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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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 19202More details Price: USD $15.00 -
AN ARMY WITHOUT BANNERS
Edition: First printing
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. Blue cloth lettered in light green. pp (8), 301, [3]. Yellowing to page edges; Labor Day, 1931, ink owner inscription at front; creased nicks to upper inner corner of pp 281-90; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. Peel III 2661. Weinrich , Social Protest, 1302. Beames, born in India in 1889, went out to Canada at age 15 where he worked as a hunter, trapper, freighter, labourer, and lumberjack in the Canadian Northwest. This novel, the first of his three, was reprinted in 1988, and there was a Canadian issue (McClelland & Stewart) also in 1930 (made from US sheets). Based on his experiences of pioneer life in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 42962More details Price: USD $50.00 -
BLANKETS AND BEADS. A History of the Saskatchewan River.
Edmonton, Alberta: Institute of Applied Art, 1949. Octavo, red cloth. 276 pp. Photos and maps in text. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and very small chips at spine ends, light dust soiling to rear panel, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 36445More details Price: USD $19.50 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 29970More details Price: USD $19.00 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43731More details Price: USD $18.50 -
IN RUPERT'S LAND: Memoirs of Walter Traill
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Tan boards, endpaper maps. pp 232. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has moderate wear to spine ends, small tear to front panel, VG otherwise. Account of the years (1866-70) that Walter J.S. Traill, youngest son of Catharine Parr Traill, spent in the Canadian Northwest clerking for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44057More details Price: USD $14.95 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48914More details Price: USD $9.95 -
PRAIRIE FIRE; The 1885 North-West Rebellion
Edition: First edition.
Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1984. Red cloth. pp 384, illustrated, index. Corner crease to one leaf, else fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned, else fine. "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." Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29678More details Price: USD $18.95 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42313More details Price: USD $45.00 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50828More details Price: USD $14.95 -
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.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 31802More details Price: USD $25.00 -
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."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 45916More details Price: USD $14.95 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45173More details Price: USD $12.00 -
SUMMER OF THE HUNGRY PUP: a novel
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50403More details Price: USD $24.95 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45746More details Price: USD $16.95 -
The Way to Always Dance
Edition: First printing
Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1983. Card covers. pp 130. "From one of Saskatchewan's best known storytellers, the nine stories of The Way To Always Dance revolve around the central character, Alvena Schroeder, as she grows to womanhood and experiences both the delights and the pains of living and maturing in the restrictive environment of a German Lutheran family in Saskatchewan during the 1930s and 1940s." Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48913More details Price: USD $9.95 -
WHY SHOOT THE TEACHER
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965. Yellow boards. Page edges yellowed, small ink name at front, near fine otherwise. Dust jacket has small tears and chips to spine ends, two inch creased tear to rear panel, VG otherwise. Long appreciation by Farley Mowat to front flap of the jacket. The author's humane and realistic memoir of teaching school as a young man in Saskatchewan during the depression years, the basis of a decent Canadian film.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50343More details Price: USD $19.95