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The Conquest of Devil's Island
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LONDON: Max Parrish & Co Ltd, 1953
Hardcover. 188 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD / GOOD
Black cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations. Spine is slanted. Pages tanned. No writing/markings. Dust jacket is worn and chipped at corners with several short tears. Not price clipped.
The Romance of the Canadian Canoe
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Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1951. First edition
Hardcover. 145 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Pages are tanned at edges. Binding is sound and square. Dust jacket is faded along spine, several tears, edge wear, dust staining along edges.
Below the Bridge: Memories of the South Side of St. John's (Canada's Atlantic Folklore - Folklife Series No. 2)
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Breakwater Books, 1979
Hardcover. 126 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Pages are tanned. Tape stains to boards and a spot of adhesive residue to inside of dj from a mylar cover unfortunately being taped on. Not ex-library.
Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. First edition
Hardcover. 388 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / GOOD
Gift label to front free endpaper. Publisher's letter laid in. Dust jacket is worn at tips, with sticker removal damage to spine, and a bit of faint red ink smudge to lower edge of front panel.
Includes bibliographic footnotes, index.
Women of the Streets: A Sociological Study of the Common Prostitute
C.H. Rolph (editor) for the British Social Biology Council
Women of the Streets: A Sociological Study of the Common Prostitute
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. First edition
Hardcover. 248 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Blue/purple cloth boards with silver gilt titles to spine. Toning to endpapers, and spine and reverse of dust jacket. Foxing to edges of text block.
Includes charts, index.
The Family Herald Cook Book
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Montreal: The Family Herald and Weekly Star. First edtion
Softcover. ENG

Condition: FAIR
Brown paper wrappers with colour illustration to front cover are fragile and flaking from spine. Small corner of back cover is missing. Pages are tanned, with a few spots of foxing. Dampstain to corner of last few pages. No writing or markings. Includes a group of contemporary 1920s newspaper recipe clippings laid in (in mylar sleeve).
First edition, first issue. 215[1] pp; 10 plates. Table of Contents at front, but without the 7-page index of later editions; publisher's advertisement at rear. No edition statement or date but is the first issue from November 1922 according to Driver Q125.1.
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.
Lighting the Pioneer Ontario Home (#12 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1966
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled pamphlet. Clean, unmarked copy.
Women's Costume in Ontario (1867-1907) (#14 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1966
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled pamphlet. Clean, unmarked copy.
Early Ontario Glass (#2 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1965
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled pamphlet. Clean, unmarked copy.
Women's Costume in Early Ontario (#1 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1965
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled pamphlet. Clean, unmarked copy.
Early Ontario Furniture (#13 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1965
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Stapled pamphlet.
Lighting the Pioneer Ontario Home (#12 in What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? series)
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Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum / University of Toronto, 1966
Softcover. 16 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Stapled pamphlet. Foxing to cover.
Early Furniture in Upper Canada Village 1800 - 1837
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Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968
Softcover. 43 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Stapled pamphlet. Spot of sticker lift to front cover, short crease to back cover.
Torture
Edward Peters
Torture
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New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986
Softcover. 202 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unmarked copy. Appears unread.
History and Lore of Freaks
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London: Senate, 1996
Softcover. 320 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Light edgewear.
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
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Headpress, 2014
Softcover. 315 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unmarked copy. Appears unread.
More Cunning than Man: a Social History of Rats and Men
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New York: Kensington Books, 1999
Softcover. 280 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Remainder mark to lower edge of text block.
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
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Thomas Allen, 2003
Softcover. 254 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
How scurvy was finally understood and conquered, focusing on surgeon James Lind's 1747 discovery and the Royal Navy's extraordinary resistance to accepting it.
The Canadian Lesson Book on Temperance and Life
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Toronto: Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee, 1926
Hardcover. 124 pages. ENG

Condition: FAIR
Spotting to covers, mainly to back cover. Pages are tanned. Binding is square, hinges sound.