FINK, HOWARD

Canadian National Theatre on the Air, 1925-1961

Toronto, University of Toronto. (ISBN: 0-8020-0358-3). 1983. (boards) Very good, no dust jacket. 48pp. 8vo. laminated cover. Includes a pocket of micro-fiche. CBC-CRBC-CNR Radio Drama in English. A descriptive bibliography and union list.

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Book number: 113459

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Keywords: Bibliography, Canadiana, Radio, Reference 0802003583

FLEMING, PATRICIA LOCKHART

Upper Canadian Imprints, 1801-1841: A Bibliography

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1988, 1st edition. (4to, cloth) Fine. 556pp. Foreword by Marianne Scott.

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Book number: 112322

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Keywords: Bibliography, Books About Books, Ontario, Printing Trade

FRYE, NORTHRUP; POLK, JAMES (EDITED, WITH A PREFACE, BY)

Divisions on a Ground; Essays on Canadian Culture

Toronto, Anansi. (ISBN: 0-88784-093-0). 1982. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 199pp. 8vo. Collection of lectures, addresses, and previously published articles that present Frye's theories about Canadian literary writing, university education in Canada, from a more 'social identity' perspective. Jacket shows moderate wear and is lightly rubbed. Olive green boards, gilt title to spine. Stamp to front free endpaper; else is clean and bright.

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Book number: 129536

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Education - Canada, Essays 0887840930

FRYE, NORTHROP

The Great Code; The Bible and Literature

Toronto, Academic Press Canada 7747-0134-X. (ISBN: 7747-0134-X). 1981, 1st Canadian edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine in very good dust jacket. xxiii, 261pp. 8vo. Signed to title page. First Canadian edition. Largely considered as Northrop Frye's most important work. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Jacket shows wear at the top edge, which includes two small closed tears. Very nice copy of this extraordinary work.

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Book number: 129529

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Bible and Literature, Canadian Literature, Collectible Books 77470134X

GAGNON, PHILÉAS

Essai de Bibliographie Canadienne Inventaire d'une Bibliothèque (Two Volumes)

Quebec / Montreal, Imprime pour L'Auteur/Publie par la Cite de Montreal (Frederic Villeneuve) NONE. 1895 1913. (hardcover) Near fine. x, 711; xi, 462pp. 4to. Difficult to find as a set, given the span between publication dates. These have been nicely rebound in dark brown buckram, titles stamped in white to spine. There are more than 7,000 books and pamplets on Canada described. Entries in English and French, as determined by original publication. Near fine set, flawless but for a small tear to a paste down and some tape to the half title page of the first volume.

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Book number: 130019

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Keywords: Bibliography, Bibliothèque, Canadian History

GILLETT, CHARLES RIPLEY (EDITOR)

Catalogue of the McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology [5 Volumes]

New York, The Union Theological Seminary. 1927-1930. (hardcover) Good. Five volumes, printed and bound by the Plimpton Press. Vol.I: 1500-1640 [1927; XV, 562pp]; Vol.II: 1641-1652 [1928; 802pp]; Vol.III: 1653-1679 [1928; 827pp]; Vol.IV: 1680-1700 [1929; 643pp]; Vol.V: Index [1930; 682pp]. 8vo. Ecru buckram boards. Boards sunned. Ex-libris, with usual suspects; institutional bookplate to front pastedown of each volume [discard confirmed]. Body of text bright and clean. A valuable reference set for collectors and historians alike. Heavy set which will require additional postage. Please enquire.

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Book number: 120142

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Keywords: Librairies, British History, Catalogue, Reference

GUNDY, H. PEARSON

Early Printers and Printing in the Canadas

Toronto, Bibliographical Society. 1964, 2nd edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 62pp.

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Book number: 110782

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Keywords: Bibliography, Canada, Printing Trade

HALE, LINDA L.

Vancouver Centennial Bibliography; A Project of the Vancouver Historical Society (4 Volumes)

Vancouver, Vancouver Historical Society. (ISBN: 0-9692378-0-4). 1986. (Mass market paperback) Fine. XI, 568pp, [3 maps]; III, 569-1002pp, [3 maps]; III, 1003-1325pp, [3 maps]; III, 1327-1791pp, [3 maps]. 4to. Perfect bound in crème wrappers, printed in brown. Lightest shelfwear to wraps, else fine. Tight, bright, and clean. The definitive bibliography on Vancouver. A commanding guide not only for the history of Vancouver and British Columbia but Canadiana in general.

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Book number: 120440

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Keywords: Bibliography, British Columbia, British Columbia History, Canada, Canadiana, Reference, Vancouver 0969237804

HARDIE, MARTIN; LAVER, JAMES (INTRO.)

English Coloured Books

London, Fitzhouse Books. (ISBN: 0-7134-6265-5). 1990, reprint. (hardcover) Near fine in good dust jacket. xxiv, 339pp, [1]. Tall 8vo. Green cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine. Small blue smudge to bottom edge, else fine. Tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket sunned, light edgewear, price clipped. Facsimile of 1906 printing.

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Book number: 120307

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Keywords: Books on Books, Illustrated Books 0713462655

HART, CHRIS

Doing a Literature Review; Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination

London, U.K. Sage Publications Ltd./The Open University. (ISBN: 0 7619 5975 0). 2001. (Mass market paperback) Very good. x, 230pp. 8vo. Tables, figures, appendices. Clean, solid copy.

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Book number: 125067

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Books About Books, Literary Criticism, Literary Reviews, Research 0761959750

HOWE, ELLIC

A List of London Bookbinders 1648-1815

London, Bibliographical Society. 1950. (Cloth) Near fine. 105pp. Bibliographical Society publication for the year 1947, issued '50.

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Book number: 109738

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Keywords: Books About Books, Book Related, Bookbinding

KAHN, SHOLOM J.

Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger; A Study of the Manuscript Texts

Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press. (ISBN: 0-8262-0236-5). 1978, 1st edition. (Cloth, 8vo) Fine in fine dust jacket. 252pp. 8vo. Black covers with silver gilt lettering to spine. Flawlessly clean and tight. Clipped.

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Book number: 114165

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens 0826202365

KALBFLEISCH, HERBERT KARL

The History of the Pioneer German Language Press of Ontario, 1835-1918

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1968. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 133pp. 8vo. Card wraps. There is a tiny, faint crease across the lower front outside corner; else is clean, tight, bright.

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Book number: 126362

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Keywords: Books About Books, Esoterica, German Language, Linguistics, Printing

KEITH, W.J.

Epic Fiction; The Art of Rudy Wiebe

Edmonton, the University of Alberta Press. (ISBN: 0-88864-075-7). 1981. (Mass market paperback) Good. x, 158pp. 8vo. Wrappers. Ex-libis, with usual suspects. Else internally bright and clean.

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Book number: 121226

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Canadian Prairies, Literary Studies 0888640757

KROESE, IRVIN B.

The Beauty and the Terror: Shelley's Visionary Women

Salzburg, Austria, Institut for Englische Sprache Und Literatur, Universitat Salzburg. 1976, revision and expansion. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 154pp. 8vo. Scarce. A revision, expansion, and in some places, a contraction of the author's 1966 dissertation done at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. An examination of Percy Blythe Shelley's women characters. A clean, tight, solid copy, the cover and spine of which is sunned. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl. Romantic reassessment; Editor: Dr. James Hogg.

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Book number: 124975

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, 19th Century, British - Literature, Classic Literature, Poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Women in Literature, Women's Studies