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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: 0723240515

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; Ackn...
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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: 0190275286

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 ...
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STEPHEN LEACOCK: A CHECK-LIST AND INDEX OF HIS WRITINGS.

By: Lomer, Gerhard R., compiler. (Stephen Leacock)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Library of Canada.: 1954

Seller ID: 28419

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

153 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographic frontispiece. Contents: Preface; Sources; Arrangement; Acknowledgements; Part I. Check-list; Part II. Index; Part III. Manuscripts. Interior - very light browning to index pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very soft corner crease on front cover, tiny repaired tear at bottom of spine, one or two small faint liquid stains on covers.
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THE WORLD OF WILLIAM STEIG.

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

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Artisan: 1998

Seller ID: 27807

ISBN: 1885183976

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: 'Rot...
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'WITH ALL FAULTS'.

By: Low, David. Introduction by Graham Greene.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Tehran, Amate Press: 1973

Seller ID: 27166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

118 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Inscribed on half title page: 'mea culpa' David Low. B&w illustrations. The memoirs of a bookseller. Contents: List of Plates; Preface; Introduction; London Bookshops; Some London Booksellers; A London Street Market; Hodgson's Sale Room; Some Country Bookshops; Some Country Bookshops. Scottish; Some Country Bookshops. Irish; Some Country Bookshops. French; Some American Customers; Women Collectors; Collections; Erotic Literature; The Most Widely Known Bookseller of our Time; By Royal Appointment; The Printer; Emmington, Chinnor, Oxford; Where's Me? Very light ...
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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 i...
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ADVENTURES OF A PAPER SLEUTH.

By: MacMillan, Hugh P. Foreword by Ted Cowan.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Canada, Penumbra: 2004

Seller ID: 29855

ISBN: 1894131622

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

343 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. "For more than 25 years, Hugh has roamed the highways, attics and basements of Ontario seeking out the often forgotten, usually unappreciated treasures of our documentary heritage. Combining the skills of a great detective with patience and tenacity, he rescued many fragile records of our experience. His passion for history has been infectious, enlisting the help of many in the cause, and triumphing over (bureaucracy) and indifference. His achievements have been real and numerous. His exploits, though, are ...
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WILD MARY: THE LIFE OF MARY WESLEY.

By: Marnham, Patrick. (Mary Wesley).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2006

Seller ID: 25435

ISBN: 0701179910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

289 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w plates. "She was born Mary Farmar, related to the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape. In the late 1930s, she began a fascination with Heinz Ziegler, a Czech university professor and wartime air gunner; his brother, Paul, later a Benedictine monk, also fell under her spell. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, 'roped into Intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. MI5 and her rackety life durin...
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ROY VERNON SOWERS: A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS.

By: Mason, Roger Burford. (Roy Vernon Sowers.)

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Subway Books: 1997

Seller ID: 22333

ISBN: 0968166040

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

93 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). One of the trade edition of 950 copies. B&w illustrations. "A Canadian whose first shop, in the mid-1920s, was a mecca for Toronto collectors and writers, Sowers later settled in Southern California. There he dealt rarities to the emerging carriage trade and subsequently worked at the famous Huntington Library. Later still, he was a conspicuous book-and print-dealer at a succession of locations in San Francisco, where he also patronized and promoted the fine-press movement. Sowers, who died in 1970, spent his last years gathering books in Britain and Europe fo...
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ROY VERNON SOWERS: A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS.

By: Mason, Roger Burford. (Roy Vernon Sowers.)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Subway Books: 1997

Seller ID: 30529

ISBN: 0968166040

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

E. NESBIT: A BIOGRAPHY. REVISED WITH NEW MATERIAL.

By: Moore, Doris Langley.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Chilton Books: 1966

Seller ID: 30267

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

313 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Publication of this first biography ever written about E. Nesbit (1858-1924), whose books for children have delighted readers young and old, is a literary event of major importance. Mrs. Langley Moore has written a new introduction to the present edition, telling a number of things that had to be omitted from the original work, when so many of E. Nesbit's contemporaries or members of her family were still alive. Also, the entire book has been revised and relevant material that either had to be left out originally, or has been discovered since, has ...
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ONTARIO AND THE CANADIAN NORTH. CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORIES TO 1950: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

By: Morley, William F.E.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1978

Seller ID: 28824

ISBN: 0802022812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

322 pp, 10" H. Pale green cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, black illustration on front board. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; Illustrations; Key to Bibliographies Cited and Selected Sources; Abbreviations; Library Symbols Used; The Bibliography: Part 1: Ontario (Ontario and Regions / Counties and Districts / Cities, Towns and Townships); Part 2: The Canadian North (Canadian North / Hudson Bay / Northwest Territories - Regions - Settlements / Yukon Territory - Regions - Settlements); Indexes (Geographical / General). Book is Near Fine
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TALKS ON BOOK-COLLECTING. DELIVERED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION.

By: Muir, P.H., Editor. P.H. Muir, E.P. Goldschmidt, Simon Nowell-Smith, John Carter, Howard M. Nixon, Ifan Kyrle-Fletcher & Ernest Weil.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1952

Seller ID: 30340

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

105 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w plates. Contents: Preface; The Nature and Scope of Book-Collecting, by P.H. Muir; The Period Before Printing, by E.P. Goldschmidt; The Language of Book-Collecting, by Simon Nowell-Smith; Fashions in Book-Collecting, by John Carter; Binding and Binders, by Howard M. Nixon; Milestones of Civilization, by Ernest Weil; The Theatre for Collectors, by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, gift inscription in ink from 1952 on front free endpaper, very light browning to edges of text block, soft corner crease on last page, light small bump at ...
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ARMENIAN ART TREASURES OF JERUSALEM.

By: Narkiss, Bezalel, editor, in collaboration with Michael E. Stone. Historical survey by Avedis K. Sanjian.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New Rochelle, New York, Caratzas Brothers: 1979

Seller ID: 19016

ISBN: 0892410957

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174 pp, folio (13 1/8" H). Map endpapers, color and b&w photographs. "(U)nveils a dazzling variety of art objects - sumptuous medieval illuminated manuscripts, printed books, mosaic pavements, painted tiles and ritual objects. The book contains 194 illustrations, of which 131 are in color. A full description of the Armenian art treasures of Jerusalem and their background has been written by Professor Bezalel Narkiss, head of the Department of Art at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His collaborator, Professor Michael E. Stone, of the Department of Armenian Studies of the same Univer...
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THE PENNY HISTORIES: A STUDY OF CHAPBOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS OVER TWO CENTURIES.

By: Neuburg, Victor E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World: 1969

Seller ID: 27535

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

227 pp, 12mo (7" H), red cloth spine with lettering/border in gold, cream paper-covered boards reproducing the illustration from the dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "For this, the second volume in Milestones in Children's Literature, Victor E. Neuburg has written an admirable study of the famous 'penny histories' or chapbooks which formed almost the entire reading matter of the poorer people in eighteenth-century England. At a time when children's literature had a strong religious and didactic basis, these little paperbound books, however crudely produced and illustrated, kept alive...
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LIFE AND GENIUS OF ARIOSTO.

By: Nicholson, J. Shield.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1914

Seller ID: 30454

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

125 pp, 8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A short biography and literary criticism of the Italian Renaissance poet, Lodovico Ariosto, author of "Orlando Furioso". Contents: Annotated Bibliography; The House of Este and the Court of Ferrara; Family Relations; The Poet and the Cardinal; The Poet and the Duke; Death and Character; The Genius of Ariosto. Heavy browning on free endpapers, very light browning and some light foxing on pastedowns, light toning in margins of pages, previous owner's name on free front endpaper, small number at top of both front endpapers, lig...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BOOK TRADE IN CANADA

By: Parker, George L.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1985

Seller ID: 25901

ISBN: 0802025471

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

346 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Red cloth binding with black lettering on spine, black and gold lettering on front board with black illustration. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Organization of the Pioneer Book Trade; The Quest for a Colonial Literature; Bookselling from 1820 to 1867; The Mid-Century Revolution in Printing Technology; Building a National Publishing Industry; Towards a Compromise; Conclusions; Notes; Appendices: The Growth of the Printing and Allied Trades 1867-1900; Exports: Statistics Based on the Annual Trade and Navigation Returns 1867-1900; Impor...
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JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MORNING: THOUGHTS UPON BOOKS: LOVE: LIFE.

By: Partridge, Eric.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Muller: 1947

Seller ID: 29453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

85 pp, 7 1/2" H. "(A) book original in its theme and refreshingly different in its conception. It falls into three parts: firstly, it discusses, freshly and unacademically, British and American prose-writers of the (early) twentieth century; it then makes a penetrating and courageous examination of the different aspects of Comradeship, Friendship, ad Love; and, in the final chapter, the author offers us his own personal and undeluded philosophy of life (particularly the value of idealism, integrity and kindness)." Very light browning on endpapers, three very small foxing marks o...
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES TO 1953 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

By: Peel, Bruce Braden, compiler. Foreword by J.H. Archer.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1973

Seller ID: 28869

ISBN: 0802019722

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

780 pp, 9 3/4" H. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, green endpapers. Contents: Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the 1963 Supplement; Preface to the First Edition; Libraries, Collections, and Other Sources Cited; Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces; Subject Index - The Environment / The People / History / History, Local / Explorers, Surveyors, and Travellers / Pro Pelle Cutem / Red River Settlement / Rebellions and Regimental Histories / Maintiens le Droit: Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Communications / Settling the West / Ranching / The Wh...
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BOOK ILLUSTRATORS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

By: Peppin, Brigid and Micklethwait, Lucy.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Arco: 1984

Seller ID: 30327

ISBN: 0668056703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

336 pp, 10 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w. "A comprehensive reference work of twentieth-century book illustration, this dictionary covers over eight hundred illustrators whose work was first published in Britain. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and each includes biographical information, a brief discussion of subjects and style, lists of periodicals to which the artist has contributed and of books illustrated, and a detailed reference bibliography. Some three hundred and fifty of the entries are accompanied by an example of the illustrator's work. The scope of the dicti...
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