Bookseller Life: A Blog

We love books for both their beauty and their content. It’s especially exciting when the two come together, as they do in the tenth anniversary Dragonsteel editions of the “Mistborn” trilogy & “Elantris”: each book is sumptuously leather-bound, profusely illustrated, and signed by author Brandon Sanderson. For the uninitiated: Sanderson is a bestselling author ofRead More

Mark Teague A kind-hearted, staggeringly bright, man of many talents. In addition to being an exemplary bookstore clerk and all-around stellar human, Mark Teague was a Mason, a Red Seal chef, and an honours student; he volunteered time to a university radio station, local music magazine, and worked and volunteered with addictions recovery. All ofRead More

This Just In: a few dozen titles published by The Hakluyt Society. “Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has been centrally concerned with the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. With some 370 volumes published, this remains our principal activity, while we now extend our work to conferences,Read More

January 2022 We are open Monday to Saturday, 10-4; closed holidays. All staff are vaccinated, wearing medical masks, and adhering to all public health recommendations. *masks are required (worn properly please!), hand sanitizer provided, comfortable occupancy limits enforced.  We continue to offer curbside pickup, free delivery to nearby neighbourhoods, and delivery at cost everywhere else in theRead More

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  An engaging and delightful album of historically important, personal snapshots of canoe trips through Quebec, 1911-1913, the photographs being further animated by the typed captions, which provide details regarding locations, dates, names, and/or the photographer’s relationship to the subjects. Photographed subjects feature Indigenous peoples, camps, families, activities, and homes, including “Indian Women”; “Indian BurialRead More

Marx, Karl; Frederick Engels, ed. CAPITAL A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production  Volumes I and II. Most pages uncut: unread and in wonderful condition. First edition in English. Translated from the third German edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels. “The first French translation… was substantially revised by Marx himself;Read More

A Dozen Items For the NYC Book & Ephemera Fair, March 6& 7, 2020 at 980 Park Ave. Click here for hours, a map, and $5 off your entry fee! First extensive work on the comparative anatomy of vertebrates   Valentini [Valentinus], Michael Bernhard [Michaele Bernhardo] (1657-1729).  Amphitheatrum Zootomicum Tabulis Aeneis Quamplurimis Exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam … è miscellaneis S. R. I. academiæ naturæ curiosorum, diariis Societatum Scientiarum Regiarum, Parisiensis, Anglicæ & Prussiacæ, actis Hafniensibus & Lipsiensibus, zootomiis anatomicorum celeberrimorum aliisque scriptis rarioribus collectam. : Accedit methodus secandi cadav. humana cum enchiresibus iniiciendi ceram, hydrargyrum & stannum inRead More

A lovely tooled leather binding with a hand-painted scenic view on the fore-edge, most likely of Winnipeg from the St. Boniface ferry landing, ca. 1885. The painting bears a striking similarity to an engraving of this location drawn by George Munro Grant, which appeared in the classic book “Picturesque Canada” in 1882. Appearing on theRead More