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Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Good Condition, show some wear. Sticker with former owner's name appears inside. 162 pgs

Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Very Good Condition, shows some wear, back cover has a small tear. 102 pgs. LOCAL HISTORY SHIPS FROM ONTARIO

> Title: Edmonton's Electric Transit, The Story of Edmonton's Streetcars and Trolley Buses Author: Hatcher, Colin and Tom Schwarzkopf Pub: Railfare Enterprises, Toronto, ON, 1983 ISBN: 978-0919130333 Condition: Clean, Excellent condition SHIPS FROM ALBERTA This book tells of the formation of the Edmonton Radial Railway enhanced with over 200 photographs

Title: The Edmonton, Story, The Life and Times of Edmonton, Alberta
Author: Cashman, Tony
Pub: The Institute of Applied Art Ltd.,
ISBN: 978-1014011480
Condition: Very Good
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Hardcover. Book and Jacket are in excellent condition, like new. Inscription from former owner inside. 96 pgs. SHIPS FROM ONTARIO.

Title: Edward VII, Prince of Wales & The Women He LovedAuthor: Arnold, Catharine Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2017ISBN; 978-1-250-06914-6Edward, Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie", was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with a king-size appetite. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London society, Europe, and the stately homes of England in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the words of the London Daily Mail "Arnold's book is elegantly written and richly anecdotal... this is a thought-provoking book... with many parallels to the present."

Hardcover. Book and Cover is in excellent condition, like new. 392 pgs.Overall Rating: ExcellentTitle: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic FutureAuthor: Vance, AshleePublisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2015ISBN: 978-0-06-230123-9 In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs--a real-life Tony Stark--and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers." Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his… Read More

Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Very Good condition, both show age and minor use. 208 pgsSHIPS FROM ONTARIO

Trade Paperback, Good condition.

Hardcover. Book and Jacket are in excellent condition. Inscription inside from the former owner. 290 pgs. FICTION -MYSTERY-BOWEN.Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION. SHIPS FROM ONTARIOTitle: The Endless Knot, A Joanne Kilbourn MysteryAuthor: Bowen, Gail Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON, 2006ISBN: 0-7710-1654-9Bowen brings an astute and subtle understanding of trust and betrayal to her novel, a deeply affecting story and superb mystery by a virtuouso of the genre

Title: English Bloods, In The Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878Author: de la Fosse, FrederickPublisher: Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc., Toronto, ON, 2004ISBN: 1-896219-96-9De la Fosse's richly descriptive, elegantly penned and delightfully humorous memoir captures that period of life when he, and other young Englishmen of means, came to northern Muskoka in the late 1870s to acquire agricultural skills. Known locally as "English Bloods", these young lads encountered the realities of pioneer life in this beautiful but not agriculturally-friendly land. This new edition (originally published in 1930) is annotated, illustrated with archival photographs and extensively augmented with additional background on this period in Ontario's history.

Hardcover. Book and Jacket are in excellent condition. Inscription from former owner inside. AUTOGRAPHED 176 pgsOverall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION SHIPS FROM ONTARIO Title: The Estates of Old TorontoAuthor: Lundell, Liz - AUTOGRAPHED Publisher: The Boston Mills Press, Erin, ON, 1997ISBN: 1-55046-219-9Time has transformed Toronto, yet reminders of the city's early landholders and their estates remain. This book is a bittersweet look at a less harried age and at the great properties that were ultimately swallowed up by Canada's largest modern city. Some were built on vast properties with impressive homes surrounded by gardens, orchards, stables, outbuildings, and imposing walls and gates. Some of these magnificent estates eventually became the cornerstones of today's metropolitan neighbourhoods. Some have disappeared and are remembered only as street names. But in the pages of this remarkable book, the author has preserved for all time… Read More

Hardcover. Book and Jacket are in Excellent Condition, Jacket is protected with plastic cover. Inscription from the former owner appears inside. 176 pgs. AUTOGRAPHEDLOCAL HISTORY SHIPS FROM ONTARIO

Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent condition, clean, some yellowing with age. 200 pgs. HISTORY - LOCAL - YORK COUNTY - ETOBICOKE. Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION.SHIPS FROM ONTARIO. Title: Etobicoke, From Furrow to Borough.Author: Heyes, EstherPublisher: The Borough of Etobicoke, Etobicoke, Ont, 1974ASIN B0006CMPDWThis book gives the reader a comprehensive and connected view of Etobicoke's progress from frontier to borough. After years of extensive research, the author has presented her work on the history of Toronto's western borough from prehistoric days until the incorporation into the city of Toronto,

> Title: Everyone's Grandfather, The Life & Times of Grant MacEwan Author: von Hauff, Donna Publisher: Grant MacEwan College Foundation, Edmonton, AB 1994 ISBN: 0-9697125-0-2 Hardcover, Excellent Condition, Like New SHIPS FROM ALBERTA John Walter Grant MacEwan was an educator, environmentalist, author, lecturer, journalist, farmer, agricultural scientist, broadcaster, politician, statesman, and popular figure. He was legendary for his simple and wholesome lifestyle. His direct and down to earth approach, laced with a good measure of caring, integrity, determination and humour continues to inspire young and old alike.

Hardcover copy. Cover is maroon cloth with gold gilt printing and illustration. All pages are in very good condition and intact. The previous owner's name is written on the inside fly leaf. This is a second printing dated 1906. 331 pages.

Title: EXTINCT ANIMALS
Author: E Ray Lankester
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co Limited, London, 1906
ASIN: B009Z0QXFW
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This book contains fascinating stories and comparisons between extinct and present animals, with 218 illustrations. This book was one of Conan Doyle's primary sources for The Lost World. It was the only reference cited in the novel itself: in order to confirm Maple White's illustration of a stegosaurus to an incredulous Malone, Challenger hands a copy of the book by his "gifted friend, Ray Lankester!" Over the course of The Lost World's serialization, Lankester and Conan Doyle carried on a correspondence. The former would even suggest prehistoric animals to populate the lost plateau.

Title: The Eyre AffairAuthor: Fforde, Jasper Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London, UK, 2001ISBN: 978-0-340-73356-1 Paperback, Very Good ConditionSHIPS FROM ALBERTAIn this book, the reader will meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985 where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's Mr. Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. Join her is a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself how she solves the crime. Fiction will never by the same again.