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When the Prussians Came to Poland; The Experiences of an American Woman During the German Invasion

By: Turkczynowicz, Laura De Gozdawa

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1916

Seller ID: 009753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Light olive cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date. 10-12 small marginal foxing spots. Picture yourself in this situation, "Fancy sewing a bandage from your own stockings by the light of a candle held by a soldier, himself wounded - in a cattle car - speeding through the night, not knowing what would happen the next moment !" - P. 43. All illustrations present. 281 pp.
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Now Take Canada

By: Uncle Bart (Stanley McConnell)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Commonwealth Publishers Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 010467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Grey cloth on boards. No writing except "With best wishes from Stanley McConnell." A few strained gutters. An understandable essay on money and value. 170 pp.
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Micmacs and Colonists. Indian-White Relations in the Maritimes, 1713-1867.

By: Upton, L.F.S.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press: 1979

Seller ID: 013497

ISBN: 0-7748-0114-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original grey cloth over boards with turquoise and black lettering on spine. White pictorial dustjacket with drawing of two fishermen. Small stain on dustjacket. Wrinkling to top right corner of most pages (not affecting text). 1990 clipping from the Globe and Mail laid in. This book chronicles the takeover of Micmac territory by colonists: the French, the British, and the American Loyalists. 243 pp. including Notes, Bibliography and Index.
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Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Changing Dynamics

By: Uyangoda, Jayadeva

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., East-West Center Washington: 2007

Seller ID: 010762

ISBN: 978-1-932728-58

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black softcover of 74 pp. Background of the merry-go-round of relationships until two years before the clampdown on the LTTE in 2009.
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Faces of Fate; The Evacuation of Children from Great Britain During World War II

By: Van De Wiel, Debi

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Amherst, N.S., Acadian Printing, Inc.: 2002

Seller ID: 012207

ISBN: 0-9731105-0-3

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Blue softcover. Personal stories of British children transported to Canada and the US to escape WW II. 138 pp. plus Acknowledgements.
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A History of Canadian Culture

By: Vance, Jonathan F.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, ON, Oxford University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 012709

ISBN: 978-0-19-541909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Faultless black cloth on boards with DJ. Touches on a broad scope of issues and concerns, from Dorset sculpture to the Barenaked Ladies. 500 pp. with index. Heavy book will need exra postage.
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The British Heritage; The People, Their Crafts and Achievements As Recorded in Their Buildings and on the Face of the Countryside

By: Various Authors

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Odhams Press, Limited:

Seller ID: 007553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth on boards. No writing. Covers faded and spine joints and head worn. The British Heritage, Britain's Storied Past, Heritage of Soil, Heritage of Scenery, Britain as Seen by the Artists, Heritage of the Home, Heritage of the Town, Custom and Tradition, Heritage of Craftsmanship, Indes. 320 pp.
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Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855

By: Vieth, Frederick Harris D.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, John Lovell & Son, Limited: 1913

Seller ID: 006367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original brown cloth lettered in gold on boards. Ink spots on spine. Previous owner's name. Gives the feeling of an autobiography rather than a report on the war, since more than the latter half is given to activities after returning to Nova Scotia. Nevertheless, both parts of the account have historical merit, and should be of worth to students of the Crimean War as well as to those interested in Nova Scotia's history. Hunters and fishermen should enjoy the last half especially. 309 pp.
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Acadian Reminiscences

By: Voorhies, Judge Felix

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Lafayette, Louisiana, University of Southwestern Louisiana: 1977

Seller ID: 009256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original bright red cloth on boards. First written in 1907 by Judge Voorhies, who recalls the life and experiences of his grandmother, an Acadian evicted from her home and forced to flee to Louisiana. 109 pp.
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Junius; Including Letters By the Same Writer, Etc., Etc. (2-Volume Set)

By: Wade, John

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn: 1850

Seller ID: 007766

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original smooth calf bordered in gold on boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Light wear ro spine joints. Previous owner's name in small script each volume. Hinges sound. Five raised bands each volume. Anonymous correspondence of the three years, 1769-1772, in strong disapproval of the ministry of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3td Duke of Grafton, sent as letters to the Public Advertiser. The purpose of the letters, apparently, was to inform fellow Englishmen of their rights as well as to point out how the government of the day had infringed upon them. Elongated sentences constructed...
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The Cariboo Road

By: Wade, Mark S.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Haunted Bookshop for Hugh S. Wade: 1979

Seller ID: 004363

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ slightly soiled and edgeworn. Previous owner's name. Researched, annotated, and indexed by Eleanor A. Eastick, whose signature appears below the Limited Edition information. A newly-found manuscript written in the 20's and never before published. Large foldout map of gold fields inside back cover. 264 pp. plus foldout map.
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The Wait Letters

By: Wait, Benjamin

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Press Porcepic Limited: 1976

Seller ID: 012954

ISBN: 0888780605

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Introduction by Mary Brown. Afterword by Michael Cross. A highly-concentrated account, "describing how Benjamin Wait was condemned to Death, Reprieved at the Last Minute by the daring exertions of his Wife, transported in Chains to Van Dieman's Land, and how He Escaped." - DJ. Possible library experience. Stamp of Forrest House, Halifax. 159 pp.
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The Black Loyalists; the Search for Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870

By: Walker, James W. St. G.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Africana Publishing Company and Dalhousie University Press: 1976

Seller ID: 005692

ISBN: 0-8419-0266-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue trade paperback lettered in white. First free endpaper missing, with no other damage and no writing.The first group of Black Loyalists is said to have come to Halifax from Boston in 1776 While all able-bodied blacks were invited to join the British cause, some were forced to do so, while others were returned to their former owners for bounty paid. Even a long boat ride to Sierra Leone was welcomed by some as the best opportunity. 438 pp.
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No Hay Fever and a Railway; Summers in St. Andrews, Canada's First Seaside Resort

By: Walker, Willa

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B, Goose Lane Editions: 1989

Seller ID: 012233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original white cloth on boards. Onetime residents of Saint Andrews included Sir James Dunn, C.D. Howe, Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Sir Charles Tupper, and Sir William Van Horne, among many other prominent names. ISBN 0-86492-096-2. 171 pp. plus index. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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The United Empire Loyalists; A Chronicle of the Great Migration

By: Wallace, W. Stewart

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1914

Seller ID: 010160

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Blue leather on flexible board. No. 13 in the Chronicles of Canada Series. Loyalists changed the course of history. Port Roseway becomes Shelburne. Quebec. Bay of Quinte. Governors Haldimand and Parr. No writing. Some pages re-attached. 148 pp. with index.
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The Story of Stone Church 1825-1975

By: Ward, Evelyn

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., St. John's (Stone) Church: 1975

Seller ID: 008322

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original grey softcover. Tear to head of spine. A history of one of the oldest churches in Saint John. Extensive notes of the rectorsand their accomplishments. 89 pp.
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The Children of Bladensfield

By: Ward, Evelyn D.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Sand Dune - Viking: 1978

Seller ID: 000174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown half-cloth on beige boards. DJ has interior tape repairs of two 2-inch tears and general edge reinforcement top and bottom. An unassuming and nostalgic look back to the American Civil War through the lives of a family who lost two sons in it. Much historical detail adds greatly to the value, from accounts of land transfers to descriptions of implements used in everyday life. Bladensfield House was built about 1690, and its 400 acres of land abound with wildlife and mystical fragrance. Essay by Peter Matthiessen, one of the family and an established author in his own right. ...
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Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth Century English Canada

By: Ward, Peter

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 010361

ISBN: 0-7735-0749-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

White cloth on boards. No marks or damage. As well as the title subjects, this book takes special notice of class relations and the status of women for the time period. 219 pp. with index. The author is Associate Professor, Department of History, UBC.
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