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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

ANONYMOUS

Steenie Alloway's Adventures

London, Religious Tract Society. [circa 1885]. (16mo cloth) Good to very good. 64pp. Colour frontispiece. Decorative red cloth but lightly aged with attendant faint stains, abrasions. Hinges started front and rear. Contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Mildly foxed within, remaining quite bright.

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Book number: 112422

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

ANSCOMBE, ISABELLE; GREY, HOWARD (PHOTOGRAPHS); LEHMAN, JOHN (FOREWORD)

Omega and After; Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts

London, Thames and Hudson. (ISBN: 0-500-23337-3). 1982. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 176pp. 4to. The narrative of the Omega Workshops, started by Roger Fry in 2013, the aim of which was to produce painted furniture, fabrics, rugs, pottery and other pieces in the spirit of the Post impressionists. N o. The narrative of the Omega Workshops, started by Roger Fry in 2013, the aim of which was toproduce painted furniture, fabrics, rugs, pottery and other pieces in the spirit of the Post impressionists. Not a commercial success, they closed in 1919. That siad, of all the talents contributed, which included Vanessa Bell, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, Frederick Etchells, McKnight Kauffer and Wyndham Lewis, Bell sits at the centre of this notable circle. 124 illustrations, 20 of which are in colour. Beautiful copy.

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Book number: 128947

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Bloomsbury Group, Bloomsbury, Interior Design, Vanessa Bell 0500233373

ANTROBUS, FRED

The Obstacle Race

Fort Qu'Appelle, The Author. 1982. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 150pp. SIGNED. Former owner's name on endpaper.

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Book number: 103094

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Signed

APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME

The Poet Assassinated

New York Chicago San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1968, 1st edition. (hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 128pp. 4to. First edition. The first public translation into English of this masterwork. Black and white photographs, drawings, map. Patterned endpapers. Dust jacket in loose, protective mylar. Clean, bright, square, and solid. Illustrations by Jim Dine. Translated by Ron Padgett.

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Book number: 125805

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Classic Literature, French Literature, Left Bank Bohemian, Literature, Poetry

APULEIUS

The Story of Cupid & Psyche

London, David Nutt. 1903, 1st thus. (Vellum) Very good plus. 82pp. Frontispiece, illus. Yap edges. Rag unsized paper. Minor wear and soil to covers. Illustrations by Jessie Mothersole. Translated by Charles Stuttaford.

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Book number: 109838

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Classics, Fine Bindings

ARMITAGE, SIMON (TRANSLATED BY); SUDYKA, DIANA (ILLUSTRATIONS BY)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

London, The Folio Society NONE. 2008. (hardcover) Fine. xiii, 114pp. Folio. Illustrated red cloth. Housed, as issued, in sturdy plain red slipcase (lightly marked). Colour plates. Frontispiece, and 13 other illustrations. Fine copy of one of the best known Arthurian stories in near fine slipcase.

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Book number: 131403

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Arthurian Legends, Classic Literature, Collectible Books, Dark Ages, English Literature, King Arthur, Legends, Medieval Literature, The Folio Society

ARNASON, DAVID

The Circus Performers' Bar

Vancouver, Talonbooks. 1984. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 157pp.

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Book number: 103120

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canada, Canadian Prairies

ASHLEY, DAISY

Cast No Stone

New York, Vantage Press. 1954, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good in very good dust jacket. 246pp. 8vo. Red cloth covers. Silver gilt lettering to spine. REVIEW COPY. Related ephemera is a review copy notice from Vantage Press which stated that the book will be published on Aug. 7, 1954. Clean, white and tight. Daisy Ashley was a model who posed for, among other things, Victory Bond posters in Canada and Helene Stonard's nude sculpture "Prayer for Victory" in 1943. Only available copy that we have been able to source so far.

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Book number: 114163

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Canada, Fiction, Literature

ASPRIN, ROBERT L.

The Bug Wars

New York, St. Martin's Press. 1979. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 234pp. Illustrations by Asprin & Doug Rice.

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Book number: 200064

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-American, Science Fiction

CANADIAN AYRSHIRE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION

The Canadian Ayrshire Herd Book; Volume Xxvi, Pedigrees 48921 to 53025

Ottawa, the Association. 1916. (hardcover) Very good. [plates], cxxiv, [2], 503pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine and top board. B&W plates at front. Errata. Internally clean.

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Book number: 111675

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Ranching, Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies

SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION

The Life and Death of Gamaliel Ratsey; a Famous Thief, of England, Executed at Bedford the 26th of March Last Past. 1605

London, The Shakespeare Association/Oxford. 1935. (Cloth) Near fine. Unpaginated; glassine wrapper. Former owner's name neatly on endpaper. Association Facsimile No. 10.

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Book number: 202279

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-British

NORTH SHORE WRITERS' ASSOCIATION (VARIOUS)

Uncovered . . . A North Shore Writers' Association Chapbook

North Vancouver, BC, North Shore Writers' Association. (ISBN: 0-9687899-4-3). 2004. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 64pp. 8vo. White card covers, black coil bound. The 4th chapbook of the North Shore Writers' Association (NSWA). Includes more than 40 short stories and poems. Black and white photographs, illustration. There is a notation made to page 43 and has been, in all likelihood, initialled by the poet. Fine copy.

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Book number: 128985

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Chapbooks, British Columbia - Authors, Canadian Chapbooks, North Shore Writers' Association, Poetry Collections 0968789943