Search Results: History: Canada from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1935. 'Fourth printing, June, 1935'. A camping trip by car in Québec. Hard Cover. viii, 200, [6] pages, 25 illus. & halftone plates incl. color front., endpaper map; 22 cm. Pencil owner name, red cloth covers stamped in gold, spine faded, no dust jacket; Good+. Stock#101389.

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1936. Hard Cover. x, 266 p., plates incl. color front., endpaper map; 22 cm. An automobile camping trip to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. Good, bookplate, edges frayed/ no dj. Stock# 101,389a.

Toronto, Collins, 1946. "There are times when Nova Scotia is not so much a land or a part of a country as an exhausting state of war between water and earth." Hard Cover. 6 leaves, 273 pages, illus.; 22 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0130.

Eight book catalogues from D&E Lake of Toronto listing books on Canada and North America. #45, 95 items; #48, 328 items; #50, 91 items; #52, 105 items; #55, 180 items; #80, 422 items; #97, 347 items; #99, 322 items; all stapled in paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0310.

Three Reese catalogues listing materials about French North America, Canada, the Arctic, and "the North Country": #32, 163 items; #48, 268 items; #83, 602 items. Book Cellar's mimeographed list has 743 items. All have paper covers; all are Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0311.

Toronto : Doubleday Canada c1980. Soft Cover. 241 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Material previously published in Cape Breton's magazine. 52 pieces on traditional folk ways including rum running, moonshining, leather sewing, fishing, lumbering, fiddling, bone playing, hooking rag rugs as well as events such as the sinking of a ferry by a U-Boat in 1942. Stock# 44,093. Good+, coffee slash lower edge of rear third (text not affected)/ soft cover.

Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951/ 5712. Hard Cover. xxviii, 301 p. 21.5 cm. The story of Jews in the Northern States and Canada. The index to this is contained in volume two of the set published in 1953. Stock #29,982.. Vg/ no dj.

Thirty-Seventh Thousand. NY, Putnams Sons, [June] 1906 [Knickerbocker Press]. Hard Cover. xiv, 137, [4] pages, frontispiece, chapter vignettes; 20 cm. First published 1897. 'Although his writing was done during the course of a successful medical practice in Montreal, it was his early experience as a telegraph operator and later as a country doctor that made him familiar with the life of rural Quebec which he portrays in his poetry' (Sylvestre, Conlon, Klinck, Canadian Writers). 'A member of the then fashionable school of the regional idyll, Drummond became its sole poetic exponent. In his poems he tried to express the humour, pathos and whimsicality of the Provincial French Canadian, who refused to be stirred out of his traditional values and ways of life despite the rising vigour of the nineties.' Stock# 34239. Good, blue cloth covers stamped in gold; covers worn, a little shaky, pencil owner name; withal good.

New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourists Travel, 1941. Soft Cover. 119p., illus (one fold.) , 4 maps (3 fold.), 22.5 cm. A collection of historical information about New Bruswick, with an index. Stock# 34,810. Vg /paper.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 441 p. illus. frontis. (port.), 22.5 cm. Grenfell went out to Labrador in 1893 and would up setting up a health system that is named after him. Stock# 30,455. Good, worn at corners/ no dj.

Montreal, Editions H M H, 1969. Soft Cover. 247 pages, 21 cm. A survey of French poetry written by Canadian poets. 'Plus qu' á leur valeur esthétique, Marcotte s'intéresse au sens profond des oeuvres et á l'expérience humaine qu'elles traduisent' (Sylvestre, Conlon, Klinck, ècrivains Canadiens'). This copy has extensive scholarly annotations in pencil. Vg/ wrappers. Stock#29593.

The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, MCMXXV [1925]. Hard Cover. 314 p.; 19 cm. A novel set in the fur trapping region of the Cree Indians in Canada. Stock# 34,236. Good, green cloth boards printed & decorated in white/ no dj. Canada; Cree; fur trade; history.

Providence, R. I., John Carter Brown Library, 1965 [Anthoensen Press]. Soft Cover. 45 p., 8 collotype facsimile plates by Meriden Gravure; 27 cm. "An Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, May 14, 1964, together with a Catalogue of the Exhibition opened on that occasion." "There is a certain danger that in speaking of the part played by Englishmen in the discovery of North America we may tend to give them more than their due. Far be it from me as an Irishman to do so." Printed red paper wraps; VG. Stock#20339x.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 1975. Hard Cover. xiii, 381 p. tables, 24 cm. Statistical analysis of the social and economic life of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. RBL. 30761. Vg/ dj worn at edges.

N.Y., Coward-McCann, 1930. Hard Cover. ix, [1], 85 p.; 25 cm. "A group of dramatic lyrics, songs of primitive folk dwelling along the British Columbia coast." These "are not translations or adaptations of Indian poems," but are inspired by the rhythms and feelings of the natives. The binding design is geometric red and black shapes against a white background, very attractive. Vg copy/ dj soiled and frayed. [Fifi] 101910.

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1942; J. J. Little and Ives, NY].. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. xiii, 274 p., index, illus., map; blue cloth covers, 21 cm.; spine faded, a small waterspot on the front cover, pencil owner’s initials; no dj; else VG. Twentieth in the Rivers of America series. Outlet for the Great Lakes, flowing eastward from Lake Ontario past the Gaspé Peninsula and Anticosti Island into the Atlantic. ‘The reader will find that the book largely concerns itself with the French regions of the St. Lawrence, for there is the river at its greatest and there is human life most shaped by its presence and influences.’ Artist A. Y. Jackson,… Read More