Rare books from Michael's Pride and Joys

Headley Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No writing. No foxing. gilt on front fading. Minor corner bumps to beveled edges FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED 1904 BY HEADLEY COMPLETE WITH ALL EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS. 182 PAGES. Size 18x13cms. Hard bound in red cloth with black titling and gilt illustration that is fading. Edges of red board bevelled and a little frayed. There is no foxing, another plus. I provide all this detail because it is an expensive and sought-after book a collector would like to have in best possible condition, and I believe this is the best on the world-wide web at the moment. I send it insured airmail. I DEBATED WHETHER THIS SHOULD BE GOOD OR VERY GOOD AND IT SEEMS SO MUCH BETTER THAN COPIES ON THE NET DESCRIBED AS VG THAT I DECIDED I WAS BEING TOO PERNICKETY AND GRADED IT VERY GOOD. ASK FOR AS MANY, AND AS DETAILED, SCANS AS YOU WOULD LIKE

Hard cover. Used - Very Good plus in Poor dust jacket. Book has coloured battle honours on front Dust jacket has split in two and has repairs at front . First printing. 171 p.; illus.; Published 1927-1932 and undoubted first printing This is the only regimental history of the 2nd C. M. R. It has 5 appendices: Decorations, Honor Roll killed, Honor Roll list of missing/POW, Nominal Rolls, Glossary. Lots of photos including one of John MacGregor V. C. M. C. and Bar, D. C. M. (the most decorated soldier in all of canada's army history ISBN 0969869983)

Original light-brown boards having longhouse and two totems in red and blue. 287 pages. illustrated by S. P. Judge. Frontis of Walkem is signed Yours truly WWymondWalkem in a single flourish. He was a well-known author of early B.C. books. This book relates stories of pioneers and pioneer days of Indian troubles, Begbie, Fort Camosun, Fort Simpson in the 1840s, potlatch, and prospecting. Remarkable conditon.Not faded. Not bumped. Not foxed. LOWTHER 1621. Small ownership label inside front board

FIRST EDITION, solidly bound in green with four-colour illistration to front and gilt to spine. Book probably grades Very Good for age but has a corner bump you see on scan. Top and bottom of spine have the usual wrinkles, but other wise the book has no substantial defects. The frontis still has the full tissue-protection. All 20 plates are presnt and correct with no defects. General mild toning. Overall dull looking

Author (Biographical Note Author) John Forsyth, Provincial Archivist, signed this book on September 18, 1923 as a gift to Mr. Henderson (a local.) But for the signature, I would grade the book Fine or NEAR FINe with gentle paper toning. My copy is in hard cover with bevelled edges. The archives also published a soft-cover version in larger print run
Archives of B.C. published a number of Memoirs. This is #5. I have for sale #1 First Circumnavigation of Vancoucer Islad, #iv House of Assembly Correspondence. #vii Assay Office and Proposed Mint, #viii Colonial Postal System and Postage Stamps. and #ix Overlanders of '62. Some signed

NEAR FINE Signed and dated to member legislative commission by the editor John Hosie (PROVINCIAL LIBRARIAN AND ARCHIVIST) Brown linen? effect boards with black titling and beveled edges. Smooth cut top edges and untrimmed edges side and bottom. xiii+174+2 pages 22 illustrations 174 appendices/notes. very neat and has the strengthening strips front and back that I have seen on all copies and assume are a part of the publishing process. The book is in near perfect condition, but because the board has a small corner bump and some tinmy discoloration marks you may be able to see on the scans, I do not grade it FINE.
It is Memoir #ix of that early series published by the archives. See my listings of #1, 5, 8

You get both volumes 1 and 2. Both in leather or leather-like binding as new and fresh as the day they were born. Maps diagrams layout of town of Granville, map of Vancouver fire. Privately published in 1932 by Major J.S. Matthews (City Archivist) "Copyright of Provincial Archives of British Columbia). A treasure of a survivor and in perfect gift quality. Some mystery exists over Matthews's work. Each of these volumes has a stereo-signed foreword by Matthews dated March, 1932. (He dies 1970) The foreword of volume 2 reads. "Early Vancouver" Volume Two. Its Reproduction--Five Copies "Early Vancouver, as in 1959.
Research indicates that Volume One was commenced in 1931 and consisted of two books, one in original typescript, which is in the city archives, a carbon copy was presented in 1932 to the Vancouver Public Library. Volume Two was commenced in 1933 and consists of an original typescript, also in the city archives, and two carbon copies....Inexperience was the cause of insufficient copies of "One"… Read More

SIGNED JUSTICE R on the front free end page and thus signed by author Rayne; as Dictrict Commissioner, Rayne was directly responsible to the governor for the administration of justice (divorce, marriage, thievery, homicide) in Ziala District, a region in the north-west of then British Somalia.  This is the first edition of a scarce book that gives an insight into colonial administration in British Somalia early 1900s. Book finishes with an account of author's dealings with the Mad Mullah (1919). That Was the first occasion on which the RAF was used for colonial policing. Group Captain Gordon led a squadron of twelve De Havilland DH9s, transported on HMS Ark Royal.  Book is in GOOD plus condition with 12 plates. The frontispiece is tissue-protected. Note rubbing on spine.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1916Used - Very Good, Usually ships in 1-2 business days, First edition. FIRST EDITION. Hard cover. Little, Brown (1916) Good. HARD BOUND IN RICH BURGUNDY COLOR BOARDS WITH FADING GILT ON SPINE. SEVERAL GIFT INSCRIPTIONS ON FRONT END PAGE. Remarkable survivor that has no internal defects. Minor color rubs and overall very good to fine for age 706 p. Includes diagrams. An extremely rare first edition

NEW hardbound isbn 0824032373 first edition and presumed first printing. IMPECCABLE PERFECT UNTOUCHED Suspect this was issued without a dust jacket. Doctprate study by Katheryn Linduff with 39 plates of charts, maps, and illustration
My scanner produces shadows that chould not be there

OUTSTANDING QUALITY. An incredible survivor like new with name on fep. Otherwise about fine. Fold-out Colored map Department of Indian Affairs 1900 showing territory ceded under treaty no. 8 and the Indian tribes therein) in perfect condition. A host of other illustrations. Frontis is tissue-protected (both perfect). Errata slip tipped in. Front of boards incredibly fresh in gilt with two b/w photos inset. Printed on laid paper. Original printed cloth, pictorial onlay to front cover. Near fine. Peel 2004 . NOTE: PUBLISHER OMITTED TO INCLUDE A 2-PAGE ACCOUNT OF TRAVEL AND PROVIDED IT AS A LOOSE ADDITION. WITHOUT THAT "OMISSIONS PAGE" A FIRST EDITION WOULD BE INCOMPLETE. MY COPY HAS THAT PAGE. Mair was secretary of the commission negotiating the 1899 Peace River treaty

Tissue-protected frontis. 312 pages plus ads at back. There is a large coloured fold-out map that is only GOOD with small tear IN THE BLANK MARGIN Large number of illustrations; every one checked and present in near-fine condition. Nine appendices. A terrific book. Front blue board with gilt illustration. Gilt titling etc on spine.. Corners bumped. No writing. Black front end paper stretches across inside board and page, as it should, and is cracked down centre but not open. That sound worse than it is. All it means is that the white shows along the crack.
Account of a journey through the Chilkoot Pass to Klondike and down the Yukon River to St. Michael, and two-month residence among the Tchuktchis

The entire series is of 20 volumes. I offer volumes 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16 at 17.00 each. Or the lot for $100.00 plus the actual cost of shipping. This is the ELIBRON reprint as described by Amazon. The series was originally published in Canton, starting 1832, in English, for the information of missionaries and others about China, its history, its diaspora, and all things Chinese. Typical page count is 500-600 per volume. Different iSBNs for each volume. The depth of coverage is amazing. Vol 6, (sorry, sold) for example covers period may 1837 to April 1838. Its chapters include Prospects of China+(then 300 mio people) Coast of China, Embassis to China Central Asia (Uzbek Turkestan etc) Ophthalmic hospital at Canton,, Opium trade, Canton C of Commerce, Christian missions, Topography of Bankok, Historical account of China CAmerican consular est in east asia, Central Asia Bokhara and kokan, , Education, , Mission to Dayaks. Penang. Singapore schools. Orphan Asylum. HMS (HBMS) Raleig… Read More

From the stacks (non-circulating) of a library, published as a soft cover and later rebound in this hard cover by the library because of its historical importance toi British Columbia. The sub-title is "The Story of Walter Moberly and his share in the making of Vancouver," and the authors are stated to be Noel Robinson and "THE OLD MAN HIMSELF." Walter Moberly (1832–1915) was a civil engineer and surveyor who played a large role in the early exploration and development of British Columbia, including discovering Eagle Pass, now used by the CPR and the trans-Canada highway. His laid out the streets for the community of New Westminster and helped construct the Dewdney Trail across the coast range from Hope to the Okanagan and a section of the Cariboo Road to provide access to the gold fieldsIn 1865, he was appointed Assistant Surveyor General of British Columbia.The book was published in 1915 by the News-Advertiser in Vancouver. It has 118 pages and includes 43 in-text photographs of peoples and… Read More

The name 'Babcock' is on fep in easily-erasable light pencilling. I have not removed it because it is a Boston name.Reverse of copyright page states 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by LUTHER S. CUSHING In the clerk's office etc. Printed by William and Reynolds of Boston in 1845 and bound by Nourse an Remick, Binders, Boston (their label inside front board) and authored by Luther Stearns CUSHING (1803-1856) Born Lunenburg, Mass. Graduated Harvard Law School 1826 as sole such graduate. 1832 Clerk of the House of Representatives; 1844 Member of State Legislature; Judge in Court of Common Pleas; and then "Reporter of Decisions. This historically-important book was given to me by my parliamentarian sister, whose name appears on small label on front board.My book is protected by strong transparent plastic with my sister's name on the plastic. This book printed by Samuel and Dickinson of Boston and published by Reynolds of Boston. It measures 6" x 4". with ribbed spine bearing a… Read More