STEVEN TEMPLE BOOKS IS STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND IS SHIPPING TO EVERYWHERE IT IS ALLOWED.
Having operated shops on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto since our founding in 1974, we closed the shop in March, 2014 and now operate from home in Welland, Ontario (close to Niagara Falls, only two turns from Toronto). We can see visitors by appointment. The books (currently around 10,000 of them) are priced, on shelves, and in categories. We continue to specialize in literary books, especially Canadian literary books, general Canadiana, and select out-of-print and rare books in various fields (mostly 19th and 20th century, though we do stock some earlier). We now have some ephemera, but don’t stock comic books, fairly recent used books, bestseller novels, nor paperbacks (unless collectible). Business is primarily by internet or mail. We welcome and pay attention to wants lists when they are for books we might actually find some day and which are worth more than a token amount.
We accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, Amex, PayPal, cheque (Canada and US only), money order, e-transfer (Canada only) – even cash.
Some recent arrivals…
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A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO L.M. MONTGOMERY FIRSTS
Edition: First Edition
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Author, 2009. Octavo, card covers. pp (viii), 153. Colour photos. Fine copy. This is an accurate descriptive bibliography of all the US and Canadian first editions (with comment on some later printings) of all of L.M. Montgomery's published books. Not just a dry reference book, it includes an account of the author's experiences over the years in solving the puzzles - particularly the tricky Canadian issues. This the only reference work available today that will reliably enable you to tell a LMM first printing from a later printing. 0981209904
Book ID: 55533More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Edition: First Edition
London: Blackwood, 1860. Three volumes, original brown cloth. pp vi, (vii-viii), 361; vi, (vii-viii), 319; vi, (vii-viii), 313. Half-titles in each volume. Presumed first state without the advertisement leaf in Vol. I before page 1. Without the blank leaf at rear of Vol. I, like most copies; without the 16 pp catalogue at rear of Vol. III found in some copies. Volumes I and II have been recased with new endpapers. Private bookplate at front of each volume. Minor wear at ends of very lightly darkened spines; scattered soil spots to margins of text; page edges tanned; Vol. III has chips to fore margin of pp 303-04 from careless opening; else a VG copy. Baker & Ross A5.1.a, binding B (no priority assigned). Sadleir 816. 1.75 kg parcel.; Octavo
Book ID: 55532More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00 -
THE LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Deutsch, 1960. Red boards. Fine copy. White jacket has very faint spine darkening, tiny chip to one outer corner, else fine. An excellent copy, with jacket colours unfaded. One of Moore's best novels, the winner of the l960 Governor-General's Award for Fiction, and the basis of the fine little film starring Robert Shaw. 5000 copies published. His third serious novel and the first set in Canada, involving a hapless, hopeful Irish immigrant to Montreal.; Octavo
Book ID: 55531More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
SISTER CARRIE
Book ID: 55530More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
THE BOOKWOMAN'S LAST FLING: a Cliff Janeway novel
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
New York: Scribner, 2006. Light rubber stamp to top page edges, else fine. Jacket has soft creases to front panel, VG otherwise. A bibliomystery.; Octavo
Book ID: 55526More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
EVERYMAN
Edition: First UK edition; First Printing
London: Cape, 2006. Black boards. Just a little leaned, with yellowing to page edges, else VG+ in like jacket.; Octavo
Book ID: 55525More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
RIDING THE RAP
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Jacket is very nearly fine, with light spine sunning. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55524More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
THE PENGUIN NEW WRITING. 6 issues from the 1940s
Edition: First Edition
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. A group of 6 issues published 1947-49. Included are #30,31,32,33,34,36. Some small chips to spine ends and outer corners, but all are VG or better but for #34 which is gnawed at the spine ends. ; 16mo
Book ID: 55523More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE PENGUIN NEW WRITING. 12 issues from the 1940s
Edition: First Edition
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. A group of 12 issues published 1945-49, all either 12mo or 16mo. Included are #26,29,30,31,32,33,34-35,36,37,38. Some small chips to spine ends and outer corners, but all are VG or better but for #34 which has chips and cracks to spine. 1.5 kg parcel.
Book ID: 55522More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
HEREFORDSHIRE. WORCESTERSHIRE
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1990. Red printed cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. 1.72 kg parcel.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo; xii, (735) pages
Book ID: 55521More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
CAMBRIDGE (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1989. Two volumes. Red printed cloth without jackets, as issued. I: The Records. pp xvi, 701. II: Editorial Apparatus. pp (697)-(1503). Fine copies. 3.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo
Book ID: 55520More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
SOMERSET including BATH (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1996. Two volumes. Red printed cloth without jackets, as issued. I: The Records. pp (xii), 447. II: Editorial Apparatus. pp (443)-(1141). Fine copies. 2.75 kg parcel. ; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo
Book ID: 55519More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
INNS OF COURT (3 volume set)
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge, England / Toronto: D.S. Brewer / University of Toronto Press, 2010. Three volumes, red cloth printed cloth without jackets, as issued. Volume I: Introduction, The Records. Volume II: Appendixes. Volume III: Translations, Endnotes, Glossaries, Index. pp. xcix, 362; 364-817; 819-1064. Fine copies. 3.35 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo; (cciv, 1590) pages
Book ID: 55518More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
CIVIC LONDON TO 1558 (3 volume set)
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge, England / Toronto: D.S. Brewer / University of Toronto Press, 2015. Three volumes, red cloth printed cloth without jackets, as issued. Fine copies. 4.3 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo; (cciv, 1590) pages
Book ID: 55517More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
CUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1986. Red printed cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. 1.5 kg parcel.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo; (xii), (548) pages
Book ID: 55516More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
BERKSHIRE
Edition: First Edition
(Toronto): (University of Toronto Press), 2018. Red cloth gilt lettered without jacket, as issued. No title leaf, instead a tipped in printed leaf stating "A presentation copy given to Father Edward Jackman with gratitude for his support on 9 November 2018 at Alumni Hal, Victoria College Toronto." Fine copy. This volume of notes was issued to accompany the REED collection in digital format. I can find no library record of this print publication. Jackman was long a patron of the REED project. 2.2 kg parcel; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Quarto; 547 pages
Book ID: 55515More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
STAFFORDSHIRE
Edition: First Edition
(Toronto): (University of Toronto Press), 2017. Red cloth gilt lettered without jacket, as issued. No title leaf, instead a tipped in printed leaf stating "A presentation copy given to Father Edward Jackman with gratitude for his support on 9 May 2017 at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto." This volume of notes was issued to accompany the first REED collection in digital format. I can find no library record of this print publication. Jackman was long a patron of the REED project. 1.5 kg parcel; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Quarto; 364 pages
Book ID: 55514More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
DEVON.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1986. Red printed cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. 1.72 kg parcel.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo; (lxxiv), (625) pages
Book ID: 55513More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
DORSET. CORNWALL
Edition: First Edition
Belgium / Toronto: Brepols / University of Toronto Press, 1999. Red printed cloth without jacket, as issued. (x), (720) pp. Index. Fine copy. 1.75 kg parcel. In print (2022) at CAD 226.00.; Records of Early English Drama (REED); Octavo
Book ID: 55512More details Price: USD $115.00 USD $103.50 -
DANCERS AT NIGHT. Stories.
[Ottawa]: Oberton, (1978). First printing. Dark grey cloth. Fine copy, no owner names. The yellow dust jacket has tiny nicks and minute rubbing to spine tips; 1/8 inch rubbed tear and one nick to bottom edge of rear panel; else fine. A very nice copy of a he very scarce hardc over issue of his first collection of short fiction. There were only a few hundred copies of the hardcover issue.
Book ID: 55510More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50