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By: Buchan, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1935
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004593
Condition: Good Plus
Original dark green cloth on boards. Essays on The Causal and the Casual in History, Julius Caesar, The Massacre of Glencoe, Gordon at Khartoum, Montrose and Leadership, Lord Rosebery, and The Kirk in Scotland. 352 pp. including index. Previous owner's name and bookplate. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1935
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 011737
Condition: Very Good
Black cloth on boards. DJ missing two-inch piece bottom of spine. Book is sparkling bright. No writing or damage to book. A biography of Scott on the centenary of his death. If anyone could make Scott come alive perhaps Buchan is the one ! 382 pp. with index. View more info
By: Burton, Hester
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1949
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 003885
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original dark blue cloth on boards. Barbara Leigh Smith, an early British feminist and abolitionist, born into high Victorian society. Founder of Girton College, Cambridge. 220 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., P.J. Kenedy & Sons: 1957
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005950
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original yellow cloth on boards. Homemade plastic wrapper over DJ. Tape stains inside covers. Previous owner's name. A high society woman enters a convent to train for service to natives and Afro-Americans. 329 pp. View more info
Price: $250.00 USD
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle: 1873
Edition: Believed First Edition
Seller ID: 013065
Condition: Very Good Minus
Quality binding with raised bands and gilt embossing on spine. Black leather label with author's name "Butler" is only half there. Marbled endpapers match the somewhat rubbed marbled boards. Minor wear to the leather at corners and edges. Bookplate of Sir George Stephen Bart, who was President of the Bank of Montreal at the time he founded the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and served as its first President. Fold-out map has 3" vertical tear at the top along one of the fold lines. Captain William Francis Butler wrote this book after crossing Northwest Canada in winter by dog-... View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Black Tower Productions/Flanker Press, Ltd.: 2003
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008542
Condition: As New
Original grey cloth on boards. Bought new from university bookstore. Introduction, The Work of Building a Province, A Time for Tributes, A Confederation Chronology, The Terms of Union, The Smallwood Electoral Record, Epilogue. 282 pp. View more info
By: Casgrain, P. B.
Price: $45.00 USD
Publisher: Quebec City, C. Darveau: 1898
Seller ID: 004814
Condition: Good
Original red cloth printed in gold on boards. Bookplate and spine label, and ink stamp of Natural History Society Library of New Brunswick. Frontispiece and cover tissue separated 2 inches at foot. 173 pp. plus appendices. View more info
By: Caws, Mary Ann
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Overlook Duckworth: 2006
Edition: First
Seller ID: 008523
Condition: As New
Original dark blue cloth on boards. Bought new from university bookstore. Points up James's love for the visual. Illustrations by many artists. 104 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., Inc.: 1962
Edition: First American Edition Stated
Seller ID: 008793
Condition: Very Good
Original dark green cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Translated by Julie Kernan. Begins almost as a novel: "Patricius Herculus rode his mule sidesaddle with a dignified air." - p. 9. It worked for me, for I found myself at the end of Chapter Three before awaking to the realization that my task is to list books on the internet, not to read them ! Nevertheless, I recommend reading this book. 239 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada: 1969
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 000750
Condition: Very Good
Original decorated blue cloth on boards, DJ. All very good, though ex-library. Biography of Maclean and his publishing empire. Preacher's son makes good. Minor library stamps. No card pocket, but large portion torn out of rear endpaper caused by its removal. Laminated DJ. 368 pp. View more info
By: Chambers, Lenoir
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1959
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 011695
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Red cloth on boards. No writing. Faint cup rings on Vol. I. Internet reviews credit Chambers with a substantial version of Jackson's brief life, told in these 1133 pages. Some readers will grumble that the ample notes are placed at the end of Vol. II. View more info
By: Chaplin, Charles
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Simon and Schuster: 1964
Seller ID: 006488
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original black cloth on boards. DJ chipped along head, taped inside. From a difficult childhood to the top of the Hollywood heap, Charlie Chaplin was to me the funniest man who ever lived. His dancing potatoes skit in Gold Rush is funnier every time I see it. Heavy book might need extra postage. 512 pp. View more info
By: Chapman, J.K.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions Ltd.: 1985
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 003301
ISBN: 0-86492-068-07
Condition: Very Good
Original red trade paperback with airplane cover. Signed by author, who has shared with us here his experience as navigator on a torpedo bomber in WWII, his third "River Boy" title. He is now retired from teaching history at University of New Brunswick. Inscription to previous owner, but no damage or other writing. 103 pp. View more info
By: Chesterton, G.K.
Price: $125.00 USD
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1929
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 006068
Condition: Fair to Good
Original grey cloth on boards. Edited by J.P. de Fonseka. A reading copy. First free endpaper missing. Front hinge cracked and glued. Drawing of Chesterton (?) in photo corners inside cover. Backstrip split at joint. Ink blots to bottom edges to p. 29. Impressions of the persons and works of several major writers, including Boswell, Holmes, Johnson, Austen, and Gilbert and Sullivan. 272 pp. plus bibliographical note. View more info
By: Chesterton, G.K. And Williams, J.E. Hodder
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Company:
Seller ID: 009215
Condition: Very Good
Original black faux leather on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. A slender volume of limited text, but bolstered by many portraits and photographs related to Carlyle and his home. 40 pp. View more info
By: Chesterton, G.K./Kitton, F.G.
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: New York, James Pott and Company:
Seller ID: 012332
Condition: Very Good
Gift note dated 1908. Green cloth decorated in gilt on boards. A selection of portraits and other scenes related to the author, with ample descriptions of all. Biographical text by F.G. Kitton. 44 pp. View more info
By: Chisholm, Anne/ Davie, Michael
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hutchinson/Random House: 1992
Edition: First
Seller ID: 011081
ISBN: 0-09-173549-1
Condition: Near Fine
Black cloth on boards. No writing or damage. A hefty volume commensurate with the scope of the accomplishments of the subject. On this day after the British vote to abandon the EU, we could surely use him ! 589 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Chisholm, Joseph Andrew (Ed.)
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., The Chronicle Publishing Company, Limited: 1909
Edition: New and Complete Edition
Seller ID: 004611
Condition: Good Plus
Original black cloth with blindstamped border and gold shield on boards. Minor corner and edge wear. Previous owner's bookplate. Based upon Mr. Annand's edition of 1858. Joseph Howe was the son of the Queen's Printer. He succeeded as a newspaperman before going into politics. He opposed Confederation, and claimed that he had brought democracy to Nova Scotia. Vol. I has 668 pp., and Vol. II has 672 pp. View more info
By: Chisholm, Joseph Andrew (Ed.)
Price: $125.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, Chronicle Publishing Company, Limited: 1909
Edition: New and Complete Edition
Seller ID: 006523
Condition: Near Fine
Original full red leather with shield in gold containing three thistles and a salmon. Two volume set. All edges gilt. New and Complete Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is Number 500. Previous owners' small bookplate and gift note in ink. The finest set we've seen. Volume I covers 1804-1848. Volume II covers 1849-1873. 668 and 680 pp., respectively. Please allow for extra postage. View more info
By: Chretien, Jean
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada: 2007
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 010493
ISBN: 978-0-676-97900
Condition: Very Good
Red cloth backed in white cloth on boards. Bold gift note. First elected to Parliament in 1963, Chretien served ten years at Prime Minister (1993-2003). He always impresses me as a real person. 435 pp. View more info