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100 YEARS. The Royal Canadian Regiment 1883-1983
Edition: First printing
Don Mills, Ontario: Collier Macmillan Canada, 1983. Small sqaurish quarto, dark blue boards. 184 pp. Sepia and colour photos throughout. Foreword by Prince Philip. Mainly a picture book, with photos by Bell, text by Stacey. Ink owner name; slight rubbing to foot of spine and lower outer corners; else fine. Jacket has tears at head of spine, VG otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel. 0029976707
Book ID: 48140More details Price: USD $15.95 USD $14.36 -
1759. The Battle for Canada
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. Pinkish boards. pp (306) + plates. Maps in text. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo 0771046995
Book ID: 44974More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT OF UPPER CANADA
Book ID: 45465More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50
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A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT OF UPPER CANADA. With a new introduction by William F.E. Morley
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1977. Second printing of this facsimile reprint of the Cleveland, 1841, edition Octavo, green cloth. pp (8), 292. Fine copy. The origial title page continues: "by the U.E. Loyalists and Scotch Highlanders, in 1783: And of the Grievances Which Compelled the Canadas to Have Recourse to Arms in Defence of Their Rights and Liberties, in 1837 and 1838: Together with a brief sketch of the campaigns of 1813, '13, '14: with an account of the military excursions, burnings, and sacking of towns and villages, by the British, in the upper and lower Provinces, during the commotion of 1837 and '38." M'Leod was a journalist who became a leader on the reformers side in the Upper Canada Rebellion.
Book ID: 45370More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
A GUIDE TO THE WAR MEDALS AND DECORATIONS OF CANADA
Guelph, ON: Author, 1969. Yellow card covers. pp (114). 2 pp reproductions, one of drawings. Rear cover has crease to inner margin; new blue cloth backstrip; VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48675More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE CANADIAN MILITARY
Edition: First printing
Montreal: Art Global, 2000. Green cloth. pp 157. Illustrations, some in colour. Fine in fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel; Quarto 2920718797
Book ID: 50483More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A MAID OF ONTARIO: a story of Buffalo, Toronto,, and the Fenian Raid of 1866
Edition: First Edition
Welland, ON: The Yedis Publishing Company, 1905. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black. pp 348, [4]. Slight foxing to covers; minor rubbing to ends of lightly darkened spine; page edges yellowed; light offset yellowing to free endpapers; a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Watters p 354. Buffalo author. A novel of the Fenian raids. Scarce. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52316More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
A Military History of Canada
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1990. Revised and updated edition. Blue boards, pp 311 + plates, illustrated, maps, index. Ink name at front, ink notation in margin of one page, soft ripples to text but no tide marks, else VG+ in fine jacket. ; Octavo 0888303432
Book ID: 47829More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
A Soldier's Diary: the WWI diaries of Donald Macpherson
Edition: First printing
St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Publishing, 2001. Glossy card covers. pp 192. Index, photos. Ink owner name, else fine. Canadian artilleryman, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens.Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced. ; 12mo 1551250683
Book ID: 48379More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War
Edition: First Edition
Toronto/Oshawa/Ottawa: James Lorimer / The Robert McLaughlin Gallery / National Museum of Man, 1977. Beige cloth. pp (240). Colour reproductions. Ink owner name at front, else fine in VG jacket. 104 works plus text by ordinary servicemen. 1.5 kg parcel; Oblong quarto 0888621442
Book ID: 47784More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A time for atonement : Canada's first national internment operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920
Edition: First Edition
Kingston, ON: Limestone Press, 1988. pp (32), stapled in card covers. Photos. Ink owner name, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 47980More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A VETERAN OF 1812: the life of James Fitzgibbon
Coles, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Toronto: Briggs, 1894 original. Maroon boards. pp (336), (55, appendices). Ink name at front; text paper a bit yellowed as always, else fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47820More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A VETERAN OF 1812: the life of James Fitzgibbon
Coles, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Toronto: Briggs, 1894 original. Red card covers. pp (336), (55, appendices). A little leaned, rubbing to spine folds and front cover, ink owner name, text paper a bit yellowed as always, else a good, clean copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 45223More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
ADVENTURE...
London: Heinemann, 1933. Fourth printing. Red cloth. pp (18), 326 + plates. Index. Spine a little sunned with nicks, short tear, at ends, ink owner inscriptions at front, a few small light spots to front cover, good clean and tight jacketless copy otherwise. His military experiences before and during the Great War and including the Boer War. Seely commanded the Canadian Cavalry Brigade from its formation in Jan. 1915 until May 1918.
Book ID: 44490More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
Air Aces: The Lives and Times of Twelve Canadian Fighter Pilots
Edition: First printing
Toronto: James Lorimer, 1990. The paper issue. pp (6), 234. Ace list, glossary, notes, bibliography. Text paper a bit toned, as always, else fine. ; Octavo 1550283219
Book ID: 44988More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
ALEX COLVILLE: diary of a war artist
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Halifax, N.S: Nimbus, 1981. Beige cloth. pp 159. Colour and b&w reproductions. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small tears, short split to rear flap fold, VG otherwise. 1.35 kg parcel. World War II. Important Canadian artist.; Quarto
Book ID: 55227More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
AMID THE GUNS BELOW. The Story of the Canadian Corps (1914-1919).
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. Beige pictorial boards, endpaper maps. (xviii), 171, [3] pp + plates. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket. Bibliography, index. A general history of Canadian troops in World War I. Despite the name, the author was female.
Book ID: 44161More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
AN INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH ARTILLERY IN NORTH AMERICA
Ottawa: Museum Restoration Service, 1965. pp 54, stapled in paper covers. Well illustrated. Two inch split to lower spine fold neatly repaired, some soiling and creases to covers, good. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 48749More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
ANNALS OF FORT MACKINAC
Mackinac Island, Michigan: John W. Davis, 1893. "Smith Edition". pp 190, (2, ads), stapled. Line drawings, lists, charts. Lacking the original paper covers. Rebound in modern black card with portions of the original wrapper (title, author, publisher) pasted to front cover. In a card slipcase. Messy residue of front wrapper to inner edge of first page (advertisement)VG otherwise. Later edition of this somewhat fragile book, first published in 1882. ; 12mo
Book ID: 45264More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
ARTIST AT WAR
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1956. Blue cloth. xvii, 187 pp + color frontispiece and 12 monochrome plates. Ink owner name, else fine in lightly used VG jacket. Memoirs of the Second World War by the man who is, next to Alex Colville, probably Canada's most famous war artist. .; Octavo
Book ID: 48174More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96