Books About Books from Capricorn Books

New York: Scribner, 2019. 401 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations, colour plates. "(T)ells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colon, a singular visionary of the printing-press age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that… Read more about this item

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. 149 pp, 9 1/4" H. Inscribed on title page: "TO RISHMA, / IT HAS BEEN / A JOY TO WORK / WI YOU / - ART REDDING". (E)xamines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and… Read more about this item

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll, 1999. 559 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings, colour plates. Contents: Acknowledgments; Preface by Efner Holmes; Tasha Tudor: Illustrator and Author; A Word on Tasha Tudor by Bethany Tudor; Tasha Tudor, The Publishing Years: 1973-1982 by Dorothy Haas; A Remembrance by Patricia Lee Gauch; A Letter with Drawings from Tasha Tudor; Interpreting the… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2004. 352 pp, 10 1/4" H, integral ribbon bookmark, reproduction marbled endpapers. "The album with the revealing title 'Theatre of Love' or 'Jestings on Love' brings together 143 magnificent copperplate engravings - from elaborately conceived love emblems and allegories to illustrations of proverbs, the Muses and the Virtues and Vices. The pictures, all of them devoted to the… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 379 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(G)athers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays, which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 2012. 265 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of (this book in 1983), little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to… Read more about this item

Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron, 2019. 210 pp, 8 1/2" H. "Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work - characters, landscapes, and events - to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest." Anne Knudsen, 'Weekendavisen'. Contents: Introduction; Faery or the Collective Unconscious; The Archetype of… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 272 pp, 8 1/8" H. "For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites… Read more about this item

Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. 282 pp, 8vo (9" H). B&w portrait sketches. Contents: Charles Heaveysege; Charles Sangster; Charles Mair; Isabella Valancy Crawford; William Wilfred Campbell; Charles G.D. Roberts; Bliss Carman; Archibald Lampman; Duncan Campell Scott; E.J. Pratt; W.W.E. Ross; Raymond Knister; F.R. Scott; Robert Finch; A.J.M. Smith; Earle Birney; Leo Kennedy; Ralph Gustafson; A.M. Klein; Dorothy Livesay; Anne Wilkinson; Irving… Read more about this item

Ottawa: National Library of Canada / Bibliotheque Nationale du Canada , 1962. 258 pp + 88 pp (Index), 11" H. A catalogue of publications released in 1950/51 of Canadian interest, excluding federal publications. Listings are arranged under the headings: Bibliography, Librarianship / Philosophy, Psychology, Religion / Banking Insurance; Citizenship, Immigration, Nationalities; Economics, Commerce; Law; Military science; Politcs, World affairs;… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto / Glasgow, Brook , 1917. 192 pp, 9 13/16" H. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Reviews by three noted Canadian historians of publications produced in 1916 relating to Canada, gathered under the section headings: The Relations of Canada to the Empire; The History of Canada; Provincial and Local History (Newfoundland and the… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce / Canadian Book publishers' Council , 1971. 9 3/4" H plastic binder, containing self-addressed, self-sealing order form pad and two 9 1/4" H booklets - Books from Canada: English Language and Books from Canada: French Language. The binder was prepared for the 16th USA International Book Exhibition in conjunction with the 90th… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1971. 216 pp, 8" H. "Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it contains less errors of fact thatn a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, any conclusion must… Read more about this item

New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. The four volumes of the "New Graphic Series" of the Colophon, 10 5/8" H, pictorial front boards/spines - lacking the original glassine dust jackets. No. 1 - March 1939, 115 pp, with linoleum cut by Hans Alexander Mueller, wood engraving by Emil Ganso and additional illustration by George Cruikshank & Edward A. Wilson, plus… Read more about this item

London: Carlton, 1998. 256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Colour and b&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Types of Fantasy; Fantasy Cinema; Television Fantasy; Who's Who of Fantasy; A-Z of Fantasy Characters & Entities; Fantasy Games; Fantasy Worlds; Fantasy Magazines; Glossary; Index. "(A)n extensive survey of the whole genre." Book is Fine. Dust jacket has… Read more about this item

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster , 2011. 342 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, genealogical charts, etc. Colour plates. "Philippa Gregory and her fellow historians descibe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. In… Read more about this item

Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976. 304 pp, 10" H, orange cloth with black lettering/banding on spine and front board. Section headings: Reference Materials; Humanities and Applied Arts; Literature; Social Sciences; Science and Technology; Indexes (Author Index / Title Index / Subject Index). Three tiny corner bumps, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - (as issued).… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. 463 pp, 8 5/8" H. Signed: "Fanny Butcher" on front free endpaper. B&w photographs. "This is the extraordinary memoir of the lifelong passion - and the multiple friendships - of one of the outstanding women of (the twentieth century), who has lived her life to the full in the heart of the Midwest and… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1914. 125 pp, 8" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A short biography and literary criticism of the Italian Renaissance poet, Lodovico Ariosto, author of "Orlando Furioso". Contents: Annotated Bibliography; The House of Este and the Court of Ferrara; Family Relations; The Poet and the Cardinal; The Poet and the Duke; Death and… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 268 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom by censoring books. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933, there were 90 book burnings in 70 German cities. Indeed,… Read more about this item