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194566 pages. Loaded with black and white photos plus supporting text. Heavy external wear. Has been folded in half. A worthy reading copy. Book
1980156 pages. Catalogue for an exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Century Park, September 10 to October 18, 1980, Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria, November 3, 1980 to January 9, 1981. "It was decided that for this second historical B.C. exhibition we would show works made between 1793, when Alexander Mackenzie made the first overland crossing of America north of Mexico, and 1886, when the first passenger train from Montreal arrived in Vancouver." - from Preface. Printed upon glossy stock. Generously illustrated, primarily in black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1983215 pages including glossary, recommended reading and index. This uncommon book shows how a walk in the woods can become a genetics field trip. It identifies the different types of genetic variations found among wildflowers and other plants in the Pacific Northwest and tells you how to make simple crosses to determine the cause of that variation. Provides an intriguing new way to look at nature. Authors are Professors of Botany at the University of British Columbia. Attractive glossy colour-illustrated covers. Abundantly illustrated with line drawings, black and white photos and colour photographic plates. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
1984234 pages. For many millenia before their first known contact with the white man in 1905, the Nez Perce or Sahaptin peoples roamed over an extensive region of the inland Pacific Northwest. Their approximate territory included a vast portion of Northern Idaho, and portions of Eastern Oregon and Washington. Represents an overview of some of the essential dimensions of their tribal culture and history. Black and white illustrations. Extensively referenced. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Bright gilt lettering and decoration upon dark maroon boards and spine. Very nice copy. Book
1970viii, 296 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Combines the hitherto scattered story of a colorful, ancient community in one volume. Emphasizes the local native people's and the early history of the area. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Hairline crack along front hinge. Front endpaper neatly removed. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this informative local history. Edwards & Lort 2024, Hale & Barman 503, Cuddy & Scott p.51. Book
1936114 pages. Topics: The Indivisibility of Peace and the Inseparability of East and West; the Yosemite Conference and Japan; Some Implications of Anglo-Japanese Competition; The Powers and the Unity of China; Smuggler, Soldier, and Diplomat - smuggling in North China 1935-36; A critical Survey of Chinese Policy in Inner Mongolia; The Population Problems of Australia; Land and Sea in the Destiny of Japan; the Fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
200258 pages. Lovely colour and black and white illustrations. A Collective Study on British Columbian Salmon Can Labels, 1890-1950. Library markings to contents. Exterior clean and unmarked with light wear. A sound copy. Book
1982172 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "The first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Davidson, daughter of a noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable about the culture of a bygone era, she is a fragile link with the past. One of the last Haida women to undergo the traditional puberty seclusion and an arranged marriage, she followed patterns in her life typical of women of her generation." - dust jacket. Name atop half-title, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this wonderful biography. Book
1937312 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "... To all young people of the Pacific Northwest, with the hope that they will ever keep brightly burning upon the altar of their hearts, the memory of their pioneer forefathers." - from Dedication Page. "A concise and accurate account of the settlement and development of the region adjacent to the entrance to Puget Sound." - from Preface. Contents clean and unmarked. Map endpapers. Moderate wear to decorated red cloth covered boards. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
197196 pages. Bibliography. Signed by author upon title page. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Binding intact. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
1989Features: Telegraph Cove - The Settlement that Time Forgot; Bonanza; The Treasure of the SS Pacific; The Kaslo & Slocan Railway. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
1985Features: Puerto Rico's Natural Treasure; Rowing across the Pacific; The Cordage Revolution; Whale Rescue Expedition to Newfoundland; Adrian "Ace" Williams, 1899-1984; The Lost City of Nueva Cadiz; Western Samaria - Method and Discovery. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1982Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
200260 pages. Features: A Treasury of Art and Artifact Revealed in J.G. Millais' Two Volumes - Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids; Rhododendron Hardiness along the Northern Edge - The Ontario-Quebec Situation; Treasures of the Pacific Northwest - ARS 2003 Convention; Companion Plants - Trees for Fall Color; Rhododendron occidentale - An Example of variation within a Rhododendron species; Proven Performers - District 9; Windsor Great Park; Mapping Cold Hardiness Genes in Rhododendrons - An Assessment of Strategy; Trekking in Indonesia; Tips for Beginners - Fall and Winter Interest; Rhododendrons of the Year Awards, 2002; Rhododendron serotinum... Maybe Solving a Mystery - A New Species from the Wild?; Exhibit in the Philadelphia Flower Show; Society News. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1983Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1980Features: Back there in the time of the French - a tale of lost treasure, hope, love, international doublecross, and finally death - Emperor Maxmillian; Indian Raid on the Union Pacific - the work crew was grading a longer road than they knew; Freighting in to Deadwood, Black Hills; I Knew Quanah Parker; Curly Bill Brocius - Arizona Outlaw; Nellie Cashman - 'Angel of the Mining Camps'; Ball of Fire - Nebraska homesteaders had an unwritten law that no man dared break - prairie fires; A Mountain Man 'Writes a Book' - Jim Beckworth; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) - Conclusion; and more. Average wear. Few markings on pages 54-55. Sound copy. Magazine
1981188 pages. Features: The fuel economy of light vehicles; split genes; the sources of celestial x-ray bursts; the crest of the east pacific rise; countercurrent systems in animals; highly excited atoms; the sunflower crop; Chinese building standards in the 12th century; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1917Feature Photos: An American Submarine Chaser; Hustling the Hun on the Hindenburg Line; Why Peaceful America Declared for War (one page article); America joins the champions of freedom; Horse, Foot and Artillery of the U.S. Army; The War Against Piracy; Typical Western Fighting Ships; Devastation - one page article by Max Pemberton; British Soldiers making friends in villages they free from Prussian Terror; Ousting the Turk from the Holy Land - article; With Red Crescent through Arabia and Syria; The Middlesex Regiment - article. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
1917Features: Why did Von Kluck Swerve? - article by Lovat Fraser; Canadians care for their equine wounded; Heroic moments in the shell-stricken West; Vignettes from the Allies' advancing lines; Forward withe the French Troops in Flanders; Masks and faces between Aisne and Oise; Keeping their Pecker up - Queer yarns the Germans believe; Photos in sunny by-paths of war's clouded highway; Western Science in an Eastern Environment - British construction in Palestine; Bridging the Yser and well away beyond Ypres; A Pit in a Beetroot field - some grim experiences of a stretcher-bearer (article by Hamilton Fyfe); Turkish activity in Syria's ancient capital; Dames of the New Order of the British Empire; Alsace celebrates the day of her deliverance; Nets to enmesh the werewolves of the sea (6 photos); Germany preparing for the War after the War; Who's who in the Great War; Peaceful contrasts with the waste of war; The Northhamptons - one-page regimental article with photo. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
1977Features: Lima's Last Narrow-Gauge Shay Lives!; Colour photo of T-1 4-8-4 No. 2101 dressed up in Chessie Colours; Many photos; Virginia's natural tunnel - carved by Stone Creek; Trains for Tomorrow - 1 - railroading is not philantropy or a Lionel set or mere exercise; Bob Hale's Favorite Railroad Photos - in colour and black and white; Life for a junior foreman in a secondary engine terminal in the last days of steam on the Canadian Pacific; photo of the train that hit Washington in 1953; Instant news coverage of a wreck on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad (W&LE) in 1904; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1977Features: Lima's Last Narrow-Gauge Shay Lives!; Colour photo of T-1 4-8-4 No. 2101 dressed up in Chessie Colours; Many photos; Virginia's natural tunnel - carved by Stone Creek; Trains for Tomorrow - 1 - railroading is not philantropy or a Lionel set or mere exercise; Bob Hale's Favorite Railroad Photos - in colour and black and white; Life for a junior foreman in a secondary engine terminal in the last days of steam on the Canadian Pacific; photo of the train that hit Washington in 1953; Instant news coverage of a wreck on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad (W&LE) in 1904; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1941xiv, 273 pages. Index. Map endpapers. "Sets forth clearly and concisely the policies influencing the relations of the United States and Japan, and the armed forces at their command." - ix. Average wear. Minimal light pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
198126 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Printed upon glossy stock. Map. Generously illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos of locomotives. "Brings together a selection of photographs and reminiscences of my days as a rail photographer and railroader, during the sunset period of the great steam era." - Introduction. Also includes four photos of diesel locomotives which took over from the steam-powered units. Includes lots of informative supporting text. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
198326 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Printed upon glossy stock. Map. Generously illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos of locomotives on almost every page, accompanied by very informative text. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
1970176 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Provides tales of harrowing experiences of shipwrecked mariners on the West Coast Lifesaving Trail: of the bravery of rescuers and rescued alike."Scott writes from personal experiences as well as diligent research. We can think of no man better qualified to write this book." - Alec Merriman, Daily Colonist. Gift greetings upon title page else unmarked. Small chip from illustrated back cover. Average wear. A decent third edition copy of this fascinating work. Book
