(ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS)

Alcoholics Anonymous; The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism

New York City, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-916856-00-3). 1993, 3rd edition,46th printing. (hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 575pp. 8vo. Well-known blue dust jacket, writing in white; minimal wear to edges, light rubbing. Dark blue cloth boards, text in bronze on spine, ISBN in bronze at bottom of rear board. This copy filled with warm inscriptions from a supportive group and faint highlighting of reader's most valued passages.

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Book number: 121986

Catalogue: Health and Medicine

Keywords: Alcoholism, Addictions, Alcohol, Alcoholism 0916856003

(ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS)

Alcoholics Anonymous; The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism

New York City, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-916856-00-3). 1978, 3rd edition, 5th printing. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xxx, 575pp. 8vo. Lacking well-known blue dust jacket. Dark blue cloth boards, lettering in bronze to spine, ISBN in bronze to foot of bottom board, title lightly in blind to top board. Cloth with some faint dirtying from rubbing, shelfwear. Internally, with a full-page obituary for Dr. Robert Gordon Bell, who was the founder of the Donwood Institute and Canada's foremost authority on the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction; obituary in envelope taped to ffep. Previous owner's name above title on half-title page. Else internally clean. A sound, square copy.

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Book number: 128593

Catalogue: Health and Medicine

Keywords: Alcoholism, Addictions, Alcohol, Alcoholism 0916856003

(BUFFON)

Buffon's Natural History of Birds

Edinburgh, W. Darling. [circa 1800]. (12mo, wrappers) Good to very good. Unpaginated - 8 pages printed one side each with a hand-colored illustration of a bird (heron, golden eagle, domestic cock, eagle owl, bittern, pheasant, crane) accompanied by a sentence or 2 of text. No date - ca early 19th century. Yellow paper wraps later sewn; rear cover reads "The Good Child's Pretty Museum of Birds". Covers soiled, creased, chipped, one corner (lower rt ft) missing. Pages edge worn, not critically affecting text, except one closed tear across the Crane. Aged but most characterful and appealing.

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Book number: 203317

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Natural Science - Birds, Ornithology

RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF THE GAP #39

Builders of a Great Land; History of the R.M. Of the Gap No. 39, Ceylon and Hardy

Ceylon, History Committee. (ISBN: 0-88925-082-0). 1980, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good. vii, 622pp. 4to, illus. ports. facs. maps. Mapped EPs. Second copy inferior.

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Book number: 122913

Catalogue: Canadiana

Keywords: Saskatchewan, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Genealogy, Local Histories, Saskatchewan 0889250820

(BURNHAM, CATHERINE LYDIA)

Can and Can't Series

New York, Leavitt and Allen. 1870. (16mo) Very good plus. 3 volumes: I CAN; or, CHARLIE'S MOTTO. I CAN'T; or, NELLY and LUCY. I'LL TRY; or, SENSIBLE DAISY. Frontispiece, illus. A beautiful, bright gilt, green cloth set. Victorian Christian inspiration for little folks.

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Book number: 110198

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Victoriana

(READERS)

The Canadian Readers Book V

Toronto, W.J. Gage & Co. / T. Nelson & Sons. 1923. (hardcover) Good. 416p. 12mo. In original olive cloth boards, printed in black. Wear to edges. Spot of puckered cloth to top board. Previous owner's dated signature to ffep. Lacking frontispiece, with front leaves (to p.17) loose. Very occasional underlining in pencil, else clean. Illus. ports. Verso title-page states copyright 1922. "Authorized for Use in the Public Schools of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.".

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Book number: 119186

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Readers, Juvenile, Primers

(READERS)

The Canadian Readers Book II

Toronto, W.J. Gage & Co. / T. Nelson & Sons. 1927. (hardcover) Near fine. 160p. 12mo. In original olive cloth boards, top cover and spine printed in black. Minimal dirt / edgewear and head and heel bumped. No crayons! No names! No sticky fingerprints! Remarkably bright, tight, and clean. In unusually fine condition for a reader. Frontispiece, illus. "Authorized for Use in the Public Schools of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.".

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Book number: 119784

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Readers, Juvenile, Primers

(RED CROSS)

The Canadian Red Cross

Toronto, the Red Cross. 1922, 1st Edition. (4to, cloth) Very good. Vols. I - V (Feb.'22 - Dec.'26), illustrated. Bound in generally shelf worn boards. Front hinge started; rear tender. Some ex-lib rubber stamps on endpapers and within. The issues however are entirely bright and clean.

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Book number: 203341

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Red Cross, Canada, Military

(CHILDREN'S READERS)

The Canadian Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories; No.Ix

Toronto, Copp Clark Co.. [circa 1900]. (Pictorial cover) Very good. 144pp. Frontispiece, illus. Soiling to light colour boards as usual; spine torn with a small piece missing from tail. Front joint tender and torn. No stated date of publication, but a former owner's inscription on endpaper is dated 1908. Anthology of short writings for children and youths, illustrated with some colour.

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Book number: 203350

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

(READERS)

The Canadian Readers Book V

Toronto, W.J. Gage & Co. / T. Nelson & Sons. 1931. (hardcover) Good. 416p. 12mo. In original olive cloth boards, printed in black. Boards show the usual wear of small fingers; rear cover drawn on in graphite, red ink to emblem on top cover; boards rubbed. Frontispiece lacking. Discolouration (like foxing) from p.252-265, due to some matter which was spilled on p.258 (most certainly the continued minstrels of little fingers). Illus. Verso title-page states copyright 1922. "Authorized for Use in the Public Schools of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.".

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Book number: 203547

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Readers, Juvenile, Primers

(CANADA)

The Canadian Record; a Permanent Record of Canadian Men and Matters in 1937-8

London, James Cond (Canada) Ltd.. 1938, 1st Edition. (4to) Very good plus. 607pp. Illus. ports. maps. Full leather buffalo-embossed and printed covers with gilt-printed spine, raised bands, the whole showing remarkably little shelf wear. Marbled endpapers. A.e.g. Thumb index tabs. Many colour and b / w illustrations. The whole late-Depression, pre-War shootin' match, a grand copy.

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Book number: 203839

Catalogue: Canadiana

Keywords: Canada

(ODD FELLOWS)

I.O.O.F. Catalogue

Toronto, the Dominion Regalia Co.. [circa 1900], 1st Edition. (Oblong 4to) Very good plus. 84pp. Lightly shelf worn. Regalia Paraphernalia and Jewels.

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Book number: 203203

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Fraternal Organizations, Service Clubs

(POPE, A.?)

Characters and Observations; an 18th Century Manuscript

London, John Murray. 1930. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 296pp. The wrapper, which has sustained some soiling, slight general edge wear, and spotting to spine, has succeeded in keeping the boards and back in immaculate condition. Facsimiles. Foreword by Lord Gorell.

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Book number: 202258

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-British

Chisel and Brush / le Ciseau Et la Brosse

Ottawa, Indian and Northern Affairs. (ISBN: 0-662-53532-4). 1984. (Mass market paperback) Very good. Unpaginated (20 pages, including wrappers). 8vo. Light wear to wrappers. Internally clean. Illus. B&W photos. Text in French and English. Volume detailing Inuit Stonecut and Stencil prints. Published under the authority of the Hon. David E. Crombie, Minister of Indian Affairs, and Northern Development.

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Book number: 118567

Catalogue: Canadiana

Keywords: Inuit Art, Aboriginal Art, Art, Canadian Art, Canadian North, Eskimo, Eskimo Art, Inuit, North, Northern Canada 0662535324

The Cofeld Judaic Museum of Temple Beth Zion; An Illustrated Catalog of the Collection

Buffalo, New York, Temple Beth Zion. (ISBN: 0-9614868-2-1). 1985. (boards) Fine in fine dust jacket. 180pp. Dark blue textured boards with silver gilt lettering to front and spine. Frontispiece. Signed by Rabbi Goldberg. B&W photographs. White and tight throughout.

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Book number: 113327

Catalogue: Undetermined

Keywords: Antiquities, Antiquities, Judaism 0961486821