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TOBACCO, PIPES AND THE PLEASURES OF PIPE SMOKING.
Turmac Tabakmaatschappij, Toronto, Ontario, n.d.
Unpaginated (approx. 34 pp.), large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover (decorative boards) - no dust jacket (as issued?). A volume on tobacco, pipes and pipe smoking produced by Turmac Tabakmaatschappij Canada Limited for its customers. Contents: The Mode rn Romance of Tobacco; Columbus Discovers America...And Tobacco; They Called It 'Tobaga'; Sir Walter Starts a Trend; From Coconut to 'Seafoam'; Pipe Artistry in Clay; The Search for the Perfect Pipe; The Meerschaum Pipe - A Shoemaker's Discov e r y ; P i pe Smoking and Fine Art; Seven Steps in Modern Pipe Manufacture; Tabacum Nicotiana; Oriental Tobacco; A Guide to Tobacco Blending; Choosing Tobacco; Choosing a Pipe; A Guide to Pipe Shapes; Tips for New Pipe-Smokers; Taking Care of Your P ip e; A c ce ss ories for your Pipe. Browning to spine and hinge areas, very light rubbing. Very Good-
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(Victoria & Albert Museum). FIFTY MASTERPIECES OF POTTERY, PORCELAIN, GLASS VESSELS, STAINED GLASS, PAINTED ENAMEL.
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, (1968), 2nd edition, 2nd impression.
103 pp, 16 mo, soft cover. Contains 50 b&w plates and full descriptions of pottery and glass from exhibits in the V&A Museum. Spine and page edges browning lightly. Slight bump to top of spine. Light edgewear to covers and spine. Interior - cle an and tight. VG-
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15.00 USD
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Ackerman, Evelyn. VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURAL SPLENDOR IN A NINETEENTH CENTURY TOY CATALOGUE.
Era Industries, Culver City, California, (1980), Ist printing.
92 pp, oblong 24 mo. (5 3/4" H x 8 1/2" L), soft cover. A reproduction in b&w of a nineteenth century German toy catalogue. Shows doll houses, stores, fire stations, shops, stables, etc. with accompanying notes. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear/rubbing, light soiling and browning to covers, spine lightly browned, flat and uncreased. VG
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20.00 USD
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Adamson, Jeremy. Photography by Kit Latham. AMERICAN WICKER: WOVEN FURNITURE FROM 1850 TO 1930.
Rizzoli, New York, (1993).
175 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0847816702 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, reproductions. Contents: Wicker in History; The Emergence of an American Industry, 1840-1873; The Great Rivals: Wakefiel d Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company, 1874-1897; Victorian Wicker and the American Home, 1876-1900; The Search for New Materials, Styles, and Meanings in the Progressive Era, 1893-1914; Novel Uses, Technologies, and Designs for th e M o d e rn Age, 1915-1930; Wicker in the 1930s. A few tiny dints on bottom edge of both boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very light rubbing, tiny dint on front panel. Very Good+/ Ve r y Go od
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25.00 USD
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Allan, Walter D., ed. W.K. Cross, publisher. THE CHARLTON STANDARD CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BANK NOTES. 2ND EDITION.
Charlton, (Toronto, 1989), 2nd edition.
433 pp, 4to, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. Contents: Introduction; How to use this catalogue; Numbering System; Grading of Paper Money; Useful Terminology and Information; Canadian Note Issuing Banks (alphabetically ar ranged); Private Banks and Bankers in Canada; Canadian Chartered Bank Notes Outstanding; Current Chartered Banks in Canada; Non-Note Issuing Banks; Bank Mergers & Amalgamations Since July 1, 1867; Index; Bibliography. Interior - clean and t i g h t w i t h no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft crease at top corner of front cover, spine flat and uncreased, very minor rubbing. VG+
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Anderson, Allan and Tomlinson, Betty. GREETINGS FROM CANADA: AN ALBUM OF UNIQUE CANADIAN POSTCARDS FROM THE EDWARDIAN ERA 1900-1916. (POST CARDS)
Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1978).
188 pp, oblong 8vo, soft cover. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. "The period between 1900 and 1916 was the golden age of the picture postcard in Canada; the craftsmanship evident in hand-tinted and lithographed 'postals' was never surpassed , the craze for collecting and sending them never so widespread...these postcards present an enchantingly candid portrait of Edwardian Canada and its citizens." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - ligh t t o m o d e rate edge wear, light rubbing with faint line indentations on rear cover, very small to small corner creases on covers, spine flat and uncreased. G+
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16.00 USD
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Armstrong, Joe C.W. FROM SEA UNTO SEA: ART & DISCOVERY MAPS OF CANADA.
Fleet, (Scarborough, Ontario, 1982), Ist edition.
Unpaginated (approx. 80 pp.), folio (10 1/2" x 15 3/4"), HC. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Brings together, for the first time, thirty-eight stunning, original Canadian maps - many of them national treasures - and the fascinat ing stories of the explorers and cartographers who made them. Light sunfading to dj spine. NF/VG+
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35.00 USD
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Askew, Gilbert, compiled by. A CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS.
B.A. Seaby, London, 1951.
124 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w drawings, maps. Contents: Abbreviations; The Origins of Greek Coinage; Greek Coin Types; Weight Standards and Denominations; Greek Coinage - Dating; Hispania; Gallia, with map; Italy, with map; Sicily; Macedon; Thrace ; Northern Greece, with map; Central Greece; Peloponnesus, with map; Crete and the Agean Islands; Asia Minor, with map; Syria; Phoenicia; Palestine; Further Asia; Africa; Appendixes and Indexes - 1. Towns, Districts, etc.; 2. Kings and Tyr a n t s . I n t erior - old price sticker on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor soiling and browning to covers, small soft crease on rear cover with slight migration into last few pa ge s. VG
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17.50 USD
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Baddeley, Jon. NAUTICAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES.
Konecky & Konecky, (New York, 1993).
160 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H) hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "This well-illustrated collector's guide covers a wide range of nautical decorative arts and naviational instruments. The book spans the period from the si xteenth century to the present day with an emphasis on the golden age of production between 1800 and 1940. These more modern pieces are readily found in specialist shops and auctions and are therefore more affordable than earlier and rarer p i e c e s . The book is divided into eight chapters, covering ship models, navigational instruments, ship fixtures and fittings, marine arts and crafts, ocean liner artefacts and ship portrait painting. A concluding chapter lists public and pr i va te c ol le ct io n s where marine art can be seen and provides information on its purchase internationally. There is also practical advice on the restoration of these artefacts." Dust jacket very light edge wrinkling and very light rubbing. Fi ne/ Ver y G ood +
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50.00 USD
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Bearman, Frederick A.; Krivatsy, Nati H.; Mowery, J. Franklin. Foreword by Werner Gundersheimer. Introduction by Anthony Hobson. Photographs by Julie Ainsworth. FINE AND HISTORIC BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY.
Folger Shakespeare Library / Harry N. Abrams, Washington, DC, 1992, one of 2500 copies.
272 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0810933128. The catalogue of the exhibition. "Among the earliest bindings displayed is one of a volume of the works of Thomas a Kempis, printed in Nuremberg in 1494. A six-link iron chain is attached to the top edge of the book. When printing was still relatively new and books were costly, they were often attached to their shelves by chains. Bookbindings with gilt decoration are also on display, many bearing coats of arms of sovere igns and of noble families. Four books in the present collection were bound for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, whose personal Bible - bearing a crimson velvet binding with engraved silver clasps and bosses - i s a lso among the volumes reproduced here. One of the most exquisite bindings is of red velvet decorated with raised silver thread and hundreds of seed pearls forming a floral arrangement. It covers a manuscript in the hand of Esther Inglis, a no te d 1 7th-century calligrapher. Shakespeare is represented by a First Folio bound sometime between 1780 and 1790 - with the original binder's bill included! - as well as by three lavish 20th-century bindings: a jeweled binding by Alberto Sango rsk i o n a 1 926 edition of the 'Songs and Sonnets', a dark blue goatskin binding with inset miniature portraits of Shakespeare surrounded by gold tooling, and a 1901 editon of the 'Sonnets' printed on vellum, hand illuminated, and bound in emerald goa tski n with gilt tooling and leather onlays. (This book) includes more than 150 examples of the binder's craft, each fully annotated by the curatorial staff of the Folger Library." ***A heavy volume, which may require extra postage depending on d estin at ion.* ** Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling. Fine/Near Fine
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80.00 USD
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Bick's of Canada. CANADIANA CRUETS.
[Bick's of Canada, Toronto, c1967.]
12 pp, oblong soft cover 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. A brief overview of the Bick's Pickles collection of cruets, a very popular wedding present in Victorian days and now collectible for the wonderful array of different gl ass treatments and elaborate stands. Interior - slight pulling to paper at bottom staple, minor browning to pagesotherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small creases at top corner of front cover, soft small cr e a s e a t b ottom corners, light edge wear, very light browning. Very Good-
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Blanchette, Jean-Francois, et al. FROM THE HEART: FOLK ART IN CANADA.
McClelland and Stewart/National Museum of Man, (Toronto, 1983).
256 pp, oblong 4to (9 3/4" H), soft cover. ISBN 0771090226 "...makes available the full scope of folk art from across Canada and, for the first time, introduces some of the artists who create it. The panorama of cultures and regional traditions t hat gives meaning to this vast nation is represented in the diverse objects brought together by the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, a branch of the National Museum of Man." Profusely illus. in b&w and colour with everything from we a t h e r v a nes and decoys to kitchenware, quilts and oil paintings. Very light edge wear, very light rubbing on covers. Very Good+
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20.00 USD
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Brands, Henry F. COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK TO HALLMARKS ON GOLD AND SILVER PLATE.
Key Books, n.p., 1971.
135 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover. B&w illustrations. Contents: How to read "Hall Marks"; The Process of Assaying; Articles exempt from Assay; Chronological Table; Table of Marks; London; Provincial Assay Offices; Barnstaple, Birmingham; Bristol; Ches ter; Exeter; Hull; Lincoln; Newcastle; Norwich; Sheffield; York; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Scottish Provincial Marks; Dublin; Irish Provincial Marks; Jubilee and Coronation Marks; Summary of Town Marks; Dates of Accession of the Sovereigns; Tables o f D a t e Letters; Index. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, hinge creases, minor glue residue and tiny scratches on rear cover, very small sti c ke r r es id ue m ark and tiny scratches on front cover, light browning to edges of textblock. Very Good-
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10.00 USD
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Burks, Jean M. SILHOUETTES IN THE SKY: THE ART OF THE WEATHERVANE.
Shelburne, Vermont Shelburne Museum 2006 0939384329 / 9780939384327 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good
36 pp, 8 1/2" H, stapled in wraps. Color photographs. Shows examples of New England weathervanes in a variety of forms and materials from the Shelburne Museum's collection. Interior - very small light bump/crease at top corner of most pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small crease at top corner of front cover, very light edge wear, minor rubbing.
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15.00 USD
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Caro, Joseph J. COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO HOPALONG CASSIDY MEMORABILIA.
Gas City, IN L-W Book Sales 1992 0895380137 / 9780895380135 Soft Cover Very Good
190 pp, 11" H, B&w and color photographs. Contents: Introduction; Articles & Song Sheets; Cameras & Opticals; Child Readers & Books; Coloring Books, Arts & Crafts; Comic Books, Trading & Serial Cards; Endorsement Items ; Games, Entertainment & Toys; Jewelry, Coins & Money; Lamps, Nitelights & Furnishings; Miscellaneous; Movie Items, Films & Posters; Records & Record Readers; School Items, Lunch Boxes, Thermos; Utensils, Cups & Plates; Pins & Badges; Occasion Cards; Playsuits, Clot hing, Guns & Holsters. Interior - Christmas gift inscription and date as well as previous owner's small note and signature on title page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing, minor edge wear/wrinkling, small soft corner crease on rear cover.
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25.00 USD
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Coleman, Dorothy & Evelyn Jane; Hillier, Mary; Marion, Frieda; McFadden, Sybill; Foulke, Jan; Schoonmaker, Patricia N.; Axe, John; Boyd, Carol & Bill; Wolfe, Alma; DeRienzo, Alice; Noell, Dorothy; Glovr, Ruth Davis; Williams, Sandy; Krebs, Marta K., DOLL READER. COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO DOLLS & MINIATURES. VOLUME VII, ISSUE 4, JUNE/JULY 1979.
Hobby House Press, Riverdale, Maryland, 1979.
60 pp, 11 7/8" H, magazine format (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, reproductions, patterns. Contents: Dolls and Dolls' Accessories Sold in Paris 1870-71; "Made in England" - The Dolls of the Staffordshire Potterie s - Part I; Learning From Antique Doll Bodies; A Doll Tour of Great Britain; Update On Doll Prices; Compo Corner; American Toy Fair - 1979; A Treasury of Madame Alexander Dolls; Photographic Essay - "Child Star Dolls of the 1930s & 1940s"; A n i l i , M a dam Lenci's Daughter; Trademark of Art Fabric Mills; Schoenhut Gift Leads to International Career; Ask the Doll's Dressmaker; Jacket Pattern Including Stocking Pattern and Hat; You The Doll Eye Doctor; 12in. (30.5cm) Felt Doll; Supp le me nt T o Ad v er ti sing Paper Dolls; Clinton The Father of the Paper Doll Family; From Elspeth's Inkpot; Miniaturia. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - mainly on spine, small soft wrinkl es on cov ers a t s pi ne, sm all corner crease on front cover - migrates into first few pages. VG
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9.95 USD
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Crandell, Bernard W. "Barney". Foreword by Donal C. O'Brien Jr. DECOYING - ST. CLAIR TO THE ST. LAWRENCE.
Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, 1988.
208 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0919783570 Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. Contents: Foreword by Donal C. O'Brien Jr.; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The St. Clair Flats; The Detro it River; Long Point Bay, The Screeners of Burlington Bay; From an Island off Toronto; Prince Edward County; Color Plates; Index. Includes decoys of William James Mason, Tom Chambers, Phineas Reeves, George Warin, John R. Wells, Nate Quille n , C h a r l es Reeves, Ben Schmidt, Thomas Dalton, the Jasper Dodge Factory, the St. Clair Flats Co., etc., etc. Birthday gift inscription on half-title page, slight wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, yiny dint on front hinge. Dust jacket has ve ry l i gh t ru bb in g, very light edge wrinkling, a few very small dints on hinges, very light wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, a few very light hand-writing impressions on front panel, light browning at top edge. Very Good/Very Good-
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250.00 USD
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Day, Lewis F. STAINED GLASS.
Chapman & Hall (for the Board of Education), London, 1903.
155 pp, 7 3/4" H, flexible dark green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine, gold letterng and black lettering/banding/emblem on front board. Tissue-covered frontispiece plus numerous other b&w illustrations. "The aim of this handbook is to trace, as clearly as possible in a short compass, the historic sequence of stained glass - the development, that is to say, of its design, and the gradual perfection of its technique. It has not been thought necessary to dwell upon the period of its decadence. In choosing my illustrations almost entirely from glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum or from drawings belonging to it, I have deliberately sacrificed the opportunity of making a much showier book; but it seemed to me that i n a handbook for the Museum that was the only right thing to do. It may be the means, too, of drawing attention to the tracings of old English glass made by the late Octavius Hudson, and to the interesting sixteenth-century working drawings for do me stic work in the Art Library." - from the Preface. Front free endpaper has been clipped at top corner, very light staining around edges of endpapers - offset from cloth, slight dust staining on top of text block, minor staing on cloth - inc l ude s p artial cup ring, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very light edge wear, slight wrinkling to cloth on rear board. Good+
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40.00 USD
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Doggett, Frank. CIGARETTE CARDS AND NOVELTIES.
Michael Joseph, (London, 1981).
96 pp, 4to (11 5/16" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w examples. "Cigarette cards, introduced in the 1870s and immensely popular until the Second World War, provide a richly illustrated history of the period. With real arti stic merit they showed heroes of sport and war; stars of stage, screen and radio; classic cars; and many other images. During their golden age, card, albums and novelties were collected avidly, and these fascinating brand advertisements ar e s t i l l i tems of great interest to many thousands of collectors throughout the world. Many of us will remember the joy of searching in packets for the card to complete the set. This book brings back all the splendours of that time." Interi or - cl ea n an d t ight. Exterior - book slightly cocked and twisted, heavy bump to spine/front hinge causing tear which migrates through the majority of pages in gutter area, several small scuffs on front cover in general area of spine tear, so ft c re ase s a t rea r cov er corners. Good reference copy.
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20.00 USD
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