History from Black Sheep Books

Istanbul: MEPA, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9 3/4 - 12" oblong. Red cloth with blindstamped titling to front, gorgeous full-colour illustrations throughout. Complete with dust jacket and slipcase. Pencilled in name to ffep by Oscar recipient. Minor shelf wear. A stunning coffee table book incredibly detailed and well researched.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. Limited/First Edition. . Full-Leather. Very Good. This handsome volume is a signed, limited edition (#174 of 250) with the addition of an actual page from the original working manuscript of "The White and the Gold". Blue leather with bevelled edges, gilt titling on white spine label, white and gilt… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON: Macmillan, 1954. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Macpherson, Duncan. Title in the "New Historical Series for Young People" of "Great Stories of Canada" This is the full story of the Klondike gold rush from 1896, when gold was discovered, to 1899, when the Nome rush began and the Klondkie rush ended. Amber coloured cloth… Read more about this item

Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1979. Card Cover. Very Good/-. Includes amongst others the articles "City-Building in the Canadian West: A Case Study of Economic Growth in Early Vancouver", "The Decline of Geese and Swans on the Lower Fraser River", "The Seaforths and the Strikers: Nanaimo, August 1913". Light brown card cover with brown illustration and… Read more about this item

Sofia: Sofia Press, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good-/-. Slim soft cover with white titling on brown back ground to front, a cluster of black and white photographs, 88 pages. Light rubbing to cover, a couple of creases to back cover. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of… Read more about this item

Truckee, CA: T.C. Wohlbruck Co., 1939. Hardcover. New illustrated edition, 1939. Red cloth with black illustration and titling to front, frontispiece, a cluster of black and white photographs at beginning, 234 pages. Light sunning to spine, small bump to top free corner, a pressure mark to front, several spots of light discoloration to spine and front, light foxing to… Read more about this item

1983. Soft cover. Very Good-/-. Historical and preservation data, September 1983. Skagway, District of Alaska 1884-1912 - Building the Gateway to the Klondike. Cream coloured card cover, black titling to front and spine, many black and white photographs and drawings, 162 pages. Light shelf wear, a minor bump to top free corner. Klondike Gold Rush. For some international… Read more about this item

London, UK: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1928. Hardcover. Abridged and edited by A.G.L. Rogers with an introduction. "Eden's 'State of the Poor' has for many years been kown as a classical work in the condition of the labouring classes in England down to the end of the eighteenth century." Red cloth with gilt titling to spine, 383 pages.… Read more about this item

Vancouver, BC: Granville Island Publishing, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good-/-. The biography of Edwin Harry Lukin by the husband of his granddaughter. It is biography, family history and a look into the early world of BC newspapers. Glossy soft cover with Lukins portrait and green titling to front, green spine with white titling, several clusters of black and… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Fourteen essays exploring the coextistence of religious ideas and exxlesiastical institutions with urban practices and townspeople. They span five hundred years of the history of western Christendom, ranging from Magdeburg to Majorca, and from Cambridge to Cluny. Plus a bibliography of Christopher Brooke's writings and an appreciation of his work.… Read more about this item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Written in the last quarter of the twelfth century this text could be described as the earliest teaching casebook in English common Law. It appears the author was his abbey's advocate for many years. This is his account of the royal courts, often presided over by Henry II… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good-/-. University Museum Monograph 54. University Museum Symposium Series Volume 1. Green cloth, gilt titling to front with faux black label showing prehistorice drawing, black faux label to spine with gilt titling, illustrated endpapers, many black and white photographs, line drawings, maps and graphs, 461 pages. Light shelf… Read more about this item

McBride, B.C.: McBride Robson Valley Story Group, 1979. Soft cover. Good. Wheeler, John. A history of the Robson Valley, compiled and edited by Marilyn J. Wheeler. Off-white soft cover with red titling and illustrated with a sepia photograph, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, 376 pages. Cover has light edge wear, light shelf wear with two small… Read more about this item

Thunder Bay, Ontario: James R. Stevens, 2010. Limited/Numbered/Signed First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. Book is #12/225, signed by the author. "With the opening of the Michigan State Canal in 1855 thousands of westernized people migrated into the grand Lake Superior watershed.This is a book for those who desire a large picture of the past in Superior… Read more about this item

Belleville, Ontario: Mika Publishing Company, 1981. Hardcover. Good+ to Very Good-/-. A facsimile edition of a book that was originally published in Montreal, 1896, by John Lovell & Son. Canadiana Reprint Series No. 71. Blue cloth with gilt titling on spine and front, a small number of black and white illustrations, 694 pages. Cover has light edge wear,… Read more about this item

Blackpoint, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good-. This book is essential reading. It looks at the advances made by left forces in the region, the social struggles that preceded them, and the great challenges facing those governments that have set for themselves the goal of constructiong an alternative to capitalism." Colourfully illustrated soft cover with… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Artemisia Bindery,, 1904. Limited/Numbered/Signed First Edition. . Card Cover. Book is #706/1000, signed by author, as well as inscribed to a friend. A collection of sketches, many of which appeared in the Los Angeles "Times" and the San Francisco "Chronicle." Brown card cover with dark green titling and illustration on front, green ribbon marker, inscribed by… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Hardcover. A biography of General Robert Edward Lee. Green cloth with gilt titling and decoration on spine, gilt insignia on front, blind stamped border and bevelled edges front and back, black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, handsome black and white illustrations throughout, fold-out black and white map at rear, publisher's advertising on… Read more about this item

Fredericton, N.B.: ISAbel Louise Hill, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good-. 1977 Revised Edition, signed by the author on title page. Book is a collection of typescript biographical entries for over fifty Loyalists in New Brunswick, and includes a black and white portrait for most entries. Sturdy red cloth with gilt titling on front, 183 pages. Upper text block edge… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good-. In 1983, the Museum of Cultural History at the University of California signed an agreement with the Instituto Nacional de Cultura in Peru to develop a five-year archaeological research project at Pacatnamu, a spectacular ancient city located on the North Coast of Peru.… Read more about this item