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A Notice to our Friends and Customers
Belgravia Books & Treasures has been notified by our landlord that the building we occupy and the empty space to the north of it are to be transformed into a new and modern combined residential and commercial development complete with underground parking.
Although no firm plans are yet in place and no timeline for development has been drawn up, our landlord has asked us to vacate the space we coccupy by November 2012. (That we may be able to stay on until the following spring is also a possibility.)
No matter the timeline that is settled upon, Belgravia Books & Treasures plans to continue doing what we've done for years: providing our friends and customers with personalized attention in meeting their needs for quality books, CDs, DVDs, jewellery, charming curios and knick-knacks, and superbly framed images.
We still wish to look at the high-quality books and other objects you have to show us, and we will continue to offer good value for those we can purchase.
We will remain open seven days of the week from 10:30 to 5:30; we'll continue to be a community-oriented resource; and we look forward to doing the kind of customized picture-framing you've received from us for years.
Between now and when we settle upon our future plans, you'll find visiting Belgravia Books & Treasures to be the same charming experience you've always known it to be.
If you have a store credit at Belgravia Books or an usused gift certificate, please consider using it. (We remain a superb source of novel Christmas gifts!)
Gift certificates will remain available for sale for months to come. We'll announce the cutoff down the line.)
As more news becomes available we'll post it here.
Published 10 Nov. 2011
Rare, recent, and out-of-print books, antiques and curios, framed paintings and prints . . . visit often to see our ever-changing offerings!
Select from our exceptional range of next-to-new and vintage children's books and educators' resources. Then immerse yourself in our vast selection of adult books. Genres on offer include literature and popular fiction (yes: sci fi, mysteries, thrillers, and romances), travel, history, and current events, CDs and sheet music, spirituality and religion, art, gardening, home renovation, and craft books, science and nature, and a mouthwatering smorgasbord of cookbooks.
Canada's Top Ten Independent Bookstores
In November 2009 the editors of WHERE magazines across Canada were asked to pick the best independent bookstores in their cities, places that offer a unique selection of books as well as a comfortable atmosphere. Belgravia Books & Treasures was among them. Check out the accolades at www.where.ca/travel or, better still, come on down and see for yourselves!
The vast majority of our books are not listed on this site. Please let us know your specific requests.
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Highlights of our Inventory
(Items listed are hard cover unless otherwise stated.)
Anon., Nouveau traité de la cuisine, avec de nouveaux desseins de tables et vingt-quatre menus, t.1 (Paris, 1739). Should you wish to serve your guests as the king does at Versailles, this is your indispensable guide! Multiple fold-out pages of table settings and layouts.
Anon., A treatise of the laws of the forest; wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also the original and beginning of forests, and what a forest is in its own proper nature ... : also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee-man may do . . . (London, 1615); the binding and forepages are in poor condition, but all pages are present and in order.
Auden, W. H., Look, stranger!; poems (London; 3d. impression 1939), vg/vg.
Auer, Harry Anton, The north country (Cincinnati, 1906); 8 photos of 28 listed are missing.
Bach, Richard, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (New York, 1970); a later printing; vg/vg.
Ballantyne, R. M., Jarwin and Cuffy; a tale (London, Warne, n.d.); an inscription within is dated "Christmas 1897."
Baumé, M, Manuel de chymie, ou exposé des opérations de la chymie et de leurs produits; 2nd ed. (Paris, 1766).
Bhatia, June (=Helen Forrester), The latchkey kid (Don Mills, ON, 1971), vg/vg.
Blixen, Karen [Isak Denisen], Out of Africa (London, Putnam, 1937); "first published November 1937" on verso of tp.
Bowman, Isaiah, The pioneer fringe (New York, 1931), signed, and dedicated to H. M. E. Evans, a former mayor of Edmonton.
Bremundan, Francisco Fabro, Floro historico de la guerra sagrada contra Turcos, tercera parte, que contiene los sucessos del ano [1686] (Madrid, 1687), in good vellum binding. Published by Antonio Roman.
Bible, N.T., Novum testamentum ad exemplar millianum (Philadelphia, Henry Perkins, 1848); in Greek.
Blanchard, Amy Ella, Bonny bairns; illus. Ida Waugh (New York, Worthington, 1888).
Bourdaloue, Pere, S.J., Retraite spiritualle a l'usage des communautez religieuses (Paris, 1721).
Brasse, John, A Greek gradus; or, a Greek, Latin, and English prosodial lexicon . . . (London, 1842).
Buchan, John, Castle Gay (London, Nov. 1935 printing) vg/g.
Buchan, John, The path of the king (New York, 1921), vg/g.
Bunyan, John, The pilgrim's progress and The holy war (London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [nd, but between 1858--78]); numerous coloured plates & wood engravings; text is good; binding is poor.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Toronto, Bryce, 1887), soft cover.
[Butler, Samuel], Hudibras; in three parts; written in the time of late wars; corrected and amended with additions (Dublin, 1732).
[Carroll, Lewis], The annotated picture book of Alice in wonderland; illus. and animated by Julian Wehr (New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1945).
Cather, Willa, One of ours (New York, 1922), 1st trade ed., g/no dj.
The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world; with additions and remarks (Longon, 1741).
[Cervantes, Miguel de], Don Quichotte, nacherzählt von Erich Kästner mit vielen bildern von Horst Lemke (Zurich, Atrium, 1956).
Christie, Agatha, Parker Pyne investigates (London, 1934); g+/no dj.
Cholières, Sieur de, La guerre des masles contre les femelles (an 1864 reprint, limited to 100 copies, of a work published in Paris, 1588).
Cody, H. A., An apostle of the North; memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas (Toronto, 1908); g; part of text of p.48 has transferred to top of facing-page photo; photo facing p. 220 missing.
Coetzee, J. M., Waiting for the barbarians (London, 1980) 1st ed., vg/vg.
Cohen, Matt, Café le dog; stories (Toronto, 1979; repr. 1983); signed, vg/vg; unclipped dj.
[Collodi, Carlo], Walt Disney's version of Pinocchio; based on the story by Collodi with illustrations from the motion picture (New York, Random House, 1939).
Conant, Thomas, Life in Canada (Toronto, 1903).
Coupland, Douglas, Generation X; tales for an accelerated culture (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1961); our copy, hard cover, with a dust jacket, is described as being in a scarce format. Please phone for details.
Cramer, Rie, Little picture rhymes; English version by Frederick M. Martens (Longon, Augener, n.d.).
Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the chocolate factory (New York, Knopf, 1964); 1st ed., 3d state.
Davies, Robertson, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks (Toronto, 1947), 1st ed., vg/vg.
Dixon, Dougal, After man, a zoology of the future (Scarborough, ON, Nelson, 1981); vg/vg; evidently highly sought after.
Dixon, Franklin, The missing chums [a Hardy Boys story] (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928), 1st ed.
du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca; a brilliant novel of an unforgettable woman (Garden City, N.J., Doubleday, 1938), very good in very good dust jacket.
Einstein, Albert, Out of my later years (London, Thames and Hudson, 1950), 1st ed.
Emerson, William, Tracts; containing I. Mechanics, or the doctrine of motion; II. The projection of the sphere; III. The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force (London, 1793); all pages present; all figures present; very rare.
Fabre, J. H., The story book of birds & beasts (London, Hodder, n.d.).
Fluhmann, May, Second in command; a biography of Captain Francis Crozier (1976); soft cover.
Francesco de Alberti di Villanuova, Nuovo dizionario Italiano--Francese (Marseilles, Mossy, 1772).
Frank Leslie's popular monthly (New York), vol. XV, January--June 1883.
Fredeman, William E., The P.R.B. journal; Rossetti's diary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1849--1853 (Oxford, Clarendon, 1975).
Garrioch, Reverend A. C., The correction line [history of Portage La Prairie; of southern Manitoba; of Anglican church in Canada] (Winnipeg, MB, 1933); only 400 copies printed.
SOLD Glover, Julia Lestarjette, How the Christmas candle shone (Rock Island, IL, Augustana Book Concern, 1931).
Gordon, the Rev. Daniel M., Mountain and prairie; a journey from Victoria to Winnipeg via Peace River Pass (Montreal, 1880).
SOLD Goudge, Elizabeth, Linnets and valerians (Leicester, 1964), 1st ed.; vg/vg.
Goudge, Elizabeth, Make-believe (London, 1978 impression); vg/vg.
Goudge, Elizabeth, The reward of faith, and other stories (London, 1950); 1st ed. of this collection; vg/vg.
Gough, William, David Blackwook master printmaker (Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 2001)
SOLD Grande, George K., Sheila M. Linden, Horace R. Macaulay, Canadians on radar, the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1940-1945 (Ottawa, [2000]); vg/no dj.
Gray, Charlotte, The museum called Canada; 25 rooms of wonder (Toronto, 2004), signed 1st ed., vg/vg.
Hamlisch, Marvin, Songbook (piano, vocal, guitar) (1982), signed by the composer; soft cover.
Hemingway, Ernest, A farewell to arms (New York, Scribner), a facsimile reprint of the 1929 first edition.
Herodotus, The history, v.2 only; trans. Isaac Littlebury (London, 1737).
Heyer, Georgette, Charity girl (New York, 1970, Book Club ed.); Lady of quality (New York, 1972, Book Club ed.).
SOLD Huxley, Aldous, The doors of perception (London, 1954), vg/g+.
Jacks, William, The life of His Majesty William the Second, German emperor, with a sketch of his Hohenzollern ancestors (Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, 1904).
Le jardin merveilleux suivi de paquerette et bouton-d'or, par Mme C. G. (Tours, Ad. Mame; 1853).
Johnson, E. Pauline, Flint and feather; the complete poems (Toronto, 1927) g+ in hide binding.
SOLD Josephus, Flavius, The works of Flavius Josephus; trans. William Whiston (London, 1890).
Joyce, James, Finnegans wake (London, Faber, 1950) new ed.; vg/no dj.
Kästner, Erich, Die konferenz der tiere (Zurich, Europa, 1949), illus. Walter Trier.
SOLD Kerouac, Jack, Pull my daisy ((New York, Grove Press, 1961), 1st printing; from the title page: "Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie[;] introduction by Jerry Tallmer."
Kinsella, W .P., Shoeless Joe (Boston, 1982) vg/vg.
Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian war and the commune in caricature, 1870--71 (London, 1971).
SOLD Levi, Primo, If this is a man (New York, Orion, 1959); 1st U.S. ed. Some readers know this book under its American title, Survival in Auschwitz.
Lewis, C. S., The abolition of man; or, reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools (London 1947); soft cover.
Lofting, Hugh, The voyages of Doctor Dolittle; illus. by the author (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1922), 23rd impression.
Lu Yü, The classic of tea; trans. and intro. by Francis Ross Carpenter (Boston and Toronto, 1974); vg/vg.
Lucan of St. Joseph, Father, Holiness in the cloister; or, commentaries on the precautions of St. John of the Cross (Chicago, Donohue [1920?]); rare.
Lyly, John, Euphues, the anatomy of wit; Euphues and his England; carefully editied by Edward Arber (London, 1868).
Mayer, Mercer, Four frogs in a box (New York, Dial Press, 1967). Four very small children's books in their original slipcase.
McLintock, John, A first book in Greek; containing a full view of the forms of words with vocabularies and copious exercises; 3d ed. (New York, 1850).
Morton, Anthony, Career for the baron (New York, Duell, 1950).
Mowat, Farley, Coppermine journey; an account of a great adventure; selected from the journals of Samuel Hearne (Toronto, 1958); g+/g+.
Ossian, The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal; trans. James Macpherson (Glasgow, 1799); v.1 only.
Paterson, Alexander Smith, A concise syste of theology on the basis of the shorter catechism (Edinburgh, 1846).
Paxton's magazine of botany, and register of flowering plants; v. 6 (London, 1839); all colour plates intact and present.
Peary, Robert E., The north pole; its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (New York, 1910); photo p.72 missing.
[Potter, Paraclete, 1784--1858], The clerk and magistrate's assistant; by a gentleman of the bar (Poughkeepsie, 1814). If you needed to be your own lawyer in the early decades of The Great Republic, this was a standard guide.
SOLD Ries, N., Essai d'une psychologie du peuple luxembourgeois (Diekirch, 1911); signed by the author.
SOLD Robbins, Tom, Even cowgirls get the blues (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976); 2nd printing.
Russell, Bertrand, The impact of science on society (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1953), 1st printing.
Sage, the Reverend Donald, Memorabilia domestica; or, parish life in the north of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1899; 2nd ed.).
Sapper, Ask for Ronald Standish (London, Hodder [1936?].
Saunders, Marshall, Golden Dicky; the story of a canary and his friends (New York, Stokes, 1919); signed and dedicated by Marshall Saunders, 23 Oct. 1929.
Sayers, Dorothy L., Have his carcase (London, Gollancz, 1950); 15th impression; rare dust jacket.
Scott, Sir Walter, The lay of the last minstrel (Edinburgh, Livingstone, n.d.), in mauchline ware binding.
Sendak, Maurice, Lullabies and night songs; music by Alec Wildner (New York, Harper & Row, 1965).
Service, Robert W., Carols of an old codger (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1954), 1st ed.
Service, Robert W., The pretender; a story of the Latin Quarter (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1914).
Service, Robert W., Rhymes of a Red Cross man (Toronto, Briggs, 1916).
Shackleton, Sir Ernest, The heart of the Antarctic; being the story of the British Antarctic expedition, 1907--1909 (London, 1911), new and revised ed.
Shields, Carol, The box garden; a novel (Toronto, McGraw-Hill, 1977).
Stenson, Fred, Lonesome hero (Toronto, Macmillan, 1974); signed.
Thomson, Don W., Men and meridians (Ottawa, 1969), 3v; each signed by the author; each vol. vg/vg.
Tilsley, M. J., and Aunt Fanny, Little toddles and his playmates (London, Dean & Son, n.d.); inscripton dated 22 Aug. 1887.
Twain, Mark, Slovenly Peter (Struwwelpeter); or, Happy tales and funny pictures freely translated by Mark Twain (New York, Harper, 1935).
Tyrrell, J. W., Across the sub-Arctics of Canada (Toronto, 1897)
Voltaire, Die prinzessin von Babylon ins Deutsche ubertragen von Ernst Ronau (Vienna, 1920).
Wharton, Thomas, The logogryph; a bibliography of imaginary books (Kentville, N.S., 2004); 1st ed.
Zolotow, Charlotte, Mr. Robert and the lovely present; illus. Maurice Sendak (New York, Harper & Row, 1962); an early ed.
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