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Libraries and Cultural Resources LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES Archives and Special Collections Suite 520, Taylor Family Digital Library 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 www.asc.ucalgary.ca Isaac Bickerstaff fonds. ACU SPC F0165 https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/isaac-bickerstaff-fonds An additional finding aid in another format may exist for this fonds or collection. Inquire in Archives and Special Collections. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 239/80.17 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE DRAWINGS (Pen & Ink): Acorn, Milton. Ode to the Timothy Eaton Memorial [n.d.] 1.1 Church - 51 x 34 cm Avison, Margaret. To Professor X, Year Y [n.d.] 1.2 - 51 x 34 cm Birney, Earle. Rag and Bone Shop [n.d.] 1.3 - 50.8 x 33.6 cm in protective cover 53.6 x 42.5 cm Buckler, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley [n.d.] 1.4 - 50.5 x 33.8 in protective cover 53.9 x 45.8 cm Callaghan, Morley. More Joy in Heaven [n.d.] 1.5 - 48 x 34.3 cm in protective cover 52 x 44 cm Creighton, Donald. The Old Chieftain [n.d.] 1.6 - 50 x 33.3 cm in protective cover 53 x 40.6 cm Davies, Robertson. The Manticore [n.d.] 1.7 - 49.9 x 33.4 cm in protective cover 53.3 x 40.6 cm Dudek, Louis. All Kinds of Everything [n.d.] 1.8 - 50.8 x 34 cm Ferron, Jacques. Tales From the Uncertain Country [n.d.] 1.9 - 50.5 x 33.8 cm Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry [n.d.] 1.10 - 53.4 x 40.6 cm Gallant, Mavis. My Heart is Broken [n.d.] 1.11 - 50.7 x 30.8 cm Garner, Hugh. Cabbagetown [n.d.] 1.12 - 48 x 34 cm in protective cover 52 x 43.3 cm Glassco, John. Memoirs of Montparnasse [n.d.] 1.13 - 47.3 x 34 cm in protective cover 51.5 x 46.4 cm Page 2 ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 239/80.17 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE Grant, George. Lament for a Nation [n.d.] 1.14 - 51 x 34 cm Gustafson, Ralph. Flight into Darkness [n.d.] 1.15 - 50.5 x 33.8 cm in protective cover 53.6 x 43 cm Hébert, Anne. Children of the Black Sabbath [n.d.] 1.16 - 50.8 x 34 cm Layton, Irving. Balls for a One-Armed Juggler [n.d.] 1.17 - 50.4 x 34 cm in protective cover 53.3 x 41 cm Le Pan, Douglas. The Deserter [n.d.] 1.18 - 49.8 x 33 cm in protective cover 53 x 40.8 cm Levine, Norman. Canadian Writer's Tales [n.d.] 1.19 - 50.8 x 33.8 cm Livesay, Dorothy. The Unquiet Bed [n.d.] 1.20 - 47.2 x 34 cm in protective cover 50.6 x 43.2 cm Lower, A.R.M. Canadians in the Making [n.d.] 1.21 - 50.7 x 30.8 cm in protective cover 54 x 43.8 cm McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy [n.d.] 1.22 - 50 x 33.4 cm in protective cover 53 x 40.6 cm Mandel, Eli. Crusoe [n.d.] 1.23 - 50.6 x 30.8 cm Mitchell, W.O. Jake and the Kid [n.d.] 1.24 - 50.6 x 30.8 cm Mowat, Farley. A Whale for the Killing [n.d.] 1.25 - 50 x 30.8 cm Page, P.K. Images of Angels [n.d.] 1.26 - 50.7 x 33.7 cm Purdy, Al. Sundance at Dusk [n.d.] 1.27 - 50.7 x 33.7 cm Reaney, James. The Donnellys [n.d.] 1.28 Page 3 ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 239/80.17 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE - 51 x 33.8 cm Ross, Sinclair. As for Me and My House [n.d.] 1.29 - 51 x 33.6 cm in protective cover 55 x 44.1 cm Roy, Gabrielle. Where Nests the Water Hen [n.d.] 1.30 - 50.7 x 33.8 cm Scott, F.R. The Eye of the Needle [n.d.] 1.31 - 50.5 x 33.7 cm in protective cover 54 x 43.4 cm Skelton, Robin. A Ballad for Billy Barker [n.d.] 1.32 - 50.8 x 33.8 cm Smith, A.J.M. A Sort of Ecstasy [n.d.] 1.33 - 48 x 33.7 cm in protective cover 52 x 44 cm Souster, Raymond. The Death of the Grenadiers [n.d.] 1.34 - 50.8 x 33.8 cm Thériault, Yves. Agaguk [n.d.] 1.35 - 50.7 x 33.8 cm Waddinton, Miriam. The Price of Gold [n.d.] 1.36 - 50.8 x 34 cm Watson, Sheila. The Double Hook [n.d.] 1.37 - 50.8 x 33.7 cm Wilson, Ethel. Swamp Angel [n.d.] 1.38 - 50.3 x 33.8 cm in protective cover 54 x 44.2 cm Woodcock, George. Oddysseus Ever Returning [n.d.] 1.39 - 50.8 x 33.8 cm in protective cover 53.5 x 45.5 cm ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 268.81.12 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE DRAWINGS (Pen & Ink): “More Literary Caricatures” by Isaac [n.d.] 1.1 Bickerstaff - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Aquin, Hubert. Prochain Episode [n.d.] 1.2 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Atwood, Margaret. Survival [n.d.] 1.3 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Carrier, Roch. La Guerre, Yes Sir! [n.d.] 1.4 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Cohen, Leonard. The Energy of Slaves [n.d.] 1.5 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Engel, Marian. Bear [n.d.] 1.6 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Godbout, Jacques. Knife on the Table [n.d.] 1.7 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Gotlieb, Phyllis. Ordinary, Moving [n.d.] 1.8 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Hood, Hugh. Dark Glasses [n.d.] 1.9 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Jones, D.G. Under the Thunder the Flowers [n.d.] 1.10 Light Up the Earth - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners [n.d.] 1.11 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Lee, Dennis. Civil Elegies [n.d.] 1.12 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm MacEwen, Gwendolyn. Memoirs of a Mad [n.d.] 1.13 Cook Page 2 ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 268.81.12 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Miron, Gaston. Les Siecles de L’Hiver [n.d.] 1.14 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women [n.d.] 1.15 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Nowlan, Alden. In Praise of the Great Bull [n.d.] 1.16 Walrus - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Ondaatje, Michael. Coming Through [n.d.] 1.17 Slaughter - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Richler, Mordecai. St. Urbain’s Horseman [n.d.] 1.18 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Ryga, George. Captives of the Faceless [n.d.] 1.19 Drummer - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Tremblay, Michel. Hosanna [n.d.] 1.20 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear [n.d.] 1.21 - 50.5 x 33.6 cm ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 283/81.27 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE DRAWINGS (Pen & Ink): “A Caricature Gallery of Literary Masters” by [n.d.] 1.1 Isaac Bickerstaff - 50.7 x 33.6 cm in protective cover 57.7 x 44.2 cm Atwood, Margaret [n.d.] 1.2 - 40.7 x 30.3 cm in protective cover 61 x 47.7 cm Berton, Pierre January 24 1.3 - manuscript page 13 - 52.2 x 35.2 cm Colombo, John Robert [n.d.] 1.4 - 48 x 34 cm Cook, Michael. The Grayden Chronicles [n.d.] 1.5 - 55 x 34 cm Garner, Hugh [n.d.] 1.6 - 41.3 x 30.7 cm Gray, James. Red Lights on the Prairies [n.d.] 1.7 - 50.6 x 34 cm Harris, Christie. Mouse Woman and the [n.d.] 1.8 Muddleheads - 50.3 x 33.8 cm Horwood, Harold [n.d.] 1.9 - 31.2 x 21.5 cm Kroetsch, Robert. The Studhorse Man [n.d.] 1.10 - 50.5 x 33.9 cm Langevin, André. Orphan Street [n.d.] 1.11 - 50.5 x 33.9 cm Page 2 ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 283/81.27 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE Levine, Norman [n.d.] 1.12 - 37.3 x 29.4 cm MacEwan, Grant [n.d.] 1.13 - 50.5 x 33.9 cm MacLennan, Hugh. The Watch That Ends the [n.d.] 1.14 Night - 50.5 x 34 cm Metcalf, John. General Ludd [n.d.] 1.15 - 50.5 x 33.9 Metcalf, John. Going Down Slow [n.d.] 1.16 - 36 x 26.4 cm - includes holograph note signed by Don Evans Richler, Mordecai [n.d.] 1.17 - 36.7 x 33.4 cm Ringwood, Gwen. The Magic Carpets of Antonio [n.d.] 1.18 Angelino - 50.4 x 34 cm Surdin, Morris [n.d.] 1.19 - 50.5 x 34 cm Vallieres, Pierre. Févérier, p. 50 [n.d.] 1.20 - 35.4 x 43 cm The Whiteoaks of Jalna [n.d.] 1.21 - 40 x 58.6 cm on sheet 47.7 x 61 cm ISAAC BICKERSTAFF fonds ACCESSION NO.: 284/81.28 (Don Evans) FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE DRAWINGS (Pen & Ink): Blaise, Clarke. Tribal Justice n.d.
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