Vancouver, BC: Evans & Hastings, Printers. 1919. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original printed wrappers. 86 pp, frontispiece portrait of the author. Covers dust soiled, with some creasing and small tears, old stain to rear cover but overall fairly nice. Very scarce. ¶ Poems of the prairies and..... More
Vancouver, BC: Discovery Press, 1975 & 1977. Two Volumes, original cloth, map endpapers. 8°, 429 + 439 pp., Plates, Indexes. First Edition, Second Printing of Volume One, First Edition, First Printing of Volume Two. Tipped-in colour frontispiece of Captain James Cook in Vol. One. A fine set in near fine..... More
New York: Edward Arnold, 70 Fifth Avenue, 1897. First American Edition. Octavo, original red cloth lettered in gilt with black rules on spine and front panel. [1-vii], viii, [1], 2-317, [318-blank], 16 page catalogue of Edward Arnold's Publications bound in at rear. The catalogue lists Wells' THIRTY STRANGE STORIES (also..... More
No Place [London]: No Publisher [Self Published, Printed by John and Edward Bumpus], No Date [1922?]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo. Bound in full vellum over boards by Bain, London. Spine, front & lower covers with borders in gilt, gilt lettering on spine, marbled paper endpapers, top edges gilt..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1843. Second Edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind on front & rear panels, spine panel lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Pp (i-half-title), (ii-blank), (iii-title), (iv-blank) (v), vi, (vii-contents), viii, (1), 2-277, (278-blank); (i-half-title), (ii-blank), (iii-title), (iv-blank) (v-contents), vi;..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street. No Date [circa 1860]. Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vii) + 350 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street. No Date [circa 1860]. Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vi) + 329 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard..... More
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, bound in full soft dark blue morocco , front panel lettered in gilt, brown marbled endpapers. Unpaginated (circa 200 pp.), folding map printed in black, blue and red. Tanning to spine, small chip to leather at spine head..... More
Vancouver, BC: 1922. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original brown wrappers titled and ruled in gilt on upper cover, stapled at spine. Printed in red and black throughout. 16 pp. Issued in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies of which 140 only were available for purchase by..... More
Vancouver & Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre. 2003. First Edition Thus (& 1st printing). Octavo, original boards, dust jacket. 400 pp., Maps, Illustrations, Bibliography, Notes, Index. This is the first expanded and publically available edition, it was previously issued in different format as "SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S Secret Voyage To the Northwest..... More
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, At St. Martin's House, 1928. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large octavo, original blue cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover. 253 pp., illustrated with 13 full-page colour plates printed on glossy paper inserted throughout the text by W. Langdon Kihn..... More
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, [1953]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial printed wrappers, map endpapers. 417 pp., illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs. ASSOCIATION COPIES, with the ownership signature in ink of Katherine Capes, National Museum, Room 356A, on the upper front cover. Small cip to top..... More
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, [1929]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers. 275 pp., map, 33 plates with reproductions of photographs at rear. A few minor stains, a very good, sound copy, nice and clean. More
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, [1950]. First Editions (& 1st printings). Two volumes, octavo, original pictorial printed wrappers, map endpapers. 880 pp (pagination continuous), illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs. ASSOCIATION COPIES, with the ownership signatures in ink of Katherine Capes, National Museum, Room 356A, on the upper front covers..... More
Toronto, Etc: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975. First Edition (& 1st printing). Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. 167 pp., Notes, Index. 8 pages of black & white plates. Very good clean copy in dust jacket, the jacket chipped, with a small piece missing at the top edge of the front panel..... More
London: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., 3 & 4, Paternoster Buildings, E.C., and 44, Victoria Street, S.W., 1914. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front panel, publisher's device in blind on rear panel, top edges gilt. Pp [i]-[iv], v-xix, [xx], xxi..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited. 1955. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original green cloth. 298 pp. A very good copy in like dust jacket, light fraying at spine tips. ¶ A Marxist novel about the Great Depression. More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited. 1949. First Edition, Second Impression. Octavo, original red cloth. 288 pp. A very good copy in a good dust jacket, chipped and worn, old ragged tears that have some interior tape stains from old repair. Sounds worse than it looks, it still presents well. ¶..... More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press. [1948]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Ocytavo, original blue boards letetred in black. 84 pp. One upper corner slightly bumped, a very good clean copy in the original printed dust jacket, that has a couple of closed tears and a few very small stains but presents..... More
Vancouver, BC: blewointmentpress, March, 1970. First Edition (& 1st printing). Two pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled at upper left; reproduced from typescript. Verso of page 2 reproduces the drawing Cat'. "1,000 copies of this blewointment release have been sent out." Folded once. Tears at the folds, Old mark from..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1874. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original blue cloth decorated in black, blind and gold, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, beveled edges, brown coated endpapers. Pp [i]-[vii], viii-xii, [xiii: List of Illustrations], [xiv:Erratum], [1], 2-364, Frontispiece..... More
Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, Department of English, 1998. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original white printed wrappers, sewn on spine. 21 pp. Issued in an edition limited to only 400 copies printed by Benwell-Atkins and sewn by hand, this being copy No. 54. About a fine copy..... More
[Vancouver, BC]: British Columbia Monthly / Edited and Printed at the New Era Social Club by Gerry Gilbert, 1983. First Edition (& 1st printing). Tall format [8.5 x 14 inches), 10 leaves, stapled upper left. Reproduced from Letraset (?) and typescript. The Benefit Issue for MacLeod's Books. "This issue's production..... More
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., [1926]. Reprint. Octavo, original burgundy cloth stamped in gold on spine panel and blind on front cover. 304 pp., 10 maps on lighter tissue paper inserted throughout the text. Issued as a volume in the "Edinburgh Library of Non-Fiction Books..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1984. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Original maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 8°, 206 pp. Illustrated by Larry Dickison. This copy specially inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title leaf. A fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust..... More