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A bibliography of Canadian bibliographies, compiled by the 1929 and 1930 classes in bibliography of the McGill university library school under the direction of Marion V. Higgins, instructor in bibliography
Montreal: McGill University, 1930. Octavo, buff card covers. pp 45, [5]. Ex library, with cloth tape to spine, tears to fore margins of covers, good, contents clean and unworn. McGill university publications. Series VII (Library) no. 20. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45516More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN IMPRINTS 1751-1800.
University of Toronto Press, 1999. Photo reprint of the edition of 1952. Octavo, pp (xxx), 705. Blue cloth, without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. A fully descriptive bibliography of all books (known at the time) from the first fifty years of printing in Canada. The press came late to Canada. Virtually every book listed in this bibliography is rare to very rare today. The standard reference on the subject. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may br required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 6387More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items In the Metropolitan Toronto Library Relating To The Early History And Development Of Canada. Second Supplement Volume 2 1801-1849
Edition: First edition.
Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, 1985. pp. 839, indexes. Maroon cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. One of the essential bibliographical references for pre-Confederation printed Canadiana. 2.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 50971More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIANA. Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada
Edition: First Edition
Toronto Public Library, 1934. Small thick quarto. Maroon cloth. pp [2], (14), 828, [4]. Erratum slip tipped in at title page. 28 facsimiles in text. Blue top page edges fading, insect nibbles to fore edges of rear endpapers and to one corner of the terminal blank; VG clean and tight jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. 4646 items of Canadiana from 1534-1867 with bibliographical descriptions, many with comments on the content. A pioneering work and still an essential reference work for pre-Confederation Canadiana. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 44278More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
A Bibliography of George Cumberland (1754-1848)...
Edition: First edition.
New York: Garland, 1975. Red cloth. pp (xxiv), 140. Illustrated, Index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Covers his published books and articles as well as manuscript material. Cumberland was a good friend of William Blake and like him, a poet and artist. Scarce book by the eminent Blake scholar.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52158More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HORACE WALPOLE
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the Yale 1948 edition. Black cloth. pp 189. Facsimile title pages, index. Bump to upper outer corners of covers, yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has a very lightly sunned spine, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50940More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Boston: Milford House, 1972. Facsimile reprint of the 1906 original. Maroon cloth without jacket, as issued. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50541More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
Edition: First Canadian issue
University of Toronto Press, 1974. Brown cloth. 226 pp. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50758More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY 1889-1957.
Edition: First Canadian edition.
University of Toronto Press, 1974. Brown cloth, 226 pp. Fine in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 43187More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK SUN PRESS. With an introduction by Caresse Crosby
Edition: First printing
Great Neck, NY: Author, 1979. Black cloth. pp (14), (61). Fine copy. Not issued in jacket. Edition of 1250 copies.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52545More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint of the 1940 original. Black clothl. pp xvi, 256 + 3 folding pages; index. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine in a VG jacket. Full descriptive bibliography of editions up to 1800 and an account of all editions up to 1838, with copious notes.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50281More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF LOUIS MacNEICE
Edition: First Canadian issue
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1973. Red cloth. pp 136 + frontispiece photo. Index, bound-in ribbon marker. Fine in VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50624More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBERTSON JEFFERS
New York: Burt Franklin, 1958. Facsimile reprint of the 1933 original. Green cloth. pp (xviii), 262, [2]. Fine copy, without jacket, as issued. A proper descriptive bibliography.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50323More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Godalming, Surrey, UK: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1979. Second printing of the 1975 second edition, revised. Ink private owner name at front and rear, with his blind stamp to a few leaves of text; bit of yellowing to page edges; else VG+ in like jacket. A descriptive bibliography.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50267More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF D.H. LAWRENCE. With a Foreword by D.H. Lawrence
Edition: First printing
Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1925. Cream linen spine and blue boards, with paper labels. pp [4], (4), (154). Tipped in frontispiece portrait with tissue guards. # 201 of an edition of 500 copies. Spine a bit darkened with small soil spots, spine label darkened and a bit rubbed, yellowing to page edges, rubbing to lower edges of boards, VG otherwise. With the handsome bookplate of Clement Shorter, designed by Walter Crane (woman seated with open book). The first DHL bibliography. Lawrence's Foreword titled "The Bad Side of Books".
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50617More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WASHINGTON IRVING: a bibliographical checklist
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1936 original. Grey cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (xxii), 200, [2]. Index. Some cloth bubbling to inner margin of rear cover, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50317More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Edition: First printing
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. Red cloth. pp (80). #764 of an edition of 950 copies of the ordinary issue. Generically inscribed by the author. Spine and red top page edges a bit sunned, small soil spot to front cover, VG otherwise. A bit premature as WSM continued to published for another 30 years, but Bason was enthusiastic. Contains a Preface by Maugham.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50551More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS CARLYLE'S WRITINGS AND ANA
New York: Octagon Books, 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 original. Red cloth. pp (xiv), 587, index. Slight yellowing to page edges, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50249More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY LARRY EIGNER 1937-1969
Edition: First printing
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1970. Green cloth. pp [2]. (12), 82. VG+ clean and unworn jacketless copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50282More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A BOOK OF BOOKSELLERS: conversations with the antiquarian book trade 1991-2003
London & New Castle, Delaware: Sheila Markham Rare Books & Oak Knoff Press, 2007. Second printing, corrected. Card covers. pp (324), [4]. Photos. Index. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52425More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96