Search Results: Titles starting with R from SK Books (IOBA)

Toronto: Stoddard Publishing Co. Limited, 1986. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a near fine dust jacket. 24.0 cm. Signed. With the exception of the small coffee stain to the front text block, it is in near fine condition, clean and bright interior. A quote from the dust jacket. In this fascinating mix of autobiography and expose, he takes us right into the heart of a modern political Party….Revealing portraits of many of his contemporaries. Canadian Politics from the early 1960's to the middle 80's.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Printing. Cloth Covered Boards (Hardcover). Very Good/in a good dust jacket. 21.0 cm. The jacket has rubbing and open and closed tears to spine. The interior is clean, supple with pages starting to tan. Blurb: This collection details the story of the restoration of the south to the Union after the war, as told by observers of the process......

Toronto: Viking -Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1996. First Edition. Illustrated Paper Covers (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a near fine dust jacket. 22.5 cm. The jacket shows light rubbing. The book is clean bright and tight. A Near Fine copy. This is the first novel from Claudia Casper.

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a very good dust jacket. 22.0 cm. The dust-jacket shows rubbing and slight chipping to edges. The book is clean and bright and tight. A quote from the dust jacket. This novel is written by two ex-inmates of the U.S.-Chiang Kai-shek secret service concentration camps in Chunk-king, Szechuan Province, China. The year is 1949

Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, Inc., 1957. Numbered Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/with No dust-jacket. 22.5 cm. There is sunning to spine the book. The corners are rubbed and the bottom of the boards show shelf wear. This is a numbered copy No. 1242 of a limited edition of 1500. The book chronicles the Red River Settlement from its beginning to approximately 1850.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. First Trade Paperback Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 23.0 cm. Clean and tight, this item is very good to near fine. A quote from the dust jacket. Smith views the reforms which helped restore the Liberals to federal power after the defeat in 1957 as a primary cause of the party's continuing poor electoral performances....

Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, (1983). Reprint. Illustrated Card Covers. Near Fine/with No dust-jacket as issued. 18.5 cm. Book is clean bright and tight. Ord, Cassels, and Rusden all began to record their experiences the moment they decided to participate in the rebellion. Published for the first time is an account by Harold Penryn Rusden(French's Scout) of the Suppression of the Northwest Insurrection.

Saskatoon: Printer: Saskatoon Star Phoenix, [1933]. First Edition. Card Cover. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 20 cm. Ida Willoughby 1934. The clean covers show light sunning to outer edges. There is a light crease to front cover. The inside is clean and tight. The item is very good to near fine. Foreword by Edmund H. Oliver. The short reminiscences of Saskatoon, were written by various first settlers too Saskatoon. "At our frequent meetings various plans for the protection of the women and children were discussed, chief of which was the erection of a fort on what is now Yorath Island....a meeting of the Pioneers' Society held in the schoolhouse on March 23, 1885 are revealing."

New York: Penguin Group, 2007. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a near fine dust jacket. 21.0 cm. The book and jacket are in near fine condition, with the book being clean and bright. "A delicate spider's web of a book, deft, fascinating and precise as Chinese calligraphy" Los Angeles Times

Toronto: Macmillan Book Publishing Group, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/in a near fine dust jacket. 22.0 cm. Jack Ferguson. A very nice bright copy. A book published by Macmillan for the Great Stories of Canada Series. The book details the story of the Riel Rebellion from Duck Lake to the fall of Gabriel Dumont's' forces at Batoche and the ultimate capture of Riel. The book is illustrated in two tone, with map endpapers depicting the battle areas and notes.

Markham: Paperjacks, 1979. Reprint. mmpb. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 18.0 cm. There is light age toning to pages, which are still supple. The copy is clean and tight. This is a movie tie in book, Riel based on the original screenplay by Roy Moore. "Based on the CBC/Green River Production, Riel relives the colourful days of a tiny nation's bitter struggle for survival, and the final tragic ending to a dream."

Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983. First Trade Paperback Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/with No dust-jacket as issued. 23.0 cm. There is light rubbing to bottom edges, and back cover at spine. Light rubbing and a bump to back cover. This is a very good to near fine copy clean and bright on the inside. "After re-examining the documentary evidence surrounding the North-West Rebellion, I concluded that the M�tis grievances were at least partly of their own making: The government was on the verge of resolving them when the Rebellion broke out�." and this is where the controversy begins with Flanagan's assumptions and observations'.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards (Hardcover). Near Fine/in a near fine dust jacket. 24.0 cm. A very nice copy clean bright and tight. Set in Toronto in the early 1990's. This is a story of three women whose lives share a common wound.

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.