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THE CIVIL WAR BOOK OF LISTS. OVER 300 LISTS, FROM THE SUBLIME...TO THE RIDICULOUS.

By: (Richard H. Berg, John Cannan, Richard L. DiNardo, David G. Martin, Albert A. Nofi, Wayne Michael Sarf, Kathleen B. Williams.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Combined Books, (Conshohocken, PA, 1993), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 11122

240 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "This fascinating new handbook on the War Between the States is an invaluable source of facts, statistics, data and trivia. The wide variety of lists includes detailed topics of every description. Commanders on both sides are ranked according to the best and worst ever to lead troops during the war. A selection of casualty figures demonstrates the enormous number of lives taken on the fields of the war's bloodiest battles. The composition of the armies is given in terms of state origin, ethnic background and even average height of the troops. Lists also probe soc...
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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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AMERICAN WICKER: WOVEN FURNITURE FROM 1850 TO 1930.

By: Adamson, Jeremy.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli: 1993

Seller ID: 23505

ISBN: 0847816702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

175 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, reproductions. Contents: Wicker in History; The Emergence of an American Industry, 1840-1873; The Great Rivals: Wakefield Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company, 1874-1897; Victorian Wicker and the American Home, 1876-1900; The Search for New Materials, Styles, and Meanings in the Progressive Era, 1893-1914; Novel Uses, Technologies, and Designs for the Modern Age, 1915-1930; Wicker in the 1930s. A few tiny dints on bottom edge of both boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling - mainly at top/...
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OAKVILLE: A SMALL TOWN, 1900-1930.

By: Ahern, Frances Robin. Edited by Dr. Mary P. Bentley.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Oakville Historical Society / Boston Mills Press: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13233

ISBN: 0919822460

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

213 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map. Local history of Oakville, Ontario. Contents: "Beautiful Oakville"; Industries, 1900-1930; The Firefighters; Oakville in Motion; Dundas Street (Trafalgar Road)(Station Road); Educating the Young; Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (South Side); Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (North Side); "The Main Street"; Navy Street; Recreation, 1900-1930; An Era of Gracious Living; Appendix - Origin of Street Names; Surveys; Schools; Churches; Banks; The Post Office; The Library; Customs Collection. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownershi...
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OAKVILLE: A SMALL TOWN, 1900-1930.

By: Ahern, Frances Robin. Edited by Dr. Mary P. Bentley.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Oakville Historical Society / Boston Mills Press: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 30664

ISBN: 0919822460

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

213 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Signed on title page: "Frances Robin Ahern". B&w photographs, map. Local history of Oakville, Ontario. Contents: "Beautiful Oakville"; Industries, 1900-1930; The Firefighters; Oakville in Motion; Dundas Street (Trafalgar Road)(Station Road); Educating the Young; Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (South Side); Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (North Side); "The Main Street"; Navy Street; Recreation, 1900-1930; An Era of Gracious Living; Appendix - Origin of Street Names; Surveys; Schools; Churches; Banks; The Post Office; The Library; Customs Collection. Interio...
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THE BARE FACTS: MY LIFE AS A STRIPPER.

By: Ample, Annie.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28704

ISBN: 1550130943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

177 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "She was notorious for taking off her clothes. Movies, magazines and TV shows, and fame as 'the girl with the million dollar chest' after her breasts were insured by Lloyds of London, helped create her very successful career as celebrity stripper, 'Annie Ample'. But behind all the hype was a real person. (Annie) looks back candidly on her turbulent childhood in a small town in California and her showbiz start as a 'go-go' dancer in a local club. 'Annie Ample' was the ingenuous character she devised to exploit the sex industry rather than be exploited by ...
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KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL: A SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.

By: Angus, Margaret.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 1973, Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 1536

205 pp text, 16 pp illus, small 4to, HC. A fascinating story of the history of Kingston Hospital, covering a wide social perspective and the medical and nursing progress over the years. Dust jacket has minor wear at corners and minor soiling to edges. VG+ /VG
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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 history of Ex...
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SPLENDOUR AT COURT: DRESSING FOR ROYAL OCCASIONS SINCE 1700.

By: Arch, Nigel and Marschner, Joanna.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Unwin Hyman, London, (1987), Ist edition.: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29697

ISBN: 0713526610

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128 pp, 10 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, reproductions, drawings. "(P)rovides a lively picture of contrasting courtly scenes through the ages. It takes us from the paralysingly formal Court of Queen Anne to the outlandish ostentation of fifty years later when the Prince of Wales's dancing feet twinkled with 30,000 Pounds worth of diamonds attached to his shoe buckles. It conjures up the social butterflies of the Victorian age and a young debutante in the 1920's having difficulty tucking the essential three white feathers into her fashionably bobbed hair ...
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TURKEY: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.

By: Bahrampour, Firouz.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Theo. Gaus' Sons, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1967.:

Seller ID: 6483

100 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Contents: Historical Background; Period of the First Turkish Republic 1923-60; The Revolution of May 27, 1960; The Provisional Government of Turkey and the Committee of National Unity 1960-61; Birth of the Second Turkish Republic; Turkish Establishment and the Emergin Structure of Modern Turkish Society; Problems of Social and Economic Development; Turkish Foreign Policy. Previous owner's name at top of front pastedown, pages browning lightly, minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket is worn, with chips, tears, old tape repair, browning, but all text i...
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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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VANISHING SCHOOLS, THREATENED COMMUNITIES: THE CONTESTED SCHOOLHOUSE IN MARITIME CANADA, 1850-2010.

By: Bennett, Paul W.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Fernwood: 2011

Seller ID: 25505

ISBN: 1552664015

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

190 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. "Traditional schoolhouses and neighbourhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for huge schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization, and uniformity. In (this book, the author) explores the phenomenon of school closures, focusing on the little known and contentious history of public schooling in Maritime Canada from 1850 to the present. In a lively and stimulating narrative, (he) examines the rise of common schooling from one-room schoolhouses that encouraged local democratic control throu...
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WOMEN FROM THE ANKLE DOWN: THE STORY OF SHOES AND HOW THEY DEFINE US.

By: Bergstein, Rachelle.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29211

ISBN: 0061969613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

284 pp, 9 1/4" H. Small b&w illustrations. "What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, (this book) seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visionary young shoe-maker named Salvatore Ferragamo and ends in New York City with a fictional socialite and trend-setter named Carrie Bradshaw. Along the way it stops in Hollywood, where Ju...
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MADAME TUSSAUD: A LIFE IN WAX.

By: Berridge, Kate.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30116

ISBN: 0002008122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "When she died in London at the age of ninety, a survivor of one of the most tumultuous epochs in history, Madame Tussaud had travelled far from her inauspicious beginnings in Strasbourg as the daughter of a common soldier and a housekeeper. Moving to Paris as a child, Marie climbed through the ranks of French society as the protegee of charmismatic showman artist Philippe Curtius, and witnessed the French Revolution in all its grisly detail. She survived the Terror and moved to London, where she struggled to find a foothold amidst the desperate competiti...
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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 her pol...
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THE STORY OF ULVERSTON: A SHORT HISTORY. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF ULVERSTON, AND THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN.

By: Birkett, Henry F.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1949.:

Seller ID: 20263

183 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - photographs, reproductions. "....(brings) together for the first time the many references to Ulverston in the local books of the last two-hundred years. With them there is muc h new and hitherto unpublished information, the whole being skilfully wrought into a continuous story. In it the growth of the town during eight-hundred years is traced, and the life of its people, their work and pleasure, their high-momen t s a n d t h eir troubles, revealed. The author feels he has written a social history, one that not only ...
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DOWN THE LONG TABLE.

By: Birney, Earle.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27775

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

298 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). Signed and dated by author on title page: "Earle Birney 22 Oct 1967 Toronto". "Readers who experienced the years of the great depression, in this country or elsewhere, will find their memories painfully and perhaps fruitfully stirred; younger readers will doubtless gain new understanding of the struggles, miseries and frustrations of those heartbreaking times that preceded the excitement and activity of war. Students of politics and the social scene should find much to interest them in the story of Communist, Trotskyist and other organizations that formed and operate...
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DOWN THE LONG TABLE.

By: Birney, Earle.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 12684

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

298 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). In this novel, Gordon Saunders, a Canadian professor lecturing at an American university one day finds himself "among hostile strangers. There they sat, his accusers, looking at him down the length of the table, and of half a lifetime in a room filled with the atmostphere of suspicion and hatred - the special atmosphere of Investigating Committees in the Fifties. Their questions concerned people he had known, and things he had done, in 1932 and 1933; certain people and certain things only, for their final and all-important question - his relationship, past and present...
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bishop, James. Foreword by Lord Blake.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Angus & Robertson: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27673

ISBN: 0207148260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 10 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs, drawings, advertisements. "The First World War, which claimed the lives of so many men on the battlefields of the Western Front, also profoundly affected the character and everyday life of the nation at home. It was the first 'total war' and the whole country contributed to the war effort. The unrelenting demands of the trenches eventually forced the Government to introduce conscription while, for those left behind, the state intervened more and more in the lives of its citizens. Hardships increased: food and ...
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PRIVATE WORDS: LETTERS AND DIARIES FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Blythe, Ronald, ed.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23312

ISBN: 0670832049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

310 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "The Second World War was, among other things, a great 'reading and writing' war. There was a passion for books of all kinds, and also a remarkable outpouring of personal writing in the form of letters and diaries. The latter were actually forbidden in the services because they might fall into enemy hands, but this did not prevent them from being kept in startling quantities. The young especially, whether on the Home Front or fighting abroad, became extraordinary self-examiners and communicators, finding all kinds of outlets for what was happening to them in the...
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Keyword: Social History