The MFLIBRA Reference Archive
This archive preserves a selection of rare and antiquarian books previously handled by MFLIBRA over the years. Though these volumes have found new homes, their bibliographical record remains part of the continuing history of the book.
1911 Pre-Raphaelite Edition - Idylls of the King by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustrated in Colour by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.Title: The Idylls of the King.Publisher: London, New York, ...
View full details1957 Rare First Edition, 3rd Printing - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Author: Jack Kerouac.Title: On the Road.Publisher: New York, The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition, Third Printing (as stated). Copyright page stat...
View full details2009 Rare Signed Book - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. With Waisiki Doughty. Title: Canadian Content. Publisher: Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2009. First Editio...
View full details1890 Scarce Book - Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, Illustrated
Author: Herman Hofberg. Translated by W. H. Myers.Title: Swedish Fairy Tales.Publisher: Chicago, Belford-Clarke Co., 1890.Language: Text in English...
View full details1931 Rare First Edition in a box - Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land by Johnny Gruelle
Author: Johnny Gruelle. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.Title: Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land.Publisher: Joliet, The P.F. Volland Company, 1931. First Ed...
View full details1935 Rare Book - The Complete Book of Fortune and Other Methods Of Divination
Author: Anonymous (compiled work).Title: The Complete Book of Fortune.Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers Ltd., Northcliffe House, E.C.4, [cir...
View full details1908 Rare - A Treasury of Verse for Little Children Illustrated by Willy Pogany
Author: Various authors. Selected by M. G. Edgar. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.Title: A Treasury of Verse for Little Children.Publisher: New York, T...
View full details1935 Rare Signed Book - Peter Rabbit Goes A-Visiting by Linda Stevens Almond
Author: Linda Stevens Almond. Illustrated by the author.Title: Peter Rabbit Goes A-Visiting.Publisher: New York, The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 19...
View full details1860 Rare Book bound by Bagster - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testaments. Clasp
Author: The Holy Bible.Title: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments, with a Copious and Original Select...
View full details1825 Rare Book - The Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson
Author: James Macpherson (translator).Title: The Poems of Ossian.Publisher: London, for the Proprietors of the English Classics (Baynes and Son et ...
View full details1930 Rare First Edition in a Box - Raggedy Ann in the Deep Deep Woods
Author: Johnny Gruelle.Title: Raggedy Ann in the Deep Deep Woods.Publisher: Joliet, New York, Chicago & Boston, The P. F. Volland Company, 1930...
View full details1900 Rare Book - At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald illustrated
Author: George MacDonald. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes. Cover-design and frontispiece by Laurence Housman.Title: At the Back of the North Wind.Publ...
View full details1869 Rare Book Set - Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Illustrated
Author: Samuel Pepys. Edited with life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.Title: Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.Publisher: Londo...
View full details1881 Rare Second Edition - Hector Servadac The Career of a Comet by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer.Title: Hector Servadac; or, The Career of a Comet.Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searl...
View full details1882 Rare Book - Poems of Edgar Allan Poe With Memoir, Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., 1882.Language: Text in English.Size:...
View full details1917 First Edition in Rare Dust Jacket - Hansel and Grethel by John B. Gruelle
Author: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Illustrated by John B. Gruelle.Title: All About Hansel and Grethel.Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Compan...
View full details1706 Rare Italian Vellum Book - Il Pastor Fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini
Author: Giovanni Battista Guarini.Title: Il Pastor Fido.Publisher: Parigi (Paris), Appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706.Language: Text in Italian.Size: 4 x ...
View full details1922 Rare Book in dust jacket - Heidi Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.Title: Heidi.Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1922.Language: Text in Englis...
View full details1920 Scarce First Edition - The Password to Fairyland by Florence Mary Anderson
Author: Southwart, Elizabeth. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.Title: The Password to Fairyland.Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, ...
View full details1900 First Edition - The Story of Don Quixote llustrated by Walter Crane
Author: Miguel de Cervantes. Retold by Judge Parry. Illustrated by Walter Crane.Title: The Story of Don Quixote of the Mancha.Publisher: London, Bl...
View full details1888 Rare First Edition - Jack The Giant Killer illustrated by Richard Doyle
Author: Richard Doyle. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.Title: Jack the Giant Killer.Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. First Edition.Lang...
View full details1894 Rare First Edition - A Farm in Fairyland by Laurence Housman, Illustrated
Author: Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.Title: A Farm in Fairyland.Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. First Am...
View full details1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
Author: Jules Verne. Edouard Riou, illustrator.Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. With Sixty-...
View full details1936 First Edition - Not So Deep as a Well. Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker. Decorated by Valenti Angelo.Title: Not So Deep as a Well. Collected Poems.Publisher: New York, The Viking Press, 1936. Publ...
View full details2009 Rare First Edition - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. With an introduction by Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: North Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine A...
View full details1890 Scarce Book - Macdonald's Princess And Curdie illustrated by James Allen
Author: George MacDonald. Illustrated by James Allen.Title: The Princess and Curdie.Publisher: London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin: Blackie &...
View full details1698 Rare Latin Book - Sacred Latin Hymns and Music Scores by Santolio Victorino
Author: Santolius Victorinus (Santolio Victorino).Title: Hymni Sacri et Novi.Publisher: Parisiis, Apud Dionysium Thierry, via Jacobæa sub signo Urb...
View full details1850 Rare Bagster Bible - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testament, Clasp and Maps
Author: The Church of England (text); Samuel Bagster (publisher/binder).Title: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible: Containing the Old and N...
View full details1947 Rare First Edition - Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs by R. Trevor Davies
Author: R. Trevor Davies.Title: Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs: With Special Reference to the Great Rebellion.Publisher: London, Methuen & Co....
View full details1962 Tasha Tudor First Illustrated Edition - The Secret Garden by F. H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company...
View full details1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
Author: Jules Verne. Edouard Riou, illustrator.Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. With Sixty-...
View full details1936 Rare First Edition - The Gaucho Martin Fierro by José Hernández
Author: José Hernández. Adapted from the Spanish and rendered into English verse by Walter Owen. Illustrated by Alberto Guiraldes.Title: The Gaucho...
View full details2021 Rare Signed Book - Animal Wisdom illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Animal Wisdom.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C., Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2021. L...
View full details1890 Rare First Edition - The Children of the Castle illustrated by Walter Crane
Author: Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.Title: The Children of the Castle.Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1890. First Edition....
View full details1877 Rare Book - The Pilgrim's Progress illustrated by H.C. Selous & M.P. Priolo
Author: John Bunyan. Illustrated by Henry Courtney Selous & M. Paolo Priolo.Title: The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to C...
View full details1927 Rare First Edition in original Box - Wooden Willie by Johnny Gruelle
Author: Johnny Gruelle.Title: Wooden Willie.Publisher: New York, Joliet, and Boston, The P. F. Volland Company, 1927. First edition.Language: Text ...
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