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| 013-473 US$....25.00 | Ambrose, Gordon. A Handbook of Medical Hypnosis; An Introduction for Practitioners and Students. With George Newbold. London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1956. 1st edition. 255pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Notes, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. |
| 105-956 US$....30.00 | [Author not named]. The Battle of Britain; An Air Ministry Account of the Great Days from 8th August-31st October 1940. London: H.M.S.O., [1941]. 32pp. Very good. The covers are a bit soiled. Locale:. |
| 135-179 US$....35.00 | Bailes, A.H. Geology of the Flin Flon-White Lake Area. With E.C. Syme. Winnipeg: Manitoba. Energy and Mines, Geological Services, 1989. xx, 313pp. Near fine. In very good to fine slipcase. Maps, illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, appendix, 2 accompanying lose folding maps all accounted for. There is a small smudge on the slipcase. Publisher series: Geological ReportGR 87-1. Locale: Flin Flon (Manitoba); Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; White Lake (Manitoba). |
| 135-178 US$....50.00 | Baldwin, D.A. Geological Maps 78-3-1 to 78-3-22; Geology of the Nelson House - Pukatawagan Region (Burntwood Project). With T.G. Frohlinger, G. Kendrick, W.D. McRitchie & H.V. Zwanzig. Manitoba. Department of Mines, Natural Resources & Environment, 1979. Near fine, no dust jacket. Slipcase containing 22 loose folding maps, all accounted for. Locale: Manitoba; Nelson House (Manitoba); Prairie Provinces; Pukatawagan (Manitoba); Western Canada; Western Canada. |
| 122-199 US$....25.00 | Bennett, H. (editor) Formulas for Profit; A Collection of Valuable, Timely, Practical Commercial Formulas and Recipes for Making Thousands of Products in Many Fields of Industry. Cleveland: World Publishing, [1944]. 4th printing. 632pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Index. The spine is lightly faded. |
| 122-317 US$....30.00 | Berton, Pierre. The Promised Land; Settling the West 1896-1914. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, #0-7710-1242-X, [1984]. Deluxe Edition. 388pp. Very good plus. Issued without dust jacket. Olive textured boards in very good to fine like slipcase. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. |
| 101-544 US$....27.50 | Boulton, Rudyerd. Traveling with the Birds; A Book of Bird Migration. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, [1933]. 64pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations. The corners and the ends of the spine are lightly worn, and the dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn. Illustrations by Walter Alois Weber. |
| 015-981 US$....32.50 | Bruemmer, Fred. Encounters with Arctic Animals. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, #0-07700-0344-, [1972]. 1st printing. 254pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs, notes, bibliography. Photography by Fred Bruemmer. |
| 134-777 US$....32.50 | Carson, Ciaran. The New Estate; And Other Poems. Loughcrew: Gallery Books, #1-85235-0334, [1988]. 1st edition. 71pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is residue from a sticker on the back panel of the dust jacket. |
| 132-237 US$...100.00 | Casselman, Alexander Clark. Richardson's War of 1812; With Notes and a Life of the Author. Toronto: Historical Publishing Co., 1902. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 1000. 320pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Portrait frontispiece, maps, tables, plates, notes on illustrations, index. The spine is slightly darkened. Book about John Richardson. |
| 016-305 US$....25.00 | [Cayce, Edgar] Kahn, David E. My Life with Edgar Cayce. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. 1st edition. 214pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Book about Edgar Cayce & Will Oursler. |
| 116-216 US$....50.00 | Celer et Audax Club. (editor) A Brief History of the King's Royal Rifle Corps 1755 to 1948. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1948. 3rd edition. 115pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illustrated cover, frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations, folding maps, appendix, notes, index, 4 page supplement laid in. Previous owner's name. Preface by Hereward Wake. |
| 135-352 US$....30.00 | Chesterton, G.K. Essays. London: Collins, [1939]. 384pp. Near fine. Burgundy leather with gilt spine decoration, in very good slipcase. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrations. There is some peeling to the inner boards where a glassine wrapper had become stuck. Edited with foreword by John Guest. Illustrations by Newton Whittaker. Publisher series: Library of Classics. Identified on spine as Selected Essays. |
| 122-314 US$....35.00 | Clark, S.D. Movements of Political Protest in Canada 1640-1840. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1968]. 2nd printing. 518pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Notes, index. The dust jacket has stains and is torn and edgeworn. Publisher series: Social Credit in Alberta. Locale: Alberta; Canada. |
| 118-595 US$....17.50 | Curtin, Sharon R. Nobody Ever Died of Old Age. Boston: Little, Brown, #0-316-16546-8, [1972]. 1st edition. 228pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Locale: United States. |
| 135-353 US$....40.00 | Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species; By Means of Natural Selection. London: Collins, [no date]. 524pp. Fine. Burgundy leather with gilt spine decoration, in a very good plus slipcase. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, ribbon page marker, index. |
| 004-737 US$....40.00 | Doern, Russell. Wednesdays Are Cabinet Days; a Personal Account of the Schreyer Administration. Winnipeg: Queenston House, #0-919866-59-X, [1981]. 1st edition. 210pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Index. Previous owner's name. |
| 106-593 US$....75.00 | Feasby, W.R. Official History of the Canadian Medical Services 1939-1945; Volume Two: Clinical Subjects. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1953. 537pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Photographs, color illustrations, index. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. |
| 013-314 US$....22.50 | Fowke, Vernon C. The National Policy and the Wheat Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, #0-8020-6224-5, [1973]. 312pp. Very good. Tables, bibliography, index. Publisher series: Canadian University Paperbooks 145. |
| 122-205 US$....25.00 | Geiger, John. Dead Silence; The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery. With Owen Beattie. Toronto: Viking, #0-670-84318-0, [1993]. 1st edition. 219pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs, illustrations, maps, appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. Book about James Knight. Preface by Glyndwr Williams. Locale: Hudson Bay; Northwest Passage. |
| 005-112 US$....30.00 | Gillen, Mollie. The Wheel of Things; A Biography of L.M. Montgomery Author of Anne of Green Gables. Don Mills: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, #0-88902-018-3, [1975]. 1st edition. 200pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is price clipped. Biography of L.M. Montgomery. |
| 124-514 US$....25.00 | Glover, Michael. Battlefields of Northern France and the Low Countries. London: Michael Joseph, #0-7181-2736-6, [1987]. 240pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, black and white and color illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Identified on cover as: A New Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and the Low Countries. |
| 122-293 US$....45.00 | Goodspeed, D.J. (editor) The Armed Forces of Canada 1867-1967; A Century of Achievement. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1967. 1st printing. 289pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations, black and white and color photographs, appendices, index. |
| 122-179 US$....25.00 | Greenhous, Brereton. Guarding the Goldfields; The Story of the Yukon Field Force. Toronto: Dundern Press, #1-55002-028-5, 1987. 222pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Map endpapers, photographs, maps, notes. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom, and the corners are very lightly worn. Book about Edward Lester. "in collaboration with the Canadian War Museum Canadian Museum of Civilization National Museums of Canada". Publisher series: Canadian War Museum Historical Publication 24. Locale: Klondike River Valley; Yukon. |
| 120-168 US$....75.00 | Hammacher, A.M. Phantoms of the Imagination; Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dali. New York: Harry N. Abrams, #0-8109-1468-9, [1981]. 364pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, color plates, notes, bibliography, index. Time Period 19th Century & 20th Century. |
| 008-049 US$....17.50 | Howlett, Duncan. The Essenes and Christianity; An Interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Harper, [1957]. 1st edition. 217pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Notes, index. There is a previous owner's label on the front endpaper and the title page. |
| 005-662 US$....27.50 | Johnson, Paul C. Pictorial History of California. New York: Bonanza Books, [1970]. 224pp. Very good to fine in very good to fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations., maps, appendix, index. Locale: United States. |
| 016-305 US$....25.00 | Kahn, David E. My Life with Edgar Cayce. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. 1st edition. 214pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Book about Edgar Cayce & Will Oursler. |
| 131-410 US$....35.00 | Keshavjee, Serena. (editor) Winnipeg Modern; Architecture 1945-1975. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, #0-88755-691-4, [2006]. 286pp. Near fine. Map endpapers, frontispiece, monochrome and color photographs, illustrations, notes, maps, plans, biographies of Manitoba architects and designers, bibliography. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Winnipeg (Manitoba). |
| 122-412 US$...100.00 | Laing, Patricia M. Accident Prevention Manual for Business & Industry; Engineering & Technology. United States: National Safety Council, #0-87912-156-4, [1992]. 10th edition. 792pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, diagrams, tables, bibliography, appendices, glossary, index. |
| 112-023 US$....25.00 | Lytton, Edward Bulwer (Lord). The Last Days of Pompeii. London: Collins, [no date]. 496pp. Very good plus. Burgundy leather with gilt spine decoration. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrations. The foot of the spine is very lightly worn. Illustrations by A.A. Dixon. Publisher series: Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics 55. Locale: Pompeii. |
| 103-573 US$....25.00 | MacVicar, Nell. Tales and Trails of Western Canada; Stirring Stories of Personalities and Episodes of the Trailmaking Days in Western Canada. With Irene Craig. Regina and Toronto: School AIDS and Text Book Publishing, [1947]. 147pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illustrated red cloth. Photographs, color plate, illustrations, bibliography. Foreword by R.O. MacFarlane. Locale: Manitoba; Saskatchewan. |
| 134-671 US$....25.00 | Manitoba Telephone System. Winnipeg Yellow Pages Directory Area Code 204; Effective Date June 28, 1981. Manitoba Telephone System, 1981. 1168pp. Very good. There is light wear to the spine. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; Winnipeg (Manitoba). |
| 001-325 US$....25.00 | Marler, George C. Canada Notes on the 1911-1925 Issue. American Philatelic Society, 1949. 75pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illustrations. Bound upside down. Publisher series: Handbook Series. Locale: Canada. |
| 135-351 US$....30.00 | Milloy, John S. "A National Crime"; The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, #0-88755-646-9, [1999]. 402pp. Near fine. Signed by the author. Photographs, notes, references, index. Publisher series: Manitoba Studies in Native History 11. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. |
| 134-691 US$....25.00 | Mol, Leo. Leo Mol; Sculpture 1952-1979. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Collection, [1980]. np. Very good. Photographs. There are some faint ring-stains on the front cover. |
| 133-544 US$...325.00 | Nicholson, G.W.L. The Fighting Newfoundlander; A History of Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Government of Newfoundland, [1964]. 614pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Map endpapers, color frontispiece, photographs, maps, color folding maps, honour roll bibliography, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear. Map illustration by E.H. Ellwand. |
| 126-159 US$....15.00 | O'Sullivan, Maurice. Twenty Years A-Growing. London: Oxford University Press, #0-19-250532-7, [1976]. 298pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Map endpapers. There is a previous owner's name. Biography of Maurice O'Sullivan. Publisher series: World's Classics 532 . Introduction by E.M. Forster. Translated with preface by Moya Llewelyn Davies & George Thomson. Locale: Blasket Island (Ireland); Ireland; Ireland. |
| 108-573 US$....60.00 | Oibit. (editor) International Biennial of Illustrations Volume 1. Tokyo: Rikuyo-Sha, [1986]. 366pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs, black and white and color illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. Introduction by Yusuke Nakahara. Text by Japanese Language. |
| 003-248 US$....50.00 | Plummer, Mary. With the First Canadian Contingent; Published on Behalf of the Canadian Field Comforts Commission. Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., [1915]. 119pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Map, photographs on plates, 25 mounted photo lithographs. |
| 134-199 US$....30.00 | Pollock, Isaac. Redington's Characters & Scenes in Oliver Twist. 6 Plates Characters, 1 Set Piece, 3 Wings, and 13 Scenes. Total 23. With Book to the Above. London: J. Redington, [circa 1970]. Near fine. The plates are printed on one side and the text on both sides. Adaptation of Charles Dickens--Oliver Twist. |
| 112-132 US$....17.50 | Porteous, Alvin C. Prophetic Voices in Contemporary Theology; The Theological Renaissance and the Renewal of the Church. Nashville: Abingdon, [1966]. 224pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes, bibliography, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, previous owner's bookplate. Book about Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr & Paul Tillich. |
| 131-896 US$...175.00 | Raven, Alan. Ensign 4 Issues. With H. Trevor Lenton, Antony Preston & John Roberts. London: Bivouac Books, 1972 - 1975. Very good. The first four issues of this scarce publication. Each with a color double-centrefold illustration, photographs, diagrams, tables. Vol. 1 King George the Fifth Class Battleships. Vol. 2 Dido Class Cruisers. Vol. 3 Flower Class Corvettes. Vol. 4 Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships. |
| 135-388 US$...150.00 | Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1973]. 5th printing. 607pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Includes illustrations and index. There is occasional pencil lining in the text and margins, a crack in the perfect binding at p. 195, and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper, also the dust jacket has minor edgewear, is lightly faded on the spine and is a bit rubbed. |
| 003-368 US$....20.00 | Riddell, William Renwick. William Kirby. Toronto: Ryerson, [no date]. Library edition. 176pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt spine decoration. Bibliography, index. Biography of William Kirby. Series: Makers of Canadian Literature. |
| 122-488 US$...150.00 | Ruffee, G.E.M. The History of the 14 Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 1940-1945. With J.B. Dickie. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 1945. 61pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Color illustrated boards. Roll of honour, decorations and awards, regimental song, index. Includes D.W. Bangs (Poem). |
| 113-345 US$....22.50 | Shatner, William. Star Trek Movie Memories. With Chris Kreski. New York: Harper Collins, #0-06-017617-2, [1994]. 1st edition. 358pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs. Movie tie-in. Book about Star Trek. Main character: Captain Kirk. |
| 133-223 US$....60.00 | Sherman, William C. (editors) Plains Folk; North Dakota's Ethnic History. With Playford V. Thorson. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, #0-911042-35-0, [1988]. 431pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Maps, photographs, appendices, index (unpaginated). The corners are lightly bruised, a few pages have had the corners turned and have minor underlining, also the dust jacket has some edge-tears. Contributors include Warren A. Henke, Timothy J. Kloberdanz, Theodore B. Pedeliski, Robert B. Wilkins. Publisher series: North Dakota Centennial Heritage Series. Locale: North Dakota. |
| 127-012 US$....30.00 | Simon, O.E. The Law of the Fist; Introducing the (Moh) - Temple - System. Grand Forks: Golden Bell, #0-9683504-4-5, 1999. 196pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Decorated endpapers, photographs, illustrations, map, folding diagram. Book about Moh-Temple Kung Fu. |
| 009-041 US$...200.00 | Sinclair, Lister. The Art of Norval Morrisseau. Toronto: Methuen, #0-458-93820-3, [1979]. 1st edition. 200pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, photographs, illustrated throughout with black and white and color illustrations, index. Art of Norval Morrisseau. |
| 110-673 US$...100.00 | Stevens, G.R. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry; 1919-1957 Volume Three. Griesbach: Historical Committee of Regiment, [1958]. 411pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, folding maps. Book about Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Introduction by A. Hamilton Gault. Foreword by Patricia Ramsay. |
| 017-623 US$....25.00 | Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Master of Ballantrae. New York: Heritage Press, [1965]. 302pp. Very good plus. Issued without dust jacket. In slipcase with minor edgewear. Frontispiece, plates. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. |
| 114-977 US$...350.00 | Stewart, J. The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919. With John Buchan. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1926. 489pp. Good to very good. Frontispiece, photographs, appendices, index, 18 folding maps in pocket. Some spotting on front cover, top rear corner has a triangular section (1 inch across by 2 inches) shaved part way through the cover (sort of looks as if the corner has been dragged across concrete), inner hinges cracked. The front endpaper has been partially torn away. Locale: Scotland. |
| 107-108 US$....40.00 | Taylor, Hilary. James McNeill Whistler. London: Studio Vista, [1978]. 192pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Art of James McNeill Whistler. |
| 017-818 US$....50.00 | Third Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. The History of the Third Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment from 17 August, 1940 to 7 May, 1945, World War II. Calgary: Kellaway Printing, [1955]. Reprint. 48, [9]pp. Near fine. Map, appendices, including lists of officers and rolls. Identified on cover as: 3 LAA R.C.A. |
| 135-296 US$....75.00 | Transport Canada. Winnipeg Aera Airports System Study. Winnipeg: Transport Canada, 1976, 1977. Very good. Plastic covered post binder. A series of 23 background papers dealing with airport issues in Winnipeg. Identified on cover as: Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; Winnipeg. |
| 122-291 US$....22.50 | Waldram, James B. As Long As the Rivers Run; Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, #0-88755-631-0, [1993]. 253pp. Very good. Maps, bibliography, appendices, notes, index. Locale: Cumberland House (Manitoba); Easterville (Manitoba); Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; South Indian Lake (Manitoba); Western Canada. |
| 135-354 US$....25.00 | Wells, H.G. The New Machiavelli. London: Collins, [no date]. 472pp. Near fine. Burgundy leather with gilt spine decoration. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrations. Illustrations by Robb. |
| 107-108 US$....40.00 | [Whistler, James McNeill] Taylor, Hilary. James McNeill Whistler. London: Studio Vista, [1978]. 192pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Art of James McNeill Whistler. |
| 122-491 US$...100.00 | Wilson, Barbara M. Military General Service, 1793-1814 (Canadian Recipients), Egypt Medal, 1882-1889 (Canadian Recipients), North West Canada, 1885; Index to the Medal Rolls. London: Spink, 1975. 191pp. Very good plus. Red boards with gilt lettering. |
| 115-856 US$....25.00 | Wunderlich, Hans Georg. The Secret of Crete. New York: MacMillan, #0-02-631600-5, [1974]. 1st edition. 367pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Stamped black cloth. Photographs, illustrations, plans, diagrams, notes, bibliography, index. The dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Originally published as Wohin Der Stier Europa Trug. Book about Arthur Evans. Translated by Richard Winston. Locale: Crete; Knossos. |
| 005-945 US$....40.00 | Wyeth, Andrew. The Helga Pictures. New York: Harry N. Abrams, #0-8109-1788-2, [1987]. 208pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Frontispiece, illustrations, list of works, chronology of exhibitions, bibliography, index. The front panel of the dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Book about Helga Testorf. Contributors include Leonard E.B. Andrews (A National Treasure). Text by John Wilmerding. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. |