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NO AUTHOR_ARTIST TITLE PUBLISHER PRICE COND DESCRIPTION
4375 Croft, Clary
Celebrate!: The History and Folklore of Holidays in Nova Scotia Nimbus Pub Ltd Halifax 2002 $10.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Trade Paperback Book A month by month look at descriptions and meanings for different holidays and traditions of the various ethnic groups of Nova Scotia.
967 MacKenzie, Alexander
The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folklore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Volume IX A & W MacKensie Inverness, Scotland 1884 $90.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Cloth Book Contains "The History of the Camerons" by the Alexander Mackensie and lots of articles, poetry etc. issues from November 1883 to October 1884. Blue cloth covers with paste-on label on backstrip are worn at the corners. Binding a little loose. The odd mark in pen and pencil throughout the book. 1/4 page section of page 537/538 has been snipped and removed, part of an article on land law reform.
9861 Robertson, Marion
The Chestnut Pipe: Folklore of Shelburne County Nimbus Pub Ltd 1991 $16.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Covers are bumped on edges. Book is clean and tight.
6158 Clare Nova Scotia Nouvelle Ecosse Chez Les Acadiens Home of the Acadians History, Folklore, Recreation, Crafts, Industry 0 $20.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Paper Covers Book Booklet put out by the Tourism Committee in Clare, NS. Some soiling on covers. Probably printed in the 1960's.
9737 Fraser, Mary L.
Folklore of Nova Scotia Formac Publishing Company, Limited Halifax, Nova Scotia 2009 $10.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Card Cover Book In good clean condition.
6315 Croft, Clary
Helen Creighton : Canada's First Lady of Folklore Nimbus Publishing, Limited Halifax, Nova Scotia 1999 $11.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Trade Paperback Book Some sticker residue on front cover, otherwise a very clean tight copy. Previous owner has cut a small rectangle out of the title page.
9123 Miller, Don
I Was a Rum Runner Self Published Yarmouth, NS. 1980 $18.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Covers are scuffed. Inside is clean.
9712 R. Pentz, Donald
Images of the Keji Country SSP Publications 2021 $18.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Illustrated with sketches and paintings by the author.
6500 Robinson, Geoff and Dorothy
It Came By the Boat Load Essays on Rum- Running 1993 $12.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Trade Paperback Book " The men and the ships engaged in Atlantic Coast smuggling during prohibition" Published by the authors. Covers are a bit soiled. Pen marks on inside front cover and title page. Some pages dog eared. Some illustrations.
8973 Creighton, Helen
A Life in Folklore McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited Toronto 1975 First Edition $15.00 Good, Dustjacket: Good, Hardcover Book Dustjacket has small tears and chips along edges. Autobiography of folklorist Helen Creighton.
9791 Nichols, E. E. Kirk
Nova Scotia Memories: Folklore of the St. Mary's 2006 $25.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Some creases on covers and spine. Stories of the Antigonish, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia area. Previous owner wrote on the title page.
8907 David Mossman
Oceans of Rum: The Nova Scotia Banana Fleet in Rum-Runner Heaven Pottersfield Press Lawrencetown Beach, 2016 $21.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book Crease on cover. Book is clean and tight.
6555 Hennigar, Ted R.
The Rum Running Years Lancelot Press Hantsport, N.S. 1981 $15.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Card Cover Book Spine is faded. Small tear and stain on covers. Previous owner's name on half-title page.
8396 Fitzgerald, Jack
Rum-runners and Mobsters: Prohibition's 100th Anniversary in Newfoundland Breakwater Books Ltd. St. John's, NFLD 2017 $15.00 Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book In nice clean condition.
7898 Oickle, Vernon
South Shore Facts and Folklore: Buried Treasure, Historic Loyalist Settlements, Famous Ships Nimbus Publishers Halifax, NS 2012 $12.00 Very Good, Dustjacket: No Jacket, Soft cover Book In nice clean condition.

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