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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 ...
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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 cro...
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HONORE DE BALZAC: EPIGRAMS ON MEN, WOMEN, AND LOVE.

By: Balzac, Honore de. Selected and translated by Jacques le Clercq. Wood-engravings by Derrick Harris.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1959.:

Seller ID: 19909

62 pp (including colophon), 12mo (7 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with yellow, black and white woodcuts. A collection of the sayings of Balzac, on the themes of love, marriage, religion, relationships, medicine, etc. Very light edge wear, minor soiling, a few soiling marks on fore-edge of textblock, minor browning to spine, previous owner's chop (stamp) on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has minor edge wear - mainly at top of spine, minor soiling, very light browning to spine. Very Good/Very Good
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THE EMPIRE IS MARCHING: A STUDY OF THE MILITARY EFFORT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1800-1945.

By: Barclay, Glen St. J.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25467

ISBN: 0297771256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

276 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) study of the military strength of Britain and her Empire during the Boer War, First World War and Second World War. Dr Barclay evaluates the contributions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, and the changing roles played by the colonies during times of crisis. He explains British attitudes to colonial troops - Australian indiscipline and New Zealand thoroughness - and the lack of diplomacy on the part of British military leaders when dealing with their colonial counterparts. After the South Africa War the British government sh...
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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN: 0374107874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning t...
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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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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...
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THE 10th ROYAL HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Brander, Michael. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Leo Cooper, London, 1969, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21689

137 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Brigadier Humphrey Gore, who raised the 10th Dragoons in 1715, and General Sir David Dawney, Colonel in 1969, each had a son in the regiment, as also did many of t he Colonels between them, including King Edward VII, for such close family relationships at all levels were a feature in the Tenth, with the same names appearing generation after generation. Hence in a very intimate way the regiment has al w a y s b e e n 'Proud of Their Man'. The Tenth has also always been notable for the Cavalry Spiri...
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THE PUDDLEMAN.

By: Briggs, Raymond.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, 2004, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20945

Unpaginated, 4to (11 151/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0224070096 Profusely illustrated in colour. " 'The Puddleman' is the story of the touching relationship between Tom and his grandfather (called 'Collar' because he drags him around on a lead). One day, Tom decides that he will take Collar for a walk to see the puddles that are named after members of the family. Tom's grandfather tries to tell him that they won't be there because it hasn't rained for ages, and when they arrri ve, there are indeed no puddles. Tom insists that it is just because they haven't been put i...
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MORE MILLY-MOLLY-MANDY.

By: Brisley, Joyce Lankester.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Kingfisher: 1997

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 23296

ISBN: 0753402009

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

224 pp, 8vo (8" H). Charmingly illustrated in b&w by the author. Map endpapers. "Distinctive in her pink-and-white striped dress, Milly-Molly-Mandy is a little girl with a kind nature, a happy spirit and an enthusiasm for everything she does. She has found her way into the hearts of children (and adults) for over seventy years. Following on from 'The Milly-Molly-Mandy Story Book', this second omnibus edition finds Milly-Molly-Mandy, Billy Blunt and little-friend-Susan having more adventures and even more fun. The original illustrations will bring back happy memories, so that sharing t...
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CROSSING OVER JORDAN.

By: Brown, Linda Beatrice.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Ballantine, New York, (1995), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10191

290 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "With power and originality that sear the mind as they break the heart, Linda Beatrice Brown has written a deeply affecting novel about the hidden inheritance of slavery. From the waning of the Civil W ar to the early twenty-first century, 'Crossing Over Jordan' tells of the haunting drama that slavery sets in motion. It passes from one generation of women to another, until it finally explodes in the conflict between a mother and daughter caught in a vortex of torment, loss, and denial." Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling and light ru...
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WONDROUS STRANGE: THE WYETH TRADITION - HOWARD PYLE, N.C. WYETH, ANDREW WYETH, JAMES WYETH.

By: Bruni, Stephen T. / Wyeth, Betsy James / Wolff, Theodore F. / Crosman, Christopher. Foreword: David Michaelis. Introduction: Susan C. Larsen.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Bulfinch Press: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27661

ISBN: 0821225375

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

168 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). "Swashbuckling, romantic, mysterious, fantastical - all these words can be used to describe the art in this splendid book of 'wondrous strange' paintings by four great American artists. Conceived and entitled by Betsy James Wyeth, (it) focuses on an aspect of American realism that stems from the great turn-of-the-century illustrator Howard Pyle and continues in the work of his student N.C. Wyeth, N.C.'s son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. The thread that links the four artists is an imaginative, often disquieting, dreamlike imagery - 'the incarn...
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EVIL EYE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES.

By: Buzzelli, Anthony M. (Inscribed by author.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Writer's Ink, Burlington, 1995.:

Seller ID: 7668

116 pp, 8vo, soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE - "BEST WISHES! A.M. BUZZELLI". "...a wide range of writing in its presentation of vignettes on the human condition - the psychological effects of superstition, the relationships of family members touched by traumatic events, and the humorous perceptions of individuals coping in a world insensitive to their needs..." Interior - clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, very soft crease to bottom corner of front cover, small wrinkle at bottom of spine, spine flat and uncreased. VG
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A LOST LADY.

By: Cather, Willa. Introduction by J.B. Priestley.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1961.:

Seller ID: 20327

174 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....the story of Marian Forrester as seen largely through the eyes of Niel Herbert. Mrs. Forrester's tragedy is that of a decline from the society of her equals - her husband and the other members of the Nebraska Railroad aristocracy - to the society of Ivy Peters, a vigorous village rough. Niel Herbert, who at first idolized Mrs. Forrester and was more than a little in love with her, at last came to see her without illusion: experie nce and travel had gradually brought him understanding of the changes both in Mrs. Forrester ...
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MILLAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.

By: Cheney, Anne.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1975.:

Seller ID: 20234

160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0817371613 B&w illustrations. "It was Millay who captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit, and beauty of the pre-1920s as no other poet did. She was a living symbol of the 'new woman' who could live, think, and love as freely as they chose. (This) is a psychological portrait of Millay in her finest years, the ones after she had freed herself of the repression of her childhood and youth and before she accepted th e b o n d s o f a stifling marriage. The four most important influences on Millay's life and art - ...
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THE WHITE DOE.

By: Church, Richard.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

185 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w illustrations. "There is a tangled web of personal relationships between Tom the woodman's son, Billy Lander the son of the squire and boorish Harold Sims who causes trouble between them. Tom makes friends with a girl in a snowstorm, only to find she is Harold's sister. A crisis is reached when Tom and Harold confront one another during Christmas festivities at the Hall. But while these human problems trouble Tom he has another absorbing interest: the doe in the woods who comes and goes unpredictably with her mate and later with her fawn. It is a threat to ...
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A POCKETFUL OF YEARS. ANOTHER MRS KINGI BOOK.

By: Cleary, Frances.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Collins, Auckland, New Zealand, 1975, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20600

166 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Mrs Kingi, the beloved heroine of 'This Mrs Kingi', continues her story in this delightful sequel. As she looks back on her seventy years in the small Bay of Islands area (New Zealand) that has been her home - and that of her family - for generations, Mrs Kingi ponders on the changes she has seen. Typical of these is the family of her daughter Lizzie and husband Sam. Flash and Gordon, the twins born at the end of the earlier book, are now stu rdy youngsters. Les, the oldest and Mrs Kingi's secret favourite, is away at school on a sch...
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THE TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF THE OJIBWAY NATION.

By: Copway, G. (George), or, Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, Chief of the Ojibway Nation.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Prospero: 2001

Edition: Facsimile Reprint.

Seller ID: 27233

ISBN: 1552671801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

298 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). "Numerically the largest group of Native North Americans, the Ojibway were the first to have a history written by one of their own people. Published in 1850, its author, George Copway, or Kah-ge-g a-gah-bowh, had already achieved a certain amount of fame delivering passionate lectures in North America and Europe. Attired in traditional Ojibway dress, Copway held up the virtues of tribal life while promoting mid-nineteenth-century ideas on education. Arguing for a separate Native North American state, Copway garnered considerable support from both Natives and...
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YOU AND YOUR TEENAGER: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF THE TEEN YEARS.

By: Court, John, Dr. Illustrated by Paul Stanish.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Angus & Robertson / HarperCollins, Sydney, Australia, 1995.:

Seller ID: 22425

112 pp, 10 3/16" H, soft cover. B&w illustrations. ISBN 0207187568 "Living with teenagers is fun, challenging and occasionally hair-raising! Teenagers can make you feel young again - and send you grey overnight. (This) is a practical guide to u nderstanding your teenager, so you and the whole family can make the most of these years. With clear, no-nonsense information and real-life examples, (it) answers the questions parents are asking, and shows how they can help. Dr Court giv e s f r i e n d ly, down-to-earth advice on: Puberty; Physical and emotional changes; Family relatio...
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