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VENTRESS, Cora ET AL.
The Peacemakers of North Peace.
Fort St. John: Davies, Ventress and Kyllo, 1973..
4to. pp. 416, H1- H96, [2], 14(index). folding map. profusely illus. index. bds. dw. First Edition. Edwards & Lort 3820.
$77 USD                          Book Number: CNTeVENT52                         Order / Enquire



VERBRUGGE, Louis & George.
Promenades Et Chasses Dans L'Amérique Du Nord.
Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1879..
12mo. pp. 3 p.l., 351. with half-title. uncut & partly unopened in modern wrs. (some foxing, soiling to pp. 168-69). First Edition. Including accounts of hunting for antelope and buffalo in the American west and caribou in Canada, with descriptions of New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Dodge City, Montreal, Quebec, Charleston, New Orleans. The last four chapters are concerned with Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti.
$141 USD                          Book Number: CRBomVER72                         Order / Enquire



VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
Vernon's City of Guelph (Ontario) Miscellaneous, Alphabetical, Street And Business Directory For The Year 1937.
Hamilton: 1937..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 19-399. cloth (joints & extremities worn & frayed, a few stains & pencil notes & doodles).
$150 USD                          Book Number: dola999                         Order / Enquire



VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
Vernon's City of Sudbury and Town of Copper Cliff.Directory For the Year 1956.Thirty-Sixth Edition Sold By Subscription Only.
Hamilton: 1955..
8vo. 2 p.l., 17-691, [2]. cloth.
$250 USD                          Book Number: elala3274                         Order / Enquire



VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
VernonÕs Seventy-Fifth Annual City Of Hamilton Miscellaneous, Business, Alphabetical And Street Directory For The Year 1948.
Hamilton: Vernon Directories Limited, 1948..
4to. pp. 1330. b/w illus. cloth (slightly shaken with tear in front free endpaper).
$200 USD                          Book Number: aly1526                         Order / Enquire



VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
VernonÕs Thirteenth Edition City of Orillia (Ontario) Directory 1969.
Hamilton: Vernon Directories Limited, 1969..
4to. pp. 208. cloth (shaken with some leaves loose). Thirteenth Edition.
$100 USD                          Book Number: aly1393                         Order / Enquire



[VERNON, J.A.H. & S.E.H.VERNON] (Editors).
Ladywood 1892-1992.
[Toronto: G. Patrick H. Vernon, 1992]..
4to. pp. 4 p.l., 159, [1[, 12, 7, [1], 7, [1], 9, [1], 4, 2, [1]. maps & illus. biblio. bds. dw. (few short tears to edges of dw. else very good). First Edition, planned as a limited edition for family members. Ladywood, designed by Toronto architect, Frank Darling [1850-1923], was the Lake Simcoe summer residence of Herbert Evelyn Harcourt Vernon [1863-1943] and his wife, Mary Adelaide Harcourt Vernon [1861-1936], of Toronto. Rare.
$75 USD                          Book Number: dola2734                         Order / Enquire



VETROMILE, Eugene [Anthony] [1819-1881].
The Abnakis And Their History. Or Historical Notices On The Aborigines Of Acadia.
New York: James B.Kirker, 1866..
12mo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [11]-171. additional wood-engraved title, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 8 (of 9?) wood-engraved plates, & numerous text illus. original cloth (worn & soiled, extremities frayed, significant foxing & some browning, a few short marginal tears). First Edition. Including chapters on the origins of the Abnakis, manners and language, hand-writing, villages in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, religion and superstition, public life, astronomy and division of time, domestic life, present condition, character, vindication of their character against accusations of cruelty and treachery, division of the parties amongst the Indians of Maine and the Indians of the British provinces, present treatment of native Americans east and west of the Mississippi, and the treatment of the California Indians. The tinted lithographs comprise views of the grave of brother Du Thet and the ruins of St. Savior's, the present state of the monument of the Rev Sebastian Râle, Sibayk Alnambay Udenek Pleasant Point Indian Village, Corpus Christi`s day at the Old-Town Indian village on the Penobscot River, Penaubsket Alnambay Udenek - Old-Town Indian village, Lewis Island - Indian village on the Schoodic Lakes, the death of Father Râle - killed by the English and Mohawks at Norridgewock, Au. 23, 1724, Old Point on the Kennebec in Maine, with Râle`s monument. Vetromile was a missionary in Maine. TPL 4546. Field 1602. Lande S2273. Not in Sabin.
$849 USD                          Book Number: elala3505                         Order / Enquire



VICTORIA COMMITTEE ON CANADIAN RESPONSIBILITY IN VIETNAM.
Canada And Vietnam.
Victoria, BC: [c1966]..
12mo. pp. 16. self-wrs. with illus. on upper cover (partly spit along spine fold with slight loss to lower rear wr., rubberstamp & ownership entry on cover). First Edition.
$90 USD                          Book Number: dola844                         Order / Enquire



VINCENT, Henry.
The Story Of The Commonweal. Complete And Graphic Narrative Of The Origin And Growth Of The Movement...
Chicago: W.B.Conkey Company, 1894..
12mo. pp. 247, [4]ads. cloth frontis. (badge), text illus. & 14 double-sided plates. original pictorial wrs. (soiled, spine ends chipped, text embrowned, outer leaves dog-eared & a few with marginal chipping). First Edition of this account of the first significant protest march on Washington, D.C., which took place in 1894. The unemployed workers, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey and known as Coxey's army, were protesting the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893, which initiated the worst depression seen in the United States up until that time. They demanded government action to create jobs through the building of roads and other public works, with workers to be paid in paper currency. The western contingents of the army included many unemployed railway workers, 500 of whom, led by William Hogan, commandeered a Northern Pacific Railway train for their trek to Washington - they were apprehended in Forsyth, Montana.
$400 USD                          Book Number: elala4750                         Order / Enquire



VINING, Charles (R.T.L).
Big Wigs Canadians Wise and Otherwise.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1935..
4to. pp. 5 p.l., 149. full-page text portraits by Ivan Glassco. cloth. First Edition.
$41 USD                          Book Number: CNIgVINI62                         Order / Enquire



VIVIAN, A.Pendarves.
Wanderings In The Western Land.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880..
8vo. pp. xvi, 426, 32(publisher's ads). with half-title. 3 maps (2 folding, 1 coloured). 8 wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis.) & 29 text illus. after Albert Bierstadt & others. untrimmed in original black & gilt-stamped cloth (bit soiled, some light foxing, institutional bookplate & few rubberstamps). Presentation Copy from the Author to the Tehidy Working Mens Club. Second Edition. Narrative of the author's travels and sporting excursions in Eastern Canada and Quebec (pp. 1-83), and of his hunting expedition in the American West, mainly in the Rocky Mountains (pp. 84-426), including remarks on Indian manners and customs, the late fire in St. John's, N.B., the 'Great Miramichi Fire', the Mormons, mining and smelting in Colorado and California, &c.
$410 USD                          Book Number: CVIndVIV51                         Order / Enquire



VIVIAN, H[enry] Hussey, [first Baron Swansea] [1821-1894].
Notes Of A Tour In America, From August 7th To November 17th, 1877.
London: Edward Stanford, 1878..
8vo. pp. 3 p.l., iii, [1 leaf], 260. with half-title. folding map (frontis.). original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities frayed, front free-endpaper wanting, some foxing to map & first few leaves). First Edition. Vivian visited Quebec, New York, Pittsburg, Sarnia, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington, Virginia, and Cincinnati. His narrative includes chapters on Mormonism, the Nevada silver mines, American hotels, political parties, and mineral resources.
$308 USD                          Book Number: CVIteVIV25                         Order / Enquire



VOLWILER, Albert T.
George Croghan and the Westward Movement 1741-1782.
Cleveland: The Arthur H.Clark Company, 1926..
8vo. pp. 370. biblio. index. 3 maps (1 double-page) & 1 facsimile. original cloth, t.e.g, others untrimmed (ex-lib., stain to front cover, extremities frayed, inner margin of title & half-title taped). First Edition, 1000 copies printed. Howes V-141a (mentioning only 1 map).
$85 USD                          Book Number: elala3330                         Order / Enquire



W.B. HAMILTON SHOE CO.
Footwear in Canada Vol. 1, No. 1 Toronto, June, 1911 [cover title].
[Toronto: 1911]..
folio. pp. 66. numerous b/w illus. wrs. (wrappers tattered & detached). Magazine.
$150 USD                          Book Number: aly1153                         Order / Enquire


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