| 2369 MARY SCOTT: AN EXHIBITION CURATED BY BRUCE GRENVILLE AND CATHERINE CROWSTON. Lethbridge, Alberta Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1989 Exhibition catalogue, green card covers showing eight small spots at edge, 16 pages includes commentary by curators, black & white and coloured plates, biography. 0-921-613-00-8 |
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| 1900 MISS JEMIMA'S SWISS JOURNAL: THE FIRST CONDUCTED TOUR OF SWITZERLAND. London Putnam, 1963 The proceedings of the Junior United Alpine Club, 1863, written for private circulation in 1863, discovered after the Blitz as a part of the documentation of the early Thomas Cook and Son Ltd., and printed on the hundredth anniversary of the tour. First Edition. A fine copy in an clean but edgeworn price-clipped, illustrated dustjacket. |
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| 4441 MONASTERIOS REALES DEL PATRIMONIO NACIONAL. Madrid Spain Impresion Luna Wennberg, A study of the monasteries and convents of Spain maintained by the National Heritage department. Introduction by Ramon Andrada, Managing Director of the National Heritage; text by Antonio Bonet Correa. Full colour illustration. Spanish text at the front of book and in English in the second half. A fine first edition, red boards, gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, 246 pages, in a fine illustrated cloth-covered slipcase. 8485983386 |
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| 2176 MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LITERACY. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1990 Short stories. Published by M&S to commemorate International Literacy Year. Foreword by Knowlton Nash. Cartoon by Aislin. Stories by Sandra Birdsell, Neil Bisoondath, Harry Bruce, Morley Callaghan, June Callwood, Matt Cohen, Robertson Davies, Brian Doyle, Joan Finnegan, Sheila Fischman, Tony German, Peter Gzowski, Dorris Heffron, Jack Hodgins, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Joy Kogawa, Gordon Korman, Michael Ondaatje, David Adams Richards, Ben Wicks, Rudy Wiebe. First Edition. Paperback in near fine condition. 0-7710-2166-6 |
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| 2487 MOUNTBATTEN: EIGHTY YEARS IN PICTURES. London Macmillan London Limited, 1979 224 pp, black & white and colour photos, family tree on end pages. First Edition. Blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, one blue ink mark on bottom page edges (not a remainder mark, just an accidental pen line), glossy pictorial jacket showing some edge wear, otherwise fine. 0-333-26558-0 |
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| 4109 NARRATIVES FROM THE SILVER AGE: ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SPANISH STORIES (1). Madrid Spain Iberia, 1988 Libro de a bordo from Iberia Airlines. Anthology. A near fine paperback, French fold covers. 8487093043 |
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| 4070 NEW VOICES IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE. New York Modern Library, 1955 A very good copy, blue boards, silver lettering on spine, pages clean and tight, in a good dustjacket, worn but clean. |
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| 3864 THE NEW WONDER WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA. London Collins, Black & white and colour illustrations throughout. A good copy, dustjacket shows wear now covered in mylar, 638p. |
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| 4120 NOORTMAN & BROD: 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BRITISH PAINTINGS. New York 1982 Catalogue from the international art dealer. Large format softcover, illustrated on front panel. |
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| 005292 NORWAY, TOP OF EUROPE. Italy Plurigraf, 1993 A near fine softcover, illustrated card covers, 95 pages. |
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| 005304 NOVA SCOTIA SKETCHBOOK. Halifax, Nova Scotia Petheric Press, 1969 Illustrated by L. B. Jenson. Near fine, illustrated card covers, spiral binding. 0919380042 |
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| 4267 OLD MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM, BRUSSELS. Brussels Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Published in the 1970's. Foreword by Phillippe Roberts-Jones, Chief Curator. Near fine in illustrated card covers, 80 pages, black & white illustrations. |
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| 2768 PEARL S BUCK'S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS. New York Simon and Schuster, 1974 "Warm and joyous stories about the Christmas season from the world's greatest writers chosen by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S Buck". Thirty-nine short stories by: Hans Christian Andersen, Eugene Field, L Frank Baum, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving and others. Second printing. A near fine copy, silver lettering on red cloth spine, sunning to top of boards, in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. 671-21868-9 |
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| 005308 PEOPLE OF THE POTLACH : NATIVE ART AND CULTURE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery with the University of British Columbia, 1956 Oblong (9 x 6") softcover in orange pictorial paper wraps, near fine.Catalog of an exhibition of Pacific Northwest native art consisting of carved wood, stone, ivory sculpture, paintings, basketry, textiles, jewelry, 45 pages of text and 109 black & white illustrations. |
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| 4669 PLANET, THE WELSH INTERNATIONALIST, VOLUME 52. Wales 1985 A very good softcover, light wrinkling at bottom front corner. Poetry, prose, essays. 0000484288 |
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| 2639 PROUST, COLE PORTER, MICHELANGELO, MARC ALMOND AND ME. Routledge, 1993 Writings by Gay Men on their Lives and Lifestyles from the archives of the National Lesbian and Gay Survey. A fine trade paperback. 0-415-08914-X |
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| 1935 QUARRY: VOLUME 44, NUMBER 3. Kingston, Ontario Quarry Press Inc., 1995 A fine copy in wraps, date stamped on title page. Includes: Elizabeth Hay, Andrew Piper, Karen Connelly, Gavin Connor, Eugene McNamara, John Lavery, Seaton Findlay, Jon Likin, Peter Babowski, Billie Livingston, Sandy Shreve, Simon Perchik, Denneth Steven, Chad Norman, Cameron Wallace, and a review by Eric Folsom. 1-55082-125-3 |
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| 3470 THE QUARTERLY #25, SPRING 1993. New York Vintage Books/Random House, 1993 Collection of short stories. First Edition, a near fine trade paperback. 0-679-74501-7 |
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| 005076 QUILTS: FROM COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY. New York, New York, U.S.A. Publications Intl, 1993 A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 1561732990 |
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| 3908 RICHMOND CASTLE, MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL GUIDE-BOOK. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961 Reprint of 1953 edition. 16 pages, blue card covers, map of the castle tipped in at back cover. Includes black and white postcard of castle used as a bookmark. |
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| 4157 ROMANTICS AND REALISTS: EIGHT FRENCH PAINTERS. New York Wildenstein, 1966 Exhibition catalogue, introduction by M Roy Fisher, fine in blue card covers. Includes works by Chasseriau, Courot, Courbet, Daumier, Delacroix, Gericault, Millet, Rousseau. |
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| 005000 ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, VOLUME 24-2: TRANSLATIONS OF FLESH. Vancouver 2001 Literary Journal. A near fine trade paperback. |
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| 005290 RUPERT ANNUAL NO 63. Exeter, United Kingdom Pedigree Books, Limited, 1999 A fine hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 1874507198 |
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| 005291 RUPERT NO 59 : THE DAILY EXPRESS ANNUAL. Exeter, Devon, UK Pedigree Books Limited, 1994 A fine hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 0433392371 |
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| 1863 SCHOOL-MASTER TUNGKUO. Peking Foreign Languages Press, 1954 Adapted from a modern version of the Chungsan Wolf, an ancient Chinese fable, by Tung Chu-hsien and Yu Chin, drawings by Liu Chi-Yu. Stated first edition, October, 1954. Each page is a black and white drawing with sub-text. Illustrated cover, 82 pages. A very good copy, creased at corners. |
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| 2776 SCROLLS FROM THE WILDERNESS OF THE DEAD SEA. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1965 A near fine copy of the catalogue for the exhibition "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Jordan" prepared for the National Museum of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum. Card cover with front panel folded in to protect illustrated front panel visible through front cut-outs, 30 pp, buff paper, brown ink, 8 1/2" x 11". |
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| 1344 THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. London Spire / Hodder & Stoughton, 1990 Stories include: Pride Before A Fall by Andrew Greely; Death Hath Also This by H.R. F. Keating; She Went of Her Own Accord by Kate Saunders; Perchance to Dream by William Douglas Home; Take Heed! by Morris West; A Time for Tea by Rachel Billington; and Return to Sender by Michael Carson. Paperback, remainder mark. 0340538546 |
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| 3867 SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM: A SELECTION 1623-1840. London Oxford University Press, 1958 Reprint, blue cloth-covered boards, dustjacket shows wear. Criticism includes: Ben Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gray, Johnson, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, De Quincy, Landor, Carlyle. From The World's Classics series. |
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| 3906 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VISIT OF ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH AND FRENCH LAWYERS TO CANADA AND THE USA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1930. London Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co Ltd, 1930 Pamphlet, 30 pages, sewn into blue card covers. Foxing, spotting to covers, pages clean and tight. |
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| 4123 SISSONS. Canada Northwest Territories Information, 1981 A near fine softcover catalogue of Inuit Art commissioned by Judge Jack Sissons who served from 1955 to 1966 as the first Justice of the Territorial Court. The carvings all represent important cases heard by Sisson. Semi-opaque endpapers, unpaginated about 28 pages. |
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| 3698 SMALL HARBOURS NORTHERN NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK BORDER TO STRAIT OF CANSO. Tatamagouce, Nova Scotia North Coast Printing, 1994 Second printing. Privately printed guide to small harbours and government wharves along the north shore of Nova Scotia., spiral binding, blue card covers, 35 pages. |
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| 005071 SMALL QUILTS: THE VANESSA-ANN COLLECTION. Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. Oxmoor House, 1989 A fine hardcover in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. 0848707354 |
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| 005269 THE SONG OF SOLOMON. New York Simon & Schuster, 1968 Illustrated by Ake Gustavsson. Text from the authorized version of the King James Bible. A fine hardcover, illustrated white boards, gilt lettering, in a fine, glossy gold illustrated dustjacket. |
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| 2472 SQUID INC. 1982: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS BY EIGHT TORONTO POETS. Toronto Squid Inc., 1982 Poetry, 79 pp. Includes work by Heather Cadsby, Polly Fleck, Maria Jacobs, Eric Lyamn, Richard Lush, Pam Oxendine, Jim Roberts, Martin Singleton. First Edition. |
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| 005261 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION OFFICERS MANUAL. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Fasa, 1988 A near fine softcover, large format, 144 pages, illustrated with line drawings. 1555600794 |
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| 005289 STAR WARS: OFFICIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE MAGAZINE. New York Topps Publishing, 1987 Magazine, 96 pages, clean and bright. |
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| 4203 THE STEP-BY-STEP FAMILY COOKBOOK: MORE THAN 250 DELECTABLE DISHES. London Salamander Books, 1992 A near fine copy, glossy pictorial boards, illustrated throughout, in a near fine dustjacket. One small note in ink '1994' at top of front free endpaper. 0861016254 |
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| 004969 STORYLAND: A SELECTION OF FAVORITE SESAME STREET STORIES. Golden Press /Western Publishing Company Inc, 1986 Children's stories featuring the Muppets. Glossy illustrated boards, no dustjacket (as issued). 191 pages, most with illustrations, pages are clean and bright. 0307165302 |
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| 3538 SUCCESS : CANADIAN LEADERS PREPARE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY. Toronto, ON, Canada Key Porter Books, 1996 Collection of lectures delivered as the Annual James Gillies Alumni Lecture at York University's Schulich School of Business. Includes lectures given by Conrad Black, Joe Clark, Ted Rogers, Maurice Strong, Israel Asper, Matthew W Barrett, Laurent Beaudoin, Marshall A Cohen, Isaiah A Litvak, Peter Munk, Michael Pitfield, Kenneth D Taylor. First Edition, fine in a fine dustjacket. 1-55013-811-1 |
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| 3661 SUMERIAN ART ILLUSTRATED BY OBJECTS FROM UR AND AL-'UBAID. London The British Museum, 1969 First Edition. Near fine softcover, illustrated white card covers, black & white and coloured plates. 0-7141-1048-5 |
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| 2832 SUPERNATURAL STORIES FOR BOYS. London Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1971 Second printing. A very good copy, dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, in a good dustjacket, wrap-around illustration, wear along edges. 0-601-07073-9 |
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| 3668 SURREALISTICK A OBRAZNOST A KRESBA. Narodni Galerie Steinova, 1997 Exhibition catalogue of surrealistic works. Both black & white and coloured plates. First Edition, a near fine softcover, text also in French. 80-7035-127-6 |
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| 3911 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Philadelphia John C Winston Company, 1947 Designed by Franklin Whitman and illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Commentary written by the Reverend Clarence Edward Macartney, text from the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible. Illustrations reproduced by photo-engraving in four colours and printed by letterpress. First Edition. Gray illustrated boards, light rubbing. Pages, French fold, are clean and tight, original clear jacket chipped. |
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| 3890 TENDERFOOT TO QUEEN'S SCOUT. Ottawa, Ontario The National Council Boy Scouts of Canada, 1965 Revised edition. Illustrated card cover lightly rubbed and darkened with age, pages clean and tight. Previous owner's name at top of title page. |
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| 4674 TIDEPOOL NO 3 : AN ANTHOLOGY OF HAIKU AND SHORT POETRY. Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Haiku Press, 1986 Poetry. A near fine softcover, 67 pages in stapled card covers. 0008247579 |
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| 005088 TORONTO, THE HEART OF THE CITY. Toronto Key Porter Books, 1988 Portrait of the city of Toronto in 120 full colour photographs portraying the streets, the people, and the architecture of Canada's largest city. Foreword by Mayor Arthur C Eggleton. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0886658934 |
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| 3907 THE TOWER OF LONDON, MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL GUIDE-BOOK. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961 Dark blue card covers, 24 pages, clean and tight. Early printing. |
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| 4473 TWO JACKSONS ABROAD 1936 : NAOMI JACKSON GROVES, A. Y. JACKSON. Canada Penumbra Press, 2000 Art history. Story of one of the Group of Seven and his niece, also a painter, and their trip to Europe in 1936. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 1894131045 |
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| 2625 TWO SOLITUDES: CONVERSATIONS MARGARET ATWOOD - VOCTOR-LEVY BEAULIEU. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1998 First published as Deux Sollicitudes by Editions Trois-Pistoles in 1996. First English language edition, translation by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. A fine trade paperback. 0-7710-0836-8 |
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| 3876 THE UNIVERSITY PRINTS: A SPECIAL STUDY SET OF FINE ART REPRODUCTIONS, ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CORRESPONDENCE COURSE A301 "THROUGH ARTIST' EYES". Cambridge, Massachusetts The University Prints, Soft cover with Comb Binding. A collection of various prints, both colour and black & white. |
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