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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 191 pages. Many b&w photos. Seller Inventory # 114443
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex Library. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Nice copy in heavy, very strong green bucram covers. Seller Inventory # 119753
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition 1st Printing. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, flat spine, clean square & tight, 191 pages filled with b & w photos through-out, Very Good to Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. Contents include: In the Beginning / The First Explorers (1774-1808) / The Fur Traders (1808-1858) / Gold Along the Fraser (1858-1862) / The First Settlers (1862) / The Mills (1862-1867) / Gassy Jack (1867-71) / The Passing of the Giants (1871-80) / Gastown Days (1880-85) / The Birth of the City (1885-86) / Death & Rebirth (1886) / The Crossroads of the World (1887). Check out the scans. Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 011419
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Plates (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED: `The Pioneer Years 1774 - 1886 '. 91 pages of British Columbia history from Jose Maria Narvaez through to John `Gassy Jack' Deighton. Along the way meet Laura Hayes - first scoolteacher, Colonel Richard Clement Moody - Royal Engineers commander, and Sam Brighouse who petitioned for the municipality of Richmond. TEXT assisted by b/w plates. Read more about Hasting Mills store, Cordova Street, Earl of Granville, Santa Saturnina, False Creek, Chief of Police Stewart, Hells' Canyon, and Stave River. (book advert laid in.) Cond : Paper wrapper is white with turquoisey-blue lettering. Front cover graphic is an artist's concept of three loggers moving logs in the Fraser River. Corners, EDGES, and spine are all sharp. Binding tight, colours bright. No stains, names, creases, marks, nor tears. Giftable !! Quote (p. 119) : " In the same year, 1881, St. James Anglican church was built on the waterfront at Gastown and dedicated to Bishop Sillitoe of New Westminster. The first rector of the new church was the Rev. George Ditcham, and its organist Mrs. Alan McCartney, whose husband was ._._._. ." Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 007295
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. A like new copy of a scarce publication. Appears unopened and unread. Paperback, Sunfire Publications, 1984. B/W Plates. First printing. The Pioneer Years 1774 - 1886'. 191 pages of British Columbia history from Jose Maria Narvaez through to John `Gassy Jack' Deighton. Along the way meet Laura Hayes - first schoolteacher, Colonel Richard Clement Moody - Royal Engineers commander, and Sam Brighouse who petitioned for the municipality of Richmond. Read more about Hasting Mills store, Cordova Street, Earl of Granville, Santa Saturnina, False Creek, Chief of Police Stewart, Hells' Canyon, and Stave River. Front cover graphic is an artist's concept of three loggers moving logs in the Fraser River. Size: 12mo. We pack our books carefully and ship daily from the UK. Seller Inventory # ABE-1658237992669