The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Bookseller & Stationer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bookseller & Stationer. Show all posts
16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

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The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...
02 June 2020

Rhyming Leads to Ruin (and a correction)

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Ballads of a Bohemian Robert W. Service New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1921 220 pages It would be interesting to see sales figures ...
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20 April 2020

A Fine Cure for Brain Fag: Earlier Opinions of Hopkins Moorhouse's Every Man for Himself

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Further thoughts on Every Man for Himself , the subject of last week's post. I first learned of  Every Man for Himself  through ...
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07 November 2019

A Dedication Born of Tragedy

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Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...
01 November 2019

Virna Sheard Sees November as a Hooded Friar

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Bookseller & Stationer , March 1905 Verse for the month by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Coburg, Ontario, from  The Mira...
01 September 2018

Words on Writing for a Labour Day Weekend

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Bookseller & Stationer , February 1910 A brief passage from H.A. Cody's 1933 novel The Girl at Bullet Lake . Here Augustus Rock...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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