Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from March 1998

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 1998

`Best field for tourist sale of books': Marius Barbeau, the Macmillan Company and folklore publishing in the 1930s.
March 22, 1998... Andrew Nurse lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His recently completed doctoral dissertation is a study of Marius Barbeau and the development of modern anthropology in Canada. When Marius Barbeau was hired as an assistant ethnologist by the...

Defining subject boundaries in interdisciplinary bibliographic work.
March 22, 1998... Bertrum H. MacDonald is the Director of the School of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University. David Kaunelis was the Researcher for the Information Diffusion in Scientific Research in Canada project and is...

Nineteenth century short title catalogue (NSTC) series I & II (1801-1870).
March 22, 1998... Newcastle upon Tyne: Avero Publications Limited, 1996. CD-ROM. [pounds sterling] 5000 ([pounds sterling]700 to institutions who subscribed to the book-form edition). Personal research edition [pounds sterling]100. ISSN 1365-8239. Ten years...

Sleuths, sidekicks and stooges: an annotated bibliography of detectives, their assistants and their rivals in crime, mystery and adventure fiction, 1794-1995.
March 22, 1998... Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1997. 874 pp., $119.95 U.S. (cloth), ISBN 1-85928-192-3. It's high time somebody made it easy to ferret out the facts about fictional detectives, amateur and professional, regardless of gender, sub-genre,...

Merchants of Venus: inside Harlequin and the empire of romance.
March 22, 1998... Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1996. X, 309 [I] pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-55192-010-7. It is astonishing to think that there is a Canadian publisher who has sold more than 3 billion books, and yet the chances are excellent that no one...

Presse quebecoise de 1764 a 1914: bibliographie analytique.
March 22, 1998... Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1995. xix, 351 p.; 60$ (broche). ISBN 2-7637-7392-3. Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, les travaux de Jean de Bonville se veulent autant de pierres blanches dans le champ des connaissances sur la...

Readings in Canadian library history v2.
March 22, 1998... Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1996. vi, 407 (I) pp. $59.95 (paper). ISBN 0-88802-269-7. Despite its title, this is actually the third volume of readings in Canadian Library History and coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the...

Artists' books: the book as a work of art, 1963-1995.
March 22, 1998... Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995. xvi, 208 pp.; $109.95 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 1-85928-163x. As a librarian and Postgraduate Tutor in Modern Art History and Theory at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Stephen Bury knows artists' books....

American book design and William Morris.
March 22, 1998... Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilian. London: The British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. xxix, [1], 258 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $34.95 U.S. (paper). ISBN 1-884718-25-6 (cloth, Oak Knoll); ISBN 1-884718-26-4 (paper, Oak...

`Book disease': Atlantic Provinces book collectors.
March 22, 1998... Halifax: Dalhousie University. School of Library and Information Studies, Occasional Paper Series no. 58, 1996. 120 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7703-9768-9. In his introduction to this collection of essays, Eric Swanick remarks on the...

University Magazine, 1901-1920: an annotated index.
March 22, 1998... Teeswater, Ont.: Reference Press, 1997. 110pp.; $25.00 (cerlox binding in paper). ISBN 0-919981-62-3. A pioneering effort in the field of academic periodicals of opinion, The University Magazine (1907-1920) and its predecessor, The McGill...