. Solid copy. Book
305 pages including index. Although this is the story of one county in Ontario, it covers facets universal in Canadian growth: road-building, land-clearing, the development of health and educational services, and the progress and dreams of the people themselves. The story, from Indian times to the present atomic age, is told in more than 500 black and white photographs and illustrations. Moderate wear to book which has moderate twist to its orange cloth spine. Dust jacket, bearing a wonderful large photo of a mechanical railroad shovel, is well-worn but remains functional. Book
160 pages including illustrations in colour and black and white. Hand-numbered copy 1045 of a limited edition. "This limited edition is presented for the enjoyment of all our members and we trust it will serve as a suitable commemorative on the occasion of the celebration of the Union Club of British Columbia's Centennial. We are deeply indebted to Paul L. Bissley, who authored this history. No living member is more qualified to reveal to us the story of our Club during its first hundred years. We hope this memento will provide many happy moments for us all and serve to remind us of the tremendous endeavours of our early members in the establishing of the Union Club of British Columbia." - R.J. Taylor, President. Gilt lettering and decorations upon spine and front board. Moderate wear and soiling to navy blue boards. Contents unmarked. Slight lean to spine. Book
19362082702114611255Komeisha 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Komeisha paperback
19922082702114604039Hokkaido Shimbun 2200 Yen 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hokkaido Shimbun 2,200 Yen paperback
214 pages. Packed with information and topics too numerous to mention including: Some Reason for Stern Wheel Boats; Anthony Casorso; Alfred E. Stocks; The Junction Ranch; and many more. Binding intact. Pencil scribbling on back of back flyleaf else unmarked. Average wear. Quarter inch tears at each end of spine. Book
244 pages including index. Designed to be helpful alike to the student-teacher, to the teacher who is returning diffidently to the classroom after an absence of some years, and to the teacher who wishes to savour in leisure some of the advice given him in the full and fleeting days of his/her professional training. Stated first printing. Minor spine lean to the right. Gilt lettering on boards and spine is faded but still legible. Hinges intact. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
19682082702114602734Kotenbunko 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kotenbunko paperback
316 pages. Reminiscences of this influential woman. "... I cannot look back without regret. I can see too many places where I could have been more obedient to the heavenly vision, for a vision I surely had for the creation of a better world. But I hope I am leaving at least some small legacy of truth." - from the introduction. Gift inscription on back of half-title page, else unmarked. Average wear. Spine leans to right. Book
393 pages. "The first attempt to give a complete and comprehensive study of the Jew of Newport, picturing from the religious, economic, social and political points of view the entire colonial background with which the Jew identified himself." - From Preface. Includes 36 black and white illustrations, 11 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Chapters include: The Dim Beginnings; Dawn; Progress; From Inquisition to Freedom; The Synagogue; A Glimpse of Jewish Life; Visitors; The Jew in the Community; Uproar, Dispersion and Decline; Evacuation and Revival; The Close of a Colorful Chapter; Noble Memories; Reconsecration; Adjustment; Immorality. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to blue boards. Lettering worn from spine. Both hinges almost fully open. Tape protects top and bottom of spine. A fragile yet worthy copy of this excellent reference. Book
288 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Chapters include: Introductory; Different Ends for Which Pictures Have Been Used; The Different Kinds of Pictures; Stereographs and the Stereoscope; Experiences of Travel with Stereographs; The Importance of Environment; The Limitations of Language; The Wide Environment The Stereograph Travel System Gives. Part II includes the following chapters: What are the Necessities of Life; Life is the Purpose of Our Existence; What is the Life We Are Here to Develop?; Happiness vs. Pleasure; The Different Needs of Our Life; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Intellect; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Aesthetic Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Moral Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Religious Life; Summary and Conclusion. Small dab of liquid paper upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text. Some pencil markings have been erased. Lettering worn from spine. Above average wear to boards. Hinges intact. Minor lean to spine. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing to contents. Book
352 pages. Top and bottom two inches of spine are taped in place. Well used, but not abused. The only reference source you'll need for complete season-by-season statistics and personal data - on every active NHL player. Every active player's entire career... beginning with his first year of amateur hockey and including his 1981-82 pro hockey stats. From games played and goals scored to place of birth and education. Every fact worth repeating is included and there's more.... complete statistics for players in the IHL, CHL, WHL, AHL, college and junior leagues; a special secion on recently retired NHL players; Complete data on drafts, trades, outstanding achievements and awards. Used professionally by coaches, players, announcers and sportswriters... a must for the can't-get-enough hockey fan. Book
