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1913ref. 21074Perth: A. Curtis 1913. First printing. Paper wrappers pamphlet. Very good condition. A scarce program brochure pertaining to the early Australian Navy just three years after its creation in 1910 by the passage of the Naval Defense Act. The demand for an autonomous Australian navy independent of the British Admiralty had been growing since about 1907 when Prime Minister Deakin had sought British approval which was initially rejected. However following the enthusiastic Australian public reaction to the visit of the American Great White Fleet the tide had turned and by 1910 the HMAS Parramatta and the Yarra were both launched. The commander for the new Royal Australian Navy was Admiral George Edwin Patey Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet on loan from the Royal Navy. The brochure with first page listing 19 ships and 2 submarines including the first and second ships Parramatta and Yarra; arrangements in connection with the public visiting the warships at Albany; a list of the officials of athletic sports; the programme for athletic sports 14 events including a wheelbarrow race; a center spread with large b&w photographic image titled "HMAS " Australia" Our Dreadnought" Battle Cruiser" with red white & blue cord page marker & with text at right and left margins; officials for aquatic sports and programme for aquatic sports; and general arrangements Sept. 20th - 26th. Other photographic illustrations in the brochure include: The Swan River St. George's Terrace Perth; apple picking in Albany; Queen's Gardens Perth; Hannan Street Kalgoorlie; The Golden Mile; The Western Australian "Ascot" at Perth; A View of the jetty at Bunbury; Perth's King's Park; Victory Quay Fremantle. 8vo 12 pp. String bound. Pale pink printed wrappers title in black at front wrapper; rear wrapper with photographic illustration of 5 views of caves in Yallingup District Busselton WA. A bit bumped base of spine wrappers a bit sunned. Internally very good. Libraries Australia ID 24072493 one copy Victoria State Library. A. Curtis unknown
1910ref. 53592N.P.: Privately printed 1910. 1910. First edition. 19" x 25" sheet folded to 9 1/2" x 8 1/4. Printed in brown green and red. Photographs. On one side of sheet is information and illustrations. Information about Harney County crops dairy poultry water irrigation lumber railway transportation Burns. Photographs include agricultural scenes and a photo of downtown Burns. Opposite side of sheet offers a map of the entire state of Oregon with Harney County highlighted. Map printed by Poole Bros. of Chicago for the Great Northern Railway and dated 1910. "The Oregon and Western Colonization Company was incorporated in 1910 as a South Dakota corporation by Watson P. Davidson Sr. and several other investors for the purpose of trading in real estates. The corporation acquired 800000 acres of Oregon lands including several billion feet of standing timber from the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road. These lands comprised a federal land grant awarded the Willamette Valley company in 1871 to construct a military road and consisted of alternate sections 15 to 20 miles wide extending from Ontario in eastern Oregon to Albany midway between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific." Rare. Light soiling else very good plus. Privately printed, 1910. unknown
1875ref. 64248Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate” on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843” which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
1886ref. 46293New York: Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York Lake Erie & Western Railroad 1886. 1886. RAILROAD NEW JERSEY. First edition. 8vo. Attractive colorful wrappers that have been bound into a cloth case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine 40 pp. rear cover is a color map showing the territory specially adapted to Suburban Residence for the Picturesque Erie beautiful black & white illustrations list of Suburban Real Estate Agents and Suburban Building Associations. This is a promotional by the railroad to encourage people to locate in Northern New Jersey due to crowded conditions in NYC. They promote that to build a home in Northern New Jersey and New York state is the way to go and point out the wonderful convenient and speedy service available to and from NYC via their railroad company. Provided are home plans showing that a three bedroom home to an eight bedroom home can be built for a low of $2000.00 to a high of $5000.00. Recommended counties in New Jersey are Bergen Passaic and Essex and Rockland County in New York. The railroad company provides most of the information for one to consider moving to the areas where expenses are considerably less there is room for growth and they can supply economic and regular transportation. Fine copy. Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, 1886. hardcover
1925ref. 178071925. Photograph and postcard archive circa 1910s-1940s documenting rodeo culture and competitive riding traditions across the American West with particular emphasis on organized events such as the Pendleton Round-Up and regional competitions in Oregon Montana and Nevada. The collection captures core rodeo practices including saddle bronc riding bull riding relay racing and bulldogging presenting visual evidence of both individual performers and large public gatherings. Identified riders such as Leonard Stroud Soapy Williams Milt Moe Frank Smith and Paddy Ryan appear in action situating the material within a period when rodeo emerged as a structured spectator sport tied to regional identity and western heritage. Images of grandstands filled with spectators Labor Day competitions and named championship events indicate the scale and institutionalization of rodeo culture in the early twentieth century while repeated depictions of high-risk maneuvers document the physical demands and performance conventions that defined the sport. Archive of 16 photographs and real photo postcards primarily measuring approximately 4.75 x 3 inches with one smaller photograph measuring approximately 1.75 x 2.5 inches. Most images are real photo postcards several bearing AZO and DOPS stamp boxes consistent with production dates between approximately 1925 and 1942 alongside earlier material including a copyrighted 1918 image and one example dating to 1904. Locations identified include Pendleton Oregon; Bozeman Montana; and Nevada. Several images carry printed or negative titles including "Leonard Stroud on Indian Tom wins championship at Cheyenne Wyo."; "Soapy Williams on Glasseye"; and "Milt Moe on Tea Trader." The archive includes multiple scenes from the Pendleton Round-Up featuring bulldogging by Frank Smith in 1923 relay racing during a 1925 Labor Day event and additional captioned scenes such as "They treat 'em rough at the Roundup." Other images depict riders thrown from horses bull riding sequences and staged or candid action views that emphasize the dynamic movement and risk inherent in rodeo performance. Sixteen photographs and postcards on cardstock mounts with a mix of black and white and sepia tones. Light wear consistent with handling including minor surface wear and occasional spotting; overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of early twentieth-century rodeo culture in the American West documenting named competitors regional events and the development of rodeo as a public spectacle. unknown
1925ref. 178071925. Photograph and postcard archive circa 1910s-1940s documenting rodeo culture and competitive riding traditions across the American West with particular emphasis on organized events such as the Pendleton Round-Up and regional competitions in Oregon Montana and Nevada. The collection captures core rodeo practices including saddle bronc riding bull riding relay racing and bulldogging presenting visual evidence of both individual performers and large public gatherings. Identified riders such as Leonard Stroud Soapy Williams Milt Moe Frank Smith and Paddy Ryan appear in action situating the material within a period when rodeo emerged as a structured spectator sport tied to regional identity and western heritage. Images of grandstands filled with spectators Labor Day competitions and named championship events indicate the scale and institutionalization of rodeo culture in the early twentieth century while repeated depictions of high-risk maneuvers document the physical demands and performance conventions that defined the sport. Archive of 16 photographs and real photo postcards primarily measuring approximately 4.75 x 3 inches with one smaller photograph measuring approximately 1.75 x 2.5 inches. Most images are real photo postcards several bearing AZO and DOPS stamp boxes consistent with production dates between approximately 1925 and 1942 alongside earlier material including a copyrighted 1918 image and one example dating to 1904. Locations identified include Pendleton Oregon; Bozeman Montana; and Nevada. Several images carry printed or negative titles including "Leonard Stroud on Indian Tom wins championship at Cheyenne Wyo."; "Soapy Williams on Glasseye"; and "Milt Moe on Tea Trader." The archive includes multiple scenes from the Pendleton Round-Up featuring bulldogging by Frank Smith in 1923 relay racing during a 1925 Labor Day event and additional captioned scenes such as "They treat 'em rough at the Roundup." Other images depict riders thrown from horses bull riding sequences and staged or candid action views that emphasize the dynamic movement and risk inherent in rodeo performance. Sixteen photographs and postcards on cardstock mounts with a mix of black and white and sepia tones. Light wear consistent with handling including minor surface wear and occasional spotting; overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of early twentieth-century rodeo culture in the American West documenting named competitors regional events and the development of rodeo as a public spectacle. unknown books
19508vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates on 9 and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'Popski's Private Army' was the smallest independent unit in the British Army, yet the success of its exploits behind enemy lines in the Western Desert was out of all proportion to its size. Enser, p.482.
ref. 65334, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, cxl + 853 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Language: Latin. ISBN 9782503593081.
196656 pages. Features: We are running out of places to bury our garbage; Mental hospitals obsolete in Saskatchewan?; A farewell twitch by BC's Tories; My sixteen months as a Nazi - John Garrity got a 16 month look inside the Canadian Nazi Party - he bugged their meetings, photographed their files, and screened their membership - article with fascinating samples of handbills/tracts - curiously, this work was conducted just before related legislation was passed in Ottawa; The Synthetic Woman - or, how I put on fake hair, eyelashes, nails and a fake figure and found femininity, by Marjorie Harris; And Now... The Synthetic Male, or how I powdered my nose, donned my angora hairpiece and learned to smell more like a man, by Robert Thomas Allen; Is the world ready for Leonard Cohen? - article and great photo; what I learned in a Borneo Classroom, by Manson Toynbee - with many great colour photos; Canada's Kinsey - Dr. Ted Mann, an Anglican priest, began a study of premarital sex on the campus of the University of Western Ontario - when he finished, he was not longer a professor there, by request; Nice colour photo centerfold for Ford's 1967 auto lineup; Rockcliffe Park - the richest, toniest, newsiest village in Canada?, by Susan Dexter; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; Full-page Crown Zellerbach black and white photo ad shows 50-ton log trailers at Nanaimo Lakes on Vancouver Island; Gerald (Gerry) Caplan says we shouldn't hesitate to threaten Rhodesia with force; and more. Average external wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1908Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
1910Pages 453-492 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The Country Seat of Howard Henry, Esq., at Camp Hill, PA; The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling; Decorations and Furnishings For the Home - X - Treatment of Fireplaces and Mantels; Old South Salem in Northern Westchester County - article with photos of local buildings including the Horse and Hound Tavern; Artistic Wax Work; A Group of Modern Houses Costing From $1,800 Upwards - nice 12-photo 2-page spread includes the homes of Mr. Warren Bartholf, Mr. W.A. Westerson, Mrs. Colgrove, Mr. R.E. McGregor, Mr. Benjamin A. Paust, Miss Helen J. Holboe, Mr. W.W. Huntress, Mr. Benjamin Waller, and Mr. Ellis Ashley; Handicraftsman - Leather Craftwork; Crafts That Children Can Do; Ostrich Farming as an Industry; The Small Country House - A Dutch Colonial House Costing $2,150 Complete; A Craftsman's House Costing $2,400 Complete; A House of Modern Design Costing $3,200 Complete; A House and a Garage - the home of James Masterson, Esq., at Crescent Hill, Bay Ridge, NY; Garden Notes; American Homes and gardens' Garden Competition - First Garden Prize wond by Dr. Shiro Miyaki, St. Louis, MO, Second Prize Won by James M. Hull, Esq., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Third Prize wond by M.F. Ault, Indianapolis, IN, with photos of all three; L. Wolff Mfg. Co. ad features photo of the new North Western Passenger Terminal Station in Chicago; Ad for Hotel Chamberlain at Old Point Comfort, VA, with small photo of the large hotel; Index to American Homes and Gardens, Volume VII, January to December, 1910; Back cover color ad for the Columbia Grafonola "Regent" and Graphophone; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Small date stamp atop back cover and small piece missing from bottom of page 457, otherwise complete and unmarked with average wear. Disbound from a larger volume with some of the former binding affixed to spine. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1909Pages 453-492 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: American Homes and Gardens Garden Competition - The Amazing First Price Garden of Charles J. Pilling, Esq., Lansdowne, PA; The Craft of Hammering and Piercing Metal; Some Western Homes - Costing from Four to Six Thousand Dollars, including those of B.W. Cleveland, Esq., of Wilmette, IL, Mrs. Kavana, Mr. Mars, and Mr. Smith; Concrete Ornaments for the Garden and How to Make Them - IV - A Concrete Fence; The Interior Details of the Bungalow and its Furnishings; Making Soil; Homes of American Artists - "Fleetwood," the Residence of robert V.V. Sewell, A.N.A., Oyster Bay, Long Island; Colonial Fireplaces and Fire-Irons; One-page ad for Chickering & Sons pianos; Index to all issues from Volume VI, January to December, 1909; Nice color back page ad for the Columbia Grafonola, with illustration of Spanish tenor Constantino; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Disbound from a larger volume with related residue along coverfold. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
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
1972Upon front free endpaper is a gift plate which reads "With appreciation and kindest regards" below which is hand-written "Sincerely, Anton Rupert". Dr. Rupert (1916-2006) was an influential South African billionaire businessman and a founding member of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). "The socio-historian, the student of architecture and the layman will all profit from this record of our world-famous heritage, the homesteads of the Cape. Painstakingly gathered in long hours of dedicated study, the sixty full-page photographs in colour and monochrome show the distinctive Cape Dutch style in all the natural glory of its form and its setting. Ray Ryan has produced a photographic essay inspired in its conception, definitive in its content and professional in its excecution." - from dust jacket. Oblong 11" x 14". Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Small label removal blemish inside back board. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound and special copy of this significant work. Book
193184 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
1899112 Pages. Features: Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part IX; Holy Week Procession in Seville (includes photos of Nazarene's in costumes similar to those of Klansmen); My Texan Elopement -John H. Jones impersonates Miss Sally Steddem; A Naturalist in Cannibal-Land - adventures of Captain H. Cayley-Webster in the cannibal islands of the South Seas (with photos of Cayley-Webster); Jinkers and Jinkering - photo-illustrated article shows how buildings are moved by horses and oxen in Western New South Wales; My Klondike Mission - Lilian Agnes Oliver of Chicago set out for the Klondike to raise money to support her invalid husband - a photo-illustrated account; Through Pygmy-Land - Part I - photo-illustrated article by Albert B. Lloyd; The Heroes of Niagara - a series of graphic narratives, each illustrated by a photo of the hero and his apparatus; "Dago" - eminent actor Kyrle Bellew relates a remarkable mining incident - with photos; The Martyrs of Ku-Cheng - photo-illustrated article on the slaughter of Christian missionaries in the interior of China and the decapitating retribution; My First Leopard - by Walter H. Bone; Round the World in a Home-Made Boat - Joshua Slocum and the 'Spray'; Wolves in a Blizzard - Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard in North-West Canada; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part II - an account of a remarkable bicycle ride across the deserts of Kara-kum and Kizil-kum by Robert L. Jefferson, F.R.G.S.; Attacked by Leeches - W. Harcourt-Bath describes a horrible jungle; Incredible photos of dozens of prisoners on treadmill in the great prison of Rangoon; Photo of dead Armenian heroes in Samsoun; and more. Average wear. Complete and intact. Few pencil markings. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1918Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1946Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points Book
2025ref. 100133061Oxford Univ Pr 2025 634 pages in8. 2025. Cartonné. 634 pages.
1984ref. 100125676Museum Tusculanum Press 1984 71 pages in8. 1984. Broché. 71 pages.
19578vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates and maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly sunned dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS SON KIT, WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. SIGNED 'DAD', THE INSCRIPTION EXPLAINS THAT 'SEAMEN USED TO CALL THE N. ATLANTIC THE WESTERN OCEAN'. ALMOST CERTAINLY A UNIQUE COPY IN NEAR FINE STATE.
1890ref. 202841890. Photographers unknown. African American cowboy photographs late 19th century. These images document Black participation in ranching and frontier life in the decades following emancipation when a significant proportion of working cowboys in the American West were African American. The photographs record both labor and self-presentation through an outdoor riding scene and a formal studio portrait providing evidence of how Black men and youth engaged with western occupations mobility and dress during a period when new economic opportunities emerged alongside persistent racial constraints. The material supports research into African American labor history western expansion and the social formation of Black life in the post-Civil War United States. Two photographs comprising one albumen print and one tintype each approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches. The albumen image depicts a young African American boy mounted on a bucking horse holding a cowboy hat and riding crop dressed in a buttoned shirt trousers and lace-up boots; a tipi structure is visible in the background situating the scene within a western or plains environment. The tintype presents a studio portrait of a young African American man wearing a striped three-piece suit and a wide-brimmed hat associated with late nineteenth-century western fashion indicating the circulation of frontier dress within formal portrait settings. Together the images contrast lived outdoor activity with constructed studio identity documenting both labor and presentation. These photographs align with broader patterns of African American migration and employment in the American West after the American Civil War when formerly enslaved individuals sought work in ranching cattle driving and related trades. Historians have noted that a substantial number of cowboys in the late nineteenth century were Black though their presence has often been underrepresented in popular narratives of the West. Visual documentation of African American riders and western dress provides primary evidence for the study of labor identity and mobility in this period particularly in relation to how individuals navigated new economic roles following emancipation. Minor corrosion affecting a portion of one image primarily in a blank area; remaining details clear and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown
1890ref. 202841890. Photographers unknown. African American cowboy photographs late 19th century. These images document Black participation in ranching and frontier life in the decades following emancipation when a significant proportion of working cowboys in the American West were African American. The photographs record both labor and self-presentation through an outdoor riding scene and a formal studio portrait providing evidence of how Black men and youth engaged with western occupations mobility and dress during a period when new economic opportunities emerged alongside persistent racial constraints. The material supports research into African American labor history western expansion and the social formation of Black life in the post-Civil War United States. Two photographs comprising one albumen print and one tintype each approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches. The albumen image depicts a young African American boy mounted on a bucking horse holding a cowboy hat and riding crop dressed in a buttoned shirt trousers and lace-up boots; a tipi structure is visible in the background situating the scene within a western or plains environment. The tintype presents a studio portrait of a young African American man wearing a striped three-piece suit and a wide-brimmed hat associated with late nineteenth-century western fashion indicating the circulation of frontier dress within formal portrait settings. Together the images contrast lived outdoor activity with constructed studio identity documenting both labor and presentation. These photographs align with broader patterns of African American migration and employment in the American West after the American Civil War when formerly enslaved individuals sought work in ranching cattle driving and related trades. Historians have noted that a substantial number of cowboys in the late nineteenth century were Black though their presence has often been underrepresented in popular narratives of the West. Visual documentation of African American riders and western dress provides primary evidence for the study of labor identity and mobility in this period particularly in relation to how individuals navigated new economic roles following emancipation. Minor corrosion affecting a portion of one image primarily in a blank area; remaining details clear and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1915ref. 48534Aurora: Privately printed ca. 1915. ca 1915. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" in light gray printed wrappers with raised title in green. 16pp. 273-286. Illustrations. Foreword. Uncommon catalog of equipment which played a crucial role in road building driven by the Good Roads Movement during the opening decades of the 20th century. Western Wheeled Scraper Co. had in 1904 perfected dump cars with 12 cubic yard capacity operated by air and these became the backbone of earth moving operations both in railroad line building and road building across the country. This catalog advertises their industrial railways aggregate loaders material bins dump cars mixers feeding the batch boxes the Western batch box direct-charging system etc. Offers information on placing Western Industrial track along with diagram plans for doing so. Also laid in Bulletin 19-B Western Dump Wagon which touts their Western Dump Wagons with steel-reinforced and extra wide wheels. In 1901 the Western Wheeled Scraper Co. and the F.C. Austin Manufacturing had formed a selling corporation known as Austin-Western Road Machinery Co. The company specialized initially in building scrapers. In 1916 President Wilson signed the Federal Aid Road Act enabling America to embark on a truly national highway and road construction campaign that continued to the end of the 1920s. Light soiling to pages and wrappers along with shelf label at upper left fore-edge stamp for Contractors Machinery & Storage Co. and with rubbing to spine and light wear to the extremities. Still very good. Privately printed, [ca. 1915]. unknown
