by blacks_books 5 months ago
Single French-language issue of “Eskimo” published by the Oblate Missionaries of the Hudson Bay Vicariate based out of Churchill Manitoba.- by blacks_books 5 months ago
I know it’s a BCE [Book Club Edition] but a damn nice copy. Crisp, clean, and unmarked. - by blacks_books 5 months ago
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); William Ellery Channing (Ed.); Sophia Thoreau (Ed.); - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Where The Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein [First Edition, Second Printing]. Silverstein, Shel (1930-1999) New York: - by blacks_books 4 months ago
I never go to bed without my #uzi . A little selection of recently catalogued pulps. Check em’ out on the - by blacks_books 5 months ago
A mystery carte-de-visite which has me verrrry intrigued. So many questions come to mind, and in the absence of any - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Absolutely adore this late 19th-century carte-de-visite of what to me are obviously three sisters. And, not to be overlooked with - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Happy Friday friends, peacin’ out for the weekend. Feast on these lovely lovely marbled boards, and beautifully blind-stamped floral dentelles. - by blacks_books 4 months ago
The Spirit of Laws in Two Volumes [Originally published as ‘De l’esprit des loix’.] Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Lettres Iroquoises [Two Volumes Bound in One; Tome Premiere & Tome Second] Maubert de Gouvest, Jean Henri [1721-1767] [Lausanne, Suisse]: - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Lovely endpapers within this miniature volume. @simonbeattieltd being the maestro of endpapers, any thoughts? - by blacks_books 5 months ago
The all-seeing endpapers to a fine edition of the Unfinished Song of Achmed Mohammed, as illustrated Keye Luke. - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Eskimo-English Dictionary; Compiled from Erdman’s Eskimo-German Edition, 1864 A.D. Peck, Edmund James [Uqammaq] (1850-1924); Rev. W.G. Walton (Ed.); Mrs. S.A. - by blacks_books 6 months ago
When was the last time you wept cataloguing a book? This was especially heartbreaking to read through, the devastation that - by blacks_books 5 months ago
An interesting, and early animal rights treatise by Canadian theosophist, and occultist W.B. Pease for the Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society. Rare - by blacks_books 6 months ago
“GO NORTH”! Pleased to share a remarkable photographic record of a journey undertaken by two young women, namely a Miss - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Someone couldn’t stand still. Late 19th century carte-de-visite of a man in a service uniform (military or civilian perhaps, any - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Like candy. A few gorgeously-bound little tomes waiting to be catalogued. - by blacks_books 5 months ago
Happy Sunday friends. Here’s an Instagram-worthy shot of the lovely #doublours adorning this leather bound volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s