The Romance Of the Canadian Canoe

First edition. With dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with red titles on spine. Colour plate as frontispiece. Three additional colour plates and several b&w plates. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled; torn and chipped around edges; faded on spine. Boards with mild edge wear; slight discolouration at top edge; slightly wrinkled near lower edge on rear board and spine. Pages clean. Binding… Read more about this item

First edition. With dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with red titles on spine. Colour plate as frontispiece. Three additional colour plates and several b&w plates. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled; torn and chipped around edges; faded on spine. Boards with mild edge wear and a few marks. Pages clean. Binding firm.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Ryerson Press, 1951. 145pp. with b/w and colour illustrations. Previous owners name/address on the front free endpaper, light creasing from page handling and soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears, large chipping, graze marks, creasing and soiling. Actual book for sale pictured. 18 x 23.7 x 2cm, wt800g. Hard Cover. VG/G. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

hard covers, showing light handling, very good plus condition/. (ss114)

Toronto: Ryerson Press, [1951]., 1951. 8vo. pp. xiv, 145. coloured frontis. 3 coloured plates. 16 double-sided black & white plates. cloth. dw. (severely torn & chipped). First Edition.. F. Hardcover.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. Author "traces the story of discovery annd explorationn, of trade and commerce, war and peace, and shows how the canoe has followed the course in an almost spectacular way. He quotes from letters and journals until the canoe at times seems to become a living partner in the… Read more about this item

Toronto: Ryerson Pr., 1951. First printing.. Lrg 8vo. xiv+145 pp. Colour frontis + 3 colour plates. 32 pp b/w plates from diagrams, paintings and photos. Illus in text. Yellow coth. A very good clean copy, lacks dustwrapper. A lovely book..