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A SUMMER MISCELLANY:

Catalogue 38 August 2020

Items 3, 6, 15 and 29.

To our friends and colleagues;

The quest for unity, given the diversity of the world, is both much valued as a purpose in life, and a

much abused and misunderstood philosophy. Perhaps books in general, and this small offering in

particular, exemplify the limitless scope of the fruits of the best of mankind in service to others through

story, exploration, science and art. The highlight in this E-Catalogue of 34 titles is a Limited Edition of

Richard Burton’s Selected Papers, printed in a run of only 100 copies.

As ever, enjoy browsing and please share this humble offering with others!

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All contents © 2020 Brian J Murdoch, other than the image below from Dover Publications

1) Legends of the Comstock Lode Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg

Grahame H. Hardy, Carson City, 1950. 79 + [1] pp., map frontispiece, illustrated endpapers;

photographs and ‘decorations’ throughout. Near Fine in Very Good, edge-worn dustjacket.

Signed... [read more] | $25.00

2) One Woman’s Arctic

Burnford, Sheila

McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1973. 222 pp.; map frontis; pictorial endpapers drawn by Susan

Ross; Notes and Index. Much admired and loved for her earlier work The Incredible Journey... [read

more] | $20.00

3) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration. Now Edited with an Introduction

and Occasional Notes. Burton, Sir Richard [N. M. Penzer, Ed.]

London: A. M. Philpot, 1924. Limited/Numbered. Octavo. Cloth. Very Good + 240 pp. Number 23 of

a limited print run of 100 copies on hand-made paper. Top edge gilt (though dulled); rough cut

pages; some... [read more] | $290.00

4) Time and Chance: The Political Memoirs of Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister Campbell, Kim

Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1996. 433 pp., photographs, including the famous (infamous?) portrait

by Barbara Woodley wearing nothing, but holding her court robes in front of her. Signed... [read

more] | $30.00

5) The First Man Camus, Albert

The final novel; Fine in like dustjacket of the First Canadian Edition. The manuscript of this semi-

autobiographical work was found in the car wreckage when Camus was killed. It remained

unpublished... [read more] | $20.00

6) The Saint Goes On Charteris, Leslie

Triangle Books, New York; a 1942 book club reprint of the original edition of 1934, and hence with

‘war-time’ paper, but a great VG dj featuring Templar’s iconic logo... [read more] | $15.00

7) The Saint vs. Scotland Yard Charteris, Leslie

Doubleday & Co., New York, 1953. A 25th Anniversary edition of the Crime Club Classics book club

series. Clean in tight, square binding in dj. Simon Templar: “that buccaneer in a dinner

jacket,... [read more] | $20.00

8) The Power of One Courtenay, Bryce

Random House, New York, 1989. A Fine, unblemished copy of the American First Edition in price-

clipped dust wrapper. Courtenay's most significant work; set in South Africa during WWII.... [read

more] | $20.00

9) High on a Windy Hill. The Story of the Prince of Wales Hotel Djuff, Ray

Rocky Mountain Books, Calgary, 2009 reprint (1999). A Fine, square octavo in wraps, 180 pp;

Endnotes, Index and Photographs (b&w) throughout. The author was a former employee of the

Hotel... [read more] | $10.00

10) Ecology of Western North America: Ecology of the Forest Trees in British Columbia <i>bound with</i> The Subalpine Mountain Hemlock Zone: Subalpine Vegetation in Southwestern British Columbia [Ecology] Krajina, V. J., an Robert C. Brooke et al.

Dept. of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1970. Royal Octavo, in wrappers. 349

pp., extensive notes, references, charts. Age-toned edges, Else Fine. Uncommon, especially in such

condition.... [read more] | $30.00

11) Twenty Ethnic Songs from Western Canada [Ethnomusicology] Peacock, Kenneth

National Museum of Canada, Issued under the Authority of The Honourable Judy LaMarsh,

Secretary of State, Ottawa 1966. Royal octavo (9.75”) in stiff card covers; Bulletin No. 211;

Anthropological... [read more] | $25.00

12) B.C.:N Suomalainen. Uusi Lansi - B.V.:N 100-Vuotisjulkaisu - 1967. [Finish Immigration to B.C.]

Vancouver: 1967. quarto (11"). Stapled Wrappers. Very Good + pp. 35 + [1] (including wraps);

illustrated throughout. With an introductory note by K.H.W. Seppala, the Finnish Consul, this

magazine... [read more] | $45.00

13) Oooh, You New York Girls! The Urban Pastorale in Ballads and Songs about Sailors Ashore in the Big City. Together with: “Musick on the Brain”: Frederick Howland Smith’s Shipboard Tunes 1854 – 1869. And: Sea Chantey’s and Sailors’ Songs Frank, Stuart M.

The Kendall Whaling Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime History, Perth, 1996 -

2000. New York, Monograph No. 9: Presented by the Frank, then Director of the Museum... [read

more] | $80.00

14) Modir min - Husfreyjan [Iceland] [Motherhood] Kristjansson, Gisli [Editor].

Iceland: Skuggsja, 1977. Octavo. Leatherette. Fine / Very Good. 288 pp. + photographs. Gilt titles

and publisher's device on boards; illustrations of each author and their mothers. A

remembrance... [read more] | $60.00

15) Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study [Islam] Nasr, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

World of Islam Publishing Company Ltd., 1976, Kent. First Edition. [xiv] + 273 pp., map endpapers;

135 plates, 94 figures; Notes to illustrations (colour and b&w), Glossary, Select Bibliography ... [read

more] | $65.00

16) The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. An Essay.

Burckhardt, Jacob

Translated by S.G.C. Middlemore (1878) of the original German text of 1860, with the addition of

colour plates and an Introduction to this edition by Anthony Grafton. The Folio Society, London,

2004.... [read more] | $40.00

17) Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition

Kane, Elisha Kent

Childs & Peterson; Philadelphia, 1856, in two volumes. “In search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54,

‘55”. [Arctic Biblio. 8373, noting: “Illustrated by upwards of three hundred... [read more] | $100.00

18) Historia Symboli Apostolici cum Observationibus Ecclesiasticis et Criticis ad Singulos Eius Articulos ex Anglico Sermone in Latinum Translata [History of the Apostles Creed with Critical Observations on its Several Articles]. King, Peter

Lugduni (Lyons): Joannem le Mair (Johannes le Mair), 1765. Octavo - 8 1/4". Hard Cover. Peter

King, 1st Baron King of Ockham and Lord Chancellor of England, had published his 'History of the

Apostles'... [read more] | $150.00

19) Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph Lawrence, T. E.

Lawrence of Arabia. First American Trade Edition Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.; MCMXXXV;

672 pp.; frontis portrait; quarto in buckram, lacking uncommon dustjacket. First published in

1926,.... [read more] | $60.00

20) The Writer’s Map. An Atlas of Imaginary Lands Lewis-Jones, Huw

Thames & Hudson, London, 2018. A Fine, First Edition quarto in dustjacket with publisher’s device

of twin dolphins in blind on front boards. 256 pp., bibliography (Further Reading); sources... [read

more] | $40.00

21) The Tangled Garden. The Art of J.E.H. MacDonald [J. E. H. MacDonald] Duval, Paul

Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall, Scarborough, 1978. Oblong quarto (10.5: x 14”), Fine in Near Fine

dustjacket, with the artist’s device in blind on the front boards and the front free endpaper. 186

pp... SOLD

22) The Canada Jurisdiction Act (1803) and the North-West t/w Forest Oakes, Charles Boyer, Joseph Fulton, and Peter Pangman in the North-West, 1765-1793 Morton, A. S.

Two Offprints from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada Arthur Silver Morton (1870-

1945), was a Presbyterian minister, a professor of church history at Knox College, and, later, a

professor... [read more] | $45.00

23) Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom [Roosevelt, Franklin Delano] Black, Conrad

New York: Public Affairs (Perseus), 2003. First Edition, A Fine First Edition in dustwrapper. A

definitive volume of 1,280 pp. Notes; extensive Bibliography and Index; illustrated. "The most

important... [read more] | $25.00

24) The Double Saramago, José

A Fine copy, in Fine dustwrapper, of the First American Edition in translation; Harcourt Inc., 2004.

Portuguese-born Saramgo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.... [read more] | $15.00

25) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile Speke, John Hanning

Printed in Belgium in 1984, this facsimile edition of that published by Blackwood and Sons, Edinburg

and London, 1863, is in full bonded leather, complete with two fold-out maps in a rear

pocket;... [read more] | $50.00

Two by Stark

26) Cities of God. The Real Story of How Christianity Became and Urban Movement and Conquered Rome Stark, Rodney

Harper Collins, San Francisco, 2006. First Edition, Fine in dj. 280 pp., internal maps and illustrations;

Statistical Appendix, Notes, Bibliography and Index. Includes chapters on “Paul... [read more] |

$20.00

27) The Triumph of Christianity. How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion Stark, Rodney

Harper Collins, New York, 2011, First Edition. Fine in dj. 503 pp., extensive Bibliography (pp. 419-

460); Notes and Index. From the dj: “As it moves through six historical eras,... [read more] | $20.00

28) Trapping is My Life Tetso, John.

Toronto; Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1976. A Fine octavo in blue cloth, with dust jacket in

protective mylar sleeve. Map endpapers; [ix], 116 pp. with line drawings by Lorne Bouchard, RCA,

throughout. ... [read more] | $25.00

29) Tom Thomson [Tom Thomson] Reid, Dennis (Ed.)

A joint publication of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and Douglas &

McIntyre, 2002; First Edition; Fine quarto (10.5” x 11”) in like dustjacket. 386 pp., ... [read more] |

$90.00

30) Marry Me: A Romance Updike, John

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Frankilin Library, 1976. First Thus. Octavo. Leather. Near Fine

347 pp.; illustrated; full olive green leather binding with double-ruled paneling surrounding gilt blind-

stamping;... [read more] | $25.00

31) Large Dams in Turkey. Ural, Orhan M. and Unver Ungan

Turkey: The General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works, 1967. First Edition. Folio. Leather.

Signed by Author. Very Good + [xv] (including 4 colour maps), 389 pp., with bibliography, index and

errata.... [read more] | $225.00

32) The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Vassanji, M. G.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004. A superb copy in dust jacket of this novel that won The Giller Prize

in 2003. (Second Printing) In Kenya, 1953, amidst violence and racism, a diverse group of

children... [read more] | $15.00

33) Victoria and Vancouver Island. A Trip Abroad in a Day [Victoria]

Canadian Pacific and Puget Sound Navigation Co., 1941, Vancouver and Seattle. Four-fold

broadside, printed on both sides, measuring 12” x 18”. Photographs. Near Fine.... [read more] |

$30.00

34) Investigations in Southwest Yukon: Geobotanical and Archaeological Reconnaissance. t/w Richard S. MacNeish. Archaeological Excavation, Comparisons and Speculations. [Yukon] Johnson, Frederick and Hugh M. Raup.

Papers of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Volume Six, Numbers 1 and 2.

Phillips Academy, Andover Massachusetts, 1964. Quarto in blue cardcovers. [xvii] + 488 pp.;

illustrations and... [read more] | $30.00