Publisher:
[White Rock]: White Rhino, [c.1986]. First edition.
Seller ID: 56540
A decorative broadside, on a single sheet measuring about 12 x 19 inches. Limited to 90 copies signed by Faludy and Skelton. A bit of wrinkling to margins, small blemishes, a clean very good copy. A scarce broadside, printing a poem written by Faludy in Budapest, 1936. View More...
[np/nd 1975?]. A poetry broadside, one sheet measuring 14 X 20 inches. Printed in black on cream laid paper. Some creases to the left edge, a bit of discoloration to corners, but nice otherwise. A scarce broadside. The estimated date is from the UVic copy. Publication details unknown. View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: Collins / White Circle, (1950). First edition.
Seller ID: 56872
A paperback original. Issued as White Circle Pocket Edition CD 482. A few chips to spine, modest edge wear, a bright and clean copy, better than usual. View More...
(Toronto: The Author, 1940). First edition. Beige printed wrappers, stapled. A 6-page booklet. Wrappers darkening at edges, some mild creasing and small blemishes; a clean very good copy. Inscribed by the author, signed with his initials, and with a typed poem by him pasted to the verso of the first leaf. Garratt, who died in 1950, was a teacher in Ontario and Manitoba during the late 19th century. A short biography of him appears on the site Memorable Manitobans, produced by the Manitoba Historical Association. An uncommon book. View More...
Publisher:
Oakland: Excelsior Court, 1942. First edition.
Seller ID: 56623
Small blue boards, front cover lettered in silver. Some dust soiling, a very good copy. A long narrative poem about aviation, which tells the tale of some of Gibson's inventions. William Wallace Gibson was an aircraft inventor who lived in Canada. He built early aircraft engines, and flew his Twin-Plane aircraft near Victoria, BC in 1910. A very scarce book. View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: Printed for the Author by William Briggs, 1894. First edition.
Seller ID: 50298
Dark green decorative cloth designed and lettered in silver. Floral end papers. Frontispiece portrait. A bit spotty, but a decent, bright copy. Canadian poetry, sentimental and patriotic. View More...
[Prince George, BC, 1978]. First edition. A poetry broadside, measuring 11 X 11 inches. Printed on heavy brown stock, cut of tragicomic masks at the top. Fine condition. Apparently printed by Gold himself in an edition of 80 copies. Signed by Gold. View More...
Vancouver: Cobblestone Press, 1980. First edition. 40 leaves plus colophon and title leaves, loose in an ivory cardstock folder, unlettered, all within a manila envelope which is ruled and lettered on the front in red & black. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Goldreich and Wood. Fine condition, the manila envelope has a few tears along folds. A nicely printed portfolio; the text is printed on Byronic Text, Arctic White, & bound in Strathmore Grandee Cover, Mantilla Ivory. The offset lithographic reproductions were printed at Benwell-Atkins Limited, Vancouver. Goldreich, who died in 20... View More...
Small, oblong pictorial wrappers, stapled. 24pp. A book of short sonnets by a Canadian-born author, who at the time of publication was serving as a sergeant, M.D., in the US Forces at Asheville, N.C. The afterword on the final page states that "The writer is a Canadian by birth; English, Irish, and Scots by descent ...". Uncommon. View More...
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1984. First edition in English. Beige silk, decorative paper labels on spine and front cover. Brown end papers. Printed in brown & black. Of an edition of 106 copies, this is one of 90 bound in Coromandel silk. A fine copy. Issued as Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar, Number One. Originally published in German in 1903. A handsome book, nicely produced. Woodsworth A32a. View More...
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. Second edition. The two volumes bound in half-calf & marbled boards, spines designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. No half-titles, ads not bound at the end of Vol II. A bit of scuffing to spine and along hinges, some shelf wear to tips, otherwise a clean and decent set, with the hinges a bit tender but entirely intact. Published the same year as the first edition, anonymously. View More...
Publisher:
NY: William H. Colyer, 1840. Later edition; first published in 1836.
Seller ID: 55405
Original paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine, with printed paper spine label. Boards worn, wear to spine ends, label scratched and barely legible, scattered foxing throughout; basically very good otherwise. 19th century library label from Pittsfield [NY] on inner front cover. This volume contains both the first and second series, but paginated continuously; the title page of the Second Series is page [115]. A classic of Canadian humour first published in 1836, there are many editions. View More...
[Windsor: Flat Singles Press, 1970]. An illustrated poetry broadside, measuring 10 X 14 inches. Printed in black on cream stock. Signed by Hall at the bottom, in red. Fine condition View More...
Publisher:
Invermere or Cranbrook, BC: The Author, 1921. Second Edition.
Seller ID: 57085
Small wrappers, stapled. 12pp. Some fading of covers, about fine. First published earlier in an edition of 100 copies, this second edition was published in an edition of 500. A short intro on the inner front cover explains that the legend was first printed in the Cranbrook Courier. The text is a short introductory description of the area around Windermere, British Columbia, followed by the legend which is a fantasy set in the distant past. Quite scarce. View More...
Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2013. First edition. Stiff decorative wrappers. A fine copy. This is one of 80 numbered copies in this format; there were also 30 produced in hard covers. Issued as Volume 7 in the publisher's Contemporary Canadian Poets series. View More...
Vancouver: William Hoffer & The Well Defended Press, 1986. A single sheet on stiff white stock, printed in black. Fine condition. Issued by Hoffer as the cover to his list 64, this is one of the unfolded copies which were handed out in the shop to visitors and friends. A continuation of the diatribe between Hoffer & Brian Fawcett. Woodsworth A38. View More...
Vancouver: William Hoffer & The Well Defended Press, 1986. A single sheet on stiff white stock, printed in black. Fine condition. Issued by Hoffer as the cover to his list 64, this is one of the unfolded copies which were handed out in the shop to visitors and friends. A continuation of the diatribe between Hoffer & Brian Fawcett. Woodsworth A38. View More...
Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2011. First edition. Beige pictorial cloth, beige end papers. Illustrated title page. A fine copy. This is one of 30 copies bound in cloth, of a total edition of 100. A short prose work. View More...
[Toronto: Blake, 1920]. First edition. Green cloth, front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Six inserted plates, all present. Some small stains to binding, one page wrinkled; a piece torn from front end paper, removing part of an inscription. This copy is unfortunately lacking its title page. Publication data was obtained from WorldCat. A very scarce collection. View More...
This is not the book, but a poster for this Coach House Press book, published in 1977. It measures about 18 X 17 inches. Printed in color, most of the poster is taken up by a reproduction of the David Milne Dry point, Blue Sky Palgrave, 2nd version. A few wrinkles at margins, but about fine. An uncommon advertising poster. View More...
