Book Description: Clarke, Irwin, & Company Limited, Vancouver, Canada, 1971. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. Centennial Edition. 4" x 7" 111 Pgs. Slanted spine, light edge wear.The Indians of British Columbia called Emily Carr, Klee Wyck or "Laughing One," when she went among them to paint their totems and villages. The affinity she felt for these people is reflected in anecdotes full of humour, pathos, and warm understanding. This was her first book, written in 1941. Bookseller Inventory # 37040
Book Description: UBC Press, Vancouver B.C., 1986. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Editorial/correction sheet glued to front wrap. Correction Copy. Bookseller Inventory # 006800
Book Description: Colour Library International, 1981. Original Cloth. Nagele (illustrator). Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Good/Good. Original maroon cloth on boards, large white letters cover and spine. 128 pp. of striking colour photos, many full-page, province by province. Produced by Ted Smart and David Gibbon. Bookseller Inventory # 000574
Book Description: Society for Art Publications, Toronto. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good ++. Various issues in serviceable condition. apr./ aug. / oct. 1968 . apr. / jun. / aug. / oct. 1970. feb. 1971 / oct. 1973 / autumn 1974./ jan. 1977 / apr. 1978. 6.50 each. Several issues of Canadian Art 1964-1965 also available at 6.50. Magazine. Bookseller Inventory # 1032
Book Description: Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, Vancouver, Canada, 1985. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Line Drawings (illustrator). 11" x 9" Oblong 60 Pgs. Author - Artist displays 30 full page sketches and poems of coastal life in Western Canada. Bookseller Inventory # 81435
Book Description: Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1979. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 10th Printing. 6.5 X 9 " 111 Pages. This book is the first to introduce everyone, from the casual observer to the serious collector of Northwest Coast prints, to the forms, cultural background and structures of this highly imaginative art. The elements of style are introduced; the myths and legends which shape the motifs are interpreted; the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings are defined and illustrated. Bookseller Inventory # 33429
Book Description: Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Canada, 2003. Soft Cover. Book Condition: As New. Catolgue for an exhibit of art works by Jeremy Borsos, who takes envelopes with old stamps and combines them with color photographs of contemporary homes and places of business. Curated by Marnie Fleming. Measures 6.5" x 9.5" with 32 pages. In pristine condition. Catalogue. Bookseller Inventory # E1097
Book Description: New Ireland Press, Fredericton, N.B., 1986. Hard Cover. Photos (illustrator). First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good Plus/Very Good. Original blue cloth on boards. A social/political Who's Who leading up to and anchored by the opening of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 1959. Even Ted Williams put in an appearance ! 200 pp. with index. Bookseller Inventory # 003222
Book Description: Nelson, Foster & Scott Limited., Ontario, 1974. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Mike Filey (photographer) (illustrator). First Edition. 11" By 8.5" High. Pictorial soft card. 64 pages of photos in due tone with coments. Book clean sharp corner . A collection of photos, side by side of Toronto sites, (then) historic and (now 1970's) the modern , with comments. Bookseller Inventory # 000776
Book Description: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1999. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). 6.5" x 9" 361 Pgs. In 1905 two Montreal women, Alice Peck and May Phillips, founded the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. In Good Hands is alive with the interplay between art and social history. It deals with the era's patronizing attitude to cultural difference and draws a much broader perspective of women's roles in shaping our culture than has been the norm in Canadian art history. Bookseller Inventory # 116430
Book Description: Greystone Books, Vancouver/Toronto, 2001. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Bateman (illustrator). 6.5" x 9.5" 349 Pgs. Chronicle of many journeys, in search of the fifteen species of Cranes, along with renderings by Robert Bateman. Bookseller Inventory # 84915
Book Description: National Museum of Man, Ottowa, Canada, 1979. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good Reading Copy. Black & White and Colour Photographs & Map (illustrator). 10" x 9" 268 Pgs. Ex-Library with Stamps Etc. This catalogue of prints was reproduced by permission of the Eskimo co - operatives of Quebec, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and The North West Territories. Each print is described in English and French, with the name of the artist, actual size and date it was created. --- This oversize book will ship surface at the regular rate, click ' Bookseller Information ' below. Bookseller Inventory # 82424
Book Description: Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., 1996. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. Exhibition catalogue. Bookseller Inventory # 006804
Book Description: Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1999. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Color Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 9.5 X 10.5" 176 Pages. Foreword by Bill Richardson. The appeal of Canadian folk art - that "just for myself" art, made by untrained artisans - is captured here in all its charm in 43 colour and 12 black-and-white photographs. This book portrays the eras of folk art, from the early days of anonymous creations to the eruption of pink flamingoes and painted gnomes. A celebration of "those delicious expressions of exuberance", and of the folk, the irrepressible creators themselves. --- This oversize book will ship surface at the regular rate, click ' Bookseller Information ' below. Bookseller Inventory # 21689
Book Description: Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, B.C., 1983. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 100 Full-page Colour Plates (illustrator). First Edition. 240 Pgs 10" x 11". This book brings together the vigorous and diverse currents in Canadian visual art since the end of the Second World War {1945 - '83}.The text is by six of the best art writers in the country and examins the works from a series of fresh perspectives, united in their focus on the issues that contemporary art adresses, not the careers that it has spawned. --- This oversize book will ship surface at the regular rate, click ' Bookseller Information ' below. Bookseller Inventory # 23930
Book Description: Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1987. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 6.5 X 9.5 " 331 Pages. Crease inside front flap of dust jacket. Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) was one of Canada's most gifted painters and writers. Author Paula Blanchard devoted seven years of study to Carr's life and work and focussed on the social and psychological barriers Carr faced. She differed from most other gifted women of her time in the degree to which she actively fought the conformist standards of the society in which she lived in order to preserve her own integrity as a person - and an artist. Bookseller Inventory # 29439
Book Description: Penguin Canada, Toronto, 2002. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Robert Bateman (illustrator). First Edition. 10" x 10" 176 Pgs. Foreword by Peter Matthiessen. Text by Kathryn Dean. Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturlaist Robert Batemen has sketched and painted bird life in every corner of the globe. Lavishly illustrated and informatively written, Birds is an intimate appreciation of some of the planet's most beautiful and fascinating creatures by an artist who has been capturing them on canvas for over forty years. Bookseller Inventory # 76500
Book Description: U. Of Toronto, Toronto, 1981. Original Cloth. Photos By Author (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Faultless except for bookplate carelessly removed from FFEP. Original beige cloth with large gilt lettering, pictorial DJ. Oblong format. Grew from the Massey Collection of works by some of the same artisans. 250 photos, many in colour. 202 pp., including biographies. Traditional Crafts, Pottery, Wood, Glass, Textiles, Basketry, Brooms, Paper, Leather, and Metal. Bookseller Inventory # 000275
Book Description: McClelland & Stewart, 1962. Paperback. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first Canadian edition. A study of the Canadian painter and water-colorist. Includes an essay by Jarvis, a Bibliography, a Chronology of the artist's life and two brief essays by Milne: "Feeling in Painting, 1948" and "Fantasy, 1944." There are 30 B&W and color plates, including the cover, a detail from Ripon: High Street (1919) and Painting Place (1930). Photo of the artist. This copy has minor surface rubbing with no internal markings. A lovely example. Bookseller Inventory # 000974
Book Description: Kids Can Press Ltd., Toronto Canada, 1987. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ted Harrison Paintings (illustrator). 4th Printing. 9.5" x 12" 32 Pgs. Introduction by Pierre Berton. Dust jacket has small edge wear repairs, small sticker on front end page. No one has more evocatively captured the allure in the land of the midnight sun than Robert Service in his most famous poem 'The Cremation of Sam McGee'. And perhaps nothing has more compellingly portrayed the ice in the Arctic air or the electrifying impact of the northern lights than the haunting paintings of Ted Harrison. What better combination then, than these two northern legends !. Bookseller Inventory # 117230
Book Description: THE VICKING PRESS, New York, 1938. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Hazel Boswell (illustrator). First Edition. Natural linen board with picture in red on front cover and red lettering on spine. 91/2"w x 61/2" h. Pictorial end papers ( The Christmas Market at Quebec) intialed by Author. 82pp. illustrated with 25 colour plates. Cover and content mint clean. with slight darkening along spine to end papers. Bookseller Inventory # 000518
Book Description: Phaidon Press, Ltd., Oxford & London, 1945. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Unstated Presumed First. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Beige cloth hard cover with wedgewood blue lettering on front & spine. Corners, edges & spine ends are rubbed (rubbed through in places) & shelf bumped & dented. Bottom of spine has a 1/2" tear to leading edge. Usual Ex library markings on spine, title page & copyright page, with Library name rubber stamped on top & bottom of page edges. Library Donor information on top corner on back of front cover. Previous library sticker removed from bottom corner on back of front cover. Previous owner name & acquisition date on ffep with lettering in top corner of ffep near gutter. Front gutter was broken at some point in the past but appears to have been repaired by the Library. Small chip to bottom corner of ffep. Four 7" x 9" full color tipped in plates: James Wilson Morrice: The Ferry, Quebec; James E. H. MacDonald: The Potato Field, Ontario; Tom Thomson: The Artist's Hut; and Alexander Young Jackson: Algoma Lake. 81 other black & white plates by: Paul Kane, Cornelius Krieghoff, Homer R. Watson, Aurele De Foye Suzor-Cote, Franklin Brownell, Horatio Walker, William Brymner, Maurice G. Cullen, James Wilson Morrice; Charles W. Jefferys, Clarence A. Gagnon; John WIlliam Beatty; James E.H. MacDonald, Tom Thomson, Alexander Young Jackson, Franz H. Johnston, Arthur Lismer, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, Frederick Horsman Varley, Alfred Joseph Casson, Albert Henry Robinson, Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald, and Edwin headley Holgate. With the listing of the plates in the front, there is biographical information about each artist. In addition there are 3 other black & white plates with the Index. Pages are clean, unmarked & uncreased. Book has an 'old library' smell -- but not bad. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. Ex Library. Bookseller Inventory # 004121
Book Description: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, 1989. Paperback. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The catalogue for an exhibition of the late artist's work at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, 20 July - 3 September 1989. Includes the essay "Aleen Aked: An Autobiography in Art" by Joan Murray, the former director of the McMichael Canadian Collection and one of Canada's most widely published art historians. Stapled wrappers. 24p. incl. 6 colour and 7 b/w plates + b/w photos. List of Works, Bibliography. A landscape and portrait painter, Aked studied at the Ontario College of Art in the 1920s with some of Canada's best known painters, including A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Fred Varley and Arthur Lismer. Aked lived for many years in Florida, serving as a member of the Southern States Art League and the Sarasota Art Association. The landscape of Florida and its people form a significant part of her work. This copy shows trifling wear at the extremities. Bookseller Inventory # 000885
Book Description: National Geographis Society, Washington, D.C., 1936. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second Edition, 1936. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth boards, with gilt title and national geographic logo on frontand spine. viii, 454pp. index, illustrations in black and white photos throught out the book. at front two pages HARK photo awarded extraoridnary honor. The book is a record of sixty five years visits to the woods and waters of North America.Condition. light shelf rub to cover, tight firm, and crisp clean near fine. Bookseller Inventory # 001228
Book Description: Canada, 1987. Printer Wrapper. Book Condition: Near Fine. Stanley Hill (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellowish soft card wraper, title and art in black. nd. SINGED "Stan Hill 1987" , inside front cover. 16 pp, illustrattions b&w 14 photos of his work:( three sisters, squash spirit, the great tree of peace.etc) bone carving and tis history. Wrapper cover light dust, inside clean tight. sharp corners. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 000628
Book Description: Viking, Toronto, 1990. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oversize. gift inscription on ffep; inscribed by artist on hal-title page. Bookseller Inventory # 007624
Book Description: National Mesuem of Man, OTTAWA, 1980. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Second Impression. Pictorial blue cardboard, with lettering on front and spine. blue end papers, size 10"x9"h. 267pp. Appendix I, II, & III. Bibliography, Illustrated with 155 numbered plates. 12 in colour. the prints provide exciting insights into traditions and believs of a unique group of artists.five communities are represented Cape Dorset, Holman, Baker Lake, Pangnirtung and Povungnituk. the texts accompanying the prints explain the events that are depicted or elucidate the lore and mythology represented. A travelling Museum of man in both languages, English and French. Bookseller Inventory # 000370
Book Description: The Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission, Ottawa, 1929. Trade Paperback. Full-page Photos (illustrator). First ( No Additional printings). 10x14 Oblong. Very Good/No Jacket. Original dark brown card covers with lettering and designs in gold and blue. Previous owner's name and 3-inch stroke of artist's paintbrush (?) on title page, not affecting text. Intact and otherwise clean, with only normal light wear along spine. See photo. Aficionados will discover the personal preferences which led to selections of sites, designs, and materials, as revealed in the minutes of the Commission published on the last ten pages. A rare record of sacrifice by Canadian troops at what were considered by the Commission to be the decisive battles of World War I. 84 large pages. Bookseller Inventory # 003274
Book Description: The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1943. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Thoreau MacDonald (illustrator). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. xvii, 278pp, bibliography and index. Tipped-in color frontispiece, close to 100 illustrations of early and contemporary paintings and engravings in b&w. This book is the most complete survey covering the period ( 1820-1940) of the growth of the arts in Canada , geographically and historically at the time. Cond. Shelf rub and light wear to edges, corners and spine. DJ's flaps( remains) pasted inside cover content clean, tight. Bookseller Inventory # 000063
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