Rolf Knight (49 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. 255p., very good condition in like dj. Stevens was a British Columbia fisherman and a leader of the United Fisherman and Allied Workers' Union.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Autobiography of Homer Stevens, a working fisherman and leader of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. 255pp, photo illustrated. A 'near new' copy, bright, clean and unmarked, in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Bright, fresh, unmarked. Weight, 550g. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.90 - $9.00 unless extra heavy/large. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be approx US$16.00 for weights up to 5kg total - boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate. NOW available - new, considerably lower Trans-Canada rates for many major markets, and, new, considerably lower rates for Overseas destinations. John Waldin (illustrator). …

Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Autobiography of British Columbia's Homer Stevens, who spent 50 years in the fishing industry both as a fisherman and as a labor leader in the United Fishermen and Allied Worker's Union. 255pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, about 'as new'. Weight, 550g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. No taxes on Canadian, American or Overseas Orders. Images always available. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. (CAD) presumed 1st Edition INSCRIBED by Dick Stevens (the author's son); "to P----/ on behalf of my father/ Dick Stevens", no other markings, about Fine in Very Good Dust jacket with light rubbing to the panels. Blue boards, 255pp. A few B&W photos. Stevens spent almost 50 years in the BC fishing industry and worked as a fisher and as a leader of the United Fisherman and Allied Workers' Union. (1.9 JM PLX 500/1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed. Association Copy. …

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback,NO highlighting or notes, has normal slight wear to edges, a smudge and faintly bent corners; otherwise, a tight copy. INV#H-35A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. dj has slight top edge wear and small nicks. Book is very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Anthropology papers from the National Museum, #15, includes note from Knight in his writing asking noted anthropologist Morton Fried to read section in the paper, written on deceased hotel King's Crown near Columbia University, 112pps, Fried's name and repaging of table of contents in ink. Some wear to covers and spine. 1st edn. Inscribed/ Signed by VIP othe.…

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

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good (+). Through 60 years of work, Ryuichi Yoshida has lived with the racism and exploitation which have been daily facts of life for Canadian immigrant workers. Condition notes: 135 numbered pp +1; MMPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. slightly sunned. Cover: orange wraps, b/w photo front, black titles front/spine; lt edge/shelfwear, spine a bit faded/rubbed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. STiff clean book with bookplate to front endpaper; in barely rubbed dust jacket.; 9 X 6.30 X 0.80 inches; 256 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: About 'As New'. 1st Edition. An account of two men - Ebe Koeppen & Arnt Arntzen - who worked in mines, logging and construction camps, on homesteads, farms and stump ranches in B. C. and other parts of Western Canada from 1912 on. 144pp, illustrated. This copy appears 'as new' except for a gift inscription to the title page. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media ail, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $8.00 depending on exact weight etc. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available if required. Overseas orders, Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An annotated bibliography of left wing novels dealing with the lives of working people during the 20th century. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Condition notes: (x), 360 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: red/black photo, red titles front, black titles spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, spine sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. pp.255 clean tight copy but former owner name on frontpiece and former owner name embossed to title page. book slightly cocked with slight wear to edges and corners, corners bumped Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. XLII, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Samuel Mines and Fanny Ellsworth. Cover art by Coggins. Includes "Turncoat" (short novel) by Damon Knight; "The Diploids" (short novel) by Katherine MacLean; "Mother" (novelet) by Philip Jose Farmer; "Trouble at the Training Table" by Lee Priestley; "Robert" by Evan Hunter; "Delerium on Deneb" by Rolf Martell; "Oasis" by Ralf Sloan. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?" by Dixon Wells. Letters from Theodore Sturgeon and Kedall Foster Crossen. Illustrated by Finlay, Emsh, and others. Tanned; tape at lower rear hinge; tears at spine ends; standard wear and tear at edges; creasing. Book. …

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Good. Softcover book 209 pages, 8.5 x 11 typescript format, stiff paper covers; overall condition Good+, rubbing to edges and corners, especially top and bottom of spine, internally clean and binding square and tight, light dampstain along lower edge does not affect text.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. None Stated. The June 1959 issue (v 16, # 6) of a sci-fi digest from the early 1950s. Stories by James Blish (This Earth of Hours - sort novelet), Isaac Asimov (Science: The Planet of the Double Sun), Lee Sutton, CS Lewis (An Expostulation - verse), Claud Cockburn, Grendel Briarton, Joseph Berger, Robert Arthur, Philip Jose Farmer (The Alley Man - novelet), Ken Rolf, Charles G Finney, & Robert F Young. Light edge wear. Small corner chip at the top right of the front cover. Light soiling to the rear cover. Small chip on the fore edge of the rear cover. Damp stain to the top edges of the pages. Lgiht toning to the pages. A good to very copy. Emsh, cover (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1968. Journals, North America, Native Americans. Anthropology Papers of the National Museum of Canada number 15. good+ white paper monograph 112p. 1/26.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1992, First Edition, Inscribed by author on title page, Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards, text block and edges are clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. Board corners are square. Gilt lettering on spine is bright and solid. Slight sunning on dust jacket. Homer was leader of the United Fisherman and Allied Workers' Union. Inscribed by Author(s).…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XLII, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Samuel Mines and Fanny Ellsworth. Cover art by Coggins. Includes "Turncoat" (short novel) by Damon Knight; "The Diploids" (short novel) by Katherine MacLean; "Mother" (novelet) by Philip Jose Farmer; "Trouble at the Training Table" by Lee Priestley; "Robert" by Evan Hunter; "Delerium on Deneb" by Rolf Martell; "Oasis" by Ralf Sloan. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?" by Dixon Wells. Letters from Theodore Sturgeon and Kedall Foster Crossen. Illustrated by Finlay, Emsh, and others. Creasing; rubbing; foxing; date stamp on front; tanning. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XLII, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Samuel Mines and Fanny Ellsworth. Cover art by Coggins. Includes "Turncoat" (short novel) by Damon Knight; "The Diploids" (short novel) by Katherine MacLean; "Mother" (novelet) by Philip Jose Farmer; "Trouble at the Training Table" by Lee Priestley; "Robert" by Evan Hunter; "Delerium on Deneb" by Rolf Martell; "Oasis" by Ralf Sloan. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?" by Dixon Wells. Letters from Theodore Sturgeon and Kedall Foster Crossen. Illustrated by Finlay, Emsh, and others. Losses to spine cover, here and there, totalling about 2". Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling, remainder mark bottom page edges, previous store's stamp back of front card cover.; A tight solid book.; B&W Photographs; 9.6 X 6.7 X 0.7 inches; 220 pages; "In Along the No. 20 Line, Rolf Knight takes the reader on a tour through working class East Vancouver of a century ago.Knight's "through line" is literally a line: the old No. 20 Streetcar Line that ran between downtown Vancouver and the present day neighbourhood of the Pacific National Exhibition. From 1892 to 1949, when it was shut down and replaced by the No. 20 Granville / Victoria Drive bus, the No. 20 line took thousands of Vancouverites back and forth from their East Van homes to their jobs along the waterfront, on the docks, in mills, factories and workshops.Knight's own recollections of growing up in an the East Vancouver waterfront squatter's community near the Ironworkers Bridge, and interviews with East Vancouver old timers, bring the city and the era to life.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Second edition, first printing. Near Fine- lightly rubbed and edgeworn trade paperback, light upper right front corner roll. A clean, cosmetically worn copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 4-15/16" x 8", iv + 317pp + 1p publisher's advertising. Includes the author's "Reply to a "Review" of This Book" as an addendum, which page has been erroneously printed & bound in twice. Printed on acidic groundwood paper and perfect bound in varnished printed card stock cover. Silverfish damage to fore edge of front cover. Otherwise, minor shelf wear to cover. Binding is square and tight. Previous owner's name in light pencil on title page. Pages are tanned but clean and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 6" x 9", xiii + 397pp. Perfect bound book in matte laminated printed card stock cover. Moderate shelf wear to cover, and the top fore corner is creased / lifted. Spine is gently cocked. Binding is tight. A bit of thumb soiling on fore edge. Some pencil underlining in text.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Anthropology Papers, National Museum of Canada, Number 15, March 1968. 112pp, tables, maps. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound, stapled binding. About 'as new'. Weight, 276g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. Anthropology Papers of the National Museum of Canada, No. 15. Laid in is a reprint of another Rolf Knight work regarding the Algonkian Indians. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Condition notes: (iii), 112 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. mildly sunned. Cover: cream wraps, brown titles and artwork front, plain spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, spine and edges toned. …