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THE TOWNSHIP OF TIME
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan, 1959. Maroon boards. Yellowing to page edges, light damp stain to lower fore edges (no penetration into text margins), VG unworn copy otherwise. Dust jacket has yellowing to spine and to author's name on front panel, VG+ otherwise, flap price intact. Important Canadian man of letters William Arthur Deacon's copy for review, with his pencil notes on front free endpaper. A series of related stories about the settlement of Nova Scotia after the Amerian Revolution. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49625More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE TOWNSHIP OF TIME
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan, 1959. Maroon boards. Ink gift inscription at front, yellowing to page edges, else a VG+ copy. Price-clipped jacket has minor wear to ends of lightly yellowed spiine, soil streak on rear panel, VG otherwise. A series of related stories about the settlement of Nova Scotia after the Amerian Revolution. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49626More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE TRAIL OF THE SHARP CUP : The Story of the Fifth Oldest Trophy in International Sports
New York: Dodd, Mead, c1974. Second printing. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp: xvi, 176, photographs and map in text, statistics, index. "In 1935 the author conceived the idea of a Davis Cup Match for giant tuna; the match to be held at Wedgeport, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Originally to be between the USA and teams from the British Empire, eventually nineteen countries have competed for the cup." Fine in near fine price-clipped jacket.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 44823More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE WINGS OF NIGHT
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Toronto: Doubleday, 1963. Blue boards. VG copy, no owner names. Jacket has light spine yellowing, VG otherwise. Printed in Canada from plates of the NY: Doublday, 1956, first edition. A novel of Nova Scotia. Variant jacket printed in Canada in green and black. ; Octavo
Book ID: 41259More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE WINGS OF NIGHT
New York (Toronto, actually): Doubleday, 1963. Blue boards. VG. no owner names. Jacket has light spine yellowing, VG otherwisew. Printed in Canada from plates of the NY: Doublday, 1956, first edition. A novel of Nova Scotia. Variant jacket printed in USA in red and other colours.; Octavo
Book ID: 41270More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
TIDEFALL: a novel
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1953. Grey boards. VG+, no owner names, in VG jacket. A novel of Nova Scotia.
Book ID: 41260More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WATCHMAN AGAINST THE WORLD: The Story of Norman McLeod and His People
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson, 1962. Octavo, black boards. pp 189, (3) + plates; 3 maps in text. Tidy ink owner name at front, else a VG+ copy in poor dust jacket (large chips and tears). Story of a community of Scottish immigrants who settled around the bay of St. Ann's on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. After 30 years they came under the spell of tyrant, magistrate, landowner, teacher and clergyman Norman McLeod, who lead them in six locallly built ships to settle at Waipu, New Zealand.
Book ID: 30839More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
WELCOME WILDERNESS
Edition: First Canadian issue
New York (Toronto): Ives Washburn, (Smithers & Bonellie,). Blue cloth. (vi), 289, (1) pp. Bookplate and Oct., 1946, ink inscription to front pastedown, VG otherwise. Jacket has chips to spine tips with loss of one word to head of spine; small chips to outer corners; price-clipped; soiling to rear panel; about VG otherwise. An historical novel of the some 30,000 United Empire Loyalists who fled after the American Revolution and settled in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Author is Canadian. This Canadian issue was made from ordinary copies of the US first editon in the US dust jacket with the US spine imprint of the jacket overprinted and the Canadian publisher's name printed just above, US price clipped by the publisher.; Octavo
Book ID: 7869More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96