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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Clean, tightly bound paperback, landscape format, spine uncreased, card covers lightly rubbed at corners, no inscriptions. Unpaginated, many photos in the text, statistics, chronology.

[NONE] 1913. (hardcover) Near fine. 210; 226; addenda; portraits. Folio. Navy cloth and as such, scarce. Lightly scuffed, as may be anticipated. Marbled endpapers. Signed and numbered; this copy is No. 322 of 350 copies printed. 'British Columbia Sixty Years of Progress' stamped in gilt to spine. Gilt decoration stamped to top board. No dust jacket (presumed as issued). More than 250 portraits of individuals who made historically significant contributions to the development of the province, each with with captioned tissue gaurds. Signed by R. E. Gosnell to the colophon page. Text and plates are clean and bright. Starting lightly at the last page, something not surprising given the heft to the tome. A near fine to fine copy of this provincial history. Additional shipping charges may be required (weight.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Knopf-Pix, Hans; Barnum, Hyde; Bruehl, Anton; Daniel,Lewis; Berman, Sam; Leason, Percy; Bischoff, H.E.; Blossom, Earl; Dormont,Philip; McKay, Dorothy (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Fiction: Straw Hat Circuit; Candlelight and Salt Pork; A Little Fire; Sleep, My Love (part 2 of 5); The Wonderful Race at Rimrock; Come Back, Come Back. Articles: Who is a Negro - the problem of lightskin colored folks who pass as whites; St. George and the Marxian Dragon - a report on the first year of Britain's experiment in socialism; All-America Water Queens - The A.A.U. picks a team of the nation's 14 best girl swimmers; What George Bernard Shaw thinks at Ninety; The Truth About Henry Kaiser - this, part 2 of 3, deals chiefly with his invasion of the automobile industry; The Scholar and the Sprout - Life with Uncle Roger at Mrs. McTiver's Cape Cod boardinghouse. Nice ads include: Seiberling tires; Life Savers candies; Nice color ad for GMC Trucks; Sensational color centerfold ad for the new Chevrolet; Talon ad features color photo of woman in corset; Nice two-color two-page Buick ad; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury cars; One-page color ad for Pontiac's new 1946 DeLuxe Station Wagon; Corby's Whiskey - with golf photos; Great color photo ad for Canadian Club inside back cover features logging scenes in northern British Columbia; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, August 3, 1946 - Who is a Negro? / Henry Kaiser Racism Jeanne Wilson Marilyn Sahner Helen Graham Clare Lamore Lorraine Fischer Marion Pontacq Ann Curtis Sue Curtis Joyce McCrae Helen Morgan Zoe Ann Olsen Berniece Looney Betty Lachok Ka.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 36 pages. Features: British Columbians All; Can We Learn From History?; Letters; Pioneer Pilots of the Skeena - article with great photos; Our We Slaves to Our Clocks?; 210 Miles on Horseback - in 55 degrees below - to attend the funeral of Charlie Fortier, Chief of the Chu Chua Indians; Nature Oddities; Wonder-Weed Ramie Grass Would Revolutionize Textile Industry; B.C. History - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events; Some Observations of a Rambling Angler; The Monument - poem by an unknown author; Frontal Attack - From the Rear! - a skunk story; The Mighty Hunter; "Pacific Pete" in Big Program - Westcoast's ammended all-Canadian natural gas pipeline route to Vancouver and cities of the U.S. pacific coast; Stewart, B.C. - article with photos; Nice ads on covers include Finning, the Yukon Brewery Syndicate, Port Hope Garage Ltd., and The Charles Hotel; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, some with photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Unread. As new. Number 216 of limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by co-author R.E. Gosnell. "Few publications, if any, of similar size and excellence have been produced in Canada." - From Editor's Foreword. Part I includes 210 pages and eighteen chapters which constitute "a survey of events from the earliest times down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada." Part II is "a history, mainly political and economic, of the Province since Confederation up to the present time." Part I is preceded and followed by dozens of tissue-protected black and white portraits of individuals influential in the early history of the province, complete with their brief biographies upon the tissue. Part II comprises eighteen chapters over 226 pages plus 5 pages of addenda followed by dozens of tissue protected portraits of "some of the men conspicuous as present day factors in development." Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright, and unmarked with zero wear. Brown suede exterior appears as fresh as the day it was applied over 100 years ago. This majestic fourteen pound tome measures 13" x 10.5" x 4". A magnificent acquisition for any serious collector of British Columbia history. A better copy will not be found. [Lowther 1607, Hale 2523, Edwards & Lort 3177, Strathern 495]. Signed by Author(s).