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LOUDON, [ROBERT] PETE[R]; BOYD, DENNY (FOREWORD) - The Town That Got Lost - a Story of Anyox, British Columbia

Sidney, BC: Gray's Publishing, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888260407. "Anyox has been nothing for approximately 80 years but suddenly it lives again in the warm, loving memories of a writer who was a boy in the northern British Columbia town where the largest copper smelter in the British empire was located. A human story of 3,000 people who found a strange happiness in a town cut off from the world by mountain and sea, drenched with coastal rains, choked with sulphurous smelter gas, bereft of grass or flowers and buried each winter in snow." - dust jacket. 111 pages including black and white photographic plates. Prior owner's name atop title page, otherwise book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating history. Hale & Barman 536, Edwards & Lort 2141.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in Good dust jacket .
USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 253.75 | £UK 218.75 | JP¥ 43500] Book number 633j0087

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