circa.1930s. [8] pages; map; illustrations, floor plans; illustrated paper wrapper (8 x 11 inches). About Chateau Lake Louise, Lake Louise, Alberta showing the floor plan to the hotel with descriptions of tours and events held during the season. Stain damage, not effecting the text, on the back and on the top in the form of small circles. Very good clean copy. View More...
215 pages; illustrations; index; brown cloth binding with dark brown lettering on spine and front cover. Brief history of Canada, its Provinces, and its people. Very good clean copy. View More...
Limited Edition. Original publisher's brown wrappers with staple binding. Illustration printed in black ink on front cover. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2." Twenty-four pages, complete. Front colophon on inside of front cover: "Of this edition of The Poet Confides, by H. T. J. Coleman, five hundred copies have been printed. This chap-book is a product of the Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada." A list of other Ryerson Chap-Books printed on inside of back cover. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Slight chipping and splitting at the head and tail of spine. Slight chipping along the fore-edge ... View More...
Original hand-colored, engraved map showing Canada, the upper portion of the U.S., Greenland, Iceland, and part of Asia. Map has beautifully-rendered pink, yellow, and blue watercoloring to illustrate which territories were claimed by Britain, Denmark, and Russia, respectively. Map with margins measures 18 3/8" x 15 1/2"; actual map area measures 11 1/4" x 14 1/4." Clean and intact map with very little foxing mostly limited to the margins. Beautiful black and white decorative scrollwork border around the map, which is commonly found on Colton maps. Title at the top. "No. 3" printed in lo... View More...
No. 236 of 250 copies signed by the author. Inscribed by the illustrator. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Beige title labels on front cover and spine. 6 1/2" x 9 5/8." Eighty pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Verso of the half-title: "Of this edition of The Neighing North, by Annie Charlotte Dalton, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed, of which two hundred and twenty-five copies only are for sale. This is number 236. Annie Charlotte Dalton. James G. Macdonald. Wishing my good friend A[...] Gray much happiness." A collection of sixteen poe... View More...
No. 1766 of a Limited Edition. Original publisher's black cloth binding in original gray paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering on book spine. Gilt coat of arms decoration on front cover. Maroon lettering on front panel and dust jacket spine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." lxviii, 1-455 pages, complete. Fifteen additional pages in back listing members and libraries who are subscribing to the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Front colophon: "This copy is No. 1766 of a limited Edition which is issued only to subscribers to The Hudson's Bay Record Society." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for l... View More...
Original publisher's black and whitewrappers with staple binding. June 8, 1942. 5" x 7 3/4." Twenty-one pages, complete. Reprinted black and white photographs, complete. Illustration on front cover shows a photograph of a factory. Pages are very clean and intact. Slight edge wear. A Fine copy. Excerpt from the Foreword: "It is the purpose of this booklet to indicate the manner in which Canadian industry has been mobilized to meet the demands of war." Topics covered: "Aircraft," "Automotive Vehicles," "Guns and Small Arms," "Shells and Small Arms Ammunition," "Explosives and Chemicals... View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. Postmarked October 15, 1947 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Copyright information printed on back: "Published by F. H. Leslie, Limited, Niagara Falls, Ont.; A Real Photograph. All Rights Reserved." A purple, three-cent stamp of King George VI is tipped in on back. Postcard is used. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight aging on the image and a small wrinkle at the bottom edge. A Near Fine copy. There is handwriting on the back in blue pen. The writer addresses Mr. and... View More...
Circa 1880. 13 1/2 x 15 inch map of the waterways between the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, Vancouver Island and the mainland. Very detailed with names of inlets and points, locations of lighthouses, and depth numbers. Detailed inset map of Esquimalt and Victoria Harbors of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Fold lines, remarkably good condition. This map was published in "A Directory for the Navigation of the North Pacific Ocean." by Alexander G. Findlay (1812-1875), a prolific and respected English geographer. Many of his works became standard authorities and his maps were ... View More...
No. 191 of a Limited Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 7" x 10." lxxvii, 1-480 pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece, complete. Eleven additional pages in back listing members of the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Front colophon: "This copy is No. 191 of a limited Edition which is issued only to subscribers to The Hudson's Bay Record Society." Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning throughout and slightly bumped edges. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight bumping to corners and hea... View More...
Original gray illustrated cloth showing an illustration of the Rockies with blue lettering on front cover. Blue lettering on spine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 inches. 270 pages. Deckled edges. 63 black and white photographs. One of the classic accounts of surveying and mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies. A previous owner wrote in pencil on several margins. Spine and both covers are slightly soiled. Written in black ink on the inside of the front cover, "To Hannum from "Uncle Bert 1928". Burdet G. Hannum M.D. also impressed his stamp on several pages. His bookplate is also on the inside front cover. Pag... View More...
1st American Edition. originaly published in Canada, 1907, under the title "Comrades Two". A fictionalized account of family life in the Qu'appelle Valley to the west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Clean, bright copy in the publisher's illustrated blue cloth cover. A few pages carelessly opened. 319 pages. View More...
Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 216 pages, complete. Former ownership bookplate on front free endpaper that shows an illustration of a squirrel reading a book in a forest and sitting on a sign that says, "This Book is from the Hoard of Carl G. Winter; Read Thoughtfully, Handle Carefully, Return Promptly." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A few light smudges and scratches on the front and back covers. A Fine copy. The Empire Club of Canada is a speakers forum and was founded in 1903 as a result of growing... View More...
Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 286 pages, complete. Former ownership bookplate on front free endpaper that shows an illustration of a squirrel reading a book in a forest and sitting on a sign that says, "This Book is from the Hoard of Carl G. Winter; Read Thoughtfully, Handle Carefully, Return Promptly." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A few light smudges and scratches on the front and back covers. A Fine copy. The Empire Club of Canada is a speakers forum and was founded in 1903 as a result of growing... View More...
An early printing in dust jacket. xiv, 297 pages; illustrations; red cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar (chipping along the edges). Former owner's bookplate inside the front cover 'Barbara C. Winans'. 'A twelve month journey around the world - the book is a log of that journey through Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, India, China, and Japan. Photographs were taken during the travels. Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940) was an English missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador establishing a medical service for the people of the area along with educational support. He was knighted in 1927 for the serv... View More...
Lacks errata. Repair to map. Contemporary brown full leather binding. Gilt lettering on red leather spine label. In a marbled paper-covered clamshell box backed with brown leather. Gilt lettering on spine of box. Beautiful marbling features many colors; overall pink color palette. Book measures 5" x 8 1/2." Box measures 5 3/4" x 9 1/4." 432 pages, complete. One black-and-white engraved frontispiece portrait of Harmon and one black-and-white folding map, complete. "Printed by Flagg and Gould." Three markings from a former owner, Jacob Smith, Jr., on front free endpaper (signature in... View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1940-1942. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. "Made in Canada, Along the Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Photographed and Copyrighted by Ron Harmon, Banff, Canada" printed on the back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for a small blue ink mark on the image. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the entrance to Kootenay National Park in British Columbia. Byron "Ron" Harmon (1876-1942) was a noted Canadian photographer whose studio was based in Banff, Canada. Harmon was als... View More...
Printed document appointing Amos Ketchesen an Ensign in the navy. Signed boldly by Sir Edmund Walker Head in bottom right hand side. On blue paper. Printed in black. Red government seal upper left side. Dated December 6, 1859. Folded in the distant past. 12 1/2 x 9 in ches. Head (1805-1868) was Governor-General of Canada 1854-61. View More...
Modern binding, 2 volumes bound together. Bookplate of "Edward Murray Durst" on front endpaper. Name "Wallace" in pencil on title page. Volume 1 - 258 pages. The pages of the body of this volume are divided width wise, with the music scores on the top pages and the lyrics on the bottom. Volume 2 - 408 pages with index of first lines, index of tunes and metrical index. 349 hymns and 14 doxologies. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. 10 1/2" x 12 1/4." 113 pages, complete. Twenty-four maps and illustrations (fifteen maps; nine illustrations), complete. Printing information on the recto of the title page: "The Riverside Press, Cambridge." Printing information on the verso of the title page: "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight edge wear at the bottom. Corners slightly bumped. A few scratches to the covers. Top of the spine ... View More...
