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Price: $5.60
Publisher: Russell, Ontario., Home Works Company: 2000
Seller ID: 18168
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xiv - 98 pp. Written by a seasoned educator, this biography of George Brown is designed to be part of a history curriculum at the senior high school level. A select two page bibliography at the back. Very slight edge wear to the covers, otherwise an unused and unread book. View more info
By: Martin, Paul.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Deneau: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18407
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xiii - 482 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Stated first edition. Previous owner's name stamped on the front paste down end paper. Illustrated with fourteen pages of black and white photographs. The dust jacket show general though quite mild shelf wear and scuffing. View more info
By: Massey, Vincent
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Totonto, Ontario, Macmillan: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18414
8vo - 21.5 x 14.5 cm.; [18] - 540 pp. Tan / gray cloth with gilt lettering on a black spine panel. Illustrated with twenty-four pages of black and white photographs. The book shows quite mild shelf wear with like age-darkened text block edges. The dust jacket is lightly worn on the edges with a sunned spine and a inside tape repaired closed tear on the top fly fold at the front. View more info
Price: $9.60
Publisher: Owen Sound, Ontario, Glenmalure Publications.: 2010
Seller ID: 21974
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 215 pp. "When Jennifer decided to move back to her small town, with her four young sons in tow, she had no money, no car and no hope for a social life . . . a collection of columns following Jennifer's journey . . ." McGuire is a humour columnist for the Owen Sound Sun Times and, under a different moniker, "In Mother Words", in the Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun and London Free Press. A new, unread copy. View more info
By: McKenna, Brian and Susan Purcell
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Clarke, Irwin & Company.: 1980
Seller ID: 19526
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; [8] - 375 pp. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. The first biography (unauthorized) of Jean Drapeau, the man responsible for Montreal hosting Expo '67 and the Montreal Olympics. The boards show mild shelf wear to the edges and the same with the unclipped dust jacket. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland and Stewart: 1967
Seller ID: 23466
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; [10] - 307 pp. Light beige cloth with purple lettering on spine and a horizontal purple band across boards and spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Elected as a Liberal to the premiership of Ontario in 1934, Hepburn became embroiled in squabbles both petty and substantial and his feud with fellow Liberal Mackenzie King led the dissembling of the Ontario Liberal Party. "I have made some mistakes" was one of his commen... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., J. M. Dent & Sons.: 1973
Seller ID: 24742
8vo - 22 x 15 cm.; xi - 212 pp. First published in 1955, this is the second edition. Illustrated with 17 pages of photogrpahs and reproductions of which 4 are colour plates and one is the black and white frontis photograph of Arthur Lismer. Four page chronological listing of Lismer's paintings and drawings, 1913-1950, along with a 4 page index of proper names. The covers show some very light shelf wear to the edges and the spine is a tad darkened or sunned. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Lester and Orpen.: 1978
Seller ID: 27619
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 315 pp. Robbins (1903-1995) was a remarkable Canadian who, in his lifetime, was involved in the founding of a number of cultural organizations, was editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia Canadiana, President of Brandon University in Manitoba, and the first Canadian ambassador to the Vatican. The final chapter of this book is a conversation between McLeish and Robbins. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Dust soiled text block head; otherwise, a clean and stu... View more info
By: McRaye, Walter.
Price: $14.40
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Ryerson Press.: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18279
12mo - 19.5 x 14 cm.; xv - 182 pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. A first edition and first printing from December of 1947. Foreword by A. H. O'Brien and a postscript by Lorne Pierce. Two page bibliography at the back. Illustrated with eight photographic plates including the frontispiece printed on a coated paper stock. The book shows very mild shelf wear to the board edges and the text block edges are age darkened, more so the head ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Oakville, Ontario., Privately published.: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 26735
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; x - 133 pp. Stiff yellow wrappers with black lettering and art work. "A nostalagic look at events as they occured in Oakville, Ontario around the turn of the century". Signed and inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the first (half title) page. Mild wear and soiling to the covers, otherwise clean and tight. View more info
Price: $9.60
Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Jesperson Press.: 1981
Seller ID: 22425
8vo - 21 x 13 cm.; 239 pp. A biography of the Newfoundland writer (1904-1977) by his daughter, Elizabeth, who is a scholar and academic. Ted Russell, among other things, wrote stories for CBC Radio under the name of "Uncle Mose" about a fictious outport, Pigeon Inlet. This biography is well documented with footnotes, photos, and an extensive bibliography. Minor reader wear; binding sturdy and text pages clean. View more info
By: Miszkiel, Antek.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Privately published.: 2001
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 30008
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; (12) - 276 pp. Minor wear to the covers. Signed and dated (2002) with an inscription by the author on the title page. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Six page index of names at the back.; Signed by Author View more info
By: Mitcham, Allison
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press.: 1996
Seller ID: 19541
8vo - 20 x 14 cm.; 112 pp. A brief biography of Hicks, of Riverview, New Brunswick, who plays old-time fiddle music. Photos and charming pen and ink drawings by Peter Mitcham. This copy is signed by Ivan Hicks. Minor wear on covers; a clean, tight copy. View more info
By: Mueller, Heinz.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Privately published.: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27297
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 157 pp. Glossy coated yellow paper over boards with black lettering and full colour photograph on the front board. No dust jacket as issued. Foreword by the author's son describing the process of his father writing his memories: from the Polish town of Zoppot (Sopot) to immigration to Canada and the establishing of a business "Wholesale Lettering and Carving" in Toronto. Illustrated with 30 pages of photographs most of which are in full colou... View more info
By: Negodaeff-Tomsik, Margaret.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Medical Association.: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27346
8vo - 23.5 x 16.5 cm.; xx - 236 pp. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and 2 maps. From the back cover: "In 1877, Dr. Leonora Howard, 26 years old, left her family farm in Canada to work as a doctor in Imperial China - the China of concubines and bound feet, of incredible riches and aching poverty. She stayed for 47 years, refusing to leave despite wars and violent uprisings. She became the first Western woman to be made a Mandarin by the Empress Dowag... View more info
By: Osler, E. B. (Edmund Boyd).
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario., Longmans.: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 25829
8vo - 22 x 14.5 cm.; [6] - 266 pp. Pictorial cloth in red and white with black lettering and art work with a matching dust jacket. A well researched biography of one of Canada's enigmatic explorers and early financiers, René-Robert Cavelier de la Salle. One page of bibliographic citations, 17 pages of notes and a 3 page general index at the back. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper and the spine tips show a whisper of shelf wear. Otherwise the book appears... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Peterborough, Ontario., Privately published.: 2009
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 26429
8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; 182 pp. Murray Paterson taught in the Lakefield Public School for seven years and then at six schools in Peterborough from 1949 to 1984. From the author's preface: "This is a book that anyone who taught from the 1950's to the 1980's could have written. Sure, the classroom anecdotes would vary somewhat, but life in all schools back in those days followed very much a similar pattern over the years. We taught in an era of several momentous changes ... View more info
By: Pearson, Lester B. (edited by John A. Munro and Alex I. Inglis).
Price: $9.00
Publisher: London, UK., Victor Gollancz: 1974
Seller ID: 30180
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; xi - 344 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First UK edition. Illustrated with 12 pages of black and white photographs. The corners and spine tips show light bumping and a previous owner has a a line inked note on the top of the front free end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight. The unclipped dust jacket has light wear on the edges and most of the that is on the head edge. View more info
By: Pelley, Rhonda (text) with photographs by Sheilagh O'Leary.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland., Breakwater Books.: 2013
Seller ID: 26497
8vo - 23 x 23 cm.; 119 - (7) pp. From the back cover: "In the ealry 1990's, Sheilagh O'Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling in Newfoundland interviewing women who shared unique life stories filled with hard work, love, heartbreak, and family". First published in 2010, this is the second printing. Profusely illustrated with many black and white photographs. The women whose stories are told: Olive Blundon, Beulah Oake, Bessie Hurley, Flora Whitt, Mi... View more info
By: Person, Lloyd H.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan., Western Producer Book Service.: 1974
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23056
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; [10] - 244 pp. Mustard yellow paper over boards with black lettering on the spine and the front board. Minby recounts his memories of life in a small prairie village during the period 1928-1930 when he was a boy approaching his teen aged years using a fictional character called Wally Viggo to do so. Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author for William Kurelek as follows: "Inscribed for William Kurelek whose art I greatly appreciate.... View more info
