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History of the Acadians

By: Arsenault, Bona

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Quebec City, Le Conseil De La Vie Francaise En Amerique: 1966

Seller ID: 005130

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth decorated in red and lettered in white and orange on boards. Duct tape head and foot of spine. A few marginal notes on p. 32 only. Claims to be the first complete history of the Acadians in English, from the time of their arrival to the time of their expulsion. Saint John historians would be upset to read that the attack by D'Aulnay on Madame de Latour (in Latour's absence) is said to have occurred at Jemseg rather than Saint John (p. 27). Map endpapers. 265 pp.
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The Guildhall of the City of London; Together with a Short Account of Its Historic Associations, and the Municipal Work Carried On Therein

By: Baddeley, Sir John James

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Corporation of London: 1921

Seller ID: 006924

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth lettered in gold on beveled boards. An eye-opener to those unfamiliar with the language and luxury of historic London. Explains many traditions and government functions. Photos of various rooms and scenes of the surrounding area. 211 pp.
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Medicine- Men on the North Pacific Coast

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Dept. Of Northern Affairs And National Resources: 1958

Seller ID: 010424

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Green softcover. M-11-1 in felt pen. Damage to top of spine. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 152. Anthropological Series No. 42. Several photos of carvings. 93 pp.
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Quebec; Where Ancient France Lingers

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Co. Of Canada: 1936

Seller ID: 010705

Binding: Soft Cover with Flaps

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Color cover paperback. Several illustrations enhance the story as to how Quebec has retained the image of Frace. 173 pp.
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Global Showdown; How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule

By: Barlow, Maude and Clarke, Tony

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited: 2001

Seller ID: 010552

ISBN: 0-7737-3264-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

White cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Inscribed and signed by Maude Barlow. November 30, 1999, the Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization, now known as the Millennium Summit, was overwhelmed and brought to its knees by the combined efforts of thousands of non-violent demonstrators. 238 pp. with index.
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Keeping Heads Above Water; Salvadorean Refugees in Costa Rica

By: Basok, Tanya

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 008435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. DJ flap folded, else very good. Departure and Arrival, Refugee Aid, Explaining Survival and Success. 159 pp. including index.
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New Studies of Canadian Folk Lore

By: Beaugrand, Honore

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, E.M. Renouf: 1904

Seller ID: 001918

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Original maroon card covers, with some edges missing. Text block clean, sound, and well-attached. Stories from French Canada by a once-prominent journalist who served as Mayor of Montreal. 16 illustrations. Goblin Lore, Macloune, Indian Picture and Symbol Writing, and Legend of the North Pacific. 130 pp.
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St. George's Society of New York; Annual Report and Constitution 1902

By: Beddall. E. K. (Chairman, Exec. Committee)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Society: 1902

Seller ID: 011899

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth with gilt coat-of-arms on boards. No writing. Very faint evidence of moisture on last 5 pp. and endpapers. No odor. List of Past Presidents; Officers; Committee Reports; List of Deceased Members; Life Members; Annual Members; and Constitution. 53 pp.
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Jewish Communities of the World

By: Beker, Dr. Avi

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Minneapolis, Lerner Publications Company: 1998

Seller ID: 008872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green laminated, illustrated boards. Descriptions and photos of Jewish communities in many countries. Illustrated. 256 pp.
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A Way to the West; A Canadian Railway Legend (Signed)

By: Bell, Allan

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Barrie, ON, Self Published: 1991

Seller ID: 006939

ISBN: 0969491409

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original white cloth lettered in green on boards. Signed "Allan Bell" with no other writing and no damage to book or DJ. Apparently scarce. Joined Lake Champlain with Georgian Bay, and probably the most important line built since the big one across Canada a decade earlier, according to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former Prime Minister of Canada. 188 pp. with index.
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Mental Efficiency; And Other Hints to Men and Women

By: Bennett, Arnold

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson Book Company:

Seller ID: 004292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown paper boards backed in brown cloth and lettered in gold. Social commentary. 119 pp.
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Chosen; A Holocaust Memoir

By: Berk, Eta Fuchs

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 1992

Seller ID: 012677

ISBN: 0-86492-131-4

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

As told to Gilbert Allardyce. The author lost 12 members of her immediate family from Tasnad, Hungary, to the furnaces of Auschwitz. 140 pp.
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Best of Beutel Editorial Cartoons (Signed)

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Graphics Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 003310

ISBN: 0-9691592-0-X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original red pictorial card covers. Foreword by the late Dalton Camp. Signed copy in excellent condition. Editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe since 1978. 174 pp.
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True (Blue) Grit: A Frank McKenna Review (Signed)

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996

Seller ID: 003890

ISBN: 0-9691592-2-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original colour pictorial soft cover. Cartoons by Beutel and essays by friends and foes. McKenna has served at Premier of New Brunswick and Ambassador to the United States. He is now employed by Toronto Dominion Bank. 205 pp.
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The Balance Sheet of the Future

By: Bevin, Rt. Hon. Ernest

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Robert M. McBride & Company: 1941

Seller ID: 005242

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. DJ grubby with small tears and hole in verso. Mr. Bevin was a prominent Labour leader in England and a valuable member of Churchill's war cabinet of the 40's. 303 pp.
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Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island; From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement

By: Bittermann, Rusty

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 2006

Seller ID: 007251

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

Original map cover on white trade paperback. ISBN 0-8020-7229-1 AND 9 780802 072290. A well-respected study of the power of cooperation and mutual support, as settlers with little else in common fought the establishment for their land, not only in PEI, but throughout British North America. This book was purchased from a bookstore dispersal. No writing or damage. 372 pp.
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Eleven Exiles; Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution

By: Blakeley, Phyllis R./ Grant, John N. (Eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press, Limited: 1982

Seller ID: 010975

ISBN: 0-919670-63-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Colour cover paperback. Case histories of eleven men and women who fled persecution during the Revolutionary War in America. School library evidence. 336 pp. with index.
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The English People; A Study of Their Political Psychology

By: Boutmy, Emile

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1904

Seller ID: 005273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Neatly underlined and noted up to the third page of Chapter II only. Translated from the French by E. English. Long Introduction by John Edward Courtenay Bodley. The national type, The human environment, The Englishman(Moral and Social), The Englishman as politician, The individual and the state. 332 pp. including index.
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Connecting Spheres; Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present

By: Boxer, Marilyn J. And Quataert, Jean H. (Eds.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Oxford University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 006377

ISBN: 0195041232

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green paper boards. DJ very good. Contributions by several women, and a few men, on the relationships between the sexes. 281 pp. Very clean with no writing.
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The Country Diary of Samuel Crawford

By: Bremner, Dawn (Ed.)

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: Gagetown, N.B., Queens County Historical Society & Museum, Inc.: 1988

Seller ID: 007612

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated quarto softcover. A line-a-day diary of Samuel Hewlett Crawford (1861-1945). The rather pedestrian entries are accompanied by related drawings and colour photos of needlework pieces. Only three events beyond home at Upper Hampstead were worthy of Crawford's comment, one being the assassination of President McKinley in the United States. There are lots of names of friends and neighbours which are always of interest to genealogists. ISBN 0-9690893-4-1. 72 pp.
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