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Alberta Archaeology: A Handbook for Amateurs
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High River, AB: Privately Printed, 1971 Tan printed paper wraps, black titles, [xii], 140 pp, 19 b & w photo plates, 23 figures, additional drawings in appendix. Small tear to bottom of front joint, slight edge wear. Contents: introduction; weapons of the Indians; artifacts (stone, bone, trade); sites (categorized); recovery & processing of artifacts; elephants & buffalo; dating; natural formations; glossary, pictorial index. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 2nd ptg. Wraps. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm. more information
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This Was the North
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New York: Crown Publishers, 1975 Quarter tan cloth, tan paper-covered boards, blue titles on spine, [xi], 244 pp, many b & w photographs. DJ spine somewhat faded; in Brodart archival cover. The author went north in 1922 as a greenhorn clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company, and later as a prospector. These are his reminiscences of learning how to survive and thrive in the far north. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm. more information
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Daniel Perron dit Suire, 1638-1678: Une Existence dans l'Ombre du Père
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Laval, PQ: Guy Perron, 1990 Grey, green & white covers, 210, [4] pp, notes, bibliography, index. In addition to being a life of Daniel Perron, this is a history (in French) of his descendents in Canada and the United States. Shipping weight 2 lbs... Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 22½ X 15½ cm. more information
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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory: Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
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Quebec: Presses COMÉDITEX, 1979 White pictorial wraps (only subtitle on spine), xi, 189 pp, 135 figures, 8 plates, index. Covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Originally published in 1894 as pages 165-350 of the Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Turner's study is "one of the first monographs written in the history of anthropology, ... the first throrough account ever published about the Northern inhabitants of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula," and "the last one to depict their traditional way of life." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm. more information
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Mistress of Thornhedge
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Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1955 Signed by Author recto ffep; Green cloth-textured paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, 320 pp. Corners & spine ends rubbed, a few spots to fore-edge, owner's name & address on recto of ffep. DJ tattered at corners & head of spine, old tape repair to head of spine, a few brown spots (largest about 1 cm) from an old spill on rear panel, 2 cm closed tear at bottom of front joint; in Brodart archival cover. Historical fiction set in Quebec, near Montreal. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/VG-. 21 X 14½ cm. more information
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