The Dusty Bookcase

The October 1912 issue of Canada Monthly , purchased late last year for the humour – black humour – of its cover: Agnes Deans Cameron...

A follow-up to Monday's post on Robert Barr's The Unchanging East : I'm not sure that I've seen a more generousl...

The Unchanging East; or, Travels and Troubles in the Orient Robert Barr Boston: Page, 1900 Robert Barr died one hundred years ago y...

Beginning with the above, London publisher Grant Richards' 1897 first edition of An African Millionaire , six handsome Grant Allen books...

Further to Tuesday's post . The cover of the Leadenhead Michael's Crag might not be as attractive as Rand McNally's (above), bu...

Recognition this morning of Nova Scotia's Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world. The mariner wrote about his adven...