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Longmans Canada, (Don Mills, Ontario, 1965).. 243 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, reproductions. "...actual eyewitness accounts of day-to-day life in the growing city (of Montreal), from Isaac Weld's report of his visit in July, 1796, when Montreal contained twelve hundred hou. ses, 'whereof 500 only were within the walls', to W.G. Radford's recollections of the nineties when horse-cars only ran to Greene Avenue and a Victorian family on its way to church on Sun... more information

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Ecco, Hopewell, New Jersey, 1992.. 337 pp, trade paperback (approx. 8" H). ISBN 0880015195 "In volume two of 'Following the Equator', Mark Twain's lecturing tour around the world takes him to Ceylon, India, and South Africa, where he continues his chronicle of wonders both great an. d small. Whether comparing the rowdy Indian blackbird to its less impressive American cousin, quoting from the official handbook of the brotherhood of thugs - a sect of professional murderers - or bri... more information

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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1966, second printing.. 237 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This first book-length intellectual biography and assessment of the career of Edmund Wilson not only is revealing about one of our most eminent men of letters but also a contribution to our . literary and cultural history....Literary critic, social reporter, travel writer, poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, chronicler and historican - (Wilson) perhaps is the last of... more information

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Key Porter, (Toronto), 1995, Ist ed.. 370 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map eps. Begins with the establishment of New France on the St. Lawrence River and the Fench conflicts with the Indians and British of the Atlantic colonies - the latter ending with the Engl. ish defeat at Yorktown. It then moves on through the Civil War, battling with native Indians and the story of U.S. and Canadian forces in WWII. Light wrinkling at bottom of spine, small dint at bottom edge of rear... more information

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U. of Chigaco Press, Chicago, (1968), Ist ed.. 624 pp, 8vo, hardcover in slipcase. Paul Angle has collected the impressions of travelers and settlers who saw Illinois at all stages of its history. The material ranges from letters to friends and diaries that were never intended for publication,. to formal travel accounts. Pictorial eps. Maps. Very minor edge wear to boards, shallow line indent to bottom of textblock. Slipcase has light to moderate edge wear, light soiling, and rubbing, a few small ... more information

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Macmillan Canada, Toronto, (1995), Ist Canadian edition.. 312 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, drawings, reproductions of book and magazine covers and author signatures, etc. "Covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and l. avishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, (this book) presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into t... more information

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HarperFlamingo / Phyllis Bruce, Toronto, 2002, first edition.. 438 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0002000652 Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Why does Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake, the nineteenth century daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English gentlewoman continue to haunt our. collective imagination? When the beautiful poetess Pauline Johnson swept onto the stage in her buckskin 'Indian' outfit and bear claw necklace or one of her elegant silk e... more information

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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1980).. 164 pp, large 8vo (10 1/4"), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0802023630 70 watercolors by E.J. Revell. "In seventy exquisite watercolours E.J. Revell has captured the beauty of plants found by early travellers in North America - from Ash to Winte. rgreen, Bittersweet to Wappatoo, the common Bedstraw and the uncommon Camass, the edible Fiddlehead and the ubiquitous Dandelion. Accompanying each painting are quotations from a variety of explorers ... more information

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Crowood, Ramsbury, Marlborough, 2000, first edition.. 192 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1861263198 Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, drawings, diagrams, reproductions. "The Supreme Allied Commander in World War Two, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on. ce said that the jeep was one of the three tools that won the War, and today's Jeep Wrangler and Cherokee models are its direct descendants. The US Army requirement was for a light recon... more information

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Boston Mills Press, Cheltenham, Ontario, 1979.. 128 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0919822231 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "At a time when man was fighting man on the Continent of Europe, a fledgling group of fliers was forming in Canada under the guidance . of officers of the Royal Flying Corps. This history follows the corps from its inception to its airfield at Camp Borden thence down to its training center in Texas and back again to its home in Beam... more information

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