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Debates in Canadian Society (Crosscurrents series)
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Nelson Canada, 1992
Softcover. 494 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Slight shelfwear.
South Asia: A Short History
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University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Second edition
Softcover. 290 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Slight shelfwear.
The Big Generation
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McClelland & Stewart, 1980
Softcover. 264 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Remainder mark inside front cover. Light shelfwear.
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
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University of Chicago Press, 1984
Softcover. 405 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD+
Light spine crease.
Penguin Dictionary Of Twentieth Century History
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Penguin, 1992. 4th edition
Softcover. 437 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Pages tanned. Sticker removal damage to back cover.
Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
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Pantheon, 1983. Expanded edition
Softcover. 264 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Remainder mark to top edge of text block.
Essays on nuclear weapons and Soviet-American relations, arguing for disarmament by the architect of America's postwar containment strategy.
The School on the Hill: Trinity College School 1865 - 1965
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Port Hope, ON: Trinity College School, 1965
Hardcover. 380 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Burgundy leather with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned.
Centennial history of Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, from its founding in 1865 through its first hundred years.
History Toronto Branch The Canadian Red Cross Society 1914 - 1948
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Toronto: Toronto Red Cross, 1948
Hardcover. 109 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Red cloth with gilt titles. Light wear to tips.
The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature: Fifth Collection
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Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press / Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1993
Hardcover. 327 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Spine corners faintly crushed.
A Basic Mencius: The Wisdom and Advice of China's Second Sage
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San Francisco: Long River Press, 2007. First edition
Hardcover. 146 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean unmarked copy.
The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United States
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston
Hardcover. 465 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Undated, but ca. 1905. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, red cover titles, red rules and decorations, blindstamped decorations, and a pastedown illustration to front cover. Pastedown has a small scrape. Binding is square, hinges are tight. Pages slightly tanned. Elegant calligraphic owner's signature dated 1908 to front free endpaper.
Serbia
L.F. Waring
Serbia
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London: Williams and Norgate, 1917
Hardcover. 256 pages. ENG

Condition: FAIR
Red cloth with black titles and decoration. Spine faded. Hinges cracked. Previous owner's name and stamp on front free endpaper. Pages are very tanned. Binding is still tight but fragile.
The British Neptune, or a History of The Royal Navy From The Earliest Periods to The Present Time
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London: Richard Phillips, 1807
Hardcover. 490 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Brown leather with red leather spine label and faded gilt title. Frontis + plates + foldout map are all complete. Some sections slightly displaced but still tight. Spotting to edges of text block, stains to endpapers and first few pages. 490 pages + foldout map + 6 pages of publisher ads at back.
Canada and National Service
Colonel William Hamilton Merritt
Canada and National Service
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Toronto: Macmillan, 1917. First edition
Hardcover. 247 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / POOR
Light shelfwear. Book is sound, square and tight. Hinges are strong. A few spots of foxing to pages. Dust jacket is missing a large section at top of spine, small section at bottom of spine, chipping to edges, sticker shadow to upper corner, and has water spots to spine. Complete split to fold of dust jacket spine has been tacked together on reverse with archival tissue tape.
Wartime argument for compulsory national military service in Canada, published in 1917 at the height of the conscription crisis. Merritt was president of the Canadian Defence League and a prominent advocate for compulsory military service. He died of influenza in October 1918, weeks before the armistice, having lived to see both the conscription he championed and the bitter French-English divisions it provoked. The town of Merritt, British Columbia is named after him.
The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846. New edition
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Quarter bound blue leather with marbled boards. Scattered faint foxing to text. Lower edge worn through to boards in one spot.
Lectures on Some of the Great Masters of Art and on the Rise, Progress, and Decay of Modern Art in Europe
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Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1875. First edition
Hardcover. 445 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Brown cloth with gilt titles and black and gilt decorations. Bevelled edges. Light shelfwear. Fraying to top and bottom of spine. School prize label on front pastedown. Blindstamp to front free endpaper. Gift inscription on first blank page.
Lectures on European art by Robert Cassels, the first registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, sworn in on October 8, 1875.
Legends of French Canada
Edward C. Woodley
Legends of French Canada
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Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 1931. First edition
Hardcover. 105 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Signed by author on a presentation label from Quebec Kiwanis Club. Blue cloth with paper label title. Cloth is fading a bit unevenly.
Homesteads: Early Buildings and Families from Kingston to Toronto
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979
Hardcover. 282 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is worn at tips and top of spine, with several short tears. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
The Story of James Gilmour and the Mongol Mission
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London: The Sunday School Union
Hardcover. 144 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Prize label to front pastedown, dated April 1896, and stamp of the Willesden Branch of the Sunday School Union with signature of the secretary. Light shelfwear. Tiny spot of dampstain to upper corner of front cover.
Call Back Yesterdays
Edgar Andrew Collard
Call Back Yesterdays
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Don Mills, ON: Longmans Canada, 1965. First edition
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / GOOD
Dust jacket has a penetrating scrape to fore edge, several chips, and a couple of very short tears to top edge.
Collection of historical sketches about Montreal's past by the longtime Montreal Gazette columnist.