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Newmarket, ON: Town of Newmarket, [1967]. First edition
Softcover. 371 pages. ENG
Softcover. 371 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Spine is a bit age-darkened. Previous owner's name on first page. Newspaper clipping with a photo of auctioneer Fred N. Smith was stapled and taped to last page. Clipping is now laid in loose. Smith's name is written on last page. Another name written on reverse of last page. Back cover has some slight indentations.
Green card covers.
Newmarket, Ontario history. Written in 1957, the manuscript was published ten years later by the town in a small print run of only 600 copies.
Hamilton, ON: Baragiana Publishing, 1991. First edition
Hardcover. 312 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 312 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD / VERY GOOD
Green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine. Missing front free endpaper.
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.
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.
Toronto: Published for the University of Winnipeg by University of Toronto Press, 1975
Hardcover. 479 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 479 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Scattered faint foxing to edges of text block. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. No other writing/markings. Binding is sound and square. Dust jacket has a tear to lower corner at spine and a bit of toning and slight wear to edges. Pinhole to middle of back cover.
Illustrated with b&w photos. Includes appendix, bibliographic footnotes, bibliography, index.
Toronto: Doubleday, 1981. First edition
Hardcover. 662 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 662 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name faintly in coloured pencil on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is tanning slightly at edges. Light shelfwear.
Illustrated with b&w photos. Includes bibliography, index.
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.
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Government of Ontario, 1969
Softcover. ENG
Softcover. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Grey paper covers. Spines are darkened, with faint creasing. Volume 3 has spine slanted. Volume 4 has a bit of what appears to be green candle wax to fore edge of text block. A few faint smudges on covers. No writing/markings. Internally clean.
Complete set of four volumes. 1799 pages of main report + 1018 pages of Volume 4 - Tables and Appendices.
The primary source for one of Canada's most dramatic financial scandals: the 1965 collapse of Atlantic Acceptance Corporation, an Oakville-based finance company whose $65 million failure drew in institutional investors from Princeton University to the Ford Foundation, and whose dubious loan portfolio included financing for a mob-connected casino in the Bahamas. Among Atlantic Acceptance's more surprising holdings was a large stake in Commodore Business Machines, predecessor to the home computer giant. Chaired by Mr. Justice S.H.S. Hughes of the Ontario Supreme Court, the Royal Commission sat from 1966 to 1969 and produced this exhaustive four-volume report, a foundational document in Canadian securities regulation history, and a direct catalyst for the creation of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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.
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: William Briggs, 1884. First edition
Hardcover. 642 pages. ENG
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.
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.
Ottawa: The Graphic Publishers Limited, 1928
Hardcover. 280 pages. ENG
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.
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.
Don Mills, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975
Softcover. 61 pages. ENG
Softcover. 61 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint corner crease to back cover.
Toronto: The York Pioneer & Historical Society, 1963
Softcover. 80 pages. ENG
Softcover. 80 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Stapled pamphlet. Ownership name in ink to upper front corner.
Toronto: The York Pioneer & Historical Society, 1966
Softcover. 80 pages. ENG
Softcover. 80 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Stapled pamphlet. Bent corner, and a bit of foxing to covers.











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