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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF COINS, TOKENS, AND MEDALS issued in or relatng to the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. With notes, giving incidents in the history of many of these coins and medals
Montreal: Osiris Publicatons, 1975. Quarto, red cloth, spine lettered in black. pp (4), (130). A few illustratons. Some soiling to covers; red ink marks to endpapers; else a VG tight and unworn copy, text clean. A facsimile reprint of the rare Montreal, privately printed, edition of 1886, which was limited to 100 copies. This reprint was also limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 56.
Book ID: 41190More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A DIARY IN AMERICA. With Remarks on Its Institutions. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by Sydney Jackman.
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Knopf, 1962. Terra cotta and grey cloth, blue topstain. pp [2], (xxviii), 487, [1, blank], ix [index], [1, colophon) + frontispiece portrait. Fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket, no owner names. "The famous novelist's lively and enlightening account of life in our pioneer Republic in the years 1837-38." - jacket. His Canadian travels are recounted in parts of chapters XV and XVI. Based on the London, 1839, six volume original.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 17337More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A FARLEY MOWAT READER. Edited by Wendy Thomas. Illustrated by Richard Row.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Key Porter Kids, 1997. Glossy pictorial boards. Fine in fine jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple signature, no inscription). A selection for younger readers. ; Squarish quarto; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55563More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A GATHERING OF FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE. With quotations selected and interpreted by F. David Hoeniger
Edition: First printing
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2006. Inscribed by Author; Card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by Brender.; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 54083More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A GENTLEWOMAN IN UPPER CANADA: the journals of Anne Langton. Edited by H.H. Langton
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1950. Tan cloth. pp xvi, 249, [5] + colour frontispiece portrait. Yellowing to page edges, slight tape scars to pastdowns, rubber stamp to bottom page edges, VG otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has small chips, rubbing, to spine ends, sticker scar and tears to lower spine, VG otherwise. Size: Octavo.
Book ID: 45282More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A GEORGIAN HOUSE ON THE POST ROAD
Edition: First Edition
No place (Wolfville, Nova Scotia): Author, 1971. Octavo..[2], 22 pp, stapled, in white card covers. Inscribed by the author on the title page "The story of our 'Two-Century Place.' Watson Kirkconnell". Covers have small soil spots, soft creases, VG otherwise. Kirkconnell bought the Stephen DeWolf house (built in 1801) at 101 Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, for his retirement after 42 years of college work, the last 16 as President of Acadia University. He traces the entire history of the property and the house.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 23925More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
A GRAMMAR OF THE EAST AND WEST COASTS OF HUDSON BAY
Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1960. Quarto. Grey printed paper covers. pp 4, xxxii, (179), [1], 37 (vocabulary). Reproduced by typescript. About half of the backstrip lacking; detached front cover reattached; large ink notations on front cover; extensive ink notations up to page 25 (lesson12), but no user was man enough to push further ahead. The whole now protected with plastiic wrapper. West coast Eskimo dialect, with some notes of the equivalents in the east coast dialect. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Quarto
Book ID: 30023More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A HISTORY OF BARRINGTON TOWNSHIP AND VICINITY, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia 1604-1870. With an biographical and geneaological appendix
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the Yarmouth, N.S., 1923 original, with added Index. Octavo, red cloth. pp [2], (12), 605, 95, Index). Sticker shadow on spine, small library rubber stamp front and rear, else fine, no other library marks. Nova Scotia local history. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 41984More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A HISTORY OF CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE (2 volumes)
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995. Paper issue. Two volumes, quarto, glossy paper covers. pp (xii), 478, [2]; vi, 479-933. Photos, index, notes, bibliography, glossary. Ink name at front, near fine, no text marks. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43832More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A HISTORY OF HARRISTON: a commemorative book for the Harriston Centennial July 1-8, 1978
Mildmay, ON: Town Crier, 1978. pp (4), 172, [2]. Photos, map, ads. Nick at foot of spine, else fine. ; Quarto
Book ID: 45082More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
A HISTORY OF KITCHENER, ONTARIO.
Edition: First Edition
Kitchener, Ontario: Author, 1937. Octavo. Blue cloth. (432) pp + plates. Mild wear to foot of lightly darkened spine; small library rubber stamp to pastedowns and bottom page edges; else a VG clean, tight & unworn copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 41966More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
A HISTORY OF MONCTON town and city 1855-1965
Edition: First Edition
Monckton, New Brunswick: City of Monckton, 1965. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp 447. Photos, index. Yellowing to page edges, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has nicks and very small chips at head of lightly yellowed spine, VG otherwise. New Brunswick local history. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 44603More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A HISTORY OF MOUNT VERNON, a pioneer Methodist cemetary...
Burlington, Ontario: Burlington Historical Society, no date (1972). Quarto, (5), 99 leaves printed rectos only, photos, folding facsimile document at rear, reproduced from typescript, mustard illustrated card covers. Variant without a black plastic tape backstrip. Yellowing and slight foxing to page edges, else a VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names. "Lot 4, Concession III South of Dundas Street, Nelson Township, Halton County, Ontario. Road Access on Lot 5, Concession III S.D.S." ; Signed by
Book ID: 49602More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
A HISTORY OF MULDREW LAKES
Ontario, Canada: The Club, 1967. Quarto. Green printed card covers with black plastic cerlox spine. 98 pp, reproduced from typescript, photos throughout; map inside front cover, photos inside rear cover. Mimeographed errata sheet laid in. Yellowing to margins of front cover, else fine. Ontario local history, a Canadian Centennial project by this Muskoka cottagers' club.
Book ID: 28022More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A HISTORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND from the English, Colonial and Foreign Records
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1972. Facsimile reprint of the London, 1895, original. Blue cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (6), (xxiv), 742, [2, blank] pp + [2], 56, (supplement - A History of the Churches in Newfoundland, by various writers). [2] + large folding map at rear;.photos and illustrations in text, indexed. Lower outer quarter of front free endpaper rumpled, light sticker shadow on spine, else fine, no owner names. O'Dea 1144a (first edition). Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 42014More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
A HISTORY OF NOVA-SCOTIA , or Acadie.
Edition: First book edition
Halifax, Nova Scotia: James Barnes, 1865, 1866, & 1867. Three volumes, octavo, hardcover, original reddish-brown bevel-edge cloth decorated in blind, spines gilt lettered. (xvi), 543, [1]; (xvi), 624; (xxiv), 613, [3] pp. Spines lightly sunned with moderate wear to tips; endpapers a bit tanned; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; a fair bit of foxing to volume III but only occasional and light foxing to the other two volumes; 1867 pencil signature of James A. MacDonald in each volume; about a VG set overall. TPL 1447. Watters p . 717. Sabin 51433. Made from the parts issue, with stab holes evident in the inner margin of each leaf. Note: heavy parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 14670More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
A HISTORY OF ONTARIO HOUSE AND PROVINCIAL REPRESENTATION ABROAD
Toronto: Government of Ontario, no date (1978). Octavo, pp [88], unpaged, illustrated. Intro. by Premier Bill Davis. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Book ID: 43312More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A HISTORY OF PEEL COUNTY to Mark its Centenary as a Separate County 1867-1967.
Brampton, Ontario: Corporation of the County of Peel, 1967. Folio, 34 cm. Maroon cloth gilt. Colour endpaper maps. (288) pp. Well illustrated (some in colour). Ink owner name at front; bit of cover rubbing neatly touched up; page edges lightly yellowed; front cover a little splayed; VG clean copy otherwise. Ontario county history. 2.5 kg parcel.
Book ID: 50397More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH
Edition: First Edition
Scarborough, Ontario: Scarborough Public Library, 1965. Octavo. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp (xviii), 327, [7]. Illustrations, maps, index. Errata slip at front. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small chips and tears, VG.
Book ID: 45409More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A HISTORY OF SIMCOE COUNTY
Barrie, Ontario: The Historical Committee of Simcoe County, 1948. Facsimile reprint in a one volume format of the 1909 two volume original. Green cloth, endpaper maps. pp (12), 335, [1]; (6), 323. Photos in text. Laid in is a large folding colour historical map of the county by Jerrine Wells Kinton (light damp stains to blank side not showing on the colour side, else fine. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a couple small spots to the lightly yellowed spine, VG otherwise. 1.7 kg parcel,; Thick octavo
Book ID: 51729More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00