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...
Original colour photo cover trade paperback. Signed by author. Coe served as a visiting professor in this ancient, formerly communist, country for 2 1/2 years. Sponsored by the Civic Education Project, her aim was to counteract the widespread reality in Armenia that people felt unable to change their leaders, their country, or their communities. These letters convey the challenges and the joys of dealing with bright students and ignorant officials, gourmet meals and backfiring beans, and the structural conflict between credit from the West and military security from Russia. Surely a caref... View More...
Original white card soft cover backed in black. A no-nonsense essay on the failure of governments to provide for the poor. English and French texts. 46 pp. in English. 48 pp. in French. View More...
Original red faux leather lettered in gilt with pictorial pastedown on boards. Text in French. Four colour plates and 12 smaller b/w/ line drawings. The story of Joan of Arc and her martyrdom in 1431. Photo shows abrasion to cover. Light edge foxing. Previous owner's initials only. 141 pp. plus Table des Matieres. View More...
An address delivered July 11, 1945, by D.C. Coleman, Chairman and President, Canadian Pacific Railway, in honour of its first president, George Stephen. Interesting accounts of quarrels with William Van Horne and James J. Hill as to routes of the new railway, and disappointment over Sir John Macdonald's failure to give Canadian Pacific joint and equal rights over the Government-owned route from Saint John to Halifax. 15 pp. View More...
Original pictorial soft cover after a drawing by William Morrison, ca. 1830. This book is comprised of proceedings of the Planter Studies Conference sponsored by the Planters Studies Committee, held in Wolfville, N.S., in October, 1987. Previous owner's name. Minor pencil marks. Many photos of houses, interiors, furnishings, artifacts, clothing, portraits, and tombstones. View More...
Original blue-and-white soft cover. Head of title page excised. Small tear foot of spine. Absorbing account of how our long-standing troubles over language came to be. 141 pp. plus References. View More...
Green cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Spine worn head and foot. Hinges cracked and glued. 532 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original orange cloth over boards, torn DJ repaired inside with invisible tape. Front hinge shows strain, but still strongly attached. Treats of West Indies as well as Central America. Credits Yankee ingenuity in building up economies of these areas. 175 illustrations. 390 pp. with index. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Previous owner's bookplate and endpaper notes. A book about Canada and Canadians, especially Ontarians, in the years between 1775 and 1783. As well as the two main features of the book, a number of related clippings, brochures, and photographs are laid in. 295 pp., including index. View More...
Original bright red cloth on boards. DJ chipped head and foot, repaired inside with invisible tape. Dafoe was Editor-in-Chief of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1903 to 1944. Gift inscription. 293 pp. with index. View More...
Original beige boards on brown half-cloth. Pictorial DJ. Both as new. Black Africans recount their childhoods in Africa. 287 pp. with historical highlights and bibliography. View More...
Recently at home in St. Andrews, N.B., the author lived for 13 years in Nyasaland, which became Malawi. An inspired correspondent. Large foldout map. Laid in is an ad from Scottish World. 548 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original colour photo cover paperback. Previous owner's name. It all began with a garden planted on St. Croix Island in 1604 by followers of Sieur De Monts, who was accompanied by Samuel de Champlain, a geographer and historian. Forced to move to Port Royal the following year, the little French colony struggled on until overrun by the British in 1613, after which it was batted back and forth between English and French until the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. 94 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May. Destree was a lawyer and journalist who was very active in the social and political world of Belgium. He was so concerned with the lack of unity in the country in this critical time that he had written to the king in to the effect that there were no Belgians, but rather only citizens of either Flanders or Wallonia. Since he had earlier suggested an autonomous Wallonia, his home region, his motivatioin is open to question. When Germany invaded in 1914, he fled to France, where he continued to promote the Belgian cau... View More...
Red cloth on boards. Unmarked and undamaged book and DJ. Thomas Paine, recently arrived in America from England, took a strong stand in support of the Revolution, notably promoted by his pamphlets. Living in France in the 1790's he was imprisoned for his views on revolution there, but was freed by James Monroe. 213 pp. View More...
Original photo cover trade paperback. Inscribed and signed by author. No other writing and no damage. "Startling in its conclusions, Ignorant Armies is the first book to make sense of an unnecessary war." - back cover. 188 pp. ISBN 0-7710-2977-2 and 9 780771 029776 View More...
Grey cloth on boards. Beginning with Quebec's October Crisis of 1970, the author mounts a vital attack against the diplomatic profession. Sobering. 198 pp. View More...
