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1961Features: Infernal Yankees from Maine; A Gold Colt in Rome; Waters Gunmaking Family - Part III (The Second Asa); A rare discovery. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1981Features: The Cormier House, Montreal - Its Design and Furnishings in Art Deco; Signposts for Collectors Part III - Early Brass Candlesticks and Their Construction; Beneath the Richelieu - 18th century artifacts; Theft at Sweeney House; An Exciting Discovery - a hitherto unrecorded view of Montreal on ceramics; Glimpses of High Victorian life in Canada; Communion tokens of the Presbyterian Church in Nova Scotia; Early Cash Registers Cast Metal and Wood Cased. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1974Features: High Victorian Design; The John A. Macdonald Album; The Jacques and Hay Style? - Canadian Cabinet makers and Victorian Style; A Rare Canadiana Discovery - St. Johns Porcelain Bust; Victoria Hall - Preservation in Cobourgh; Hair Receivers - Those little jars with a hole in the top; The International Silver Company - Silverplate in Canada; Bringing Home Britain - for the collector abroad; Canada's Victorian Christmas Cards; Beadwork Whimsies; Papier Mache. Nice clean copy. Magazine
1975Features: How to Forge a Ring; New Mexico's Catron Country; Casting with Water-Soluble Wax; Mexican Wulfenite Discovery; Beads and Bear Claws; Ben Mayo - Space Age Silversmith; Make a Bead Punch; Seashell Roses; The Precious Plumes of Graveyard Point; Rack'em Up; Pt. Mugu Coquina; Working with Opals. Above-average wear. Date stamp and company stamp to front cover. Magazine
1982Features: When the Mediterranean went dry; Clowns of the Galapagos; Discovery of the Admiral's flagship; The Stars at Night; Full Circle for Vema; The Living Nautilus; 'Fingerprinting' Offending Tankers; One more Whale to Count; the road to Hokkaido; From Father Neptune's Stable. Sound copy. Book
1988Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
1969Volume I - 413 pages plus fold-out map. Volume II - 426 pages. Includes appendix on the physical geography of North America. Both volumes clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Possibly unread. Excellent copy. Book
1970308 pages. Index. Dozens of black and white illustrations, few in colour. Illustrated endpapers. "Provides a textbook for prospectors on conventional surface prospecting and includes enough information on advanced prospecting to provide a sound introduction to these growing topics." - from Preface. Author was a long-time field geologist. Binding firm. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
189396 pages. Flexible boards covered by suede leather. Includes eleven shortened stories from "Stories of New France". The other six - "The Discovery of America," "The Story of Breboeuf," "The Story of Michillimackinac," "The Last Siege of Quebec," "The Story of Brock," and "The Story of Tecumseh" - were specially written for these pages. - from Preface. Title in gilt upon front board. Upper two inches of backstrip missing with openings two inches below. Leather detached from front board. Back fixed endpaper detached from back board. Front board loose but present. Frontis secured by tape. Prior owner's details, dated 1909, atop title page. Book
1975385 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Chapter titles include: Mineral Country; Mandy Mine; The Discovery; The Engineers; Construction; Early Businesses; Townsite; Civic Affairs; Social, Ethnic and Service Groups; Churches; Recreation and Arts; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Excellent copy. Hackett (2) 330. Book
1971327 pages. Index. "In this ambitious and extravagant volume is realized, for the first time, a totally unique presentation of over 500 years of Canadian history.... Presents countless little-known and rarely seen photographs, illustrations, paintings, engravings and maps collected by Dr. Lamb during his tenure as Dominion Archivist and National Librarian of Canada." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean, unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
1985175 pages including index. Unlocking the secrets of eating right for health, vitality and longevity. Presents the most vital nutritional discovery since that of vitamins and minerals - food enzymes. Somewhat above-average wear. First page a little wavy. Unmarked. Sound reference copy. Book
1983Features: Wild Indians of the 20th Century; Ever been attacked by an angry range mare? Don Bell has; The High Price of Strawberries - His Crimes began with Theft and Ended with Murder - Patrick Coughlin in Utah; True West Party - a gala gathering in the west; Sacred White Buffalo - Used in Secret Indian Ceremonies; Sarah Winnemucca and the War in the West (Northern Paiutes); Buffalo Calf Road - Indian Heroine - She Fought to Save Cheyenne Way of Life - a heart-rending story of an Indian woman who fought Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn; Terror in Central Texas - 15 to 40 Indians overtook the Riggs family, killed John Riggs and his wife and scalped them and carried off their two little girls; Forgotten Frontier Food - Part I; William Cary - Artist/Adventurer; That Crazy Young Man and His Flying Machine - Lyman Gilmore flew nine months before the Wrights - one of the most bizarre episodes to emerge from California's northern mines! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1982Features: Orca, The Sociable Whale - Life among British Columbia's Most Intelligent and Awesome Predators; A Cuban Odyssey - Foot-loose in the Shadow of Fidel, An Underground Traveller's Report; Cosmic Crucibles - Scientists Probe the Workings of the huge Nebulas; Christopher Pratt and Mary Pratt - The First Couple of Contemporary Art; Bone Age Man - Canadian Find Sparks One of the Hottest Archeological Debates of the Century. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1972347 pages. Originally published in 1872. "One of the most readable and colourful early accounts of life on the Northwest Coast." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
1982195 pages. Circa 1982. Chapters include: The First Inhabitants, The Parkland Beckons, Glidehurst District, The Search for Oil, Discovery, Atlantic No. 3, Birth of a Model Town, The Formative Years, Churches - A Part of the Plan, Schools, Recreational Facilities, Early Memories, Clubs and Organizations, Sports - a way of life, Special Celebrations, Devon in the Eighties, By Our Own Account. Many black and white photos. Front board nicely decorated with gilt. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1993Circa 1990s. Extensively footnoted. Appendices. Many black and white archival illustrations. Fold-out photo inside back cover. "The history of Canada's longest serving Naval Reserve Division from the days of 'yachting gentlemen' to the present day." - from back cover. Prior owner's details atop first page else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1993412 pages. Index. Many black and white illustrations. "This is the story of Sandon, from boom town to ghost town. It is the story of my life here - of the prospectors, creatures, and characters who have been my friends and companions." - from Introduction. Heavily worn. Binding intact. Please note that this is a paperback copy, despite what may appear elsewhere in this listing. Book
1964Features: How the Bill of Rights is getting in the way of justice; The Holy War to destroy Bill 99 - the fantastic law that trampled our freedoms underfoot; Jack Kent Cooke in Lotusland - he's living a rich, comic life in the U.S.A.; A Striking New Discovery in Eskimo Sculpture - first report on a group of artists who carve like angels and live like cavemen, the Caribou Eskimos of Baker Lake; Portrait of the American dollar we all love - how the great US foundations give away money creatively - $50 million in Canada; The world of Can't - a young cerebral palsy victim tells how he's beating the frustrations of charity; The Hottest Hand in Music - Zubin Mehta and the Montreal symphony; Will success spoil Gerald Gladstone?; Let the dropouts drop out, until they're ready to learn. Nice colour Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1965Features: Must we woo Red China? - by Arnold J. Toynbee; A time of trouble (Affairs of the State); Should Women give Men the Vote?; America's new big rich - despite high taxes, a small number of little-known men have made huge postwar fortunes - John D. MacArthur, Dr. Edwin Land, Howard Ahmanson, John Mecom, W. Clement Stone, Henry Crown - with photos; The Great wild-bee safari - bee-tree hunting; Last of the Divorce Rances - Donner Trail Ranch; Adak - "A woman behind Every Tree" - a return to the Aleutian/Alaskan Island manned by 80,000 Americans during World War II; Discovery that helps prevent miscarriages - 'Skin Patch'; The big (James) Bond bonanza - great photos of the 'Thunderball' shoot and more. Colour Chevrolet Truck 'Workpower' centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1926Features: A Son of the Navahos - I, by James Willard Schultz; Left or Right?, by Margaret Warde; Capturing Daniel Webster's Statue, by C.A. Stephens; The Berkshire Boy, by MacGregor Jenkins; Bartholomew Crab's Discovery, By William Leavitt Stoddard; Walter Camp - The Father of American Football - With nice photo of the Yale Graduate's Team, by Hartford Powell, Jr.; Through the Dragon's Teeth - II, by Lewis R. Freeman; Game Extinction - Its Causes and Remedies, by Edwin A. Osborne; The Art of Making Antique Boxes; Prudy Pickles' Penny Shop, by Dahris Butterworth Martin; Grape Nuts ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1934Pages 309 - 403. Features: The Wabash and Erie Canal at Lafayette; High Points in the Life of Dr. John Shaw Billings; Post Roads in Southern Indiana;; Did Republicans "Colonize" Indiana in 1879?; A Survivor of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Henry Clay at Richmond in 1842; The Discovery and Identification of an Original Copy of the Constitution of 1816; Some Letters of Jesse D. Bright to William H. English; and more. Two closed openings to top of front cover. Prior owner's ink stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1997256 pages. Glossary. Black and white illustrations. "A vivid mosaic of life in Alberta's Oil Patch as it was 50 years ago. These stories, anecdotes and tall tales are the legends of the Leduc Oilfield" - from page 11. "Compliments of" sticker inside front cover. Light wear. A quality copy. (Please note: possible light cigarette smoke scent) Book
197272 pages. Great memento from the Canucks' second NHL season! Features: Nice Yardley ad inside front cover features Bobby Orr colour photo; Return of Al Arbour; Pros and Cons of the Plu-Minus Rating System; Carl Brewer's big change; Frank St. Marseille's discovery (saved by expansion); The Blues wheel and deal in preparation for hte playoffs; Carl Brewer's art of defence; Jim McLeod rescues the Blues; Complete Vancouver schedule for 71-72; Rookies' Problems; Scoring Leaders; Photos of Canuck staff and management; Photos of players on each team; John Schella - Royal Bank player of the week; Nice back page feature on Gary Unger; plus many great vintage ads. Sports quiz completed on page 57. Average wear. Please note: Clipping from page 61; pages 13-16 missing, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
