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1938Half-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: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
2012ref. Q-1423143612Disney Press 2012-05-15. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Disney Press hardcover
ref. A9780300078046Hardback. New. This text examines ideas about the nature of constitutional government the legitimacy of judicial lawmaking and the proper role of the federal courts. It focuses on the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion on the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins. hardcover
ref. B9780300078046Hardback. New. This text examines ideas about the nature of constitutional government the legitimacy of judicial lawmaking and the proper role of the federal courts. It focuses on the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion on the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins. hardcover
ref. 62368285Yale University Press . Hardback. New. pp. 432 Yale University Press hardcover
ref. ANAIS-0300078048Yale University Press. hardcover. Good. 6.2x1x9.3. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Yale University Press hardcover
2000ref. Q-0300078048Yale University Press 2000-02-09. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Yale University Press hardcover
2000ref. 031845New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing. From the personal library of Supreme Court Justice David Souter. His extensive notes regarding the book written on n invitation card and on a separate slip of paper are laid in. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yale University Press Hardcover
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ref. 0300078048.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1844ref. 13118111076Novello London 1844. Novello's Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with worn marbled boards. Gilt lettering and bands on spine. Corners and edges of boards are well worn and scuffed. Spine is worn with some loss at spine ends. Binding is intact with just the occasional page slightly loose. Binding contemporary to publication. "BASS CANTORIS" has been hand written on the front cover in black ink. Plate printed music is clean and legible with very occasional hand written annotation paper is slightly darkened and foxed. Previous owners bookplate F. A. Gardner on the inside front cover has been crossed out in ink with gift note inscription on facing end-paper "Presented to St. Michael's College Tenbury by Aurthur H D Prendergast Hon: Fellow November 1901". Dedication page to Queen Victoria at front has stamped name " Harward Turner". Index at rear. 166 2. One volume of the 5-volume set. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Dated by reference to British Library catalogue. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13118111076. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Novello hardcover
1844ref. 13118111077Novello London 1844. Novello's Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with worn marbled boards. Gilt lettering and bands on spine. Corners and edges of boards are well worn and scuffed. Spine is worn and has some loss spine cover has lifted from the lower half of the spine. Binding is sound however the front end-paper is missing and the dedication page is detached. Binding contemporary to publication. "TENOR DECANI" has been hand written on the front cover in black ink. Plate printed music is clean and legible with very occasional hand written annotation paper is slightly darkened and foxed. Previous owners bookplate F. A. Gardner on the inside front cover has been crossed out in ink. Dedication page to Queen Victoria at front has stamped name " Harward Turner". Index at rear. 164 2. One volume of the 5-volume set. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Dated by reference to British Library catalogue. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13118111077. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Novello hardcover
1988ref. 55999New York: Rizzoli 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. 223pp. Original turquoise cloth with debossed lettering on cover gilt on spine; in original color-illustrated dustjacket white lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with predominantly color photographs of exquisite jewelry some b/w throughout. "Over the last 130 years Boucheron's reputation has been synonymous throughout the world with French jewelery of the highest quality. This fascinating history centering on a dynasty of enthusiastic artist-jewelers begins in Paris with the splendors of the court of Napoleon III. progresses throughout the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods and the post-war years to culminate in Boucheron's work of the present day." Publisher. Minor wear along edges of binding. Rizzoli hardcover books
1988ref. 55999New York: Rizzoli 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. 223pp. Original turquoise cloth with debossed lettering on cover gilt on spine; in original color-illustrated dustjacket white lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with predominantly color photographs of exquisite jewelry some b/w throughout. "Over the last 130 years Boucheron's reputation has been synonymous throughout the world with French jewelery of the highest quality. This fascinating history centering on a dynasty of enthusiastic artist-jewelers begins in Paris with the splendors of the court of Napoleon III. progresses throughout the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods and the post-war years to culminate in Boucheron's work of the present day." Publisher. Minor wear along edges of binding. Rizzoli hardcover
ref. mon0000250071Boosey and Hawkes 17/02/2017 00:00:00. sheet_music. Acceptable. in x in x in. Boosey and Hawkes unknown
ref. 1593720238.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2006ref. Q-1593720238Quantuck Lane 2006-10-30. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Quantuck Lane hardcover
2006ref. DADAX15937202382006-10-30. First Edition. hardcover. New. 7.25x0.75x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. hardcover
2006ref. 1-1593720238Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd 2006. Hardcover. New. 160 pages. 8.50x7.25x0.75 inches. Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd hardcover
ref. 12823London. 1901. The bookplate is 3.5 x 2.5 cm and shows a troubadour with a lute with the initials 'M S' at the foot. It is affixed to a piece of 14 x 9 cm card. Bookplate in good condition on aged card with one creased corner. The card carries the message in pencil by Shaw: 'Mrs. & Mr. Dryhurst. A Merry Xmas 1901 from bookplate Will you give us as a Xmas present a new member' On the reverse is a note in ink by Maire Gaster: '1901 Gordon Craig's bookplate for MS = Martin Shaw It was used for Gordon Craig's recruiting drive for the Purcell Operatic Society founded by himself Martin Shaw & Mrs N. F. Dryhurst mother of Sylvia Lynd in 1898 to put on his performance of Dido & Aeneas at the Hampstead Conservatoire now the School of Speech & Drama. It was the Embassy Theatre in the 1930s & put on the Moscow Art Theatre's Cherry Orchard in Russian & other special things. Craig & M. Shaw lived at 8 Devonshire Hill & N. F. D. at No. 11.' From the Lynd family papers. See Image. [London.] 1901. unknown
2019ref. 2-1526602539Raven Books 2019. Hardcover. New. 448 pages. 8.58x5.43x1.50 inches. Raven Books hardcover
ref. 0260421162.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0265088151.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 19100394-6Negro Universities Press. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Negro Universities Press unknown
