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 -.....

(read more)about Indigenous, Rockies] Photograph of Cree Indian Camp Medicine

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.....

(read more)about Boxing] The Abysmal Brute

Paris, France: Numa Preti, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Two volumes in publishers original red decorative cloth, 16mo (6-1/8 inches tall), pp. vol. 1 [unpaginated], illustrated throughout w. chess diagrams ; vol 2 lix, [lx - blank], 231 [232 - blank], illustrated, author index at rear. Vol 1 w......

(read more)about Chess Christmas Series] Les Mille et un Mats

Chicago: The International Association of Lions Clubs, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. 224. Spine ends softened, gilt titles rubbed, else clean and unmarked. A treasure chest full of stunt and speech ideas.....

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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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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.....

(read more)about Kanawha [West Virginia] from American Civil War) Lovell's

Toronto, ON: Canadian Publishers War Finance Publicity Committee, 1942. Paperback. Summarizes the various War Finance Press Advertising campaigns and contains examples of aprox. 200 propaganda ads and posters issued from Jan. 1st 1941- March 31st 1942. A scarce report, with OCLC locating just a single copy of this 1942 wartime.....

(read more)about Propaganda Posters, Churchill] 1942 Press Promotion of War