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1970 Calendar : Cape Dorset Eskimo prints / Calendrier : d'estampes esquimaudes du Cap Dorset

Price: $50.00

Publisher: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Ltd., Ottawa, 1969,

Seller ID: 108478

(Calendar). 1970 Calendar : Cape Dorset Eskimo prints / Calendrier : d'estampes esquimaudes du Cap Dorset. (Ottawa : West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Ltd., 1960). Pp 14 leaves, printed one side only. 4to [13 by 13 inches]. white spiral bound, illustrated white card covers. Cover illustration : Man Hunting at Seal Hole in Ice by Niviaksiak. Calendar art by Sakiasee, Pauta, Kenojuak (2), Lucy (2), Oshaweetuk, Kavavoak, Sheouak, Parr, Mungitok, and Niviaksiak. Bi;ingual text (English and French). Very good. 50.00
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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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Acadiensis : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region. Vol. 34, No. 2,Spring 2005.

By: PARENTEAU, Bill (ed.). CODIGNOLA, Luca McNAIRN, Jeffrey L. DUTCHER, Stephen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Department of History, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., 2005,

Seller ID: 93827

PARENTEAU, Bill (ed.). Acadiensis : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region. Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, Spring 2005. Fredericton, N.B.: Department of History, University of New Brunswick, 2005. Pp [1]-215,(1). 8vo, blue and white card covers. Articles : Jefrey L. McNairn's “Meaning and Markets: Hunting, Economic Development and British Imperialism in Maritime Travel Narratives to 1870”; Matthew McRae's “The Romance of Canada: Tourism and Nationalism Meet in Charlottetown, 1939”; Stephen Dutcher's “Looking Towards the Promised Land”: Modernity, Antimodernism and Co-operative Wholesaling in the Ma...
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Adena: The Seeking of an Identity

By: SWARTZ, B. K., Jr. (ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ball State University, 1970,

Seller ID: 57334

SWARTZ, B. K., Jr. (ed.) Adena: The Seeking of an Identity. A symposium held at the kitselman Conference Center, Ball State University, March 5-7, 1970. (Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1970). Pp. 182. 8vo, cream card covers, green titles to front and spine.The Adena culture was a conglomerate of many Indian communities that inhabited the Central and Southern regions of Ohio in the first millennium BC. The Adena people lived in villages and survived by hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants. Although the Adena culture survived for many centuries (500-100 BC), much of what is known of t...
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African Adventures. Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters. First Printing in dustjacket.

By: LYELL, Denis D. Peter Capstick Library.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988, ISBN:0312021496

Seller ID: 108917

LYELL, Denis D. African Adventures. Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1988). First thus printing. Pp. (14),[ix]-xiii,(1),1-270, + 7 leaves of plates. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. See: Hand, A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects, L270; Riling, Guns and Shooting: A Bibliography, 2172. A volume in the Peter Capstick Library. "Famous hunter Denis Lyell corresponded with all the greats of African hunting: Stigand, Pease, Cunninghame, ColonelStevenson-Hamilton, and others. Their private letters written to Lyell ...
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African Game Trails : An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. Sixth Printing in dustjacket.

By: ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Peter Capstick Library.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988, ISBN:0312021518

Seller ID: 108915

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. African Game Trails : An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1988). Sixth thus printing. Pp. (18),ix-xxiii,(1),1-583,(7). With dozens of black and white illustrations to text. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. See: Hand, A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects, R266; Riling, Guns and Shooting: A Bibliography, 1701. A volume in the Peter Capstick Library. "The twenty-sixth president of the UnitedStates was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and ...
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African Hunter. Third Printing in dustjacket.

By: BLIXEN-FINECKE, Bror von, Baron. Peter Capstick Library. LYON, F.H., trans. DINESEN, Isak].

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN:0312009593

Seller ID: 108910

VON BLIXEN-FINECKE, Bror, Baron. African Hunter. Translated from the Swedish by F.H. Lyon. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1986). Third thus printing. Pp. (20),3-284,i-viii of index,(4), + 22 p. of black and white photos. 8vo,green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A volume in the Peter Capstick L ibrary. See: Hand, A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects, B369. "Although perhaps best rememberd today as the husband of novelist Isak Dinesen, Bror von Blixen was a brilliant and courageous big game hunter in his own right, and -- as this spellbinding book proves...
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After Big Game in Central Africa. Records of a Sportsman from August 1894 to November 1897, when crossing The Dark Continent from the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo. Second Printing.

By: FOA, Edouard. Peter Capstick Library. LEES, Frederic, trans.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989, ISBN:0312032749

Seller ID: 108907

FOA, Edouard. After Big Game in Central Africa. Records of a Sportsman from August 1894 to November 1897, when crossing The Dark Continent from the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo. Translated from the French, with an Introduction by Frederic Lees. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1989). Second Printing of the Reprint Edition. Pp. (14),[v]-xxvii,(1),[1]-330, + 30 leaves of plates and 1 map leaf. With other illustrations to text. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A volume in the Peter Capstick Library. "In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on ...
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Aghvook, White Eskimo : Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KEIM, Charles J. GEIST, Otto

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Alaska Press, College, 1868,

Seller ID: 106060

KEIM, Charles J. Aghvook, White Eskimo : Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology. Foreword by Olaus J. Murie. Colege : The University of Alaska Press, (1969). First Edition. Pp (6),vii-xix,(3),3-313,(3), colour frontispiece + 40 pp of black-and-white plates. Index. blue cloth spine, white cloth boards, silver letttering to front board and spine. Tourville, Alaska: A Bibliography 2426. Biography of German immigrant Frank Otto William Geist (1888 - 1963), an Alaskan archaeologist, explorer, and naturalist, with extracts from his journals and field notes relating to Saint Lawrence Island Eskimos. Cont...
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Albino Pheasants. First Edition, Paperback.

By: LANE, Patrick.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC, 1977, ISBN:0920080162

Seller ID: 108455

LANE, Patrick. Albino Pheasants. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, (1977). First Paperback Printing. Pp. (32). Unpaginated. 8vo, decorated white card covers with black lettering to front cover and spine. Includes the following poems: "Mill-Cry", "Friday Night", "It Is Said", "From the Tip of Your Ears Hangs the Moon", "A Beautiful Woman", "From the Hot Hills", "The Carpenter", "Slash Burning on Silver Star", "Quitting Time", "What Little is Left", "In Railroad Yards", "Still Hunting", "Obedience", "Exile", "Of Letters", "That Quick and Instant Flight", "Spring", "Stigmata", "When", "Albino...
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Allagash. First Edition in dust jacket

By: DIETZ, Lew Rivers of America LOW, George MUSKIE, Edmund S.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago & San Francisco, 1968, : 1968

Seller ID: 100280

DIETZ, Lew. The Allagash. Illustrated by George Low. New York, Chicago & San Francisco : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968). First Edition. Pp (8),ix-xiv,(2),3-354. Illustrated. 8vo, green cloth. A volume in the Rivers of America series. Fitzgerald, The Rivers of America: A Descriptive Bibliography, A1. "In the heart of Maine's North Country the Allagash River flows northward a hundred miles through uplands of unbroken forest. A region as well as a river, the Allagash's vast watershed forms the center of the wild land that blankets northwestern Maine. Because of its remoteness, these...
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Always A Straight Shooter. First Edition, Signed

By: COLLINS, Harold

Price: $45.00

Publisher: DRC Publishing, St. John's, 2004 : 2004

Seller ID: 111765

ISBN-13: 9780968420959

COLLINS, Harold. Always A Straight Shooter. (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador : DRC Publishing, 2004). First Edition. "Printed in Canada". Pp (5),vi-x,1-213,(1). Illustrated with 2 maps and 10 b&w photos in the text. 8vo (138 x 213 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, lettered in maroon, black and white. Cover art by Audrey Cole. The caption "Bessie Sheppard" has been added (or corrected?) on a small label on p.208. Harold Anthony Collins (b. May 21, 1925, Indian Islands, Notre Dame Bay - d. November 10, 2015, St. John's) worker with Canadian National Telegraph, later a Newfou...
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Among the Eagles : A Biography of Albert L. Pinsent. First Edition

By: CAREW, Terrence J. PINSENT, Albert L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Good Tidings, St. John's, 1988, ISBN:092142602x : 1988

Seller ID: 4276

ISBN-13: 9780921426028

CAREW, Terrence J. Among the Eagles : A Biography of Albert L. Pinsent. (St. John's : Good Tidings, 1988). First Printing. Pp (1),ii-xiii,(1),1-128,(2). With 42 b&w photos in the text as well as some drawings. 8vo, blue card covers, trade paperback. Albert Leonard Pinsent `Pastor Bert`, Born July 23 1927, Grand Falls, Newfoundland, died Oct 14 1978, St. John's, and grew up in Grand Falls - Windsor, Newfoundland. Terence Joseph Carew (b. March 4, 1953, Cape Broyle). "A biography of a warrior of the faith who was called to higher service at an early age." - from the rear cover. Pinsent (19...
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An Inexpensive Fishing Trip

By: ALLEN, O. W. National Sportsman, Vol. XVII, No. 1, July 1906)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: National Sportsman, Inc., Boston, 1906,

Seller ID: 60343

ALLEN, O. W. "An Inexpensive Fishing Trip" . An article in National Sportsman (Devoted to Sport with Rod, Dog, Rifle, and Gun), Vol. XVII, No. 1, July 1906, pp. 56-57. Boston: National Sportsman, Inc., 1906. Pp. 96 + [32] p. of ads. Illustrated. Double column. 8vo, illustrated wraps. An account of an American's fishing trip to Belleville, Nova Scotia. Covers and spine detached and missing, else vg. For the issue. 20.00
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Ancestors of Mary Herron (1890-1981). Including early New England immigrantfamilies of Bridge, Brown, Browning, Coolidge, Farrington, Fisher, Hammond , Hastings, Hawes, Hunting, Hyde, Livermore, Mann, Palgrave, Sherman, & Whirney.

By: RASMUSSEN, John O. RASMUSSEN, Louise.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: J. & L. Rasmussen Genealogies, Berkeley, CA, 2000,

Seller ID: 95555

RASMUSSEN, John O. and Louise. Ancestors of Mary Herron (1890-1981). Including early New England immigrant families of Bridge, Brown, Browning, Coolidge, Farrington, Fisher, Hammond, Hastings, Hawes, Hunting, Hyde, Livermore,Mann, Palgrave, Sherman, & Whirney. First Edition. (Berkeley, CA) : J. & L . Rasmussen Genealogies, (2000). Pp [i]-ix,(1),1-261,(2),1-9,(6). Index. Family Tree Pedigree Chart. 8vo, maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. “Thisbook on Mary Louise Herron (1890-1981) and her ancestors is the first of t he books we hope to write for our four parents, incorporating the family hi...
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Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem

By: RUDENKO, S.I. Arctic Institute of North America, Anthropology of the North... no. 1) TOLSTOY, Paul, trans.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1961,

Seller ID: 72187

RUDENKO, S.I. The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem. Translated by Paul Tolstoy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1961). Pp. (4),[1]-186,(12), + 38 p. of plates at rear. Illustrated. 8vo, printed blue card covers. Arctic Institute of North America, Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, no. 1. Falk, Alaska History : An Annotated Bibliography 73. Contents: The Eskimo Problem; Archaeological Finds on the Arctic Coast; The Ancient Settlement of Uwelen; Cape Dezhnev Area; Nuukan; Yandygay; Arakammchechen Island; Cape C...
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Architecture in English Fiction. in dj

By: SMITH, Warren Hunting

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Archon Books, 0,

Seller ID: 52785

SMITH, Warren Hunting. Architecture in English Fiction. [Hamdon, CT]: Archon Books, 1970. Pp. 236. frontis. 8vo, navy cloth. Vg in dj (spine browned, sticker mark to front). 40.00
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Arctic Hunter. 7th Printing in dustjacket.

By: HELMERICKS, Bud KANE, Henry Bugbee

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston, 1955,

Seller ID: 86916

HELMERICKS, Bud. Arctic Hunter. With illustrations by Henry Bugbee Kane. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, (Copyright 1955). Seventh Printing. Pp. (8),[1]-142,(2). Illustrated with fine and detailed drawings. . 8vo, blue cloth with red decoration to front, red lettering to front and spine. Map end-papers. Tourville, Alaska, A bibliography 2033. An account of the Inuit seal hunt in northern Alaska. 1. An Old Friend Returns; 2. To Cross Island; 3. A Strange Discovery; 4. A Detective Story; 5. Only Men Come Back; 6. The Pesiktawak; 7. Hunting the Open Lead; 8. The Making of a Seal Hunter; 9. Ad...
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Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America Vol 25. No 3 September 1972

By: Arctic USHER, Peter J. BLOOM, Joseph D. STEBBINS, Lucius L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arctic Institute of North America, 1972,

Seller ID: 71620

(Arctic). Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Volume 25, No. 3, September 1972. Pp [169]-248. Includes: Peter J. Usher's "The Use of Snowmobiles for Trapping on Banks Island" (pp.171-181); M. Leonard Bryan and Melvin G. Marcus' "Physical Characteristics of of Near-Shore Ice Ridges" (pp.182-192); Frank L. Miller, Charles J. Jonkel and Gaston D. Tessier's "Group Cohesion and Leadership Response by Barren-Ground Caribou to Man-Made Barriers" (pp.193-202); Joseph D. Bloom's "Psychiatric Problems and Cultural Transitions in Alaska" (pp.203-215);...
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As the Old Folks Would Say : Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador. First Edition

By: FUREY, Hubert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Flanker Press : 2017

Seller ID: 116433

ISBN-13: 9781771176095

FUREY, Hubert. As the Old Folks Would Say : Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's : Flanker Press Limited, (2017). First Edition. Pp. (8),1-231,(1). 8vo (140 x 216 mm), art-illustrated cardcovers, with white lettering to spine. Hubert Furey (b. 1939) is a lifetime resident of Harbour Main, Newfoundland, and a former District Superintendent of Education. He has performed his recitations about rural life as live theatre performances. "In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he ...
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