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  • Dimock, Celia C.
    ISLE ROYALE: The Front Door of Canada.

    Edition: First printing.

    Halifax, Nova Scotia: T.C. Allen & Co., n.d. [ca 1928.] dj. Hardcover first edition - An appealing slim volume with information on Cape Breton Island - early and later pioneers, later pioneers, folklore, missionaries, Mic Mac (Mi'kmaq) Indians and more. Illustrated with nine full page plates from photographs. 81 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in red cloth (bookplate) with a paper title label on front cover in a rather poor example of the plain cream dust jacket (some soiling to dj, over all edge chipping and wear.) Still rather uncommon in dj.

    Book ID: 44018
    Keywords: Canadian writers and history, cape breton, nova scotia
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  • THE MUSEUM GUARD. by Howard, Norman.
    Howard, Norman.
    THE MUSEUM GUARD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Nova Scotia in 1938 on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-374-216495.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (as new.)

    Book ID: 37094
    Keywords: historical fiction, Modern first editions, nova scotia
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  • THE MUSEUM GUARD. by Howard, Norman.
    Howard, Norman.
    THE MUSEUM GUARD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Nova Scotia in 1938 on the eve of World War II. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-374-216495.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 44129
    Keywords: historical fiction, Modern first editions, nova scotia
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  • CAPE BRETON ROAD. by MacDonald, D.R.
    MacDonald, D.R.
    CAPE BRETON ROAD.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000). First edition - The first novel by this award winning short story, a story of jealousy, suspicion, and ultimately violence, set against the harsh but beautiful landscape of Nova Scotia in the late 1970s. 288 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a bit of rubbing to the back cover)

    Book ID: 59858
    Keywords: ARC, coming of age, First book or first novel, first novel, marijuana growing, Nova Scotia, uncorrected proof
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  • CAPE BRETON ROAD. by MacDonald, D.R.
    MacDonald, D.R.
    CAPE BRETON ROAD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000). dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning short story, a story of jealousy, suspicion, and ultimately violence, set against the harsh but beautiful landscape of Nova Scotia in the late 1970s. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1005230.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 59888
    Keywords: Cape Breton Island, First book or first novel, marijauana growing, Nova Scotia
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  • Persons, Helen M.
    FINDING THE LOST TREASURE.

    Edition: Early printing.

    Akron, OH: Saalfield, (1933.). Hardcover - Mystery story for older children set in Nova Scotia. Frontispiece.

    Condition: Very good in pink boards (usual toning to the pages), lacking the dj.

    Book ID: 32262
    Keywords: canada, Juvenile series, nova scotia, young adult
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  • ROUGH CROSSINGS: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. by Schama, Simon.
    Schama, Simon.
    ROUGH CROSSINGS: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Ecco Press, (2006.). Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at…

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    New York: Ecco Press, (2006.). Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end." xiv, 478 pp., plus an insert of 16 pp. of glossy plates, some in full color. ISBN: 0-06-053916X.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated broads with a half wrapper.

    Book ID: 56858
    Keywords: african american history, nova scotia, sierra leone, Slavery Abolition Reconstruction, us history
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