The Dusty Bookcase

Dale of the Mounted: Atlantic Assignment Joe Holliday Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1956 First off, I should make it clear that the book I ...

For the day, Victorian verse from Canada's Poet by James Gay, self-proclaimed  Master of All Poets and Poet Laureate of Canada , of...

The title poem from Agnes Maule Machar's "The Call of Christmas – 1914". What can be said about this scarce chapbook...

Vancouver Aquarium Seafood Recipes Ainley Jackson Vancouver: Gordon Soules, 1977 No living creature from the aquarium was killed in...

Seasonal verse found in Arthur Stringer's The Woman in the Rain and Other Poems (Boston: Little, Brown, 1907). The writer was ...

Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road R. Henry Mainer Toronto: Briggs, 1906 Robert Henry Mainer served one term as President of the Canadia...

The image is small, but the selection is huge. This full page advert from the 2 December 1914 Globe & Mail gives good idea of the b...