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David Mason Books eList #47
 

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1. (Americana) Automobile Club of Southern California. Log of the Peninsula Of Lower California and the Gulf of California. Yachting. Fishing. Hunting and Points of Interest. Compiled at the Outing Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California...
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, (1934). Tall 8vo., original wrappers, (24)pp. With a large folding map at the rear. Very minor fading to the spine, a very small nick out of the rear wrapper but in fact a fine copy.
$100.00

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2. (Americana) COOK, Joel. America Picturesque and Descriptive.
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1900. In three volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., original greenish blue cloth with gilt decoration on the upper covers and spine, (viii), 510; (vi), 514; (iv), 592pp. Profusely illustrated. Inner front hinge of volume one cracked but otherwise fine copies in the original blue linen dustwrappers.
$200.00

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3. (Americana) HARTLEY, Cecil B. Life And Adventures Of Lewis Wetzel, The Virginia Ranger; To Which Are Added Biographical Sketches of General Simon Kenton, General Benjamin Logan, Captain Samuel Brady, Governor Isaac Shelby, And Other Heroes Of The West. Illustrated with Engravings From Original Designs by G.G. White.
Philadelphia: Published by G.G. Evans, 1860. Second edition (first published 1859). 8vo., original brown cloth with gilt decoration on the spine, 320, 16pp.ads. With illustrations. A fine copy. Howes H265 for first and two subsequent editions, Sabin 30682 citing this edition.
$350.00

   

Signed by Shackleton and Seven Expedition Members
 

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4. (Antarctica) SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest. South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Fourth Printing. Signed by the author and seven members of the expedition. Tall 8vo., orig. pictorial navy cloth lettered in silver, xxiv, (376)pp. With numerous illustrations and folding map at rear. Light wear to extremities, else near fine. Shackleton’s account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, signed on the endpaper by Shackleton (1874–1922) and seven members of the expedition: Frank Wild (1873–1939), Shackleton’s 2nd in Command, went on a total of five expeditions to Antarctica and was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars; James A. McIlroy (1879–1968), one of two surgeons with the Weddell Sea Party; J. R. Stenhouse (1887–1941), 1st Officer (subsequently Captain) of the Aurora, Ross Party; Frank Worsley (1872–1943) Captain of the Endurance; L. D. A. Hussey (1891–1964) Meteorologist; L. Rickinson (1883–1945) Chief Engineer; A. H. Macklin (1889–1967) the second surgeon with the Weddell party.
$8,500.00

   

Djuna Barnes Letters & Cards Archive
 

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5. BARNES, Djuna. Small archive of letters and cards from Djuna Barnes to Ruby and Larry Wallrich.
A group of 9 letters and cards from Barnes (consisting of 2 TLS, 5 postcards, and 2 Christmas cards) to Larry or Ruby Wallrich. Written in the 1960s (1962–1968) from Barnes, with Patchin Place return address, to the Wallriches in New York, Majorca, Ireland, and England. Larry Wallrich was the founder of the Phoenix Bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village; Barnes was a friend and neighbour. Wallrich later sold the store to Robert Wilson and they moved to Majorca, Ireland, and England, eventually settling in Toronto where he opened About Books. During her “Patchin Place years” Barnes was a notorious recluse, hounded by fans and particularly fellow writers, but was suspicious of those she did not know well; that she corresponded with the Wallriches at all is indicative of the relationship she had with them. All in near fine condition. The letters are as follows: TNS. 1 page. Dated 9th April, 1962. Five Patchin Place, NY. To Ruby (Wallrich) in New York. Barnes asks “Where I might find you for a spot of tea?” and inquires about their new address, “Where is West Houston? Is that near Chinatown?” She goes on to make a suggestion about a time and place. Signed in full “Djuna Barnes” with an added notation in her hand “or some other place.” With envelope. TLS. 1 page. Dated 17th June, 1962. To Ruby (Wallrich) in Deya, Mallorca, Spain. Barnes begins the letter by thanking Ruby for remembering her birthday and for sending her the “chaste little handkerchief.” She asks how they are settling in to life there and talks about the language difference, the climate and the natives. She then states in reply to what Ruby has obviously written about Robert Graves that “Mr. Graves sounds frightfully important. I assume the Island adores him and that you are going to hold out against first names and idolatry!” Barnes continues “I have been about as usual... more and more irritated, as I grow older, by any business whatsoever…” She complains about the lack of honest people to deal with, characteristically suspicious for this period. She closes, “Always, Djuna Barnes.” With envelope. Autograph postcard, signed. Undated. To Ruby Wallrich in County Offaly, Ireland. Barnes thanks Ruby for her letter and asks if they liked the move to Ireland; and if now that they are settled will they be having more children. Barnes writes, “I am the same. Sadder, my friends dying & dead, but I continue to write.” Signed “my best to you affectionately D. Barnes.” Autograph postcard, signed. Dated Dec. 31, 1965. To Ruby (Wallrich). “Can't give you an answer unless I know just what of the ‘Almanack' Larry wants to use of the cover of his catalogue…”. She then sends her best wishes for the season. Signed “Always, D. Barnes.” Typed postcard, signed. Undated (2 Jan 1966 postmark). To Ruby (Wallrich). A three-line card asking Ruby, “Do you think it a good idea to draw attention to the thing?...” (likely referring back to the use of an image from her Ladies' Almanack on the cover of Wallrich's catalogue, as the cards seem to be written days apart). Signed “Always, Djuna Barnes.” Typed postcard, signed. Dated Jan. 19th, 1966. To Ruby Wallrich. A short note inquiring “Did you get my card? I have had no answer...” Signed “D. Barnes.” Autograph Postcard Signed. Undated (Dec. 28, 1966 postmark). To Ruby and Larry Wallrich, Nether Street, London, England. Barnes writes “What are you children, one & all doing at such an address!! Life & death is going on as usual, faces & facts changing.” She expresses the hope that they are happy back in England. Signed “Always Djuna Barnes.” Greeting Card. (Dec. 1967 postmark). Fourteen-line handwritten note telling them, among other things, that she has “been invited to the Instituto Accademico (sic) de Roma next year” and “I do wish I could see Rome again (no podium—no speaking)” She bemoans that fact that nothing is the same in Rome, Paris or London. (Her handwriting on this card is becoming a bit shaky). Signed “Always affectionately, Djuna Barnes.” With envelope. Christmas Card. 1968. Printed greeting card to which Barnes has added, “Where are you?” and signed it “All best wishes, Djuna Barnes.” With the envelope.
$5,000.00

   

James M. Cain Original Typescript
 

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6. CAIN, James M. Original typescript of an essay titled "U. S. A.: Round Trip".
8 ½" x 11", 15 pages typed on recto only, with corrections throughout in Cain’s hand. Evidence of paperclip, otherwise in fine condition. We have found no evidence of publication. Observations on Americana while on the road; Cain moves quickly between themes such as the best and worst oysters in the country, the Corinthian architecture of the South, and traffic control (the worst being in Baltimore, the best, L.A.). “Having to drive, for business reasons, I had rather dreaded it, assuming, as the literary novels assured me, that we had become wholly standardized, and that all I could look forward to was monotony unspeakable. This turned out to be wholly false. You will find here endless variety, practically every state having its own customs, its own speech, its own food, its own point of view. I unreservedly commend the whole incredible country to your serious attention. Whatever else may be said of it, there’s nothing on earth even remotely like it.” A charming, if unfocused, meditation on the regional details and curiosities encountered when driving across America, by one of the country’s foremost crime writers. Accompanied by an original letter on American Mercury letterhead dated April 1939, from the editor Eugene Lyons, rejecting this piece for the magazine. Lyons informs Cain that he would love to publish him, but not this piece; he asks Cain to excerpt a short anecdote from the piece and "polish it a bit as an independent short sketch." He then solicits other contributions from Cain, especially short stories. Signed in full by Lyons.
$3,000.00

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7. (Canadiana) BIGGAR, H.P. The Early Trading Companies of New France. A Contribution to the History of Commerce And Discovery in North America.
(Toronto): University of Toronto Library, 1901. First edition. 1 of 600 copies. With a handwritten slip “With the Compliments of the Author” not in Biggar’s hand. 4to., original brown leather spine, green cloth boards, 308 pp. With a folding map. Spine quite rubbed with a 2” piece missing at the top of the spine but still an about very good copy of this scarce work. It is believed that most copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire.
$750.00

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8. (Canadiana - Quebec Bridge) Canada. Department of Railways and Canals. The Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River near the city of Quebec on the line of the Canadian National Railways; report of the Government Board of Engineers. Substructure constructed by Messrs. M.P. & J.T. Davis, Quebec ... Superstructure designed, manufactured and erected by the St. Lawrence Bridge Company, Montreal ...
(Ottawa): Printed by order of the Governor-General in Council, (1919?). In two volumes. First edition. Oblong 4to., cloth, 259 text; 111 plates. With Illustrations. Signature of A.C.S. Davidson, the chief engineer of Mackinnon Structural Steel (Sherbrooke), otherwise fine.
$850.00

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9. (Canadiana - Quebec Bridge) Postcards. 16 unused postcards picturing the Quebec Bridge in various stages of Construction.
Montreal: Novelty Mfg. & Art Co. for 10 of the postcards & n.p. for 6 of the postcards. No date, ca. 1919? Fine in unused condition.
$100.00

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10. COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile's Return. A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's.
New York: Viking, 1951. First of this revised edition. Bookplate otherwise fine in dustwrapper with a bit of wear to the top of the spine. Contains a new Prologue and Epilogue.
$125.00

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11. (Dickens) SMITH, Jessie Willcox (Illustrator). Dickens's Children. Ten Drawings by...
Toronto: McClelland & Goodchild, (c. 1912). 1st Canadian edition from the U.S. sheets. Tall 8vo., original cloth with pictorial onlay, unpaginated. With colour illustrations. Some wear to extremities otherwise near fine.
$250.00

   

Lewis Carroll Handwritten Postcard
 

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12. DODGSON, Charles. (Lewis Carroll). AN dated Aug. 20, 1890.
In Dodgson’s hand, 9 lines, in the usual purple ink written on a postcard, measuring approx. 3" x 5". Addressed to Messrs. B & J. F. Meehan, booksellers in Bath, and stating in the third person that "Mr. Dodgson has received Messrs. Meehan’s Catalogue No. 28" and ordering "if in clean condition 218. Child’s Book”. Addressed by Dodgson on the front. The card is not signed but is in Dodgson hand. Light soling, thing strip of paper attached along the top edge (presumably from where it was previously tipped into a book), otherwise near fine.
$3,500.00

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13. (Egypt) WEIGALL, Arthur. Tutankhamen And Other Essays.
London: Thornton Butterworth, (1923). First edition. Tall 8vo., original beige cloth, 288pp. With illustrations. Lacks dustwrapper, about fine.
$125.00

   

Royston Ellis Original Typescript
 

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14. ELLIS, Royston. Original typescript of an essay titled “The Leaping Years”.
13” x 8”, 11 pages (plus cover page) typed on recto only, with corrections likely in Ellis’s hand (almost entirely corrections of typos, the occasional addition or deletion). The last page bears the notation “Given to me by Royston Ellis 1960 John Rolph (Scorpion Press)”—Scorpion published Royston’s first two books, Jiving to Gyp (1959) and Rave (1960). Evidence of paperclip, light foxing to first three pages, else near fine. Royston Ellis, British writer, biographer and writer. As a poet he is considered to be the “main British representative of the Beat Generation. England's answer to Allen Ginsberg.” Born in 1941, he left school at 16 and at age 18 he began to publish poetry, with Living to Gyp in 1959 and Rave in 1960. “Heavily influenced by the American Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg”, he performed sequences of poems on stage accompanied by rock music; calling this mix “rocketry.” During these performances he was backed by then unknown musicians such as Jimmy Page and The Beatles (in fact it was Ellis that convinced the band to switch their name from The Beetles). He left England in the early 1960s, travelling extensively—“Berlin, Moscow, The Canary Islands...” While in Guernsey in 1963 he once again met The Beatles and inspired two of their songs, Paperback Writer and Polythene Pam. He continued to publish poetry and travel, eventually settling in Sri Lanka. In 1960 Ellis caused a nationwide controversy with remarks he made about the “teenage lifestyle” on the television programme Living For Kicks. It is possible this piece had its origins with that incident, but as far as we have been able to determine this piece about the newly-minted “teenager” is unpublished. “It’s a hard time for us kids then. One minute life is a giggle, the next minute a drag… For some reason the term ‘teenager’, like ‘Teddy Boy’, has become a dirty word. No adult seems aware that the Teddy Boy is now an old man well into his twenties…” He muses on the American beats, “…an intellectual (pseudo or otherwise) who seems to represent the very soul of the American West Coast. He makes his own rules, and he certainly doesn’t care for the synthetic way of living” and thoroughly describes their British “cousins”, the beatniks. “The teenage world, like any other really, is full of phonies, fish and fornicators.” He writes of “bundles” (fights) in cafes, working life, dancing, and (at length) sex. This is an infinitely-quotable, charmingly sincere piece on what it means to be a British teenager in 1960.
$1,500.00

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15. (Farming) ROEHL, Louis M. The Farmer's Shop Book.
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., (c. 1934-45). Revised, eighth edition. 8vo., cloth, 446pp. With illustrations. Gift inscription inside front pastedown otherwise near fine.
$85.00

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16. (Fine Arts) BLACKBURN, Henry. Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir Of His Early Career.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. First edition. With the ownership signature of Florence Tolkien, aunt of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tall 8vo., original green cloth with pictorial decoration in black, bevelled edges, A.E.G., xvi, 216pp. Profusely illustrated. A fine, bright copy.
$350.00

   

Major Alexander Gillespie in Buenos Aires
 

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17. GILLESPIE, Major Alexander. Gleanings And Remarks: Collected During Months Residence At Buenos Ayres, And Within the Upper Country; With A Prefatory Account of the Expedition From England, Until The Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Under the Joint Command of Sir D. Baird,... and Sire Home Popham,...
Leeds: Printed by D.B. Whirst For the Author, 1818. First edition. From the library of Colonel Adamson, K.T.S., who participated in the events described in this work; with his signature on the titlepage. Tall 8vo., contemporary calf spine, marble boards, ii, 242pp. With a map of South America and a Chart of Rio de la Plata. Approximately 50pp has brown stains (mostly marginal/foxing) and there is occasional browning and foxing, the map and chart both have some foxing, the outer front hinge is slightly cracked and tender, the binding has wear and rubbing but this is still an acceptable copy. Alexander Gillespie served as a Major in the Royal Marines, and Colonel (then Lieutenant) Peter Adamson took part in the invasions of the River Plate during the Napoleonic Wars. The British made several unsuccessful attempts to seize control of the Spanish colonies around the Plate Basin in South America in 1806 and 1807. During the first invasion in 1806, the British occupied Buenos Aires but were expelled in 1807, and the second involved occupation of Montevideo while a second force attempted to retake Buenos Aires; in both instances the British forces were repelled. The defeat of the British in 1807 under General Whitelocke was deemed such a disaster that it resulted in Whitelocke's court-martial. Both Gillespie and Adamson were captured, the later escaped while Gillespie was eventually released but did not return to the United Kingdom for 10 years. Gillespie wrote the above account of his time in Buenos Aires. Peter Adamson (1779-1865), a Scot, was appointed an Ensign in 1800, a Lieutenant in 1801, and a Captain in 1808, and while on loan to the Portuguese Army rose to the rank of Brevet-Major General. He served at the Cape and in South America and was one of the few who effected their escape from the interior of South America after the failed British invasion. In June of 1807 he wrote "Having effected my escape from the interior of South America, I take the liberty of informing you, that... I left the following gentleman along with my friend, your brother viz. Captains Mackenzie and Gillespie... I think I may venture to say, that we shall have the power of liberating our brother officers in very few weeks, as Buenos Ayres must fall immediately..." Adamson's role in the British invasion, occupation and subsequent expulsion from Buenos Aires is covered in Gillespie's account as he is mentioned on numerous pages. In 1817 Adamson had made a journey to Canada and purchased property and he returned in 1820, settling in Canada (Erindale now part of Mississauga) for the remainder of his life. He served as a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada until the Union in 1841. Sabin 27391.
$2,250.00

   

Allen Ginsberg Original Photograph
 

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18. (Photograph) (GINSBERG, Allen). Original photograph of Allen Ginsberg looking out onto Niagara Falls, taken by George (then Doug) Fetherling, 1968. Black & white, 8”x10”.
Unpublished. Wear to corners from hanging or mounting, light creasing, very good. Fetherling and Ginsberg visited Niagara Falls when Fetherling acted as Ginsberg’s handler during a 1968 trip to Toronto to read at Hart House. During this trip, Fetherling also convinced Ginsberg to leave behind journal material that would eventually be published by Anansi as Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals.
$400.00

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19. GREENAWAY, Kate. Calendar of the Seasons for 1881.
London: Marcus Ward, (for 1881). 16mo., original chromolithograph cards, (8)pp including covers. With four unsigned illustrations by Kate Greenaway. A fine copy of this pretty calendar. The upper cover has an illustration for ‘Spring’ by Greenaway; pages 2 & 3 ‘Calendar of the Season for 1881” printed in colour; pages 4 & 5 are fullpage chromolithographs showing “Summer” and “Autumn” both illustrations by Greenaway; pages 6 and 7 are colour printed and contain postage information and an advertisement; page 8 (the rear cover) is a chromolithograph illustration by Greenaway “Winter.”
$400.00

   

Signed by Grey Owl
 

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20. GREY OWL. Pilgrims of the Wild by...
London: Lovat Dickson, (1937). Reprint. Signed by the author. 8vo., cloth, (282)pp. With Illustrations. A near fine copy in a chipped but very good dustwrapper.
$100.00

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21. (GRISWOLD, Rufus W.) Statement of the relations of Rufus W. Griswold with Charlotte Myers (called Charlotte Griswold,) Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ann S. Stephens, Samuel J. Waring, Hamilton R. Searles, and Charles D. Lewis. With particular reference to their late unsuccessful attempt to have set aside the decree granted in 1852 by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in the Case of Griswold vs. Griswold.
Philadelphia: Henry G. Ashmead, 1856. First edition. From the library of C. B. Farrar with his ownership inscription on the upper wrapper. 8vo., original printed wrappers, 32pp. Near fine. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857) was an editor, poet, and critic best known for his anthology The Poets and Poetry of America, which established his literary reputation at the time and resulted in a feud between Griswold and Edgar Allen Poe, who criticized his editorial choices. Indeed, the book and most of the poets included have fallen into obscurity. This pamphlet was published by Griswold as a personal defence amidst a scandalous and lengthy divorce from his second wife, Charlotte Meyers. The proceedings had been complicated by the meddling of Elizabeth F. Ellet who encouraged Griswold's wife to contest the finalized divorce, leading to accusations of bigamy and the eventual end of his third marriage. Sabin: "Contains some very curious particulars in relation to this scandalous affair." Sabin 28899.
$250.00

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22. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man And The Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. First edition (intermediate state of the d/w). An about fine copy in the dustwrapper which has some rubbing to the foot and a small chip out at the top. The dustwrapper is in an intermediate state with blue ink on the rear panel as called for in the first state, but without the production symbols on the rear flap. Hanneman 24A .
$2,500.00

   

Signed Victor Hugo
 

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23. HUGO, Victor. Poesie. Les Quatre Vents de l'Esprit.
Paris: J. Hetzel--A Quantin, 1881. In two volumes. Inscribed by Victor Hugo on the half-title of the first volume. This is Volumes XV and XVI in ‘ Edition Definitive D'Apres Les Manuscrits Originaux Oeuvres Completes de Victor Hugo Illustrees de Gravures a l'Eau-Forte D'Apres les Dessins de Francois Flameng' with the imprint on the upper wrapper reading ‘Edition Hetzel-Quantin Librairie L.Hebert. The Hetzel-Quantin edition was issued in 48 volumes, and it appears that Herbert issued a separate suite of 100 plates. (See Vicaire IV pp. 411 & 418). Tall 8vo., contemporary brown morocco spines, marble boards, gilt decoration on the spines, t.e.g., (8), (336); (4), (326)pp. With the original wrappers bound in. Some scattered foxing but otherwise a fine set.
$3,500.00

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24. (India) FORBES-LINDSAY, C.H. India. Past and Present.
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1903. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo., red cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt and white on the upper covers and spines, xii, 320; vi, 338pp. Profusely illustrated, with a large folding map at the rear of volume two. Fine bright copies in the original red linen dustwrapper.
$350.00

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25. (Italy) CLEMENT, Clara Erskine. Rome. The Eternal City Its Religions, Monuments, Literature, and Art..
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, (1896). In two volumes. Tall 8vo., original cream cloth with elaborate gilt decoration on the upper covers and spines, xi, 422; vii, 423-831pp. With illustrations. Name rubberstamped on front and rear pastedowns otherwise near fine copies of very pretty books in the original red linen dustwrappers which have some fading and wear to the spines but certainly very good.
$350.00

   

Margaret Laurence Signed Letters
 

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26. LAURENCE, Margaret. A small group of letters from Margaret Laurence to collector Allan McGuire as the two sent signed books to one another.
A small group of letters from Margaret Laurence to collector Allan McGuire as the two sent signed books to one another. 1 TLS from Margaret Laurence to Allan McGuire. 11 June ’74. 8 Regent St., Box 609, Lakefield, Ontario. 1 ½ pp (one sheet), 8.5”x11”. McGuire contacted Laurence as a fan after meeting her at a signing for The Diviners. McGuire, a well-known and very passionate book collector in the 70s and 80s, had the habit of contacting writers he admired and initiating friendships which sometimes resulted in friendly correspondence. He did this with Ernest Buckler and visited Buckler in Nova Scotia regularly, becoming a close friend. McGuire met Laurence at the signing held at the Longhouse Bookstore in Toronto. McGuire later recounted the details of this signing and the obvious terror and literal shaking of Laurence, which Laurence herself describes in this letter: “What I had not reckoned on was that altho I can always talk, when shaking with nerves, it is a very different thing to have to sign books.” She goes on to say she wishes she had “been in better shape when I wrote the bit for Ernest Buckler. I would really like to talk with him.” And later: “I would suppose that both of us [she and Buckler] are very private people. I’ve gone through this whole publicity bit with The Diviners, but this is the last time, believe me.” She tells him how to acquire a copy of A Tree for Poverty and sends along her last copy of This Side Jordan. Signed in full. 1 TLS from Margaret Laurence to Allan McGuire. 19 June ’74. 8 Regent St., Lakefield, Ont. ½ page (6 lines), 8.5”x11”. Thanking McGuire for a cheque, presumably for the copy of This Side Jordan previously mentioned, and sending back “Graeme Gibson’s interview book, signed at the appropriate place.” Another mention of Buckler, having just received a “really lovely letter” from him. Signed in full. 1 personal cheque made out to Margaret Laurence from Al McGuire for $20. June 13 1974. With Laurence’s signature on the reverse and “(J. M. Laurence)” just below it, in her hand. 1 TLS from Margaret Laurence to “Al” (Allan McGuire). 28 July ’74. P.O. Box 609, Lakefield Ont. Half a page (6 lines), 8.5”x11”. With typed envelope. Notifying him that a separate package will arrive with his proof copy of The Diviners signed, and thanking him for sending a signed copy of Buckler’s The Cruelest Month. “I am tremendously glad to have it. Am writing him today.” Signed “Margaret”. 1 TLS from Margaret Laurence to “Al” (Allan McGuire). 14 May ‘75. 8 Regent St., Lakefield, Ont. Less than ½ page (3 lines). Thanking him for getting “Ernie” Buckler to sign a book for her, sending him a signed copy of Clara Thomas’s book. Signed “Margaret”.
$1,350.00

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27. MACEWEN, Gwendolyn. King of Egypt, King of Dreams.
Toronto: Macmillan, (1971). First edition. Signed by the author. Spine creased otherwise a very nice copy.
$150.00

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28. (Middle East) LESLIE, Mary. WARNER, Charles Dudley. In The Levant. Illustrated with Photogravures.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895. In two volumes. Reprint. Tall 8vo., original maroon cloth spines, green cloth boards, (xvi), 290; (vi), 291-568pp. With illustrations. Fine copies in the original red linen dustwrappers which have some rubbing to the spine ends.
$150.00

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29. (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) Paints Varnishes and Brushes. Their History Manufacture and Use. Painters, Paperhangers and Glaziers Supplies.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 1923. First edition. 4to., original blue cloth decorated in orange, (8), 196pp. Profusely illustrated with some in colour. Pencil notes for paint recipes on the front pastedown o/w a near fine copy.
$300.00

   

Book Fair Posters
 

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30. (Poster) Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. Crystal Ballroom, King Edward Sheraton Hotel, Toronto 12-14 May 1976.
NP: Will Rueter, 1976. Size is 16" x 10 1/2". Fine. Poster is matted. With a woodcut from Bellinoze Rune Milan 1493. Design and printed by Will Rueter.
$125.00

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31. (Poster) The 18th Annual Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. 26-27 May 1990.
NP: np, 1976. Size is 21" x 13". A few light creases otherwise near fine. Poster is matted.
$150.00

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32. (Poster) The 22nd Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. November 20 to 22, 1998.
Martha's Vineyard: The Indian Hill Press, (1998). Signed in pencil by Daniel Waters, who did the illustration and border design. Size is 21" x 14 1/2". Fine. Poster is matted.
$150.00

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33. (Printing) (Carrier Engineering Corp) Manufactured Weather in the Printing and Lithographing Industries.
Newark, NJ: Carrier Engineering Corp., (c. 1929). 8vo., pict. boards with cloth spine, 71pp. With illustrations. Fine. How to handle and combat "weather woes that every printer knows." Carrier provided the equipment to create the perfect working conditions not only for printers, but more than 200 different industries as well.
$75.00

   

The Yearling - First Edition
 

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34. RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Decorations by Edward Shenton.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, first printing with the "A" and the Scribner's seal on the verso of the titlepage. An about fine copy in a price clipped dustwrapper with some chipping to the spine ends and upper corner of the front panel, but certainly a very good, acceptable dustwrapper. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had submitted several projects to Perkins for his review, and he rejected them all. He instructed her to write about what she knew from her own life, and the result of her taking his advice was The Yearling. "The Yearling is a coming of age tale in which an innocent and happy twelve-year-old boy passes into young adulthood. Some of his youthful illusions are shattered by the end of the year in his life that the book chronicles, but Jody emerges with a substantial hold on the adulthood that stretches ahead of him." The novel spent 23 weeks at number one on the best-seller list in 1938 and it was a Book-Of-The-Month Club selection. It was made into a film starring Gregory Peck.
$850.00

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35. (Religion) COMMITTEE of the Convent Enquiry Society. Brief Abstract of Parliamentary Evidence On Monastic & Conventual Instutitions. A Voice of Warning.
London: Convent Enquiry Society, nd. (1890). “15th Thousand” so stated. Tall 8vo., original printed wrappers, 20pp. Cheap paper browned as usual, a bit of wear along the spine but still a near fine copy of this anti-Catholic pamphlet.
$150.00

   

"A Pioneer Work in the Study of Vitamins"
 

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36. (Science) FUNK, Casimir. Die Vitamine, ihre Bedeutung fur die Physiologie und Pathologie mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Avitaminosen: (Beriberi, Skorbut, Pellagra, Rachitis). Anhang: Die Wachstumsubstanz und das Kresbsproblem.
Wiesbaden: Verlag von J.F. Bergmann, 1914. First edition. Tall 8vo., recently rebound with a blue calf spine, marble boards, raised bands, gilt, leather spine label, viii, 193pp. (with the original wrappers bound in). With two chromolithograph plates at the rear. Lacking the 6pp. of adverts. Library discard stamp on the verso of the titlepage, (no other library markings), in fact a fine copy of this rare work. "A pioneer work in the study of vitamins." (G & M). "Funk sought the exact causes of diseases known to arise from poor diets. He managed to identify thiamine as the element in rice that prevents beri-beri (a disease caused by a diet of polished rice, which has had several elements including thiamine, removed in the refining process). In 1912, Funk proposed the term "vitamine" (for vital amine) for such essential organic compounds." (Norman Library 1088). Norman 850; Grolier Medicine 94; Garrison & Morton 1051.
$17,000.00

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37. (Science) MASON, Otis Tufton. Woman's Share in Primitive Culture.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First English edition. 8vo., original brown cloth, (xiv), 295pp. With illustrations. Name on the halftitle otherwise a fine copy. The book is organized into chapters categorized by the role of women in primitive society: the food bearer; the weaver; the skin dresser; the potter; the beast of burden; the Jack-at-all-trades; the artist; the linguist; the founder of society and the patron of religion. Otis Tufton Mason (1838-1908) American ethnologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Columbia, he served as the principal of the college’s preparatory school which at the same time working part time in the ethnology department of the United States National Museum. In 1884 this became a full time curatorial position and Mason was heavily involved with the installation and reorganization of the Smithsonian when it moved to the new building, developing the ‘cultural area’ concept. He also served as anthropological editor of the American Naturalist and the Standard Dictionary.
$200.00

   

X-Rays
 

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38. (Science) RONTGEN, Wilhelm. ‘On A New Form of Radiation' [first communication] WITH: Wilhelm Rontgen. ‘On A New Form of Radiation' [second communication] IN: The Electrician: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Electrical Engineering, Industry and Science, Volume XXXVI. From November 1, 895 to April 24, 1896.
London: George Tucker, 1896. With the bookplate of Sir David Lionel-Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. Bound volume. Tall 4to., contemporary half brown morocco, cloth, raised bands, gilt compartments, (12), 876pp. double columns. Some minor rubbing to the foot of the spine and corners o/w a fine copy of this important work with an interesting provenance. See Garrison & Morton 2683 PMM 380, Grolier Medicine 83A and Norman 1841 all citing the German edition. Rontgen observed while ‘performing experiments with a type of cathode-ray tube at the ends with platinum terminals, that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to flouresce, the fluorescence proceeding from the spot where cathode rays hit the wall of the vacuum tube.' He announced the discovery in a paper published in 1895 in an obscure German medical journal. A second paper, reporting that ‘x- rays make air conductive, and describing innovations in equipment', followed in March 1896. News of the discovery at first known as ‘Rontgen Rays' (later x-rays) spread quickly. As a result of his work and discovery, Rontgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. On January 23rd, the first English edition of Rontgen's paper on the discovery of x-rays appeared in the journal Nature. The following day, January 24th, a second English translation appeared in the journal The Electrician pages 415-417(offered here). The first English translation of Rontgen's second communication was published in this same volume of The Electrician ,pages 850-851. This bound volume also contains the early (first?) use of the term x-ray in English (p 668) as well as a letter by G.M. Minchin on ‘Rontgen Rays' (pp.736) and other important material relating to electricity, atomic charges and cathode rays. David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (1851-1925) English barrister and scientific author, who succeeded his uncle as baronet in 1873. Salomons became interested in electricity at an early age and when he inherited his uncle's house, Bromhill in Tunbridge Wells, he set up ‘large laboratories and workshops where he investigated electromotive force and electric conductors. He carried out countless experiments and took out patents for various types of electrical equipment. Vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, lecturer at the Royal Institution, he was also the author of several scientific works including Electric Light Installation (1893).
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39. (Science) (WELLCOME, Henry S). Anaesthetics Antient & Modern: A Historical Sketch of Anaesthesia.
London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., nd. (1907). Small 8vo., original decorated blue wrappers, 80pp. With illustrations. Name on upper wrapper otherwise fine.
$85.00

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40. (Science - Medicine) BROUARDEL, P. (Paul) and F. Lucas Benham. Death and Sudden Death. Handbuch der Psychiatrie. Allgemeiner Teil, Abt. I-V (WITH): Spezieller Teil. Abt. I-VII. (all published).
London: Bailliere, Tindall And Cox, 1902. Second edition (revised and greatly enlarged). Tall 8vo., original dark green cloth lettered in gilt, xiv, 336pp. With a review from “The Lancet, 1 Nov. 1902” tipped on the verso of the front free e/paper and the half title, signature, otherwise a near fine copy. Paul Brouardel (1837-1906) French pathologist, hygienist and member of the Academie Nationale de Medecine. He earned his medical degree in 1865 and became director of medical services at the Hospital Saint-Antoine in 1873. He was appointed Professor of Forensics a the Faculte de Medecine de Paris and he became a leading authority in this field. He was also a passionate advocate for issues involving public health tackling such problems as food safety, tuberculosis, venereal disease and alcoholism. Brouardel was the author of several works, including the above title, which was first translated by Frederick Lucas Benham and published in English in 1897, then revised and enlarged by Benham, for this second edition. The work deals with “a particular branch of forensic medicine and one which has received scant attention in English medical literature.” Brouardel deals with the phenomena of death while the second part addresses the clinical causes of sudden death.
$250.00

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41. (Science - Psychiatry) ASCHAFFENBURG, Gustav.(editor) Handbuch der Psychiatrie. Allgemeiner Teil, Abt. I-V (WITH): Spezieller Teil. Abt. I-VII. (all published).
Leipzig and Wein: Franz Deuticke, 1911-1929. First editions. In twenty-two volumes. (The first part ‘Allgemeiner Teil” I-IV in eight volumes; “Spezieller Teil” in fourteen volumes.) From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his bookplate in each volume. There is a 1 page TLs from Aschaffenburg to Farrar laid in. The letter dated “September 16, 42” consists of two paragraphs in which he thanks Farrar “for your kind letters.” He apologizes for his poor English explains how this has affected his work. He expresses his “hope that I will be able to afford and to arrange to assist the meeting in Detroit, perhaps even deliver a lecture too.....” Signed “Yours sincerely” with a signature in full. (WITH): TLs from Kurt Schneider to Farrar dated "14.1.55" in German, in which he thanks Farrar for sending two offprints." Tall 8vo., original green cloth lettered in black, volumes paginated individually. Fine. (CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS)
$6,000.00

   

Complete Bound Run of "Mental Hygiene Bulletin"
 

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42. (Science - Psychiatry) (Williams, Frank –editor). Mental Hygiene Bulletin.
New York: Published by the Committee for Mental Hygiene, January, 1923-December 1932. Vol. 1, No.1 through Vol. X Nos. 9 and 10 (all published.) 4to., issues bound in plain brown cloth, the pagination varies with the shortest bulletins (usually early) being 2pp. and the longest 20 pp., with the average length 8 - 12pp. The Mental Hygiene Bulletin began as an offshoot of the publication Mental Hygiene when it became apparent that there was a ‘need for a more frequent publication through which those interested in various aspects of mental hygiene could be kept informed of events as they take place' (Vol.1, No. 1 p.1). ‘Devoted to a narration and discussion of significant current events in mental health' the bulletin was issued monthly (except for July and August) by the National Committee for Hygiene. The first eight volumes (1923 through the end of 1930) were edited by Frankwood Williams, an American psychiatrist who worked with the National Committee for Mental Hygiene from 1916 to 1931, serving as medical director from 1923-193). Through an advocacy for the science of psychiatry as a prevention of mental illness, Williams hope to reduce the number of cases of mental illness reported. He focused on social issues such as alcoholism and criminality; taking part in a survey of prisons in the county of New York which showed that ‘a significant percentage of individuals confined in them suffered from mental illness.' (Am Journal of Public Health, April 2007). Williams worked for the development of clinics for the treatment of juvenile delinquents and to prevent these problems, intervention strategies that targeted early childhood. In addition to editing the ‘bulletin', Williams major publication was Finding a Way in Mental Hygiene. The last two volumes were edited by Paul Komora, who worked with the Committee from 1914 to 1944. The content reflects the work of the National Committee for Hygiene and those associated with it including Williams, Clarence Hincks, and William Welch, as well as other psychiatrists, doctors, sociologists and social workers with an interest in mental hygiene, especially as it relates to juvenile delinquency and criminality. There are short subject based articles, as well as ‘bulletin' style reports, information on conferences and recent publications.
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43. (Science - Trade Catalogue) Interim Price List of British Scientific Apparatus, Chemicals and Reagents Manufactured and Sold by Baird & Tatlock (London) Ltd. Manufacturers of Assay, Bacteriological, Chemical, Pathological, Physical and Physiological Appraratues, & c., & c., Laboratory Benches, Apparatus and Fume Cupboards, & c.
London: Baird & Tatlock, 1920. 4to., original blue cloth, 449pp. Profusely illustrated. With an additional 1 page printed notice documenting changes to the prices. Some minor rubbing otherwise a near fine copy.
$200.00

   

Elizabeth Smart - Signed Broadside
 

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44. (Broadside) SMART, Elizabeth. Rose Died. handprinted at...
Np: imprimerie dromadaire, 1984. Signed 1 of 126. Broadside, 14" x 8". Fine.
$200.00

   

Tennyson and Gustave Dore Signed Steel Engraved Plate
 

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45. TENNYSON, Alfred (First Baron Tennyson) and Gustave Dore (illustrator). 'Joyous Sprites'.
Steel engraved plate of the Dore illustration in proof state on light-buff paper, mounted on cream cartridge paper measuring 30 x 41cm (buff paper portion only) with the Printseller's Association blindstamp and three letter code (each print had different code). Signed in pencil by Tennyson, Dore and Finden, the engraver. The illustration (1867/68) was done for an edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
$2,500.00

   

Tennyson and Gustave Dore Signed Steel Engraved Plate
 

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46. TENNYSON, Alfred (First Baron Tennyson) and Gustave Dore (illustrator). 'The Fairy Circle'.
Steel engraved plate of the Dore illustration in proof state on light-buff paper, mounted on cream cartridge paper measuring 30 x 41cm (buff paper portion only) with the Printseller's Association blindstamp and three letter code (each print had different code). Signed in pencil by Tennyson, Dore and Ridgelway, the engraver. The illustration (1867/68) was done for an edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
$2,500.00

   

Was Harry K. Thaw Insane?
 

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47. (THAW, HARRY K.) Archive detailing psychological evaluation of Harry K. Thaw (convicted of murder in “the Trial of the Century”).
File of original documents collected by Dr. Clarence Farrar during a period of psychological evaluation of Thaw in the spring of 1914. The collection thoroughly documents the entire process of evaluation (done on behalf of the Trustee of Thaw’s estate to determine his sanity and eligibility for access to finances), from a letter seeking Farrar’s help, to transcripts, notes, findings, and even settling Farrar’s compensation. Over the course of a few days in May, Farrar, Dr. W. K. Walker, and Dr. Cornelius C. Wholey met with Thaw at the Eagle Hotel in Concord N.H. where they did a thorough examination of Thaw. Thaw proved a difficult subject and was clearly agitated by the process; in the end, he was deemed “recognisably unsound mentally.” Archive includes: a binder with 109 typed pages titled “Thaw Case Record Extracts of Testimony” which features testimony from multiple doctors, witnesses and Thaw himself; Farrar’s external research and references, including two journal articles on sex crimes and “perversions” and copies of documents from other relevant court cases; 66-page typed transcript “Interrogatory of Mr. H. K. Thaw by Dr. Walker, Dr. Wholey and Dr. Farrar, May 18, 1914, At Eagle Hotel, Concord, N. H.” (in fact, covers multiple days of interview); 29 handwritten pages of Farrar’s notes from the interview and two typed pages summarizing notes; Aids such as blank Binet test, “Symptom Groupe” list; 19 handwritten pages with the heading “Preliminary Report by Examination of Harry K. Thaw”; Copy of the final report titled “Preliminary Examination of Harry K. Thaw”; approximately a dozen clippings and pieces of ephemera related to the Thaw case; six letters and one telegram from Walker and two letters from Wholey to Farrar; three letters from the lawyers of the Trustee; souvenir postcards and hotel invoice from Farrar’s visit to Concord. An excellent archive (items in very good to fine condition) illustrating, in detail, the planning and execution of both the clinical and administrative aspects of the psychological evaluation of one of the 20th century’s most notorious murderers. Harry K. Thaw (1871-1947) was the millionaire at the centre of “the Trial of Century”. Thaw’s murder of prominent architect Stanford White over Thaw’s wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit, was one of the biggest news stories of the day; it captivated the public and was immortalized in the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and the novel Ragtime. Dr. Clarence B. Farrar (1874-1970) “trained under several of the foremost medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof. Charles Clarke, the University’s inaugural head of Psychiatry, to succeed him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until 1947, setting the stage of the TPH to continue as the Department’s clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute.” (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter).
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48. (VEBER, Jean and Pierre Veber). Les Veber’s Les Veber’s Les Veber’s.
Paris: Emile Testard, 1895. This seems to be the trade edition, two limited editions of 25 were published on “Japon imperial” and “Chine” paper. Inscribed warmly by Jean Veber to fellow artist and collaborator Eugene Cadel, signed by Pierre Veber. 4to., rebound in full vellum, leather spine label, original upper wrapper bound in, (183)pp. Profusely illustrated. Trimmed, though only loss is to bound-in wrapper; light soiling, small crack at foot of upper hinge, else near fine. A satirical take on the Belle Époque by brothers Jean Veber (artist) and Pierre Veber (writer). Jean (1898-1928) studied with Maillol and later at the l’ecole des Beaux-Arts. His work often generated controversy, particularly a caricature of Bismark depicted as a butcher and an image for the coronation of Edward VII depicting an “his face on the bare bottom of a leering Brittania”. He worked on publications such as Le Rire, l' Assiette au Beurre, Lectures pour tous, Gil Blas, and l'Illustration. Pierre (1869-1942) was a prolific playwright and writer. “The author of over 100 plays and nearly fifty novels, collections of short stories, and humorous and ironic tales, he frequently collaborated with Maurice Hennequin.” Eugene Cadel (1862-1942) was a painter, writer, and critic who frequently collaborated with Jean Veber. Cadel’s engraving workshop produced satirical images for L'Assiette au beurre, Le Sourire, Le Petit Journal supplément illustré, Le Matin, La Presse (for which he was also an art critic), and Les Annales politiques et littéraires. He was a board member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1927.
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49. WODEHOUSE, P.G. Service With A Smile.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1961). First edition. 8vo., cloth, 192pp. Blindstamp on the front free endpaper otherwise fine in an about fine dustwrapper.
$250.00

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50. WODEHOUSE, P.G. Uncle Dynamite.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1948). First edition. 8vo., cloth, 249pp. Ownership blindstamp on the front free endpaper otherwise about fine in a price clipped d/w which has some creasing and couple of closed tears but is still better than very good but not quite near fine.
$450.00

LIMITED EDITION - GEORGE WALKER - LEONARD COHEN
 

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WALKER, George A. The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook A Biography in Wood Engravings by... Introductions by Norman Ravvin and George Walker, afterward by Tom Smart.
Toronto: George Walker, 2014. First edition, limited run of 80 signed by Walker, Ravvin, and Smart; printed on archival rag, bound in cloth boards with woodcut onlay. Sq. 8vo., black cloth boards, cloth spine label, pictorial paper onlay on upper cover, unpaginated. New, in slipcase with woodcut onlay. Commemorating Cohen’s 80th birthday. “George A. Walker created the original wood engravings, incised them on the end grain of Canadian maple, and designed and printed the text and images on his Vandercook SP15 proof press.” Awarded first prize from The Alcuin Society in the Limited Edition category for books published in 2014.
$990.00


   

Just Issued

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A. The TRUE and GENUIN ELEGY OF Matthew Gun Bookseller
Printed by Will Rueter at the Aliquando Press in 2014. 1 of 125 copies. 15" x 10 1/2". Printed on Hahnemuble white mould paper in Garamond, ATF Baskerville and XIV Century Roman. This is a reprint of an early 18th-century broadside. The original is held by the British Library and we have been unable to locate another copy. We felt this reprint to be a timely one given the precarious state of the book trade these days; Gun’s lament resonates strongly. A fine work by one of Canada’s foremost designers and private printers.
$50.00

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The Pope's Bookbinder
A Memoir

By David Mason

Biblioasis, 2013.
420 pages. Illustrated.
$37.95(CAD).
A memoir of Mason’s forty-five years in the booktrade. After some years in Europe doing odd jobs, including a period doing bookbinding in Spain, and reading incessantly, Mason returned to Canada, apprenticed in the book trade with Joseph Patrick Books and has been selling used and rare books ever since. His memories include the books dealers, collectors, and libraries he has dealt with over that period.

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Why Booksellers Die Broke.
The Collected Aphorisms of Earle M. Mason, Banker.
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The Protocols of Used Bookstores. A Guide to Dealing with Certain Perils Which Could be Encountered in a Used Bookstore. By David Mason.
Toronto: The Author, (2011). 3rd (and best) edition, corrected. 8vo., wrappers, 18pp. With illustrations.  Price $10.00. Usual terms to the trade. To purchase please email us at: dmbooks@allstream.net

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