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Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. 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. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Hardcover. Ontario, Viking Canada, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FINDLEY on the title page. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean copy.

Softcover. Ontario CA, Firefly Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages with color photos. The authors have not only captured the unique flavor of the people but have recorded hours of conversations as their subjects reminisced about life, work and the changes that have washed over the island since Confederation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, Doubleday Canada, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Canada, Firefly, 4th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout.Dust jacket unclipped. Pages 17-32 bound upside down, the rest of the book is correct. Pages are clean and tight, as if unused. In excellent condition.

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. NY, Dey Street Books/Morrow, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 437 pages. Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer's childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in white and gilt, 349 pages, b&w illustrations, top edge gilt. Chronicles the daring explorers who crossed oceans from the West to the far shores of the North Pacific. From the dawn of Russian and European ambitions to the first American and British voyages, the book weaves together the lives, motives, and trials of men who chased a sea of unknowns. It presents a vivid look at discovery, rivalry, and the costs of pushing beyond the maps. Drawing on primary sources, Laut illustrates the fierce competition for discovery and dominance in the fur trade among these intrepid adventurers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to top of spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Canada, Penguin Books, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 640 pages. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we've never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our "rational elites" have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts--"Voltaire's bastards"--whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertain-ment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process.In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins--whose "pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor" (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)--Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural estab-lishments of the West. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Canada, Disney Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, There are nine flip books inside this box that pays tribute to Disney's early animators. Legendary animators Ub Iwerks, Norm Ferguson, Billl Tytla, Ham Luske, Art Babbitt, Grim Gatwick, Freddie Moore, Hal King, and John Sibley are featured in this special set. Each flipbook features a scene from an animated Disney feature in its original line-drawn form, having been selected from among a wide range of films for great movement and classic characters.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Hardcover. Alberta, Canada, West of the Fourth Historians, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 635 pages, photographs throughout, illustrated brown cover. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 292 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED BY COHN on the dedication page. Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn show how a confluence of geographic, technological, economic, and social conditions in the United States and Canada turned an ancient idea into a practical alternative to more expensive and dangerous steamboats. Reviewing evidence from travelers' memoirs, regional histories, pictorial records, and the only horseboat ever studied by archaeologists - a wreck on the floor of Lake Champlain's Burlington Bay, in Vermont - the authors trace the evolution of horseboats from early mechanisms that forced the animals to walk in tight circles to "endless floor" treadmills that resembled modern exercise machines. In a lively narrative interspersed with quotes from passenger accounts, the book charts the rise and demise of horseboat businesses on the Hudson River, as well as in New York City, St. Louis, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The authors also describe and record the underwater excavation of the Lake Champlain wreck, revealing a wealth of detail about the construction and operation of a typical treadwheel horseboat of the 1830s and 1840s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 272 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Grenfell. Endpapers feature a map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The first full biography of the founder of the Grenfell Mission in Labrador and Newfoundland. Lacks dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Slight rubbing to corners, reminder dot to text edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy. William Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top advertising agencies in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Shock value and an unrelenting hunger for success helped Helburn to a pioneer's share in the revolutionary era of advertising and his work would also appear on the editorial pages and covers of major magazines. As well as cars and cosmetics, Helburn shot Coca-Cola, Canada Dry, whiskeys, clothing lines, airlines, jewelry, cigars and cigarettes, and any number of other products. He worked with the top models of the day, from Dovima and Dorian Leigh to Jean Patchett and Barbara Mullen to Jean Shrimpton and Lauren Hutton. William Helburn: Seventh and Madison is the first book to survey the photographic work of William Helburn and gives viewers a delicious taste of the vivid reality that the television series Mad Men seeks to evoke. Most of these images have not been seen since they were first published decades ago. In addition to the photographs, Robert Lilly contributes a biographical account of Helburn's life and work, and former colleagues Jerry Schatzberg, George Lois, Sunny Griffin, and Ali McGraw offer insights into the lusty, creative spirit of William Helburn. 200 illustrations, 80 in color.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Slight rubbing to corners, reminder dot to bottom edge. Bump to bottom corner.Otherwise clean, tight copy. William Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top advertising agencies in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Shock value and an unrelenting hunger for success helped Helburn to a pioneer's share in the revolutionary era of advertising and his work would also appear on the editorial pages and covers of major magazines. As well as cars and cosmetics, Helburn shot Coca-Cola, Canada Dry, whiskeys, clothing lines, airlines, jewelry, cigars and cigarettes, and any number of other products. He worked with the top models of the day, from Dovima and Dorian Leigh to Jean Patchett and Barbara Mullen to Jean Shrimpton and Lauren Hutton. William Helburn: Seventh and Madison is the first book to survey the photographic work of William Helburn and gives viewers a delicious taste of the vivid reality that the television series Mad Men seeks to evoke. Most of these images have not been seen since they were first published decades ago. In addition to the photographs, Robert Lilly contributes a biographical account of Helburn's life and work, and former colleagues Jerry Schatzberg, George Lois, Sunny Griffin, and Ali McGraw offer insights into the lusty, creative spirit of William Helburn. 200 illustrations, 80 in color