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0n Chinese and World History. First Edition in dustjacket

By: FEHL, Noah Edward (ed.) BUTTERFIELD, Herbert HSU, Cho Yun MCNEILL, William H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1971, : 1971

Seller ID: 58775

FEHL, Noah Edward, (ed.), Sir Herbert BUTTERFIELD, Cho Yun HSU and William H. MCNEILL. 0n Chinese and World History. Edited with Introduction and Three Essays by Noah Edward Fehl. Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong, (January) 1971. Pp (8),[ix]-xiv,[1]-124. Illustrated with 3 small b&w author photos in the text. 8vo [180 x 260 mm], blue cloth, gilt lettering to front board & spine. Sir Herbert Butterfield (b. October 7, 1900 Oxenhope, Yorkshire – d. July 20, 1979, Sawston, Cambridgeshire) was Regius Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. ...
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141 Dives in the Protected Waters of Washington and British Columbia. 2nd pr rev ed.

By: PRATT-JOHNSON, Betty

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Gordon Soules, 1978,

Seller ID: 65882

PRATT-JOHNSON, Betty. 141 Dives in the Protected Waters of Washington and British Columbia. Vancouver: Gordon Soules Book Publishers, (1978). Second printing of updated edition. Pp 398. Illustrated. 8vo, ill. card covers. Sticker to front cover, else vg. 16.00
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5 Shadow Poems. limited edition

By: TURNER, Myron

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Four Humours Press, 1975,

Seller ID: 57372

TURNER, Myron. 5 Shadow Poems. [Winnipeg]: (Four Humours Press), 1975. 8vo, single orange sheet, tri-folded. A limited edition of thirty-five signed copies were printed of this work read at the University of British Columbia, 13 March 1975 and the University of Lethbridge, 17 March, 1975.

This copy is unsigned. Small crease to top corner, else very good. 25.00
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99 Dives from the San Juan Islands in Washington to the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island in British Columbia. 1st pr.

By: PRATT-JOHNSON, Betty

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 1994, ISBN:189581118x

Seller ID: 74899

PRATT-JOHNSON, Betty. 99 Dives from the San Juan Islands in Washington to the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island in British Columbia . (Surrey, BC): Heritage House Publishing, (1994). First Canadian Printing. Pp. [1]-319,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated blue card covers. Vg. 25.00
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A Blue Fable. First Edition

By: WOODWARD, C. Hendrika

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New Printing Press, Kathmandu, 1981, : 1981

Seller ID: 34038

WOODWARD, C. Hendrika. A Blue Fable. (Kathmandu, the Royal Kingdom of Nepal : The Author, New Printing Press, 1981). First Edition. Pp (13) leaves printed on one side only. 8vo (153 x 189 mm), pale grey wrappers, with blue lettering to front cover & a blue design to rear cover, with blue cloth tape to spine.

The first book by Caroline Hendrika Woodward, née Woodward (b. March 14, 1952, Fort St. John, British Columbia).

Limited to 1,500 copies printed on Nepali Ricepaper.

Very good. 35.00

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

By: DEMONT, John.

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 Little Thing I Tied Myself : Stories of Atlantic Canadian Fly Tiers. First Edition, Signed

By: MacLEAN, Don

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing : 2006

Seller ID: 70770

ISBN-13: 9781551095370

MacLEAN, Don. A Little Thing I Tied Myself : Stories of Atlantic Canadian Fly Tiers . (Halifax, NS) : Nimbus Publishing, (2006). First Edition. "Printed and bound in Canada". Pp (6),[1]-138, + 8 pages of colour photos of flies at rear. With 100 b&w photos as well as some other illustrations in the text. 8vo (158 x 222 mm), photo-illustrated glossy card covers, with black lettering to rear cover & spine, with black, red, & white lettering to front cover. .. Don MacLean (b. 1954) was living in Nova Scotia at the time of publication. There is a colour photo of him on the rear cover. .. ...
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A Master Mariner's Muse: A Mishmash of Maritime Poems, Jokes and the Like.. First Edition, Signed

By: MARTIN, S. S., Captain.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 0,

Seller ID: 62566

MARTIN, S. S., Captain, (annotated by). A Master Mariner's Muse: A Mishmash of Maritime Poems, Jokes and the Like. [n. pl.: n. pub., n. d.], [self-published in Canada, possibly British Columbia, late 1980s?]. First Edition. No printer given. Pp i-iv,1-57,v-vii. With a few illustrations in the text. 8vo (178 x 217 mm), photo-illustrated pale blue matte card covers, with black lettering to front cover, with white wire spiral binding. Captain Sidney 'Sid' Stanley Martin (b. May 9, 1922, London, England - d. July 1, 2004, White Rock, British Columbia) was living in South Surrey, British Co...
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A Nature and Hiking Guide to Cape Breton's Cabot Trail. Second Printing

By: LAWLEY, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 1997 : 1997

Seller ID: 42441

ISBN-13: 9781551091051

LAWLEY, David. A Nature and Hiking Guide to Cape Breton's Cabot Trail. (Halifax, NS) : Nimbus Publishing, (1997). Second Printing. "Printed and bound in Canada". Pp (10),i-iv,1-195,(3). Illustrated with drawings throughout. Maps. 8vo (134 x 228 mm), blue photo-illustrated glossy card covers with red lettering to spine. David Lawley (b. February 8, 1945, Vanport, Oregon – d. September 15, 2005, Margaree, Nova Scotia), after serving as a sailor in Vietnam with the US Navy, first went to British Columbia and eventually settled in Cape Breton. He became an interpretive naturalist, back co...
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A Place to Die. First Edition.

By: BOWERING, George

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oberon Press, Ottawa, 1983 : 1983

Seller ID: 101144

ISBN-13: 9780887504778

BOWERING, George. A Place to Die. [Ottawa] : Oberon Press, (1983). First Edition. "Printed in Canada". Pp (4),5-127,(1). 8vo (139 x 214 mm), black & red photo-illustrated glossy card covers, with black lettering to spine, with white lettering to rear cover. George Harry Bowering, O.C., O.B.C. (b. December 1, 1935, Penticton, British Columbia). "The present collection is very different [from the earlier Flycatcher & other Stories], though the style, as always, is fresh and clever, the smile sardonic." Nine short stories : "Carter Fell", "A Short Story", "Match-Boxes", "Comparat...
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A Planet Mostly Sea : Two Poems. First Edition

By: WAYMAN, Tom

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1979, : 1979

Seller ID: 101955

ISBN-13: 9780888010353

WAYMAN, Tom. A Planet Mostly Sea : Two Poems. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1979. First Printing. Pp. (10),11-62,(10). 8vo (147 x 224 mm), art- and photo-illustrated black card covers with black lettered white title block to front, white lettering to black spine. Thomas 'Tom' Ethan Wayman (b. August 13, 1945, Hawkesbury, Ontario). Arranged in two poem sequences : "Asphalt Hours, Asphalt Air" "1. Quitting in the Spring", "2. What the Women Said", "3. Dieppe Park", "4. Why There Is No Calm Here", and "5. Recording Tachometer. "Long Beach Suite". "i The Washerwoman", "ii Schoo...
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A Planet Mostly Sea : Two Poems. First Edition, Signed

By: WAYMAN, Tom

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1979, : 1979

Seller ID: 34547

ISBN-13: 9780888010353

WAYMAN, Tom. A Planet Mostly Sea : Two Poems. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1979. First Printing. Pp. (10),11-62,(10). 8vo (147 x 224 mm), art- and photo-illustrated black card covers with black lettered white title block to front, white lettering to black spine. Thomas 'Tom' Ethan Wayman (b. August 13, 1945, Hawkesbury, Ontario). Arranged in two poem sequences : "Asphalt Hours, Asphalt Air" "1. Quitting in the Spring", "2. What the Women Said", "3. Dieppe Park", "4. Why There Is No Calm Here", and "5. Recording Tachometer. "Long Beach Suite". "i The Washerwoman", "ii Schoo...
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife. The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. First Folio Edition

By: BRINGHURST, Robert

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Folio Society : 2015

Seller ID: 81413

BRINGHURST, Robert. A Story as Sharp as a Knife. The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. Introduced by Margaret Atwood. Illustrated by Don Yeomans. London : The Folio Society, 2015. First Folio Edition. Printed in Germany. Pp (4),v-xxi,(5),3-534,(2). Illustrated throughout with photos (both colour and b&w), maps and the art of Yeomans. 8vo (164 x 252 mm), art-illustrated light brown cloth, with black lettering to spine. Robert Bringhurst, O.C. (b. October 16, 1946, Los Angeles). Don Yeomans (b. 1958, Prince Rupert, British Columbia). Fist published by the University of ...
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A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America. First Edition thus in dustjacket

By: FRANCHERE, Gabriel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Citadel Press, New York, 1969, : 1969

Seller ID: 106077

FRANCHÈRE, Gabriel. A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. New York : The Citadel Press, (1968). Pp. (6),ix-liii,(3),3-318,(2) + 3 maps + 3 illustrations [including "View of the Falkland Isles" opp. p.22]. 8vo, black cloth, silver lettering to spine. A reprint of the Lakeside Classics edition of 1954. For Gabriel Franchère (b. November 3, 1786, Montreal - d. April 12, 1863 in St Paul, Minnesota) see DCB Volume 9. Milo Milton Quaife (b. October 6, 1880, Nashua, Iowa - d. 1959, Michigan) . "An early nineteenth-century journal of an astonishing voya...
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Aaron Hill : Poet, Dramatist, Projector

By: HILL, Aaron) [Dorothy] BREWSTER BREWSTER, Dorothy Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature series

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 0,

Seller ID: 75382

(HILL, Aaron) [Dorothy] BREWSTER. Aaron Hill : Poet, Dramatist, Projector .[N.pl]: Columbia University Press, [n.d.]. Pp. (2),[i]-xiii,(1),1-300,(4), frontis. 8vo, green cloth with gilt decoration to front and gilt lettering to spine. A volume in the Columbia University Studies in English and Compa rative Literature series. Lacking title page, inner hinges cracked, musty, edgeworn, else good. 40.00
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Abbotsford '74 : 1975: August 8, 9 & 10. Canada's National Airshow. Program: One Dollar

By: Abbotsford Air Show)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Abbotsford International Air Show Society, Abbotsford, B.C., 1975,

Seller ID: 115603

(Abbotsford Air Show). Abbotsford '74 : 1975: August 8, 9 & 10. Canada's National Airshow. Program: One Dollar. [Abbotsford, B.C.: Abbotsford International Air Show Society, 1975]. Pp (1),2-40,(2) includng covers, Illustrated. Large 8vo, illustrated red, blue and green card covers, lettered in yelowand white. The programme for the show, Very good. 15.00
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Aboriginal Peoples and the Law : Indian, Metis and Inuit Rights in Canada. Hardcover

By: MORSE, Bradford W. (ed.) Carleton Library Series No. 131

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1984, ISBN:0886290198

Seller ID: 106869

MORSE, Bradford W. (ed.). Aboriginal Peoples and the Law : Indian, Metis and Inuit Rights in Canada. Ottawa : Carleton University Press, (1984). Pp (4),v-xlv,(10,1-800. 8vo, grey library cloth, white lettering to spine. Carleton Library Series No. 131. Contents : Chapter 1. Aboriginal peoples and the law (by Bradford W. Morse): 1. The aboriginal peoples in Canada. (a) Who are the aboriginal people? (b) Demographic and economic information. (c) The position of aboriginal families. (d) Conclusion. 2. Further reading. Chapter 2. Aspects of aboriginal rights in international law (by Maureen Davies...
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Abundant Rivers. in dj.

By: CARTER, Anthony Indian Heritage Series Vol. 3

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hancock House, 1972,

Seller ID: 64845

CARTER, Anthony. Abundant Rivers. Chief Dan George Edition. Saanichton, BC:Hancock House, 1972). Pp 140, including map frontis. Illustrated with nume rous colour photos to text, many full page. 4to, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, and gilt dec. to board. Indian Heritage Series Vol.3. Grumet, Native Americans of the Northwest Coast : A Critical Bibliography 34. Index: Land of Abundant Rivers (map); Publisher's Introduction; Dedication [by Chief Dan George]; Foreword; Chief Dan George; Route of Adventure; Land of the Squamish; The Lillooet Tribe; Territory of the Tsla-a-...
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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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Acts of Murder : A Karl Alberg Mystery. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WRIGHT, L.R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, 1997,

Seller ID: 23465

WRIGHT, L.R. Acts of Murder : A Karl Alberg Mystery. (Toronto : 1997). Finein fine dustjacket. 15.00
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