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  • 'Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (36)
  • 'The Macmillan Company of Canada' (36)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' (28)
  • 'Publishing for Children: McClelland & Stewart's Long Legacy' (25)
  • 'Mazo de la Roche and the Atlantic Monthly Award' (23)
  • 'Small Press Book Distribution: Toronto Small Press Book Fair' (23)
  • '"Dreaming of the Millions": Austin Clarke's More' (22)
  • 'The Canadian 'Pocket Book,' 1940-1980' (22)
  • 'Bliss Carman: A Life in Literary Publishing' (21)
  • 'Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited' (20)
  • '"Carefully Drawn by Thoreau MacDonald"' (19)
  • '"The Queen Bee of the Canadian Book Trade": Anna Porter and Key Porter Books' (18)
  • 'J.W. Bengough: Publisher and Pioneer of Editorial Cartooning in English Canada' (18)
  • 'Douglas Gibson Books and Alice Munro, with Editorial Audio Recordings by Douglas Gibson'  (17)
  • 'How Sheila Watson's The Double Hook Caught On' (17)
  • 'Men of the Cloth and the Book: E.J. Pratt and Lorne Pierce' (17)
  • 'Dorothy Livesay and "Call My People Home" (with audio recording)' (16)
  • 'Grey Owl and His Publishers' (16)
  • 'Marian Engel: A Life in Writing' (16)
  • 'The Governor General's Literary Awards' (16)
  • 'The Rise of the Small Press Movement in Canada' (16)
  • 'Deemed "authentic": Basil H. Johnston' (14)
  • 'Lover of Empire: William Wilfred Campbell' (14)
  • 'The Prodigious Career of Charles G.D. Roberts' (14)
  • 'Al Purdy: Canadian Nationalism and The New Romans' (13)
  • 'Copp Clark Company' (13)
  • 'Gardening in the Great White North: Marjorie Harris's The Canadian Gardener' (13)
  • 'Harvest House' (13)
  • 'Hockey Books and Canadian Culture' (13)
  • 'Isabella Valancy Crawford' (13)
  • 'Locks’ Press, the private press of Fred and Margaret Lock, Kingston, Ontario: A Personal Narrative' (13)
  • 'Privately Published by the Pauline Johnson Trust' (13)
  • 'Ruth Buck and the publication of Edward Ahenakew's Voices of the Plains Cree' (13)
  • 'The Birth of the Ryerson Press Imprint' (13)
  • 'Guernica Editions' (12)
  • 'Lorne Pierce of the Ryerson Press and Vera Lysenko's Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947): Resisting the "Red Scare"' (12)
  • 'William Arthur Deacon: Reviewing, Advertising, and Publishers' (12)
  • 'Hugh Kane: "The Compleat Bookman"' (11)
  • '"In Kamloops I'll eat your boots": Dennis Lee's Alligator Pie' (10)
  • 'Ethel Brant Monture: “A One-Woman Crusade”' (10)
  • 'Indian File Series' (10)
  • 'Marius Barbeau and the History of Anthropological and Folklore Publishing' (10)
  • 'Bringing CanLit into the Classroom—Brita Mickleburgh’s Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose' (9)
  • 'Censorship in Canada' (9)
  • 'Hugh Garner: The "One Man Trade Union" of Publishing (with audio recording)' (9)
  • 'Stephen Leacock and His Publishers' (9)
  • '"The Boat Who Wouldn't Float: The Happy Adventure of Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland"' (8)
  • 'Alan Crawley and Contemporary Verse' (8)
  • 'Bradley-Garretson Company Limited' (8)
  • 'Catching Sight of the Battle: Gladys Neale's Rise to the Top of Educational Publishing (with audio recording)' (8)
  • 'Helen Humphreys's Toronto Mythologies' (8)
  • 'Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton’s Railway Books' (8)
  • 'The Perilous Trade collection, with Audio Interviews' (8)
  • 'Canadian Book Fairs' (7)
  • 'Copyright and Publishing' (7)
  • 'CURVD H&z and Avant-Garde/Small Press Publishing in Canada' (7)
  • 'Diane Schoemperlen' (7)
  • 'New Business: The Impact of Fifth Business on Roberston Davies's Relationship with his Canadian Publishers' (7)
  • 'Nora Keeling: The Life of a Short Story Writer' (7)
  • 'An "Artist of Standing": C.W. Jefferys and Historical Illustration in Canada' (6)
  • 'Archibald Lampman' (6)
  • 'Barbarian Press: Endgrain Editions' (6)
  • 'Donald Creighton, John Gray, and the Making of Macdonald' (6)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (6)
  • 'Maria Campbell's Halfbreed: "Biography with a purpose"' (6)
  • 'The Poet and the Publisher: Duncan Campbell Scott and Lorne Pierce' (6)
  • 'The Poetic Achievement of Contact Press (1952-1967)' (6)
  • 'The Story of Canadian Wild Flowers' (6)
  • 'Translators of Canada: Paul Wilson, Wayne Grady, and David Lobdell' (6)
  • '"Yours Aboriginally": Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Authorship in Canada' (5)
  • 'Chatelaine Magazine' (5)
  • 'Garamond Press' (5)
  • 'H. Pearson Gundy, Upper Canada's Publishing Historian' (5)
  • 'In Canada and Abroad: The Diverse Publishing Career of George Woodcock' (5)
  • 'L.M. Montgomery and Her Publishers' (5)
  • 'Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee and the Survival of Canadian Literature' (5)
  • 'Saturday Night: Canada's Oldest General Interest Magazine' (5)
  • 'Sixty Eight Publishers' (5)
  • 'The Censorship of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, 1976-1985' (5)
  • 'The Prospectus of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec' (5)
  • 'A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press' (4)
  • 'The Macmillan Company of Canada' ; 'Publishers' Catalogues' (4)
  • 'The Publication of Alistair MacLeod's The Lost Salt Gift of Blood' (4)
  • 'William Kirby and Copyright: The Publication History of The Golden Dog' (4)
  • L.M. Montgomery and Her Publishers (4)
  • 'Coach House Press: Crucible of Electronic Publishing Technology' (3)
  • 'Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (3)
  • 'Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books ; Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' (3)
  • 'Queen's Quarterly' (3)
  • 'William Kirby and Copyright: The Publication History The Golden Dog' (3)
  • Canada Reads and the Atwood Archives (3)
  • "To Dress Our Letters in Such Strong Fancy": The Indian File Poetry Series (2)
  • 'A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press ; Stan Bevington: The Making of a Master Printer with Audio Interview' (2)
  • 'Alberto Manguel and Louise Dennys: An Editing Match' (2)
  • 'J. Macdonald Oxley's Record of Literary Achievement' (2)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Publishers' Catalogues' (2)
  • 'Job Printing and a Town Newspaper: The Collingwood Bulletin' (2)
  • 'Nellie McClung's Literary Legacy' (2)
  • 'Nellie McClung’s Literary Legacy' (2)
  • 'Stan Bevington: The Making of a Master Printer with Audio Interview' (2)
  • 'The Boat Who Wouldn't Float - The Happy Adventure of Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland' (2)
  • 'The Canadian 'Pocket Book,' 1940-1980 ; Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' (2)
  • 'The Censorship of Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, 1976-1985' ; 'Censorship in Canada' (2)
  • Alberto Manguel and Louise Dennys: An Editing Match (2)
  • Censorship in Canada (2)
  • '"Carefully Drawn by Thoreau MacDonald" ; The Prodigious Career of Charles G.D. Roberts' (1)
  • '"The Queen Bee of the Canadian Book Trade": Anna Porter and Key Porter Books' ; 'Gardening in the Great White North: Marjorie Harris's The Canadian Gardener ; The Perilous Trade Collection, with Audio Interviews' (1)
  • 'A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press ; Stan Bevington: The Making of a Master Printer with Audio Interview ; Coach House Press: Crucible of Electronic Publishing Technology' (1)
  • 'Agnes FitzGibbon Subscription Books for Canadian Wild Flowers' (1)
  • 'Agnes FitzGibbon Subscription Books for Canadian Wild Flowers' ; 'The Story of Canadian Wild Flowers' (1)
  • 'Alberto Manguel and Louise Dennus: An Editing Match' (1)
  • 'An "Artist of standing": C.W. Jeffrerys and Historical Illustration in Canada' (1)
  • 'An “Artist of standing”: C.W. Jefferys and Historical Illustration in Canada' (1)
  • 'Barbarian Press' (1)
  • 'Bradley-Garretson Subscription Publishers' (1)
  • 'Canada Reads and the Atwood Archives' (1)
  • 'Catching Sight of the Battle: Gladys Neale's Rise to the Top of Educational Publishing' (1)
  • 'Censorship in Canada' ; ' Lorne Pierce of the Ryerson Press and Vera Lysenko’s Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947): Resisting the “Red Scare”' (1)
  • 'Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Copyright and Publishing' ; 'The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'CURVD H&z and Avant-Garde/Small Press Publishing in Canada ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Diane Schoemperlen ; A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press' (1)
  • 'Douglas Gibson Books and Alice Munro, with Editorial Audio Recordings by Douglas Gibson ; Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' (1)
  • 'Ethel Brant Monture: “A One-Woman Crusade”' ; '"Yours Aboriginally": Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Authorship in Canada (1)
  • 'Guernica Editions ; Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Guernica Editions ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Hugh Kane: "The Compleat Bookman"' ; 'The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Hugh Kane: The Compleat Bookman' (1)
  • 'J.W. Bengough: Publisher and Pioneer of Editorial Cartooning in English Canada' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton's Railway Books' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; Translators of Canada: Paul Wilson, Wayne Grady, and David Lobdell ; William Arthur Deacon: Reviewing, Advertising, and Publishers' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' 'Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' ; 'Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Jack McClelland, McClelland & Stewart ; Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Lorne Pierce of the Ryerson Press and Vera Lysenko's Men in Sheepskin Coat (1947): Resisting the "Red Scare" ; The Birth of The Ryerson Press Imprint'  (1)
  • 'Lorne Pierce of the Ryerson Press and Vera Lysenko's Men in Sheepskin Coat (1947): Resisting the "Red Scare" ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Lover of Empire: William Wilfred Campbell ; Archibald Lampman' (1)
  • 'Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books ; Copp Clark Company' (1)
  • 'Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' ; 'The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Publishing for Children: McClelland & Stewart's Long Legacy ; The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float – The Happy Adventure of Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland' (1)
  • 'Publishing for Children: McClelland & Stewart's Long Legacy' ; 'Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Queen's Quarterly: Fostering Canadian Cultural Identity' (1)
  • 'Queen’s Quarterly: Fostering Canadian Cultural Identity' (1)
  • 'Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton’s Railway Books ; Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton’s Railway Books' ; 'Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton’s Railway Books' ; 'The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'Ruth Buck and the publication of Edward Ahenakew's Voices of the Plains Cree' ; '"Yours Aboriginally": Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Authorship in Canada' (1)
  • 'Saturday Night: Canada’s Oldest General Interest Magazine' (1)
  • 'Stan Bevington: The Making of a Master Printer' (1)
  • 'The Birth of the Ryerson Press Imprint' ; 'The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • 'The Business of an Eighteenth-Century Printing Office: The Neilson Paybook' (1)
  • 'The Canadian 'Pocket Book,' 1940-1980 ; Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited' (1)
  • 'The Canadian 'Pocket Book,' 1940-1980 ; The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float – The Happy Adventure of Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland' (1)
  • 'The Censorship of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, 1976-1985 ; Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart' (1)
  • 'The Macmillan Company of Canada ; Catching Sight of the Battle: Gladys Neale's Rise to the Top of Education Publishing (with audio recording)' (1)
  • 'The Macmillan Company of Canada ; Publishers' Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books' (1)
  • 'The Perilous Trade Collection, with Audio Interviews ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century ; Alberto Manguel and Louise Dennys: An Editing Match' (1)
  • 'William Arthur Deacon: Reviewing, Advertising, and Publishers ; The Publishing Industry in Canada 1918 to the Twenty-First Century' (1)
  • A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press (1)
  • Cashbook contributions to the biographies of publishers George Maclean Rose and Daniel Rose (1)
  • Copp Clark Company (1)
  • Douglas Gibson Books and Alice Munro, with Editorial Audio Recordings by Douglas Gibson  (1)
  • H. Pearson Gundy, Upper Canada's Publishing Historian (1)
  • In Canada and Abroad: The Diverse Publishing Career of George Woodcock (1)
  • Letter from Queensland Bookbinders Guild to Margaret Lock, 18 May 1983, re 'Books and Bindings' (1)
  • Queen's Quarterly (1)
  • The Poetic Achievement of Contact Press (1952-1967) (1)

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