Raincoast Chronicles: Volume 1, Number 3, Winter 1973 by White, Howard (editor) - 1973

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society/Harbour Publishing, 1973, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 56 pp, first edition, first printing, Good+ condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, some light warping to first few pages, slight corner bumps. A unique issue, containing stories, essays and poetry, focused entirely on the B.C. logging industry, from an historical perspective. Proudly, the article "How It was With Trucks" by Frank White, won the Canadian Media Club's award as B.C.'s best magazine feature of the year.Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams. Illustrated covers.

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society, 1972, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 48 pp, first edition, first printing, Good+ condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, some light wear near spine, foxing to rear cover. A collection of stories, essays and poetry, describing native and immigrant traditions along the B.C. coast including those pre-dating the arrival of the white man. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps. Illustrated covers.

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society/Harbour Publishing, undated, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 56 pp, first edition, first printing, Fair condition in pictorial card covers. Straight and firmly bound with no markings, corner bumps, small amount of spine damage, some wrinkling near spine, foxing to front cover, small spots and a smudge to rear cover. A special issue containing stories, essays and poetry and artwork, focused entirely on the B.C. fishing industry, particularly Salmon, from an historical perspective, including both native and immigrant traditions. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, diagrams and some particularly fine drawings of specific fishing vessels. Illustrated covers.

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society/Harbour Publishing, undated, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 56 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps, small, dark stain to front cover. A collection of stories, essays and poetry, describing native and immigrant traditions along the B.C. coast including those pre-dating the arrival of the white man. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, diagrams, maps and even a six-page cartoon. Illustrated covers.

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society/Harbour Publishing, undated, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 56 pp, first edition, first printing, Near Fine condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a couple of small smudges to front cover. This issue is dedicated to the pieces of B.C. history that have been allowed to fade away and of which nearly no historical evidence remains. The editor speaks of "great spectral cedars with moss in the springboard notches, pilings like black fingers warty with barnacles in abandoned logging camp bays, sagging sentry box outhouses beside crushed cabins, abortive mineshafts wormholed into cliff faces, full of blind cave crickets, fallen totems facedown like drunk men in clammy aldergrove clearings by dead villages, forgotten fish canneries and whaling stations collapsing in the rain, slate quarries like huge flaking wounds where only weeds come now, a corroded Spanish anchor salvaged from 200 years of deep water, tombstones in the underbrush by sad Cape… Read More

Madeira Park B.C., B.C. Coast Historical Society/Harbour Publishing, undated, trade paperback (11x 73/4"), 56 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light reading crease near spine, light wrinkles to front cover. This glossy-covered issue is dedicated mainly to the the City of Vancouver, but not the busy beautiful metropolis we see today. The earliest years of Gastown, boat-building and aviation in the area are explored, as well as some of the earliest and most legendary crimes. Vancouver's past as few have known it. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and maps. Illustrated covers.