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

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

Soon (?) to be seen on the back cover of Geoff's photography book... maybe... possibly... if he likes this... and if he were to actually get one published! ;)

Taken during the Toronto Photo Walks group's Fall Foliage Fantasy walk!

Left Handed Poems.

by Michael Ondaatje.

1st UK edition. London, Marion Boyars Publishers Limited, [december] 1981. ISBN o-7145-27o8-4.

5-5/16 x 8-7/16, 56 sheets cream rough bond perfectbound with plain cream endpapers into 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 black linen-paper-covered boards printed silverfoil letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in 5-9/16 x 8-3/4 white glossy dustjacket with 4-1/4" flaps printed black offset with yellow addition to spine & front cover & red addition to front cover.

cover graphic unacknowledged/design by Michael Werner.

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

includes:

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

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

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• author photo exchanged for unacknowledged portrait

• 1st edition, House Of Anansi Press, 197o

• 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

• 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

Poster wraps around the booklet like a dust jacket

www.leannemallinder.co.uk

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

The usual entertaing stuff from Coben, though his one offs do seem to be quite a lot better than his Myron Bolitar books. He seems to have sort of lost interest in the character a bit and in fact that seemed to have quite a lot to do with him introducing a new character Micky Bolitar, the nephew of Myron, and he is going to be the lead in a whole new set of young adult novels based around him. I wonder if we have seen the last of Myron as a main character?

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

P.V.E. Ivory, "The Land of Last Chance" dustjacket, 1919 (scanned from my collection)

Creation of a book cover stylized under an ancient map.

Beautiful dust jacket -love it!

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - such a pretty little hardcover - it has a slightly ripped dustjacket, too, but I took it off for the photo

Enjoying Paintings by A.C. Ward - aw, a vintage Puffin!

My boyfriend and I were looking at a bunch of free books on the sidewalk, possibly stoop-sale leftovers or possibly just free, and a woman said to me, "I think the book sales are my favorite part of this neighborhood!" Then she said she has so much to read already, and I agreed. "The pile just keeps growing," I said, and we laughed. Aww Park Slope bookishness.

by David Rosenberg.

Toronto, Coach House Press, october 1972. 1ooo copies.

6 x 8-1/2, 4o sheets ivory zephyr antique laid perfectbound with dark-filamented grey wove endpapers into plain grey mayfair card wrappers in tan kraft dustjacket with 2-3/4" flaps printed white offset front cover only with black additions to front cover, spine & rear flap, endpapers prin6ted black on white over inside folds, interior all except 4 pp printed black offset over light blue, green or turquoise backgrounds with silver additions to 6 pp.

cover & interior illustrations & page designs by David Bolduc.

you are so envious of Greg.

and of me. because this is my book, not yours. mine.

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

Jef Last, De laatste waarheid. Rotterdam, Brusse, 1938. Heellinnen met stofomslag. 1e en enige druk.

The remaining fragments.

Sir Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World. Translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729. The translations revised, and supplied with an historical and explanatory appendix, by Florian Cajori. 1960, University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 4th printing.

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

This vintage edition of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ' by Lew Wallace published by Ward, Lock & Co and printed by Butler & Tanner in the 1930's. Beautiful hardcover and unique dustjacket (see condition below).

Nice inscription "From Floyd, To Dave Xmas 1937"

"Ben-Hur is one of the best selling books of all times. This poignant novel intertwines the life stories of a Jewish charioteer named Judah Ben-Hur and Jesus Christ. It explores the themes of betrayal and redemption. Ben-Hur's family is wrongly accused and convicted of treason during the time of Christ. Ben-Hur fights to clear his family's name and is ultimately inspired by the rise of Jesus Christ and his message. A powerful, compelling novel."

Come visit my shop at LoAndCoVintage.Etsy.com

hardcover w/dustjacket/signed

J. Allen St. John, "Tremaine of Texas" wrap around dustjacket, 1931 (scanned from my collection)

Partners In Crime, Agatha Christie, NY 1929

black linen cloth box with dustjacket design inset with colored leather onlays on the front

1982 spring to spring 1985 poem by poem.

by Gerry Gilbert.

Toronto, privately published by consortium including Nichol, [19 may] 1995. 364 copies issued as grOnk Inadmissible Series 5 [in 4 variants:

a) 1o "wasters" (uninspected);

b) 4 "proofs" (uninspected);

c) 287 regular copies issued 24 february;

d) 63 hardcovers as described below.

5-7/16 x 8-3/4, 34 sheets zephyr antique laid folded to 9 signatures of 4 sheets (8th of 2) sewn pearl white in 5 doublestitches & glued in plain ivory zephyr antique laid endpapers & 5-3/4 x 9-1/8 ivory cotton-covered boards, interiors all except 1st & last 2 leaves & 2nd leaf verso printed black offset, in cream strathmore grandee dustjacket with 5-1/4" flaps printed black offset with sepia addition to front cover.

cover graphic by Josi Fletcher.

interior contributions by Lara Gilbert, Corry Wyngaarden.

For the first edition, first printing release of The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands in 1998, Donald M. Grant released a limited edition boxed set also containing reprints of the first two books. With a third printing of The Gunslinger and a second edition The Drawing of the Three, a bonded leather, foil stamped slipcase rounds out this set perfectly.

The dustjacket does have some minor imperfections on the edge, I'll be looking to correct for this in the future.

I've spent the past 5 years building a home library for my daughter. As a result, dust jackets blow around our house like tumbleweeds.

For more on my project, go to www.buildingalibrary.com

I'll just bet. Plus, that's Greg, pretending to be Mr. Clayton. Stupid lady.

London: Penguin/F. Warne, [1995]. Hardback with pictorial boards and dustjacket and decorated endpapers. 83 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 120g

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THE MAJOR CANADIAN POETS & THE MAKING OF A CANADIAN TRADITION

by Tom Marshall.

Vancouver, University Of British Columbia Press, 1979. ISBN o-7748-o1o7-7.

6 x 9, 5o sheets ivory wove folded to 13 signatures (12 of 4 sheets/12th of 2) sewn white in 9 stitches & glued into plain cream bond endpapers & 6-3/16 x 9-1/4 washed navy linen paper covered boards printed silver foil letterpress spine only, interiors all except 11 pp printed black offset, with approx.11/16" white cloth applique head~ & tailbands in 6-5/16 x 9-5/16 white glossy dustjacket with 3-1/8" flaps printed silver & peacock blue offset recto only.

cover design by Chris Bergthorson.

includes:

i) Deeper Darkness, after Choreography Michael Ondaatje (pp.144-149; prose, with passing reference to bpNichol/sons of captain poetry p.146)

ii) CONCLUSION (pp.171-18o; prose, passing reference to Nichol/the martyrology p.171)

by bpNichol.

Toronto, Coach House Press, early spring 1972. 1ooo copies issued in 4 parts enclosed in 5-9/16 x 2-3/8 x 15/16 purple Strathmore Grandee band with 1-1/8" pastedown rear, printed black offset:

a) thE maRtyRoLoGy Book I

b) thE maRtyRoLoGy

c) An Afterword to THE MARTYROLOGY, by David Saint Alwart

d) thE maRtyRoLoGy Book II

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- for contents, see individual titles above

- a first variant apparently exists in not a band but a dustjacket, 5-9/16 x 4-1/8 with 3-7/16" front flap tucking into the inside front cover of Book I & 1-3/4" rear flap tucking into the inside rear cover of Book II; it's unknown howin the leaflets were contained

- copies also exist with gold foil Governor General's Award label on front of band (despite this title not having received the award)

- further copies exist with a red Governor General's Award label

- 2nd revised edition, 1977

- 3rd edition, 1992

- 4th edition, 1998

- 5th edition, 2oo3

- 6th edition, 2oo7

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

I reshot this. You can see the whole thing a little better now... I'm confused about whether the concept still works, but I'll probably redo it for my portfolio anyway.

Meh.

The inside flaps to the "One Night" book cover.

The front cover for "One Night". The assignment was the create a concept for a book and shoot photos for it, then design two spread and the cover. The cover is a wrap around dust jacket, with inside flaps. The concept was basically night life and fashion, the idea of getting ready to go out into the night without showing where the people are going.

(Screen shot of the info for the book, Washington Park)

well, maybe not bullet proof, but protected from careless handling

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J. Allen St. John, "The Passing Throng" by Edgar A. Guest, wrap around dustjacket, 1923 (scanned from my collection)