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By: Cumyn, Alan.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick., Goose Lane.: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23970
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 185 - [7] pp. Pictorial card cover wraps with frenched folds on the fore edges. Signed, with an inscription, by the author on the title page. The covers show some very light scuffs that are best seen in reflected light, else clean and tight.; Signed by Author View more info
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Montreal, Quebec., Le cercle du livre de France.: 1953
Seller ID: 22000
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; 207 pp. The text is in French. Illustrated covers with french-fold flaps on the fore edges. The text is printed on a laid paper. Preface by Claude-Henri Grignon. Previous owner's name on the first page. Minor wear and moderate soiling on the covers, otherwise clean and sound. View more info
By: Davey, Frank.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Massasauga Editions: 1972
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 14267
17.5 x 11 cm.; Unpaginated. Collection of 11 poems by Davey. Number 54 of a limited edition of 200, signed by Davey. Dark orange flapped card covers are sunned with minor edgewear, light soiling, glue stains from front end pages have transferred into some interior pages. ; Signed by Author View more info
By: Davey, Frank.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Coach House Press: 1984
Seller ID: 14370
8vo - 22.5 x 14.5 cm.; 39 pp. A story told through a series of poems. Light sunning and light edgewear on cover; a tight, clean copy. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., University of Ottawa Press: 1981
Seller ID: 14245
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 121 pp. Reappraisals Canadian Writers. Includes a listing of Callaghan's writings. Card stock covers sunned with some creasing, former owner's name on first page; text pages clean. View more info
Price: $90.00
Publisher: Ottawa. Ontario., Nightingale Press.: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 29957
8vo - 23 x 17 cm.; (10) - 373 pp. From the dedication page: "This book is one of one hundred copies of Jakob's Ghost. These nineteen stories represent the years I spent in the north as a geophysical prospector. In part, this book was produced for my family and special friends, for the Christmas of 2015." From the back cover a comment on the photograph of the author at age 22 in Paris: ". . . This photograph was taken in the interval between the two years he (... View more info
By: Day, Dian.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Inanna Publications.: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 29038
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; (6) - 214 pp. A first edition of Day's first novel. Very minor wear to the two fore corners of the front cover, else fine. The cover painting is by A. J. Gray. View more info
By: Decker, Ken.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Dunvegan, Ontario., Quadrant Editions.: 1982
Seller ID: 27202
131 pp. A collection of 11 short fiction pieces, 3 of which have been previously published in various literary journals. The covers show some very light wear and scuffing that is best seen in reflected light. View more info
By: Demers, James.
Price: $9.60
Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario., Musson Book Company.: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24016
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; [2] - 171 pp. Textured olive green paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine. First edition of the author's first book. Signed and dated, May 21 1974, by the author on the title page. Library markings are stamps on the end papers, one on the title page and tape remnants on the tail and head margins of the boards. The unclipped dust jacket has remnants of a small label and tape on the lower spine. The book itself shows mild wear to the external... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland and Stewart.: 1979
Seller ID: 29013
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 351 pp. Brown linen cloth over boards with gilt lettwering on the spine. No additional printings are noted. The author's first book and winner of the 1979 Seal First Novel Award. Deverell went on to establish himself as a well know writer of crime novels. Minor shelf wear to the spine tips and with a previous owner's gift note on the front free end paper. Otherwise clean with a sound binding. The unclipped dust has minor wear to the spine tips. View more info
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Somerville House Publishing: 1993
Seller ID: 16530
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 190 pp. A series of "illuminating prose meditations, essays, aphorisms and short paragraph 'takes' on a wide variety of topics". Light wear on covers, former owner's name on first blank page; text pages clean. View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Somerville House Publishing: 1993
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 29403
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 190 pp. French folded flaps on the fore edges of the covers. A series of "illuminating prose meditations, essays, aphorisms and short paragraph 'takes' on a wide variety of topics". Light wear on covers and the text block head edge has some surface foxing. Otherwise clean with a tight binding. Signed by the author on the title page.; Signed by Author View more info
By: Doucet, Clive.
Price: $9.60
Publisher: Windsor, Ontario., Black Moss Press.: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23978
8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 70 pp. The cover edges show a trace of shelf wear. from a note about the author at the back of the book: "I was in love with the notion of this little life we humans are allotted; in love, and profoundly grateful, for its symmetry and beauty". I am struck by these words. View more info
By: Doucet, Clive.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Windsor, Ontario., Black Moss Press.: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23979
8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 104 pp. The cover edges show a trace of shelf wear. A series of 17 inter-related stories, all character based, set in the village of St. Jospeh de la Mer in Cape Breton during the spring of 1937. From the back cover: "The interaction of these characters and their observations of the community around them, provide a well balanced, sometimes amusing, sometimes almost magic view of this isolated village". View more info
By: Doucet, Clive.
Price: $13.60
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland & Stewart.: 1999
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24085
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; [8] - 216 pp. Black cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Signed and dated by the author along with a birthday inscription and a small doodle/sketch by him also. The unclipped dust jacket has a small snag on the on the lower fore corner of the front panel.; Signed by Author View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Victoria, BC., Beach Holme Publishers.: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24010
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; [8] - 157 pp. First Canadian edition and so stated. Cover art by Jeff Kuipers. From the back cover: "From the profane and satirical to the sacred . . . (this) new collection . . . explore, often with humour and always with disturbing acuity, the social and moral convolutions of modern Jewish society in Canada". Signed and dated by the author on the title page. The cover edges show some slight edge wear, otherwise fine.; Signed by Author View more info
By: Drache, Sharon.
Price: $4.80
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Aya Press.: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 29012
8vo - 22 x 15 cm.; 83 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies. Eight stories included: "The Mikveh Man", "A Kitel", "Let's Make Music", "Boychick", "A Fable", "The Meeting", "Reaching for Mendel Rosenbaum", "The Scribe" and lastly, "Little Boxes". Printed on a cream coloured laid paper. One page glossary of Jewish terms and idioms on page 83. Very minor wear to the spine tips, else fine. View more info
By: Drache, Sharon.
Price: $5.60
Publisher: Kingston, Ontario., Quarry Press.: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 29037
8vo - 19.5 x 12.5 cm.; 166 pp. Drache's first novel. A look at the conflicts between orthodox Jewish customs and traditional French Canadian culture set in a fictional Hasidic community (Datschlav) north of Montreal. She had previously published a collection of short stories, "The Mikveh Man". Drache has written for the Globe and Mail and the Jerusalem Post. This copy has minor wear to the fore corners of the covers. View more info
By: Dvorak, Marta.
Price: $17.60
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario., Wilfrid Laurier University Press.: 2001
Seller ID: 20121
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 279 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, index. In this Dvorak "breaks fresh ground in Canadian literary studies by analyzing some of Buckler's works that have remained unknown or unexplored by critics, and by addressing the formalistic innovations of these texts. . . argues the importance of his connections with Emerson and the American transcendental milieu, and demonstrates his links with Romantics such as Schopenhauer and Shelley and modernists like J... View more info
By: Eggleston, Wilfrid (editor) with Guy Sylvestre.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario, National Library.: 1970
Seller ID: 20211
8vo - 21 x 17.5 cm.; Unpaginated with ~140 pages. A bilingual text printed two columns per page illustrated with nine small black and white photographs. Short biographies alternating with similar book descriptions. Library markings are all internal, pocket remains on the inside of the back cover, book plate on the first blank page and a papered over library stamp on the half title page.; Ex-Library View more info
