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Ville-Marie or, Sketches of Montreal, Past and Present
First Edition
Montreal: George Bishop & Co., Publishers, 1870. 393 pages. "With numerous engravings of churches, public buildings, street views, antiquities, maps, costumes, etc., etc.". ISBN: B00DIJJKUQ.
First edition (first printing). Fraying to head and foot of spine with small tear to spine cloth, however, does not effect the gilt stamped title. Else a very good copy bound in green pebbled cloth.
Book ID: 76751More details Price: $150.00 -
Voyage de Jaques Cartier au Canada en 1534: Nouvelle edition, publiee d'apres l'edition de 1598 et d'apres Ramusio. Documents Inedits sur Jaques Cartier et le Canada Communiques par M. Alfred Rame.
First Edition Thus
Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865. 67, 53 pages. Two large folding maps. ISBN: B003A0J8UU.
A very good copy in original wrappers (paperback), with minor shelfwear.
Book ID: 103680More details Price: $100.00 -
National Ballet of Canada: A Photographic Interpretation
First Edition
Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1971. Title page plus 32 loose photographic plates. Limited edition. Housed in black folding thick paper portfolio box with gilt lettering on front cover. 19 x 14 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1049513.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Plates are near fine. The portfolio box covers are scuffed and soiled with front cover nearly separated, top edge is missing and lower edge has a 2.5 inch closed tear.
Book ID: 265288More details Price: $80.00 -
Bibliotheca canadensis, or A Manual of Canadian Literature
First Edition
Ottawa: G.E. Desbarats, 1867. xiv, 411 pages. Brief biographies of early Canadian writers, with annotated entries for their major works. The first such dictionary for Canadian authors. ISBN: B000OKI2CE.
First edition (first printing). A very nice copy, with some scuffing to the back cover; sadly, the half-title leaf has been removed, but nicer than usually found
Book ID: 87956More details Price: $60.00 -
Issei: Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers
Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1984. 217 pages with 7 pages of photos. "...a collection of brief biographies, gives us some perspective and memories of some of Canada's earliest Japanese immigrants...Gordon Nakayama is Canada's last surviving Issei clergyman from pre-war times." - from rear cover. ISBN: 9780920053348.
Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and dated 12/8/ 1985. Second printing. Near fine in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 158469More details Price: $50.00 -
The McLoughlin Empire and Its Rulers: Doctor John McLoughlin, Doctor David McLoughlin, Marie Louise (Sister St. Henry). An Account of Their Personal Lives, and of Their Parents, Relatives and Children; in Canada's Quebec Province, in Paris, France, and in the West of the Hudson's Bay Company, with Documents, Letters, Maps and Illustrations
x First British Edition
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. 370 pages. Northwest Historical Series, volume V. ISBN: B0006AW1QU.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Book ID: 33867More details Price: $40.00 -
Cabin On Quesnel
First Edition
(n.s.): Self-published, 1969. 88 pages plus fold-out map. ISBN: B004VNMBF4.
Very good in green leather with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Lettering on spine moderately rubbed. Inscribed by author.
Book ID: 49211More details Price: $25.00 -
If You're Stronghearted: Prince Edward Island in the Twentieth Century
First Edition
Charlottetown, PEI: Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation, 2000. 418 pages. Illustrated from photographs. ISBN: 9780920434369.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a few edge tears. Gift inscription to previous owner. Signed by the author on the title page.
Book ID: 219477More details Price: $25.00 -
Echoes Across Seymour: A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove
First Edition
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2012. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black-and-white. ISBN: 9781550175882.
First edition (first printing). 11-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A bit of edge wear. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 175323More details Price: $25.00 -
Culture and Ethos of Kaska Society
First Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. 365 pages with 12 plate pages. ISBN: B003URM1GG.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 262083More details Price: $20.00 -
Yankee Steamboats on the Fraser River British Columbia: A Story of Yankee Participation in Building and Operating Steamwheelers during the Cariboo Gold Rush 1858-1871
First Edition
Monroe, Connecticut: Frank R. Coutant, 1966. 39 pages. Illustrated with B/W photographs. ISBN: 281AIB1048894.
Inscribed by the author on front cover: "To J. J. Dillon with best regards from Frank R. Coutant.". First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Accompanied by a typed letter from J. J. Dillon ordering the pamphlet and requesting the author to sign the copy. With a typed letter signed by author to Mr. Dillon responding to his request and discussing his next project.
Book ID: 264268More details Price: $20.00 -
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section II, Presidential Address: Life of John Montresor
Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1928. 31 page pamphlet. ISBN: 281AIB1017106.
Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 76882More details Price: $20.00 -
The Story of the Press. Canadian North-West Historical Society Publications, V. I, No. IV, Pt. 1, 1928
First Edition
Battleford, Saskatchewan: Canadian North-West Historical Society, 1928. 106 pages. Covers early newspapers of the region to 1885. B/W illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1049905.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan illustrated wrappers (paperback), stapled.
Book ID: 265988More details Price: $20.00 -
Opportunities in British Columbia 1915: Containing Exrtracts from Heaton's Annual
Toronto, ON: Heaton's Agency, 1915. 72 pages. 3-1/2 by 5 inches. Small reference guide to BC and its economic prospects. With some ads. ISBN: 281AIB1044563.
Near fine in stapled wrappers (pamphlet).
Book ID: 228730More details Price: $20.00 -
The Lady in the Ice. a Novel.
D. Appleton and Company, 1870. ISBN: B0056Q83LQ.
Very Good
Book ID: 76742More details Price: $20.00 -
Pioneering the Parklands
First Edition
Winnipeg, Manitoba: Inter-Collegiate Press of Canada, (n.d. but 1967). 208 pages. Stories and articles "about Marwayne and the surrounding school districts." Illustrated throughout from black-and-white photographs. ISBN: B00404Q8C6.
First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 53177More details Price: $18.75 -
A Saga of Lac Clair: An Episode in the Life of a Laurentian Woodman From the Book "A La Hache"
First Edition
Montreal: (Ronalds Company), 1937. 21 pages. Attractively printed on good-quality watermarked paper, with folios (page numbers) and headers printed in orange. ISBN: B005U4VH6C.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. An edition of 250 copies.
Book ID: 39516More details Price: $15.00 -
Prince Edward Island Sayings
University of Toronto Press, 1998. 169 pages. ISBN: 9780802009203.
Fine
Book ID: 171942More details Price: $12.50 -
Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember
Naniamo, B. C: Rocky Point Books, 2002. 247 pages. The story of the Vancouver Island coal mines told by the miners. ISBN: 9780969740711.
Revised edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 105191More details Price: $12.50 -
1001 British Columbia Place Names
Discovery Press, 1969. ISBN: B006RML1Z8.
Very Good
Book ID: 76748More details Price: $10.00
