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Can I Tell You A Story? The Life of Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell

By: MacDonald, Hesta

Price: $39.19

Publisher: Prince Edward Island, Self published: 2004

Seller ID: Books011746

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

328 pages. Signed by the author and by Lorne Bonnell on the first leaf, former owner's sticker to front cover, else as new.
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Come Walk With Me

By: MacDonald, Hesta

Price: $39.19

Publisher: Prince Edward Island, Self published: 2008

Seller ID: Books011749

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

224 pages. Signed by the author on the first leaf, else as new.
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By Land and By Air. Memoirs of A. Stewart MacDonald

By: MacDonald, Stewart. Hesta MacDonald ed.

Price: $39.19

Publisher: Self published:

Seller ID: Books011744

ISBN: 97800973654820

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

[iv], 203 pages. No place or date of printing. Signed by the editor on the first leaf, else as new.
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A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Reverend John Franklin Forbes

By: Mackinnon, Clarence

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Liverpool, NS, Advance Publishing: 1969

Seller ID: Books013348

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

56 pages. A republication of the 1905 first edition. Covers stained; small stain to last 3 leaves. Stapled binding is sound.
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A Tiger on Dragon Mountain: The Life of Rev. Duncan M. MacRae

By: MacRae, Helen Fraser; Janice Penner and Ross Penner eds.

Price: $121.84

Publisher: Charlottetown, PEI, A. James Haslam: 1993

Seller ID: Books013210

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 258 pages, plus photo plates, and folding map at rear. Inked notation to preliminaries; creasing and light wear to covers.
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The Seven Storey Mountain

By: Merton, Thomas

Price: $67.93

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company:

Seller ID: Books010077

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

429 pages. White cloth with black titles to spine. This is the Harcourt facsimile issue of the uncommon white cloth first edition. It retains the "first edition" statement on colophon but clearly is not. The jacket is glossy, not priced, and second photo is captioned "Author on the left". This copy is clean and unmarked, in sound binding with sunning to spine.
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John Bell, 1745-1831. Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, Typefounder, Journalist, &c.

By: Morison, Stanley

Price: $368.75

Publisher: Cambridge, For the Author by Cambridge UP: 1930

Seller ID: Books013356

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xi, 165, [2] pages and numerous illustrations outside the text. One of 300 copies issued. Spine ends and corners rubbed. Spine and top inch of rear board sunned. A tidy, unmarked example.
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in safe and sound hands. The story of The Shaw Group. So far.

By: Muir, Paddy

Price: $65.31

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., The Shaw Group Limited: 2008

Seller ID: Books011233

ISBN: 0981066801

Binding: Illustrated boards

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 362pp. includes the text of L.E. Shaw's "My Life in the Brick Industry", first published in 1955. inscription to former owner on ffep.
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A Field of Broken Stones

By: Naeve, Lowell in collaboration with David Weick

Price: $40.76

Publisher: Denver, Alan Swallow: 1959

Seller ID: Books008559

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

231 pages. Spine darkened, covers spotted. Else clean and unmarked in sound binding.
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The Life of Richard Nash, Esq; Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath, extracted principally from his Original Papers

By: Nash, Richard

Price: $314.21

Publisher: London, Printed for J. Newberry and W. Frederick: 1762

Seller ID: Books012761

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

vi, 234, [2] pages. Frontispiece coloured; one leaf of adverts at rear. Contemporary leather; spine rebacked. Signature of one Moses Whitney Sr., Boston, 1827 to front free endpaper. Loss to top right of title page (name excised) professionally repaired. Circular stamp of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester Mass to title page. A few instances of brief marginalia in an old hand. Leaves toned and foxed throughout. Binding is sound.
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Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi

By: Nayyar, Sushila

Price: $32.66

Publisher: Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Pendle Hill: 1948

Seller ID: Books009793

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

71 pages. Light soiling and 1950 signature to cover. Binding sound; interior clean.
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Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A. and of Many of His Learned Friends.

By: Nichols, John

Price: $634.84

Publisher: London, Printed By and For the Author: 1782

Seller ID: Books012739

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

viii, 666 pages. Lacking the dedication leaf. 231*/232* present; usual jump in paging from 512 to 521 (text continuous); F2 and I3 are cancels. In slightly more recent half leather with marbled paper over boards. Old repair to head and foot of spine. A few instances of marginalia composed prior to trimming for this binding. Occasional toning, foxing, marginal staining, but overall clean in sound binding.
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Frederick Philip Grove

By: Pacey, Desmond

Price: $27.17

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1945

Seller ID: Books009077

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

ix, 150 pages. Two chips to upper ridge of jacket; interior clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
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Roads of Adventure

By: Paine, Ralph D.

Price: $61.13

Publisher: New York, Boston: Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin; Riverside Press: 1922

Seller ID: Books007025

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 452 pages plus illustration plates. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Jacket age-toned with moderate wear, sunned spine; top edge dusty; former owner's inscription to front endpaper; else clean and unmarked in sound binding.
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Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter

By: Pennington, Montagu

Price: $163.29

Publisher: Boston, Oliver C. Greenleaf: 1809

Seller ID: Books012750

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

380 pages. Period leather, with shiny spine from some sort of preservative. Endpapers grubby; foxing and offsetting throughout. First American from the second English edition. Binding is sound.
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Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander MacDonald GCB. First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada G. C. (Two Volumes)

By: Pope, Joseph

Price: $189.41

Publisher: Ottawa, J. Durie & Son: 1894

Seller ID: Books011302

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 392; x, 369 pages. Cloth rubbed and soiled; conrents clean; bindings sound. Frontispiece portrait in each, with foxing and offsetting from tissue guard. Signature of one Charles J. Townshend to half-title of each.
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Memoirs of ****. Commonly known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; a Reputed Native of Formosa.

By: Psalmanazar, George

Price: $570.71

Publisher: London, Printed for the Executrix: 1764

Seller ID: Books012755

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

ii, 364 pages. Handsomely rebound at some point: half leather with old marbled paper, and new endpapers; short closed tear to margin of Advertisement leaf repaired. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Leaves tanned and foxed.
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In My Time, A Memoir [signed, with letter]

By: Raddall, Thomas H.

Price: $96.19

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Seller ID: Books011649

ISBN: 0771072503

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

i-x, 11-365 pages. Inscribed by Raddall to Rev. Dr. James Perkin, 12th president of Acadia University. A brief handwritten letter to Perkin on Raddall's stationary is laid in. Jacket rubbed at extremities and price clipped; now protected in a removable archival sleeve.
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Isaac Reed Diaries 1762-1804

By: Reed, Isaac. Claude E. Jones ed.

Price: $93.75

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1946

Seller ID: Books013371

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 344 pages. Chipping and light wear to covers; title in ballpoint to spine. Binding remains sound; no inscriptions save for a few small pencil ticks to margin.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters. With a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti.

By: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers: 1895

Seller ID: Books013319

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

xxx, [4], 440; [6], 436 pages; with frontispiece and portrait plates in each, and folding facsimile in ii. Errata leaf present in both volumes. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spines slightly darkened, and rubbed at head and heel. Small signature to pastedown of both, and small adhesive scar to front endpaper of i. Overall a tidy set.
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Category: Biography