Mobilizing Canadas Resources (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Mobilizing Canada's Resources For War by A. F. W. PlumptreAn account of Canada's war effort in the economic realm. Chapters cover labour and capital equipment unemployed at outbreak of war, mobilizing labour and equipment in to wartime occupations, Canadian war expenditures, aid to Britain and from USA, Wartime taxation, borrowing, monetary controls, controls over particular commodities and prices, and similar. The book is in a good condition with no visible faults.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. First Edition. Ex military library with stamps on the endpapers and a card sleeve on the paste down back endpaper. 306 pages in very good condition. Red hardcovers with gilt spine titles. Light wear on corners, small stain on the front cover. VG-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 306 pages in very good,clean condition. Red hardcovers with gilt spine titles. Water stain on both covers at the top edge and head od spine. Corners not bumped. Beige DJ with red titles. Spine darkened, small tears and chips on corners and edges, jacket a little soiled and stained. GOOD+/GOOD. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Please note: Laid in is a contemporary copy of a four-page House of Commons speech by Harry R. Jackman, M.P. Toronto-Rosedale, entitled "The Billion Dollar Gift to the United Kingdom", delivered March 19, 1942. The original owner of this book was clearly a keen observer of Canada's war effort. Prior owner's name inside front board. The book itself is 306 pages with index and "supplies a comprehensive account of the impact of war on a democratic country. It is an analysis of Canada's experience during the first two years of war, written be a leading economist in a manner that makes it as interesting and clear to the layman as to the specialist." - from dust jacket. Pencil markings throughout. Only moderate wear to book which remains attractive. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound and interesting copy.…