Carroll D Coleman (6 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Booklet, stapled. Off-print from the Colophon: New Series, Number 2, Volume 1. Pp. 221-226. Presentation inscription from Carroll D. Coleman to inside front cover, dated 1972. nd. [circa1972]. Crease and small tear to rear cover. Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter copper cloth with spine label and copper marbled paper-covered boards, 12mo., (18) pages, illustrated with four linocuts by Bill Jackson. One of 130 numbered copies set in Monotype Poliphilus by Michael & Winifred Bixler and printed by Neil Shaver at his Yellow Barn Press on dampened Rives paper. Bound by Campbell-Logan. Four-page prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy in archival mylar. Bill Jackson (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original decorated wraps. Edited by Carrol D. Coleman, who went on to found the Prairie Press in the 1930's. With contributions from Ronald Walker Barr, May Folwell Hoisington, Clyde Robe Meredith, Eugenie du Maurier Meredith, and C.A.A. Parker. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Cover art by W.A. Winter shows husband returning to home filled with card-playing ladies; No Excuse Now for Atomic Hush-Hush (Editorial); The Man Who Clipped the King - Paul Emile ("Red") Tasse was barber at the Chateau Laurier Hotel for Thirty years; Jim Crow Lives in Dresden, Ontario - 300 of the 1,700 citizens have Negro blood but can't get a store haircut, a permanent wave, or a restaurant meal; - article with photos; Lucy Makes My Living (fiction); The Fabulous Fraud From Eastwood - Was Ontario's audacious Cassie Chadwick the world's greatest woman swindler? - she hoaxed her way into $1.5 million; Don't Be Scared of Your Heart - the truth about tickers by an M.D.; The Loneliest Man in Canada - Frank McLaren killed his wife in 1927 and spent twelve years in jail, but now he's out; Can You Tell Which Gems are Real? - the synthetic jewelry trade is booming; The Dauntless Deacon of Caulflower Row - the checkered career of John Finlay Allen; Jeanne D'Arc and the Siren Sea (fiction); The Battle of the St. Lawrence (conclusion) - Nazi U-boats in the St. Lawrence; Frank Gladstone Waddington is the dean of Canadian Auctioneers; Nice colour-illustrated Massey-Harris tractor ad shows farmer on tractor plowing his lane with cream cans at gate; and more. 60 pages. Back cover missing. Front cover secured with archival tape. A worthy vintage example.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 November (Nov.) 1949 Cover art by W.A. Winter shows husband returning to home filled with card-playing ladies; No Excuse Now for Atomic Hush-Hush (Editorial); The Man Who Clipped the King - Paul Emile ("Red") Tass. Illustrated by Winter, W.A.; Wallam, J.S. (illustrator).…

Edition limited to 130 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 12mo, pp. [20]; 4 linocuts by Bill Jackson; original copper cloth-backed gold pastepaper-covered boards, paper spine label; fine. Original prospectus laid in. This book was one of two in an intended series of ideal "small books. that fit snugly in the hand, that fall open easily. that have clear, readable, and conventional types, and good margins -- books suitable for an extra nice Christmas gift to a man or woman who likes and knows fine printing." Carroll Coleman, the author, first published this story in The Colophon in 1935. From 1950 onwards he was the proprietor of the Prairie Press. Walsdorf, A32.…

Edition limited to 130 copies (this, no. 4), 12mo, pp. [20]; 4 linocuts by Bill Jackson; original copper cloth-backed gold pastepaper-covered boards, paper spine label; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. This book was one of two in an intended series of ideal "small books. that fit snugly in the hand, that fall open easily. that have clear, readable, and conventional types, and good margins -- books suitable for an extra nice Christmas gift to a man or woman who likes and knows fine printing." Carroll Coleman, the author, first published this story in The Colophon in 1935. Walsdorf, A32.…