THE CANADIAN WORKER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978. 1st Canadian Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 310pp. Bibliographical Note. Front cover corner creased, but vg.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978. 1st Canadian Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 310pp. Bibliographical Note. Front cover corner creased, but vg.
Southern Printing Company Ltd & Book Committees of Sundial, Enchant and Retlow, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped green. Three indices of peoples' names of the three Alberta communities. Illustrated with vintage portraits and photos. Couple of other illustrations and a map or two. The ffep has ink signatures.....
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Soft cover. 2nd printing. 4to glossy pictorial wraps. 244pp. Illus. References. Selected Reading. Index. Fine.
London: British Goverment and T. R. Harrison, Printer, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Folio. Half leather and cloth. 168pp. Mild ex-lib with label lower spine and ink stamp top of ffep. From a previous owner, "A most important compilation of primary source material concerning the history of the creation.....
Aldergrove: Frontier, 1968. Soft cover. Later printing. Pictorial wraps. 60pp. Illus. Account of the huge 1903 Turtle Mountain landslide at Fernie, British Columbia, near the Crow's Nest Pass. Frontier Book # 1. Price written on front cover; Vg+.
Calgary: Frontier, 1977. Soft cover. Later printing. Pictorial wraps. 56pp. Illus. Morren served the RNWMP beginning about 1911 & was involved in many "dramatic episodes." Frontier Book No. 21. Near fine.
Frontier, Calgary, 1973, 1973. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to pictorial stapled wraps. 100pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & modern drawings. Maps. Enjoyable & well-researched item by an authority on the history of Western Canada -- B.C. & Alberta. Light soiling; just a little corner wear. Vg.
Zurich, ONT: Privately published, 1986. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 96pp. Illus. Former owner's signature top of front cover, else fine copy. Scarce Ontario family item.
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Lunenburg Marine Museum Soc, 1977. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to stapled pictorial glossy wraps.71pp. Illus. Notes. Chapters present the fisheries from 1753 - 1933. Bookplate on title page with typed presentation, "Presented to Mr. A. J. "Augie" Augustine, of Kitchener, Ontario, representing "Oktoberfest", by the Lunenburg Marine.....
S. F. History Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped full leather. 792pp. Bibliography. Index. Maps, including folding map. t.e.g.. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Vol 32 of the Works of Bancroft. Ex-lib with bookplate & pocket, checkout strip. Joints cracked but holding. Good.
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine & N. L. Barlee, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st and only printings. 4to pictorial wraps. Each issue thirty-sum pps. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated with vintage photos and the incomparable drawings and drawn maps by the late BC mining and ghost town authority Barlee. Spring.....
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine, 1969. q. First Edition. Soft cover. Original issue, first printing thus. 4to pictorial wraps. 31pp. Illustrated with b/w vintage photos and wonderful drawings and hand-drawn maps executed by Barlee. Contents: General map (Southern Interior of British Columbia), Sandon-Ghost Town, Our Vanishing Heritage, South Similkameen-The Eagle.....
Summerland: Canada West, 1974. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Small magazine-sized pictorial & printed wraps. 32pp. Illustrated with both vintage & contemporary photos, & the editor's interesting drawings. Maps. Articles: "The Gold Escort," "Thornton's Lost Placer," "North West Letters Part III,"Poker Chips of the Old West," "Nature Notes,".....
Summerland: Canada West, 1970. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Small magazine-sized pictorial & printed wraps. 36pp. Illustrated with both vintage & contemporary photos, & the editor's interesting drawings. Maps. This issue, as stated on small label, "Special Colour Issue..." (several color plates included). Articles: "Alert Bay," "Nature Notes,".....
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine & N. L. Barlee, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 32pp. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated with vintage photos and the incomparable drawings and drawn maps by the late BC mining and ghost town authority Barlee. This issue features Lost.....
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine & N. L. Barlee, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 183pp. Attractively illustrated with vintage photos and the excellent drawings and remarkable hand-drawn maps of the author. Barlee was publisher and author of the much sought Canada West Magazine, a schoolteacher.....
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 192pp. Most attractively illustrated with vintage photos and the excellent drawings and hand-drawn maps of the author. Barlee was publisher and author of the much sought Canada West Magazine, a schoolteacher, and later MP of.....
Summerland: N. L. Barlee, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 6.5" x 8.5" quarto pictorial wraps. 100pp. Wonderfully illustrated with maps and drawings by the author. Barlee, a schoolteacher and later MP, and also producer of a ghost town series on CBC, was author and publisher of Canada West.....
Summerland: N. L. Barlee, 1973. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to color glossy magazine size wraps. (32pp). Beautifully illustrated almost entirely in color. Maps. Articles: "Haida Masks," "The Trumpeter," "The Recovery of the Chameau Treasure," "The Legend Makers I," "Similkameen--The Red Paint Country." This magazine was the child of.....
Langley: Stagecoach, 1977. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Small magazine-sized pictorial & printed wraps. 40pp. Illustrated with both vintage & contemporary photos, & the editor's interesting drawings. Maps. Articles: Prohibition And The Runners Of Rum, Phantom of the Unuk, Murder At The Mount Sicker Hotel, The Silk Connection.....
Rossland, B. C. Privately published, 1990. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 16pp. Illus. Circa 1990. Signed by Battien & with her address label at bottom of first page. A nice biographical monograph on Moris and his association with the Red Mountain mines. Association with Rossland, British Columbia & Colville.....
Ashcroft BC: Village of Ashcroft, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial cloth. 59pp. Illustrated with vintage photos. Index. Endpapers with photo of early Ashcroft. Locally published history of this important town on the Thompson River of British Columbia. Ranching, mining, etc. Fine, no dj as issued. Very scarce.....
Don Mills: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, 1975. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 61pp. Illus. A critical appraisal of the famous Canadian writer in The Canadians Series. Vg. Scarce now in the first edition.
London: Hutchinson, 1955. First UK Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the British edition. Cloth with silver-stamped spine. 231pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. Small address label (Lambeth, ONT) of previous owner on rear paste down. fos on blank front leaf. Ms. Berton was the mother of one of Canada's most important and.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1954. Hardcover. Early, unstated printing with original published date of 1954. Cloth. 269pp. Illustrated with vintage photos, including of the author. Truly a Canadian classic, the memoir of the mother of famous Canadian historian and personality, Pierre Berton. Very slight slant to binding, but still.....