Natal, BC. Business Card. The undated business card of Mr. Cyril (Curly) Masi of the Kootenay Hotel in Natal, B.C. - now an east Kootenay, coal mine ghost town. Verso printed with the Kootenay Lake Ferry Schedule, Canadian Customs Hours and "Come to the Elk Valley for an Elk". Old..... More

Kaslo, BC: n.p., 1909. Newspaper. A single issue of The Kootenian newspaper, previously extracted from a bound volume, with uneven toning and fold line tears, tall folio (23 inches tall), pp. [4] illustrated w. ads, no publisher noted. A Fair to Good Only copy. The Kaslo Kootenian was established in..... More

Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1928. Paperback. A single issue of this climbing journal, highlighting climbing Mt. Robson, Mt. Baker, Shuksan and Glacier Peak, preparations for next year's Canadian Rockies trip, club year end reports and the 1928 membership list. Printed heavy paper wraps, staple-bound and illustrated throughout, 4to size (10.25..... More

Aldergrove, BC: Alder Grove Heritage Society, (1993). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Vol 1 : 1993 ; Errata List : 2000 ; Vol 2 : 2001. Green faux-leather over boards, title stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, map endpapers, 4to (11 inches [28 cm] tall), pp. v1: xviii..... More

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

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

Kelowna, BC: B.C. Tree Fruits Limited, [1956]. Map. Printed map showing the official growing districts of B.C. Tree Fruits Limited - from Keremeos in the southwest to Kamloops and Salmon Arm in the north and Creston in the southeast - on the verso of a 1956 BC Tree Fruits letterhead..... More

Vancouver: Bailey Bros. circa 1890s. Mounted Photographs. An uncommon, 19th century midwinter photo of the Glacier hotel and railway station, and the towering Illecillewaet Glacier, captioned in negative along lower edge "X 748 Glacier Hotel and Glacier, C. P. R., Selkirks, Midwinter. Bailey Bros., Photo., Vancouver, B.C.", measuring 7.75 x...... More

Ottawa, ON: National Museum of Man / National Film Board, 1974. Paperback. A students history of anti-Oriental sentiment in British Columbia and Canada, accompanied by thirty slides offering diverse visual profiles of the Chinese and Japanese presence with associated political aspects. The last 7 slides, numbered 24-30, show the internment..... More

Vancouver, BC: Canadian Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924. Paperback. "Prints what the Trade and the Motorist want to Read." Side stapled glossy wraps, tall 4to (12 inches tall), pp. 56, illustrated throughout. Volume is worn and soiled with short splits to spine, small losses to fore-edge of bottom cover..... More

New Westminster, BC: The Literary Society of Columbian College, 1911. Paperback. A prewar WW I edition, being vol. 8 no. 6 - May 1911 of the Lux Columbiana student magazine, predating the earliest copies [1913/14] found online in the New Westminster Archives pamphlet collection. Saddle stapled printed wraps, 8vo (9-1/4..... More

Victoria, BC: British Columbia Government Travel Bureau. Loose Photographs. Five gelatin silver photos, all 8x10 w. white borders. Published in the 1950s and 1960s, these press photos were produced by the Provincial government to entice motorists to "hit the road". This meant using their personal automobile and the new provincial..... More

[Vancouver, BC]: British Properties Limited, [1939]. Paperback. Cover title continues "Overlooking the Blue Pacific" ; date of 1939 from the Leonard Frank photo (No. 22503) featured on p. 2 "Lions Gate Bridge on completion, crossing First Narrows, Vancouver, B.C., harbour, 1939", see p. 161 in "An Enterprising Life : Leonard..... More