Category: Social History

Maori and Settler; A Story of the New Zealand War

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie

Seller ID: 002938

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth with black lettering on boards. Two tiny foot tears in DJ verso, taped inside. Author states this is a factual account centred on the massacre at Poverty Bay in 1868. 352 pp.
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Handbook of Indians of Canada; Sessional Paper No. 21-A

By: Hodge, Frederick Webb

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, C.H. Parmalee, King's Printer : 1913

Seller ID: 009519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Red cloth with gilt titles on boards. Reprinted from Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, which was Bulletin No. 30, Bureau of American Ethnology. However, Sessional Paper No. 21-A includes only those tribes residing wholly or in part in Canada. Heavy book will need extra postage. Map of Indian Treaties 1850-1912 and Map of Aborigines of Canada, America, and Greenland. 632 pp. with Index.
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Christmas in the Maritimes; A Treasury of Stories and Memories

By: Hogg, Elaine Ingalls

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Nimbus Publishing, Ltd. : 2006

Seller ID: 012986

ISBN-13: 9781551095943

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A broad selection of Christmas stories that will appeal to all ages. 152 pp.
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Every-Day Topics; A Book of Briefs

By: Holland, J.G.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Scribner, Armstrong and Company : 1876

Seller ID: 006159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name, with no other writing and no damage. The author was editor of Scribner's Monthly. The essays in this book were gathered from the last five years of the monthly. Culture, Literature, Criticism, Popular Lectures, Personal Dangers, Personal Development, Preaching, Christianity and Science, Revivals and Reforms, Christian Practice, Church of the Future, Common Moralities, Woman, Woman and Home, Amusements, Temperance, Social Intercourse, Town and Country, Rich and Poor, Politics, American Life. 391 pp.
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Life After Life; A Story of Rage and Redemption

By: Hopkins, Evans D.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Free Press/Simon and Schuster, Inc. : 2005

Seller ID: 007894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original paper boards. Member of the Black Panther Party, Hopkins came to widespread attention after writing "Who's Afraid of Virginia's Chair?" while serving a sentence for armed robbery. 287 pp. ISBN 0-7432-4623-3. Remainder mark.
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Reminiscences of Mennonite Life in Waterloo County

By: Horst, Mary Ann

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Kitchener, ON, Self-published : 1996

Seller ID: 006418

ISBN-13: 9780968072202

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Very Good

Original colour photo soft cover, stapled. The author was born into an Old Order Mennonite home in the Kitchener area, but later transferred to the more progressive Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada. She tells us of her school days, schisms in the church, other Mennonite groups, revivals, and quiet times. Several black/white photos. 79 pp. plus ads.
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One Village, One War 1914-1945. A Thinking About the Literature of Stone.

By: How, Douglas

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hantsport, N.S., Lancelot Press, Limited : 1995

Seller ID: 013419

ISBN-13: 9780889995635

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Black photographic cover paperback. Laminated cover. Previous owner's name. Wear to corners. The author sees it as one war with a break between the two parts. The typical Canadian village is Dorchester, New Brunswick. 374 pp.
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Homes and Haunts of the British Poets

By: Howitt, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited : 1903

Seller ID: 009537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth on boards Hinges lightly cracked, but secure. Homes of 36 poets located and examined. Heavy book will need extra postage. 642 pp.
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Ethnic Europe; Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World

By: Hsu, Roland (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press : 2010

Seller ID: 011646

ISBN: 978080476947

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover of 253 pp. No writing or damage. Christian foundations. Employment opportunities. Inclusion/exclusion. Ethnicity of fear. 253 pp.
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My Home in the Field of Honour

By: Huard, Frances Wilson

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart : 1916

Seller ID: 004245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth with pastedown title on boards. A woman's account of living in an active theatre of war in Northern France. Drawings are by her husband, an official French artist. Light foxing. Some wear to head and foot of spine. Previous owner's name erased. 302 pp.
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Into Canada's North (1944-1950); "Because it Was There"

By: Hubbert, Mildred Young

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Markdale, ON, Self-published : 1993

Seller ID: 010305

ISBN-13: 9780969738008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Large format trade paperback. Well-written account of a teacher's experience in Carcross, Moose Factory, and Yellowknife residential schools, accompanied by 200 photographs. 116 pp.
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French Canada in Transition

By: Hughes, Everett Cherrington

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd. : 1946

Seller ID: 008440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. DJ shows waterstain. Author is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. This study of "Cantonville" is actually of Drummondville, Quebec. In later chapters , Montreal and Quebec City are studied. 227 pp. with index plus ads.
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Woman's Wrongs; A History of Mary and Ophelia

By: Hume, Mrs. R.S.

Price: $110.00 USD

Publisher: Portland, ME, Self-published : 1872

Seller ID: 003112

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green blindstamped cloth on bevelled boards. A very good, clean copy, with only minor cover edge abrasion. 223 pp.
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More Last Words; A Collection of Singular Authentic Epitaphs

By: Hunt, Cecil

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston : 1946

Seller ID: 001253

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. No DJ. Gilt spine lettering. Inscription and cover soil. Text clean and unmarked. 69 pp.
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The Great Illusion; Stalin's Russia 1934-38

By: Hutton, J. Bernard

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, David Bruce And Watson : 1970

Seller ID: 007253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. Written by a close observer, a Slav newspaper editor and Communist. Reveals a first-hand look at Stalin's purges before WWII. 271 pp.
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Hallowed Timbers; The Wooden Churches of Cape Breton

By: Hyde, Susan and Bird, Michael

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart Publishing Col : 1995

Seller ID: 007704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original dark blue paper bpards. ISBN 1-55046-121-4. A colourful and comprehensive gathering of frame churches of many denominations on Cape Breton. A book which can only increase in historical value as many country churches close due to declining enrolment. 128 pp.
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This Sex Which Is Not One

By: Irigaray, Luce

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 010623

ISBN-13: 9780801493317

Binding: Sewn Card Covers

Condition: Good Plus

White paperback. Limited underlining. Translated by Catherine Porter. Eleven essays on female sexuality. 223 pp.
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Picture Imperfect; Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age

By: Jacoby, Russell

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Columbia University Press : 2005

Seller ID: 009300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. I tried to read the first 50 pp., and can remember very little except that the author was too heavy with the anti-utopian sentiment to suit me. If we have no hope, what will save us ? 211 pp.
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Captured Hearts; New Brunswick's War Brides

By: Jarratt, Melynda

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions : 2008

Seller ID: 010276

ISBN: 978086492519

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Trade paperback showing bridal couple. Volume 12 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series. Nearly 2000 war brides accompanied their husbands to New Brunswick after WW II. 147 pp. One page has ink markings.
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Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back

By: Jeffrey, Leslie Ann and MacDonald, Gayle

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., UBC Press : 2006

Seller ID: 009528

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Photo cover paperback. First two leaves creased. Very clean and firmly-bound. 274 pp.
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Category: Social History