James D Hilborn (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. Pages are slightly tanned. Dust jacket worn at spine and tips, with a 1 inch tear to middle of spine. New archival mylar dj cover. 26 cm. 278 pages. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. ix, 278pp with index and illustrated bio-sketches of contributors. Illustrated with archival bw photographs and twenty-four indexed colour plates. Light grey endpapers. Deep blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Photo illustrated DJ clean showing moderate wear to head and minor wear to tail of DJ spine. DJ now preserved in archival cover. Quarto: 26 x 21cm. Contributors include Ernest C. Manning, Arthur Laing, Jean-Luc Pepin, Dr. J.C. Sproule, Charles Hay, Dr. G.W. Govier, Robert A. Brown, Jr., Carl O. Nickle, Glenn E. Nielson, A. Digby Hunt and Dr. H.W. Woodward, Charles S. Lee.…

Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 1st edition, quarto, 278pp, photo illustrated in color and in b&w. Hardcover in blue cloth. Internally unmarked, sound hinges, tight, square binding. No wear to the blue cloth. Dustjacket a little, minor wear to spine and edges. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 962g befoe packing. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is very good with very slight edge wear and slight spotting to cloth at the lower front cover in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear and chipping at the head of the spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 278 pages, "24 color plates - scores of black-and-white illustrations"; book in rich blue cloth with very bright and clear silver gilt lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf or reading wear, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white, just missing that crisp newness of a fine copy; DJ rubbed and creased, numerous tiny chips, two short tears to back flap top. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for Allan Anderson's Roughnecks & Wildcatters, and of related interested, A Tradition of Service: A History of Consumers Gas.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 26 x 20.5 cm 278 pp blue. Subjects; Canada Petroleum industries to date. 1 Kg.

[no date], 1st edition. (Cloth, 4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 1968pp. Missing DJ.

[no date], 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 1968pp. 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 278 p. 25.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Upper fore-corners are bumped. A little light soil the boards. Tiny dot on bottom edge of text block. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has rubbing to the corners and edges, heavier to the upper fore-corners. Both panels have a little light soil. Individually authored essays that tell of the discovery of petroleum and the rise of the oil industry in Canada up to the time of publication. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 26 x 20.5 cm 278 pp blue. Subjects; Canada Petroleum industries to date. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 278 pp, index, plates. Dj rubbed and stained, chips and tears along edges. Lightly bumped corners. Interior unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Canadian Oil and Gas Industry '. Premier E.C. Manning writes the preface to this 278 page volume. INDEX at back. LEARN more about : independents, ice conditions, Arctic Archipelago, Precambrian Shield, William Stewart Heron, basin, well exposed rocks, tar sands, business, natural gas liquids, proved reserves, exploration, and Energy Board. Various writers including : Lawrence F. Jones, G.W. Govier, R.A. Brown and Charles S. Lee contributed a chapter each. Most photographs are in b/w but some like the one on page 172 of a G.C.O.S. installation is in colour. Cond : Boards are blue with silver gilt titling at spine. Baby blue end-papers. White and blue dust jacket shows oil being burned from a flare pit. Volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. No names nor marks. D.J. is edge rubbed else bright and clean. Almost giftable ! ! QUote (p. 59) : "._._. to have the option to acquire equity in the company at a reasonable price if the company was successful, 1952 to 1954 onward, (d) the sale of preferred stock and ._._._. . ". B/W Photographs (illustrator). …

[1968], 1st edition. (4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Maps, charts, black and white and color photographs, portraits, index. The dust jacket is worn. Edited by James D. Hilborn. Locale: Canada; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Business, Oil Exploration, Petroleum Industry).…

[1968], 1st edition. (4to) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 278pp. Black and white and color photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, index. Dust jacket is rubbed. Locale: Canada; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Business, Oil Exploration, Petroleum Industry).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: sl/worn. 4to pp. viii 278 color and b/w illus., maps, charts, colorful personalities in the industry, profiles, index. book.