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Hamilton, ON: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1982. Library bookplate inside front cover and call numbers, in pencil, inside rear cover. There are no other library markings and the book is basically clean and tightly bound. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. 40 pages with colour and B&W photo reproductions of the bindings in the exhibition. . First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus.. Exhibition Catalogue.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1974. Lime green cloth clean and bright with tips slightly pinched. 312 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

Stockholm: Swedish Institute / Svenska Institutet, 1983. Text in English; 32 pages with B&W illustrations.. First Edition in English. Booklet. Very Good..

Berkeley: University of California, 1977. Minor sunning of spine. Prepared by his staff and friends for August Fruge on his retirement as director of the University of California Press; 105 pages. Fruge was director of the press from late 1949 until his retirement at the end of 1976.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus./No Jacket.

Seattle: Books Arts Guild and Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting Poster advertising this book arts faire at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle. Printed in red (faux marbling) and black (text in calligraphy). First Edition. Single Sheet. Near Fine Plus..

Seattle: Book Club of Washington Vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 2000); vol. 2, no. 1; vol. 2, no. 2; vol. 3, no. 1; vol. 3, no. 2; vol. 4, no. 2; & vol. 5, no. 1 (Summer 2004). Pages vary from 16 to 28.. First Edition. Chapbook. Near Fine or Better..

Calgary: Fair Press, 1997. Digest sized. Partial price sticker top of front cover; otherwise externally and internally clean and unmarked. 96 pages.. First Edition. Xerlox Bound. Near Fine Plus..

Victoria: Library Development Commission, 1969. Spine slightly faded. Author's chronicle as Superintendent of Public Library Commission of peddling public library services in British Columbia. 93 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

New York: Typophiles, 1997. Bound in purple cloth with gilt stamping on upper board and on spine. 500 copies printed. 95 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued.

Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Ian Hodgkins & Co Ltd. Not dated. A catalogue of 736 items for sale; 74 pages of listings plus two pages of B/W facsimile illustrations of five of the items.. Catalogue. Near Fine Plus..

Seattle: John Polley Books, 1980. Rusting of staples on the inside. Bookseller catalogue; 10 pages of listings.. First Edition. Chapbook. Near Fine Plus..

London: Myers & Co., 1936. Printed plain paper wraps with light shelf soiling and signs of light use. A 56 page bookseller's catalogue with 578 items for sale. Myers & Co. of 102, New Bond Street, London W.1.. Catalogue. Very Good..

Victoria: Public Library Commission, Open Shelf Division, 1950. Red wraps have two small moisture splotches on front cover and a bit of foxing on fore edge of pages. A list of books, divided into four parts by age-group, available to children throughout British Columbia who do not have use of a local public library; 130 pages.. Wraps. Very Good Plus..

Victoria: Adelphi Book Shop, 1970. Paper (simulated linen) bound boards with footprint design on front, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece of Daniel Dafoe, B/W plates, index, 119 pages; issued without dust jacket. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, an exquisite bookseller's catalogue with 677 Crusoe related items.. Limited Edition. Fine/No Jacket.

London: Collins, 1946. Shelf rubbing to bottom edge of boards; dust jacket rubbed and faded on spine panel and with a bit of chipping at tips of all folds. Part of the Britain in Pictures series; 48 pages with eight plates in colour and 21 illustrations in B/W.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Calgary: University of Calgary Library, 1991. A 28-page pamphlet stapled in printed mauve wraps: Occasional paper no. 9 of the Special Collections Division. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine..

San Francisco: Pacific Book Auction Galleries, 1997. Bound in printed wraps; unpaginated; a few B&W illustrations of items to be auctioned. 411 items.. First Edition. Stapled in Wraps. Fine..

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1980. Quarter bound in purple cloth and orange paper over boards, with design on upper board and gilt lettering on spine; dust jacket is plain glassine which is tanned and has edge wear. With a foreword by Edward Craig and an essay by Gordon Craig on illustrations in general. 90 pages. 450 hardcover copies made for the Book Club of California and 500 for The Typophiles. Laid in is the prospectus for this publication printed by Connie Thorpe at Matrix Press, and the ordering envelope.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Good.

Toronto: Cormorant, 2010. 356 pages with index.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

New York: George Brasiller, 1975. Previous owner blind stamp on title page; slipcase with printed labels on three sides. Reproduced from the Illuminated Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library; 160 colour plates with commentary.. Second Printing. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine..