BELL, VANESSA; SHONE, RICHARD (INTRODUCTION)

Vanessa Bell 1879 - 1961 a Retrospective Exhibition April 18 - May 24, 1980

New York, Davis & Long Company NONE. 1980. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 43pp. 8vo. Vanessa Bell, a pivotal player in Modernist and 20th century British art, and a central figure of the Bloomsbury group, established a new language of visual expression. Introduction by Richard Shone. Includes chronology, catalogue, and selected (black and white) plates from the exhibition. Fine copy.

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Book number: 129955

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Bloomsbury Group, Art Catalogues, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Catalogue, Modernist Art

BELLAMY, EDWARD

Looking Backward

Vancouver, Totem Press. 1934. (Card covers) Very good. 236pp. Wrappers lightly chipped and frayed with typical shelfwear. Front cover separating. The first "Commonwealth" publication, with an introduction by W.A. Pritchard, a labour leader and defendant in the trials arising from the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

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Book number: 103272

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Winnipeg General Strike

BELLAMY, EDWARD

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.. [no date]. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 245pp. Undated. 12mo. Coral cloth boards. Top board with pencil markings, bottom board soiled, spine sunned. Lettering in black to spine, with double-rule in black at head and foot of spine. Starting at gutters, entirely secure. Previous owner's signature boldly to ffep; warm presentation inscription in pencil beneath. Internally clean. Printed by the Aberdeen University Press.

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Book number: 121057

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Literature, Literature - America

BELLIVEAU, ELISABETH

don't get lonely don't get lost

Greenwich, Nova Scotia, Conundrum Press 978-1-894994-50-7. (ISBN: 978-1-894994-50-7). 2010. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 144pp. 12mo. Full colour art work with a series of texts, a blend of poetry and prose about the dogs of feminist icons and on love found and lost, written from various locations in the world. Packaged with a DVD, the narration of Margaret's Mountain, Belliveau's longest animated work to date. Fine copy, seemingly never read.

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Book number: 130389

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Animation, Art Books, Canadian Art, Canadian Literature, Contemporary Art, Mixed Media, Zines 9781894994507

BELLIVEAU, ELISABETH

One year in America

Greenwich, Nova Scotia, Conundrum Press 978-1-894994-87-3. (ISBN: 978-1-894994-87-3). 2014. (Mass market paperback) Fine. NP. 12mo. Belliveau's first graphic novel is a coming of age story which literally crosses boundaries, in that it jumps between Canada and the US, told though the art work and email texts beteen friends. Black and white illustrations. Fine copy, seemingly never read.

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Book number: 130390

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Art Books, Canadian Art, Canadian Literature, Graphic Novels 9781894994873

BELLOW, SAUL

The Actual

Usa, Viking Penguin. (ISBN: 0-670-86075-1). 1997, 1st edition. (Half cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. unpaginated.

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Book number: 119336

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Literature 0670860751

BELLOW, SAUL

Him with His Foot in His Mouth & Other Stories

Usa, Harper and Row. (ISBN: 0-06-015179-X). 1984, 1st edition. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 294pp. Silght tear on front dust jacket.

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Book number: 119337

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Literature, Short Stories 006015179X

BELLOW, SAUL

Humboldt's Gift

New York, the Viking Press 670-38655-3. (ISBN: 670-38655-3). [1975]. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 487pp. 8vo. Quarter yellow-cloth with purple cloth boards; lettering in black to spine. Top edges of boards bumped. Ever-so slight fading at tail of spine, from off-set jacket. Dust jacket with shelfwear; spine lightly faded; edgewear to top-edge. Jacket appearance greatly improved in protective mylar. BOOK CLUB EDITION with no price printed on jacket flap and a small star blindstamped at foot of rear board near hinge. This copy from the library of renowned English-Canadian physician Ian McWhinney - the "Founding Father of Family Medicine" - with his bookplate on the front-pastedown.

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Book number: 124548

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Fiction, Leather, Literature, Literature - America, Specialty Literature 670386553

BELLOW, SAUL

Ravelstein

None Listed, Compass Press, an Imprint of Wheeler Publishing, Inc.. (ISBN: 1-56895-127-2). 2000, large print edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 286pp. 8vo. Large print edition. The author's final novel, published when he was 85 years old. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130323

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Large Print Books, Literature - American 1568951272

BENCHLEY, ROBERT C.

Love Conquers All

London, the Bodley Head. 1923. (12mo, cloth) Very good. 242pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations by Gluyas Williams.

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Book number: 200145

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-American, Humor

BENDER, TODD K.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1966. (Cloth) Very good. 172pp. Underlining and annotations.

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Book number: 200147

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-British

BENEDICT, PINCKNEY

Town Smokes

Princeton, Ontario Review Press, Printed by Princeton University Press. (ISBN: 0-86538-058-9). 1987, 1st printing. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 168pp. 8vo. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

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Book number: 119995

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Literature 0865380589

BENGOUGH, J.W.

Motley: Verses Grave and Gay

Toronto, William Briggs. 1895. (Cloth) Very good. 172pp. Illus.

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Book number: 200149

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-Canadian

BENSON, E.F.

Dodo; A Detail of the Day

New York, George H. Doran Company. 1921. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. vi, 441pp. 12mo. Beige cloth, black titles to front and spine. Starting at front hinge, and there is a tiny sticker affixed to the lower rear fixed endpaper. Internally clean and bright.

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Book number: 125440

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literature

BENSON, E. F.

The House of Defence

New York, Cupples & Leon Company. 1906, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 318pp, +[2pp adverts]. 12mo. In original publisher's illustrated cloth binding. Binding with light rubbing at extremities from shelfwear. Tiny gouge at top-edge of rear board. Small, faint red stain to cloth on rear board. Binding a little shaken; starting at PP178 / 179 and pp258 / 259; early signs of starting else wear. All leaves and gatherings remain entirely secure. Illustrated with four colour plates (including the frontispiece.) after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm. Frontispiece with protective tissue guard. "Facsimile page of manuscript from the Image in the Sand" [p.3], lacking tissue guard. Internally, with only occasional light dirtying to margins (from the turnings of dirty fingers, no doubt). Else internally clean. An acceptable copy of this first edition.

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Book number: 122493

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Historical Fiction