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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
WADDINGTON, Miriam.
Collected Poems.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986..
8vo. pp. xviii, 422. index. wrs. Signed Presentation Copy.
$65 USD Book Number: aly396 Order / Enquire
WADDINGTON, Miriam.
The Glass Trumpet.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966..
8vo. pp. 96. cloth. First Edition.
$40 USD Book Number: aly397 Order / Enquire
WADDINGTON, Miriam.
The Last Landscape.
Toronto Oxford University Press, 1992..
8vo. pp. vi, 90. wrs. Signed on title page.
$50 USD Book Number: aly398 Order / Enquire
WADE, Mason.
The French Canadians 1760-1945.
Toronto: Macmillan Co., 1955..
8vo. pp. xvi, 1136. 16 double-sided plates. 2 folding maps. index. cloth (discoloured at head & foot of spine, previous owner's inscription on ffep). dw. (chipped, torn and stained). Signed by author on title page in pen.
$103 USD Book Number: CDEeWADE43 Order / Enquire
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