Search Results: Canadian Folklore from Minotavros Books

London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Johnston, Frank H.. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, tan paper boards. xxii, 105 pp. Errata tipped in. Spine tilted, creased and rubbed. Some cockling and age toning to paper boards. Rust marks to top margin of pp. 6-9. Purple ink notations to pp. 6-7. Interior age toned. Ink gift inscription to ffep.

[Quebec]: The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. English and French. Soft cover. 244 pp. B&W illustrations. Cracking to spine foot, a few spots of light soiling to covers, else fine.

Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1959. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology Branch. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 107, Anthropological Series No. 26. Yellow card wrappers. 59 pp. Sunned to extremities. Ink ownership inscription to head of front cover. Bumping and creasing to lower corner.

Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, King's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1950. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Canada Department of Resources and Development, Development Services Branch. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 116, Anthropological Series No. 28. Orig. tan printed wrappers, staple bound. vii, 68 pp. Small damp stain to front cover. Small open tears to top and tail edges of rear cover.

Langley, BC: Stagecoach Publishing Co, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 200 pp. B&W photos. Spine sunned and creased, lower front corner bumped and creased, wear to foot of front joint. Interior age toned.

Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 8.5. 1st Printing. 135 p.p., [2] biographical note and ads. Numerous photographs of pioneers, illustrations from newspaper articles and ads. Previous own sticker at bottom of p. 63. Green stain on inside and back of rear cover. Light wear to spine, edges. Top rear corner bumped, with fore-edge bowed and pages lightly curled. An interesting look at anecdotes from early pioneer days and historical events in Lanark County, Ontario, beginning in th 1820s.

[Toronto]: Harwood Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Cattell, Ray. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. From an edition of 110 copies, though the number of copies bound and issued may have been much lower. Ten copies were editioned in roman numerals and presumably retained hors commerce; this copy is number IX. Acrylic painted cloth boards. Hand-sewn and bound by John van Huizen. Printed on double-leaves, pagination printed subtly in blind along the inner margins. 72 pp. With 15 illustrations from Cattell (RCA), including three full-page lithograph spreads. Signed by designer Hugh Michaelson. Housed in a hinged-lid box, covered in full dark blue cloth, with black ribbon pull and printed paper label to the lid. Minor chafing to extremities. Box sunned to extremities. The text was set by Linotype in Caslon Old Face by Robert Reid and Mitchell Atlas and printed by Hugh Michaelson on watermarked Lana Verge Antique paper. With letter from Michaelson on his mongrammed stationery. With… Read More

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1967. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Phillips, Walter. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. brown cloth. Illustrated endpapers. xix, 360 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Sunning to edges of boards . Dust jacket is pirce clipped, age toned, some small spots of edge wear.

Ottawa: Les Editiones, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Field, Saul. 4to. SIGNED and dated 18-6-69 by Aubry to ffep, with invoice laid in with Aubry's signature as well. Full tan cloth. 100 pp. [10] colour plates. Spine sunned, some light soiling and staining to cloth, else fine.

Fonthill, ON: A Trillium Book by Fonthill Studio, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. SIGNED with inscription to ffep. Limited collector's edition. Full blue cloth. 39 pp. B&W illustrations. Light foxing to cloth, worse to rear board. The Heroine from the Niagara Peninsula, an old Indian Legend as told and illustrated with freehand scissor cuttings. With ephemera laid in.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1924. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo (large). 345 p.p. Jacket worn and soiled. Pictorial endpapers show map of Nova Scotia. Previous bookseller label on front pastedown endpaper, with an owner inscription on front free endpaper. Damp stain to bottom of rear jacket cover. Tear to rear inner flap, with some loss at head, but text unaffected. Pages warped, with sporadic foxing throughout. Boards worn, bumped at corners and edges. Wear to spine head. Otherwise in good condition.

[Kitchener, ON]: Pennsylvania Folklore Society of Ontario, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. card wrappers. 207 pp. B&W illustration in text. Sticker ghost to head of front cover. Light rubbing to spine. Else fine. Covers the hamlets of Elia, Cedar Grove, Edgeley, Markham, Laskay, Unionville, Sherwood, Locust Hill, Langstaff, Stouffville, Box Grove, Maple, Peaches, Coleraine, Milliken, Purpleville, Buttonville, Elder's Mills, Milnesville, Woodbridge, Mongolia, and Vellore.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Scarce. Orig. blue cloth, gilt titles and fleur-de-lis decoration. 341 pp. Illustrated title, frontis, B&W line drawings in text. Spine slightly faded and tilted. Chafing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is age toned, chipped to spine ends and corners, bumped and lightly worn to edges, stain to rear cover at fore edge. These skillfully wrought tales of Canadian folklore, dealing with the early days of Nova Scotia--the Acadia of the French--are a native product of rare beauty. There are thrilling stories of conflict between French and English, between Indians and whites; tales of heroism and sacrifice; legends of mysterious happenings; revelations of hitherto unexplainable occurrences--all providing a wonderful faculty for research, and a genius for adapting language to theme.

Grand Falls, Newfoundland: Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Second printing. Soft cover, 192 p.p. B&W photos in-text. A few spots of staining and scuffing to covers. Mr. MacKenzie's first five books of true stories and incidents from the Atlantic Provinces - It Happened Yesterday, Reflections of Yesteryear, Remember the Time, Glimpses of the Past, and Tracks Across the Maritimes - were so well received by the people that he did not need much persuasion to bring out another captivating book of interesting stories.