Saint John, N.B.: Sun Printing Co., 1892. First edition. 30 pages. Original blue printed wrappers (detached); glue residue and chipping to spine where it was removed from a binding, covers loose, very good otherwise. Inscribed and signed from Allison to the Long Island Historical Society, whose rubber ink stamps are on the first and last pages. Several photographic illustrations. View More...
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Montreal: Chez l'auteur et Chez Granger, 1904.
Seller ID: 56866
Original printed wrappers, bound in later blue marbled boards, cloth spine, hand-titled label on front cover. 48pp. Edge of front wrapper chipped, old stain to fore-edge, a very good copy. This regards Baillarge's proposal for a French-Canadian flag, and includes an order form at the rear for the flag, at a cost of six piastres. He formally proposed a flag design in 1911. An uncommon book. View More...
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Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1848. Second Edition.
Seller ID: 57093
Original dark green straight-ribbed cloth, covers stamped in blind at borders, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Light yellow coated end papers. Frontispiece and three inserted plates, as well as illustrations in the text. One leaf of ads bound at the front, half-title leaf present. Short splits along upper hinges, but a bright and attractive copy in unusually nice condition, the plates unfoxed. A bookseller's ticket on the inner front cover is from Dublin, and an ownership inscription on the front fly leaf is signed at Dundalk Barracks [Ireland], dated 1851. This copy is of the variety whi... View More...
Wine cloth, oblong, patterned end papers. Front cover designed and lettered in gilt. 11 views of Montreal buildings and environs. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1922. Some discoloration to front cover, a bit of wrinkling to lower edge, a very good copy. Proceeds from its sale were donated to the Canadian Red Cross Society, Montreal. An uncommon book. View More...
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Victoria: British Columbia Police, [1941 - 42].
Seller ID: 55864
A printed poster on card stock, measuring 6.75 x 13.5 inches. Small hanger hole at top, as issued; fine condition, unused. Issued by the Civilian Protection Branch, British Columbia Police, Victoria, B.C. In point form, with instructions in the event of air raid. Number 4: "DON'T rush out on to the street if you hear aircraft or explosions near-by." Blank sections at bottom to be filled in with the name of the A.R.P. Warden, nearest first-aid post, etc. View More...
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Victoria: Richard Wolfenden, Government Printer, [1870].
Seller ID: 57008
160pp. Original burgundy flexible leather covers, front cover lettered in gilt and with the Province of British Columbia seal in gilt. Patterned end papers. Some wear to joints and upper spine, very good condition. This is the 1870 edition printed by Wolfenden; there was another edition produced in 1912 by Cullin (165pp.). Lowther 353, citing the original Gazette Extraordinary publication, and mentioning the editions of 1870 and 1912. Not in WorldCat. This 1870 edition is scarce. View More...
Small decorative wrappers, stapled. 72pp. Many illustrations. Tear along lower spine, very good condition. Front cover states: Compliments of The Canadian Pacific Railway. Issues from 1915 also exist. View More...
Original pink pictorial wrappers. 100pp. Old stains to the spine and last few leaves, a fresh very good copy generally. Lyrics to popular songs of the time. A charming little collection. "No. 2" on front cover. View More...
Saint John, N.B.: Printed at the "Daily News" Steam Job Office, 1882. Original blue decorative printed wrappers, sewn. Paginated [419] - 498, plus a leaf of index at rear. Some chipping to upper spine and a bit to edges, a clean very good copy in general. View More...
Hamilton: Printed at The Craftsman Office..., 1869. Original blue printed wrappers, stitched. 34 pages. Some chipping to spine and edges, a bit of staining to lower edge, a very good copy in general. View More...
Brown pictorial cloth, the front cover designed in dark brown, spine and front cover lettered in black & brown. Frontispiece and seven inserted plates containing twelve photographic illustrations. Blank front fly leaf missing, some discoloration to end papers, moderate dust soiling to the edge of the front cover; in general, quite a clean and attractive, very good copy. This is a later binding of the first edition, with a sixteen-page publisher's catalogue at the rear dated Spring, 1912. An important account of early logging in British Columbia. A very uncommon book in the original edition. View More...
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Toronto: Canadians for Non-Recognition of Red China, [c.1955].
Seller ID: 56776
12pp. Self-wrappers, stapled. Cover printed in black & red. Fine condition. An anti-Communist pamphlet produced in Toronto in the 1950s. Hladun was born in Manitoba and was associated with the Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s. He later became disillusioned with the Party, renounced his membership, and became a vocal critic of Communism, delivering hundreds of lectures across Canada. View More...
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Espanola, Ontario: LD21, (1943). First edition.
Seller ID: 56658
Original blue cloth stamped in blind on front cover. Illustrated title page. Printed on pink paper. A very good copy. 90 leaves printed on rectos only. All text in German. A very scarce book of wartime cartoons, created and published by German prisoners at the Canadian POW camp (Camp 21) at Espanola, Ontario (near Sudbury). View More...
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Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1930. First edition.
Seller ID: 57135
Original printed wrappers. 14pp. Fine condition. An offprint: "Reprinted from the Washington Historical Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2". An uncommon booklet. The regards the ship Jefferson, commanded by Josiah Roberts. View More...
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Ottawa: Printed for the Royal Society of Canada, 1933. First edition.
Seller ID: 57134
Original printed wrappers, stapled. Fine condition. This is an offprint, paginated 119-147. "From The Transactions of The Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Section II, Volume XXVII, 1933". An uncommon booklet. View More...
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Ottawa: Printed for the Royal Society of Canada, 1942. First edition.
Seller ID: 57136
Original printed wrappers, stapled. Fine condition. This is an offprint, paginated 59-78 "From The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Volume XXXVI, 1942". View More...
Montreal: McGill University Publications, Series VI, No. 8, 1925. Gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. A 32-page booklet. Several photographic illustrations. Inscribed and signed by Johnson on the title page. A bit of browning, but a fine copy. View More...
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Ottawa: Director of Public Information, 1941.
Seller ID: 50824
32pp. Self-wrappers lettered in black, stapled. Light wear to edges, but about fine. The text of an address given by the Prime Minister of Canada before THE CANADIAN CLUB OF OTTAWA, September 17th, 1941. View More...
