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Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 7595
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xix) 275 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Subtitled: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture, the Chapters are: Acadia - This Is the Forest Primeval; Bacteriophage - Of Things Visible and Invisible; Balm of Gilead - A Tree Grows in Bamagalia; Bloody Caesar - So Set 'Em Up Joe; Bluenose - Sot Down in New York; Caboose - Trainspotting in Winnipeg; Canada - Here There Are No Maps; Carriole - Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells; Chinook Winds - Chasing the Chinook; Colcannon Night - Bubble and Screech; Common Gallinule - Where Nests the Chicken-foot Coot; Crokinole - Hustling Crokinole; Documentary - Art as Hammer; Dominion - The Kingdom of Canada; Filles du roi - Figures in the First Garden; Garrison Mentality - Across the River and Out of the Bush Garden; Gopher - Rodents of the Lost Ark; Grizzly Bear - Exeunt Pursued by a Gear; Groundhog - Who Are Wiarton Willie; Ice - Water Turned to Bone; Jerusalem Artichoke - The Canada Potato; Joual - Speaking Horse; Kerosene - The Man Who Put the Tiger in Your Tank; Mackinaw - It's a Lumberjacket and It's Okay; Muskrat - The Shop Girl in Her Musquash; Newfoundland Dog - To Make a Mongrel; Pablum - Fodder and Child Reunion; Peking Man - Skulduggery on Chicken Bone Hill; Pogey - Hard Times in the House of Industry; Polygraph - Where the Truth Lies; Potlatch - The Grand Give-away; Puck - The Puck Starts Here; Pullman - Sharp Cars; Sasquatch - Wild Men of the Woods; Skinny - Choosing Up; Ski-Doo - The Monster; Superman - Look Up In the Sky; Tourtiere - Pigeon Pot Pie; Truck System - What You Get; Tuque - Don't Get Your Tuque in a Knot; and Zipper - On Closing. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 228801
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 57709037-6
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seller Inventory # 1569
Seller: Pages Books on Kensington, Calgary, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # 978067088243U
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 008392
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
[0-670-88243-7] 1998. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. xix, 275pp. 8vo. Dust jacket very good. Stories of Canadian cultural identity. Blue covers, gilt title to spine. Clean and crisp. Seller Inventory # 125442
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Seller Inventory # FORT873668
Seller: The Book Re-View, Orillia, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 83742
Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 275 pp. Faint scattered spotting to edges. Previous owner's notation ffep - interior o/w unmarked, binding tight. Seller Inventory # 018221