[Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey Editions | MoonLiner Books, 2009. Octavo, 23.2 x 14.2 cm. Cased in limp covers by Keith Lowe at MoonLiner Books. The title is printed, with calligraphic Zapfino flourishes, to the upper cover. Printed lettering to the spine. An arabesque drawing by Harold Budd spans the spine and..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2016 [in roman numerals]. Tall octavo, 27.5 x 15.4 cm. Cased in blue paper over boards, with a darker blue morocco spinestrip and matching morocco tips. Blue leather label, lettered in gilt, to the spine. A device with Cavafy’s name in Greek majuscules is printed in..... More
[Vancouver] Near Strathcona Park: HM, 2022 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 23.9 x 16.7 cm. Cased in light blue paper over boards. Paper label to the spine, printed with the title in pale bronze ink. The upper and lower covers repeat (respectively) the opening and closing pages of Cobden-Sanderson’s tract. The..... More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2019 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 22.2 x 15.6 cm. Laced with leather slips into limp covers of Khadi Bhutanese Tsasho paper. The covering paper resembles mottled vellum in look and texture. Title printed in blue to the spine and four ornaments printed in blue to the..... More
[Toronto]: imprimerie dromadaire, [1988]. Duodecimo, 17.8 x 12.7 cm. Perfect bound in beige card covers. A roundel, with the title in red and lettering and the author’s name in black, is printed to the upper cover. Red, yellow, and black die-cut letters are also pasted to the upper cover. Plain..... More
s.l. [Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. A single sheet of Zerkall cream laid paper, once-folded to produce a bifolium. 26.6 x 19 cm. closed. Unpaginated [ll.2]. Some faint creases and wrinkles; nearing a fine copy. The title, author, imprint, and date are given on the recto of the first leaf;..... More
s.l. [Flatrock, Newfoundland]: walking bird press, 2018. Quarto, 31.2 x 22 cm. Cased in blue-gold Asahi cloth over limp boards, with title blocked in blind to the upper cover. Unpaginated [ll. 16, including self-ends]. A fine copy. The text was set by Michael Bixler in Van Djick type, and printed..... More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2021. Quarto, 32.6 x 23.6 cm. Sewn onto cloth slips laced through limp beige paper covers. Title printed in green to the spine; the upper cover is printed in turquoise with an arrangement of type furniture on a subtle tan rectangular background. Pale green Barcham Green..... More
[Merrickville, Ontario]: Greyweathers Press, 2017 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 25.5 x 17.3 cm. Cased in quarter burgundy cloth and marbled paper over boards. Brown Canson Mi-Teintes endpapers. Top and bottom edges trimmed; fore-edges opened but untrimmed. Unpaginated [pp. 80]. The boards are slightly bowed, owing possibly to the grain of..... More
Ottawa: Environment Canada | Fisheries and Marine Service, 1974. First printing. Quarto, 31.4 x 23.9 cm. Cased in full grey cloth. Pink paper label, titled in gilt, to the spine. The upper cover is decorated with a paper panel, printed with a salmon in the formline style of Northwest Coast..... More
[Vancouver]: Colophon Books, 1980. Octavo, 26.9 x 18.4 cm. Cased in quarter green Oasis leather and grey cloth over boards. The spine is lettered in gilt and there is a blind-stamped vignette of a bird to the upper cover. pp. [ll. 3: blank self-ends; pp. 10] 11-35 [3; ll. 2..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2001. Folio, 38.6 x 29.2 cm. Sewn on four vellum slips and laced into limp covers of cream paper handmade by Reg Lissel. Matching paper label to the spine, printed with the title in red. Housed in a later black paper covered slipcase, made at HM and..... More
s.l. [Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Quarto, 30.8 x 20.6 cm. Cased in marbled paper over boards, with paper labels titled in bronze to the spine and upper cover. Abecedaried slate blue Guarro endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 32]. Very minor rubbing to the covering paper at the corners, else a fine copy..... More
Mission, B.C. Barbarian Press, 1987. Octavo, 21.6 x 13.6 cm. Sewn into stiff card and wraps of Canson mi-teintes gris clair paper. Lettering in pale blue printed to the upper cover. Blue Mingei endsheets. Unpaginated [pp. 32]. A fine copy. The text was set in Bembo roman and Fairbanks italic..... More
[Toronto]: Grand Union Press [printed by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press], [1983]. Octavo, 23.7 x 15 cm. Cased in tan Carnival Kraft paper over boards, with wood-type lettering printed in black and red to the upper cover. Printed lettering to the spine. Yellow Carnival Groove endpapers. pp. [6] 7-29..... More
Flatrock, Newfoundland: walking bird press, 2017. 34.6 x 17.2 cm. Concertina-fold leaves tipped to boards covered in grey Iris Book cloth. Title-label, printed in black, to the upper cover. A linocut roundel, printed in red, is inset to the lower cover. Unpaginated [ll. 12, concertina-fold double-leaves; plus ll. 2, self-ends]..... More
[North Vancouver]: Honeysuckle Press, [1964]. Squarish quarto, 24.5 x 23.7 cm. Cased in full black cloth. A pale copper roundel depicting a female nude adorns the upper cover. The spine is titled in white and further embellished with Kuthan’s device in pale copper. Pale grey endpapers patterned with a repeating..... More
Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research [designed by Robert Reid and printed by Ib Kristensen at the Richard Pennington Printing Office of McGill University Press], 1965. Tall Quarto, 36.9 x 28.6 cm. Finely bound in full brown oasis niger by Vianney Bélanger. Gilt lettering to the spine..... More
s.l. [Vancouver]: HM [Heavenly Monkey], 2020 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 19.5 x 13.4 cm. In quarter black leather and marbled paper over boards. The covering paper is Danish “from the 1930s of an appropriately ichthyic design.” There is a dark green leather label to the spine, lettered and rolled in..... More
s.l. [Mission, B.C.]: s.n. [Barbarian Press], 2006. Duodecimo, 18.3 x 13.1 cm. Sewn with blue thread into wraps of St-Armand Canal Blue Denim paper. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. The text was set in Poliphilus & Blado types, with Poliphilus Titling and Tory for display. It was printed on Hahnemühle Biblio paper..... More
s.l. [Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. Sewn with white thread into wraps of Ingres Franciscan Brown paper. Title printed in red to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. Two minor spots to the lower cover, else a fine copy. The text was set in Van Dijck and Bembo and printed..... More
s.l. [Vancouver Island, B.C.]: Adrian Robertshaw [Introvert Press], 2019 [in Roman numerals]. Octavo, 24.7 x 16 cm. Pasted into a white paper wrapper. A line of assorted sorts and Robertshaw’s name are printed in blind to both covers. The title was overprinted, on the same line, in black to the..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2017 [given in Roman numerals]. Octavo, 18.8 x 13.8 cm. Cased in quarter plum cloth with matching cloth tips and cream paper over boards; the covering paper is decorated on the upper cover with floral and foliate ornaments printed in purple, orange, blue, and green. Printed..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: [Barbarian Press] The Carol Shields Literary Trust, 2021. Octavo, 24.6 x 17.3 cm. Sewn with blue thread into handmade St-Armand Granite paper wraps. The endsheets are St-Armand Canal Graphite. Unpaginated [pp. 16]. A fine copy. The text was set by Crispin Elsted in Monotype Bembo and Fairbanks, with..... More
s.l., s.n. [Toronto: George Walker], 2000. Quarto, 28.2 x 23 cm. In paper covers, tacketed with blue thread, with lettering and a wood engraving printed in blue to the upper cover; blue handmade rag endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 24]. Some mild creasing to the upper cover along the spine, else a...... More