The Old Book & Paper Show

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Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street
Toronto, ON M6G 4C7

The GTA’s top old paper and antiquarian book show has settled in to its new location, in mid-town Toronto. The Old Book and Paper Show sets up in a bright, easy to access and historic facility at Artscape Wychwood Barns. Make sure to get out to the April 1, 2012 show. New dealers, lots of great stock, plus great dealers in vintage rare and antiquarian books.

Hours: Sunday, April 1, 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Transportation including railway and ocean liner items; Historical documents including land grants, mortgages and deeds; 30’s/40’s fashion magazines; airline memorabilia; Old magic books; Old farm equipment booklets; Eatons memorabilia;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.

A brief preview of the March 27, 2011 show:

Grant St. John, West Lorne , ON

“Originally a collector of sporting ephemera, which is still a specialty, Grant’s interest has expanded. At Wychwood, Grant will be displaying Agricultural, automotive, entertainment, and history pieces, plus a large selection of vintage advertising and more.”

 Grant has set aside for Wychwood several items, including:

1.  ” TORONTO’S 100 YEARS”- The official centennial book 1834-1934 ( 228 pages ).

-Copyright, 1934 – By The Corporation of The City of Toronto.

2.  ” CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION - CATALOGUE “- Spring & Summer 1942 ( 100 pages).

Very interesting wartime CTC item, with an air force serviceman featured on the cover.

3.  “BOBBY ORR -MACLEAN’S Magazine “- February 20, 1965 (52 pages)

This is a very collectible issue, with an excellent cover action photo of BOBBY ORR , then playing Junior A hockey for the Oshawa Generals, and includes a feature article. 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Book Not Mad, Midland, ON, deals in a variety of subjects, with an emphasis in history, Canadiana, ephemera and occasionally the unusual.

Michael  Serafin, partner in the business describes three special items reserved for the Wychwood Show:

Lesson, René Primevère.  Voyage Autour du Monde.  P. Pourrat Frères: Paris: 1838-9.  2 vols.  Important companion piece to the publications of Louis Isidore Duperrey; Lesson’s work is the only complete account of Duperrey’s voyage.  $2,500 

Pynchon, Thomas.  V.  Lippincott: Philadelphia: 1963. First Edition, first printing with the first-issue dj (w. table of contents printed on rear panel).  First novel by one of the most interesting modern American writers.  $500

Caird, Mona.  The Morality of Marriage.  George Redway: London: 1897.  8vo.  pp. xvi + 239.  Collection of articles by an early and prominent advocate of women’s equality.  $200

Ron Good, Port Hope, ON sells Classic original vintage “Life” size advertising.  Themes range from Aircraft to Volkswagen and Wurlitizer.  Includes Canadian artists/illustrators, Canadian Women’s Army Corps, Coca-Cola, MacLean’s magazine covers, military, movies, railways, recording artists, sports, tobacco products.  Also trucks and pre-war automobiles.  Mostly in full colour.  He also sells old share certificates, deeds, etc.
 

Duncan McLaren, Lord Durham Rare Books, Inc., St. Catharines, ON   Since 2008, Lord Durham Rare Books, Inc. (LDRB) has been full-time in the business of helping book collectors solve their collecting challenges.  Whether it’s elusive Books, Prints, Maps, Ephemera, Manuscripts, or Photos, LDRB has been helping institutions and private collectors alike fill the missing gaps in their collections.

At Wychwood, Duncan will be offering a one-of-a-kind piece of early Toronto history, in the form  of a book of poetry entitled Glen Cottage Spadina – from the period 1822 – 1827 and collected during that time by Dr. William Baldwin.  The book, priced at $18,000 will be offered for sale for the first time at Wychwood.

This excerpt refers to that unique manuscript:

On page 83, of Austin Seton Thompson’s book Spadina A Story of Old Toronto:

“Dr. Baldwin built a little cottage of logs, heavily thatched, along the path about

half way down the hill. This was a tiny affair, not more than ten feet long and six

 feet wide. It was fitted with seats and a table, and was a favourite resting place

for those wandering along the Glen walk. In this cottage was kept a book, still

in possession of the Baldwin family, and visitors of poetic inclination were invited

to write verses in it.”

The cottage was burned down about the year 1850, but the poetry inspired in it

remains. “The verses in the Glen cottage book date from 1820 to 1827 Among

the versifiers are Admiral Baldwin, Judge Robert B. Sullivan, Miss Anna M.Baldwin,

Mrs. Sullivan, Dr. William W. Baldwin, Hon. Robert Baldwin, R. R. Baldwin and Henry Baldwin, of Belleville, Dr. Henry Sullivan, Miss M. A. Phillips, John J. Morgan,

of New York….

“2 special items we hope to bring along to Wychwood, are:

An original document for appointment to the Canadian Senate, 1899

A first edition (c. 1945) book on the history of the Nighthawks, 409th Squadron of the RCAF. Also included are newspaper clippings, photographs, letters and a telegram for a Flying Officer killed in action.”

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. 

Steven Evans Vintage Photography, Toronto   Steven Evans specializes in high quality 19th and early 20th century photography by known and unknown makers from around the world.

“Included in our inventory for the Wychwood Old Book & Paper Show are some extremely rare photographs from 19th century Korea as well as superb works by well-known makers including Samuel Bourne (India), Charles Marville (France) and Gustave Marrisiaux (Belgium). Also on offer will be a selection of photographically illustrated books including “Maple Leaves,” by J. M. LeMoine, 1863 — the first book in Canada published with original photographs.”

Neil MacDonald, Rare Photo Gallery, Toronto   has sent in two very fine photos he is bringing to the Wychwood Show. 




Richard Shuh and Linda Wooley, The Alphabet Book Shop, Port Colborne Sent word of some new pieces they have set aside for Wychwood.
1. Several early Toronto Lighting catalogues, Edson, Mazda – illustrated by Maxfield Parrish – rare.
2. Set of 6 comic baseball trade cards (1890) illustrated by Canadian artist Palmer Cox – illustrated with his much imitated ‘Pixies’ trademark Brownies.
3. Great Sporting bookplate – a coloured woodcut by Gerrman expressionist artist Erich Heckel.
4. Printed Death Notice for one of William Lyon MacKenzie’s trusted leaders in the 1838 ‘Patriot’s War’ – Point Pelee and Short Hills battles.

Wychwood Barns – a superb venue:

 
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 Old Book and Paper 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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