1997255 pages. "Writing about fishing is sort of like dancing to describe architecture. There are endless technical matters and tricks of the trade, but no matter how you fish there is always the indescribable joy of it all. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Book

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Finnie, RichardMareMagnum

Canada Moves North

1942227 pages including index. Lengthy author's inscription and signature upon half-title page. This copy presented to author's good friend Harry M. Graham. "It is a curious fact that most Canadians know almost nothing about one-third of their country, and what little information they pick up is at least partly incorrect." - from Chapter 1. This book was an attempt to correct this situation. Chapters include: Geography; Exploration; Furt Trade; Missions; Administration; Transportation and Communication; Oil, Gold and Radium; Yellowknife; Farming and Stock Raising; Tourist Traffic; Civilization; Literature and the Arts. Above average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Light yellowing to contents. Includes a good number of interesting black and white photographic plates. Book

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MacPherson, Ian (Signed)MareMagnum

Co-Operation, Conflict and Consensus : B. C. Central and the Credit Union Movement to 1994

1995291 pages including index. Author's signature and inscription to a friend upon front endpaper. Author's humourous 'private' note to same friend written upon a removable post-it-note also upon front endpaper. Tells the story of British Columbia's dynamic credit union movement and the role played by its central organization, B.C. Central Credit Union. Ultimately, this is the story of thousands of individual volunteers who banded together to create financial institutions to meet their needs, and how their pioneering efforts have endured in the work of following generations. Superb giftable copy with only the faintest signs of handling. Book

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Lazarus, MordenMareMagnum

Years of Hard Labour - An Account of the Canadian Workingman, His Organizations and Tribulations Over a Period of More Than a Hundred Years

1975115 pages including bibliography. Sketches the broad outlines of the development of Canada's trade union movment. Light wear and soiling. Unmarked. Tiny dab of liquid paper upon front flyleaf. Book

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Berlin, JoeyMareMagnum

Toxic Fame : Celebrities Speak on Stardom

1996534 pages including index. Would you trade your privacy for guaranteed fame and fortune? Don't answer until you've read this book! Includes 2,000 revealing exclusive quotes from celebrities including Richard Dreyfuss, Julia Roberts, Whitney Houston, John Goodman, Roseanne, and many others. "... Gossip at its best." - Bill Harris, "Showtime" Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book

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White, HowardMareMagnum

A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur: An Oral History

1983221 pages. Illegitimus non Carborundum (don't let the b******ds wear you down.) - Bill White. Average wear. One inch tear to bottom edge of back cover. Peeled area from front cover where sticker removed. Contents square and unmarked. "White's stories of the 'bad old days' of B.C. Labour will fascinate anyone interested in the largely unwritten history of this country. For those concerned with the current state of human and labour rights in B.C., Bill White's call for a return to the kind of gloves-off fighting that marked his heyday will seem appropriate and useful." - from back cover. Book

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Edinborough, ArnoldMareMagnum

A History of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Volume IV 1931-1973

1995301 pages including index and black and white photographic illustrations plus at least one colour plate. Recounts the years during which the bank toughed out the worst depression the world had ever seen, helped to fight a global war, saw Canada emerge as an industrial nation and world power and saw credit become universal with the advent of credit cards. Also covers the merger with the Imperial Bank of Canada. Bright red boards and spine emblazoned with gilt lettering and bank logos. Please note: Table of Contents and Foreword have been bound upside down. Very clean, unmarked and minimally worn. Appears unread. Excellent copy. Book

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Miller, J. R.MareMagnum

Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens : A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada - Revised Edition

1991351 pages including index and occasional black and white illustrations. The first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. Charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indians are organizing to resist displacement and marginalization. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book

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Graham, LaurieMareMagnum

Singing the City : The Bonds of Home in an Industrial Landscape

1998182 pages including index. A celebration of a landscape - not a wilderness landscape as might be expected, nor a rural one, but one that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Author returned to Pittsburgh in 1990 after two decades of cataclysmic industrial decline and was distressed that, as a nation, we let our industrial places go with such equanimity. An eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. Book with faintest wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears tiny tear at base of front panel. Excellent copy. Book

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Montero, GloriaMareMagnum

We Stood Together : First Hand Accounts of Dramatic Events in Canada's Labour Past

1979261 pages including index. Told for the first time, here are the stories of twelve of Canada's outstanding labour leaders and organizers. Their accounts tell the behind-the-scenes story of some of the key events in twentieth-century Canadian history from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek of the unemployed which played a major role in the defeat of Tory prime minister R.B. Bennett and the 1945 Ford strike in Windsor which consolidated the rights of big industrial unions through to the 1972 Common Front of Quebec's public sector workers. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding solid. Book

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The Editors of Canadian BusinessMareMagnum

Guts, Greed and Glory - A Visual History of Modern Canadian Business

1988207 pages. The dramatic recounting of six decades that have transformed Canada, and a visual celebration of the people who made it happen... the famous and the infamous, the successes and the spectacular failures. Business has never been presented with so much color, imagination and verve. Includes: profiles of major corporations in retailing, real estate, manufacturing, resources and finance; overviews of entire industrial sectors such as transportation, wheat farming, forest products and the 'sin' industries of brewing and distilling; as well as hundreds of images and anecdotes that capture the spirit of Canadian business, decade by decade for the past 60 years. Negligible wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Giftable condition. Excellent copy. Book

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O'Brien, KeithMareMagnum

Cut Your Losses : A Smart Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention (Self-Counsel Business Ser.)

1996184 pages. Recognize rip offs! Thwart thieves! Fight fraud! Stop shrinkage! Protect profits! Uses real-life scenarios to demonstrate the many ways your store can lose money. Includes practical worksheets and exercises. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book

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Dicks, A.J.MareMagnum

Trade and Commerce - Cambridge Industrial and Commercial Series

191594 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "This book is of great importance in this series for it deals with the Trade and Commerce of Britain." - Editor's Note. Discusses topics including: Weights, Measures and Coinage; The Royal Mint; the Post Office; the Food Supply; Foreign and Colonial Markets; Banks, Exchange and Custom Houses; Gold Reserves. Chapters also detail the work of the Board of Trade and the Patent Office, Joint Stock Companies, and Lloyd's of London. Underlining on a handful of pages else unmarked. small openings at each hinge. Average wear overall. Book

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Frost, W.MareMagnum

The Modern Bricklayer - A Practical Work on Bricklaying in All Its Branches with Special Sections on Tiling and slating, Specifications, Estimating, Etc. Etc. - Complete in Three Volumes

1932Undated. Total of 630 pages. Index in volume III. "The book is at once comprehensive and detailed, dealing progressively with every branch of brickwork and tile laying. It will be found that problems are discussed about which it is extremely difficult to obtain information elsewhere. A series of chapters on the business side of the trade will be found very useful. The book has been planned so as to enable the bricklayer to become a master of his subject from beginning to end." - from Preface. Each volume features colour frontis, numerous full-page black and white photographic plates and a profusion of line drawings. All bindings and hinges intact. Prior owner's name and address, dated 1932, upon each free front endpaper. Spines partially sunned. Average wear to red boards which feature decorative embossing and gilt lettering upon each front board. Half-inch opening at base of spine of volume III. Light to moderate yellowing to contents. Foxing to all edges and some pages. Nice copy of this superb reference. Circa 1932? Book

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Davies, BillMareMagnum

From Sourdough to Superstore - The Kelly, Douglas Story

1990399 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "From its humble beginnings as a wholesale grocery partnership in 1896, Kelly, Douglas has prospered and grown, responding decisively to each new challenge that emerged with the changing times. Author brings that history to life with engaging anecdotes and a storyteller's sensitivity to the problems faced and the obstacles overcome in almost 100 years of enterprise." - from back cover. At time of publication, Kelly, Douglas was western Canada's largest wholesale food distributor and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Ltd. of Toronto, which was, in turn, controlled by the Weston family. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Partially visible crease to top corner of front cover. Excellent copy. Book

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Robertson, Heather (editor)MareMagnum

Driving Force : The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car

1995402 pages including notes and index. Black and white illustrations. "Uses a colourful palette of biography, social history, and business lore to paint an unforgettable portrait of a tycoon, his family, his company, and the dramatic effects of his product - the motor car - on the landscape and social mores of Canada." - from dust jacket. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book. Attractive dust jacket is price clipped and bears light wear. Excellent copy. Book

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Cohen, Albert D.MareMagnum

Triangle of Success - The Story of Saan

2002208 pages. "SAAN Stores Ltd. is celebrating 55 years of serving Canadians. From our humble beginnings in Winnipeg as a surplus store, to a member of over 200 communities from Gander to Vancouver Island, we are proud to be 100% Canadian owned." - from back cover. Occasional black and white illustrations. Bright colour illustrated covers. Clean and unmarked but for patch of liquid paper atop title page. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book

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Marvin, Donald M.; Van Buskirk, J. EdwinMareMagnum

Canada and the Twentieth Century - Second and Revised Edition

1927143 pages. A fascinating look back at the Canada of the 1920s. Numerous wonderful black and white photographs from sea-to-sea. Includes a careful compilation of statistics 'necessary in order that the reader may secure a true impression of the rate of expansion.' - from preface. Chapters include: Climate and Agriculture; Dairy Production; Manufacturing; New Industries; Canada's Power Production; Foreign Trade; Forest Industries; Mining and Mineral Resources; Fisheries; The Banks and the Banking System; The Provinces of Canada; The Playground of America; Transportation and Ports; The British Empire Preference; Tariff Agreements with the British West Indies; Tariff Agreements with Foreign Countries; Canada as a Field for Investment; Government and Finance; Currency; Present Taxes; plus appendices. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding solid. Nice copy. Book

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Williamson, Capt. A.P.W.MareMagnum

Text Book of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy

1915418 pages including fold-out maps. "Furnishes a complete and reliable text book for those who are studying for the Trade examinations, as well as providing a complete text book for general students. The process of solving problems has been fully explained and illustrated by means of diagrams and numerous worked-out examples." - from Preface. Unmarked. Hinges open. Edges and endpapers yellowed. Above-average but not excessive wear to boards. Bright gilt lettering clearly legible upon spine and front board. Useful reference copy. Book

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Dallyn, Gordon M.MareMagnum

Canadian Geographical Journal - May 1950, Volume XXXX No. 5

1950Features include: United Kingdom Trade with Canada; Papain Production in East Africa; A River in Harness - the St. Maurice; John Clarence Webster. Excellent nostalgic advertisements. Abundant black and white photography. Musty. Average wear. Book

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Williams, GlyndwrMareMagnum

The Beaver, Autumn 1983 Reprint: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Fur Trade: 1670-1870

199181 pages. Nicely illustrated. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book

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Bernsohn, Ken (Signed)MareMagnum

Cutting Up the North - The History of the Forest Industry in the Northern Interior SIGNED BY AUTHOR

1981192 pages. Index. Bibliography. Author's signature upon front endpaper. "...Introduces the characters who opened up the north. They raped the forests, endured the ostracism of the 'respectable,' too their lives in their hands to drive huge trucks or fall top spars - and forged a lifestyle that has become the stuff of legends... There is plenty of action and plenty of dirt." - from dust jacket. Abundant black and white photos. Light wear to clean unmarked book. Dust jacket with above-average wear but remains presentable in new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice clean solid copy. Book

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Murray, Patrick (editor)MareMagnum

Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present

1997486 pages. "One of the most valuable books on my bookshelves devoted to business, business ethics, and economics." - Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas. Few markings, average wear, and some soiling to exterior. Contents clean, tight and unmarked. Solid working copy. Book

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Bernsohn, KenMareMagnum

Cutting Up the North - The History of the Forest Industry in the Northern Interior

1981192 pages. Index. Bibliography. "...Introduces the characters who opened up the north. They raped the forests, endured the ostracism of the 'respectable,' took their lives in their hands to drive huge trucks or fall top spars - and forged a lifestyle that has become the stuff of legends.... There is plenty of action and plenty of dirt." - from dust jacket. Abundant black and white photos. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Dust jacket bears moderate wear and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice clean solid copy. Book

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Lathrop, Tad; Pettigrew, Jim, Jr.MareMagnum

This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion

1999308 pages. Index. "Intended as a source of practical information for anyone currently involved in, or thinking about getting involved in, selling music to the listening public." - from page xi. Clean with light wear and minimal markings. Nice working copy. Book