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1926réf. 14325Augusta GA: Commercial Printing Co 1926. 8vo. 32pp illus. Wraps. Very good. Promotional pamphlet. Commercial Printing Co unknown books
1926réf. 14325Augusta GA: Commercial Printing Co 1926. 8vo. 32pp illus. Wraps. Very good. Promotional pamphlet. Commercial Printing Co unknown
1989250 pages. Alan Fry's signature upon title page. In this irreverent look at backwoods life and politics Wilf Taylor recounts his dealings with zesty bears, inept supervisors, and overzealous hunters. Reveals the human side of a rugged and unforgiving land. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket protected by clear glossy protective cover. Excellent copy. Book
1989250 pages. Author recounts his dealings with testy bears, inept supervisors, and overzealous hunters. Reveals the spirit of the true backwoods survivors, those who make do with very little and, when necessary, bend the rules to make things work. Told with humour and compassion. Clean and unmarked. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
1938réf. 64648London UK: Travel Book Club 1938. Thick 8vo. 8 288 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates all w/ printed tissue guards. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over cream-coloured boards dark blue lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art NF/NF copy w/ former ownership markings dated 1938 on ffep. First Travel Book Club edition of this relatively uncommon and well-written travelogue describing the adventures by the author and his wife Nora as they began their around-the-world journeys by a transcontinental drive of 15000 miles across the U.S. and Mexico as both countries slowly emerged from the depths of the Great Depression. There travels in the South run up against virulent support for the Confederacy and racist Jim Crow laws visit Native American reservations and “Indian Schools” for re-education in the Southwest and then an extended trip up and down the West coast and into California in their used touring car named “Belinda.” Very scarce in original dustjacket. Scott 1911-1974 was the son of Alexander Scott 1874-1928 who worked as private secretary to Winston Churchill and was his first biographer later dying with his wife off Victoria British Columbia in an airplane accident. Scott himself later was active in the Liberal Party and contested the 1945 General Election at Leeds North. Travel Book Club, hardcover
1969réf. 166j2176Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies. Good. 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Features: The Lowe Brothers 1852-70 - A Study in Business Relations on the North Pacific Coast; Vancouver Civic Party Leadership - Backgrounds Attitudes and Non-Civic Party Affiliations; The Teachers of British Columbia and Superannuation; The Last Flight of Norseman CF-AZE; and more. 74 glossy pages. Name atop front cover. Blind stamp to title page. Binding intact. Moderate wear. A sound example.; 8vo . BC Studies paperback
1968réf. 166j2175Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies. Good. 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Features: The Banning of a Book in British Columbia; The Skagit River Atlatl - A Reappraisal; The First Military Intelligence Report of the Interior of British Columbia; Some Aspects of Chinese Communities in British Columbia Towns; Patterns of Trade and Investment on the Pacific Coast 1867-1892 - The Case of the British Columbia Salmon Canning Industry; Architecture for Social Change; Bibliography of B.C.; and more. 62 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Name atop front cover. Blindstamp to title page. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound example. ; 8vo . BC Studies paperback
1983réf. 318c7090Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies 1983. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 147 pages. Features: Native Claims and Self-Determination; An Historic Eventin the Political Economy of the Tsimshian - information on the ownership of the Zimacord District; The Conversion of the Port Simpson Tsimshian - Indian control or Missionary Manipulation; British Columbia Indian Languages - A crisis of silence; Taking the Minister to Court - Changes in public opinion about Forest Management and their expression in Haida Land Claims; Fish Politics and Treaty Rights - who protects salmon resources in Washington State; "Authenticity" and the contemporary Northwest Indian Art Market; Native Indian Political Activity in British Columbia 1969-1983; Too Weak to win Too Strong to Lose - Indians and Indian policy in Canada. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. BC Studies Paperback
1993réf. 318c7089Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 270 pages. Features: The roles of the provincial government in British Columbia archaeology; The Pender Canal Excavations and the development of Coast Salish Culture; Recent Archaeological Research on the Northern Coast; Zooarchaeology in British Columbia; The Keatley Creek Site and Corporate Group Archaeology; Early Prehistoric Occupation of South-Central British Columbia - a review of the evidence and recommendations for future research; CMT Archaeology in British Columbia - The Meares Island Studies; Bibliography of British Columbia Archaeology; Canadian Historical Association Certificates of Merit for Regional History. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. BC Studies Paperback
1979réf. 325a2424Canada: UBC 1979. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 114 pages. Articles include: City-Building in the Canadian West - A Case Study of Economic Growth in Early Vancouver 1886-1893; The Decline of Geese and Swans on the Lower Fraser River; 'Self-Respect and Hopefulness" - THe Webbs in the Canadian West; Changes of Mind - Dunne-za Resistance to Empire; The Seaforths and the Strikers - Nanaimo August 1913; Mormonism on Vancouver Island - a comment. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. UBC Paperback
1983réf. 166j2177Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Early British Columbia Textbooks from 1872 to 1925; Japan's Reaction to the Vancouver Riot of 1907; Interest Group Power and Government Regulation - The Cases of the Mining and Insurance Industries during the period of the NDP 1972-75; and more. Card pocket remnant inside front cover otherwise clean tight and unmarked with light wear. A quality example.; 8vo . BC Studies paperback
1978réf. 166j2179Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies. Good. 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Features: British Columbia's Anti-Nazi Germans - The Tupper Creek Refugees; Chinese Imprints in British Columbia; Agricultural Schooling in the Twenties; and more. 90 pages. Moderate wear. Blind stamp to contents page. A sound example. ; 8vo . BC Studies paperback
1983réf. 166j2178Vancouver B.C.: BC Studies. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Features: The Rise of Non-Manual Work in B.C.; A Chinese Statesman in Canada 1903 - Translated from the Travel Journal of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao; John Hendry and the Vancouver Westminster and Yukon Railway - "It Would Put Us on Easy Street"; and more. Blind stamp to contents page card pocket remnant inside front cover and label removed from contents page otherwise clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality example.; 8vo . BC Studies paperback
1991réf. 761H2524Canada: Pilot Press 1991. Book. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 40 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: The Village of Fort St. James; Ginger Part 2 - Ginger Coote buys a Fairchild 51 and a Fox Moth starts a pioneer BC airline and hires Russ Baker; Port McNeill; Grumman Mallard; Tech-Log - Oil and Airplanes; Robinson 22's R22s; a restored Avro Anson. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761c8317Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 40 pages. Features: BNP Airways Limited - The Gentleman's Airline; Pioneer Profile - Harry McKeown; Hurry-Up and Wait - Minstrel Air and Edward Emery Carder; The Totem Flying Boat; Regatta 1914 in Kelowna; Northern Airborne Technology; Kelowna Flightcraft; AOG Air Support; Telco One to Kelowna/Return; The Fairchild F11 Husky. Light wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1992réf. 761a4584Canada: Pilot Press 1992. Magazine. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Nanaimo; The Airwest Story - Harbour to Harbour; Powell River Airways Ltd.; Awood Air readies PBY Canso Flying Boats for Spain; BOE/CAN - Boeing Aircraft of Canada - factory built in 40's at Vancouver Airport; Production Test Pilot for the PBY5A flying boat Catalina; YCD - Nanaimo Airport; Baxter Aviation - Tom and Linda Baxter; Journey Log of Dave Nilson. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761a9234Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: West Coast Goose - G21 - The Endangered Species; MPG Retires from the RCMP; Hurry Up and Wait - Part 2 of Tall Tales and True from the log book of a coastal charter pilot; Rotax gets better; The New Age - The Bristol Brabazon DeHavilland's Comet the Saunders SR45 Princess. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1993réf. 761a9232Canada: Pilot Press 1993. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Dick Laidman - from Bush to Boardroom; E & B flies the R44; Liberator VY241 - Chris Weicht recalls a tragedy in the lonely peaks of the BC Coast Range; Painting Klee Wyck - mural on Helijet's S-76 by Tony Coon; B-36B Bomber #2075 is ditched in B.C. in 1950 - The very first accident with nuclear weapons as listed in the DOD summaries of accidents involving US nuclear weapons 1950-1980 - little known B.C. history; First Flight at 81!. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761a9238Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Mr. Boeing and his 'Mechanician'; Kenmore Air; Kal-Air Repair; Viking Air; Air Link Charters; Hawkair Aviation; Black and white centerfold features the first mail flight from Vancouver to Seattle by W.E. Boeing in 1919; Fretting Corrosion; True Tales from the Log Book of a Coast Seaplane Pilot; Museum Piece - Preserving B.C.'s Helicopter History; The CAM 100 Honda Engine; Helping out with California Wild Fires. Nice copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1993réf. 761a9228Canada: Pilot Press 1993. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Teardrops for the Trigull; Roundels Stars and Bars; From Harvey Bergen's Journey Log; An episode of Merlins - the Rolls Royce RM 14-SM Merlin; Brisbane 1937-1952 - BC Aviation's Early Trade School; Auriga - a BC Kitplane; The Baron STOL Modification for the DHC-2 Beaver; Homebuilts in Canada. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1992réf. 761a9225Canada: Pilot Press 1992. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: From Lansdowne to Islamabad - an interview with Maurice McGregor; Sumas Scramble - Radio Controlled Flying Clubs are Popular with all ages; Journey Log of Cecil Pickell; Feature on North Island; BC Air Lines - Port Hardy Base 1960's; Alert Bay; Doctor Jack Pickup; The Story of a Rotorway 'Exec'. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761a9235Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Rice Rockets out West - the Mitsubishi MU-2; Stress Corrossion; IFR in the Beginning i.e. I Follow Roads!; They Keep Going and Going and.- Bristol Freighters; Hurry Up and Wait - Part 3 - Tall Tales and true from the log book of a coastal charter pilot. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761a9233Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Junkers W34 was Best of Breed; A Yarn from Refuge Cove - "Hoagie" and the Cougar; Hurry up and Wait - Tall Tales and true from the log book of a coastal charter pilot - Part one Greenhorns; Making it Through the 90s; A Mile in Rain and Fog; Those Zippy Zeniths. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1993réf. 761a9231Canada: Pilot Press 1993. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: Stranraers Strannies on the West Coast; Axel Duch's Air Bridge to Biafra; V.I.A.'s Seawind Flies; Unusual landing at Shearwater; Canada's Best Helicopter Long Line Pilot. Sound copy. Pilot Press Paperback
1994réf. 761a9237Canada: Pilot Press 1994. Magazine. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: 'Twas Ever So Good - The Famous 418 "City of Edmonton" Intruder Squadron of the RCAF; Stinson Reliant goes to Russia; Intergranular Corrosion - Part 3 of 6; In the Twyford Zone - Aircraft Washrooms; Hurry Up and Wait - tales from Jack Schofield. Nice copy. Pilot Press Paperback
