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.
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THE DIARY AND NARRATIVE OF RICHARD HENRY ALEXANDER IN A JOURNEY ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Richmond, B. C. Alcuin Society, 1973. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Copy #364 of 500 in gilt-stamped oblong cloth. 32pp. Beautifully designed & with a couple of pen & ink illustrations. Endpaper maps. On verso is glued the finely-printed bookmark paper slip of Burnaby Village Museum. Alexander traveled to the gold fields of.....
PRINTMAKING IN CANADA The Earliest Views and Portraits
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Soft cover. 2nd printing. 4to glossy pictorial wraps. 244pp. Illus. References. Selected Reading. Index. Fine.
THE FRANK SLIDE STORY
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+.
SERGEANT HARRY MORREN Royal North West Mounted Police
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.
HISTORY OF THE LUNENBURG FISHING INDUSTRY
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.....
HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
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.
CANADA WEST MAGAZINE Vol 5, Number 1, Winter 1974
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,".....
CANADA WEST MAGAZINE Vol. 4, Number 4, Winter 1970
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,".....
THE GUIDE TO GOLD PANNING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Summerland B.C. N.L. Barlee & Canada West, 1972. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Royal 8vo printed & pict wraps. 192pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & wonderful hand drawn maps. Front map is "The Major Placer Gold Areas in British Columbia". Barlee, the authority of frontier mining in B.C. writes.....
THE GUIDE TO GOLD PANNING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
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.....
THE PROSPECTOR' AND COLLECTORS' GUIDE: Covering the Okanagan, Shuswap, Similkameen, Boundary, South Thompson Areas
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.....
CANADA ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE, Vol. 1, Number 1 (Premier Issue), Fall 1973
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.....
CANADA WEST PLUS CANADIAN WEST (complete sets
Summerland & Langley: Canada West; Canadian West, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printings. Original wraps. In the Spring of 1969, British Columbia schoolteacher and later MP and Provincial Minister, N. L. Barlee, began publishing a magazine titled, Canada West. This attractively designed and printed publication was about British Columbia.....
CANADA WEST MAGAZINE Vol 7, No 2, Summer 1977
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.....
JOE MORIS His Stake and His Heritage to an Empire (Signed)
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.....
I MARRIED THE KLONDIKE
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.....
ADVENTURES OF A COLUMNIST
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. We believe this to be a first printing, but there is no price on the dj flap. Cloth. 211pp. Illus. Ink name/date on ffep. Fine in dj with some edge tears. Great essays by the eminent Canadian author.
DRIFTING HOME
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 174pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. Gift inscription verso of ffep. The famous Canadian historian's "... account of a journey ... (with) his family down one of the world's last great wild rivers, the Yukon." Fine copy in a dj which.....
HOLLYWOOD'S CANADA; The Americanization of Our National Image (Signed)
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 303pp. Illus. Appendix of Hollywood Movies about Canada. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated endpapers. Signed by Berton above half-title. Very slight toning at cover edges. Fine in moderately worn, slightly chipped pc dj.
THE LAST SPIKE: The Great Railway 1881-1885
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 478pp. Illus. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The second volume of Berton's fine and engaging history of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Fine in near fine, pc dj.
THE NATIONAL DREAM: The Great Railway 1871-1881
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Hardcover. 5th printing. Cloth. 439pp. Illus. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The first volume of Berton's fine and engaging history of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Fine in fair to good dj with minor chips, edge wear.
THE PROMISED LAND: Settling the West 1896-1914
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 388pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Laid in is the publisher's printed bookmark specific to this book. Western Canadian Plains is the subject. Fine in dj with a couple of corner and edge tears.
THE MYSTERIOUS NORTH
NY: Knopf, 1956. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Decor cloth. 345pp + Index. Illus. fos on ffep. One of Berton's earliest booksj. Includes "The Legend of Headless Valley." Fine in vg dj with small chiip bottom of front panel and mild edge wear.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SASQUATCH: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process
Courtenay, B. C. Beachcomber Books, 2010. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Small 4to. 307pp. Illus. Notes. Literature Cited. Index. Maps. This is one of the better books on the subject of Bigfoot / sasquatch. Writing from a logical, scientific point of view, Bindernagel tackles the problem of why science.....