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Summoned by Bells

By: BETJEMAN, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1969

Seller ID: 748

ISBN: 0719500990

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads, churches and railway stations. 111pp, illustrations by Michael Tree. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked, paper resembling hand-laid paper with chain-lines. Tight, square binding, sound hinges. Green cloth is flawless, no wear. The price-clipped, laminated dustjacket shows some curling at the edges and sun faded spine. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offe...
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An Irish Saint : The Life Story of Ann Preston ("Holy Ann")

By: BINGHAM, Helen E.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1907

Seller ID: 1917

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Life of Ann Preston, 1810-1906, Irish born Methodist who emmigrated to Canada. 155 pages, photo illustrated, 19 cm. Interior off the book is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square, sound, uncracked hinges. Brown cloth, however is mottled and lightly stained though with only minor wear. Interior is VG+ - Cloth only Good. Weight, 261g. Lettermail applies.
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The Legendary Betty Frank: The Cariboo's Alpine Queen

By: BIRCHWATER, Sage; FRANK, Betty

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Halfmoon Bay, BC, Caitlin Press: 2011

Seller ID: 33500

ISBN: 189475963X

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: Fine

Biography of British Columbia's Betty Frank - outdoorswoman, hunter, guide, trapper, dog musher etc. in B. C.'s Cariboo region. Betty Frank, as told to Sage Birchwater. 256 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Book is bright, clean and about 'as new'. Signed by Betty Frank on the ffep. However, there is a small gift note to the ffep and a tiny label to the tp. Weight, 384g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. No taxes on Canadian, American or Overseas Orders. Images alwa...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Stanfords Travel Classics)

By: BIRD, Isabella

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK, John Beaufoy Publishing: 2009

Seller ID: 046313

ISBN: 1906780080

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Gives a description of life in Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities, having been brutally seized from the Indians. This book tells of magnificent unspoiled landscapes, of small remote townships, of the author's encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, and pumas and grizzly bears. A volume in 'Stanfords Travel Classics'. Originally published: 1879. iv, 174 pages ; 21.5 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Slight surface wear to the covers. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within Nort...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: BIRD, Kai; SHERWIN, Martin J.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 2006

Seller ID: 037375

ISBN: 0375726268

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Definitive biography of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967, was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Sometimes known as the 'Father of the Atomib Bomb'. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005. Awards: Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2006. xiii, 721 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases and showing no marks or wear to the card covers. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charge...
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My Seventy Years

By: BLACK, Mrs. George and PRICE, Elizabeth Bailey

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1938

Seller ID: 20530

Binding: Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles

Condition: Very Good

Autobiography of Yukon Pioneer and early Woman Member of Parliament in Canada, Mrs. George Black.317pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Ffep cleanly removed. Sound Binding. Some general wear to green cloth boards. Dustjacket is generally clean but with some discoloration to bottom 2" of spine. Very minor edge wear. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 650g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rate...
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Where the Hell Are the Guns?: A Soldier's View of the Anxious Years, 1939-44

By: BLACKBURN, George

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1997

Seller ID: 040154

ISBN: 0771015046

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

In the final volume of his trilogy on Canada's 4th Field Regiment, Blackburn returns to its formation in 1939. He traces its development from a motley crew of volunteers training on old equipment -- when they had equipment at all -- to a highly skilled military unit ready for action in Normandy. xiv, 439 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. An absolutely 'As New' copy - bright, fresh, unmarked, without wear or damage. In a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Unpacked weight, 791g. Please note - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect. We use both the Canada Po...
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70 Years Next to Paradise

By: BLACKWELL, Alan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ootsa Lke, B. C., Alan Blackwell / Power Line Productions: 1998

Seller ID: 25017

ISBN: 1550565907

Binding: Laminated Hardcover

Condition: About As New

Autobiography of a British Columbia Pioneer from Ootsa Lake who saw action with the 'Devil's Brigade ' in WWII and later worked as a logger, farmer, guide-outfitter and placer miner. Signed and dated by the author on the Dedication page. 150pp, photo illustrated. A bright, clean, unmarked copy about 'as new'. Unpacked weight, 362g. This book may qualify for inexpensive, Canada Post lettermail rates.
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Time Lord : The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed his Train and Changed the World

By: BLAISE, Clark

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Canada, Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 2390

ISBN: 0676972527

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

"This is the biography of an idea, and the remarkable story of the man who created -and then convinced the world to adopt -a unified standard for telling time. Today we take the accurate telling of time across the world for granted. Yet little more than a hundred years ago, people even in neighbouring towns lived by different time schedules: noon was simply whenever the sun happened to be overhead -Toronto time, for example, was different from Hamilton time some forty miles away. None of this mattered when people travelled in the slow style that had been the norm for generations. But then,...
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Lord William Russell and His Wife, 1815-1846

By: BLAKISTON, Georgiana

Price: $17.50

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1972

Seller ID: 21997

ISBN: 0719522420

Binding: Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles

Condition: VG+

Largely hitherto unpublished letters and diaries of the Russell Family, 1815-1846. 566pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean unmarked copy with a sound binding. No appreciable wear to cloth. Unclipped dusjacket is also bright and clean with minor wear to head of spine. Weight, 1kg [unpacked]. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific des...
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The Life of Emily Carr

By: BLANCHARD, Paula

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Seattle, University of Washington Press: 1987

Seller ID: 18079

ISBN: 0295965460

Binding: Cloth, Gilt Titles

Condition: Near New

Life of celebrated Canadian artist, Emily Carr [1871-1945]. 331pp, illustrated in color. A bright, clean, near-new copy with a similar unclipped dustjacket. Unmarked. Weight, 680g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. USA postage usually $6.50 or less. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be approx US$15.00 for weights up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured...
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Herblock's Here and Now

By: BLOCK, Herbert

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1955

Seller ID: 23725

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good Very Good

Book by Herb Block, the brilliant political cartoonist and satirist. Signed by Block on the ffep. 30.000 words of text and 250 cartoons on 280pp. Book is bright and clean, binding is tight and square. Only minimal wear to cloth at tips. Dustjacket has two lost pieces, one at top edge of front panel, the other at the top edge of the rear panel. Weight, 500g.
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The Hero of Brittany : the Story of Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France and of Castile

By: BONNECHOSE, Emile De

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London & New York, Griffith and Farran; E. P. Dutton:

Seller ID: 23786

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good VG

Translated from the French by Margaret S. Jeune. 158pp, frontis illustration in b&w, 15pp Publisher's Catalog at back - E. P. Duttn, New York. Undated, cira 1870s. Chocolate brown cloth with flower design to front, silver highlights, gilt titles. Same to spine. Flower design to back panel. One small 'dig' to the top edge of the rear panel, otherwise a clean, unmarked and soild copy. Unpacked weight, 218g.
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A Gentleman Adventurer: The Arctic Diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle

By: BONNYCASTLE, Richard H. G.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1984

Seller ID: 25472

ISBN: 0886190746

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Account of the author's experience in Northern Canada as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company between 1928 and 1931. Edited and compiled by Heather Robertson. 217, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked, quite fresh. Binding is tight nd square and there is no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is similar. Weight, 795g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage...
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Crazy Man's Creek

By: BOUDREAU, Jack

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Prince George, B. C., Caitlin Press Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 29293

ISBN: 0920576710

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: Near New

Long recognized as some of the roughest bush in British Columbia, it was home to many trappers and hunters who travelled the Fraser River and the Grand Trunk Railway to lose themselves in the bush. xii, 196 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm. Includes index. Book appears almost 'as new' except for a previous owner's details to the htp. Rest of book is bright, fresh and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Unpacked weight, 301g.
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Wilderness Dreams

By: BOUDREAU, Jack

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Prince George, BC, Caitlin Press: 2003

Seller ID: 038568

ISBN: 1894759001

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

The pioneer life of the Bowden family in British Columbia's Cariboo region. 159pp, photo illustrated. Bright, fresh, unmarked copy, absolutely 'as new'. Weight, 274g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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Mountains, Campfires & Memories

By: BOUDREAU, Jack

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada, Caitlin Press: 2003

Seller ID: 28344

ISBN: 0920576958

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

Stories of pioneers and the backwoods of British Columbia. The author's third book. 254pp, photo illustrated. Mint copy, 'as new'. Weight, 444g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere within Canada is now approx US$15.00- up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate].
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Grizzly Bear Mountain

By: BOUDREAU, Jack

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Prince George, B. C., Caitlin Press Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 32872

ISBN: 0920576818

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

Following in the bestselling tracks of the wildly popular Crazy Man's Creek. Hot on the heels of his best seller, Crazy Man's Creek, Jack Boudreau writes his sequel. We go back to the small community of Penny, learn what rural kids did to amuse themselves - mother wouldn't approve - and then look over Jack's shoulder as he develops his fascination with the grizzly bear, first as a hunter, then as a photographer.....As well as giving us a greater understanding of this magnificient bear, Jack speaks of his love of the rugged mountain country of Northern British Columbia where he feels lucky to h...
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Lord Elgin

By: BOURINOT, Sir John George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Morang & Co.: 1909

Seller ID: 051167

Binding: Red Cloth, Gilt

Condition: Near Fine

Volume XVI of the Parkman Edition of 'The Makers of Canada' - 21 volume total in Set. First published in 1907. Biography of James Bruce Elgin, 8th Earl of, Governor General of Canada 1847-54 (1811-1863). 276 pages, frontis portrait; 24 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked interior, white pages. Tight, square binding, sound hinges, uncracked. Immaculate red cloth boards, spine a wee bit sun-faded. Printed on very thick paper. This item weighs 930g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Ima...
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A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer

By: BOWERING, George

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Books: 2001

Seller ID: 24573

ISBN: 1552633489

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: About Fine

Personal memoir from prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer - George Bowering [b1935]. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate. 224 pages ; 21 cm. With index. Bright and still fresh. Unmarked. Weight, 300g. may qualify for Lettermail rates.
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Category: Biography & Autobiography