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This cookbook, published in four editions by the St. Josaphat’s Ladies’ Auxiliary, offers a glimpse into Edmonton’s Ukrainian community through the 1940s and early '50s (this edition, the third, is probably from 1954). It includes…

D. A. Azoh's romance pamphlet A Colourful Wedding and a Happy Home tells the fictional story of Jack and Rita. The narrator, Kelly, claims that Jack and Rita make the perfect couple and eagerly anticipates their wedding. When the wedding day arrives,…

Shaw’s General Zoology was a popular natural history compendium published in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The “Fishes” volumes of Shaw’s Zoology are often found on the market today; however, this is the first (and only!) copy…

Acquired in honour of Her Honour, Lieutenant-Governor Salma Lahkani

Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) was not limited to freshwater fishes. This attractive plate illustrates the colourful “California Redfish or Fat-Head” which was caught and painted off Catalina…

Codex. 17.3 x 18.3 cm.
N 7433.4 B43 A6 B66 1995

Additional binding photo.

I believe that engaging with the larger community of book artists and craftspeople is an important—and arguably essential—part of being a book collector. I enjoy occasionally commissioning custom bindings for my books. This copy of Hallock’s…