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You can't judge a book by its cover price, says Book Barn owner Cary Grant (above), who turns publishers' extras into bargains.
You can't judge a book by its cover price, says Book Barn owner Cary Grant (above), who turns publishers' extras into bargains.

You can't judge a book by its cover price, says Book Barn owner Cary Grant (above), who turns publishers' extras into bargains.

Date2/12/1980
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127903F
About this bill?: Herb Cohen bargains with owner-chef Eddy Marlet of Seniors Dining Nook about his dinner bill. He didn't reveal who won. Cohen was the consultant who successfully negotiated release for U.S. hostages in Iran.
About this bill?: Herb Cohen bargains with owner-chef Eddy Marlet of Seniors Dining Nook about his dinner bill. He didn't reveal who won. Cohen was the consultant who successfully negotiated release for U.S. hostages in Iran.
2/20/1981
It's like a secular baptism, says County Court Judge Archibald Carter about ceremony when he grants permanent custody of children to adoptive parents. Carter went through his customary warm ceremony for 9-month-old John who became son of Ray and Bambi Reilly. Brother Grant, 4, looks on.
It's like a secular baptism, says County Court Judge Archibald Carter about ceremony when he grants permanent custody of children to adoptive parents. Carter went through his customary warm ceremony for 9-month-old John who became son of Ray and Bambi Reilly. Brother Grant, 4, looks on.
1/27/1977
There are seldom extras or luxuries on the dinner table at the home of Sam and Jean Schott, who, with their four children, live in an Ontario Housing project on Kingston Rd
There are seldom extras or luxuries on the dinner table at the home of Sam and Jean Schott, who, with their four children, live in an Ontario Housing project on Kingston Rd
4/8/1974
Arthur Hailey autographs a copy of his latest book, Airport, at a publisher's reception last night in Manitoba Room at the Royal York Hotel. Standing (...)
Arthur Hailey autographs a copy of his latest book, Airport, at a publisher's reception last night in Manitoba Room at the Royal York Hotel. Standing (...)
4/3/1968
Trade list... : James Campbell & Son, wholesale stationers and importers, publishers of the national series of school books
Trade list... : James Campbell & Son, wholesale stationers and importers, publishers of the national series of school books
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Marion O. Robinson, author of Give My Heart biography of late Dr. Marion Hillard, and George Nelson, head of Doubleday publishers, look at book in the(...)
Marion O. Robinson, author of Give My Heart biography of late Dr. Marion Hillard, and George Nelson, head of Doubleday publishers, look at book in the(...)
10/24/1964
Eddie Bracken turns himself into one of the characters he plays in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running at the O'Keefe Centre. Bracken a(...)
Eddie Bracken turns himself into one of the characters he plays in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running at the O'Keefe Centre. Bracken a(...)
2/7/1968
Eddie Bracken turns himself into one of the characters he plays in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running at the O'Keefe Centre. [Incomplete]
Eddie Bracken turns himself into one of the characters he plays in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running at the O'Keefe Centre. [Incomplete]
2/5/1968
Some seniors who have Registered Retirement Savings Plans are under the misconception that they have to cash them and take them in income by Dec. 31 of the year they turn 71, says Dale Ennis of Bath, publisher of The Canadian Money Saver. Unfortunately,
Some seniors who have Registered Retirement Savings Plans are under the misconception that they have to cash them and take them in income by Dec. 31 of the year they turn 71, says Dale Ennis of Bath, publisher of The Canadian Money Saver. Unfortunately,
3/9/1984
Shop till you drop? There just wasn't any room for these brave shoppers to drop, as scores pressed shoulder to shoulder in anticipation of bargains at(...)
Shop till you drop? There just wasn't any room for these brave shoppers to drop, as scores pressed shoulder to shoulder in anticipation of bargains at(...)
12/27/1987
Above, auction chairman Michael de Pencier of Key Publishers Co
Above, auction chairman Michael de Pencier of Key Publishers Co
10/5/1987
A not-so-trivial pursuit. There were bargains galore for those lined up yesterday at Mr. Gameways' Ark on Yonge St. above Wellesley St. The fun factor(...)
A not-so-trivial pursuit. There were bargains galore for those lined up yesterday at Mr. Gameways' Ark on Yonge St. above Wellesley St. The fun factor(...)
2/1/1984