from Capricorn Books

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elliott Addressing Machine Co., 1945. 71 pp, 7" H. B&w photographs, cartoons. Contents: Preface; Sterling Elliott's Life from 1852 to 1887; Harmon Elliott's Early Training; The Bicycling Era and the First Automobiles (including Mr. Stanley's Own Story of His Steam Car); 1911-1922; Harmon Elliott's December 7, 1944, Talk to Employees of Over Ten Years' Service; The Arithmetic… Read more

Montreal: Distillers Corporation - Seagrams Limited, 1968. 3 Distillers Corporation - Seagrams Limited items - 11" H. 1. Distillers Corporation - Seagrams Limited Annual Report 1968 - 36 pp. Contains list of officers and directors, report of directors, financial reports, auditors' report, message from Samuel Bronfman, and 'Of all the resources of Canada, the greatest is its people', by… Read more

New York / Peru, Indiana / Canada : Keuffel & Esser / Lawrence engineering Service / Hughes Owens Three slide rule-related items. 1. The Use of the Slide Rule - 9" H, hard cover (brown cloth with gilt lettering on front board), 1915, 36 pp, + 4 pp advertising. B&w illustrations. 2. The Quick and Easy "Lawrence" Slide… Read more

Toronto: The Manufacturers' List Co., 1907. 544 pp + LXVIII pp, 10" H - dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and white call numbers on spine, gilt lettering and decoration on front board. B&w advertisements, some with illustrations. Title page continues: "An Index of Articles Manufactured in Canada, with a Classified List of Eminent Firms who Manufacture such Articles.… Read more

Montreal: Molson Industries Limited, 1969. 28 pp (English) / 28 pp (French), 10 7/8" H. "Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders" laid in. Colour and b&w photographs, illustrations, charts. Contents: The Year in Brief; Directors' Report to Shareholders; Financial Statement; Review of Operations; Principal Subsidiary Companies; Financial Charts; 10-year Financial Record; Directors and Officers. Interior - clean… Read more

Toronto: The Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1934. 576 pp, 9 3/4" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt emblems on spine/front board, blind stamped Greek key pattern on boards. Volume III only. 67 plates in total (66 b&w), including tissue-covered frontispiece, and 1 fold-out colour map showing the branches of the Western (Ontario) Bank… Read more

Toronto: Warwick, 1993. 293 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Dr. Morton Shulman has had a dozen brilliant careers, most of them contradictory, all of them played out with as much publicity as possible. Among them: crusading coronor, millionaire investor, socialist member of parliament, Tory newspaper columnist, television talk show host, bestselling author, mutual fund underwriter, and dedicated physician.… Read more

Unedited (& Unpublished) Manuscript., 1964. Unpaginated (approx. 128 mimeographed pages with printing on one side only - versos blank), 11 3/8" H. Black folder with two-hole metal slide binding, typed label bearing title on front cover. An unedited (and unpublished) manuscript by the author of "The Furniture of Old Ontario". The alphabetically arranged listings (by potter… Read more

Washington, D.C.: American Aviation Publications, 1967. 1318 pp, 7 5/8" H. Title page states: Volume 27, Number 2, but on spine is printed "No. 54". Fore edge of textblock stamped "Parker & Co. / International, Inc.". Some pictorial advertising with the occasional touch of color, attached bookmarks advertising Curtiss Wright and U.S. Gear, advertisement for Airwork has slim… Read more

Washington, D.C.: American Aviation Publications, 1968. 1322 pp, 7 1/2" H. Title page states: Volume 28, Number 2, but on spine is printed "No. 56". Fore edge of textblock stamped "Parker & Co. / International, Inc." with advertisement for their business in the directory. Some pictorial advertising with the some touches of color, two attached bookmarks advertising:… Read more

Toronto: The Canadian Annual Review, 1919. 879 pp, 9" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine. B&w tissue-covered photographic frontispiece (General Sir Arthur William Currie) plus additional b&w photographs throughout text. Advertising section, pages 834-857. Chapter Headings: Last Stages of the World War; The British Empire in the War; The United States and the War; Socialism and… Read more

The Empire Club Foundation, 1984. 396 pp, 7 3/8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt lettering/emblem on front board. B&w photographs. Contents include: New Directions for the Canadian Economy, by Peter Lougheed; Swiss Monetary Policies - The Case of a Smaller Country, by Dr. F. Leutwiler; The Canadian Economy, by Joe Clark; The Future of the… Read more

Washington, D.C.: American Aviation Publications, 1965. 1154 pp, 7 1/2" H. Title page states: Volume 28, Number 1, but on spine is printed "No. 51". Fore edge of textblock stamped "Parker & Co. / International, Inc." with advertisement for their business in the directory. Some pictorial advertising with the occasional touch of color, attached bookmark advertising Curtiss Wright,… Read more

Toronto: Toronto-Dominion Bank, 1959. Copper printing block, mounted on wood - 7" wide by 10 1/8" H x approx. 7/8" deep, comprising an aerial view of downtown Toronto looking towards the islands (5" x 7") and promotional text by The Toronto-Dominion Bank, referencing the 125th birthday of Toronto (1959). Approx. weight 2.2 kg (4 1/2 lbs). Some scattered non-active… Read more

Montreal: Montreal News Co., 1891. 245 pp, 5 7/8" H. Cloth spine, paper-covered boards with text on rear board, lettering, illustration and decorative border on front board. Appears to be an American publication reprinted by the Montreal News for use in Canada. No date, but examples of business forms are dated 1890 & 1891. Title page… Read more

Toronto: The Canadian Annual Review, 1920. 955 pp, 9 1/8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine. B&w photographs, drawing, map (Official Map of the Western Front When the Hindenburg Line was broken through by the British and Canadian Forces). Advertising section, pages 908-932. Chapter Headings: Canadian Echoes of the World War; Canadian Relations with Foreign Countries;… Read more

Washington, D.C.: Grand Lodge, International Association of Machinists, 1949. 117 pp, 5 3/4" H. Title page continues: "Revised by the Committee on Law as recommended by the Twenty-Second Convention of the Grand Lodge of The International Association of Machinists, held in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 13 to 24, 1948, and thereafter adopted by referendum vote in… Read more

Toronto: University of Toronto Library, 1901. 308 pp, 10 1/4" H. No. 118 of the limited first edition of 600 copies. Rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, new endpapers. An ex-library copy with college stamp on top edge of textblock, library stamps, etc. on free endpapers. *Please note: lacks fold-out map that should… Read more

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006. 352 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "When she died in London at the age of ninety, a survivor of one of the most tumultuous epochs in history, Madame Tussaud had travelled far from her inauspicious beginnings in Strasbourg as the daughter of a common soldier and a housekeeper. Moving to Paris as a child,… Read more

New York: Grand Central, 2015. 317 pp, 9 1/2" H. "We are all aware of the power of money - how it influences our moods, compels us to take risks, and serves as the yardstick of success in societies around the world. Yet because we take the daily reality of money so completely for granted, we seldom question how… Read more