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64 pages. Features: Collecting Copper Lustre Ceramics; Fine and Rare Furniture Auctions; The Mystery of I Rogers - attributions are a contentious issue among collectors of Worcester porcelain; Rising Prices for Stanhope Forbes and British Impressionists; Home Thoughts From Abroad - Henry Parsons Riviere, ARWS (1811-1888); many attractive ads; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. [8], 161 pages. Bibliography. Maps. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Rare historic photographs to include Kimsquit and Manitou Canneries, railroad logging at Green Bay and Kimsquit, sport fishing industry on the Dean River, Gildersleve Logging, Kimsquit Reserve." - title page. Local history of this former village of the Nuxalk at the mouth of the Dean River on the northeast side of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy of this informative work. Book
131 pages. "This was not an all-inclusive inquiry into the ecology of this province and the Pacific Ocean as it relates to all species of fish. Rather, this inquiry was about the salmonand about us, who have the responsibility to protect and manage the salmon in such a way that there will always be salmon returning to the rivers and streams of the west coast of North America." - from Preface. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
72 pages. Features: McNelly's Rangers; Three Years' Gamble; River of Gold in the Desert; Deep Ran the Blood in Buffalo; Last of the Invaders; America's Royal Palace; Montana Bill; The Campfire Massacre; Scout for the Apache Hunters; The Bannock and Paiute War of 1878; Story of the Marlow Boys; The Town that Committed Suicide; Death Wore Buckskin and Braids; Land of the Dakotas. Two inch opening at base of cover fold. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Letters; Chinese Artifacts, by Flo & Al Clemens; 3rd Annual Vancouver Island Bottle Show & Sale - photo-illustrated article; Nanaimo Dig Club; Sealed Bottles, by Dick & Barbara Hoyle; Insulators, by Larry & Wendy Lundgren; Relics, by Jim Heidt; Auto Collectibles, by Allan Gadsen; Old Guns, by Mike Hill; Vancouver Notes, by D. Harrison; Gold Seal Liquor Co., Vancouver, B.C.; International Wine Co., by G. Northcote; Collecting Old Locks; Documents & Other Paper Collectibles; More Jugs; Living Free - Patricia Armitage writes about Dieter and Tina Bonkowski of Yellow Point - with photos; Old Phonographs, by Coleman Kiss; Depression Glass; Fruit Jar Corner; Collectors of Note; The Karbonated Korner - The Comox Valley Mysteries, by Bill Patterson; The West Coast Mystery - "Stone Bear" found by Morris McNally of Nanaimo; Articles from the collection of Norm and Sandy Barker of Chase River, B.C.; Furniture, Lamps & Bric A Brac; French Ivory, by M. Skrill; Prairie News; Club Directory; Classified ads; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
<p>22x30 cm, rilegatura editoriale con sovracop. illustrata; p. 209, (3). Alcune carte geografiche a colori e numerose foto color seppia nel testo. Qualte strappetto restaurato alla sovracop. Testo italiano e portoghese</p>
Da “Album dei porti di I, II e III classe illustrato dalle notizie nautiche e commerciali d’ogni porto e della statistica delle opere esistenti e di quelle eseguite nel decennio 1861 al 1870”, Roma, Civelli, s.d. (ma 1872 ca.), litografia, b/n, cm 44 x 57,5 (il foglio). Grande figura del porto descritto. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Rara.
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 131 pages with b&w photos, maps. Book concerns the history of Fraser Port from 1858 -- 1985.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 96 page trade size auction catalog with many b&w photos and prints, some full page. Art from Suglik, Clyde River, Coral Harbour, Wakeham Bay, Eskimo Point, Cape Dorset, Povungnituk, Spence Bay, Port Harrison, Great Whale River, Repulse Bay, Belcher Islands, Lake Harbour, Frobisher Bay, Rankin Inlet, Clyde River, Baker Lake, Gjoa Haven, Arctic Bay, Cape Dorset,Povungnituk, Spence Bay, Port Harrison, et al. 415 items listed for sale, many b&w photos, some full page, approx. 30 artists listed, about 180 carvers.
215 page report listing 398 areas, each of which has: Wetland classification (water [marsh, stream estuary] & vegitation type) Municipality, Land status Survey date and Air photo reference with Notes, sometimes extensive, listing the history of the area, type of waterfoul there now, other animals, etc. With methodology section, results and discussion section, five appendices, maps, floppy disk data file in plastic envelope, and large fold-out map in pocket at back of book. All in excellent condition, book shows little use and 1/4" tear at bottom of front cover is only blemish. Plastic comb binding.
704 p. Minutes of actions taken at legal meeting of the inhabitants of Brookline from 1686 - 1838. Hardcover Good condition, 3/4 leather binding rehinged with cloth tape
331 p. incl. front., plates. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Fine Russian Original dark green imitation leather bdg. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish and Russian. 205, [2] p. Sbornik subbotnih vechernih i untrennih molit po obryadu Krimskih Karaimov na Russkom i Karaimskom yazikah. 1000 copies were printed.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; black cloth, gilt backs, blue endpapers, a very good, bright, clean set wanting publisher's slip-case as often. The set comprises Volume I: Indians & Spain; Volume II: Mexico and the United States. Nice set of this standard account, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in the year of publication. Adams, Herd 1065; Basic Texas Books 95A
Mm 145x230 English text. Volume rilegato in tela verde con titolo oro al dorso, xv-520 pagine con incisioni in nero nel e fuori testo ed una tavola a due colori più volte ripiegata in chiusura del libro. Copia in buone-ottime condizioni; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
344 pages. The fictional account of a family of homesteaders in the Land of the Mighty Peace. "... about the strength and courage required to survive that land but mostly it is about a sense of place, the homes we all lived in and the lives we've left behind." - from back cover. Author was born in the Peace River Country in 1917. She has signed and inscribed this copy upon the first blank page, otherwise the book is unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
36 pages. Contents: C.W. Halford becomes new General Commercial Manager; Operator Distance Dialing comes to B.C.; Photo of the Vancouver toll operating centre in the William Farrell Building; Article on the high cost of accidents; Six photos of the tear-down of the highwire span which connected Agassiz and Chilliwack since 1910; Conversion Jobs Sparked Romances; Phoning Powell River to Ottawa by O.D.D. (Operator Dial Direct); Photos of dozens of staffers at social events; Photos of company sales training; Photo-illustrated article on Roland Robinson - maintenance man near Creston who drives a Tucker Sno-Cat; Photo of early auto-dialer/speaker phone; Junior Achievement in New Westminster; Retirement of H. Hatton Crerar, Agnes Trimble, Dinah Cave, Elizabeth (Betty) Cameron, Robert H. Angus, and Pearl Wayne; In Memoriam - Jack Dunnigan and George Friend; Social news; and more. Clean with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
6 pages. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy with nicely illustrated front cover. Sheet music
Features: Last rig to Battle Mountain - the last family to take the Humboldt Trail by covered wagon, led by Sherman Wilhelm, makes one of Nevada's richest gold strikes; Motion Picture Vignettes - Neal Hart; Clues to Frontier Treasure; Over-kill in Apache land - Camp Grant Massacre; Last rails across North America - Building the Grand Trunk; A hundred miles of lonely river - the Missouri River; Toughest school in the county - Oklahoma; Stars over Chloride, New Mexico; "My God, My Hero, My Ideal" - Joaquin Miller; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: A test of courage - Sitting Bull, last Sioux to lay down his gun; Last of the horseback outlaws - 'Arkansas Tom' Daugherty; Old Pete's (Pete Peterson's) Lost gold mine; Horse king of the northwest - Charlie Newell - Goldendale, Washington; Ghosts of the Rio Puerco; Motion Picture Vignettes; Murder at Rincon - Amasa Barton killed by the Navajos; High-Wheeling to Denver - bicycles were a status symbol in 1889; A Search for Home; Wes Cates - A Lawman's life in pictures; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
Features: The ghosts of Inyo; Matadors walked the streets of Gillette! - Bull Fighting in Colorado; "We Must Kill" - medicine men near the Yukon River wanted to get rid of gold seekers; Colonel Tim McCoy - 30 years under crossed sabers; Up in the La Sals - A basin so rich 'you can run trees through the sawmill and the sawdust will assay at better than $10 a ton"; Life is just a chance you have to take; Lost Cabin Creek Mines (Dawson County, Montana); Amos Chapman, Scout - the hero of the Buffalo Wallow fight; Timberline Kate - Kate Knowlton at Monte Cristo; A Day at the Greene House - a youth confronts a Mexican mob; Cump Sherman out west - William T. Sherman was never able to take San Francisco... He was disoriented in the Bay City, unable to understand the mystique of gold; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Massacre! - in the 1850s, California's Indians were treated with heartless brutality; Gold of the Coquihalla River in British Columbia; Warrior's Witches - a display of temper earned an Indian girl a bad reputation; Fair Play Meant a Hanging - to the Fairplay 105; Sequoyah Houston fell to Cherokee Bill; Kit; Living on Borrowed Time - Horatio Larned saved the life of Porcupine... and thereby saved his own; Readin', 'Ritin', and Retribution - ; $110 per sack!; Northwest Trade Gun - the Indian's magic smoke pole; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Special Feature - Apache Vengeance - The savage murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and deputy Hunkydory Holmes; Jesse (James), Frank and Cole; Gold-Filled Safe of Knight's Ferry - it floated down the Stanislaus River!; Terror on a Train - The "Harvest Excursion"; Massacre by White Men - The Tragedy of the Nueces; Tombstone 'Typos'; San Augustine Ranch House; Hobo, the horse that never quit; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Alaska Bound - Kenneth Gideon, a young mining engineer, heads for Crow Creek, Alaska; Double Hanging at Lincoln - a daughter writes of her father's murder and of its traumatic aftermath; Slate Mountain's Golden Tunnel - is really a golden tomb; Bully of the Town - Denton, Texas; A Trek to the Gold Fields; When Horse Trading was a Profession; Henry Wickenburg's Old Colt - brief glory with the Vulture Mine, then disillusionment; Tame the Wild River - Major Frank McLaughlin and what he did to the Feather River; Horsehead Crossing; The Stolen Claim; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
