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1902Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Railroads, Elevated Railroads, Broadway Cable Road, and Horse Cars indicated. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
1975144 pages. Index. Discography. "The Greatest Singer and Entertainer of the Century - Bessie Smith comes alive again in this unique collection of 30 of her most famous songs. Not just copies of sheet music, here are actual transcriptions of her most famous songs, with piano reproductions and guitar chords... Gunther Schuller contributes notes on her singing style - perhaps the only good critical description of her art. This is the ideal companion to the record set of Bessies's complete recordings." - from back cover. Songs include: It Makes My Love Come Down, Long Road, Jailhouse Blues, Dirty No-Gooder's Blues, Down in the Dumps, In the House Blues, Shipwreck Blues, Safety Mama, Take Me For a Buggy Ride, Blue Blues, Wasted Life Blues, Standin' In the Rain Blues, Squeeze Me, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Pickpocket Blues, Backwater Blues, Young Woman's Blues, See if I'll Care, New Orleans Hop Scop Blues, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Baby Doll, Please Help Get Him Off My Mind, Reckless Blues, My Man Blues, Poor Man's Blues, Hard Time Blues, Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do, Cake Walking Babies from Home, Gimme a Pigfoot, Gulf Coast Blues. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
2004A simple Tapping Stand; Stoneleigh Steamers; Farcot's Table Engine; A Fine McLaren Road Locomotive; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; Paddle Steamer Engines by Denny's of Dumbarton. Excellent copy. Book
1979146 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. "This history of Lumby and surrounding area within a five mile radius. Covers fifty years of history from 1877 which marked the arrival of the first permanent settler with descendants still in the area." - from page 5. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Please note that this book represents Volume I (only) of the Lumby history. Volume II covers the years 1928-1960 and is listed separately. Book
1995376 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. The history of Lumby, British Columbia and surrounding area within a five mile radius. Topics include: Pre-village, Town History, Mills and Logging, Churches, Clubs and Organizations, Schools, Armed Forces, Lumby Queens, Sports, Parades, Farming, Cemetery list, Family histories, Houses and Buildings, and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Please note that this book represents Volume II (only) of the Lumby history. Volume I covers the years 1877-1927 and is listed separately. Book
199138 pages. Features: Writing-on-Stone; The All Red Route Through the Kootenays; Camels in the Cariboo; A Sea Monster Guarded Islander's Goad; Charcoal's Reign of Terror. Clean, bright copy. Book
1987Features: The Mines and the Miners; Life in Old Barkerville; The Barkerville Fire; The Law; Chinatown; The Road In; The Barkerville Cemetery; The Last Mile. Clean and unmarked. Book
1971Features: Ste. Marie among the Hurons; The Development of Moose Factory; Simcoe Memorial Foundation; Expert Help for Museums; Ontario Heritage Foundation; Old Fort William - Hinge of a Nation; Charm of Williamstown; Niagara-on-the-Lake; Early Ontario Glass; Ontario's Pioneer Villages; The Thunder Bay Route West; On the Trail of the Nor'Westers; The Development of Ontario Painting; Collecting Furniture in Ontario; Earthen Pottery; Ontario Silversmiths; Ontario chairs; Ontario - The Textile Arts; Mennonite Traditional Arts. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
191642 pages. A fascinating and important issue devoted to rousing American anger against Germany, particularly as a result of U.S. lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Clearly, the people behind Life Magazine wanted the United States to become involved in WWI. Readers may draw parallels to recent history when 'fanatical Muslims' allegedly carried out the 9/11 attack, thus providing a pretext for George W. Bush to thrust his country into war in the Middle East. Covers detached from textblock. Last page almost loose. Unmarked. Above-average wear but still a quality copy of this significant piece of the historical record of America's road to entry into World War One. 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
197752 pages. Loaded with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos supplemented with informative text. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this informative local history. Book
199087 pages. Features: Orapex '90 - Ottawa's Second National Stamp Show and Bourse; Netherlands - Indies - In Quest of Correct Franking; Prairie Pathfinders - Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday; Postmarked Ottawa; George Mackinley Geldert, M.C. 1886-1967; Decoys, Spears and Skates; The R.P.S.C. Junior Stamp Collector; Vignettes of early British North American Postal History - Part XIII - The Wilderness Route from Quebec to Halifax; Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
196915 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The Cariboo Road in modern times and in the nineteenth century. Stories of travel by car and stagecoach from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo. Interviewees - Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs. R.T. Crosby, Miss Leah Shaw, Vince Gresty, Gus Milliken, Roddy Moffat, Bryson Patenaude." - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
1995192 pages. A revealing intimate diary of Liverpool's road to Wembley glory. "The author has pulled no punches to give the fans a true reflection of life among the players and staff at Liverpool." - Roy Evans. Book
1993609 pages. Index. References. "Primarily told through first hand reports written by men to 'The New Canadian', a Japanese-Canadian newspaper, letters which the censors reported to the authorities, and other correspondence of the government authorities who were responsible for them." - from back cover. Extensively documents this most painful of times for Canadians of Japanese ancestry. Clean, tight and unmarked. An important and uncommon reference. Book
1986Features: Special silk issue. Tracing the silk road; Shibori Expressions - Ana Lisa Hedstrom and D'Arcie Beytebiere; The Silk Reflections of C.J. Yao; Silkworks - a collection of industry, gallery, and artist. An interview with Dominic Di Mare. Prior owner's name and address label upon front cover. Quality copy. Magazine
1944Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1973408 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Two fold-outs. Many archival black-and-white illustrations. Hand-numbered copy number 811. "The history is traced from the first surveys of Pickering Township, to the establishment of Brock Road, then Bentley's Corners and finally Brougham. All aspects of this typical Ontario village are covered - social, educational, recreational, government and business - from its infancy in pioneer days to 1973. The final chapter deals with the controversial airport, proposed by the federal government, which would have obliterated this historical village." - from dust jacket. One of the better local histories from Ontario that we have seen. Moderate wear to clean, unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. Prior owner's name clipped from top of title page. Sound copy. Book
1970Features: Brakeman on the Great Northern - W.S. Dulmage - long article with great photos; Lost Arch Nuggets; The West's Most Competent Mercenary - Emilio Kosterlitzsky; Dodging the Road Agents - an Oregon tale; Sixty Years ago on the Kootenai; You don't chase the wild bunch on a bycycle - bank robbery at Montpelier, Idaho; Old-time storekeeper - Civilization's advance scout - Thomas McGuill; Cheyenne girl and white man's ways - Amache Ochinee Prowers; Under the wing of the Raven - Temple Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston; All the news that's fit to laugh at! - Colonel Robert Lowery, famous newspaper editor of the Kootenays during the mining days; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1966Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1956Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
1955Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1952Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
1952Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. 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
