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Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1926 Book. Illus. by Photos. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original violet paper boards backed in blue cloth. Gift inscription, "T.A. Crerar from C. Rice-Jones with Best Wishes. Christmas, 1926." These two men were fellow officers of the United Grain Growers, Winnipeg, about 1920. This volume is a general history of Canada, with many photos. Minor pencil notes. 305 pp..

Toronto: Copp Clark Limited, 1996 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maroon paperback reprint. One library stamp, with no evidence of circulation. Advertisements, Introduction, Almanac, Legislation, Appendix, and Ten Reasons for Emigrating to Canada. Approx. 125 pp..

Brantford, Ont.: Bradley, Garretson, and Co., 1891 Book. Illus. by Photos. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original gold cloth lavishly decorated in dark brown and gilt on bevelled boards. Some wear and fraying to cloth at bottom edge of boards. Portraits and backgrounds of more than 480 men. Index. Heavy book will require extra postage..

Toronto: Alfred Hewett, 1901 Book. Fair. Soft Cover, Stapled. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover stapled book of 320 pp. Both covers and first leaf separated, balance firmly stapled and sound. Contains list of post offices and alphabetical militia list, and much more..

Toronto: The Educational Publishing Co., 1897 Book. Illus. by Drawings. Good. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original tan soft cover booklet lettered and decorated in black. Cover starting to tear away from staples. 64 pp..

Victoria, B.C.: Haunted Bookshop for Hugh S. Wade, 1979 Book. Illus. by Photos and Maps. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition - #183 of 1000 Copies. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original bright red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ slightly soiled and edgeworn. Previous owner's name. Researched, annotated, and indexed by Eleanor A. Eastick, whose signature appears below the Limited Edition information. A newly-found manuscript written in the 20's and never before published. Large foldout map of gold fields inside back cover. 264 pp. plus foldout map..

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1940 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Published 1940. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Library rebind in red patterned cloth on boards. Card pocket and library stamps. Minimal underlining. Motives and restraints on aggression, Causes and motives of German aggression, Effort to establish collective security, Undermining of collective security, German success in aggression, Proximate cause of the war, Postcript, Index. 554 pp. with index..

Antigonish, N.S.: Casket Printing and Publishing, 1986 Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Near Fine. Soft cover. First ( No Additional printings). 6x9 Oblong. Original brown trade paperback decorated and lettered in silver. No writing or damage. A very impressive local history compiled by a broad spectrum of students and residents. Several photos, ads, and descriptive text. Page 7 is fascinating, for it traces the process of putting a date to an important photo, which should be of interest to any historian. Well,done, Westville ! 208 pp..

New York: New American Library, 1967 Book. Illus. by Photos and Maps. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue cloth boards. DJ missing small piece. A history of the Celts from prehistoric origins to 1066. Celtic Christianity and secular institutions. Art, literature, and language. 355 pp..

Hawera, N.Z.: Hawera Star Publishing Company, Limited, 1939 Book. Illus. by Photos. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original green cloth on boards. A celebration of New Zealand's entrance into the British Commonwealth 100 years earlier. Emphasis on South Taranaki. Two presentation notes. A glossary would have been helpful. 395 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage..

Toronto: Rose Publishing Company, 1885 Book. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. Presumed First. 5 x 7 1/2 Inches. Original chestnut cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration, and embossed design on the front cover. Previous owner's name. Pencil notes inside front cover, and some minor notes in the book. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. Minor corner and edge wear. Appendix has list of Loyalists, where they settled in Ontario, and additional information such as their regiment if they were military. Valuable resource for anyone with Loyalist roots. 334 pp..

London: McDougall's Educational Co., Ltd. Book. Illus. by Cyril Cowell. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grey cloth on boards. Front hinge cracked and glued. Light corner wear. Intended as a first level text. 120 pp. with exercises..

Markham, Ontario: Viking/Penguin, 1990 Book. Illus. by Many Colour and B/W Ill.. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original reddish-brown cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. Follows Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry and Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses, which we have listed separately. This volume, like the others, has no writing or damage. The only "fault" is the previous owner's stamp-type seal on the first free endpaper. Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI head the three parts, which cover the years 1485-1553. Large, colourful illustrations come as close as possible to making history come to life. 256 pp. including index..

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1949 Book. Illus. by Photos. Very Good. Hardcover. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original bright red cloth on boards. Pictorial dustjacket with red lettering is in three pieces, with nearly half the spine missing. Previous owner's name. A 200-year history of the first Protestant church in Canada. Index..

Oxford, England: Ecclesiastical History Society/Basil Blackwell, 1989 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark blue cloth on boards. Papers read at the 1987 Summer Meeting and the 1988 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Stamps of Dominican College Library. No writing or damage. 418 pp..

Picton, Ontario: Picton Gazette Publishing Company, Limited, 1943 Book. Illus. by B/W Photos. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. First Edition. 7 x 10 1/2 Inches. Dark green cloth over boards with gold titles. Previous owner's name. Comprehensive history of Belleville, Ontario including its people, city government, churches, schools, businesses, sports, celebrations, etc. Approximately 180 black and white photos. Scarce. 322 pp..

Lancaster, Pa.: Steinman and Hensel, 1883 Book. Illus. by Uncredited Frontispieces in Each Section. Very Good. Original Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown cloth on boards. No DJ. Two titles in one volume. The first is centred on a young Swiss, Bouquet, who fought first for the Dutch and then for Sardinia before being commissioned by the British to fight the French. The second is a memorial to twelve persons massacred in Antrim Township, Pa., during the Pontiac War of 1764. Apparently it was Bouquet's loyalty to King George III that obscured him from American history books. Memorial of Enoch Brown is dated 1886. Contains also The Bouquet Celebration on Bushy Run Battlefield of 1883. Roughly 250 pp. in all. Patterned endpapers. Rear cover spotted and minor edge foxing. All pages clean and easily readable..

Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum and Art Gallery, 1953 Book. Illus. by Various Paintings and Photographs. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original beige card cover printed in brown. Stapled. Images and descriptions of 12 wooden covered bridges of Bennington County, Vermont. 20 pp..

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880 Book. Very Good. 3/4 Cloth on Feathered Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tan 3/4 calf on feathered or combed boards, with matching endpapers and edges. In 35 pp. on the subject of Horace Walpole, I found not a single positive or supportive statement. 814 pp..

Amsterdam: Netherlands Government Information Bureau, 1944 Book. Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth on boards. An attempt to "analyze what the Dutch felt and thought about themselves at the time of the Republic." - p. 7. Fi rst 21 pp. have minuscule worm hole(s). 272 pp. plus folding map..