E.M.C.S. 50th Anniversary CommitteeMareMagnum
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44 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. A pleasing nostalgic review of fifty years of education in Sooke, B.C. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
6 pages. Cover photo of Bing Crosby. From the Paramount film "The Star Maker". Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy working copy. Sheet music
128 pages. Decorated olive green cloth-covered board. Prior owner's details hand-written inside front board and atop front board. Minor markings to contents. Front hinge starting. Average wear. A decent working copy. Book
521 pages including index. Intended to help board members think about themselves and their behaviors and about those with whom they work and serve. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
116 pages. A heavily-worn but still usable copy of this vintage spelling text for grade 8 level students. Many markings. Front endpaper removed. Book
201 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "The general opinion obtained in answer to a questionnaire sent to the inspectors and to a large number of the teachers of the Province was that a suitable book in hygiene should be interesting to the pupils, free from technical terms, and contain only such physiology as is necessary; and that its aim should be to arouse a desire for proper living, to develop health habits, and to teach the pupils of our public schools some simple means for the prevention of disease." - from preface. Contents clean and unmarked. Blue cloth boards show average wear with multiple faint school inkstamps. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
200 pages. Extensive 51-page vocabulary list at back. Reprint of the 1925 first edition. Average wear. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Markings to some portions of contents. Binding intact. A sound working copy of this vintage Ontario high school Latin text. Book
200 pages. Features: Early days of Kelowna Hospital; Right Reverend A.J. Doull - First Bishop of the Diocese of Kootenay; Fort Vancouver, USA; Kenny McLean; Hugh Charles Catt - Lumby's First Magistrate; Tom Clarke - Pioneer Surveyor of Railroads and Highways; Grindrod Schools 1900-1976; Falkland, B.C.; Alexander MacDonell - pioneer stage driver and rancher; Nurse Warburton; Brief history of Noca Dairy, 1925-1975; Life on a B.C. Fruit Farm; J.G. Harris; Proposed Manning Park Expansion; Mrs. T.P. Upton; Herbert Hollick Kenyon; H.C.S. Collett; First Osoyoos School 1917; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
250 pages. The humourous, bittersweet autobiography of Basil Johnston, a native Ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a 'residential' school in northern Ontario. A unique portrait of Indian life and a telling commentary on a Canadian government policy that removed native children from their parents - with sad, sometimes even tragic, results. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Slight sunning to spine of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
250 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "The humorous, bittersweet autobiography of Basil Johnston, a native ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a 'residential' school in northern Ontario." - from back cover. Unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
43 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Good working copy. Circa 1920? Book
An unused copy. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent. Book
625 pages. Black and white illustrations. "The subject matter of these chapters has to do with guiding objectives, essential principles of school practices, and general teaching-learning procedures." - from preface. Part I: Problems of Rural School Management; Part II: Problems of Teaching and Learning. Pencil markings to contents. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Some lean to spine. Somewhat above-average wear to cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering remains legible. Book
82 pages. Features: Frontier Hellion; Death of Bob Ford; When Rain-In-The-Face Saved Buffalo Bill; The Truth About the Dodge City War; Jose Chavez, the Man Who Refused to Die; Nevada School Days; Wild Bill Longley; Bill Barker of Barkerville; Nate Champion Tells About the Range; Fiddlin' Ben of Clio; Evolution of the Horse. Magazine
160 pages. Index. A well-illustrated catalog offering tools, supplies and equpment for: Jewelers, Watchmakers, Clock Repair, Instruments, Electronics, Silversmiths, Opticians, Engravers, School Shops, Laboratories, Metal Workers and Die Sinkers. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
504 pages. Index. Many detailed line diagrams. Chapters include: Mechanics of Solids; Mechanics of Fluids; Some Properties of Matter; Wave Motion and Sound; Heat; Light; Electricity and Magnetism. Somewhat above-average wear. Front hinge weak. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper and occasional light pencil markings to contents. A worthy copy of this vintage Western Canadian secondary school physics text. Book
60 pages. Features include: The Last Requiem - Lancaster KW-1; Operation Boxtop - Resupplying the Frozen Chosen; William Barker, VC and the Formation of the RCAF - the conclusion; The Final Objective - the Halifax; Comox War Games; Nobody would have known - No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School Fingal, Ont. during WWII: Aerial Buffoonery; Cover rough. Contents sound. Book
Features: The Headmasters' Exhibition; Ichiyo School - Meikof Kasuya; Ikenobo - Sen-ei Ikenobo; Morimono of the Chiko School; Soami School - Soshoen Yokochi; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Kasumi Teshigahara, in Memory - many lovely photos, some in colour; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Shimpa Seizan School - Kogetsu Kamijo; Saga; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara. Some writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Cover artist - Daniel Kelly; Ikenobo School; Sangetsu School; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara; Chiko School - Kobai Naruse; Saomi School - Soshoen Yokochi; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; A Reflection of Japan's Elegant Culture; Shodo - the way of writing; Saga Goryu; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Ichiyo School - Akihiro Kasuya; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Ikebana for the Gourmet - lovely colour photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Trudeau cover photo; When We Were Young - looking at the Truedeau phenomenon 30 years later; Jean Charest leaves the Progressive Conservatives to seek the Quebec Liberal leadership and go head-to-head with former federal colleague Lucien Bouchard; Nova Scotia election ends in dead heat; RCMP kills two on Tsuu T'ina reserve near Calgary; School shooting at Jonesboro, Arkansas by Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden; Yeltsin's cabinet cleanout; Photo of Bill Clinton with Nelson Mandela in the latter's prison cell; Has Oil Hit Bottom? - price per barrel is US$16.76; Deidre McMurdy on Dual-Class share structures and how they allow families and senior managers to enrich themselves; Allan Gregg on what the future holds for Canada; Atom Egoyan's Oscar Diary; Review of Michael Ignatieff's book The Warrior's Honour, with photo; Ontario education funding feud between teachers and boards. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's name stroked out on address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Violet M. White - a Personal Remembrance; Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire - The Historic Home of the Vernon Family; The Beginnings of Furnishing with Antiques; Jacobus Houbraken - the Master Engraver - Second Series; The Regency Screen Desk; The Rise of the Suffolk School; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Some pages loose but present. Book
62 pages. Contents: A Pipe Dream Come True - a 3/19 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ from the Boyd (AsmEric) Theatre in Philadelphia comes to Dickinson High School in Wilmington, Delaware; Hallelujah! - Minneapolis Convention Center Mighty Kimball Pipe Organ; The Fox Theatre, Atlanta - text with archival photos; Obituaries for E.H. (Bud) Abel, Emil Martin, L.H. McLaughlin, Milton Charles, Donald L. Ingram, Elizabeth Heffer; Considerable chapter news. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents: U.S. Riots - 1967 Toll and before - detailed coverage; Reagan leaves hospital; Successful Minuteman II Launch; William Dale Archerd - charged as insulin murderer; Wilcox Expedition on Mount McKinley; Israel's new territories; Vietnam war update; Photo of Wuhan's double-decked road & rail bridge over the Yangtze; Photo of Stalin and daughter in 1934; Mercenaries in the Congo; Photo of Rees-Mogg; Photo of Mick Jagger; Uncommon full-page colour RCA ad shows their computer being used in a school - years before Apple!; Photo of Roger Maris with Orlando Cepeda; OGO-4 Satellite; LSD & the Unborn; Shirley Polykoff and advertising; Alfried Krupp; Shell Oil Refinery at Rotterdam; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
278 pages. Index. Many black and white illustrations. An informative series of stories for young readers. "It is important in the long view of educational statesmanship that we take care to emphasize with children in constructive fashion the characteristics of democracy which belong to our heritage and which, if not emphasized, may be accepted with indifference and treated with negligence." - from Preface for Teachers. Above-average external wear and soiling. Binding sound. School stamp on front and back endpapers. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage work. Book
Features: Teardrops for the Trigull; Roundels, Stars and Bars; From Harvey Bergen's Journey Log; An episode of Merlins - the Rolls Royce RM 14-SM Merlin; Brisbane (1937-1952) - BC Aviation's Early Trade School; Auriga - a BC Kitplane; The Baron STOL Modification for the DHC-2 Beaver; Homebuilts in Canada. Sound copy. Magazine
