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1) CHANSONS DE CHEZ-NOUS
Albert, Renaud S. (editor)

Bedford, NH: National Materials Development Center French & Portuguese, 1978. . Blue softcover. Julie D. Albert.. VERY GOOD minimal ex-library (spine sticker, stamp inside front cover, title-page & p31 debossed with library stamp, no pocket; light edgewear, 1/4" snag spine head; otherwise clean & sound). "Collection of thirty-one...of the best-known songs of the Francophone world." Will ship 500g. 61 pages: drawings throughout; 28cm.. (more information)

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2) LE TIGRE
Allen, Judy (adaptation francaise de Maryam Ghassemi)

Paris: Gründ (©1992). . Glossy hardcover-cartonné. Very Good Plus. Tudor Humphries.. Dans une lointaine contrée d'Asie s'élève un jour une rumeur: Il y a un tigre dans la forêst! Les villageois projettent de le tuer: sa chair a des vertus magiques, sa peau leur donnera beaucoup d'argent. Refusant la mort du tigre, Lee espère bien que le Chasseur va échouer. Mais il ne s'agit pas d'un chasseur ordinaire. . . " Unpaginated [30p]: watercolour illustrations every page; 29cm. VERY GOOD PLUS (light shelfwear, gift inscription blank page, light erasure free-front endpaper). No dj. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. [30p]: ill. ; 29cm. 345g.. (more information)

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3) L'UNIVERS DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES. Volumes 1 - 6
Barnier, Lucien (preface)

Grolier, 1971.. Blue hardcovers. 6 volumes (1440 pages): well illustrated with colour illustrations, photos; 30cm. VERY GOOD minimal ex-library (usual stamps otherwise clean, tight & bright). Encyclopédie jeunesse. Wide range of scientific facts explained for the young adult - nice set for home schooling / French immersion. (more information)

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4) GADGETS ÉLECTRISANTS: Fabrique des trucs et bidules à piles
Bartholomew, Alan.,

Markham: Les éditions Scholastic (©2002).. Softcover-souple. Very Good. Lynn Bartholomew.. Traduction de "Electric Mishief", pour les jeunes de 7 a 12 ans. "Ce livre aux indications claires et aux illustrations détaillées fera de toi un véritable crack des trucs à piles. " VERY GOOD (slight edgewear, tips creased; interior clean and sound). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code A" in our terms]. 48p: colour illustrations; 25cm. 153g.. (more information)

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5) SECRETS ET RECETTES DE MA GRAND-MERE
Benoit, Jehane

Saint-Lambert, QC: Les editions Heritage (©1996), second printing.. Softcover - broché, spirale. Near Very Good. Gros caracteres (large print), cuisine canadienne-francaise (French Canadian cuisine). NEAR VERY GOOD (slight edgewear and shelfwear, pale bottom-edge and fore-edge stain otherwise interior clean and sound). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code B" in our terms]. 159p: ill.; 23cm. 245g.. Large print - gros caracteres.. (more information)

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6) QUÉBEC AU XIXe SIÈCLE: L'Activité économique des grands marchands
Bervin, George

Sillery, QC: Septentrion (1991). . Softcover-broché. Near Fine. The merchants & their diverse economic activity in Québec in the 19th century. In French. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. 290 pages + 8: illustrated; 23cm.. (more information)

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7) LES BRONZES D'ALFRED LALIBERTÉ Collection du Musée du Québec. légendes coutumes métiers. {Laliberte Musee Quebec legendes metiers}
Bouchard, Laurent, (director)

Québec: Ministére des Affaires culturelles (©1978).. Softcover. 216 pages: 190 works reproduced, 5 black & white photos; 23cm. Chronology, Index of Works, Bibliography. VERY GOOD PLUS (very light shelfwear, no defects). Small bronzes depicting early Québécoises at work. Will ship 1 kg. (more information)

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8) BIBLIOGRAPHY of CANADIAN LAW - New Edition / BIBLIOGRAPHIE du DROIT CANADIEN - Nouvelle Edition
Boult, Reynald

Ottawa: Canadian Law Information Council / Conseil Canadien de la Documentation Juridique, 1977. Second edition.. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt. VERY GOOD PLUS (slight sign of use/shelfwear; owner stamp free-front endpaper; one light highlight in Table of Contents ("droits de l'homme"). 10,941 entries of primary & secondary sources classified into twenty-five main categories, each further sub-divided, covering all aspects of both the French and English derived legal systems of Canada. Replaces the first edition of 1966 and followed by supplements, the first of which appeared in 1982. Authored by Librarian of the Supreme Court of Canada. Forematter bilingual. Author & subject indexes. 661 pages; 26cm.. (more information)

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9) IL FAUT SE BIEN TENIR: quand on est tout petit. [French translation of "Good Posture in the Little Child"]
Brown, Alan; G.B. Wiswell; Donat Lapointe; L.P. MacHaffie; R.R. MacGregor

IL FAUT SE BIEN TENIR: quand on est tout petit. [French translation of "Good Posture in the Little Child"]
Ottawa: ministere de la Sante nationale, 1948.. Softcover. VERY GOOD PLUS (minor creasing, sticker front cover, numbers title-page). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code A" in our terms] . 24 pages: 2-tone illustrations; 19cm.. (more information)

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10) HISTOIRE DU CANADA PAR LES TEXTES, 3e édition
Brunet, Michel / Guy Frégault / Marcel Trudel

Montréal / Paris: Fides, 1961 (c1952).. Red hardcover. Includes four maps (1763, 1774, 1783, & 1867) in-texte, and two endpaper maps (Nouvelle-France, Confederation entry dates); index. This copy a bit rough, having been the property of a school commission, but still in GOOD working order (3p w/ some ink marks) in a FAIR dustjacket (taped). 105 extracts from documents the compilers, historians from the Universities of Montreal, Ottawa, and Laval, respectively, consider essential to the study of Canadian history, each preceeded by a brief introduction and bibliographical summary. From Jacques Cartier's sail up the St. Lawrence in 1535 to WW II (up to 1939). In French. 297 pages; 24cm.. (more information)

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11) GARNEAU. At the Margins of the Nameable - Reflections on the Paintings of Marc Garneau
Campbell, James D. (text). Réal Lussier (preface)

Quebec: Galerie Madeleine Lacerte / Galerie Trois Points (©1990). Exhibition catalogue. . Softcover. 79 pages: 32 colour plates, exhibition card layed-in; 28cm. NEAR FINE (both covers slightly flaired out). In English et traduit de l'anglais par Alain Caven. (more information)

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12) UNE BONNE ET HEUREUSE ANNEE
Carrier, Roch

Montreal: Livres Toundra (©1991).. Glossy hardcover-cartonné. Very Good Plus. Gilles Pelletier.. VERY GOOD PLUS (clean and sound, light wear to spine ends and tips). Non paginé [22p]: colour illustrations; 22cm oblong. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. [22p]: ill.; 22cm. oblong. 363g.. (more information)

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13) MA ROUTE ET MES CHANSONS 1900-1950
Chevalier, Maurice

Paris: René Julliard (©1950).. Petite Edition Illustrée. . Blue illustrated wraps. Near Very Good. NEAR VERY GOOD (slight edgewear with 3 small tears bottom edge, p18 tape repaired, otherwise sound). In French. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code B" in our terms]. 254 pages: photos; 19cm. 249g.. (more information)

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14) KAYOALUK: De la Bretagne au Nord canadien: Pierre Henry, Oblat de Marie Immaculee Missionnaire des Inuit 1904-1979. (French edition of Kajualuk, Pierre Henry, Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Apostle of the Innuit)
Choque, Charles

[Montreal]: [Au Conseil des Arts du Canada] (©1982). . Softcover. VERY GOOD (clean & sound; slight edgewear; 7 numbers penned free-rear endpaper). "Kayoaluk, Oblat de Marie Immaculée... Un coeur de feu dans les glaces polaires".In French. Will ship 500g. 289 pages: black & white photos; 20cm. . (more information)

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15) ACTES DE LA COMMISSION DES REVENDICATIONS DES INDIENS: Numéro spécial sur les droits fonciers issus de traités. (1996) 5 ACRI
Commission des revendications des Indiens (Daniel J. Bellegarde & P.E. James Prentice, coprésidents)

ACTES DE LA COMMISSION DES REVENDICATIONS DES INDIENS: Numéro spécial sur les droits fonciers issus de traités. (1996) 5 ACRI
Ottawa: Groupe Communication Canada (©1996). . Softcover. Fine. Rapports: "Première Nation de Fort McKay", "Première Nation de Kawacatoose", "de la bande indienne de Lac la Ronge". Document relié aux revendications particulières: "Les droits fonciers issus de traités. Historique." by Donna Gordon. Résponses: "Résponse du gouvernement du Canada au rapport d'enquête sur les droits fonciers issus de traités de la Première Nation de Fort McKay". [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code D" in our terms].. [see book #4431 for English version] 572p: maps, black & white photos; 23cm. Appendices. . (more information)

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16) CLAUDE TOUSIGNANT
Corbeil, Danielle

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada (1973). . Softcover. Very Good. Colour illustrated wraps with turn-ins. English / French. 23 pages: black & white illustrations; 21cm sq.. (more information)

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17) DICTIONNAIRE FILMOGRAPHIQUE.../ FILMOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY of WORLD LITERATURE / FILMOGRAPHISCHES LEXIKON.../ FILMOGRAFISCH LEXICON
Daisne, Johan (Dr. Herman Thiery)

Ghent (Belgium): E. Story - Scientia (©1971; ©1975). . Blue hardcover with silver. 2 volumes, (681p; 824p): each with a colour frontis & black & white plates; 26cm. Ex-library (non-circulating reference). Books: VERY GOOD to NEAR FINE (library marks, tape residues). Dustjackets: VERY GOOD (tape residues inside). Coated paper. 2 vols of 3 vols set (A-K & L-Z), each in three parts: I. Partie filmographique: 640pp of filmography in alphabetical order by author - entries give film title, book title (if different), country & year of production (including alternate or remake info), director, actors (sometimes their roles). II. Partie illustrative: illustrations in alphabetical order of author's name - 436pp of black & white plates, most one film still per page. III. Index titres avec renvoi aux auteurs: 247pp of comprehensive alphabetical index by title (books and films) cross-referenced to authors. Lacking Supplement which was later published in 1978. Entries in the originating language, but French is the language of default for additional comment & transliteration. The prodigious collection of a lifetime's work "...to illustrate how the whole of literature forms the basis of the seventh art", with special attention to the "so-called minor" writers. Daisne, pseudonym of Herman Thiery (1912 - 1978), was a member of the Royal Flemish Academy for Language and Literature, the Union de la Critique de Cinéma, and was Chief Librarian of the City of Ghent. A prolific Flemish writer, some of his own fiction has been transformed into film, e.g., "De man die zijn hart kort liet knippen" (1948) into "L'homme au crâne rasé" (1965) - satisfyingly appropriate. Will ship 4 kg. (more information)

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18) L'HISTOIRE DE COATICOOK 1818-1976 (le premier volume de la collection Dans nos Cantons)
Dandenault, Roch

Sherbrooke, Québec: Éditions Sherbrooke (©1976). . Softcover. Very Good. Telephone book size, mostly in French (brief English family bios are in English). VERY GOOD (very light wear, name first blank page, a bit of warping, otherwise clean & sound). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code D" in our terms]. 726p: ill.; 27cm. 1546g.. (more information)

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19) GEOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE: Belgique-Pays-Bas Luxembourg. Tome II
Demangeon, A

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1927, (©1927). Green cloth hardcover. Very Good ex-library (usual marks, pockets) else Near Fine (clean, bright, tight) . 250 pages: cartes (1 en couleurs, double-page), 40 pages of photographies; 28cm. 1304g. Index, Tables des Photographies, Cartes, et Matiéres. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code D" in our terms]. (more information)

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20) POPOL VUH: Le livre des événements Bible américaine des Mayas-Quichés
DesRuisseaux, Pierre avec Daisy Amaya

Paris/Montréal: vlb éditeur & le castor astral (©1987).. No additional printings.. Softcover. NEAR FINE (very light edgewear & bumping). "Cette nouvelle version d'un des plus grands textes sacrés, écrit en quiché peu après la conquête espagnole, vers 1550, et souvent considéré comme le document le plus ancien sur l'histoire de l'humanité - s'inspire d'une toute nouvelle lecture du texte original...". Sacred national book of the Quiché Indians of Guatemala. In French. 191 pages: frontis; 23cm. Bibliography, Index.. (more information)

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21) ARTS INDIENS AU CANADA (Indian Arts in Canada)
Dickason, Olive Patricia

Ottawa: Indian & Northern Affairs (©1972). . No additional printings.. Illustrated hardcover. Rudi Haas, photographer.. 138 pages: 101 numbered black & white & colour plates; 29cm sq. Cover VERY GOOD or better (tips & spine ends slightly worn; rear cover slightly rubbed & scraped). Interior FINE. Text in French. (more information)

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22) HISTOIRE DU MOUVEMENT OUVRIER: Economies. Societes. Civilisations. Tome I: 1830-1871; Tome III: de 1921 a nos jours
Dolleans, Édouard

Paris: Armand Colin (©1936), troisieme edition 1947; (©1953), premier edition.. Printed wraps (softcover). Good. Vol I: GOOD (old tape on spine & tips; aged paper; name half-title). Vol. 3: GOOD (some red pencil marks throughout text; name half-title). Priced for the two volumes. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code D" in our terms]. 2 vol, (397p; 424p): 23cm. 891g.. (more information)

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23) BIBLIOGRAPHIE LINGUISTIQUE DU CANADA FRANCAIS
Dulong, Gaston. (James Geddes & Adjutor Rivard up to 1906)

Québec/Paris: L'Université Laval é Lib. C. Klincksieck, 1966 (©1966). . Pale yellow stiff wraps. VERY GOOD PLUS (light edgewear, spine ends & tips lightly bumped; otherwise clean & sound). Series E: Langue et Littérature Francaises au Canada. 166 pages; 23cm. Indexes.. (more information)

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24) RECHERCHES SOCIOGRAPHIQUES: Situation de la recherche sur le Canada francais
Dumont, Fernand & Yves Martin (editors)

Québec: les presses de l'Université Laval, 1962. . White wraps (softcover). VERY GOOD (slight edgewear, tanning & soiling of cover; name free-front endpaper; price erasure damage to upper corner; otherwise interior is clean and sound). "Premier colloque de la revue "Recherches Sociographiques" du Departement de sociologie et d'anthropologie de l'Universite Laval". 296 pages; 27cm.. (more information)

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25) CADEAUX A CROQUER: les bonnes idees (adaptation francaise par Helene Varnoux)
Eaton, Fiona

Paris: Editions Grund (©1999). . Stated "Premiere edition francaise. Glossy hardcover-cartonne. Near Fine. Friandises au chocolat, truffes, fruits confits, pain d'epices, confitures, huiles d'olive et vinaigres aromatises peuvent constituer autant de petits cadeaux savoureux qui, jolimnent presentes, feront le delice de tous ceux qui aiment les surprises a croquer". Original English title: "Edible Gifts". NEAR FINE (clean and sound, minor wear). 64p: colour photographs; 21cm sq. Index. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. 64p: photographies en colour; 21cm sq. 405g.. (more information)

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26) LES OISEAUX DU NORD DE L'AFRIQUE de la Mer Rouge aux Canaries
Etchecopar, R.D; Francois Hue

Paris: Éditions N. Boubée & Cie, 1964 (©1964).. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Paul Barruel.. The first of the titles initiated by the authors about birds of the arid regions, i.e., "...études sur l'avifaune de la large bande désertique qui borde le sud de la zone paléarctique" (avant-propos). This title covers all of North Africa: Western Sahara, Morocco, northern Mauritania & Mali, Tunisia, most of Algeria & Libya, Egypt and the Sinai. Cream cloth with green titles and debossed range map design. 606 pages: frontispiece map, 22 colour + 2 black & white plates hors-texte, numerous drawings & range maps in-texte; 25cm. General Index and an Index of Bird Names in Arabic and Berber, arranged alphabetically by Latin binomial. Book NEAR FINE (clean, bright & sound, no defects). Illustrated dustjacket GOOD (edgewear with a few small tears + one 1" bottom edge tear). Other published titles cover "Proche et du Moyen-Orient" (1970), "Chine - non-passereaux" (1978), and "Chine - passereaux" (1983). The publisher, Nerée Boubée, died before completion of the project. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code D" in our terms]. 606p: ill.; 25cm. 1247g.. (more information)

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27) TAXIDERMIA: Fish and Reptiles; Poissons et Reptiles; Peces y Reptiles
Facchin, Leonardo

Montreal: HRW Publications (©1974).. First Printing.. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Garcia de la Pena.. A step-by-step guide which takes you through five stages: 1. Skinning; 2. Reconstruction; 3. Assemblage; 4. Finishing; 5. Plaque. Tri-lingual: English, Francais, Espanol. 128 pages: well illustrated with drawings, photos; 25cm. VERY GOOD PLUS (clean & very tight, possibly unread; cover lightly darkened; light erasure free-front endpaper). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code B" in our terms]. 128p: ill.; 25cm. 307g.. (more information)

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28) FIRST CANADIAN CHRISTMAS CAROL: Jesous Ahatonhia, Indian Huron Carol (circa 1641)
Father Jean de Brebeuf (English interpretation by J. Middleton)

FIRST CANADIAN CHRISTMAS CAROL: Jesous Ahatonhia, Indian Huron Carol (circa 1641)
Provincial Paper Ltd., no date. . Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stanley F. Turner.. A nicely illustrated book, with words (in English & French) and music to the carol along with a brief history. Green boards with gilt title & decoration on black. Unpaginated [16 pages]: colour illustrations (3 full-page); 24cm. Musical notation. NEAR FINE (clean, bright & sound, light wear to spine ends & tips). No dj. [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code B" in our terms]. [16p]: ill.; 24cm. . (more information)

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29) HYPNOTISME ET MAGNETISME: Cours Pratique
Filiatre, Jean

Bellevue: Cosne-D'Allier, Librairie A. Filiatre, no date [early 20th C.]. . Red printed sewn wraps. Near Very Good. Complete in one volume, 'modern' hypnotism course. NEAR VERY GOOD (clean & sound; spine faded, edgewear with a few short tears). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. 384p; 20cm. 504g.. (more information)

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30) L'ART D'EDUQUER SON CHIEN
Fogle, Dr. Bruce (tranduction-adaption Odile Ricklin)

Montreal: Editions Phidal (©1994). . Glossy hardcover-cartonné . Very Good Plus. Une methode simple et rapide pour eduquer son chien a tout age". Titre original de cet ouvrage: «Complete Dog Training Manual». In French. 128 pages: 300 photographies en couleurs; 26cm. Index. VERY GOOD PLUS (light shelfwear, spine darkened, interior clean and sound). [For exact cost of postage, see "Postage Code C" in our terms]. 128p: ill. ; 26cm. 637g.. (more information)

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