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THE CROW'S NEST FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY, 1942-1982.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Crow's Nest Board of Directors, n.p., (1982).:

Seller ID: 5147

107 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Profusely illus with b&w photos of the club and its members/visitors, etc. The forty year history of the Newfoundland Officers Club, St. John's Newfoundland. Gives list of Executive Members for each year. Includes a brochure outlining history and membership requirements. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear/rubbing. VG
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AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY. EIGHT RADIO TALKS AS HEARD ON CBC UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR.

By: Baird, David M.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: 1959

Seller ID: 21833

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

111 pp, 8vo (8" H). Contents: Geology, Geologists and Mass-wasting; Mass-wasting Completed; The Work of the Wind; Rivers; Oceans; Glaciers; Geological Time; Earth's Construction; Economic Geology; Questions and Answers; In Conclusion. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - book is light cocked, has light to moderate edgewear, a few small soft creases, wrinkling on spine, small area of surface paper loss at top of spine.
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THE QUEEN'S OWN RIFLES OF CANADA, 1860-1960: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CANADA.

By: Barnard, W.T., Lieutenant-Colonel.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Ontario Publishing Company: 1960

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 14299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

398 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H), black boards with silver lettering on spine, silver insignia on front cover - no dust jacket (as issued). Map endpapers, b&w photographs, fold-out maps and diagrams. Inscribed by author on half title page: "To K____ A____ with all good wishes from the author W.T. Barnard Jan/85". Appendices include: The Victoria Cross; The Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards; Battle Honours; Succession Rolls; The Buffs; The King's Royal Rifle Corps; Characteristics of a Rifle Regiment; Rifles and Rifle Shooting; Dress; The Military Band; The Bugle Band; The Queen's Own Rifles of Can...
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JUNO: CANADIANS AT D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944.

By: Barris, Ted. Foreword by John Keegan.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen: 2004

Seller ID: 25370

ISBN: 0887621333

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

311 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy beaches. The piece of ground on which the Canadian fought so hard against heavily armed and entrenched German troops was code-named 'Juno'. On that day, the Canadians fought their way farther inland than any other Allied troops. For Canada, this was an extraordinary moment of bravery, sacrifice, and coming of age in the nation's history. (This book) ...
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FOLKLORE AND THE SEA.

By: Beck, Horace.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Mystic Seaport Museum: 1996

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 30064

ISBN: 0913372366

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

545 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w photographs, music notation. The American Maritime Library: Volume VI. "Everything you always wanted to know about sea lore but didn't know where to ask: shipbuilding; names and language; weather and navigation; songs and arts; seals, muckle men and mermaids; monsters, sea serpents and enchanted isles; reavers, privateers and smugglers; legends and tales; "spectre" ships - cooked up and served well salted by a first-rate writer who combines the knowledge of a sailor and a college professor." Oceans. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterio...
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MAPLE LEAF AGAINST THE AXIS: CANADA'S SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Bercuson, David J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9078

ISBN: 0773728619

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

316 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps. "Here, in all its passion and drama, is the story of how the Canadian Army, Navy, and Air Force fought during the Second World War, from the Battle of Hong Kong to the Rhine River crossing and the significant part Canadians played in the Allied victory. David Bercuson, one of Canada's top military historians, covers the war on the ground, the naval war in the North Atlantic and elsewhere, and the air war - both the bomber offensive and the story of those Canadians who flew everything from Canso Reconnaissance aircraft in the Indian Ocean ...
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THE EARLY TRADING COMPANIES OF NEW FRANCE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF COMMERCE AND DISCOVERY IN NORTH AMERICA.

By: Biggar, H.P.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Library: 1901

Edition: First, Limited Edition.

Seller ID: 30127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

308 pp, 10 1/4" H. No. 118 of the limited first edition of 600 copies. Rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, new endpapers. An ex-library copy with college stamp on top edge of textblock, library stamps, etc. on free endpapers. *Please note: lacks fold-out map that should accompany text.* Chapter headings: Introduction: Brief description of early expeditions to the regions of the St. Lawrence; The Discovery and Occupation of the St. Lawrence Valley; The Birth and Growth of Trade and Commerce, 1497-1597; The Two Attempts of La Roche and the First Fur-Trade Monopoly; The Two...
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COURAGE AT SEA. VOLUME III - CANADA'S MILITARY HERITAGE.

By: Bishop, Arthur. Foreword by Vice-Admiral D.N. Mainguy, CMM.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1995

Seller ID: 25922

ISBN: 0075516403

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

191 pp, large 8vo 9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. Contents: The Indian Mutiny; The Royal Canadian Navy in World War I; The RCN Against Germany (includes: The Newfoundland Escort Force; Paukenschlag; The Mid-Atlantic; Mediterranean Duty; Battling the U-Boats; Battles in the Bay (Biscay); Policing the Pipeline to Invasion; Titanic Test for the Tribals; MTB Battles; Corvettes Courageous, etc.); The RCN in Korea. Slight bump at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has come very light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing - mainly on rear panel.
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SINGING IN SCHOOLS: TEN SONGS.

By: Bissell, Keith.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada, 1962.:

Seller ID: 19945

24 pp, 9 7/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: Aupres de ma Blonde (French Canadian folk song); Once When I Lived With Father (French Canadian folk song); Jesus, Thou Little Child; Alleluia (Kirchengesang Cologne 1623); The Willows; Be Quiet, Wind; She's Like the Swallow (Newfoundland folk song); The Succession of Flowers (Flemish Song, 16th century); May-Day Carol (English folk song); Quam Dulcis est Amor (Old Christmas song). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownershi p marks. Exterior - Minor soiling on covers. Very Good
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THE PATRIOT GAME: NATIONAL DREAMS & POLITICAL REALITIES.

By: Brimelow, Peter.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1986

Seller ID: 28519

ISBN: 1550130013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 9 1/2" H. "(A)rgues that Canada ought to be a second Switzerland, with a living standard actually higher than that of the U.S. But in fact it is embroiled in a tangle of regional and linguistic quarrels, mainipulated by both the Liberals and their Mulroney Tory imitators, and an elite in Ottawa that truly represents neither Anglophones nor Francophones. 'The Patriot Games' offers an unconventional view of Canada that will shatter many myths. Brimelow endorses the argument of Goldwin Smith's 1891 classic 'Canada and the Canadian Question' that our country is 'rich by nature, poor by...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1447

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

182 pp, 8 3/8" H. "(This book) reflects not only the distinctive narrative voices of its authors, but also the diverse life-experiences of these three women: growing up in Glasgow between the wars, growing up in a small Newfoundland outport, growing up within the constraints of a fundamentalist religion, coming to this country after World War Two as the bride of a Newfoundland serviceman, leaving Newfoundland as the bride of an American serviceman in the 1960s. All this, and more, informs the short stories and essays contained in this book." Contents: Isobel Brown (November Memories / Two P...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30527

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

NEWFOUNDLAND STUDIES. VOLUME 13 NO. 2. FALL 1997.

By: Buehler, Richard, editor. (Bob Reece, Robert M. Lewis, Gerald Thomas, Michelle A. Broderick.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1997.:

Seller ID: 19857

Paging runs 127 - 219, 9" H, soft cover. Graphs, tables, map. Contents: "Such a Banditti": Irish Convicts in Newfoundland, 1789. Pt. II; "Representative-beggars of a Set of Paupers": The Politics of Social Welfare and Traditional Newfoundland; "Early Life Crises and the Resolution of Conflict": Meaning in a Franco-Newfoundland Fairy Tale; Economic and Religious Restrictions on the Timing of Marriage in Trinity Bay Newfoundland, 1890-1939; Book Reviews; Index to Volume 13. Interior - small bump to top edge of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small ...
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DOCUMENTARY PROBLEMS IN CANADIAN HISTORY. VOLUME II: POST CONFEDERATION.

By: Bumsted, J.M., editor. (Paul Stevens, G.N. Emery, Charles W. Humphries, Douglas L. Cole, Donald Arthur Kubesh, C.M. Wallace, J.L. Granatstein, Richard Allen, Patricia Roy, G.E. Panting, Laurier La Pierre, Bruce W. Hodgins.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Georgetown, Ontario, Irwin-Dorsey: 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28709

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

314 pp, 10" H. "The collection includes twelve articles by some of the leading specialists in a number of areas of Canadian history since Confederation. Each specialist concentrates on a certain problem and incorporates some of the documentary evidence he himself would employ in considering the problem." Contents: Laurier and National Unity; The Lord's Day Act of 1906 and the Sabbath Observance Question; Federal-Provincial Tensions within the Ontario Conservative Party, 1878-1900; Imperialism and Nationalism in English-Speaking Canada; Ontario Press Reaction to the Northwest Rebellion of 1...
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SPOSIN' I DIES IN D' DORY.

By: Butler, Victor. Edited by Boyd L. Hiscock and Ivan F. Jesperson. Illustrated by Lorie M. Jesperson.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Jesperson Printing, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1977.:

Seller ID: 21234

89 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), soft cover. ISBN 0920502008 B&w illustrations. The memoirs of a Newfoundland fisherman who struggled to provide for his family and stay off the "dole" during the Depression. Interior - previous owner's small label on first page, small light wrinkles at top edge of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - tiny wrinkle at bottom of spine, very minor edge wear. Very Good
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A GUIDE TO EASTERN CANADIAN MAMMALS.

By: Cameron, Austin W. Illustrations by John Crosby.

Price: $11.95 USD

Publisher: National Museum of Canada / Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Ottawa, 1956.:

Seller ID: 22385

72 pp, 9" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. "This paper has been written in the hope that it wil fill the need for a semi-popular treatment of the mammals known to occur, or believed to occur, in that part of Quebec which lies s outh and east of the St. Lawrence River, and in the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland (exclusive of Labrador)....The prime purpose of the paper....is to provide the amateur with simple descripti o n s o f t h e mammals (including whales, dolphins, etc.) so that he can identify them with a minimum of e...
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CANADA POST OFFICES 1755-1895.

By: Campbell, Frank W.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Quarterman Publications: 1972

Seller ID: 16630

ISBN: 0880000082

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

191 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H) - brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Profusely illustrated in b&w with reproductions of postmarks and sketch maps. An alphabetical listing of Canadian post offices for all provinces (except Newfoundland) from 1755 to 1895. Slight bump at top corners of boards, light rubbing and a few very light finger marks on board surfaces, minor edge wear.
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CANADIAN LIBRARIES.

By: Campbell, H.C.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Clive Bingley: 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28465

ISBN: 0851570631

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

90 pp, 8 3/4" H. Contents: Introduction; Canadian libraries, 1900-1960; Reference and research library resources; Provincial and regional public library systems; Envoi: The Canadian library in the 21st century; Directories and guides; Select bibliography; References; Index. "(R)eviews the 65-year growth of Canadian professional library associations and the slow rise in the number and quality of Canadian library services. The development of the National Library in Ottawa, which took more than 30 years to bring about, is recorded. Of intrest at the present time are observations of the part ...
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THE LIVING ICE: THE STORY OF THE SEALS AND MEN WHO HUNT THEM IN THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE.

By: Chantraine, Pol. Translated by David Lobdell.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1980), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 13818

238 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "...the real story of the seal herds, the Acadian and Newfoundland fishermen who have hunted them for generations, and the forces that threaten to destroy both the seals and their hunters. With a passion rare in contemporary writing, author and occasional sealer Pol Chantraine defends the hunting of seals as it is conducted by the people of the tiny Magdalen Islands...Interwoven with the controversy of the seal hunt is the fascinating account of life in the Gulf area - from the migrations of marine life to the tragic histo...
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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 recessions. I...
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