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

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

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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Boston: American Institute of Finance, 1929. Paperback. Staple-bound stiff card covers, title printed in black onto upper cover, 8vo (8-3/4 inches tall), pp. 62, [64], tables. Covers with light wear and a stain at the foot of upper cover, text has a few stains, else unmarked. Volume 10 in a......

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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

Ashcroft, BC: Huston, W. M., 1911. Unbound. A turquoise tinted, postally used collotype postcard (3-1/2" tall x 5-1/2" wide), showing the "Last Bull Team on Cariboo Road, Ashcroft, B.C." addressed to a recipient in Tacoma, WA. in 1911, w. a fine Ashcroft B.C. cancel dated "AU 22 11" Card contains.....

(read more)about Gold Rush] Last Bull Team on Cariboo Road

Ottawa: Minister of the Interior, 1900. Softcover. Folio 14-1/8" tall, pp. 11, (14). Eight color maps with area and population statistics, two of which are double-page; three columns of text to inside of covers and verso p.11, three B&W photos. Short closed tears and water stains to fore-edge and rear.....

(read more)about Descriptive Atlas of Western Canada : Showing Maps