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A BORDER OF BEAUTY: Arthur Lismer's Pen and Pencil
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Red Rock Publishing, 1977. Squarish quarto, brown boards. pp (x), 156, (2). 1978 ink gift inscription at front, else fine in VG jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31763More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
A BORDER OF BEAUTY. Arthur Lismer's Pen and Pencil.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Red Rock Publishing, 1977. Squarish small quarto, hardcover, brown boards. pp (x), 156, (2) + colour plates; black & white reproductions in text. Fine copy, no previous owner names. Dust jacket has light sunning to brown spine lettering, else fine. Author was the daughter of important Canadian painter Arthur Lismer. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15944More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS. Volume 2. G-Jackson
Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publishing, 1975. A later printing of the first edition. Small sticker scar on front cover, spine yellowed, VG otherwise, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44904More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A FOOL IN PARADISE: an artist's early life
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1990. Octavo, grey boards. pp (14), (258), [2]. Ink gift inscription at front, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40330More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War
Edition: First Edition
Toronto/Oshawa/Ottawa: James Lorimer / The Robert McLaughlin Gallery / National Museum of Man, 1977. Beige cloth. pp (240). Colour reproductions. Ink owner name at front, else fine in VG jacket. 104 works plus text by ordinary servicemen. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47784More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
ACT OF ART: the image-making process
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981. Cream cloth. 80 colour plates. Fine copy. Jacket has a couple small tears, VG+ generally. 1.9 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52773More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
ADRIFT ON COURSE: an autobiographical essay with illustrations by the author
Edition: First edition
Toronto: Hawthorn Art Press, no date (1979). pp (8), 158, [2]. B&w drawings in text. Inscribed by the author "For Tony all the best Jerrold". Corner crease to front cover, light rubbing & soiling to covers; tan stain to fore edges not penetrating into text margins; just a good copy. Morris, originally from Britain, was twice awarded a DFC by the RCAF during WWII. After the war he became curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery, chief curator of the San Francisco Museum of Art, and director of the important Morris International Gallery in Toronto. This book covers his early life and not much of his career as a curator and gallery operator.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44697More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ALFRED PELLAN
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Society for Art Publications / McClelland & Stewart, 1962. Card covers. pp 16 text + colour and b&w plates. Gallery of Canadian Art :4. Very nearly fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50783More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86 -
An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001. Black cloth. pp 458. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48537More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
ANTOINE PLAMONDON / 1802-1895. THÉOPHILE HAMEL / 1817-1870. An Exhibition Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Quarto. Black card covers. pp 176. Black & white and colour reproductions through. Catalogue and essay by R.H. Hubbard, Foreword by Jean Sutherland Boggs, catalogue design by Frank Newfeld. A little rubbing along to spine folds, near fine otherwise, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 28757More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
APPROACHING CLASSICISM / À LA SUITE DU CLASSICISME. Paintings / Tableaux
Montreal: Han Art, 2013. Glossy card covers with flaps. pp (36). Colour illustrations. Text in English and French. Fine copy. Inscribed by Bachinski to a noted Canadian novelist and short story writer (and painter).
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53133More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-22
Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Quarto, black cloth. pp (xxviii), 403. 50 figures in text (most in colour), 4 b&w maps in text. Fine in fine jacket. 2 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51660More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
ARTIST AT WAR
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1956. Blue cloth. xvii, 187 pp + color frontispiece and 12 monochrome plates. Ink owner name, else fine in lightly used VG jacket. Memoirs of the Second World War by the man who is, next to Alex Colville, probably Canada's most famous war artist. .
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48174More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
arts/canada annual: visual arts portfolio 1967
Toronto: arts / canada, 1967. 20 pieces, including the flexible 7 inch 33 1/3 RMP phono disc, laid into a silver card portfolio. Collated complete. Contents fine, portfolio has rubbing, a little use, good.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51974More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
ARTSCANADA 174/175, Dec 1972, Jan 1973
Toronto: artscanada, 1973. Card covers. Contains on pp 17-36 J.E.H. MacDonald's West Indian Journal. Colour and b&w reproductions. Small chip and tear at foot of spine, small corner crease to front cover, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50842More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ASIAN LANDSCAPES
Edition: First printing
(Lethbridge, Alberta): (University of Lethbridge, 1977). Oblong octavo, card covers. pp 65. map, 30 sepia illustrations with text. Fine copy. Author's sketches made on his Asian travels over the previous 12 years. He was with the Dept. of Geology in the University of Lethrbridge. Signed by the author, May, 1977.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45495More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BALLADS AND LYRICS
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1923. Squarish 12mo, blue-grey pictorial cloth stamped in green, gilt lettered, green on cream decorated endpapers. x, (294) pp. Spine tanned , light soiling to top page edges; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG jacketless copy. INSCRIBED BY THOREAU MacDON ALD "design made by J.E.H. MacDonald. a few combined by T. MacDonald". The cover illustrations, endpapers, and decorative title page border were designed by important Canadian painter J.E.H. MacDonald (Group of Seven). His son Thoreau, an excellent artist in his own right, did some of the lettering. Edison E6.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15393More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
BERRYMAN STREET BOY: growing up in Yorkville
Edition: First printing
Whitby, ON: Van Lotz Publishing, 2000. Cream linen. pp 142, 46 colour and numerous b&w illustrations. Fine in fine jacket. The limited issue, #736 of an edition of 760 copies signed by the author and publisher. A memoir of growing up poor in what is now a very chic district of downtown Toronto by the noted Canadian art critic and historian, illustrated with his own artworks from his teenage years. 1.7 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52771More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
BILL REID
Edition: First printing
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1986. Squarish quarto, black boards. pp 192. Illustrations in colour and b&w. Bibliography, chronlogical list of works illustrated. Fine in fine jacket. A book about the half-Haida artist of British Columbia, one of Canada's greatest artists.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43772More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
Canada 1812-1871. THE FORMATIVE YEARS. Illustrations by C.W. Jefferys
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Imperial Oil, 1967. Quarto, 96 pp. Soft corner creases, ink owner name, else a VG copy. Confederation centennary issue, July 1967, of the Imperial Review, notable for the excellent Jefferys line drawings. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48747More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16