Chignecto by Bird Will, First Edition (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 30 pages. NB: this is a brief introduction, not the author's longer work on Chignecto published 2 years earlier. No inscriptions. 7.25 x 4.9 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Covers are clean. Front hinge is cracking and is a bit loose. First front endpaper is missing. Previous owner has pasted a printed description of the the book on the inside of the front cover. Otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original red cloth hard covers, with black titles to front and spine. Some light bumping to corners, extremities. Edges and endpapers toned. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat - a sound and handsome copy. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, and two additional plates, complete as called for. Old bookseller's catalogue page (from Grant Woolmer Books, Montreal, 1990) featuring this volume, laid in. x,245pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. x, 245 pages, frontispiece and the two plates called for. Remarkably, retaining the glassine wrapper. No inscriptions. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1928. Bird was born in Northern Nova Scotia in 1891.He wrote Maritime Provinces histories and travel books, war and military history works and many historical novels. He served two years on the war front in WW I with the 42nd Battalion, Black Watch of Canada. He lost his youngest brother in WW I and his only son who fought with The North Nova Scotia Highlanders in WW II. Bird wrote the regimental history of the North Novas in 1955 - "No Retreating Footsteps. "A Century at Chignecto" was his very first book. This book, 235 pages, first edition is in near-fine condition. There are 3 photographs of historic sites. This is an important Nova Scotia work by one of the Provinces best known writers. A cornerstone work of any Bird collection.