jacket design by Bill English

Keeley, Edmund, and Philip Sherrard, trans. Six Poets of Modern Greece. New York: Knopf, 1961. Anthology of poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Antoniou, Elytis, and Gatsos. Reviewed by Henry Reed in Listener 64, no. 1642 (15 September 1960), p. 438-39.

by Arthur Cravan.

Toronto, Letters, 5 april 1991. 5o copies numbered in red ink at rear.

5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 44 sheets speckled grey & 3 plain purple bond side-stapled thrice into plain yellow mayfair card covers in red bond dustjacket tipped at flaps inside the endpapers, interiors all but 4 pp printed black photocopy with red photocopy additions to title page, front cover only printed on dj.

includes:

i) ZOMBOID GIBBER (essay with references to jwcurry & reviews of curry's Fragment, 2 stills from Between, & his producion of Bill Bissett's howard xperiences)

THE FIRST HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY

by David Rosenberg.

New York (NY/USA), Basic Books, february 2oo6. ISBN o-465-o7o94-9.

6-1/16 x 9-3/16, 184 sheets ivory bond perfectbound with plain buff kraft endpapers & 1-1/8" red & white cloth applique head~ & tail bands into 6-5/16 x 9-1/2 plain black bond-covered boards with spine strip printed gold letterpress, interiors all except 22 pp printed black offset, in 6-7/16 x 9-1/2 matte PVC white bond dustjacket with 4-1/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.

cover by Rodrigo Corral.

author photograph by Sanford Rosenberg.

other contributors:

Bruce Chilton, Enheduanna, Andrew George, Gudea, Betty De Shong Meador, Abraham Of Ur, Jonathan Rosen, Yaqqim-Addu.

Nichol referenced in Acknowledgements, pp.331-332.

Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.

Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.

Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.

Henry Reed. Collected Poems. Edited by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Cover for a novel. Used Over app, mextures, free fonts, free photos, rookie app, fragment and shift.

The Modern Poets: An American-British Anthology, edited by John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read, with photographs by Rollie McKenna. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.

First edition rare children's book from 1940.

Dust jacket mock-up for A Princess of Mars. The wonderful artwork is by Frank Frazetta who did a lot of illustration work for the fantasy and science fiction genres. I read on IMDB that he was at one time attached to the 2009 John Carter of Mars movie project as production designer. I hope that happens!

polaroid poems, found texts, visions & collaborations records of a journey thru Scotland & England May 1978.

by Steve McCaffery & bpNichol.

2nd edition. Toronto, Aya Press, january 1984. 2oo copies. ISBN o-92o544-1o-X.

5-1/2 x 8-11/16, 32 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded to 128 pp in 8 signatures of 4 sheets each sewn cream in 5 double-stitches & glued into plain black Strathmore card wrappers & ivory zephyr antique laid dustjacket with 4-1/8" flaps, front cover & spine only rpinted green & black offset, front flap black, interiors all except 16 pp printed black offset with light green additions to 14 pp.

cover graphic unacknowledged; lettering by Steve McCaffery & bpNichol.

other contributors ID'd:

Kenyon Cox, Robert Gamble.

in 3 sections: McCaffery, McCaffery/Nichol, Nichol.

Nichol contributes:

i) IN ENGLAND NOW THAT SPRING collaborations in england & scotland may 1978, with Steve McCaffery (pp.67-93; in 3 parts:

--1. SIX GLASGOW TEXTS (pp.69-75; sound poetry score in 6 parts:

----a. "leisurely yes/no" (p.7o)

----b. "fFPPP" (p.71)

----c. "CT N DTTD LN" (p.72)

----d. "STRS DST" (p.73)

----e. "HZT F L" (p.74)

----f. "H X" (p.75))

--2. IN ENGLAND NOW THAT SPRING (pp.77-85; poem in 9 parts:

----a. "In England now" (p.77; 3o lines)

----b. "Seven brown fiddleheads" (pp.78-79; 46 lines)

----c. "gulls & ducks at the head of Windermere" (pp.79-8o; 36 lines)

----d. "a future called Ruskin" (pp.8o-81; 46 lines)

----e. "On the top of hills she weaves a thread" (pp.81-82; 37 lines)

----f. "Above Ambleside the water falls" (pp.82-83; 21 lines)

----g. "Thought has so many branches" (p.83; 14 lines)

----h. "Stone in a stream" (p.84; 16 lines)

----i. "To force speech through" (pp.84-85; 34 lines))

--3. MUSHY PEAS: SIX LONDON TEXTS 12 MAY 78 (pp.87-93; sound poetry score in 6 parts:

----a. "ali" (p.88)

----b. "OOOOOOWWWEEEEFFFFF" (p.89)

----c. "KNLDGCTNMLSSNDNG" (p.9o)

----d. "PPPRA" (p.91)

----e. "WWDPLSM" (p.92)

----f. "NG" (p.93)))

ii) THE WORLD BEYOND: poems given & found in England may 1978 (pp.95-123; poetry in 7 parts:

--1. FOUND: VISION (p.97; 5 lines)

--2. from THE MARTYROLOGY BOOK V: CHAIN 2 (pp.98-1o1; 15o lines (ie "roadside ravens north into Scotland" (later becomes lines 1381-15o7 of the martyrology book 5: chain 3)))

--3. THOMAS GRAY'S VISIN AT ULSWATER (p.1o2; 4 lines)

--4. ECCENTRICITIES AMONG THE RICH (p.1o2; 8 lines)

--5. Man in Lakeland (p.1o3; graphic in 2 parts:

----a. "Boundary of the National Park", by Robert Gamble (map)

----b. Man in Lakeland (graphic))

--6. IN LAKELAND (pp.1o5-116; in 4 parts:

----a. IN LAKELAND I (pp.1o5-1o8; in 12 parts:

------1. "eight Lakeland forests" (p.1o5; 8 lines)

------2. "larch" (p.1o5; 1o lines)

------3. "an inseparable companion" (p.1o6; 2 lines)

------4. "sheep farms" (p.1o6; 11 lines)

------5. "the mouth of the Deep level" (p.1o6; 3 lines)

------6. "no noteworthy events" (p.1o6; 5 lines)

------7. "pure white" (p.1o7; 6 lines)

------8. "the ancient skills of the river" (p.1o7; 3 lines)

------9. "radically change the landscape" (p.1o7; 7 lines)

------1o. "circles" (p.1o7; 8 lines)

------11. "shape" (p.1o8; 7 lines)

------12. "the tree stem" (p.1o8; 9 lines))

----b. IN LAKELAND: II (pp.1o8-111; in 8 parts:

------1. "more glass than wall" (p.1o8; 4 lines)

------2. "Ravenglass Glannaventa" (p.1o9; 7 lines)

------3. "It wore horns or wool, and travelled on the hoof" (p.1o9; 9 lines)

------4. "an enchanted fortress in the air" (p.1o9; 6 lines)

------5. "place-names" (p.11o; 9 lines)

------6. "the simple needs of the practical farmer" (p.11o; 7 lines)

------7. ",b>twilight descends" (p.11o-111; 11 lines)

------8. "the Keswick pencil factories" (p.111; 11 lines))

----c. IN LAKELAND: III (pp.111-114; in 9 parts:

------1. "the River Eamont" (p.111-112; 15 lines)

------2. "first or second century B.C." (p.112; 6 lines)

------3. "another race of men" (p.112; 11 lines)

------4. "confluence of the river" (p.112-113; 12 lines)

------5. "the familiar Bode" (p.113; 6 lines)

------6. "remote from the turmoil of the world" (p.113; 2 lines)

------7. "the majesty and wildness of the native forest" (p.113; 7 lines)

------8. "spoil heaps" (p.113-114; 6 lines)

------9. "54 feet" (p.114; 9 lines))

----d. IN LAKELAND: IV (pp.114-116; in 9 parts:

------1. "the impression of a structure casually thrown together" (p.114; 3 lines)

------2. "an interesting continuity in the general plan" (p.114; 3 lines)

------3. "the impact of" (p.115; 7 lines)

------4. "the unique atmosphere of working" (p.115; 9 lines)

------5. "a brief account" (p.115; 5 lines)

------6. "gossip and unaccustomed company" (p.115; 3 lines)

------7. "new discoveries will be made" (p.116; 3 lines)

------8. "the central theme" (p.116; 1o lines)

------9. "a century and a half after Wordsworth" (p.116; 5 lines)))

--7. from THE MARTYROLOGY BOOK V: CHAIN 0 (pp.117-123; 232 lines (ie "the road drops down" (later becomes lines 1o33-12o2 of the martyrology book 5: chain 1 ))))

iii) IN ENGLAND NOW THAT SPRING; polaroid poems, found texts, visions & collaborations, records of a journey thru Scotland & England May 1978 by steve mccaffery & bpNichol, by [Toronto Research Group] (rear dj flap, prose)

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- 1st edition, 1979

A.F. Koenraads, Mannen in leer. Roman van een militair vlieger. Rotterdam, Brusse, 1935. Heellinnen met stofomslag. 1e en enige druk.

by David McFadden.

Toronto, Coach House Press, 1968.

5-1/4 x 8-1/2, 56 sheets light blue deckletone perfectbound in plain brown manila card wrappers & blue deckletone card dustjacket with 4" flaps glued at spine, all except inside covers & first & last pp printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to covers.

wraparound cover photo by McFadden.

includes further photography by David McFadden, Joan McFadden, others unID'd.

includes:

i) "Parts of this book have appeared in the following periodicals" (with thanks to bpNichol for editorial aid)

Another Tor book cover that features actual NASA imagery. The surface images were supplied by the Viking Landers as this design came before any rovers had made it to the surface.

Endpaper is 140gsm Edixion Offset in brown.

bibliography by Nicky Drumbolis.

Toronto, Letters Bookshop, 23 june 1988. 4o copies numbered in black pencil, issued as List 67.

7 x 8-1/2, 37 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 148 pp in 3 signatures of 9 sheets each sewn separately pearl white in 2 stitches & glued together into plain wrapper, plain granite burgundy Canson endpapers & 7-1/8 x 8-9/16 plain white mayfair card wrappers in 7-3/16 x 8-1/2 granite grey Canson dustjacket printed black typescript front cover & spine only, all interiors printed black photocopy.

22 further contributors:

Gerge Bowering, Barbara Caruso, Arthur ravan, Greg Curnoe, Frank Davey, Jack David, Brian De Beck, Dan Sayre Groesbeck, Robert Kroetsch, Red Lane, Robin Mathews, David McFadden, Rudy McToots, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Quartermain, Brad Robinsn, Murphe Roos, Brian Shein, Andrew Smith, "Some Kind Of A Nut", Phineas Thayer.

Nichol inclusion:

i) a little song (poem, 1o lines, dedicated "for george bowering")

other inclusions:

ii) george bowering condensed (bibliography in introduction & 1o parts with mainly passing references to Nichol in parts:

--1. George Bowering (passing references to Ganglia Press in entries on An Old Add & Two Police Poems)

--2. editor of books (passing references to Nichol in entries on The Story So Far, Fiction of Contemporary Canada & The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology, Ganglia Press in entry on Red Lane's The 1962 Poems)

--4. publisher (passing reference to Nichol in entry on Warren Tallman's Three Essays on Creeley)

--5. contributor to books (passing reference to Nichol in entries on Modern Canadian Poetry, The Story So Four & Out-Posts)

--7. contributor to periodicals (with a description of grOnk number 2: series 2, reference to Nichol's The Chinese Poems in Is. six, description of GANGLIA 2.2, Nichol interview in Alphabet 18/19, review of Nichol's Monotones in Open Letter 2:2, Bowering's bpNichol in Tuatara 11, quote by Toronto Research Group from TRG Report 2 / Narrative (part 4) in Open Letter 2:8, description of Open Letter 6:5/6...A Festschrift for bpNichol)

--8. ephemera (reference to Nichol's As Elected on Talonbooks Introduces A New Series Of Selected Poems / Writing poster)

--1o. bunts off the grid (includes description of Nichol's zygal reprinting a little song ((i) above) in full)

iii) "Dear Al-", by George Bowering (prose letter to Al Purdy citing Nichol reference to Angela Bowering as "the most intelligent woman i Canada")

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- includes a description, without naming Nichol, of an ephemeron for 1975 Canadian Writers Tour, a "full-colour poster" printed at Coach House Press for the readings tour with itinerary, Nichol one of the 1o writers & which tour yielded IS.18

Cover art by Sulamith Wulfing. This softcover has a dustjacket!

The Barnes Sports Library

Nigel Beale is a freelance writer/broadcaster who specializes in literary journalism, and likes to take photographs of books.

He has interviewed many well known authors, publishers and antiquarian booksellers. To listen, visit www.nigelbeale.com

Left Handed Poems.

by Michael Ondaatje.

Toronto, House Of Anansi Press, september 197o. issued as Anansi Poetry 18 in 2 variants in multiple states:

a1) ISBN o-88784-o18-3, as described below;

a2) 2nd state with "WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S AWARD" in gold letterpress on front cover;

a3) 3rd state as (a2) but red letterpress, uninspected;

b) ISBN o-88784-118-x, hardcover, uninspected.

6-1/2 x 9, 56 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 7 pp printed black offset with red addition to all covers.

cover by Roger Silvester.

photographs by L.A.Huffman (others?).

rear blurb by Al Purdy.

includes:

i) THE KID TELLS ALL 'EXCLUSIVE JAIL INTERVIEW' (pp.81-84; prose with reference to bpNichol's Captain Poetry)

ii) "This book is for many but" (p.1o9; 3-line dedication includes Nichol as 1/6 dedicatees)

___________________________

• the (b) issue may also be comprised of different states of its dustjacket

• 2nd printing, 1972

• 1st american, W.W.Norton, 1974

• 2nd american, Berkley, october 1975

• 5th printing, Anansi, 1975

• 7th printing, Anansi, 1977?

• 3rd american edition, Wingbow Press, 1979

• 1st UK edition, Marion Boyars, 1981

• 1994 edition, Anansi

• 1st italian, Theoria, 1995

• 1st german, Carl Hanser, 1997

• 1st french, L'Olivier, 1998

• 2nd german, Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1999

• 2nd italian, Garzanti, 2oo2

• 2oo3 edition, Anansi

• 2nd french, L'Olivier, 2oo7

• 1st spanish, Punto De Lectura, 2oo8

• 2oo8 edition, Vintage Canada

• 1st norwegian, Samlaget, 2o12

• 2nd spanish, Debolsillo, 2o16

• Vintage Classics, UK, 2o25

London: Penguin/F. Warne, [1995]. Hardback with pictorial boards and dustjacket and decorated endpapers. 59 pages. Condition: Very Good.

When Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had little idea how popular this story and the twenty-two that followed it would immediately become. No other animal stories have so captivated the imagination of children and adults alike. Today the Tales are bestsellers all over the world, translated into many foreign languages. Frederick Warne uses the most advanced technolgoy to reproduce the original pictures eith a freshnes and degree of authenticity unattainable until recently.

These little books should be among the first owned by any child and their appeal is still as strong as when the first story was published.

by bpNichol; illustrated by Simon Ng.

[Red Deer], Red Deer College Press, 1991. ISBN o-88995-o76-8.

7-1/2 x 8-1/2, 6 sheets white claycoat folded to 24 pp in 2 signatures of 3 sheets each sewn pearl white in 7 doublestitches & glued into plain white heavy bond endpapers & 7-5/8 x 8-3/4 glossy PVC white bond-covered boards in white chromecoat dustjacket with 3-3/8" flaps printed black offset rectos only, all except endpapers & p.4 printed 4-colour process offset.

includes:

i) ON THE MERRY-GO-ROUND (children's verse, pp.6-23; also p.24)

also includes (all graphics by Simon Ng unless otherwise indicated):

ii) "ON THE Merry-Go-Round" (cover, front & rear (book & dj); graphic 1/15 for On The Merry-Go-Round)

iii) ON THE Merry-Go-Round, by [--?--] (dj front flap; one-paragraph blurb with quote by Nichol, lines 1-2 of On The Merry-Go-Round)

iv) [untitled graphic] (p.1; cropped from p.12 below)

v) [untitled title page graphic] (p.3; cropped & reversed from p.23 below)

vi) [untitled graphic] (p.5; cropped & reversed from p.16 below)

vii) "On the Merry-Go-Round the horse makes no sound" (p.6; graphic 2/15 for lines 1-2)

viii) "but she takes me so far and she takes me so high" (p.7; graphic 3/15 for lines 3-4)

ix) "I can ride to the edge of the sky." (pp.8-9; graphic 4/15 for line 5)

x) "On the Merry-Go-Round the dog makes no sound," (p.1o; graphic 5/15 for lines 6-7)

xi) "but he runs on so swift as I cling on his back" (p.11; graphic 6/15 for lines 8-9)

xii) "I can ride to the moon and ride back." (pp.12-13; graphic 7/15 for line 1o)

xiii) "On the Merry-Go-Round the deer makes no sound," (p.14; graphic 8/15 for lines 11-12)

xiv) "but she runs on so long and she runs on so light" (p.15; graphic 9/15 for lines 13-14)

xv) "I can ride to the edge of the night." (pp.16-17; graphic 1o/15 for line 15)

xvi) "On the Merry-Go-Round if I make no sound" (p.18; graphic 11/15 for lines 16-17)

xvii) "I'm the dog in his race" (p.19; graphic 12/15 for line 18)

xviii) "and the deer in her leap" (p.2o; graphic 13/15 for line 19)

xix) "and the horse that I'll ride into sleep," (p.21; graphic 14/15 for line 2o)

xx) "and the horse that I'll ride into sleep." (pp.22-23; graphic 15/15 for line 21)

xxi) [untitled graphic] (p.24; cropped, reversed & turned upside down from p.13)

xxii) BP Nichol, by [--?--] (dj rear flap; single paragraph biography)

xxiii) PHOTO, by Marilyn Westlake (dj rear flap; photograph, portrait of Nichol (reversed from "bpNICHOL in a Four Horsemen performance at Harbourfront, 1985))

London: Penguin/F. Warne, [1995]. Hardback with pictorial boards and dustjacket and decorated endpapers. 59 pages. Condition: Very Good.

When Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had little idea how popular this story and the twenty-two that followed it would immediately become. No other animal stories have so captivated the imagination of children and adults alike. Today the Tales are bestsellers all over the world, translated into many foreign languages. Frederick Warne uses the most advanced technolgoy to reproduce the original pictures eith a freshnes and degree of authenticity unattainable until recently.

These little books should be among the first owned by any child and their appeal is still as strong as when the first story was published.

Final artworks

Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, [2010]. Hardback with pictorial boards and pictorial dustjacket. ISBN 9781845965587.240 pages including index. Condition: New

Picture postcards have been in existence almost as long as professional football, but no one has brought the two together until now. In Postcards from the Edge of Football, distinguished football writer Hunter Davies explores the history of the game through soccer cards in their various forms.

This expansive collection illustrated the heroic players, the great clubs and the most memorable events, while also illuminating the lesser-know teams and players to feature on postcards.

Everything from the arrival of new strips to the latest fashions and the rise of women footballers is documented, and, in a wider context, the social history of football and its importance in our historical life can be identified, as can changing attitudes towards the game and its history.

by bpNichol; illustrated by Anita Lobel.

2nd edition, illustrationally revised. New York, Greenwillow Books, [1 january] 1986. issued in 2 variants:

a) "library edition", ISBN o-688-o4284-6, in matte-covered boards with a spine sticker "Greenwillow Library Edition", different dj with an advertisement for a poster inside front flap [not in the collection];

b) trade edition as described below, ISBN o-688-o4284-8.

9-13/16 x 8, 8 sheets white claycoat folded to 32 pp in 2 signatures of 4 sheets each, japanese-sewn white in 25 stitches & glued by endleaves into 1o-1/8 x 8-5/16 white PVC chromecoat-covered boards in 1o-1/8 x 8-1/4 white PVC glossy dustjacket with 3-5/8" flaps, all except dj verso printed 4-colour process offset except rear dj flap in black only.

cover by Anita Lobel.

includes:

i) ONCE: A LULLABY (children's verse; dedicated "FOR SARAH, bp N" & "FOR DAVE HOLODY, WITH LOVE, A L")

ii) ONCE I WAS..., lyrics by Nichol/music by Adam Lobel/arranged by John Kreumich (sheet music; pp.24-25)

also includes (illustrations by Anita Lobel except as indicated):

iii) "ONCE: A LULLABY" (group portrait of all the characters in the poem; on front covers of book & dustjacket)

iv) "Once I was", by [--?--] (prose blurb accompanied by a small detail from (x) below; inside front dj flap)

v) [untitled graphic, introsequence 1/6, sunset] (inside front cover)

vi) [untitled graphic, introsequence 2/6, moonrise] (p.1)

vii) [untitled graphic, introsequence 3/6, moon risen] (p.2)

viii) [untitled graphic, introsequence 4/6, proscenium hills] (title page)

ix) [untitled graphic, introsequence 5/6, proscenium bedroom] (© page; repeated with different text as (xxx) & (xxxi) below)

x) [untitled graphic, introsequence 6/6, proscenium bedroom with copy of Once: A Lullaby (this edition) on floor] (dedication page)

xi) ["Once I was a little horse"] (p.6; graphic to accompany stanza 1)

xii) ["Once I was a little cow"] (p.7; graphic to accompany stanza 2)

xiii) ["Once I was a little goat"] (p.8; graphic to accompany stanza 3)

xiv) ["Once I was a little sheep"] (p.9; graphic to accompany stanza 4)

xv) ["Once I was a little pig"] (p.1o; graphic to accompany stanza 5)

xvi) ["Once I was a little dog"] (p.11; graphic to accompany stanza 6)

xvii) ["Once I was a little cat"] (p.12; graphic to accompany stanza 7)

xviii) ["Once I was a little mouse"] (p.13; graphic to accompany stanza 8)

xix) ["Once I was a little owl"] (p.14; graphic to accompany stanza 9)

xx) ["Once I was a little crow"] (p.15; graphic to accompany stanza 1o)

xxi) ["Once I was a little duck"] (p.16; graphic to accompany stanza 11)

xxii) ["Once I was a little chick"] (p.17; graphic to accompany stanza 12)

xxiii) ["Once I was a little frog"] (p.18; graphic to accompany stanza 13)

xxiv) ["Once I was a little fish"] (p.19; graphic to accompany stanza 14)

xxv) ["Once I was a little bee"] (p.2o; graphic to accompany stanza 15)

xxvi) ["Once I was a little fly"] (p.21; graphic to accompany stanza 16)

xxvii) ["Once I was a little boy"] (p.22; graphic to accompany stanza 17)

xxviii) ["Once I was a little girl"] (p.23; graphic to accompany stanza 18)

xxix) [untitled graphic, proscenium] (pp.24-25; same drawing twice but reversed on facing page)

xxx) "GOOD NIGHT!" (p.26; same as (ix) above with different text & (xxxi) below)

xxxi) [untitled graphic] (p.27; as (ix) above but reversed)

xxxii) [untitled graphic, outrosequence 1/2, moonset] (p.28)

xxxiii) [untitled graphic, outrosequence 2/2, sunrise] (inside rear cover)

xxxiv) [untitled graphic, group portrait of all characters in the poem in the sky] (rear cover of book & dj)

xxxv) bp Nichol, by [--?--] (prose capsule bio; rear dj flap)

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• 1st edition from Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1983

• this edition reprinted by Julia MacRaeBooks, London, 1987

• reprinted again with illustrations by Anita Lobel by Mulberry Books, 1992, New York

• braille edition, Sedro-Woolley, Blind In Mind, 1996

This cheerful felted case has been made for a mobile phone. I have used brown felt for the covers and polka dots ribbon for the sides and the strap. Please note that this case is made under custom measures for a N6300 model.

Estimated measures:

Wide 2.10 inches, 5 cm.

Length 4.25 inches, 11 cm.

High 0.55 inches, 1.4 cm.

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My tribute to Irregular Webcomic. I, like most other people, have been reading Harry Potter all day, finished this evening.

Left Handed Poems.

by Michael Ondaatje.

7th printing. Toronto, House Of Anansi Press, "1974" [more likely 1977]. issued as Anansi Poetry 18 in 2 variants:

a) ISBN o-88784-o18-3, paper covers;

b) ISBN o-88784-118-x, hardcover, as described below.

6-1/2 x 9, 28 sheets white bond folded to 112 pp in 4 signatures (3 of 8 sheets, 3rd of 4) sewn pearl white in 9 stitches & glued with plain ivory kraft endpapers into 6-5/8 x 9-1/4 black linen-paper-covered boards printed goldfoil letterpress front cover & spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in 6-5/8 x 9-1/4 white glossy dustjacket with 3-5/16" flaps printed black & red offset outside covers only.

cover by Roger Silvester.

photographs by L.A.Huffman (others?).

rear blurb by Al Purdy.

includes:

i) THE KID TELLS ALL 'EXCLUSIVE JAIL INTERVIEW' (pp.81-84; prose with reference to bpNichol's Captain Poetry)

ii) "This book is for many but" (p.1o9; 3-line dedication includes Nichol as 1/6 dedicatees)

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• 1st edition, 197o

• 1st edition 2nd state

• 2nd printing, 1972

• 1st american, W.W.Norton, 1974

• 2nd american, Berkley, october 1975

• 5th printing, 1975

• 3rd american edition, Wingbow Press, 1979

• 1st UK edition, Marion Boyars, 1981

• 1994 edition, Anansi

• 1st italian, Theoria, 1995

• 1st german, Carl Hanser, 1997

• 1st french, L'Olivier, 1998

• 2nd german, Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1999

• 2nd italian, Garzanti, 2oo2

• 2oo3 edition, Anansi

• 2nd french, L'Olivier, 2oo7

• 1st spanish, Punto De Lectura, 2oo8

• 2oo8 edition, Vintage Canada

• 1st norwegian, Samlaget, 2o12

• 2nd spanish, Debolsillo, 2o16

• Vintage Classics, UK, 2o25

The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0162

Photo by Donna Robertson.

From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Written in the late 1930s but covering the year 1916 - 17, it starts with the 17 y.o. protagonist getting off the local St. Boswalls to Kelso train (less than 10 miles) and meeting the farmer he's going to work for at Hansel Craig.

Fascinating look at Borders country life and attitudes a hundred years ago, with mixed farming with oats, wheat, cattle, sheep, hens in the yard and vegetables in patches of the kitchen garden. Sheep and their care get the most attention in the book, with descriptions of lambing, shearing and other seasonal tasks, etc.

The farmhouse is 7 miles outside Kelso but in those days that was a long way and any trips outside the farm were rare.

Horses were still a major mode of transport although the richer gentry, etc. were acquiring motor cars. No motorised farm vehicles, though. At one point he and the farmer go to a charity event at one of the big houses a few miles away and, because they don't know if there will be room for the pony & trap among all the gentry's carriages and cars, they both ride bicycles there and leave them in a hedgerow nearby!

At the end, he's once again on Kelso station platform dressed in his best clothes but this time it's because he's turned 18 and been called up and is off to join the army...

It's fiction, but the author has obviously got a great love for the old country life and knows it well.

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Published in 1937 but this edition is the cheaper 2nd reprint from July 1939. Still a hardcover with dustjacket, though.

Also several b&w line drawings of the country in different seasons by L. M. Dufty, who also did the cover art.

Very nice quality, though I do not have an Asuka to compare this to. One of the pages had a slice down through a portion of it where it ha been bound incorrectly. I called WHCC and they QUICKLY remade a replacement. Called them Tuesday when mine arrived and the replacement was in my hands by Friday morning. I was impressed. The dust jacket is on photographic paper and is very heavy and almost a plastic coated feel to it, but I like it. Not a slippery slick type of dust jacket like most books have.

A Bibliophilography from stock.

by Nicky Drumbolis.

Toronto, Letters Bookshop, 14 january 1992. 56 copies issued as List 91 in 3 variants, ISBN o-921688-o3-2:

a) 3 proofs (uninspected)

b) 3 "dedicatee" copies marked "o/s" (uninspected)

c) 5o copies numbered in red ink at colophon rear as decribed below.

5-7/16 x 8-3/8, 92 sheets tan xerographic bond perfectbound with plain salmon xerobond endpapers into plain dark-flecked grey byronic brocade card covers in mauve xerobond dustjacket with 2-7/8" flaps pasted down inside covers, all except inside & rear covers, front flap & 2 pp (4, last) printed black photocopy with 3-1/2 x 7-9/16 tan xerobond broadside printed black photocopy laid in (9 copies thus).

9 other contributors:

Nelson Ball, Vaughn Bode, Barbara Caruso, Victor Coleman, jwcurry, Jack David, bpNichol, Brad Robinson, Janeen Vanden Berg.

Nichol inclusions:

i) "published by GANGLIA PRESS in an edition" (prose colophon to Ball's Force Movements quoted in full in (v8) below)

ii) "# 38 in Ganglia's "shorter" (colophon to Ball's Metamorphosis quoted in full in (v16) below)

iii) "book design by Nelson Ball" (colophon to Gerry Gilbert's Phone Book quoted in full in (ix49) below)

iv) "grOnk IS # 1" (colophon to David McFadden's The Ova Yogas quoted in full in (ix7o) below)

bibliography in 7 parts includes references to Nichol (all bibliographical descriptions by Drumbolis except as noted) in:

v) Separate Publications (part A in 35 parts with references in parts

--5. BEAUFORT'S SCALE (passing reference to Ganglia Press)

--8. FORCE MOVEMENTS 1966/1969 (reprints Nichol's colophon ((i) above) in full)

--16. METAMORPHOSIS (reprints N9chol's colophon ((ii) above) in full)

--17.COLD STONE (passing reference to Ganglia Press)

--18. THE PRE-LINGUISTIC HEIGHTS (passing reference to Ganglia Press in quoted biographical sketch)

--27. METAMORPHOSIS (reference to Ganglia Press in jwcurry colophon "2nd, revised (ref.The Pre-")

--32. FORCE MOVEMENTS (references to Ganglia Press in jwcurry's colophon "2nd edition, slightly revised, of 15o copies" & to new dedication to Nichol)

--35. WITH ISSA: POEMS 1964-1971 (with a quote by Eugene McNamara (from Reviews) including a quote by Nichol from "published by Ganglia Press in an edition"))

vi) "KONFESSIONS OF AN ELIZABETHAN FAN DANCER is a collection of", by Nelson Ball (prose on Nichol)

vii) Books Contributed to (part B in 11 parts with references to Nichol in parts

--2. the cosmic chef an evening of concrete (edited by Nichol)

--5. KONFESSIONS OF AN ELIZABETHAN FAN DANCER (by Nichol))

viii) Periodicals Contributed to (part C in 67 parts with Nichol references in parts

--18. GANGLIA no 5

--53. GANGLIA 5¢ MINI MIMEO No 38)

ix) Edited Publications (part E in 79 parts with Nichol references in parts

--12. WEED # 7 (passing reference)

--49. PHONE BOOK (quoting Nichol's colophon ((iii) above) in full)

--53. THE TRUE EVENTUAL STORY OF BILLY THE KID (description of title by Nichol with quote from Jack David's Weed Flower Press including quotes by M.T.McCutcheon & M.Nowlan from "Hansard" on Nichol)

--55. THE STORY OF CINDERELLA (with reference to Nichol's introduction)

--64. POINTS OF ATTENTION (passing reference to Ganglia Press in Ball's The Poet)

--67. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM (description of title by Nichol)

--7o. THE OVA YOGAS (with Nichol's colophon ((iv) above) quoted in full)

--75. KONFESSIONS ON AN ELIZABETHAN FAN DANCER (description of title by Nichol quoting (vi) above in full in text))

x) Productions (part F in 2o3 parts with Nichol references in parts

--3. FORCE MOVEMENTS (passing reference to Ganglia Press)

--6. GANGLIA PRESS INDEX

--1o. H. AN EXCURSION (by Barbara Caruso & Nichol)

--13. NEW FROM SERIPRESS (passing reference to Nichol)

--15. ABSOLUTE STATEMENT FOR MY MOTHER (by Nichol)

--16. NEW FROM SERIPRESS (passing reference to Nichol))

xi) ABOUT (part G in introduction & 43 parts with Nichol references parts

--o. ''This section ignores reviews & references'' (prose introduction with passing reference to Nichol's the cosmic chef)

--3. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN SMALL PRESSES (references Ganglia Press)

--8. WATER-PIPES AND NOON-LIGHT (with quote from Nichol's NEWS)

--9. FORCE MOVEMENTS (with quote from Nichol's We Got Lots Of Hot Shit Poetry Dept)

--34. Barbara Caruso (reference to Nichol's bibliography of Caruso in Open Letter)

--35. Read The Way He Writes: A Festschrift for bpNichol

--43. 1cent 271 (reference to Ganglia Press in quote by jwcurry from to the reviews editor))

Dust jacket printed on 170gsm Maine Gloss and matt laminated.

in 1947, it was important not to use Gregory Peck's name in an unauthorized manner.

by Bill Bissett.

Toronto, House Of Anansi Press, [summer?] 1971. issued in 2 variants:

a) ISBN o-88784-o22-1; 5-5/16 x 8-1/2, 48 sheets ivory wove perfectbound into white rectogloss stiff card wrappers, all except inside covers & 3 pp (6, 92, 96) printed black offset with gold addition to covers (as shown above);

b) ISBN o-88784-122-8; 5-3/8 x 8-1/2, 24 sheets ivory wove folded to 96 pp in 5 signatures, 4 of 4 sheets/5th of 8, sewn ivory in 9 stitches & glued into plain cream heavy bond endpapers & 5-5/8 x 8-13/16 black linen-patterned paper-covered boards printed copperfoil letterpress spine only, in 5-11/16 x 8-3/4 black mayfair card dustjacket printed gold offset with unprinted 2-1/2" flaps.

portrait photograph unacknowledged.

includes:

i) bare bones biography what els shudint i remembr (p.93; prose with reference to bpNichol)

Paperback, 1949.

London: Penguin/F. Warne, [1995]. Hardback with pictorial boards and dustjacket and decorated endpapers. 59 pages. Condition: Very Good.

When Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had little idea how popular this story and the twenty-two that followed it would immediately become. No other animal stories have so captivated the imagination of children and adults alike. Today the Tales are bestsellers all over the world, translated into many foreign languages. Frederick Warne uses the most advanced technolgoy to reproduce the original pictures eith a freshnes and degree of authenticity unattainable until recently.

These little books should be among the first owned by any child and their appeal is still as strong as when the first story was published.

Weight 100g

PARODIES REGAINED, THEN FROZEN and THAWED).

by Allan Gould.

Toronto, Stoddart Publishing Company Limited, [january] 199o. ISBN o-7737-2417-6.

5-5/16 x 8-1/2, 12o sheets ivory bond perfectbound with plain lemon byronic brocade endpapers & approx.5/8" red & yellow applique head- & tailbands into 5-9/16 x 8-3/4 cream linen-paper-covered boards printed gold letterpress spine only, interiors all except 6 pp printed black offset, in 5-5/8 x 8-13/16 white glossy dustjacket with 4" flaps prinetd 4-colour process offset rectp only.

cover & interior graphics by Graham Pilsworth.

rear blurbs by Northrop Frye, Greg Gatenby.

includes:

i) bp Nichol (p.167; poem, 15 lines, with reference to Nichol's "leaf")