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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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(w)ri(gh)t(e)s

By: Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective ANDREWS, Shari BIRSDSELL, Darcie DREW, Lorna

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wild East Publications, Fredericton, N.B., 1991, ISBN:0969414722

Seller ID: 108759

Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective. (w)ri(gh)t(e)s. Fredericton, N.B.: Wild East Publications, 1991. Pp (7),8-64. 8vo, blue stapled card covers, "In March 1990, the Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective produced their collectively written play, flights. In the fall of that year, the Collective regrouped to write, workshop and stage a new play for 1991. (w)ri(gh)t(e)s is that play...the writings of thirteen women woven together." (from the back cover). The thirteen authors are : Shari Andrews, Darcie Birdsell, LornaDrew, Margarita Enriquez, Clarissa Hurley, Anne Israelie, Dana McDa...
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... and the wife ran away First American Edition in dustjacket

By: WELDON, Fay

Price: $45.00

Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc., New York, 1968,

Seller ID: 3973

WELDON, Fay. ... and the wife ran away. New York : David McKay Company, Inc., (1968). First American Edition. Pp (5),1-182,(4). 8vo, black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Fay Weldon (b. September 22, 1931, Birmingham, England). The author's first book, published the previous year in the U.K. as The Fat Woman's Joke. "Her husband is furious, her son is appalled, her best friend is curious. Her husband's young mistress blandly takes all the credit. Esther Wells has run away from home. She has holed up in an ugly basement apartment, and she has revolted against life, men, marriage, and hers...
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10 Hours : A Mystery Novel. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KEELER, Harry Stephen

Price: $230.00

Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, 1937,

Seller ID: 103011

KEELER, Harry Stephen. 10 Hours : A Mystery Novel. New York : E.P. Dutton &Company, Inc., (1937). First Printing. Pp (6),7-320. 8vo, red cloth, black lettering to spine, red lettering and bloddy clock hand to black panel on front board. The third book (of four) in the Vagabond Nights series. Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) was a prolific but little-known American author."No Keeler fan can afford to miss this ingenious new mystery which concern s the activities of three clever vagabonds. Supposedly in the employ of theMexican Rebel Commander, Lopez, who is waging war on a Texas town near t...
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100 Nineteenth-Century Rhyming Alphabets in English. in dj

By: BALDWIN, Ruth M.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972,

Seller ID: 51123

BALDWIN, Ruth M. (from the library of). 100 Nineteenth-Century Rhyming Alphabets in English. Carbondale and Edwardsvilli, ILL.: Southern Illinois University Press, (1972). Pp. 298. Illustrated, including 32 pp. in colour. 4to, blue ill. cloth. "Charming and interesting examples of children's literature from one of the most complete collections of its time." -from the dj. Vg in dj (two tears along lower front, light wear to edges). 45.00
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100 petites histoires du passé pour conserver notre langue et notre cultureacadienne.

By: ROBICHAUD, Marie-Colombe.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Les Éditions de la Piquine, Meteghan Centre, N.S., 2002, ISBN:0968940218

Seller ID: 93653

ROBICHAUD, Marie-Colombe. 100 petites histoires du passé pour conserver notre langue et notre culture acadienne. (Meteghan Centre, N.S.) : Les Éditions de la Piquine, (2002). First Edition. Pp [1]-[200],(4). Illustrations. 8vo, illustrated grey card covers. One hundred stories told in the form of conversations between Philomène and Thimothée, or Cazimir and Zabeth. Text inFrench. Very good, with a loose single-page Index to photos laid in. 15.00
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13 Three Bridges Street.

By: MOORE, Dorothea.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Musson Book Company , Toronto , 1945,

Seller ID: 90594

MOORE, Dorothea. 13 Three Bridges Street. Venture Books for Girls. Toronto : The Musson Book Company Ltd., (1945). Pp [1]-253,(3), colour frontis. 8vo, mustard cloth, red lettering to front board and spine, top edge dyed red.“On the death of her father, fourteen year old Gilly Seaton leaves England to go to school abroad. She is accompanied to Dornia by her old friend and protector Denham Chester, affectionately known as “Chuggles.” Dornia, like Russia in many ways, had mystery and adventure to offer and under strange circumstances Chggles disappears. The secret of 13 Three Bridges Street reve...
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14 Barrels from Sea to Sea. First Edition.

By: REANEY, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Press Porcepic, Erin, 1977, ISBN:0888781512

Seller ID: 101503

REANEY, James. 14 Barrels from Sea to Sea. (Erin, Ontario : Press Porcépic,1977). First Printing. Pp. (12),13-175,(1). 8vo, yellow card covers, blue titles to front ande spine. James Crerar Reaney, OC, FRSC (b. September 1, 1926, Easthope, Ontario – d. June 11, 2008, London, Ontario). "Fourteen Barrels is the story of something unsuual in Canadian theatre history, the story of a national tour of a Canadian drama, from London to St. Boniface to Burnaby to Fredericton to Halifax to Hamilton to Port Perry and back again. You see inside not only the world of actors and dramatists and hangers o...
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1450-1950

By: BROWN, Bob Jargon 29

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jargon Books in association with Corinth Books, New York, 1959,

Seller ID: 110339

BROWN, Bob. 1450-1950. (New York : Jargon Books in association with Corinth Books, 1959). Pp (66). Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated white card covers, lettered in red and brown. Jargon 29. A book of visual poetry first published in a limited edition of 150 copies by Black Sun Press in 1929. This book is "Dedicated to All monks who illuminated manuscripts - All early oriental artists - Omar - Gutenberg - Caxton - Jimmy-the-ink - Boccaccio - Rabelais -Shakespeare - Defoe -Goya - Blake - Sterne - Whitman - Crane - Stein - Joyce - Pagliacci - and Myself." Rubbed, minor creasing, a few small pe...
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15 Canadian Poets. Second Printing.

By: GEDDES, Gary and Phyllis BRUCE NOWLAN, Alden COHEN, Leonard ONDAATJE, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1970, ISBN:0195401778

Seller ID: 101479

GEDDES, Gary and Phyllis BRUCE, (eds.). 15 Canadian Poets. Edited by Gary Geddes and Phyllis Bruce. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1970. Second Printing. Pp. (4),v-xvi,(2),1-301,(1). 8vo, illustrated red and blue card covers with white lettering to front and black lettering to spine. This anthology includes the following poets: Earle Birney (8 poems), Al Purdy (10 poems), Irving Layton (13 poems), Raymond Souster (19 poems), Leonard Cohen (13 poems), D.G. Jones (12 poems), Alden Nowlan (14 poems), Margaret Avison (13 poems), Eli Mandel (12 poems), Margaret Atwood (11 poems), Gwendolyn ...
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15 Poems

By: MacKINNON, Ian

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, NB, 1972, ISBN:0919197078

Seller ID: 34462

MacKINNON, Ian. 15 Poems. (Fredericton, N.B. : Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1972). Pp (2),3-16. 8vo, stapled printed card covers.

An edition of 500 copies.

"Crows", "A Tour Around the Berlin Zoo starting at the main entrance Hardenbergplatz", "Configuration", "Configuration 'A'", "In the Park", "Arabesque", "Crossings", "The River Guadalquivir", "A Sight and a Sound", "Summer Storm", "Herr Bauer", "The Fountain", "Sailing Ship", and "The Sprinkler".

Very good. 20.00
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15 Poems. Limited Edition in dustjacket

By: MEYNELL, Francis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nonesuch Press Ltd / J.M. Dent & Sons , London, 1944,

Seller ID: 22044

MEYNELL, Francis. 15 Poems. (London) : The Nonesuch Press Ltd & J.M. Dent &Sons Ltd, (1944). Pp (6),7-24. Small 8vo, blue cloth. Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975). Limited to 470 copies. A new poem, "Bomber's Harvest : Normandy 1944," written after the book was printed appears on the front dustjacket flap. "Publishers' Note : The use of a small parcel of prewar English handmade paper has imposed a limit of 470 copies on this edition. The title page engraving is by Eric Gill." - from the dustjacket. Very good in lightly worn and chipped dustjacket...
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17th Letter. in dj 1st pr

By: DISNEY, Dorothy Cameron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House, 1945,

Seller ID: 45243

DISNEY, Dorothy Cameron. The 17th Letter. NY: Random House, (1945). First Printing. Pp. 248. 8vo, black cloth, blue and gilt to spine. A spy novel that takes the heroine, Mary Strong, from Iceland to Halifax to solve a mystery. Spine of dust jacket missing, edges worn, chipped, inner flaps taped to boards, secondary dj underneath from Brentano's Rental Library, New York, also chipped and worn, else vg. 20.00
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1949. pbk.

By: FRENCH, David

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Talonbooks, 1989, ISBN:0889222665

Seller ID: 6154

FRENCH, David. 1949. Vancouver : Talonbooks, (April) 1989. First Printing. Pp (8), 9-174, (2). 8vo, white trade paperback. "1949 continues the saga ofthe Mercer family, enlarged to include the extended family as well as off- stage characters from theplays. David French deals with the emotional and political decisions that the characters must come to as Newfoundland joins Confederation on April Fool's Day of 1949. As recent immigrants to Toronto the members of the Mercer family see this event both as a new future and as a loss of Newfoundland's culture and independence." - from rear cov...
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1984 : Spring : A Choice of Futures. US in dj.

By: CLARKE, Arthur C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1984,

Seller ID: 7911

CLARKE, Arthur C. 1984 : Spring: A Choice of Futures. N.Y. : (1984). Vg-fine in dj. 20.00
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1987 Second Mile Commonplace Book. First Edition

By: PERKIN, J. R. C. (introduction and selections)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lancelot Press, Hantsport, NS, 1986, : 1986

Seller ID: 59216

ISBN-13: 9780889993327

PERKIN, J.R.C., (introduction and selections). 1987 Second Mile Commonplace Book. Hantsport, Nova Scotia : Lancelot Press, (1986). First Edition. Pp. [76]. Unpaginated. With 11 b&w photos in the text as well as a b&w reproduction of Alex Colville's painting "Infantry". 8vo (140 x 201 mm), illustrated white, black, & orange semi-glossy card covers, with black lettering to white spine. Dr. James 'Jim' Russell Conway Perkin (b. August 19, 1928, Northamptonshire, England - d. December 13, 2017, Kentville) was Acadia’s twelfth President and Vice Chancellor. A brief anthology of poetry and b...
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200 Years of Art in Halifax : An Exhibition Prepared in Honour of the Bicentenary of the Founding of the City of Halifax, N.S. 1749-1949

By: Halifax - Art) MOWAT, Alexander Sutherland

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1949, : 1949

Seller ID: 3293

(Art). 200 Years of Art in Halifax: An Exhibition Prepared in Honour of the Bicentenary of the Founding of the City of Halifax, N.S. 1749-1949. N.pl. : n.pub., n.d. Pp (5),6-56. 8vo (160 x 233 mm), stapled card covers. "Exhibited in the Queen Elizabeth High School, Halifax, N.S. from July 18 to August 20, 1949". Rhodenizer, Canadian Literature in English p. 1001 attributes authorship to Alexander Sutherland Mowat (b. 1905, Bonnybridge, Scotland). A.Y. Jackson illustration tipped-in at frontispiece Cover design and lay-out by W.E. de Garth. illustrated with b&w reproductions. ...
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2182 kHz : a novel. 1st US pr in dj

By: MASIEL, David.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House, New York, 2002, ISBN:0375506063

Seller ID: 80275

MASIEL, David. 2182 kHz : a novel. New York : Random House, (2002). First Printing. Pp (8),[1]-294,(2). 8 vo, white cloth spine with white paper covered boards, grey lettering to spine. "By all accounts, Henry Seine should have packed it in long ago, certainly before he started scanning marine distress channels for fun. But sixteen-hour days spent hauling heavy cargo aboard tugs and icebreakers along the frozen arctic offshore (not to mention smoking copious amounts of Cannabis indica) can warp a man's sense of reality. Desperate for real human contact, he tunes the sideband radio to 2182...
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25 [Twenty-Five] Nudes Engraved by Eric Gill. First American Edition, Devin-Adair Edition in dustjacket.

By: GILL, Eric.

Price: $280.00

Publisher: Devin-Adair, New York, 1950, : 1950

Seller ID: 109058

GILL, Eric. Twenty-Five Nudes Engraved by Eric Gill. With an introduction. New York: The Devin-Adair Company Publishers, (1950). First American Edition. "Printed in Great Britain at the Temple Press, Letchworth, Herts". Pp. (64). Unpaginated. Illustrated with line drawings against black backgrounds. 8vo (147 x 228 mm), red cloth, with gilt initials to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, A.R.A. (b. February 22, 1882, Brighton – d. November 17, 1940, Hillingdon, London). "Drawings are ends, not means, and even studies and sketches should be thought of as worth d...
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2666. First American Edition in dustjacket.

By: BOLANO, Roberto. WIMMER, Natasha, trans.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York , 2008, ISBN:9780374100148

Seller ID: 83532

BOLANO, Roberto. 2666. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2008). First U.S. Printing. Pp (14),[1]-898. 8vo, black cloth, red metallic lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers. The Chilean author's masterwork, posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008. "Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman -- these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Saint Tere...
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