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B C Studies No 6 7 Fall Winter 1970. Special Issue: Archaeology in British Columbia New Discoveries. Margaret Prang, Walter Young, Roy Carlson, (Editors) University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC. 1970. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 152 pp. Illustrated with charts and photos; includes and extensive bibliography of archaeology in the province. Light wear to covers with original UBC bookstore price sticker; contents are in fine condition without markings, tears or folds.

BC Studies, Native Geographies No. 138 & 139 Summer-Autumn 2003. Robert A. J. McDonald (Editor). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2003. The British Columbia Quarterly. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 224 pp. In mint, unread condition with the lightest of wear to front cover. This double issue honours one of North America's leading historical geographers, Cole Harris, and his award-winning book Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. It explores the ways that colonial discourse and the Western World have impacted First Nations and their processes of making space in BC.

BC Studies A Special Issue In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia No. 89, Spring 1991. Guest Editors Doreen Jensen & Cheryl Brooks. Published by University of British Columbia, 1991. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 169pp. In mint, unread condition. Doreen Jensen (1933 – 2009), also known as Ha'hl Yee, was a Gitsxan elder, artist, carver, activist and educator. This issue contains essays, art work and poetry.

BC Studies Special Issue Anthropology and History in the Courts, No. 95 Autumn 1992. Guest Editor Bruce G. Miller. Published by University of British Columbia, 1992. (A Quarterly Journal of the Humanities and Social Services). First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 112 pp. Light wear to covers; contents in fine, unread condition. This issue contains seminal articles, including Julie Cruikshank on the Invention of Anthropology in the context of title cases.

BC Studies No. 125 Autumn 1999. Cole Harris and Jean Barman (Editors). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 1999. The British Columbian Quarterly. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 120 pp. Light wear to covers; contents in fine, unread condition. Main essay: Treaty 8: A British Columbian Anomaly by Arthur J. Ray.

BC Studies, Ethnographic Eyes No. 125 & 126 – Spring/Summer 2000. Cole Harris and Jean Barman (Editors). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 2000. The British Columbian Quarterly. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 200 pp. In mint, unread condition. This double issue commemorates Douglas L. Cole, a noted British Columbian cultural historian, best known for his ground-breaking 1985 book Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts and for his documentation of the lives of collectors of ethnological artifacts.

BC Studies: British Columbia - A Place for Aboriginal Peoples? No. 57 Spring 1983. Margaret Prang, Walter Young, (Editors). Published by BC Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 1983. First Edition. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 147 pp. Light wear to front cover; contents in mint, unread condition. Features: Native Claims and Self-Determination; An Historic Events in the Political Economy of the Tsimshian - information on the ownership of the Zimacord District; The Conversion of the Port Simpson Tsimshian - Indian control or Missionary Manipulation?; British Columbia Indian Languages - A crisis of silence; Taking the Minister to Court - Changes in public opinion about Forest Management and their expression in Haida Land Claims; Fish, Politics and Treaty Rights - who protects salmon resources in Washington State?; "Authenticity" and the contemporary Northwest Indian Art Market; Native Indian Political Activity in British Columbia, 1969-1983; Too Weak to win, Too Strong… Leer más

BC Studies, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture No. 135, Autumn 2002. Robert A. J. McDonald (Editor). Published by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2002. The British Columbia Quarterly. Card covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 195 pp. In mint, unread condition. Dedicated issue to Aboriginal art and culture with articles, colour photoscapes, review essays, and an interview with Susan Point, Coast Salish Artist.

The Battle of Britain: The Jubilee History, Hough, Richard, Richards, Denis. Published by Guild Publishing, London/New York, 1990. 8" x 5". 413 pages including index, black and white photographs, charts and maps. Navy blue cloth boards with silver spine titles and photographic endpapers. Light wear to dustjacket; bump to top edge back board and a few pin prick size white spots front board; toning to the half title page and otherwise fine without marks, tears or folds. A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders knew that they had to defeat the Royal Air Force Fighter Command before they could invade the British mainland. Hough and Richards offer insight into how the British laid the groundwork for victory through aircraft research and production, the… Leer más

Battlefield Walks: Midlands, David Clark, Sutton Pub Ltd, Gloucestershire, 1993. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 177 pages. Card covers. Light crease to front cover and otherwise in fine condition without marks, tears or folds A collection of walks around the battlefield sites of middle England. In all 16 walks are presented, each including sketch maps, notes on transport connections and suggestions for further exploration. Famous myths, mysteries and legends associated with the battles are recounted.

Battlefield Walks: Scotland, David Clark, Sutton Pub Ltd, Gloucestershire, 1997. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 166 pages. Card covers. In fine condition without marks, tears or folds. Twelve walks around Scottish battlefield sites, from Robert the Bruce's victory at Bannockburn in 1314 to the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie's army at Culloden four hundred years later.

Battlefield Walks: The South, David Clark, Sutton Pub Ltd, Gloucestershire 1996. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 154 pages. Card covers. In fine condition without marks, tears or folds. A collection of walks around the battlefield sites of the South of England. In all 12 walks are presented, each including sketch maps, notes on transport connections and suggestions for further exploration. Famous myths, mysteries and legends associated with the battles are recounted.

Battlefield Walks: The North, David Clark, Sutton Pub Ltd, Gloucestershire, 1999. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 182 pages. Card covers. In fine condition without marks, tears or folds. A collection of walks around the battlefield sites of the North of England. In all 12 walks are presented, each including sketch maps, notes on transport connections and suggestions for further exploration. Famous myths, mysteries and legends associated with the battles are recounted

Beeton's British Gazetteer. Samuel Orchart Beeton Published by Ward Lock and Tyler, London. Circa 1870. "A Topographical and Historical Guide to the United Kingdom Containing Nearly Five Thousand Distinct Articles with the Correct Pronunciation of the Name of Every Place." 12mo up to 7½" tall. 284 pages plus 32 pages of publisher's ads. Beautifully rebound in thick leather boards with gilt title and banded spine; card stock pale yellow endpapers. Contents are in very good condition with a few inked names to original rear endpaper; light and occasional foxing and soiling. Samuel Orchart Beeton was an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs. Beeton and publisher of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. He also founded and published Boy's Own Magazine, the first and most influential boys' magazine.

Belle Starr "The Bandit Queen", The True Story of the Romantic and Exciting Career of the Daring and Glamorous Lady Famed in Legend and Story Throughout the West, Rascoe, Burton, Deputy Sheriff of Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma. Published by Random House, New York, 1941. First Edition/Stated First printing. 340 pages including a chronology and necrology from 1837 to 1924, a glossary of Western terminology, an extensive annotated bibliography plus index. Frontispiece of Belle Starr and 12 additional black and white illustrations and photographs. Gray cloth boards with red titles front and gilt titles blocked in red to spine, top edge stained red. Light soiling to endpapers and outside edges; text block fine without markings, tears, folds and pages remain bright. Light spine lean; binding and boards otherwise fine. Unclipped jacket has chips and tears and back flap is partially separated at hinge line.Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (1848 – 1889), was a notorious American outlaw a "Female Jesse James"… Leer más

The Beothuk Saga, Assiniwi, Bernard; Grady, Wayne. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 351 pp. with a Beothuk Lexicon, bibliography and map. Black boards, silver spine titles. Volume is in mint, unread condition; unclipped jacket in fine condition with lightest of top edge ruffling. In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland's now-extinct Beothuk people. Assiniwi traces the rise and fall of the tribe that settled Newfoundland during the time of the Vikings. Dr. Assiniwi, was a member of the Cree nation and famed in Canada for studies of its native peoples and for the monumental Histoire des Indiens du Haut et du Bas Canada (1974).

Biography of Samuel Pepys: Vol. 1- The Man in the Making, Vol. 11- The Years of Peril, Vol. 111- The Saviour of the Navy, Arthur Bryant.Published by Collins, London, 1949. Vol I, 1949. 436 pp., with Index; Vol II, 466 pp., with Index; Vol III 452 pp., with Index. Illustrated throughout. First 2 vols with mapped endpapers. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. In very good condition: boards have average wear; small address label to free endpapers with no other markings and without tears, folds etc. Lacks dust jackets.

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, Palmer, James. Published by Basic Books, 2009. 274pp. with maps, notes, bibliography and index. Quarter black over grey boards. In fine, unread condition and housed n a fine dustjacket.
The story of Baron Ungern-Sternberg, Russian noble and vicious anti-semite who conquered Mongolia in 1919. He dreamed of retaking Moscow, but had to content himself with ruthlessly oppressing the people under his domination. The barely believable story of a man who foreshadowed the Nazis in his combination of mysticism and genocidal violence.

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, Matthews, Chris. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2017. First Edition/First printing. Black boards, gilt spine titles, photographic endpapers, rough-cut fore-edge. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 396 pages including bibliography and index. Volume appears unread with the lightest of shelf wear to unclipped jacket. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother's administration and his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before and is destined to become a political classic.Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC's Hardball. He is the author of Jack Kennedy—Elusive Hero; Tip and the Gipper—When Politics Worked; Kennedy and Nixon; Hardball; and now Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit.

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Gladwell, Malcolm. Published by Little Brown and Company, 2021. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xiv, 240pp., illustrated. Blue boards with gilt titles. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.
In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia," asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?.