- Tag = British Columbia
-
HIGH WATER CHANTS
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan, 1977. Green boards. Very small bumps to outer corners, else fine. Dust jacket has minor use to spine ends and outer corners, very nearly fine. Author's first book, a novel set in British Columbia. Ferguson has been called Canada's best novelist both in Books in Canada and the Toronto Star.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49367More details Price: USD $39.95 -
HISTORY OF OUR CITY PORT COQUITLAM
Edition: First Edition
No place (British Columbia): B.A. Thompson, 1973. Card covers. pp [150]. Many photos. Two soil spots on front cover, small chip to rear cover, ink price on title page, VG otherwise. BC local history.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50840More details Price: USD $18.95 -
History of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association. Vancouver’s First Cultural Association.
Vancouver, BC: Cover title: "Vancouver City Museum Golden Jubilee, 1899-1944. The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver, B.C." 20 pp, printed on cream stock, stapled in self wrappers. Soft corner crease throughout, else a fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 29127More details Price: USD $15.00 -
IN THE SEA OF STERILE MOUNTAINS: the Chinese in British Columbia
Edition: First edition
Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1974. Red cloth. pp (xiv), 280, [2]. Index. VG+. no owner names. Jacket has creases and small tears, one internal repair, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41881More details Price: USD $19.95 -
IT BEGAN WITH A RONALD: a pictorial history of Vancouver's firefighting equipment
Edition: First printing
Vancouver: Author, 1974. Light brown boards. 144 pages. Many photos. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a crease all along top margin of rear panel, VG otherwise. "A pictorial presentation of the fire apparatus used from 1886-1974 and contains many excellent and unpublished photos of Seagrave, American-LaFrance, Amoskeag and Waterous, all world-famous manufacturers of equipment, as well as many little-known makes."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50788More details Price: USD $24.95 -
JOHN: a novel
Philadelphia: Lippincott, c1937. Second printing. Terra cotta cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has chips at spine ends, minor soiling, price-clipped, VG otherwise. British Columbia setting. Glowing jacket blurbs. Her first book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 50399More details Price: USD $14.95 -
JOURNAL OF THE BIGANTINE HOPE ON A VOYAGE TO THENORTHWEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 1790-92. Illustrated with Charts and Drawings by the Author
Edition: First of this edition
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. Quarter bound in mustard cloth with paper spine label and grey boards illustrated in green and gold on front cover. pp [4], (xxx), (250) + 10 double-sided plates. Very nearly fine, no owner names, lacking slipcase. Falkland Islands, around the Horn, Marquesas, Sandwich Islands, China, Nootka Sound, crusing the Northwest Coast. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25959More details Price: USD $40.00 -
Kwakiutl String Figures
Edition: First printing
Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 1992. Red cloth, pp (xxxii), 199. Maps and 102 string figures and 10 string games in text. Fine in jacket, no owner marks. The author, a young Soviet scholar who accompanied Franz Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island, left a manuscript with Boas that is now for the first time published, and expanded.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28199More details Price: USD $18.50 -
LIGHTS OF THE INSIDE PASSAGE: a history of British Columbia's lighthouses and their keepers
Edition: First paper edition
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1992. pp (2), (269. Many photos in text. Notes, list of lighthouses, at rear. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44067More details Price: USD $12.00 -
McCULLOCH'S WONDER: the story of the Kettle Valley Railway
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1996. Fifth printing. Glossy card covers. pp 260. Photos, index. Creases and small chip to lower outer corner of front cover, VG otherwise. British Columbia railway, some claiming it was the most expensive and difficult line of track on earth.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 43570More details Price: USD $9.95 -
MEMORIES OF THE CHEMANIUS VALLEY: a history of people
No place (Chemanius, BC): Chemanius Valley Historical Society, 1978. Octavo, olive boards. endpaper maps. pp xix, 389 + 22 leaves of plates. Ink flecks on Dedication leaf; light coffee stains on pp 78-79; short strip of cellotape bottom of front pastedown; rubbing and small skinned spots on rear cover; else a VG unworn jacketless copy. Briitish Columbia local history, including Saltair, Chemainus, Westholme, Crofton, Thetis, Kuper and Reid Islands. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 41878More details Price: USD $20.00 -
MILESTONES ON THE MIGHTY FRASER
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1950. Octavo, red boards, endpaper maps. pp xxxvi, 157, [2] + plates; illustrations in text. Light spine sunning, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Facts and history about different points along Southern British Columbia's Fraser River.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 28190More details Price: USD $14.95 -
NEW WESTMINSTER the Royal City
Edition: First Edition
[Don Mills, ON]: J.M.Dent and The Corporation of the City of New Westminster, 1958. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp (xxx), 192. [2] + plates. Ink gift inscription at front of the city's fire chief, else a fine, jacketless copy. BC local history.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45176More details Price: USD $19.95 -
NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE. With Illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. Reprint ca. 191-? from plates of the 1914 Boston, Little, Brown US first edition. Light brown ribbed pictorial cloth stamped in dark green, lettered in blakc. pp (iii-viii), 345 + 4 plates. Ink owner names, slight wear to spine tips, else a VG bright and tight copy. British Columbia novel. Variant binding, variant text with no publisher's ad at rear.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29407More details Price: USD $18.95 -
NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE. With Illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. Reprint ca. 191-? from plates of the 1914 Boston, Little, Brown US first edition. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in green, lettered in black. pp (iii-viii), 345 , (1, ad for the publisher) + 4 plates. Offset tanning to fore margins of free endpapers, tidy ink owner name on front free endpaper, near fine otherwise. In the uncommon dust jacket, which has small chips to tips of lightly yellowed spine, three inch tear at foot of spine, VG otherwise. British Columbia novel. Variant binding, variant text with publisher's ad at rear.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29408More details Price: USD $29.95 -
ODE ON THE LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP "Pacific," November 4th, 1875.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 14649More details Price: USD $50.00 -
OVERLANDERS
Edition: First Edition
Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1985. pp (xiv), (311). Photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Fine copy. Story of the determined bunch who decided to open a northern, unexplored, land route across the Prairies to the BC gold fields in 1858.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 45177More details Price: USD $9.95 -
RAINCOAST CHRONICLES FIRST FIVE. Collector's Edition. Foreword by Bob Hunter.
Edition: First Edition
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, (1976). Quatto, tan boards. (271) pp. Illustrations on almost every page. Bookplate at front, else a fine copy. Jacket lightly sunned to spine, lightly rubbed, short tears, VG otherwise. Reprints the first five issues of this periodical devoted to "stories and history of the B.C. Coast". Contributions by Al Purdy, Pat Lane, Scott Lawrance, Peter Trower, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Howard White, Ed Starkins, and others. A very interesting collection for persons seriously interested in British Columbia. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11201More details Price: USD $25.00 -
SHAKESPEARE IN VANCOUVER 1889-1918
Vancouver Historical Society, 1971. Octavo, (32) pp + plates, stapled in gold card covers. Occasional paper, no 3. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45346More details Price: USD $15.00 -
SPIT DELANEY'S ISLAND: Selected Stories.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan, 1976. Brown boards. Light yellowing to front free endpaper, else fine. Black jacket has a one inch tear to upper inner corner of front panel, light rubbing to spine tips, edges, flap folds, very nearly fine otherwise. The British Columbia author's well-received first book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 9156More details Price: USD $19.95