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KOSINSKI, Sophie - MICHELETTI, Eric.
Grands Hotels du bord de mer.
petit in-4 carre, 144 pages, nombreuses photos et illustrations en couleurs, cartonnage sous jaquette illustree.- 9782908182545 Excellent etat [PLG-3]
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COULOUBRIER (Guy & Daniele).
Les Derniers Palaces du monde - The World's Last Palaces.
Hardcover grand in-8, 151 pp., ill. coul., cart. éd. Bel exemplaire. [DV-7]
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KJELLBERG, P.
Le Guide du Marais.
in-12 carre, 112 pages, abdt ill. in et h-t. n./coul., carte, rel. cartonnage ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [AR-2]
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LODETTI Giacomo, BERTOLETTI Donatella (a cura di)
BERTOLETTI, UNE VIE EN ROSE. Dal 1919 al 1976.
In-8 (cm. 22), brossura illustrata, con alette, pp. 172, (2), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero e soprattutto a colori nel testo. Catalogo della Mostra: Milano, Castello Sforzesco, 18 Aprile - 18 Maggio 2002. Esemplare tratto da una tiratura di 500 copie. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
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SADO Giacomo (testo di)
SAINT VINCENT. Casinò - Grand Hotel Billia - Centro Congressi.
In-4 (cm. 28.80), tela editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. (80, senza paginazione), con illustrazioni a colori nel testo. Apparato in Italiano, Francese ed Inglese. Text in English et en français. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
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MARCONI Paolo (introduzione di)
STORIA URBANA A FIRENZE. Il recupero del complesso architettonico di Via dei Calzaioli.
In-4 (cm. 30.60), cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, custodia in cartoncino, pp. 187, (5), con illustrazioni, nel testo, in bianco e nero e a colori. Testi di Corrado Caccialanza, Giovanni Cipriani, Marco De Marco, etc. Allo stato di nuovo (brand new copy).
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AMENDOLAGINE Francesco
VILLA IGIEA.
In-4 (cm. 29.80), tela editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 284, (4), con illustrazioni, nel testo, in bianco e nero e a colori. Testi in italiano ed inglese. Text in English. Piccola mancanza, con rappezzo adesivo, e due abrasioni alla sovracoperta; peraltro, testo in buono stato (text in good condition).
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THE MAGICAL ART OF CARTIER.
In-8 (cm. 27.50), cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 466, (2), con illustrazioni a colori nel testo, numerose ripiegate. Text in English. Catalogo dell’Asta svoltasi a Ginevra presso l’Hotel des Bergues il 19 Novembre 1996. Allegato un fascicolo di pp. 11, (1), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo, inerente il Lotto 236A, Braccialetti di zaffiro del Kashmir; sempre in lingua inglese. Minime macchie al dorso. Tracce di polvere ed ingiallimento alla sovracoperta; peraltro, volume ed allegato in ottimo stato (nice copy).
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GALLIA Costantino
GRAND HOTEL CONTINENTAL.
In-4 (cm. 30.50), cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 101, (5), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
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LISTA Giovanni
LE LIVRE FUTURISTE. De la libération du mot au poème tactile.
In-4 (cm. 31.10), brossura illustrata, con alette, pp. 158, (2), con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori nel testo. Volume edito in occasione della Mostra tenutasi all’Hotel Galliffet di Parigi nell’Ottobre 1984. Testo in italiano e francese. Texte en français. Minime tracce di polvere alla brossura; peraltro, volume in ottimo stato (nice copy).
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THE SETAI. 400 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK, NY 10018.
In-folio (cm. 42), tela editoriale, titolo al dorso, sovracoperta, custodia (qualche traccia d’uso), pp. 180, interamente illustrato a colori. Volume allo stato di nuovo (brand new copy).
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Giampiero Aloi
Hotel Motel
Analisi architettonica di alcuni dei pi๠famosi alberghi del mondo nel 1970. Con testo e didascalie in doppia lingua: italiano ed inglese. 330 illustrazioni in nero e 364 disegni. Volume in ottime condizioni rilegato con sovraccoperta. Rilegato
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Munn, Orson D.
Scientific American September 1932 Volume 147 Number 3
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
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Hochstrasser, Monique
The Art of the Regent
102 pages. A sumptuously presented selection of the art collection displayed in The Regent in Hong Kong. This is a collection carefully acquired not only for its aesthetic beauty but also for the elements of oriental symbolism that are represented. Includes fine examples of skilfully executed screens, lacquerware and embroidery. There are specimens of Chinese export wallpaper, and several nineteenth-century China Trade oil paintings. These became popular as artistic records of the cultural and trading contacts of their period and are now collector's items. The selection of maps traces the pattern of adventure and romantic trade and travel over the centuries. Finally, a group of contemporary works pleasantly relate the collection to modern artistic trends. All illustrations in vivid colour photography. Attractive maroon cloth boards bear imprint of Chinese characters upon front board and gilt roman lettering upon spine. Illustrated slipcase shows light edgewear and several nicks. Book and slipcase bear the aroma of moth balls. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Electrical Engineer Vol. I No. 15 February 28th, 1936
Approx. 40 pages. Features: The Metadyne system of electric motor control; Engineers' Experiences; Electrical Pyrometers; Marine Control Gear; Power Factor Meters; 25-line Private Automatic Telephone Exchange; Electrical Equipment in a Modern Store; Making Agreements for Power Supply; Reading Switchboard Instruments from a distance; Development of X-rays in Dental Practice; Selection of Factory Substation Switchgear; Mercury switches and their applications; Ballast Resistances; Electrical Progress Overseas; Opportunities in the Cinema Industry. Well-worn. Bottom staple has torn through cover else no major defects. Unmarked. Blue and Orange front cover features advertisement for Callender Cables showing the vessel "Stirling Castle" equipped with 112 miles of their cable. Book
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Kennedy, Marielle
Victoria Canada 1846 to 1986 - A Collection of Modern Menus for a Heritage City
160 pages including bibliography. Presents a multitude of current restaurant menus and intriguing tales from Victoria's past, along with fascinating heritage photographs, many of which date back to the early 1900s. "Did you know that a prominent Victoria hotel was once host to an indoor, nine hold golf tournament? Did you know that a Victoria heritage building, now home to a French restaurant, gained notoriety when its Chinese cook jealously beheaded a prostitute with the kitchen fish slicer?" - from back cover. Unmarked with minimal wear to glossy decorated covers. Contents clean and crisp. An unusual and interesting volume in giftable condition. Book
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Snyder, Margaret
Barbie - the Island Resort Adventure: A Golden Sound Story Book
Barbie has just been invited to visit her friend Kira who owns a fabulous island resort. Imagine Barbie's surprise when she learns Kira is selling the resort because she can't afford to compete with big hotel chains. Bill Barbie find a way to save the resort? With the help of Ken, Skipper, and a friendly dolphin, you bet she will! Prior owner's name inside front cover and minor soiling to front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Please note: All 10 sound effects were working loud and clear at time of listing but we cannot guarantee they will still be working at the time of your order, so we offer this book as is. Book
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Bardi, James A.
Hotel Front Office Management - Second Edition (Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Ser.)
469 pages including index. This second edition takes on a new look to meet the demands of the hotel industry in this new century. Encourages students to take an active role in applying concepts of operations, technology, training, empowerment, and international applications. Minor quantity of high-lighting else unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy in glossy illustrated boards. Book
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Hart, E.J.
The Selling of Canada - The CPR and the Beginnings of Canadian Tourism
180 pages including index. Describes how the CPR developed and promoted Canadian tourism in its quest for a profitable passenger line. Along the way it established not only an extensive network of rail, ship, and hotel services, but also the groundwork for Canada's national identity. Wonderfully and bountifully illustrated, primarily in black and white plus gorgeous colour reproductions of nostalgic promotional literature. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Giftable condition. Excellent copy. Book
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Weighill, Richard
Three Generations on the Land *Signed By Author*
201 pages of profoundly fascinating and delightful illustrated history. Author's father (b. 1870) left Yorkshire, England with his young family for Canada in 1909 and arrived in Fife Lake, Saskatchewan where they spent their first winter in a straw house. Author was born in a sod house in 1910 and moved with his family to Montana when he was 6 years old. At age 14 the family moved to Victoria, B.C. and from there to Nanoose Bay, further up Vancouver Island. Most pages contain brief text, accompanied by the author's simple sketches of the way things were. He has stressed the most practical elements of daily life and survival. A priceless compilation of the challenges and genius of the pioneer. Examples include: how to hunt prairie antelope by wearing a white sheet; avoiding flying ants by erecting a pole to your wagon and hanging a coat at its top; uprooting stumps by tying them to nearby trees to be felled; cutting wood by rigging a buzzsaw to the back wheel of a Model "T" Ford truck; and many, many more. Mentions Vancouver Island landmarks such as the Arlington Hotel, Lantzville Hotel, Quarterway Hotel, and more. This book lends itself wonderfully to teaching youngsters the ways of the not-so-distant past. You will have great difficulty in putting it down. Book
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Oughton, Frederick J.; Young, Keith Douglas; Hay, Lional; Dempson, Peter W.; Thompson, Alec; Beckett, Leslie; raddatz, N.A.; Belletti, Major F.H.; McCormick, James; Henderson, Rose; Taylor, Carl N.
The Wide World Magazine - August 1950 Vol.105 No.628: The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (Part 4 of 4)
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Valentine, Douglas
The Hotel Tacloban
175 pages. Author relates his father's capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, the annihilation of his entire squad and how he, the lone survivor, was shipped to live with Australian and British POWs in a squalid, degrading camp in the Philippines that came to be known as The Hotel Tacloban. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Spine leaning. Decent reading copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Maclean's Magazine, March 15 1947
76 pages. Features: John L. Lewis vs. the People - the man who ran the coal mines in wartime says the U.S. must break the power monopoly of John L. Lewis; Look Out when you Eat Out; What to do in a Fire; Hundred-Year Harvest - Farmers in 72 lands use Massy-Harris equipment; Elizabeth and Philip - Close-up of a Royal Romance; Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; The Nahanni Valley. Nice colour ads for: The Banff Springs Hotel; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Stetson Hats; Canada Dry; SOS Pads; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Maxwell House Coffee; Kellogg's Corn Flakes; Good Year Tires; Carling Breweries; Studebaker automobiles. Average wear. Covers partially detached. A worthy copy of this very nostalgic issue. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News Magazine - April 4, 1970 No 6818 Volume 256
Features: Ulster eruption; Watching and waiting in Laos; Background to a millionaire - David Rowland; London's hotel crisis; The Passions of Easter; Irish vote; Putting poetry into pop; who writes Britain's shopping list?; Women on the march; Richard Hamilton - artist; Salamis - Capital of the Kings; Iceland; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Wednesday, November 23rd, 1904 Issue
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Zemstvos Gathering in Russia; Elections in the Interior; West Hastings Ballot Box Case; Fighting the White Plague - Enthusiastic Gathering and Sale of Work at Balmoral Hotel; Canadian Northern Track Layers Making Good Progress; Atlin Flourishing; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Half-Acre Lots: Just off Gorge Road, For Sale at $200, $225 and $250. (A Good Speculation)" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, January 27, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 664
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Cover illustration of The Battle of Magersfontein. Photos of: Squad of the Essex Artillery Volunteers, Detachment of the London Scottish Volunteers, Machine-Gun Detachment of the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, the new Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert", Prominent officers on active service, Scenes on the Western Line of Communicationsl, The Camp of the Grahamstown 1st City Volunteers, at Cradock, Lord Curzon's visit to Lucknow, A Group of Irish Nurses bound for South Africa, Scenes at De Aar. Illustrations include: "With the Kimberley Relief Column, The Burial of General Wauchope and Lieutenant-Colonel Goff, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the field of Magersfontein, The City of London Volunteers for South Africa, How Long Tom's Shell Disturbed the Middies' Sucking-Pig, Bursting of the Shell that Passed through the Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, and killed Dr. Stark, Rimington's Tigers, on the Mooi River, Manning the breastwork at Naauwpoort Camp, Arundel Camp, Bluejackets Saving Their Gun (Centerfold), Lovely full-page Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November 10, 1883 Vol. LXXXIII - No. 2325
Photos and illustrations include: Sketches at the closing of the Fisheries Exhibition, The Luther Celebration in Germany, Sketches in Yellowstone Park, Sketches at Drury Lane and the Adelphi, The Proposed Courts of Justice Central Hotel, Strand, The earthquake in Asia Minor, Prince Albert Victor at Cambridge University, and more. Two supplements loose but present. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 16: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) December 5th, 1914
Cover photo of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, now at the front. The First Battles in East Prussia. The Agony of Belgium - how her cities and towns were laid desolate; Horrors of war in the village of Cortenbergh, Brabant. Centerfold depicts the sacking of Louvain, while the Hotel de Ville is spared. Photos and Illustrations of: Officers of Scottish descent fighting for the Tsar; German outpost scenes; Pole fights Pole on the Russian frontier; Germany experiences terrors in East Prussia; Russian prisoners; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Wilson, H.W.: Editor
The Great War Magazine - Part 26: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One) February 13th, 1915
Cover portrait of Commodore Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, C.B. The Railway Battles of Northern France. Centerfold illustration of 'Charge of the French Light Cavalry after the German artillery had been destroyed at Lassigny'. Photos and illustrations: The Town of Metz; Infantry advance near Arras; Sir William Robertson; Wrecked Hotel De Ville and belfry at Arras; Full-page photo of a hasty wayside breakfast with General Joffre at the front; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - No 5655 Volume 211 September 6, 1947
Features: Construction photos of the Hams Hall electrical generating plant; The German Hotel Ship St. Louis; Blockade running in the Aegean; Attempted destruction of the Flak Tower in the Berlin Tiergarten; a conference on the future of Japan; Photos of the second anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Massacres in a divided Punjab; Terrified refugees of the Punjab; Life in Korea; Photos from India - Hyderabad; Two photos of Jewish illegal immigrants aboard the Runnymede Park, due at Hamburg from Port de Bouc - these people had attempted to land in Palestine in the President Warfield; newly found at Amman - Transjordan's finest classical sculpture. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: May, 1969
72 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: March, 1971
Features: Camp cooks and mail order brides - both were favorite prey of the practical joker!; Mountain lions at Robbers Roost; Santa Fe's delayed hanging - the killers of Frank Chavez; Keelboaters' heyday to doomsday; Suicide at El Paso - the Pierson Hotel; Green and Broke - Fred Chilver and Family/Newton Kansas; Trouble in a (Model)"T"; Utah's Cursed Gold - a cow leads to treasure; The Mystic Healer - Francis Schlatter, German cobbler, entered Colorado's mountains and became a 'Christ-Man"; Fly Specked Billy - Custer, South Dakota; Spirit Spring of the Osage - a shrine of water held in awe by the Indians; Motion Picture Vignettes; They Called it Content (Runnels County, Texas); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Old West Magazine - Summer 1967 *SPECIAL GHOST TOWN ISSUE*
Features: complete reprint of rare book "Tales of the West" by Frank W. Calkins; Elkhorn - Montana's amazing ghost town; Stolen Bullion of Indian Ridge - taken from 'Golden Treasures of the San Juan' by John B. Marshall and Temple H. Cornelius; Arizona's Toughest Ranger - Jeff Kidder; The Barker Family looks at the old days - a family moves west/'call-cattle' of the mountains; Utah's Unknown - the Newfoundland Mountains in Utah; The Goldrush follies; Battle at Ball's Ranch, Texas; The Big Old Red Ants of Cow Country - Bert Judia; Where the Gold Turned from Yellow to Green - Idaho's Clearwater country got a second chance; Wells Fargo and the Concord; Lore of Lynx Creek - stray bullet kills a community; 'Cash up' Davis' love affair - his hotel south of Spokane; Garry Owen - the pride of Fort Bliss; Cottonwood Tales of central Kansas; Thirty Days in a Rut - early motor journeys; A Raft of Trouble for the Wrong Train - the Percy train robbers of Wyoming; Lost Fort of the Cimarron; Mrs. Burton's macabre ordeal courtesy of Peter A. Vallat, French Creole born in New Orleans. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Woods, Robert H.; King, Judy Z.
Managing for Quality in the Hospitality Industry
Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, February 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: The Man Who Forgot - the author was not careful about whom he drank with, thus he endured a drawn-out ordeal; Little Holland - Dutch Guiana; Big Head - the final phases in the hectic career of an Argentine gunman, Rogelia Gomez; Thirsty Island - Thursday Island in Torres Strait off Australia, the headquarters of the Pearling Fleet; Wooden Money of North Bend Oregon, U.S.A. - depression-era issue now scarce; Pursers; Last Man Out - a story from the bleak lands of Canada's Arctic Barrens - photos; The Death-Spell - a weird story from the borders of Abyssinia; The Man-Leopards of Malimbu - Part 3, Conclusion; The 'Brain-Fever' Bird - reprint of a creepy 1932 story from a Javanese planter; The Raiders - the experience of 3 young bachelors at a South African Hotel; One Man's Mischief - a grim tale of a thwarted lover in Nigeria; My Trip to Seiyun - a city in Arabia, with photos; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Covers nearly detached. Book
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Sir! - A Magazine For Males: March 1958, Vol. 15, No. 1
66 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent copy. Book
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Graham, Clara
Kootenay Mosaic
112 pages. Many black and white archival illustrations. "A record of dreams fulfilled and keen disappointments experienced. It is not easy for us today to visualize how exciting, interesting and hard life was in those not so very long ago days." - from Preface. Light wear. Usual library markings. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1922 Through December 1922 *INCLUDES FEATURE ON THE HISTORY OF TELEPHONY IN VANCOUVER*
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Nice photo montage of six female lower mainland agents; Commendation for Excellent service; Industrial Review - statistics for the province; Bar graph of phones in service between 1903 and 1921; When the telephone was a curiosity in the Capital City - nice seven page feature on the history of telephony in Victoria, beginning in 1877; Page of the 1880 Victoria and Esquimalt phone book; Facsimile of letter dated 1878 from the Bell Telephone office in Brantford, Ontario which says Mr. R.B. McMicking has accepted the agency of the company in British Columbia; City of Vancouver gets new phone number; Telephone development keeps pace with progress; Cover photo of the operating room of the Nanaimo exchange; Five-page illustrated article on Nanaimo, including 35 year-old photo of downtown with Bastion visible and an 1890 photo of a portion of the downtown and bowl area; Trouble shooting in Kootenay; The manufacture of porcelain; photo of operators at work in New Westminster; 6-page illustrated feature on New Westminster with mid-90s photo of the Colonial Hotel and area plus a photo of Columbia street before the fire of 1898; Composite cables will be important betterment; Fairmont operating room photo; Great photo montage of the old wooden bridge connecting Nanaimo's Fitzwilliam St. with downtown (the caption mentions E.P. LaBelle, whose name is stamped on the top edge of this book); 11 page feature on the history of telephony in Vancouver, with several photos from before 1900; pulling coils of duplex wire through the mountains by snow shoe(!); Nice photos of the following exchanges - Seymour, Fairmont, Highland, Bayview, Victoria, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Cumberland, Belmont, Duncan, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Colquitz, Ladysmith, Keating, Aldergrove, Abbottsford, Collingwood, Fraser, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Ladner, Kerrisdale, Eburne, Milner, Cloverdale, Steveston, Sidney, Hammond, Mission City, Kamloops, Agassiz, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, New Denver, plus plant headquarters for the Mainland and Victoria; statement of development showing number of operating phones per community; Cover photo of the Foul Bay area of Victoria; More Switchboards for Seymour; Bayview Extension; Centralization of observation equipment; Demo. switchboard for school; Much outside construction; Seven duct miles of conduit laid in Seymour underground; Table showing exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Alexander Graham Bell dies; Oaks Point snap shots; new motor control switchboard; Wireless telophony in early nineties (article); Laying underground conduit in Shaughnessy; New aerial cable across Capilano River; Passing of William Farrell, Company President; Rejuvinating used Plant material in machine shop; a peculiar case of hydrolysis; photo of Georgia street conduit trench; Second Annual Telephone Convention; 1885 B.C. Provincial Directory - article with 1885 photo of Vancouver Harbour; Autobiography of a switchboard plug; photo of burying conduit on Seymour in 1905; Appreciation shown by Port Alberni business men; Long Distance operators usually get their man; 7,000 mile motor trip of B.C. Telephone man; The telephone directory - my favourite book; Map showing routing of two cable between Book
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Multiple Contributors
British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1914 Through December 1914 *ASSOCIATION COPY*
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo inside the Nelson exchange; Satisfactory growth in past year; Four-page article with photos on prospects for the Kaslo area; 6-page article with photos on 'Modern treatment of the Insane' - the establishment of Colony Farm by the Provincial Government; Photo of enormous fallen tree near Westholme; Table ranking exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls; Statement of Development - la table listing number of phones operating per exchange as at 1 December 1913; Photo montage of three Vancouver Island telephone officials; Company has caught up with its construction work; 7-page feature on Victoria, 'The Pride of the Last West' with great photos; Photo of 'Vancouver's Newest Skyscraper' - a 15-story building under construction at the corner of Hastings and Richards; Telephone Service Excellent; 7-page article with excellent photos of the Britannia Mine; Telephone Cables Underground (in Vancouver); photo of company vehicle; Photo of Port Alberni Exchange; Large photo of the Seymour Exchange under construction (Steel frame erected); 5-page illustrated feature of Port Alberni - the magnetic city on the west coast; The giving of good telephone service; Some transmission problems of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Photo inside Port Alberni Exchange; First teleautograph west of Chicago - at the new Hotel Vancouver; 5-page feature of towns that silver put on map - New Denver, Silverton, Sandon, surrounding which is the Slocan District, in which is located the Standard Mine - photos; Recent developments in telephone transmission; April trouble record in Seymour office; Wonderful photo-montage of Vancouver's business district; First Telephone Switchboard in use in Vancouver, 1885; Before and after photos of Point Grey Road and Powell St.; View of Granville St. from the C.P.R. Depot; Photo of the almost completed Hudson's Bay store; Two great panoramic photos of the Vancouver Harbour, from the water and from the land; Photo of Hastings St. West, looking east; photo of the new Hotel Vancouver; Photo montage of some of Vancouver's fine homes; Photo of English Bay Bathing Beach; large photo of Second Beach, Stanley Park; Photo of the Interurban Depot B.C.E.R.Co.; View of Grand Forks looking west; Photo of the Granby smelter, largest in the British Empire; 5-page feature on Grand Forks; What are the duties of a Wire Chief?; Photos of the B.C. Tel. float as appeared in the Vancouver Pageant; Interior Telephone Extensions - exchanges of Kootenay, Boundary and Slocan to be connected; 1899 Vernon and Nelson Telephone Co. Ltd. phone directory; Operator School photo; Nice photo of the 6 chief operators of the Kootenay District; Where operators are trained - illustrated multi-page article; Personnel of Plant Organization; Marketing Telephone Poles - 2 page article with 2 photos; Operator's School Equipment; Cover photo of public telephone booths at the C.P.R. Depot, Vancouver; Nice photo of the Seymour general public office, Vancouver; Work of the Commercial Department - 6 pages with many photos of personnel; Printing a Telephone Directory; Getting out the Monthly Accounts - 2 photos; Telephony on the battlefield - use in the Russian-Japanese War; Photo in head office in Vancouver; Making the Telephone Valuable; photo portraits of executives William Farrell, George Halse, and o Book
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Multiple Contributors
True West Magazine, August 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Art Journey of Far Eastern Plaza Hotel / A Passage to China: Complete with Slipcase
139 pages. Lavishly illustrated with colour plates. Text in Chinese and English. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear and closed three inch tear to dust jacket. Moderate wear to illustrated slipcase. A quality copy of this magnificent work. Book
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Rossiter, Sean; Stanley, Meg
The Hotel Georgia: A Vancouver Tradition
128 pages. Index. "More than any other hotel in the city, the Hotel Georgia has been the place the people of Vancouver go, not for the necessities of life but for the sustaining little luxuries... For many of us who live here, the hotel was the site of some personal revelation, some first-ever experience, some special, never-to-be-forgotten moment... Many of the voices in this account of the life of a hotel belong to people who lived - and still live - in Vancouver... The Georgia is Vancouvere's hotel." - from Introduction. Clean and unmarked with light wear. No dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
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Porter, Mackenzie; Katz, S.; Tyrwhitt, Janice; Simonds, Lt.-Gen. Guy; McLeod, Duncan; Moon, B.; Kaylin, Edward; Harris, Lawren; et al
Maclean's Magazine, 4 August 1956 - Leo Koerner / The Private Lives of Byng Whitteker
Features: Banff tea house survives roaring avalanche (ad); Leon Koerner's one-man giveaway program - Canada's happiest spender is this Czech millionaire who arrived here 17 years ago; A blueprint to stop our cities' decay - one in every 8 Canadian homes is slowly falling apart, soon to become part of a slum with its by-products of disease and distress - here's what Baltimore, Maryland found; Can science beat the virus diseases?; We're wasting millions on an obsolete air force - Guy Simonds charges that in this atomic age of guided missiles we're still committed to a costly, outdated concept of military strategy based on the airplane; We gambled our love on freedom - James Pegg, a British soldier, met Olga, a Ukrainian slave worker in a German prison camp - they had to choose... stay and be parted, or escape together into unknown dangers; The town that wants to stay old fashioned - Niagara-on-the-Lake; The secondhand love letter, by Edward Kaylin; The private lives of Byng Whitteker; Throw out our cruel divorce law - Kent Power, QC. Nice colour Chevrolet ad on page 5. Front cover heavily torn with chunks missing - it illustrated the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Colour Coke ad on back cover. Magazine
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Scott, Cameron: Editor
Nanaimo Magazine, October 1993
46 pages. Features: Mayoral ads for Joy Leach and Larry Iwaskow; Moving on from the Mill - Port Alberni's work-force heads into the 90s; Big Changes - a new Nanaimo City Plan will lead downtown and the waterfront into the next century - with large photo of Victoria Crescent; Photo of the Gordon St. area and the old Malaspina Hotel; Photo of Gino Sedola on the Visiting Vessel Pier; Ian le Cheminant and the Victorian restoration of the Thomson residence on Milton St. - article with construction photo; Phantoms of the Island, by Linda Putnam - discusses Kanaka Pete (Peter Kakua); Super aerial photo of downtown Nanaimo with Cameron Island under construction; Dozens of ads for local small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Foster, Joan; Philpott, Winnifred
Island Hall Hotel Celebrates Three (3) Birthdays
32 page booklet. Reproductions of many archival black and white photos. Presents the history of Parksville's Island Hall Hotel (Resort) which was replaced with the Beach Club Resort in 2008. Average wear. Sunning to coverfold and top of front cover where a prior owner's name is faintly visible. No other markings. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
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Morgan, Mallory Roberts; Shaw, Dan; Beautyman, Mairi; Goldin, Greg; Renzi, Jen; Margolies, Jane; Pupo, Mark
Interior Design Magazine, February 2008
244 pages. Features: Dior, J'Adore - Peter Marino updates the original Paris boutique with elegance - and cheek; A Light Touch - Joe Nahem finisses an apartment for New York art collectors; Bubble Bath - a spa by Behnisch Architekten bursts onto the scene in sleepy Bad Aibling, Germany; Meet George Jetson - Hanna-Barbera's Los Angeles home is now the Gensler-designed office of AddedValue; Open-Door Policy - Juan Montoya's International design centre is as warm and welcoming as teh Florida sun; Expect the Unexpected - unorthodox counsel yields stunning results at a New York condominium; In the Lap of Luxury - with the Hazelton, Yabu Pushelberg gives Toronto its first five-star boutique hotel. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Lefolii, Ken; Fraser, Blair; Storey, Red; Newman, Christina; Callwood, June; Sclanders, Ian; Berton, Pierre
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, March 9 1963 - Lou Fontinato Cover Photo
66 pages. Features: Nice full-page black and white photo ad for the Boeing 727; Canadian Club colour photo ad features "Sooke Day" on Vancouver Island; Nice colour ad for the 1963 Acadian; Canada's 1963 War Machine - the nuclear mess; The Hole in NATO's front wall; The Man-Eaters of the NHL - flamboyant referee Red Storey describes hockey's tough guys - article with photos of Carl Brewer, Reg Fleming, Howie Young and Lou Fontinato; June Callwood writes about Anger; The Kennedy Dynasty - Part 5 - the crowd around JFK - the loneliest man in the world; Confessions of a hotel fancier, by Pierre Berton; Nice cover photo of NHL tough guy Lou Fontinato; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features cheerleader and three tall basketball players; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Nordling, O.; Keith, Ronald A.; Bradbrooke, F.D.; Ritchey, V.J.; Main, J.R.K.; Topalian, Sooren
Canadian Aviation, April 1938 - Canada's National Aviation Magazine: McKee Trophy to Romeo Vachon
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide on Lake of Bays, Ontario; Nice full-page photo ad for the Junkers JUMO 210 aero engine; Nice full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes showing the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Egypt; The Boeing Stratoliner - fantastic illustrated article on the Boeing 307-type transport; Commendable Winter Operation by City of Toronto Squadron; Full-page ad for the 1938 Stinson Reliant; A Day at Fort Nelson - great travel article with photos by O. Nordling; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft; The Martin Ocean Transport - article with nice photo; Flying North of Edmonton; One Thousand Hours Between Overhauls - The Gipsy Major 130 H,P. engine; Photo of new hangar under construction at Edmonton; Photo of the world's largest aeroplane tire made by Dunlop; Nice full-page ad for McLaughlin-Buick; The Continental Powered Aeronca KC; Lear ARC-5 Radio Compass; Nice one-page photo ad for Taylorcraft planes; Dr. Klemin Predicts Era of Revolutionary Light Planes; McKee Trophy to Romeo Vachon - article with photo; Great photo of wings being added to a Douglas DC-4; Photo of a Fokker T.5; Photo ad for the Gray Rocks Inn of St. Jovite Station, Quebec; Old Country Gossip; News from the West Coast; More About Instruments; Candid Camera Corner - photo and article on Sooren Topalian - Iraq's #1 Transport Pilot; Nice full-page ad for the new 1938 Cub Sport by Cub Aircraft; Blenheim Bomber featured in Bristol engine ad inside back cover; Intava products two-colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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MacBride, W.D.; Steffens, C.G.; Harrison, Eunice M.L.; Mulvaney, Lyster; Campbell, N.R.; Fraser, John A.; Cumming, R.D.
Northwest Digest Magazine, February 1952
26 pages. Features: Ad for the Charles Hotel of Boston Bar, B.C. inside front cover; Editorial critical of James Sinclair's statement in the House of Commons that "Canada's aim must be to cut down the excess purchasing power in the hands of the people"; The Squamen's Union; Case of the Frozen Brides - part 3; Pioneer Judge's Wife - 4th instalment - includes photo of camel being used for packing over the Cariboo Trail; Job's Comforter; Along the Trapline; Dozens of great ads for small B.C. businessses; Nice Finning ad on back cover for the Caterpillar D4-HT4 Traxcavator Team; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage British Columbia publication. Magazine
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Balfour, Philip; Campbell, R.N. "Rusty"; Campbell, Nellie R.; Simpson, George; Lindsay, Fred W.; Cumming, R.D.; Hickling, E.
Northwest Digest Magazine, August 1951
24 pages. Features: The Perfect System Myth - an argument against Russia's alleged peaceful intentions; Old Inn by the Roadside - The Clinton Hotel - article with photos; Camp Cookery - Game Recipes; Small Business League; The Rooster's Eye; Pioneer Ashcroft Author is Custodian of Archives - The Journal Museum and Archives; Sam Slade's Dream (poem); Finning ad on back cover with sawmill illustration; Dozens of nostalgic ads for local businesses. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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