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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." Christopher Morley to his friends posthumously.

1879 Photos of "Flathead Indians" (Kwakiutl) on Coastal...

MAYNARD, Richard (attributed to)

[Abolitionist Americana] Speech of Hon. Cornelius Cole, of...

COLE, Cornelius (1822-1924)

[Chinook] Photos of Kamloops Missionary & Congregation, "Indian...

ZEH, Lillian (Author & Photographer)

[Kootenay / California Gold Mine] Archive & Manuscript...

The Siskiyou Copper Company et...

(Kanawha [W. Virginia] American Civil War) Lovell's General...

Hodgins, J. George

Montreal: John Lovell, 1862. Hardcover. An early mention (and perhaps the first book publication) of the proposed state of Kanawha - the breakaway state which became West Virginia - is found in this early Civil War-era printing of a popular school Geography. Yellow printed paper over boards with quarter black.....

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Halt!

Whitaker, Evelyn

London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co, (c. 1935). Reprint. Hardcover. Red cloth with title in gilt to spine and blind stamped onto upper board, 12mo (7-1/4 inches tall), pp. 187 (2) ads, illustrated with four B&W plates inc. frontis. Volume with light wear and rubs, name and date in pencil.....

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L'Enfant et les Sortilèges : Fantaisie Lyrique en...

Ravel, Maurice and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette...

Paris: A. Durand & Fils. (1925). André Hellé. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. English title : 'The Child and The Enchantments : A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts'. An opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Front cover artwork by André Hellé.....

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[Indigenous, Rockies] Photograph of Cree Indian Camp Medicine...

Bailey Brothers & Unknown Photographer

Vancouver, BC: Bailey Brothers, (c. 1892). Mounted Photographs. Two gold-toned silver collodion POP prints - one of a young indigenous hunter holding a rifle while standing in front of his tipi encampment at Medicine Hat Alberta and the other, a herd of buffalo at Cascade Mtn. in Banff, Alberta -.....

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The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2006 (Trading, Investing, Business...

Commodity Research Bureau Inc

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As new with CD still in rear pocket and seal unbroken. Comes with dust jacket protected in archival quality mylar cover.

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[Boxing] The Abysmal Brute

London, Jack

New York: The Century Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth with title and decorations stamped in black and dark green onto upper board and spine, 16mo (6-5/8 inches tall), pp. (iv), 169, (1) ads, tissue-guarded frontis, copyright page with "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at.....

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[California Conservation Postcard] Poems of the Redwoods

Remore, Mabelle B.

Cummings, CA: Self-Published, 1936. Postcard. A postally unused card with unutilized seal still attached, printed on both sides of a single sheet of white/peach-colored paper (7 inches tall x 12-5/8 inches wide), postcard obverse, twice folded to achive postcard size with two photo reproductions - one of a Redwood tree.....

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