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Jeanne, La Bonne Lorraine

By: Coissac, Jean-Baptiste

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Llibraire Larousse: 1914

Seller ID: 003358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Lord Mount Stephen (First President of Canadian Pacific Railway) ; An Address Given at the National Newcomen Luncheon

By: Coleman, D.C.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., 1945

Seller ID: 003870

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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They Planted Well; New England Planters in Maritime Canada

By: Conrad, Margaret

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Acadiensis Press: 1988

Seller ID: 005691

ISBN: 0-919-107-20-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

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. MISSING pp. 2-11 of the Introduction and pp. 14-15, which are the first two pages of the article by R.S. Longley, entitled The Coming of the New England Planters to the Annapolis Valley. A careful look revealed no additional missing pages. Many photos of houses, interiors, furnishings, artifacts, clothing, portraits, and tombstones. No writing or damage e...
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Not By Choice; The True Story of the French English Struggle

By: Cougle, R.J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B, Self-published: 1989

Seller ID: 008279

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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The History of the Salvation Army (Vol. Six, 1914-1946)

By: Coutts, Frederick

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Salvation Army: 1979

Seller ID: 011983

ISBN: 0-89216-035-7

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked softcover copy of Vol. 6 of a 6-volume edition. SA spine sticker and bookplate.
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The Marvellous Country; Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, the Apaches' Home

By: Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth

Price: $200.00 USD

Publisher: Amherst, N.S., Rogers & Black: 1874

Seller ID: 012432

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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Bluenose Magic; Popular Beliefs and Superstitions in Nova Scotia

By: Creighton, Helen (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Nimbus Publishing, Limited: 2004

Seller ID: 011175

ISBN: 1-55109-487-8

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Colour cover paperback. No writing. Faint tea stains on front edges and one index page. 312 pp. with index.
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The Romance and Rise of the American Tropics

By: Crowther, Samuel

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran: 1929

Seller ID: 000233

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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The King's Royal Regiment of New York/ Index, Appendices, and a Master Muster Roll

By: Cruikshank, Brig. Gen. Ernest A./ Watt, Gavin K. (Ed.)

Price: $110.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario Historical Society: 1984

Seller ID: 006566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Debrett's Family Historian; A Guide to Tracing Your Ancestry

By: Currer-Briggs, Noel and Gambier, Royston

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, ON, Collins Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 010665

ISBN: 0-00-216858-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. 205 pp.
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The Voice of Dafoe; A Selection of Editorials on Collective Security, 1931-1944

By: Dafoe, John W. (Ed. By W.L. Morton)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited: 1945

Seller ID: 003397

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Growing Up African

By: David, Jay and Harrington, Helise

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., William Morrow and Company: 1971

Seller ID: 001439

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

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.
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The Real Paradise; Memories of Africa 1950-1963

By: Davidson, Ann M.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Durham, Pentland Press, Ltd.: 1993

Seller ID: 012516

ISBN: 1-85821-044-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Ruffles and Rapiers

By: Davies, Blodwen

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1930

Seller ID: 011229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Orange cloth on boards. DJ nearly complete, but with scattered nicks and small tears. Previous owner's name. 124 pp.
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The First Sex

By: Davis, Elizabeth Gould

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1971

Seller ID: 010362

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Black cloth on boards. DJ mildly crimped head and foot. No writing. Mild edge soil. Related clippings laid in. DJ quote, "The book that proves that woman's contribution to civilization has been greater than man's." 382 pp. with index. Heavy book might need extra postage.
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Constitutional Issues in Canada 1900-1931

By: Dawson, Robert MacGregor

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1933

Seller ID: 007624

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Origiinal black cloth on boards. Inscribed: "Walter W.V. Foster, Dec. 25, 33, In memory of the legal rights of the Maritimes. W.E.F." The donor was Walter Edward Foster, 17th Premier of New Brunswick. The recipient was his son. Deals with a broad range of related issues including the resignation of the King government, elections frauds, and the reform of the Senate. Front hinge cracked at ttle page. 482 pp. including index.
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From Humble Beginnings; The Story of Agriculture in New Brunswick

By: DeMerchant, E. B.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., N.B. Ag and Rural Dev./ N.B. Fed. Of Ag.: 1983

Seller ID: 007354

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Britain in Arms (L'Effort Britannique)

By: Destree, Jules

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Lane: 1917

Seller ID: 007436

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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...
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Origine Des Familles

By: Dionne, N.-E.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company: 1969

Seller ID: 009397

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. Withdrawn from university library. Text in French. 611 pp.
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For King, Constitution, & Country; The English Loyalists and the French Revolution

By: Dozier, Robert R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky: 1983

Seller ID: 012249

ISBN: 0-8131-1490-X

Binding: Hard Cover.

Condition: Very Good

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.
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