Dave Shoots Books
@daveshootsbooks.bsky.social
Wendy, not Dave (he's my dad). Old broad. Selling interesting old and local history #books since 2000 (now online only). Other interests - music, cooking, baking, crocheting, writing, community. Saint John, New Brunswick. http://daveshootsbookseller.com
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1/2 Effective immediately, we will no longer be shipping #books to the #UnitedStates due to the lifting of the "di minimis exemption" by its president on August 29th. We refuse to ask our customers to pay a 35% #tariff. We will resume service to the U.S. once this tariff has been lifted. #ElbowsUp
You know what to do: daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You know what to do: daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
This 1936 #ChildrensBook was a #fundraiser for the #PrincessElizabethofYorkHospital in #London. #Stories by many #British #authors. #B&W #illustrations and seven stunning #ColourPlates. $40. #Booksky #QueenElizabethII #JMBarrie #RudyardKipling #GKChesterton #AlgernonBlackwood #HughWalpole
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This 1936 #ChildrensBook was a #fundraiser for the #PrincessElizabethofYorkHospital in #London. #Stories by many #British #authors. #B&W #illustrations and seven stunning #ColourPlates. $40. #Booksky #QueenElizabethII #JMBarrie #RudyardKipling #GKChesterton #AlgernonBlackwood #HughWalpole
For the #history buff on your list: this 1893 #book about one of #HenryMStanley 's #African #expeditions features 150 #illustrations and 3 #foldout #maps! $50. #Booksky #adventure #Africa #jungle #exploration
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
For the #history buff on your list: this 1893 #book about one of #HenryMStanley 's #African #expeditions features 150 #illustrations and 3 #foldout #maps! $50. #Booksky #adventure #Africa #jungle #exploration
Even the #endpapers are beautiful on this 1921 #book of #BlissCarman 's #poetry! It would make a lovely #gift! #Carman was born in #Fredericton, and was #CharlesGDRoberts ' cousin. $25. #Booksky #poems #NewBrunswick #CanLit #prettybooks #oldbooks
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Even the #endpapers are beautiful on this 1921 #book of #BlissCarman 's #poetry! It would make a lovely #gift! #Carman was born in #Fredericton, and was #CharlesGDRoberts ' cousin. $25. #Booksky #poems #NewBrunswick #CanLit #prettybooks #oldbooks
Today is #BlackFriday. We'd love it if you bought your #gifts / #giftcards from us instead of A**zon (sorry, still not shipping to the #US)! Save the #shipping and the #exchange when you pick up your order in West #SaintJohn! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #oldbooks #NewBrunswick
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Today is #BlackFriday. We'd love it if you bought your #gifts / #giftcards from us instead of A**zon (sorry, still not shipping to the #US)! Save the #shipping and the #exchange when you pick up your order in West #SaintJohn! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #oldbooks #NewBrunswick
This #softcover 1937 #book would make a great #gift for someone interested in #Canadian #transportation #history! $25. #Booksky #railway #train #CanadianPacific #steamship #business
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This #softcover 1937 #book would make a great #gift for someone interested in #Canadian #transportation #history! $25. #Booksky #railway #train #CanadianPacific #steamship #business
This #scarce 1924 #biography of #JohnAMacDonald was written with #schools in mind...not dry as some biographies tend to be! Paper missing at edge of one page (not affecting text) - #AsIs. $25. #Booksky #politics #PrimeMinister #Canada #CanadianHistory #history
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This #scarce 1924 #biography of #JohnAMacDonald was written with #schools in mind...not dry as some biographies tend to be! Paper missing at edge of one page (not affecting text) - #AsIs. $25. #Booksky #politics #PrimeMinister #Canada #CanadianHistory #history
The #Bagdad in the title of this #signed 1991 #MichaelThorpe #poetry #book refers to a community in #NewBrunswick (it's spelled correctly!). The #British #poet was a colourful #English professor at #MountAllisonUniversity in #Sackville. $35. #Booksky #poems #NewBrunswickPoet
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The #Bagdad in the title of this #signed 1991 #MichaelThorpe #poetry #book refers to a community in #NewBrunswick (it's spelled correctly!). The #British #poet was a colourful #English professor at #MountAllisonUniversity in #Sackville. $35. #Booksky #poems #NewBrunswickPoet
We have this 1984 #book of #AldenNowlan #ShortStories:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1628... #Booksky #NewBrunswickAuthor #mummers
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1628... #Booksky #NewBrunswickAuthor #mummers
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This #scarce 2012 #ChildrensBook has an elaborately decorated cover. It is a guide to the #SistersGrimm #fantasy #series by #MichaelBuckley, in which #fictional descendants of the #BrothersGrimm solve #mysteries. $20. #Booksky #prettybooks
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This #scarce 2012 #ChildrensBook has an elaborately decorated cover. It is a guide to the #SistersGrimm #fantasy #series by #MichaelBuckley, in which #fictional descendants of the #BrothersGrimm solve #mysteries. $20. #Booksky #prettybooks
This 1997 #history of #Blacks in the #Maritimes would make an excellent #gift. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $15. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #racism #slavery
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This 1997 #history of #Blacks in the #Maritimes would make an excellent #gift. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $15. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #racism #slavery
This #scarce 2011 #biography of #Fredericton woman, #AnnieGarlandFoster (née Ross) is #signed by the #author. Foster helped found and was the first matron of the #CarletonCountyHospital in #Woodstock. She was also the first female #alderman in #Nelson, #BC. $25. #Booksky #nurse #HerStory
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This #scarce 2011 #biography of #Fredericton woman, #AnnieGarlandFoster (née Ross) is #signed by the #author. Foster helped found and was the first matron of the #CarletonCountyHospital in #Woodstock. She was also the first female #alderman in #Nelson, #BC. $25. #Booksky #nurse #HerStory
RIP, #ColleenJones: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1673... #Booksky #biography #curling #CBC #NovaScotia #Maritimes
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Even if you have no interest in #British #politics, buy this massive 1898 #biography of #WilliamEwartGladstone for the sheer beauty of the #book! Would make a lovely #gift! #Gladstone was #PrimeMinister of #England for 12 years (four non-consecutive terms). $30. #Booksky #oldbooks #prettybooks
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Even if you have no interest in #British #politics, buy this massive 1898 #biography of #WilliamEwartGladstone for the sheer beauty of the #book! Would make a lovely #gift! #Gladstone was #PrimeMinister of #England for 12 years (four non-consecutive terms). $30. #Booksky #oldbooks #prettybooks
#Softcover #SocialHistory #books about #cholera in #Canada (1980), and #tuberculosis (1992). $15 each. #Booksky #medicine #medical #diseases #epidemic #GeoffreyBilson #BarbaraBates
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#Softcover #SocialHistory #books about #cholera in #Canada (1980), and #tuberculosis (1992). $15 each. #Booksky #medicine #medical #diseases #epidemic #GeoffreyBilson #BarbaraBates
This #scarce 1982 #history of #Moncton's #StBernardsChurch by #LeoJHynes is back in stock! #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $30. We also have his #book about the #Catholic #Irish in #NewBrunswick: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1750...
#Booksky #LocalHistory #Catholics #religion
#Booksky #LocalHistory #Catholics #religion
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This #scarce 1982 #history of #Moncton's #StBernardsChurch by #LeoJHynes is back in stock! #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $30. We also have his #book about the #Catholic #Irish in #NewBrunswick: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1750...
#Booksky #LocalHistory #Catholics #religion
#Booksky #LocalHistory #Catholics #religion
True! And A**zon won't give you #tea and #cookies when you come to pick up your order (we do that)! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #oldbooks #prettybooks #NewBrunswick #Canada
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
True! And A**zon won't give you #tea and #cookies when you come to pick up your order (we do that)! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #LocalHistory #oldbooks #prettybooks #NewBrunswick #Canada
This 1946 #book is beige on the outside, but inside is bursting with 48 #ColourPlates and 132 #B&WIllustrations of #Trees, #WildFlowers, #Animals, #Birds, #MarineLife, and #Insects of #Britain! $20. #Booksky #NaturalHistory #art #prettybooks
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This 1946 #book is beige on the outside, but inside is bursting with 48 #ColourPlates and 132 #B&WIllustrations of #Trees, #WildFlowers, #Animals, #Birds, #MarineLife, and #Insects of #Britain! $20. #Booksky #NaturalHistory #art #prettybooks
Gorgeous cover on this #illustrated ca.1880 #ChildrensBook by #RMBallantyne about #WhaleHunting. $40. #Booksky #adventure #SpermWhales #maritime #PrettyBooks #OldBooks
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gorgeous cover on this #illustrated ca.1880 #ChildrensBook by #RMBallantyne about #WhaleHunting. $40. #Booksky #adventure #SpermWhales #maritime #PrettyBooks #OldBooks
This 1997 #biography (2nd Edition) tells about the efforts of a #Fredericton woman to reunite her broken family. #ExLibrary. $15. #Booksky #NellieWinnifredPlatt #MichaelAnthonyStaples #HomeChildren #MiddlemoreHome #LocalHistory #SocialHistory
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This 1997 #biography (2nd Edition) tells about the efforts of a #Fredericton woman to reunite her broken family. #ExLibrary. $15. #Booksky #NellieWinnifredPlatt #MichaelAnthonyStaples #HomeChildren #MiddlemoreHome #LocalHistory #SocialHistory
We have two #biographies of #JosephBrant in stock:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #FirstNations #Tyendinaga #Aboriginal
#CanadianHistory #SocialHistory
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #FirstNations #Tyendinaga #Aboriginal
#CanadianHistory #SocialHistory
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This 1941 #ModernLibrary #book contains five #Irish #plays by #JohnMSynge, #SeanOCasey, #LadyGregory, and #PaulVincentCarroll. $15. #Booksky #drama #IrishLit
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This 1941 #ModernLibrary #book contains five #Irish #plays by #JohnMSynge, #SeanOCasey, #LadyGregory, and #PaulVincentCarroll. $15. #Booksky #drama #IrishLit
This massive 2014 #LewisCarroll #book has 771 pages, and includes #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland, as well as #SylvieandBruno, #HuntingoftheSnark, and #Phantasmagoria. #Illustrated by #JohnTenniel. Bottom corner of front board broken. $15. #Booksky #AsIs #literature #KidLit #ChildrensBook
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This massive 2014 #LewisCarroll #book has 771 pages, and includes #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland, as well as #SylvieandBruno, #HuntingoftheSnark, and #Phantasmagoria. #Illustrated by #JohnTenniel. Bottom corner of front board broken. $15. #Booksky #AsIs #literature #KidLit #ChildrensBook
We have lots of #fishing books including many #local ones (and many more to be listed): www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #WorldFisheriesDay #sports #angling #fish #salmon #NewBrunswick #Maritimes #Newfoundland #NovaScotia
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We have lots of #fishing books including many #local ones (and many more to be listed): www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #WorldFisheriesDay #sports #angling #fish #salmon #NewBrunswick #Maritimes #Newfoundland #NovaScotia
Originally published in 1955 (this #reprint is 2001), this #WillRBird #book tells about two men from #NewBrunswick who fought in #WWII. #JackFairweather was from #Rothesay, and #JackVeness was from #Fredericton. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $20. #Booksky #military #biography
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Originally published in 1955 (this #reprint is 2001), this #WillRBird #book tells about two men from #NewBrunswick who fought in #WWII. #JackFairweather was from #Rothesay, and #JackVeness was from #Fredericton. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $20. #Booksky #military #biography