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A Good Day's Work : In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada. First Edition in dustjacket.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2013, ISBN:9780385665063 : 2013

Seller ID: 104432

ISBN-13: 9780385665063

DEMONT, John. A Good Day's Work : In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada. (Toronto) : Doubleday Canada, (2013). First Printing. Pp. (8),1-284,(12). 8vo (150 x 205 mm), brown cloth spine with off-white paper-covered boards, copper lettering to spine. John DeMont (b. Spring 1956, Halifax). "'A Good Day's Work' is a lyrical journey through the Canada of our imagination. The Canada of the day before yesterday. The Canada, perhaps, of 1967 - the country's 'last good year', in the words of Pierre Berton. This is a panoramic view of that far-off land, captured by way of encounters with a blacksmi...
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A History of Fort Lawrence : Times, Tides and Towns. First Edition in dustjacket, triple-signed.

By: TRENHOLM, Gladys. NORDEN, Miep. TRENHOLM, Josephine

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sherwood Printing Ltd., Edmonton, 1985

Seller ID: 70959

ISBN-13: 9780921080008

TRENHOLM, Gladys, Miep NORDEN, and Josephine TRENHOLM. A History of Fort Lawrence : Times, Tides and Towns. N.pl. : n.pub., (1985). "Printed and bound by Sherwood Printing Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta". Pp.(10), 1-439. With 50 b&w photos as well as some other illustrations and several maps in the text. 8vo (153 x 232 mm), beige cloth; with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Gladys Marie Trenholm, née Forgrave (b. 1912, Amherst - d. January 4, 2011, Upper Nappan). Siementje 'Miep' Norden, née Balkema (b. 1925, the Netherlands - d. September 15, 2020, Amherst). Freda Josephine 'Jo'...
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A Nation of Immigrants : Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. Second Paperback Printing

By: IACOVETTA, Franca, (ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2007, : 2007

Seller ID: 108783

ISBN-13: 9780802074829

IACOVETTA, Franca, (ed.). A Nation of Immigrants : Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. Edited by Franca Iacovetta, with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca. Toronto - Buffalo - London : University of Toronto Press, (2007). Second Paperback Printing. Pp. (4),[v]-xiv,(2),[3]-513,(1). 8vo (152 x 229 mm), art-illustrated blue card covers, with brown, with red, green & black lettering to front cover, brown & black lettering to spine. Franca Iacovetta (b. 1957) was a Canadian historian at the University of Toronto at the time of publication. Paula Jean Draper (b. ...
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Abasand Fiasco : The rise and fall of a brave pioneer oil sands extraction plant. First Printing in dustjacket

By: COMFORT, Darlene J. DUFFY, Peter G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Friesen Printers, Edmonton, AB, 1980, ISBN:088925201F

Seller ID: 104375

COMFORT, Darlene J. The Abasand Fiasco : The rise and fall of a brave pioneer oil sands extraction plant. Edited by Peter G. Duffy. (Edmonton : Friesen Printers, October 1980). First Printing. Pp (1),2-148,(4). Illustrated. Index. 4to, pale green cloth, black lettering to front board and spine. "Together the two struggled to raise both nterest and funds in order to build an exoerimental oil extraction plant in a secluded valley on the banks of the Horse River near the hamlet of Fort McMurray. They failed to find anyone else in Canada who shared their enthusiasm for the Athabasca tar sands....
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Across Canada The National Way : Atlantic to Pacific

By: Canaadian National - Grand Trunk Railway)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Canaadian National - Grand Trunk, 1924,

Seller ID: 105020

(Canaadian National - Grand Trunk Railway). Across Canada "The National Way" : Atlantic to Pacific. [Toronto?] : Canaadian National - Grand Trunk, n.d. [1924?]. Pp (4),[3]-155,(3), frontispiece + 9 plates. 8vo, maroon leatherette, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Contents : Canada—Its Attractions and Resources. Atlantic to the Pacific—Transcontinental Service: Halifax to Truro; Truro to Sackville; Sackville to Moxcton; Moncton to Montreal; Montreal to Winnipeg; Quebec to Winnipeg; Toronto to Winnipeg via Port Arthur and Fort William; Toronto to Winnipeg via North Bay and Cochra...
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Afternoon Starlight. signed

By: NOBLE, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Thistledown Press, 1984, ISBN:0920066917

Seller ID: 65389

NOBLE, Charles. Afternoon Starlight. (Saskatoon, SK): Thistledown Press, (1984). Pp. 107. 8vo, ill. card covers, black titles to white spine.

A collection of poems by the Canadian author.

Light wear to edges, else very good. Author's signed gift inscription on the half title. 20.00
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Alaska Highway Guide 1948

By: JOHNSTON, A.L. [Austin Lefurge]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Quality Press Printers, Victoria, B.C., 1948,

Seller ID: 103755

JOHNSTON, A.L. [Austin Lefurge]. The Alaska Highway Guide 1948. (Victoria, B.C.: Quality Press Printers, 1948). Pp (2),3-31,(1), with map. 8vo (148 x 222 mm), tan stapled card covers, map and lettering in brown to front cover. A guide to highway routes to Alaska via Alberta and British Columbia. Preface. The Highway to a Sportsman's Paradise (by Frank Golata, Big Game Guide, Dawson Creek, B.C.); Fish and Game Regulations; Fishing Seasons; The Alaska Highway. Inkstamp to front cover, previous owner's circular blindstamp to first page, else very good. 25.00 ...
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Alberta Airshow : aviation nostalgia : Sunday, July 3, 1977.

By: Alberta Air Show)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1977,

Seller ID: 115604

(Alberta Air Show). The Alberta Airshow : aviation nostalgia : Sunday, July 3, 1977. N.pl.: n.pub., 1977. Pp (48) unpaginated. Illustrated. Large 8vo, illustrated blue stapled card covers, lettered in black and white. The programme for the show. Contents : Alberta Arrows; Skyhawks; The Vulcan B MK2 Dragonflies; Supersonic; Surveillance; Training; CFB Cold Lake; Search; Helicopters; Transport; United States Air Force; Canadian Reds; Western Warbirds; Art Scholl; Joann Osterud; Al Pietsch; Ground Displays; 434 Squadron. Very good. 15.00...
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Alberta Military Institute Journal 1945

By: ALBERTA MILITARY INSTITUTE)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Alberta Military Institiute, Calgary, Alberta, 1945,

Seller ID: 43152

(ALBERTA MILITARY INSTITUTE). Alberta Military Institute Journal 1945. Calgary, Alberta : The Alberta Military Institiute, [1945]. Pp. [1]-172. Illustrated with some b&w photos, maps, &c. 8vo, red side-stapled cardcovers, blank spine. Contents : Message to First Canadian Army before launching of Operation "Overlord"; Portrait of General H. G. D. Crerar, C.H.. C.B., D.S.O.;Illustration—D-Day—A "Rhino Ferry" Approaching the Beach; Portrait of Lieu t.-General G. G. Simonds, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O .; Illustration—"The Old TownThat Had Cost So Much Blood Was Itself a Shambles";...
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Alberta Society of Artists

By: ZIMON, Kathy E

Price: $35.00

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2000,

Seller ID: 39165

ZIMON, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists : The First Seventy Years. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000). Pp 203, [72] pp plates. 4to, illustrated boards.

Top edge and top front corners bumped slightly, else very good. 35.00
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Alberta. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KROETSCH, Robert Traveller's Canada

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto , 1968,

Seller ID: 18197

KROETSCH, Robert. Alberta. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1968. First Edition. Pp. 231. With 27 plates. 8vo, purple cloth, gilt titles to spine. In The Traveller's Canada series. Lecker, Robert Kroetsch : An Annotated Bibliography A20; Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 1927. Very good in price-clipped dustjacket (lightly rubbed, some wear to spine ends and corners). 30.00
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All Canadian Poems : Original, Patriotic and Spiritual

By: POTTER, Frank G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kentville Publishing Company, Ltd., Kentville, NS , 1938,

Seller ID: 62996

POTTER, Frank G. All Canadian Poems : Original, Patriotic and Spiritual. Written in Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia. (Kentville, NS : Kentville Publishing Company, Ltd., n.d. Copyright 1936-1938. Pp. (5),6-47,(1). 8vo, tan card covers. Watters p.160, Laugher p.453. The author was originally from Clementsvale, Annapolis County, NS. Forty-two poems including: "To My Native Province, Nova Scotia", "New Scotland's Beauty", "In Remembrance, 1867-1927 : To Canada - My Country", and "Mid-July in New Scotland". Brown smudge to the upper front corner, a few sma...
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All True Things : A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008.

By: MACLEOD, Rod.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 2008, ISBN:0888644442

Seller ID: 99643

MACLEOD, Rod. All True Things : A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008. (Edmonton) : The University of Alberta Press, (2008). First Edition. Pp [i]-xx,1-371,(1). Illustrated. Index. 8vo, green cloth, gilt letteringto spine, paper label to front board. “All True Things is a critical histo ry of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta to mark the University’s centennial. Rod Macleod relates the University’s coming of age against the parallel history of the Province of Alberta’s remarkable growth.What emerges is an enduring narrative of an institutional will to thrive a ...
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Allison's Suncatchers and Chains. inscribed with letter laid in. ill. cardcovers

By: JONES, Kris

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Detselig, 2002, ISBN:1550592343

Seller ID: 64322

JONES, Kris. Allison's Suncatchers and Chains. A Journey with Autism. Calgary, Alberta: Detselig Enterprises, (2002). Pp 272. Illustrated with photos to text. 8vo, illustrated card covers; a letter laid in. A mother's story of a daughter with autism. Inscribed by author with a letter laid in. Very good. 20.00
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Almost Meeting. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KREISEL, Henry

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981, ISBN:0912316131

Seller ID: 15766

KREISEL, Henry. The Almost Meeting [dustjacket adds: and other stories]. Edmonton : NeWest Press, (1981). First Edition. Pp (10),11-148. 8vo, brown cloth, black lettering to spine. Henry Kreisel (b. June 5, 1922, Vienna, Austria - d. April 22, 1991, Edmonton) Canadian writer and professor. This is Kreisel's collected short stories written between 1954 and 1980. The stories: "The Almost Meeting", "Chassidic Song", "Homecoming", "Annerl", "An Anonymous Letter", "The Travelling Nude", "Two Sisters in Geneva", and "The Broken Globe." ...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Six, June 1963

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). ATWOOD, Margaret GLASSCO, John FRASER. Raymond

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1963,

Seller ID: 102303

(ATWOOD, Margaret). (REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Six June 1963. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1963. Pp (5),6-80. 8vo, red card covers, black lettering to front cover, blank spine. The sixth issue of Reaney's hand-set Canadian literary journal, dealing very broadly with the myth of Job. Contents: Margaret Gayfer's "J.B. vs Job", Richard Stingle's "The Donnellys: Ritual Victims"; Poetry by Ben Jones, Marilyn Davis, Warren Stevenson, Jack Chambers, John Glassco, Margaret Atwood (four poems: 'The Orphan from Alberta', 'Poor Tom', 'M...
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American Journal of Science, November 1925, Volume X, Number 59

By: DANA, Edward S. and Alan M. BATEMAN (eds.) BATEMAN, Alan M. (ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: American Journal of Science, New Haven, CT, 1925,

Seller ID: 65250

DANA, Edward S. and Alan M. BATEMAN (eds.). American Journal of Science, November 1925, Volume X, Number 59 . New Haven, CT: Americal Journal of Science, 1925. Pp. (383)-482,[4]. Illustrated. 8vo, printed grey card covers. Contents: R. W. G. Wyckoff, H. E. Merwin and H. S. Washington's "X-Ray Diffraction Measurements upon the Pyroxenes", Leigh Page's "Energy of a Straight Current", J. Barrell's "Geologicl Relations of Earth-Condensation and Resulting Acceleration in Rotation", P. E. Raymond's "Anaspida and the Vertebrates Origin", E. S. C. Smith's "Geology o...
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American Ski Annual 1937-38. Official Yearbook of The National Ski Association.

By: GOODRICH, Nathanial L., (ed.) BINNS, Ken

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1937,

Seller ID: 96776

GOODRICH, Nathanial L., (ed.). American Ski Annual 1937-38. Official Yearbook of The National Ski Association. . Brattleboro, Vermont : "Published by Stephen Daye Press", 1937. Pp 1-32 (adverts),(6),7-220.(2, adverts),(4),33-66 (adverts) + photo plates + sample of Burton's Adirondack Water repellentPoplin, with White Stag Ski Togs ad on reverse. 8vo, silver cardcover. Con tents: "Ecker Hill and Sun Valley"by Ken Binns; "Our Amateur Rules" by Roger Langley; "The 1937 Women's Team" by Elizabeth D. Woolsey; "Fifty Years atIshpeming" by James E. Flaa; "S...
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Among the Inuit. First Edition, Signed

By: SEMENIUK, Robert BRODY, Hugh DAVIS, Wade

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 2007, ISBN:189685110X

Seller ID: 115977

SEMENIUK, Robert. Among the Inuit. Vancouver : Raincoast Books, (2007). First Printing. Pp (6),7-85,(3),+ 16 pp plates. Maps. Large 8vo (183 x 257 mm), brown cloth front board & spine, photo-illustrated paper-covered rear board, white & red lettering to spine. Robert Semeniuk (b. Big Valley, Alberta). "Robert Semeniuk first went to the Canadian Arctic in 1968 and has been back many times since. Here are 70 of hist astonishing photos, taken over three decades of living and traveklking with some of the world's last remaining nomadic hunters." - from the rear. Contents : Statement by Pete...
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Analysis of the Weekly Work Load of Nova Scotia High School Principals

By: HARRISON, Reid Edwards

Price: $50.00

Publisher: University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1965,

Seller ID: 67412

HARRISON, Reid Edwards. An Analysis of the Weekly Work Load of Nova Scotia High School Principals . A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education,. Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1965. Pp. (1),[i]-xi,[1]-92. Printed on one side only. Large 8vo, typescript in brown paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Minor wear to spine ends, else vg. 50.00
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