Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

Lasting Impressions: Historical Sketches of the Swan River Valley

[Swan Valley Historical Society]; Edward Dobbyn; Gwen Palmer · 1984

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Swan River, Manitoba [Swan Valley Historical Society] First Edition, First Printing pp. ix, 358. 4to. Illustrated yellow cloth over boards. Replete with black and white maps, photographs, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, et al. Neat ink name to the corner of the ffep, oth...

Sewing Our Traditions: Dolls of Canada's North

Bradshaw, Mary (Gallery Director); Jennifer Bowen (Curator), et al. · 2010

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Whitehorse, Yukon Yukon Arts Centre First Edition, First Printing pp. 60. Square 8vo. Pictorial card covers. Richly illustrated in colour. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. See OCLC #651121404. Association copy from the personal library of the late Rosalie Tennison. Catalogue...

The Stories I Could Tell: A Collection of Stories From Local Seniors on CBQ's "Elders and Betters" Club

Jantunen, Jacquelyn (Ed.); Linda Turk (Ed.); Fred Jones (Foreword), et al. · 1996

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Kakabeka, Ontario Mile High Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 146. 12mo. Glossy pictorial card covers. Small spot to corner of rear cover otherwise clean and unmarked; very good+. Association copy from the personal library of the late Rosalie Tennison. ¶ A collection of ...

Slovo Do Ukrainskykh Natsionalistiv-Revoliutsioneriv Za Kordonom [A Word to Ukrainian Nationalist-Revolutionaries Abroad]

Bandera, Stepan A. [Andriyovych] (1909-1959), OUN [Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists] · 1948

$645.00 (€585.19 | £488.21 | ¥102,965)

[Germany] Vydavnytstvo Presovoho biura Zakordonni Chastyny OUN [Published by the Press Bureau of the Foreign Units of the OUN] First Edition, First Printing pp. [2], 69. Octavo (15 x 21 cm). Original twice-stapled wrappers, as issued, with title in black. Covers lightly toned ...

River Hills to Sand Hills: A History of Pennant District

[Pennant and District History Book Committee] · 1984

$189.00 (€171.48 | £143.06 | ¥30,171)

Pennant, Saskatchewan Pennant and District History Book Committee First Edition, First Printing pp. x, 791. Heavy quarto (29 cm tall). Original light-blue cloth over boards with silver lettering to the spine; pictorial endpapers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, por...

Democracy in America [Married Set of the Authoritative Reeve Translation. Complete in Two Volumes] ; Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. With an Original Preface and Notes by John C. Spencer. New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1843. [Fourth Edition]; [TOGETHER with:] Democracy in America; Part the Second, The Social Influence of Democracy. Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. With an Original Preface by John C. Spencer. New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1840. [First American Edition].

Tocqueville, Alexis de; Henry Reeve (Trans.); John C. Spencer (Preface) · 18431840

$7,500.00 (€6,804.58 | £5,676.89 | ¥1,197,273)

New York J. & H.G. Langley pp. xvi, 494; xii, 355. Octavos, uniformly measuring 6" x 9.5". Original publisher's cloth bindings over boards. Volume I in green cloth, ruled in blind with a blind-stamped arabesque background; Volume II in ribbed brown cloth, ruled in blind, also ...

Zvidomlennya Ukrainskoyi Narodnoyi Shkoly, Rehensburh-Oselya, Za Navchalnyy Rik 1945/46 ; [Report of the Ukrainian Public School, Regensburg-Settlement, for the 1945/46 School Year]

Ukrainska Narodna Shkola (Regensburg, Germany) · 1946

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.61 | ¥71,836)

Regensburg-Oselya, Germany Vyd. Upravy Ukrainskoyi Narodnoyi Shkoly [Administration of the Ukrainian Public School] | Printed by Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Regensburg First Edition, First Printing pp. [1-2], 3-27. 12mo., measuring 13 x 18 cm. Twice-stapled salmon-pink wrappers ...

INDEMNITY: A Magazine of Insurance Ideas from the Canadian Indemnity Company [Leatherbound Volume Comprising A Near-Consecutive Run of 112 Issues] ; Published Bi-Monthly by the Canadian Indemnity Company [of] Winnipeg, Manitoba

Francis, Charles R. (Editor), et al. · 1928

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

Winnipeg, Manitoba The Canadian Indemnity Company First Edition, First Printing Heavy, small quarto, measuring 9" x 11". Handsomely bound in contemporary full pebbled black leather over boards with title stamped in gilt to the centre; speckled edges. Comprising a remarkable ga...

The Invasion of Canada 1775 & A Dialogue in Hades: A Parallel of Military Errors, of Which the French and English Armies Were Guilty, During the Campaign of 1759, in Canada ; [Cover Title: Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of Canada; Published Under the Auspices of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec]

LeMoine, J.M. [James MacPherson]; Henry Caldwell (1738-1810); James Johnstone Johnstone (1719-1800) · 1866

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

Quebec Middleton and Dawson First Edition, First Printing pp. [1-3], 4-19; [1-3] 5-55. Octavo (6" x 9.25"). Original stitched wrappers with title in black, housed within borders. Trifle edgewear, spine and upper-left margin of the front cover expertly repaired and restored; co...

Illustrated Souvenir of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba

McPherson, Chas [Charles] D. (Foreword) · 1905

$395.00 (€358.37 | £298.98 | ¥63,056)

Brandon, Manitoba WM. A. Martel & Sons Limited | Printed by the Telegram Printing Co., Limited (Winnipeg) | Thomas Todhunter First Edition, First Printing Unpaginated [pp. 39]. Quarto (10 " x 12"). Handsomely bound in contemporary pebbled black leather over boards with gilt ru...

The Snow Drop; A Juvenile Magazine ; [Exceedingly Rare Bound Volume of Twelve Issues of the Very First Children's Periodical to be Published in Canada]

Cushing, Eliza Lanesford Foster (1794-1886); Harriet Vaughan Cheney (1796-1889), Eds. · 1852

$2,750.00 (€2,495.01 | £2,081.53 | ¥439,000)

Montréal, Québec John Lovell, Printer Fourth and Fifth Series (IV-V) Octavo (5" x 8"). pp. [4] (Index to the Fourth and Fifth Series), 33-192; [1], 2-188, with most issues comprising between 27-30 leaves. Period quarter leather over marbled boards, faded gilt rules and letteri...

New Familiar Abenakis & English Dialogues ; The first Vocabulary ever published in the Abenakis language; comprising The Abenakis Alphabet, The Key To The Pronunciation and Many Grammatical Explanations, Also Synoptical Illustrations Showing The Numerous Modifications Of The Abenakis Verb, &c.; To Which Is Added The Etymology of Indian Names of Certain Localities, Rivers, Lakes, &c., &c.

Joseph Chief Laurent (Sozap Lolô), Chief of the Indian Village of St. Francis, P.Q. · 1884

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

St. Francis [Odanak], P.Q. [Quebec] Leger Brousseau First Edition, First Printing pp. 230. 12mo., measuring 5" x 6.75". Robustly bound in later bright-yellow utilitarian cloth over boards with black lettering to the spine, new endpapers. Negligible wear to the extremities, uno...

The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party

Tse-tung, Mao · 1954

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Peking [Beijing], People's Republic of China Foreign Languages Press First Edition (Stated on Copyright Leaf) Slim octavo. pp. 56. Bound in publisher's plum cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, and front board, small blind-stamped star to the centre of the front...

The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty

Jacobs, Jane · 1980

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

New York Random House First edition pp. 134. Octavo. Bound in quarter ivory cloth over tan paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. One black and white map. Near fine, housed in its original, price-clipped, dustjacket showing very light wear along the edges of the panels...

The Manitoba School Question [Association Copy with Autograph Letter Signed from Ewart] ; Being a Compilation of the Legislation, the Legal Proceedings, the Proceedings before the Governor-General-in-Council: An Historical Account of the Red River Outbreak in 1869 and 1870, Its Causes, and Its Success as Shewn in the Treaty the Manitoba Act, and a Short Summary of Protestant Promises

Ewart, John Skirving (1849-1933) · 1894

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.67 | ¥79,020)

Toronto The Copp, Clark Company (Limited), Publishers First Edition, First Printing Octavo (6" x 9"). pp. vii, 401. Bound in publisher’s original green cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear, minor bumping to spine ends and tips, faint residue to base of sp...

A Death in Belmont

Junger, Sebastian · 2006

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York W.W. Norton & Company First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 266. Small octavo. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in its original, unclipped, dustjacket. Near fine.

Life and Sport on the North Shore of The Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf ; Containing Chapters on Salmon Fishing, Trapping, the Folklore of the Montagnais Indians and Tales of Adventure on the Fringe of the Labrador Peninsula

Comeau, Napoleon A.; E. D. T. Chambers (Intro.) · 1954

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

Quebec Telegraph Printing Company Third Edition pp. 440. Thick octavo. Rebound in full plum leather (calf) over boards with gilt rules and lettering to the spine (taking care to retain the original illustrated green cloth covers stamped in gilt within), fresh endpapers. Black-...

Maskinongé; Letters From two Priests, a Lawyer, a Notary and a Nun, and The Answers to these Letters by Protestant Missionaries ; (Translated from the French), Published by the Grande Ligne Mission, Province of Quebec, Canada

Therrien, A.L. (Preface); Theodore Lafleur, et al. · 1893

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Montréal, Quebec D. Bentley & Co., Printers | First English-Language Edition pp. 131. 12mo. (7.25" x 4.25"). Original, thrice-stapled, salmon printed wrappers with title in black housed within repeating border. Light rubbing to covers, else, entirely without belmish. An excep...

60th Anniversary Signature Recipes of The St. Agnes' Guild of the Winnipeg Children's Hospital, 1970

[St. Agnes' Guild of the Winnipeg Children's Hospital] · 1970

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Winnipeg, Manitoba St. Agnes' Guild of the Winnipeg Children's Hospital First printing pp. 140. Small 8vo. Light blue stiff card covers held with white plastic spiral binding, Faint foxing to the covers, contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ ...

La question scolaire des écoles du Manitoba: quelques observations sur le discours de I'Hon. M. Laurier, au banquet de Montreal ; [The Manitoba Schools Question: Some Observations on the Speech of the Hon. Mr. Laurier at the Montreal Banquet]

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (1841-1919); [Le "Courrier du Canada"] · 1897

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Quebec Le "Courrier du Canada" First Edition, First Printing pp. [iii]-viii, 32. Octavo (16 x 24.5 cm). New utilitarian (library-style) maroon buckram over boards with gilt rules and lettering to the spine; new endpapers. Text printed in two columns. Leaves show light consiste...