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Ontario Fraktur - A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Canada

By: Bird, Michael S.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Toronto, ON, M. F. Feheley Publishers: 1977

Seller ID: 18177

ISBN: 0919880088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

DJ shows some wear to extremities and rubbing along spine. ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar. ; 144 pages; "This is the first serious study done in Canada of Fraktur, a rich tradition of folk art having its beginnings in Medieval Europe and brought to North America by Germanic settlers fleeing religious persecution. The art of manuscript illumination attained its most exuberant form of expression among the Germanic communities of Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. Michael Bird examines in detail the major teaching groups who practiced at that time and discusses the tradition a...
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Pause; An Emily Carr Sketch Book

By: Carr, Emily

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Toronto, ON, Stoddart: 1995

Seller ID: 11020

ISBN: 0773728759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light fading of DJ spine ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book ; B&W Illustrations; 0.73 x 9.34 x 6.32 Inches; 148 pages; Laid in are 2 post cards of her art work, 1 of her birthplace as well as a few other mementoes. Foreword by her biographer, Maria Tippett. The book is Carr's account of the period she spent in the Sunhill Sanatorium in East Anglia, burnt out mentally and artistically. The only artwork she turned out during the the year and a half are these sketches
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Grain of Truth The Ancient Lessons of Craft

By: Laird, Ross

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company: 2001

Seller ID: 12413

ISBN: 0802713890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Signed by Author; Signed by Laird on title page. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 0.81 x 8.42 x 6.48 Inches; 187 pages; "Laird, a poet and Vancouver native, reflects on the rewards and frustrations of woodworking in eight pensive chapters ingrained with sensual, sinuous language and an intuitive understanding of the topic's metaphoric possibilities. Whether describing the construction of a wooden hand plane (toolmaking, Laird says, is a particular marker in the evolution from apprentice to craftsman) or the transformation of Brazilian purpleheart wood into a reliquary for his wi...
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Artists for Nature in ALASKA'S COPPER RIVER DELTA

By: Ott, Riki

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Wormer, Netherlands, Inmerc bv: 1998

Seller ID: 13119

ISBN: 9066110260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Only slight wear; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; Color Illustrations; 160 pages
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The Art of Emily Carr

By: Shadbolt, Doris

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: 18325

ISBN: 0772012555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dust jacket has light soiling, light shelf wear. Blank bookplate has been pasted on half-title page. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Colour & B&W Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 223 pages; Emily Carr, an skilled artist, buried herself in the spirit of the West Coast of Canada where she was born. "This book represents the culmination of Doris Shadbolt's long fascination with the work of Carr, a painter she views as one of the strongest and most individual of Canadian artists. It reflects more than a decade of meticulous research, and excerpts form Carrs own ...
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Mind's I; Poems and Drawings

By: Shadbolt, Jack

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, ON, McClelland and Stewart: 1973

Seller ID: 11830

ISBN: 0771081170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Signed by Illustrator; Light chipping to extremities of DJ ; Inscribed by Shadbolt to 'Joe' (also an artist) on blank page facing half title page. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 111 pages; "The book contains all of Shadbolt's poems from the 1930's to the present, with some revised versions; they are accompanied by thirty-five black-and-white illustrations, some of them double page"
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The Alma Mater Society Art Collection

By: The Alma Matter Society Art Collection

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Vancouver BC, University of British Columbia: 1988

Seller ID: 14478

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Only slight wear; Laid in is an invitation to view this exhibition on its fortieth anniversary Oct 3 1988.; Trade PB; 64 pages
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Image for O SIYAM Aboriginal Art Inspired by the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games/O Siyam: L'art autochtone inspir par les jeux olympiques et paralympiques d'hiver de 2010

O SIYAM Aboriginal Art Inspired by the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games/O Siyam: L'art autochtone inspir par les jeux olympiques et paralympiques d'hiver de 2010

By: VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Mississauga, ON, Wiley: 2009

Seller ID: 14401

ISBN: 047016154X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A bright, solid book, as new. Number line 1-5. ; Trade PB; Color Illustrations; 0.5 x 10.3 x 8.3 Inches; 144 pages; O Siyam showcases the enormous diversity of Canadian Aboriginal art with full-colour images, descriptive text and critical commentary. This beautiful, collector's edition highlights the importance and relevance of Canada's Aboriginal artists in an exhibition of unprecedented scope. Much of the commissioned art will be on permanent display at competition and non-competition Olympic and Paralympic Winter venues after the 2010 Games. Artwork featured in the book will vary from the ...
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A VISIT TO ANCIENT ROME - A COLLECTION OF 66 PRINTS

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Newton, MA, University Prints: 1957

Seller ID: 5798

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Very Good+

Prints; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Boxed Prints; 5 1/2 X 8 inches; This is a collection of 66 prints enclosed in a green paper board box in VG condition, light wear. Enclosed with prints are catalogs, receipt newspaper cartoons and a couple of post cards. Binding is Unbound.
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Tattoo : Symbols and Meanings

By: Watkins, Jack

Price: $17.50

Publisher: London, Amber Books Ltd.: 2011

Seller ID: 15755

ISBN: 1907446060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Only slight wear.; No dust jacket as issued. This book has been produced using tradional Chinese bookbinding techniques, using a method developed in the Ming dynasty. In traditional Chinese binding, single sheets are printed on one side only, and each sheet is folded in half with the printed pages on the outside. The book block is then sandwiched between two boards and sewn together through punched holes close to the cut edge of the folded sheets. Black cloth covered boards with gilt print on front, pasted on illustration on front board. ; Small 8vo 7" - 8" tall; 96 pages; This book...
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