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"The Paradox of Bluenose II : Antimodernism, Capitalism and the Legacy of the Schooner Bluenose in Nova Scotia.

By: SULLIVAN, Cheryl N.S. Historical Review 16:2

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nova Scotia Historical Review, 1996, : 1996

Seller ID: 29661

SULLIVAN, Cheryl. "The Paradox of Bluenose II : Antimodernism, Capitalism and the Legacy of the Schooner Bluenose in Nova Scotia." An article in The Nova Scotia Historical Review, Vol.16, No.2, 1996, pp.1-.22. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), photo-illustrated cardcovers, with black lettering to spine.Also includes : Christina M. Lamey's "Davis Day through the Years: A Cape Breton Coalming Tradition" (pp.23-33). Jonathan H. Davidson's "Francklyn v. The People's Light and Heat Company: A Nineteenth-Century Environmental Lawsuit in Nova Scotia" (pp.34-48). Angela Bakerr's "A Muscular Regionalism : Ge...
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150th Anniversary Sydney Academy: 1841-1991

By: Sydney Academy - Yearbook)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney Academy 150th Anniversary Committee, 1991,

Seller ID: 49706

(Sydney Academy - Yearbook). 150th Anniversary Sydney Academy. 1841-1991. (Sydney, NS: Sydney Academy 150th Anniversary Committee, 1991). Pp. 73. Illustrated. Double column. 4to, blue cloth, silver lettering to front and spine. Contains many vintage black & white photographs from the Academy, particulary in the field of sports, including hockey and basketball. Vg. 20.00
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28th Annual Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod, August 7th - 13th, 1966

By: Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gaelic College of Celtic Folk Arts and Highland Home Crafts, St. Ann's, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1966,

Seller ID: 111600

(Gaelic Mod). 28th Annual Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod, August 7th - 13th, 1966. (St. Ann's, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia : Gaelic College of Celtic Folk Arts and Highland Home Crafts, 1966). Pp (8) including covers; + 4-page "The NovaScotia Gaelic Mod Competition Programmes" laid in. Illustrated. 4to, illus trated white wrappers, unbound. A souvenir programme to this event. Contents : Welcome - Patrick Munro of Foulis; Clan Munro Day at Gaelic Mod - Tue.,Aug. 9th : Welcome Clan Munro and the Scottish Clans of Nova Scotia; Gaeli c College Student and Youth Day at Mod : Where Gaelic Culture is En...
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A Canadian Manual on the Procedure At Meetings of Municipal Councils, Shareholders and Directors of Companies, Synods, Conventions, Societies and Public Bodies Generally with an Introductory Review of the Rules and Usages of Parliament that Govern Public Assemblies in Canada

By: BOURINOT, J.G

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Carswell, 1894, : 1894

Seller ID: 36614

BOURINOT, J.G. A Canadian Manual on the Procedure At Meetings of Municipal Councils, Shareholders and Directors of Companies, Synods, Conventions, Societies and Public Bodies Generally with an Introductory Review of the Rules and Usages of Parliament that Govern Public Assemblies in Canada. Toronto : The Carswell Co. (Ltd.), Law Publishers, 1894. First Edition. Pp (6),[v]-viii,(2),[3]-444,(2). 8vo, pebbled blue cloth, gilt to front and spine. Sir John George Bourinot, KCMG, FRSC (b. October 24, 1836, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – d. October 13, 1902, Ottawa). Spine title is Procedure o...
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A Catechism of Geography; Divided into Two Parts : Adapted to every age and capacity, and to every class of Learners, either in Ladies' or Gentlemen's Schools : Part Second, containing Asia, Africa, and America

By: BROMLEY, Walter, comp.

Price: $7,300.00

Publisher: Acadian School, Halifax, 1822, : 1822

Seller ID: 74615

BROMLEY, Walter, (comp.). A Catechism of Geography; Divided into Two Parts : Adapted to every age and capacity, and to every class of Learners, either in Ladies' or Gentlemen's Schools : Part Second, containing Asia, Africa, and America. Halifax : Printed at The Acadian School, 1822. Pp. [1]-132. 12mo (103 x 147 mm), , blue-grey card covers with white spine. "[This Geography is printed in two parts only instead of four as was originally intended.]" - beneath the imprint on the title-page. Sabin 8196. Not in TPL, Egoff, Amtmann, Osborne, Tennyson, or Finley, Education in Canada: A Bibliography...
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A Dream Come True : (A Devotional Study of Psalm 126). First Edition, Signed

By: MacKINNON, Angus

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Catalogue Press, 1994 : 1994

Seller ID: 58167

ISBN-13: 9780969833703

MacKINNON, Angus. A Dream Come True : (A Devotional Study of Psalm 126). (Sydney, Nova Scotia) : Catalone Press, (1994). First Edition. "Printed by City Printers, Sydney, N.S." Pp [i]-x,11-103,(1). Small 8vo (120 x 183 mm), blue glossy photo-illustrated card covers, with black & blue lettering to front cover & spine, with black lettering to rear cover. Angus M. MacKinnon (b. Aultbea, Gairloch, Ross-shire, Scotland) a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, serving in churches in Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton, was in Arnish, Cape Breton at the time of publication. He sailed solo ac...
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A Forest for Calum : A novel. Second Printing

By: MACDONALD, Frank

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cape Breton University Press, Sydney, NS, 2005, ISBN:9781897009635 : 2005

Seller ID: 117078

ISBN-13: 9781897009635

MACDONALD, Frank. A Forest for Calum : A novel. Sydney, Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, (2011). Second Printing. "Printed and bound in Canada". Pp. (4),[5]-383,(1). 8vo (127 x 203 mm), photo-illustrated reddish-brown glossy card covers, with white lettering to spine. With a small colour photo of Macdonald on the rear cover. The first novel by the Cape Breton author (b. 1945) who was living in Inverness, Cape Breton at the time of publication. "The story is Roddie's. The stage is his guardian and grandfather Calum's. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends...
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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 Hard Old Love Amongst Scavengers. First Edition

By: DOUCETTE, David

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Saskatoon, Thistledown Press : 2016

Seller ID: 116432

ISBN-13: 9781771871204

DOUCETTE, David. A Hard Old Love Amongst Scavengers. (Saskatoon) : Thistledown Press, (2016). First Printing. Pp. (6),7-235,(4). 8vo (141 x 216 mm), art-illustrated white cardcovers, with black and red lettering to spine. David Doucette (b. 1966, Cape Breton Island) is a winner of the Dartmouth Book Award. "At forty-six, Miles MacPherson returns to a cottage he built on the slopes of his native Cape Breton Island. He has travelled around the world a half dozen times and has grown weary of cars, planes, and people. He wants to read. Visitors, however, climb to his door to talk of their ai...
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A History of Early Nova Scotia. First Edition, Signed by Leefe

By: McCREATH, Peter L. LEEFE, John G. VILLEBON). ALEXANDER, William).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Four East Publications, Tantallon, NS, 1982 : 1982

Seller ID: 56729

ISBN-13: 9780969004141

McCREATH, Peter L. and John G. LEEFE. A History of Early Nova Scotia. (Tantallon, Nova Scotia : Four East Publications, 1982). First Edition. "printed in Halifax by McCurdy Printing & Typesetting Limited". Pp [1]-320. With 2 b&w photos and many other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, with blue & black lettering to front cover, with blue lettering to spine. Peter Leith McCreath (b. July 5, 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia). There is a b&w photo of him on the inside front cover. Honorary Colonel Hon. John Gordon Leefe, E.C.N.S., D.C.L. (b....
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A History of Early Nova Scotia. First Edition.

By: McCREATH, Peter L. and John G. LEEFE LEEFE, John G. POUTRINCOURT ALEXANDER, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Four East Publications : 1982

Seller ID: 5381

ISBN-13: 9780969004141

McCREATH, Peter L. and John G. LEEFE. A History of Early Nova Scotia. (Tantallon, Nova Scotia : Four East Publications, 1982). First Edition. "printed in Halifax by McCurdy Printing & Typesetting Limited". Pp [1]-320. With 2 b&w photos and many other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, with blue & black lettering to front cover, with blue lettering to spine. Peter Leith McCreath (b. July 5, 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia). There is a b&w photo of him on the inside front cover. Honorary Colonel Hon. John Gordon Leefe, E.C.N.S., D.C.L. (b....
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A History of Early Nova Scotia. First Edition.. double-signed.

By: McCREATH, Peter L. and John G. LEEFE. LEEFE, John G. VILLEBON. ALEXANDER, William.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Four East Publications, Tantallon, NS, : 1982

Seller ID: 78544

ISBN-13: 9780969004141

McCREATH, Peter L. and John G. LEEFE. A History of Early Nova Scotia. (Tantallon, Nova Scotia : Four East Publications, 1982). First Edition. "printed in Halifax by McCurdy Printing & Typesetting Limited". Pp [1]-320. With 2 b&w photos and many other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, with blue & black lettering to front cover, with blue lettering to spine. Peter Leith McCreath (b. July 5, 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia). There is a b&w photo of him on the inside front cover. Honorary Colonel Hon. John Gordon Leefe, E.C.N.S., D.C.L. (b....
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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 History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. First Edition

By: RANKIN, D.J.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd : 1929

Seller ID: 117379

RANKIN, Rev. D.J. A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Toronto : The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., MCMXXIX [1929]. First Edition. "Printed in Canada - The United Press Limited, Toronto". Pp (6),vii-ix,(3),3-390,(2). Large 8vo (198 x 260 mm), dark blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Morley p.90, Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 394. Rev. Duncan Joseph Rankin, P.P. of Iona, C.B., (b. December 16, 1874, Cape Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, - d. August 31, 1954, Antigonish). "A History of the County of Antigonish is concerned partly with the early...
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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 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 Night at the Opera. Biblioasis Edition.

By: SMITH, Ray.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Biblioasis / Renditions, 2007, : 2007

Seller ID: 111640

ISBN-13: 9781897231111

SMITH, Ray. A Night at the Opera. A novel. [No place] : Biblioasis / Renditions, (2007). "Printed and bound in Canada". Pp (6),7-249,(7). 8vo (145 x 222 mm), photo-illustrated glossy card covers, with white lettering to covers & spine. Ray Smith, né James Raymond Smith, (b. 1941 - d. June 20, 2019, Mabou, Cape Breton) is from Mabou, Cape Breton, and largely grew up in Halifax. A new edition of Cape Breton author Ray Smith's Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize-winning novel, arranged in 7 parts. "First published in 1992, the award winning 'A Night at the Opera' is set in the small German...
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A Night at the Opera. First Edition

By: SMITH, Ray

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill : 1992

Seller ID: 13858

ISBN-13: 9780889841376

SMITH, Ray. A Night at the Opera. (Erin, Ontario) : The Porcupine's Quill, (1992). First Edition. "Typeset, printed and bound by The Porcupine's Quill". Pp (6),7-234,(6). 8vo (140 x 221 mm), photo-illustrated glossy card covers, with white & gilt lettering to front cover, white lettering to spine, black lettering to rear cover. Ray Smith, né James Raymond Smith, (b. 1941 - d. June 20, 2019, Mabou, Cape Breton) is from Mabou, Cape Breton, and largely grew up in Halifax. A Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize-winning novel, arranged in 7 parts. "What a night it would be! The small Germa...
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A Parson Reminisces : A Melange of Recollections and Reflections. First Edition

By: O'BRIEN, J.W., Rev.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1957, : 1957

Seller ID: 13473

O'BRIEN, J.W., Rev. A Parson Reminisces : A Melange of Recollections and Reflections. Sackville, New Brunswick : "Published by The Tribune Press Limited", n.d. [circa 1957]. First Edition. Pp (4),5-108,+ 1 plate : a b&w photo of Rev. O'Brien. 8vo, textured mustard cardcovers, black lettering to front cover, blank spine. O'Brien (b. Nappan, Cumberland County). Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana : An Annotated Bibliography 4565. Not in Watters, Rhodenizer, Laugher, or Hallett, Bermuda in Print : A Guide to the Printed Literature on Bermuda, 2nd ed. Preface; 1. The Old Home; 2. Amherst & High S...
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A Possible Madness : A novel. First Edition

By: MacDONALD, Frank

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cape Breton University Press, Sydney, NS, 2011, ISBN:9781897009659 : 2011

Seller ID: 94360

ISBN-13: 9781897009659

MacDONALD, Frank. A Possible Madness : A novel. Sydney, Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, (2012). First Printing. Pp. (6),[7]-364,(4). 8vo (126 x 203 mm), photo-illustrated black cardcovers with yellow & white lettering to front & spine. The second novel by the Cape Breton author (b.1945) who was living in Inverness, Cape Breton at the time of publication. Nominated for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2013. "Like many smallish and inelegant towns that dot the coastlines and crossroads of the continent, Shean's postwar, post-industrial economy is in desp...
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