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195126 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Great cover photo after a successful caribou hunt; Editorial - We Can Have Highways; Who the Loon Got its White Neck Band and Spots on its Back - And Man Was Turned into a Lynx; Pioneer Judge's Wife - part 1; Along the Trapline; Two clear photos of the aftermath of a locomotive boiler explosion in the railway yars of P.G.E. at Quesnel, B.C. in September 1951; The Ghost of Hunter Jack - Poem; Photo of a group of gold panners at Lowhee Placer mine with a pan full of huge nuggets; Yukon Epic - a true tale of the northland; Nature Oddities; Dawson Creek Motorists First to Drive over John Hart Highway - Ralph Thomsen and son Bob, Stan Carnell and Bob Greer - brief write-up with two photos; Four Million Acres of Untouched Grassland - review of "Grass Beyond the Mountains" by Richard P. Hobson Jr. - with a small photo of Hobson; Back cover ad for Finning's "Caterpillar" Diesel farm and logging tractors; Dozens of ads for small local businesses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage British Columbia publication. Magazine
1970186 pages. Intended to serve as an introduction to the more comprehensive texts, particularly to those who are interested in the geology of the province of British Columbia. Includes black and white illustrations and large fold-out table for the identification of minerals. A practical work. Unmarked. Moderatae wear. A quality copy. Book
197417 pages. "Why has America, the land of abundance, suddenly become a country of scarcity? Have the shortages in energy, fuel, gasoline, and food been deliberately created? If so, by whom... Draws on expert opinion for answers - and solutions." Originally appeared in the May 1974 issue of American Opinion magazine. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
196368 pages. Features: Colour photo Black Label ad inside front cover; Organized Crime's Grip on Ontario - between 1958 and 1962 the Mafia took a stranglehold on major crime (Part 2 of the Mafia series) - includes 25 mug shots, 8 of which are crossed out (killed); Bill Freedman has a very nice problem - his wife, Toby Robins, is also on her way to try New York; Where the Boys and Girls Go - 20,000 young people throng to Orillia, Ontario for the third annual Mariposa Festival - many super photos - a must for anyone who attended this huge bash!; What we can learn from the story of a sex criminal - Leopold Dion was released after 20 years, only to kill four boys; The many loves of J.B. McGeachy; Why Brazil Hasn't Gone Communist - Yet; A Maclean's flashback to the Lardeau gold strikes in B.C. around 1900 - with great photos. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. several openings at periphery. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
196440 pages. Features: There's a New Paul Martin - Canada's compleat politician heads Canada's U.N. delegation - article with photos; Senta Baby - article with gorgeous colour photo of German actress Senta Berger; Colour photo fashion section - play clothes; Joe Flaherty won his freedom - and bride Fran McKearney when he was released from prison; Club de l'Etoile in Paris offers patrons headphones so they may each listen/dance to their own music - photos and bried write-up; Who is Better, Arnold Palmer or Sam Snead? - article with photo; Forgeries/Knock-offs of Group of Seven Paintings - article with colour photos; Photos of water ski machine at Saratoga Lake, NY; Jeannie Snowball's Happy Owl - Oopik; Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195224 pages. Features: Soapy Smith - Scourge of the Klondyke - article with photos; The Case of the Frozen Brides - Conclusion; Pioneer Judge's Wife - Part 5; Found - The Lost Gold Mine of Dragon Mountain... Maybe; Dozens of great nostalgic ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1990178 pages. Colour photos of the band. Includes songs from Deguello, El Loco, Eliminator and Afterburner: Cheap Sunglasses, Dust my Broom, Esther Be the One; A Fool for Your Stockings; Hi Fi Mama; I Thank You; I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide; Lowdown in the Street; Manic Mechanic; She Loves My Automobile; Don't Tease Me; Groovy Little Hippie Pad; Heaven, Hell or Houston; I Wanna Drive You Home; It's So Hard; Leila; Party on the Patio; Pearl Necklace; Ten Foot Pole; Tube Snake Boogie; Bad Girl; Dirty Dog; Gimme All Your Lovin'; Got My Under Pressure; If I Could Only Flag Her Down; I Got the Six; I Need You Tonight; Legs; Sharp Dressed Man; Thug; T.V. Dinners; Can't Stop Rockin'; Delirious; Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury); I Got the Message; Rough Boy; Sleeping Bag; Stages; Velcro Fly; Woke Up with Wood. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this sensational ZZ Top compilation. Hit after hit!!! Book
1926Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
196126 pages. Cover illustration of Gaby Haas. Two-pages of reproductions of black and white photos. Songbook arranged for piano, guitar, violin or accordion. Songs include: Gaby's Favorite Waltz; Quicksand Schottische; Emigrant Waltz; Country Hoedown Polka; Pictures of Activities; Gaby's Schottische; Tony's Nose; Tivoli Polka; Tyrolian Polka; Bavarian Waltz; Jenny Lind; Excellsior Polka. Average wear. Binding intact. Few markings to contents. Bookseller stamp upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
199852 pages. Features: Studying Ceramics in Jingdezhen; Tony Marsh's Puzzling Narratives; Angelo diPetta; Adrift in the Labyrinth; A Product of His Time or a Potter for All Time?; To Honor a Memory - A Women's Anagama Firing. Light wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
199386 pages. Features: In 1874 the North West Mounted Police set out on a 1,000 - mile to establish Canadian authority in the West; Trek to Manson Creek - When Charles Ace Overfeld, an eastern Pennsylvania boy-turned westerner, signed up for a mining stint at Manson Creek, British Columbia, he thought it was just the opportunity he had been waiting for to get rich quick - instead, it turned out to be his worst nightmare; Slocan Lake's Lost Silver Bullion - according to the legend, a boxcar loaded with silver bullioin, rolllling with the motion of the barge during a storm, smashed through the guard rails and vanished into the dark waters below; The Lost Strongbox of the Mount Royal - Ever since she sank in Kitselas Canyon on July 6, 1907, rumours have persisted that the Mount Royal's safe went to the bottom containing as much as $100,000 in gold. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
1970Pages 37-74. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for the CBC Weekend TV show includes Lloyd Robertson; Yellowknife - Capital City of the Northwest Territories - article with great aerial photo of city; The Pointer Boat - workhorse of Canadian rivers for over a century - wonderful article with great photos; Hot Springs of Western Canada; Town Symbols; Assignment in Punjab; Attractive color back page ad for Cadillac features a gold 1970 Coupe deVille. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
199982 pages. Features: Gallery - some of the best Canadian design work of the past 50 years; Why does the work of Palmer Jarvis DDB turn to gold?; A roundup of what the major stock and royalt-free agencies are offering online; Direct Mail that works; Portfolio - Suzanne Duranceau; Portfolio - Karo (Toronto) Inc.; Portfolio - Philip Gallard; Hiring an Intern; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1984103 pages. Index. Many archival black and white illustrations. "The (B.C.) sagebrush desert was transformed into orchards through the imagination and industry of English settlers from 1907 to 1914. Then the men left to fight and die for king and country. A storm wrecked the vital irrigation flume. Now all that remains are ghosts of the flume, trees and homes which mock this once thriving settlement." - from back cover. Address label remnant atop title page. Average wear. Book
1990200 pages. Black and white illustrations. "...Follows the author's adventures on the West Coast of Vancouver Island during the 1930's. While detailed and historically accurate, this story captures the essence of day to day life in rustic and rugged surroundings." - from back cover. Prior owner's small ink stamp atop first blank leaf, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1909Intended for beginning players. Contains 48 lessons and final review test in a duo-tang binding. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy working set of these charming vintage lessons. Book
191053 pages. Three black and white plates. Includes piano music and dance instructions. "This volume of folk dances taken from Swedish sources and sympathetically translated for American use by Mr. Bergquist is genuine and cannot fail to receive the large appreciation it deserves, for he has danced them as his forefathers did in Sweden itself." - from Introduction by C. Ward Crampton. Dances include: The Skaning or the Stop; Bleking; Ladita - Lott' 1st Todt; Tantoli; The Rill; Snurrbock; Gustavus' Toast; Clap Dance; The Skobo Dance; Varsovienne; Three Men Polska; The Oxen Dance; Ostgota Polska; Schottische; Frykdal Polska; The Skanska Quadrille; Weaving DAnce; Fjallnas Polska; Gottland Quadrille; Dal Dance; The Halling; Vingaker Dance; The Skralat. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Gilt lettering upon front board still legible. A worthy reading copy of this charming Swedish cultural memento. Book
1978348 pages including index and select bibliography and photo gallery. Topics include: the native people, the Lillooets, and their first known contacts with Europeans; Hurrying miners of the Gold Rush; isolated pioneer farmers; the eventual dyking and drainage of the valley which resulted, finally, in a road to Vancouver. Text is graced with many historical black and white photos. Moderate wear and soiling. Unmarked. Tight and sqaure. A quality copy. Book
1875"National bank notes retired - legal tenders the only paper money - prosperity for every industry." - subtitle. "This little work makes no pretensions to literary merit. It was written, by the author, at intervals snatched from his other occupations as a farmer... The leading facts stated, and the great and fundamental truths of the science of money enunciated, are in accordance with the true principles of Political Economy when applied to the present conditions of America, and are believed to be sound and incontrovertible." - from Preface. Contains the following five essays: As long as America is so heavily indebted to European Nations it will be impossible to have a good and uniform currency upon a gold basis; Specie-based currency with the shackles of gold redemption and the national bank system are anti-republican and dangerous to human liberty; A second system of paper money freed from the shackles of specie redemption and based upon the faith of the nation; How contraction and gold redemption will affect the debtors and tax-payers; Industry and productions stimulated by a greater volume of currency. Usual library markings. Spine Slant. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Gilt lettering mostly worn from backstrip but clearly legible upon blue front board. Upper portions of almost all pages lightly stained yellow - all text remains clearly legible. Book
1965150 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Expertly illustrated with black and white photos and detailed diagrams. Despite the fact that it appears to have been printed circa 1965 this technical work is sure to remain of lasting value to any engineer involved with rolling mill design or maintenance. Chapters include: Calculation of Roll Force and Power Requirements for Rolling Work; Basic Principles for the Design of Bearings for Rolling Mill Equipment; Maintenance and Installation; Examples of the Calculation and Design of Bearing Arrangements for Roll Neck Applications. Unmarked. Average wear. Short opening at bottom of front hinge. A sound working copy. Book
1916473 pages. Index. List of illustrations. Many fascinating black and white photographic plates. Diagrams and fold-outs. Above-average external wear. Sunning to spine. Hinges intact. Usual library markings. Contains a wealth of historical B.C. documentation. A worthy reference copy. Book
193424 pages. "No musical notes, scales or exercises... Every note pictured, numbered, measured and timed so you will understand it." - from front cover. Above-average wear. Moisture discolouration to pink covers. Book
1935Undated. Circa 1930s? A wonderful compilation! Average wear. A sound copy. Book
199664 pages. Endnotes. Great black and white archival photos throughout. Specifications of the dredge inside back cover. Book
189098 pages plus two pages of advertisements. Six black and white fold-out plates. Intended to "offer a little useful knowledge to directors of English gold mining companies on some of the simple principles that are too often ignorantly, or designedly, ignored, or surrounded with mystery by inexperienced mine managers; also to give to millmen a few suggestions, founded on a tolerably wide experience, in the commercial handling of many kinds of ores." - from Preface. Text divided into the following parts: Losses in Gold Amalgamation; Treatment of Gold Ores; Concentration of Gold and Silver Ores; Methods of Concentration. Prior owner's details in pencil upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Minor foxing. Red cloth covers soiled and stained with above-average wear - gilt lettering still legible. A worthy copy of this practical vintage work. Book
