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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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 23925More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41984More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14670More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF PICTOU NOVA SCOTIA
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1972. Facsimile reprint of the original 1877 edition. Octavo, red cloth without jacket, as issued. pp [2], (6). viii, (9)-(472), (7, ads) + large folding frontispiece map. 1.5 inch clean tear to lower inner corner of map neatly repaired on blank side with clear archival paper tape; quite minor rubbing to spine ends; else a fine copy, no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40426More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
A HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF CAPE BRETON with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1979. Octavo, green cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (vi), 473 + folding map at rear; illustrations and maps in text. Facimile reprint of the London, 1869, edition, with an added index. Faint sticker shadow on spine, small rubber stamp at front, rear, and top page edges, else fine. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41957More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A LEADER AND A LAGGARD. Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario.
Edition: First edition.
University of Toronto Press, 1970. Green cloth. xiv, (222) pp, index. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket has small chipsl rubbing, bit of tanning and light soiling; good. An investigation, comparing data from 1946 to 1962, into why manufacturing in Nova Scotia lags behind that in Quebec and Ontario.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 20978More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
A MUSTER OF ARMS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1954. Blue cloth. VG clean copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has shallow chips at spine ends, moderate wear, but generally VG in appearance.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41268More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A SISTER TO EVANGELINE: being the story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand Pré
Edition: First printing
Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1898. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. pp viii, 289, [3] + frontispiece map. Ink owner name on half-title page, yellowing to page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends, else a VG clean and unworn copy of this historical novel of Acadia (Nova Scotia) in the 18th century. These people were the original Cajuns of Louisiana.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48820More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A VIEW OF THE TOWN
Edition: First printing
New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1954. Light green cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, quite minor rubbing to spine ends, a couple small tan spots to bottom page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a chip across head of spine, small chip to lower outer corner of front panel, light soiling to rear panel; good. A novel set in her native Nova Scotia.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49259More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ACADIA; or, A Month with the Blue Noses.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 7733More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
An analytical statement of the case of Alexander, earl of Stirling and Dovan &c. &c. &c. containing an explanation of his official dignities and peculiar territorial rights and privileges in the British colonies of Nova Scotia and Canada, &c. &c
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 24254More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
AT THE SIGN OF THE HAND AND THE PEN: Nova-Scotian authors
Edition: First edition
[Halifax]: Nova Scotia Branch, Canadian Authors' Association, no date (1948). pp (4), 43, stapled, in cream card covers. Fine copy. General history of Nova Scotia literature and useful biographical sketches of authors. Uncommon. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47021More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BICENTENARY SKETCHES AND EARLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH IN NOVA SCOTIA. With an Introduction by the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia and a Chapter on King's College by Rev. Canon Vroom, D.D.
Halifax: Chronicle Printing Co, 1910. Tall octavo, hardcover, green cloth. [10], 255, 3 (index) pp. Numerous plates inserted. Moderate wear to spine tips; covers have light soiling, light rubbing, bruise to lower outer corners; old newspaper clippings pasted to front and rear pastedowns ; ink name to front free endpaper; yellowing to page edges; VG copy otherwise, tight in the binding, text clean & unworn. Anglican Church in Nova Scotia. Note: just a bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 18307More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
BLUE WATER. A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen.
Toronto: Musson, 1935. New edition. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. (xii), 322, (2) pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, page edges yellowed, a good clean and tight jacketless copy, no owner names. A novel of the Atlantic Canada deep sea fishery, this new edition adds a new four page author introduction about changes in the fishery since he first went to sea in 1912. Author's first novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45857More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BLUENOSE MAGIC. Popular Beliefs and Superstitions in Nova Scotia.
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1970. Second printing (first was in 1968). Black boards. x, 297, (1) pp. Fine copy, no owner names. Jacket has small rubbed and creased tears at head of spine, small chip to rear panel, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42060More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
BRIDGETOWN, NOVA SCOTIA: its history to 1900
Bridgetown, NS: Bridgetown & Area Historical Society, 1986. Second edition. Card covers, pp (255), (32, index). Illustrated. Fine copy. Reprint of the 1955 first edition, but adding the index.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47913More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
BRITISH AMERICA
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26419More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA: A Historical Review. With an Appendix Containing Copies of Rare Documents Relating to the Early Days of the Province.
Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1900. Quarto, original green decorated cloth gilt. pp [2], x, 197, (1), vi, Index,( [4] + frontispice and 20 other plates. Review copy with slip tipped in. Covers lightly mottled from damp, neatly touched up; small corner tears to a few leaves at rear neatly repaired; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1899. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44297More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
Edition: First printing
New York: Walker, 2005. pp (357); photos, notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47981More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DESPITE THE DISTANCE
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1961. Cream boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has some internal damp stains not showing on the book and only a little externally; spine a little sunned with some small red spots; VG otherwise. An historical novel of Nova Scotia in the late 18th century.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50375More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46