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1954Pages 41-82 Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: European Masters from Canadian Collections; East is West - thoughts on the meaning and unity of contemporary art; Abstracts at Home; Concours Artistique de la province de Quebec; A Heritage in Decay - the totem art of the Haidas; The Flight from Meaning in Painting; Community Arts for Vancouver; Recent Acquisitions; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195555 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations on both sides of back cover. A supplement to thirteen telecourse lectures on topics including: Who are the Northwest Indians?; Living in an Indian Village; Not by Fish Alone; The Greateste Woodcarvers of America; The Women Spin and Weave; Living Together; The One-Sided Family; Warring with Wealth; Seeing the Supernatural; Spirits - True and False; Totem Poles and Their Legends; and more. Author was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Book
196216 pages. Features: Funding for the Kinsmen Club's new health unit; Doukhobor women denounce Stefan Sorokin and the Fraternal Council in preference to John Lebedoff; E.C. (Terry) Whitelock - His paintings of Napoleonic era uniforms win world respect - nice photo with article; Renovating the Nelson Canadian Legion; Palm Dairy gets rid of milk bottles in favour of Pure-Pak cartons; Kootenay Cadets - with photos of Mike Molloy, Harry James, Vic Young, and others; Continuing sabotage by Doukhobor radicals; Should Nelson sell the North Shore Power Line?; Dozens of wonderful local vintage ads, our favourite being the Gala Opening of Totem Burger. Average wear. Yellowed with age. Moisture markings. Bit of writing on front cover. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Newspaper
réf. 1040- cartonné - Somogy Art Publishers - 2011 - In-4 (29 x 25,5 cm) cartonné, sous jaquette de l'éditeur - 191 pages - Très nombreuses photographies en couleurs, in et hors texte - ISBN : 9782757204634 - Ouvrage bilingue français et anglais
1913257 pages. Black and white photographic plates, including tissue-protected frontis. Gilt lettering legible upon red spine and front board. Title page loose but present. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Back hinge repaired with tape. Two inch chip missing from back free endpaper. Front hinge going. Binding opening at dedication page. Above-average but not excessive wear. Nice reading copy. Book
197126 pages. Features: The Town that Hit the Jackpot - Nickie Rubuliak and the residents of Smoky Lake, Alberta who defeated Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest; The Mob - Part 5 - A foothold in Ontario; Dignity in Decay - Totem Poles along the British Columbia coast; Four-page feature on mothers having *two* sons playing hockey in the NHL; Glenn Martin of the Pine River Cheese and Butter Company near Goderich, Ontario; Funny Doug Wright's Family comic strip. Average wear. Unmarked. Short closed tear to back coveer. A quality copy. Book
1936Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
1956Features: The Terrible Swede - a writer returns from a year in the South Seas; Search in Saigon - a mystery by Lawrence Morgan; Queen of the Windjammers - The Lawhill; Terror Strikes Karunga; Trapped in the Ice - Eskimo Transportation; Sentence of Death - the adventures of French Foreign Legionnaire John Seymore Townsend; Birdin' on the Furneaux; 10' a week for paradise Skokholm - I Know an Island, Part II; Beloved Elephant; War Breaks out on Friday - the Moro Naba of French Sudan; World's Tallest Totem Pole - Victoria, British Columbia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
195250 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Kwakiutl Totem Pole Carver Mungo Martin; The Cheerful Eskimo - photo-portraits by Richard Harrington; Ballet of the Brushlands - courtship dance of the sharptail grouse; Bankers from Portugal - Photo-illustrated article on Portuguese activity on the banks off Newfoundland; Changing the Arctic Maps - II - Dr. J. Lewis Robinson discusses the mainland the the islands south of of 75 degrees North Latitude; Mackenzie River Sketch Book; Border Chieftain - Dr. John McLoughlin, of Oregon fame, spent almost 20 years fur trading along the present Minnesota-Ontario border; The Wolf and the Caribou; Land of the Ojibway; Nice photo inside back cover shows Fort Garry Coffee being cooked on a rock; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1700réf. 1148031700 Rouen, chez Jean B. Besongne, ruë Ecuïere, au Soleil Roïal, avec Privilège du Roy - M.DCC. (1700) - In-12 (17 x 9,8 x 4,4 cm), plein veau marbré de l'époque; dos à 5 nerfs avec caissons dorés richement décorés et pièce de titre - 614 pp. - Sans illustrations
195948 pages. Features: Brief piece on North Vancouver sprinter Harry Jerome; Non-Profits should pay taxes; Bruce Bairnsfather and his friend, Old Bill; Studebaker Lark car ad; The Scandal of our lost art treasures - while our museums were buying Chinese and Greek antiquities foreign collectors practically swept this country bare of irreplaceable native relics and pioneer art - article with colour photos of impressive U.S. collections of northwest coast native art; John Diefenbaker shows his souvenirs of John A. MacDonald; The Day Canada Was Born - interesting photo-illustrated article about July 1, 1867; The Unknown Years of Stephen Leacock - photo-illustrated article; The Languid and Lovely St. John River; Canada House in London - Everybody's Home Away From Home; How I Came to Burn Sir John A. - Bruce Hutchison convesses to a youthful sin; CNR passenger train ad; Canadian Army recruiting ad features their work in the Gaza Strip; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows kids under sprinkler; and more. Scratching/tearing to upper corner of front cover and first few pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1951239 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Wonderful black and white photography throughout, plus a generous assortment of vintage local ads at back. Prior owner's neatly written details inside front board, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to handsomely decorated faux navy blue leather exterior. Binding intact. A quality copy of this lovely UBC memento. Book
1933104 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Amazing cover illustration of a huge amphibious truck; Doctors face death trailing living poisons of mystery diseases; Radio pen writes in letters of fire on far-away screen - with photo of its inventor Allen B. DuMont; One-page photo-illustrated article on the preservation of vanishing totem poles in the Pacific Northwest; Photo of C.R. Klein of Santa Monica, California and his 268 HP motor; Girl fights octopus for underwater movie taken by inventor Leon F. Douglass; America's oldest road roaller found; Crackup of mighty glacier caught for first time by sound camera; Three American chinchilla farms produce most costly furs - with illustration of M.F. Chapman; Flies down radio beam through a mile of fog; How to check up on time and the seasons; Accidents still produce great inventions; Huge truck for land or water carries shipload of cargo. Ads: Fantastic one-page orange and black ad for The A.C. Gilbert Company, maker of Erector toys for boys, featuring the New Erector Sensational No. 7 Set; Nice Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features their 16-Tube All-Wave Radio, with inset photo of Wilbur Long, Jr. of Newberry, South Carolina; Outstanding back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features world billiard champion Erich Hagenlocher performing before attentive crowd. Modest wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1953223 pages. Index. Printed upon glossy stock. Loaded with great black and white photos. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Graduation program laid-in. A sound vintage copy. Book
196188 pages. Features: One-page photo-ad for the International Travelall; 1962 Zenith TV ad; The Anxious Years of an Undergraduate - asking students and staff at the University of Toronto; The Harmony and Discord of the campus marriage of John and Charlotte Swan; To Oblivion and Back with a New Record - Ontario housewife Bette Singer swam down 307 feet to set a record - article with colour photos; Neutrals - what are they against? What makes a Prodigy? - Blair Milton astonishes professors at McGill U.; Allergies - the fast-growing threat to public health; A Lifetime in Hiding from the light of day - Morris Gerlovin is acutely allergic to the sun; How to tell the English from the French in Canada; The Turkish Incident that Changed Canada's Destiny - the Chanak Incident of 1922; Four Ways to Make a Million - Rex Heslop, William Wilder, Peter Colwell Bawden and Geoffrey Stirling; Nice colour full-page ad for Labatt's 50 ale; Nice colour-photo centrefold for the 1962 Buick Electra 2-Door Sport Coupe (pale green); 2/3 page cartoon by Roy Peterson shows busy native totem pole carver being confronted by forest conservation officer; Epitaph for Dag Hammarskjold; The case for adding more NHL hockey teams; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features young square dancing couple. Please note: missing page 9-10, and 69-72, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
1976119 pages. Features: Studying British Columbia - A Recent Burgeoning; The Indians of the Northwest Coast; Discovering Totem Poles; Cook at Nootka - The Engraved Record; Preserving a Precious Heritage - The Totem Pole; An Interview with Bill Reid; Fort St. James; The Royal Engineers in British Columbia; The Restoration of Historic Barkerville; The Architecture of Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury; The Restoration of British Columbia's Parliament Buildings; British Columbia Painters; A Chinese Herbalist in British Columbia; Artifacts of British Columbia Technology; Domestic Interiors; Two B.C. Samplers - Susan Irving and Mary Irving; Early Banks, Coins and Stamps of British Columbia; Restoring Victoria; Conserving Vancouver; Heraldic Stained Glass in Vancouver; Mission Churches; Maritime Legacy; The Crystal Glass Company - British Columbia's First Glass Factory; Chinese Decorative Art in British Columbia; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
1954120 pages. Features: Our Frosty Welcome to Richard Nowalinski; International Harvester Fridge ad; Nice corn flakes ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell shows girl in pink top and hair bow; A New Senate - and why we need it; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Willards chocolate bars - Swee-Marie, Cherry Ripe, Coconut, Swell and Cheerio!; The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain - part 3; I Married the Klondike, by Laura Beatrice Berton - part 1 of 3 - article and photos; How to Get Along with Older People; The Home Movies People Pay to See - The Crawley Family and Canada's biggest commercial film business; What You Should Know About the "Miracle" Fabrics; The Strange Case of the Mail-Order Prophet, short story by Antony Ferry; I Hate Dogs, by Robert Thomas Allen; Ben Kravitz' Conquest of the New World - a former Lithuanian with a passion for work and the recipe for Ben's Smoked Meats - article with photos; The Romantic story of how John McIntosh, his family and a wondering stranger saved and spread the McIntosh Apple Tree - with photo; Nature's indispensable Fall Guy - rabbits are the animal kingdom's Caspar Milquetoast; Her Garden in the Sea - Connie MacFarlane studies Nova Scotia's coast - she lives for seaweed; Gilbert Harding - The Rudest Man in England; 1954 Ford V-8 Crestline ad; Nice DeSoto car ad; centerfold ad loose but present; Nice two-colour GMC truck ad; The Sakau'wan totem pole; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows man in denim overalls talking with friend; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Book
1949240 pages. Valedictory address by Val Sears laid in (Mr. Sears, of course, went on to become a well-known Canadian journalist). May 1949 Graduation Program also laid in. Clean and unmarked with mild wear. Binding tight and square. Quality copy. Book
1961336 pages. Clean and unmarked with surprisingly light wear. Binding tight. Very nice copy. Book
1950224 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Prior owner's name and details upon front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1952269 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Prior owner's name written neatly inside front board, otherewise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1986240 pages. Bibliography. Index of names. Index of geographical references. Handsome reproductions of historic maps and illustrations. Printed upon glossy stock. Chapters include: Galleons, Pirates, Pearls and Fantastic Straits - California, XVIIth Century; Russian, French, British and American Incursions into "The Spanish Lake"; The Spanish Presence on the Northwest Coast - Sea-going Expeditions (1774-1793); Spanish Cartographic Surveys of the Northwest Coast in the XVIIIth Century - The Corps of Naval Steersmen; The Culture of the Indians of the Northwest Coast; Faces in the Forest - Mozino's Noticias de Nutka; A Personal View of the Northwest Coast - The journal of Tomas de Suria (1791); Nootka - the Crisis of 1789. Fore-edge of front free endpaper rumpled, othwerwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this handsome and very informative work. Book
1946323 pages. This issue features a full-page photo dedication to former UBC student Lieut. R. Hampton Gray, D.S.C., who was awarded the Victoria Cross for sacrificing his life to sink a Japanese destroyer on August 9, 1945. Prior owner's details neatly written inside front board otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1910réf. 56452n.p.: n.p. ca. 1910. One hand-coloured silver gelatin photograph sized 7.75 x 13.75 in. with colouring primarily reserved for the Totem Poles within the image in contemporary Arts & Crafts gilded frame decorations at corners old soot soiling mark to upper fore-edge of image some rippling still a VG- image. [n.p.], unknown
1945292 pages. Includes an extensive eight-page list of names - and some photos - of UBC students who left the University since the start of WWII to go on active military service. Many never returned. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
