Recent Arrivals from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

Entertaining Canadians: Canada's International Stars 1900-1988, Gould, E. Published by Cappis Press Publishers Ltd, Victoria BC., 1988. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 324pp. with black and white photos. White cloth boards with black spine titles. In fine, unread condition; very light shelf wear to dustjacket. Profiles 500 prominent actors, writers, directors, producers, dancers, singers, composers etc.

My 60 Memorable Games, Fischer, Bobby. Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1969. First British Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 384pp., text illustrations, index. Selected and annotated by Bobby Fischer, introduction to the games by Larry Evans. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Top corner is clipped on free endpaper and half-title; light dusting and spotting to outside… Read more about this item

Gibson Guitars 100 Years of an American Icon, Carter, Walter. Published by Gibson Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 341pp. illustrated, index. Burgundy textured boards with gilt spine titles; endpapers illustrated with diagram of the Gibson guitar. Volume is in fine, unread condition; dustjacket has light top edge ruffling and is otherwise fine. Chronicles 100 years… Read more about this item

Ulysses, Joyce, James. Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1962. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 939pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Label to pastedown and light outer edge dusting and otherwise, volume is in fine condition. Dustjacket has a few chips and closed tears.

Memoirs 1939-1993, Mulroney, Brian. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2007. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 1015pp. with Appendices, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index; 40pp. of glossy black-and-white photos. blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Contents are in fine, unread condition; spine is cocked (slanted). The autobiography of Canada's 18th Prime Minister.

1066: The Year of the Conquest, Howarth, David. Published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., London, 1977. 224pp., illustrated. Grey cloth boards with silver spine titles. In fine, unread condition with name to title page. The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English… Read more about this item

Lost Divas, Tubeuf, Andre. Published by Assouline. New York, 2005. Folio up to 15" tall., 120 pp. with full page black and white photographs printed on high quality paper; rear pocket with accompanying CD produced specially for this publication. Photographic boards; issued without dustjacket. Volume is in fine condition and CD has not been used or removed. Photographs (some unpublished) of… Read more about this item

The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World. Collins, Paul. Published by Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 246pp., with suggested readings. Black boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn of the… Read more about this item

Shakespeare - A Crash Course, Graham, Rob. Published by Watson-Guptil, NYC, 2000 12mo up to 7½" tall. 144pp., illustrated, index, glossary. Glossy illustrated boards with matching dustjacket. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket.

Shakespeare: The World As Stage, Bryson, Bill. Published by HarperCollins, 2019. Eminent Lives series. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 200pp. with title page portrait. Volume is in fine, unread condition with very light toning

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, Shapiro, James. Published by HarperCollins, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 429pp., illustrated, index, preface, prologue, biographical essay. Quarter brown over brown boards, mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition; jacket has very light shelf wear.

Contested Will. Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shapiro, James. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 339pp., black and white illustrations, index. Quarter crimson over cream boards. Contents are in fine condition with a remainder mark to outside lower edge; light shelf wear to dustjacket. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why… Read more about this item

This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith. Published by Pelican, 2019. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 368pp Blue boards with black titles. Light toning and otherwise contents are in fine condition; light edge wear to dustjacket. A The Times Book of The Year 2019. 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer.… Read more about this item

Shakespeare, Michael Wood. Published by Basic Books, 2003. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp., with over 100 color and black and white illustrations. Quarter red over black boards, silver spine titles, black endpapers. In fine, unread condition. A brilliant piece of historical investigative journalism by acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood. Shakespeare is a fresh telling of the playwright's life based… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, Norwich, John Julius. Published by Scribner, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 401pp. with color pictorial section, 3 genealogical charts, maps, Royal Emblems, Bibliography, Index. Blue cloth boards with mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has closed tear top edge and light shelf… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Face, Stephanie Nolen. Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp. with black and white and color illustrations, notes, index.S Black boards with bronze spine titles. Volume is in fine condition, jacket has light shelf wear. A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the… Read more about this item

Romances, William Shakespeare. Published by Everyman's Library, 1996. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 464pp., notes, bibliographies, chronology. Grey cloth boards with gilt spine titles on black panel, grey reading ribbon. In fine, unread condition. Contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline. Single-column text of the plays, features Signet footnotes

The Shakespeare Miscellany, Crystal, Ben; Crystal, David. Published by Penguin UK, Abrams Press, 2005. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 214pp., with timeline and index. Crimson cloth boards with gilt titles, dark blue endpapers, reading ribbon. In fine, unread condition. This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Flowers, Kerr, Jessica. Published by Longmans, 1969. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 86pp., Illustrated, Notes: Bibliography. Illustrations by Anne Ophelia Dowden. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Tape residue marks to endpapers and otherwise contents are free of markings, tears or folds. Dustjacket has a chip to spine and edge wear. Color illustrations accompany quotations from twenty-four Shakespearean dramas about… Read more about this item

Who's Who in Shakespeare, Johnson, Hamish; Quennell, Peter. Published by Routledge, 2006. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 228pp. Red cloth boards with white spine titles. In fine, unread condition. Arranged alphabetically, this is a complete A-Z guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays with detailed biographical information on each leading figure, and an analysis of the role and… Read more about this item