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Nelson Ball fonds. Fifth accrual. – 1972-2011. – 4.48 m of textual records.

Series 5 is restricted for a period of 15 years from 2011. Files have not been numbered. Preparation of this finding aid was done by Nelson Ball.

Series 1. Catalogues & Quotations

Box 31
Catalogues
As Weed Flower Press:
List nos. 1 & 2 (1972)

As William Nelson Books:
List nos. 3 - 86 (1972-1982); [Note: No. 5 was not issued.]
Catalogue nos. 87 - 91 (1982-1984)

As Nelson Ball, Bookseller:
Catalogue nos. 92 - 119 (1985-1996)

Occasional Lists [included in above file folders]
As William Nelson Books:
1973: A73 - E73
1974: A74 - F74 + Souster mss
1975: A75 - I75
1976: 76A - 76J
1977: 77A - 77B
1978: Dreams Surround Us
1979: 79-1 - 79-9
1980: 80-1 - 80-8
1981: 81-1 - 81-3
1982: 82-1 - 82-3
1984: 84-1 - 84-9 + Remainders

As Nelson Ball, Bookseller:
1985: 85-1 – 85-9
1986: 86-1 – 86-9
1987: 87-1 – 87-9
1988: 88-1 – 88-3
1989: 89-1 – 89-4
1990: 90-1 – 90-8
1991: 91-1 – 91-3
1992: 92-1 – 92-2
1993: 93-1 – 93-9
1994: 94-1
1995: 95-1 – 95-2
1996: 96-1 – 96-3

“Masters” list, nos. 1-34, 1972-75. These copies record items sold and total sales.

Box 32
Remainder of “Masters” of Catalogues & Lists files, ending in 1996

Box 33
Abebooks
Printouts of listings uploaded to Abebooks, filed in chronological order of cataloguing & uploading.

Box 34
Quotations [in binders & files]
Descriptions & lists of books offered for sale to individuals and institutions.

Series 2. Correspondence

Box 35
Individuals
Includes authors (mostly poets), bibliographers, critics, librarians, collectors, publishers & booksellers. Includes general correspondence regarding buying and selling books, bibliographical questions, etc.

In separate files:
Alan Abrams
Myrtle Reynolds Adams
Percy Adams
Gordon Adshead
John Armitage
Steven Artelle
Stanley Atherton
Helen Ball
Robin Ball
Douglas Barbour
Robert Bateman (Micro Media)
Derek Beaulieu
Michel Beaulieu
Carol Bergé
Clara Bernhardt
Stan Bevington
Bill Bissett
Cicely Blackstock
George Bougadis
Mrs. Arthur Bourinot
Martin Booth
George Bowering
Avi Boxer
Maureen Bradbury
G. Brender à Brandis
Elizabeth Brewster
Gene Bridwell
Roderick Brinckman
Michel Brisebois
Mrs. E.K. Brown
Sarah Brown
Bruccoli Clark Layman Inc.
Freda Bunner
Richard Cavell
John W. Charles
Elissa Checov
Bob Cobbing
John Robert Colombo
Ronald J. Cooke
Dennis Cooley
Michael Darling
Lois Darroch
Frank Davey
Jack David
Glynn Davies
Peter Day
Brian Dedora
Robert Denham
Larry Dickison
Judy Donnelly
Charlotte Dorn
Donald Dove
Mike Doyle
Stan Dragland
Louis Dudek
Leonard Dutton
Klay Dyer
Dave Dyment
Len Early
Margery Fee
Doug Fetherling
L.L. Field
John Flood
George Galt
Greg Gatenby
Gary Geddes
Marty Gervais
Lakshmi Gill
Michael Gnarowski
Barbara Godard
Anne Goddard           
Don Gorman
Edna Grant
Jack Gray
Peter Greig
Leonard Grove
Edythe Groves
Ralph Gustafson
Peter Halasz
Philip Harbottle
Ingrid Harris
Craig Hartley
Denise Harvey
John Hearn
Doris Hedges
Geoff Heinrichs
David Helwig
Brian Henderson
Eileen Cameron Henry
T.B. Higginson
Catherine Hobbs
Gary Hoppenstand
Alan Horne
Helen Hoy
Laurence Hutchman
Janet Inksetter
W. Arthur Irwin
Av Isaacs
David Jackel
Ed Jewinski
Hans Jewinski
Stephen Johnston
Daniel Jones
Sally Ann Kellar
Penny Kemp
Leo Kennedy
Donna-Lyn Kent
Pearl Kerr
Lorna Knight
Chris Kubsch
Bertrand Lachance
David Latham
Sheila Latham
Martin Lavut
Robert Lecker
Dennis Lee
David Lee
Clarke Leverette
Peter Lipert
Dorothy Livesay
Douglas Lochhead
Alec Lucas
Barbara Lupack
Guy R. Lyle
Gerald Lynch
Agnes MacDonald
Patricia MacDonald
David McFadden
Minnie McHolm
Ellen McIntosh
Louis K. MacKendrick
Barry McKinnon
Stuart MacKinnon
David McKnight
Hugh McLean
Don McLeod
Vera McNichol
Daphne Mainprize
Michael Mann
Paul Mariah
Tom Marshall
Diane Martin
Jeff Maser
Harold C. Mason
Seymour Mayne
David Mazoff
John Metcalf
Roy Miki
Beth Miller
Kathleen C. Moore
Richard Morgan
Patricia Morley
Joyce Morris
Irena Murray
Sharon Nelson
Bruce Nesbitt
John Newlove
bp Nichol
Eleanor Nichol
Charles Noble
Ken Norris
Michael Ondaatje
Marvin Orbach
Larry Orenstein
David O’Rourke
Joe O’Sullivan
Desmond Pacey
Ruth Panofsky
S.M. Parker
Jim Pennington
Ida Phillips
Sarah Poulton
Al Purdy
Brian Purdy
E.J. Rainey
Janis Rapoport
Dorothy Rath
Anna Rauth
James Reaney
Michael Redhill
David Rees
P.J. Reese
Pauline Rhind
Michael Ridley
R.G. Romkey
Joe Rosenblatt
Carol Rothman
W.A. Rowat
Mary Rubio
Will Rueter
David Russell
Malcolm Rutherford

Box 35
Marvin Sackner
John St. James
Cassandra Sanders
Eric Schloss
Stephen Scobie
Guy Shewell
Lorne Shirinian
Allan Shute
Glen Siebrasse
Victor Skretkowicz
John G. Slater
Jim Smith
Hans Sohm
John Sorfleet
Glen Sorestad
Raymond Souster
Carl Spadoni
Douglas Spettigue
Chris Spraakman
Robert Stacey
David Staines
Apollonia Steele
Charles Steele
Lois Steen
Ken Stewart
Paul Stuewe
Tim Struthers
Andrew Suknaski
Fraser Sutherland
Eric Swanick
Thomas Tausky
William Toye
Pierre Turgeon
Margaret Turner
Marisa Tuzi
Tony Urquhart
David UU
Susan Vanderborg
Tom Vincent
Richard Virr
Margaret L. Waddington
Alan Walker
Susan Wallace
Randall Ware
R.E. Watters
Allan Weiss
Jonathan Welsh
Susan White
John Whitefoot
Bruce Whiteman
Clifton Whiten
Robert Willson
Margaret Wilton
Gordon Winter
Glenn Woodsworth
Anne Yandle

Mostly buyers, arranged in one file:
Bob Attridge
Rudolf Bader
Eric Ball
Hugh M. Barrett
Renu Barrett
Reg Berry
David Boll
John Burtniak
Brian John Busby
Eric Cameron
Amber Clark
Mrs. Harold Clark
Dianne Clipsham
Ronald Cohen
Ann Lewin Diament
Jean-Marcel Duciaume
Thomas R. Dunlap
John N. Dyment
Carol Fairbanks
Ron Funnell
David Gardner
Brock Gorrell
Bart Graham
W.L.C. Greer
George M. Hendry
William B. Hoyt
Terry Jordan
Patrick W. Kay
Diana Knowles
Lois Lance
Bill Latimer
Frank Lechowick
Val Lem
Joyce Lewis
W.E. Lockerby
Francis V. McDevitt
Allan McGuire
Anne Montagnes
Bob Pepall
Anne Redman
Barry D. Reive
Marilyn Rose
Bruce Russell
Walter D. Rutherford
Ann Saddlemyer
Edward S. St. John
Mrs. John R. Shields
Graham Skanes
Russell Smith
Birute Ona Spink
Joyce Stankiewicz
R.A. Stevens
Hugh Stewart
Ronald Tranquilla
Coomi S. Vevaina
Jan Walter
A. Judith Watson
David L. White
Patricia Whitney
Warner Winter
Hensley C. Woodbridge
D.R. Woollerton
Don Young

Chronological order, 1994 to 2010 in five files.

Booksellers
Canadian, in separate files:
Annex Books (Janet Fetherling)
Hugh Anson-Cartwright
Art Metropole (A.A. Bronson)
Bjarne’s Books (Bjarne Tokerud
The Book Barn (Carl Lehrbass)
The Book Bazaar (Beryl McLeod)
The Book Nook (Ada Mingo)
Boudicca Books (Betsy Nuse)
Michel Brisebois, Libraire
C & E Books (Lorne Ellaschuk)
Donaldson & Co Books (Morris Donaldson)
Michael Dunn
Giacomo Falconi
Robert Gordon Archivaria
Heritage Books (Robert Stamp)
William Hoffer
R.R. Knott, Bookseller
Letters (Nicky Drumbolis)
J. Patrick McGahern, Books
John Mappin
William Matthews
Mountain High Book Store (Bev M. Hills)
Northland Books (Garry Shoquist)
The Odd Book
The Odd Copy Book Shop (Paul Rollinson)
S.Y. Books (Scott Young)
Sol Sniderman
Specialty Book Concern (Craig Fraser)
Steven Temple Books
Harry A. Thompson
Village Book Store (Martin Ahvenus)
Tom Williams
Grant Woolmer, Books
The Word (Adrian Edwards)

Foreign, in separate files:
Am Here Books (Richard Aaron)
Asphodel Book Shop (James R. Lowell)
Nelson Bond
Donald Gildea
Joseph The Provider (Ralph B. Sipper)
George Robert Minkoff
Phoenix Book Shop (Robert A. Wilson)
William Schneider Books
Serendipity Books (Peter B. Howard)
Vanguard Phenomena (Barry Alpert)
Gail Wilson
J. Howard Woolmer

Series 3. Various
Includes advertising, bibliographical notes, book fairs, cataloguing preparation and production, etc.
Box 36 (continued)
Advertising [11 files]
AB Bookman’s Weekly, Bookdealer, CN&Q, Clique, Varsity, etc.

Box 37
Bibliographical Notes
Jacob D. Allen. Poems. 1869
W.D. Andrews. Lifeboat. Editions of 1889 & 1890
Earle Birney. Pnomes, Jukollages. List of contents
Margaret Adeline (Porter) Brown. Pamphlets & notes [6 files]
G.B. Burgin. Bio/biblio info gathered by T.B. Higginson
Canadian Temperance Minstrel. 1842. Authorship
Matt Cohen. Too Bad Galahad. First issue.
Jack David. Canadian Poetry. 1970. Notes.
Dreadnaught 52 Pickup. Listing.
Far Horizons. [Brantford? circa 1926?] Notes.
Is Four. List of contents
Lionel Kearns. Bibliography
Mary Leslie. Compilation of notes on her
Leslie McFarlane. Bibliography
Helen C. Manning. Biographical notes.
bp Nichol. bp. 1967. List of contents,
bp Nichol. List of his Sci-Fi collection.
E.J. Pratt. Studies in Pauline Eschatology. Locations of copies
Marshal Saunders. Beautiful Joe. Editions.
A.J.M. Smith. Typescript book. 1936. Notes
Miss M.S. Snell. Essays. 1881. Biographical notes
Raymond Souster. Notes
Alan Sullivan. Extensive bio/biblio info gathered by T.B. Higginson.
Pamelia (Vining) Yule. Without and Within. 1900. Notes on authorship.

Book Fairs [22 files]
Files include booth rental agreements, publicity, notes on sales, etc.
Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1990
Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair 1980, 1981, 1988
Toronto Spring Book Fair 1981, 1986, 1988, 1989
Toronto Fall Book Fair 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989

Catalogue Preparation and Production
Cataloguing methodology (terminology, references cited)
Notes on number of copies of catalogues printed
For List no. 86-2: Notes on Rev. John B. Silcox
For List no. 86-5: Paste ups (William Kriesel journals & ledgers)
For List no. 93-3: Notes on salesmen’s dummies
For List no. 93-4: Notes on periodicals Canadian Comment and Region
For List no. 94-1: Research on Lampman’s poems
For List no. 95-1: Descriptions by Barbara Caruso of several Seripress titles
For Catalogue no. 119: Draft of introduction

Lots Purchased
Village Book Store 1972-1975
Buying trips 1973-1974
Buffalo 1973-1974
John Robert Colombo 1974
Huronia Canadiana 1974
John Coutts 1974
Doug Fetherling 1975
Ray Souster 1976
T.B. Higginson 1976-1978
Dennis Lee 1977
Mount Allison 1977
Sol Sniderman 1978
Joe Rosenblatt 1978
Acadia Book Store 1978
Metcalf & Newlove 1978
Village Book Store 1978-1979
Village Book Store Jan. 1979
Stuart MacKinnon 1979?
Viola & Claire Pratt 1979?
North York Public Library
Heritage Books 1980
McMaster Univ. Library 1981
Batta Book Store 1981
Batta Book Store 1982
Bess Sniderman 1982
Bill Matthews (Leacock) 1984
Ellie Nichol 1989
Schooner Books 1990
Ingrid Harris 1994

Mailing Lists
Typed master for full mailing list
Typed master for short mailing list
List of purchasers 1984-1987
List of purchasers 1990-1992
 
Notable Items & Lots
Atwood-Pachter Portfolios
Blewointmentpress ephemera
Leonard Cohen. Two Views. 1980
Hugh Garner titles
James Gay broadside
Felix Paul Greve works
Irving Layton. There Were No Signs. 1979
Huron County journal of Douglas McTavish 1875-1879
E.J. Pratt. Rachel. 1917
E.J. Pratt. Rachel. 1917 (Viola Pratt’s copy)
E.J. Pratt. Typescript of Rachel
John Graves Simcoe
Song Fishermans Song Sheet
Raymond Souster’s papers 1970-1977
Raymond Souster. Typescripts of On Target
Raymond Souster. On Target
Star Weekly Fiction Files
Gael Turnbull titles
Gael Turnbull letters

Pricing
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ephemera
The Berkeley Horse
Contact Press / McGill Poetry Series / First Statement Press

Questionnaires [1 file]
Copies of completed questionnaires for directories of booksellers.
 Stationary, Forms, Circulars [1 file]
Letterhead, invoices, envelopes, etc.

Series 4. Financial Records

Sales
Accounts ledger 1972-1973
Accounts ledger 1973-1991
Record of sales (daily) Sept.-Dec. 1981
Record of sales (daily) Jan.-Dec. 1982 [2 files]
Record of sales Jan.-Nov. 1983
Record of daily total sales Sept. 1981-March 1983
[Note: Store was open to the public Sept. 1981 to Nov. 1982. Barbara Caruso was employed to clerk in the store during this period and most of the records are in her hand. She included weather observations.]

Expenses
Petty cash records 1972-1983

Box 38
Ledger sheets: Cash synoptic 1972-1994 [2 files]
Ledger sheets: Accounts Memos 1972-
Ledger sheets: General Journal 1972-1994

Series 5. Appraisals.
Series 5 is restricted for a period of 15 years
from 2011.

Box 39
Notes on numerous appraisals.
Listing of appraisals conducted.Qualifications as an appraiser.

Appraisals (Oversize Material):
Listing of Harold Town Art Study Collection (NAAB, 1997)
Listing of Gary Geddes papers (National Library, 1998)

Appraisals of Archives and Book Collections, arranged chronologically
Box 39 (continued)
1977-1990 [82 files]

Box 40
1991-1994 [43 files]

Box 41
1995-1998 [57 files]

Box 42
1999-2002 [37 files]

Box 43
2003-2007 [30 files]

To find an appraisal of manuscripts and papers, consult the following list to find the date the appraisal was done. Appraisals of books and book collections are included in the files but are not listed.
Dates following authors’ names are dates of appraisals. Names and dates in bold type indicate sales at or near Ball’s appraised values. Of the remainder, some were sales and some were donations. Frequently, Ball didn’t know whether the material he appraised would be changing hands by sale or donation.

A. Novelists, Poets, Playwrights
Accruals or Complete Archives
Mark Abley (1991)
Margaret Atwood (1982)
Don Bailey (1982, 1983)
Nelson Ball (1996, 1999, 2005)
Bill Bissett (1985, 1987)
George Bowering (1999, 2000)
Elizabeth Brewster (1990-NAAB)
Robert Bringhurst (2000)
Virgil Burnett (2003, 2005, 2006)
Carole Corbeil (2005)
Rienzi Crusz (1997, 2002, 2005)
Colleen Curran (2006)
Roy Daniells (1991)
Frank Davey (1990, 1995, 1999)
Robertson Davies (1988, 1992)
Rikki Ducornet (1993)
Louis Dudek (1991)
C.J. Eustace (1983)
Trevor Ferguson (1998)
Timothy Findley (1986, 1997-NAAB)
Patrick Friesen (1998)
Mark Frutkin (2000)
Gary Geddes (1998)
Sky Gilbert (1992)
Barbara Goudy (1999)
Earle Grey (2006)
David W. Harris [David UU] (1995)
Michael Harris (1991)
Tomson Highway (1991)
Jack Hodgins (1996)
Frances Itani (2000)
Daniel Jones (1996)
Penn Kemp (1994, 1996, 2003, 2004)
W.P. Kinsella (1999)
Raymond Knister (1981)
Archibald Lampman (1994, 1997)
Margaret Laurence (1984, 1988, 1990, 1997)
Victor Lauriston (1982)
Dennis Lee (1978, 1994)
Norman Levine (1988, 1990, 1992)
Jean Little (2001)
Janet Lunn (1994)
Owen E. McGillicuddy (1980)
Hugh MacLennan (1991, 1992)
Daphne Marlatt (1994, 1999)
Tom Marshall (1994)
Seymour Mayne (1997-NAAB)
John Metcalf (1994)
L.M. Montgomery (1983, 1997)
Erin Moure (1997)
bpNichol (1994)
Michael Ondaatje (1994)
Nancy-Lou Patterson (2002)
James Reaney (1992)
Joe Rosenblatt (1979)
Andreas Schroeder (1992)
Duncan Campbell Scott (1980, 1994)
Elise Aylen Scott (1994)
James R. Scott (1980)
Carol Shields (1995, 1999)
Barbara Smucker (1986, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999)
Raymond Souster (1988, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2007)
Elizabeth Spencer (1999)
Audrey Thomas (1995, 2000)
Judith Thompson (1998)
Morley Torgov (1984)
Gael Turnbull (1996)
Jane Urquhart (1992, 1998)
Tony Van Bridge (2003)
George F. Walker (1989)
Betsy Warland (1996)
Phyllis Webb (1998)
Samuel A. White (1982)
Bruce Whiteman (1990)
Adele Wiseman (1990)
Rachel Wyatt (1997)

B. Others
Complete or Partial Archives
Louis Applebaum, composer, administrator (1985)
Louis Orville Breithaupt, politician (2002)
Gerard Brender a Brandis, artist, private press (1993)
Rabbi Reuven Bulka (1997-NAAB)
Clare Clark, activist (1999)
Roland De Corneille, politician (1997-NAAB)
Anne Innis Dagg, zoologist, feminist (2004)
Dorothy Duncan, author, journalist (1991, 1992)
Sheila Fischman, translator (1999)
Vera Frenkel, artist (1991)
Pricilla Galloway, editor, children’s writer (2000)
Shirley Gibson, publisher (1996)
Carl Klinck, literary historian (1982)
Thomas Lacey, spiritualist (1986)
Dr. Stanley Leavine, medical doctor, politician (1999)
Fred Maines & Jenny O’Hara Pincock, spiritualists (1985, 1995, 2005)
John Mappin, bookseller (1998, 2000)
Rabbi Dow Marmur (1997-NAAB)
Kenneth G. Murray, executive (2005, 2006)
Alan Nunn, actor (2003)
E. Palmer Patterson, historian (2002, 2003)
G.E. Reaman, historian and educator (1985)
Richard Rose, theatre director, playwright (2002)
Carl Schaefer, artist (1997-NAAB)
John T. Schmidt, journalist (2003)
Paul Seligman, scholar (1985)
Edna Staebler, author, journalist (1994)
Philip Surrey, artist (1990-NAAB)
Harold Town, artist (1997-NAAB)
Janice Tyrwhitt, journalist, researcher (1984)
Robert Weaver, anthologist, broadcaster (1990-NAAB)

C. Publishers
Complete or Partial Archives
Coach House Press (1983)
Dodd, Mead [material relating to Canadian authors] (1990)
Ganglia Press (1989)
HMS Press (1988)
The Mercury Press (2002)
Oolichan Press (1996)
Quarry Press (1989)
Seripress (1987)
Waves (1988)
Weed Flower Press (1996)

D. Organizations
Complete or Partial Archives
Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service (1985, 1987)
Kaufman Rubber Co. / Kaufman Footwear (2004)
Earle Grey Players Company / Shakespeare Festival Company (2006)
Muskoka Lakes Association (2005)
Ontario Editorial Bureau (1997)
Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation (2003)
Westmount Golf and Country Club, Kitchener (2006)
Writers’ Union of Canada (1983)

Series 6. Canadian Paperback Research
1. “A Rough Draft Working Bibliography of News Stand Library”. Primarily handwritten. This is a photocopy of the original which was passed on to Jim Fitzpatrick when he purchased the collection.
2. News Stand Library: A Series of Paperbacks Published by Export Publishing Enterprises Limited, Toronto, 1948-1951: A Checklist of the Collection Assembled by Nelson Ball.Compiled by Nelson Ball. Printed for private circulation, Paris, Ontario, 2007.
3. Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. Letters Patent 20 Nov. 1946. Photocopy. Accompanied by a letter from Bruce Whiteman.
4. Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. Annual Summaries for 1947-1950. Photocopies.
5. Three letters relating to Hugh Garner and Export Publishing Enterprises. Photocopies.
6. Horace Brown: telephone interview, Oct. 1982.
7. Correspondence (photocopies) with H. Gordon Green relating to Export Publishing Enterprises and notes based on a telephone conversation with Green.
8. Tedd Steele: telephone interview, Aug. 1982, and related notes.
9. Alexander Valentine: telephone interview, Aug. 1982, related notes, and a letter to Carolyn Strange.
10. George Henderson: Notes based on conversations with Henderson. Partial list of Henderson’s titles compiled by bp Nichol. Article on Henderson by Don Hutchison. Photocopy of bp Nichol’s “The Lives & Loves of Captain George” which is published in bp nichol Comics edited by Carl Peters (Talonbooks, 2002) where it is incorrectly identified as “John Cannyside”.
11. Kastner family: note.
12. Thomas P. Kelley: Article by John Robert Colombo.
13. Quotation to Jim Fitzpatrick of News Stand Library collection, including variants, June 2007.
14. Quotes to Jim Fitzpatrick of original cover art of Alexander Valentine’s publications; books of smaller publishers including Arrow, Crow, Derby and Studio.
15. “An accumulation of digest-size paperbound Canadian books and periodicals circa 1940-1950.”
16. Star Weekly Novels: 285 issues dating from 1938 to 1965. Listing by author & list of illustrators.
17. Pulp magazines: Lists from stock with detail of content in some instances.
18. “Pulp Art Collection”: List of National Library Collection as of August 2003.
19. Articles by Paul Stuewe, Jim Roberts, Paul Rollinson & Dennis Lien on Canadian paperbacks and pulp magazines.
20. Canadian fiction in paperback published outside Canada prior to 1971: Preliminary notes.

Box 44
21. Card file: Printings and issues of mass-market paperbacks published outside Canada of fiction by Canadians prior to 1971 and including later reprintings.
22. Card file: Publisher and author indices.
23. Card file: A few notes regarding pseudonyms.

Series 7. Printed Matter
1. Invitations (Book launches & exhibitions) [1 file]
2. Articles On Canadian Booksellers [1 file]
3. Directories & Membership Lists of Members of ABAC/ALAC [1 file] 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990-91, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2007, 2008-2009, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2010.[Likely a complete run.]
4. Directories of Toronto & Area Members of ABAC/ALAC [1 file]  undated late 1960s, undated 1973 or later, undated 1973 or later, undated 1970s?, undated 1980s?, May 1985, April 1987, April 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007/2008, 2010/2011, 2010/2011 with errors
5. Directories of Canadian Antiquarian and Secondhand Booksellers
(a) A Preliminary List Compiled in the Office of the Collections Librarian, Carleton University, March 1974.
(b) Canadian Antiquarian Booksellers Directory, compiled by Maria Szivos Szalay, published by Brandon University Library, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1983

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