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THE ROYAL MILITARY CALENDAR, OR ARMY SERVICE AND COMMISSION BOOK. 5 VOLUME SET. FACSIMILE OF THE 1820 THIRD EDITION.

By: N/A

Price: $600.00 USD

Publisher: Privately Printed in an edition of 100 sets of which this is No.3.:

Seller ID: 4845

400 pp, 424 pp, 416 pp, 496 pp, 508 pp, 8vo, hard covers with simulated leather spines (gilt lettering and bands) and biege cloth boards. "CONTAINING THE SERVICES AND PROGRESS OF PROMOTION OF THE GENERALS, LIEUTENANT-GENERALS, MAJOR-GENERALS, COLONELS, LIEU TENANT-COLONELS, AND MAJORS OF THE ARMY, ACCORDING TO SENIORITY: WITH DETAILS OF THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY EVENTS OF THE LAST CENTURY." (The Duke of Wellington accounts for almost half of the first volume.) "This Edition embraces the actual services of above two thousand Officers, and the progress of promotion of 2,872." In...
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AN AUTUMN ON THE RHINE; OR, SKETCHES OF COURTS, SOCIETY, SCENERY, &c. IN SOME OF THE GERMAN STATES BORDERING ON THE RHINE.

By: (Dodds, Charles Edward.)

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.: 1818

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30681

Binding: Quarter-Leather

Condition: Very Good -

524 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), medium brown leather spine/corners, maroon leather title block, gilt lettering/decoration on spine, marbled boards. The spine has been professionally and sympathetically replaced at some date, preserving the book in a sturdy, usable state. Fold-out colour map after title page, Errata slip bound in after final text page. Presented as a series of 32 letters, this journal of trip through some early 19th century German states provides information on city and country life, the aristocracy, hunting, duels, fashion, food & drink, architecture, entertainments, manners, etc. So...
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THE EMPIRE CLUB OF CANADA, ADDRESSES 1982-1983. EIGHTIETH YEAR.

By: A.J. Casson, Sir Edmund Hillary, George Cohon, Thomas J. Bata, Dr. F. Leutwiler, Joe Clark, Peter C. Newman, Peter Pocklington, Barnett Danson, J. Trevor Eyton, Dr. Kazimierz Sabbat, Claude Taylor, Jean Chretien, Claude F. Bennett, et al.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: The Empire Club Foundation: 1984

Seller ID: 28934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

396 pp, 7 3/8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt lettering/emblem on front board. B&w photographs. Contents include: New Directions for the Canadian Economy, by Peter Lougheed; Swiss Monetary Policies - The Case of a Smaller Country, by Dr. F. Leutwiler; The Canadian Economy, by Joe Clark; The Future of the Canadian Establishment, by Peter C. Newman; Reminiscences of the Group of Seven, by A.J. Casson; Commitments and Constraints: Ontario Hydro's Role in Today's Economy, by Hugh L. Macaulay; Let's Make Canada Great Again, by Peter Pocklington; Canada's Military-Indus...
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A CANADIAN INDIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY 1960-1970.

By: Abler, Thomas S., Weaver, Sally M. With Claire C. Veillette and Iris V. Yuzdepski. Case Law Digest prepared by Douglas E. Sanders with Paul C. Taylor.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28044

ISBN: 0802020925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

732 pp, 9 1/4" H. "This bibliography lists and annotates material published between 1960 and 1970 of interest to the serious student of the Indians and Metis in Canada. A team of researchers worked through books, monographs, journals, theses, unpublished papers and reports, publications by Indians, and federal and provincial government documents to generate over three throusand entries covering a multi-disciplinary range of aspects of current society and culture. Some aspects such as physical anthropology, biomedicine, archaeology, and linguistics had to be excluded, however. Both ...
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ERINDALE AT THE CROOK OF THE CREDIT.

By: Adamson, Jean.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Cheltenham, Ontario, Boston Mills Press: 1978

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 28053

ISBN: 0919822126

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 10" H. Number 16, Credit Valley Series. B&w photographs, map. Contents: The Crook of the Credit; Beginning the Village; A Doctor's Letter; Life in the Village; Roads; Churches; School Days; Doctors; Social Events; Politics; Erindale Hydro; Ice Cutting on the Pond; Falconer House; Toronto House; Magrath Estate; Schreiber Estate; Evans Estate. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing on rear cover.
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GREETINGS FROM CANADA: AN ALBUM OF UNIQUE CANADIAN POSTCARDS FROM THE EDWARDIAN ERA 1900-1916. (POST CARDS)

By: Anderson, Allan and Tomlinson, Betty.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14836

ISBN: 0770517218

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

188 pp, oblong (9" H x 11 1/2" D). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "The period between 1900 and 1916 was the golden age of the picture postcard in Canada; the craftsmanship evident in hand-tinted and lithographed 'postals' was never surpassed , the craze for collecting and sending them never so widespread. (T)hese postcards present an enchantingly candid portrait of Edwardian Canada and its citizens." Chapter headings: Towns and Villages; Fairs and Exhibitions; I Love a Parade; School Days; Fire!; Indians and Esquimaux; Breaking the Sod; A Special Breed; Rememberin...
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GREETINGS FROM CANADA: AN ALBUM OF UNIQUE CANADIAN POSTCARDS FROM THE EDWARDIAN ERA 1900-1916. (POST CARDS)

By: Anderson, Allan and Tomlinson, Betty.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28566

ISBN: 0770517218

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

CANMORE: THE STORY OF AN ERA.

By: Appleby, Edna (Hill).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Canmore, Alberta, Self-published: 1975

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

163 pp, 11 1/4" H. Signed by author on front free endpaper. B&w photographs, reproductions, fold-out school group (1926) photograph facing title page. Records the history of town of Canmore and the surrounding area. "Once located within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain Park, you observe Canmore changing from a CPR town into the only thriving coal mining town of the entire Bow Valley. Pictures and records of the once existing towns of Bankhead, Anthracite, Georgetown and Kananaskis are spotlighted as they enhanced the development of Canmore itself into the town it now is. The histo...
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VEILED THREAT: THE HIDDEN POWER OF THE WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN.

By: Armstrong, Sally. Inscribed.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Penguin: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 23516

ISBN: 0670043176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

221 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w map, photographs. Inscribed on title page: "For ____ Best Wishes Sally Armstrong May 11, 2004". "September 27, 1996, marked the day the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, and the beginning of a five-year nightmare for the women of that country. 'Veiled Treat' introduces us to several women - among them a radio announcer, a psychiatrist, a pharmacist, a civil engineer and the new deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, Dr. Sima Samar - who describe their waking hell under the Taliban's repressive measures. Denied schooling, employment and ade...
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MOMENTS OF MEMORY: RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS.

By: Asquith, Herbert.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1937

Edition: Second Impression.

Seller ID: 29238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

382 pp, 9 1/2" H. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. B&w illustrations. The author's memories of his father, Herbert H. Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1908-1916. Contents: Cricket at Keats Grove; Early Friends; Grasmere and London; The Journey to Scotland; Fact and Fancy; A New Outlook; Winchester; Some Oxford Characters; A Generous Settlement; Asquith and Balfour; Force and Ferment; A Poet in Revolt; The Outbreak of War; Flanders in 1915; Men and Problems; The Somme and Whitehall; Arras and Passchendaele; The Battle in the Mist; Lord Oxford in Later Years; In...
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OUTWITTING THE GESTAPO.

By: Aubrac, Lucie. Translated by Konrad Bieber with the assistance of Betsy Wing. Introduction by Margaret Collins Weitz.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 23803

235 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Lucie Aubrac was a young woman of Catholic and peasant background, teaching history in a Lyon's girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. Lucie and Raymond, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the resistance movement that formed in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. 'We had the incredible good fortune', writes Lucie Aubrac, 'to live as ourselves - we did not have to adopt false identities or go into hiding - until the spring of 19...
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THE CLIMATE OF POWER.

By: Baird, Irene.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1971), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 13845

255 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "George McKenna's long career as a senior civil servant in the Canadian corridors of power is drawing to a close and he is fighting desperately to stay in power...(trouble arises) in Parliament over a fake rumour of trouble in a remote Arctic village, and one way or another this puts McKenna on the spot. The story moves to the far north where the smouldering conflict betwen McKenna and (the younger, ambitious) Wragge reaches crisis point. Only his young wife, with whom McKenna is very much in love but who makes no secret of her infideli...
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RHODESIA: THE ROAD TO REBELLION.

By: Barber, James.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press / Institute of Race Relations: 1967

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 25436

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

338 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "As a result of the dramatic Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith and his Cabinet in November 1965, Rhodesia is now the centre of an international crisis, a focal point in a rapidly changing scene. But the act should not be seen as an isolated incident; it is part of a political and constitutional pattern which has developed gradually, and of which the outstanding feature is the division between Europeans and Africans. In this careful and thorough study Mr. Barber traces the various strands which make up this pattern, analysing the origins of thi...
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ARMISTICE 1918.

By: Barclay, C.N., Brigadier.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: A.S. Barnes, New York, (1969).:

Seller ID: 10997

155 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, maps. "After more than four years of the most fearful war in the world's history, the end came almost unexpectedly, with dramatic suddenness. At five o'clock on the morning of November 11, 1918, Marshal Foch and Admiral Wemyss, representing the Allies, concluded an armistice with German civil and military representatives. There had been a general expectation that the war would last well into 1919. The author...examines the various factors that led to the earlier conclusion of the war. He analyzes conditions in the summer of 1918 fol...
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THE DESERT GENERALS.

By: Barnett, Correlli.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, William Kimber: 1960

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 24194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "The first portrait is of Sir Richard O'Connor, who won the fantastic victories over Graziani's Italians in 1940. The author shows that the credit for the daring and unorthodox planning is due to O'Connor and not to Wavell; he puts forward a convincing argument to show that Tripoli could have been taken - and the North African campaign ended - in February, 1941, if the Prime Minister had not diverted forces to Greece. Of Sir Alan Cunningham, first commander of 8th Army, there is a picture of imaginative i...
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BIRTH OF THE BATTLESHIP: BRITISH CAPITAL SHIP DESIGN 1870-1881.

By: Beeler, John.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23800

ISBN: 1840675349

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

224 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, diagrams, plans. "The 1870s and 1880s have traditionally been seen as the 'Dark Ages' of British warship design, where technological conservatism and a lack of any definite design policy produced a confusing mix of ship types, with armament and machinery which were outmoded before the ships were even completed. This new book, however, is a powerful refutation of that view, expanding the scope of its study of the ships of this period beyond the narrowly technological to reveal the full range of strategic, lo...
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THE WEST AND THE NATION: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF W.L. MORTON.

By: Berger, Carl and Cook, Ramsay, editors. (John Warkentin, Frits Pannekoek, Arthur Silver, Alan Wilson, Robert Page, Robert Craig Brown, Richard Allen, Donald Avery, J.E. Rae, Lewis H. Thomas, Morris Zaslow, D.G. Creighton, Jacques Monet.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28426

ISBN: 077101192X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

335 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The contributors to (this book) consist of eminent colleagues of Dr. Morton, including his equally renowned contemporary, Donald Creighton, plus Ramsay Cook, Craig Brown, Jacques Monet, Richard Allen, and others. Each of them has prepared for this volume an article which adds a new dimension to areas of Canadian history in which Dr. Morton specialized: western Canadian history from the earliest explorations to the protest movements of the twenties and thirties, the history of the Conservative Party, and the role of the monarchy in Canadian life. In addition, Carl ...
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COURT LADY AND COUNTRY WIFE. ROYAL PRIVILEGE AND CIVIL WAR: TWO NOBLE SISTERS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.

By: Betcherman, Lita-Rose.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins / Phyllis Bruce: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30321

ISBN: 0002007894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

384 pp, 9 1/4" H. "The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue of seventeenth-century English society. Their breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the most influential women of their time. Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Percy sisters came to prominence at the court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle - the 'court lady' - dominated the royal scene thanks to her position at the center of power. Her beauty, captured in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, and...
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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 li...
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IRISHMEN ALL.

By: Birmingham, George A. (pseudonym of James Owen Hannay, 1865-1950.)

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis: 1914

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 23392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

225 pp + publisher's advertisements, 8vo (8 1/2" H) - dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Fore edges of textblock untrimmed. 12 colour plates from oil paintings by Jack B. Yeats, tipped on to gray stock and tissue-covered (collated). Chapter headings: The Higher Official; The Minor Official; The Policeman; The Squireen; The Politician; The Country Gentleman; The Farmer; The Publican; The Exile from Erin; The Parish Priest; The "Minister"; The Young Lady and Gentleman in Business. Previous owner's name/date on front pastedown, faint pencil...
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Keyword: Politics