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 save 30% $175.00 Order nr. 124246
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2000. large 8vo. single sheet, folded once. (4) pages. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. Limited to 200 copies, of which this is one of 150 bound thus. With tipped-in frontispiece. Wood-engraved illustrations throughout. Prefatory comments by the publishers, introduction by Brender à Brandis, catalogue of books and exhibitions. Loosely inserted is the ordering form. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS for GERARD BRENDER À BRANDIS: A SELECTION OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 123579
(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
With an Introduction by Margaret K. McElderry. Given at Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library, April 21, 1977.
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2021. 8vo. marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in silver on front board. (ii), (2), 3-15 (2) pages. With an Introduction by Margaret K. McElderry. Given at Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library, April 21, 1977. Limited to 80 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, Sarah P. Burda. Lecture by this children's book author. A fine copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. This chapbook was composed by..... READ MORE about STARS IN OUR HEADS
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 136910
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
(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
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, B.C., Canada: HM-Van. 2020. 8vo. cased in thin boards covered with metallic blue paper, paper spine label. (6) pages. Limited to 30 numbered copies printed by Rollin Milroy of Heavenly Monkey. A fine copy. Set in Cancelleresca Bastarda and printed with a Pratt-Albion foolscap handpress on dampened Richard de Bas paper. In 1516 the type cutter Francesco Griffo turned his hand to publishing, issuing an edition of Petrarch in a new and very compact..... READ MORE about FRANCESCO DA BOLOGNA'S FOREWORD TO CANZONIERE ET TRIOMPHI DI MESSER FRANCESCO PETRARCHA, 1516
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 137144
Vancouver, BC: Nevermore Press/Heavenly Monkey, 1960 (but 2003). small folio. loose sheets, in paper wrapper cover, housed in silk clamshell box with paper cover and spine labels. (12) pages. One of 130 copies, of which this copy is not numbered. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. George Kuthan's colorful linocuts of animals, from the flamingo to the penguin to the raccoon, joyfully celebrate the diversity of the earth's inhabitants. By representing the variety of..... READ MORE about KUTHAN'S MENAGERIE OF INTERESTING ZOO ANIMALS
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 136261
Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Heavenly Monkey, 2020. small 8vo. sewn paper binding, silk clamshell box. (20) pages. Eighteen aphorisms on the theme of books by Will Rueter, proprietor of The Aliquando Press with a long avocation for calligraphy. The project was conceived as an opportunity to collaborate across the 2,000 miles that separate the Heavenly Monkey and Aliquando studios. The edition of 36 numbered copies, all signed by Will, has been uniformly bound and boxed by..... READ MORE about BOOKS ARE MY UTOPIA
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 135353
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
2 volumes.
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
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, (2015). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 146, (2) pages. Introduction, acknowledgments, biographical sketches of the artist and author. Wood engravings by Gerard Brender à Brandis, including one foldout. READ MORE about THE GRAND RIVER: DUNDALK TO LAKE ERIE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131911
(Hamilton, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2008). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 61, (3) pages. Signed by the author on title. Introduction, biographical sketch of the author/artist. A collection of wood engravings, mainly of flowers. READ MORE about A WOOD ENGRAVER'S ALPHABET
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 130888
(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, (2007). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 164, (4) pages. Introduction by Walker, concluding essay by Daryl Sharp, biographical sketch of Walker. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout text. Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award. READ MORE about IMAGES FROM THE NEOCEREBELLUM: THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF GEORGE A. WALKER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130897
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2005). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Preface, acknowledgments, biographical sketch of the author. Illustrated. READ MORE about MOTHER GOOSE EGGS SUNNYSIDE UP
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131926
(Erin, ON, Canada): The Porcupine's Quill, (2015). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 99, (5) pages. Table of contents, introduction, foreword, biographical sketch of the aurhor, acknowledgments. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ODDBALLS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132127
Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 109, (3) pages. With a checklist of Ontario private presses by Marilyn Rueter and an introduction by Douglas Lochhead. Spine lightly tanned, else fine. Loosely inserted is the commorative bookplate stating this book was from the reference library of antiquarian bookdealer and auctioner Dorothy Sloan. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about READER, LOVER OF BOOKS, LOVER OF HEAVEN, A CATALOGUE BASED ON AN EXHIBITION OF THE BOOK ARTS IN...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38904
N.P. (Shanty Bay Press), n.d. 4to. top edge cut, other edges uncut, in manila envelope. Brochure with excerpts of ancient Greek poem. With illustration. READ MORE about Brochure published by Shanty Bay Press
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 124831
