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195872 pages. Features: Is the United Appeal Too Big - or Big Enough?; The Man Behind Canadian TV's most famous face - Larry Henderson; The Streets of Canada - Water St. in St. John's is the oldest street on the continent; Why the Amish want no part of progress; What I remember most about school; Klondike - Part II - Pierre Berton. Very interesting colour ad for Cellophane features an attractive model wearing a blue hat which more closely resembles an upside-down flower pot! Major damage and some moisture exposure to lower portion of back cover and last few pages. Please inquire if you require a higher-grade copy. Book
198193 pages. Index. "This collection of human interest stories and illustrative sketches serves to record a period of regional history that might otherwise be lost to the younger generations. It is also hoped it will bring back a lot of nostalgic memories to those remaining generations that helped to shape the history of the Cariboo." - from Introduction. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1969Features: equal pay for women by 1975; I was a Labour voter; Exit the neo-nazis?; temptation to violence - what comes first, the tv cameras or the violence?; the most desired residence in London; agony in Europe - Norway and Denmark decide on EEC or Nordic Union; with the marines; Charles Biederman - American artist; Following the Forsyte Saga; The House of Augustus - 2; What's all this about stereo?; Club Med - a holiday success story; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1964Features/Photos: Wilson becomes Prime Minister; full-page colour ads for the Hillman Imp and Dry Fly Sherry; Russia's new First Secretary Brezhnev; Setbacks in Vietnam; First Gold for Britain in Tokyo - Mary Rand wins the long jump with a world record; Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Prize; Regent's new refinery at Milford Haven; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1963Features/Photos: Civilians killed by U.N. troops outside Jadotville, Congo; Mr. Arthur Dickson Wright; the Celtic Gold Treasure of Erstfield, Switzerland - fantastic torcs and bracelets; the royal engagement - Princess Alexandra and her fiance; Mr. George C. McGhee; The Operations of troops of the UN forces around the mining centre of Jadotville in the Katanga province of Congo; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1944Stories: Grizzly Gold; The Jewelled Buddha; Burly's Plug; Eyes of the R.A.F.; Chinese Valley; Broken Journey; The Prime Minister's Story; Fifty Days; All Square at Batura; The Affair at Nilakere; Crossing the Busu; The Return of a Celebrity. Average wear. Book
1943Stories: How We Saved Norway's Gold; The Flying Dutchman; Loosewallah; Blue Water Andy; The Pir's Tomb; A Greenhorn in Canada; Breaking Point; The Bood-Feud at Zur; Ants; Neilson's New Man; Huberta the Hippo; A Papuan Vendetta. Above-average wear. Book
1943Stories: The Timber Pirates; Among the Lapps; Dockland Vendetta; The Turning Point; Bred in the Bone; The Farm Theives; Drug-Smuggling in Ceylon; Plenty Gold; Good Seamanship; That Mine in Mexico; The Monkey-Man Case; Stratagem. Above-average wear. Name and ink stamp upon front cover. Book
1937Stories: My Transcontinental Trip; The Devil Ship; Beginners Luck; The Egyptian Bone; Worth Their Weight in Gold; The Club-Footed Terror; The Bluenose Skipper; Giraffe; Coronation Day; Lions and Their Ways; The Man with the Harp Again; Sammy the Sea Lion; Marooned in the Lost World. Above-average wear. Book
1935Stories: Liquid Gold; What the Palmist Foretold; Through the Shan States; The King's Ju-Ju; Our Japanese Burglar; Gomez the Killer; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; A Side-Show in Borneo; Fire-Walking in Java; The Queensland Mounted; The Pickle Bottle. Above-average wear. Book
1933Stories: The Killing of Tucker Peach; Goatneck goes to Meeten; Four Experiences; Pirates; Pickles; A Masai Courtship; San Li; Superstition Gold; The Condor's Next; On Safari in Wonderland; Our Search for the Mayan Treasure; The Odyssey of Captain Jones. Heavily worn. Covers taped to textblock. Book
1932Stories: Taming the Beaver; The Fool Afoot in the Baltic; The Snake Man; Two Million Pounds or Nothing;; Ten to One; the Bracelet; Across the Sulu Sea; The Adventures of a Revenue Officer; Mentugi; A Canoe and some Crocodiles; By Night in Singapore. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1984224 pages. Index. "Here we meet the skilled practitioners of over 40 Irish crafts, from the weaving of crioses and the making of pampooties, to the blowing of crystal, or the making of harps and candles, currachs, drystone walls and Irish lace." - from dust jacket. With 440 illustrations, 125 in color. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
197840 pages in newspaperformat. Features: Black Gold of Nanaimo; Danger at Fort Rupert; Lives of Sea Otters; Developments on Island Estuaries; Remembering Ladysmith Harbour - to our sorrow; Haig-Brown on the Nature of Estuaries; Impediments to Estuary Restoration; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
197632 pages. "For thousands of years gold has been fashioned into beautiful ornaments. It has become a symbol of wealth and power too. What is it about gold that makes it so precious and so desirable?" - from front cover. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
1989444 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Explores what innovative farmers and scientists are doing now - as well as during the past fifty years - so strengthen and purify the soil on which we - and the plants and animals we live on - depend; how new, healthier, and more productive ways have been found to raise food crops, thus eliminating reliance on petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides with their serious side effects." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear and no tears to dust jacket preserved in a clear protective cover. Nice copy of the increasingly scarce hard cover version of this classic work on healthy soil enrichment. Book
1991371 pages. "An intriguiing story about a pioneer of the New Age in Canada, and a timely warning about the dark side of cults." - Ron Graham. Heavily worn with defective binding. Usual library markings. Reading copy only. Book
1987367 pages. "2,373 entries relating to British and North American wares, decorative techniques, styles, leading designers and makers, principally from c.1500 to the present." - from dust jacket. With 725 illustrations, 16 in color. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Unread. Quality copy. Book
196975 pages. Features: Gunsmoke over Texas - The Texas Rangers; The Colt New Service; Sharps' Pellet Primed Revolver; The Cartridge Collector; Gun of the Month - The Colt-Root Model Revolver Presented to the Great Metropolitan Fair; Who Dunit - a most unusual repeating 22 calibre buggy rifle or pocket rifle; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
198488 pages. Stories include: Mission to Moscow; Policing 'Spokeshute', now Port Essington, 1930; Sayonara - Policing Relocated Japanese; Retracing the Lost Patrol; Somewhat above-average wear. Small sticker remnant upon front cover. Book
1996152 pages. Features: The Boomerang - Burt Rutan's New Personal Airplane; Center Stick or Side Stick; Cowling Installation Notes; Tom Taylor's Glasair IIS-RG. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1924Approximately 100 pages. Features: The Shamva Gold Mine; Nova Scotian Geology; The Kafue Co.'s Gold Dredge at Cariboo, B.C.; Sir Archibald Geikie; New Roumanian Mining Law; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Many pages of fascinating illustrated contemporary advertisements. Book
1968Features: Handguns of the Transition Era; Ed McGivern's Colt Single Action Army; Guns in the Black Hills Gold Rush; The Rare Wire Extractor Cargridge Sharps Pistol/Rifle. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1968Features: Bevel Gears? - or The Story of the Massachusetts Arms Co., Part I; Guns in Oregon History - The Horner; The John Day Truncheon Gun; Found - The M1898 Krag Carbine; Sergeant Silcock's Colt. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1973Features: A 17th Century Flintlock Long Fowler; Caveat Emptor - or this could happen to anyone; Yes, Walkers are Where you Find Them. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
