Craig, Andy A.MareMagnum
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1977168 pages. Index. Documents the challenges of early truck transport in B.C. "Author was B.C.'s best-known Pioneer Trucker who travelled the length and breadth of British Columbia interviewing and taping the reminiscences of the old-time drivers. A trucker since his youth, Andy Craig had an ear for detail and a natural flair for story-telling. This book is unique in combining a first-hand history of pioneer trucking in B.C. with an updating as to what is happinging in the trucking industry in the 1970's." - back board. Some of the truckers featured include: Boyd's Freight Lines of Clinton, Fred Carson's Freight Lines, Les Cotter, Art Ducloe, Spencer Patenaude, Johnny Assman, Docherty's Cariboo Freight, Lee's Transport, Venderspek's Transport, White Motor Freight, Earl Chase & Triangle Trucking, Malcolm Oliver, Reg Barber, Woods & Fraser, and Walt Harrington. Includes dozens of reproductions of great archival black and white photos. Pages yellowed with age. Gift greetings and some markings atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this engaging work. Book
194960 pages. Features: Cover art by W.A. Winter shows husband returning to home filled with card-playing ladies; No Excuse Now for Atomic Hush-Hush (Editorial); The Man Who Clipped the King - Paul Emile ("Red") Tasse was barber at the Chateau Laurier Hotel for Thirty years; Jim Crow Lives in Dresden, Ontario - 300 of the 1,700 citizens have Negro blood but can't get a store haircut, a permanent wave, or a restaurant meal; - article with photos; Lucy Makes My Living (fiction); The Fabulous Fraud From Eastwood - Was Ontario's audacious Cassie Chadwick the world's greatest woman swindler? - she hoaxed her way into $1.5 million; Don't Be Scared of Your Heart - the truth about tickers by an M.D.; The Loneliest Man in Canada - Frank McLaren killed his wife in 1927 and spent twelve years in jail, but now he's out; Can You Tell Which Gems are Real? - the synthetic jewelry trade is booming; The Dauntless Deacon of Caulflower Row - the checkered career of John Finlay Allen; Jeanne D'Arc and the Siren Sea (fiction); The Battle of the St. Lawrence (conclusion) - Nazi U-boats in the St. Lawrence; Frank Gladstone Waddington is the dean of Canadian Auctioneers; Nice colour-illustrated Massey-Harris tractor ad shows farmer on tractor plowing his lane with cream cans at gate; and more. Back cover missing. Front cover secured with archival tape. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1978Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196034 pages. Features: Cover photo of beach scene on Mamette Lake; Photo of Eugene Korytniak with massive 69 lb spring salmon from the Kitimat River; You, Too, Can Catch a Statistic! - interesting statistics on last years catch; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Gibbs tackle; Photo of massive Tyee salmon caught off Campbell River; Illustrations show how to get results from your Herring Bait; Remember When? - fishing around Kamloops in the early 1900s, with photo of Mrs. Margaret Scott of Echo Lodge and a catch of rainbow trout from Paul Lake, plus a photos of Joe Kendall in his barber shop, Bert Collins of Cache Creek, and Fred Casey of Knouff Lake; Photo of Jack Finlay and Norman Towe and 352 crows the Abbotsford Fish & Game Club shot on a recent 'Crow Day'; Clay Chips - with photos of Joe Williams, Russ Young, Arnold Reigger, Mrs. Ruth Ray; Verne Greensword, Danny Pagliaro, Michael Fripp, Stu Loutit, Don McIntosh, Jack Radford, Russ Young, Arnold Ford, Tommy and George Freeman, Marvin Hergert, Danny McDonald, and Earle Reynolds; Boats; Safety Afloat; Nice one-page Old Vienna features large photo of trollers proudly displaying their catch; How a good boat driver helps water skiers; Brief illustrated piece on Nikko shotguns from Japan; Photos of Ducks Unlimited officials Fred Auger and Col. Clarence Wallace; Stillwater 'Caddis'; Back cover illustrated ad for the International Travelall; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1989iv, 220 pp. Bibliography. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of interesting archival photos. Presents the family recollections of: Eleanor Dahl, Jessie Stinson, John Wannamaker, Earl and Mabel Onderdonk, Mildred Wannamaker, Krysia Mason, Douglas K. Redner, Verna Sills, Mrs. Jack Langman, Robert and Carole Bleecker, Mrs. George Flower, Bruce Graham, Gwen Braidwood, Jack DeLong, Mary and Cecil McConkey, Emma Barber, Gladys Adams, Beth Nightingale, Nellie Montgomery, Lorna Bowerman, and Mrs. John Jinks. Also includes a fascinating page of information about the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, including a 'Recipe for Influenza' which involves vinegar, turpentine and flannel. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this informative local history and wonderful genealogical reference. Book
1993240pp. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1967SUGAR EDITORE 1967 807 PAGINE. SEGNI DEL TEMPO, FIRMA DI APPARTENENZA IN ANTPORTA (INIZIALI), STRAPPETTO CON LIEVE MANCANZA ALLA SOVRACCOPERTA (COME DA FOTO). PER IL RESTO, IN OTTIME CONDIZIONI.
1713pp. (4), 62, (9), in-4, piena perg rigida, al frontespizio Madonna con i SS. Cosma e Damiano e tre stemmi di cui quello al centro di papa Clemente XI
1857Tre voll. pp. 282, (2); 312; 307, (1); brossura editoriale, riuniti in cofanetto di tela con legacci. Insieme di varie amenità d’autore su Parigi, i parigini, le parigine: la premessa è che un diavolo passeggero trovi in un cassetto, a Parigi, una serie di articoli che descrivono la città, le sue abitudini, i suoi abitanti, ecc. L’edizione originale di quest’opera collettiva era del ’45, e fu concepita dall’editore Pierre-Jules Hetzel, che fu poi esiliato in Belgio nel ’51.
1989réf. UBARTOU00fpWeidenfeld and Nicolson 1989. Very Good. Barber Richard. Tournaments: Jousts Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages. Barker Juliet. New York NY: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1989. 225pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover books
1981réf. UVOSWEN00mfSmithsonian 1981. Very Good. Voss Frederick. We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons. Barber James. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian 1981. 31pp. Illustrated. 4to. Pink wraps. Book condition: Very good. Smithsonian paperback books
2007réf. 175195Zurich Switzerland: Nieves 2007. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 29 through February 24 2007. A collection of black and white photographs by Barber taken during his time in high school in Amherst Massachusetts. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Nieves unknown books
2014réf. UBARTHI00fpPenguin Books 2014. Very Good. Barber Dan. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. New York NY: Penguin Books 2014. 486pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Penguin Books paperback books
1995réf. 36043Portland Oregon: Amadeus Press 1995. Octavo. Original publisher's full black cloth with titling gilt to spine. In dustjacket. 243 pp. Binding slightly bumped at corners. Amadeus Press unknown books
1986réf. 151196London: Virgin Films 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding shooting locations and times of day. Based on the 1983 book written by Lucy Irvine which detailed her experiences living for a year on the remote uninhabited island of Tuin in the Torres Strait with middle-aged writer Gerald Kingsland. Shot on location in London and the Seychelles. Mustard untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Allan Scott and book credits to Lucy Irvine. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust marks near the binding bound internally with two silver brads. Virgin Films unknown books
1959réf. 149485Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actor Lou Costello giving a more than suggestive shower to Dorothy Provine his new gargantuan girlfriend. A rare appearance of Lou Costello without Bud Abbott wherein a junk collector and inventor accidentally turns his girlfriend into a giantess. Shot on location at Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965réf. 35628New York: G. Schirmer 38577 1965. Very Good. Quarto. Wrappers. 7 pp. First Edition later issue. Heyman H-91 p. 185. G. Schirmer [38577] unknown books
1980réf. 35665New York: G. Schirmer 43423; Ed. 2167 1980. Good. Quarto. Wrappers. 1f. 137 pp. Somewhat worn. Scattered spotting to edges. G. Schirmer [43423; Ed. 2167] unknown books
1997réf. UBARMUS00afSound and Vision 1997. Very Good. Barber David W. A Musician's Dictionary. Donald Illustrator Dave. Toronto: Sound and Vision 1997. 81pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with former owner's name on first leaf. Gently rubbed wraps. Sound and Vision paperback books
2005réf. UBARBAT00OFWalker & Company 2005. Very Good. Barbero Alessandro. The Battle: A New History of Waterloo. Cullen Translator John. NY: Walker & Company 2005. 340pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good lightly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good rubbed edges. Walker & Company hardcover books
1939réf. 144998Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Vintage photograph of director Alfred Werker and actors Preston Foster Lynn Bari George Barbier and Russell Gleason on the set of the 1939 film. Printed description on the verso. Steve Drum Preston Foster a crusading newspaper editor helps free a man framed for a crime and aids in finding the real culprit. Staff reporter Maxine Thomas Lynn Bari goes along for the ride. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1981réf. UBARPAS00LAWFolio Society 1981. Fine. Barber editor Richard. The Pastons: A Family in the War of the Roses. London: Folio Society 1981. 208pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Near fine with subtly rubbed corners. Slip case near fine with subtly bumped corners. Folio Society unknown books
1965réf. UBARBLA00LNWHoughton Mifflin 1965. Very Good. Barber Noel. The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstruction with Maps. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1965. 254pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. A little dusty. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1966réf. UBARBLA01LNWHoughton Mifflin 1966. Good. Barber Noel. The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstruction with Maps. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1966. 254pp. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Good ex-library copy with dust jacket glued down small stamp on front endsheet and pencil note and envelope on endmatter. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with rubbed edges and remnants of a label on . Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1967réf. UPROSEX00OFOxford University Press 1967. Very Good. . Sexti Properti Carmina Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Barber editor E. A. NP: Oxford University Press 1967. 180pp. Indexed. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good lightly rubbed edges and former owner's name on front free end sheet. Oxford University Press hardcover books
