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A HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN WEST TO 1870-71: Being a History of Rupert's Land (the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory) and of the North-West Territory (Including the Pacific Slope)
Edition: First edition.
London: Thomas Nelson, no date (1939). Thick octavo, green cloth. pp xiv, 987, [3] + 12 maps (9 folding). Errata slip tipped in. Covers streaked, faded, and shellaced, gilt spine lettering flaked; occasional tidy ink underlining and marginalia; chips to margins of a few leave from careless opening; yellowing to page edges; else a good clean and sound copy of this important work, uncommon in first edition (modest print run in the first post, copies said to have been lost in WWII bombing of London). Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45468More details Price: USD $75.00 -
A TRIP TO MANITOBA; or, Roughing It on the Line
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Rose-Belford, 1880. Original dark olive pictorial cloth stamped in black, gilt, and blind. pp xvi, (14)-267. Book a little leaned, mild wear to spine tips and corners, cloth snag at center of rear cover repaired, slight cloth bubbling to covers, yellowing to endpapers; else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. "Railroad Edition" rubber stamped in red on rear free endpaper by publisher. "Light-hearted anecdotes on a railroad trip out west, by the woman who co-authored two books with Catherine Parr Traill." - Waterston, The Travellers, p. 152.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 26797More details Price: USD $75.00 -
All Hell for a Basement
Edition: First edition.
Medicine Hat, Alberta: City of Medicine Hat, 1981. Quarto, red cloth. pp viii, 299, (5); photos throughout. Ink gift inscription to blank verso of front free endpaper, else fine in jacket. History (1882-1983) of this Alberta city. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31039More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ALL OF BABA'S CHILDREN
Edition: First edition
Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1977. Octavo. Brown cloth. pp 414. Rubber stamped owner name inside front cover, else fine in VG jacket. Ukrainian settlers in Western Canada.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44889More details Price: USD $9.95 -
AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA IN 1785 & 1786. Edited by Robin Fisher and J.M. Bumsted.
Vancouver / Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press, 1982. Octavo, black & tan boards, 319 pp. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has creased tears, light yellowing, minor soiling; good. First book publication of this manuscript at the National Library of Scotland. "Ensign Alexander Walker accompanied the fur-trading expedition of C.J.S. Strange, sailing from India to the Northwest Coast of North America just eight years after the voyage of Capt. James Cook. Calling at Indian settlements from Nootka to Prince William Sound, Walker spent more time with the Indians than Cook and kept a detailed journal..." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 19855More details Price: USD $30.00 -
An historical analysis of the Crow's Nest Pass agreement and grain rates : a study in national transportation policy : a submission of the Province of Saskatchewan to the Royal Commission on Transportation, 1960.
1961: Queen's Printer, 1960. pp 58, [6]. stapled in light green card covers. Small corner chip to front cover; some creasing; ink name inside cover; good. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50549More details Price: USD $14.95 -
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 -
BRAVE HARVEST: the life story of E. Cora Hind
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1945. Brown cloth. pp 275 + frontispiece portrait. Signed by the author. Ink gift inscription and later owner name on half-title leaf, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. "Ella Cora Hind (September 18, 1861 - October 6, 1942) was Western Canada's first female journalist and a women's rights activist." She was an expert on agriculture. Manitoba.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47985More details Price: USD $14.95 -
BRITISH COLUMBIA CHRONICLE 1847-1871: Gold and Colonists
Edition: First edition.
Vancouver: Discovery Press, 1977. Mustard boards, endpaper maps. Pp (xxii), 439, [3] + plates; indexed. Small bump to upper outer corners and foot of spine, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and creased corner tear, good. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29691More details Price: USD $20.00 -
CANADIAN NATIONAL'S WESTERN DEPOTS: the country stations in Western Canada
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1977. Small folio, green boards. pp 128. Well illustrated with photos and charts. Fine in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43444More details Price: USD $30.00 -
CHEADLE'S JOURNAL: Being the Account of the First Journey across Canada undertaken for pleasure only, by Dr. Cheadle and Lord Milton 1862/1863. Edited by John Gellner. Drawings, partly from Dr. Cheadle's own sketches, by Jean Redfern
Toronto: Baxter Publishing, no date [196-), 1862. Quarto. Brown grained cloth stamped in gilt. [10], 206 pp, illustrated. #184 of an unstated limitation signed by the editor and publisher. Small private owner rubber stamp in corner inside front cover, else fine in VG+ brown cloth slipcase. Note: over 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 45835More details Price: USD $39.95 -
CHEADLE'S JOURNAL: Being the Account of the First Journey across Canada undertaken for pleasure only, by Dr. Cheadle and Lord Milton 1862/1863. Edited by John Gellner. Drawings, partly from Dr. Cheadle's own sketches, by Jean Redfern
Toronto: Baxter Publishing, no date (196-), 1862. Quarto. Brown grained cloth stamped in gilt. [10], 206 pp, illustrated. Fine copy, no owner names, lacking the slipcase. #151 of an unstated limitation signed by the editor and publisher. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24916More details Price: USD $29.95 -
CHORUS TO ADVENTURERS, being the later life of... With a Foreword by Stephen Gwynn and 47 illustrations from photographs
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41062More details Price: USD $60.00 -
COLIN ROBERTSON’S CORRESPONDENCE BOOK, SEPTEMBER 1817 TO SEPTEMBER 1822
London: The Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1939. Dark blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt. pp cxxxi, 372 + subscriber’s list. Soft creases at spine tips, ink owner name inside front cover, VG+. Copy #360. HBRS II. Letters on the merger of the Northwest Company with the Hudson's Bay Company. 1.6 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29824More details Price: USD $65.00 -
CROWFOOT: chief of the Blackfeet
Edition: First edition
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1972. Tan cloth. pp (xx), 226, [2] + plates. Bibliography, index. Small corner bruise to front cover, ink owner name at front, else fine in VG+ jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45713More details Price: USD $17.95 -
CUMBERLAND AND HUDSON HOUSE JOURNALS AND INLAND JOURNAL 1775-82. First Series, 1775-79. Second Series 1779-82. With an Introduction by Richard Glover. [2 volume set]
London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1952. Two volumes. Dark blue cloth, top edges gilt, other edges rough trimmed. (xcvi), 382, xiv, list of subscribers; (lxiv), 313, (1), (xiv, list of subscribers). Light sunning to spines; faint spots to covers; VG clean, tight and unworn pair otherwise, no owner names. Number 648 of an unspecified limitation. Journals of the first settlements of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Saskatchewan in Western Canada. 2.55 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 7770More details Price: USD $95.00 -
DAVID THOMPSON'S NARRATIVE 1784-1812. A New Edition with Added Material Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Glover.
Toronto: Champlain Society, 1962. The trade (uncrested) issue. Octavo, hardcover, red cloth, spine gilt lettered. cii, 410 pp + ads and list of subscribers. Folding map at rear. Spine a bit sunned, else a fine copy, no owner names, of this uncommon and important text. Champlain Society publication 40. First published by the Champlain Society in 1916, this second (and best) edition contains some pages that were missing when the 1916 edition was compiled. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 50594More details Price: USD $450.00 -
DE TA SOEUR, SARA RIEL
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba: Éditions des Plaines, 1980. Octavo, orange card covers. pp (184). Sunning to spine, VG otherwise. Letters to Louis Riel from his sister, a missionary and member of la Congrégation des Soeurs Grises. Text is in French. Traduit de l'anglais par Francoise Carignan. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45989More details Price: USD $8.95 -
DEEP FURROWS: Which Tells of Pioneer Trails along Which the Farmers of Western Canada Fought Their Way to Great Achievements in Cooperation 1918
Toronto: George J. McLeod, 1918. Second printing, a month after the first. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black. pp 303. Light yellowing and light foxing to page edges and endpapers, small ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has minor rubbing, light dust soiling, very small creased corner chip, VG+ otherwise. A nice copy of this bookabout farmers' movements in Western Canada. "This book is written fearlessly. It strips naked the TRUTH about the farmers, the banks, the railroads, the manufacturers and the politicians." Includes an Appendix listing first officers, directors, committees, etc., of the farmers's movement in Western Canada.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44064More details Price: USD $30.00