Edmonton: University of Alberta, (1989). square small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 39 pages. Curated by John Charles. Illustrated. READ MORE about THOUGHTPRINTS, AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FORM AND CONTENT OF LANGUAGE ON THE PRINTED PAGE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 94757
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (1986). oblong 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 73, (21) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Designed by Tim and Elke Inkster. Woodcut illustrations from Cape Cod, the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and Prince Edward County in Ontario. READ MORE about AT WATER'S EDGE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131061
Ottawa: n.p., 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. (vii), 180-186+(1) pages. Limited to an edition of 50. A facsimile of one clever tongue-in-cheek letter from POST BAG OF THE GREAT WESTERN by Samuel Slick (1840). Presented to Donn W. Sanford from Jenkins: "Donn, With sincere regards. Bill." READ MORE about GOLDEN NUGGETS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 94052
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Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1978, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 109,(3); 79,(3) pages. 2 volumes. With a checklist of Ontario private presses by Marilyn Rueter and an introduction by Douglas Lochhead. Wrappers soiled. READ MORE about READER, LOVER OF BOOKS, LOVER OF HEAVEN, A CATALOGUE BASED ON AN EXHIBITION OF THE BOOK ARTS IN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 33545
(Vancouver, BC, Canada): Savuti Press, 2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, marbled free endpapers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (16) pages. Limited to 199 numbered copies. Etched, marbled, gilded, and bound by Waisiki Dought. Illustrations by Van Sandwyk. READ MORE about THE PHILOSOPHER'S CUPBOARD
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 131218
(Québec, QC, Canada): Éditions du Silence, 1982. 8vo. full limp vellum with three vellum strips. 36, (4) pages. Text in French. Limited to 100 copies numbered in Roman numerals, on paper handmade by the Papeterie St.-Armand of Montreal. Signed on colophon by the author and photographer Stéphan Kovacs. Uguay (1955-1981), a poet, died of cancer at the age of twenty-six. Text based on interviews in September 1981 for a film produced by Jean-Claude Labrecque. Bound..... READ MORE about MARIE UGUAY: LA VIE LA POÉSIE
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 134413
(Toronto, ON, Canada): The Aliquando Press, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (10) pages. Limited to 300 copies. Published for distribution at the 8th Annual Conference of the American Printing History Association. READ MORE about THE INTEGRITY OF PRINTING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124904
(Toronto, ON, Canada: The Aliquando Press, 1980). 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (24) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Designed, printed, and bound by William Rueter. Selected Shakespearean sonnets. READ MORE about A GARLAND OF LOVE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 125029
Toronto, ON, Canada: The Aliquando Press, 1972. square 32mo. leaves loosely inserted in paper envelope. (62) pages. Limited to 100 copies. An extract from Hugo's Voyages de 1839, translated by Jean Wilson, designed and printed by William Rueter, with wood types. READ MORE about VICTOR HUGO'S ALPHABET CHARACTER & SYMBOL
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 124246
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2019. folio. quarter cloth, paper covered boards. over 100 engravings. First edition of 125 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 65 standard state copies bound in quarter vermilion cloth with a printed paper label and patterned paper. This book is part of the Endgrain Editions series by Crispin & Jan Elsted's Barbarian Press. Many coloured engravings included, and in a departure from the earlier volumes in the..... READ MORE about RICHARD WAGENER: A DIALOGUE OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 134457
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2019. folio. quarter morocco over patterened paper boards, slipcase. over 100 engravings. First edition of 125 numbered copies, of which this isone of the 60 deluxe state copies bound in quarter vermilion morocco with a skived leather spine label and a patterned paper by the artist over boards, slipcased with a folder containing a signed and numbered strike of the commissioned frontispiece for the book. This book is part of..... READ MORE about RICHARD WAGENER: A DIALOGUE OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 134460
(Hamilton, ON, Canada): West Meadow Press, 1990. 12mo. paper-covered boards, paper front cover label. (14) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by illustrator Wesley W. Bates on colophon. First of the Broadside Ballads. Transscription of an old English country ballad. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Bates. READ MORE about THE BRISK YOUNG BUTCHER
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 132683
Toronto: Basilike, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages. First edition, one of 175 numbered copies. (Taylor B5). Designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. READ MORE about A TOWER IN ITALY A LEGEND, BEING A ROMANTIC PLAY IN ONE ACT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 467
Edmonton, Alberta: D.E. Cameron Library, University of Alberta, 1980. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 155+(1) pages. No. 18 of the library's news bulletins. Lists the library's holdings of Canadian private presses. This publication is Part II of that series, the presses of Ontario. Frontispiece, preface, explanation of entries, bibliography and key to references, list of abbreviations. Location index of Ontario presses. Full index. Includes additions and corrections to No. 17. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about NEWS FROM THE RARE BOOK ROOM
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 115294
Toronto, ON, Canada: The Typecrafters, 1980. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies. Printed by the Crabgrass Press. Quotations from noteworthies in the field Quotations from a number of prominent individual in the field of typography. Various items, including bookplates and endpaper specimens, tipped in. READ MORE about MARKS & REMARKS ABOUT ASPECTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN BY NOTED AUTHORITIES PAST AND PRESENT
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 132094
N.P. Editions du Silence, n.d., but 2003. broadside (9 by 12 inches). Text in French. Limited to 125 copies. Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest, New Castle, Delaware, in 2003. Embossed designs in paper in addition to printed text. READ MORE about DÉCAGONAL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 127078
(Vancouver, BC, Canada): Heavenly Monkey & C.V.S. Fine Arts, (2000). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by Van Sandwyk on colophon. Introduction and copperplate etchings (frontispiece and in text) by Van Sandwyk. Bibliography, assembled by Van Sandwyk and Rollin Milroy, includes publication information and a brief descriptive text. Also included is a tipped-in specimen of the author's first book, Here Follows a Collection of Little People (1983). READ MORE about CHARLES VAN SANDWYK, AN INTERIM BIBLIOGRAPHY 1983 TO 2000
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 131220
Quebec, Canada: Editions les Giboulées, 2017. 8vo. full leather, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label with publisher, title, and author. (48) pages. Limited to 45 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, of which this is number 1. Illustrated by Ghislaine Bureau. This particular copy is bound in 2018 by Monique Lallier in full gray Buffalo leather with cut out on the front and back cover. The edges of the boards are painted..... READ MORE about CHEMINS DE TRAVERSE
Price: $3,400.00 Order nr. 134406
London: The Curwen Press, 1938. 8vo. polished cloth, top edge gilt. (xxiv),119+(1) pages. Published in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Catalog of the extensive Morse Collection at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which includes books,maps, drawings, paintings and manuscripts from the 18th century. Illustrated with 7 plates. Book label indicating that this is from the reference library of H.P. Kraus loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM INGLIS MORSE COLLECTION
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 76350
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (1994). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introduction by William Rueter. Illustrations, including bookplates, by the author. Biographical sketch and portrait of Bates follows text. READ MORE about THE POINT OF THE GRAVER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132188
Erin, Canada: The Porcupine's Quill, (1981). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 13 pages followed by the plates of woodcuts executed by Brandis. Reprint of 1980 first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about WOOD, INK & PAPER
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 12204
Erin, Canada: The Porcupine's Quill, (1981). 8vo. self paper wrappers. 13 pages followed by the plates of woodcuts executed by Brandis. Reprint of 1980 self paper wrappers first edition. Fine. READ MORE about WOOD, INK & PAPER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130817
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2001). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 163+(1) pages. Introduction by the author. 74 woodcut illustrations including one foldout. Closing comments by author Alan Horne. READ MORE about AN ARTIST'S GARDEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131364
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2016). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 179, (3) pages. Introduction by George A. Walker, biographical sketch of the author. Woodcuts by the author. READ MORE about METAMORPHADOX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131913
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2013). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 221, (3) pages. Introduction by the author. Afterword by Tom Smart, acknowledgments, biographical sketch of the author. Woodcuts by the author. READ MORE about THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CONRAD BLACK: A WORDLESS BIOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131915
