Salmon: Our Heritage by Cicely Lyons - 1969: The Story of a Province and an Industry

Canada: Mitchell Press, 1969. Book. Good. Hardcover. Lower corners lightly finger smudged else a clean tight copy. Includes errata slip. With 768 pages, a heavy book to ship..

Canada: Mitchell Press, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by the author and a separate inscription presented upon retirement from the BC Packers. Lower corners lightly finger smudged else a clean tight copy. Includes errata slip. With 768 pages, a heavy book to ship..

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Salmon: Our Heritage, the Story of a Province and an Industry, Lyons, Cicely. Published by British Columbia Packers Limited, Vancouver, 1969. First Edition. Signed to flyleaf by author; presentation slip laid in. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 768pp., with 39 appendixes, chronology, index; illustrated throughout. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine. Volume has light outer edge dusting and light rubbing to board edges; contents are in fine condition. Jacket has chipping to edges and stain marks front and spine.
Cicely Lyons first worked for the B.C. Packers in 1916 and became a fulltime employee in 1920. Her detailed history examines the first 100 years of the B.C. salmon industry in conjunction with the growth of B.C. as a province.

Vancouver, B.C.: British Columbia Packers. Good in Poor dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here is the carefully assembled and prepared account of what just one element of the abundant natural resources of the Pacific slope of Canada has done to encourage and sustain advancing civilization. This is the definitive history of what has always been the foremost part of Canada's fishing industry on the Pacific, the product of many years' work." - dust jacket. [xiii]-xvi, 768 pages. Colour and black and white photos, chronology, bibliography, index. Errata slip affixed to last page. Average wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Very heavy wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound example of this excellent history.; Sm 4to .