THIS IS ONE ARTICLE CONTAINED IN A LARGER JOURNAL - Some edgewear and one crease on front cover, otherwise fine. The journal contains the following articles: State Medicine in Transition : Battling Smallpox in Ontario 1882-1885 by Barbara Lazenby Craig - Health Reformers versus the Common Canadian : The controversy Over compulsory Vaccination Against Smallpox in Toronto and Ontario 1900-1920 by Paul Adolphus Bator - Public Health Services and Limited Prospects : Epidemic and Conflagration in Cobalt by Douglas Owen Baldwin - Aristocratic Vice : The Medical Treatment of Drug Addiction at the Ho... View More...
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers,as well some pages are loose from the spine, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy View More...
First in a series of books on lost, sunken and buried treasure in Canada. Fascinating text, maps, photographs. Quite a well-thumbed copy with what appears to have been some water-damage (long since dried), but luckily everything is still perfectly readable View More...
Edited with an introduction by Carl Resek. Small price stickers on front cover. Some chipping, edgewear and faint spine creases. Underlining of the text. Otherwise a good reading copy. View More...
Hardcover 1st edition - Some shelf and edgewear, otherwise a good clean solid copy. Dust jacket is in great condition. When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was 'Canada for the British.' Despite the Canadian government's expectations and Barr's assurances, however, very few of the colonists knew anything about farming. As the granddaughter of Barr colonists, Lynne Bowen grew up on stories of what it was ... View More...
Hardcover from 1940, nice illustration facing title page showing the ruins of Fort Frontenac by James Peachey, ensign. Some general shelf and edgewear, some soiling of front covers (a glass ring), interior thankfully very good, clean and solid View More...
Hardcover. Rescued from a library cull, presents the usual stamps and stickers, but generally this is quite a good sturdy copy in a light brown library binding. Interior pages clean and bright with many illustrations View More...
Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some age toning,& the previous owner has left a note in the first page, otherwise still a good reading copy View More...
Hardcover 1st edition. Blue covers with eagle design on front cover, faded gilt titles on spine. Minor shelfwear otherwise a fine clean sturdy copy View More...
Minor edgewear otherwise a lovely clean fresh copy. From the publisher:"Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth. In the early twentieth century, when Daniel Burnham put together his master plan for the design of Chicago—a plan intended to create a sense of civic virtue—he envisioned a grand municipal pier for public recreation near the central city. Later modified for multiple uses by the Chicago-Harbor Commission, Navy Pier opened in 1916. This glorious extensio... View More...
Hardcover 1st edition in original blue cloth with black lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear otherwise a fine clean tight copy. Dust jacket is a little chipped and rubbed but generally fine. View More...
