Search Results: Authors starting with P from SK Books (IOBA)

Winnipeg: Winnipeg Free Press, 1970. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 20.0 cm. The book has light sunning to spine and the corners are bumped. The interior is browning pages are still supple. The buffalo vanished like melting snow. Various stories based on early pioneers recollections.

New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards (Hardcover). Very Good/in a near fine dust jacket. 23.0 cm. Little bumping to top edge of dust jacket, otherwise near fine. The interior has a bit of tide line last few pages not affecting the text. Starting to tan. Max: "Welcome to my nightmare"

Boston: Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 2002. First Edition. Illustrated Paper Covers (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a very good dust jacket. 24.0 cm. The jack shows light edge wear with a tear to bottom of spine. The interior of the book is clean and bright. The book is illustrated throughout in b/w and colour illustrations.

Regina: Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research, 1985. Revised Edition. Illustrated Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine/with No dust-jacket as issued. 22.0 cm. Clean and Bright copy. "The skirmish at Seven Oaks took place on June 19, 1816…the Métis led by Cuthbert Grant of the Northwest Company and the opposing group led by Governor Semple of the Hudson Bay Company. The skirmish itself lasted 15 minutes…." This skirmish defined who the Métis were.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 24.0 cm. There is slight bumping to corners. Interior is clean, bright and tight. Printed on acid free paper A quote from the dust jacket. Ranging from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over many centuries and across a vast number of regions, the authors introduce the extraordinary variety of Native American arts to a new audience.

Ottawa: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1967. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Near Fine/with No dust-jacket as issued. 22.5 cm. Shows light toning to edges. The item describes the beginning of the NWMP force, and how it meted out justice on the western peoples of North West.

Langenburg, Saskatchewan: Twin Valley Consulting Ltd., [1998]. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 23.0 cm. The book is clean and bright in very good to near fine condition. The book chronicles the life of Mary Popp, from the Langenburg area in Saskatchewan. The pioneers presented where from an area in Germany called the Rheinland- Pflaz, whose language is more correctly called Pfalzisch rather than Schwabisch.

Toronto: Musson Book Company Ltd., (1930). First Canadian Edition. Cloth Covered Boards (Hardcover). Very Good/with No dust-jacket. 21.0 cm. The book is lightly rubbed along spine edge and corners. The interior pages are clean, with one closed tear. The story of entertainment after the first world war. Good Companions is a story of one troupe.

Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2009. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Near Fine/with No dust-jacket as issued. 20.5 cm. A near fine copy, clean, bright and tight. A quote from the dust jacket. In their second collection of Saskatchewan crime stories, Pacholik and Pruden uncover a number of little-known are long-forgotten tales from Saskatchewan's history,..

Brandon: Henderson Directories Limited, 1951. unknown Edition Volume xxv. Illustrated Cloth Covered Boards (Hardcover). Very Good/with No dust-jacket. 23.5 cm. The book shows rubbing and light bumping top corners. The spine ends are bumped. There are a few names underlined in pencil. Overall a very good book. The covers are illustrated with local merchant advertisements. The directory lists various business in Brandon and also the householders in alphabetical order. The list contains the complete street addresses of the businesses and local householder.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. First Printing. Cloth Covered Boards (Hardcover). Very Good/in a good dust jacket. 20.0 cm. The jacket is 5 mm shorter than the boards, uneven cut on bottom. Jacket is also covered with a mylar to protect. The book shows light soiling to top of boards, there is a inscription by previous owner on ffep. The corners are bumped. Translated from Russian. Blurb. Pushkin, the great Russian national poet, the maker of fairy tales of enchanting loveliness and wisdom.(Gorky 1974) Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour plates.