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 .

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Boeknummer: 633j0087

Catalogus: British Columbia Local History

Trefwoorden: 0888260407 Ghost Towns Smelters Canadian

VIERECK, GEORGE SYLVESTER; HOUSE, COLONEL EDWARD M[ANDELL] (FOREWORD)

Spreading Germs of Hate

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. "A very personalized retrospective examination of World War I propaganda in the United States by one who was deeply involved in creating it - from the pro-German side. Viereck (1884-1962) describes propaganda as the primary weapon of the world's invisible government, saying the microbes it scatters infect humanity like a plague. His purpose in writing this book was to administer an antidote against this plague. Includes examples of cartoon and other propaganda." - Robert Cole on page 110 of "Propaganda in Twentieth Century War & Politics". xiv, [2]-327 pp. Index. Black and white plates. "Now that the world has become calm and reason once more rules, we can read with pleasure and interest such a book as this, and wonder how and why we so nearly lost our balance during the trying days of the Great War." - Colonel Edward M. House. During his extraordinary life Viereck published the pro-German periodical "The Fatherland", which employed Aleister Crowley and, according to Wikipedia, became close friends with Nikola Tesla. As a writer, he interviewed many of the most prominent personages of his era. Average wear to original oatmeal cloth which bears some foxing. Binding intact. Minor remnants of dust jacket (not included) affixed inside each board. Book store stamp and gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Small date stamps atop back free endpaper. A sound example of this fascinating work. Lasswell Casey & Smith p.82.; 8vo. Good with no dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: 544j0892

Catalogus: History

Trefwoorden: Conspiracy Military