ANDRUSYSHEN, C.H.

Ukrainian Literature and Its Guiding Light Shevchenko

Winnipeg, Dominion Executive of the Ukrainian National Youth Federation of Canada. 1949, 1st edition. (16mo, wrappers) Near fine. 32pp. Illus. Port. Excerpts from two addresses delivered to the Alpha Omega Society at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Book number: 110732

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Ukrainian Literature

ANGELL, NORMAN

The Money Game: How to Play It: A New Instrument of Economic Education

Toronto, J.M. Dent. 1931, 1st revised edition. (Cloth) Very good plus. 176pp. Plus cards and pieces bound at rear. The Money Game was designed to teach elements of currency, money and banking. Angell won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1933.

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Book number: 200048

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Economics

ANGELOU, MAYA

I know why the caged bird sings

London, The Folio Society NONE. 2000. (hardcover) Fine. 254pp. 4to. Written in 1969, this american classic recounts Angelou's experiences as a woman of colour in the segregated Deep South, surrounded by poverty and bigotry. A memoir that forged the path for the authorship of Black women in America. Book has no jacket, as issued, brown 'wood' cloth wrapper, gilt title stamped to spine. A fine, crisp copy. Bound in fine, sturdy, plian brown slip case.

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Book number: 131328

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Autobiography, Collectible Books, Memoirs

[ANNON.]

Jack and the Bean-Stalk / Hop O'My Thumb

Westminster, London, Bancroft & Co.. 1962. (Card covers) Very good plus. [unpaginated]. Printed by ARTIA in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Dos-à-dos printing of these two titles. Illustrated card covers, linen spine. Covers show light wear; small 1" split in linen spine at middle of front gutter, faint remants of pen (previous owner's name?) at same spot; edges lightly bumped. Internally, all pop-up illustrations work splendidly; bright and clean. Illustrated by Czech artist and architect Vojtech Kubasta. Although he is uncredited, his signature is easily discernable in the illustrations on both covers. Kubasta's "Sleeping Beauty" pop-up also available, $75.

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Book number: 118585

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Pop-Up Books, Children's Literature, Illustrated Books, Literature - Children's, Movable Books

[ANON.]

Animals I Like

London, Blackie & Son. [circa 1935]. (4to) Very good plus. Colour illustrations on boards with cloth hinges for durability in young hands. Cloth back strong; cover edges rubbed. Gift inscription to rear cover. Clean and tight within. Cover illustration by B. Butler. Illustrations by Frank Hare & Albert Kaye.

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Book number: 110842

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

ANON.

Bird ABC

. [no date]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. Undated (c.1900?). No publishing or printing information provided. 12mo. In original printed wrappers; bound with a single saddle-staple. Lightest edgewear to wraps. Each letter illustrated with a corresponding bird; many of the illustrations for each letter in colour. The ink used for the colour illustrations has toned through to the verso of the leaf. A delightful alphabet book, in remarkable condition given both its age and its original purpose to serve little readers. In protective plastic sleeve.

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Book number: 122252

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Alphabet Book, Children's Literature, Illustrated Books, Juvenile, Juvenile Books

ANON.

The Gingerbread Boy [and] Hansel and Gretel

Akron, Saalfield Pub. Co.. 1921. (hardcover) Near very good in good dust jacket. Unpaginated. Illus. - colour and monochrome - illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket shows many small chips from edges without loss of image or text; general shelf wear. Minor damage to tail of board covers, else bright. The book consists of a single signature originally stapled into the covers, but separated. Text reasonably clean, bright, square.

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Book number: 111310

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Fairy Tales

ANON.

Grosse Bilderschau

. [no date], presumed 1st. (Wrappers) Good to very good. [unpaginated]. No publisher or printer information given. Undated (c.1900). 12mo, oblong. Text in German; Fraktur font. Card wrappers; saddle-stapled. White card front cover, full chromo-litho illustration; brown patterned card rear cover, as giraffe print. Wrappers rubbed; top cover with spots from soiling, dust dirtied; bump with small closed tear at head of top cover; bottom corner of bottom cover chipped. Previous owner's period name stamp at head of verso-top cover. Textblock dirtied at margins. Illustrated throughout; [p1], [p3], [p6], [p7], [p10], [P12] chromo-litho illus in full colour. An extremely attractive book. Scarce.

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Book number: 124487

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Children's Literature, German, Illustrated, Illustrated Books, Juvenile Literature, Picture Books

[ANON]

In Bunny Land

Waterloo, Ont. Dominion Life Assurance Co.. [circa 1930]. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. [20 pages]. Colour illustrations promoting in AEsopian fashion the advisability of good insurance and wise investment. "And little Dirty Fox will grow / and lead you far astray, - / So leave those bad companions now / and send them Right Away!".

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Book number: 110818

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Business, Trade Catalogs

[ANON]

Mischief Makers

New York, Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company. 1942, 1st thus. (Spiral-bound card) Good, no dust jacket. unpaginated. 8vo. Square. Coils have broken at head of spine. Wear along spine at front and rear. Some chipping to pages along coils due to coils breaking, as expected. Slight chipping and wear to front and rear covers. Corners rubbed.

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Book number: 113853

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Children's Literature, Children's Literature, Juvenile

ANON.

Soldier Sam, and Lillie's Dream.

London, The Religious Tract Society. [no date]. (hardcover) Good. [frontis], 62pp, [2pp adverts]. C.1876. 16mo. In original green cloth boards; covers stamped in black, ornately decorated; title compartment in gilt on top cover beside an inset paper illustration; paper illustration with some paper-loss. Boards rubbed. Previous owner's small label to top corner of front-pastedown. Gift inscription to ffep, dated Christmas 1879. Starting between ffep and frontispiece. Colour frontispiece. Heavily foxed throughout. Textblock remains tight. "By the author of 'The Travelling Sixpence,' 'Lost and Rescued,' Etc." (title page). 2pp publisher's listing at rear: "The 'Little Dot' Series. / New Sixpenny Books". Printed by "Knight, Printer, Bartholomew Close" in London.

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Book number: 126594

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Juvenile Books, Juvenile Literature, Religious

ANON.

Striving for the Mastery

London, The Religious Tract Society. [no date]. (hardcover) Fair. 96pp +adverts. Undated (c.1873). 24mo (5.75" X 3.75"). Burnt-orange cloth boards. Boards with decorative stamp in black, top cover lettered in gilt (spine was once lettered in gilt as well; gilt now scarcely present, with only blind-stamp remaining). Boards with wear, rubbed; spine darkened. Internally lightly dirtied, mostly at margins. Colour frontispiece. Binding a little shaken; starting at first blanco, remaining secure. Free of marginalia, underlining, or any other such blemishes. Printed by the Gresham Press, Unwin Brothers. An uncommon diminutive title.

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Book number: 121020

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile Literature, Children's Literature, Miniature Books, Religious Literature

[ANON.]

The Summer Sunshine Book

London, Blackie & Son. [no date], 1st thus. (boards) Very good plus, no dust jacket. unpaginated. 4to. Illustrated cover. Illustrated PD EP'S. Colour and B&W illustrations. Title page has very slight foxing and spotting otherwise clean and tight. Simple poems, lovely stories..all is well. A delightful book with beautiful illustrations in wonderful condition.

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Book number: 114013

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Children's Literature, Fiction, Readers

ANONYMOUS

Confessions of an English Maid and Other Delights

New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-7867-0234-6). 1995. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 224pp. 8vo. Dust jacket very good. Grey boards, with gilt title to spine, internally clean and crisp. Two celebrated erotic entertainments in one volume.

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Book number: 125654

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Erotic Literature, Erotic Literature, Erotica 0786702346

ANONYMOUS

My Very First Book

London, The Sunshine Press. [no date]. (hardcover) Good. Undated, c.1940s. Unpaginated. 4to. Illustrated paper over boards; red cloth spine. Filled with wonderful illustrations throughout. Some youthful ministrations: title written small to spine in ink, ever-so faint erasure of a orange square to ffep, likewise orange pencil crayon(?) to margin / gutter of frontispiece-title page. Closed tear to head of ffep. Else bright and clean (remarkably so, given the artistic inclinations of the young reader who once thumbed this tome. Illustrated be "E.W.B.".

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Book number: 119154

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Children's Literature, Illustrated Books, Juvenile Books