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Bee Book

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Coach House Press, Toronto, 1981, ISBN:0889102260

Seller ID: 101070

ROSENBERG, Ann. The Bee Book. Toronto : The Coach House Press, (1981). Pp. (6),[7]-195,(5). Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated purple card covers. "The BeeBook is a startling contribution to the literature of the sexes. It's a De e story, full of honey and stings and flight formations (signwriting). It tells the life, all the way from the little girl who soiled her pants, to the woman who crawls into her hexagon and prepares for flight. Its [sic] a book that falls joyously between the categories ot novel, drama, game, poetryand chance. It's one of a kind, and a serious one too. At ten, HabeUa i...
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Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends. Cdn ed

By: SAUNDERS, Marshall

Price: $30.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto , 1920,

Seller ID: 82201

SAUNDERS, Marshall. Bonnie Prince Fetlar : The Story of a Pony and His Friends. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart Publishers, (1920). First Canadian Edition. Bound from the George H. Doran sheets. Pp [i]-vi,(2),9-352. 8vo, tancloth with photographic onlay to front board, maroon lettering to front bo ard and spine. Spadoni & Donnelly 570. Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) was a Canadian author, born in the village of Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia. She spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where herfather served as Baptist minister.. Saunders is most famous for her novel B...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1994

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1994,

Seller ID: 102823

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.13, No. 1, February 1994. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1994. Pp (1 ),2-35,(1) including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated pink stapled card covers. Contents : Hearts and Darts : A Valentine Editorial; A Slice of Life (By Evie Davidson); Barbara Stevenson Designated Queens Counsel (By Anne McCallum); Legal Aid Lobby-ACSW and W.I.; Childcare and UI—Is It a GenderIssue? (By Maureen Larkin); Help for Moms and Babies in Need (By Anne McCa Uum); Churches Tackle Violence Issues (By Irene Larkin); Child Sexual Abuse...
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Destination White Point. First Edition

By: DICKSON, Frances Jewel.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pottersfield, Lawrencetown Beach, 2012, : 2012

Seller ID: 105382

ISBN-13: 9781897426364

DICKSON, Frances Jewel. Destination White Point. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada : Pottersfield Press, (2012). First Edition. Pp (7),8-175,(1). With 22 b&w photos in the text. 8vo (152 x 227 mm), photo-illustrated bluish-grey glossy card covers with brown, white & yellow lettering to front cover, and white lettering to spine. Frances Jewel Dickson, née Dickson (b. St. Hyacinthe, Quebec) has lived on Nova Scotia's South Shore since 1987. There is a small colour photo of her on the rear cover. "White Point Beach Lodge has been in operation since 1928, persevering through earl...
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Diary of Simeon Perkins 1804-1812.. ltd ed.

By: PERKINS, Simeon Champlain Society 50 FERGUSSON, Charles Bruce, ed./intro.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Champlain Society, Toronto , 1978,

Seller ID: 86134

PERKINS, Simeon. The Diary of Simeon Perkins 1804-1812. Edited with an introduction and notes by Charles Bruce Fergusson. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1978. Pp (6),vii-liii,(1),1-520,i-xxiv,(2). 8vo, red cloth, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Publications of the Champlain Society L - Unnumbered copy of 1400 copies. Hallett, Bermuda in Print : A Guide to the Printed Literature on Bermuda, 2nd ed., p. 156. "Simeon Perkins (February 24, 1735 – May 9, 1812) was a Nova Scotia merchant, diarist and politician. Colonel Simeon Perkins was born in Norwich, Connecticut, one ...
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Gloucester Sea Ballads : True Tales of Gloucester Fishermen. Signed

By: PARSONS, Kitty BLACKBURN, Howard)

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Cape Ann Ticket and Label Co. , Gloucester, Mass., 1946,

Seller ID: 41942

PARSONS, Kitty. Gloucester Sea Ballads : True Tales of Gloucester Fishermen. (Gloucester, Mass.: Cape Ann Ticket and Label Co., 1946). Pp 56, frontis., [4] pp plates. 8vo, cord-bound ill. card covers. Original ballads on maritime themes. Titles include: "The Fishing Schooner"; "The Race of the 'Flying Fishermen'"; "The Pursuit of the 'Tiger'"; "The Saga of Howard Blackburn"; "The Wreck of the 'Mary P. Mesquita'"; "The Sea Serpent"; "Captain Jim and the British Law"; "The Adventure of the Scupper Nails"; "Centennial Johnsen and...
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Golden Dicky : The Story of a Canary and His Friends. First Canadian Edition.

By: SAUNDERS, Marshall HOOD, George W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto , 1919, : 1919

Seller ID: 82197

SAUNDERS, Marshall. Golden Dicky: The Story of a Canary and His Friends. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., Publishers, (1919). First Canadian Edition. Bound from the Stokes sheets. Pp (2),[i]-xi,(5),1-280,(6) + coloured frontispiece. 8vo (133 x 192 mm), green cloth with colour illustrated onlay to front board, with gilt lettering to spine. Watters p.386, Laugher p.519, Rhodenizer p.105, Spadoni & Donnelly 517. Coloured frontispiece by George W. Hood. Margaret Marshall Saunders, C.B.E. (b. May 13, 1861, Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia – d. February 15, 1947, Toronto). S...
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Golden Dicky : The Story of a Canary and His Friends. First Edition.

By: SAUNDERS, Marshall HOOD, George W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes, New York , 1919, : 1919

Seller ID: 11788

SAUNDERS, Marshall. Golden Dicky: The Story of a Canary and His Friends. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1919). First Edition. Pp (2),[i]-xi,(5),1-280,(6) + coloured frontispiece. 8vo (133 x 192 mm), green cloth with colour illustrated onlay to front board, with gilt lettering to spine. Watters p.386, Laugher p.519, Rhodenizer p.105. Coloured frontispiece by George W. Hood. Margaret Marshall Saunders, C.B.E. (b. May 13, 1861, Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia – d. February 15, 1947, Toronto) She spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father...
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Guides, All Guides : A history of Girl Guiding in Nova Scotia 1911-1977

By: HUTCHINS, Nancy Bowden

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1977, : 1977

Seller ID: 26955

HUTCHINS, Nancy Bowden. Guides, All Guides : A History of Girl Guiding in Nova Scotia 1911-1977. Research by Helen Cummings. (Halifax : "Printed by McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd.", 1977). First Edition. Pp (8),1-134,(2). With 34 b&w photos as well as some other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated white cardcovers with red lettering to front & spine and a monochrome photo of Hutchins on the rear. Nancy Bowden Hutchins was living in Smith's Cove at the time of publication. Foreword by G. Elizabeth Gosse. 1. The Early Years; 2. Provincial headquarters; 3. Guid...
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History of Queens County, N.S.

By: MORE, James F. PERKINS, Simeon COLLINS, Enos McPHERSON, John

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Nova Scotia Printing Company, Halifax, N.S., 1873,

Seller ID: 87517

MORE, James F. The History of Queens County, N.S. Halifax, N.S.: Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1873. Pp [i]-iv,[5]-250,[i]-iv,(1,errata),(1). 8vo, rebound in modern black patterned leather, gilt lettering to spine with floralendpapers. Morley p.94, Watters p.715, Vaison p.69, Rhodenizer p.564, NSIB 97. Chapters on natural history, the fisheries, mills & manufactures, priv ateering, rivers & streams, shipping, the churches, native people, Liverpool, Hunt's Point, Port Medway, Port Mouton, &c. A long chapter of Biographical Sketches including Sylvanus Cobb (pp.128-138), Simeon Perkins (pp.149-15...
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Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. Blue cloth, as is.

By: McLEOD, Robert R.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Markland Publishing Company, 1903,

Seller ID: 93090

McLEOD, Robert R. Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. N.pl.: Markland Publishing Company, 1903. Pp (2),3-603,(5), frontispiece + 121 p. of black and white plates, maps and charts. Large 8vo, blue cloth with black decoration and borders to front, gilt lettering to spine, all edges dyed red. Morley p.77, Watters p.708, Rhodenizer p.559, Tennyson 32, Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 89, MacDonald, Bibliography of Victoria County, 194. Chapters: 1. History of Nova Scotia; 2. Geology of Nova Scotia; 3. Introduction to the County Histories; 4. History of Annapolis ...
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Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. First Edition, black half-calf

By: McLEOD, Robert R.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: 1903,

Seller ID: 60342

McLEOD, Robert R. Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. N.pl.: Markland Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. Pp (2),[1]-603,(7) + portrait frontispiece + 73 leaves of plates. Map. Large thick 8vo, bound in black half leather with original green cloth boards, gilt Viking ship to front board. all edges red. Morley p.77, Watters p.708, Rhodenizer p.559, Tennyson 32, Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 89, MacDonald,Bibliography of Victoria County, 194. Chapters: 1. History of Nova Scotia; 2. Geology of Nova Scotia; 3. Introduction to the County Histories; 4. His ...
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Markland or Nova Scotia. Blue cloth

By: McLEOD, Robert R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Markland Publishing Company, 1903,

Seller ID: 14814

McLEOD, Robert R. Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. N.pl.: Markland Publishing Company, 1903. Pp (2),3-603,(5), frontispiece + 121 p. of black and white plates, maps and charts. Large 8vo, blue cloth with black decoration and borders to front, gilt lettering to spine. Morley p.77, Watters p.708, Rhodenizer p.559, Tennyson 32, Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 89, MacDonald, Bibliography of Victoria County, 194.Chapters: 1. History of Nova Scotia; 2. Geology of Nova Scotia; 3. Introdu ction to the County Histories; 4. History of Annapolis County; 5. Gold Mine...
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Orion and Other Poems. First Edition. Lovely copy, Signed by Roberts

By: ROBERTS, Charles G.D.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia , 1880, : 1880

Seller ID: 98388

ROBERTS, Charles G.D. Orion and Other Poems. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott& Co., 1880. First Edition. Pp (4),3-[114],(4). Small 8vo (131 x 168 mm), dark green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration on spine & front board, bevelled edges. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (b. January 10, 1860, Douglas, New Brunswick - d. November. 26, 1943, Toronto).Watters p.168, Rhodenizer p.889, Laugher p.479. Roberts' first book, published when he was twenty and principal of Chatham High School. The Poems:"To the Spirit of Song", "Orion", "Ariadne", "Launcelot and the Four Queens", "Ballad of the Poet...
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Pinehurst; or, Glimpses of Nova Scotia Fairyland

By: McLEOD, R.R. McLEOD, Robert R.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: 1908,

Seller ID: 98187

McLEOD, R.R. Pinehurst; or, Glimpses of Nova Scotia Fairyland. Photographs by A. Byron McLeod. No pl.: no pub., (1908). First Edition. Printed in Boston by the Bartlett Company, Printers, with the halftones by the American Engraving Co. Pp (8),11-63,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, black cloth spine, brown paper covered boards, red and black lettering to front board, spine blank. Not in Watters, Rhodenizer, Laugher. Robert Randall McLeod (b. August 16, 1839, Westfield, Nova Scotia - d. February 12, 1909, Winthrop, Massachusetts)."In the central region of Queen's County, Nova Scotia, some twenty-four...
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Rose à Charlitte : An Acadian Romance

By: SAUNDERS, Marshall. YOUNG, H. De M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: L.C. Page and Company, Boston, 1898,

Seller ID: 85857

SAUNDERS, Marshall. Rose à Charlitte : An Acadian Romance. Illustrated by H. De M. Young. Boston : L.C. Page and Company, 1898. First American Edition. Pp (12),11-516,[1]-8(ads),(4), frontis + 5 plates. 8vo, blue cloth, decorated in gilt and green floral design. Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) was a Canadian author, born in the village of Milton, Queens County, NovaScotia. She spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father served as Baptist minister.. Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe. It was the first Canadian book to sell over a million copies,a...
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Rules and Unruliness : Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism. FIrst Paperback Edition.

By: DOERN, G. Bruce. PRINCE, Michael J. SCHUTLZ, Richard J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2014, ISBN:9780773543331

Seller ID: 106008

DOERN, G. Bruce, Michael J. PRINCE, and Richard J. SCHULTZ. Rules and Unruliness : Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (2014). First Paperback Printing. Pp. (6),[vii]-xv,(3),[3]-397,(3). 8vo, illustrated blue and yellow card covers with white lettering to front cover and spine. "Analyzing regulatory politics and governance in Canada from the beginning of Pierre Trudeau's era to Stephen Harper's government, the authors present a compelling argument that current regulation of the economy, business, and m...
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Souvenir of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada

By: Liverpool, N.S. - View Book

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Printed by Photogelatine Engraving Co. Limited, Ottawa, 1925,

Seller ID: 98136

(Liverpool, N.S. - View Book). Souvenir of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. (Ottawa : Printed by Photogelatine Engraving Co. Limited), n.d. [1920s?]. PP (12) leaves. Small 8vo [3.5 by 6.5 inches], brown printed card covers. Anaccordion-style viewbook of 10 postcard-sized photographic reproductions o f scenes of Liverpool, Nova Scotia : Main Street showing Mersey Hotel; Mersey Hotel; Bristol Avenue; Post Office; School House; Water Front; Brooklyn,near Liverpool; Bathers – Fort Point Park; Soldiers Monument / Town Hall; Cold Storage & Shipping / Court House. Very good. 50.00
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Tangle Your Web and Dosey-Do

By: LEVI, Helen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Queenston House, Winnipeg, MB, 1978, ISBN:0919866360

Seller ID: 63918

LEVI, Helen. Tangle Your Web and Dosey-Do . Winnipeg, MB: Queenston House Publishing Co., Ltd., (1978). Pp. (1)-148,[4]. 8vo, illustrated red card covers. The Manitoba author's second book. Lightly rubbed, faint creasing, else vg. 15.00
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Telephone Man. First Edition

By: FLICK, Don

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Halifax, 1977, : 1977

Seller ID: 7592

ISBN-13: 9780919380240

FLICK, Don. Telephone Man. Halifax, Nova Scotia : Petheric Press, (October, 1977). First Edition. "Printed and bound by McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada". Pp (6),1-76. 8vo (150 x 228 mm), art-illustrated red & white card covers, with black lettering to red spine. Cover design by Andrea MacIvor. Cover subtitle : "the zany adventures of a young telephone man in pre-war Halifax". Laugher p.176. Donald 'Don' F. Flick was living in Port Joli, Queens County at the time of publication. "Don Flick was born in Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia, and lived in va...
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