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The Pork Chop...and Other Stories; a Memoir

By: Green, Lowell

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Carp, ON, Creative Bound, International: 2006

Seller ID: 010117

ISBN: 1-894439-32-5

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Colour portrait cover paperback. First paperback edition. No marks or damage. Personal stories by a 50-year veteran of radio, most of which were at CFRA, Ottawa. Known especially for covering the Springhill mine disaster. 254 pp.
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William Bentinck and William III (Prince of Orange)

By: Grew, Marion E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1924

Seller ID: 010209

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Blue cloth on boards.Both hinges cracked. Basic theme is the deep friendship and commitment between the two men. They began their friendship as children, and continued their comradeship for 40 years. Bentinck served the king as diplomat and fellow soldier. 433 pp.
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The Life of Gerald Griffin; By His Brother (The Works of Gerald Griffin, Vol. 10)

By: Griffin, Daniel

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., D. & J. Sadlier & Co.:

Seller ID: 005546

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth blindstamped recto and verso on boards. Possibly 1896 publication date. Small piece missing from head of backstrip, otherwise clean and undamaged inside except for one pressed flower stain. Covers hand-soiled. Gerald Griffin was a Catholic novelist, journalist, and poet who joined a religious order shortly before he died in 1840 at the age of 37 years. 406 pp.
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A Memoir of The Rev. Legh Richmond

By: Grimshawe, The Rev. T.S.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge: 1859

Seller ID: 011451

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Brown cloth on boards. Life story of a highly respected clergyman in England. First 100 pages water-stained but readable. 447 pp.
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Oliver Cromwell; The Hero of Puritan England

By: Groser, Horace G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sunday School Union:

Seller ID: 007185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original illustrated red cloth on boards. Several uncredited drawings. Splendid Lives Series. 139 pp.
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Eva Braun; Hitler's Mistress (Signed)

By: Gun, Nerin E.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Meredith Press: 1968

Seller ID: 008354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue paper boards backed in blue cloth. Gun, a free-lance journalist, adds some details to the romance of Hitler with Eva Braun. Several photos not seen elsewhere. Front board finger-smudged and faded. Interior clean and sound. 301 pp. with index.
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Letters of Bliss Carman

By: Gundy, H. Pearson (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 013532

ISBN: 0-7735-0364-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original pale gray cloth over boards with dark gray Carman handwriting on the cover, and dark gray lettering on the spine. Dustjacket in gray, black, white, pink and blue is a portrait of Carman from a painting. Bliss Carman was one of New Brunswick's best-known writers. There are 630 of his letters included here written between 1874 and 1929. 388 pp. including Index.
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A Life in the Theatre

By: Guthrie, Tyrone

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton: 1961

Seller ID: 006648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original yellow-brown tweedy cloth on boards. No writing or damage to book. DJ has a few short tears along head. A cousin to the late and better-known Tyrone Power tells his life story in the theatre. 320 pp.
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A King's Story; the Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor

By: H.R.H. Edward, Duke of Windsor

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1951

Seller ID: 012663

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Black cloth on boards. Previous owner's name the only writing. For 38 years a world traveler, ending in abdication in 1936 after being King for nearly a year. DJ tattered around edges. 435 pp.
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Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

By: Hagedorn, Hermann

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1921

Seller ID: 008049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. A story of Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota, where he lived as a rancher near the town of Medora for four years. Crayon scribble to the rear inside cover. Light stains to covers. 491 pp.
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Keats as Doctor and Patient

By: Hale-White, Sir William

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1938

Seller ID: 008200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Spine titles in gold. Previous owner's name front and back. Keats studied medicine for five years, but after "the opening of a man's temporal artery...I never took up the lancet again."- p. 37. Four years later he died of consummption at the age of 25. 93 pp.
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Vanished Pomps of Yesterday/ The Days Before Yesterday

By: Hamilton, Lord Frederic

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1943

Seller ID: 004307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blindstamped grey cloth on boards. Two of Hamilton's three most popular books, each complete in itself. Vanished Pomps deals largely with life as a diplomat in Petrograd. Days Before Yesterday was written in response to the popularity of Vanished Pomps, and contains more daily events, one of the most terrifying of which (to a six-year-old) is the ordeal of the nightly walk down the "Passage of Many Terrors" in his Irish home. Previous owner's last name in pencil in each. Both DJs are lightly chipped head and foot. 319 and 320 pp., respectively.
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A Magician of Science; The Boys' Life of Steinmetz

By: Hammond, John Winthrop

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Century Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 004237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth lettered in yellow on boards. Previous owner's name. Biography of scientist in magnetism and electricity. 210 pp.
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Charles Inglis; Missionary, Loyalist, Bishop (1734-1816)

By: Harris, Reginald V.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, General Board of Religious Education (Church of England): 1937

Seller ID: 007087

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth on boards. Thumb-size faded spot on cover. Author Harris was Chancellor of the Diocese of Nova Scotia. Bishop Inglis's noteworthy career began about 1755, when he served as a teacher in a Free School for German children in Pennsylvania. He had to go to London for his ordination, following which he was assigned to be missionary to Dover, Pa., which is now in Delaware. The book outlines his many accomplishments, positions, and friendships with prominent people in both government and church. 186 pp.
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The Heart of Howe

By: Harvey, D.C. (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1939

Seller ID: 004043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth with gold spine lettering on boards. Selections from the letters and speeches of Joseph Howe, a newspaperman who served Nova Scotia broadly and brilliantly for many years, finally being appointed Lieutenant-Governor in 1873, shortly before his death. 197 pp.
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A New Light on Lord Macaulay

By: Hassard, Albert R.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Confederation Life Building/Rockingham Press: 1918

Seller ID: 007750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original light grey-green cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Without reading this book, one can only wonder what "new light" this author wishes to shed. Apparently, Macaulay was either loved or hated by anyone he met. A child prodigy privileged to attend the best schools, he developed into a tireless public servant and widely-read historian. Few have served so broadly and deeply in such a relatively short life. He died at 59. 76 pp.
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Following Historic Trails; Famous Indian Leaders

By: Hauck, Philomena/ Snow, Kathleen M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Detselig Enterprises, Ltd.: 1989

Seller ID: 012490

ISBN: 0-920490-99-9

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dekanahwideh, Chief Membertou, Kondiaronk, Pontiac, Joseph Brant, Crowfoot, Maquinna, with Glossary and Bibliography. 90 pp.
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The First Hundred Thousand (Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)")

By: Hay, Ian (Capt. Ian Hay Beith)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs:

Seller ID: 005673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original brown cloth lettered in black on boards. List of titles on cover includes All in It, which came out after the first appearance of this title, as a continuance of it. An understated autobiography of life in the trenches of WWI. Lots of humour in the midst of it all. Previous owner's name. Short tear head of front joint. 342 pp.
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Morning Star; A Biography of Lucy Stone

By: Hays, Elinor Rice

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Harcourt Brace and World: 1961

Seller ID: 002356

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige cloth with large gilt "LS" on boards. Pictorial DJ with author's portrait on verso. Patterned endpapers. Lucy Stone was a contemporary of, and fellow suffragete with, Susan B. Anthony. Due to a split in the movement, Lucy has been virtually unknown. Ink spill on page 111, but still readable. No other marks. 339 pp. with index.
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The Rebel in the House; The Life and Times of A.A. Heaps, MP

By: Heaps, Leo

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Niccolo Publishing Company: 1970

Seller ID: 008721

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. DJ complete but short tears head and foot. A.A. Heaps (1888-1949) won a scholarship which he could not use because the family relied on him to work. At 13 he began to learn the upholstering trade, and 25 years later, as an MP, he recovered Laurier's office chair for Prime Minister MacKenzie King. In 1910 he moved to Winnipeg, where he took part in the General Strike of 1919. The author is the son of A.A. Heaps. No writing, but traces of dry mildew at head. No odour. 168 pp.
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