Coach House Books. winter catalogue 2000
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2000. Soft cover. [210 x 140 mm] folded. Twice folded Coach House catalogue for 2000. Fine condition. More
Private Press
Everything Goes to Japan
Toronto, ON. Everything Associates/ Coach House Press, 1964. Soft cover. [140 x 110mm]. Cream wraps, stapled spine. Illustrations throughout. Great copy. Printed at The Coach House Press. More
The Nature and Making of Papyrus
Barkston Ash, Yorkshire, England: The Elmete Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xvi, 72pp. Cloth boards, black spine label letering in gilt. Original glassine. Edition of 495 signed and numbered copies, this is no. 152. A fine copy. Includes the prospectus, folded and loosely inserted. More
Typomania: An Anthology of Printing by Apprentices at the University of Toronto Press.
Toronto: Apprenticepress, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. Quarter Leather. Unpaginated. Printing samples designed and printed by Robert G. Reid, Alex Weir, John Wilson, Ted Cowling, Frank Weston, Luigi Luciani. Mostly quotes about printing on heavy hand made sheets folded once or twice and bound in paper patterned boards..... More
Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Post 8vo. 15 unnumbered leaves. Edition de Luxe. No. 226 of 250 copies printed on French-fold Arnold handmade paper with additional illustrated title-page. Unsigned binding by William Snelling Hadaway [Crichton, 34]. Bound in full red parchment decorated in gilt stamped..... More
La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Hardcover. Folio. 325 pp, with 34 double page and 8 single page sepia collotype plates after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. Publisher's full gilt decorated orange vellum, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. The boards and rubbed and scuffed with several scratches to the front board..... More
La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Hardcover. Folio. 325 pp, with 34 double page and 8 single page sepia collotype plates after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. Publisher's full gilt decorated orange vellum, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Limited edition of 1475 copies, this is no. 760. The front board slightly..... More
The Last Book of the Last Prophet
Toronto, ON. Poetry Toronto, 1976. Soft cover. [220 x 140mm]. Yellow wraps, stapled spine. Drawings by Aiko Suzuki. Light aging along spine. Crease on back cover. Good copy. More
What Isint Tantrik Speshul (Signed by Atwood & Jewinski)
Vancouver, BC: blewointmentpress, 1973. Soft cover. [280 x 220mm]. 71p. Photographic wraps with red taped spine. Edition of 700 copies. Signed by Margaret Atwood (p. 20) and inscribed by Hans Jewinski (p. 47). Ownership signature of Canadian writer Greg Gatenby. Wear to the edges but overall a very good copy..... More
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Tolz: Bremer Presse, 1920. Vellum. 4to. 242, [4]- table, [1], colophon, [4] blanks. Full vellum with gilt outline borders to boards and compartments, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Endpapers and title-page foxed, with scattered light foxing throughout. Stamped Bremer Binderel. F. TH. at base of rear pastedown. The..... More
he & she &
Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. [180 x 140mm]. 28p. Mint green wraps with orange lettering. Small stain on front cover. Signed by Barbour to Canadian writer Greg Gatenby, Greg's ownership signature to the title-page. Good clean copy. More
Voices, Noises
Toronto, ON. The Coach House Press, 1982. Soft cover. [220 x 140mm]. Review copy with review sticker on front endpaper. Ownership signature of Canadian writer Greg Gatenby to the front endpaper. Good clean copy. More
The Cradle will Fall
Toronto, ON. The Coach House Press, 1977. Soft cover. [180 x 120mm]. White wrappers, stapled spine. Edition of 500 copies. Ownership signature of Canadian writer Greg Gatenby. Covers a little scuffed and toned at the edges but overall a good copy. More
Everett Coogler 15
Fredericton, N.B. The New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1971. Hardcover. [220 x 180mm]. 35p. White wraps, stapled spine. Edition of 250 copies. Edges a little yellowed and spine lightly creased. Good copy. More
Haikube
Toronto, ON. BookThug, 2007. Soft cover. [140 x 140mm]. Purple wraps with black and grey lettering. Second printing. Edition of 100 copies. Inscribed by Gregory Betts: "At the launch in Olga Korper's special space in Toronto, 31 March 2007." Also inscribed and dated by Matt Donovan at the launch and..... More
Thomas Bewick. A Brief Description of his method of engraving on wood, taken from his Memoir, c. 1827.
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1978. Soft cover. 150 x 140 mm. Sewn wraps, faint spine fade else a fine copy. Edition of 100. More
Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971. Half Cloth. 4to. 44 pp. No jacket as issued. New introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 400 copies. Half orange cloth, patterned boards, Label on spine. Slight bowing but still a very nice, tight, fine copy. More
The Vision and other Essays
Toronto: The Dharma Centre of Canada Limited, 1971. Limited Edition. wrappers. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Edges very lightly rubbed with the occasional scuff mark. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Book is clean and square. A tight little copy. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this one..... More
Hit By A Rock Poems and Prose Poems
Toronto, ON. Proper Tales Press, 1982. Soft cover. [220 x 130mm]. Red wrappers, stapled spine. Edition of 1000 copies. Cover and drawings by Stuart Ross. Some fading on cover. Small red stain on title page. Good copy. More
ONCE: A Lullaby
Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, 1983. First Edition. Soft cover. [150 x 210mm]. White cover with colour illustration. Stapled spine. Light folds and stains on cover. Remnants of price sticker on back cover. One page with wear at the upper margin but overall a good copy. More
Thin Under the Skin
Whitby, ON. The Plowman Printing House, 1989. Soft cover. [220 x 140mm]. Light pink wraps, stapled spine. Signed by author. Covers creased and a couple of light stains, but overall a good clean copy. More
Green Light Stone & Trees
Burnaby, British Columbia: Cold Turkey Press, 1977. Soft cover. [240 x 150mm]. Cream wraps, sewn spine. Light wear and creasing to the covers otherwise a very good copy. Published by arrangement with Blackfish Press. More
The Almond Tree
The Quarry Press, 1982. Soft cover. [200 x 130mm]. 56p. Light grey wrappers, stapled spine. Some creasing along top edge near spine. Some aging on spine. Good clean copy. Printed in Kingston Ontario by Hewson & White Printing. More
The Dog Fairy-Tale: An Excerpt from Fables & Substories. ill. Jaffe, Charles.
Bird-In-Hand Productions. First Edition. Soft cover. Soft Cover. [140 x 90mm]. 6pp. White paper with black lettering and illustrations. String bound, hand-sewn chapbook. Drawings by Charles Jaffe. Translation from the Czech by Alexandra Morrison. Very faint brown stain to front cover, otherwise, clean. Excellent condition. More
Portfolio Three. A Further collection of resettings, specimen settings & display settings
London: The Rampant Lions Press, 1982. 4to. Green paper chemise with 21 loose broadsides, including the title page and colophona, with a folder containing 4 photographs of carvings by Will Carter. Limited to approximately 500 copies. Including a reprint of the title-page spread for The Book of Jonah with the..... More