History from Pulp & Circumstance

Toronto: Stoddart Kids (Stoddart Publishing Ltd), 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to: 9¾ - 12" tall. Anthology of personal memoirs by some of Canada's most admired writers of children's literature who were too young to fight during WW2 but certainly old enough to remember how the war shaped their experiences. Hardcover in blue papered boards with… Read more about this item

Toronto: Viking Canada (Penguin), 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. David Atkinson (Original Maps). First printing of the first Canadian edition. Broad octavo, about 9 1/2" x 7 1/2", in blue textured boards with gilt titling on the spine. Original colour maps on endpapers. Well illustrated. Eight plates… Read more about this item

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada (Random House), 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A survey of the scope and seriousness of the problems that beset our world with an emphasis on the possibilities for optimism going forward. Hardcover in black boards with gilt titling on the spine. … Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Drawing on evidence from literature and art, Kern examines the changing attitudes towards love and sex among Victorians and Moderns. Features Heideggar's existential philosophy and the quest for authentic experience. Larger octavo in black papered boards with silver titling… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Critique of US foreign policy and the pretense that America supports and mentors global democracy. Hardcover in black boards, backed in red, with titling in gilt on the spine. One b&w map. Notes… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An expose of Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of prisoners by American forces during the 2003 Iraq War. Hardcover in black boards with white titling to the front cover and on the spine. Excellent copy: … Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps). Prize-winning narrative history focusing on negotiations towards the Treaty of Versailles and the redrawing of so many maps. First published in a slightly different form in the UK as "Peacemakers," this copy is a first US edition. … Read more about this item

New York: Vintage (Penguin Random House), 2021. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Joint biography of the Shawnee Chief and his sometimes inspired brother. Vividly portrays the peoples and events of the pan-Indian resistance of the early 19th century. First published in 2020, this copy is a first printing of the 2021… Read more about this item

London: Profile Books, 2016. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A lucid and entertaining popular history of the rise of Rome in which Beard demonstrates how evidence is sifted and assessed by a gifted historian. First published in 2015, this copy is a later printing of the smallish octavo 2016 trade paperback edition.… Read more about this item

London: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House UK), 2020. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A spectacularly well documented expose of how America took a hard right turn that favoured a few while leaving many behind. Second printing of the UK trade paperback edition. Bibliography. Index. Binding square and firm. … Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A description of daily life in Nineteenth-Century England. Handsomely bound in green papered boards with burgundy cloth at the spine and gilt titling on the spine. B&W illustrations embedded with the text. Extensive Glossary. Bibliography and Index. … Read more about this item

Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in red cloth with silver titling on the spine. Map. B&W illustrations. Includes Notes, Bibliography and an Index. Binding square and firm. Mild wear only. No markings other than the author's… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unique blend of fiction and history that starts with Talleyrand and the French Revolution but spirals out from there, back to a legendary African Kingdom, ahead to Pol Pot's Cambodia, and many stops in between. First… Read more about this item

Edmonton: Edmonton Public Schools, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to: 9¾ - 12" tall. An enlarged, updated and "historically-enriched" history of Edmonton Public Schools, 1882-1992. Large quarto: might require additional shipping charges. Contact us for a quote. Hardcover in bright blue boards with gilt titling on the front and spine. Endpapers illustrated… Read more about this item

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An American social history that reveals how the holiday as evolved and what it tells us about American culture. First published in 1995, and then as a trade paperback in 1996; second printing thus. Eight pages of b&w… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The journals of James Morrison, Royal Navy. "A Classic True Account of Adventure and Exploration." First printing of this edition. Hardcover in blue boards with gilt titling on the spine. Sixteen pages of illustrations on plates plus maps.… Read more about this item

London: HarperElement, 2013. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo: 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Smaller octavo trade paperback in illustrated card covers. Eight pages of photos on plates plus a few b&w document reproductions embedded with the text. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Binding square and firm. Spine cover smooth. Minor wear only. … Read more about this item

San Gionvanni Lupatoto, Italy: Arsenale Editrice, 2004. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio: 12 - 15" tall. Melo Minnella (Photographs). Large, heavy book might require additional shipping charges. Contact us for a quote. "This book -- with evocative photographs by Melo Minnella -- attempts to capture the elusive spirit of Sicily, its inhabitants and its landscape,… Read more about this item

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio: 12 - 15" tall. Large, heavy book might require additional shipping charges. Contact us for a quote. First published 1985, this copy is a first reprint, also 1985. Hardcover handsomely bound in light brown cloth with gilt titling on the spine.… Read more about this item

Victoria, BC: The Victoria Centennial Celebration Society, 1962. Soft cover. Good. 4to: 9¾ - 12" tall. Staple-bound soft cover in illustrated wraps. Not paginated; about 100 pages. Illustrated in b&w with vintage photos and drawings. Includes some reference miscellany such as "The Mayors of Victoria," "Important Dates in Victoria's History," and "City Ordinances… Read more about this item