Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from March 2006

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 2006

Editorial note/Preliminaire.
March 22, 2006... The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada are the official publication of the Society and are distributed to members together with a semi-annual Bulletin. Membership fees are $35.00 yearly for individual members and $50.00 for...

Distributors, agents, and publishers: Part II the Toronto publishing scene during World War I (1).
March 22, 2006... The war seems to have uncovered a new Canadian reading public just as much as it has brought new writers to birth, and with the improved machinery of publishing there never was a more appropriate movement [sic] far a new Canadian literature....

Skyward floating feather: a publishing history of E. Pauline Johnson's Flint and Feather.(Biography)
March 22, 2006... Early in the twentieth century, Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) had become one of Canada's most celebrated performers, billed as the "Indian Poet-Reciter," "The Mohawk Poetess," or under her own Mohawk name: Tekahionwake. She was an immensely...

Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black, eds. History of the Book in Canada: 1840-1918, vol. 2.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black, eds. History of the Book in Canada: Volume Two: 1840-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxxii, 659 pp.; $75.00. ISBN 080208012X. The juggernaut that is the History...

Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming et Fiona A. Black, dirs. Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming et Fiona A. Black, dirs. Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada. Vol. II: de 1840 a 1918, Montreal, Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2005, 690 p. 85,00 $. ISBN : 2-7606-1973-7. Le grand...

Thomas B. Vincent, comp. Arthur Stringer: A Bibliography of the Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Thomas B. Vincent, comp. Arthur Stringer: A Bibliography of the Fiction. Bibliofiles Series No. 5. Kingston: Loyal Colonies Press, 2005. [230] pp. ISBN 0920832180. --. C.G.D. Roberts: A Bibliography of the Fiction: Volume Two: Titles H-I....

Michel Brisebois. L'imprimerie a Quebec au XVIIIe siecle : les feuilles volantes et affiches, 1764-1800.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Michel Brisebois. L'imprimerie a Quebec au XVIII siecle : les feuilles volantes et affiches, 1764-1800, Quebec, Les editions de la Huit, 2005, 323 p. 30$. ISBN : 2-921707-19-5. Specialiste reconnu dans le domaine du livrer ancien, Michel...

Christine Wiesenthal. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Christine Wiesenthal. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xii, 489 pp; $65.00. ISBN 080203635X. In 1999 Christine Lowther introduced New Power (Fredericton: Broken Jaw press, 1999), her first book of...

Pierre Hebert (avec la collaboration d'Elise Salaun). Censure et litterature au Quebec. Des vieux couvents au plaisir de vivre.(1920-1959)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Pierre Hebert (avec la collaboration d'Elise Salaun). Censure et litterature au Quebec. Des vieux couvents au plaisir de vivre (1920-1959), Montreal, Fides, 2004, 252 p. 29,95 $. ISBN : 2-7621-2343-7. Avec Censure et litterature au Quebec....

Dean Irvine, ed. The Canadian Modernists Meet.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Dean Irvine, ed. The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005. 353 pp-; $35.00. ISBN 0776605992. The latest addition to the "Reappraisals: Canadian Writers" series, The Canadian Madernists Meet represents the work...

Alan Twigg. Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, vol. 2.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Alan Twigg. Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 2. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, zoos. 258 pp.; $24.95. ISBN 1553800303. This second volume in Man Twigg's unconventionally designed literary history of British...

Denis Vaugeois. L'Amour du livre. L'edition au Quebec, ses petits secrets et ses mysteres.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Denis Vaugeois. L'Amour du livre. L'edition au Quebec, ses petits secrets et ses mysteres, Sillery, Septentrion, 2005, 218 p. 24,955. ISBN : 2-89448-425-9. Editeur, libraire et ministre des Affaires culturelles du Quebec lors de l'adoption...

Documentation et bibliotheques.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Documentation et bibliotheques, 51, 1 (janvier-mars 2005). Numero thematique consacre a la Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec. 17 $. ISSN : 0315-2340 Afin de souligner l'ouverture du nouvel edifice de la Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec...

Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. The History of the Library in Western Civilization: From Minos to Cleopatra, The Greek World from the Minoans' Archival Libraries to the Universal Library of the Ptolemies.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. The History of the Library in Western Civilization: From Minos to Cleopatra: The Greek World from the Minaans' Archival Libraries to the Universal Library of the Ptolemies. Timothy Cullen, translator. New Castle, Del....

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard-Gabriel Rummonds. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. New Castle, Del. and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004. 2 vols. xxxvii, 482; xxxviii-lviii, 483-1051 pp.; US $150/GB 85 [pounds...

Anton Gerits. Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Anton Gerits. Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. 412 pp.; US $65.00. ISBN 1584561386. Dutch book dealer Anton Gerits began his long career in 1950 with the...