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ALL SILENT, ALL DAMNED. The Search for Isaac Barr.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson, 1969. Red cloth, endpaper maps. [10], 175 pp + plates. Ink name to top margin of front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket has some short creased tears and slight rubbing, VG otherwise. Story of the failed Barr Colony of British immigrants to Saskatchewan early in the 20th century.
Book ID: 19202More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
BIG MANITOU COUNTRY 1905-1980. In two volumes. A history fo the districts around Big Manitou Lake and the villages of Marsden and Neilburg, Saskatchewan, Canada
Edition: First Edition
Marsden, Saskatchewan: Big Manitou Lake Historical Association, 1981. Two volumes, dark green cloth, endpaper maps, no jacket, as issued. pp (8), 920; (8), 879. Many photos. Indexes. 7 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. ; Thick quarto
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54644More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
Bittersweet Years: The Herbert Story
Edition: First Edition
Herbert, Saskatchewan: Jostens (printer), 1987. Brown simulated leather stamped in copper and blind. Many photos, maps. Vertical spine creases, else fine. Spine title : "The Herbert Story to `987". Saskatchewan local history. 3.5 kg parcel; Thick quarto; xvi, 1006 pages
Book ID: 54421More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
BLAZING THE OLD CATTLE TRAIL
Edition: First Edition
Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1962. Grey cloth. pp (vi), 248, illustrated. Ink owner name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 29970More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
COLONEL GASCOIGNE, V.C.: a story of travel, adventure & love
(Montreal): Author, 1931. Original half blue cloth and marbled boards, variant with upper outer corner and inner cloth of front cover and spine gilt lettered. pp 274. Crease to rear free endpaper, else fine. Watters p 314. Peel 2507. Fictionalized account set near Regina, Saskatchewan, and in the Qu'Appelle Valley around the 1880's. North West Mounted Police, Riel Rebellion. Scarce; 12mo
Book ID: 55218More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
COLONEL GASCOIGNE, V.C.: a story of travel, adventure & love
(Montreal): Author, 1931. Original half blue cloth and marbled boards, variant with spine and inner cloth of front cover lettered in black. pp 274. Spine has soft vertical ridge, soft ripples to front free endpaper, else fine. Watters p 314. Peel 2507. Fictionalized account set near Regina, Saskatchewan, and in the Qu'Appelle Valley around the 1880's. North West Mounted Police, Riel Rebellion. Scarce; 12mo
Book ID: 55267More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
DOUGLAS IN SASKATCHEWAN: the story of a socialist experiment
Edition: First Edition
Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1962. The paper issue. Octavo, stapled in yellow card covers in dust jacket. pp [4], (8), 212, [8] + plates. Fine in jacket. Story of Premier Tommy Douglas and the CCF government in Saskatchewan, the only working socialist government in North America. This was when Saskatchewan was fairly poor. These days, with lots of oil revenue, they go Tory, natch.
Book ID: 43731More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
DRAKE PAST AND PRESENT: making memories
Drake, Saskatchewan: Drake History Book Committee, 1987. Tan pictorial cloth. Map, many photos. Fine copy. Saskatchewan local history. 1.85 kg parcel; Quarto; viii, 471 pages
Book ID: 54434More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
It never pays to laugh too much
Edition: First printing
Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1984. Card covers with flaps, 139 pp. VG+ copy. Short stories of Saskatchewan, the second book in a trilogy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo 0920066879
Book ID: 48914More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
LOWER BOW: a celebration of wilderness, art and fishing.
Edition: First Edition
Regina: Hand Art Moving and Storage Co, 1991. Brown boards. Fine in fine jacket. Colour reproductions.; Quarto; 63 pages; Signed by Author
Book ID: 56060More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
Morden, Mort Cheval, Pinancewaywinning, Lake Agassiz
Morden, Saskatchewan: Morden Centenial Committee, 1981. Brown leather grain cloth gilt. Many photos. Ink ownership inscription at front, else fine. Saskatachewan local history. 1.8 kg parcel; Quarto; (4), 382 pages
Book ID: 54435More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
PAGES FROM THE PAST. A history of Paswegin and school districts: Harrow, North Quill, Quill City, Tiger Lily and Wooler
Edition: First Edition
Wadena, Saskatchewan: Paswegan History Committee, 1982. Yellowish pictorial cloth. Many photos. Quite minor rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Saskatchewan local history. 1.65 kg parcel; Quarto; 389 pages
Condition: Near Fine
Book ID: 54423More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
PRAIRIE FIRE: the 1885 North-West Rebellion
Edition: First Edition
Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1984. Red cloth. pp 384, illustrated, index. Light damp spots to rear cover, else a VG clean and unworn copy in a VG jacket. "Here is the definitive book about one of the most important events in the Canadian history. 'Prairie Fire' is the first comprehensive history of the rebellion, and it makes extensive use of material never before incorporated in any other history of the uprising. Newspapers, Department of Justice records, newly discovered manuscripts and diaries, Metis' and settlers' accounts, and Riel's own writings are just some of the sources used." 1.1 kg parcel.; Octavo 0888302622
Book ID: 55973More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
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 -
SASKATCHEWAN MONUMENTS
Regina, Saskatchewan: School Ais and Text Book Publishing Co. Ltd., no date (1963). Brown cloth. pp 285. Photos and maps. Yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise. Not issued in jacket. Saskatchewan history. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50828More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SKY PAINTER: The Story of Robert Newton Hurley
Edition: First Edition
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Western Producer Book Service, 1973. Squarish quarto, blue cloth, illustrated endpapers. pp (xii), 137 plus a section of 32 colour plates, 26 black and white illustrations, and an index. Ink gift inscription at top margin of front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket has a three inch closed tear to front panel, small tears near head of spine, good. Saskatchewan landscape painter. 0919306403
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 31802More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
STEAMBOATS ON THE SASKATCHEWAN.
Edition: First Edition
Saskatoon: Prairie Books / Western Producer, 1880. Octavo, beige cloth, colour endpaper maps. (xviii), 238, (9, index), [3] pp. Photos and map in text. Ex library, with front free endpaper rubber stamped Withdrawn, rear free endpaper removed, else fine, no other library marks. Dust jacket has small skinned spot at bottom of spine from removed label, VG otherwise. Story of steam navigation on the shallow Saskatchewan River until the mid-1880's when the river changed its course "to lose its way in the swamps west of Cumberland Lake."
Book ID: 45916More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
STREETS AND ROADS OF SASKATOON
Saskatoon: Editor, 1973. pp (6), 108. Card covers. Slight rubbing to spine, corner crease to rear cover, VG otherwise. "A Saskatoon Public School Project". Research done by students of the Saskatoon Public School System. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 45173More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
SUMMER OF THE HUNGRY PUP: a novel
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 50403More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE BATTLE OF BATOCHE: British small warfare and the entrenched Métis
Ottawa: Environment Canada, 1989. Revised edition. Oblong octavo, card covers. pp 120. Photos, notes, bibliography. Rear cover has a small corner crease and sticker scar, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45746More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26