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And We Go On. First Edition

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Hunter-Rose, Toronto, 1930, : 1930

Seller ID: 58617

BIRD, Will R. And We Go On. Toronto : The Hunter-Rose Co., Limited, 1930. First Edition. Pp (2),3-343,(1). 8vo (132 x 192 mm), red cloth, black lettering to front & spine. Tennyson, The Canadian Experience of the Great War : A Guide to Memoirs 258, Rhodenizer p.766, Watters p. 466, Laugher p.37. William Richard Bird (b. May 11, 1891, East Mapleton, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - d.January 28, 1984, Sackville, New Brunswick). The dust-jacket [not present with this copy] adds : "A story of the War by a Private in the Canadian Black Watch; a Story Without Filth or Favor." "This sto...
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Angel Cove. First Edition In dustjacket

By: BIRD, Will R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Macmillan, Toronto, 1972,

Seller ID: 1974

BIRD, Will R. Angel Cove. Toronto : Macmillan, (1972). First Edition. Pp (10),1-236,(10). 8vo, blue cloth. Laugher p.38, Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 2140. A set of stories set in a Newfoundland fishing village in the 1920s. Very good in dustjacket. 20.00
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Angel Cove. First Edition In dustjacket, Signed

By: BIRD, Will R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Macmillan, Toronto, 1972,

Seller ID: 57908

BIRD, Will R. Angel Cove. Toronto : Macmillan, (1972). First Edition. Pp (10),1-236,(10). 8vo, blue cloth. Laugher p.38, Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 2140. A set of stories set in a Newfoundland fishing village in the 1920s. Very good in nicked dustjacket.j. Signed by Bird without inscription. 30.00
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Antique Firearms from the Collection of the Late Warren S. Shaw of Lewiston, ME AND American Bird Decoys from the Collection of Barton Blum of East Holden, Maine

By: Auction Catalogue - Bird Decoys]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Richard W. Oliver Auction and Art Gallery, Kennebunk, ME, 1983,

Seller ID: 74451

[Auction Catalogue - Bird Decoys]. Antique Firearms from the Collection of the Late Warren S. Shaw of Lewiston, ME AND American Bird Decoys from the Collection of Barton Blum of East Holden, Maine. Richard W. Oliver Auction and Art Gallery. Saturday, March 5, 1983, at 10:00am (Firearms). Sunday, March 6, 1983, at 1:00pm (Decoys). (Kennebunk, ME): Richard W. Oliver Auction and Art Gallery, 1984. Pp. (78). Unpaginated. Illustrated. Firearms and Decoys portions of the catalogue bound back-to-back. Prices realized in ink for all 227 decoy lots (but none of the firearms lots). 4to, illustrated stap...
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Atlantic Anthology First Edition in dustjacket

By: BIRD, Will R. and Alec LUCAS, (eds.) GILBERT, Humphrey ENGLISH, L.E.F. SMALLWOOD, Joseph R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1959,

Seller ID: 3476

BIRD, Will R. and Alec LUCAS, (eds.). Atlantic Anthology. (Toronto) : McClelland & Stewart Limited, Publishers, (1959). First Edition. Pp (10),1-310. 8vo, turquoise cloth, silver lettering to spine. O'Dea 3368, Laugher p.39, Watters p.219, Spadoni & Donnelly 1518. Of particular Newfoundland interest: Letters Patents from Henry VII to John Cabot; Edward Haie's "Gilbert's V oyage to Newfoundland"; L.E.F. English's "Old St.John's" and "The Beothucks"; E.J. Pratt's "The Shark"; Christopher Pratt's "How Soon When the Day is White"; Norman Duncan's "The Fr...
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Atlantic Anthology First Edition in dustjacket

By: BIRD, Will R. and Alec LUCAS, (eds.) GILBERT, Humphrey ENGLISH, L.E.F. SMALLWOOD, Joseph R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1959,

Seller ID: 3475

BIRD, Will R. and Alec LUCAS, (eds.). Atlantic Anthology. (Toronto) : McClelland & Stewart Limited, Publishers, (1959). First Edition. Pp (10),1-310. 8vo, turquoise cloth, silver lettering to spine. O'Dea 3368, Laugher p.39, Watters p.219, Spadoni & Donnelly 1518. Of particular Newfoundland interest: Letters Patents from Henry VII to John Cabot; Edward Haie, "Gilbert's Vo yage to Newfoundland"; L.E.F.English, "Old St.John's" and "The Beothucks"; E.J.Pratt, "The Shark"; Christopher Pratt, "How Soon When the Day is White"; Norman Duncan, "The Fruits of...
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Attack on Quebec : The American Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776. First Edition in dustjacket

By: BIRD, Harrison

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1968, : 1968

Seller ID: 1232

BIRD, Harrison. Attack on Quebec : The American Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776. New York : Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition . Pp (12), 3-255,(7) + 4 pages of illustrations. . Maps in text. 8vo, brown cloth, light blue lettering to spine. Map end-papers. Haskell, Maine, A Bibliography of Its History 113. "The six soldiers who crawled out of a swamp in Canada on July 30, 1775, were advance agents of an American expeditionary army assigned by the Continental Congress to sever the vast province of Quebec from theBritish crown. The attempt failed, but its turbulent story, a comparatively...
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Bird Houses Are Fun to Build.

By: Bird Houses

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Royal Bank of Canada, 1961,

Seller ID: 97295

(Bird Houses). Bird Houses Are Fun to Build. N.pl.: Presented in the interests of the conservation of Wild Life by The Royal Bank of Canada, n.d. [1961?]. One sheet folded twice making 6 panels. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated blue wrapper. Includes instructions for building simple bird houses ans plans for a complex martin house, along with information on martins, house wrens, tree swallows, bluebirds, and flickers. Edgeworn, else good. 15.00
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Bird Life in the Royal Parks 1959-1960

By: Committee on Bird Sanctuaries in the Royal Parks, England and Wales

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ministry of Works / Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1962,

Seller ID: 99937

Committee on Bird Sanctuaries in the Royal Parks, England and Wales). Bird Life in the Royal Parks 1959-1960. Report by the Committee on Bird Sanctuaries in the Royal Parks, England and Wales, 1962. Pp (1),ii-iv,1-27,(1),+ 4 pp plates. 8vo, illustrated brown stapled card covers. Contents : I. Reportof the Committee for 1050-60. II. Selected Observations, 1959-60 (Hyde Par k and Kensington Gardens; St. Jame's Park and the Green Park; Regent's Parkand Primrose Hill; Greenwich Park; Hampton Court and Bushy Park; Richmond Park; Ham House; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Osterley Park; Osborne house, I...
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Canada with Trudeau. First Edition

By: TRUDEAU, Pierre Elliott BIRD, Roland.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Economist Newspapers Ltd, London, 1968, : 1968

Seller ID: 91773

(TRUDEAU, Pierre Elliott). BIRD, Roland. Canada with Trudeau. (London : The Economist Newspapers Ltd., 1968). First Edition. "Printed in England by the Soman-Wherry Press Ltd Norwich". Pp 1-24. With 13 b&w photos, some diagrams & a map in the text. 8vo (141 x 216 mm), art-illustrated matte stapled card covers. No. 7 in the The Economist Brief Booklet series. Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau P.C., C.C., C.H., Q.C., F.R.S.C. (b. October 18, 1919, Montreal – d. September 28, 2000, Montreal). Roland Bird (b. - d. March 2003). "Mr. Pierre Elliott Trudeau led the Liberal...
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Canadian Folk Art. 1st in dj

By: BIRD, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1983,

Seller ID: 10432

BIRD, Michael. Canadian Folk Art : Old Ways in a New Land. Tor.: Oxford University Press, 1983. First Printing. Pp (4), [v]-vi, 1-121, (1). Large 8vo, reddish-brown cloth. Nova Scotia : 2 walls of Croscup House, 2 Lunenburg game boards, a chest of drawers, a Lunenburg County lamp table, a Micmac quillwork cradle, a Halifax gravestone, a Lunenburg County scrimshaw powder-horn, & a niddy-niddy. Vg in dj. 35.00
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Color-Banded Adult Herring Gulls

By: POOR, Hustace H. Bird-banding Vol. 15 No. 3)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1944,

Seller ID: 65670

POOR, Hustace H. Color-Banded Adult Herring Gulls. Contributions from The Bowdoin Scientific Station, Kent Island, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, CanadaNo. 11. From Bird-banding, Vol XV, No. 3. Brunswick, ME: n.p., July 1944. Pp. 112-114. 8vo, cream coloured paper covers. Vg. 10.00
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Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists

By: KOBAYASHI, Terry and Michael BIRD BIRD, Michael BISHOP, Robert, foreword

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston Mills Press, Erin, ON, 1985, ISBN:0919783325

Seller ID: 86325

KOBAYASHI, Terry and Michael BIRD. A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists. [Foreword by Dr. Robert Bishop]. (Erin, ON): The Boston Mills Press, (1985).Pp. (14),15-241,(3). Illustrated in black and white. 8vo, illustrated yell ow card covers. Very good. 15.00
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Conservation Work at the L'Anse au Meadow, Newfoundland Archaeological Site. in dj.

By: BIRD, Junius B. National Geographic, 1964) COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves ADEY, Walter H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 1968,

Seller ID: 55284

BIRD, Junius B. "Conservation Work at the L'Anse au Meadow, Newfoundland Archaeological Site" . A chapter in the National Geographic Society Research Reports : Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society during the year 1964, edited by Paul H. Oehser, pp. 21-25. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, (1968). Pp. 275. 8vo, green cloth. Of nautical interest: Walter H. Adey's "Investigations on the Crustose Corallines of the North Atlantic Ocean", pp.1-4, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's "Oceanographic Research, M...
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Divining Hand : The art of searching for water, oil, minerals, and other natural resources or anything lost, missing or badly needed. With hand-drawn illustrations by Thomas Heston.

By: BIRD, Christopher.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: E.P. Dutton, New York, 1979, ISBN:0525093737

Seller ID: 87993

BIRD, Christopher. The Divining Hand : The art of searching for water, oil,minerals, and other natural resources or anything lost, missing or badly n eeded. With hand-drawn illustrations by Thomas Heston. New York : E.P. Dutton, (1979). First Printing. Pp [i]-x,(2),1-340. Illustrated. Index. Large 8vo, white cloth spine, blue paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. “To dowse," says the author of this definitive study of the divining art, "is to search with the aid of a handheld instrument such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string - for anything: subterranea...
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Done at Grand Pre. First Edition

By: BIRD, Will R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ryerson Press : 1955

Seller ID: 27017

BIRD, Will R. Done at Grand Pré. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (April) 1955). First Printing. "Printed and bound in Canada by The Ryerson Press, Toronto". Pp( 4), v-xii,1-179,(1) + an 8- page central section of b&w photos. 8vo (135 x 203 mm), green cloth, with yellow lettering to spine. Watters p.654, Rhodenizer pp. 565, 624; Laugher p.38, Vaison p.26. William Richard Bird, Litt.D. (b. May 11, 1891, East Mapleton, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - d. January 28, 1984, Sackville, New Brunswick). Foreword. 1. A Passion for Fertile Acres. 2. Bloody Creek. 3. The Tour of Ensign Wro...
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Excavations in Northern Chile

By: BIRD, Junius B. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 38:4

Price: $40.00

Publisher: American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1943,

Seller ID: 102201

BIRD, Junius B. Excavations in Northern Chile. New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1943. Pp. (4),173-318,(2). Illustrated in black and white. Double column. 8vo, printed grey wraps with black lettering to front cover and blank spine. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume XXXVIII, part IV. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Climate and Topography: Effect on Life in Northern Chile; 3. Excavations in the Vicinity of Arica: i. Lower Azapa Valley, ii. Alacran Island, iii. Playa Miller Casino (La Lisera): Pottery -- Textiles and Basketry -- Miscellaneou...
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Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario

By: KOBAYASHI, Terry, Michael BIRD, and Elizabeth PRICE BIRD, Michael PRICE, Elizabeth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, 1985, ISBN:0774398760

Seller ID: 110115

KOBAYASHI, Terry, Michael BIRD, and Elizabeth PRICE. Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario. Presented by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture in association with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. (Toronto : Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1985). Pp (7),6-128,(2). Illustrated. Square 8vo, illustrated yellow card covers, lettered in redand blue. Contents : Introduction. 1. Graphic Works. 2. Textiles. 3. Sculp ture. 4. Utilitarian Objects. 5. Gamesboards. 6. Furniture and Accessories.Lenders to the Exhibition. Spine sunned, else very good. 20.00
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God's Gift of Love. signed

By: BIRD, Annie Laurie

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Church Leadership Unlimited, 1988, ISBN:0921600003

Seller ID: 59414

BIRD, Annie Laurie. God's Gift of Love. Kentville, NS: Church Leadership Unlimited, (1988). Pp. (8),6-57,(1) leaves, printed and paginated on one sideonly. 8vo, red card covers, white titles to front and spine. A collection of poems with a Christmas theme by the Nova Scotia author. Light wear to the spine, short crease to front cover, else vg. Author's signed inscription.15.00
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Grouse Along the Tramroad : Shooting over Four Generations of Old Hemlock Setters. ltd ed signed in slipcase

By: EVANS, George Bird

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Old Hemlock, 1986,

Seller ID: 46093

EVANS, George Bird. Grouse Along the Tramroad : Shooting Over Four Generations of Old Hemlock Setters. [Bruceton Mills, W. Va.]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Pp. 217. Port. frontis. Illustrated with Gun Diary sketches by the author. 8vo, textured orange cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, brown ribbon marker in brown paper covered slipcase. This edition limited to 1500 copies, this being no. 1242. A very nice copy, in slipcase. Signed and dated by the author. 400.00
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