Watters Reginald Editor (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Light to moderate wear to boards and dust jacket. Binding cocked and/or rolled. Previous owner's inscription and stamp on front end page. Photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

- (illustrator). VG/Fair dw; tape stain on ffep from complimentary presentation card taped in, remainder mark line on bottom edge. Blue cloth, 576 pp inc. photo plate sections. Many choice short bits about B.C. - -.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Good cloth covered hardcover. First Edition. Nice copy with some shelf wear. Spine is scuffed slightly, slight bumping around the edges, Previous owner's bookplate on half title page, otherwise clean pages. B&W and color photographs throughout. Pictorial map endpapers. ; B&W and color ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 576 pages.

Condition: Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 576 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white and colour photographic plates; plate after page 434 noticeably torn and loose. Minor foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to second front free endpaper. Light cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A nice clean book, well illustrated throughout with black & white photos. Mapped eps , hsitorical map from 1798. Pale blue cloth covered boards with small indigenous drawing on front board and black title on spine. Minor rubbing to boards from shelfwear and a little bumping to spine ends. No other marks or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wear and minor tears to the dust jacket. Contributions by many notable names - PK Page, Dorothy Livesay, Pierre Berton, Emily Carr, Malcolm Lowry plus photos, maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black & White and Color Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket has edgewear, cloth covered text is very clean and well bound. 6.5 X 9.5" 576 pages Weight 1 Kg, Published 1958. End page maps. The five sections of this Centennial Anthology portray in words and pictures the varied life of British Columbia offering a representative sampling of everyday living from 1786 to 1957.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition 2nd Printing. Blue cloth hardback with small gilt decoration on front of cover and decorative spine, Map endpapers Numerous photographs, clean tight copy in good condition 576pp Illustrated Dust Jacket tears on edges acceptable condition First edition second printing June 1958 by McClelland and Stewart Ltd Heavy book therefore ONLY available for sale in the U K Book#06581.

Condition: VG condition, No Dust Jacket. Photos & Drawings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in light blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to a black panel on the spinethe, there is gilt decoration to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not called for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This copy of the first edition has a panel on the f.f.e.p. announcing that this copy is presented with the compliments of the British Columbia Centennial Committee. Laid in is a business card of L.J.Wallace the Deputy Provincial Secretary, Victoria, British Columbia. This book is a compilation of essays on the history, culture, and people of British Columbia. The essays are written by experts in their field and cover a wide range of topics, including the early days of the province, the fur trade, the Gold Rush, the railway, and the development of the province's economy. The book is divided into three sections: the first covers British Columbia's history from pre-contact to the early 1900s; the second covers the period from the early 1900s to the late 1940s; and the third covers the years since 1945. Ref ZZZ 4.

British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology (1958), edited by Reginald Eyre Watters. 576-page hardcover volume commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of British Columbia becoming a Crown Colony (1858-1958). The anthology serves as a comprehensive, illustrated literary time capsule documenting the province's development from a wilderness frontier to a modern province. A nice tight book, minor wear atop dust jacket. Signed by editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Watters, Reginald Eyre, editor-in-chief. British Columbia : a centennial anthology. Canada: McLelland and Stewart Limited, 1958. Hardback, VG in good to fair unclipped dustjacket with shelfwear to edges and corners and a few small chips. Blue cloth a little faded in places with gilt and black square decorative motif to front and gilt decoration to spine with gilt lettering in black text boxes. Binding strong. Endpapers illustrated with maps in blue, black and white. Title pages with blue and black text. xvi, 576pp., maps and colour and b/w photos and illustrations throughout. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Second Printing. An eye-catching first edition / second printing in Very Good+ condition with lightly crushed spine, with bumped head and tail of spine, lightly soiled flyleaf, rubbed lower board edges with a Very Good unclipped dust wrapper with sunned spine, chipped upper and lower edges with stained and rubbed panel creases. Profusely illustrated; This book is a compilation of essays on the history, culture, and people of British Columbia. The essays are written by experts in their field and cover a wide range of topics, including the early days of the province, the fur trade, the Gold Rush, the railway, and the development of the province's economy. The book is divided into three sections: the first covers British Columbia's history from pre-contact to the early 1900s; the second covers the period from the early 1900s to the late 1940s; and the third covers the years since 1945.; B & W Illustrations and Photographs; 8vo ; 576 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.576. The five sections in this anthology attempt to portray in words and pictures the varied life of British Columbia in both the past and the present. clean tight copy wrapped in mylar, d/j shows small crinkles and front top right corner small piece missing, corners bumped, back cover shows two tears, former own name stamped on mapped frontpiece (1st Lt. Robert H. Beveridge.).