Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: EditorMareMagnum
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197384 pages. Features: 1973 Quebec Winter Carnival; Colonel Mike Carroll retires; The Truth; Bennie or "Bob" Roach; Chicken Came Home to Roost; La "filiere francaise"; Pride of Beausejour; Great Chicken Robber; Providence?; Sergeant William Fury; and much more. Prior owner's details blacked out atop title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
197384 pages. Features: Bell 212 Helicopter in Newfoundland; Brun - RCMP Horses in Alberta; Hidden Liquor Well; Cree Tattooing; Bootleg Fish - Nova Scotia; The Alberta Provincial Police; Robbery or Mischief in Haney, B.C.; Constable John Clisby; Arrested German POWs; and much more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's details black out atop title page else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1991Features: Some European Anticipations of American Clock Features: The Story of the American Wood Works Clock Industry, 1790-1841; Dials Crafted of Natural Wood, Hamilton Sherwood Wristwatches; Lukens' Tower Clock; Chinqua-Penn Revisited; The Ives Clock Display at the 1988 Pacific Northwest Regional; M. Cyprien's Perpetual Calendar Clock; A Pharaoh's Ransom - Watch Keys of Gold and People Good as Gold; and more. Erasure to front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1991Features: The Oriental Textile Mill Tower Clock; Henry Warren and His Master Clocks; Vintage Wristwatches - Their History and Appeal; Aaron Dodd Crane Revisited - 1991 Update; The Connecticut Apprentice; Peter Cooper's Clock; The Watch and Clock Museum of the NAWCC; Making a Lux Cat's Tail or Necktie Pendulum for the Pendulette; and more. Aside from a tiny ink mark in upper corner of front cover, clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1989Features: Massacre at Woody Point; Bennett City; Sam Greer; Leech River Gold Rush. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
1988Features: Cumberland's Historic Chinatown; City in Panic - Firebug in Nelson; Prelude to Bonanza - A Yukon gold rush which preceded the Klonkike; Pioneer ships of B.C. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
1988Features: Ginger Goodwin - Hero or Martyr?; Historic Newcastle Island; The Christmas Day Murders - in the Klondike; The Lost Lemon Mine; Captain Ainsworth. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
198271 pages. Features: Conception Bay Furniture Maker - Henry William Winter; China for Children - Christmas gifts of other days were often replicas of adult tableware; Silver by any other name - Sheffield Plate, Electroplate, Paktong, German Silver, Britannia or britannia?; Chinese Pictorial Tapestries - Fine examples of k'o-ssu, a silk-weaving technique, in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Collecting Glass Target Balls; Game Equipment - the games people play have a long and intriquing history; Restoration and Renovation IV - Reflections on Past Interior Decor; Appraising Your Heirlooms; Nutmeg Graters; The Macdonell House - Nor-Wester's Georgian House on the Ottawa contains elaborate decorative plaster. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1983Features: Lapidary Equipment; Minerals 1983; Gold Prospecting - 1983; Jewelry making 1983; Make a faceted Amethyst Pendant; Field Trip - Inyo Rainbow Onyx; Rock Slabs and Waterfowl; Where to Write for Everything. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp to front cover. Magazine
1971Features: Jewelry Maker's Handbook, Part 3; Indian Style Channel Jewelry; Modified Triad Cut; A Mission in Miniature; Horn-Hacking Hobby; New Mexico's Rockhound State Park; Gold Rock Ranch. Above-average wear but remains a sound reference copy. Date stamp to front cover. Book
1971Features: Why Josiah Wedgewood Chose Etruria; The First English Canadian Novel - St. Ursula's Convent or The Nun of Canada; 18th Century Italian Fantastists - Metropolitan Museum of Art; English Lustre Ware; Silhouettes; Candelabrum; Swedish Glass & Crystal; Copper Kitchen-ware. Some pages were stuck together and have now been separated with minimal impact to text and illustrations. Still a worthy reference copy. Book
1981406 pages. Index. Many dozens of black and white illustrations. "The story of a hearty breed of coiner is told in these pages." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Binding open at each board. Usual library markings. Still a worthy reference copy. Book
1986493 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. "Franc Jouben, the chemist-geologist who brought Canada into the Nuclear age, has been one of Canada's great mine hunters - a man of unquenchable curiosity and integrity. This is his story, the frank recollections of a millionaire prospector who tamed the jungles of Bay Street while treasure-hunting the world over - and all the while enjoying life on the edge of wonder." - Peter C. Newman. Prior owner's details atop back side of front free endpaper. Light to moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now proctected with a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy of this interesting and instructive life story. Book
196911 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "One of the last of the old miners, Captain Norman Evans-Atkinson, discusses the declining days of gold mining in British Columbia". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
1997Unpaginated. Book is over one inch thick. "The caricatures of my colleagues of the 35th Parliament (of Canada) are dedicated to their sense of humour. If I have captured a feeling, a mood, or a particular look, I thank my models for having inspired me." - Artist. *Hilarious* caricatures of many Canadian Members of Parliament who sat from 1993-1997 by one of their own. Book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. After viewing these wonderfully detailed and creative images it is hard not to wonder what the artist actually spent most of his time doing while in Ottawa! Will delight fans and families of the MPs represented herein! Our favourite image is that of North Vancouver Reform Party M.P. Ted White. Book
1905248 pages. The story of Nat Nason, a poor country boy with a strong desire to better his condition. Somewhat above-average wear. Narrow opening in binding at title page. Unmarked aside from three small incidental ink marks at or near upper right corner of front board. Worthy copy. Book
1926500 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. Foxing at edges, upon endpapers and some pages. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy in decorated blue boards. Book
197038 pages. Features: Turbulence in Greece; Can Soviet youth break the chains?; Wilfred De'ath talks to Clive Jenkins; Quality of Life - houses should be built around people; Scotland's new towns; Gold from the Ukraine; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
197632 pages. "A series of true events in the discovery of coal, gold, lead, silver and copper. Intended as a basic introduction to the story of mining." - from Foreward. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Worthy reference copy. Book
1971Features: Martial law in the Coeur D'Alenes - Burke, Idaho, Shoshone County; Shoestrong operation on the flats - an early story from California; outlaw loot in Missoula - when Cy Skinner was hanged by vigilantes, no one knew where his gold was buried; Hope's Sundown - hard times at Cleveland, Texas; "Surplus Volunteers" vs. redskins - Fort Laramie; The about-face of a buffalo hunter - Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones; Dark day at Darlington - an agency doctor who lost his son to the Cheyennes remembers; Cowgirl - rodeo's sugar and spice; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1973Features: A place called Topock, Arizona; His own Paula Revere - "The Sheriff is coming!"; The Soda Springs (Idaho) treasures; Reminiscences of a Trail Cutter - Walter B. Self; Queen of the Snows and King of the Klondike - Mollie Walsh and Packer Jack Newman; A Patron Saint and a little backing - Don Ana, New Mexico; Lion Mountain Silver Camps; Haunted Waterhole; the courage of Charlotte Martin - Ox Driving Girl; Forgotten man of Sutter's Mill - Charles Bennett may deserve credit for California's gold rush; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1974Features: U.S. Marshal Red Lucas - 3,600 arrests!; "Nobody is my Name" - what happened when a spaghetti western was filmed in ghost town Mogollon, New Mexico; Vallecito's Treasures - a recent find suggests they may exist; French Runaway in Arizona - friend of the sourdoughs, Joe Mayer specialized in grubstakes; A most extraordinary fugitive - Henry Meiggs; mystery priest's cache; life on an Idaho Cattle Ranch; Kanaka Joe - boy murderer on San Juan Island; Queen of the Utah Gold Camps - Kimberly, Utah; Ike Dotson was hard to kill; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1990127 pages. A pictorial history of Vancouver's first 2 decades in the NHL. Photos in colour and black and white. Recounts many noteworthy events and participants. Includes a reference of every player to ever play a regular season or playoff game in a Canuck uniform. Begins with the fascinating history of hockey in Vancouver prior to the NHL's arrival. Very attractive dust jacket features colour montage of Canuck favourites. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected with glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A must-have item for the die-hard Canuck fan! Book
1969Features: New Mexico's tumultuous twin towns - Kingston roared like a lion, Hillsboro - out of a hat!; Lola Montez - Man Breaker; The men who don't fit in; Gunplay! - a California Feud; Reporting a Gold Rush - the Black Hills, 1875; The Thousand Dollar Tree - a tree doubles as a bank; Destruction of the Devilfish - whaling off California; Remember the Chili Queens?; Jack Abernathy - Oklahoma Legend; Experiences of a forty-niner during a third of a century in the gold fields, by C.D. Ferguson (Part one); and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1989253 pages. Index. References. "Describes 98 plant species in the families Ranunculaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Ceratophyllaceae, and Berberidaceae, comprising the representatives of the Engelerian order Ranales that have been found growing wild, native or naturalized, in British Columbia." - from Abstract. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Tight and square. Sound copy. Book
