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This is an un-read copy of The Canadian Living Entertaining Cookbook written by the Canadian Living Magazine food writers and prominent food writer Carol Ferguson. It was published in 1997 and was a best-seller.
Soft laminated cover, heavily illustrated with very high-quality photographs. It is laid out by occasion, with occasion ideas, cultural menus, and lots of useful tips (see contents photos). Everything is designed to be elegant and easy.
256 pages.
This book has not been read and is in mint condition.

This is a stated first edition of Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Canada, and North America, cannot be understood without discussing the influence of the Hudson's Bay Company, which once covered 1/12th of the world's land, and remains the world's oldest retailer. It played a huge role in the creation of Canada, and that would not have been possible without George Simpson, who was the HBC governor for 40 years. Simpson not only made the company profitable, he ensured British control of western and northern Canada by negotiating with Americans, First Nations and Russians.
This is a lovely book, full of maps, photos and drawings. Unclipped dust jacket.
It has not been read and is in pristine condition.
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Equinox was a high-end magazine that ran investigative articles about science and culture. It published from 1981-2000.

October 1995: See Table of Contents Scan
128 Pages. Pristine Condition.
Unread. No Label, no barcode.

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This is the Expo '86 Commemorative Poster commissioned by the organizers of the world's fair, and by the City of Vancouver for its 100th Anniversary.
The theme of Expo was Man in Motion.It was designed and executed by Canadian artist Steve Woodhouse. As you can tell, I had a bit of time getting decent pictures. Photo 4 shows the glow of it (under a bare light bulb). It is on paper and it is entirely in 24k Gold Leaf.There were only 5 created in gold leaf; this is one of them.
A limited edition set of prints was also made.It reads (also in Braille):
Vancouver Commemorative
Global Achievements of Human InteractionA People A Place An EventIt is in a gold metal frame; 20 1/4" x 26 1/2"
Covered in glass.
NOTE: $100 of the sale price is the cost of shipping, and I've probably under-estimated it.The frame and glass make it heavy.UPS will charge about $60 to pack it for shipping.But the frame is ordinary gold-colored metal; if I remove it from the frame and send it in a tube, the price will drop by… Read More

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Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. From 1915 to1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world.
He is famous for his not-unkind criticisms of people's follies and foibles and is still called 'the funniest man who ever lived.'
Leacock wrote 22 works of non-fiction, 2 biographies and 29 novels; Model Memoirs is his 23rd. It was published in 1938 by Dodd Mead. As was the case with all of his books, additional printings had to be done regularly—this is a copy from the 4th printing, in 1940.
316 pages, 5 1/4" x 7 1/2"
It is red boards with an imprinted design on the cover and gold lettering on the spine. There is a little fading to the spine but no real shelf wear.
The covers are in perfect condition.
It was given to a father from a son in 1941; on the front endpaper, the son inscribed it, in pencil, the father signed it in ink.
Aside from that, there are no marks in the book. The spine is nice and tight. It is in perfect… Read More

This is a first edition of A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War, written by the Canadian historians Jack Granatstein and Desmond Morton (1937-2019).

It discusses how Canada developed during the war, with women entering the workforce, industry booming and old traditions and loyalties were swept away.

287 pages with lots of maps and photos. The dust jacket (unclipped) has some yellowing to the edges; the book itself is in perfect condition.

This is an unread copy of The New Morningside Papers, the second volume of letters, opinion and stories by the famed Canadian journalist and broadcaster Peter Gzowski (1934-2002). Gzowski hosted various shows on CBC Radio for 30 years; his pieces are funny, sad, entertaining and informative.I say that this is a first edition because I don't believe that his books were ever issued in hardcover. If they were, the soft cover editions were issued in the same year. I've only seen them in 6" x 9" trade paperback, which is what this copy is. 408 pages, with little illustrations.This book has never been read, or even opened. But the paper has darkened quite a bit. The covers have a tiny bit of shelfwear, just at the edges. Other than that, it's perfect.

This is a mint-condition first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume III, 1921-1929. It is volume 3 of 5 of the diaries of the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), who is best known for writing the Anne of Green Gables series.
It is 443 pages, including 98 photographs, a map and 2 drawings.This copy is pristine: there is not a mark in it or on it.

This is two matching paperbacks of early works of the Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (1931-2001).They're a bit hard to find.Son of a Smaller Hero
is Richler's 2nd novel, published in 1955. It is gritty and realistic and is about an idealistic young Jewish man rebelling against the social and cultural divides in Montreal.A Choice of Enemies
is his 3rd novel, published in 1957. It is set in London, where writers and filmmakers are living to escape the McCarthy witch hunts. As their idealism becomes more rigid, the protagonist is forced to take sides.These copies were purchased in 1982. A Choice of Enemies was read once; Son of a Smaller Hero has not been read. Their front endpapers have a small signature and the paper has darkened somewhat, but they have very little shelfwear and no damage.

This is the fifth novel from the brilliant Canadian novelist Gail Anderson-Dargatz, published in 2016. It takes place in the Thompson-Shuswap region of British Columbia, specifically around a bend in the river where the salmon run.
On one side of the river is a ranch once owned by Eugene Robertson, who came in the gold rush around 1860. On the other side is a Shuswap community that has its own tangled history with the river--and the whites. At the heart of the novel are Hannah and Brandon Robertson, teenagers who have been raised by their grandfather after they lost their mother. As the novel opens, the river is dying, its flow reduced to a trickle, and Hannah is carrying salmon past the choke point to the spawning grounds while her childhood best friend, Alex, leads a Native protest against the development further threatening the river. When drowning nearly claims the lives of both Hannah's grandfather and her little brother, their world is thrown into chaos.
This is a pristine first edition. It has… Read More

This is a first edition of The Vanishing Point, the third novel by the Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), best known for his famous book Who Has Seen the Wind.
It is a controversial novel about white-native relations; it is about a white teacher working on the Paradise Reserve in the Alberta foothills who must search for his prize pupil when she goes missing.
393 pages, brown cloth. The cover of this book is not in good shape. There is a mark to the side of the book and staining to the back endpaper, which you can remove if you like. Other than that, the book appears to have not been read and is in perfect condition.

This is a first edition of Why I Didn't Say Anything -- The Sheldon Kennedy Story. The title refers to why Kennedy kept secret the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his Minor League hockey coach, Graham James. In 1996, after trauma-related drug and alcohol abuse derailed Kennedy's NHL career, he publicly told his story; James was sent to prison but is now out and coaching in Europe.234 pages with a few photos.This copy is in mint condition, although there is one dogeared page (19).