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THE CANADIAN MERCANTILE ALMANACK FOR 1847. INCLUDING "TEN REASONS FOR EMIGRATING TO CANADA" & ADDITIONAL 19TH CENTURY ADVERTISEMENTS.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Copp Clark Professional, (Toronto, 1996), facsimile reprint.:

Seller ID: 6644

8vo, soft cover. Reproductions of early advertising material. Contents: Advertisements; Introduction; The Canadian Mercantile Almanack for 1847; Almanac; Legislation; Appendix; Ten Reasons for Emigrating to Canada; Concluding Advertisements. "This fascinating glimpse of Upper Canada showcases the new colony: its officials, clergy, lodge members and business people. Here you find the new Acts establishing towns and school systems, militia and tariffs. You get 'Ten Reasons for Emigrating to Canada' and many pages of advertisements from 19th century 'Canadian Almanac' editions. Here is Cana...
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Image for PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. HAMILTON, ONTARIO FAMILIES: SMITH, McDUFFEE, BAILLIE, FAREWELL, GILRAY, FITCH. PHOTOGRAPHERS: ECKERSON, BELL SMITH, MILNE, INGALLS, INGLIS.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. HAMILTON, ONTARIO FAMILIES: SMITH, McDUFFEE, BAILLIE, FAREWELL, GILRAY, FITCH. PHOTOGRAPHERS: ECKERSON, BELL SMITH, MILNE, INGALLS, INGLIS.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00 USD

Seller ID: 30494

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

Small green cloth-covered photograph album, 5 5/8" H x 4" W, blind stamped decoration on spine and boards, gilt decoration on front board, gilt "Album" on spine, all edges gilt, metal clasp, decorative endpapers. 6 leaves, each page having a cut-out for photograph and decorative gilt border with the letters "E.&H.T.A." printed at bottom. This album contains 8 photographs and 1 tintype (three openings do not contain images). 1. Pencil notation identifies this small head shot as "Ezekiel Smith" and the photographer label reads "Made by / C.H. Ingalls / 53 King Street, / Two Doors West of the /...
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PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948.

By: Albright, Madeleine. With Bill Woodward.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 29612

ISBN: 0062030310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

467 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)akes readers from the Bohemian capital's thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezin to the highest councils of European and American government. Albright reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland's tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. Often relying on eyewitness descrip-tions, she tells the story of how millions of ordinary citizens were ripped from familiar surroundings and f...
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THE WILD SWANS.

By: Andersen, Hans Christian. Retold by Deborah Hautzig.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1992

Seller ID: 20309

ISBN: 067983446X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginated, 10 1/4" H. Colour illustrations. When their wicked stepmother transforms her eleven brothers into swans, a devoted young princess must fashion a shirt of nettles for each of them, while remaining absolutely silent, in order to break the curse. Tiny dint on bottom edge of each board, slight tiny bump to top of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling - mainly a top of spine/flap-folds and along top edge.
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PARENTAL TRAINING.

By: Bacon, William, Rev.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Presbyterian Publication Committee:

Seller ID: 27893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

209 pp, 6 13/16" H. Black cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine. The title page states "By the late Rev. William Bacon" and the copyright page states "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six by William Bacon.". Contents: Introduction; Preface; Lecture I. Importance of Parental Training; Lecture II. The Birth and Death of Infants momentous Events - Right Views of our Lost, and Right Treatment of our Surviving ones; Lecture III. Parental Government an Important Duty; Lecture IV. Government by Authority; Lecture V. Government by Love; Lec...
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"NATIONAL VELVET".

By: Bagnold, Enid.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, William Morrow:

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

303 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w drawings. "(Velvet Brown's) passion in life was horses. And so, when she won a notorious and unwanted piebald in a village lottery, (she) began to dream. And, since the breathless imagination of youth sees no obstacles as insuperable, Velvet's thoughts turned to the greatest race in the world - the Grand National. The Piebald (was) part carthorse, part Arab. Because he preferred sociable village life to lonely fields, he learned to jump fences. When Velvet took him on, he looked like a newly painted rocking horse. When he appeared at Aintree, the crowd looke...
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SEARCHING FOR YOUR ANCESTORS IN CANADA.

By: Baker, Eunice Ruiter.

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Heritage House: 1976

Edition: Third Printing

Seller ID: 12468

ISBN: 0920018009

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

80 pp, 8vo (8" H). Contents: The Family Genealogist; Searching and Recording; The Archives - National and Provincial; The Genealogical Societies; The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Heraldry in Canada; The United Empire Loyalist Association; Historical Societies and Museums in Canada; Heritage Canada; The Order of Canada Awards; Indian and Eskimo Research; Reference Section; Sources of Information in the United States; Sources of Information in Other Countries; Books and Publications. Interior - previous owner's embossed blind stamp on free front endp...
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THE FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT: GREAT GREAT STORIES FROM THE NATION'S FAMILY TREE. (THE 50 WINNING ENTRIES PLUS THE BEST OF THE REST.)

By: Barratt, Nick, introduction.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Richmond, National Archives: 2004

Seller ID: 21369

ISBN: 1903365759

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

196 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "The History Channel launched The Family History Project in September 2003 with the belief that every family has a great story to tell. The nation was invited to share the tales of its ancestors. The thousands of entries revealed a wealth of human experience, from grand achievement to everyday life, love and loss. Here we reproduce the favourites, illustrated with photographs from home archives. Well-known family historian Nick Barratt provides research tips for those inspired to research their own famil...
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BATA: SHOEMAKER TO THE WORLD.

By: Bata, Thomas J. With Sonja Sinclair.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28156

ISBN: 0773724168

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

341 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. "In 1932, when young Tom Bata watched his father's coffin being lowered into his grave, he silently promised to abide by the wishes expressed in his father's 'moral testament': that the Bata Shoe Company was to be treated not as a source of private wealth, but as a public trust, a means of improving the liviing standards within the community and providing customers with good value for their money. At the time, Tom had no idea of the challenges he would face in fulfilling that promise. Not only was he ill-equipped, at age eighteen, to step into the shoes o...
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THE HIGH WORLD.

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1954

Seller ID: 30124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

113 pp, 9 1/4" H. Orange/brown cloth with white lettering on spine, blue illustration on front board. Blue & white pictorial endpapers, b&w drawings, colour plates. By the author/illustrator of the Madeline books. "High in the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol lived the Amrainer family. They lived in a cabin wedged in among the boulders, and their life was simple and happy. But one day the Amrainers' peaceful existence was disrupted. They had gone down to the little village to spend Christmas with their relatives, the Maybocks, who kept the inn - but as the two families were sitting down to ...
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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, and much...
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MARCHING AS TO WAR: CANADA'S TURBULENT YEARS, 1899-1953.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday Canada: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22478

ISBN: 0385257252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

632 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). Pictorial endpapers, b&w maps. "The first war of the century, which took Canadian soldiers to South Africa, and the last, which sent them to Korea, bracket the tumultuous years of the (20th) century's first half like bookends on the shelf of history. They have a good deal in common, these two minor conflicts, whose chronicles pale when compared to the bloodbaths of the two world wars. Canada's wartime days are long past, and for many, the scars of war have healed. Vimy has been manicured clean, its pockmarked slopes softened by a green mantle of Canadian pines. Di...
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THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES 1914-1918.

By: Bickersteth, John, editor. Introduction by John Terraine. Foreword by Donald Coggan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1996

Seller ID: 23146

ISBN: 0850525462

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

332 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w illustrations. "The Bickersteth War Diary was begun in August 1914 by Ella Monier-Williams Bickersteth, at the urgings of her son Burgon, with the idea of sharing the news of happenings in Europe with another son who was in Australia at the time. She was to continue it for four and a half years and then resumed her task during the Second World War. The resulting volumes, full of newspaper clippings and letters have been edited by her grandson to present a personal look at the life of a family that provided soldiers and chaplains to the British Army and su...
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THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES 1914-1918.

By: Bickersteth, John, editor. Introduction by John Terraine. Foreword by Donald Coggan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1996

Seller ID: 29091

ISBN: 0850525462

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

NAPOLEON III AND HIS CARNIVAL EMPIRE.

By: Bierman, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1988

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 24235

ISBN: 0312018274

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

439 pp, lg 8vo (9 1/2" H). Pictorial endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions. "Louis Napoleon, nephew of the famous Bonaparte, is one of the most colorful historical actors of the nineteenth century. Bohemian, adventurer and compulsive Don Juan, he managed to the astonishment of virtually everyone to be elected President of France in 1848 and within three years staged the coup d'etat that made him emperor." Previous owner's name/date in ink on free front endpaper, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight fading at top edge of front board. Dust jacket has some areas of light edge wri...
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A SLAVE NO MORE: TWO MEN WHO ESCAPED TO FREEDOM, INCLUDING THEIR OWN NARRATIVES OF EMANCIPATION.

By: Blight, David W. (John Washington & Wallace Turnage.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Orlando, Harcourt: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30638

ISBN: 0151012326

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

307 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations, maps. "Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group. Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. Both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed do...
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FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT.

By: Blondal, Patricia.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

180 pp, 8vo (8" H). Second (and last) novel by this Canadian author who died before either of her books was published. "Set in the deceptively gracious atmosphere of British Columbia's West Coast climate and society, (it) is a story of complicated human relations, yet fast-paced and taut with drama and suspense. A strange marriage settlement that provides for the care of her son takes a penniless young widow, Arden Calcott, from a dreary London office to a life of luxury in the Vancouver Island home of her new husband, Dr. Alex Lamond. But it is a life of curious unease. Undercurrents of Alex...
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MY FATHER AND EDWARD ARDIZZONE: A LASTING FRIENDSHIP.

By: Booth-Clibborn, Edward.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Patrick Hardy: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8607

ISBN: 074440018X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

48 pp, 12" H. Beautifully illustrated thoughout in monotone with reproductions of Edward Ardizzone's specially produced Christmas cards. "(A) brief, but warm and personal account by Edward Booth-Clibborn of the long friendship between his father (known professionally as an artist under the name of Augustin Booth) and Edward Ardizzone. They met as art students, though Augustin was several years older than Edward, and remained lasting friends until Augustin died in 1969. The lasting bond of their friendship is the succession of Christmas cards which Edward and Catherine sent out annually and...
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LOYALIST VIGNETTES AND SKETCHES.

By: Bousfield, Arthur and Toffoli, Garry, editors.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Governor Simcoe Branch, The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 1984.:

Seller ID: 20061

183 pp + Index, 4to (11" H), hard cover (simulated red leather with gold lettering on spine and front cover, decorative emblem in gold on front cover) - no dust jacket (as issued). B&w illustrations. "This book is the principal bicentennial project of the Governor Simcoe Branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada. Its purpose is to gather and preserve a collection of anecdotes, biographies and achievements of the United Empire Loyalists and their descendants." Contains over 80 pieces on various United Empire Loyalists, families, incidents, etc. Minor wrinkling at top/bot...
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A TERRIBLE TOMBOY.

By: Brazil, Angela. Illustrated by N. Tension.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, London, 1924, new edition.:

Seller ID: 17850

284 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover (green cloth with black lettering/decorations on spine and front board, pasted-down oval color illustration on front board) - no dust jacket. 6 color plates by N. Tension. The adventures of the Vaughan chi ldren on their family farm, ending with exciting discovery of a treasure trove! Browning to endpapers, faint to light foxing on preliminary pages, very light browning to pages, a few pages with light stains or finger marks, book is slight l y c r a c k e d in two or three places, soft small bump to top corner of approx. last half of pages, brown...
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