Search Results: dictionary of canadian biography volume 1 by brown george w

University of Toronto Press, 1967. Centennial Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Poor. pp.755 with index clean tight copy but for former owner name on inside front cover plus a paste down from Imperial Tobacco shelfwear to board extremities d/j shows sunning with a piece missing top spine and wear to lower spine top back small tears, creasings, 1" tear lower back with creasing, else slight edge and corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Very little wear overall. Jacket has been reinforced, the tape at the flaps just barely leaving marks upon the endpp. Text is clean. 'The first multi-volume dictionary of Canadian biography is also the first large national dictionary to be issued from the outset in chronological arrangement. Each volume will cover a specific number of years and be self-contained, with biographies arranged from A to Z, and full bibliography and index. Volume 1 includes 594 biographical articles, dealing with personages of New France, Acadia, the Hudson's Bay Company, Newfoundland, early martime explorers, Indians, and others.' 755 pages..

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Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Half leather and cloth with gilt lettering, graphic and top page edges. FIRST EDITION. VOLUME I ONLY. "Five hundred copies of this Edition have been printed, of which this is Copy No. 27." Gifted to L.C. Webster, President of Hackett Co. of Can. Ltd. on front free page. The corners are not bumped. Illustrated. 755 pages.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. First Edition. Half-Leather. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in black leather with decorated paper to boards; gilt decoration to front board; gilt up upper page edges. Fine.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press NONE [NONE] 1966-1998. (hardcover) Various. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. The first multi-volume dictionary of Canadian biography issued in chronological order. Very good ex-reference library set, complete. All in dust jackets. Sold as set..