The Ornithologist and Oologist. Birds: Their Nests and Egs. Volume XII, 1887

By: N/A

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Boston, Frank B. Webster: 1887

Inscription: Signed by publisher

Seller ID: Books010681

Condition: Very Good

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208 pages. All twelve monthly numbers for 1887. "Compliments of Frank B. Webster, Publisher" on first blank endpaper. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves. The sheet comprising pages 165-168 was not bound in, it is present loose. Binding is sound and contents clean. View more info

Tom Forrestall, R.C.A : Published periodicals and write-ups on the artist, 1964 - 1975

By: N/A

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Three Oaks Corporation: 1977

Inscription: Signed by Artist

Seller ID: Books011929

Condition: Very Good

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[72] pages, two smaller leaves, 1976 leaf pasted inside front and rear cover, and 1977 artice (photocopied as the rest) pasted to foot of one leaf. Signed by Forrestall on front cover. View more info

Timothy's Boyhood or Pioneer Country Life on Prince Edward Island [signed]

By: "Timothy" (pseud. of Henry George Mellick)

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Kentville, N.S., The Kentville Publishing Company Ltd.: 1933

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books011593

Condition: Very Good

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130 pages. Signed by the author at foot of front free endpaper. Ownership signature to head of half title. Binding is sound, with front and rear endpapers pulled away from staples (though remaining securely affixed). View more info

The Sacrifice [signed]

By: Adele Wiseman

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillian: 1988

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books008853

ISBN: 0771592795

Condition: Very Good

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346 pages. Mass market paperback "First Macmillan Paperbacks edition 1988" stated, though somewhat misleading as Macmillan published the novel in Laurentian Library softcover 1968 with reprints through the 70s. Student's pencil scoring, two instances of light green highlighting, and a few notations including the perceptive "nikolai / Manya - hid them in the cellar" on verso of front cover. No markings after page 79. Signed without inscription by the author on the first leaf. Spine not creased, and despite the markings little sign of wear. View more info

The Fables of Aesop [limited ed. in slipcase]

By: Aesop

Price: $2,340.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1909

Inscription: Signed by Illustrator

Seller ID: Books010102

Condition: Very Good

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Cream cloth with gilt; top edge gilded, others untrimmed. Light handling to cloth, and foxing to spine. Interior clean and free of inscriptions; tanning to free endpapers. Number 481 of 750 issued, signed by Detmold. 25 gorgeous plates. The original slipcase is sturdy and complete without splitting: long ago covered in patterned book-covering paper (similar to thin wallpaper) that appears to be stuck to the slipcase only along fore-edges. View more info

Strathalmond : A Scottish Saga of the Lothians

By: Aitken, Alex

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Kingston, ON, Canada, Highlander Publishing: 1999

Inscription: inscribed by author

Seller ID: Books005691

ISBN: 0968409407

Condition: Very Good

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434 pages. As new. Signed "Best Wishes / Alex Aitken" on half title. View more info

Atlantic Salmon & the Fly Fisherman [signed]

By: Anderson, Gary

Price: $52.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday: 1985

Inscription: Inscribed by the author

Seller ID: Books009424

ISBN: 0385232845

Condition: Very Good

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[ix], 241 pages. Jacket spine sunned. Clean and unmarked save for warm authorial inscription on half-title. View more info

Gaspereau Review Numbers 1 through 16 [complete run]

By: Andrew Steeves & Gary Dunfield, eds.

Price: $368.75

Publisher: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books010196

Condition: Very Good

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All sixteen Numbers of the periodical, from No. 1 Fall 1997 through No. 16 Very Late Summer 2001. Signed by editors Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield on second leaf of No. 1. No. 1 also signed by Joyce Martin, a contributing artist. No markings or signatures in the other Numbers. A very good set, with little evidence of use. View more info

Thoughts from my Gardens. A Handbook of Hints for Garden-lovers in Atlantic Canada [signed]

By: Antoft, Mrs. O.H.

Price: $18.75

Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Self published: 1974

Edition: Second Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: Books009707

Condition: Good

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vii, 66pp.Light soiling to front cover and title page. Author's signature to top right of title page. Contents clean and unmarked in sound binding. View more info

The King's English Drill. A Practical Aid to Spoken English in Everyday Use

By: Archibald, Rosamond M. deWolfe

Price: $93.75

Publisher: St. John, N.B., Barnes & Company, Limited:

Edition: Fourth edition

Inscription: Signed and inscribed by author

Seller ID: Books009734

Condition: Very Good

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i- xiv, 15-33pp. + (viii -endorsements). This edition is a "Reproduction of the Presentation Copy to Her Majesty Queen Mary". Archibald's inscription to ffep. as well as previous owner's signature, Archibald's own signature below the frontispiece portrait. Some foxing to end papers, light wear to covers; staples pulled from gutter but binding sound. View more info

Messages From Mark

By: Armstrong, J. Murray

Price: $19.50

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books009289

Condition: Very Good

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232 pages. no stated publishing info. C. 1990. Warmly inscribed by the author to a fellow minister. No other markings; no spine crease. View more info

Historic Buildings of Annapolis Royal

By: Armstrong, Laurie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bridgetown, N.S., Mailman Publishing Company:

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books009629

Condition: Very Good

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23 pages. Clean and unmarked, save for author's inscription to first leaf. Each page with photo of a building and descriptive text. View more info

Procedures For Underground [signed / dated 1972]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $71.50

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1970

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books009352

Condition: Very Good

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79 pages. Covers foxed and blank price sticker top right front. No spine crease but sunned so the red Margaret Atwood has disappeared. Finger smudge and lower corner crease to Contents leaf, and lighter smudge to the right of author's signature on previous leaf. Ownership signature to verso of rear cover. Signed: Margaret Atwood 1972 on title page. Presumed first printing, with 1970 on title page and colophon, with no indication of subsequent issue. View more info

Nightingale [signed, limited ed.]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $218.75

Publisher: Toronto, Harbourfront Reading Series: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books011838

Condition: Very Good

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25 pages, and limitation leaf at rear. Of the total run of 556 copies in three editions [106 of which are in hardcover], this is one of the 31 copies "signed and numbered in Roman numerals (from XL to LXX) by the author." Condition: as new. View more info

The Animals In That Country [signed]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $243.75

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012256

Condition: Very Good

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69 pages. Signed by the author on first leaf. Edges foxed and dusty; foxing throughout, heaviest on first few and final few leaves. First printing. View more info

Up In The Tree [signed]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $281.25

Publisher: Toronto, Groundwood Books / House of Anansi: 2006

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012259

Condition: As New

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[30] pages. Second printing, 2006. Signed by Margaret Atwood on the half-title; else unmarked. View more info

The Handmaid's Tale [first edition; first printing], WITH: The Testaments [signed, first printing]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $1,181.25

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012512

Condition: Very Good

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First Canadian printing of each book. Issued in 1985 and 2019 respectively. Testaments is signed by Atwood; Handmaid's Tale is not. A superb example of The Handmaid's Tale, with light spotting to top edge of textblock, a half inch closed tear to rear panel of the unclipped jacket, and slight rubbing of the burgundy at head and foot of spine. The Testaments is as-new. Jackets will be housed in a removable archival sleeve. View more info

The Handmaid's Tale [John Fowles' copy], WITH: The Testaments [signed, first printing]

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $1,181.25

Publisher: London / Toronto, Jonathan Cape / McClelland & Stewart: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012513

Condition: Very Good

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Third printing [1986] of The Handmaid's Tale; first Canadian printing of The Testaments. Testaments is signed by Atwood; Handmaid's Tale is not. The Handmaid's Tale bears the circular blind embossed stamp of author John Fowles and is accompanied by a letter addressed to his wife Elizabeth, on Jonathan Cape letterhead, from publisher Tom Maschler. Light staining to jacket flaps and offsetting from that to free endpapers. The Testaments is as-new. Neither jacket is price clipped; now housed in a removable archival sleeve. View more info

Anna's Pet [signed]

By: Atwood, Margaret and Joyce Barkhouse

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Toronto, James Lorimer & Company: 1980

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012239

Condition: Very Good

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[32] pages. Signed by Margaret Atwood and Joyce Barkhouse at head of title page. Light wear only to boards; hint of stain to endpapers. Atwood's second book for young readers, published five years before The Handmaid's Tale. View more info

The Journals of Susanna Moodie [inscribed in French]

By: Atwood, Margaret [Marguerite Auxbois]

Price: $1,218.75

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1970

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books012255

Condition: Very Good

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64 pages. Inscribed in French by the author to poet Jacques Brault: "avec mes meilleurs voeux / Marguerite Auxbois / Mars 1970". Covers toned; no spine crease; interior fine. First printing. View more info