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Vancouver : Stories of a City: A History of Vancouver's Neighbourhoods and the People Who Built Them
by Smedman, Lisa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
The Vancouver Courier, 2008. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 26x23x1. 2008 Vancouver Courier (Vancouver, Canada), 8 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches tall brown cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial map endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, index, 320 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~YY~ [3.5P] A local history which expands on a 12-part, award-winning series published by the Vancouver Courier in 2006-2007. Packed with historic photos, maps and illustrations, Vancouver: Stories of a City tells the tales of the Royal Engineers sent from England to police the gold rush, the real estate barons who made backroom deals to bring the Canadian Pacific Railway terminus to Vancouver, the Musqueam and Squamish First Nations peoples, and the immigrants from Europe and Asia who came by steamship, stagecoach and CPR train. The lively and often poignant sagas found in this work capture the lives of rich and poor, speculator and settler alike, covering the gamut of the early pioneers who wound up calling this city home.
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- YY-1032-13981
- Title
- Vancouver : Stories of a City: A History of Vancouver's Neighbourhoods and the People Who Built Them
- Author
- Smedman, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Vancouver Courier
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 26x23x1
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Flamingo Books
Biblio member since 2011
Menifee, California
About Flamingo Books
Flamingo Books specializes in scarce and unusual nonfiction books and ephemera, with an emphasis on the natural sciences, religion, law, history and antiquarian titles.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Poor
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- Rubbing
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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