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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition
Hardcover. 271 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 271 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Gilt top edge of text block has a bit of flaking. Binding is sound and tight. No writing or markings.
Includes appendix, index.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. First edition
Hardcover. 361 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 361 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / NEAR FINE
Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding is sound and tight. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Very slight wear to edges of dust jacket.
Includes bibliographic references, index.
Covers Massey's life from 1935 when he became Canadian High Commissioner to the UK. Through his years as chancellor of the University of Toronto, chairman of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences, and then as Governor-General of Canada.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975. First edition
Hardcover. 553 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 553 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small calligraphic gift inscription to front free endpaper. Dust jacket worn with several tiny tears along top edge, short tear to top edge of back panel.
Includes bibliographic references, index.
The definitive biography of Newton Wesley Rowell (1867–1941), a prominent Ontario lawyer, Liberal politician, imperialist, prohibitionist, and statesman who played significant roles in the 1917 Union Government, the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations. Provides a detailed window into English Canadian nationalism, imperialism, reform politics, and Protestant social gospel movements of the era.
Boston, Lincolnshire, UK: Richard Kay, 1996
Hardcover. 310 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 310 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Blue paper boards with gilt titles to cover and spine. Very slight bump to lower back corner. Dust jacket is tanning along edges and to spine, light wear to tips, short closed tear to lower edge of back panel. No writing/markings.
Includes appendices, bibliography, index.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952
Hardcover. 285 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 285 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Red cloth boards show some faint spotting. Scattered very faint foxing to text. Dust jacket is worn at tips, faint foxing to back panel.
Includes index.
Toronto: William Heinemann / British Book Service (Canada), 1955. First edition
Hardcover. 356 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 356 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding is sound and square. No writing/markings. Dust jacket is worn along edges, with several short edge tears.
Illustrated with b&w photo plates. Includes biographical notes, index.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition
Hardcover. 313 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 313 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD / FAIR
Toning to endpapers. Binding is sound, but not tight. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn at edges with short tears and chips, faint stain to back panel.
Includes appendix, bibliography, index.
Biography of Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III in 1858.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1987
Softcover. 140 pages. ENG
Softcover. 140 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE
Clean, apparently unread copy.
Illustrated with b&w photos. Includes bibliographic footnotes, bibliography, index.
Bio of the popular Toronto politician (1842-1935) who began his career as a baker and became alderman in the most affluent white ward of the city.
Toronto: J. Lorimer & Co., 1984. First edition
Hardcover. 226 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 226 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Old gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is tanning along inside top edge.
Includes bibliography, index.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975. First edition
Hardcover. 255 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 255 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is darkening along spine with a bit of very faint foxing. Several tiny edge tears to back panel. Spot of sticker removal damage to top corner of dust jacket and also to top corner of front free endpaper.
B&W illustrations.
Autobiography of ornithologist and bird painter who worked for the Royal Ontario Museum.
Camden House, 1990
Softcover. 160 pages. ENG
Softcover. 160 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Tanning to edges of pages. Binding is sound and tight. No writing or markings.
Lives and contributions of Abraham Gesner, Sandford Fleming, Georges-Edouard Desbarats and William Leggo, Mabel Bell and the Aerial Experiment Association, Thomas Wilson, Reginald Fessenden, William Stephenson, and J. Armand Bombardier.
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Toronto: A.T. Wilgress, 1917
Hardcover. 196 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 196 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Blue cloth binding. Corner of spine slightly bumped. Corner of frontispiece (portrait of Gen. Simcoe) clipped. Errata slip tipped in to reverse of table of contents.
viii + 196 pages. Includes index.
Toronto: P.R. Randall, 1862. First edition
Hardcover. ENG
Hardcover. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Rebound in red quarter bound leather on red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Although the spine states "Vol. 1", both volumes are bound into the single volume. Binding is square and tight. Scattered foxing to text, heavier foxing to first few pages. There is a small tape repair to the edge of one page.
400 + 401 pages.
Toronto: George Virtue, 1890
Hardcover. 305 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 305 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Brown cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Ex-library with a pocket to rear endpaper, and black library markings to spine. Wear to tips. Hinges are cracked but holding. Decorative endpapers have been reinforced by book tape at hinges. "Merritt Collection" in pencil on front free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page in pencil "J.P. Merritt" (author and archivist, Jedediah Prendergast Merritt). A newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor from Mr. Merritt, and a short handwritten note with an anecdote about Brant are laid in.
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1956. First edition
Hardcover. 283 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 283 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Signed by author on half-title page. Signed by illustrator on title page. Offsetting from an old newspaper clipping to page xv. Dust jacket has wear to edges at spine and tips, tear to back corner.
Map endpapers. Illustrated with wood engravings. Bibliography, index.
New York: Stein and Day, 1979
Hardcover. 215 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 215 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
A few spots of foxing to edges of text block.
Pioneer life in British Columbia's Peace River Region. How resourceful neighbours rely on themselves and nature's bounty. Sequel to Wilderness Wife.
Don Mills, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975
Softcover. 61 pages. ENG
Softcover. 61 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint corner crease to back cover.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997
Softcover. 189 pages. ENG
Softcover. 189 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Covers have some wrinkling to the laminate.
Cheyenne, Wyo: Beartooth Corral, 1991
Softcover. 260 pages. ENG
Softcover. 260 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Covers are quite worn along edges. Binding is sound.
New York: Limelight Editions, 1984. First edition
Hardcover. 182 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 182 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly edgeworn, with tanning and a crease to inside flaps.
Includes chronology, index.