Del Duca - Paris/ Artia - Prague, 1965. Hardcover. Square 8vo. With coloured paper-covered boards and a peach-coloured cloth spine. A few creases and bumps to the covers, but overall a clean and tidy copy of this pop-up book, featuring five circus scenes. All but one of the pop-ups work..... More
Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 1912. First Edition. Leather. 12mo. Pp. 114. Full green lamb, with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper cover and spine. A clean, perfect copy, both internally and externally, housed in the original two-piece box, which is split at the corners. Scarce, in like-new condition..... More
1890. Softcover. Germany, circa 1890. 21 × 14 cm. Original coloured wrappers with opening flaps, revealing two sets of divided flaps that can be turned to create a variety of interchangeable figures. All flaps present and complete. The front cover hinge is split at the head and foot but remains..... More
Stockholm: Oscar L. Lamm, 1883. Hardcover. [1883]. Folio. Original grey card boards with a lithographed illustration mounted to the upper cover, cloth spine strip, and original green ties, both present and attached. Contains six three-dimensional pop-up scenes depicting caged animals, with colour lithographed front panels, each revealing a verse when..... More
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931. Alexander Calder. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. No. 159 of 595 copies (of a total edition of 665 copies), printed on Auvergne hand-made watermarked paper, and designed by Monroe Wheeler. Pp. [v], 124, [3]. Pen-and-ink line drawings by Alexander Calder. Loosely inserted is the elusive Paper..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Together 5 volumes (2 + 2 + 1). Comprising Scotland in Early Christian Times, 2 volumes, The Rhind Lectures for 1879 and 1880 (Second Series); Scotland in Pagan Times: The Bronze and Stone Ages, 2 volumes, The Rhind Lectures for 1882; and..... More
Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1918. Softcover. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Raoul Dufy. Original yellow wrappers, lettered in black. Second edition, published shortly after Apollinaire's death. Reproduces, in a smaller format, the edition originally published by Deplanche in 1911. Illustrated with 32 illustrations and four decorative initials by Raoul..... More
Paris: Editions surrealistes [Les Editions Denoel et Steele], 1931. Hardcover. 4to, pp. 83, [5], errata leaf tipped in at end. Full leather design binding with original wrappers bound in, with cancel slip over publisher's imprint on the title page and upper cover of the original red paper wrapper. The work..... More
Toronto: Salamander Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. 8vo. Dark green paper boards bound accordion style. Hand bound by Anne Goluska, designed and printed by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press in Toronto, 1983. Limited to 100 copies of which this is No. 88. Hand numbered and signed by Atwood..... More
Toronto: Roger Ascham Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Bound in quarter black leather with gilt spine lettering over cream coloured cloth. Edition of 160 copies, this is number 60. Translated by Humphrey Milnes. Illustrated with block prints by Aba Bayefsky. Housed in a matching cream coloured slipcase. The cloth..... More
Toronto: Canadian Portfolio Editions, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Large Folio comprising 12 original prints by Aba Bayefsky, with a foreword by Humpghrey Milnes. Edition of 107 copies, this is number 42, each printed signed and numbered by Bayefsky. Housed in a wooden frame and paper two flap clamshell. The..... More
Don Mills: Heinrich Heine Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Large folio, comprising 12 original prints by Aba Bayefsky, with a foreword by Humphrey Milnes. Limited edition of 150 copies, this being number 34. Each print signed and numbered by Bayefsky. Housed in the original wooden frame and two-flap cardboard..... More
Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. 1894-95. 3 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, boards illustrated and lettered in gilt, beveled edges. Light ribbing to the cloth edges, little rips to the cloth at the spine ends, tear to the front cover joint of volume II, hinges tight..... More
London: Oxford University Press/Humphry Milford, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Green cloth, gilt lettering, both with dust jackets. Ink name to the front endpaper of each, clean throughout, and the bindings tight and square, with light bumps to the edges and spine ends. Jackets with some faint water spots..... More
Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. Dorothea Braby. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. From a total edition of 400 copies, 100 of which are bound in quarter white morocco over yellow cloth boards, this is one of 100, number 92, with engravings by Dorothea Braby. The morocco a little..... More
Newton, IA: Tamazunchale Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Miniature. ¾" x 2½". Full white calf, with titles gilt-stamped to the upper cover and spine. All edges gilt. A perfect copy. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this being number 56. More
Toronto: Seripress, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Oblong portfolio/chemise, 39.5 × 77 cm. Comprising [11] leaves, including 8 plates (partly coloured), combining text by B.P. Nichol with serigraphs by Barbara Caruso. Limited to only 25 copies, signed by the poet and artist. Each plate numbered, with signatures by both Caruso..... More
Paris, France: Self Published, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Large oblong 4to. Pp. 684. Limited edition of 2,574 copies, numbered and signed by the authors; this is copy no. 732. Text in English and French. Illustrated with black-and-white designs and colour illustrations. Grey cloth with silver lettering, in an illustrated..... More
London: John Whiston, Lockyer Davis, John Ward, 1750. Hardcover. Second edition. 8vo. Pp. xvi, [iv], 90, iv, 91-283, [1]. Half brown calf over marbled boards. The spine faded to a light tan, with several scuffs and scratches; corners rubbed and worn. Folding map in excellent condition. Text clean, bright, and..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. Rosemary Covey. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 158. Limited edition of 200 copies, this being no. 51. Illustrated with 25 wood engravings by illustrator Rosemary Covey, along with numerous line drawings. Finely bound in quarter red morocco over blue floral silk boards. With the original prospectus..... More
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823. Hardcover. First edition. 3 volumes. Contemporary cream pigskin, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine compartments and bands, titles stamped in gilt on morocco labels, gilt tooling to the inner dentelles and board edges, all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. Some light..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo, pp. xii, [4], 228; vi, [2], 229-454. Second printing, in the second binding, the brown cloth variant, without the device on the upper covers and with the spine lettering stamped in silver. Erasable pencil notes to the rear paste-downs. Very clean throughout;..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo, pp. xii, [4], 228; vi, [2], 229-454. Second printing, in the first-state binding of green buckram, decorated with a bellflower device on the upper covers and spine lettering stamped in gilt. Occasional erasable pencil markings; browning to pp. 192-193 in Volume I...... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo, pp. xii, [4], 228; vi, [2], 229-454. Second printing, in the first-state green buckram binding, the upper covers stamped with a bellflower device and the spines lettered in gilt. Spines lightly toned, with slight rubbing and minor wear at the spine ends;..... More
Lyon: Sebastien Gryphe, 1552. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus. Small 8vo. Pp. 1127. Text block measuring 12 × 7 cm. New endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on the title page, ruled in red on the title page and throughout. Previous owner's name written over a black ink blot beneath the..... More