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CANADA SINCE 1867: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.

By: Granatstein, J.L. and Stevens, Paul, editors. (Michael Bliss, Carl Berger, Hartwell Bowsfield, Peter Oliver, Rene Durocher, W.B. Hamilton, Paul Stevens, J.L. Granatstein.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Hakkert : 1974

Seller ID: 28235

ISBN-13: 9780888665546

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

179 pp, 8 3/4" H. "Written with the needs of students and researchers in mind, (this book) offers a critical bibliography of significant works on the history of Canada since Confederation. Eight essays survey the major fields of historical writing, setting out documentary collections, original sources, and analytical works in the various areas. The authors guide the reader through the thousands of pages that have been written, and explain particular characteristics of historiography in the subjects treated. Almost 2000 titles are cited and discussed." Chapter headings; National Politics;...
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A SORT OF LIFE.

By: Greene, Graham.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head : 1971

Seller ID: 30736

ISBN-13: 9780370003276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, 8" H. "Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it contains less errors of fact thatn a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, any conclusion must be arbitrary, and I have preferred to finish this essay with the years of failure which followed the acceptance of my first novel. In another sense too a book like this can only be 'a sort of life', for in the course of sixty-six years I have spent almost as much time with imaginary characters as with re...
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THE WOMEN OF THE COUSINS' WAR: THE DUCHESS, THE QUEEN, AND THE KING'S MOTHER.

By: Gregory, Philippa / Baldwin, David / Jones, Michael.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Touchstone / Simon & Schuster : 2011

Seller ID: 30698

ISBN-13: 9781451629545

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

342 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, genealogical charts, etc. Colour plates. "Philippa Gregory and her fellow historians descibe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. In her essay on Jacquetta, Gregory uses original documents, archaeology, and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the young duchess who survived two reigns and two wars to become the first lady at two rival courts. David Baldwin tells the story of Elizabeth Wo...
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A DECADE OF COLLECTING: CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF ACQUISTIONS, 1990-1999.

By: Gundersheimer, Werner, foreword. Introduction by Richard Kuhta.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Folger Shakespeare Library : 2000

Seller ID: 8351

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

141 pp, small 4to, (10 1/8" H). Color frontispiece, b&w reproductions. A look at books, manuscripts, prints, maps, art and ephemera added to The Folger Shakespeare Library over the period 1990 to 1999. Card of Richard J. Kuhta, Librarian laid in. Interior - previous owner's chop (stamp) at top of free front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, light wrinkling at bottom of spine and top edge of front cover near spine, spine flat and uncreased.
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SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS: AN ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE BOER WAR OF 1899-1902.

By: Hackett, R.G., compiler.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Privately Published : 1994

Seller ID: 24829

ISBN-13: 9780952003908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

205 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H). "(A) comprehensive guide to Boer War literature published up to 1920. The author, drawing on his extensive collection, and other sources, has produced an important reference embracing general histories, regimental records, official publications, personal accounts and numerous other items, many privately printed. Over 200 reproductions of covers and title pages are present, many printed in colour. The volume will be of considerable value to collectors and dealers and to those generally interest in Victorian military history." A few areas of light to moderate wrinkling...
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TASHA TUDOR: THE DIRECTION OF HER DREAMS. THE DEFINITIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTORS' GUIDE. INCLUDING THE BOOKS OF THOMAS L. McCREADY, JR., BETHANY TUDOR, EFNER HOLMES.

By: Hare, Wm John and Hare, Priscilla T. Preface by Efner Homes. With contributions by Bethany Tudor, Dorothy Haas and Patricia Lee Gauch.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll : 1999

Seller ID: 31122

ISBN-13: 9781884718595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

559 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings, colour plates. Contents: Acknowledgments; Preface by Efner Holmes; Tasha Tudor: Illustrator and Author; A Word on Tasha Tudor by Bethany Tudor; Tasha Tudor, The Publishing Years: 1973-1982 by Dorothy Haas; A Remembrance by Patricia Lee Gauch; A Letter with Drawings from Tasha Tudor; Interpreting the Bibliography; The Bibliography; Serial Literature, The World Wide Web; References In Books; Related Books; Catalogs: Publishers, Dealers, Etc.; The Bibliography in Chronological Order; Credits; Index. Light wrinkling at the bottom of the spine, a smal...
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A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY LORNE PIERCE AND PRESENTED TO QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY.

By: Harlowe, Dorothy, compiler. Foreword by Robert C. Wallace. Introduction by E.C. Kyte.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press : 1946

Seller ID: 28344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

164 pp, 9 1/4" H. Blue cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine. Publisher's original glassine wrapper. In two parts: Part I: Bliss Carman, 1861-1929; Part II: Other Canadian Authors. Wrinkling at bottom of spine. Glassine wrapper has a few small tears and chips, light browning.
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MYTH, MAGIC, AND MYSTERY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION.

By: Hearn, Michael Patrick / Clark, Trinkett / Clark, H. Nichols B.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, Roberts Rinehart Publishers in cooperation with The Chrysler Museum of Art : 1996

Seller ID: 27671

ISBN-13: 9781570980794

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

242 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "A stunning achievement, 'Myth, Magic, and Mystery' brings together the work of nearly every prominent children's book illustrator of the twentieth century. Developed for a nationwide, touring exhibition beginning at The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia in June 1996, this book stands alone as a portable encyclopedia of the 'masters' of the genre. Included here are the works of such popular illustrators as N.C. Wyeth, Chris Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, Tomi Ungerer, and others; a special fe...
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AMERICAN NOVELISTS SINCE WORLD WAR II. SECOND SERIES. DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME SIX.

By: Kibler, James, E., Jr., editor. Foreword by william Targ.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Detroit, Gale Research : 1980

Seller ID: 28878

ISBN-13: 9780810309081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

404 pp, 11 1/4" H. Medium blue boards with dark blue title blocks/gilt lettering on spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions (including some signatures). Includes the Cumulative Index Volumes 1-6. The seventy entries in this book supplement "American Novelists Since World War II, First Series', further documenting the growth of a body of literature still in the making." Contains bio-bibliographical information about: Paul Bowles; Frederick Busch, Pat Conroy; Don DeLillo; J.P. Dunleavy; A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; Earl Hamner, John Hersey, John Irving; Shirley Jacks...
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YANKS OVER EUROPE: AMERICAN FLYERS IN WORLD WAR II.

By: Klinkowitz, Jerome.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Lexington, University Press of Kentucky : 1996

Seller ID: 24966

ISBN-13: 9780813119618

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

148 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "At first there were just a few, a scant seven Americans who in 1940 volunteered for the Royal Air Force in time to fly and fight in the Battle of Britain. One of them, a Minnesota farm boy named Art Donahue, lived long enough to write about it, and with his 1941 account ('Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire') began a series of memoirs that now number in the hundreds. (This book) examines more than one hundred narrative accounts of the air war over Europe written since 1941 by American flyers. The experience of combat inspired these men to combine exquisite descriptio...
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THE WORK OF E H SHEPARD.

By: Knox, Rawle, editor. (Ernest Shepard.) (Penelope Fitzgerald, H.F. Ellis, Bevis Hillier.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1979). : 1979

Seller ID: 27923

ISBN-13: 9780771045448

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This volume, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Shepard, offers the best and most characteristic of his whole range of work; it also provides a balanced appreciation of the man as artist and companion. Ernest H Shepard, 'Kipper' to his family and friends, is perhaps best known - and loved - for the children's illustrations he did for the work of A.A. Milne and for his incomparable drawings for Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. His output, however, was considerable and altogether h...
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THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING: FROM FOUNDING FATHERS TO TODAY'S CONGLOMERATES.

By: Kurian, George Thomas.

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1975

Seller ID: 28269

ISBN: 671187457

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

386 pp, 11" H. Dark brown simulated leather boards with gold lettering on spine and front board. B&w illustrations. Contents: Founding Fathers and Their Enterprises; Today's Publishing Houses; Conglomerates; Multiple Publishing Houses; Book Trade Associations; Major Prizes, Awards, Events; Appendices: Commonly Used Publishing Abbreviations; A Glossary of Publishing Terms; Bibliography #1 - General Reference, Biographies & Memoirs; Bibliography #2 - Company Histories; Company Addresses; Index. Small corner bumps, minor edge wear, remainder mark on bottom of text block, light wrinkling at t...
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CICELY MARY BARKER AND HER ART.

By: Laing, Jane.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne : 1995

Seller ID: 29860

ISBN-13: 9780723240518

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

128 pp, 10" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w, with many reproductions of the flower fairies. "Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies books, published in the first half of the century, are known and loved around the world. They were created by a quiet, unassuming and dedicated artist, who was nevertheless remarkably successful, spending her life illustrating many children's books and selling hundreds of watercolours and pastels." Contents: Introduction; Flower Fairy Paintings; Paintings of Children; Religious Works; List of Cicely Mary Barker's Books and Other Works; Acknowlegements;...
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BIBLIOGRAFIA DE LA LITERATURA PICARESCA: DESDE SUS ORIGENES HASTA EL PRESENTE. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PICARESQUE LITERATURE: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT.

By: Laurenti, Joseph L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, AMS Press : 1973

Seller ID: 5560

ISBN-13: 9780404180195

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

262 pp, 8 3/4" H, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Introduction in Spanish and English. "This bibliography of picaresque literature, arranged chronologically, from its origins to the present, attempts to bridge a bibliographical gap between the Spanish picaresque novel and the picaresque literatures of Europe and America. More extensive than any other to date, this volume represents the first serious contribution to the growing need for a systematic bibliography that facilitates and guides students and young scholars of the 'world of the picaresque' in their studies ...
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STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.

By: Lewis, C.S. Collected by Walter Hooper.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 2007

Seller ID: 30914

ISBN-13: 9780521645843

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8 1/2" H. "A collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers such as Dante (The Divine Comedy), Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur), Spenser (The Faerie Queene) and Milton (Comus). Lewis's insightful yet accessible writing will captivate anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance literature." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright, tiny soft corner crea...
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IMAGE AND IMAGINATION: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.

By: Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples Lewis.) Edited by Walter Hooper.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 2013

Seller ID: 30952

ISBN-13: 9781107639270

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

379 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(G)athers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays, which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' will be of additional i...
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HARMFUL AND UNDESIRABLE: BOOK CENSORSHIP IN NAZI GERMANY.

By: Lewy, Guenter.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 2016

Seller ID: 30399

ISBN-13: 9780190275280

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

268 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom by censoring books. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933, there were 90 book burnings in 70 German cities. Indeed, Werner Schlegel, an official in the Ministry of Propaganda, called the book burnings 'a symbol of the revolution'. In later years, the regime used less violent means of domination. It pillaged bookstores and libraries and prosecuted uncooperative publishers and dissiden...
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A JOINT CATALOGUE OF THE PERIODICALS AND SERIALS IN THE LIBRARIES OF THE CITY OF TORONTO.

By: Locke, George H. & Wallace, W. Stewart, Preface.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, King's Printer : 1934

Seller ID: 28481

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

263 pp, 9 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on front board. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very light browning to edges of text block.
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THE WORLD OF WILLIAM STEIG.

By: Lorenz, Lee. (William Steig). (Introduction by John Updike).

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Artisan : 1998

Seller ID: 27807

ISBN-13: 9781885183972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

207 pp, 11 1/4" H x 11 1/4" D. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "William Steig, the dean of 'New Yorker' cartoonists, began his career at the magazine in 1930. After achieving acclaim with his gang of street urchins, affectionately nicknamed the 'Small Fry', Steig branched out, exploring through his drawings the psychological undercurrents in relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, self and society. Beginning in the sixties, Steig demonstrated his understanding and awe of children in numerous award-winning picture books, including such classics as: 'Rotten Island' (19...
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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. VOLUME I and VOLUME II. 2 VOLUME SET.

By: Macaulay, Lord. (Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859.)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press

Seller ID: 30248

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

457 pp, 440pp - 2 volume set, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spines - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone frontispieces, decorated title pages. **No dustjackets or slipcases.** A collection of essays & reviews by the British author, historian & politician, Lord Macaulay. Contents: Volume I - Machiavelli; Southey's Colloquies; Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems; Civil Disabilities of the Jews; Moore's Life of Lord Byron; Boswell's Life of Johnson; The Pilgrim's Progress with a Life of John Bunyan; War of the Succession in Sp...
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