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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.
Condition: Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 42014More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
ACROSS WIDEST AMERICA, Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering Coast...
Edition: First Edition
Montreal: The Canadian Messenger, 1905. Octavo, original dark green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind. pp [12], 307 + frontispiece portrait, folding map, and 24 plates from photos. Spine dulled, text paper a bit yellowed as always, partial cracks to inner hinges neatly repaired, else a VG clean & tight copy, no owner names. Jesuit missionary's travels across Canada just north of the US border, the last two-thirds of the book is on Alaska.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27043More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN. Illustrated from Photographs by Dr. Grenfell and Others.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39013More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
ANGEL COVE
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. Blue boards. Fine copy. Jacket has sunning to the orange spine lettering, else fine. 19 stories about people living in a fictional Newfoundland fishing village in the 1920s.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50373More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BARTLETT the great explorer
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1989. Photos, index. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44655More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
BOTWOOD: history of a seaport
Botwood, Newfoundland: Botwood Heritage Society, 1992. Glossy card covers. pp viii, 152. Photos, tables. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50475More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BRITISH AMERICA
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26419More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
DICTIONARY OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BIOGRAPHY
Edition: First edition.
St. John’s, Newfoundland: Harry Cuff Publications, 1990. Tall octavo. Glossy boards, pp xi, 408, [2]; text in double columns. Fine copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45744More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR
New York: Revell, c.1904 (1905?). Fourth printing, adding a new author note on page 10. Dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in green and white, gilt lettered, olive decorated and photographic endpapers. pp (3)-327 + (4) pp ads. First 12 pages are on coated paper and contain photos plus a map. 1906 ink inscription on half-title dated Jan., 1906; tan damp stain to lower margin of late leaves, yellowing to page edges, else a fine, bright copy. In his new author note Duncan stoutly denies that the novel is based on Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, but most references disagree. Duncan did travel to Labrador on behalf of McClure's magazine with the intent to meet Grenfell, and finally did so in 1903.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49412More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: portrait of an American surgeon in Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1997. Third printing. Octavo, card covers. pp (367) + plates. Illustrations at rear. Owner blind stamp to title page and at rear, VG+ otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45664More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
DUST BEFORE THE WIND
Edition: First printing
London: Hogarth Press, 1960. Blue boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a shallow chip across head of spine, tear and fingernail-size chip to front panel, light spine yellowing, good. A novel set in Labrador by a British author who was there for a time.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49253More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Volume One
Edition: First printing
St. John's, Newfoundland: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981. Volume I only, covering A-E (a total of five volumes were published by 1991). Tall thick octavo, blue boards, colour endpaper maps. pp (xxxi), [3, blank], 914, including glossy leaf at front in colour with arms of Newfoundland, SIGNED by Joey Smallwood. Text in double columns, many photos, many maps at front. Crease at foot of spine, small bump to upper inner corner of rear cover, silver arms on rear cover rubbed, rubber stamped initials and date in top margin of title page, VG clean and tight copy otherwise. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41935More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
ESKIMO ADMINISTRATION: III. Labrador
Montreal: Arctic Institute of North America, 1965. Octavo, blue card covers. Pp 94, (2). Map in text. Some spots to rear cover, VG+ uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Arctic Institute of North America Technical Paper No. 16. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 33830More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
EXTINCTION: the Beothuks of Newfoundland
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. Green boards. pp (10), 162, (4, index). Illustrations and photos in text. Blind-stamped ownership at front, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks and a short tear, VG otherwise. The Beothuks, Newfoundland's aboriginal people, where completely rubbed out by 1829.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43686More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
FLAMING FUR LANDS
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1948. Red boards. pp (6), 153. Upper margin of front free endpaper clipped away; light yellowing to page edges; else fine and bright. Dust jacket has a three inch split to rear ower spine fold with a consequent crease to lower rear panel; 1.5 inch split to upper rear flap fold; panels have small chips, nicks, edge rubbing; rubbing to flap folds; yellowing to white spine lettering; in all, good +, still respectable in appearance. Labrador setting.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48962More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
FLAMING FUR LANDS
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1948. Red boards. pp (6), 153. Fine copy. Dust jacket has rubbing to front flap fold; small chip and 1.5 inch creased tear to lower inner corner of front panel, rubbing to front spine fold with a bit of wear to spine ends; good. Labrador setting.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48967More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Forty-eight Days Adrift: the voyage of the "Neptune II" from Newfoundland to Scotland. Foreword by Sr. Wilfred T. Grenfell
No place (St. John's, Newfoundland): Breakwater Books, 1981. Facsimile reprint of the London, 1932, edition. Tan boards. pp (2), 220. Photos. Text paper a bit toned, as always, rubber stamped star at rear, else fine in fine jacket. Note: the Grenfell Foreword did not appear in the 1932 edition. The Neptune II set out from St. John's to Newtown, Newfoundland, 100 miles away, for the Christmas holidays. A big storm blew up and they had to run before the wind all the way to the Island of Mull off the west coast of Scotland.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45090More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
GAFF TOPSAILS
Edition: First US printing
New York: Viking, 1998. Dark and pale grey boards. Fine in fine jacket. A well-received first novel about Newfoundland by a Newfoundland-born author who has also helped translate ULYSSES into Mandarin Chinese (which surely must have been an extraordinary challenge). First Canadian edition was in 1996, in paper only.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11175More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
INSIDE THE ATLANTIC TRIANGLE. Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation 1939-1949.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1986. Pictorial cloth. (xiv), 285, (5) pp. Light cover rubbing, else a fine copy, without jacket, as issued.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 8228More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
INSIDE THE ATLANTIC TRIANGLE. Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation 1939-1949.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1986. Pictorial cloth. (xiv), 285, (5) pp. Index. Fine copy, without jacket, as issued.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42064More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10