Search Results: Canada from Twin City Antiquarian Books

High River, AB: Privately Printed, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan printed paper wraps, black titles, [xii], 140 pp, 19 b & w photo plates, 23 figures, additional drawings in appendix. Small tear to bottom of front joint, slight edge wear. Contents: introduction; weapons of the Indians; artifacts (stone, bone, trade); sites (categorized); recovery & processing of artifacts; elephants & buffalo; dating; natural formations; glossary, pictorial index. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 2nd ptg. Wraps. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York & London: Paddington Press Ltd, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, gilt titles on spine, 256 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates. Slight shelf wear. DJ has 2 small tears to top edge, tiny chips to corners, front flap creased; in Brodart archival cover. Memoir by the estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 24 X 16 cm.

Laval, PQ: Guy Perron, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey, green & white covers, 210, [4] pp, notes, bibliography, index. In addition to being a life of Daniel Perron, this is a history and genealogy (in French) of his descendents in Canada and the United States. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 22½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Voice (Hyperion), 2009 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Speckled beige boards, copper titles on spine, ix, 307 pp, many b & w photos in text. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Historical novel set at Niagra Falls during the time of hydroelectric power development (1915-23). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Quebec: Presses COMÉDITEX, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White pictorial wraps (only subtitle on spine), xi, 189 pp, 135 figures, 8 plates, index. Covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Originally published in 1894 as pages 165-350 of the Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Turner's study is "one of the first monographs written in the history of anthropology, ... the first thorough account ever published about the Northern inhabitants of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula," and "the last one to depict their traditional way of life." Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, natural linen spine with black titles, green endpapers, xv, 220 pp. Slight shelf wear, else fine. DJ has a sticker shadow on front panel & slight rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. The author tells how she and her husband built a house on a small island in Stuart Lake, British Columbia. Welcome solitude turned to grinding isolation as the second winter stormed on, leading them to return to city life. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X 16 cm.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Chestnut boards, gilt titles on spine, endpaper maps, xv, 392 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Memoir of a Hudson's Bay Company trader's life in Arctic Canada in the 1930s. Mr. Maurice left the Company to serve in the Navy during World War 2, never returning to the Arctic. He died in 2003 at the age of 90 when this book was in preparation. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 14 cm.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No additional printings are noted. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, 190, [2], 16 ff b & w photo plates, one folding map, four maps in text, index. Spotting mostly to bottom edge of rear board where DJ has adhered to cloth. Matching spotting & foxing of DJ, which also has some small chips to corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Sixteen articles by as many authors on geography, climate, population, flora & fauna, trapping, fishing, agriculture, mining, policing, and transportation past & present. Authors include the editor, M. R. Montgomery, P. G. Downes, J. L. Robinson, Douglas Leechman, A. D. Copland, Leonard Butler, Lorne Manchester, A. E. Porsild, T. M. Shortt, Grant MacEwan, F. J. Alcock, H. Kearney, P. H. Godsell, Andrew Croft, G. W. Rowley. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG-/VG-. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter tan cloth, tan paper-covered boards, blue titles on spine, [xi], 244 pp, many b & w photographs. DJ spine somewhat faded; in Brodart archival cover. The author went north in 1922 as a greenhorn clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company, and later as a prospector. These are his reminiscences of learning how to survive and thrive in the far north. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Sillery, PQ: Association des famille Perron d'Amérique inc., 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Newsletter stapled through fold, 24 pp including pale blue covers. Last two leaves creased. Mostly in French, some of the articles are also presented in English. Shipping weight 3 oz. in envelope.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No dj. 11 X 8½ in.

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, white titles on spine & decoration on front board, endpaper maps, 272 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, index. Tail of spine rubbed, gift inscription on dedication page. DJ extremities slightly rubbed, some water marks on spine; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14 cm.