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A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women. First Edition

By: McGILL UNIVERSITY). GILLETT, Margaret and Kay SIBBALD (eds.) SAUVE, Jeanne (foreword)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Eden Press, 1984, : 1984

Seller ID: 43767

ISBN-13: 9780920792315

(McGILL UNIVERSITY). GILLETT, Margaret and Kay SIBBALD, (eds.). A Fair Shake : Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women. With a foreword by The Right Honourable Her Excellency Jeanne Sauvé. Montreal : Eden Press, (1984). First Edition. "Printed in Canada at Imprimerie Gagné Ltée". Pp [12], i-vii, [2], 1-425,(1). With 111 b&w photos in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated glossy red and brown card covers, with red & black lettering to spine. Margaret Gillett (b. February 1, 1930, Wingham, New South Wales, Australia - d. October 19, 2019, Montreal). Kay Sibbald (b. 1945, Lond...
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A Vision of Greatness : The History of Milford, 1790-1990. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed.

By: McKAY, K.D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Brace Harvatt Associates / Gulf Oil Britain Limited, Haverfordwest, Dyfed, ISBN:0951521101 : 1989

Seller ID: 113973

ISBN-13: 9780951521106

McKAY, K.D., Wing-Commander, R.A.F., (Retd.). A Vision of Greatness : The History of Milford, 1790-1990. ( Haverfordwest, Dyfed) : Brace Harvatt Associates in association with Gulf Oil Britain Limited, (1989). First Edition. Pp (2),[iii]-xv,(3),[3]-397,(3). With maps and many b&w illustrations in the text. 8vo, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wing-Commander Kenneth D. McKay. Foreword. Part I. A Grand Design 1790-1809. 1. The Complex Mixture : The Proprietary Town - The British Connection - The Quaker Connection - The French Connection - The Way Ahead. 2. The Nantucketers : ...
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Across Widest America : Newfoundland to Alaska. With the Impressions of TwoYears' Sojourn on the Bering Coast. US ed. inscribed

By: DEVINE, E.J.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati / Chicago, 1906,

Seller ID: 5904

DEVINE, E.J., s.j. Across Widest America : Newfoundland to Alaska. With theImpressions of Two Years' Sojourn on the Bering Coast. Profusely Illustrat ed. New York, Cincinnati / Chicago : Benziger Brothers, (August) 1906. First U.S. Edition. Pp (12), [1]-307, (1), portrait frontispiece + 24 p. of illustrations + folding map. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering and totem pole design to fr.board. O'Dea 1316a note, Watters p.958, Rhodenizer p.80, Tourville, Alaska: A Bibliography 1283. Chapter I. Newfoundland - Orders for Alaska - The Journey Begins. Newfoundland on pp.[1]-8. Spring 1902. "Two...
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Admiral Arthur Phillip. in dj.

By: PHILLIP, Arthur, Admiral). MACKANESS, George MACKANESS, George.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Angus & Robertson, 1937,

Seller ID: 39707

(PHILLIP, Arthur, Admiral). MACKANESS, George. Admiral Arthur Phillip : Founder of New South Wales, 1738-1814. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937. Pp 536, frontis., [34] leaves plates. 8vo, blue cloth. "This volume has been planned as a companion volume to the author's 'Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh.' It is based entirely upon original contemporary sources and is fully documented and illustrated. It is the result of several years' exhaustive research in Australia and Great Britain, and is a critical examination of all extant original material. Much of this is here published for the first...
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Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories. in dj.

By: THOMAS, Dylan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New Directions Books, New York, 1955,

Seller ID: 66633

THOMAS, Dylan. Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories . (NY): New Directions Books, (1955). Pp. (i)-viii,(1)-275,[3]. 8vo, grey cloth with white lettering to spine. Contents: "Adventures in the Skin Trade", "After theFair", "The Enemies", "The Tree", "The Visitor", "The Lemon", "The Burning Baby", "The Orchards", "The Mouse and the Woman", "The Horse's Ha", "A Pro spect of the Sea", "The Holy Six", "Prologue to an Adventure", "The Map of Love", "In the Direction of the Be...
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Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume IV 1500-1640

By: THIRSK, Joan (ed.)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1967,

Seller ID: 47015

THIRSK, Joan (ed.). The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume IV 1500-1640. Cambridge: The University Press, 1967. Pp. 919. Illustrated including 24 pp. plates. 8vo, green cloth, brown panel to spine with gilt lettering, top edge purple. Small dampstain to top edge, previous owner's name inked to ffep, else vg in dj (a few small nicks to ends). 150.00
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Alaskan Eskimo : A Study of the Relationship Between the Eskimo and the Chipewyan Indians of Central Canada

By: SHAPIRO, H. L Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 31:6

Price: $25.00

Publisher: American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 1931,

Seller ID: 102422

SHAPIRO, H. L. The Alaskan Eskimo : A Study of the Relationship Between theEskimo and the Chipewyan Indians of Central Canada. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume XXXI, Part VI. New York City : American Museum of Natural History, 1931. Pp (2),347-384,(2). Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, grey card covers, front cover lettered in black. Tourville, Alaska, A Bibliography 4091. Contents : Introduction; Comparative Material; Observations; Analyses and Comparisons (Stature, Head Length, Head Width, Cephalic Index, Face Height, Face Width, Facial Index, Cephalo-Facial Ind...
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Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn. 1st Arrow.

By: THORNDIKE, Russell Arrow Book 742

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Arrow Books, London, 1964,

Seller ID: 71140

THORNDIKE, Russell. The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn . (London): Arrow Books, (1964). First Arrow Printing. Pp. [1]-192. Small 8vo, illustrated blue card covers with yellow spine. Arrow Book #742. A volume in the Doctor Syn Saga series, about the protagonist's quest to obtain his fortune in Wales. This edition for Australian market (and so priced). Small nick to tail of front hinge, title inked to bottom edge, else vg. 75.00
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Anglican World. Vol. 2, Number 4, March - April 1962. Easter Number.

By: Anglican World BAYNE, Stephen F.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Church Illustrated Limited, London , 1962,

Seller ID: 85223

(Anglican World). Anglican World. Vol. 2, Number 4, March-April 1962. Easter Number. London : Church Illustrated Limited, 1962. Pp 1-68. Illustrated. Double Column. 4to, illustrated card covers. Contents : The Vocation of Anglicanism in Wales (by Aneirin Talfan Davies); Adventurer on Uncharted Seas (by Frederick Ward Kates); The Tractor's Kiss; The Loaf of Life (by GilbertCope); 'Festal Responses at Her Majesty's (by Robin Denniston); My Second Year (by Stephen F. Bayne); On Jordan's Banks; Calvary at Mount Kenya (Elimo Njau); Reforming the Reformation (by Gordon Phillips, John Redmayne, DewiM...
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Arctic Divers

By: EARL, Ronald Arctic in Colour 04:3 McNEIL, Helen HUME, Steve

Price: $7.00

Publisher: 1975,

Seller ID: 41787

EARL, Ronald. "Arctic Divers". An article in Arctic in Colour , Vol. 2, No.2, Winter 1975. Pp.6-12. Double column. Published by the Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Information. Also : Helen McNeil's "Arctic Voyageurs" on canoeing (pp.32-36); Steve Hume's "Fortress of the Walking Giants" on Fort Prince of Wales (pp.15-21); others. Vg. For the issue. 7.00
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Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America Vol 22. No 1 March1969

By: Arctic COWAN, Ian McTaggart ANDREWS, J.T. SWANSTON, D.N.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arctic Institute of North America, 1969,

Seller ID: 71582

(Arctic). Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Volume 22, No. 1, March 1969. Pp [1]-84. Includes: Ian McTaggart Cowan's "Ecology and Northern Development" ; J.T. Andrews' "Importance of the Radiocarbon Standard Deviation in Determining Relative Sea Levels and Glacial Chronology from East Baffin Island"; D.N. Swanston's "A Late-Pleistocene Glacial Sequence from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska"; WA. Fuller, L.L. Stebbins and G.R. Dyke's "Overwintering of Small Mammals near Great Slave Lake, Northern Canada"; G. Leaonard Johnson, Al W. Closuit a...
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Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America Vol 25. No 2 June 1972

By: Arctic BOYD, William L. JARVIS, David H.) FLOCK, Warren L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arctic Institute of North America, 1972,

Seller ID: 71590

(Arctic). Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Volume 25, No. 2, June 1972. Pp [73]-168. Includes: William L. Boyd's "Jarvis and the Alaskan Reindeer Caper" (on the three-man relief party to assist the crews of several stranded whaling ships, led by Lieutenant David H. Jarvis ofthe U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, and involving their supervision of a reindee r drive, pp.74-82) ; Warren L. Flock's Radar Observations of Bird Migrationat Cape Prince of Wales" ; J.D.H. Lambert's "Plant Succession on Tundra Mu dflows: Preliminary Observations"; Paul W. Richard and ...
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Art Into Production : Soviet Textiles, Fashion and Ceramics 1917-1935

By: ELLIOTT, David, and James RYAN (eds.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1984,

Seller ID: 108240

ELLIOTT, David, and James RYAN (eds.). Art Into Production : Soviet Textiles, Fashion and Ceramics 1917-1935. (Oxford : Museum of Modern Art Oxford inconjunction with the Crafts Council of Englanmd and Wales, 1984). Pp 1-96. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated white card covers, lettered in black and yel low. Catalogue of exhibition held Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 9 December 1984 - 3 February 1985 and Crafts Council Gallery, London, 20 February - 28April 1985. Contents : Foreword; Art into Production (by David Elliott); S oviet Ceramics 1917-1935 (by Lvdia Andreeva); The Development of Art in Ind...
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Arthur of the English : the Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.

By: BARRON, W.R.J., editor.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: University Wales Press, Cardiff, 2001, ISBN:0708316832

Seller ID: 107692

BARRON, W.R.J., editor. The Arthur of the English : the Arthurian Legend inMedieval English Life and Literature. Revised paperback edition. Cardiff : University Wales Press, 2001. Pp. [i]-xvii,(1),[1]-422,(8). 8vo, beige car d covers. "The English think of Arthur as their own - stamped on the landscape in scores of placenames, echoed in the names of their princes even today. Yet if the English had anything to do with a historical Arthur, it was as his bitterest enemies and hi-jackers of the British heritage. This book, which brings together the work of leading international scholars, is th...
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Aspects of the Culture of the French Minority of Newfoundland's West Coast. First Edition

By: THOMAS, Gerald HOWELL, Colin D., foreword MORRISON, James, introduction Ethnic Identity in Atlantic Canada

Price: $15.00

Publisher: International Education Centre, 1981,

Seller ID: 3897

THOMAS, Gerald. Aspects of the Culture of the French Minority of Newfoundland's West Coast. (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada : International Education Centre, Saint Mary's University), n.d., [1983?, according to WorldCat]. First Edition. Pp [20] With a map of the Port au Port Peninsula in the text. 8vo (140 x 217 mm), stapled matte yellow wraps, with black lettering to front. Gerald Thomas (b. December 29, 1940, Porthcawl, Wales - d. September 6, 2005, Torbay, Newfoundland) was in the Department of French and Centre d'Etudes Franco-Terreneuviennes at Memorial University of Newfoundland at ...
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Atlantic Monthly. Volume 196, Number 5, November 1955

By: THOMAS, Dylan BRINNIN, John Malcolm MENZEL, Donald H. O'CONNOR, Frank

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly, Concord, N.H., 1955,

Seller ID: 85061

(MENZEL, Donald H.; THOMAS, Dylan; BRINNIN, John Malcolm; O'CONNOR, Frank).The Atlantic Monthly. Volume 196, Number 5, November 1955. Concord, N.H.: The Atlantic Monthly, 1955. Pp [1]-114. Double Column. 4to, black and blue illustrated wrappers. Includes “Other Worlds Than Ours” [astronomy] by Donald H. Menzel (pp 25-30); “Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill : Dylan Thomas in Wales” by John Malcolm Brinnin (pp 50-55); “The Wreath” a story by Frank O'Connor (pp 65-69); and much more. Chip to bottom spine, rubbed, else verygood. 18.00
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Australian Christian Life from 1788 : An Introduction and an Anthology. First Edition in dustjacket

By: MURRAY, Iain H.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh ' Carlisle, PA, 1988, ISBN:085151524X

Seller ID: 112592

MURRAY, Iain H. Australian Christian Life from 1788 : An Introduction and an Anthology. (Edinburgh ' Carlisle, PA) : The Banner of Truth Trust, (1988). First Edition. Pp (6),vii-xviii,(2),3-357,(1), frontispiece + 16 pp plates. Endpaper Maps. 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge dyed red. Contents : Preface. Australia - A Word of an Introduction. Chapter 1 -The First Years. 1. Richard Johnson. 2. Letters and Journal (by Richard Jo hnson). Chapter 2 - A Spiritual Conflict. 1. Samuel Marsden. 2. Letters (bySamuel Marsden). Chapter 3 - Trail-Blazing. 1. Samuel Leigh and the First M...
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Ballad of the Albion. A document (poem) about the brig Albion from Wales bringing emigrants to New Brunswick in Acadiensis : Journal of the History ofthe Atlantic Region, Vol. 11, No.1, Autumn / Automne 1981

By: THOMAS, Peter Acadiensis : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, Vol. 10, No.2. HOWELL, Colin D. KERNAGHAN, Lois D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1981,

Seller ID: 89589

THOMAS, Peter (intro.). “The Ballad of the Albion.” A document (poem) aboutthe brig Albion from Wales bringing emigrants to New Brunswick in Acadiens is : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, Vol. XI, No.1, Autumn/Automne 1981, pp 83-103. Also : Articles : "Reform and the Monopolistic Impulse: The Professionalization of Medicine in the Maritimes" by Colin D. Howell (pp 3-22); "A Man and his Mistress: J.F.W. DesBarres and Mary Cannon" byLois D. Kernaghan (pp 23-42); “The Origins of the Land Question on Prince Edward Island, 176701805” by J.M. Bumsted (pp 43-56); "T...
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Ballad of the Albion. A document (poem) about the brig Albion from Wales bringing emigrants to New Brunswick in Acadiensis : Journal of the History ofthe Atlantic Region, Vol. 11, No.1, Autumn/Automne 1981

By: THOMAS, Peter (intro.) KERNAGHAN, Lois D. HOWELL, Colin D. BUMSTEAD, J.M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Department of History, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., 1981,

Seller ID: 91631

THOMAS, Peter (intro.). “The Ballad of the Albion.” A document (poem) aboutthe brig Albion from Wales bringing emigrants to New Brunswick in Acadiens is : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, Vol. XI, No.1, Autumn/Automne 1981, pp 83-103. (Fredericton, N.B.: Department of History, University of New Brunswick, 1981). Pp [1]-192. Maps. 8vo, blue and white card covers. Also : Articles : "Reform and the Monopolistic Impulse: The Professionalization of Medicine in the Maritimes" by Colin D. Howell (pp 3-22, Roland,Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine: A Bibliograp...
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Beaver : Exploring Canada's History, April / May 1990 Vol. 70:2

By: Beaver Magazine MALCOMSON, Bob LOUDON, Pete RAY, Arthur

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hudson's Bay Company, Winnipeg, 1990,

Seller ID: 102622

(Beaver Magazine). The Beaver : Exploring Canada's History, April / May 1990 Vol. 70:2. Winnipeg : Hudson's Bay Company, 1990. Pp [1]-63,(1) includingcovers. Illustrated. Maps. Double Column. 4to, illustrated card covers. C ontents : Roughing It In The Colonies [Englishmen face the "wilderness" on Vancouver Island] (by Richard and Alexander Mackie); A Girlhood In Government House [that far-off time when the Prince of Wales came to dance] (by Elizabeth Aikins Ney as told to Adele Rose Wickett); Pride Of The West [a Canadian family in the grip of the Great Depression] (by Pete Loudon); ...
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