A golden month with Dickens
Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám
From manger to throne : embracing a new life of Jesus the Christ and a history of Palestine and its people
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek ; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.34
- Call Number
- 225.52 AME
- Contributor
- American Bible Society
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- American Bible Society
- Publication Date
- 1867
- Physical Description
- 316 p. ; 12 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"35" [written in pencil]
"E.D. Street" [written in blue ink]
Table of contents:
"225
A512" [written in pencil]
Back endpaper:
"To Sheridan
from his "Friend"
In memory of
a happy summer
holiday
___ John
May 15 - 1946" [written upside-down in blue ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Bible. New Testament
- Christianity
- Bible
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It can be done : poems of inspiration
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.35
- Call Number
- 821.082 MOR
- Contributor
- Morris, Joseph, 1889-1947
- Adams, St. Clair, 1883-
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- George Sully
- Publication Date
- c1921
- Physical Description
- xiv, 252 p. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"2.00" [written in pencil]
"Frank B. Street" [written and underlined in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- American poetry
- Notes
- "collected by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams".
- Includes index.
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Facing forward : poems of courage
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.36
- Call Number
- 821.08 MOR
- Contributor
- Morris, Joseph, 1889-1947
- Adams, St. Clair, 1883-
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Ryerson Press
- Publication Date
- c1925
- Physical Description
- xii, 257 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"3 CUL
200" [written in pencil]
"Frank B. Street" [written in black ink]
"Frank,
Merry Xmas and
Happy New Year,
Xmas 1925" [written in black ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- American poetry
- English poetry
- Notes
- "collected by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams"
- Includes index.
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Diary of Samuel Pepys ... : volume two
Selections from the poetical works of Robert Browning
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.39
- Call Number
- 821.08 BRO
- Author
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Mershon Company
- Physical Description
- 373 p. ; 16 cm.
- Inscription
- "20" in pencil on title page
"F.B. Strut" ?, handwritten on dedication page in pencil
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History of Rome to the reign of Trajar
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.41
- Call Number
- 937 MER
- Author
- Merivale, Charles, 1808-1893
- Contributor
- Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant, 1856-1914
- Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Son Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1910
- Series
- Everyman's library. History
- Printer
- Temple Press
- Physical Description
- xvi, 560 p. ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- "Bessie _hoate [Choate]
March 30. 1911
Arden" [handwritten in black ink on back of front endpaper]
"_103046 [S103046]
25" [handwritten in pencil on back pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Rome--History
- Notes
- Title with ornamental border
- "Everyman's library edited by Ernest Rhys" --series title page
- "with introduction by Oliphant Smeaton" --series title page
- Also published by: New York : E.P. Dutton & Co.
- Other title found on series title page
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii) and index
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Far from the madding crowd
The age of fable
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.45
- Call Number
- 292 BUL
- Author
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
- Contributor
- Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1912
- Series
- Everyman's Library
- Printer
- The Temple Press
- Physical Description
- x, 371 p.
- Inscription
- "Jack Rendle", handwritten in pencil on back of front endpaper
"Jack Rendle, / Quathiaski Cove, / B.C.", handwritten in pencil on fly-leaf
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction
- Folklore
- Mythology
- Notes
- "Edited by Ernest Rhys" -- tilte page
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The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.46
- Call Number
- 821.8 PAL
- Contributor
- Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897
- Place of Publication
- London
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication Date
- 1900
- Printer
- Turnbull & Spears
- Physical Description
- xv, 459 p., [18] leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- Back fly leaf:
"2.00 i
6/17 8" [written in pencil]
"Paul Eder & Co., San Francisco"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Songs, English
- Notes
- "selected and arranged with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave"
- Plates are accompanied by thin guard sheet printed wtih descriptive text.
- Includes index.
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Tennyson's Idylls of the king
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.47
- Call Number
- 821.8 TEN 1912
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
- Contributor
- French, Charles Wallace, 1858-1920
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication Date
- 1912
- Series
- Macmillan's pocket classics
- Printer
- Norwood Press
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 434 p. : front. ; 15 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"15" [written and circled in red pencil]
"J.A. McAllister
1702 Victoria Ave
Edmonton
Alta.
Can
N.W.T" [written in black ink]
"F.A. Nye Co., Ltd.
Booksellers & Stationers
10345 Jasper Ave
Phone 24323 Edmonton" [stamped in purple ink]
Back endpaper:
"Mr. J.A. McAllister
Mr. J.A. McAllister" [written in pencil]
"MAC
LOVES
ALICE" [written in pencil]
"For what is" [written in black ink]
Throughout book:
Study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, written in pencil and black ink.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English literature--Historical texts
- Poetry--historical texts
- Notes
- edited with introduction and notes by Charles W. French
- Includes index.
- Copy of book published in 1922 available.
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Ready money
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.49
- Call Number
- 174 KNO
- Author
- Knox, George H.
- Publisher
- Personal Help Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- 1910
- c1905
- Series
- Personal help library
- Physical Description
- 317 p. : [15] ports, frontispiece ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Success
- Notes
- First 15 pages are recommendations for this book by various persons along with black and white photographs.
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Thoughts that inspire : vol. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.51
- Call Number
- 808.88 KNO
- Author
- Knox, George H.
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, Ia.
- Publisher
- Personal Help Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- 1910
- c1905
- Series
- Personal help library
- Inscription
- Signed name on first page in pencil (illegible)
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Maxims
- Notes
- 307 p. : fronts. (ports) ; 20 cm.
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Apples of gold, or, daily watchwords for 1908
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.56
- Call Number
- 242.2 PAR
- Edition
- 7th
- Contributor
- Parsons, Charles R. (Charles Richard), active 1885-1892
- Place of Publication
- Bristol, Eng.
- Publisher
- Charles R. Parsons
- Publication Date
- [1907]
- Printer
- A. Jenkins & Co.
- Physical Description
- 99 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "E__ / with love from / M__ Wyatt + Slate / Christmas ___" [handwritten opposite title page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Devotional calendars
- Christian life
- Notes
- "Edited by Charles R. Parsons" -- t.p.
- Contributor's full name is Parsons, Charles R. (Charles Richard)
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