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np. Drawings by Anne Scarlett. 8vo. Original green printed wraps. PA PAMPH 20_17 BX2
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. New. Flawless. Hard to believe considering publication date, but true. Contents include: native people, the Lillooets, miners of the Gold Rush; pioneer farmers; the drainage of the valley for a road to Vancouver. A great many black and white photos, 348 pages including index, bibliography.
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf 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 except for previous owners name at half title page. 348 pages, maps, b&w photos.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 162 pages.
24x17 cm; 328 pp. Brossura editoriale. In questo volume: La chiesa di S. Maria e lo Sviluppo territoriale Massese tra il IX e XI secolo, Corti e signori in area emiliana sotto la dominazione dei Canossa, L'ordine ospitaliero di Altopascio e l'assistenza viaria nella montagna modenese in età comunale, La medicina a modena durante il Medioevo..., Un episodio della bottega degli Erri: le imprese estensi nella rocca di S. Martino in Rio, A margine delle celebrazioni di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: la grandezza di Gianfrancesco Pico, La chiesa di S. Filomena a Nonantola, La chiesa di S. Ignazio di CArpi e l'opera di Antonio Loraghi, Il palazzo Munarini-Montecuccoli di Modena nota storica, Poveri e Mannaie l'assalto al bosco di Saliceta (San Felice), Nicola Giorgini profeta di Massa, Archivi riguardanti Mirandola ed il Mirandolese conservati nell'Archivio di Stato di Modena, Don Flaminio Longagnani storico e memorialista reggiano, Spunti dal folklore di Garfagnana, ecc. Come nuovo.
57 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed by author upon title page otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Nice Vancouver Island poetry. A quality copy. Book
Pages 317-448. Features: Water-Powered Mills of Flat Rock River - article with black and white photos; New Indiana Archival Documents; Jennings County in the Frontier Period; The Century-old Wright Home; Legend of Cedar Isle; Journal of John T. Williams, 1850; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
194p., illus. The story of the New Orleans, first steamboat on the western rivers, maiden voyage in 1811 from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Hardcover Very good condition good
Castel del Rio, 1868, cartella h. 30 cm. bel frontespizio xilografico, con rogito di 4 pp., con timbro e bollo, 31 dicembre 1868, Alfonso Sabbatani notaio di Castel del Rio.
46 pages. This special issue contains many outstanding photos from the albums of Victoria photographer F. Dally who visited the Cariboo in 1868. Features: Transportation to the Goldfields; Photos of Barkerville and its pioneers; Famous photos of the Cariboo gold rush by C. Fulton; The Ne'er Do Well Claim; The Prairie Flower Claim; The Forest Rose Claim; The Mucho Oro Claim; The Aurora claim; The Davis Claim; The Quesnel hockey team in 1912; Soda Creek in 1868; Boston Bar in 1863; A mule train crossing the Quesnel River in 1868; The Cottonwood House; Various sternwheelers; Nicaragua Bluff in 1863; Clinton in 1868; Freight outfit departing Ashcroft 18 1898; The Bank of British Columbia at Richfield in 1868; The community of Van Winkle in 1868; A settlement on Mosquito Creek and Richfield in 1868; Camerontown circa 1868; Kellyville on Grouse Creek in 1868; Mrs. Janet Allen and her Mosquito Creek boarding house in 1868; Photo portrait of F.J. Barnard, founder of the famed B.X. Company; Several additional photo portraits of notable local personalities; Local cemetery photos; plus many wonderful ads, some with photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
A few marks and highlights. 80 pages. Many b&w photos.
64 pages. Features: Cover photo of Bridal Lake; B.C.'s Natural History; To Pack River for Grayling - Harry Lomax; Outdoorsman's Observations - W.P. Keller; B.C. Wildlife Park; Don't Fear the Tick - J.D. Gregson; Around B.C. - Yukon with Rod and Gun; C.F.A. News and Views; Landmarks of HIstory - Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine; Coastal Cruising; Frank Rothenfluh - Pioneer of the Foothills; Adventure in Rocks - Ron Purvis; Upper Fraser Sternwheel Days - Part Six; and more. Interesting ads include: Lucky Lager Beer (inside front cover); McCulloch boat motors; Dueck Truck Sales; C-I-L Ammunition; Pil'Can Brewing Ltd. of Prince George; Psychadelic full-page ad for CJOR 600 radio; Vanguard Trailers of Richmond, B.C.; Fogg Motors Ltd.; Brno Guns; Lindquist Bros. Bait Co.; International Pickup Trucks (inside back cover); Colour ad for Carling Black Label beer on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: You Can Never Tell; Way Down in Old Nova Scotia; Muskets for Moose; Cooking Canadian Game; Sophisticated Salmon of the Capilano River; Arctic Musk-Oxen; Canada's Olympic Shooting Hopes; Outlaws by Night; Game Management; Back cover Brading's Ale ad features Karsh photo of gent after fishing; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
259 S. : 1 Kt. ; 24 cm Ppbd. Sehr gutes Exemplar. - The indicated shipping costs refer to books weighing up to one kilogram. - Bücher, die schwerer als ein Kilogramm oder größer als 35 x 25 cm sind, werden als Paket verschickt und kosten innerhalb Deutschlands bis zu zwei Kilogramm 6 Euro, darüber hinaus 7 Euro Porto. -
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked, and frayed and creased at edges. Variety of extracts emphasising the importance of the Clyde in WWII; includes the sinking of U-33, the explosion of the Maille Breze at Greenock, the sinking of Curacao, TORCH, PQ17, X-craft and Tirpitz, and others. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Enser, p.190; Law, 1801.
36 pages. Features: B.C. hosts 'biggest' telephone convention; Article on new Dog Mountain Tramway with great photos; Photo of George Forsythe and Floyd Adams repairing damaged Squamish cable; two pages of photos of employees who work at night; Howe Sound Line Rebuilt - with great photos of Foreman Davie McKinnon and his men at work; Photos of unique features of phone company buildings; new intra-system teletype system is inaugurated; Squamish Exchange - with five nice photos; Norman Fisher rescues girls near Spanish Banks; Great centrefold photos show how radiotelephones are used at the Eburne Saw Mills Division of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in Vancouver; Phone personalities in Merritt - Myrna Petrie and Frank Shepherd; Before and after demolition photos of the east side of the 700 block of Seymore St. in Vancouver, making room for the new William Farrell Building; Interesting article on company paycheques - and all the deductions from it; Bowen Island Cutover; Retirees; Photo of cable-laying under the Fraser River at the Marpole Bridge; Passing of Charlie McAndrew; company baseball photos; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Christmas greetings from President Farrell inside front cover; Feedback on Kitimat service; Two pages of great photos of installation of cable between the Pattullo Bridge and Chilliwack features work above the Vedder Canal - Pete Meehan's gang are featured; Photos of plant men boosting sales of extension phones - Norman Bowman of Cedar is tops; First counterless office in North Vancouver; Photos of Ladner's conversion to new automatic phone system; Photos of workers in the Terrace district; Retirees; Great centerfold illustrations of radiotelephones in use on sea-going craft; Dawson Creek Cut photos; Photo of Miss Sharon Buck, Vanderhoof operator and Stampede Queen; Photo of Earl Cleland and Jim Wilson working above the Nechako River; East Kootenay personalities; In Memoriam - William D. Denholm, Percy Allen; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features; The Grey Wolf; The Ontario Bird Dog Association "Old Timers"; Canada's Most Ambitious Trophy Hunter - Claude E. Genet - article with great photos; Small Fur Bearers and How to Take Them; Fisherman's Quiz; The Boys' Gold River, B.C. Salmon; 1967 Canadian Big Game Contest Winners; Try a Diary; Photography for the Outdoorsman; Canadian Sportsmen's Corner; Operation Bighorn - with photos; "A Jet Black Buck"; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
12 pages. Bibliography. Thirty black and white illustrations of clubs. Inscribed and signed 'Wilson' atop first page. "Among the notes and photographs which the Provincial Museum acquired with the Newcombe Collection in 1961 was a small bundle marked 'Tsimshian stone batons.' It contained materials which Dr. Newcombe had assembled, with the intention of publishing an article, on a remarkable series of more than 35 carved stone clubs found together in a cache at an old village-site on the Bulkley Canyon near Hazelton in the upper Skeena area in 1898." - from page 1. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of the Maid of the Mist beneath Niagara Falls, by Franklin Arbuckle; Colour ad for International trucks inside front cover; GMC truck ad; The Royal Family of the Seas - Canadian Sam Cunard's mighty Queenships shuttle across the Atlantic with 200,000 travelers each year; Why Half Our High School Students Quit; The Clumsy One (fiction); A Honeymoon at Niagara Falls, by June Callwood and Trent Frayne; How Red Dutton Made His First Million - the NHL's one-time bad man is now a rich contractor; Ellen Fairclough Goes to Ottawa - the only female member of parliament, and only the sixth Canadian woman M.P.; The Black Magic Murder Case (fiction); Joe Palooka - richest pug in the world - Ham Fisher's brawny clean-cut champion rakes in $8 million a year from comic strips, movies and candy; Rev. Lester Burry - The Mechanized Missionary of Northwest River - article with colour photos; The Day You Meet Your Skunk; The Bachelor's Dilemma, by Morley Callaghan; Page-Hersey heating ad features photo of Micheal, Marywinn, Marion and David Milne of 32 Kingsway Cres., Toronto; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Champion spark plug ad features racer Johnny Parsons; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features nice swimming illustration by Aileen Richardson; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Many black and white photos plus some color ads. Features: Russell J. Smiley's cover art depicts his triumph over a mighty marlin; Wood Ticks and Dog Tricks - The wood tick causes deadly spotted fever; The Education of the Wrecker - Training a problematic dog; Death in the Timber - The peril caused by forest fires; The Gristmill Whopper - The real fisherman knows what to do if he lands the whopper; Bass Plugs and Bass (Part 2); Jungle Journey - Part 4 of E.P. Haddon's adventures hunting and fishing in the almost unexplored back-country jungles of tropical Yucatan Peninsula; Farm Fishponds - Second article on farm fish ponds, reporting on a co-operative experiment in constructing 60 ponds in North Carolina and the result after two years; The Lizard of "Was" - The Gila Monster; Know Your Ducks (7) - The Blue-Winged Teal; One-page photo of George Paulson stepping out of his boat on Leech Lake, MN, with a string of fish; One-page photo of Bernard Rocha casting into the Owens River in California; Matinee on the Marsh - Hunting and betting; The Champion - The record and life story of perhaps the most brilliant handler of all time, Clyde Morton of Alabama; Bucktails for Steelheads (Part 2) - Peter J. Schwab reveals how to tie his sensational new wire-body bucktails for steelheads; Iron rifle Sights - The peep type site is very accurate; and much more. Many great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
STATED FIRST EDITION, pp.245, illustrasted.
116 pages. Many archival black and white illustrations. Signed by Frances Duncan upon title page. "These tales do not give a complete history of Salmon River and the first people who came to settle along its banks. They were written that the memory of those who prepared the way for us to follow will not be forgotten, and by sharing their experiences, hopes and fears, we might be richer in understanding the land in which we live." - from Introduction. Signed by both author's upon title page. Prior owner's small name stamp to blank first leaf otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.
Library of Congress Number: 62-20656. 160 pages. former owner's name on front flyleaf. Black and white illustrations. Book
