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
The Hague: N.V. Esveha. Softcover. No date, c. 1950's? 10 leaves, 5 different coloured paper samples apparently directed at women as paper to line their cupboards with. Yellow wrappers printed in blue and red, stapled spine, the first four leaves with die-cut target pattern in the middle showing the five..... More
Toronto: Book and Periodical Development Council, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Unpaginated (32 pp.) Foreword by Leo Simpson. A collection of articles, essays and quotations decrying censorship. More
Paris: L'illustration, 1930. Soft cover. Folio [380 x 280mm]. 64pp. Periodical. Large softcover with illustrated suede like covers. Very small chip to the spine head and lightly bumped corners, else a very near fine copy in a tight and square binding. Includes advertisements, colour illustrations and photographs. This particular issue..... More
Ottawa: National Library of Canada/Avmor Ltd., 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated, illus. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the National Library of Canada from November 30, 1984 to March 24, 1985. More
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bible Society, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xxii, 256, 96 - appendix, with two plates of title pages. Original boards with paper spine label. Board edges a little worn and rubbed, with a few light stains, Loss to a lot of the spine, showing some of the..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. 15. Catalogue for 1925/26. Paper boards in glassine dust jacket. Boards a little sunned at the edges, glassine chipped and edge-worn but otherwise a clean and tight copy. More
Toronto: 500th Anniversary Committee, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. 24mo. 15 pp. Small pamphlet. Bound in yellow card covers with illustration on front and rear. Issued on the occasion of an exhibit held at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, August 23 - September 7, 1940 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of..... More
Toronto: The United Press Limited, 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. Souvenir Book. Wrappers illustrated and lettered in black and orange, spine bound with green string. Light spotting and creasing to the covers, with light foxing to the front endpaper. comprised of lists of delegates and members, mission and work..... More
Toronto: Basilike, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Printed wrappers, edition of 125. Grey card covers in marbled wrappers with paper label to front cover. Fine copy. More
Brepols, 2005. Hardcover. Imago Figurata Editions Vol. 5. Blue cloth lettered in gold to front cover and spine. As new copy. X9. More
Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/ Public Books/ Theorema Editions, 2025. First Edition. Softcover. Signed. WAABAZI. Maria Hupfield, in collaboration with Canadiana Librarian Grant Hurley, invites and interleaves fellow Indigenous scholars' understandings of swans amongst a broader archival fabric; Scribbles, Comments, and Codes: The Marginalia of Marshall McLuhan. Thyrza Nichols..... More
Edinburgh: The Tragara Pres, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Tall 8vo. Quarter black cloth, green paper boards, device in black, gilt spine lettering. Number 7 of 25 printed on Barcham Green Tovil paper and signed by Anderson. From a total edition of 135. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with added mylar covering. First edition. As new copy. More
Bronxville: Nicholas T. Smith, 1980. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 96 pp., illus. Reprint of the first edition which was published in 1927 in a limited edition of 390 copies. More
Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1965. First Thus. Cloth. 12mo. 68 pp. With title-page portrait of Goudy by William Oberhardt. Printed at the Peter Pauper Press. One of total edition of 1950 copies (out of which 350 copies were reserved for The Typophiles), printed for the Goudy Centennial..... More
Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1995. Soft cover. Exhibition catalgue. Light nick to the spine head, else a fine copy. More
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. 109 pp., illus. One of a limited edition of 2250 copies (of which 1000 are for sale). A fine copy in a original glassine wrapper which is quite tattered. Important biography of this famous bookbinding family. More
Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusen, 1969. Reprint. Cloth. 4to. xvii, 463 pp., illus. Facsimile reprint of 1891 edition, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate, hinges weak, mild edgewear. More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to. 95 pp., illus. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 May - 27 June, 1982. Compiled and annotated by Sebastian Carter with additional notes by Will Carter. With a foreword by the Directory of the Fitzwilliam Museum..... More
Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1967. Hardcover. Folio. Pp. 36, [4]. Leaf mounted to upper cover and covered with fine mesh; rear board in a different paper; black leather spine lettered in gilt. With illustrations by Henry Bradbury, Rigby Graham, and Morris Cox, including Leonardo's description of nature printing, and an original..... More
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. Frontis., 184 pp., illus. One of 1650 copies (of which 500 are for sale). The definitive history of this important private press with bibliography. Small bruise to foot of spine, else fine. More
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Designed, printed, and bound by William Rueter in an edition of 85 copies, this is no. 40. Being an article on the decoration of books in the English Illustrated Magazine of January 1891. Small fold in the pasted-on title to the front..... More
Amsterdam: Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteit Van Amsterdam, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Fine copy in a fine copy. More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xiv, 51. Black and silver cloth and silver lettering to the front cover, with silver cloth paste-downs. Book near fine in a lightly edge-worn glassine jacket. More