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The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide was a monthly railway timetable for the United Kingdom. It was perhaps more popular than other contemporary manuals as the alphabetical organisation facilitated ease of consultation. This is the September 1946 edition. It includes a map of Scotland that is unattached. It is also provides an interesting insight into social history via the various advertisements.
This edition is in very poor condition. The back cover has separated, though it is present, and there are torn and unattached pages. It would perhaps be a useful source for scrapbooking or other decorative or crafting projects.

Achilles' Navel is a collection of poetry by Canadian poet, author, and artist Doug Fetherling, who has played a significant roll in Canadian literary culture. He used the name Doug Fetherling up until 1999, when he began publishing his work under the name George Fetherling.
This volume is in very good condition. The only significant issue is that it is missing the title label which should be on the front cover. There is a tear to the paper cover on the bottom of the spine and a small dent to the top edge of the back cover. The pages inside are entirely clear and bright, and the text is clear. The binding is also tight.

A vintage board book by Joh W. Harrington with illustrations by Willard Bertram Price. This book is in fair condition with some damage to the paper-covered boards. The front hinge is cracked and one of the quires has partially separated from the binding. In general, however, the quires are still securely attached. There is a large label with a former owner's name stuck to the first page.

This is an issue of Air magazine from Vancouver, BC featuring the poetry of Bill Bissett, dating to 1972. Bissett is a Canadian poet who began publishing in the late 1960s, in addition to working as a painter and musician. With over sixty publications, Bissett is a notable Canadian author of concrete and visual poetry, excellent examples of which are found in this issue of Air.
The magazine is in very good condition, with only some discolouration to indicate its age.

This is a two volume set of the first books in Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House, The Espousals and The Betrothal. Better known than the later volumes, in these volumes Patmore espouses in verse his conception of the ideal Victorian woman, based off of his first wife. The work provides fascinating insight into ideas of gender roles and relationships between men and women in the Victorian Age.
This edition of The Espousals was published in 1856 and The Betrothal in 1857. Both volumes are in Fair condition, with significant wear to the cloth covering the boards. There is also significant bumping to the corners. There are long stretches along the edges of the covers where the fabric has worn away entirely, and there is some discolouration to the fabric on the covers. However, they still present and attractive embossed design on both the front and back covers. The Espousals appears to have possibly had a page cut from the very front, but fly leaves and the title page are still present. Both… Read More

Kenneth G. Mills began his career as an acclaimed concert pianist, before receiving inspiration that led him to devote his life to the production of spiritual insights that he said came from the heart. Anticipations is the second volume in a trilogy of books of his best poetry, drawn from the almost 3000 examples of his spontaneous musings. Many of these were also set to music and performed by the Star-Scape Singers, a choir that Mills himself formed. The text is accompanied by beautiful line illustrations.
This copy is in near fine condition, though it is missing its dust jacket.

Volume one of Potter's Antiquities, containing "The Civil Governance of Athens" and "The Religion of Greece." This is a fascinating edition from 1751, including engravings. This volume is in fair condition. There is significant damage to the leather covering the front board and the spine, and there is staining from what would appear to have been a now missing decoration on the front and back cover. There is also damage to the spine, and cracking to the hinges. Other than age-related staining however, the interior of the book is in excellent shape and the binding is tight.

In this comic satire of capitalism and progress by Leo Simpson, Addison Arkwright as he attempts fo expose his corrupt uncle who seeks to profit from a religion founded on the worship of failure, amongst of schemes.
Leo Simpson was a Canadian author and journalist, who also served as publicity editor of Macmillan Publishers Canada, as well as being a writer in residence at both the University of Ottawa and the University of Western Ontario. Thomas E. Tausly in The Oxford Companion of Canadian Literature, second edition, describes Simpson as a "rarity among Canadian writers" and a "comic novelist of ideas." This edition may be described as being in good condition, with some staining to the back cover and a tear to the bottom of the back cover. This edition is inscribed and signed by the other.

An account of the birth of the famous Dionne Quintuplets, as told by the midwives who helped to deliver the first three babies before the arrival of the doctor. Includes two unused postcards from the museum of the Dionne Quintuplets. The is a small softcover, with a stapled spine and is in Near Fine condition, with only the remnants of a price sticker on the front cover, and some small marks on the back.