London: Hutchinson, (1979). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Black paper over boards with title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (8-3/8 inches tall), pp. 224, stated first edition. Volume with spine ends softened and slight bumps to corners. Price-intact DJ with minor edge wear and start of age toning..... More
Surrey, BC: Antonson Publishing, 1976/1977. First Edition. Paperback. The First and Second Annual Editions - 1976 and 1977. Illustrated card covers, 11" x 8-1/4", pp.111, Bibliography and Sources, Index, B&W photos, illustrations and maps throughout. The 1976 issue has one light reading crease near spine. The 1976 issue contains 27..... More
Cupertino, CA: Apple Computer, Inc., (1989). Spiral Bound. Three volumes in printed wraps ; 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. [vol 1 LaserWriter - copyright 1988] xvi, 152 ; [vol 2 HyperCard - copyright 1989] xviii, 258, fold-out quick reference card ; [vol 3 HyperTalk - copyright 1989] viii, (xiv blank)..... More
Oakland, California: AK Press/ Rebel Folk Press, 2004. Agent Custard (art work). First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wraps, 8vo, pp. x, 116, stated first edition. Signed by the elusive Agent Apple on title page with inscription that reads "To Suzy and Earl - Pie 'em all & let God sort 'em..... More
![Item #1300 [1929 Stock Market Crash] Industrial Securities. Hermann F. Arens](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1300.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1562602051)
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. 50, [56], tables. Covers with light wear and stains, small chips and creases, a few text pages noted with pencil underlining. Volume 8 in a 20 volume..... More
London: Partridge, n.d. [1916]. Ernest A. Aris. Hardcover. Brown paper over boards, title and decorations printed onto color paste-down of upper board, 16mo (5-3/4 inches tall), illustrated front and rear pastedowns, unpaginated (2 - 10 leaf gatherings, with first and last leaves used as pastedowns and all color illustrations bound-in)..... More
New York: George H. Doran, (1927). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, 12mo (7-5/8 inches tall), pp. 317. The first edition, with "Copyright, 1927", publisher's device and "A" on copyright page. Volume with light rubbing to..... More
![Item #4346 [Yukon] Circa 1942 Alaska Highway Christmas Gag Card. Army Corps of Engineers?](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4346.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673810403)
Alaska: n.p. [Army Corps of Engineers?], [1942]. Ephemera. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Army Corps of Engineers started and finished building 1600 miles of highway to Alaska. The 10,000 strong Corps did it in just over eight months with much help from Canadians. This humerous Christmas greeting..... More
![Item #902 The Rocky Mountains of Canada in Color [cover title] (Banff, Jasper, Rockies)....](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/902.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1562602043)
Montreal: Associated Screen News, c. 1960. Paperback. Metal spiral-bound book with 18 colour images of the Rocky Mountains to recto, oblong 8vo 8-1/2" tall, unpaginated. Light wear to cover edges. Associated Screen News also produced travel films in cooperation with the National Parks Branch. More
Montreal, QC: Associated Screen News Ltd., c. 1920. Loose Photograph. A circa 1920, mammoth size (16 x 20 inches wide) gelatin silver photograph of eight horse-drawn, four-in-hand threshing machines harvesting a prairie field. Photograph is slightly cockled with a small crease in the upper left corner, verso with the rubber..... More
Litor Publishers Ltd., Brighton/Danny Books, Montreal, [1963]. Wilson, Ben. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial laminated boards, 4to (12-5/8 inches tall), B&W illustrated endpapers, unpaginated, illustrated throughout with color lithographs printed by Hälsingborgs Litografiska AB., Sweden. Spine present but held on by clear tape, top half of ffep torn along..... More
New York, NY: Department of Education - Russell Sage Foundation, 1917 [1926]. Folding Chart. Leonard Porter Ayres was an American educator, soldier, and statistician who organized the Division of Statistics for the military during WWI and held the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Army. ref. wiki. Handwriting..... More
![Item #3729 [Pre-Flood Aerial Photo-Map of Kootenay Region, B.C.] Columbia River Developments :...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617567842)
British Columbia: B.C. Hydro, 1960. Sheet Map. Sheet No. 7 - with "Hunting Survey Corporation Limited / West Coast Division" printed at lower left margin - in B.C. Hydro's Columbia River Developments : Arrow Lakes series having "Date of Photography June-July, 1960" stated at bottom right hand corner. Large photo..... More
Vancouver, BC: B.C. Hydro Power Authority, 1973. Paperback. Side stapled printed card wraps, 4to (11 inches [27.9 cm] tall), pp. (i) [submission letter], 21, 2 fold-out color maps. Front cover with a few pink a dots and rubber stamp, else unmarked. A report outlining BC Hydro's need for a 500..... More
Vancouver, BC: B.C. Hydro Power Authority, 1973. Paperback. Side stapled printed card wraps, 4to (11 inches [27.9 cm] tall), pp. (i) [submission letter], 28, three maps, one being a fold-out at rear. Front cover with a faint ink stamp, else unmarked. A report outlining BC Hydro's need for a 230..... More
Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, 1910. Flexible Card. Red decorative cloth over stiff card covers, title stamped in gilt onto upper cover and spine, 16mo (6-1/4 inches tall), pp. L, 496,(plus an index to the streets of Brussels which is bound in between p. 50 & the foldout map preceding p...... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929. Twelfth Revised Edition. Limp binding. Red blind-stamped cloth over stiff card covers, title stamped in gilt onto upper cover and spine, 16mo (6-3/16 inches tall), pp. lxiv, (Index to the Plans of Vienna [16p.]), 518. Marbled edges, 80 maps and plans, 2 panoramas, bound-in ribbon marker..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1887. Sixth Edition, Revised and Augmented. Hardcover. Coral cloth over stiff card covers, title stamped in gilt onto upper cover and spine, marbled edges, 16mo (6-1/4 inches [16 cm] tall), pp. xvi, 441, numerous illustrations and fold-out colour maps, bound-in ribbon marker, yellow endpapers, front pastedown with..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1927. 13th Revised Edition. Limp binding. Red blind-stamped cloth over stiff card covers, title stamped in gilt onto upper cover and spine, 16mo (6-1/8 inches tall), pp. xxxv, [xxxvi], 612. Marbled edges, 65 maps, 19 town plans, 11 panoranas, two bound-in ribbon markers, map illustrated rear endpapers..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1883. 10th Edition. Flexible Card. Red decorative cloth over stiff card covers, title stamped in gilt onto upper cover and spine, marbled edges, red ribbon marker, 16mo (6-1/4 inches tall), pp. lvi, 450, yellow endpapers with ads on front pastedown dated "Février 1883", 14 maps and 28..... More
![Item #4647 [Aboriginal Fisheries] 1890s Photograph - Canyon on the Fraser Near Spuzzum. Bailey...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4647.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691795822)
Vancouver, BC: Bailey Brothers, 1890s. Mounted Photograph. An original 1890s albumen silver salts print by the Bailey Brothers of Vancouver, British Columbia, measuring 6-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches wide, mounted onto card and titled in negative along bottom edge "599 - Canyon on the Fraser Near Spuzzum". Photo is a little..... More
![Item #4090 [Indigenous, Rockies] Photograph of Cree Indian Camp Medicine Hat, Alberta * mounted...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4090.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652489262)
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 -..... More
![Item #4609 [Hawaii] Surf Riding at Waikiki. Photo by Baker - Honolulu. Ray Jerome BAKER](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4609.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689983643)
Honolulu, HI: Ray Jerome Baker, c. 1920. Loose Postcard. A great Baker image, capturing some early Hawaiian surfing in Waikiki. A silver gelatin photograph developed onto undivided back postcard stock (RPPC) measuring 3.5 x 5.5 inch wide, postally unused w. some toning to verso. The stamp box configuration dates this..... More
Salmo, B.C. Self-published, 1984. Paperback. Illustrated card covers, 4to (11 inches tall), pp. 80, illustrated with how-to line drawings, B&W and color photos throughout. Faint creases and light wear to covers with Kootenay Stone Building web address in ink at head of upper cover, else clean and unmarked. More
Ottawa, ON: National Museum of Canada, 1947. Arthur Lismer. First Edition. Paperback. Saddle stapled illustrated wraps, tall 8vo (9-3/4 inches tall), pp. v, 59, contains musical scores illustrated with B&W line drawings. A few light marks to front cover, else unmarked. A great collection of Canadian Folk-Songs, mostly preserved at..... More