Stringer's Books and Ephemera

Newspapers (Vintage) (5 items)

  • THE WEEK
    AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND CRITICISM
    Bound volume issues:
    Volume 1, Number 1 (Thursday, December 6th, 1883) to Thursday, May 29th, 1884
    26 Issues in Total
    Toronto C. Blackett Robinson 1883 to 1884
    600.00
    Flexible cloth covers which are in poor condition with soiling, staining, darkening along the spine, wear, mottled. Blank pages in front and back are dampstained and soiled, with worm holes(?) to the last 2 blank pages and paste down on rear cover, inside front cover has some separation and gaps at the top and bottom, former owner's name with "Property of..." in pen on front free endpaper (dated 1890). The papers bound-in are in good+ condition, nice actually, with a few small tears to a few issues along the edges, a bit of dampstaining on a few pages, a few issues have a very small mailing label affixed to the front of the first page of an issue. This volume could use a new binding.
    1 to 416pp (each issue is page numbered consecutively), 26 issues in total.
    Flexible green cloth book, size is 10" x 14 1/2".
    A bound volume of the first 26 issues of The Week published in Toronto. According to Wikipedia, "The Week was a seminal literary magazine in Canada published between 1883 and 1896. It was subtitled as Canadian Journal of Politics, Society and Literature. It was 'Canada's leading political and literary periodical'. The magazine was headquartered in Toronto. Prominent contributors included poet Charles G. D. Roberts; journalist and novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan; and political critic and intellectual Goldwin Smith. Smith also edited the magazine." Topics covered in most issues are "Events of the Week", "Literature", "The Periodicals", "Contributed Articles", and more.

    The first 12 issues were edited by Charles G. D. Roberts, he left due to long hours and disagreements with the founder Godwin Smith (all 12 issues edited by Roberts are present in this volume).

    A scarce volume of this early Toronto newspaper / journal.

    Please note: this is a very large and heavy book and shipping will be more.
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  • JACK CANUCK
    TRUTH & JUSTICE
    July 13th, 1912
    Volume 1; Number 36
    Toronto Jack Canuck 1912
    55.00
    Staple-bound newspaper in good condition with 3 horizontal folds, some soiling and smudging to the wrappers, some edge wear, some wear to corners and spine ends.
    16 pages including covers.
    Staple-bound newspaper, size is 10 1/4" x 14".
    Original early 1912 issue of Jack Canuck (first published in 1911), newspaper aimed towards fighting the establishment in Canada.
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  • THE DAYS' DOINGS ILLUSTRATED. November 28, 1874.
    (New York Tabloid - "Illustrating Extraordinary Events of the Day")
    New York Days' Doings Company 1874
    150.00
    Condition for this newspaper is very good with some wear along the edges, some wear and a few small tears along the spine (newspaper is intact and complete), some wear and slight curing to corners, a bit of darkening to the covers, still a nice copy. More than half the newspaper is unopened (uncut).
    16 pages with illustrations.
    Tabloid (11 ½” x 16 ½”).
    A sensational New York based newspaper ("Illustrating Extraordinary Events of the Day") with some fantastic articles and woodcut illustrations. Coverage includes a runaway horse on Fifth Avenue, feeding the animals at Central Park (not a very humane zoo judging by the illustration), “a sad scene with a moral – women officiating as pallbearers…”, and more.

    PLEASE NOTE: This newspaper hasn't been folded, so it will be shipped flat.
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  • Fearn, John Russell STAR WEEKLY COMPLETE NOVEL
    KINGPIN PLANET
    October 19, 1957
    Toronto Toronto Star 1957
    45.00
    Condition for this complete section (novel) is very good with some edge wear, some darkening along the edges, some light foxing to the covers and some pages (not that bad actually).
    16 pages including covers.
    Newspaper special section, size is 10 3/4" x 15 1/4".
    Original 1957 newspaper section of the complete novel by John Russell Fearn the KINGPIN PLANET, according to the cover "First Publication Anywhere".
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  • Fearn, John Russell STAR WEEKLY COMPLETE NOVEL
    WORLD IN REVERSE
    April 26, 1958
    Toronto Toronto Star 1958
    45.00
    Condition for this complete section (novel) is very good with some edge wear, some darkening along the edges, a few small tears along the page edges.
    16 pages including covers.
    Newspaper special section, size is 10 3/4" x 15 1/4".
    Original 1958 newspaper section of the complete novel by John Russell Fearn the World in Reverse, according to the cover "First Publication Anywhere". On the back cover is the cartoon page Vignettes of Life.
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