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The BOOKS
A Alden,W. L. The Cruise of the Canoe Club
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911 Very Good/G/VG. Hard Cover. Blue printed ,orange paper covered boards in near fine condition in a dj showing chips to extremities. 236pp. with b+w frontis and illustrated eps. In 1870 Mr. W.L. Alden, of New York, became a disciple of modern canoeing, and being a literary man he began to write of the sport. By so doing he achieved a reputation in this country similar to that of MacGregor in England, and has received the title of "Father of American canoeing."The next year, after becoming a convert to the new sport, Mr. Alden and seven others founded the New York Canoe Club. In 1881 W.L. Alden was the first commodore of the American Canoe Association at Lake George. The second commodore was Judge Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati and the third E.B. Edwards of Peterboro', Canada. Bookseller Inventory # 2233
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.72) Anderson, Doris. Rebel Daughter
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1996 Cloth. Fine/Fine. First. Hard Cover. Warmly Inscribed By Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2189
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.44) Anderson, T. McClurg Human Kinetics and Analysing Body Movements
London, England: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. 1951 Hard Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. Sticker removal stain on upper front of jacet else fine in fine blue cloth covered boards. Bookseller Inventory # 2192
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.72) B Barsley, Michael The Left-Handed Book
London, England: Pan, 1969 Wraps. Near Fine. Paperback. (1-13)14-235pp.(i-iv)ads., . Bookseller Inventory # 2184
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.57) The Basilian Fathers (compiled by). St. Basil's Hymnal : An Extensive Collection of English and Latin Hymns for Church, School and Home - Arranged for Feasts and Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year-Gregorian Masses, Vespers, Motets for Benediction, Litanies, Etc.
Toronto: The Basilian Press, 1953 Hard Cover. Near Fine. 40th Edition (first in 1925). 294pp. in blind-stamped black textured cloth with red edges. Fine but for one hymn with pedal notations in pencil. Bookseller Inventory # 2274
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.01) Bates,JR., Joseph D. Streamer Fly Fishing in Fresh and Salt Water
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company,Inc. 1950 In dj taped at top of head and corner with other closed tears on spine,showing tape marks on lower back of jacket.Illustrated by Ellen Wagstaff and Milton J Weiler. Bookseller Inventory # 2211
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.58) Beattie, Sally. Small Rebellious Acts
London,England: Andre Deutsch, 1986 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed By Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2124
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) convert currency) Beckett, Samuel. Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
New York: Grove Press, 1968 Sewn in Card Covers. Vg. Third Printing. Wrappers. Evergreen Original (E-471) , (1-8),9-88pp.,(89-first performances+5pp.blank), a very good copy of an uncommon title, showing one fold crease to upper front cover. Includes two radio plays -'Cascando' and 'Words and Music', a television play -'Eh Joe", a stage play- 'Play', a dramaticule- 'Come and Go', and a film script- 'Film". Bookseller Inventory # 2201
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) Blaise, Clark. I Had A Father Once
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1993 Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Green flecked papercovered boards with cloth spine. Bookseller Inventory # 2200
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) Blaise,Clark. I Had A Father : A Post-Modern Autobiography
(Ottawa,Ont., Canada): Magnum Books (John Metcalf), 1992 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hors de commerce and twenty -six are numbered and signed. This is #7/26 copies, .a " blue thing", published as a fund raiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf at Magnum Bookstore. The Blaise reading was given Sept. 27,1992. Bookseller Inventory # 2131
Price: C$ 150.00 (approx. US$ 98.61) Blaise,Clark. If I Were Me
Erin,Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill Sewn in Card Covers. Fine. First Edition. Large Format Paperback. Folded 81/2" x11" publishers promotion laid in. Bookseller Inventory # 2129
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) Blakeley, Phyllis R. Nova Scotia's Two Remarkable Giants
Windsor, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1972 Near Fine. Second Edition. Card Covers. 48pp. in illustrated yellow wraps , fine but for slight spine fading and previous owners name on title page. Bookseller Inventory # 2262
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.57) Bosher,J.F. The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1977
Montreal,Kingston: Mcgill-Queens University Press, 1999 Cloth. Fine/Fine. First. Hard Cover. Signed Presentation Copy. Bookseller Inventory # 2167
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.58) Brown, Roger David. Blood on the Coal: The Story of the Springhill Mining Disasters
Hantsport,Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1976 First Edition. Red and black on beige wraps,68pp,near fine but for sticker removal stain on upper front cover. Illustrated with b+w photographs. Bookseller Inventory # 2258
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.57) Burns,Cliff,. Sex & Other Acts Of The Imagination
Regina,Saskatchewan: Sherron Harman Burns, 1990 Wraps. First. Paperback. Signed presentation Copy. Copy signed to sponser. Acknowledgements page reads "The author would like to express his gratitude to the Canada Council- and especially Richard Holden -- for encouraging him and giving him money. Inscription reads "For Richard-- one of the good guys-best wishes" Purchased from Susan Close Holden.Illustrated by Laurel Johannesson A fine copy. Bookseller Inventory # 2222
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.58) Byers, Anne V. The Life and Letters of Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Euros Publications, 2000 Cloth. As New. Limited First Edition. Hard Cover.Illustrated by Lois Sybil Harrington Signed Limited Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 2194
Price: C$ 125.00 (approx. US$ 82.18) C Caldwell,W.V. LSD Psychotherapy
New York: Grove Press, 1968 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. First Editon. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2116
Price: C$ 65.00 (approx. US$ 42.73) Carlson, Barbara. Modus Operandi
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Ferocious Tiger-Lion Publications, 1983 Large Format Paperback. Good/Very Good. First Edition. Signed By Author. wrinking on edge of last 5 pgs., not effecting text. Signed by author in gold on title page and in marker on front cover. Bottom back corner of wraps (2"x1") stained.Illustrated by Barbara Carlson. Bookseller Inventory # 2280
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.72) Carsley,Sara. The Artisan
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1941 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Illustrated Wrappers. From an edition of 250 copies.Illustrated by J.E.H.Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2156
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) Chalmers,Monica Roberts. And in the Time of Harvest
Toronto,Ont. Canada: Ryerson Press, 1945 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Printed black on yellow card covers designed by J.E.H. and redrawn by Thoreau Macdonald. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books #110 limited to two hundred and fifty copies. The poet was born in Rousillon,Quebec . Bookseller Inventory # 2140
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) Chilton,John. Billie's Blues
London, England: Quartet Books, 1975 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2179
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.58) Chimombo,Steve. Malawian Oral Literature: The Aesthetics tof Indigenous Arts
Zomba, Malawi: University of Malawi, 1988 Wraps. Near Fine. (i-vi),vii-xv(xvi),304pp., large format paperback in cover illustrated by James Msosa. Bookseller Inventory # 2271
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.72) Clarke,Donald. Wishing on the Moon
London, England: Viking, 1994 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2181
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) Clarke,George Herbert. Halt and Parley and Other Poems
Toronto,Ont. Canada: Macmillan Co. Of Canada, 1934 Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover.Illustrated by Elizabeth Tatchell. Bookseller Inventory # 2139
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) Coffman,Barbara F. Samuel Fry the Weaver and Mennonites of the Twenty
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario, 1982 Large Format Paperback. i-xii,276pp., in illustrated wraps, near fine but for annotations by Magdalena Elizabeth Coffman and a note to chart 17 glued to inside back cover. Signed by author. Bookseller Inventory # 2273
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.44) Cohen, Matt. Elizabeth and After
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1999 Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2nd Printing. Signed "For _____. With all Best Wishes -Matt Cohen" on title page. Bookseller Inventory # 2278
Price: C$ 65.00 (approx. US$ 42.73) Collins, Henry B. Archaelogical Excavations at Resolute, Cornwallis Island,N.W.T.
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Queen's Printer, 1952 Wraps. Near Fine. Offprint from Bulletin No. 126, Annual Report of the National Museum for the Fiscal Year 1950-1951. Pages 48-63. 7 illustrated plates. Printed stapled paper covers. Bookseller Inventory # 2269
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) Collins,Henry B. Excavations of Thule and Dorset Culture Sites at Resolute,Cornwllis Island,N.W.T.
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Queen's Printer, 1956 Near Fine. Stapled Paper Covers. Offprint from Bulletin no. 136, Annual Report of the National Museum for the Fiscal Year 1953-54. Pages 22-35 in stapled printed paper wraps. 5pp illustrated plates. Bookseller Inventory # 2268
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) D Darlington,W.A. Laurence OlivierSIGNED BY LAURENCE
Morgan Grampian Books Ltd. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. an attractive copy showing slight rubbing to spine extremities and minor glassine removal (2"x1/4") on front of cover designed by Melvyn Gill. Signed by Olivier, one of England's greatest actors. Bookseller Inventory # 2111
Price: C$ 100.00 (approx. US$ 65.74) Dickinson,Don An Excerpt from a Novel-In -ProgressLIMITED EDITION-SIGNED
(Ottawa Ont, Canada): Magnum Books,(John Metcalf), 1992 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hors de commerce and twenty-six are numbered and signed. This is # 4/26 .(i)12pp.,printed on rectos only.A "blue thing" published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf at Magnum Bookstore in Ottawa. The reading was given on June 6,1992. Bookseller Inventory # 2132
Price: C$ 150.00 (approx. US$ 98.61) Dickson, Rev. James A. R. "Ebenezer" A History of the Central Presbyterian Church , Galt Ontario Wit Brief Sketches of Some of Its Members Who Have Passed on to the Other Side.
Toronto: William Briggs, 1904 Sewn. Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2217
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.58) Dudek, Louis. Laughing Stalks
Toronto: Contact Press, 1958 Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 113pp(3pp-contents),red and purple stamped light blue card covers . Spine darkened,with small (1") stain near lower edge not effecting text. Band of sun exposed darkening on front cover at top and outer edge probably due to placement of smaller book next to it on shelf. Front hinge just starting. Still a presentalbe copy of an important book. Illustrated by Betty Sutherland(cover) Bookseller Inventory # 2281
Price: C$ 125.00 (approx. US$ 82.18) Dyce,Dr. James. The Ghillie(SIGNED)
Lavenham,Suffolk: Stress Publications, 1987 Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. 144 pp. in fine blue cloth coverd boards, in a dj that is fine but for the front flap that has two attempts by Jean Dyce at a signature that didn't take on the shinny stock-she resorted to a label attatched to the ffep signed to another doctor and "Best Wishes-A breath of Scotland". Title page is signed by author. Front flap also has label from original bookseller in Glasgow. Illustrated by Iain M. Dyce. "The gems available from the companioship of the real countrymen-22 ghillies and water keepers from Sutherland to Devon" . Bookseller Inventory # 2245
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.86) E Eaton,Evelyn. Birds Before Dawn
Toronto: Ryerson, 1943 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. Illustrated Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books # 101 Published in and edition of 250 copies. Cover illustration is a Thoreau Macdonald reworking of a J.E.H.Macdonald design. Bookseller Inventory # 2159
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.15) Eeles,H.H. Dressing Flies for Trout and Salmon
London, England: W.Foulsham & Co. Ltd. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. "property of (prev. owners' name)" stamped seven times throughout book , not interferriing with text . Bookseller Inventory # 2209
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.72) Egarton,Ashley Thunder in Mysore(SIGNED PRESENTATION)
New York: Vantage Press, 1961 Sewn. G/VG/Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Signed presentation Copy. Blue paper covered boards, rubbed at the extremities. Acidic paper has yellowed considerably, but still supple. Egarton served on the Northwest Frontier(India), Khyber Pass and Waziristan, Egyp ,Iraq , Burma , French Indo-China , Malaya, and Thailand. In 1950 he joined the Canadian Army and saw service in Korea and Japan. Bookseller Inventory # 2219
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05) F Farley,Tom. It Was A Plane
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1952 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. First Edition. Plain Printed Wraps. Ryerson Press Poetry Chap-Books #148. An edition of 350 copies. Plain cream wraps printed in red. 12pp. with slightest of wear to corners. Farley was a director in N.F.B.'s Newsreel Unit . He was published in Can. Poetry Mag., NY Heald-Tribune, and Northern Review. Bookseller Inventory # 2166
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Fewster, Ernest. Litany Before the Dawn of Fire
Toronto: Ryerson, 1942 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Illustrated Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks #96. An edition of 250 copies. Pink card covers with black illustration designed by J.E.H. Macdonald. 10 unopened pages. Bookseller Inventory # 2158
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Fisher,John, Illustrated by Cecil R. Barlow and Charles Mailer John Fisher Reports( SIGNED)
Hamilton,Ont.: Niagara Editorial Bureau, 1949 Near Fine/Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed Presentation Copy. Signed presentation to Ruth McKenzie on the publication of her book about Laura Secord. Illustrated by Cecil R. Barlow and Charles Mailer. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering and device in a jacket with 1/2" chip missing from top of spine and smaller chips missing from extremities but still bright . Bookseller Inventory # 2128
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) Fitter,R.S.R. Home Counties
London, England: Wm. Collins Sons Ltd. 1951 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2147
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Fraser, Hermia Harris. The Arrow-maker's Daughter and Other Haida Chants
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1957 Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks #169. 16pp., slight canting. Bookseller Inventory # 2172
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) G Galloway, David. Shakespeare: Seven Radio Talks as Heard on CBC University of the Air
Toronto,Ont.: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1961 Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Chapter headings desgined by Donald Grant. Green cloth covered boards,95pp., in a dj with small nicks at corners. " Whether you have drunk deeply of the Bard's brew or have sipped it but lightly, you will find much to hold your interest in this stimulating work by a Canadian scholar." -from front flap blurb. Bookseller Inventory # 2235
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Gide, Andre. The Coiners
London, England: Brown,Watson, 1961 perfect Bound. Near Fine. Paperback. Poor quality paper yellowed internally , but an attractive copy with one small crease on front cover and very slight edgewear. Bookseller Inventory # 2195
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) Gillen, Mollie. The Prince and His Lady
Toronto: Griffin House, 1970 Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2183
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Glover,Douglas An Excerpt from The Redeemer(SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
(Ottawa Ont, Canada): Magnum Books (John Metcalf) Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". This is #6/26. Published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf and giiven at Magnum Bookstore. 15(1)pp.,printed on rectos only. Bookseller Inventory # 2135
Price: C$ 150.00 (approx. US$ 98.76) Godenrath, Percy F. Catalogue of the Walter H Millen Collection of Canadiana: Comprising Oil Paintings,Water Colour Drawings, Prints, Engraved Portraits, Maps, Plans,, Documents and Rare Illustrated Books in Colour.
/casa Loma , Toronto: Kiwanis Club of West Toronto, Ont. 1938 76 pages, with last 4 pages blank, in illustrated stapled card covers, very good, with sticker removal stain on title page. 27 b+w plates. Cover title is "Three Centuries of Canadian History in Picture and Story: 1630-1930. Bookseller Inventory # 2290
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Gorman, Leroy. Whose Smile the Ripple Warps
Toronto,Ont.: Underwhich Editions, 1980 Fine. First Edition. Wraps. An edition of 300 copies.A small collection of concrete poems. Blue textured card covers,no pagination (16pp.) Previous owner sticker on inside front cover . Bookseller Inventory # 2237
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Gowan,John Curtis. Operations of Increasing Order
Westlake Village, California: Privately Published, 1980 Large Format Paperback. Very good/near Fine. First. From title page "Descriptors: Adamic ecstasy, altered states of consciousness, accelerated mental process, apports, auras clairaudience, clairvoyance, dowsing, empery, elongation, gemeinscchaftgefuhl, genius, healing hologram model, incorruptibility, inedia, invisibility, infused knowledge,jhanas, levitation, mortem excursus, materialization, miraculous sight, psychokinesis, psychic heat and surgery, precocity, reincarnation,siddhis, SHC (spontaneous human combustion), stigmata, telepathy, teleportation, time warp, transfiguration, translation, vision through opaque objects. 390pp,near fine with slight rubbing at lower edge,no internal markings. Bookseller Inventory # 2112
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Grahame,William Richard(ed. Fred B. Grahame). The Diary of William Richard Grahame in The United States and Canada 1831-1833
Dundas, Ontario: Magra Publishing, 1987 perfect Bound. Fine. First Edition. Wrappers. Signed By Editor. 167pp. with 1989 Hamilton Spectator review laid in. Daily entries of a 26 yr. old Glaswegian who is travelling across the northern US and Upper Canada looking for fertile land to buy at a good price. He eventually bought over a 1000 acres of land on what is now the Boyd Conservation area near Toronto. William was concerned with social issues,visiting prisons and noting the conditions of children prisoners.An important primary source. Bookseller Inventory # 2247
Price: C$ 40.00 (approx. US$ 26.34) Greene, Vaughn M. Astronauts of Ancient Japan
Millbrae,California: Merlin Engine Works, 1978 Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 163pp., profusely lilustrated with b+w photos and drawings , with 4 lines highlighted and some underlining in pencil. Bookseller Inventory # 2248
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Griggs,Terry Tag (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
(Ottawa Ont, Canada): Magnum Books (John Metcalf), 1991 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Wrappers. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hor de commerce and twenty-six are numbered and signed. This is #3/26.13pp.,printed on rectos only.A "blue thing" 'published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf and held at Magnum Books, Ottawa. The Griggs reading was given on Sept. 15.,1991. Bookseller Inventory # 2133
Price: C$ 100.00 (approx. US$ 65.84) Grove, Frederick Philip The Master of the Mill(SIGNED? LIMITED)
Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1944 Cloth. Poor. First Limited. Hard Cover. Numbered and Signed. More than slighlty cocked -more like run over by a truck ,with bleach spotting and fading, with tears showing at extremities. Not an attractive copy by any means but one of the limited and signed (possibly a stamped facscimile of his signature as there are copies with a note laid in stating that Grove's hand was damaged and stamps were being used) edition , #163/400. With the previous owner signature of Canadian historian Ruth Mackenzie , author of 'Laura Secord', . Bookseller Inventory # 2188
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Gruffydd,W.J. North Wales and the Marches
London, England: Collins, 1951 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2149
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Gruffydd,W.J. South Wales and the Marches
London, England: Collins, 1951 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2150
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) H Hamilton, Lord Ernest (Joey Smallwood) Forty Years On (SIGNED WITH NOTE OF EXPLANATION BY JOEY SMALLWOOD)
London, England: Hodder and Stoughton Hard Cover. Good Only. Signed with Explanatory Note By Joseph R Smallwood. The spine is faded on this ex-bank library edition. Hinges loose,frontis detatched, foxing to prelimenary and end pages. "Bank of Montreal,St. John's ,Nfld" stamped on front end paper,front free end paper,half title and title page . Number label on spine. Internal photo page detatched. Book plate of Joseph R. Smallwood on front end paper and the following signed note of explanation on front free end paper "This book was given to me by the son of the late Rev. Ezra Broughton this year. As I already have a copy of it I give this one to J W Pickersgill on the occasion of his first week-end spent at Newfoundland House." signed "JR Smallwood Oct 18 1959" . Bookseller Inventory # 2253
Price: C$ 200.00 (approx. US$ 131.69) Hampson, Fen. Unguided Missiles(SIGNED)
New York: Norton, 1989 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2182
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Harold E. Cofell The Cofell Clan
Blenheim, Ontario: Haarold E. Cofell ,Edward Harold Cofell and Glen Leroy Cofell, 1977 Wraps. First. (2pp)1-82pp. Stapled card covers - very good, with some additions to the text that update and revise some of the geneology. Bookseller Inventory # 2255
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Harper, J.M. Champlain: A Drama in Three Acts with and Introduction Entitled Twenty Years and After
Toronto and Quebec: Trade Publishing Company, 1908 Hard Cover. Very Good. First Edition. Gilt titled red ribbed cloth. 296 pages, of which 36 are devoted to the intoduction and the last 29 pages titled "Samuel de Camplain, the Explorer. Newsprint stain on first page of intoduction , newspaper clipping inserted with quotes from George Allen Kingston's limited edition "Story in Verse of Champlain's Expedition". Previous owner signature on front free end paper and stain on top 1/4 " of first two pages including frontis illustration of the Champlain Monument. Both the Trade Publishing Company and The t.J Moore & Company are noted on the titile page, but the spine bottom states John Lane Company. Bookseller Inventory # 2291
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Harvey, Kenneth J. The Hole That Must Be Filled(SIGNED)
Toronto: Little Brown (Canada), 1994 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. (1-9)10-220 (i-iv, blank)pp., Book fine but for slight indication of bumping to bottom corners,in dj with 1/4" closed tear at bottom front corner,else fine. Page from the Sept.27,1994 issue of The Compass laid in containing a full page article by Kelly Davis entitled 'Read at you own risk'. Refering to this collection -"I went on this tour and expected to be fighting with everyone across Canada because these stories are not politically correct. But it turned out the complete opposite, Political correctness has been stomped on so much that, now, it's becoming fashionable to be politically incorrect." . Bookseller Inventory # 2187
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Eyre Macklin The Scarlet Letter
London, England: Walter Scott Limited, 1897 Hard Cover. Near Fine. Reissue. (i-vi),316pp.,(8pp-ads),1pp.blank. A very pretty silver and red illustration stamped on green cloth designed by Walter Crane. The faintest of rubbing on spine and back boards . An attractive tight copy. Bookseller Inventory # 2250
Price: C$ 50.00 (approx. US$ 32.92) Henry, Eileen Cameron. Sea-Woman
Toronto: Ryerson, 1945 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Illustrated Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books # 111. Pale green card covers, illusrated in black. Cover a Thoreau Macdonald reworking of a J.E.H. Macdonald design. 8 unopened pages. Bookseller Inventory # 2162
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Hind-Smith, Joan. Three Voices
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1975 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Review Copy. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2185
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Hopkins, J.Castell. Life and Work of the Rt.Hon. Sir John Thompson
Toronto: United Publishing Houses, 1895 Cloth. Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2152
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Hugh Oliver and Keith MacMillan. The Canadian Limerick Book
Don Mills,Ont.: General Publishing, 1975 Very Good. First. Oblong Wraps. Signed original limerick written for recipient glued to inner front boards. Recipient was a Canadian map-maker not overly enthusiastic about this 'disgusting book,of little if any art and much sleaziness', but he kept it because of the original limerick written for him and about him by the most prolific of the two limerick writing authors.Illustrated by Roy Con. Bookseller Inventory # 2218
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) J Jackson,H. M., Lt.-Col. Justus Sherwood: Soldier,Loyalist and Negotiator
NP, 1958 Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 59pp., in plain printed green cloth. Rippling on last blank page and some minor spotting. Bookseller Inventory # 2275
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) James-French,Dayv. Contacts (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Magnum Books (John Metcalf), 1991 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copeis of which four are hor de commerce and tweny-six are numbered and signed. This is #1/26. A "blue thing", published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf and held at Magnum Bookstore . The James-French reading was given on Aug.11,1991. Bookseller Inventory # 2134
Price: C$ 75.00 (approx. US$ 49.38) Jane, Charles W. E. Shirley Heights: The Story of the Redcoats in Antigua
English Harbour, Antigua,West Indies: Reference Library of Nelson's Dockyard National Park Foundation, 1982 Wraps. Fine. First Edition. 62pp. in illustrated stapled card covers , with numerous drawings,photos and reproductions. Bookseller Inventory # 2263
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) K Kapleau, Philip. THe Three Pillars of Zen (SIGNED WITH PHOTO LAID IN)
Tokyo, Japan: John Weatherhill Inc. 1965 Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed presentation Copy with Photo Laid in. Signed with presentation inscription by the author , with a photograph dated July ,1964 of three Zen priests laid in- Yasutani-Roshi, Master of Taihei Temple (who gets first mention on the dedication page as Kapleau's teacher) with Kapleau on his right and an unnamed Zen priest on his left. "For Beverly-With hopes that this will answer all of those questions -Philip+(unknown signature )-June 7,1965." Book is very good with slight spotting of red coloured top edge. Dj is good only with chips to extremities and 21/2" tear at lower back spine. Bookseller Inventory # 2279
Price: C$ 100.00 (approx. US$ 65.84) Karr,Clarence. The Canadian Land Company: The Early Years-An Experiment in Colonization 1823-1843
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Ontario Historical Society, 1974 Wraps. Very Good. i-xii,133pp.in stiff red card wrappers. Numerous maps and charts including a chart titled "Emigration Literature Used by the Canada Company" with number of copies and price of the publications from 1831-1844. Bookseller Inventory # 2257
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Kauffman, Reginald Wright. The Ranger of the Susquehannock(SIGNED PRESENTATION)
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1924 Cloth. Very Good. First. Hard Cover.Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. Signed Presentation By Author. A warm inscription to Stanley Woodward,Jr. in which Kauffman states "I trust that soon-but not too soon-you'll be able to read this book of mine and won't be too bored of a story in which appear certain real person who were connections of yours by marriage and connections of mine by marriage as well- Your affectionate friend" ,signed and dated March 6,1927-Geneva. Bookseller Inventory # 2186
Price: C$ 65.00 (approx. US$ 42.80) Kavanagh,Julie. Secret Muses
London, England: Faber and Faber, 1996 Near Fine/Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Dark blue cloth covered boards, (i-vii) vii-x, 675pp.(3) . Bookseller Inventory # 2199
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Keith,Marian. The Grand Lady
Toronto,Ont. Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 1960 Near Fine/G/VG. First Edition. Hard Cover. Red printed beige cloth ,222 pp., in pictorial dj with a few small chips at top edge and slight fading to the spine. Bookseller Inventory # 2138
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) L Lally, Kevin. Wilder Times
New York: Henry Holt, 1996 Cloth. Fine/Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2190
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Lande, Lawrence. Toward the Complete Man : A Discourse , Together with an Appreciation of William Blake and Martin Buber
Montreal: Privately Printed, 1974 Wraps. Very Good. First Limited Edition. Sewn in Light Card Covers. (1-8)9-72pp., "This publication has been printed on Fabriano hand-made cover stock and on Strthmore Writing text-paper in a numbered and signed edition limited to 100 copies." This is no. 22/100 copies signed and also presented and signed to graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill "in admiration and friendship",dated Sept. 3,1974. Slight indication of corner fold on cover and 1/2'" nick at top of spine . Bookseller Inventory # 2276
Price: C$ 65.00 (approx. US$ 42.80) LaPierre, Janet. Old Enemies
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993 perfect Bound. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Wrappers. (i-xii-noted in pen) ,1-303pp(304-noted in pen)305-306(307-noted in pen), plain grey printed wraps near fine with slight shelfwear. Bookseller Inventory # 2170
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Layton, Irving A Selection of Poems(SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
(Ottawa, Ont., Canada): Magnum Book Store (John Metcalf), 1992 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hos de commerce and twenty six are numbered and signed. A souvenir of the reading given by Irving Layton in the week of his eightieth birthday at Magnum Books in Ottawa to launch the publlication by the Porcupine's Quill Press of an expanded edition of Dance with Desire. This is #19/26. (12,i.pp),printed on rectos only,versos blank. Bookseller Inventory # 2163
Price: C$ 200.00 (approx. US$ 131.69) Levay,Roxane (with Cyrano). Instead of Ecstasy (SIGNED)
Erin,Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1977 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. 79pp.,blue cloth in cream coloured dj with lovebird device. Signed by both "Roxane" and Cyrano. Numerous hand corrections by author within text. Two 1/4" tears to head of spine in a dj showing some discolouration . Bookseller Inventory # 2115
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Lochhead, Douglas. It Is All Around
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1960 Sewn. Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2206
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) M MacColl, Evan. Poems and Songs
Toronto,Ont. Canada: Hunter,Rose and Co. 1883 Near Fine. First Edition. black and gold stamped green cloth ,360pp. a bright attractive copy with the very slightest of shelf wear to corners . Bookseller Inventory # 2136
Price: C$ 65.00 (approx. US$ 42.80) Macdonald,G. F. Quaternaria: The Technology and Settlement Pattern of a Paleo-Indian Site at Debert, Nova Scotia
Rome: Quaternaria, 1966 Wraps. Near Fine. Stapled Card Covers. an offprint, pages 59-74 , part o f" Quanternaria",VIII, Roma , 1966. Stapled in peach coloured light card covers. Bookseller Inventory # 2264
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) Macdonald,Wilson. The Song of the Prairie Land(SIGNED-of course)
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1923 Cloth. Fine. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Signed and Dated. 8vo. Bookseller Inventory # 2224
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Machar, Agnes Maule. The Thousand Islands
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1935 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Black printed and illustrated geen card covers 16pp., fine but for a slight 1/8"x3/4" rub at the upper front corner A posthumous colletion from this patriotic poet of nature who wrote also under the name 'Fidelis'.Illustrated by J.E.H. Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2142
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) MacInnes,Tom. The Fool of Joy
Toronto: McClellan, Goodchild and Stewart, 1918 Near Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Red ribbed cloth , 83pp.(1),in fine condition with many pages unopened in a dust jacket sligtl faded on the spine. Quote by John W. Garvin printed on the front of the plain brown wrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 2123
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) MacMurchy, Archibald. Canadian Literature
Toronto: William Briggs, 1906 First. Hard Cover. 8vo . Maroon cloth with gilt leaf motif dec. on front cover.(i-ii)iii-v(vi-blank),1-234,235-236index,(2pp.-blank),very good with weak front hinge. Bookseller Inventory # 2223
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Maitland, Hugh. Calgary Adventure
Toronto: Longmans Canada Ltd. 1964 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2177
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Maitland, Hugh. Hong Kong Adventure
Toronto: Longmans Canada Ltd. 1964 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2176
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Maitland, Hugh. Madagascar Adventure
Toronto: Longmans Canada Ltd. 1964 Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2178
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Malinowski,Bronislaw A Scientific Theory Of Culture
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944 Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Blue cloth wth green lettered spine ,(i-iv),v-ix (x) 228pp., Interior pages somewhat foxed as usual, in a bright unpriceclipped dj with chipping at spine extremities and two closed one inch tears. Preface by Huntington Cairns with ads for his "Theory of Legal Practice" and Ervin Hexner's "Studies in Legal Terminology" on dj backcover. Bookseller Inventory # 2146
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Marriott,Anne. Salt Marsh
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. First. Wraps. pictorial yellow card covers printed black,16pp. , showing 3/8" top corner fold starting ,but bright and clean otherwise. One of five hundred copies from a poet who won the G--G the year before . This is #100 in the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books series. Illustrated by J.E.H. And Thoreau Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2144
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) La Marsh, Judy. A Very Political Lady (SIGNED)
Toronto: M+S, 1979 Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2204
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Marshall,Joyce. A Private Place(SIGNED)
(Ottawa): Oberon, 1975 Wraps. Near Fine. Signed by Author,(14-2-76). first paperback edition ( the first hardcover is quite uncommon ) of first book of stories. A tight and attractive copy , signed and dated. Bookseller Inventory # 2117
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Mathews,Robin. The Beginning of Wisdom
Toronto,Ont.: Steel Rail Publishing, 1978 Very Good. First Edition. Large Format Paperback. (1-10)11-64pp.,in illustrated wraps. Tiny chip to spine bottom and previous owner signature on half title. Born in Smithers, British Columbia, Robin Mathews attended the University of British Columbia, the Ohio State University in the USA, and the University of Toronto in Ontario. He has lectured in Canada, the US, Britain, France, and Finland. His publications include books of poetry, plays, and short stories as well as books on the universities, library criticism, Canadian identity, Canadian intellectual history, and Canadian cultural ideals. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. and is an adjunct professor at the Carleton University in Ottawa and Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. Bookseller Inventory # 2272
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) Maugham, W. Somerset Theatre
New York: Avon, 1944 perfect Bound. First Thus. Paperback. Bookseller Inventory # 2196
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) McCormack, Eric. First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (SIGNED)
Toronto: Viking, 1997 Cloth. Near Fine. First. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. book shows slightest of shelfwear and a gentle bump to top of spine,in a fine unpriceclipped dj. Bookseller Inventory # 2191
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Mcewen,Jessie. Taltrees (SIGNED PRESENTATION)
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1949 Very Good/Good. First. Warmly inscribed to a Friend. newspaper clipping discoloration (single column) between tille page and verso of half title. the article,"Romance of Logging in Canadian's Novel", probably a 1949 review, lists the price as$3.25 -there is no price on the unclipped dj. that shows numerous chips and closed tears on edges. Inscribed "For my friend , Emily Keeley, Very sincerely, Jessie McEwen . May 1949" . Bookseller Inventory # 2226
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) McInnes,Tom. Rhymes of a Rounder
New York: Broadway Publishing Co. 1913 Sewn. Very Good. First.Illustrated by Cover Design By "Pal" Hard Cover Gold and black stamped boards,front hinge starting with thumbprint grease stain on tp and pg. 42-43., otherwise a presentable copy of an uncommon book. Bookseller Inventory # 2208
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) McRoyd,Allan. Death in Costume
New York: Greystone Press, 1940 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2168
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Mitchell,David.and Duffy,Dennis. Bright Sunshine and a Brand New Country: Recollections of the Okanagan Valley 1890-1914
Victoria, B.C.: Aural History Program, 1979 Card Covers. Fine-As New. First. Large Format Paperback. 82 pages in illustrated wraps, with map end papers. Sound Heritage Vol. VIII, No. 3. Bookseller Inventory # 2282
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58)) Morton,B. R. Native Trees of Canada
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Minister of the Interior, 1917 Paper Covered Wraps. Very Good. Cover showing slight soiling and bottom front corner chip - internal contents tight and clean. Profusely illustrated with photos, maps and drawings. Bookseller Inventory # 2243
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46) Munro,Kathryn. Tanager Feather
Toronto,Ont. Canada: Ryerson Press, 1950 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First Edition. Wraps.Illustrated by J.E.H. And Thoreau Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2143
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) N Neatby, Hilda. The Debt of Our Reason
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1954 Wraps. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Card Covered. Red printed white card covers in same coloured dj, showing a small tear at the lower front flap - In an article published in Maclean’s in 1954, Neatby responded to her critics in the education profession:"Educators have surpassed themselves in the epithets applied to my scholarship, my style and my personality. They owed it to me, and to the public whose attention they have endeavoured to engage, to examine and to answer my arguments also, and to do so with accuracy and with fairness. This they have not done." Neatby went on to become Head of the History Department at the University of Saskatchewan in 1958. She received many honours and awards, including Companion of the Order of Canada (in the first year of the Order), election to the Royal Society of Canada, and several honorary degrees. She died in 1975. In 2000, she was commemorated in Canada Post’s Millennium Collection of stamps (from Univ. of Saskatchewan website). Bookseller Inventory # 2254
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Nichols, Ruby. Songs from Then and Now
Toronto: Ryerson, 1947 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Illustrated Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books # 127. 7 unopened pages , light blue card covers illustrated in dark blue. Thoreau Macdonald reworking of a J.E.H. Macdonald design. An edition of 250 copes. Bookseller Inventory # 2160
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Nowlan, Michael (ed.). A Land, A People
St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1986 Sewn. Fine. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2228
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) O Oomen,Peter. Shelburne 1879-1978 Pictorial Essay
Shelburne, Ontario: Sheldun Press, 1978 Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Stapled Card Covers. 100pp. of photographs in illustrated yellow car covers. Tiny bump to bottom corner and slight fading of spine, else fine. Bookseller Inventory # 2261
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Osborn,Margot, Frosty-Moon and Other Poems
Toronto: Ryerson, 1946 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. One of 250 copies . 8pp. in black printed pink card covers designed by J.E.H. Macdonald and redrawn by Thoreau Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2153
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) P Perry,M. Eugenie. Song in the Silence and Other Poems
Toronto: Ryerson, 1947 . Illustrated by J.E.H. And Thoreau Macdonald Bookseller Inventory # 2174
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Perry,Ruth B., Central Chebogue's Story
1970 Wraps. Stapled Card Covers. 56pp. in stapled illustrated white card covers, with photo illustrated end papers. Near fine with previous owner stamp on title page.Illustrated by Herb Deveau. Bookseller Inventory # 2256
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Petrie, Auldham R. The History of the Parish of Thorold in the Diocese of Niagara : 1801-1953
Thorold , Ontario: Centennial Booklet Committee-St. John the Evangelist 64 pages, profusely illustrated, in illustated stapled card covers. Two tape marks on upper inside back cover and slight spotting on title page else very good. Bookseller Inventory # 2285
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Pitigrilli. Cocaine
San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1974 Perfect Bound. Near Fine. Illustrated Wraps. Ludlow Hip/Pocket edition. Bright black,red and white illustrated yellow wraps ( three cobras circling a powder filled container)Illustrated by Jim Osborne .(i-viii),263pp., slight rubbing showing on cover with light residue of marker over price on back cover, otherwise bright and clean. Bookseller Inventory # 2155
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63) Plato. Phaedo; or,The Immortality of the Soul
New York: Hurst & Company Sewn. Very Good. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2180
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75) Pratt,E.J., Illustrated by H.D.Wallace Brebeuf and His Brethren
Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1940 Near Fine/G/VG. Signed Limited Edition. #100/500 signed in slipcase. A near fine copy of the book in a slipcase showing some wear to extremities. Illustrated by H.D.Wallace. Bookseller Inventory # 2229
Price: C$ 100.00 (approx. US$ 65.84) Pratt, Lenore. Midwinter Thaw
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1948 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks #128. One of an edition of 250 copies. Cover illustration is a reworking of a J.E.H. Macdaonald design by Thoreau Macdonald. Bookseller Inventory # 2173
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) R Rashley,R.E. Portrait and Other Poems
Toronto: Ryersonn Press, 1953 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Printed Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks #151. One of 350 copies. plain brown printed wraps with conifer and sky device ,8pp. Bookseller Inventory # 2157
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Ray,Cyril(ed.). The Compleat Imbiber 7
London, England: Studio Vista Limited, 1964 Hard Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. Small stamp sized pen scribble at top of half-title else fine. 224 profusely illustrated pages. Illustrated by Charles Hasler. Bookseller Inventory # 2210
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Reeves,James. Exploits of Don Quixote
London and Glasgow: Blackie, 1959 Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Gilt stamped illustrated red cloth in bright unpriceclipped dj with slightest of wear to corners. Colour illustrated endpapers with 12 colour and numerous b+w illustrations throughout text by Edward Ardizzone. A pretty book. Bookseller Inventory # 2289
Price: C$ 50.00 (approx. US$ 32.92) Reynolds,Dickson. Gold in Mosquito Creek
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1946 Hard Cover. G/VG/G/VG. First Edition. Illustrated by Grattan Condon. Book shows a light lower front corner bump, a two inch stain on the pper front corner of back 30 pp., and a dusty top ege in a jacket showing closed tears and chips to extremities with a 1/4" chip at head of spine where the letter "R" in Reynolds once was. The top of the back flap and back top of dj (1/2"x3") stained. Original bookseller silver dollar- sized stamp on lower rfep(rear free end paper)-"The James Texts Ltd. 179-183 Front St.- Phone-WO8-6775-Belleville, Ont. Bookseller Inventory # 2234
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) Riddell,John. Transitions
Toronto,Ont.: Aya Press, 1980 Printer Wrappers-sewn. First Trade Edition. Paperback. One of an edition of 500 copies of this large colourful collection of visual and concrete poetry. No pagination (150pp.) A fine copy. Bookseller Inventory # 2231
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Roberts, Jim. From an Argument I've Taken with Me
Don Mills,Ont.: Wolsak and Wynn, 2000 perfect Bound. Fine. First. Wrappers. Illustrated by Ji m Roberts. Bookseller Inventory # 2230
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) ) Rooke,Leon Daddy Stump (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Magnum Book Store (John Metcalf), 1991 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hors de commerce and tweny six are numbered and signed. This is #24/26. Published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf and held at Magnum Books. Rooke read on May 26,1991 . Bookseller Inventory # 2164
Price: C$ 150.00 (approx. US$ 98.76)) Room, Adrian Naming Names: Stories of Pseudonyms and Name Changes with a Who's Who
Jefferson,N.C.: McFarland & Co. 1981 Hard Cover. First Edition. (i-ii),iii-ix,(xi),349pp. Gilt lettered green cloth. Near fine-tight and clean- but lacking jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 2270
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Ruddy, Anne C. From Tenderfoot To Scout
Toronto: William Briggs, 1911 Good +. First Canadian. Hard Cover. (1-6),7-297pp., green ribbed cloth with photo-illustration pastedown on cover. front hinge starting and a few pages with greased finger marks not interfering with text , Christmas gift inscription dated 1911 on ffep .Externally bright and clean. Bookseller Inventory # 2205
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05)) S Schoemperlen, Diane. Frog & Other Stories
Kingston,Ont.: Quarry Press, 1986 Very Good. First Edition. Wrappers. Light coloured illustrated card covers lightly rubbed with no interior marks. There was no hard cover edition of this work. This is Schoemperlen's second book-the first was" Double Exposures" published by Coach House in 1984. Frog & Other Stories won the Writers' Guild of Alberta Award. She has since won the Governor General's Award for "Forms of Devotion",in 1998. Bookseller Inventory # 2236
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75)) Scott,Frederick George. The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems
Toronto: William Briggs, 1897 Sewn. Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2214
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05)) Scott, Joanna Fading. My Parmacheene Belle
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 Sewn. Very Good/Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2216
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) Segy, Ladislas. African Sculpture
New York: Dover, 1958 Sewn. Near Fine. First Edition. Large Format Paperback. Light coloured illustrated cover slightly yellowed, fine internally. Many photos by author. 34pp of text and 163 full page illustrations. Bookseller Inventory # 2220
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Shaw,Margaret Mason. He Conquered Death. The Story of Frederick Grant Banting(SIGNED)
Toronto: Macmillan, 1946 Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed on Title Page. Red cloth ,gilt spine and front cover lettering,(16pp.)111pp.(3pp.) Book in very good condition showing very slight rubbing at spine edge, in an unpriceclipped jacket showing minor rubbing at edges,slightly sunned spine ,with a couple of 1/4" chips misssing at head and tail of spine. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs and three of Banting's paintings. An attractive autographed copy wriitten by a research assistant in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research where the author worked under Dr. Banting for eleven years. Bookseller Inventory # 2120
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63)) Sir Thomas White. Essays of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam
Montreal: Privately Printed, 1945 Hard Cover. Very Good. First Limited Edition. Slight canting to spine and front free endpaper removed. Newsprint discolouration on pp. 50 +51 - Globe and Mail clipping from 31/12/45 inserted containing poem by White titled "The Atomic Bomb (New Mexico,June 16,1945)". One of an edition of 500 copies. Bookseller Inventory # 2277
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Smart,Elizabeth. Autobiographies
Vancouver: William Hoffer/Tanks, 1987 Perfect Bound. Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Illustrated Wraps. Bookseller Inventory # 2154
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Smith,Ronald Gregor. Martin Buber
London, England: The Carey Kingsgate Press Limited, 1966 Paperback. The Makers of Contemporary Theology series. 45pp., plain grey wraps with what appears to be an added typed paper label on front cover.Near Fine. Other books in series included studies of Paul Tillich,Rudolf Bultmann,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Teilhard De Chardin, and Gabriel Marcel. Series edited by Rev. Professor D. E. Nineham and Rev. E. H. Robertson. Bookseller Inventory # 2145
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58)) Steinbeck, John. Positano
Salerno,Italy: Ente Provinciale Per Il Turisimo, 1954 Card Covers. Very Good. First Seperate Edition. Wrappers. This uncommon first edition of a story first published in Harpaar's Bazaar,May 1953. Internally clean and bright , with a dime sized coffe spash stain to front cover ,not affecting text. The fore-edge is half stained a light coffee colour but only migrated about one millimeter onto page edges and not affecting text (actually barely perceptible-takes a good close look). The story of a scary "hired driver" ride from Rome to Positano followed by an intersting local history and a look at some local characters , ending with a drunken turkey on the lamb. (i-iv)5-30,2 pp. blank, in illustrated cream coloured wraps. Bookseller Inventory # 2151
Price: C$ 250.00 (approx. US$ 164.61)) Stewart,Jr.,George. Evenings in the Library: Bits of Gossip About Books and Those Who Wrote Them
St. John,N.B.: R.A.H.Morrow, 1878 Sewn. Very Good. First. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2213
Price: C$ 75.00 (approx. US$ 49.38)) Stooke, E. M. Dick's Retriever
London, England: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1921 Very Good. Later Printing. Bookseller Inventory # 2238
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Stringer,Arthur. New York Nocturnes
Toronto,Ont. Canada: Ryerson Press, 1948 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. First Edition. Wraps. black decorated and prnted blue wrappers designed by J.E.H.and redrawn by Thoreau Macdonald. 12pp., Ryerson Poetry Chap-books #132. Limited to five hundred copies. Four pages unopened. Bookseller Inventory # 2141
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88)) T Thomas, Audrey. Blown Figures
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1974 Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Slight dust soiling to white spine and rear panel of dj. Beautiful dj illustration -Claude Breeze's "Lovers in a Landscape No. 7" . Bookseller Inventory # 2241
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05)) Thomson, Virgil. Virgil Thomson
London, England: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967 Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 2198
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Tucker,Terry. The False Ebony Tree: A Story of Bermuda Witchcraft
Hamilton, Bermuda: The Bermuda Historical Society, 1970 Third Printing. 197pp.+3pp ads. Illustrated yellow wraps in very good condition with slight scuff affecting botton of letter "T" on front cover and small chip to base of spine else very bright and tight. Illustrated by Terry Tucker Bookseller Inventory # 2244
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58)) Turnbull,Gael. Dusters (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Magnum Book Store (John Metcalf), 1992 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. Limited First Edition. Signed by Author. 81/2"x11". Published in an edition of thirty copies of which four are hors de commerce and twenty six are numbered and signed. Published as a fundraiser for a reading series organized by John Metcalf and held at Magnum Books, This is #4/26. (14pp.), printed on rectos only. Bookseller Inventory # 2165
Price: C$ 150.00 (approx. US$ 98.76)) V Van Aarsdael. Quotation Puzzles. A Book of Numerical Enigmas Based on Quotations from Well-Known Authors
New York: Minton,Balch and Company, 1924 Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth with dark blue stamped letters with pencil holder loop bound into back boards. Second printing ,Dec.1924. unpaginated (112pp.-50 puzzles) . dj complete showing minor edgewear and discolouration on spine. MIssing original pencil. Five of the puzzles have been partially worked in pencil. Bookseller Inventory # 2122
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Verney,Richard Grenville (Lord Willoughby De Broke). Hunting the Fox
London, England: Constable, 1921 Very Good. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Sun faded spine with slight foxing (appropriately!) to preliminary pages. Last 50 pages unopened. Red cloth with gilt titles,137pp. Bookseller Inventory # 2232
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75)) Vittorini,Elio. Conversations in Sicily
London, England: Lindsay Drummond,Ltd. And Wilfrid David, 1948 Card Covers. G/VG/G/VG. First Edition. Hard Cover. Cream cloth ,slightly rubbed at extremities, with two pages showing signs of careless opening . Dj with chips missing at edges and sticker removal scar on front with front flap overzelously priceclipped. 163pp.,translated by Wilfrid David and introduced by Stephen Spender. Bookseller Inventory # 2137
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) W Walmsley,Leo. Lancashire and Yorkshire
London, England: Collins, 1951 Good Only. First. Bookseller Inventory # 2148
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88)) Watson,W. R. My Desire (SIGNED)
Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1935 Sewn. Very Good/Good. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 2227
Price: C$ 25.00 (approx. US$ 16.46)) Watson,Wilfred. Friday's Child
London, England: Faber and Faber, 1955 Near Fine/VeryGood. First Edition of First Book. Hard Cover. red cloth with gilt lettered spine in unpriceclipped ,unchipped dj showing slight fading on the spine. Bookseller Inventory # 2121
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05)) Way, Ronald L. And Way, Beryl W. The Day of Crysler's Farm:November 11,1813 and The Upper Canada Village Story
Morrisburg, Ontario: The Ontario-St. Lawrence Development Commission Very Good. 51 pages in illustrated stapled card covers. With slight thumb bend indents on back pages and light edgewear. Profusely Illustrated in colour and b+w. Bookseller Inventory # 2287
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88)) Wayman,Tom. Living on the Ground : Tom Wayman Country
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980 Card Covers. First Edition. Signed By Author on Tp. large format paperback , very good with top back corner showing fold crease, and slight discolouration on photo illustrated covers. Bookseller Inventory # 2126
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) Webb,Paddy. Between Two Fires
Montreal: Delta, 1971 Card Covers. Very Good. ownership signature, . Bookseller Inventory # 2119
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) ) Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors : The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Aganst the Jewish People
New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1946 Sewn in Card Covers. Very Good. First. Wrappers. All round edgewear as usual with the oversized boards on this edition. 291pp.+(1)pp. pub. ads. Stiff grey printed paper wraps with top corner of blank ffep clipped and spine darkened but internally unmarked and clean. Bookseller Inventory # 2203
Price: C$ 35.00 (approx. US$ 23.05)) Wensley, Amelia, At Summer's End
Toronto: Ryerson, 1941 Stapled Card Covers. Fine. First. Illustrated Wrappers. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books #95. Bright yellow card covers illustrated in black . The cover design is by J.E.H. Macdonald. An edition of 250 copies. Bookseller Inventory # 2161
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1973 Hard Cover. Very Good/G/VG. First Edition. Unpriceclipped dj showing some rubbing and short closed tears with a marker line coveing the price on inside flap. Top edge of book slightly dust marked. Bookseller Inventory # 2251
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17)) Wiggs O'Neil, Sperry Cline, Gordon Robinson and Stanley Rough. Time And Place: Stories of Northern British Columbia
Prince Rupert Daily News Ltd. 1958 Wraps. Stapled Card Covers. Signed By Robinson and Rough. One sheet of 1983 issue of Ingot with full page Gordon Robinson retirement article laid in. (i-vi),53pp. black printed stapled cream card covers near fine with previous owner's name and date on dedication page. Gordon Robinson and Stanley Rough have signed same page. Bookseller Inventory # 2260
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88)) Wilkinson,A.W. The Drawings of Henry (SIGNED)
Alhambra, California: Borden Publishing Co. 1970 Large Format Paperback. Near Fine. First. Signed Presentation from Author. 4to,stapeled card covers,no pagination(48pp.) a warm presentation inscription to english prof. in Ottawa ,1977.very slight wear to extremities o/w fine. Bookseller Inventory # 2113
Price: C$ 30.00 (approx. US$ 19.75)) Willmott,Rev.Robert Aris. Pleasures, Objects,and Advantages of Literature. A Discourse
London, England: Thomas Bosworth, 1852 Cloth. G/VG. Second Edition, Revised. Hard Cover. Note to the second edition -dated may18,1852 , Preface to the first edition dated April 3,1851. Bookseller Inventory # 2118
Price: C$ 45.00 (approx. US$ 29.63)) Wilson, Helen Dacey, Tales from Barrett's Landing
Toronto/Montreal: McClelland and Stewart, 1964 Hard Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. Signed By Author. Light blue illustrated cloth coverd boards in a very good dj with one 1/2" closed tear and very minor chipping at spine extremities. An attractive copy signed by the author and with the ownership signature of Canadian historian Ruth MacKenzie in pencil on front free end paper with date-Dec. 1964. Illustrated with b+w drawings by Grant Munro . Bookseller Inventory # 2284
Price: C$ 15.00 (approx. US$ 9.88) Winks, Robin W. Recent Trends and New Literature in Canadian History
Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association's Servoce Center for Teachers of History, 1959 Stapled Card Covers. Near Fine. First Edition. 56 pages in light blue printed wraps. Fading to bottom 1/2" of front cover else fine. Bookseller Inventory # 2286
Price: C$ 10.00 (approx. US$ 6.58) Wood,Kerry The Sanctuary
Red Deer, Alberta: Self Published, 1952 Paperback with French Flaps. Very Good. First Edition. Sewn Paperback. Signed By Author on Ffep. 105pp. , externally near fine but the pages are somewhat toasted . Bookseller Inventory # 2125
Price: C$ 20.00 (approx. US$ 13.17) Wyle,Florence Poems
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1959 Sewn. Very Good. First. Hard Cover. One of an edition of250 copies. Chapbook #188 in the Ryerson Poetry Chapbook series. Bookseller Inventory # 2207
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