Quarter Stake Echoes Area South of Shaunavon

Shaunavon, SK, South Shaunavon History Club, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. vi, 494.Large 4to,,One quarter of pp. 295/296 cut out (photo, probably), Some soiling & a bit of staining to boards. Endpapers spotted; else tight and in good plus condition. ISBN 0889250758. Ill.: maps, b&w photographs.

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Book number: 9900035931

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Saskatchewan;;;;;;;; maps, b&w photographs

Radio Parts Handbook 1937

Montreal, PQ, Payette & Co, 1937. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 87. 4to. Card covers lightly worn and soiled, one corner frayed: good+. A fully illustrated parts catalog of tubes, transformers, capacitors, speakers, etc. with index to items at end. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900042146

Catalogue: Science & Technology

Keywords: Electronics;;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

Rbc Canadian Painting Competition 2016

Toronto, Royal Bank of Canada, 2016. Paperback. pp. 48. 8vo. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; else very good-. .

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Book number: 069651

Catalogue: Canadian Art

Re/Imagining Winnipeg; 2nd Edition

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2012. Paperback. Unpaginated. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; else very good-. .

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Book number: 069649

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Winnipeg; Local; Manitoba;

Recollections of Eton. By an Etonian. With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall

New York City, Harper & Brothers, 1870. Wraps. pp. 126, ads. 8vo. A scarce and unusual item, written as a novella in a style which precedes, but is similar to, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' (first published in 1858 and again in an 1885 edition also illustrated by Sydney Hall). Our copy is in the original printed paper wraps, with a full-page advertisement for three of Harper's magazines on the back cover and a two-page detailed list of 'Harper's Library of Select Novels' preceding the title page. The novella is divided into two parts: 'The Lower Boy' and 'The Upper Boy', both of 14 chapters. The covers are soiled, the spine heavily chipped, and the page edges ragged. There are spots of foxing and soiling in the text which remains, however, perfectly readable. The rather small type is set in double columns. Still a good copy. The author is not identified by there are suggestions that it was Charles Frederick Johnstone, about whom very little, if anything, is known. It must have been fairly popular with American readers as Harper's 1880 annual catalog still lists it for sale, and still in paper wraps (as is our copy). Harcourt's ''Eton Bibliography' notes that this title was first published in 1825 as one of a collection of Eton-related novellas; and then again in 1842 as an edited version of only 45 pages in Hood's 'New Monthly Magazine and Humorist', and again in 1864 by Bracebridge, and finally in 1870 by Chapman and Hall (presumably with somewhat larger type as the entry indicates 362 pages. Our offering, and the 1870 London edition, would appear to be the only ones with the delightful Sydney Hall illustrations. It is curious that Harcourt does not record the Harper edition. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900045112

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Private school;Eton;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

Red Detachment of Women

Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1971. Contains 16 colour postcards depicting various scenes from Red Detachment of Women. Light shelfwear; very good-. .

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Book number: 075556

Catalogue: History

Keywords: China; Politics; Chairman Mao;

Relation Du Voyage de Son Altesse Royale le Prince de Galles En Amerique

Montreal, Eusebe Senécal, 1860. Hardcover. pp. 148 ((I-III) IV-XXVII). 8vo. Bound in textured blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Text in French. Contains duotone engravings. Scuffing to spine and edges, overall shelfwear, ffep incised, ink inscription and penciling to initial pages, light foxing and discoloured spotting throughout; binding tight and contents clean; very good-. Reproduit de "Journal de l'Instruction Publique du Bas-Canada.

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Book number: 086993

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Francais; Prince of Wales; King Edward VII; Albert Edward; Colonialism; British Monarchy; Quebec

Report of the Assessment and Taxation Commission / 1919

Winnipeg, MBy, Province of Manitoba, 1919. 1st edition. pp. 217.8vo,,Card covers sl. thumbed. Conts. unmarked & tight. Very good copy, With 27 folding graphs at end and several folding tables of statistical information. 'Withdrawn' rubber stamp on front. wrappers.

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Book number: 9900030952

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Property tax;Municipality;Taxing power;;;;;;

Report of the Executive Committee of the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice

Boston, MA, 1882. 1st printing. 8vo. An original four-page printed report with printed insert. Outside pages soiled, esp. at margins. A few creases. Insert sl. worn. Overall, both documents in good, or better, condition. The New England Society for the Suppression of Vice (NESSV) was founded in Boston in 1878 by a group of Boston residents following a speech given by Anthony Comstock (who founded a similar society in New York in 1873). The NESSV was mainly concerned with the censorship or banning (hence the term 'Banned in Boston') of books and public performances which are deemed by the Society to be unsuitable for the public. Their mission statement declares that the Society exists for 'the suppression of all agencies tending to corrupt the morals of youth. We do this by the most effective means - moral or legal.' The NESSV subsequently changed is name to the 'New England Watch and Ward Society', and then again, in 1957, to the 'New England Citizens Crime Commission'. It ceased to function in 1975. Our offering is a rare original copy of one of the Society's earliest reports, printed less than four years after the NESSV was formed. In it, Frederick Baylies Allen, the Society's Secretary, sets out the accomplishments of the Society for the past year (some of which are quite remarkable, especially to those of us engaged in the trade of selling books). The Secretary's Report is followed by a financial statement, and then a list of officers and committee members. The insert contains a solicitation for financial donations to the NESSV. WorldCat reports one holding (Harvard) of a document bearing this title, but it is not clear whether it is an annual report, and in any event, in which form (original, microfiche, e-book, etc.) it is being held. .

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Book number: 9900045113

Catalogue: Race & Gender

Keywords: Morality;Morals;;;;;;;

Report of the Duchess of Connaught Memorial Hostel; November, 1919 to November, 1928

London, Bedford Place, 1929. Hardcover. pp. 15. 8vo. Ex libris. Bound in burgundy cloth. Light shelfwear, sticker ghost, ink inscriptions and rubber stamp to ffep, rubber stamp to title page, library pouch pasted to rfep; very good. .

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Book number: 090864

Catalogue: Canadian History

Research on the Unification Principle Seminars of Korean Scholars on Unification Ideology

Seoul, Republic of Korea, Song Hwa Press, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 304.Heavy 8vo,,Near fine cond. in sl. scuffed & soiled; else vg dust jacket, Papers from ten seminars at which the Unification Principle was examined and discussed by 49 scholars. Translated from Korean. .

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Book number: 9900030969

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Unification Church;Korea;Korean thought;;;;;;

Revolutionary Songs of China

[Beijing], China Welfare Institute], 1968. Stapled Wraps. pp. 24. 4to. Card covers creased and lightly-soiled, with some turning of the corners; very good-. Supplement to CHINA RECONSTRUCTS, 1968. .

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Book number: 074485

Catalogue: Music

Riverside Heritage 1896-1996

Dunrea, MB, Riverside Centennial Comm, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. vi, 802.Heavy 4to,,Near fine condition, This is a heavy book. Please consult us as to costs and options to ship. ISBN 1550562800. Ill.: maps, b&w photographs.

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Book number: 9900035949

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Manitoba;;;;;;;; maps, b&w photographs

Rosh Pina Congregation Honors Rabbi Shalom Rappaport / Commemorating 36th Anniversary of the New Rosh Pina Synagogue

Winnipeg, MB, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 219. 4to. Near fine condition. Published by the Rosh Pina Synagogue of Winnipeg, Manitoba, to celebrate its 36th anniversary and to honor its departing rabbi. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900035640

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: Jew;Jewish;Winnipeg;;;;;; black-and-white photographs

Rossbrook House 1976-1986

Winnipeg, MB, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover.4to,,A bit of shelf wear, else unmarked and in very good condition, Unpaginated, and with neither a date of publication, or publisher's name shown. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900043577

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Aboriginal;Winnipeg;;;;;;; black-and-white photographs