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CANADA
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New
Homes, NEW
HEARTS
(A CHRISTMAS CANADIANUM). Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. 
Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
• Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)
American
Ostervald —
For FRENCH-Reading Users,
1824 Bible.
N.T. French. 1824. Ostervald.
Le nouveau testament de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ... seconde édition
Américaine. Boston: J.H.A. Frost, 1824. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.1"). 379, [5 (1
blank)] pp.
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French
Canadians and French émigrés in the
United States, this is a good example of an early American printing of a complete
Testament, either Old or New, in French.
• Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting, others with varying degrees of age-toning. (6030)
For theMORAVIAN MISSION in Labrador
Bible. O.T. Eskimo (Labrador). Morhardt-Erdmann. Selections. 1871. Testamentetokak Hiobib aglangit, Salomoblo imgerusersoanga tikkilugit. Stolpen [Netherlands]: Gustav Winterib Nênerlauktangit, 1871. 12mo (20 cm; 8"). 274 pp.
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Labrador Eskimo, i.e., Inuktitut, in roman script. Darlow and Moule write of this work: “The publication of this section of the O.T., Job - Song of Solomon, completed the version of the Bible in Labrador Eskimo. For this edition the Psalter and Proverbs [transl. Morhardt] were revised; but Job, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon, translated by F. Erdmann, appear for the first time in the present volume.” Pilling says the attribution of the three new books to Erdman is based “on the authority of Dr. Rink.” 
• Darlow & Moule 3520; Pilling, Eskimo, p. 30; North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 377; Banks (rev. ed.), Books in Native Languages, 75; Evans, Masinahikan, 299; Lande, Moravian Missions, 51. Publisher's black cloth. Excellent copy. (34884)
Small Format forUse in the FieldCatholic Church. Catechisms. 
Kalispel. (Canestrelli, trans.). Catechism of the Christian doctrine prepared and enjoined by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. [Woodstock, MD]: Woodstock College, 1891. Square 16mo (14 cm; 5.5"). 102 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. following the much shorter, basic one of 17 pages issued by the mission press at St. Ignatius Print in 1880. This one received the approval of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore and was translated into Kalispel, a Salishan language, by the Jesuit missionary Felipe Canestrelli.
Kalispel is the language of the Flathead Indians of Montana, Idaho, eastern Washington, Alberta, and portions of British Columbia.
• Pilling, Salishan, 29; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Kalispel 2. Publisher's pale green wrappers, minor chipping or abrasion to wrappers with small loss of paper at top of spine and to one corner. A nice clean copy. (35116)
Micmac
National Anthem —
Words in French
& Micmac
Clergue,
Omer. [drop-title] Chant national des
Micmacs. Musique de Omer Clergue, Prof. au Conservatoire de Toulouse. Paroles
du R. P. Sébastien, O. M. C. [N.p., Ristigouche?: n.d., ca. 1910?]. 8vo.
4 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Only one copy traced via OCLC — this, in Germany! — with the Souvenir seeming also to be very little held in libraries; WorldCat locates only three institutions reporting ownership.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. One leaf, folded. First page with half-inch long tear and another smaller tear at upper left corner, not touching text. Near fine. (14758)
19th-Century Ontario Childhood Stories — An Arts & Crafts BindingConnor, Ralph. Glengarry school days: a story of early days in Glengarry. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell & Co., 1902. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.375"). [8], 13–340 pp.; 3 plts.
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three halftone plates by American painter Edgar Samuel Paxson.
Binding: Publisher’s green cloth with white lettering to front board and spine, front cover with dark green and white scene of a log cabin in the woods. Unsigned (and notably fine).
Provenance: On front free endpaper, signature of Frank U. Burden, “Christmas, 1902.”
• Not in Minsky. Bound as above; mild rubbing to edges and spine-head, wrinkle to cloth at top outside corner of front board. Light offsetting from something once laid in to inner margins of two facing pages. 
A charming binding, a clean handsome book. (37533)
"I wish she would write
a Jalna book a year for the rest of her life . . ." De la Roche, Mazo. The building of Jalna. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. 8vo. [4] ff. 366 pp.
• Very good condition with a good+ dust jacket (small tears, price clipped from front flap). (3169)
For LITERATURE, click here.
New
Homes, NEW
HEARTS
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
• Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)
“Wild as Well as Civilized Regions” of North America,
Captured by Capt. HallHall, Basil. Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida in North America, in 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co.; London: Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves, 1829. Folio (33.2 cm, 13.07"). [2], ii, [22] pp.; 1 fold. map, 20 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.these drawings might be considered the illustrations. The camera lucida was patented in 1807, offering artists revolutionary accuracy and realism — “with his Sketch Book in one pocket, the Camera Lucida in the other . . . the amateur may rove where he pleases, possessed of a magical secret for recording the features of Nature with ease and fidelity, however complex they may be,” Captain Hall proclaims in the introduction, and record he did: Niagara Falls, “View from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts,” “Mississagua Indians in Canada,” South Carolina rice fields, a Georgia forest log-house, the “embryo town” of Columbus, two slave drivers, “chiefs of the Creek Nation,” the Mississippi at New Orleans, steamboats and stage coaches, etc. The etchings are preceded bya hand-colored folding map depicting Hall's route through the United States and Canada, steel-engraved by William Home Lizars (who also engraved the plates from Hall's drawings). Each plate offers two vignettes, with text descriptions printed on opposing pages; they appear here in their original uncolored state.
• Sabin 29721; Howes H46. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with vellum shelfback, spine with printed paper label; binding darkened with extremities rubbed. Plates with light waterstaining to lower outer portions, foxing variously. 
A solid copy, in publisher's boards, of this engaging picture book. (40536)
Hymns & Prayers forArctic-Dwelling Indians Kirby, William West. Hymns, prayers and instruction in the Chipewyan language. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1924). 16mo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 91, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. only the copy at Cornell.
Both editions are reprintings of the London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881 edition, which also is little held.
The work is printed in syllabic characters, with headings in English. The hymns are without the music.
• None of the editions are listed in Banks; or Evans; or Newberry Library, Ayer Indians. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in black; light discoloration of fore-edges of the closed volume. Very good. (37012)
Her First Published NovelOstenso, Martha. Wild geese. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1925. Small 8vo (20 cm, 7.5"). [3] ff., 356 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.“Ostenso's major achievement, Wild Geese, was her only novel set in Canada. A compelling romance, it realistically explores the strange unity between man and nature, and the spareness of both physical and spiritual life in a pioneering farm community” (Canadian Encyclopedia). Widely regarded asa landmark in Canadian realism, it is set in a farming community on the windswept plains of northern Manitoba, where the independent and at times fiery Judith Gare struggles for freedom from her father's brutal, controlling rule. This is thefirst American edition, first printing (the work was also issued in 1925 by McClelland & Stewart in Toronto, and in Norwegian translation as Graagaas in Oslo).
Binding: Publisher's gray cloth stamped in black and orange on cover with skyview of Canada geese in formation against setting sun with clouds, the lettering of title and authors in orange; lettering in black on spine, with three orange geese silhouetted against a black circle. Binding signed “H.o.H” (H.O. Hofman).
The illustrated endpapers, also featuring Canada geese, are also signed “H.O. Hofman” in upper right corner. This is one of the few instances we've seen of endpapers signed by the artist.
• Ingles, Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953, 4939; Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, O-148; Minsky, American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, II, p. 72. Binding as above; top and bottom of spine lightly pulled. Without the dust jacket. Very good. (39277)
A CANADIAN's
First & Last APPEARANCE
Sturrock, W. A military mite to the mountain of literature, or, The rhymes of a red coat. Quebec: Middleton & Dawson, 1858. 12mo (16.5 cm; 6.375"). 40 pp., [2] ff. .
Click the image for an enlargement.• TPL 5826. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, outer corners chipped and a lighter spot to front cover where there once was an old label of some sort affecting one word of type (“Price”); old, light waterstaining (with a darker edge) and some soiling to same cover, with evidence of the onetime moisture visible also to back cover and intermittently in the interior (especially to early leaves). Fragile. (25512)
Only the Second Known Copy?Waterville College. Bell-a! Horrid-a bell-a! Inaugural ceremonies at the coronation of John Tupper Champlin. [Maine?]: No publisher/printer, 1853. 8vo (23 cm; 9") 4 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement.The caption title reads: “Smith, with a copy of the 'Fugitive Slave Law,' eagerly inquiring the way to Canada.” The text printed within a wavy border.
WorldCat locates only the copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this being its deaccessioned duplicate.
• Old folds, dust-soiled, other stains. Evidence of old stitching. A decent copy of a rarity. (38404)
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