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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
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New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1939. Reprint
Hardcover. 400 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has slight wear to tips, a couple of short edge tears, fading to title lettering on spine.
Russia
Bernard Pares
Russia
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New York: New American Library / Mentor, 1958
Mass market paperback. 221 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Previous owner's initials on first page. Pages are tanned.
Mentor MD230.
Stand Fast Craigellachie: The Building of the Transcontinental Railway (1867-1885) (Adventures in Canadian History)
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Don Mills, ON: Burns & MacEachern, 1970. 1st printing
Softcover. 36 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Covers are a bit yellowed.
Account of the financial and political crisis that nearly killed the CPR before the last spike was driven, focused on the desperate months of 1884-85.
Newark-on-Trent in Times Past
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UK: Countryside Publications, 1980
Softcover. 48 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Covers are slightly scuffed. No writing/markings.
Photographic history of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire.
Steel City: Hamilton and Region
MJ Dear & JJ Drake & LG Reeds (editors)
Steel City: Hamilton and Region
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. First edition
Hardcover. 308 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Silver pictorial cloth binding. No dust jacket as issued. Inscription signed by one editor (Reeds) on title page. Slight wear to tips.
Two Lives, One Russia
Nicholas Daniloff
Two Lives, One Russia
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First edition
Hardcover. 307 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Slight foxing to top edge of text block. Slight shelfwear. Includes b&w photos, charts, diagrams. Map of Lefortovo Prison on endpapers.
Account of US journalist Nicholas Daniloff's arrest in Moscow in 1986 on KGB spy charges and the prisoner exchange that followed.
The Making of a County: A Summary of Simcoe County, Past and Present
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Simcoe County Children's Services & Education Committees 1986-88
Softcover. 67 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Undated but circa 1988. B&W photos, charts. Slight fading along spine.
Innisfil Township Centennial 1850-1950: A Record of 100 Years of Progress - Historical Review
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Barrie, ON: Barrie Examiner, 1951. Reprint
Softcover. 184 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Binding is sound. No writing/markings. Covers are a bit smudged.
Centennial history of Innisfil Township in Simcoe County, Ontario, marking 100 years of settlement and progress from 1850 to 1950.
Travel Down a Storied Road: Highway 27 From Cookstown to Dunkerron and Highway 9
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Bond Head, ON: Tecumseth & West Gwillimbury Historical Society, assisted by the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, 1984
Softcover. 24 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Vanished Villages: Discover whistlestops, old mills, lost hamlets, relics and ruins of Ontario
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Toronto: Polar Bear Press, 1996
Softcover. 207 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on first page. Signed & dated by author on title page.
Guide to vanished and abandoned communities across Ontario, covering ghost towns, lost mill sites, railway whistlestops, and forgotten hamlets.
Simcoe County Book of Days (Volume One: Beginnings to 1919)
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Barrie, ON: DBS Heritage Consulting & Communications, 1998. First edition
Softcover. ENG

Condition: FINE
Plastic comb binding. Includes index. Signed by author on title page.
Pine Hill Farm, West Gwillimbury Township: A Typical Example of Immigration into Canada in 1819 / Pine Hill Farm, the First Brick Dwelling North of the Holland River, 1821-22
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Bond Head, ON: Tecumseth & West Gwillimbury Historical Society, assisted by the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, 1984
Softcover. 24 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Life on the Old Plank Road: Highway 88
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Bond Head, ON: Tecumseth and West Gwilimbury Historical Society, 1984
Softcover. 24 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled wraps.
The Old Burying Ground Fredericton N.B. Volume I
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Fredericton, NB: Fredericton Heritage Trust, 1981. First edition
Softcover. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Signed by author on title page. 338 pages + 14 page index [xiv]. Light shelfwear.
The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee
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London: New English Library, 1974
Mass market paperback. 192 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Previous owner's name on first page. Pages are tanned. Faint crease to back cover.
Account of the Battle of the River Plate and the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in Montevideo in December 1939.
East and West : The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998
Hardcover. 340 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Slight shelfwear to dust jacket.
Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997 and the argument for the long-term importance of democracy in Asia.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016
Softcover. 349 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Spot of sticker lift on front cover. Otherwise like new.
Short History Of Progress
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Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2004
Softcover. 211 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
2004 Massey Lectures arguing that human civilizations repeatedly collapse through their own success, what he calls 'progress traps.'
Nordic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Report of a Working Group Appointed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Helsinki: Government Printing Centre, 1987
Softcover. 100 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
Grace MacInnis: A Story of Love and Integrity
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Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1994
Softcover. 337 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Several shallow scratches to front cover. Otherwise clean and unmarked.
Biography of Grace MacInnis, the CCF and NDP politician who was the first woman elected to the BC legislature from the CCF, and a lifelong advocate for social justice.