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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT IN CANADA 1921-1974
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: SCM Press, 1975. Buff card covers. pp 144. Fine copy. Laid in is an SCM folding brochure. "This brief history of the Student Christian Movement in Canada is a distillation of material from a 1972 PhD thesis by Margaret Bettie entitled PRESSURE GROUP POLITICS: THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT." Cover and title page drawings, and one in text, by Thoreau MacDonald. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44323More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Light erasure to upper outer corner of front free endpaper; minute rubbing to spine tips, outer corners; else fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 6650More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Advance copy for review, with rubber stamp on front free endpaper. Fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 42910More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A GATHERING OF FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE. With quotations selected and interpreted by F. David Hoeniger
Edition: First printing
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2006. Inscribed by Author; Card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by Brender.; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 54083More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A WINDOW IN THRUMS. Illustrated in Colour by A.C. Michael.
Toronto & London: Musson / Hodder and Stoughton, no date [191-?]. Octavo, tan buckram gilt lettered, light brown illustrated endpapers. [4], (212) pp. Frontispiece and 10 other colour illustrations tipped to inserted light brown leaves, with captioned tissue guards. Quite minor cover rubbing; a near fine, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. An attractive and sturdy edition, with very pleasant illustrations. Identical in appearance and concept to the Foulis illustrated books being published early in the 20th century.
Book ID: 16638More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
ABOUT LOVE: 3 stories. Translated by David Helwig. Designed and decorated by Seth
Edition: First printing
(Windsor, ON): Biblioasis, 1992. Inscribed by the translator; Pictoria cloth without jacket as issued. Inscribed by the translator to noted Canadian author Leon Rooke. Fine copy of this strikingly illustrated book. ; 12mo; Signed by the translator
Book ID: 53219More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
AN AMERICAN SAGA: the life and times of Rockwell Kent
Edition: First Edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. pp (8), 248 + colour plates, b&w illus. in text, index. Small tan spot to fore edge of front free endpaper, else a f ine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has small tears, VG. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55319More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
AN ARTIST'S GARDEN
Edition: First printing
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2001. Inscribed by Author; Card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by Brender. 74 wood engravings. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 54085More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
London: Heinemann, 1927. Fourth printing (first was in 1913). Quarto, brown coth lettered and decorated in gilt, yellowish top page edges. pp (44) + frontispiece and 43 other colour plates tipped to tan card, all with captioned tissue guards. A few vignette drawings in text. A fine, bright copy, no owner names, no creases to plates nor tissue guards. The light tan dust jacket has a tan stain and narrow chip along front spine fold; chips at spine ends (no lettering lost); fingernail-size chip to lower outer corner of front panel; VG otherwise. Only a few of the illustrations had been previously published, mostly as line drawing sketches. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 40389More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
AT THE LONG SAULT and Other New Poems. Foreword by Duncan Campbell Scott. Introduction by E.K. Brown
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1943. Light blue paper-covered boards. xxix, 45 pp. Previous owner's small, neat signature on front pastedown, yellowing to page edges, else fine. Light blue jacket has small light ink name in top margin of front panel; spine very lightly darkened; else fine. Illustration on front cover (repeated on jacket) by Thoreau MacDoanld (Edison C61); Octavo
Book ID: 44319More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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.; Squarish 12mo
Book ID: 15393More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
BENNETT'S FABLES from Aesop and Others, Translated into Human Nature. Foreword by Gerald Gottlieb
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Viking, 1978. Dark blue cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has flap price inked out, rear panel softly rippled, else fine. Reprint from a rare hand-coloured copy of the 1857 original held by the Pierpont Moegan Library. Wonderful illustrations. ; Squarish octavo
Book ID: 52909More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BIRDS & ANIMALS. 2nd Series. Drawings by Thoreau MacDonald
Thornhill, Ontario: Author, 1973. Second printing. [4], (35) pp, stapled, in mustard card covers. Fine copy. Edison A18. ; Octavo
Book ID: 24403More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BONNIE SCOTLAND. Painted by Sutton Palmer. Described by A.R. Hope Moncrieff
London: A. & C. Black, 1912. Third printing (first was in 1904). Blue pictorial cloth stamped in brown, yellow and white, gilt lettered, top edges gilt. pp (xii), 253 + 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Mild wear to spine corners and outer corners; small bump to upper outer corner of front cover; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; bookstore rubber stamp to lower inner corner of front pastedown (Acres of Books, Long Beach, CA); else a VG copy, no owner names. Inman 71. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Thick octavo
Book ID: 26810More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
Canada illustrated: The art of nineteenth-century engraving
Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1982. Large squarish octavo, orange cloth. pp 100. Colour illustration on title page. Reproductions of 99 historical engravings of Canadian scenes plus introductory text. Fine copy. Jacket has two nicks and shallow edge creases to rear panel, else fine. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0919567177
Book ID: 45066More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
CANADA'S ROYAL GARDEN: Portraits and Reflections. With wood engravings by Gerard Brender à Brandiis
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Viking, 1994. Inscribed by Illustrator; Green boards. Colour photos. Fine in fine jacket, and inscribed by Gerard Brender à Brandiis. Beautiful photos of Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens, with nice woodcuts. 1.5 kg parcel; Oblong quarto; Signed by Illustrator
Book ID: 54081More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CANADIAN SCENERY ILLUSTRATED. From Drawings by W.H. Bartlett (2 volume set)
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 54851More details Price: USD $895.00 USD $805.50 -
COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 8654More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
DOWN NORTH
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943. Variant in khaki cloth. Pictorial endpapers. pp (xiv), 274, (2) + 18 photo plates. Light damp spot to lower margin of front cover, else a fine, jacketless copy. Nice endpaper drawing by Thoreau MacDonald. Edison C61 A bit of history but mostly a contemporary survey of the North West Territories of Canada.; Octavo.
Book ID: 41763More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
DRAWN FROM MEMORY
London: Methuen, 1957. Squarish octavo, green cloth, red topstain. 190, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait inserted, numerous line drawings in text. Slight tanning to inner margins of endpapers, else fine, no previous owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and rubbing to spine tips, slight rubbing to spine folds, yellowing to spine, rear panel, flap edges; VG otherwise, no chips or clips. A volume of memoirs of his youth by the famous British artist, illustrator, and author, best known for his illustrations for the Pooh books as well as a great many for Punch.
Book ID: 16654More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50