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AROUND THE SOUND: A HISTORY OF HOWE SOUND-WHISTLER.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Harbour, (Madeira Park, BC, 1997).:

Seller ID: 5109

240 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. B&w photos. "From Horseshoe Bay to Whistler and the islands and communities of Howe Sound, (this book) traces the area's rich and exciting history. Told in the voices of the people who call the area home, this anecdote-filled book tells of the first peoples, the early European explorers, the bustling gold rush trade, and the newcomers who settled to farm the fertile valley bottoms, log the fir and cedar forests, harvest the ocean's bounty, mine the region's deep veins of copper, and transform the area into the year-round outdoor recreation mecca it is tod...
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THE MARRIAGE BED.

By: Beresford-Howe, Constance.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1981, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20640

232 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771595549 "Meet Anne Graham, mother of three-year-old Martha and one-year-old Hugh, young, attractive, heavily pregnant - and alone. Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended. Her teenage plans of marrying a rich Older Man who would put her through university were thwarted when Max, the first suitable candidate to come along, married Anne's mother, Billie, instead. Then her promising academic career was cut sh o r t w h e n her first real romance led to an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage. Finally, ...
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THE BOOK OF EVE.

By: Beresford-Howe, Constance.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1973, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20323

170 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 077050888X "Here is a fresh, beautifully written story of an almost old woman who, one morning on impulse, walks out of a forty-year-old marriage, leaving her invalid husband calling querulou sly for his breakfast. In a desperate bid for a life of her own, and with little more money in her pocket than her first Old Age Pension cheque, Eva exchanges her sedate and conventional middle-class existence in a Montreal suburb for a ch a o t i c r o o ming-house life in one of the city's poorer districts. Eva's account of her transit...
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ELEVEN EXILES: ACCOUNTS OF LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

By: Blakeley, Phyllis R. and Grant, John N., eds. (John N. Grant, Phyllis R. Blakeley, Mary Archibald, Helen Caister Robinson, Darrel Butler, Donald Wetmore, Robert Morgan, Mary Beacock Fryer, Robert Allen.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 1982

Seller ID: 21891

ISBN: 0919670636

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

336 pp, 8vo (9" H). B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "(This) is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America, 'Eleven Exiles' reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women towards the significant social and political ideas of the time? What motivated them to leave their homes and move to a wilderness? What challenges and hardships did they face?&#...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. VOLUME FOUR (4): NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE TO JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM.

By: Blanck, Jacob, compiler.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1977

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 28644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

(xxiv), 495 pp, 10 1/4" H. Black cloth with red title block/gilt lettering and crest on spine. B&w illustrations. Plain brown paper dust jacket with two cut-outs revealing title and volume number. Contents: Authors in Volume Four; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General References; Principal Periodicals Consulted; Location Symbols; Bibliography of American Literature; Initials, Pseudonyms, and Anonyms. Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight tiny bump at top corner of boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, tiny edge tear on title cut-out archivally taped.
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CANADA, 1900-1945

By: Bothwell, Robert; Drummond, Ian; English, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28220

ISBN: 0802056903

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

427 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and perhaps contentious survey, (the authors) explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change. Beginning at the turn of the century, they consider the status of Canada in the empire and the world, the burgeoning growth of its economy, and the development of social and labour problems, up to the eruption of war in 1914. They discuss the political currents running through Canada durin...
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LOGISTICS AND THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AMERICA, 1775-1783.

By: Bowler, R. Arthur.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, (1975).:

Seller ID: 16835

290 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....draws on the remarkably complete records of the British government offices concerned with logistics during the Revolutionary War and army service departments such as commissary, quartermaster and barrackmaster generals to provide a full account of the everyday life of the British army and an accurate record of how logistical and administrative problems in America affected the course of the war. His study makes it clear that the British army in America depended almost entirely on Britain for supplies, and that for six years inade...
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GLOBAL MISSION: THE STORY OF ALCAN. VOLUME I: TO 1950.

By: Campbell, Duncan C.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ontario Publishing: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 28733

ISBN: 0919354068

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

438 pp, 9 1/4" H. Inscribed on title page: "Harold H. Peacock: / With warm regards and appreciation / for a long friendship / Duncan C. Campbell / April 1985." B&w photographs. "In 1928, the year in which Alcan began its own journey, the fledgling company's prospects were not bright, and within four years they had dimmed still further thanks to the Great Depression's deadly stranglehold. Alcan had, however, some gilt-edged assets: its employees, men and women of talent, loyalty and above all industry, led by a team cast from the same mold and headed by that brilliant entre...
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THE BEST EDMONTON STORIES.

By: Cashman, Tony.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Hurtig, Edmonton, (1976).:

Seller ID: 12303

207 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Tony Cashman takes us back to (an) age of stout-hearted men and women, giving a lively picture of a vigorous (and contentious) young city. The stories range in time from the days of old Fort Edmonton right up to the 1940s, but most are set in the early decades of (the 20th) century when Edmontonians were filled with the 'booster' spirit that built the city." Very light browning to edges of boards, tiny ink mark and minor soiling to top of textblock, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lig...
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WEST TO THE SETTING SUN.

By: Chalmers, Harvey. In collaboration with Ethel Brant Monture.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1944, reprint.:

Seller ID: 20550

362 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w frontispiece. Concludes with Notes and Bibliography. "....an exciting action story of that dramatic period in North American history when the British and French vied with each other and with the native Indians for control of this rich land; a struggle that culminated in the American Revolutionary War which raged up and down the beautiful Mohawk valley for several years and culminated in the defeat of the British by the re bels and the departure of the decimated Indians westward. It is the story of Joseph Brant, M...
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THE FORKED ROAD: CANADA, 1939-1957.

By: Creighton, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28339

ISBN: 077102360X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

319 pp, 9 1/4" H. One of 'The Canadian Centenary Series'. B&w plates. "Canada's declaration of war against Germany in 1939 marked the beginning of the most significant eighteen-year period in the history of this nation. By the end of the Liberal regime in 1957 the country had undergone immense growth in human and material resources. The experience of the Second World War had been followed by participation in the Korean War and ten years of the Cold War. The Great Depression had given way to a boom which had continued through the exchange crisis, serious inflation and minor recess...
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INTO THE GREEN.

By: de Lint, Charles. (Delint.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30444

ISBN: 0312080875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

254 pp, 8 1/2" H.. "The harp was a gift from Jacky Lantern's fey kin, as was the music Angharad pulled from its strings. She used it in her journeys through the kingdoms of the Green Isles, to wake the Summerblood where it lay sleeping in folk who had never known they were witches. This was the way the Middle Kingdom survived - by being remembered, by its small magics being served, by the interchange of wisdom and gossip between man and those he shared the world with - the birds, the bests, the hills, the trees. Harping, she knew, was one third of a bard's spells. Harping and poetry, ...
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MEMORY AND DREAM.

By: de Lint, Charles. (Charles deLint).

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19563

ISBN: 0312855729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

400 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). "(T)he most ambitious of de Lint's extraordinary career, an exciting tale of epic scope that explores the power our dreams have to transform the world - or make it a waking nightmare." Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor soiling on rear board. Dust jacket has moderate edge creasing - mainly along top edge, light edge wrinkling elsewhere, very light rubbing, very minor soiling, very light edge wear.
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"THE GREAT DOMINION": WINSTON CHURCHILL IN CANADA 1900-1954

By: Dilks, David. With Richard Dilks. Lady Soames, Foreword

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25909

ISBN: 0887621627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

472 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(Churchill) visited Canada nine times over the first half of the twentieth century, travelled from coast to coast, and understood the country and its leaders - and people - in a way that few writers have appreciated. In (this book), Dilks has selected excerpts from newspapers, speeches, letters and diaries to bring to life every one of those visits, giving preference wherever possible to Churchill's own voice - and what a voice it was. This is a book for anyone interested in Canada's history or fascinated by the phenomenon that was Wi...
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THE ARROW.

By: Dow, James.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, James Lorimer: 1979

Seller ID: 29415

ISBN: 0888622811

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "The Arrow (supersonic fighter) appeared on Avro's drawing boards in 1952 and was in the air by 1958. Test flights were a great success, and five aircraft had flown by 1959. Then came the dramatic decision whose rationale was not made public at the time, and which even now seems obscure. The Arrow was cancelled, and everything to do with it, including the planes that had already flown, was broken into scrap. Nothing was to remain. To tell the story of the Arrow, James Dow explores the impressive experience of Canada's aircraft industry, created...
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THE ARROW.

By: Dow, James.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, James Lorimer: 1997

Seller ID: 24321

ISBN: 1550285548

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

166 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. "Here is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Arrow, the legendary interceptor jet aircraft developed by A.V. Roe Canada in the fifties. The Arrow was an unprecedented success story for Canada's fledgling aviation industry. It was conceived by its builders as the culmination of an impressive string of world firsts. Faster than any previous aircraft, it represented the leading edge of technology and an achievement of the highest calibre. Then came the dramatic decision whose rationale was not made public at the time and which remains har...
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RIFLEMAN: ELITE SOLDIERS OF THE WARS AGAINS NAPOLEON. MILITARY ILLUSTRATED.

By: Elliot-Wright, Philipp.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Publishing News: 2000

Seller ID: 23737

ISBN: 1903040027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

144 pp, 4to (12" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, reproductions, uniform studies, maps/battle plans. "(T)ells the story of one of the great military elites of the past - the Rifleman. It shows him at his finest moment in the green jacket of the 95th Rifles in the wars against Napoleon. It reveals the way he fought, the weapons and equipment he used, and the tactics he perfected. First-hand accounts are matched by brilliant colour reconstructions of the Rifleman, bringing the reality of the battle to the reader. The invention of the rifle gave a new twist t...
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FLYPAST. NO. 71. JUNE 1987.

By: Ellis, Ken, ed. (Geoffrey Jones, Francois Prins, Don Middleton, Michael Irvin, Stuart Howe, William Jesse, Arthur Pearcy, Stuart McKay, Malcolm Fillmore, Robbie Shaw, Jeremy Collins, Dave Smith.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1987.:

Seller ID: 17260

71 pp, 11 11/16" H, soft cover (magazine format - stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: Castrol Challenge; Kermit opens up (Kermit Weeks' Florida Air Museum); Pathfinder (Don Bennett); Airspeed (Oxford aircraft manufacturer); Tunes of Glory (Pierce McKennon, 4th Fighter Group); Convair Survivors (Convair twins); Chalk's Seaplanes (Chalk's International Airline); News (P-38 Lightning); Airshow 87; Type Report (C-47s of SAAF, Moths); Aviation Archae ology (wrecks in highlands); Register Review; Museums of the World (Turkey); Preservation Project...
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FLYPAST. NO. 55. FEBRUARY 1986. (FLY PAST.)

By: Ellis, Ken, ed. (Paul Brindley, Ross Sharp, Bob Ogden, Dave Smith, Marcia Piermattei, Arthur Pearcy, Stuart Howe.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1986.:

Seller ID: 17249

60 pp, 11 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format - stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, 4 pages of color. Contents: Engines (diesel); Heroes of Habbiniya (keeping Iraq out of Hitler's hands); African Queen (Douglas DC-6 in A ddis Ababa); Museums of the World (Royal Thai Air Force Museum); Preservation Project (restoring a PV-2D Harpoon); Airfield Archaeology (Podington); Living Legends (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight); Year of the Spitfire (Spitfire two-sea t e r i n A s p en, Colorado); Catalina Splashdown; Type Report (Dakotas and Lancasters); American Class...
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THE LIFE OF LESTER PEARSON. VOLUME ONE: SHADOW OF HEAVEN, 1897-1948. VOLUME TWO: THE WORLDLY YEARS, 1949-1972. (VOLUMES I & II).

By: English, John.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1989

Edition: First Editions

Seller ID: 28713

ISBN: 0886191653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

414 pp, 473 pp, 9 1/4" H - 2 volume set. B&w photographs. 'Shadow of Heaven' - ISBN 0886191653 - published 1989. 'The Worldly Years' - ISBN 0394227298 - published 1992. "Lester Pearson - Canada's 14th prime minister, and foremost diplomat - was a man of deep and passionate convictions. His vision of Canada as a force for international peace, mediation, and good will helped redefine our view of ourselves. But how did this seemingly mild and easy-going man develop such a powerful and unswerving vision - and how did he win the political clout to put his beliefs into practice?" 'S...
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