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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: 0771045441

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 alto...
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THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING: FROM FOUNDING FATHERS TO TODAY'S CONGLOMERATES.

By: Kurian, George Thomas.

Price: $100.00 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 ...
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CICELY MARY BARKER AND HER ART.

By: Laing, Jane.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne: 1995

Seller ID: 23319

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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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+

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+

POINTS OF ISSUE: A COMPENDIUM OF POINTS OF ISSUE OF BOOKS BY 19th-20th CENTURY AUTHORS.

By: McBride, Bill, compiler.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: West Hartford CT, McBride: 1996

Seller ID: 30442

ISBN: 0930313046

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

93 pp, 6" H. A handy pocket guide for book collectors. "This guide is not intended to be exhaustive of all collected authors, simply the ones whose track records in the used and rare book market have established them as collectible. In addition, a list of authors none of whose books are known to have a point of issue is included. Viii (8) pages of introductory material, followed by alphabetical listing by author. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at bottom of spine.
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THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. KEY TO THE FAMOUS CHARACTERS DELINEATED IN HIS HISTORICAL ROMANCES, WITH PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES SUPPLEMENTED BY A CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF LORD BEACONSFIELD.

By: Mendes, H. Pereira, Dr. Miscellaneous Addenda by Robert Arnot.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cambridge Society: 1904

Seller ID: 30298

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

100 pp, 9" H. Light blue cloth with white lettering and decoration on front board, green floral endpapers. Text pages have floral decorative borders in either red, yellow, green or blue. B&w frontispiece, b&w photographs and political cartoons, colour plate by M. Walter Dunne, section of b&w portraits printed on green background showing the originals who inspired characters in Lord Beaconsfield's historical romances. The Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, was a prolific author and, as Prime Minister, a favorite of Queen Victoria. Minor wear on inside front hinge, light browning on ...
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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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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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