The Old Book & Paper Show

Artscape Wychwood Barns

601 Christie Street
Toronto, ON M6G 4C7

The GTA’s top old paper and antiquarian book show, now in its new mid-town Toronto location. The Old Book and Paper Show sets up in the bright, easy to access and historical facility at Wychwood Barns. Make sure to get out to the November 4, 2012 show. New dealers, lots of great stock, plus great dealers in vintage rare and antiquarian books.

Hours: Sunday, November 4, 10am until 4pm
Admission: $8, no charge to children 12 and under

Ontario collectors and dealers in old paper and books get together for the biggest one-day ‘vintage print-fest’ of the year.

Collectors can find the following vintage books, paper and more:

Transportation including railway and ocean liner items; Historical documents including land grants, mortgages and deeds; 30’s/40’s fashion magazines; airline memorabilia; Old magic books; Old farm equipment booklets; Eatons memorabilia; Pulp fiction – crime, detective, Sci-Fi – including Weird Tales, The Shadow, The Phantom Detective, Vintage paperbacks; Movie posters, stills, lobby cards; Vintage photography on paper plus daguerreotypes, armbrotypes and tintypes; Sporting material – baseball, hockey, hunting, fishing dating to the 1920’s; Autographs; Advertising; Letterheads; Postal covers; Nearly 100,000 vintage postcards, all villages, towns and cities in Ontario plus sports, transportation, holidays from Christmas to Halloween; Theatre and movie programs; Poetry; Scientific journals; Comic books; Magazines. Old books on a huge range of topics including: books on travel, military, science, literature, biographies, the Arctic, cooking, etc, plus fiction, and more.

Highlights from the November, 2011 Wychwood Show

Alexandre Antique Books, Maps and Prints, Toronto An excellent selection of Travel posters, also vintage photos.

Morris Norman, Toronto, inveterate and impassioned collector, sells and collects anything Canadian – telephone items, Canadian Railway, Toronto ephemera, posters, postcards, documents, broadsides, banking stocks, car material, Hudson Bay, Yukon, Louis Riel, War of 1812, WW1, Canadian Prime Ministers, hockey and early sports, western settlement, canoe catalogues, farm machinery, lighthing, architectural catalogues, Eatons and Simpsons, Canadian Judaica – all of the above Canadian only. Plus great folk art and scarce license plates.

Kitchener Kollectibles, Hamilton Recently acquired a large collection of Great Britain cigarette cards dating back to the turn of the century. Our specialty is vintage celebrity photos including Pin-Up photos featuring Betty Page and More.

Special items for the show:
WWII German Fieldpost
Large collection of Military Postcards

Neil Mac Donald, Toronto Palmer Cox. Brownies Baseball advertising cards, ca. 1890

-Girl with St. Bernard. Framed chromolithograph, ca. 1890

-H. G. Kaiser. ‘Madonna of the North’, silver print photograph, ca. 191

And a couple more I thought were nice

-Art Nouveau Board game. Bavaria, ca. 1912

- Geographisches Lotto. Board game with engraved maps. Liepzig, ca. 1850

Ron Good, Port Hope
My stuff can be described as “Vintage ‘Life’ size magazine advertising
from ‘Aircraft Civil’ to ‘Wurlitzer’ via Canadiana , golf, movies, ocean
liners and radios. I have some great stock certificates that I will be
bringing.”

Modernforkids.com, TorontoFor the kid in everyone; selling rare and hard to find
vintage original circus posters as well as other mid century modern
advertising. This year at the show a couple special pieces from the early
1940′s – WWII era American and British propaganda. As well as Czech,
Russian and Israeli pieces. Also at the show this year comics and vintage
games.

Jill and John Hill, PictonFor the Old Book and Paper show we’ll be bringing a wide variety of books and paper, ranging from bound copies of Illustrated London News from the mid 1800s, Godey’s Ladies Books, also mid 1800s with beautiful coloured fashion plates, selections from our Jane Austen/Regency period and our Bloomsbury collections,some teachers’ manuals from the 1940s to more contemporary books of literature, travel and the arts.

Grant St. John, West Lorne
Here are the details for 3 books that I will save for the show (photos attached).

(1)-” HAMILTON – Its History, Commerce, Industries and Resources ” (340 pages)
-Issued under the auspices of the city council in the Centennial Year 1913.
-Spectator Printing Co. Limited, Hamilton Canada

(2)- “QUEEN VICTORIA and HER PEOPLE” (256 pages)
-Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee -1897.
-By, Rev. C. S. Dawe, B. A.

(3)-”SIXTY MINUTES with WINSTON CHURCHILL” (92 pages)
-By, Ex-Detective Inspector, W.H. Thompson B.E.M. (Churchill’s Shadow)- 1964
-Inspector Thompson was detailed to be Churchill’s body guard, at various times, as a member of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard.
-Signed by Author

Cottage Country Collectibles, Toronto specializes in great vintage and antique items from Muskoka, Northern Ontario and the Kawarthas. We are always on the lookout for old photos, postcards, maps and resort china.

In addition to some great cottage country items, we have reserved the following items for the Old Book and Paper Show :

-A great collection of Duke Boats ephemera
-1915 Rogers Muskoka Lakes Blue Book Directory and Chart

Just acquired for the show:We are bringing a very rare and much sought after program from the first-ever Oldtimers’ hockey game which took place on January 25th, 1952 in Bracebridge, Ontario between the Bantams and NHL Oldtimers. The lineup included many of the hockey greats including Dit Clapper, Roy Worters, Charlie Conacher and Busher Jackson to name just a few. Author, and Society for International Hockey Research member Dr. Eugene Willis, has cited this game as being the first hockey game to be filmed for television and also the first time two standing members of parliament ( Lionel Conacher and Bucko McDonald) have physically gone toe-to-toe. Dr Willis indicated that in all of his research of this game, he has never seen a copy of this program come to market, let alone, an intact one. This is a great piece of hockey history we are excited to bring out to the Toronto Old Book and Paper Show.

Attic Books, London, ON
Seed Catalogues
Hamilton House Steel, Briggs’ Catalogue
46th 1919 Vegetable cover
$100
Hamilton House Steel, Briggs’ Catalogue
Spring
1911 Roses cover
$60

Ontario History
New Ontario
Compiled by Molyneux St. John
1901
lacks the map
$50
North Bay Old Home Week Aug 2nd to 8th 1925
Prepared vy The Publicity Committee
$75
Reference and Guide Book: The Trent Canal
By The Department of Railways and Canals of Canada
1911
$100

Fun Stuff
Merker Printing and Stationary
154 Bathhurst St Toronto Ontario
Rotating 82 Year Calendar of the 20th Century
Starts 1944 to 2025

Wychwood Barns is one of Toronto’s newest event venues. In 1913 the Toronto Transit Commission built the structure in order to be able to service its fleet of streetcars. It functioned for many decades before becoming redundant. A major renovation was undertaken over the last few years, transforming the barns into a magnificent community resource. Reopened in 2008, it is now home to art galleries, artist studios, a regular farmers’ market, and more.

The centrepiece of the complex is the ‘Covered Street’, a 200 foot long room, formerly used to overhaul streetcars, but now a spacious event facility. Industrial-chic is the design theme, exposed red brick walls, a wonderful end-to-end glass skylight forming a roof, vintage TTC photographs on the walls. In short, a perfect venue for our Vintage Clothing show.

Getting There

Wychwood Barns is at 601 Christie Street, west of Bathurst, south of St. Clair. It occupies a block between Christie Street on the west and Wychwood Avenue on the east.

Parking is extremely limited at Wychwood Barns, in compliance with the building’s environmental LEED certification. As such, visitors should consider taking public transit to the site.

St. Clair streetcar #512 runs along St. Clair and connects with St. Clair West Subway station.

Christie bus #126 runs from the Bloor Subway station north on Christie and stops at the door.

Bathurst bus #7 is two blocks east of the barns and runs from Bloor Subway line north on Bathurst.

Get detailed public transit information at www.ttc.ca

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