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Collection Latomus Volume 295; 157 pages

M. ACCI PLAUTI [PLAUTUS] QUAE SUPERSUNT COMOEDIAE CUM COMMENTARIO. PARS PRIMA Ex Variorum Notis Et Observationibus Ex Recensione Ioh. Frederici Gronovi. Accessere Ex Eiusdem Lectionibus Plautinis Notulae Asterisco Notatae Cum Praefatione Io. Augusti Ernesti

Full leather binding. Corners edgeworn. Spine browned. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Boards are worn. Front board almost detached but holding. Rear board starting to weaken with crack along upper part of joint. A few small ink stains to textblock. Former owner's name to ffep and obverse of titlepage. Last page has lower corner torn (no loss of text). A few tiny holes through pages (insect damage). Foxing passim. Minor pencilling to a few pages. Pages tanned. Fair to good. ; Xxvi, 507 pp ; Vol. 1 Only; Vol. 1; 506 pages

M. ACCII PLAUTI CAPTEIVEI. The Capteivei of Plautus; With an Introduction and Notes by W(illiam) M(orton) Reynolds.

12mo. 84p. Foxed. Original cloth backed boards. Very scarce American school book edition of Plautus. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 4

M. Butterfly [Author inscribed] by David Henry Hwang ; with an afterword by the playwright.

Large octavo in grey illus glossy wraps; 100 pages ; 21 cm Inscribed by author on front wrapper verso. || "During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera, not knowing that the object of his affection is a man. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds." || Diplomats -- France -- Drama. Singers -- China -- Drama. Espionage, Chinese -- Drama. Sex in espionage -- Drama. Love -- Drama. Deception -- Drama. Female impersonators -- Drama. Actors -- China -- Drama. Actors. Deception. Diplomats. Espionage, Chinese. Female impersonators. Love. Sex in espionage. Singers. Drama. Drama.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 98 pages.

MACBETH. William Shakespeare. THE EMPEROR JONES. Eugene O'Neill. Noble's Comparative Classics.

pp. viii, 279 + Frontis. Illustrated with photographs. 12mo. Original full orange cloth binding, slightly soiled. Hardbound. SHAKESPEARE BOX 2

MacBird

56p., illus. by Lisa Lyons Paperback Good condition, covers detached

Maclean's Magazine, 1 March 1938

48 pages. Features: Excellent colour photo ad for International Harvester trucks plowing snow inside front cover; Nice black and white full-page Chrysler ad on page 4; Beaver Bogan, by Ben Ames Williams - to test a man, take him fishing - and if you meet a Frere Cereau you'll find drama as well; The Biggest Show on Ice - A Look at The Ice Ballet Business, with black and white photos; You Want Something Different, by Anne Wormser; How Deep is Down? - Leslie McFarlane (the Hardy Boys author) writes of sinking a mine shaft in the middle of a lake and other notable feats of Canada's mining engineers, with black and white photos; Old-Fashioned Fool, by Alice Maxwell - the story of a loyalty which was without price; National Health Insurance, by John W.S. McCullough, M.D. - "Sickness insurance is bound to come... it must be a unified national scheme... and preventative medicine must be emphasized"; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - How to Behave in English Society; Max Brand - The 7th (Seventh) Day - part of the story; Recovery on Rails, by Sydney Morrell - the story of how Britain's railwys climbed from depression to prosperity - with nine interesting black and white photos; Full-page black and white photo ad for 1938 Dodge cars on page 23; Interesting two-colour full-page ad for Heinz Tomato Ketchup; Fantastic full-page black and white photo ad for Fargo trucks and commercial cars featuring photo of a 1938 Fargo 3/4 ton commercial panel van with 136" wheelbase; Half-page ad for Willys of Canada which boasts of up to 40 miles per gallon; Crossword completed in pencil on page 35; Nice two-colour full-page Chevrolet ad on page 37; Nostalgic multi-photo ad for Castoria child's laxative illustrates a furious father anxious to stuff a nasty-tasting laxative down his child's throat; Hollywood Update by Ann Ross; Attractive colour-illustrated 1938 Ford V-8 car ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book

Maclean's Magazine, 19 November, 1966

Features: Why Mrs. Nadine Angeline Wilson, 32, went Militantly to Market; Backstage in Israel - Canadian Sundays are a Bacchanalian orgy after a Sabbath in Jerusalem; The Triumph of Isabel Lebourdais - she watched the Truscott script but watched the drama from the wings; We run our schools like well-kept prisons with bells, imperious rules and regimentation - it's 'efficient', it's orderly, it works - if all we want is the grey conformity of assembly-line minds, Jon Ruddy; The Susie Thing - colour photo fashion feature with article and photos about Susie Kosovic, a 22-year-old Toronto fashion designer - Canada's "Mary Quant"; Inflation & the Biebbers - they're an average family, trying to cope with rising prices - this is how they got by 17 years ago, and how they manage now - they're spending more - but they're living better - with a page devoted to "How Your Dollar Shrinks"; Two Views of Germany, by Irving Layton - with fantastic b/w photos including the Berlin Wall; David Sector's latest film "The Offering" - he's a Canadian curiosity - his films make money; Behavior Therapy; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Football - ah, the sport, the thrill - the blood of it all; The Little Mags - Sexy, Arty, and Obscure - Myer Signer of Causeway Publishing; Barbara Klich argues against boycotting supermarkets and high food prices; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book

Maclean's Magazine, August 1968: Blair Fraser's Search for Identity

60 pages. Features: du Maurier colour photo cigarette ad inside front cover (some staining visible to lower portion); Rudy Johnson's Bridge Across the Fraser River; Hippies and LSD in Yorkville Village; Hereford Bull Standard Krishnagar 9X is sold to Britain to help replenish her herds; Great full-page colour photo ad for Triple Crown whisky; Ex-MP Pauline Jewett explains why people run for Parliament; Nice full-page colour photo ad for B-A gas stations; Maclean's interviews drama critic Nathan Cohen; Large gorgeous colour photos of Dini Petty, Mireille Mathieu, Doreen Kohl, Krista Soste, and Madeline Kronby. Sheila H. Kieran argues that women are not an exploited miniority; Last Journey of Blair Fraser, Canadian - he drowned at age 59 on the Petawawa River; The Fledgelling National Lacrosse Association (NLA); The Sweet Smell of Charles Templeton; Great 4-page black and white photo feature on late 60s fashion; CBC Sports ad featuring photo of host Lloyd Robertson; Sensational hippy-theme colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows couple carrying canoe. Some pages yellowed with age. Faint moisture stains to lower portion of front cover. Average wear. Address label on front cover otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine

Maclean's Magazine, October 6, 1962 - The Private Life of Yousuf Karsh

Features: Can George Nowlan and M.W. McCutcheon run Canada better?; The Richest Barnyard Philosopher in Show Business - Pere Gedeon a.k.a. Doris Lussier; Walter Soroka provides a Russian's-eye view of Russia - by a Canadian; The Private Life of Yousuf Karsh; The Diary of an operation - for the first time, a surgeon and a photographer together record the drama that builds up every time one human invades another with a scalpel; The Gold Prospecting Obsession of Albert Faille of Headless Valley; Notes from a summer on a Russian collective farm, by Walter Soroka. Average wear. A sound copy. Book

Maclean's Magazine, September 8, 1962 - Recalling the Bolshevik Revolution

Features: Painless Diets; Jean Templeton stars in The Weighting Game; A Bolshevik Giant recalls the Revolution, by Ilya Ehrenburg; Westmount - a portrait of the capital of English Quebec, by Peter Gzowski; The Anglo-Sazon Jews, by Mordecai Richler; The Working Atom is Here - Jane Becker reports on Canada's nuclear industry; An Ingenue from the Rockies goes to Drama School - Susan Ringwood of Williams Lake, B.C.; An Eerie Postscript to the Bombing of Berlin, by Louis Greenburg. Average wear. A sound copy. Book

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, March (Mar.) 15, 1943, Vol. 56, No. 6 - Cover Photo of Air Marshal H. Edwards, C.B., Commander-In-Chief R.C.A.F. Overseas / Shipshaw Power Development

56 pages. Features: After Mussolini - Who? - photo-illustrated article argues Il Duce is tottering and Italy is ripe for revolt; Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn is about to retire; To Air Marshal the Hard Way - a brief biography of Harold "Gus" Edwards; Union Station - Morley Callaghan describes in this photo-illustrated article how this Toronto station has become a communcal centre where the joy of meeting and the sorrow of parting (soldiers) makes living drama; Brief report on B.C. Premier John Hart and his efforts with the B.C. Electric Railway Company (B.C. Power); Privy Council ruling against Alberta creates debt problems; Shipshaw fascinating and informative photo-illustrated article on this massive wartime hydro-electric development on the Saguenay which will be used to support Aluminum smelting; Flower Factory - photo-illustrated article on the Dale Estate in Brampton, Ontario; Our Ally Brazil - photo-illustrated article explaining the major gain this strong nation represents for the Allies now that it has joined the U.N. Fiction: Something for George, by Arthur Stevens; Reconnaissance, by Roy Yonge and Lucien Zacharoff. Half-page photo-illustrated recruting ad for the R.C.A.F. emphasizes their need for women. Province of Quebec half-page ad celebrates construction of the Shipshaw development which will produce "New Power Against Hitler". Fantastic colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows young servicemen in uniform with supportive young ladies. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book

MacTrump: A Shakespearean Tragicomedy of the Trump Administration, Part I

A new, unread book with a tight binding.

MADAME X: a story of mother-love. From the play of the same name by Alexandre Bisson. Illustrrations by Edward C. Volkert

311 p. Plus 5 illustrations. 8vo. 200mm. Novelized by McConaughy from Alexandre Bisson's play. Basis for the 1929 MGM film directed by Lionel Barrymore and featuring Lewis Stone and Ruth Chatterton. Clean original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in yellow. Impressive paper image llustration on cover. Title printed in Green ink Spine. Crinkle in the spine. some chips and scratches to front image. Front hinge broken otherwise tight. Hardbound. Very good NW66

Major Barbara

Major Barbara . . . with illustrations from the motion picture as produced by Gabriel Pascal

148p. Hardcover Very good condition

Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 742 pages. Name stamp inside.

MAKING OF MENANDER'S COMEDY

Light pencil marginalia. Gift inscription from author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. 1 corner bumped. DJ spine slightly sunned with some light edgewear and shelfwear. ; 148 pages; Study establishes a critical perspective for understanding the kind of comedy Menander wrote, his roots, the theatrical effects he sought, and the extent of his achievement. Chapters on the major plays analyse their techniques of construction and characterization, suggesting both the strengths and the limitations of Menander's comic tradition. An introductory chapter places the tradition of New Comedy in the history of drama and also draws modern parrallels, making it useful for students of drama aswell as classicists. ; Signed by Author

MAKING OF MENANDER'S COMEDY

Minor rubbing to DJ. ; 148 pages; Study establishes a critical perspective for understanding the kind of comedy Menander wrote, his roots, the theatrical effects he sought, and the extent of his achievement. Chapters on the major plays analyse their techniques of construction and characterization, suggesting both the strengths and the limitations of Menander's comic tradition. An introductory chapter places the tradition of New Comedy in the history of drama and also draws modern parrallels, making it useful for students of drama aswell as classicists.

Malory and Fifteenth-Century Drama, Lyrics and Ballads.

8vo., cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Oxford History of English Literature, III. Chambers' classic study was first published in 1945.

Man and Superman

138p., illus. plus pamphlet entitled The Revolutionist's Handbook by John Tanner. Hardcover Very good condition in slipcase Illus. by Charles Mozley

Man and Superman

80p. Paperback Good condition

MAN AND SUPERMAN. Introduced by Lewis Casson. Illustrated by Charles Mozley.

pp. xxxix, 138 + Full page color plates by Charles Mozley. Numerous portrait text drawings. Poster like title page. Pictorial endpapers. All edges sprinkled in colors. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number XIII:27. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine with marbled boards. Spine stamped with an Victorian urn and lettered in gold. Original slip case which contains in its own pocket "The Revolutionist's Handbook & Pocket Companion" written by John Tanner, male lead in Man and Superman. The "Handbook" was ghosted by Bernard Shaw. (64 pages, original printed wraps). Very nice copy. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W85