canada history

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 273 pages, endpapers map. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture--his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide--Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time. Light soil to dust wrapper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the career of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). Born in Scotland, Notman emigrated to Canada in 1856; he settled in Montreal and opened a photography studio that later had branches throughout Canada and the United States. Notman documented the development of a continent, photographing street scenes in burgeoning cities and modern transportation by steam and rail, and creating portraits of such notable figures as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill. By fully exploiting the commercial and aesthetic potential of the rapidly advancing photographic technology, Notman contributed to the establishment of the socio-economic prominence of Montreal and played a key role in the formation of a Canadian national identity. Published and unpublished photographs are paired with texts that explore the photographer's numerous achievements.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the career of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). Born in Scotland, Notman emigrated to Canada in 1856; he settled in Montreal and opened a photography studio that later had branches throughout Canada and the United States. Notman documented the development of a continent, photographing street scenes in burgeoning cities and modern transportation by steam and rail, and creating portraits of such notable figures as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill. By fully exploiting the commercial and aesthetic potential of the rapidly advancing photographic technology, Notman contributed to the establishment of the socio-economic prominence of Montreal and played a key role in the formation of a Canadian national identity. Published and unpublished photographs are paired with texts that explore the photographer's numerous achievements.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Guyde Publishing Co., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limp red cloth covers stamped in gilt, now faded. Vintage travel guide for the northeast. Maps, advertising, photos, large folding map inside rear cover with a tear to one panel, no paper loss. Previous owners embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Montreal, Canada, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Tan colored fabric covered. Clean copy, Dust jacket shows some light age wear. From the front flap: "...presents works that show aspects of the history of architecture seen through photography and the history of photography through architecture."

Softcover. London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 500 pages, maps and charts. The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Youngstown NY, Old Fort Niagra Association, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Few events in the long and complex history of Fort Niagara occupy so prominent a niche as the Seven Years War and the dramatic nineteen-day siege of 1759. The North American conflict of 1754-1760 resulted in the expulsion of French colonial power from the Great Lakes and Canada, and the siege of Fort Niagara was the climax of a century-long struggle for the northern gateway to the heart of the continent. Clean copy.

Softcover. Winnipeg MB, Turnstone Press, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 135 pages, b&w illustrations. The trials, tribulations and small victories of professional baseball on the prairies from 1886 to the late 1990s. Stubbs' comprehensive research uncovers Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta's rich history of teams and leagues, as well as regional heroes of the game. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Canada, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause; Audrey Hepburn on her bike with pet dog in tow; Marlon Brando taking out the garbage; Rock Hudson emerging from the shower; Elizabeth Taylor soaking up the sun. These are just a few of the iconic images for which Sid Avery is responsible. This sumptuous volume is a long overdue tribute to his prolific talent. The renowned photographer was one of the greatest names working in Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1960s, and became known for his candid portraits of the stars. He made history as the only photographer to shoot both the original 1960 cast of Ocean's Eleven and the 2001 remake, recreating his iconic group shot around the pool table. Avery was also responsible for establishing Mptvimages: the Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive. Run today by Avery's son, Ron, this publication has been produced together with mptvimages with full access granted to the depths of the archive. This complete anthology of Avery's work includes outtakes and contact sheets, with over half of the material never-before-seen.

Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London , Rupert Hart=Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, 365 pages. An informal military history of the North American continent. The two major campaigns covered being the war with France for the possession of Canada & the American War of Independence. Service discipline in the British Army meant a bloody back, hence the nickname for the soldiers of the time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 913 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

Hardcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 377 pages. SIGNED BY MOWAT on the title page. Blue endpaper maps, b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. After years of research, sparked by his discovery of roofless ruins in Hudson Bay, Farley Mowat presents a speculative history of the first Europeans in North America and a challenge to the presently held notion that the Vikings were the first to inhabit northern Canada. Carbon dating placed these ruins hundreds of years before the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, but the conventional accepted historical theory could offer no explanation for them. Mowat`s search led him to Scotland and the Northern Isles where he discovered ruins that resembled those he had seen on the other side of the Atlantic. He painstakingly researched early historical accounts from Roman and pre-Roman times for answers and was able to reconstruct the story of a forgotten people.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 408 pages, index. Black and white frontis photo portrait of author. "Moffat served for a protracted period and with notable distinction in the key position of what was then termed Chief of the Division of European affairs; he accompanied me as my chief assistant when FDR sent me to Europe as his personal representative in the spring of 1940; and I was in the closest touch with him during the time he served as American Minister to Canada, a service so tragically terminated by his untimely death in 1943. I know of no man who came up through the ranks of the Foreign Service with whose work I am personally familiar who impressed me as having in his latter years greater knowledge, a wiser and more balanced judgement, or a greater devotion to the highest interests of this country." - Sumner Welles.

Softcover. NY, National Railway Publication Company, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original printed paper wrappers, 1536 pages. Thick handbook for the railroad steamboat trade, with detailed schedules, maps, advertisements, all pertaining to the shipment of goods. Printed on thin, cheap stock that's tanning. Still very good wth clear tape reinforcement to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. The photos are breathtaking not necessarily for their quality - many are washed out and most of the subject matter is routine day to day military stuff - but for their rarity. While the Germans seem to have been at least as far advanced in the use of color photography as the Americans, there is still a paucity of color photography in the public record. That is being addressed by the various nations who took large amounts of color film in an official capacity, including the US, UK, Germany and Canada.The book's captions are adequate to the task, and there are good historical sections, as well as an introduction by Max Hastings as well as commentary by an actual German war correspondent. The strength of the book is in its ability to bring the participants of the subject campaign - the German invasion of Russia up to and including Stalingrad - to life. The use of a large format allows one to note small details of the photos, and relate to the subject matter on a personal level. Despite the lack of "action" shots, there is much to see in facial expressions, uniform details, and especially geography as the Russian steppe is shown in summer and winter, as well as the famous Russian mud (Rasputitsa) about which so much has been written.

Softcover. Ottawa CA, National Historic Sites Publications, Environment Canada, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages, b&w illustrations, tables, charts, maps, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Random House Of Canada, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. This is the Limited Signed Edition (#450 of 500), AUTOGRAPHED BY BOBBY ORR & HENRI RICHARD on the prelim page under a color photo of them squaring off in the 1971 Stanley Cup quarter finals. The book has a bright dust jacket and is housed in a maroon cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. All clean and bright. The Spirit of the Game is the first photo book to organize the story of hockey both chronologically and thematically, cutting across simple time lines or team-by-team organization. It is also a book full of detail about how hockey has changed - from skates to TV cameras, from the rule book to the fans in the seats. Photos span 106 years from the Montreal AAA, Senior Amateur champions of 1889, to the New Jersey Devils, Stanley Cup champions of 1995.

Softcover. NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. The story of westering Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily by male photographers, which depicted American Indians as either vanishing or domesticated, the lesser-known images by the women featured in Trading Gazes provide new ways of seeing the intersecting histories of colonial expansion and indigenous resistance. Four unconventional women-Jane Gay, who documented land allotment to the Nez Perces; Kate Cory, an artist who lived for years in a Hopi community; Grace Nicholson, who purchased cultural items from the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada-used cameras to document their cross-cultural encounters. Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West. Their photographs not only record the unprecedented opportunities available for Euro-American women eager to shed gender restrictions, but also reveal how women's newfound mobility depended on the increasing restrictions placed on Native Americans in this era.

Hardcover. Buffalo, Faxon and Read, 1st, 1841, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Traveller's Own Book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls and Canada, containing Routes, Distances, Conveyances, Expenses, Use of Mineral Waters, Baths, Description of Scenery, etc. A Complete Guide. with Maps and Engravings. Hardcover, 258 pages, 4 X 6 inches. Ribbed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. The map of Niagara Falls is missing, the folding map of Saratoga is present, though heavily foxed. The first printing of this popular guide book. Several b&w illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. Light wear to covers, short tears to spine cloth. Pencil notes on endpapers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, M. Carey, reprint, 1813, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Travels Through the Canadas Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes with an Account of the Productions Commerce and Inhabitants of Those Provinces. Hardcover, printed boards with calf spine that has a paper label with the title. 282 pages. Text generally clean with only occasional light foxing or soiling. Text pages intact. Internal binding strong. NOTE: this is a reprint of the 1807 book, minus any plates or illustrations. Previous owner's names, inscriptions on preliminary pages and title page. In an attractive maroon color slipcase that the book fits into nicely.