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By: N/A
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.: 1881
Seller ID: 005050
Condition: Very Good
Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards. Arlington Edition. Inside back cover advertises Somer Pianos. 312 pp. of humour. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00 USD
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.:
Seller ID: 008656
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original red cloth on flexible card. Bookplate of Sir George Stephen, Bart.,who was President of the Bank of Montreal at the time he founded the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and served as its first President. No date; estimated 1880. First free endpaper chipped around edges; balance of pages intact and clean. Minor wear to cover edges and corners. A barrelful of whimsey, political intrigue, and common occurrences which will help any reader better understand England of the day. View more info
By: Adams, Caswell
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co.: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012529
Condition: Good Plus
Red cloth on boards showing edge wear. Descriptions on verso, full-page drawings on recto. Cartoons were previously published in the New York Tribune, 1940-1947. There are a lot of uncomfortable truths in these cartoons ! View more info
By: Ade, George
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company: 1912
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005786
Condition: Very Good
Original brown cloth on boards. Humourous social commentary. Every one of these short stories ends with a moral. This book looks like nearly new except for rubbed spine title and slightly worn corners. By the author of The College Widow and Fables in Slang. 229 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1900
Seller ID: 003907
Condition: Good
Original brown suede illustrated and lettered by pyrography. The story appeared in five parts in Atlantic Monthly in 1877, 14 years before My Cousin the Colonel, with which it is often twinned. The protagonist, a bank cashier and bookkeeper, plans a three-week holiday on horseback in northern New Hampshire. Mary, his newly-purchased steed, has her own agenda. 231 pp., followed by several attractively-illustrated ads. View more info
By: Andom, R.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd.: 1916
Seller ID: 004541
Condition: Good Plus
Original pictorial orange cloth on boards. The ninth book of Troddles. Cover faded, corners worn, and inscription. 318 pp. View more info
By: Barrie, J.M.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Rahway, N.J., The Mershon Company:
Seller ID: 004093
Condition: Good Plus
Original green cloth on boards. A series of short essays, often humourous, on smoking. Interior clean. Covers soiled. 231 pp. View more info
By: Barrie, James M.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company:
Edition: Brighton Edition
Seller ID: 004855
Condition: Good
Original grey-green cloth elaborately decorated in black florals on boards. Title page torn 2 inches at gutter foot. Cover soil and tanned text. Centred around Barrie's experience in the Nottingham Journal office. 242 pp. plus catalogs. View more info
By: Berton, Pierre
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1962
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010226
Condition: Very Good
Bright orange cloth on boards. Tiny chips head and foot of DJ. Chapter titles include: All My Own Work, Five Dilemmas of Our Time, The Canadian Way of Life, The Writing Game, Seasonal Reflections of a Country Dweller, and Dreams and Daydreams. This material first appeared in the Toronto Daily Star. 185 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Graphics Ltd.: 1983
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 003310
ISBN: 0-9691592-0-X
Condition: Very Good
Original red pictorial card covers. Foreword by the late Dalton Camp. Signed copy in excellent condition. Editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe since 1978. 174 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 003890
ISBN: 0-9691592-2-6
Condition: Near Fine
Original colour pictorial soft cover. Cartoons by Beutel and essays by friends and foes. McKenna has served at Premier of New Brunswick and Ambassador to the United States. He is now employed by Toronto Dominion Bank. 205 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 004132
ISBN: 0969159226
Condition: Very Good
Original red and white pictorial soft cover. Essays on McKenna by several prominent people, with cartoons by Beutel. 205 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., The Telegraph-Journal: 1981
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009774
Condition: Good Plus
Original illustrated soft cover. Ex-library. Beutel's first book of cartoons, with introduction by his editor, Fred Hazel. Political satire at its cleanest and best. Cover creased, with no marks or damage. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985
Edition: First
Seller ID: 009823
ISBN: 0-920483-07-0
Condition: Very Good
Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initial suit having been quashed. Approx. 85 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985
Edition: First
Inscription: Inscribed and Initialled By Beutel
Seller ID: 011710
ISBN: 0-920483-07-0
Condition: Very Good
Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initial suit having been quashed. Approx. 85 pp. View more info
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1918
Seller ID: 007077
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original black cloth decorated in red and gold on boards. One leaf excised between the Dedication and Chapter I. Humourous approach to the soldiers' lives in the trenches, "where men do live in holes in the ground that they might thereby swat the Amalekites which are at this day called Huns."- Dedication. Cracked hinges glued front and back. Previous owner's name. 102 pp. View more info
By: Blaine
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton Spectator: 1970
Inscription: Signed by Author/Illustrator
Seller ID: 000328
Condition: Very Good
Original oblong pictorial(cartoon) cover in black on white cloth, no DJ. Inscribed and signed by the artist author. Clever, astute drawings and gag lines with no smut ! I laughed until I could hardly breathe ! Definitively Canadian, but well-read Americans will enjoy it, too! Cartoons were originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario. Minor soil and staining to back cover, still Very Good. View more info
By: Burns, Robert
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.:
Seller ID: 003376
Condition: Good Plus
Original card covers in attached wraps. Second in the series, with no further titles listed (Lists to itself). Composed first in 1785, the scene is Mauchline, where Poosie Nancy had her change-house. 27 pp. with glossary, plus ad. View more info
Price: $3,000.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company: 1943
Inscription: Signed By 11 Cartoonists and Other Celebrities
Seller ID: 013237
Condition: Good
Original red, white and blue paper covered boards with cartoon of a soldier and his lady on the front. Paper on spine has come away from spine at front gutter, but is still present. Hand soil. This book was written by the first openly black cartoonist to be syndicated in white newspapers in the U.S. We believe that this important piece of comic strip history was given as a gift to cartoonist C.D. Russell (who was identified as an influence on Campbell in his obituary) and his bride (?), Mary, in 1945. The blank pages in the front and back of the book have been signed along with sketches b... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., McCurdy Printing Co.: 1968
Edition: First (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011288
Condition: Very Good
Cover shows Stanfield telling G.I. Smith, "There you are, Ike - healthy, blooming, guaranteed for five years - and she's all yours." Nova Scotia as a garden patch. Smith was Interim Premier following Stanfield. Chambers worked primarily for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. He died in 1996 at the age of 90. 68 pp. View more info