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Price: $6.80
Publisher: Vancouver, BC., Oblates - OMI.: 1990
Seller ID: 27388
ISBN: 096913083X
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 228 pp. Fr. Monahan (1902 - ) was ordained in 1929 and after serving in 2 parishes was assigned to the Oblate Mission Band (1932-1942), then he served as a chaplain in the RCAF, was later stationed in Spokane, Washington and upon his retirement, he wrote this book "dedicated to the beautiful people who made so many things happen, so many things possible - a casual combinmation of autobiographical fragments and his memories . . ." (from the back cover). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean and tight with a wee bit of wear to the cover edges. View more info
By: Mueller, Heinz.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Privately published.: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27297
ISBN: 1897486065
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
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 colour. Full page map of the free city of Danzig and environs on page 8. Signed by the author on the title page. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Bartibog Station, New Brunswick, Canada., published by the author.: 1959
Seller ID: 32805
Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket
12mo - 18.5 x 12.5 cm.; 238 pp. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. Known to be first published in 1923 though this particular edition states on the copyright page that it was first published in 1928 in Canada and this is the tenth printing. There is no publisher stated per se other than the title page saying that it is "Privately Printed by Robert MacLehose and Company Limited, the University Press, Glasgow. 1959". The back panel of the jacket states "order from the author. Rev. B. J. Murdoch, Bartibog Station, N.B., Canada". Black an... View more info
By: Negodaeff-Tomsik, Margaret.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Medical Association.: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27346
ISBN: 0920169333
Condition: Near Fine
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 Dowager. The story of this remarkable woman follows her life from Farmersville, Ontario, to medical school in MIchigan and then on... View more info
By: Osler, E. B. (Edmund Boyd).
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario., Longmans.: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 25829
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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 to have been used very little if at all. The dust jacket has mild wear to the head edge and the jacket's spine is a tad brow... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Peterborough, Ontario., Privately published.: 2009
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 26429
ISBN: 0557051746
Condition: Fine
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 . . ." Signed by the author on the title page.; Signed by Author 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
ISBN: 0575018232
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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
ISBN: 1550813250
Condition: Very Good
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, Minnie White, Sarah Benoit, Viola Payne, Phyllis O'Leary, Beatrice Sibley, Annie Dollimount and Vivian Cluett. The book is sign... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company: 1977
Seller ID: 32869
ISBN: 0316698393
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; xiv - 398 pp. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Book club edition with small blind stamped maple leaf on the back board. Illustrated with 13 black and white photographs within the text. Educated and trained in the US, Penfield (d: 1976) eventually moved to Montreal and was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1934. Forty-two pages of notes and a 12 page comprehensive index. Negligible wear to the book and the jacket (unclipped with no price) has some slight sunning / fading to the head edges of both the front and back panels. Ver... 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
ISBN: 0919306470
Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket
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. Lloyd H. Person". The book shows mild shelf wear and that on the bottom fore corners and spine tips. The interior is ver... View more info
By: Petrie, Frank.
Price: $11.25
Publisher: New York., Vantage Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8461
ISBN: 053311922-7
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; x - 353 pp. Black "leather look" paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Stated first edition and with a gift inscription on title page by author. There is a bump on the fore edge corners 2" up from the tail. A Canadian economist involved with international affairs, reflects on and his describes his career and the world as he knows it. He is from Newfoundland, so he is a bit blunt, which actually is a good thing. Illustrated with 14 pages of black and white photographs.; Signed by Author View more info
By: Pironio, Cardinal Eduardo.
Price: $5.20
Publisher: Middlegreen, Slough, UK., St. Paul Publications.: 1980
Seller ID: 18297
ISBN: 0854391568
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 182 pp. Approbations present. Translated from the Italian by Kent White. Cardinal Pironio was an Argentinian bishop and seminary professor before being called to the office of Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes. A reflection on the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Easter and hope. Light stains on text block fore-edge, inscription on half-title page; binding sturdy, text pages clean. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Trois Rivieres, Quebec., Editions Bien Public.: 1934
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28574
Condition: Good+
8vo - 24.5 x 16 cm.; 77 - (3) pp. The text is in French. Tan coloured wraps over a flat stapled text block. Brown lettering on spine, brown lettering and red engravings on front and back covers. Foreword by l'Abbe Albert Tessier. Illustrtaed with several full page black and white photographs printed on a coated paper stock. The interior is very clean with many of the pages yet unopened on the head and fore edges. The yapped overhang of the covers is quite chipped and the front cover is soiled on the fore edge margin. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ontario., Privately published.: 2009
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24304
ISBN: 0981339808
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 312 pp. Signed by Regan on verso of front cover. A self-published family history from 1900 to 1945 in Elie, Manitoba, and bits in Big Bend and Gypsumville. Lots of photos. A bit of minor soiling, otherwise, a sturdy, clean volume.; Signed by Author View more info
By: Reid, Escott.
Price: $9.60
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 1989
Seller ID: 23508
ISBN: 0802058116
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; xi - [11] - 405 pp. Very pale mauve cloth over boards with dark mauve lettering on spine. Illustrated with 13 black and white photographs on 10 pages. Comprehensive 11 page index at the back. The text block head edge is lightly dust soiled and the spine tips show a whisper of shelf wear, otherwise very clean and tight. View more info
By: Reid, Escott.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27105
ISBN: 0802058116
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; xi - (11) - 405 pp. Very pale mauve cloth over boards with dark mauve lettering on spine. From the jacket: "In the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, during the governments of Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson, Escott Reid played a central role". Illustrated with 13 black and white photographs on 10 pages. Comprehensive 11 page index at the back. One small bump (more of a little ding) to the bottom front fore corner and the spine tips show a whisper of wear. Otherwise very clean and tight. The unclipped dust jacket has mild wear on the head edge with one small closed tea... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Ontario., Privately published.: 1998
Seller ID: 32433
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; (6) - 324 - (2) pp. Bound with a black plastic coil in card stock covers with mylar overlays. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Born on a farm outside of Burnstown in Renfrew County, Richardson served as a United Church minister, eventually retiring in Perth, Ontario. Signed by the author on the title page. The clear mylar sheets are scuffed a tad and show some yellowing with age. Otherwise very clean with a sound binding. View more info
By: Riddell, R. G.
Price: $6.40
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oxford University Press.: 1940
Seller ID: 29098
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 19 x 13 cm.; xi - 154 pp. Green cloth over boards with brown lettering on the spine. Twenty-one brief biographies originally given as radio talks sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association. Illustrated with 8 black and white full page photogrpahs or reproductions. Usual library markings with the book showing moderate wear to the externals and having a soild and sound binding.; Ex-Library View more info
By: Roberts, Leslie.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Toronto, Canada., Clarke, Irwin & Company.: 1957
Seller ID: 32449
Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 246 pp. Biography of Canadian Liberal politician who served in the cabinets of Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent. Howe (1886-1960) is credited with transforming the Canada into an industrial-based economy. Some photos, index. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Bit of underlining on three pages, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy. Dust jacket has some edgewear and closed tears. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press: 1989
Seller ID: 27121
ISBN: 0802026788
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xv - [15] - 352 pp. Gray cloth over boards with blue gilt letting on spine. Illustrated with 14 pages of black and white photographs and cartoons. Well annotated with a four page bibliograph y and an eleven page index. The book shows very light wear to the fore corners and spine tips and has 3 pea size stains on the back board. Otherwise, 'tis clean and tight. A clear and removable cover has been fitted. View more info
