Mcgeachie pixie (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY MAYOR WILLIAM J. COPELAND on the page with his picture as follows: "To Rod | & Grace Barnes | With Sincere | Best Wishes | From Mayor Bill Copeland | April 3 1993." In the same hand and ink the following is written on the front free endpaper: "To Dr Lewis." 4to. (29 cm.) 128p. Profusely (!) illustrated with color and black and white captioned photos. Bibliography and Index. Black paper over boards with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, gilt bright, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket is fine. A resident of Burnaby since 1947, Pixie McGeachie was editor of the BURNABY EXAMINER and has written many articles and two books, including on Burnaby. She was president of the Burnaby Historical Society and a member of the Burnaby Heritage Advisory Committee when this book was produced. Jim Wolf is a local historian who works with the Municipality of Burnaby as the Heritage Planning Assistant and has also served as Community Archivist with the Museum and Historical Society. A handsome and splendidly illustrated book.…

8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 108. text illus. wrs. Second Printing.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Weaker Sex - Anna Ullman at Hazelton, B.C.; British Columbia's Greatest Marine Disaster - the foundering of the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Sophia in Lynn Canal in 1818 took 343 lives; The Case of the Stolen Church - St. Peter's Anglican of Windermere, B.C.; The B.C. Boomtown Phenomenon - most of them have now disappeared altogether; Coalmont-Blakeburn - Coal Dust Twins; The Copper Hoard of the Pewabic - the steamship Pewabic carried more than a hundred persons to a watery grave in Lake Huron; North to the Klondike - David Doig of Victoria headed north to service gold miners; Brief bio and photo of polio-stricken author Harold Fryer; Brother XII (Twelve) - a B.C. Character (one-page article); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.…