Take Comfort - The Career of Charles Comfort
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. CD ROM included and placed at the end. More
New Arrivals
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947-1979
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. Softcover. Text in French and in English. One corner lightly bumped, fine copy otherwise. More
Richard Gorman: Pure painting
Ottawa Art Gallery, 1996. Fisrt edition. Softcover. Square 8vo. Exhibition catalogue. Softcover. Light nicks to the spine ends and corners, else a nice clean copy. More
Fred Herzog. Modern Color
Berlin: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Square 4to. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket, as issued. A very light bump to the spine head, else a fine, as new copy. More
Glamour is Theft. A User's Guide to General Idea: 1969-1978
Toronto: The Art Gallery of York University, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated boards without a dust jacket, as issued. Near fine copy. Inscribed on the title page by Philip Monk to Canadian Art historian and writer David Silcox, from his collection. More
The Arts of the North American Indian. Native Traditions in Evolution
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, in the dust jacket. Dust jacket with a few light scuffs, otherwise a fine copy. More
Shore, Forest and Beyond. Art from the Audain Collection.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket. The front board with a few light scratches and the corners and spine ends lightly nicked, else a clean and tight copy. More
Museums Without Borders. Selected Writings of Robert R. Janes
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Softcover. Fine copy, as new. More
Nights on Prose Mountain. The Fiction of bpNichol
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Softcover. A fine copy. As new. More
An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, light spine fade and age toning to the jacket edges. Clean and tight copy. More
For the Record. Drawing Contemporary Life
Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 102 pp. Quarter purple cloth over illustrated paper boards, no jacket, as issued, with silver spine lettering. Fine copy, as new. More
Kenojuak: The Life Story Of An Inuit Artist
Manotick, ON. Penumbra Press, 1999. Hardcover. 8vo. 248 pp. Illustrated glossy hardcover, no jacket as issued. The German edition was published one year earlier. Fine copy, as new. More
Peter Doig
London: Tate Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. 160 pp. Illustrated covers. Fine copy. More
A Story of Canadian Art As Told by the Hart House Collection
Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 124 pp. Illustrated glossy covers. Fine copy. As new. More
The Light of Asia, or, The Great Renunciation (MAHABHINISHKRAMANA. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 238 pp. Yellow cloth boards with gilt to front board and spine. The corners and spine ends, bumped, the cloth unevenly darkened, one scuff and light damp spotting to the spine, two little holes in the..... More
The Killer Angels
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 374 pp. Blue paper boards with gilt speine lettering. One corner lightly bumped, with a heavier bump to the foot of the spine. A few very small and light spots to the endpapers, but otherwise clean and bright and..... More
The Tiger in the Smoke
New York: Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo. 254 pp. Black cloth with white and blue lettered spine, very tiny bumps to two corners and lightly bumped spine ends, endpapers slightly yellowed around the edges, clean and bright throughout and the binding tight and square. Dust jacket..... More
Schriften-Atlas eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialien, Monogrammen, Wappen, Landesfarben und heraldischen Motiven fu¨r die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgwerbes /zsgst. von Ludwig Petzendorfer
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1894. Hardcover. Folio. 160 plates, numbered 1-126, several lettering styles required additional pages, and so are numbered a, b, c. etc. Plates in b/w, and in colour. The original burgundy cloth binding with gilt design and lettering to the whole front board and spine. Recently re-backed and..... More
Books on the Printing Crafts in the Toronto Public Libraries
Toronto: Toronto Public Libraries, 1939. First Edition. Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. 8vo. 67 pp. Pamphlet. Published for the Toronto Public Libraries by the Toronto Club of Printing House Craftsmen. Bound in pebbled brown card covers with red insignia on cover and lettering in black. From the business library of the printer..... More
Etchings and Nameplates: A Practical Survey of Formulae, Techniques and Procedures
Chicago: American Photoengravers Association, 1954. First Edition. Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. 8vo. 32 pp. Offprint from the March, 1954 issue of The Photoengravers Bulletin. From the business library of the printer Gilchrist Wright Limited, which was founded in Toronto in 1919 with their discreet, small bookplate on front cover. Slight finger-soiling..... More
The Joy of Printing
Vancouver: The Graphic Arts Department, Vancouver Vocational Institute, 1969. First Thus. Staplebound. Oblong 16mo. Unpaginated (16 pp.), illus. Printed by the graphic arts department of the Vancouver Vocational Institute as a 1969 Christmas keepsake. Also made available to members of the Alcuin Society. More
Opening a Bookstore: Some Questions & Answers
New York: American Booksellers Association, 1973. First Edition. Staplebound. 8vo. 12 pp. Bottom corner at spine bent, covers darkening at edges. More
The Art of the Printer: Being a Collection of Random Notes & Observations on the Art & Practice of Typography
Hull: The E. B. Eddy Company, 1956. First Edition. Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. 8vo. Unpaginated, illus. With five fold-out pages. Bound in brown card covers with black and white lettering on cover. Mild edgewear, lower rear cover corner creased, else a fine copy. More
The Paper Maker, June, Nineteen Thirty-Eight: Man Up in the Air & the Summer Number
Kalamazoo, MI: Hercules Powder Company, 1938. First Edition. Coil-bound. 4to. Unpaginated, illus. With main article by C. Handers. Photograph and illustration on front cover. Two paper samples bound in. Bound in stiff card covers. From the business library of the printer Gilchrist Wright Limited which was founded in Toronto in..... More
The Canadian Private Presses in Print, '84 Edition.: A List of Books & Broadsides, Posters & Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. Compiled by and Available from Lyndsay Dobson Books
Grimsby: Lyndsay Dobson Books, 1983. First Edition. Paper Over Boards. 8vo. Unpaginated, illus. No jacket as issued. A Catalogue of Canadian Private Press Books, limited to 275 copies, numbered and signed by Dobson, this being copy #199. Bookmark from Lyndsay Dobson Books loosely inserted. Lower corners slightly bruised, else a...... More