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36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Ship That Turned Over In Her Grave - the 'Gulf Stream', owned by Gulf Lines, Ltd., served the Vancouver to Powell River run; Jack Fannin - this pioneer extraordinaire was the first curator and virtually creator of the British Columbia Provincial Museum; Forgotten Towns of the West Kootenay - many have been lost to flood and fire; 1689 - Year of the Massacre - Missionaries killed by the Iroquois; Klondike Journey - Part 2 of 3 on Klondike of the 1890s and the travels of Robert beresford Allison; The Gold-Plated Nickels - counterfeiting method used by a deaf-mute in the U.S. in 1880; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Boat High with Hyrofoils - article with great photos - "New Sea Wings Lift Boat, Motor and All Out of Water - Gives Smoother and Faster Riding"; What Kind of Boat do You Want to Buy?.. Now What Kind of Motor?; What's Ahead in Boating?; Photo illustrating why government-approved life preservers need by used; List of items required by government regulation to be taken on power driven pleasure boats; Should I Bother Painting? - add years of life to your boat; Nice photo ad for the Canadian Canoe Company of Peterborough, Ontario; Trout do come Big in July - Silver Springs Lodge, South River, Ontario; Do You Like Bugs?; Sedge Night in British Columbia, by H. Mortimer Batten of Kamloops, B.C.; How to Get Those Bass?; Two Ways to Hunt Woodchuck; Handmade Canadian Free Rifle Design; The Hungarian Vizsla - article with photo of "Elza Von Schloss Loosdorf" owned by Stephen Brunyanski of St. Catherines, Ontario; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
26 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Feature article entitled "Cities of the Future" focuses on the Illinois River Corridor. Considers Temenopolis I and II, Hennepin Two, and the central core (centrum) of Indianapolis; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Creases to covers. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
18 pages. Features: Mailbag; How Wide is Steelhead Ocean Range?; Quail Hunt - article with photos of Pete Worobey and his song Bob; Bouncing the Bars - photo-illustrated article by Jim Railton about fishing in the Cowichan River includes photos of The Hancocks, Bob Hazeldine, Art Hancock, Dick Mahoney, Murray West, and Terry Thomas; Six-Pound Dynamute - Ed Meade writes about the six pound Breda magnum rifle, with photo of Jack Hutton; Boats; Photo of Wally Gentles holding 23-lb Spring salmon caught at Brentwood on Vancouver Island; Photo of near record Caribou trophy shot by Harold Daye with Don and Wes Bickerton and Innis Short near Burns Lake; Photo of Mrs. Montgomery of New Westminster holding 18-lb Steelhead caught in the Kispiox River; Back cover Lucky Lager beer ad shows men watching football on TV; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Vintage photo-illustrated ad for Peters ammo on front cover; Game and Shooting - In the Fog; Quail Revervoirs Planned in Oklahoma; Excellent Flight of Mallards on the Illinois River; Fish and Fishing - The Second Chapter of Genesis; Miami Valley Amateur Trials; The Connecticutt Trials; Sedalia Field Trials; St. Lucie County Trials; West Virginia Amateur Trials; Photo of T.M. Lunsford and C.T. Carney with Adventurer; Field Dog Stud Book Registrations; Veterinary Q & A; Classy one-page ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) features hunters and dog at work; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 155-200 plus sixteen pages of nice ads. Features: Reforestation in Ontario - major article with many wonderful archival photos, including horrific scenes of erosion and drifting sand; The Prospector; England's Rural Craftsmen; Paddlewheels on the St. John River; Alexander Henry; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Small name stamp on ad on verso of first leaf. Large chunk missing from upper corner of back cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
In 16, pp. 734 con tavv. sinottiche e ill. n.t. e 8 tavv. xilogr. f.t. di cui 2 su doppia pagina. Danni rip. al d. Timbretto al p. ant. Br. ed. Ed. orig. di questo ponderoso saggio geografico, economico, storico ed etnografico sulla zona del Rio de la Plata e Tenerife con bibliografia in appendice di volume. L'A., medico, si sofferma anche sulle pratiche mediche dei popoli indigeni, sulle usanze alimentari, riservando ampio spazio alla questione antropologica come dimostra la tavola raffigurante varie tipologie di crani delle popolazioni.
229 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, light scuffing to covers as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 256 pages with many b&w photos throughout, unused fold-out map at back. Contents include: Eary shipwrecks in British Columbia waters, Strait of Georgia, Southeast coast of Vacouver Island and Strait of Juan de Fuca, West coast of Vancouver Island, Norhtern coast of British Columbia, Fraser river and Burrard Inlet, Deep-water wrecks of Howe Sound; with index of treasure ships in B.C. waters, Guidelines for scuba divers, Index of ship names and captains.
xii, 328 p. illus. 23 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
Book is in excellent condition in dark red leather covers with gold print on cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows very slight shelf wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for front end paper, where it is inscribed by 10 of the subjects and/or authors of the book as the O.A.P.O #77 Book Committee for Publishing to Mrs. Fulton. The book represents a comprehensive local history of pioneer life, events, institutions and family genealogical history for the area of Quesnel, British Columbia in the Cariboo District for the dates listed, including a good deal of history around the Cariboo gold rush. 431 pages, heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs; 8 3/4" x 11 1/4".
Book is in excellent condition in grey heavy weave cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine. One corner lightly bumped is only flaw. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners otherwise, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, edge wear at corners and top, bottom spine. 197 pages with a great many photos in b&w, often large format, map endpapers, contents features about 100 families, occasional persons, alphebetized by author, with one or two pages of their bio; including:Frederick John Coulthard, Dinsmores of Mud Bay, Robert Fallowfield, John and Ann Gillis, Thomas Hembrough, Abraham and Nancy Huck, Dan Johnson, David and Katherine Kitzel, John Loney, Jane Mallett, William McBride, Milton family, William Morgan, James Edward Murphy, John and Anna Paris, Peschkes of Hazelmere, Parr Family, Thomas and Sarah routley, William smith, John and Agnes Starr, H.T. Thrift, Edmund and frances Wade, Weaver Family, Noah, V. Wichersham, etc. Signed by author on the title page.
92 pages. Features: The Penalty Worse Than Death - Douglas C. Rigg, Warden of Stillwater Prison in Minnesota describes the life of the 110 lifers under his supervision; I Rode Detroit's Mystery Car - photo-illustrated article on Ford's new Edsel; Buckskin and Blanket Days (2 of 3) - young Tibbles' prowess astounded the Indians during a desperate hunt for buffalo, then a scene of human massacre stirred the warriors to vengeance; Town with a Homemade Lake - color-photo-illustrated article on Bloominton, Indiana; A Crooner Comes Back - photo-illustrated article on singer Gene Austin; Does Sweden Dare Stay Neutral - fascinating photo-illustrated article discusses their military and civil defenses in the shadow of their historic enemy, Russia; Secrets of the Unkown War (last of 5 articles) - Greenland's valiant little 'army' raced to ambush the Germans before the spring thaw, but they desperately needed American help; The Face of America - Callow Cowboys - branding on the W.R. Wooten Y7 Red River Ranch; Listen, Doctor! - Medical doctors listen to audio tapes to keep up with new discoveries. Fiction: The Boy Who Didn't Belong; Marry for Love; Challenge the River; The Everglaces Blonde; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 4 of 8). Ads: Vintage Homellite chainsaw ad features the EZ 6 and 6 22; Great color-photo ad for RCA Victor TV features several of their Hathaway, Socialite and Nassau models; Fantastic one-page color-photo ad for the Plymouth Station Wagon (white on blue) on the beach; L&M Cigarette ad features photo of speedboat racer Joe Schoenith. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
Stories: Canadian Hold-Up; A Clerk Breaks Loose; The Editor's Post Bag; Have You Seen an Elephant; My Cycle Trip to Spain; Latest From London; Spanish Interlude; The Brass River Affair; They Brought Me Back Alive; Crawford's Cobra; The Wolves of the Cascades; My All Blacks; The Tantanoola Tiger. Average wear. Book
280 pages. Index. Bibliography. Archival black and white photos abound, plus several in colour. Includes maps, timetables and scale drawings. "This is the dramatic story of the CPR's British Columbia sternwheelers and steam tugs through the races, boiling rapids, moonlit cruises, and gold rushes to their passing." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Average wear and closed tears to back panel of dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy of this wonderful piece of B.C. history. Book
514 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. An exciting look back at the early days of Alaska. The thirty chapters include such topics as Vigilante Days of '98 at Dyea and Skagway, Dawson and the Klondike Mines, American Occupancy of the Yukon Basin, Rafting Down the Kantishna River, Animla Migration from Asia to Alaska, The Judge Tried by a Miner's Meeting, and many more. Author served as U.S. District Judge in Alaska 1900-1908, Alaska Congressman for 14 years, and as Editor for seven volumes of "Alaska Law Reports". Prior owner names atop front free endpaper and title page. Above-average wear and soiling to blue boards. Few coffee drops to fore-edge. Contents in quality condition. Endpapers yellowed but contents remain bright. Binding intact. Worthy working copy. Book
184 pages. Line drawings. Illustrator's inscription and signature inside front board. "This is a story about the Indian tribes in British Columbia who hunted the giant whales of the Pacific." - from dust jacket. Intended for readers aged 12 and up. One of the three names to whom Ms. Weiler inscribed this copy has been obscured by ink. Moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with black cloth covers with bright silver embossed flower representations on the cover, silver print at spine, but with a small rectangle cut out of the top of the half title page, apparently where a previous owner's name was. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear with a 1" tear at top spine. First edition of this scarce and invaluable work on the art of the subarctic Athapaskans in Western Canada and British Columbia from pre-Columbian period to present day, focusing on clothing ornamentation with elaborate beadwork on jackets, shoes, pants, dog blankets, wigs, bags, dresses, leathergoods of all kinds, and a sophisticated quill tradition. With many maps, b&w photos, some color. Heavily illustrated.
8vo., ?Third Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, 11 lithographed plates (one depicting flies; all original tissue guards present) and 10 woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece and illustrated title mildly foxed; original ribbed green cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down, 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and single-leaf prospectus for the enlarged edition of Lloyd's Field Sports tipped in. The illustrations are by Haghe, Landseer and Williams from paintings by Wilkie, Landseer, Simson and Cooke. 'Next to Walton himself, there's no more engagingly discursive and allusive writer in the language. For the feel of fishing, the sense of it, I almost said the taste of it, I know of no other to place him beside' (Gingrich). A lovely copy of the best reissue; Scrope's classic treatise was first published in 1843. James was owner of Hurstmonceux Place in Sussex. Gingrich p.117 et seq.; Sage, 183; Westwood & Satchell p.191.
43 pages. Includes lyrics, guitar chords and music for the following songs and more: The Aussie Bar-B-Que Song; The Ballad of Henry Holloway; And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda; Birds of a Feather; Bushfire; Goodbye Lucky Country; The Great Aussie Takeaway; Hard Hard Times; He's Nobody's Moggy Now; If Wishes Were Fishes; Just Not Coping; Little Gomez; No Man's Land - The Green Fields of France; Now I'm Easy; Old Friends; A Reason for it All; Safe in the Harbour; Scraps of Paper; Shining River; Soldier, Soldier; When the Wind Blows; Notes on the Songs. Undated. Appears to be circa 1980s. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
342 pages. Extensive bibliography, index, five maps, and twenty tables. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. "The colourful, charismatic and controversial Laird of McNab ruled his Highland settlers in the fashion of a feudal lord. This book chronicles the people's struggle for freedom and the development of the township after the Laird's power was finally broken." - back cover. Dated gift greetings atop title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent local history. Book
52 pages. Loaded with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos supplemented with informative text. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this informative local history. Book
159 pages. Bilingual French/English. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated in colour. An art book on the House of France in Ottawa. Oblong 8.3" x 11.8". Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this attractive work. Book
xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
