London: Over Seas Club, 1917. Paperback. Date from Britannia's flag-draped shield on the front cover. A patriotic printed paper booklet / certificate, printed in full colour, with "A Help to Victory on Empire Day from the Boys and Girls of the Empire" printed on the front cover. Oblong 24mo size..... More

Oklahoma City, OK: Daily Oklahoman, 1901. Map Illustrated Advertisement. A seminal promotional piece by an American oil company, offering a nascent map of the rich Spindletop drilling area in Southern Texas during it's proving and cash-raising stages. Published in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper in 1901 to encourage investors to "buy-in"..... More

Ottawa, ON: Government Printing Bureau, 1907. Paperback. A scarce federally issued informational pamphlet, with OCLC locating just four copies held institutionally, UBC (Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush collection) and LAC in Canada and UC Berkeley and the Library of Congress in the U.S. Stapled paper wraps, 12mo size (7 inches..... More

Tiburon, CA: Off The Wall, 1979. Designed by Ken Perry and printed by one of the legendary pressmen in the business, Levon Mosgofian owner and operator of Tea Lautrec Litho in San Francisco. Tea (Jazz Age slang for marijuana) Lautrec was the premier rock-poster printer of its day and produced..... More

Nelson, B.C. Wadds Bros. 1902. Mounted Photograph. A wonderful image capturing the latest machinery being used in a Mine Concentrator in Ymir, British Columbia. It is interesting to note that this Wadds Brothers work of industrial photojournalism predates Dorothea Lange and Lewis Hine's famous American industrial photojournalism work by about..... More

Hollywood, CA: n.p., c. 1925. Mounted Photos. Two sepia toned gelatin silver photographs, both signed in white ink to "Billie" by Walter Rogers, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inch wide and tipped onto thick paper measuring 8 x 10 inches wide. One photo has a faint crease to upper left corner..... More

[Nelson, BC]: [Nelson Daily News], 1951. Photograph. A nice bird's-eye view of the then-working Paradise Mine site, showing many of it's workers and period buildings. The Paradise mine is located in a high alpine basin below Mount Nelson near Invermere, British Columbia and was originally staked in 1899. An original..... More

Vancouver, BC: n.p., c. 1920. Photograph. A circa 1920, sepia toned gelatin silver (and very shaky) snapshot view of Vancouver's Stanley Park, Coal Harbour and Brockton Point "Taken from my room as I saw it after a glass of spirits" - or so reads the caption on verso, measuring 2.5..... More

Montreal, QC: William Notman & Son, 1887. Mounted Photograph. Caption and date of 1887 from the Notman Photographic Archives at McCord, who hold a glass plate negative of this image. CPR completed the transcontinental railway in 1885 and employed the Notman studio to photograph the countryside along the newly completed..... More

[New Westminster, BC]: n.p., c. 1930s. Mounted Photograph. Title from large sign on side of building. An original c. 1930s 8x10 gelatin silver photograph mounted on card, showing the PCT building in New Westminster, BC with their clock tower on the roof top, some period autos parked outside, a rubber-tired..... More

Spokane, WA: The Boughton-Robbins Co., [1914]. Paperback. A scarce view book, with OCLC locating just a single copy worldwide, that being held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec. Date from text "The death rate in 1913..." and "The new Davenport Hotel...", which opened in 1914. Saddle-stapled printed..... More

Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson Motor Company, [1951]. Paperback. Date from publisher's code at foot of back cover and parts offered inside. Original H-D accessories and maintenance catalog for all models, offering jackets, spotlights, windshields, fender tips, mufflers, motorcycle caps, leather saddlebags, riding clothing, seats, goggles, luggage carriers, sidecars, windshields, oil and..... More

Calgary, NWT: Boorne and May, 1888. Mounted Photograph. An original c. 1887-89 Boorne and May albumen silver salts photograph, captioned in negative along bottom edge "645. Field Hotel & Mount Stephen. Winter". Photograph measures 4.25 x 7.75 inches wide, with original album card mount backing hinged with Japanese tissue onto..... More