Smith And Miles To Go

Paretsky, Sara (ed) -Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Amanda Cross, Andrea Smith, Irina Muravyova, Linda Grant, Nancy Pickard, Marcia Muller, Elizabeth George, Liza Cody, Nevada Barr, Barbara Wilson, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, ++++: Women on the Case -Only a Woman, Miles to Go, Nightfire, Solar Zits, A Lesson in Murder, The Baroness, I'll Get Back to You, A Witch and Her Cats, The Cracks in the Sidewalk, Performance Crime, Publicity Stunts, Belladonna, Lost Dreams, Hamlet's Dilemma + New York Dell Pub Co 1997
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-----Tight clean and square, flat spine, 447 pages, ink name of ffep, minor edge wear. Contents include: Intro by Sara Paretsky / Miles to Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis / Only a Woman by Amel Benaboura / The Surprise of His Life by Elizabeth George / Nothing to Lose by Frances Fyfield / Beneath the Lilacs by Nevada Barr / Nightfire by Eleanor Taylor Bland / On the Edge by Irina Muravyova / The Astronomical Scarf by Ruth Rendell / Solar Zits by Liza Cody / A Rock and a Hard Place by Nancy Pickard / Parties Unknown by the Jury; or The Valour of My Tongue by P. M. Carlson / A Lesson in Murder by Andrea Smith / Miss Gibson by Linda Barnes / Green Murder by Susan Geason / The Baroness by Amanda Cross / 7.62 by Pieke Bierman / I'll Get Back to You by Susan Dunlap / Saturday Night Fever by Helga Anderle / Dreams of Home by Dicey Scroggins Jackson / Hamlet's Dilemma by Linda Grant / Lost Dreams by Myriam Laurini / A Witch and Her Cats by Antsonia Fraser / Belladonna by Barbara Wilson / Publicity Stunts by Sara Paretsky / The Cracks in the Sidewalk by Marcia Muler / Performance Crime by Lia Matera. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo 1st Edition 1st Printing Soft Cover

[SW: Paretsky, Sara (ed) -Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Amanda Cross, Andrea Smith, Irina Muravyova, Linda Grant, Nancy Pickard, Marcia Muller, Elizabeth George, Liza Cody, Nevada Barr, Barbara Wilson, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, ++++, Women on the Case -Only a Woman, Miles to Go, Nightfire, Solar Zits, A Lesson in Murder, The Baroness, I'll Get Back to You, A Witch and Her Cats, The Cracks in the Sidewalk, Performance Crime, Publicity Stunts, Belladonna, Lost Dreams, Hamlet's Dilemma -----Tight clean and square, flat spine, 447 pages, ink name of ffep, minor edge wear. Contents include: Intro by Sara Paretsky / Miles to Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis / Only a Woman by Amel Benaboura / The Surprise of His Life by Elizabeth George / Nothing to Lose by Frances Fyfield / Beneath the Lilacs by Nevada Barr / Nightfire by Eleanor Taylor Bland / On the Edge by Irina Muravyova / The Astronomical Scarf by Ruth Rendell / Solar Zits by Liza Cody / A Rock and a Hard Place by Nancy Pickard / Parties Unknown by the Jury; or The Valour of My Tongue by P. M. Carlson / A Lesson in Murder by Andrea Smith / Miss Gibson by Linda Barnes / Green Murder by Susan Geason / The Baroness by Amanda Cross / 7.62 by Pieke Bierman / I'll Get Back to You by Susan Dunlap / Saturday Night Fever by Helga Anderle / Dreams of Home by Dicey Scroggins Jackson / Hamlet's Dilemma by Linda Grant / Lost Dreams by Myriam Laurini / A Witch and Her Cats by Antsonia Fraser / Belladonna by Barbara Wilson / Publicity Stunts by Sara Paretsky / The Cracks in the Sidewalk by Marcia Muler / Performance Crime by Lia Matera. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock PhotoFiction]

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GEORGE B. CARLTON: 1861 - 1864 ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A 19th REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER TO HIS DEAR FRIEND AND FORMER BOSS DAVID SMITH: SUPER CIVIL WAR CONTENT, 1862 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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On offer is a superb archive of eleven [11] original manuscript letters [ALS] handwritten by George B. Carlton of Newburyport, Massachusetts, a member of Co. B of the 19th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War. The letters were all written to Carlton's former employer in Newburyport, Mr. David Smith. Excellent primary Civil War content, unseen for 150 odd years coming recently from the estate. These letters date from December 8, 1861 to May 22, 1864 [nine written in 1862], mostly 5 x 8", total 28pp. Here are some snippets of the fine Civil War content: [8/12/61] "... Since I wrote to you we have been on the march and the road was mudy enough I can tell you we are encamp in a pleasnt Spot it is Surrounded by wood And about twenty miles from washington...," [1/8/1862] "... we are at work on the fort [Seneca]... the last mounth it has done nothing but rain and Snow and the going is awlfull as the mud is half a knee deep... we had to go five miles and in Some places the mud was over boot and thir is a brook witch is up to our knee and it was 25 or 30 feet wide and when we got there we had to Sleep in the cold tent without any fire... the neggroes came here with cake and pies to Sell... you would laugh to see the tents that we Stop in I will explain it if I can in the first place we cut two State with two prong to them and Stick them in the ground and then we cut a pole and put it cross on top for ridge pole then we get Some Rail and put one end on the ridge pole and the other on the ground then we get some Straw and put that on and cover it up with dirt then we go and get Some rock and build a fire place then we get Some Straw to Sleep on and I Sleep as warm as if I was at home...," [3/2/1862] "... we have got our New uniform witch consist of dark blue pant and dark blue coat and a blue cap and brass Spud an on the shoulder and they look first rate...," [5/12/1862] "... we are now within 21 mile of richmound we have been on a move for three mounth... and we have had to work harder than I ever did at home... we expect before long to be in richmond and after we take that we expect to be discharge and Sent home... Soldiering is about play out as we are beating the Rebbell all the time...," [8/3/1862] "... I suppose that you have seen what we have been through Since we left yorktown in the newspapers... we have been in two of three Battle and lost a good many men...," [9/8/1862] "... we have Seen Some very hard time Since I wrote to you we are now in Maryland and exspected to have a fight here... we was at harrison landing on the James river and we have been a Marching night and day for 20 days and I dont think we are done yet nor will untill the war is over... the other night when we left fairfax we had not got more than two mile from thir when the Rebble open on us with Shot and Shell witch Burst over our head but did not hurt any one we did not fire any Back untill we had got two miles from the place where they fireed at us... we place two big gun one on each side of the Road and a reg in behind it and we laid behind them we had not laid thir more than half an hour when fire a volley into the rebble and the battry fired two shot and they turn and run and did not trouble us any more...," [9/28/1862] "... we dont have anything to eat but hard bread and coffee and some salt harre... we are within one mile of the potomac we have been call out three time to go over to the river to fight the rebble...," [10/20/1862: gererall hospitall Frederick, MD] "... I am wounded I was hit in the right thigh witch is broke but it is a geting along first rate now... I can get around the barrack and I Shall Soon be abell to come home and eat that dinner with you I was wounded in the battle of the 17th of September at antietam and I was hit early in the morning and was two days and one night in the hand of the Rebbell and they treated me first rate and give me every thing that they could get Such as water and bread and meat and tobacco and the Second night they went off and left me and about 1 or 200 men thir with me...," [10/28/1862] "... it is now Six weeks Since I was wounded and I have been up two or three to Sit... I rest well in the day time but at night my leg pain me a good deal...," [11/25/1862] "... I Sit up all day now and can get round on my cructhes first rate my right leg is three inches Shorter than my left one is... I am glad that thir is not any draft in Newburyport yet but thir is two or three boy in old town that I should like to have out here...," [5/22/1864: Fort Columbus, York Harbor] "... I have enlisted again in the Invelid Corp... but do not like it as well as I did when I was out in front with my old Reg for the duty is harder than it was there... my leg is very Strong now so I can work hard all day... this island is a nice place but I do not like it for a man is treated worse than a dog..." Letters have the expected folds, first letter stained along right edge, all remaining letters in very good condition, letters written in both ink and pencil and all are easily legible, 6 letters come with original transmittal envelopes (all but one with postal cancel & stamp cut away), one envelope signed by E. D. Manscom(?) Chaplain 19th Mass., one envelope with fantastic "19th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers" pictorial engraving across entire front, 5 letters on Patriotic stationery. A truly exceptional collection of Civil War correspondence. Manuscript 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1945 Through November/December1946, British Columbia British Columbia Telephone Company 1946 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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[SW: Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2, 000, 000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40, 000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points - article; Gilbert (Gil) Gilfillan has served Abbotsford for 20 years; New Communications Centre for Vancouver; Refurbishing the former defense communications building on Seymour; Telephone Trouble - article from the Vancouver News-Herald; Let Your Smile Be Heard - from an address by Miss Marion Mitchell, P.B.X. Supervisor, Victoria; photo of 3, 000 cards of people awaiting phones in New Westminster; Photo of busy New Westminster operating room; Victoria Host to 1946 Phone Convention; Third Dial Unit for Downtown Vancouver; Vancouver girl weds by long distance - Dawn V. Bohmer; Vancouver Operator recruiting campaign - desperate need for female workers; great photos of construction of the Trans-Canada Telephone Line in the wilds of B.C.; 3 humourous billboards explaining shortages; Artic

Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article -64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points - article; Gilbert (Gil) Gilfillan has served Abbotsford for 20 years; New Communications Centre for Vancouver; Refurbishing the former defense communications building on Seymour; Telephone Trouble - article from the Vancouver News-Herald; Let Your Smile Be Heard - from an address by Miss Marion Mitchell, P.B.X. Supervisor, Victoria; photo of 3,000 cards of people awaiting phones in New Westminster; Photo of busy New Westminster operating room; Victoria Host to 1946 Phone Convention; Third Dial Unit for Downtown Vancouver; Vancouver girl weds by long distance - Dawn V. Bohmer; Vancouver Operator recruiting campaign - desperate need for female workers; great photos of construction of the Trans-Canada Telephone Line in the wilds of B.C.; 3 humourous billboards explaining shortages; Article on R.F. (Bob) Williams, president of the Fed. of Telephone Workers; and more. Moderate wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and endpapers. Back half of backstrip almost entirely open. Binding tight and square. First Edition Half Leather 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

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"Titanic" Disaster, Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce United States Senate Sixty-Second Congress Second Session Pursuant to S. Res. 283 Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck ...Part III, Washington Government Printing Office 1912 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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A very scarce Titanic item with a superb provenance. This report was one of two found amongst the personal effects of Harold Cottam, the Marconi operator on the Carpathia, and the man who took the distress signal from the Titanic. Sadly the Carpathia was too far away from the Titanic to do more than pick up those surviving in life boats. The report itself is a verbatim record of the interviews of Phillip A.S. Franklin and Joseph G Boxhall before the Senate committee investigating the disaster. Surviving copies are rare. Copies from those persons at the very centre of events that night are even rarer. This report was one of two found after Cottam's death in 1984, and has only recently appeared on the market having been offered for sale by his surviving family in Nottingham where Cottam died. The Night of the Sinking (from Cottam's obituary as it appeared in The Times) - On the night in question according to the account he gave in later years, Cottam was off duty and about to go to bed when he heard a wireless call from Cape Cod telling the Titanic there was ice about. Knowing Phillips, the wireless operator of the Titanic, he radioed him and asked if they had heard the call from Cape Cod. The answer came back "We have struck ice; come at once." Cottam asked whether he should have the Carpathia turned round, was told "Yes" and ran up on the bridge. But he could not get the officers to listen as wireless was a new thing, and he went down to wake up Rostron, who gave the necessary orders. Cottam was born at Southwell, in Nottinghamshire, in 1891, and after education at Southwell Minster Grammar School attended a London Marconi College. He passed his wireless telegraphy course with flying colours and spent many years at sea as a wireless operator. In 1911 he was with the Carpathia at Istanbul during the Turko-Italian war. On the night of the sinking of the Titanic, the Carpathia, a passenger liner, was en route from New York and Gibraltar and Genoa. Cottam had exchanged frequent messages with the Titanic and other ships and was about to turn in, leaving the wireless unmanned during the night, as was the practice at that time. When the news was received of the disaster, the Carpathia was some 58 miles from the Titanic. As Rosrton put it to the London Inquiry: "Our ordinary speed is 14, but that night we made 17 and a half" - keeping a close watch out for icebergs themselves. During that time Cottam remained in touch with the Titanic, and helped her communicate with other vessels, since the escape of steam was making it difficult for the operator to hear signals coming in. By the time the Carpathia reached the scene, in about three hours, the Titanic had sunk with the loss of 1,500 lives. But the Carpathia picked up the survivors and took them to New York. Marconi radioed Cottam on the Carpathia and when they arrived Cottam visited him in his New York Hotel. Cottam later continued his career as a wireless operator serving on one of the early ships to go through the Panama Canal and travelling round the world. He retired to Lowdham, in Nottinghamshire, where he hung a framed certificate from the Liverpool Shipwrecked Mariners' Society (sic: actually Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society) - which also presented him with 10. The report itself is in somewhat worn condition with some rusting of the staples. The front cover has some loss to the corner and generally the wraps are soiled. The corner of the front cover is creased and the gathers are loosening. Fewer and fewer contemporary Titanic items are appearing on the market, and this offers a rare chance to purchase an item from the estate of one of the key figures in the sinking. The committee hearing included in this report, which is part III only of the full report into the sinking, started on Monday, April 22nd, only a few days since the survivors had reached the USA on board the Carpathia. Cottam had himself already appeared in front of the committee, indeed he was one of the earliest witnesses to be called, appearing on the evening of Day 1 of the enquiry. The report details the interview of Phillip A. S. Franklin, VP of the International Mercantile Marine Co, which owned the White Star Line, and that of Joseph Boxhall, fourth officer on the Titanic. Paginated 169-257. Cottam's interest in having a copy of the report was because within it are detailed many of the telegrams which he received from the Titanic, telegrams which the Carpathia subsequently telegraphed, and messages from and to the Carpathia on the night of the sinking, which Franklin described in some detail. One of the more striking elements of Boxhall's testimony is the confusing and indeed confused nature of his description of how the lifeboats were lowered and how they should have been lowered. At one point Senator Smith asks 'How many seats are there in a lifeboat of that character ?' and Boxhall replies 'I am sure I could not say. I never counted them'. Smith gets gradually more irritated at the vagueness of the answers, and from his tone seems to find some of the answers improbably for example 'Do you want us to understand that you had no knowledge of the proximity of the ship to icebergs immediately preceding the ---' to which Boxhall replies 'I had no knowledge'. Clearly Boxhall had just gone through a serious trauma but his testimony if anything seems to suggest he was blocking much of it from his mind. For example Smith asks 'Did you see the Titanic Sink ?' to which Boxhall replies 'No, I can not say that I saw her sink. I saw the lights go out and I looked away two or three minutes afterwards and it was 25 minutes past 2. So I took it that when she sank would be about 20 minutes after 2'. at this point Boxhall says he was 3/4 of a mile from the ship. It does seem extraordinary that he appears to have turned round for a few minutes and not noticed the huge liner sinking into the sea. No Jacket Paper Wraps 8vo - 9 Inches

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