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Price: $70.00 USD
Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I., The Examiner: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012364
Condition: Very Good
Subject of this biography was a Baptist clergyman who sometimes worked as a bricklayer. He is most widely known for his 40 years of mission work with the Micmacs of Nova Scotia. Micmac Mission. Micmac Mythology. Poetry. Hardcover. 81 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Blandford Press, Ltd./ Postal History Society: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012539
Condition: Very Good
Although mail was being distributed in some cases by stagecoach, the service was slow, drivers were immature and undependable, and robberies were frequent. John Palmer proposed quicker delivery accompanied by guards, at a slightly higher cost. After a week's trial the new plan was accepted. Palmer's troubles weren't over, but he and his system survived. 109 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Brunswick Press: 1969
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 012006
Condition: Good Plus
Diefenbaker's appointment to Minister of National Defence strikes out against Dalton Camp and others. Previous owner's name stamp. 210 pp. View more info
Price: $45.00 USD
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn, Publisher: 1850
Seller ID: 008264
Condition: Good
Original 3/4 brown calf on marbled boards. Both hinges cloth-taped. The third and last volume. No reviews found. 288 pp. View more info
Price: $125.00 USD
Publisher: Brantford, Ont., Bradley, Garretson, and Co.: 1893
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002386
Condition: Very Good
Original gold cloth lavishly decorated in dark brown and gilt on bevelled boards. Minor cover soil and endpaper foxing. NOTE : "...Volume II is made up of men from the Province of Quebec and for the most part of Eastern Ontario." - Introduction. Minor gutter strain. Portraits and backgrounds of 487 men, one to a page. 492 pp. plus index. View more info
By: Cohen, Reuben
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Books: 1998
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002831
ISBN: 1550139576
Condition: As New
Original maroon cloth on boards. Photo portrait DJ. All as new. New Brunswick boy makes good, and then.... Reading the Acknowledgements made me want to read the rest, since Dalton Camp agreed to write a Foreword if the author's comments about Richard Hatfield were removed - and they were not. 232 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1915
Seller ID: 010140
Condition: Very Good
Blue leather on flexible board. No. 7 of Chronicles of Canada. Handy large pocket size in a more attractive binding. The 3-man team of intendant,, bishop, and governor explained. Colby supplies a compelling and lucid narrative. 167 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1915
Seller ID: 010157
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Blue leather on flexible board. No. 3 in the Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume devoted almost entirely to Champlain, from his first voyage in 1603 to his death in 1635. Emphasis is placed on his activities as soldier and sailor, whether as captive of the Iroquois or bold peacemaker between Algonquins and Hurons. Light wear to head of spine. No writing. Top edges gilt. 158 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., Ltd.: 1911
Edition: Eighth Edition
Seller ID: 010505
Condition: Good Plus
Blue cloth on boards. Spine faded. A few gutters glued. The author is a longtime student and friend of Ruskin's. This book is weighted toward biography, since his works are available elsewhere. 314 pp. with index. View more info
By: Colvin, Sidney
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1920
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 004924
Condition: Very Good
Original dark blue cloth with spine titles in gold on boards. Laid in is a two-page clipping treating of the death of Keats. This heavy book wll need extra postage, so please inquire before ordering. Previous owner's name. 600 pp. View more info
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1924
Edition: First Tusitala Edition, 1924
Seller ID: 010938
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials in 1, 2, and 3. Begin with letters from his student days (1868) to his last days in Samoa (1894) where he died at the age of 45 years. Touching tributes from a Mataafa chief and other Samoans. Appendices. Indices to the letters, and index to the entire 30-volume set. 1394 pp. in the five small volumes of letters. View more info
By: Cordingly, David
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury USA: 2007
Edition: First U.S. Edition Stated
Seller ID: 013148
ISBN: 1-58234-534-1
Condition: Near Fine
Black cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Kirkus Review warns "Landlubbers may find this a lengthy voyage, but devotees of yarns about brave British tars will be delighted to be aboard." 420 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., The Lanmere Publishing Co.: 1917
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 003657
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original green cloth lettered in gilt on boards. Previous owner's name, with reference to Blooming Grove Study Club, Mr. Corning - Leader. Interesting account of Carleton's meeting Walt Whitman. This copy has one gutter strain between pp. 48-49, and a few cover spots. No extraneous writing and no other damage. The last line encapsulates Carleton's literary contribution, "To popularize rural domestic life." 98 pp. View more info
By: Craigmyle, Lord
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd.: 1936
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 007039
Condition: Good Plus
Original blue cloth on boards. Edgeworn and faded. Previous owner's name. This copy was in the library of Peninsular and Oriental ship, Maloja, evidenced by both bookplate and bookmark. Maloja was launched in 1923, and requisitioned into military service in 1939. In 1940 the ship encountered a German craft near Iceland. After rescuring the crew it sank the German ship, the La Coruna of the Hamburg South American Line. Maloja returned to passenger service in 1947, and was sold for scrap in 1954. This book consists of letters from Lord Craigmyle to his daughter, Isabel. 422 pp. View more info
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1955
Seller ID: 012636
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. No writing or underlininig. DJ missing piece at top. Maclean's Magazine says "Creighton's book is ...the best Macdonald biography." - DJ. 603 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: East Lansing, MI, Michigan StateCollege Press: 1954
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010972
Condition: Good Plus
Red cloth on boards. Library stamp and card pocket. An account of the reciprocating influences upon the life of a young Frenchman. He stalled his sweetheart when she wanted to marry. His differences with his father led to his being confined in a monastery. Eventually he became known for his philosophy, as expressed primarily in publication of the Encyclopedie. 442 pp. with index. View more info
By: Curtis, Herb
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Oromocto, N.B., Scholten Foundation: 1996
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 011998
ISBN: 0-9681421-0-9
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Both DJ flaps are taped to first two pages. " In just a generation, the Scholtens evolve from a culture-shocked clan of strangers in a very strange land to a formidable family of successful entrepreneurs." - DJ flap taped inside. Herb Curtis's first biography. 215 pp. View more info
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: 1978
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 011681
ISBN: 0-672-52377-9
Condition: Near Fine
Grey cloth backed in black cloth on boards. As told to Frances Spatz Leighton. Dahlinger reveals the fact that he is the son of Henry Ford. 243 pp. View more info
By: Dalton, Hugh
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Frederick Muller, Limited: 1962
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005470
Condition: Very Good
Original bright maroon cloth on boards. An exceptionally clean copy from a university library (stamp and bookplate). A clipping from the DJ taped inside the rear cover suggests the book's two recurrent motifs: the author's championship and support of younger delegates to the Labour Party and his warm affection for the Durham miners, whom he represented in Parliament for 26 years. 453 pp. View more info
By: Dark, Sidney
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.:
Seller ID: 002549
Condition: Good
Original brown cloth with gilt coat-of-arms on boards. Shaken backing glued. Photo frontispiece. Pearson was proprietor of the Daily Express and founder of St. Dunstan's Hostel for Sailors and Soldiers Blinded in the Great War 1914-1918. Previous owner's name. 228 pp. Author was a former employee of Pearson's. View more info