Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages. Hardcover. Green Pebbled cloth. Gilt title and decoration on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Toby. Front endpaper has been removed. Previous owners name on inside front cover and preliminary page. Moderate fraying at bottom of spine, light rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, L. K. Cameron, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, white cloth spine, gilt. Spotting to covers. Six annual reports for 1903. 05, 06, 07, 11 and 12 - all bound into one volume. Illustrated with black & white and some color photographs, b&w drawings of archaeological finds. Two fold-out maps. Some pages tanned by age otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover black cloth with silver lettering. 410 pages. 32 pages of color plates; near 1000 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography and index. Authoritative guide to the collections at the University of British Columbia. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. privately printed, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Quebec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King's treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles a Marier or "marriageable girls," they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World. This book - the first work dedicated solely to this group of pioneer women - tells their story, collectively and individually. It first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers. The book then includes individual biographies of each of these 262 single women and concludes with a table of arrivals per year, an appendix of supporting documentation (marriage and enlistment contracts and inventories), a glossary, index of husbands and a comprehensive index to the book. Like new.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 86 species of nonpasserines, from loons through waterfowl.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 183 species of nonpasserines, from diurnal birds of prey through Woodpeckers.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 91 species of passerines, from Flycatchers through Vireos.
Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, George Brown, Rebound 1st Edition, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Rebound edition. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition on preliminary page in pencil. Bright blue bound cover boards. Some light tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Pages unmarked. Spine straight.
Softcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions in Hong Kong. This intriguing account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning on the eve of the crisis dispels the assumption that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. Canadians worked closely with their US and Allied counterparts to uncover Japan's intentions and to develop a strategic plan for defence. By highlighting Canada's role as a Pacific power, this book sheds new light both on the Pacific War and on events that led to the creation of the Grand Alliance. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Montreal, M. Longmoore & Co., 2nd. Ed., 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with stamped gilt figure of Cartier on front and lettering on spine, 196 pages plus ads in rear. 2nd edition, with the 8 (as called for) mounted albumen photographs by the great Canadian photographer William Notman. (Originally published a year earlier with 10 photos). Moderate foxing to several plates, fraying to spine at top and bottom
Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.- Dec. 1884) of the journal. Features eight bright color lithographs of flowers and fruit. One black & white plate. Portrait of editor Beadle. 295 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.
Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.-Dec. 1885) of the journal. Features 12 bright color lithographs of flowers & fruit. 292 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards with light corner wear. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.
Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages, b&w illustrations. In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument developed in Fields of Fire that "the achievement of the Allied and especially the Canadian armies... has been greatly underrated while the effectiveness of the German army has been greatly exaggerated." Copp supports this argument with research conducted on numerous trips to the battlefields of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. His detailed knowledge of the battlefield terrain, along with contemporary maps and air photos, allows Copp to explore the defensive positions that Canadian soldiers were required to overcome, and to illustrate how impressive their achievements truly were. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Fowlerville MI, Wilderness Adventure Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 277 pages, b&w illustrations, index. INSCRIBED BY KLEIN on the front fly leaf. Adventures canoeing in the wilds of Canada's Northwest Territories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Canada, Broadview Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust cover slightly yellowed, but clean inside. In good shape. From the dust cover front flap: " This book presents a compelling view of one of the great travelers of this century and of the last days of "the Old North."
Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 229 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates. Frontis photo portrait of Grenfell on his ship with tissue guard. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Owner's name and date on front fly leaf, mild soil to cover.
Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 226 pages, 12 photographic plates. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Frontis photo shows Grenfell and Perry (back from the N. Pole) on the deck of the 'Roosevelt'. This is a collection from six periodicals of 14 sketches by the 'Labrador Doctor.' He has fascinating stories to tell about the natives, the sailors, fishermen, the climate and his doctoring. Small tan stain affecting 10 pages, only in margin. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.
Softcover. Toronto, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 201 plates in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog in clean, bright condition. Photos with brief descriptions of folk art & artifacts representing many ethnic groups including Pennsylvania German work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. Toronto, Musson Book Company Limited, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original cream paper cover with light green and black lettering and decoration, and color pastedown of a painting. Ad for Chateau Frontenac inside front cover, and one for McColl-Frontenac Oil Co. Limited inside back cover. Interior is clean and free of markings. The book describes historical places of interest in the Montreal area. 96 pages including Index. Size: 6 1/4 x 9 Inches. Mild edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Inscribed by author's son. 568 pages, b&w illustrations. Fold-out map in rear torn, but present. Bright blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light wear to corners; small stains on rear cover. Ex-lib with number on bottom of spine, embossed stamp on title page, pocket inside rear cover. Else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of his writings on his home country. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Elizabeth Cleaver. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket edges and spine, small closed tear to front cover upper edge, else a clean, tight copy.
hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. 79 full-page B&W portraits by Karsh.
Softcover. privately printed, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, 662 pages. A groundbreaking biographical dictionary of the nearly 800 women and girls sent from France to populate Quebec between 1663 and 1673. The introduction explains the need for the program, compares it to similar initiatives by the English and the Spanish, dispels misconceptions about Filles du Roi and gives a history of the program in Canada. After defining who can be considered a Filles du Roi this work presents comprehensive biographies of all the "King's Daughters" including a wealth of information never before available in English. This 2-volume set also includes biographies of women falsely identified as Filles du Roi, a glossary, a thematic index and an index of husbands. Clean, like new.
Softcover. Musee McCord d'histoire, 1st, d'histoire, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Text in French and English. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Montreal, Poirier, Bessette & Co., unk., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages, many b&w illustrations including maps and fold-outs. Binding is shaken and both covers loose with cracked hinges, front fly leaf loose. Internally good. Leather spine and corners with pink pebbled cloth covers, marled end papers.
Softcover. Windsor, NS, Lancelot Press, 8th pr., 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 164 pages. "This is an authentic picture of pioneer life in Cape Breton about a hundred years ago - a scene in the family chronicles of the John MacNabs. The book is too delightful to be called a social document, but here, without sentimentality, is the story of the labors and joys and pains of this highland people, the endless toils of the women folk, and the journeys of the young men to the Grand Banks,and of young women to Boston, to get money to send to those at home." Light soil to wraps, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Ontario CA, Vanwell Publishing St. Catherines, Ontario, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Calgary CA, University of Calgary Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 615 pages. Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ontario CA, ECW Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover/Advanced Reading Copy, 228 pages. A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd. For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction. Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship and agriculture. With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd's Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land. Clean copy.
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. North Ferrisburg VT, Heron Dance Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1943. A northern classic, describing a canoe trip from Reindeer Lake, via the Cochrane, Thlewiaza and then to Windy Lake in the thirties. A story of eight months travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team on the Northern rivers and along the New Quebec coast of Hudson's Bay. This expedition was to investigate mineral deposits on the Nastapoka Islands, especially Clarke Island where Curran's previous expedition (1907) had found valuable iron ore deposits. Clean 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.
Softcover. Windsor, Ontario, Art Gallery of Wisdor, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Minor foxing to textblock edges. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.
Hardcover. Simcoe, Ontario, The Norfolk Historical Society/Fanshawe College, 2nd revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black. Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean. No dust jacket.
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. NY, J. Disturnell, Revised Ed., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed green cloth with with gilt design and lettering. 298 pages plus 26 pages of ads. Fifteen plates, maps and full-page illustrations, including the fold-out map. Tissue guard at frontis. Covers travel in upstate and western New York, as well as Canada, by steamboat and rail. The maps depict the Hudson River from New York to Troy, and the areas around Lakes Champlain and Ontario. The illustrations at the end are advertisements for hotels, rail and steam lines. A revised edition of this New York and Canada guide, orginally published in 1844. Small embossed stamp on front fly, otherwise clean.
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, Farrar & Rinehart, 2nd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 274 pages. Black and white illustrations by A.Y. Jackson. Twentieth volume in the Rivers of America series. 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. Southbury CT, self-published, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, printed paper over pictorial boards. 75 pages with many b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Clean, bright copy.
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.
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.