64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: What Caesar Saw: Sleuthing in Ancient Rome (Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Roberts, Ron Burns, Steven Saylor); Collecting Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael, etc.); Edith Pargeter: A Checklist; History and Mystery: A Natural Pairing; Points; Books into Film ('The Name of the Rose'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, one small corner crease. View More...
64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collecting the Hollywood Novel; Collecting Elmore Leonard; Elmore Leonard: A Checklist; How to Read a Books (Without Affecting Its Condition); Points; Books into Film ('Hombre'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles. View More...
132 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). This book has been rebound by a binder who worked for the University of Toronto, in a medium brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a spatter-effect to the textblock edges. Contents: Contributors; Introduction; Twenty Thousand Voltaire Letters; Letters and Journals of Fanny Burney: Establishing the Text; William Blake's Protean Text; The Ledgers of William Strahan; Literature in the Law Courts, 1770-1800; No Dull Duty: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson; Members of the Conference; Index. Minor edgewear to boards. View More...
67 pp, 9 5/16" H. Brown simulated leather boards with gold lettering on spine, gold illustration on front board. B&w plates. "First published as the complete issue of the 'British Columbia Library Quarterly' for January 1969. Now published by the Adelphi Book Shop Ltd. in an edition of 750 copies, May 1969." "This is not a bibliography, nor is it a pemmican history of the early northwest, although in some ways it shares the nature of both. It is a series of informal lectures, slightly expanded and re-arranged, on the books written by the explorers of British Columbia and its approaches d... View More...
714 pp, 10 1/4" H. Medium blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, silver portrait on front board. Contents: Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Location Symbols; Illustrations; Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Annuals); Reports of Speeches and Lectures; Lectures Given; Interviews; Authorized Adaptations, Separately Published; Translations; Recordings by Leacock, Braille, Talking Books, and Films; Encyclopedia Articles; Contributions in Serial Articles and Books by Others; Lost Leads; Index. Tiny bump at ... View More...
301 pp, 9" H. Kate Greenaway "studied art at South Kensington and the Slade, where her fellow students were Lady Butler and Helen Allingham. To start with, she worked as an illustrator and drew Valentine and Christmas cards, as well as black and white pictures for various books. Her great breakthrough came in 1877 when she met Edmund Evans and showed him the collection of drawings and poems that she had assembled. These were published by Evans as 'Under the Window', which was a runaway success and was followed by the many childrens books for which she is best known. Among these are 'Mother Go... View More...
6 volume set, bound in maroon cloth with green title blocks/gilt lettering on spines, 10" H. B&w reproductions. Volume I - A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada - 1965 reprint, 828 pp + errata page (bound in). Volume II - Ditto: First Supplement - published 1959, 333 pp + errata page (bound in). Volume III - Ditto: Second Supplement, Volume 1, 1512-1800 - published 1989 (ISBN 0887730299 - for all four volumes of the Second Supplement), 353 pp + erratum slip (laid in at rear). Volume IV - D... View More...
32 pp, 7 1/4" H. Contents: Introduction; Titles Mentioned in the Introduction; Reading List - The Old Masters; The Moderns; Books about Detective Fiction; Index of Titles. Interior - staples are rusty, othewise clean and tight. Exterior - top corner of book is bumped causing light creases throughout, light fading to spine, minor rubbing. View More...
795 pp, 9 3/8" H. Bright red cloth with gilt lettering/decoration on spine/front board. With publisher's original mylar dust wrapper and slipcase. Light wrinkling at top of front hinge and very light at bottom of rear hinge. Dust wrapper has rubbing, small bump at top of front hinge. Slipcase has light rubbing/soiling - mainly on bottom and one side panel, small bump to top front corner. View More...
304 pp, 10" H, orange cloth with black lettering/banding on spine and front board. Section headings: Reference Materials; Humanities and Applied Arts; Literature; Social Sciences; Science and Technology; Indexes (Author Index / Title Index / Subject Index). Three tiny corner bumps, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. View More...
492 pp, 9 1/4" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To my good friend / H.P. Kraus, collector / and merchant of / scholarship, with / the admiration of / R.W.G. Vail / July 14, 1955." (Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988) was a successful rare book dealer in Berlin, but fled Europe at the beginning of WWII, arriving in New York 1939. His autobiography, "A Rare Book Saga", details his career and rise to prominence in the world of rare book dealing in the mid-20th century.) This book was published as part of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography. ... View More...
346 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). "With the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's 'Worlds in Collision' in 1950 a bombshell burst upon the literary and scientific scene whose reverberations continue to this day. Even prior to publication, the book was the subject of intense controversy. In it, Velikovsky suggested a catastrophic history of the solar system, which at once resolved innumerable historical, astronomical, and geological enigmas, while also challenging more than a few hallowed scientific dogmas. Through a concerted campaign of letter writing, a successful boycott of the original publishe... View More...
352 pp, 10 1/4" H, integral ribbon bookmark, reproduction marbled endpapers. "The album with the reavling title 'Theatre of Love' or 'Jestings on Love' brings together 143 magnificent copperplate engravings - from elaborately conceived love emblems and allegories to illustrations of proverbs, the Muses and the Virtues and Vices. The pictures, all of them devoted to the theme of love, are accompanied by explanatory lines of verse. The album was compiled around 1620 by an unknown collector, who probably presented it to his beloved as a token of his romantic affection. The engravings themselves ... View More...
372 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w plates. "This Anthology is tangible evidence that 'The Dial' printed more original and influential work than any other journal in America or England. Here are many of (its) now-famous contributors, not always as we know them best. Included are letters from 'The Dial's' international correspondents: Thomas Mann (Germany), T.S. Eliot (London), Ezra Pound (Paris), Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spain). D.H. Lawrence writes a book review, William Carlos Williams discusses Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes reviews 'The Great Gatsby', and Paul Claudel gives us 'A Glance at th... View More...
1085 pp, 9 1/4" H. "This revised and enlarged 'Checklist' provides as complete a record as possible of the separately published works that constitute the literature of English-speaking Canada up to 1960. Its purpose is to stimulate interest and research in our literary culture, to reveal individual figures and areas of investigation rich in published material, and to facilitate the finding of the books concerned. Background materials are included because the cultural soil must be known if a nation's belles-lettres are to be adequately studied or fully appreciated. Part I of the 'Checklist'... View More...
191 pp, 12" H. Bright red cloth with blindstamped Babar on front board, white lettering on spine, yellow endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. "Babar was created by the painter Jean de Brunhoff, who produced the first seven books of the series between 1931 and 1937, the year of his untimely death. In 1946 his artist son Laurent took up where Jean had left off. He wrote and illustrated his first Babar book when he was twenty-one and has now done thirty Babar books. In bringing Babar back, Laurent was holding on to an enchanted childhood as well ... View More...
256 pp, folio (13/14" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "As long as there have been storytellers, audiences have sought stories that make their flesh creep and their blood curdle - stories that slither into the darkest corners of our psyches. These are the tales that have been read furtively under covers or retold in whispers by the light of campfires. From Horace Walpole to Stephen King, the masters of horror have offered us just such tales of the eerie and the spectral. Author Robert Weinberg has assembled the best of these phantasmal visions. Here is a vivid recounting of the wri... View More...
474 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Lists the publications of Macmillan of Canada by year and, within each year, alphabetically by author. Minor bump at top/bottom of hinges. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of hinges, light browning at top/bottom inside edges. View More...
474 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Lists the publications of Macmillan of Canada by year and, within each year, alphabetically by author. A few tiny dents on edges of boards, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light browning at top/bottom inside edges. View More...
479 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Novelist Christopher Knox knows all about books. Real life, however, has spiraled to the point where he barely knows his own son. Separated from his wife and battling writer's block, Chris still finds joy in one thing: reading 11-year-old David his nightly bedtime story. When Chris introduces David to a fantasy novel by a long-forgotten author, his reluctant reader is enthralled. The curious old book becomes the centre of the boy's life - until one night, when a mysterious seizure leaves him unconscious. As doctors puzzle over David's condition, Chris makes a critical disco... View More...
