LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD

Hans Fingerhuts Frog Lesson; A Fairy Tale

Ottawa, the Golden Dog Press. (ISBN: 0-919614-07-8). 1973, 1st edition. (Wrappers) Very good plus. [12]. Tall 8vo. In original olive card wraps, top cover printed in dark green; saddle stitched. Light wear to wraps. Internally fine. Drawings by Sharon Keyes. Limited to 300 copies printed by Warren Thomas Young.

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Book number: 120707

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Keywords: Fine Printing, Fairy Tales, Literature 0919614078

LANDE, LAWRENCE; COLLARD, EDGAR ANDREW (INTRODUCTION)

The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill University; A Bibliography

Montreal, The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research. 1965. (hardcover) Fine. xxxiii, 301pp, [colophon]. Folio. Volume bound in quarter pigskin, linen covered boards. House in beautiful slipcase, covered in rich blue cloth, linen edged, illustration engraving pasted to front. Fore-edge and bottom edge roughcut. Illustrated with many facsimiles, including several fold-outs. Except for the smallest spot of darkened residue at the foot of the spine, the volume is unblemished. Tight, bright, and clean. A stunning reference work. Limited to 950 signed copies, of which this is no.486.

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Book number: 120521

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Keywords: Bibliography, Broadside, Canada, Canadian History, Ephemera, Reference

LESSER, WENDY

Why I Read; The Serious Pleasure of Books

New York, N.Y. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 978-0-374-28920-1. (ISBN: 978-0-374-28920-1). 2014. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 222+. 8vo. A treat for all those who love to read. DJ shows light smudging and some sticker residue to the rear, the book is clean, bright and tight. Remaindered copy, with mark to lower edge.

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Book number: 123880

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Keywords: Books About Books, Books About Books, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature 9780374289201

LIBOIRON, ALBERT A.

Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations in Australia, Canada, the United States and Other Countries: A Bibliography

Kingston, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations. 1967, presumed first. (Mass market paperback) Fair. 231pp. 4to. Original mottled-yellow card covers, tape-bound. Top cover printed in black. Volume with some wear. Wrappers worn; tape splitting at head and heel of spine, covers dust dirtied from rubbing, surface paper-loss at top corner of front cover (from sticker, most likely), corners bumped and creased. Internally textblock bumped at corners; most notably from PP85-93 where the leaves are creased and folded at top corner. With these blemishes duly noted, the volume remains internally bright and clean. A great copy for active use of this seminal reference work.

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Book number: 121141

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Keywords: Bibliography, Federalism, Political Studies, Politics - Australia, Politics - Canada, Politics - United States, Reference

INCUNABULA. MAGGS

Bibliotheca Incunabulorum; a Collection of Books from One Hundred Towns Illustrating the Art & Development of Printing in the Fifteenth Century

London, Maggs Bros.. 1930. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 256pp. Frontispiece, illus. map - folding frontispiece map shows 259 towns in which a printing press was worked in the 15th C. Facsimile plates, one folding, some black / red. "Part One: Austria, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, England, and France." the 533rd catalogue from Maggs Bros. Booksellers, London and Paris.

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Book number: 202199

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Keywords: Books on Books, Antiques, Literature-European, Reference

MASON, DAVID

The Pope's Bookbinder

Windsor, Ont. Biblioasis 1927428177. (ISBN: 1927428177). 2013, 1st edition. (Cloth) As new in as new dust jacket. 421pp. A memoir from one of the finest and most respected book dealers in Canada, according to me (and others, but mostly me).

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Book number: 117038

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Keywords: Book Collecting, Bibliophile, Books on Books, Memoir 1927428177

MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; WATSON, WILFRED

From Cliche to Archetype

New York, The Viking Press. (ISBN: 0-670-33093-0). 1970. (Cloth) Fine in very good dust jacket. 213pp. Illus. Minimal edgewear to jacket.

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Book number: 201282

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Literature, Politics-Economics 0670330930

MINOR, WENDELL

Art for the Wriiten Words; Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art

San Diego/New York/London, Harcourt Brace & Company. (ISBN: 0-15-600212-4). 1995, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 154+. 4to. Rich selection of titles, with full-colour reproductions of artwork from the jackets of over 100 best-selling books. Covers lightly rubbed, with gentle edge wear. Internally, clean, bright, tight and solid. Introduction by David McCullough.

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Book number: 124943

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Keywords: Books About Books, Book Art, Book Covers, Books About Books, Illustration 0156002124

NIXON, HOWARD M.

English Restoration Bookbindings; Samuel Mearne and His Contemporaries

London, British Museum Publications Ltd. for the British Library Board. 1974. (Cloth) Near fine. 48pp. Frontispiece - colour, illus. - 126 b / w plates. The catalogue of an exhibition held in the King's Library of the British Museum, May-September, 1974.

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Book number: 109740

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NOEL, MARY

Villains Galore; The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly

New York, the MacMillan Company. 1954, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. xi, [1], 320pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards; lettering in yellow to spine and top board. Light rubbing, shelfwear to boards; tiny puncture to cloth near head of rear hinge. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping at head and tail of spine; jacket dirtied from rubbing, most pronounced on white rear panel; top and bottom corners of front flap clipped, $5.00 still present at top corner. Jacket appearance greatly improved in protective mylar. Previous owner's name at top corner of ffep. Else internally clean. B&W ports.

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Book number: 124581

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Keywords: Books on Books, Books About Books, Reference

OUVRARD, PIERRE

Master Bookbinder / Maître Relieur

Edmonton, the University of Alberta Press. (ISBN: 0-88864-360-8). 2000, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 98pp. 4to. Wrappers, flaps. Entirely unblemished. Bright and clean. Text in French and English. Essays by Alfred van Peteghem and Norman Biron. Replete with colour photos throughout. Presentation plate from the University Librarian laid-in at front.

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Book number: 121417

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Keywords: Books on Books, Bookbinding 0888643608

PARKHILL, JOHN T. (INTRO.)

Toronto and Ealy Canada: A Catalogue of the Toronto and Early Canada Picture Collection in the Toronto Public Library; Landmarks of Canada, Volume 3

Toronto, The Baxter Publishing Company. 1964, 1st edition, 1st impression. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 63pp. 8vo, oblong. Very near fine, with only light rubbing to wraps, some surface marks to rear cover; old price in ink small at head of first blank. B&W photos.

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Book number: 120174

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Keywords: Bibliography, Catalogue, Non-Prairie Canadiana, Photographs

PARTINGTON, WILFRED

Forging Ahead; the True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Exraordinary and Otherwise

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1939, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 315pp. Frontispiece, illus. ports. Unclipped dust jacket shows superficial soiling and minor shelf wear.

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Book number: 110796

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Keywords: Books About Books, Antiquarian Booksellers, Bibliography, Booksellers, Forgeries

PARTINGTON, WILFRED

Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth; the Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets

London, Robert Hale Ltd.. 1946, 1st edition revised and expanded for the UK. (Cloth) Very good. 372pp. Frontispiece, illus. ports. Front pastedown shows evidence of removal of bookplate, else about fine. Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.

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Book number: 111023

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Keywords: Books About Books, Antiquarian Booksellers, Bibliography, Booksellers, Forgeries

PEEL, BRUCE

Bibliography of Bruce Braden Peel

Edmonton, [Presumably Published by the Author]. 1986. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 18pp, [1]. 4to. Butter-yellow card covers, stapled. Top cover printed in black. Entirely unblemished; bright and clean. Includes: librarianship, bibliography and printing history, regional history, biography, genealogy, heraldry, miscellaneous, book reviews, works in process, biographical sources relative to author, awards, and honorary memberships. CV printed at rear.

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Book number: 121101

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Keywords: Bibliography, Books on Books, Canadian Prairies, Reference