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.
1962 First Illustrated Edition by Tasha Tudor - The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company...
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1888 Rare Book - Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Author: Mrs. Shelley (Mary Shelley).Title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888.Language: Tex...
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1923 First Anne Anderson Illustrated Edition - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.Title: Heidi.Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1923. First Anne Anderson Illustrate...
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2019 Rare Signed Book - Affairs Of The Heart by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Affairs Of The Heart According to Peaceable Creatures.Language: Text in English.Publisher: Nor...
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1956 Rare Bayntun Binding - Poetry and Prose of William Blake, in One Volume
Author: William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.Title: Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Complete in One Volume.Publisher: London, The Nonesuch L...
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1929 Scarce Limited First Edition - The Pow-Wow and the Witch Murder Trial
Author: A. Monroe Aurand Jr. and John George HohmanTitle: The Pow-Wow Book. Three Volumes in One: The Pow-Wow Book; An Account of the “Witch” Murde...
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1908 Rare First Edition -The Lady of the Blue Beads by Annie and Ida Rentoul
Author: Annie R. Rentoul. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul.Title: The Lady of the Blue Beads: Her Book, Being an Account of Her First Blue Moon Spent ...
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1890 Scarce Edition - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by John Tenniel, Birket Foster, and others.Title: The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Together with his E...
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2015 Scarce Limited Deluxe First Edition - Tree Whispers by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Tree Whispers. Publisher: North Vancouver, Canada, Savuti Press, 2015. This is the deluxe edition, limited to 1...
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1933 Rare First US Edition - Goblin Market illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Author: Christina Rossetti. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: Goblin Market.Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co, no date (circa 1933). F...
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1931 Rare Deluxe Edition - The Compleat Angler illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Author: Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, ...
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2009 Rare Signed Book - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles Van Sandwyk. Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2009. S...
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1852 Rare First Edition - The Select Tales of Hannah More, Illustrated
Author: Hannah More.Title: The Select Tales of Hannah More.Publisher: Boston, Frederick Charlton, 1852. First Edition.Language: Text in English.Siz...
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1882 Rare French Book with Clasp - Guiding Angel, Belgian Devotional Manual
Author: [Anonymous – Traditional Catholic compilation].Title: Ange Conducteur ou Recueil de Pieux Exercices. Nouvelle Édition augmentée du Chemin d...
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1885 Scarce First Edition - Edouard Laboulaye's Last Fairy Tales, illustrated
Author: Édouard Laboulaye.Title: Laboulaye’s Last Fairy Tales.Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1885. First US Edition.L...
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1853 Rare Book - Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.Title: Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish.Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn, 4 & 5 York ...
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2005 Signed 1stED - Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds, Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds. (From the front cover:) “I am the sketchbook belonging to Charl...
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1892 Rare Book Set - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Complete in Five Volumes
Author: Victor Hugo.Title: Les Misérables (Complete in Five Volumes: I. Fantine, II. Cosette, III. Marius, IV. The Idyll and the Epic, V. Jean Valj...
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1861 Scarce Book - Favourite Fairy Tales With Twelve Coloured Illustrations
Author: [Anonymous; collected and retold from classic sources].Title: Favourite Fairy Tales. With Twelve Coloured Illustrations.Publisher: Edinburg...
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2001 Scarce Signed First Edition - The Fairies’ Christmas by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Typography by Robert R. Reid. Title: The Fairies’ Christmas. Language: Text in English. Publisher: North Vancouver, Th...
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1926 First Edition - Wee Miss Violet, Fairy Flowers illustrated by Willy Pogany
Author: Isidora Newman. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.Title: Wee Miss Violet and Other Fairy Flowers.Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing...
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2013 Rare Book - An Unexpected Gift, A Christmas Tale by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: An Unexpected Gift.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, C.S.V. Fine Arts, The Fairy Press, 2013...
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1890 Rare Book - Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris by Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo.Title: Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, Broadway House, Ludgate Hi...
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1951 Book - The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.Title: The Mysterious Island.Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.Language: Text in En...
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2009 First Edition - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles Van Sandwyk. Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2009. First Editio...
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1904 First Edition - In the Closed Room illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.Title: In the Closed Room.Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 19...
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1956 First Illustrated Edition by Shepard - The Secret Garden by F.H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: London, The Reprint Society, 1956. First and ...
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1880 Rare Book with Clasp - The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Author: —Title: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Dil...
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1587 Scarce Latin Vellum Book - Achilles Tatius’ Clitophon and Leucippe
Author: Achilles Tatius (Achillis Statii Alexandrini). Translated by Annibale Cruceio.Title: Achillis Statii Alexandrini De Clitophontis et Leucipp...
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2018 - Collection of Little People Common to the Forest by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Here Follows A Collection of Little People Common to the Natural Forest (The Enlarged Edition).Publisher: North ...
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1881 Rare First Edition - Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon
Author: H. L. Gordon.Title: Legends of the Northwest.Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., The St. Paul Book and Stationery Co., 1881. First Edition.Language...
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1925 First Illustrated Edition by Louis Rhead - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Louis Rhead.Title: Heidi.Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Illustrated Editi...
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1890 Scarce Book - Under the Sea to the North Pole by Pierre Maël
Author: Pierre Maël.Title: Under the Sea to the North Pole.Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane,...
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1699 Rare French Latin Bible - L’Exode et Le Lévitique, Exodus and Leviticus
Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy.Title: L’Exode et Le Lévitique. Traduits en François, avec une explication tirée des Saints Pères et des Aute...
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2015 Rare Signed First Edition - Tree Whispers by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Tree Whispers.Publisher: North Vancouver, Savuti Press, 2015. First Edition. Printed offset (600 copies). Signe...
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2008 Rare Signed 1stED - Mr. Rabbit's Symphony of Nature by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Mr. Rabbit's Symphony of Nature.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, CVS Fine Arts, Spring 200...
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