Canadiana from Gilt Edge Books

Toronto: Summerhill Press, 1987 Oblong format. The Family Farm has undergone radical changes during the last century. With a lively, informative text by David Densmore and ninety pen and ink drawings, this book looks closely at how farming has evolved. The weekend farmer as well as the general reader will find a wealth of insight and information in both the… Read more

Montreal: Musee Historicque Canadien Inc, 1950. Circa 1950. Oblong format. Illustrated stapled card covers. Photographs accompany text. This catalogue will be found to be in pleasing condition.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1974. Author's first novel. A humourus larger than life account of growing up in back country Ontario in the early 1930's. Wild Irish and alive are the people in its pages. Rugged, harsh and craggy is the Central Ontario landscape of Brule County where they live out their lives. The author has created a very… Read more

Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing Ltd, 1985. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine Donald Graham M.A. became a lighthouse keeper in 1976 having served on Bonilla Island, Lucy Island and Point Atkinson. Author's first book and first volume of lighthouse keeping. As eternal symbols of hope, romance and civilized good, lighthouses fascinate almost everyone. But what… Read more

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1992. 'My Father's Son' begins where the author's earlier book 'And No Birds Sang' ended. 'My Father's Son' is a remarkable evocation of innocence and hope, despair, anger and resolve, in a time of war. It is also a testament to family loyalty and affection and a record of the enduring love between a father and… Read more

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1958. BOMC Edition The book opens showing three maps (1) The Klondike Gold Fields - (2) The Country of The Klondike Fever (which is a two-page map spread) - The third map is The Trail of '98. The story told by such an excellent writer, Pierre Berton, is at once first rate history… Read more

Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1976. These lively vignettes of persons, places, and events recapture the spirit and flavor of Montreal, a dynamic city with a rich and colorful past. In detailing the picteresque and dramatic features of life in Old Montreal, Mr Collard illuminates its unique place in Canadian history. Foreword by the author. The book itself is divided… Read more

Norwich, England: Jarrold and Sons Ltd, 1975. Illustrated card covers. The Toronto of today has been well portrayed in this book. Many of the important landmarks, historical sites, business districts, entertainment centres and parks and gardens have been illustrated and described. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour. A tight, clean copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. " Our Lady of The Snows" is the phrase used by Kipling to describe Canada. This story is set in downtown Toronto in a hotel that is both seedy and glamerous. Socialites meet there, but so do petty crooks and gangsters who later turn up dead. The central observer of life at the… Read more

Canada: Penguin Books, 2002. In 'Where Is Here?' , Alan Morantz tells the story of the maps that made Canada. He examines how the inhabitants of this land have used maps for their own purposes, and he shows us how maps - made by Inuit hunters, hobos, explorers, missionaries, adventurers, and artists - are often windows on our world views,… Read more

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977. James Houston, a Canadian author-artist, author of The White Dawn, Ojibwa Summer, Songs of The Dream People, etc. now gives us Ghost Fox a fast-paced, terrifying adventure about a white girl's captivity among Indians in the 1750's. This novel is rich in emotional, historical, and dramatic appeal which will hold the readers grasp throughout. Price-intact… Read more

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. Reminiscences contribute various rays of light and intensity to a composite picture of summer in rural Quebec. Gabrielle Roy is the celebrated author of The Tin Flute and other modern classics of the Canadian novel. The Tin Flute earned a Governor General's Award. This copy is the first edition translated from French to English 1976.… Read more

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 1990. This book challanges the political, economic, and cultural order of this nation. Michael Walker - The Fraser Institute, Vancouver writes, " The Trouble With Canada" is a caring, comprehensive assault on our social welfare mentality that will jolt Canadians - and help to bring the country to its senses..." Red boards with… Read more

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Nova Scotia born author William Alexander Fraser used various locales in which he had lived in his short stories and novels. Though he was not always supportive of formal law-enforcement agencies, such as the RCMP, it is satirized in this novel "Bulldog Carney". Truly a book of Canadian flavour! A most respectable… Read more

Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Limited, 1942. Stiff card covers. The Forging of the Pikes by Alison North with Historical Notes and Study Questions by Marcel Jeanneret. Frontispiece illustration titled 'The Death of Colonel Moodie before Montgomery's Hotel on Yonge Street near Eglinton Avenue.' by Sir Francis Bond Head. 312 printed pages. name to front endpaper. A bright clean copy..… Read more

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1972. Introduction by Max Ferguson. A fun house view of this country's past by the Charlie Farquharson character familiar to North Americans on TV's weekly "Hee Haw". Illustrated with full-page b/w drawings. Humorous illustrated dust jacket.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside No Date. This brief, tender, warmly touching novel is a charming example of one of the oldest but rarest literary forms, the pastoral romance. Set in the remote northeastern wilderness of Canada, it is not only a story of innocent, awakening love, but also a lyric apotheosis of nature. Price-clipped full wrap-around illustrated dust jacket..… Read more

Toronto/Montreal: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited /The Montreal Standard Publishing Company, 1971. Attractive padded simulated leather. Gilt to title on spine bright. The content of this book is a collection of more than a hundred of Gregory Clark's stories from the good writing years which began in 1947 when he joined the staff of the Montreal Standard. Here the reader will enjoy… Read more

Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1996. An indepth look at Canada-United States relations. Yankee Go Home? is rich with personalities and points of view, and its fresh look at who we are and what holds us together or drives us apart - will delight, inform and infuriate. 317pp includes Notes, Bibliography and Index. Political cartoons by Macpherson, Dale, Hunter, Callan, etc… Read more

Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Publishers, 1979. John Bassett is an extraordinary figure in Canadian public life, a man who's been the center of politics, sports, the media and business for over forty years. Maggie Siggins (whose career as a journalist began with John Bassett's newspaper The Telegram until it's demise in 1971), interviewed more than 200 of Bassett's friends,… Read more