Search Results: Titles starting with I from High Park Books

Toronto, ON: Promethean Renaissance, 1995. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No DJ Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book 1: Discovering your Renaissance - An individual isn't born stupid, he is trained to be.. Book II: Finding Happiness through Freeing America - Book III - Romancing America, I: The showdown. A story of discovery.. 423pp. Slight edgewear . Bottom front corner has small curl to cover and some pages.

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine +/Very Good. A family album of traditional portrait photographs with an unconventional twist: the only subject is Goldchain himself. In an elaborate process involving genealogical research, the use of make-up, hair styling, costume, and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors and captures their personifications with the camera. Taking some liberties with historical accuracy, Goldchain assembled a cast of characters: from his short story-writing grandfather, to his great-aunts Pola and Fela, to the Rabbi Gur's nephew in wedding dress, Goldchain reinvents himself over and over again. These trace the evolution of Jewish culture from tradition to modernity and invite us to engage the history of a family decimated and scattered by the traumatic events of the 20th century. Essay by curator Martha Langford. Includes archival images & artist's handwritten sketchbooks.The… Read More

Montreal: DC Books, 2003. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine +. Author's collection of short stories that are inked with off-centre characters by the founder / publisher of Conundrum Press. 188 pages with some B&W illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page.

Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good+. A tale of trauma of a pre-teen girl going through her parent's divorce, puberty & school pressure. Winner of the 2001 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for outstanding new play and best performance by a female actor in a principal role (Kristen Thomson). Seventh printing - 2015. 37 pages with B&W photos. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slight corner wear.

Morden, Manitoba: Walter F. Latter, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. A biography of Helene Latter, a Russian Mennonite immigrant to Manitoba. (xiv) 128 pages with maps & B&W illustrations. Printed & bound by Friesen Printers.

Wurzburg, Germany: Echter Publishing House, 1995. Pictorial Hardcover. Near Fine +. Vivid illustrations of the stained glass windows done by Jewish, Russian-born, French painter and stained glass artist (1887-1985] at the Mainz church. Accompanied by the text of the Jewish-born Catholic priest who persuaded Chagall to do the stained glass at the German church, despite his strong reluctance to ever work in Germany again after the Holocaust. 82 pages with full page, colour reproductions of Chagal's work. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two slight "puncture" marks to back cover - o/w fine.

Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2009. First Edition . Near Fine +. An extended novel told in verse by the Governor General award winning author, poet and educator./ 237pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia / Jobete Music / Black Bull Music, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good+. Piano, Vocal, Chords. White, pictorial wraps. 48 pages with music & lyrics 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Minor edge / corner wear & slight creasing at spine. Pages clean, tight & unmarked. Uncommon

Toronto: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Matt James. Unpaginated (32 pages with vivid colour illustrations. James is a painter, musician & multi-award winning illustrator (including the Governor General Award for Illustration). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Don Mills, ON: Greywood Publishing, 1972. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good -/No Dust Jacket. An biting yet affectionate pictorial study of Pierre Elliot Trudeau from 1972. Yellow, stapled oblong 24mo (5" X 8") wraps with a closed-eyed Trudeau on cover. Full-page B&W photos with balloon captions throughout. Minor edge and corner wear with minor soiling to back cover. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Unpaginated.

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. Soft cover. Near Fine +. Stories & recollections (37) about the little university that could. 222 pages with B&W photos. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Self Published , 1990. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (8) 311 (xix) pages with archival / B&W photos & illustrations.Red boards with gilt lettering.

Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First book of poetry by the Toronto arts activist (1927-1997), former president of House of Anansi Press & former spouse of novelist Graeme Gibson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 58pp. DJ has minor rubbing edgewear with a 1'2" tear at upper spine. INSCRIBED to Sylvia Du Vernet, Toronto academic & writer.

England: British Kendo Association, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. First reprint with minor corrections. Plastic, spiral-linked pages with clear plastic covers. 71 pages. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Minor creasing to bottom corner.

Fredericton / Toronto: Goose Lane Editions / Art Gallery of Ontario , 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine +. Catalogue from the 2011 exhibition of the works of the Canadian conceptual artist (1936 -) who has been called 'the Marshall McLuhan of the visual arts'. Includes more than 200 reproductions and essays by David Moos, Michael Darling, Dennis Durham, Christophe Domino & Lucy Lippard. Interviews with the artist & Ingrid Baxter by Alexander Alberro. Large heavy illustrated wraps. 220 pages with index. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Nottingham, England: Angel Row Gallery, 1997. Card Covers. Catalogue from exhibition of abstracts by the British artist and lecturer at the Nottingham gallery. The exhibition also travelled to the Nottingham Trent University & Findland in 1997. English & Finnish text. Black oblong covers (9 /1/2" x 11/2") with lettering on spine & front Unpaginated (approx. 85pp). Texts by Timo Valjakka & Jeremy Lewison. Colour and B&W plates. Near fine condition except for owner's name on inside front.

Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Later poetry by the New Brunswick-born poetry / prose writer (1860 - 1943). Much later dubbed one of the Confederation Poets (born in the 1860s, he has been called the Father of Canadian Poetry for his work & influence on other poets. Limited to 500 copies of which 100 copies only were (are) for sale. Green boards with gilt lettering & illustration on face. 31 pages with woodcut illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall No slipcase included, a very nice copy.

Paperback. Very Good+. ????? ???????????. Landscapes, portraits & still life paintings by the Russian master artist (1934-2009). Russian & English text. Oblong 8vo (8 1/2' x 12") stapled pictorial wraps. Front cover displays an a B&W photo of the artist sitting besides one of his paintings. Back cover is a colour still life by the artist. Unpaginated (48 pages) with colour & B&W plates. Unidentified date, publisher or publisher location. Assumed circa early 1990s based on the publication East Joins West Through Art which featured the art of Igor Soldatenkov (Russia), Peter Robson (Canada) & Albin Gavdzinsky (Ukraine).

Toronto: Wall & Thompson, 1989. 1st Edition . Pictorial Hardcover. Fine/No DJ Issued. A collection of academic & technical papers by international researchers. Red, glossy, illustrated boards. 307 pages with bibliography, B&W photos /iIllustrations, notes & index. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Due to weight, extra shipping WILL be required outside Canada. If outside Canada, please do not order this book before contacting us first by email to determine proper postage.

Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good+. Foreword by Ellen S. Jaffe. 153 oages with short poet biographies. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor corner wear.