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BROWN'S TORONTO GENERAL DIRECTORY. 1856...
Book ID: 41987More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
CABBAGETOWN DIARY: a documentary
Toronto: Peter Martin, 1971. Inscribed by Author; Second printing (first was in 1970). Card covers. Creases to covers, first few leaves, and upper corner of a couple leaves near middle of the book;' a number of pages have lines in margins, with a few words in the margin of one page; just a good copy. Inscribed by the author "27/3/72. To Joanne with many thanks, Juan Butler". The author's first novel (of three), a savage portrait of the Cabbagetown district of Toronto, then one of its poorest. Disappointed with the receiption of his third novel, and struggling with his mental health, Butler offed himself at age 38. A scarce signature. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 49591More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CATARACT AND THE FORKS OF THE CREDIT: a pictorial history
Edition: First printing
No place [Erin, ON]: Author, 1973. pp [34], [2], stapled in card covers. Many photos. Some neat scoring with yellow marker, else fine. Caledon Hills. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43378More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
COACH HOUSES OF TORONTO
Edition: First Edition
Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press, 2005. Glossy colour photographic boards. Fine in fine jacket, with colour photos by Donna Griffith. 1.45 kg parcel; Quarto 1550464272
Book ID: 53679More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
-County of Ontario: short notes as to the early settlement and progress of the county and brief references to the pioneers and some Ontario county men who have taken a prominent part in Provincial and Dominion affairs
Whitby, ON: Gazette-Chronicle Press, 1907. Octavo. Printed paper-covered boards, cloth spine. pp [4], 103, [3] + frontispiece (the court house, dated 1910) + 8 other photo plates. Text in double columns. Rebacked with author and title hand lettered; wide strips of clear tape in inner margins of covers; new endpapers?; pulpy text paper yellowed; evidence of removed label at rear; good copy otherwise, fragile text clean and unworn. Whitby, Uxbridge, Oshawa, Cannington. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45568More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
EARLY DAYS IN RICHMOND HILL: a history of the community to 1930
Edition: First printing
Richmond Hill, Ontario: Richmond Hill Public Library Board, 1991. Oblong quarto, brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. pp (xii), 400, [2]. Photos, index. Ink presentation inscription at front from the mayor, book leaned, else fine in fine jacket. 2 kg parcel
Book ID: 45778More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
EDUCATION IN OSHAWA from settlement to city
(Oshawa, ON): Oshawa Board of Education, 1970. Octavo, 220 pp 15 plates and illustrations, index, blue cloth. Small owner label at front, else fine. Dust jacket has fading to red portion of spine, small tears, small chip to rear panel, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 45577More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
EPISTAXIS ( 4 issues for 1936-39)
University of Toronto, Medical Society, 1936-39. 10 inches / 25.5 cm, stapled in illustrated paper covers printed in red and black. Volume 25, 1936; Volume 26, 1937; Volume 27, 1938 and Volume 28, 1939. pp 30, 46, 38, 40 (including rear cover). Toronto ads, verse, articles, jokes, cartoons and illustrations, etc. Vol. 37 has a macabre cover illustration of a skull. Staples a bit rusty, near fine. An annual published by the student Medical Society, University of Toronto. "Epistaxis" means nosebleed. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45382More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESSIVE TRANSIT: a history of the Toronto Transit Commission
New York: Electric Railroaders Association, 1978. Second printing of the hardcover issue. Quarto, maroon cloth. pp 176. Large folding supplement (maps and charts) and folding map in homemade-pouch at rear. Fine copy. Jacket has a bit of rubbing to spine lettering, small tears and one small chip to panels, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43443More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
FORGOTTEN MUSIC
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974. Maroon boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has some nicks and light rubbing, VG otherwise. A novel of Toronto.; Octavo 0070822026
Book ID: 49378More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
FROM FRONT STREET TO QUEEN'S PARK. The story of Ontario's Parliament Buildings. With a chapter on the "Ontario collection" by Fern Bayer
Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 1979. Reddish cloth. 14 pp colour plates, (15)-160, with b&w illustrations. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has creased tears, nicks, good. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Quarto
Book ID: 45050More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
FROM FROZEN PONDS TO BEEHIVE GLORY: the story of Dixie Arena Gardens
Edition: First printing
Mississauga, ON: Author, 2006. Octavo, glossy card covers, 224 pp, many photos. Fine copy. Ice hockey, figure skating, lacrosse, curling, and more at this Mississauga arena over the years. i
Book ID: 39317More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
FUN WAS WHERE WE MADE IT: Mount Joy - Markham 1900-1915
No place: No publisher, 1971. Octavo, white card covers. pp (16), (93), [3]. Photos and map in text. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Ontario local history. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43721More details Price: USD $17.00 USD $15.30 -
FUN WAS WHERE WE MADE IT: Mount Joy - Markham 1900-1915
No place: No publisher, 1971. Octavo, white card covers. pp (16), (93), [3]. Photos and map in text. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Ontario local history.
Book ID: 41077More details Price: USD $17.00 USD $15.30 -
GREATER TORONTO AND THE MEN WHO MADE IT
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Inter-Provincial Publishing Co, 1911. Quarto, black sheep gilt lettered, all edges gilt. pp (5)-237. Many portraits with biographical sketches and a great many photos of old Toronto scenes. Minor wear to head of spine, bottom half inch of spine chipped away, else a VG clean, tight, unrubbed copy, no owner names. Laid in is a promotional card for the book naming two officers of the company and advising that only a few copies remain. An uncommon and good Toronto book. 1.5 kg parcel
Book ID: 40891More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
GREENWOOD THROUGH THE YEARS
Greenwood, ON: Greenwood Farm Forum Historical Research Committee, 1960. Octavo. pp 38. Photos. Tipped in colour reproduction of a Manley MacDonald watercolour. Rebound in plain green cloth without the original card covers. Creases to title leaf, else fine.
Book ID: 45406More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
HISTORIC FORT YORK 1793-1993
Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1993. Oblong quarto, card covers. pp (192). Photos, maps, notes, index. Inscribed by the author. Tiny corner creases to covers, else fine.
Book ID: 45351More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
HISTORIC PICKERING
Ontario: Author, 1972. pp 24, stapled in mustard card covers. Fine copy. Excellent pen and ink drawings of fine old Victorian houses scheduled to be torn down to make way for the Pickering airport which has never been built. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Oblong quarto
Book ID: 45186More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
HISTORIC SKETCHES OF OSHAWA
Edition: First edtion
Oshawa, ON: The Reformer Printing and Publishing Co, 1921. Octavo, original black cloth (imitiation of a half-bound leather binding). pp [8], 216 + 31 plates. 1951 ink inscription from the author's wife on the title page; front free endpaper a little puckered from removed label; else fine. The first book- length history of Oshawa, written by a former mayor. A history beginning in 1794, including names of earliest settlers and officials, an 1857 Oshawa directory, a list of lot holders in Whitby and East Whitby townships in 1836, biographies of local notables, and more. Morley p. 193.
Book ID: 45740More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
Oshawa, ON: Oshawa and District Historical Society, no date. Quarto, blue buckram (rebound?). Front free endpaper excised; evidence of removed label and two rubber stamped numbers at rear; narrow portion of upper and lower margin of first leaf clipped away (no printing loss), VG otherwise. Spine title is "Oshawa and District Historical Society. Historical Preservation, Inventory and Comment. Photos of 42 sites with commentary on facing pages. Probably issued last third of the 20th century.
Book ID: 45451More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96