Toronto: Romance of a Great City by Hale, Katherine - 1956

Toronto: Cassell & Company, 1956. Book. Illus. by Lloyd Scott. Good. Cloth. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 262pp., photos, illustrated maps, index, biblio. Good condition, would class higher, except for extensive, but light, pencil underlining. Perfectly good reading copy..

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cassell, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 262 pages including maps, plus black-and-white illustrations; gently used, elaborate ink gift inscription on free front endpaper dated "Christmas 1956", otherwise clean and unmarked; DJ creased, chipped and torn in half vertically along back hinge. See also our listing for the very scarce TORONTO! Illustrated, and for Hale's own This Ontario, Revised Edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Toronto: Cassel and Company, 1956. Book. Illus. by Ron White;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 262 pp. Brown boards lettered in beige on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and with decorative maps. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some fading on the spine; light chipping at the head and foot of the spine; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: The City Today; The French Period; Transitional; The Simcoes; The Town of York; Young Toronto; Tracery; The Middle Years; Jenny Lind Sang Here; New Horizons; A Green Valley; Edwardian Days; The Castle; Georgian Period; Growth of the Arts; Museum Story; and Into the Future; followed by a bibliography and an index..

Toronto: Cassell & Company, 1956. Book. Illus. by Scott, Lloyd. Very Good. Cloth. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 262pp., index, biblio., photos, ill. VG in lightly scuffed DJ..

Toronto: Cassell & Company, 1956. Stated First . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown book with gold lettering Very slight edgewear ow vg.

cassell & co toronto 1956. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 262pp illus VG+(v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine foot) d/w VG(v sl wear/tears at extremities,v sl sunned spine,v sl rubbed)

Toronto: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Scott, Lloyd (maps). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full taupe cloth. 262 pp., [8] pp. B&W illustrations. Five decorative maps. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Slight bumping to upper corners of first 50 or so pages of text block. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, creased and chipped to top edges, short tears to joints at spine foot. For over three hundred years this place that we call Toronto has been thought of, mapped, visited, occupied, fought over, forgotten, and repossessed. It has been in succession a First Nations village, an English colonial court, struggling frontier town, a factious political area, and an ever faster-growing city whose destiny is impossible to predict.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.