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1979Signed by researcher Eleanor A. Eastick upon colophon where she hand-numbered this copy number 897 of 1000. 264 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Large fold-out map inside back board. "A newly-found manuscropt written in the 1920's and never before published." - from title page. "The personal recollections of the very people who lived and worked in the Cariboo in the last half of the nineteenth century." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Vertical line of faint peeling midway along each fixed endpaper where tape removed. Name atop front free endpaper. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Birth and death dates of dedicatee hand-written beneath his name. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Hale & Barman 959. Book
1935réf. 215892Lahore.: Government Printing Office. Revised Edition. 1935. Four folding colour maps xi 311 pages 26.5 x 18 cms; original papered boards spotted and a trifle scuffed linen backstrip with paper title label worn; foredges and endpapers spotted a few leaves toned but on the whole in very good condition the maps particularly bright and clean. A remarkable association copy: the author Frederick Blyth Wace's copy with his inked initials to the front free endpaper and his humorous unpublished foreword tipped in opposite the preface together with a dedication leaf both in Wace's hand and his business card loose within. As a further dedication makes clear this copy was given by Wace's son a couple of his loose notes on scrap paper are included the eminent botanist Nigel Morritt Wace 1929-2005 late head of the Australian National University's department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in 2003 to his fellow academic and marsupial biologist Dr. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. Both Wace and Biscoe were born in India and began their schooling in Kashmir at the school founded by Tyndale-Biscoe's father a Christian missionary and for whom the school is named. From the collection of Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. . Government Printing Office. hardcover
1991No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges. 128pp. A lavishly illustrated study of the (mostly American) cars of the 1950s plus some European sports cars and Rolls Royce.
