Search Results: Canadian Art from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983. . Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983. Approximately 10" x 8.5", wire-stitched card covers, approximately 28 pages; illustrated in colour and b&w. A very good copy..

(N.p): Time Canada Limited, (1975). Approximately 9" x 10", card covers, unpaginated; colour and b&w illustrations. Some wear to edges and spine, else very good..

(Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1945). "Second edition". Octavo, wire-stitched card covers, pp. 65; illustrated. Printed and designed by Rous and Mann. 5,000 copies in this printing. Previous owner's name on title page, else very good..

Kingston: The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University in collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, (1986). First edition.. Soft cover. Very Good. Card covers, 128 pp., illustrations in colour and b&w.. Spine colour faded, else just light wear to covers and very good.

(Peterborough: Woodland Press, 1983). First edition. Trade paper format. Inscribed by Miller to an academic, noting "This is copy #1 off the press". Profiles 23 Canadian artists. Light creasing along gutters from opening, and light wear to covers else very good condition. .

Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1975.. Soft cover. Near Fine. Quarto, stapled pictorial card covers, pp. [44]; illustrated in b&w. Occasional Paper #2. Near fine.

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, (1972). First edition. 22 x 14.5 cm, brown cloth, pp. 120; illustrated. This copy belonged to Dora de Pedery-Hunt, and the endpapers bear her signature (twice), as well as the signatures of Rebecca Sisler, Frances Gage, Pauline McGibbon, James Houston, Eleanor Koldofsky, and a half dozen others. Very good in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a couple of tears to the spine ends, tiny chips, and creasing to the spine panel. Comes supplied with a mylar dust jacket protector. .

(N.p.: Newfield Publications, N.d). First edition. Quarto, white plastic covers, unpaginated; numerous illustrations. Typography for the book by Cooper and Beatty. Work by the finest Canadian graphic designers of the period. Ugly blacked-out address lablel on the front paste-down has offset onto the front free endpaper, ex-libris Past Master's Club as noted on address label on rear pastedown, front gutter is darkened and has a 2 cm crack, covers are lightly soiled. Dust jacket preserved in a mylar protector, but has several tears and is chipped at the head of the spine. [Oversize*].

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2000. Printed wire-stitched stiff card covers, 22.5 x 22.5 cm, 28 pp., with eleven full page colour illustrations of Klunders paintings plus three other illustrations. Inscribed by Klunder in the colophon: For Judy on Canada Day 2004, affection and appreciation. H. Klunder". Light creasing to covers, else very good. .

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, (1958). First edition. Octavo, dark green boards, pp. xvi, 188; illustrated throughout by Thoreau MacDonald. Ecology. Very good in a very good dust jacket, with a 1/3" creased tear and a small price-sticker stain in the upper right corner of the front panel, two almost unnoticeable faint grease stains to rear panel. ..

(Toronto: Hart House, University of Toronto, 2003). First edition. 20 cm x 16.5 cm, card covers, pp. 93, (1); illustrated in colour and b&w. Exhibition catalogue, designed by Gilbert Li. Fine. .

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, black cloth, pp. 296; illustrated. Signed by nine members of the RCA on the first blank, including Barbara Howard, Julius Griffith, and Dora de Pedery Hunt. The are two splits in the hinge paper, one at the front and one at the back; still the book remains structurally sound and otherwise is near fine in dust jacket. [Oversize*].

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976. First edition. A charming book by one of Canada's great book designers. Glossy pictorial boards, ink name blacked out on front free endpaper, else near fine (likely issued without dust jacket)..

Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1983.. Soft cover. Very Good. Quarto, blue printed card covers. pp. x, 112; illustrated in black and white. Minimal production values, but treating an interesting subject, and providing a brief biography of the artist and an illustrtaed catalogue of 58 of his works. Canadian folk art. Covers a bit faded and very slightly soiled, else very good.

Toronto: Oxford, 1991. First edition. 23.5 cm x 16 cm, grey boards, pp. xv, 303; illustrated in colour. This book was withdrawn from general circulation by it's publisher. Fifteen page booklet laid in, printed to accompany the book. Fine in dust jacket..

(Rexdale, Ontario, Canada: Roger Murray and Associates, 1983) Quarto, rebound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, includes Volume I, Number I, through Volume I, Number VI. Numerous articles on type design, photography, illustration, and advertising. Previous owner's busines card tipped to front endpaper. Fine in a durable library-style binding..

(Erin): Porcupine's Quill, 1982. First edition. Wood engravings by G. Brender á Brandis. An historical novel for children, set near Dundas, Upper Canada, in the year 1830. Fine in dust jacket..

Toronto: Education and Extension / Art Gallery of Ontario, (1974). ca. 8.5" x 10 ", cerlox bound card covers, unpaginated; illustrated. Two mylar sheets with overlaid images preceeding text block. The first major survey of video art in Canada. Includes material on General Idea, and many others. Covers a bit darkened, else near fine..

(N.p.: Canadian Y.M.C.A. War Services in co-operation with Canadian Legion Educational Services, (1942). 14.2 cm x 9.9 cm, staped self wraps, pp. 16; with 5 illustrations [2 show carvings by Florence Wyle, 1 by Loring) and one diagram of tools. From a series of "recreational-educational how-to-get-started booklets for members of the Canadian Armed Services". Staples tarnished else a near fine copy of this tiny pamphlet..

Toronto: Ritchies Auctioneers, Sept 15, 2003. Card covers, pp. (84), (12). 210 items pictured in black and white and briefly described. Some page corners folded over as page markers, leaving creases and occasional pencil notations, presumably bids or prices realised. Very good. .