Pixie Mcgeachie (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover book in dust jacket in Very Good++ condition, light edge rubbing to jacket, two long inscriptions on front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight edge wear otherwise very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 9780969282853. Trade Paperback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Signed by both editors on dedication page. Very slight wear to corners and edges; a few dog-eared pages; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good to Near Fine condition. No Signature.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 128 pages. Many b&w photos. Keywords: Burnaby History, British Columbia, Northwest, Canada, Native Indians, Loggers, Mills, Farms, Trains, Historical Photographs 2.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover. 199 pages, never before published letters of Robert Bunaby, a true Victorian English gentlemanwho took a chance to travel to the new colony of British columbia in 1858 to seek fortune and adventure. As the Private Secretary to Colonel Richard Clement Moody, Bunaby led exciting exploration expeditions into the wilds of modern-day Vancouver and Bunaby, the city which was to bear his name. Keywords: City of, Bunaby, Richard Clement Moody, British Columbia, Victoria, Canada, Vancouver.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY MAYOR WILLIAM J. COPELAND on the page with his picture as follows: "To Rod | & Grace Barnes | With Sincere | Best Wishes | From Mayor Bill Copeland | April 3 1993." In the same hand and ink the following is written on the front free endpaper: "To Dr Lewis." 4to. (29 cm.) 128p. Profusely (!) illustrated with color and black and white captioned photos. Bibliography and Index. Black paper over boards with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, gilt bright, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket is fine. A resident of Burnaby since 1947, Pixie McGeachie was editor of the BURNABY EXAMINER and has written many articles and two books, including on Burnaby. She was president of the Burnaby Historical Society and a member of the Burnaby Heritage Advisory Committee when this book was produced. Jim Wolf is a local historian who works with the Municipality of Burnaby as the Heritage Planning Assistant and has also served as Community Archivist with the Museum and Historical Society. A handsome and splendidly illustrated book.

Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (owner name) in fine dust jacket (in mylar).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large-format hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout, NOT ex-library. Clean condition with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright dust jacket shows minor handling wear.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Larger 8vo pp. 7 128. book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Small line on edge of e/p approx 1cm long. Front cover has few marks/stains. 108 pp. Contents include; first settlers at Deer Lake, The electric phenomenon, A beach for north Burnaby, A championship for Lady Cougars etc. Illustrated. Internally clean bright and tight.; 001885; 8vo.

8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 108. text illus. wrs. Second Printing.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Weaker Sex - Anna Ullman at Hazelton, B.C.; British Columbia's Greatest Marine Disaster - the foundering of the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Sophia in Lynn Canal in 1818 took 343 lives; The Case of the Stolen Church - St. Peter's Anglican of Windermere, B.C.; The B.C. Boomtown Phenomenon - most of them have now disappeared altogether; Coalmont-Blakeburn - Coal Dust Twins; The Copper Hoard of the Pewabic - the steamship Pewabic carried more than a hundred persons to a watery grave in Lake Huron; North to the Klondike - David Doig of Victoria headed north to service gold miners; Brief bio and photo of polio-stricken author Harold Fryer; Brother XII (Twelve) - a B.C. Character (one-page article); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.