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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 -
1846 Hamilton : From a Frontier Town to the Ambitious City
Edition: First printing
Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing, 1995. Card covers. pp (143). A few illustratioins. Near fine copy. History of Hamilton, Ontario, in the 1840s, when it grew from a town to a city. ; Octavo 096984607x
Book ID: 50480More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
1924 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF WELLAND. J.C. Sloat, Warden
Thorold, ON: Thompson & Sons, Printers, 1924. Quarter bound in original maroon sheep and black cloth with black spine label. Spine a bit rubbed, label lettering perished, page edges yellowed, text paper toned, inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper, else a VG unworn copy. Contains three sections: January Session, Jan. 22,23 and 24th, 215 pp; Special Session, April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 100 pp; June Session, June 17, 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26th, 91 pp. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54870More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
1967: The Last Good Year
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1997. Maroon boards, illustrated endpapers. pp 391 + plates. Fine in fine jacket, with a folio-size folded advertising sheet laid in. Inscribed by the author to a fan. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54057More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
50 Years Ago: The Famine Holocaust in Ukraine. Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism. Foreword by Dana G. Dalrymple
Toronto: World Congress of Free Ukrainians, 1983. Second printing. 56 pp, stapled, in card covers. Numerous photos in text. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 29114More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A bibliography of Canadian bibliographies, compiled by the 1929 and 1930 classes in bibliography of the McGill university library school under the direction of Marion V. Higgins, instructor in bibliography
Montreal: McGill University, 1930. Octavo, buff card covers. pp 45, [5]. Ex library, with cloth tape to spine, tears to fore margins of covers, good, contents clean and unworn. McGill university publications. Series VII (Library) no. 20. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45516More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN IMPRINTS 1751-1800.
University of Toronto Press, 1999. Photo reprint of the edition of 1952. Octavo, pp (xxx), 705. Blue cloth, without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. A fully descriptive bibliography of all books (known at the time) from the first fifty years of printing in Canada. The press came late to Canada. Virtually every book listed in this bibliography is rare to very rare today. The standard reference on the subject. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may br required. 0802042198
Book ID: 6387More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN THEATRE HISTORY 1583-1975
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Playwrights Co-op, 1976. Octavo, red cloth. pp 160. Ink owner name at top of title page, else fine.
Book ID: 44003More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items In the Metropolitan Toronto Library Relating To The Early History And Development Of Canada. Second Supplement Volume 2 1801-1849
Edition: First Edition
Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, 1985. pp. 839, indexes. Maroon cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. One of the essential bibliographical references for pre-Confederation printed Canadiana. 2.5 kg parcel; Tall octavo 0887730299
Book ID: 50971More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIANA. Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada
Edition: First Edition
Toronto Public Library, 1934. Small thick quarto. Maroon cloth. pp [2], (14), 828, [4]. Erratum slip tipped in at title page. 28 facsimiles in text. Blue top page edges fading, insect nibbles to fore edges of rear endpapers and to one corner of the terminal blank; VG clean and tight jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. 4646 items of Canadiana from 1534-1867 with bibliographical descriptions, many with comments on the content. A pioneering work and still an essential reference work for pre-Confederation Canadiana. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 44278More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT IN CANADA 1921-1974
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: SCM Press, 1975. Buff card covers. pp 144. Fine copy. Laid in is an SCM folding brochure. "This brief history of the Student Christian Movement in Canada is a distillation of material from a 1972 PhD thesis by Margaret Bettie entitled PRESSURE GROUP POLITICS: THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT." Cover and title page drawings, and one in text, by Thoreau MacDonald. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44323More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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 BRIEF REVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT OF UPPER CANADA. With a new introduction by William F.E. Morley
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1972. Dark green cloth. Facsimile reprint, with new Introduction, of the Cleveland, OH: F.B. Penniman, 1841, edition. Ex high school library with covers laminated, spine label, rubber stamps front and rear, pouch at rear, otherwise a clean unworn and probably never used copy, not issued in jacket.; Octavo 091930236x
Book ID: 29365More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
A CANADIAN HEROINE. AN HISTORIC HOUSE. NAMES ONLY. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON: Niagara Historical Society, 1905. pp 40, light green paper covers. Soft vertical crease, else fine. NHS publication #13. Includes the story of Mary Wait who fought so valiantly for her husband Benjamin Wait who had been exiled to Van Dieman's Land for his part in the 1837 Rebellion (by Janet Carnochan); an account of the first RC church in the Niagara Peninsula; and more. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced; Octavo
Book ID: 52239More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A Century of Challenge: The History of the Ontario School for the Blind
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1980. Blue cloth. pp 269. Photos. Ex high school library - rubber stamp on front pastedown crossed out withf felt tip pen, rubber stamp at rear, scar at rear from removed pouch, VG otherwise, no other library marks. Dust jacket has glue residue to spine from removed label, cellotape pieces inside, VG otherwise. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required; Quarto 0919303455
Book ID: 45072More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Musson, 1913. Octavo. light brown cloth. pp xvi, (9)-198, (2) + 15 plates. Spine liightly darkened; thumbnail-size dark spot on front cover; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Scarce book.
Book ID: 36755More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
A CENTURY OF WESTERN ONTARIO: the story of London, "The Free Press," and Western Ontario, 1849-1949
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson, 1949. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (xii), 289 + plates. Index. Spine lightly sunned, else a fine, jacketless copy. Focuses on the history of the newspaper "The London Free Press" but much general Western Ontario history as well.
Book ID: 45707More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A Century to Celebrate / Un Centenaire a Feter 1893-1993 The Ontario Legislature Building / L'Édifice de l'Assemblée législative de l'Ontario
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1993. Oblong quarto. black boards, illustrated endpapers. pp (viii), 164. Illustrations, reproductions, photos (some in colour). Fine in jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 45819More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
A CENTURY WITH THE ST. CATHARINES GENERAL HOSPITAL...
Edition: First Edition
St. Catharines, Ontario: St. Catharines General Hospital, 1974. Octavo, card covers. pp [8], 150, [2]. Photos in text. Light cover rubbing but a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Uncommon book. Note: 0.5 kg parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.
Book ID: 38733More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50