|
|
Sandwell, B.K. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
|
1 |
Sandwell, B.K. THE CANADIAN PEOPLES.
Oxford University Press, London, (1947), reprint.
128 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Fold-out map of Canada pre-Newfoundland at front of book, b&w photographs. Contents: The French Were Here First; The Coming of the White Man - French and British; Beginnings of Self-Governme nt; Quarter-Century of Deadlock; The French on an English-Speaking Continent; Early Days in English Canada; Provinces by the Sea; The Great Canadian Shield; The Entry from the Pacific; The Coming of the Irish; Pressures towards Confederation; What C onfederation Made; The First Thirty Years; The Dawn of "Canada's Century"; A World Drawing Near to War; The 1914-18 War, Compulsory Service and French Canada; Nation in Commonwealth; We are Made by Geography. Light edge wear to boards, light bro w ni ng to endpapers. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear, small tears/chips and creases - mainly at top of spine area, slight darkening to spine. VG/G
Price:
10.00 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
Sandwell, B.K. Introduction by Robertson Davies. THE DIVERSIONS OF DUCHESSTOWN AND OTHER ESSAYS.
J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada), Toronto, 1955, first edition.
84 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Journalist, economist, scholar, humorist - B.K. Sandwell's death in 1954 robbed Canada of one of her most lively and versatile intellects. Written over a period of thirty years, these essays have a timeless quality and a gleeful approach ot the business of day-to-day life that will make them as acceptable to the generations that follow B.K.'s as they were to his own. Ancestors, etiquette and even bathrooms, among other topics, are at thei r happiest when viewed through the eyes of B.K. Sandwell." Light browning to edges of textblock, very light browning to edges of boards and spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, browning to spine and flap-folds, light browning to e dges. Very Good/Very Good-
Price:
20.00 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
