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  I have just finished reading the History of the Book in Canada: Volume 1 – Beginnings to 1840 Edited by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, which is a fairly comprehensive book history of Canada from this period.  However, when you have so many of the finest team of Canadian historians, librarians, and literary scholars from across the country working on somewhat 540 scholarly pages and you cannot forget Canada did build up a considerable reserve of literary capital over the two centuries ranking us with France and England and giving use a credible international literary validation. Yes, before 1840 Canada was white, Protestant, and a heterosexual ghetto and yes the Americans too had nostalgia for the unhurried horse and buggy age.

  Then there was Voltaire who wrote a few arpents of snow a cold, uncomfortable, uninviting region, from which nothing but furs and fish were to be had.’ Why would Voltaire who himself a fugitive from justice during the French Revolution be such a anti-Canadian cultural cabal as to make believe that Canada was a boring place? Immensely boring. Did it have something to do with the French nationalism and secondly colonization under the world system? The same purpose General de Gaulle was stirring the nationalistic pot, which he flirted with Lower Canada sending Malraux as an emissary.

  I just ordered Ms Flemings book just yesterday because the other one came from the Toronto Public Library (well worth the price) and am ecstatic that such a study has been done.  However, has anyone (other myself run across some information lacking in regards to the profits and print processes of these books and annuals?  There is G. Heriot’s The History of Canada (Vol. I, London 1804) this was possibly the first history of Canada published in the English language but on Page 616 are the words ‘End of The First Volume’. Volume II was never issued.   

  You could have listed all of the early travel books. How about Alexander’s Voyages, 1789-1793 (Paris edition, 1802); John Long’s Voyages and Travels, 1766-1768 (Paris edition of 1784; and others originallt issued in French such as Lahontan’s Nouveaux Voyages (edition of 1728) and Lescarbot” Histoire de la Nouvelle France in the handsome reprint by Tross of Paris, 1866. I know I can for several more pages go on, but I must content myself with mentioning Lafitau” Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains compare aux moeurs des premiers temps (Paris, 1724; 2 vols.) Many of these books had come from Parisian dealers, and had the original bill stuck inside them

  The book entitled Charles Fothergill, 1728-1840 was the King’s printer, Magistrate, and holder of several public offices, Fothergill was a newspaper publisher, an artist, and one of the first individuals to make studies of the Natural History of the province.

  Did you know that William Lyon Mackenzie’ Toronto Almanacs and a book on the Canada Company by A. Picken were furnished from documents by John Galt’s own book The Canadas: etc. London 1836. John Galt wrote several other books entitled Lawrie Todd London 1830, The Bachelor’s Wife Edinburgh, 1824, and The Spaewife; A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles Edinburgh 1823

There is this curios autobiography entitled The Banished Briton and Neptunian, Boston 1843.

 Fred De Roos ‘s Personal Narrative Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 London 1827 14 lithographs and 2 maps.

Patrick Campbell Travels in the Interior Parts of North America Edinburgh 1793.

Along The Opeongo Line
The Story Of A Canadian Colonization Road
Joan Finnigan

Life Along the Opeongo Line is a carefully researched and richly entertaining social history of the unique Canadian heritage settlement road running from Farrell’s Land below Renfrew on the Ottawa River to Bark Lake near Barry’s Bay in the Algonquin Park region of Ontario. During the nineteenth century, the Canadian government set forth a policy to settle the hinterland of the province, surveying roads through the wilderness, recruiting immigrants with promise of resource-rich land for farming. Perhaps the most rugged of the colonization roads was the Opeongo Line. While the early settlers may not have found great wealth in farming on the rocky Canadian shield, they faced the challenges of pioneer life with wit and wisdom, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful stories, told in the distinctive Ottawa Valley style that has become world-famous.

Featured in Life Along the Openongo Line are the original diaries of surveyor Hamlet Burritt; Crown Land Agent T.P. French’s “Tract for Intending Settlers,” written to entice immigrants; and scores of tales told by descendants of the first settlers, Irish, Scots, Germans, Poles, and Canadians. Celebrated storytellers Dr. Jeremiah Bigshby, Charles Thomas, Tom Murray, Johnny Kielly, Father Tom Hunt, and Jenny Yuill tell tales of Opeongo legends Alexander MacDonnell, The last Laird, Archibald McNab, J.R. Booth, Taddy Hagerty, and others, who once lived large-than-life in such thriving villages and towns as Castelford, Second Chute (Renfrew), Dacre, Esmonde, Clontarf, Brudenell, Balaclava, Rockinham, Mount St. Patrick, Newfoudout, Wilno, and Barrys Bay.

The book is fully illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs capturing the beauty of the rugged Opeongo landscape and sturdy log houses and barns erected by the early settlers.

ISBN 1 894131 630
Quality softcover $40.00 canadian funds
288 pages 9.25” x 9.25”
Includes 36 pages of colour photos
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Adventures of a Paper Sleuth by Hugh P. MacMillan

ISBN 1 894131 622
Quality hardcover with B&W photos
344 pages 6 x 9 $35.00 canadian funds
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For more than 25 years, Hugh has roamed the highways, attics and basements of Ontario 0seeking out the often forgotten, usually unappreciated treasures of our documentary heritage.
Combining the skills of a great detective with patience and tenacity, he rescued many fragile records of our experience. His passion for history has been infectious, enlisting the help of many in the cause, and triumphing over bureaucracy and indifference.
His achievements have been real and numerous. His exploits, though, are the stuff of legend.?

Dr. Ian E. Wilson
Librarian and Archivist of Canada

All of Hugh?s friends and innumerable acquaintances will welcome the appearance of this book, which will undoubtedly make him many new friends as readers yet unknown are invited to share some of his remarkable experiences, his triumphs and his disappointments, but above all his infectious enthusiasm and appetite for life.
Hugh is one of a kind and has made a massive contribution to his country and its heritage. That contribution is by no means transitory or ephemeral; it will be valued and appreciated as long as people continue to investigate the history of this great nation. This is his story.?
Ted Cowan, Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Hugh Pearson MacMillan was born in 1924 in Fitzroy Harbour, near Arnprior in the Ottawa Valley. His ancestors came to Canada from Scotland in 1793. By age 39, Hugh had been a soldier, a farmer, a sailor, an insurance agent, a journalist, and a public relations manager for a circus company and for a hypnotist. In the late 1950s, Hugh began to pursue his long-time interest in local and family history, involving himself in the founding of the Glengarry Historical Society, the Dunvegan Pioneer Museum, and the NorWester and Loyalist Museum at Williamstown.

In 1964, Hugh persuaded the Ontario Archives to hire him as a roving archivist. Over the next 25 years, he secured the deposit of an invaluable mass of documentation. All Canadians are in his debt for his initiative in 1967 to retrace voyageur canoe routes and to re-enact fur trade history. In 1984, MacMillan was honoured with a Doctorate of Letters by Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

What do all of these characters have in common?

My Gun Is Quick (1950) by Mickey Spillane

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) by Conan A. Doyle

And Ken Sanders Rare Books

What 's new in books?
 

Sixpence House: Lost in A Town of Books by Paul Collins
Bloombury, 246 pages, $37.95
 

A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
Doubleday, 417 pages, $37.95
 

Some older books of this kind you may enjoy are The Side Door: Twenty-Six Years in My Book Room by Dora Hood (Toronto, 1958)
 

The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer by David Magee (Toronto, 1973)
 

Yankee Bookseller, Being the Reminiscences of Charles E. Goodspeed (Boston, 1937)

Northwest Document Conservation Centre  presents Preservation 101: An internet course on paper preservation.

The Victorian Book- British Publishing during the period from 1800 to 1900. The economic and social background to Victorian print culture.

The surprising truth about sales of classic novels. As it turns out, Aristotle and Charles Dickens and James Joyce don't just add a dash of class to a publishing house's list. They're serious money-makers Take Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It sold 110,000 copies last year, according to Nielsen BookScan,

Vincent van Gogh's Bookshelf. The letters of van Gogh contain about 800 references to literary works by more than 150 authors. There's the Bible, and the Greek classics, but also the complete works of Shakespeare and everything written by Balzac - some 80 novels alone - plus most of Dickens, Eliot, Bronte, Zola, Hugo, de Maupassant… There's also poetry by Keats, Longfellow, Goethe, Poe... The list goes on.

Illuminated manuscripts. Early Italian treasures from a private collection on display in Cleveland.

The History of Children's Books. There have been children's stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children's books, however, are a late growth of literature. The online edition of the Atlantic Monthly has posted "The History of Children's Books" from the January 1888 issue.

George Orwell materials at Brown University Library

The market is dominated by the big chains, making it tough going for the small
independent booksellers, who number only about 2,000 to 2,500 across the country, according to the American Booksellers Association. Amazon.com has offered out-of-print services to its customers for more than five years and is happy to work with the small and independent booksellers.
Dealer tore pages from old books
Britain leads illicit trade in rare books Ancient manuscripts and historic books worth millions of pounds are being trafficked through Britain as criminals look for alternatives to high-risk ventures such as armed robbery and drugs
Children's Literature Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century

Farley Mowat  For many years Farley Mowat has written about animals, the natural environment and the Far North. His stories mix humor, personal experience and compassion. He is one of the most widely read Canadian authors in the world
Mississauga Chief's Last Stand? Kane's 1851 portrait of a Mississauga chief, named Maungwudaus, sold for $2.4 million at Calgary's Levis auction house on Dec.1, just nine months after Ken Thomson forked over $5.1 million for the artist's Scene In The Northwest — Portrait. www.paulkane.ca and www.buriedantiques.com/collecting_canadiana.htm
Selling your stuff in an online auction So, you want to auction off your garage-sale leftovers online but you don't know how? Selling online is a good idea. One person's garbage is another's collectible resin figurine. It's pretty simple, too. All you need is Internet access, a digital camera or scanner and stuff to sell. Ebay
Top 10 Public Libraries In these library collections, family history speaks volumes. Check out their roots riches in our roundup of the top 10 public libraries for genealogists
The Globe and Mail's Sandra Martin wrote an article on the Canadian Bestsellers Lists are Bunk. Canadian Booksellers never had a standardized computer tracking system called Bookscan that collects and reports on the point-of-sale data until now. The Canadian Booksellers Association has a new article on the New Book Industry Supply Chain Organization addressing this issue.
Froogle Beta is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online.
 The Oxford Brookes University is opening one of the world's biggest brewing library, containing more than 3,600 old and antiquarian books and journals about beer. Oxfordshire News
Discovery of huge old book collection puts local bookstore owner in heaven
Book Collectors in Scotland
Couple's old book collection rivals most in Chester County
Inside the undercover world of the maverick book collector
In search of lost old books
Pictures of 174 Ghost Towns and Historic Places
They Ain't Cheap
And nine other things you should know about buying rare books
The Book Collectors Repair Kit
The Rare Book of Hours: General Information

The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
Hans Christian Andersen's paper cutting sold under the hammer




Dora Ridout Hood, Antiquarian Bookseller          Marjorie McNaughtan, antiquarian bookseller     Books written by Thorton W. Burgess
England's Leonardo                                                   Literary Treasures for Leeds Library
The Wizard of Oz
Canadian Photographs
Spielberg Leads Rescue of Yiddish Works          Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library
Internet Competition and Rising Costs                 The 100 Best Children's Books
 Pulp Fiction
War of the World's Book Cover Display                 Evelyn de Mille, Bookseller

What is a first edition? First edition, first impression, and first printing are important terms used in rare book collecting. First edition simply means the first time a work has appeared in book form does not tell us enough; for a more precise definition we must remember is the process by which the books are produced. First the book is accepted for publication, then the publisher estimates the number of copies he/she needs and orders them from the printer. This initial press run, made at one time, is usually referred to first impression, first printing or first edition. The subsequent press runs, made from the first setting type and without substantial changes are called the second impression (or printing), third impression, and so on, of the first edition. Now lets say the type has to be reset, or new information added, or corrections are made by author or editor, then the product is usually referred to as a second edition, new edition, or revised edition. Most books did not outgrow demand and the first edition was the only edition. But the famous ones were issued many times - a number of them in several places and by different publishers over a period of years - and some of these you will probably want to add to your collection.
Rare book collecting requires spending some time in recognizing your authors, their publishers, and places where the books were first published, and knowing about the period in which they were written. You will have to do some reading, studying catalogues, auctions, checking bibliographies and reference material, and through discussions with dealers and other collectors.

Problems with identifying the edition of a specific rare book. Books printed in Canada and elsewhere before 1870 had information published usually on the title page. After Confederation (1867) most Canadian produced books carried another clue to their edition in a statement on the reverse side of the title page, sometimes called the copyright page. This statement declared that according to an Act of Parliament the work had been recorded in the office of the Minister of Agriculture on such and such a date. I cannot understand why the responsibility for the literary property vest in all places, the same government department as that responsible for the production of food. What is good for the body is nourishment for the mind.
Early in the 20th century, information on the copyrights pages became more informative and useful to book collectors. Here is a well-documented publishing information taken from the copyright page:
                                                                   Copyright Canada 1925,
                                                                   First Edition,
                                                                   Second Printing September 1925,
                                                                   Third Printing April 1926,
                                                                   Fourth Printing September 1928,
                                                                   Revised Edition November 1932, and
                                                                   Second Printing September 1934.

From this we can see that the book first appeared in 1925, was reprinted from the same type three times, and revised with changes in material in 1932, also that this particular copy is from the second printing of the revised edition. It is unfortunate that all publishers do not provide such complete information on their books. If you do not use a reliable bibliography to verify the dates and places of publication and the physical characteristics then there is no way of to identify its edition. This is not completely reliable but one way to compare the date shown on the title page with the date printed on the reverse side, if they are the same, and there are no indications of later printings, the rare book is possibly a first edition. If it is a year earlier than the one on the title page, probably due to the lapse of time between registration of copyright and the actual publication of the book. If the difference of these two dates exceed a year, the chances are that the books is not a first edition. Sometimes you see a notation such as tenth thousand, revised edition, or a book club edition, or a statement crediting another book publisher than the one shown on the title page would indicate a reprint

Funeral at the old bookshop. I couldn't find a better place to die than in my own book store surrounded by rare books. One day when I'll be a one hundred, I will fall down and be covered six feet deep in books and that's how they'll find me
Princess Diana's Klondike Dress
Mark Twain's home is now a national historic landmark. The Mark Twain house at 35 Farmington Ave. is where the author (real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) lived with his family from 1874 to 1891 and where he wrote some of his major works. The 19 room house is now a national landmark and his neighbor was Harriet Beeecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Lost Franklin Expedition.
Voltaire. France's Greatest writer
Who was Lew Wallace? He served as a member of the military commission which tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators. He helped to bring in Billy the Kid. Among his best known works are Ben-Hur 1880, The Fair God 1873, and Commodus 1877.

A new website has been launched which provides the writings of Charles Darwin. Most are fully illustrated with hundreds of images never before offered on the internet. Darwin's letters are being returned to the Galapagos Islands.
 
Thieves steal rare Dickens books from the Dickens House Museum in London. Among his best known works are Great Expectations 1861, David Copperfield 1850, Oliver Twist 1838, Nicholas Nickleby 1839, and A Christmas Carol 1843. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. Dickens was born into poverty. His father was imprisoned for debt, and Charles spent time working in a boot factory in London when he was twelve. Child labour was not outlawed then and his resentment of his situation and the conditions people lived under was a major theme in his work.

It was the French explorers who reached the Mississippi in 1673, and that in 1682 La Salle descended the Mississippi to its mouth. La Salle took possession of the whole of the Mississippi valley in the name of the king of France; and in 1684 he actually attempted to found a colony on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana was lost to the British and the attitude towards the French colony resulted in the virtual disappearance of their French language, laws, and institutions 
Napoleon had a vision and that was to conquer the world. There use to be a ship canal across the desert from Suez to Bubastis on the Nile built centuries before Napoleon's invasion in 1798 which was a severe scourge to Egypt. This important and ancient navigation was lost and never ascertained. What Napoleon saw was an invaluable highway. The Suez Canal undertaking was too massive even for Napoleon's engineers to handle. It was not until 1871 that the canal was fully operational because of the interests of France, Great Britain, Germany, the United Sates, of civilization itself, will not allow it to be closed.
When the French government joined hands with the American revolutionists in 1778, Napoleon's emissaries came to Canada during the Napoleonic Wars, the French Canadian Church threw its weight into the balance in favour of the British Crown; and this was largely owing to the generous treatment they received by the Quebec Act of 1774. The French Revolution had radical and anticlerical tendencies towards French Canadians which severed ties with Napoleon. The history of racial minorities all over the world suggests that a policy of repression and denationalization will not win; and from the Quebec Act came out a winner

Archaeologists have found a secret passageway that allowed Robin Hood to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood and the Church worked side by side to help those in need. Robin Hood took from the rich and gave back what was stolen from the poor. Did the Church consider Robin Hood as a criminal? Absolutely not. They even gave him protection

Here are the vintage pulp magazines donated to the University of Calgary. The librarians are taking extra care in preserving The Gibson Collection.

The Gutenberg Bible at the British Library. The Gutenberg Bible was believed to be the first printed movable type in the creation of a system of casting multiple pieces of identical type using hardened punches and a metal matrix. But researches have found after superimposing images of letters from the Gutenberg Bible and other early printing, they found variations in the letters inconsistent with mass production. Individual pages were examined by high-detail digital photography with a clever mathematical software which concluded that Gutenberg used a less sophisticated process, such as sand-casting, to produce the type used in the making of the Bible.

What is Rare Book Disease? The passion for possessing rare books often leads to a peculiar form of madness known as bibliomania. The symptoms are some pain, some pleasure: the pain of of missing a volume that one has long sought; the pleasure of discovering an unexpected treasure. As a hobby, a game, an interest, even as an investment, acquiring books can bring you all the satisfactions which go with collecting plus the added pleasures of owning to read, enjoy, and preserve fragments of history, tradition, and literature.

There are a few photographs of Mark Twain on this site.
Mark Twain's home is now a national historic landmark. The Mark Twain house at 35 Farmington Ave. is where the author (real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) lived with his family from 1874 to 1891 and where he wrote some of his major works. The 19 room house is now a national landmark and his neighbour was Harriet Beeecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mark Twain Quotations Nearly a century after his death, Mark Twain's quotations remain an inspiration for speech writers and essayists. Thousands of his sayings, lifted from his letters, speeches, books, and essays are online at www.twainquotes.com. Several features include information about Samuel L. Clemens' Mississippi steamboat career and the full text behind the poem on his daughter Suzy Clemens' headstone.
Today in Literary History On this day in 1875, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" was published
Samuel Dashiel Hammett Born May 27, 1894 - died Jan. 10, 1961. Margaret Atwood was intrigued by this mystery writer who was once jailed for his beliefs in the McCarthy era. He wrote the Red Harvest 1929, The Maltese Falcon 1930 and The Tin Man 1934.
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719. Daniel Defoe was in his late fifties when he wrote the book. This rare book was classified as non-fiction in the London Post  1719 . Did you ever wonder how the passengers of a shipwreck survived on a deserted island? Just read the book. His three volumes were valued at the $25,000 price range in 1997
Sci-fi treasure donated to the University of Calgary William Gibson spent decades amassing 35,000 volumes of the priceless sci-fi and pulp magazines dating back from the 19th century Jules Verne to the more recent cyberpunk. Mr. Gibson died in 2001 at the age of 92. Do you really get to keep this treasure? Ownership is better described as stewardship whereby you can use it, keep it, sell it or give it away. You have it for awhile then someone else gets it.