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THE QUIET FIELDS.

By: 'BB'. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Michael Joseph, London, 1981, first edtion.:

Seller ID: 18637

206 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0718120396 Charming b&w illustrations. "There is a growing need for the 'quiet fields' in this noisy, restless world. Mercifully, they can still be found by the country-lover and naturalist . This book tells of a year spent deep in the countryside, beginning when the year is young, when trees and hedges are bare to the winter winds, and on through the spring, summer and autumn, to winter once again. Whatever the season of t h e y e a r t h ere is always something to see in the countryside, even when the 'quiet fields' are sheeted ...
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LETTERS FROM COMPTON DEVERELL.

By: 'BB'. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950, "First Cheap Edition", with 7s. 6d. price on dust jacket flap.:

Seller ID: 18690

281 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover (green boards with black lettering on spine) in dust jacket. Green, black & white map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Where is Compton Deverell? It may be anywhere you choose in the English countryside, because ' BB' has drawn a living picture of that sort of delightful old house among fields and woods, the ideal English home which thousands remember from their childhood or hope to have in that future for which they work and plan. The letters are w r i t t e n b y a countryman to a younger friend abroad and they describe the routine of country life throu...
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FANSHAWE COLLEGE.

By: Bain, Richard. Foreword by Anne Marie DeCicco-Best. Text by Hank Daniszewski.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ontario, Binea Press: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28569

ISBN: 0978301234

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

120 pp, 12 1/8" H. "These spectacular photographs by Richard Bain serve to celebrate Fanshawe College by depicting current scenes of our campuses, its students and staff. Having been compiled during our 40th year, the photographs suggest the incredible diversity of education that occurs at Fanshawe as well as the emerging beauty of its campuses in all seasons. The work and accomplish- ment of students learning a practical skill is frequently depicted and is truly exciting to experience. In addition, this commemorative book provides a short public history of the first 30 years of Fanshawe's...
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THE SECRET WORLD OF THE FLOWER FAIRIES.

By: Barker, Cicely Mary.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29760

ISBN: 072324457X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127 pp, 10 1/4" H. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. "Have you ever wondered where the fairies dance at midnight balls or when fairy queens hold court? This delightful book delves into the mysterious private life of the Flower Fairies, revealing their deepest secrets and explaining the work-ings of their invisible communities. A treasure trove of whimsical information, (it) is sure to enchant readers, young and old." Contents: Introduction to the Flower Fairies; The Fairy Court; Homes and Housekeeping; Jobs; Baby Fairies; The Fairy Market; Animal Friends; Food; Music; Dance...
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FAST FAST FAST RELIEF.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30620

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

185 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w cartoons. "This is Berton at his best: witty, opinionated, penetrating, and informative - the qualities that have made him Canada's best known and most widely read daily columnist." Chapter headings: All My Own Work; Five Dilemmas of Our Time; The Canadian Way of Life; The Writing Game: 1 - Craft Talks for Pen Clubs; The Writing Game: 2 - The School of Hard Knocks; The Writing Game: 3 - Four Colleagues (Hal Straight / W.O. Mitchell / Thomas P. Kelley / Lister Sinclair); Seasonal Reflections of a Country Dweller; Dreams and Daydreams. Very light browning to edges of endp...
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GIFTS OF THE YEAR AND OTHER POEMS.

By: Bevan, Molly.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good reading copy only.

67 pp, 7 3/4" H - black cloth with title blocks pasted on spine and front board. B&w frontispiece photograph of author. A collection of poems by a Canadian author, including: Canoeing at Dusk; Autumn Fires; Thanksgiving in the Country; Armistice; Alexander Graham Bell; Hepaticas; Christmas Greetings; Ghost Ships; A Camper's Song; St. Patrick's Day; Sing a Song of Firelight; House o' Dreams; November Nights, etc. Very light browning to pages, light browning on front endpapers, book cracked at pages 40/41, moderate browning to edges of textblock, slight bump and light wear at corners of boards...
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BRITAIN'S WEATHER: ITS WORKINGS, LORE AND FORECASTING.

By: Bowen, David.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1969

Seller ID: 21406

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

310 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, tables, etc. Contents: The Clouds; The Elements; The Meteorologists; The Weather Charts; The Forecasts; The British Climate; Local Weather; Weather Lore; The Barometer; Weather Round the Year; Weather Cycles; Weather and Warfare; Weather Control; Climate, Weather, and Man; Work for the Amateur; Chapter References; Bibliography; Appendices; Index. 1" x 3" ghost label mark on title page, very light edge wear, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling, creases at bottom of spine, smal...
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS AT MONTICELLO.

By: Boyd, Julian P.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1964

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 12689

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

58 pp, 16mo (6 1/4" H), stapled in wraps with self-dust jacket. Oxford University Press 'Seasons Greetings 1964' card laid in. B&w illustrations. A look at Christmas customs and festivities in Colonial and post-Colonial Virginia. Interior - staples rusting lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wrinkling to dust jacket, several areas of color fading on dust jacket - mainly on rear panel.
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ALSO IN THE CAST: THE MEMOIRS OF TONY VAN BRIDGE.

By: Bridge, Tony van. Inscribed and signed. Edited by Denis Johnston. Foreword by Christopher Newton.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mosaic Press, Oakville, ON, (1995).:

Seller ID: 13685

207 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H), soft cover. B&w photos. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR UNDER HIS PRINTED NAME ON TITLE PAGE, AND INSCRIBED & SIGNED AT THE TOP OF THE TITLE PAGE. "Tony van Bridge is one of Canada's most beloved and respected actors. He has been an audience favourite at both the Shaw Festival and the Strafford Festival - North America's two largest repertory theatres - appearing for fifteen seasons with each company. In (this book), Tony tells his story of more than half a century in the p rofessional theatre...hilarious theatre anecdotes are woven into a life of artistic challenge and occ...
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OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

302 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "Oxen were still yoked to sledges and the scythe and the ax and the crosscut saw were common everyday tools when Ernest Buckler grew up on a Nova Scotia farm at the edge of the wilderness. (This book) recalls those days. With sudden stabbing immediacy it brings the reader a bird sound, an odor, acrid or delicious, a remembered vagary of wind or sun, the timbre of a voice, or the true look of the men and women who peopled the Nova Scotia of Mr. Buckler's boyhood. It brings back as well the whole texture of a life that now exists only in our memori...
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OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exist in the...
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CARIBOU AND THE BARREN-LANDS.

By: Calef, George. Foreword by David Brower.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28222

ISBN: 0919996205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp, 11 1/4" H. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs showing the caribou and their environment through the seasons, colour maps. "(T)o most people's view, the country of the caribou is all barren land: harsh, unproductive, devoid of beauty. One of the purposes of these pages is to show that nothing could be further from the truth. The northern wilderness is barren only to those lacking in perception and imagination. But if we should let the great herds vanish from the barren-lands, they will indeed become what the name implies, and we will have lost a part of the majesty and...
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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 the fawn...
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THE STORY OF DOMINION SQUARE. PLACE DU CANADA.

By: Collard, Edgar Andrew.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Longman Canada: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28964

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

63 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Here is a wealth of fascinating history, going back to the time when Dominion Square was a cemetery outside Montreal. Dr. Collard tells the story of the square's famous buildings, past and present. We visit a political rally when Sir John A. Macdonald was mobbed; we see the Winter Carnival's crowning spectacle, the storming of the Ice Palace. The 'principal presence' in the square is the Sun Life head office, one of the most massive office buildings in the world. For a number of seasons this huge structure served as the nesting place of a pa...
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BLEAK SEASONS. BOOK ONE OF THE GLITTERING STONE. THE SIXTH CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK COMPANY.

By: Cook, Glen.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Tor / Tom Doherty: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27250

ISBN: 0312861052

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

316 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H). "(T)he harrowing tale of the defense of Dejagore, as told by Murgen, a seasoned veteran of many brutal campaigns. The Black Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins. Exhausted from the long siege, vastly outnumbered, and beset by powerful sorcery, the Company have risked their souls, as well as their lives to hold their hard-fought-for prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyeung Bao swear that anci...
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BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY: STAR TREK'S "SCOTTY" - IN HIS OWN WORDS.

By: Doohan, James. With Peter David.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1996

Edition: First Paperback Printing.

Seller ID: 23028

ISBN: 0671520563

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

215 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H). B&w photographs. "Montgomery Scott, the endlessly resourceful chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, has been a familiar presence in our collective imagination for over three decades. All around the world, everyone knows 'Scotty' - but far fewer know the true story of actor James Doohan, who has brought Starfleet's legendary 'miracle worker' to life for three seasons on television and in seven major motion pictures. Here at last are all the colourful details of Doohan's life and times. (This) is an entertaining and indispensable look at the unforgettable personalit...
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HOWDY HONEY HOWDY.

By: Dunbar, Paul Laurence.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead: 1905

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, 8 3/4" H. Caramel-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering, black, white & red decoration to front board and spine. B&w photographic pastedown on front board.Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. B&w photographs of black people and scenes of the South. All pages of text & illustration have decorative borders and each poem is preceded by its own 'title page' with decoration. Contents: Howdy, Honey, Howdy; Encouragement; De Way T'ings Come; The Delinquent; Accountability; Protest; Possum; Foolin' Wid De Seasons; Angelina; A Death Song; A Christmas Folksong; Faith; Hope; A Love Let...
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A.J. CASSON: HIS LIFE & WORKS / A TRIBUTE.

By: Duval, Paul.

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Cerebus / Prentice-Hall: 1980

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 29774

ISBN: 0920892027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

285 pp, 13 1/2" H x 19" D. Signed by A.J. Casson on title page (signature only). Maroon cloth with blind-stamped 'CASSON' on fore edge of front board and gilt lettering on spine. In original publisher's corrugated cardboard box (white with maroon lettering). Profusely illustrated with colour and monotone reproduction, b&w photographs. "A.J. Casson is one of the most beloved of all Canadian artists. His works are sought after probably more than those of any other living native painter. As a member of the Group of Seven and in the many years since its dissolution, he has created a brilliant...
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SKETCHES IN STABLE AND KENNEL.

By: Edwards, Lionel.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, Putnam: 1949

Edition: 6th Printing

Seller ID: 16967

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

59 pp, 4to (11 1/8" H). 12 color plates, 12 full-page b&w pencil sketches, plus additional pencil sketches throughout. "In offering these sketches to the public I am seeking to fill a somewhat inexplicable gap which seems to have been left open by sporting artists past and present. Pictorial representations of sport usually in the past ran on well worn lines - to most people their animals are more than the acquaintances of the hunting field, and individuals with characters of their own, of interest at all times and seasons. To these true lovers I offer these little sketches in stable and kenn...
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