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REFLECTIONS ON OUR HERITAGE: a history of Steinbach and the R.M. of Hanover from 1874
Steinbach, Manitoba: Derksen Printers, 1975. Second printing.. Tall octavo, yellow cloth. pp (xii), 13-373, [3]. Many illustrations in text. Ink inscription at front (from the mayor?), else fine. Dust jacket has a small chip and long external tape repairs to front panel; just good. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43733More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
SAGKEENG
Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1993. pp (8), 157. Photos in text. Inscribed by the author on a label on the title page. Fine copy. "Sagkeeng tells of the return of the traders, now both French and English, to the region, of the departure of the Cree and the arrival of a host of other aboriginal people from the east and south: Ojibway, Ottawa and Potowatomi. It tells of the fur wars that followed between the rival trading companies and of their tragic impact on the land and on its people. The story concludes when the warring factions unite to form one concern, the Hudson's Bay Company". ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55298More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SANDY'S SON
Edition: First printing
Toronto: John M. Poole, 1931. Maroon cloth. 288 pp. Spine slightly sunned with gilt lettering dulled; yellowing to page edges; thin spot from erasure to front pastedown; light spotting to rear cover; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Peel 5337. A novel partially set in Manitoba. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49516More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains: A Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, During a Journey Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in 1859 & 1860
Edition: First of this edition
Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1969. Octavo, green cloth. pp xxxviii, 448 + 2 colour folding maps; illlustrations, some full page. Fine copy. Jacket has small tears at head of spine, creases, VG otherwise. Fascimile reprint of the London, 1875, edition, with a new Introduction by L.G. Thomas. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 42313More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER, in North America; its destruction in 1815 and 1816; and the massacre of Governor Semple and his party...
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Card covers. viii, 194 + 100 pp Appendix. Spine lightly darkened, lightly rubbed, near fine uncreased copy otherwise. Facsimile reprint of the London, 1817, edition. Title page continues: " with Observations upon a recent publication entitled 'A Narrative of Occurences in the Indian Country,' &c". Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 29685More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE ASSINIBOINE BASIN...A social study of the discovery, exploration and settlement of Manitoba
Edition: First Edition
Brandon, Manitoba: Author, 1946. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (xviii), (283)+ plates, 2 folding maps; maps and illustrations in text. VG+ copy, no owner names. Flaps (only) of dust jacket laid in.
Book ID: 29809More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
THE BLONDE VOYAGEUR
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1971. Red boards. Rubber stamp of the Canadian Book Information Centre at front, lightl yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has rubbing, VG otherwise. Set in Manitoba, an historical novel of the fur trade.; Octavo 0887680267
Book ID: 48891More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The Chrome Suite: a novel
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. Card covers with flaps. Ink owner name at front, page edges yellowed, vertical crease to spine, VG. The book wonthe McNally Robinson prize for the best book published in 1992, and was nominated for The Governor General's Award. Set in Manitoba.; Octavo 077101452x
Book ID: 50377More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
THE DAFOE-SIFTON CORRESPONDENCE 1919-1927
Winnipeg: Manitoba Record Society, 1965. Octavo, green cloth. pp xxx, 265 + 5 plates (one in colour). Fine copy. Dust jacket has two short tears, VG otherwise. #488 of an edition of 750 copies. MRS 2. John Dafoe and Clifford Sifton.
Book ID: 29868More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE DIARY OF THE REVEREND HENRY BUDD 1870-1875
Winnipeg: Manitoba Record Society, 1974. Octavo, green cloth. #329 of 1000 copies. pp (xlviii), 198. Index. Fine copy, no jacket. MRS 4. Budd was a native Anglican missionary at Le Pas, Manitoba
Book ID: 29866More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
The Homesteaders. Introduction by Susan Wood Glicksohn
University of Toronto Press, 1974. Yellow cloth. pp xxvi, (4), 347. Facsimile reprint of the 1918 original, with new Introduction. Small ink name at front, faint soiling to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has small chip and short tear to lightly soiled spine, VG otherwise. A novel of pioneer life in Manitoba. ; Octavo 0802020674
Book ID: 48900More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE JAMES WICKES TAYLOR CORRESPONDENCE 1859-1870
Winnipeg: Manitoba Record Society, 1968. #461 of an edition of 750 copies. Green cloth. pp (lii), 193. Fine copy. Jacket has tiny nicks at head of spine, else fine. MRS 3.; Octavo
Book ID: 29867More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE LENGTHENING SHADOW
Steinbach, Manitoba: Carillon Press, 1975. Maroon buckram. Pp 130, photos in text. Private owner’s ink name and address on dedication page, else fine. Autobiography of an English immigrant to Manitoba.
Book ID: 29919More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
THE LETTERS OF A REMITTANCE MAN TO HIS MOTHER
Edition: Second Printing
London: Murray. Second printing, June, 1909 (first was Sept. 1908). Maroon cloth lettered and decorated in black, spine gilt lettered. pp (6), 122 + frontispiece with tissue guard. Inscribed by the author "To Betty from the Author Christmas 1924". Minor rubbing to ends of very lightly sunned spine, else fine. Watters p 316, Peel 3184. Fiction set in Manitoba. The narrative begins "My Dear Mother, This is a beastly, horrid place, this Winnipeg."; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55528More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
THE LOBSTICK TRAIL
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Toronto: Musson. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black. pp (6), 324. Long Xmas, 1921, ink gift inscription, and Edmonton book store sticker, at front, else a VG clean and unworn copy. "A Romance of Northern Canada" (front cover). A novel set in Manitoba.; Octavo
Book ID: 49388More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE RED RIVER INSURRECTION: Its Causes and Events
Edition: First Edition
Gardenvale, Quebec: Garden City Press (printer), no date (1936). Green cloth. pp (xii), 166, [2]. Light spine sunning, text paper lightly toned, else a fine, jacketless copy, no owner names. 1869-70 rebellion.; 12mo
Book ID: 30242More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT A Gripping Narrative of Pioneer Days Winnipeg / Vancouver / Seattle
Edition: First Edition
White Rock, BC: White Rock Printers & Publishers, 1961. Light brown card covers printed in red, brown cloth spine. pp (60). Photos in text. Soft cover creases, a VG unworn copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55324More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
THE ROAD PAST ALTAMONT. Translated from the French by Joyce Marshall.
Edition: First edition in English
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1966. Blue boards. Cheap text paper tanned as always, else fine. Jacket has some minor rubbing, 1/4 inch edge tear to rear panel, else fine & bright. An uncommonly nice copy of this short novel about a young French-Canadian girl in Manitoba by an important French-Canadian author.
Book ID: 5452More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
THE ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS [The Pioneers of Manitoba].
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Musson, 1909. Geen pictorial cloth. 328 pp. Plates inserted, drawings in text. Spine a bit age-darkened, lightly rubbed; 1919 ink inscription to front free endpaper; endpapers tanned; VG copy otherwise.; Octavo
Book ID: 7976More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
THE ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS [The Pioneers of Manitoba].
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Musson, 1909. Geen pictorial cloth. 328 pp. Plates inserted, drawings in text. Spine lightly darkened; text paper a little toned as usual; cracked inner hinges repaired with rice paper tape; else a good tight and clean copy, no owner names.; Octavo
Book ID: 29638More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06