Hart’s Rules (1992)

I have to thank my mom for finding this book. One of my favorite dust jacket designs ever. I wish I had scanned it sooner, as it used to be almost whole. Every time I touch it, some bits fall off. Perhaps they are devils being cast out.

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edited by Caroline Bayard & Jack David.

Erin, Press Porcépic Limited, june 1978. issued in 2 variants as Three Solitudes: Contemporary Literary Criticism In Canada 4:

a) ISBN o-88878-1o2-4;

5-15/16 x 8-15/16, 128 sheets ivory bond perfectbound with plain ivory heavy bond endppers into 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 white linen paper-covered boards printed blue offset with silver letterpress spine, in white glossy dustjacket with plain 2" flaps printed red & bule offset recto only, interiors all except 7 pp prined black offset;

b) ISBN o-88878-1o3-2;

6 x 9, 128 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in white semigloss card wrappers, all except inside covers & 7 pp printed offset, black interiors in red & blue covers.

cover design by Pamela Patrick.

13 contributors ID'd:

Caroline Bayard, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, George Bowering, Nicole Brossard, Paul Chamberland, Jack David, Raoul Duguay, Marty Gervais, Claude P.Lokin, bpNichol, Pamela Patrick, Allan Rosen.

Nichol contributes:

i) bpNichol, with Caroline Bayard & Jack David (pp.15-4o; interview includes quotes by Nichol (& others as indicated) from

–1. ["bill bissett has been a brother-teacher..."] (p.17, source unknown)

–2. "felt as stillness in the brain or" (p.2o, paraphrase parts of lines 6/7)

–3. "yellow rose" (p.21, in full in text)

–4. "two leaves touch" ([ie "2 leaves touch") p.21, in full in text)

–5. "flowrs" (p.21, in full in text)

–6. "leaf" (p.21, in full in text)

–7. "em ty" (p.22, in full in text)

–8. "groww" (p.22, in full in text)

–9. "ing run" (p.22, in full in text)

–1o. "blob" (p.22, in full in text)

–11. "slob", by Mary Geggie (p.22, parody of (i1o) above quoted by Nichol in full in text)

–12. [untitled rejection letter], by George Bowering (p.24)

–13. Notes From The Interface, by Toronto Research Group (p.26)

–14. Statement (p.27)

–15. [untitled/unID'd rejection letter on "Dark Night, Secret Room" {ie what became The Other Side Of The Room] (p.29)

–16. Letter re Jes Reaney (p.32)

–17. [Nichol quotes in Rosalie Murphy anthology] (p.36)

–18. the martyrology book 5 chain 1 (p.39, line 417)

–19. the martyrology book 5 chain 2 (p.39, line 1))

ii) Allegory # 7 (p.41; concrete poem)

iii) Mind trap (p.42; graphic)

iv) Christian Cross # 2 (p.44; concrete poem)

also includes:

v) Preface, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.7; prose with reference to Four Horsemen)

vi) Introduction, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (pp.9-14; prose references Nichol pp.11-13 (Four Horsemen p.11), with quotes by Nichol from

–1.Twenty-One Facts That Could Alter Your Life, with Toronto Research Group (p.12)

–2.Statement (p.12)

–3. assembly instructions (to Cold Mountain, p.12))

vii) bpNichol, by [--?--] (p.15; photograph, portrait)

viii) bpNichol, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.16; prose introduction to interview ((i) above))

ix) Allegory # 7, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.41; prose with quote from Nichol's

–1. Allegory # 7)

x) mind trap, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.43; prose)

xi) Christian Cross # 2, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.44; prose)

xii) Bibiography of bpNichol, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (pp.45-49; in 3 parts:

–1. A Chronology of bpNichol's Books of Poetry (pp.45-47; 63 titles/3 ghost entries)

–2. Selected Prose Non-fiction of bpNichol (pp.47-48; 23 entries)

–3. Selected Criticism on bpNichol (pp.48-49; 24 entries))

xiii) bill bissett, by Caroline Bayard, Bill Bissett & Jack David (pp.53-68; constructed interview references Nichol pp.64-65, Four Horsemen p.67)

xiv) Bibliography of bill bissett,p.74-76; in 2 parts:

–1. A Chronology of bill bissett's Books of Poetry (pp.74-76; inudes 2 titles from Ganglia Press)

–2. Selected Criticism on bill bissett (pp.75-76; includes 2 entries by Nichol))

xv) George Bowering, by Caroline Bayard, George Bowering & Jack David (pp.79-99; interview references Nichol pp.89, 9o, 91, 99)

xvi) Irving Layton, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (p.1o1; prose on George Bowering's Irving Layton with passing reference to Nichol)

xvii) Earle Birney, by Caroline Bayard, Earle Birney & Jack David (pp.1o9-121; interview references Nichol pp.116, 117, 118, 12o & with quotes from

–1. List Of Contributors, by bpNichol (to the cosmic chef, p.115)

–2. [personal letter to bpNichol], Earle Birney (p.115)

–3, [casual conversation with bpNichol], quote by Nichol (p.118)

[note: english & french sections are published tête-bêche & paginated separately]

xviii) Introduction, by Caroline Bayard & Jack David (pp.9-13; prose references Four Horsemen p.9, Nichol pp.1o, 12)

Still messing around with that concertina and cross-stitched design. First and fifth signatures are joined by the 'x'es; third signature sewing loops over the center of each 'x'. Second and fourth are shortened and sewn through concertina folds.

J. Allen St. John, "The Orphan" dustjacket, 1924 (scanned from my collection)

It's the sort of job you never get round to when you go to work every day. profJohn is doing the same, hence the need to get out the big atlas and identify some of the places where he took pictures in Yugoslavia in 1967.

a Day In the Life Of ... 23 September 2011

by Darren Wershler-Henry.

Toronto, Coach House Books, december 1996. 327 copies issued in 2 variants:

a) 3oo trade copies as described;

b) 27 copies lettered a-& with extra inclusions, signed & "treated"; uninspected.

ISBN 1-55245-ooo-7.

8 x 8, 49 sheets white Plainfield High Bulk, 19th sheet 15-9/16 double gatefold folded twice vertically to 7-9/16 with 2 panels of 4" each folded in, perfectbound into plain ivory boards, interiors all except 1o pp printed black offset with red addition to leaf 29 recto & black & blue ballpoint holograph additions to leaf 43 recto, in white glossy PVC dustjacket with 3-9/16 flaps printed black offset recto only except front cover in silver with blind-embossing, with 5 further leaves laid in:

1. NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs Monday January 27th 1997 - 8pm; launch notice, 6-1/2 x 7-3/4 silver Mactac Starliner label stock broadside printed black offset recto with light blue offset manufacturer's text verso, laid inside front cover;

2. Solar Eclipse; 7-1/4 x 23-3/16 white Plainfield High Bulk broadside printed yellow, bue & red offset recto only, folded twice horizontally to 7-1/4 x 7-3/4, laid betwen 7th & 8th leaves;

3. Errata; 7-11/16 x 7-13/16 grey newsprint broadside printed black offset, lid between 19th & 2oth leaves;

4. Cenotaph for David UU; 7-1/2 x 5-1/8 granite grey card broadsheet printed grey letterpress recto, black offset verso, laid between 35th & 36th leaves;

5. NOW ENTERS "NICHOLODEON" FADING IN, WHERE YE "B.P." FADED OUT; 5-1/2 x 3-11/16 ivory zephyr antique laid broadsheet printed black photocopy, laid in rear cover.

cover by Darren Wershler-Henry.

other contributors:

John Barlow, Jeff Derksen, Christopher Dewdney, Johanna Drucker, Bill Kennedy, Beth Learn, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol.

Nichol inclusions:

i) Allegory # 27 (visual poem, reversed & shrunk with scan jaggies as part of (v) below)

ii) Blues (quoted in (xi) below, reduced & repeated 48o times in (xxiii) below)

iii) Translating Apollinaire (poem; translated variously in (viii), (xii), (xiv), (xxiv), (xxvi) below)

also includes (all by Wershler-Henry except as indicated):

iv) (f)lowerglyph (cover; graphic "bee" over "pea" rebus in silver/white; also in black/silver on insert 1; also in black/white on pp.1 & 3)

v) NOW ENTERS "NICHOLODEON" FADING IN, WHERE YE "B.P." FADED OUT (insert 1; visual poem in black/silver includes Nichol's (i) above; also in black/white on p.11, black/ivory on insert 5)

vi) NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs, by [Christopher Dewdney?] (inserts 1 & 5; prose launch invitation references Nichol)

vii) Legend (p.9; key to coded dingbats that appear at page bottoms throughout with skull representing "nicholphilia")

viii) Translatingⁿ Apolliaire 1: Enantiomorphabet (p.13; poem, version of (iii) above in vertically superimposed doubled-alphabet)

ix) H I.Q. (p.14; poem, references Nichol's the martyrology)

x) Saint Ations of the Cross (p.17; map of "Saint"-named stations of the Toronto subway system references Nichol's "saint" plays in the martyrology)

xi) Bluesexplosion (p.18 visual poem based on & including a sun & blurred (ii) above)

xii) Translatingⁿ Apollinaire 2: Mindreader (p.2o; poem based on (iii) above)

xiii) Saint Ratification (p.21; concrete poem titled after Nichol's "saint" plays in the martyrology)

xiv) Translatingⁿ Apollinaire 9: Common Bullets (p.27; visual poem based on (iii) above)

xv) at the clear spot (pp.28-34; quotes Nichol's "em ty" in full in text p.32)

xvi) Collected Allegories (p.35 gatefold; visual poetry comic based primarily on Nichol's Allegories (see link for sources))

xvii) Errata (insert 3; errata leaf for Collected Allegories (see link for sources))

xviii) Supplement: A Chant for Saint And (readers' digest version) (p.38; poem on a character from Nichol's the martyrology)

xix) owLerglyph (p.39; visual poem based partly on the letters in "bpNichol")

xx) Ganglia (p.41; concrete poem references Nichol's Ganglia (magazine & press))

xxi) from Language: A User's Manual (pp.42-43; chart (identified as "nicholphilia") in 2 parts:

–1. Fig.4a: Understanding the Sound Poem (p.42; includes many quotes from R.Murray Schaer's La Testa D'Ariadn, performed by Nichol)

–2. Fig.4b: Understanding the Sound Poem (p.43))

xxii) Plans for a Monument (p.44; visual poem with "saint em" play based on Nichol's "saint" plays in the martyrology)

xxiii) Amo(i)re (p.53; concrete poem based on (ii) above overprinted 48o times)

xxiv) Translatingⁿ Apollinaire 10: Klingon (p.57; poem, translation of (iii) above)

xxv) The Truth About Cloud Town (p.68; visual poem on one of Nichol's settings in the martyrology)

xxvi) Translatingⁿ Apollinaire 15: Deskjetsam (p.7o; visual poem based on (iii) above)

xxvii) Hagiograph (p.8o; graph of saints' appearancs throughout the martyrology books with quote by Nichol appended, lines 1-3 of "i knew when i headed home tonight")

xxviii) In Memoriam: The Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982 (p.81; with quotes by Toronto Research Group from Nary-A-Tiff, panels 17 & 9)

xxix) Supplement: A Chant for Saint And (p.82; sound poem, extended from (xviii) above)

xxx) "I A M", with John Barlow & Beth Learn (p.83; visual poem based on (xxix) above)

xxxi) Collaborative Afterword, by John Barlow (p.84; graphic based on an abstraction from (xvi) above)

xxxii) Surplus Explanations (pp.87-91; references Nichol throughout)

xxxiii) "Darren Wershler-Henry's work presents a new", by Johanna Drucker (rear dustjacket flap; prose blurb references Nichol)

xxxiv) "In its dialogue with the poetics of bpNichol,", by Jeff Derksen (rear dustjacket flap; prose blurb references Nichol)

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• 2nd edition, 1998

Frontcover of the historic crime novel "Strömkarlen" by Limme & Palmqvist. Published by Kabusa Böcker (www.kabusabocker.se). Hardcover edition. Book numer two in the historic mystery series about reverend Simon Eldfeldt.

edited by Barry Callaghan.

Toronto, Exile Editions, 1989.

ISBN o-92o428-118.

8-3/16 x 1o-7/16, 72 sheets white claycoat folded to 288 pp in 18 signatures of 4 sheets each sewn white in 6 doubled stitches & glued with 1" red & yellow appliqué head- & tailbands into plain black kraft endpapers & 8-3/8 x 1o-3/4 red paper-linen-covered boards printed gold letterpress spine only, interiors all except 1o pp pinted black offset with 3-colour process additions to 8 pp (46, 48, 5o, 52, 61, 16o, 249, 25o) in white semiglossy dustjacket with 3-1/2" front flap/3-3/4" rear flap printed 4-colour process offset recto only.

cover photograph by Roloff Beny; design by Lou Luciani.

73 contributors ID'd:

Alexandre Amprimoz, Margaret Atwood, Roloff Beny, Robert Bringhurst, Barry Callaghan, Morley Callaghan, Gaius Catullus, Leonard Cohen, Charles Comfort, Mazo De La Roche, Stefan Della Bella, James De Mille, Jack Diamond, Stillman Drake, Sarah Jeanette Duncan, Sorel Etrog, George Faludy, Fastwürms, Timothy Findley, Northrop Frye, Mavis Gallant, Greg Gatenby, Ralph Gustafson, Matthew Halton, Peter Harcourt, Geoffey James, Anna Jameson, Alice Jones, D.G.Jones, Edward Jones, Diane Keating, Shelagh Keeley, Kim Kozzi, Irving Layton, Douglas Le Pan, Lou Luciani, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Antonino Mazza, David McFadden, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Farley Mowat, bpNichol, F.G.Paci, Francesco Petrarca, Ado Piccaluga, Francesco Piccaluga, Al Purdy, Stephanie Rayner, Charles G.D.Roberts, William Ronald, Joe Rosenblatt, Gary Ross, Moshe Safdie, Deborah Samuel, Francesco Scolozzi, Duncan Campbell Scott, Robin Skelton, Dai Skuse, Michael Snow, Harry Somers, Francis Sparshott, Donald Sutherland, John Unrau, Jane Urquhart, Peter Van Toorn, Harold Town, Seán Virgo, Phyllis Webb, Claire Weissman Wilks, W.H.Withrow, Eb Zeidler, Ludwig Zeller.

Nichol contributes:

i) Catullus poem XXVIII (ie "Piss on his commitees, cohorts in inanities", p.86)

also includes:

ii) Introduction, by Barry Callaghan (pp.xv-xix; passing reference to Nichol p.xviii)

Made for my mom as a Christmas present...shhhh. I designed it myself, custom-fitted, sewing the interior out of a soft & sturdy matching fabric so as not to damage or stretch the Bible's binding and cover. No handles or zipper, I wanted it be a pretty dustjacket, not a bulky carying case -- this is for her Bible by the bedside/in the sitting room; she has a travel Bible for going out. (Oct. 2008)

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 bpNichol)

ii) a small press harumph (essay with passing reference to Ganglia)

by Randall Brock. [Toronto], Curvd H&z, 8 july 1988. 73 copies #d in black ballpoint rear dustjacket cover, issued as Curvd H&z #382.

6 x 5-3/16, 2 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid, all printed black rubberstamp, folded to 8 pp & stapled twice into plain white kraft card wrappers in white xerographic bond dustjacket with 1" flaps pasted down inside covers, outside covers & rear flap only printed black photocopy.

cover graphic by Arthur Cravan.

Illustration by Paul Galdone.

Published by Doubleday 1946

Back side of the dust jacket.

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I simply HAD to take a photo of this chap!

Book Books Buch Bücher Read Reading Literature Literatur Lesen- (C) Fully copyrighted. No use of any image whatsoever without written royalty agreement. No answer = no permission at all. - (C) Verwendung generell nur nach schriftl. Honorarvereinbg. Keine Antwort = keine Freigabe.

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J.W. de Boer, Vrouwen en Vrienden. Roman. Rotterdam, Brusse, 1938. Ingenaaid met flappen. 1e druk.

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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dustjacket of 1978 Kodansha 1st edition

Top one is in poor shape as the store pasted it on to the dustjacket rather than the cover proper. The store is one of the premier places in Kanda; nice history of the store on their website. The book is a reference work published in 1954 and bought probably shortly after by one of my predecessors. The lower on is another of mine from the Hokkaidô trip in 2006; Nanyôdô is one of the specialist places near the university; their focus is entomology (second floor is dedicated to it), but they have other stuff too on the ground floor.

The colours in this version are invented

Catharina van der Linden, de vogelboot. Arnhem, Van Loghum Slaterus, 1956. Ingenaaid met omslag. 1e en enige druk.

I think this is an outstanding Afghan owned by Michelle and David Evans from Norfolk. It is featured in my new Photo Album……….

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

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

manhattan bound to explore: a new home; a new school; and an old wallet, once lost , since found.

J. Huijts, Nieuwe mensen in Moskou. Rotterdam, Brusse, 1935. Ingenaaid met flappen. 1e en enige druk.

I can find no information whatever on this author and, as the volume is undated, can only assume it was published c. 1930-35.

Having looked up the authors named on the back of the dust-jacket I can now report that all their novels named there were first published in 1948. The present volume probably being part of a cheap edition series published circa 1950 or so.

Further research seems to show 'Treasure on the Broads' was first published in 1933, though there is no evidence, at the moment, that the author ever produced any other work.

‘Treasure on the Broads’, Herbert Jenkins, undated, by W. Gerald Elliot.

W. Gerald Elliot, no information available.

Leonard Gribble 1908-1985 , British author of crime and spy novels, also used several aliases one of which was Dexter Muir.

Alfred Tack 1906-1993, English author of detective fiction.

Patrick Leyton, British crime author active 1925-1948.

Leslie Cargill 1895-1964, author and journalist.

Illustration on dust jacket unattributed.

14th Edition published by Metheun & Co. Ltd. 1937

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hardcover w/dustjacket

Book Books Buch Bücher Read Reading Literature Literatur Lesen- (C) Fully copyrighted. No use of any image whatsoever without written royalty agreement. No answer = no permission at all. - (C) Verwendung generell nur nach schriftl. Honorarvereinbg. Keine Antwort = keine Freigabe.

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Illustration on dust jacket unattributed.

10th Edition published by Metheun & Co. Ltd. 1934

"The lady's hand was on his arm. She spoke rapidly.

"Mark, are you hungry? Did I ask you?"

slow down, lady, is what I say.

Evan will use this photo in the dustjacket of his first book