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You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters
Bill Fawcett and Brian Thomsen (editors)
You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters
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New York: Perennial Currents, 2004
Softcover. 287 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Light shelf wear. Binding is sound and tight. No writing or markings.
Compendium of historical fiascoes and embarrassingly bad ideas.
La Rochefoucault-Liancourt's Travels in Canada 1795 [Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Archives For the Province of Ontario 1916]
François Alexandre Frédéric la Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Sir David William Smith (annotations), William Renwick Riddell (editor), Alexander Fraser
La Rochefoucault-Liancourt's Travels in Canada 1795 [Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Archives For the Province of Ontario 1916]
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Toronto: A.T. Wilgress, 1917
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.
The Life and Times of Wm. (William) Lyon MacKenzie, With an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, and the Subsequent Frontier Disturbances, Chiefly from Unpublished Documents
Toronto: P.R. Randall, 1862. First edition
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.
A Popular History of the Dominion of Canada, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, including a History of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, and Manitoba: of the North-West Te
Toronto: William Briggs, 1884. First edition
Hardcover. 642 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Foxing throughout text. Binding is sound and tight. No writing or markings.
Illustrated with steel engraving portraits, wood engravings, fold out colour maps.
The Life and Times of General John Graves Simcoe, Together with Some Account of Major Andre and Captain Brant
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Toronto: George Virtue, 1890
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.
Mary's Rosedale & Gossip of Little York
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Ottawa: The Graphic Publishers Limited, 1928
Hardcover. 280 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Corners are worn. Back hinge is cracked but holding well. Binding is a bit loose. Gift inscription dated 1930 on half-title page.
Anecdotal local history of early Toronto and the original Rosedale estate, drawn from letters of the Jarvis family. The "Mary" of the title is Mary Jarvis, wife of Sheriff William Botsford Jarvis.
The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada
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Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1956. First edition
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.
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. First American Edition
Hardcover. 306 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings.
Includes appendix, index.
Originally published in the UK as "Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal History".
The Germanic Invasions: The Making of Europe, AD 400-600
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New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993
Hardcover. 287 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Lower corner bumped. Spine slightly faded.
Includes bibliography, index.
RAF Fighter Squadrons in the Battle of Britain
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London: Brockhampton Press, 1999
Hardcover. 287 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Pictorial boards in a pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket has a bit of wrinkling along edges.
Includes appendix, bibliography, index.
Other Losses: An Inquiry into the Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the Americans and French after World War II
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Stoddart, 1989. First edition
Hardcover. 248 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Foxing to edges of text block.
Includes maps, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index.
Ticket to Hell via Dieppe : From a Prisoner's Wartime Log, 1942-1945
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Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982. First edition
Hardcover. 192 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's initials on half-title page. Dust jacket is browning along top edge, with a small nick to the top corner at spine.
A History of the Ostrogoths
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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition
Hardcover. 299 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Dust jacket has multiple short edge tears. Corners are slightly bumped.
The Confederates & Hen-thorir
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Edinburgh: Southside, 1975
Hardcover. 139 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket has a tear to lower front corner, with associated crease. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
English translations of two Icelandic sagas (Bandamanna saga and Hen-thorir saga).
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
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Toronto: Little, Brown and Co. (Canada), 1997
Hardcover. 288 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Signed by the author on title page with a thank you to an interviewer. Pages tanned. Top corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket has a couple of tiny edge tears.
A History of the Vikings
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London: Oxford University Press, 2001
Softcover. 504 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Spine is slightly creased. Pages are very tanned. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.
Includes appendices, bibliography, index.
A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
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HarperCollins, 2006. First edition
Hardcover. 340 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Remainder stripe to lower edge of text block.
Illustrated with colour plates. Includes appendix, glossary, footnotes, bibliography, index.
2,000-year examination of how the Book of Revelation has driven and been weaponized by Western civilization.
Landlord or Tenant?: A View of Irish History
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London: Bodley Head, 1978. First edition
Hardcover. 154 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped.
Includes bibliography, index.
Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons
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New York: Seabury Press, 1976
Hardcover. 143 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Pages are starting to tan. Dust jacket is price clipped.
Black and white illustrations, colour plates, maps. Includes bibliography, index.
Uses surviving poetry, prose, and archaeological artifacts to recreate a portrait of daily life, cultural achievements, and spiritual beliefs in early England.
Egerton Ryerson (The Canadians)
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Don Mills, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975
Softcover. 61 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint corner crease to back cover.