harold horwood butts (52 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good++. 1st Edition. This Canadian History hardback is in very nice condition. It is Very Good++ condition with a Very Good++ jacket. c1984, 1st Edition.This book is in very nice condition. There is a Very slight spine slant and a little light bottom spine end wear. It is a firm book with a clean & bright cover. Very nice edges with a little bottom spine end wear. Tight & bright & unmarked pages. no names.The jacket, with price, is very clean & very bright with very nice edges. 260 pages. #012565-1223.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good ++. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good ++. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; generic inscription signed by Butts and dated by him "Mar 8/88"; very gently used, clean and unmarked. See also our listing Roger Marsters' Bold Privateers : Terror, Plunder and Profit on Canada's Atlantic Coast. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good -. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages; traces of shelf wear to cover edges, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ rubbed at edges and hinges, several chips and tiny tears. For more Newfoundland fiction, see also our listings for Wayne Johnston's The Time of Their Lives, and for Percy Janes' very scarce classic House of Hate (buy two or more and save on postage!).

HB. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st. DJ with two small creases to corners of inside front flap, small smudge to page edge, else fine, clean and bright and square.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. Only slight edge wear; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.60 X 5.60 X 0.90 inches; 227 pages; Convincing proof that Canadian history is anything but dull, this book recounts the action-filled careers of some of the country's most successful and violent adventurers, licit and illicit."From Elizabethan privateers seeking fortune off the coasts of Newfoundland to the courtly warriors of Acadia, from the wildly successful letter-of-marque ships of Liverpool, Nova Scotia to the vicious sea fights of the War of 1812, Horwood and Butts reconstruct the lives of the country's finest fighting seamen. Inland, they consider the less reputable careers of the gangs who fought for control of gold and timber in the raw frontier settlements that would one day be Canada.".

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. pp.219 Foreword by Farley Mowatt. Natural history-Nova Scotia-Philosophy of Nature. clean tight copy former owner name sticker inside front cover, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Perfect Bound, Pictorial Card. Etat : Fine, As New. 260 pages, bibliography, index. A popular history of Canada's most famous or infamous bad guys, Size: 7 X 4.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Joe Fleming; (illustrateur). First Edition. (ix) 227 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; black endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; David Kirke and the Band of Brothers; Sailing Against Acadia - Charles La Tour and others; Sailing Against New France - Captain Doloboratz and others; The Spirit of '76 - American Letters of Marque; Godfrey and the Rover - Privateers of Liverpool, Nova Scotia and Captain Alex Godfrey; The Black Joke - Enos Collins; Winners and Losers in the War of 1812; A Man Called Smith - Henry More Smith; The Shiners of Bytown - Peter Aylen; The Brook's Bush Gang - Highwaymen Around Toronto; The Confederate Raiders - Crimping; Viscount Monck and the Reno Gang; The Canadian Rob Roy - Donald Morrison; Booze and Gold Dust - Cariboo Gold Rush; Charcoal - Legendary Native Outlaw; and Red Ryan and the Gangsters of the Thirties. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 260 pp. Quarter-bound in brown and cream-coloured boards; decorated in cream on the spine; brown endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket with some slight fading on the spine; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; The Great Easton - Captain Peter Easton; Henry Manwarring; Etienne Brule and the Coureurs de Bois; Radisson and Grosseilliers; John Phillips; Bartholomew Roberts; Sea Wolves of the Golden Age - Captain Charles Bellamy and others; Simon Girty; Masterless Men - Captain Jacob Everson, Lewis and others; The Pirate of the Thousand Islands - Bill Johnston and the St. Lawrence River pirates; The Grey Ghost of Fundy - Mogul Mackenzie; The Campbell Gang; The Fort Whoop-Up Bandits; The McLean Gang; The Outlaws of Michipicoten; Almighty Voice - the legenday Native Outlaw; Bill Miner; and The Mad Trapper - Albert Johnson; followed by a bibliography and an index. Size: 8vo. Book.

ILLUSTRATED SOFT COVER. Etat : As New. SECOND E DITION. BOOK IN AS NEW COND. SOLID & UNMARKED. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Stated first edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 227 pp. Photos. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket has light edgewear. Prev owner's address label on front endpaper. A survey of violent crime in Canada from the pioneering days to just before the Second World War. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Hardcover, dust jacket. Very good condition. From Elizabethan privateers seeking fortune off the coasts of Newfoundland to the courtly warriors of Acadia, from the wildly successful letter-of-marque ships of Liverpool, Nova Scotia to the vicious sea fights of the War of 1812, Horwood and Butts reconstruct the lives of the country's finest fighting seamen. Inland, they consider the less reputable careers of the gangs who fought for control of gold and timber in the raw frontier settlements that would one day be Canada. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

[0-385-018373-9] 1984. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 260pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. The spine is a bit cocked and the dust jacket is slightly faded along the spine. "Pirates and Outlaws takes the reader on a journey to a time when pirates ruled the Atlantic coast and outlaws roamed the wild west and northern frontiers. It is the story of their adventures, their crimes, their contributions, and too often, their bloody, untimely deaths". Time Period 1610-1932. (Canada, Crime, Ghosts, History--Canada, Outlaws, Pirates).