The Dusty Bookcase

I purchased Robertson Davies'  What's Bred in the Bone  upon publication, the exchange taking place in 1985 at the old Coles b...

The Hohenzollerns in America;       With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities Stephen Leacock Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 191...

Edgar Andrew Collard seems to have been a pretty interesting fellow. A Montrealer armed with a M.A. in history from McGill, in 1942 he f...

Senator William Rupert Davies 12 September 1879 - 11 March 1967 RIP For my part, I do not believe this senate has any business at a...

Corporate greed knows no bounds beyond those imposed by prostate government ministers. Anyone seeking evidence should look no further...

Thirty Years at Stratford Robertson Davies Stratford, ON: Stratford Festival, 1982 Christopher Plummer left town a few days ago, sig...

Regrets? I've had a few. Just last week I passed on a fine Macmillan first edition of Bernard Epps' Pilgarlic the Death  that ...

Unearthed this past weekend, this little list from the May 1987 issue of Books in Canada . It is as described, a "studiously uns...

What's Bred in the Bone Grant Allen London: Tit-Bits, 1891 Two Canadian writers, both with strong ties to Kingston, Grant All...

The Ottawa Citizen , 3 December 1960 McClelland and Stewart's Christmas offerings from half-a-century ago. Only This Side Jordan...