Sismey (20 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Owner gift message to paste down.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 128pp hardback, purple boards gilt in wrapper map end-papers frontispiece portrait and bw plates, signed by author to title page, bottom edge of wrapper over rear board curled. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Ron Sismey, The History Press Ltd. Hardback.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Oblong, colour illustrations, signed by Redivo on the title page. Light soil to the outer edges and light creasing from page handling. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears, light soiling and creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 28.2 x 22.3 x 1.2cm, wt850g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Illustrator.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 8.25 x 10.5 inches. 36 pages. Special colour edition with 4 full page colour plates by artist Irvine Adams. Staple-bound. Contents: Alert Bay by Eric D Sismey, The Lost Mine of Pitt Lake by N L Barlee, Cascade Gateway City by N L Barlee, Allison Pass Memoirs by Susan L Allison. Cover has wear along the spine both front and back where it is almost worn through. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. jacket is shelf rubbed and chipped. very little edge wear on boards. light tanning and marks. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. B/w photos. Maroon boards, gilt title to spine. Bump to base of spine. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

hardcover w dj. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED; VERY Good or better hardcover with Good dust jacket, minor wear and chipping to dust jacket, 8vo.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 38 pages. Features: The Now Generation - B.C. Conservationists Get Things Done; Helicopter Over Canada; Giant Atlantic Salmon of Newfoundland's Humber River; The Suicidal Duck; Fighting Witefish - The most exciting fishing in years; Saving lost plugs; A Trip to Remember - Largemouth Bass near Parry Sound; Three Best Flies for Big Trout; Good Bass Fishing in B.C. Lakes; Fishing Bruce County's Saugeen River; Spring Methods for Walleyes; Fishfood; Sturgeon from Sturgeon Falls; All Canada N.S.S.A. Skeet Team for 1967; Early Honda generator ad on back cover shows young lady watching TV in her rowboat; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Four center pages loose but present (and will be restapled if you request). A worthy vintage copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 200 pages. Features: Early days of Kelowna Hospital; Right Reverend A.J. Doull - First Bishop of the Diocese of Kootenay; Fort Vancouver, USA; Kenny McLean; Hugh Charles Catt - Lumby's First Magistrate; Tom Clarke - Pioneer Surveyor of Railroads and Highways; Grindrod Schools 1900-1976; Falkland, B.C.; Alexander MacDonell - pioneer stage driver and rancher; Nurse Warburton; Brief history of Noca Dairy, 1925-1975; Life on a B.C. Fruit Farm; J.G. Harris; Proposed Manning Park Expansion; Mrs. T.P. Upton; Herbert Hollick Kenyon; H.C.S. Collett; First Osoyoos School 1917; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: The Well-Trained Retriever is the Hunter's Best Friend; Atlantic Salmon Problem; Ontario ESOX for Expo Bound Fishermen; Hunting through the Ice; Ancient Fishing Hints and Tips; The Timpline; The Big One That Didn't Get Away; A Long Hard Look at Conservation in New Brunswick; Kokanee; How to Fillet Panfish; Pike on a Fly; Nice Honda Generator ad inside back cover;Travelall ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 34 pages. Features: 1961-1962 Simplified Hunting Regulations and Game Management Maps; Dr. James Hunter explains changes to Game Regulations and predicts hunter success for the fall; Carcass Care - illustrated guide to processing a deer carcass; Clay Chips - article with photos of shooters Doug. Reynolds, Laurie Parkes, Alex Shymkowich, Dick Hornby, and Jim "Reliable" Mathieson; Many nostalgic ads; Two at the Same Time - article on Tyee fishing, with photo of Eric Sismey with Mrs. Elsie Ahlquist and two large Tyee; One-page ad by the Department of Recreation and Conservation entitled "Ready for the Field?" provides six tips - suitable for framing; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 196 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: Dr. William John Knox 1878-1967 - beloved Doctor of the Okanagan; Chief Jack Alec; Pierre Louis - Okanagan Chief; Joseph B. Weeks (1877-1969); Enderby and District - from Wilderness to 1914; William Thomas John Bulman (1913-1969); Nigel Robert Cathcart Pooley; Louis Casorso; Harvey Boone; Scouting in Vernon - the first 20 years; Frederick Thomas Marriage; Lake View Hotel - First in Kelowna; Maggie Smith of Kelowna 1875-1959; First Okanagan School; Aircraft CF-AOM of Vernon; Mrs. C.G. Bennett; Reverend John Christie Goodfellow; Grace Worth, 1900-1910; Hedley; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this highly informative work.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Lost Morgan Mine (near Greenwood City); The Highest Judge in the Highest Court in the HIghest City in Canada - W.R. "Willie" Williams; Historic Hedley, B.C.; Gold Bullion at Twelve Fathoms - the Pacific went down in 1875 off Cape Flattery; The Money Shell - money used by native peoples of Western Canada was dentalium or higua, a sea shell; Letters from the North-West - Part I - A.R. Dyre was a young North-West Mounted Policeman who served in the wests from 1882 to 1885. Name atop front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Photo and brief write-up of G. Ed. Meade; Nice one-page illustrated fishing tackle ad by Harkley & Haywood Sporting Goods Ltd.; Fishing for Cohoes by the Clock at Little River near Comox; Nice one-page illustrated ad for salmon fishing tackle by Gibbs Tool & Stamping Works Ltd.; Photo of Don Walde and Cliff Hultgren of the Penticton Fish and Game Club; New Transportation Tool - the Jeep!; Chilcotin's Land of Too Much - article with photo of Bob Stewart of Nimpo Lake Lodge and guide Vic Blewett; Columbia River Hydro Development; Clay Chips - article including photo of Harold Woolley, Jack Radford and Jack Wiley, Bill Mills, Ed Kohlman, Ron Hartin, Doug Keer, Wm. Turner, Danny McDonald, Bill Peterson, Les Roblin, Rufe Gibbs, Walter Scott, Herb Sabine, Rod McIndoe, F.W. Clendenning, Jim Couse, Jim Logan, Bud McIntyre, Tom Held, Yvonne Benham, Elton Benham, Ray Yasui and his daughter, Mrs. Bob Giuliana, George Williams, and Ian Kennedy; Quarter-page illustrated ad for the "Pack Mule" mini-bike offered by Fred Deeley Ltd.; Photo of Parksville sportsman Howard Pettigrew with 22-lb steelhead from the Englishman River; Nice illustrated Lucky Lager ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Features: Treasure in Old Fairview - a vanishing western mining town and the chance discovery of a treasure by Canada West's publisher and an associate on one of the old sites in the ghost town; Bill Miner, The Hands Up Gentleman - an account of the celebrated train robber who frequented the interior country shortly after the turn of the century, a new look at an old subject; Otter Lake Site - exploring a now little-known but once renowned Indian camping ground in the North Okanagan; Allison Pass Memoirs - a synopsis of the fascinating memoirs of Susan L. Allison (1845-1937) a remarkable pioneer woman who helped settle the Hope, Similkameen and Okanagan districts (Part 1). 32 stapled pages. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent example. ; 4to.

Paperback. Condition: Good. G.K.L. (illustrator). First Edition. 284 pages. Includes sixteen-page index of the first twenty-nine issues of this report - an invaluable reference tool. Many reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. The dozens of articles include such titles as: Edgar Emeny; The Bassetts of Okanagan; The Okanagan Language; Hector Whitaker; The Story of the Postill Family; Max Herman Ruhmann; William (Bill) Ruhmann; The Joyce Hostel; Hugh Charles Musgrove Leir; Robert Carswell; Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Woods; Pioneer Canadian Nurse; William and Mary Rice; and many more. Year written on spine, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.