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197440 pages. Features: Bill Miner - Gentlemanly Highwayman; James Houston - First Man to Discover Gold?; Treasure from Outer Space; A Metal Detector You Can Build in One Evening; New Brunswick - Sophia Jones Hamilton was no lady; Ontario's Forgotten Gold Rush - Marcus Herbert Powell made a discovery at Eldorado, Ontario; and more. Pages toned with age, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
197440 pages. Features: A Sea Monster Guarded Islander's Gold; Legend of the Lost Creek Mine (aka Slumach's Lost Mine) (part 1); Major Studholm's Treasure; Queen Anne's Treasures; Gold on the Saskatchewan; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
197140 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Gold Along Little Hixon Creek; The K and S Railway; Our Vanishing Heritage - Salishan Indian Basketry; Old Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island; W.G. Cox - Gold Commissioner - Part III; Collector's Page; The Battle Bend Country; W.S. Hatton's Paintings; Historic Three Forks, in the silver country of the West Kootenay. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
197240 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Lost Morgan Mine (near Greenwood City); The Highest Judge in the Highest Court in the HIghest City in Canada - W.R. "Willie" Williams; Historic Hedley, B.C.; Gold Bullion at Twelve Fathoms - the Pacific went down in 1875 off Cape Flattery; The Money Shell - money used by native peoples of Western Canada was dentalium or higua, a sea shell; Letters from the North-West - Part I - A.R. Dyre was a young North-West Mounted Policeman who served in the wests from 1882 to 1885. Name atop front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1958120 pages. Features: Hard Education or Soft; How to Get Along With a Man; Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini; Felicia; Miss Romana von Hofmannsthal; Remaking Your Ideas about Psychiatry; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fonda's New York house; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1975Appears to be a 1970s or 1980s replica of the pre-WWII original. Features lovely young lady in long red floral print dress with white fur around her neck. Illustrations of Gold Bar and Hateman cigarette boxes along bottom edge. Approximately 30" x 20". Crimped metal strips protect top and bottom edges. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A charming memento of 1930s Shanghai. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Poster
196138 pages. Features: Colour cover photo of Val Forgett Jr. holding his Muzzy & Co. Morse sporting rifle, serial number 11; Frank Rande - Daring Bandit of Wabash (part 2 of 3); Dixie Gun Works; New Swag-O-Matic Rifle Bullets; Colt Gold Cup .38 Special; Special Bullard Cartridges; The Gunsmith; Index to Volume I; Mr. Morse's Remarkable Mechanism; Al Weber and his .50 caliber rifle; many nice vintage ads, including Firearms International Corporation on the back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198032 pages. Features: Passing of Miss Stella I. Tague; Passing of Hugh H. Goodhart; Raymond H. Dietrich, 1894-1980; My Memories of My Father's Air Cooled Corbin Automobile, by Louis S. Stone; A Childhood Dream Materializes at Last, by Frank H. Gardner; Franklin "Airman" Has Larger Engine - reprint of 1927 article in Automotive Industries; Franklin Announces Airman Limited with Body Refinements - reprint of 1928 Automotive Industries article; Le Bete Noir - tour log by Henry and Alice Gray; Dynamometer Tests on a Series 9B-X Franklin Engine; John Burns Column on maintenance and restoration - side draft to side draft; Finding a Franklin or Loosing My Sanity, by Jim Wood; Photo of Cannonball Baker with Franklin Williams Motor Company staff of Kansas City, MO. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
198132 pages. Features: W. Chapin Condit Receives Award from Syracuse University; 1981 Apple Blossom Meet; Reunion of Former H.H. Franklin Employees; Letter from Bennett M. Derby, M.D.; 1904-5 Mitchell Air Cooled Runabout; Ralph Hamlin - A Man of His Time; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 656, April 1922; Franklin Engines - 1902 through 1909 or John Wilkinson's Exhaust(ing) Heat Problems, Part I; 1915 Franklin Series 8; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 639, 1917; Back cover reproduction of 1904 Franklin ad in Harper's Magazine. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
198232 pages. Features: As Long As We've Gone This Far - Jim and Betty Hull and their 1926 Franklin, Series 11A, 4 door sedan; Spotlight on Howard Carey - he drove a Series 135 Sport Sedan for many years; A Pirate Restored - a 1930 Franklin Pirate restored for Gene and Joe Gazza; Franklin Engines 1902-1909 or John Wilkinson's Exhaust(ing) Heat Problems (part 2); John Burn column on maintenance and restoration - 1931 S153 Dietrich Speedster Steering Box Replacement. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
1970#350 of 700 facsimile copies of the 1746 first edition specially reprinted in 1970. [10], 118, 15 [plates] pages. "Being the first part of Le Blond's Elements of War - written in French by that eminent mathematician, for the use of Lewis Charles of Lorraine, Count de Brionne, and published for the introduction of the young gentlemen in the armies of France." - subtitle. "Was a standard reference on the continent. Covers much the same field as Muller and Rudyerd in the period just prior to the French and Indian Wars." - dust jacket. Armorial bookplate upon front free endpaper, otherwise book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Book
1974viii, 368 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "Joseph Whiteside Boyle arrived in the Klondike in 1897 living hand-to-mouth as the manager of a declining prize-fighter. When he left the Yukon in 1916, he was King of the Klondike, reigning over a business empire founded on his enormous gold-dredging operations, and one of the most powerful and colourful figures in the north." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in mylar. A sound reading copy. Book
1983xi, 394 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "Joe Boyle led many lives - sailor, sports promoter, entrepreneur, diplomat, soldier, spy - each life a testament to a romantic nature, a love of action, a blunt, single-minded devotion to doing what seemeed right and what needed to be done. Decorated by four European countries for outstanding services in war, he long remained unsung and all but forgotten in his own land. Now, using new material from the Boyle family archives never before published, this book recreates in colourful detail the exciting life of one of the last international heroes." - dust jacket. Book
1993288 pages. Bibliography. Printed upon glossy stock. Generously illustrated with colour and black and white photography. Chapters include: Silverware, Gold Treasures, Nielloware, The Art of Mother-of-Pearl Inlay; Woodcarving in Thai Art; Thai Ceramics; Ivory Carving; Royal Barge Procession. Only 1,500 copies printed. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1913xiv, 491, 6 [ads] pages. First published in 1895, this edition "revised and continued to the year 1911", per title page. Tissue-protected frontispiece illustrates gold coins in circulation 1830-1860. A most fascinating vintage view of America's monetary history with twenty-one chapters including: Money a Commodity; Coinage; Legal Tender; Gold as a Metal; The Gold Standard; Colonial Bills of Credit; Revolutionary Bills of Credit; The Greenbacks; Confederate Currency; Silver Dollars and the Panic of 1893; Functions of a Bank; The Clearing-House System; Colonial Banking; Early American Banks; The First and Second Banks of the United States; Foregin Banking Systems; The Panic of 1907; The Central Bank Question; and more. Curiously, while the copyright page suggests a printing date of 1911 Appendix D consists of the Federal Reserve Bill, stated to have been introduced in 1913, thus this copy must have been printed no earlier than 1913. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Ink stamp and early handwritten price inside front board, otherwise unmarked with average wear to embossed maroon publisher's cloth. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Sure to be of interest to those fascinated by the perpetual question "What is a dollar"? Book
1881208 pages. Chocolate brown embossed boards adorned with gilt and black. Chapters include: The Origin of Money; What is Money?; Currency; Gold Money; Silver Money; Paper Money; Bills of Exchange; Bank Shares; Banking; Exchange; Interest; Wealth; Capital; Panics; Individual Success; and National Prosperity. Contents considerably toned with age with an old book scent. 1.5" indent to top of backstrip. Binding tender but intact. Two-inch openings to top edge of approx fifteen pages. A worthy copy of this vintage monetary reference. Book
1979Signed and inscribed by Mel Fisher [1922-1998] and his wife, Deo [Delores] Fisher [1936-2009], upon half-title page. x, 246 pages. 8vo. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "In 1622 the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank off the Florida Keys on its way from Havana to Spain. Since then men have dreamed of salvaging her treasure of gold and silver, now estimated at $140 million. For more than three centuries, however, their dreams have ended in bitter, often tragic, failure. In the 1960s Mel Fisher committed his life to this search and his story has become a fascinating part of the Atocha saga." - dust jacket. Six years after publication Fisher actually discovered the wreck, and its 40 tons of precious metals, on July 20, 1985. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
1894160, 8 [ads] pages. Black and white illustrations. Undated - circa 1894. No mention of any prior printings. Unmarked. Narrow opening in binding at half-title otherwise binding tender but intact. Charming illustration of two girls by quiet pool upon front board. Above-average wear to publisher's red cloth. A worthy copy of this adorable item. Book
1935Signed and inscribed by George M. Mitchell upon title page. viii, 304 pages. Four black and white maps. Eleven black and white illustrations. "A well written book on an unusual Klondike gold rush adventure. In an uncommon move, Mitchell and his partners approached the Yukon via the Slave and Mackenzie and up the Peel and Wind rivers. He was injured and remained with the Loucheaux (Kutchin) Indians for many months." - G.J. Kim Whale. "Includes descriptions of the country, hunting, the customs and life of the Indians, with notes on scurvy." - Arctic Bibliography. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's baby blue cloth. Minor lean to spine. Name inside front board. Whale 495. AB 6042, Smith 3715. Book
1977109 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "A narrative of the personal adventures of Claude R. "Paddy" Wilson, a seventy-seven year old veteran prospector and cook. For over thirty years he worked in the mines and diamond drilling camps on the Red Lake gold fields in Northern Ontario. This work is based on three pencilled manuscripts he wrote after abandoning his search for gold in 1948. Names have been changed to protect those unfortunates who, like Paddy Wilson, suffered and enjoyed the unusual consequences of gold fever." - Preface. Name clipped from top of front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this engaging read. Book
1978xviii, 540, [1], xxii - xlviii pp. Glossary of banking terms. Subject Index. Corrigenda. Reprint of the 1926 first edition. "Records in minute detail the history and background of metallic currencies in the Middle Kingdom - gold, silver and copper - and examines their relationships with each other and with the currencies of other lands. Delves into such fascinating areas as regional gold mining, the Chinese mints, efforts to introduce a true gold standard, and the use of foreign trade dollars in China." - Foreward to this reprint edition. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear to publisher's brown leatherette covered boards. An excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
1958126 pages. A fantastic compilation of black and white photos with supporting text. The photos were taken by E.A. Hegg and are documented by the author who has correlated the historical data with this remarkable pictorial story. Printed upon glossy stock. Map endpapers. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's decorated blue cloth. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating work. Tourville 463, Ricks p.38. Book
1967400 pages of fabulous photos depicting the life and times of the U. of A.'s 1967 student body. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1963This concise pamphlet covers a history of gold, reasons for the gold crisis of the day, the Western World's monetary system, the Gold Standard, the coming readjustment in gold, how gold defends against communism, and Canada's gold - world salvation. 36 pages. Author was a contributing member of The United States Gold Committee, Inc. of Washington D.C. Details of the Saman Investment Corporation Limited are printed on back cover as it apparently offered this booklet to its clients. Staples rusted but holding. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this nostalgic yet informative snapshot of the prescient investment views of a Canadian gold bug in the years leading up to Nixon's dramatic closure of the gold window in 1971. 21 x 9 cm. Book
1928pp. xv, [i] 245. Index. First printing. "Aims to show how unstable in buying power are all monetary units, including the dollar; what hidden causes produce that instability; what harm results, although ascribed to other causes; and what are the various remedies which have been tried or proposed. The purpose is not to propose any one remedy as the best but to put the problem to the reader, especially to the business reader." - Preface. Very light wear to original olive cloth. Dust soiling to top edge. Binding sound. Several faint pencil erasures to contents. Dust jacket not included. A remarkably well-preserved copy. Fisher M-1344, Masui p.1410, Batson p.137, Pressman p.142, Hutchinson 682. Book
