Featured Books & Recent Acquisitions
Private press pamphlet, hand-sewn wrappers. Cream boards with original line-drawing frontispiece. Tibetan colophon. Small edition; scarce.
Price: CAD $120 Condition: Very Good Full Description »
London: The Theosophical Publishing Company, 1888. First edition, 2 volumes. Original navy cloth with gilt occult symbolism. Some foxing to prelims; an influential work of esoteric philosophy.
Price: CAD $850 Condition: Good Full Description »
Early edition. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, decorated boards. Heavy wear to covers and spine; text block complete and sound. A well-travelled copy.
Price: CAD $45 Condition: Poor/Good Full Description »
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. One of 350 copies on paper. Printed in Troy type. Original limp vellum with silk ties. One of the great private press books of the nineteenth century.
Price: CAD $4,500 Condition: Near Fine Full Description »
A Certain Curtain Book. First edition. Illustrated with original artwork. A guide to authentic living through play. With an endorsement from Alan Watts.
Price: CAD $85 Condition: Fine Full Description »
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. First thus (seventh edition). Original dark green cloth with gilt title and spine decoration. Whitman's definitive text.
Price: CAD $1,200 Condition: Very Good Full Description »
Victorian edition. Original rose-red cloth with elaborate gilt and blind-stamped decoration; lyre and laurel design. Spine ends rubbed; interior clean.
Price: CAD $95 Condition: Good Full Description »
London, c.1811. One of four known copies of the 45-plate issue. Relief etchings with hand-colouring throughout. Perhaps Blake's greatest prophetic book; of supreme rarity.
Price: CAD $48,000 Condition: Good Full Description »
Roycroft Press, East Aurora, NY. Arts & Crafts era production. Original tan boards with Arts & Crafts lettering and device. String-tied binding.
Price: CAD $175 Condition: Good Full Description »
London: India Society, 1912. First edition, one of 750 copies. Introduction by W.B. Yeats. Original boards, paper label. Winner of the Nobel Prize.
Price: CAD $2,200 Condition: Very Good Full Description »
Adventurers' Handbook of Metal Detecting. First edition. Original boards with photographic covers. Complete and tight.
Price: CAD $35 Condition: Very Good Full Description »
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth, gilt spine. A cornerstone of American nature writing. Spine faded; text fine.
Price: CAD $3,800 Condition: Good Full Description »
Manchester: John Heywood, 1883. First edition. Original wrappers. Inscribed by Carpenter on the half-title. A utopian Whitmanesque sequence; scarce in first edition.
Price: CAD $680 Condition: Good Full Description »
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1902. One of 80 copies on paper. Printed in Subiaco type with red and black initials. Original limp vellum. One of the rarest of all Ashendene books.
Price: CAD $5,800 Condition: Fine Full Description »
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt mountain design. A few light spots to covers; interior clean and bright.
Price: CAD $420 Condition: Very Good Full Description »
London: A.C. Fifield, 1908. First edition. Original cloth. Admired by Ezra Pound and influential on the Imagist movement. An unjustly neglected philosophical work; uncommon.
Price: CAD $290 Condition: Good Full Description »