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A HISTORY OF THE CROW'S NEST PASS
Lethbridge, AB: The Historic Trails Society of Alberta, 1981. pp (viii), 143. Photos. Ink name on title page, VG otherwise. Written in 1952 and finally published. Canadian Rockies. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47238More details Price: USD $13.95 -
A WINTER AT FORT MACLEOD. Edited by Hugh A. Dempsey
Edition: First Edition
Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute / McClelland and Stewart West, 1974. Octavo, blue cloth, blue endpapers. Pp 134, [2] + colour and b&w reproductions of Nevitt's pictures.. Small map at front. Review copy, with slip laid in and with a small sheet of holograph notes of a reviewer. Ink owner name inside front cover, else fine. Dust jacket has creased tears at top of front panel; good. Selected letters 1874-75 from Richard Nevitt, the surgeon at Fort Macleod, the North-West Mounted Police's first Alberta headquarters.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39227More details Price: USD $14.95 -
ALBERTA: an account of its wealth and progress. With an introduction by Robert P. Porter
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Musson, 1912. The paper issue. Grey illustrated card covers printed in black, map on rear cover. pp 250, (6, ads) + 16 plates; two maps in text, index. Yapp fore edges of covers have some nicks; front edge has two small chips and a vertical curl; page edges unopened; yellowing to page edges; else fine. A volume in Porter's Progess of Nations, Canadian Series, made from Rand, McNally sheets with cancel title leaf. A general survey. The main interest in the copy is the condition - paper covers like this are usually worn but this one is quite nice. There was also a hardcover issue. Peel 3820.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44552More details Price: USD $25.00 -
All Hell for a Basement
Edition: First edition.
Medicine Hat, Alberta: City of Medicine Hat, 1981. Quarto, red cloth. pp viii, 299, (5); photos throughout. Ink gift inscription to blank verso of front free endpaper, else fine in jacket. History (1882-1983) of this Alberta city. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31039More details Price: USD $25.00 -
BALLAD OF A STONE-PICKER
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Macmillan, 1966. Tan boards. Light yellowing to page edges, faint damp marks to rear cover, VG. Jacket has rippling from damp to rear panel, damp stains at head of spine and adjacent corners only barely showing externally; VG, unworn otherwise. Author's second novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48858More details Price: USD $14.95 -
BALLAD OF A STONEPICKER
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1976. Second edition, revised (first was in 1966). Mass market paperback format. Text paper yellowed, VG. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48859More details Price: USD $8.95 -
BLAZING THE OLD CATTLE TRAIL
Edition: First edition.
Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1962. Grey cloth. pp (vi), 248, illustrated. Ink owner name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 29970More details Price: USD $19.00 -
BROAD HORIZONS: maple leaf sketches from a private studio
Edition: First edition
Toronto: Musson, 1919. 12mo, green cloth. pp (14), 224. VG+ copy. Dust jacket has short tears, thumbnail-size chip to lower inner corner of front panel, small chips elsewhere; good, but still pleasant in appearance. A collection of essays by a former Secretary of the Alberta Historical Society and sometime special lecturer in history at the University of Alberta. Alberta and general Canadian topics.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45613More details Price: USD $19.95 -
Calgary, a Living Heritage
Edition: First Edition
Junior League of Calgary, 1984. Black cloth. pp 216. Photos, index. Ink gift inscription at front, else fine. Dust jacket has some crinkles to the surface lamination, else fine. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45074More details Price: USD $16.95 -
CHORUS TO ADVENTURERS, being the later life of... With a Foreword by Stephen Gwynn and 47 illustrations from photographs
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41062More details Price: USD $60.00 -
CLIMBS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
Edition: First UK printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Blue cloth. pp 260 + photo plates, a few in colour, index. Fine. Price-clipped jacket has a one inch corner tear to front panel, tiny chip at foot of spine, VG+ otherwise. The distinguished mountaineer's last book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42722More details Price: USD $30.00 -
DIAMOND HITCH: the early outfitters and guides of Banff and Jasper
Edition: First printing
Banff, Alberta: Summerthought, 1979. Large quarto, colour illustrated card covers. pp (8), 160. Notes, photos, index. Corner crease to front cover, ink gift inscription at front, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45891More details Price: USD $14.95 -
DOWN THE MACKENZIE THROUGH THE GREAT LONE LAND
Edition: First Edition
New York: Macmillan, 1923. Green cloth with illustrated label on front cover, endpaper maps. pp (xiv), 251, [5] + Frontispiece & 30 photo plates on 16 leaves; index. Spine very lightly darkened; yellowing to page edges; light foxing to pages adjacent to the plates; small bumps to upper outer corners of covers; else a fine, bright copy, no owner marks. Good descriptive narrative of a trip starting in Edmonton and ending at Arctic Red River.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51595More details Price: USD $34.95 -
EDMONTON TRADER. The Story of John A. McDougall.
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963. Tan on cream cloth, endpaper maps. x, 262 pp + double-sided plates, map and reproduction in text. Fine copy. Thin jacket has wear at head of spine, chip to rear panel, good. Biography of this 19th century Edmonton, Alberta, merchant, with some material on the Klondike gold rush.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 47235More details Price: USD $12.50 -
EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS IN CANADA
Edition: First printing
Winnipeg: Queenston Publishing House, 1978. Octavo, brown boards. pp (4), 188 + photos on text paper. Ex library: tape scars to covers, lacking the rear free endpaper, number stamped to verso of title leaf, bottom page edge rubber stamped, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Life of an ordinary Canadian working man - first Calgary Stampede, first oil strike in Alberta, opening of the first Ford plant in Detroit.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45532More details Price: USD $14.95 -
GWEN: an idyll of the canyon
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto / New York: Westminster / Revell, c1899 [1904]. Octavo. Plain white cloth spine, rear cover green paper-covered boards, front cover is a photographic label printed in black, lettered in green. pp 94, (1, Revell ads). Tan background illustration on every page. Front cover a little yellowed, with one very small chip to label; front cover has slight rubbing to fore edge and lower corner; pencil ownership inscription at front; else a VG copy. A story set in the foothills of the Selkirks in Alberta, previously published as chapters 9-13 of THE SKY PILOT (1899). Uncommon Connor title. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42167More details Price: USD $45.00 -
HISTORY OF ST. PAUL, ALBERTA, 1909-1959
Edition: First edition.
St. Paul, Alberta: St. Paul Journal, 1960. Octavo, card covers. pp 232, illustrated. White spine has hand lettered title and a short tear at foot; red star and ink name inside front cover; small corner creases to covers; text paper toned; VG otherwise. Laid in is an issue of The Alberta Municapal Counsellor periodical for Jan., 1965, which has an article on St. Paul. Pages 143 to end are in French and are a religious history of the town.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 36152More details Price: USD $30.00 -
HUNGRY HILLS
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Longmans Canada, 1963. Octavo, tan cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has light soiling to rear panel, nicks and soft creases to edges, original bookstore price stickers including a reduced price at bottom of rear flap; VG+ otherwise. Author's first novel, set in the Alberta foothills. Jacket art by Jerry Lazare.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42534More details Price: USD $14.95 -
I WOULD DO IT AGAIN: reminiscences of the Rockies
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48308More details Price: USD $14.95 -
IN DUE SEASON. With a new Introduction by Dorothy Livesay and an Afterword by Dorothy Wise, the author's daughter
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1979. Card covers. pp (8), iv, 372. Covers have light rubbing, small chip to top edge of front cover, text paper yellowed, chip to bottom margin of last leaf (manufacturing flaw), VG otherwise. A novel of a solo woman pioneering in Northern Alberta, first published in 1947. "one of the first, if not the first Canadian novel wherein the plight of the Native Indian and the Métis is honestly and painfully recorded." - Dorothy Livesay.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48931More details Price: USD $14.95