Search Results: Canada from Great Expectations Rare Books

Toronto: Nation Publishing Co., 1903. Dark coarse blue publisher's percaline stamped with gold lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Top of spine shaved and general light wear to spine ends. Else a very good copy.. First Edition. Full-Leather. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: MacMillan Canada, 1996. Large trade paperback. 304pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. Second printing. A popularist history of Canada during the war years examining the lifes. hopes and dreams of ordinary canadians, much as Studs Terkel did for American south of the border. No previous ownership marks. Lightly read with minor curling to tips but no spine crease. A clean, solid, unmarked copy. Good+.. Second Printing. Softcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1940. Hardcover, blue cloth sans dust-jacket. 284pp. Illustrated with photographs. Signed by author on half-title page. Memoir of service in the Canadian north.. Signed by Author. Fourth Printing. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892 No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Russet colored cloth with incised design on front cover stamped in black and gold. Illustrated with numerous engravings by Frederic Remington. Clot h lightly rubbed on fore-edge of rear board, endpapers show moderate age soiling, and evidence of small label [book plate?] having been removed from front fixed endpaper. Else covers very clean and te xt and illustrations fine, with usual light toning to blank margins. A very good+ copy of a title usually prone to problems.. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Barse & Hopkins Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light green pictorial cloth, with spine lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. 328 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and full page and vignette images throughout. Presumed American first edition (1909), no date given. Published prior to the Centennial celebration of this event which was be held in Winnipeg in 1912, as stated in preface. No previous ownership marks. Old news clipping pasted to inside cover and front free end-paper with resulting toning. One or two spots of foxing, most especially to last blank leaf, [and there only at edges]. Cloth shows only mild age wear and slight darking at inside covers. A square, internally clean, tight and unmarked copy. Good..

McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1955. Small volume bound in blue-green cloth, lettered in orange, in original dustjacket. Small label affixed to inside cover from the Saskatoon News Agency. Else no owber's name or book plate. Dustjacket edgeworn but complete. The very scarce hardcover edition of this jubilee publication' containing selections from some of Canada's greatest writers. Very good in good jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Vancouver, B. C.: Gordon Black Publications Ltd., 1965. Soft-bound, deep burgundy colored faux leather flexible covers. Lettered in gold on upper cover and spine. 111pp., Illustrated with line drawings and phoographs. First edition. A series of articles by Andrew Baird appearing in the Western Miner magazine and compiled into book form by Gordon Black Publications. No previous ownership marks. A scarce title in any condition, this copy is near as new. Very clean, square, sharp cornered and unmarked inside and out. A fine copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 1997. Trade paperback. 183 pages. Chapter Notes and Selected Bibliography. Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Minute touches of soiling to some page edges and a proto-crease to lower corner of first several leaves, but overall a clean, square, bright and unmarked copy in very good condition. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Harpercollins Canada, 1996. Hardcover, lacking dust-jacket. 386pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. A very clean, unmarked copy. As new without dust-jacket.. First Edition. Boards. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Harpercollins Canada, 1996. Hardcover, black cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 386pp., Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing.. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp copy. Unread, in excellent condition. As new in an as new dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.