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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THE SENSIBLE
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Massasauga Editions, 1972. Stapled sheets glued into a green paper cover with flaps. The glue has dried up so the text block in loose from the cover. Else fine. #141 of an edition of 200 copies. Poetry. Frank Davey's press. ; 16mo
Book ID: 56003More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
INTERRUPPTION #1
(Toronto): Ganglia, 1969. 11 x 14 cm sheet of blue paper folded once to make four pages, cover drawings by bp nichol. Short prose piece. Ganglia 5¢ Mimeo series. Fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56002More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
COACH HOUSE PRESS ephemera: List of poetry available ca. 1967. Newsletter no. 7, April 1979. (2 items)
Toronto: Coach House Press. Handbill printed on cream paper, 21.5 x 15 cm, touting four books, none later than 1967. Fine. Newsletter is three quarto sheets folded once, fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56001More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
Flier for Centre Stage Forum, A Tribute to Gwendolyn MacEwen by writers and friends. Hosted by Robert Weaver...
Toronto: St Lawrence Centre, 1988. 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in brown with b&w photo. Fine copy. The event was held Wed., Jan. 20, 1988, at the St. Lawrence Centre. She had died 29 Nov., 1987. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56000More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
EYES WITHOUT A FACE. Gallery Editions : One. Original etching and cover by Graham Coughtry
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Isaacs Gallery, 1960. The trade issue, white card covers printed in black. Tipped in is a reproduction of a black & white etching. Review copy with folded sheet laid in. Fore edges rough trimmed, yellowed. Covers have minoir soiling, corner crease, faint yellowing, VG+ otherwise. The poet's first book. ; Octavo.; (6), 58, [2] pages
Book ID: 55999More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
WINTER OF THE LUNA MOTH
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Anansi, 1968. Light damp stain to fore edges but not penetrating into text margins; tide mark to outer margin of rear cover, VG otherwise. Second issue, with orientation of pp 67-8 corrected. The poet's second book. ; Squarish octavo; (6), 78 pages
Book ID: 55998More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
FAR-AWAY FLAGS
Edition: First Edition
Victoria, BC: Author, 1964. Card covers. Design by Roy Kiyooka, printed at the Seymour Press. Bit of sunning to spine and margins of covers, else fine. Inscribed by the author to Moncrieff Williamson, Oct. 1964. Poetry by this noted Calgary-born abstract expressionist painter. ; Octavo; (iv), (60) pages; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55997More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A MAPLE STUMP FENCE
No place (Victoria, BC): Terrapin, 1977. Stapled in plain purple card covers. "first impression xerox in an edition of 10 copies from the manuscript." Verse and drawings. Some cover sunning, else fine. Signed by the author.; Octavo; [14] pages; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55996More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ANVIL BLOOD
Toronto: York University, 1973. Card covers with flaps. Faint spine sunning, else fine. Poetry anthology from the York Workshop, with a three page intro. and two poems by Irving Layton.; Octavo; 57 pages
Book ID: 55995More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
AN HONEST TRADE: an exhibition of Canadian small press books printed and bound at the Porcupine's Quill in Erin, Ontario (1974-1983).
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1983. Illustrated. Fine copy. Signed by Tim Inkster. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55994More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE 16TH & 17TH CENTURIES (2 VOLUMES)
New York: 1959. Two volumes, Harper Torchbooks trade paperbacks, reprinted from the 1950 second edition. Bit of yellowing to spines and inner margins of covers, VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55993More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BRITISH SCIENTISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Edition: First Edition
London: Routledge, 1952. Green cloth. Plates, index. Page edges yellowed, VG jacketless copy, no owner names. ; Octavo; xiv, 320 pages
Book ID: 55992More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
SOL RISING number 6, November 1990
Toronto: The Friends of the Spaced Out Library, 1990. pp (16), self wrappers. VG. Interview with and article by Robert J. Sawyer, Colombo article announcement of the library's name change.; Quarto
Book ID: 55991More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED BY BALLANTINE BOOKS (1953-1977)
North Hollywood, CA: Institute for Specialized Literature, 1977. Revised edition. Stapled in light blue card covers. Very nearly fine. Scarce. ; Quarto; (2), 76 pages
Book ID: 55990More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED BY AVALON BOOKS AND BOUREGY & CURL
North Hollywood, CA: Institute for Specialized Literature, 1977. Printed on rectos only, stapled in grey card covers. Nick to fore edge, light tanning, else fine. Scarce; Quarto; (2), 10 pages
Book ID: 55989More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED BY ARKHAM HOUSE AND MYCROFT & MORAN (1939-1977)
North Hollywood, CA: Institute for Specialized Literature, 1978. Printed on rectos only, stapled in orange card covers. Tiny corner nick to front cover, else fine. Scarce. Author, title, year, pagination, print run, pubication price.; Quarto; (2), 10 pages
Book ID: 55988More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED BY ACE BOOKS (1953-1968)
Edition: First Edition
North Hollywood, CA: Institute for Specialized Literature, 1976. Stapled in cream card covers. Yellowing to page edges, bit of cover soiling, VG otherwise. Scarce. ; Quarto; 62 pages
Book ID: 55987More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE-FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950
Edition: First Edition
Portland, Oregon: Perry Press, 1952. Khaki cloth. Page edges lightly yellowed, else fine. Jacket has chips and tears to rear panel, with a large chip (2.5 x 8 cm) at bottom; flap price punched out; good otherwise. Triple columns, small type, dense. Index. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149. 1 kg. ; Quarto; (xvi), 184 pages
Book ID: 55986More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749
Edition: First Edition
Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Black boards. Small red star to rear endpaper, else fine in fine jacket. pp 268 + plates; index, checklist of all titles. A thorough revision of the 1966 edition, with many additions and a new chapter. ; Octavo 0192123025
Book ID: 55985More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE HILLS OF FAR AWAY: a guide to fantasy
Edition: First Edition
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Library discard. Light green cloth. Illustrated, index. Tape stains to covers; rubber stamps to free endpapers, remains of pouch to rear free endpaper; else a VG clean & unworn copy. Jacket has nicks & crease to lower edge of front panel; price-clipped; VG otherwise. ; Octavo; x, 326 pages
Book ID: 55984More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96