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1928Telephone 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: Hundred Thousandth phone installed - lengthy article; Essentials of good maintenance; Statement of Development - number of phones per exchange in the province; B.C. Telephone Company takes over East Kootenay System; Prompt service aids with Sidney fire; The office boys dream; Telephone assists in Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) Rush - great photo; Automatic phone system installed at Hammond; Keeping the electrons on the proper path; Photo of J.P.D. Malkin takes part in first Vancouver-London phone call; Shell Oil operator; Health Tips; Greater Vancouver can now talk to the European continent; Cable damaged by anchor; Radio interference putting music on phone lines; Production of phone directories - 4 pages with photos; Laying cable through Stanley Park; Direct Route to West Vancouver completed - 5 pages of interesting text and photos; Langley Prairie phone service restored during the fire - article with photos; Phone given as wedding gift in Vancouver; F.C. Paterson; Vancouver Power House Fire; Mr. George H. Halse becomes Chairman of the Board; Close-up photos of splicing job; Transatlantic phone service still expanding; photo of horse-drawn 'drop wagon'; Photo on Cordova St. after fire 42 years ago; There's more to installation work than just placing a telephone - 4 pages with photos and text; Good-bye to operating when Dan Cupid comes along; Sending news stories to Vancouver from California over phone wires; We are linked with 80% of the world's phones; photo of conduit laying on forty-first ave; The Monophone - advertisement; B.C. Tel. acquires government lines in the Interior; New trans-atlantic long distance mark; Photo montage of vehicles used by the Plant Department; B.C. Box Factory Fire; Baby causes problem by teething on phone cord; Chilliwack phone system now affiliated with us; Regular fire drills; Photo of Premier Tolmie participating in first call from Vancouver to Calgary - with detailed related story; The longest circuit in the system of the B.C. Telephone Company; A new radiotelephone company will be organized; New Fraser River Cable serves South Westminster Subscribers; Eleven european countries with telephone reach of Vancouver; Now installing a new type of telephone typewriter; New faster system for handling telegrams; Benefits of new telephone ownership are evident in 500-mile circle; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Significant wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
1913Half-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: North Vancouver feature - 5 pages with photos; Activity in Plant Department - construction of many apartments in Victoria and Vancouver causing new conditions; Abbottsford exchange burned; Year's Business Shows Fine Increase; Monthly traffic record; New island route; Photo of the company's Victoria hockey team; New Westminster switchboard in action; Organisation Chart of the Traffic Department; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls'; Statement of Development - showing the number of operating phones in each exchange in the province; 7-page Feature on the Bayview area with several large photos of prominent home; Early spring construction; Traffic department conference; Full-page photo of the Western Fuel Company (Coal) Number One Mine at Nanaimo; New Central Building on Seymour; 5-page feature on Nanaimo with photos of salteries, the herring fishery, Mayor Shaw, the Nanaimo Exchange, and a great shot overlooking downtown Nanaimo and its harbour; Timing Conversations with a Calculagraph; Large photo of the Eburne sawmills; Fire damage at New Westminster Exchange; 4-page feature on Eburne with photos; Company bowling team - Victoria Commercial League Champions; Photo montage of operator's telephone sets; Great full-page photo of a commercial corner building in Duncan, Cowichan Merchants, Ltd.; 5-page feature on Duncan with several photos including one of the highly successful Duncan Creamery; photo of yachting on Cowichan Bay; Many gangs busy in the field; Weighing service; photos of telephone men at work in the field; photo of Comox and the wharf; 6-page feature article on Comox, including excellent photo of 'Flying Machine' logging in progress; Many extensions to outside plant; How telephone cable is made, 3 pages with photos; Full page photo of the Tug Dola with her tow the Princess Louise, at anchor off Port Grey; Super photo of Dozens of notable men aboard cable ship; Steveston Feature article with 3 pages and photos; 11-page major feature article on the consummation of the cable project connecting Vancouver to Nanaimo - great photos including erection of the highest telephone poles in the province at Brechin Mine, near Nanaimo, several nautical shots, cross-section of the Gulf cable, and more; Saanich Inlet cable installation; photo of the visit of H.M.S. New Zealand showing Hon. J.D. Hazen, minister of marine, Commander Halsey, Sir Richard McBride and Hon. H.E. Young, provincial secretary; Five-page feature on Nelson and area with photos; New Zealand's gift to the Imperial Navy - 2 page illustrated feature on the visit of the H.M.S. New Zealand to Vancouver, including shot of two of the monster eight 12" guns; Full-page displaing the 6 chief (lady) operators in Vancouver; 5-page feature on the Saanich Peninsula with photos of subjects including the Brentwood Bay power house, Mr. Luke Pither's model poultry ranch, the Holland Bulb Farm and more; Growth demands more outside plant; Photo of company baseball team; Illustrations of railway telephone device; Photos of the 3 chief operators of Victoria; The Growing of Hops at Agassiz - several pages and photos; Phones for Forest Protection; Manufacturing Protector Micas - raw material obtained from India; Photo of the City of Rossland; 4-page illustrated feature Book
1971No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to end papers and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with traces of handling. 112pp. How a reliable, clean, fast and remarkably cheap form of transport served our towns and cities in the first half of the twentieth century.
1996No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 239pp. The A-Z of pre-war British motorcycle marques, from AET through to Zenith. Well illustrated.
1993No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, extremely slight traces of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with very minor traces of storage . 240pp. Following on from the difficult post-war days of the 1940s, the British motorcycle industry looked set for glorious times by the end of the 1950s. Very well illustrated brand by brand.
1993No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, extremely slight traces of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with very minor traces of storage . 237pp. Follows the period after the peak of the British motorcycle industry, when the Japanese bikes started to hit the market and the arrival of the Mini car had a dramatic impact on motorcycle sales. . Very well illustrated brand by brand.
1987No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not torn with light indenting and faint creasing to upper edge. Index plus 203pp. A suberbly illustrated book which celebrates the history of the 'horseless carriage' in Lord Montagu's inimitable style. With a splendid array of posters, paintings and photographs plus engaging anecdotes and text.
18998vo., Third Edition, with large folding coloured map on cloth in pocket at front; original green limp cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
1978Previous owner's name/address inside front cover. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped, marked or torn with slight creasing to top of spine and traces of storage. 96pp. These photos show as many types as possible of the range of trams which operated in Britain and Eire in the third quarter of the twentieth century.
1992No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 128pp. A broad cross-section of the electric tramway undertakings that survived World War II and continued functioning into the 1950s. Very well illustrated.
1972No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 40pp. Tramway history in and around the City of Birmingham.
19718vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, top and fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1945Blaw-Knox company stamp in a few places. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front board and no bumping to corners. Fold-out coloured diagram of the Buda engine in very good condition. 66pp. Workshop manual for the Buda engine which operated on gas or diesel and was made for undustrial, tractor, truck and marine applications. Undated ca 1940s. SCarce in the UK.
1972réf. 2090502124600020Kanae Document Bureau 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 456P Kanae Document Bureau paperback
2000New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. [xxv], 148 p. Building a secure Eurasia for the 21st century.
1823réf. SPN-781Paris : Imprimerie royale, 23 mai 1823. Brochure de 16 pages en feuilles (433-448).
1811réf. SPN-782Paris : Imprimerie impériale, s.d. [1811]. Brochure de 16 pages en feuilles (113-128).
réf. 369571 vol in-8 broché - 103 pages - années 1878 - Tome XII - 45 ème livraison
1901réf. 29279Grenoble Imprimerie Allier Frères 1901 In-8 LVI+ 485 pp, Ensemble légèrement passé, mouillures et rousseurs sur les plats, manques aux coiffes ; brochage faible.
réf. 94613Le Vieux Papier, fac. 263 (janvier 1977) à 270 (octobre 1978) reliés en 1 volume, demi-basane, environ 27x19cm, des frottements d'usage sur la reliure, bon état pour le reste.
1952réf. 2090502113716000Not Available 1952. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1943pp. iv, 21 + a map and numerous photographs. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Inked ownership of Ethel Kastner, Dept. Far Eastern. Very Good copy. ORIENT BOX 2
19938vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
1994réf. 2090502113717492Not Available 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
