Search Results: Manuscripts, Journals & Albums from Attic Books

1983?. Good. 159 one-sided pages. 30 cm. Typescript of an unpublished manuscript. Work shows how the 19th century eruption of Mount Tambora changed global weather patterns for several years and affected political, social and literary history around the world. Photocopy of news article indicates it was to have been printed in 1983.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. Uncorrected Proof. Fine. [i], [40] leaves. 21.7 x 35.5 cm. Unbound. Foreword by Margaret Atwood takes 4 leaves.

1952. Softcover. Good. 38 one-sided pages. 27 cm. Blue paper covers. Pen and ink drawings. Ink stains on covers. Tears in spine ends. Pencil and ink editing throughout. A Nova Scotia traveller's account of her trip to Britain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. Commentary on how various countries and sites looked post war.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982. Softcover. Very good. 140 leaves. 21.6 x 35.5 cm. Spiral binding with card covers, label on front. Galley proof. A few notations in ink and pencil. A few stains to covers.

ca. 1832-42. Hardcover. Poor. Unpaginated scrapbook. 29 cm. Half black leather with brown cloth. Spine is missing and book is now separated into signatures or individual leaves. Tears and chips to page edges. Tissue guards remain, usually detached and torn. Handwritten poetry in French and English. B&w and colour illustrations of scenery, costumes, animals, religious subjects. Illustrations usually clipped from magazines or papers, but some look hand-drawn. Some captions in French and English. Probably the album of a British woman educated in French, perhaps traveling in France. First date Sept. 17, 1832.

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. Uncorrected and unpublished galley proofs. Softcover. Fine. [xiii], 279 p. 28 cm. Sprial binding with blue card covers. Dated November 10, 1990. Essays by Margaret Atwood, June Callwood, Dorothy Livesay, Lee Maracle, Jane Rule, Carol Shields, many others.

Philadelphia, 2013. Softcover. Near fine. v, 73 p. 23 cm. Colour plates. Paperback. Exhibition held March-August 2013 in Goldstein Family Gallery.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1987. Softcover. Near fine. [viii], 254 leaves. 28 cm. Spiral binding with green card govers. Back cover a bit stained. Non-fiction. Page proofs.

Toronto, nd. ca. 1980. Softcover. Very good. 164 leaves. 29 cm. Reproduction of typescript. Spiral binding with red covers, typed label.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. Near fine. xi, 339 p. on 177 leaves. 35.5 x 21.6 cm. Unbound page proofs. Dated Jan. 22, 1986. Commentary on Rousseau, Stendhal, Thomas Mann, Kleist, Robert Kennedy, Tolstoy, Pasternak, etc.