Philadelphia, PA: A.J. Reach Company, 1909. Paperback. An uncommon 1909 issue of this famous guide. Printed wraps, binding is both stapled and sewn, 12mo (6-5/8 inches tall). pp. 630, illustrated throughout w. many photo reproductions, line drawings, tables and ads [pp. 591-630 are sports ads], statistics and team photos. Covers..... More
![Item #4078 [Boxing] Image of Jack Johnson Standing over Jim Jeffries in 1910 World Heavyweight...](/pictures/thumb/4078.jpg?v=1663103642)
n.p. 1910. Glass Plate Negative. An amazing image, capturing an historical moment in the World of Heavyweight Boxing in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. Taken just seconds before the fight was called in the 15th round when, some say, Jeffries' corner would not let him return to the fight..... More
![Item #3053 [Babe Ruth] Rules of the Game of Base Ball : 1922. Paul A. Rickart](/pictures/thumb/3053.jpg?v=1662850262)
1922. Paperback. Cover title. Stapled wraps, 12mo (6-7/8 inches tall), pp. 64, illustrated w. line drawings, tables, index, occasional finger soil and some creasing, back cover lacks aprox. 1/2 inch of upper corner, date "1922" written in blue ink at top of front cover. How to keep your sandlot baseball..... More
n.p., 1915. Unbound Photo Album Leaf. Seven vernacular snapshots of San Francisco's 1915 Pan-Pacific Exhibition - including one that captures showman Buffalo Bill Cody and aviator Art Smith as they chat with a small group of people, either pre or post-flight, while his pusher biplane is wheeled into place. This..... More
New Westminster, BC: W.T. Cooksley, 1909. An unusual RPPC gelatin silver image of a North Shore cedar shingle-bolt flume, unusual in that it has the exact spot of the image's capture rubber stamped by the photographer in red ink onto the upper left corner "Second Canyon, Capilano River, From Observation..... More
(c. 1916). Mounted Photograph. A circa 1916 wartime photo of politicians reviewing troops at Polson Park in Vernon, BC. Uncredited, sepia toned gelatin silver photograph, measuring 2.5 x 4.5 inches wide, mounted onto a decoratively embossed, beveled-edge card measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches wide. Photo w. some fading, mount is..... More
North Vancouver, BC: John Wardlaw, [c. 1925]. Postcard. An uncommon, early North Shore climbing image, showing a stocking footed man doing a cliffside handstand. Titled in negative "Daredevil's Leap Grouse Mountain Park North Vancouver, B.C" and signed "T.W." mid-photo. A postally unused, sepia toned gelatin silver RPPC with an undivided..... More
Washington, DC: US Department of the Interior, 1930. Paperback. An exhaustive, mid- 20th century study of the amazing Yosemite Valley in California. Side stapled paper wraps, 4to (11.5 inches tall), pp. vi, 137, [138 - blank], illustrated throughout with photo reproductions, charts and maps (many being fold-outs) three folded maps..... More
Winnipeg, MN: The Organized Farmers, 1927. Paperback. Saddle stapled printed paper wraps, folio (14 inches tall), pp. 56, ads, illustrated throughout. Volume w. light soil and edge wear to covers, original mailing label on front cover to a Mr. M.T. Thomas in Landis, Sask. All the usual farming sections plus..... More
Toronto, ON: Thomas Burt & Company, 1933. First Edition. A seminal Canadian Square Dance instruction manual and possibly, one of the first Canadian Square Dance manuals ever published, thereby helping to cement the new forms of western Square Dance into place for north american callers and dancers. Saddle stapled card..... More
![Item #3188 [Horticulture, Botany] The Gardener's New Kalendar : Directing the Necessary Work to...](/pictures/thumb/3188.jpg?v=1660603981)
Dublin: Printed By H. Colbert, 1795. New Edition. Hardcover. Title continues "To Which are Prefixed, Directions for Preparing Compost for Flowers, and Artificial Manures. With an Appendix, Containing Directions for Budding, Grafting, Pruning, and Inoculating, in Which the Different Species of Grafting are Clearly Directed, viz. Rind or Shoulder, Whip..... More
![Item #4181 [Kootenay] The Hospital Aid Cook Book - Nelson, BC. Buchan Mrs., Mrs. A. L. McCulloch,...](/pictures/thumb/4181.jpg?v=1660431823)
Nelson, BC: The Women's Hospital Aid Society, c. 1910. Heavy Card. One of the earliest cookbooks to be published in British Columbia, and the second to be published in the interior, preceded only by "The Kamloops Cook Book" [c. 1908-10] by a slim margin. Saddle stapled linen-covered heavy card wraps..... More
New York, NY: Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine, Inc., 1959. A folio-sized (14.25 inches tall, pp. [xiii], 445-481, 3 fold-out maps) facsimile reprint of the 1744 edition of Beauplan's atlas, published by ODFFU. Gift inscription at foot of first title page appears to be from one..... More
London: Printed for Joseph Mawman, in the Poultry, Successor to Mr. Dilly, 1800. Hardcover. This treatise examines the effects of crime on the commercial trade of the River Thames and interestingly, a copy was presented by the author to King George III shortly after it's publication. Title continues "With an..... More
![Item #3811 [Chinatown] Forbidden City Cabaret Restaurant Menu, Vancouver, BC. Forbidden City...](/pictures/thumb/3811.jpg?v=1659217829)
Vancouver, BC: Forbidden City Cabaret Restaurant, n.d. Paperback. A circa 1950s, four page dinner menu from the Forbidden City Cabaret Restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown. The restaurant was located next to what is now the Chinese Cultural Center and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park. Gold card folded in half w. 4 page..... More
![Item #3812 [Fraternal Order] Broadside for the D.O.K.K. Ball, North Vancouver, BC. Dramatic Order...](/pictures/thumb/3812.jpg?v=1659212571)
North Vancouver, BC: Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan, 1923. Broadside. An unusual broadside, and quite possibly, the lone survivor from a 1923 dance sponsored by the D.O.K.K. [Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan], a branch of the Knights of Pythias. The Ball was held at the K.P...... More
![Item #4212 [Prairies, Arctic] Traders Boats Running Rapids Athabasca River. Charles Wesley Ernest...](/pictures/thumb/4212.jpg?v=1659119003)
Edmonton, AB: Ernest Brown. An 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver photograph by the celebrated Edmonton photographer, C.W. Mathers. Photo is titled and numbered in negative "289 Traders Boats Running Rapids Atha. Riv" and "Photo by Mathers, Edmonton" with Ernest Brown's embossed stamp recto and rubber stamp verso. Brown took..... More
![Item #4198 [Prairies] Three Early 20th Century Theater & Band Performance Photos. Gibson, Howdan,...](/pictures/thumb/4198.jpg?v=1659044162)
Saskatchewan ; Manitoba & ? Loose Photographs. Three gelatin silver photographs, two being stage images on postally unused, divided back postcard stock. 1. circa 1930s 5 x 6.5 inch photo from Mooseomin, Saskatchewan, featuring the swingin' Original Bell Boys Band, four men, the manager and one woman. Members are ID'd..... More
Spokane, WA: Knopp Brothers Studios, Inc., (c. 1968). Loose Postcards. Eleven 4 color halftone postcards from Knopp Brother Taxidermy in Spokane, Washington and one B&W halftone postcard from A.J. Brown of Oliver, British Columbia. All cards are in fine, postally unused condition. At time of listing, we have another set..... More
![Item #2471 [Land Claims] Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project : A Report Prepared by Milton...](/pictures/thumb/2471.jpg?v=1658779202)
Ottawa, ON: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, (1976). Paperback. Illustrated card wraps, three 4to volumes (12 inches [30.5 cm] tall), pp. [v.1 Land Use and Occupancy], 263, color frontis, 56 maps ; [v.2 Supporting Studies with photo essay by Terry Pearce], 287, maps 57-84 (some fold-outs), 20 tables ;..... More
![Item #4064 [Gold Mine] Reports of Mr. A. Michel and Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, on The Gold Region of...](/pictures/thumb/4064.jpg?v=1658609043)
Ottawa, ON: [G.S.C.], 1866. First Edition. Paperback. Issued one year before Canadian Confederation in 1867, this scarce Ottawa edition of "The Gold Region of Canada" is unusual and attractively suggestive in it's gold-colored paper wrappers. It was issued "probably in advance" to the regular 76 page French/English Montreal edition, at..... More
![Item #3913 [Prairies] "A Hot Summer Day" Near Fort Sask'n. Charles W. Mathers](/pictures/thumb/3913.jpg?v=1658538364)
Edmonton, AB: Charles Mathers, n.d. Loose Photograph. Titled in negative ' "A Hot Summer Day" Near Fort Sask'n. - 16 / Photo by Mathers '. Photo measures 7 x 9 inches wide, with a crease and tiny tear at upper right corner, small stains, an abrasion at right edge, verso..... More
![Item #4207 [Kootenay, James Bond] 1965 Star Weekly w. "Sexier than Girls" Aston Martin DB5 &...](/pictures/thumb/4207.jpg?v=1658434982)
Toronto, ON: Toronto Star Ltd., 1965. Paperback. The Toronto Star published their Saturday periodical the Star Weekly magazine from 1910 until 1973. This issue features the iconic "Sexier than Girls" James Bond 007's Aston Martin DB5 automobile, the Moyie paddlewheeler in Kaslo and The Rediscovery of the Kootenays. Printed paper..... More
Frank, AB: Playgrounds Motel, (c. 1950). Ephemera. A scarce piece of advertising ephemera with some interesting Kootenay content within the text. It tells of the small baby from the Leitch family whose parents were killed during the Slide. The baby (Marion Leitch) miraculously survived the slide's near-total devastation and "....... More
London: A.J. Stevens & Co., Ltd., 1949. Edition CM-8. Paperback. Manual for their 1949, 350 & 500 c.c. A.J.S. motorcycle. Printed paper wraps, 8vo (8.5 inches tall), pp. 92, illustrated w. exploded views and line drawings throughout, index. Volume w. fading, light wear and finger soil to covers, very occasional..... More