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Pandemic Spotlight: Canadian Doctors at the Front of the COVID-19 Fight, Hanomansing, Ian. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Madeira Park, BC, 2022. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 242pp., with index. As new with a light mark to front cover.

Pandemic Spotlight: Canadian Doctors at the Front of the COVID-19 Fight, Hanomansing, Ian. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Madeira Park, BC, 2022. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 242pp., with index. As new with a light mark to front cover.

Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe: Four Weeks That Shaped a Pandemic, Dr Bonnie Henry, Lynn Henry. Published by Allen Lane, Canada, 2021. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 207pp. Blue boards with black spine titles. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in unread, unmarked condition. Dr. Bonnie Henry has been called one of the most effective public… Read more

The Great Plague in London, Walter George Bell, introduced by Belinda Hollyer. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2001. Black pictorial cloth, gilt spine titles, illustrated endpapers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 256pp. with black and white and colour illustrations and plates; fold out facsimile of The General Bill of Mortality for 1665; index. In fine, unread condition; lacks slipcase.

Blue Heaven: Encounters with the Blue Poppy, Terry, Bill. Published by TouchWood Editions, Victoria B.C., 2009. First Edition. Card covers with French flaps. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 184pp. with index. In fine, unread condition. Bill Terry-a leading North American authority on Asiatic Poppies-tells the story of the enchanting Himalayan Blue Poppy. It begins in 1924 in Tibet, where the renowned… Read more

The Expiring Continent: A Narrative of Travel In Senegambia, With Observations On Native Character, The Present Condition And Future Prospects of Africa And Colonisation by Mitchinson, Alexander, William. Published by London: Wm. H. Allen And Co., 1881. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. pp. viii, 469. Tipped in folding map of Senegambia backed on linen and 16 full page… Read more

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costumes and Scenery, By Frank S. Marryat, late midshipman from H.M.S. Samarang, surveying vessel. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London, 1848. First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; Pp. (4), [v]-viii,[1]-232, colour chromolithograph frontispiece, colour-illustrated engraved title page, 20 leaves of chromolithograph plates, 37 woodcuts to text. Bound… Read more

Tree: A Life Story, Suzuki, David; Grady, Wayne; Bateman, Robert (illustrator). Published by Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2008. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., 190pp. with index; illustrated. Brown boards with black titles, yellow endpapers. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in fine, unmarked condition; likely an unread copy. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast… Read more

The Home Radio How to Make and Use It, Verrill, A. Hyatt. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1922. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 105pp with diagrams; rear ads; laid in T. Eaton Co. advertisement supplement for radio sets and parts. Dark yellow pictorial cloth, printed in blue. In very nice condition; ghost mark to… Read more

The Body: A Guide For Occupants, Bryson, Bill. Published by Doubleday, Canada, 2019. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 450pp., illustrated. Blue boards, with gilt spine titles. Spine lightly cocked and otherwise both volume and unclipped jacket are in fine, unmarked condition

Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, Paolo Soleri. Published by The MIT Press, New York, October, 1973. First MIT Press Softcover Edition, (stated). Illustrated card covers. Oblong 15¾" x 9" tall., 121 double pp. Full page illustrations throughout in black and white. In very good condition: card covers have rubbing and light creasing; inked name to free endpaper,… Read more

Gaia Star Codex: Seeds of a Turned-On World. Published by Pomegranate Communications, 2001. Boxed set with 64 illustrated cards, a 16 x 20" map, and a 104pp. instructional book. Designed for spiritual guidance, meditation, healing, and empowerment. Each image was created by taking a photograph of a natural element (a leaf or a feather, for example) and digitally rearranging… Read more

Pig City Model Farm: A Handbook on Architecture and Agriculture Kovitz, Rob. Published by Treyf/Coach House Press, Toronto, 1992. Card covers. Non paginated, includes black and white photograsm graphic and illustrations, notes and appendices. Light shelf wear to card covers, contents are in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. "If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will… Read more

Carnivorous Plants of the World, Pietropaolo, James; Pietropaolo, Patricia. Published by Timber Press, 1986. vi, 206pp. 16pp colour plates, text illustrations. Mustard cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Stamped name to free endpaper and otherwise volume is in fine condition; unclipped jacket has light scuffing and otherwise fine.

The English Rock-Garden, Farrer, Reginald. Published by T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1919. First Edition. 2 Volumes. 4to up to 12" tall; lxiv, 504, viii, 523pp., illustrated with 102 photographs plates. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Name and place (Scotland) to pastedown, light outer edge browning and otherwise contents are in fine condition. Striations to spine and… Read more

Galileo's Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth, Rowland, Wade. Published by Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto, 2001. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 350 pp. with notes, illustrations, index. Black boards with silver spine titles. In unread condition without markings, tears or folds; unclipped jacket also in fine condition.

Continental Dash The Russian-American Telegraph, Neering, Rosemary. Published by Horsdal & Schubart, Ganges, British Columbia, 1989. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 230 pp. Illustrated, maps, index. Light wear to covers and otherwise, in mint, unread condition. In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraph-the world's… Read more

High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered. Norris, Pat Wastell. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, 2003. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 232pp., illustrated. Volume and unclipped jacket both in fine condition without marks, tears, folds etc. "… an affectionate history of the West coast fishery -- the boats, canneries and characters that shaped this… Read more

Fishing for a Living, Haig-Brown, Alan. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, 1993. First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; 200pp, index, illustrated with black and white photos, charts etc. Volume and unclipped jacket both in fine condition without marks, tears, folds etc.. On the West Coast, catching fish is a way of life, celebrated in these writings,… Read more

Hemingway on Fishing, Hemingway, Ernest; Lyons, Nick. Published by The Lyons Press, 2000. . 8vo up to 9½" tall., 242pp. with bibliography, introduction by Nick Lyons and 32 black and white photographs. Quarter black over grey boards, white spine titles. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in mint condition. This collects Hemingway's short pieces on fishing including essays and, passages… Read more