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Glengarry School Days

By: Connor, Ralph

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., McClelland and Stewart Limited.: 1968

Seller ID: 30126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

12mo - 17 x 12 cm.; 340 pp. First published in 1902, this is a later reprint. This account of the days of one-room school houses has become a Canadian classic. Ralph Connor was the pseudonym for Dr. Charles William Gordon (1860-1937), a Canadian novelist who was born in Glengarry County, Ontario. An inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise, a clean and sturdy volume. Dust jacket has some minor edgewear.
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Voice - Over.

By: Corbeil, Carole.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Stoddart.: 1992

Seller ID: 29163

ISBN: 0773725725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; (8) - 291 pp. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First edition as per the copyright page and the author's first book. Both book and the unclipped dust jacket show very minor wear to the spine crown. The dust jacket flaps are a tad browned on the edges. Otherwise fine with the appearance and feel of having never been used.
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Cousin Cinderella, A Canadian Girl in London.

By: Cotes, Mrs. Everard (Sara Jeannette Duncan).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan Company of Canada.: 1908

Seller ID: 33333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 19 x 13 cm.; 365, (4) pp. Duncan (1861-1922) was a Canadian journalist and writer who lived in England and India after her marriage. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and maple leaf design on spine and front board. 16 b/w illustrations signed by "FW", four pages of publisher's advertisements. Light edgewear on boards, bit of staining on a few pages; overall, a sturdy, attractive volume. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted.
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Miss Wyoming.

By: Coupland, Douglas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Random House.: 1999

Seller ID: 24669

ISBN: 067931010X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 311 pp. Black paper over boards, applied in 3 sections (front, back and spine) as issued, with gilt lettering on the spine. First edition, first printing and so stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author on the title page in black marker. The book shows some very mild wear to the spine tips. The unclipped dust jacket, with the half-size overlying jacket band, shows mild wear at the spine tips also.; Signed by Author
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All Families Are Psychotic.

By: Coupland, Douglas.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Random House.: 2001

Seller ID: 24685

ISBN: 0679311408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; 279 pp. Purple paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. First edition and first printing as per the copyright page. Signed by the author in black marker on the title page. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket show very mild wear to the spine tips.; Signed by Author
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Shampoo Planet.

By: Coupland, Douglas.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York., Pocket Books.: 1992

Seller ID: 24686

ISBN: 0671755056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 299 pp. Beige paper over boards with green cloth and silver gilt lettering on the spine. First edition, second printing as per the copyright page. Signed by the author on the title page in Ottawa and dated all inside a traced hand silhouette plus one other interesting bit of atomic table doodling by the author. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket show some very mild wear to the spine tips.; Signed by Author
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Hey Nostradamus!

By: Coupland, Douglas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Random House.: 2003

Seller ID: 24689

ISBN: 0679312692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 244 pp. Black paper over boards with white lettering on the spine. This is the second printing of the first edition. Signed by the author in black marker on the title page. The dust jacket is unclipped and the spine is very slightly faded.; Signed by Author
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Takeover.

By: Creighton, Donald.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McLelland and Stewart.: 1978

Seller ID: 23973

ISBN: 0771023685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 196 pp. Rose red paper on borads with a gray blue cloth on spine, gilt spine lettering. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The book shows a whisper of shelf wear on the spine tips, otherwise clean and tight. The unclipped dust jacket has some light shelf wear on the crown of the spine.
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River Thieves.

By: Crummey, Michael.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Doubleday Canada.: 2001

Seller ID: 24587

ISBN: 0385658109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23.5 x 16 cm.; [8] - 335 pp. Brown paper over boards with copper gilt lettering on the spine. First edition and printing as per the copyright page. Signed by the author on the title page. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket show a mere trace of wear on the spine tips, otherwise fine.; Signed by Author
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Waiting for Li Ming.

By: Cumyn, Alan.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick., Goose Lane.: 1993

Seller ID: 23964

ISBN: 0864921462

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 273 - [3] pp. Second printing. At the time of writing, Cumyn wrote on human rights issues for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. This work of fiction is centered around the Tiananmen Square unrest and the story of an English teacher and his translator. Signed, with an inscription, by the author on the title page. The covers show the slightest of edge wear and the text block edges show some very light soiling. Otherwise, clean and tight.; Signed by Author
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Burridge Unbound.

By: Cumyn, Alan.

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland & Stewart.: 2000

Seller ID: 23965

ISBN: 077102486X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14.5 cm.; [6] - 342 pp. Pictorial card cover wraps with frenched folds on the fore edges. From the cover flap: ". . . Cumyn's hypnotic novel immerses us in a shadowy world of shifting loyalities and betrayals, and reveals the intricate, rejuvenating bonds of human relationships". Signed, with an inscription, by the author on the title page. Trace of shelf wear on the tail edge of the front cover, else clean and tight.; Signed by Author
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Between Families and the Sky.

By: Cumyn, Alan.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick., Goose Lane.: 1995

Seller ID: 23969

ISBN: 0864921691

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 233 pp. Second printing. From the back cover: ". . . a two part novel about love . . .The Hole in the Kitchen Floor . . . The Memory Holes of Garland Rose". Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page.; Signed by Author
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Man of Bone.

By: Cumyn, Alan.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick., Goose Lane.: 1998

Seller ID: 23970

ISBN: 0864922299

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

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
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Contes de la pluie et du beau temps.

By: Dagenais, Pierre.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec., Le cercle du livre de France.: 1953

Seller ID: 22000

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

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.
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Griffon.

By: Davey, Frank.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Massasauga Editions: 1972

Seller ID: 14267

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

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
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Edward and Patricia.

By: Davey, Frank.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Coach House Press: 1984

Seller ID: 14370

ISBN: 0889102740

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

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.
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The Callaghan Symposium.

By: David Staines. (editor). (Leon Edel, Daniel Aaron, Ray Ellenwood, Barbara Godard, Patricia Morley, Barry Cameron, Larry McDonald).

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., University of Ottawa Press: 1981

Seller ID: 14245

ISBN: 2760343871

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Jakob's Ghost & Other Stories.

By: Davis, Byron Stratford.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Ottawa. Ontario., Nightingale Press.: 2015

Seller ID: 29957

ISBN: 0988155648

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

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 (Byron) lived and worked as a geophysicist with the Swampy Cree in Northern Manitoba and just prior to his return to work in K...
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The Clock of Heaven.

By: Day, Dian.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Inanna Publications.: 2008

Seller ID: 29038

ISBN: 978098082223

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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The Hungry Mirror.

By: De Nikolits, Lisa.

Price: $10.80

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., Inanna Publications.: 2010

Seller ID: 31363

ISBN: 1926708008

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 347 pp. Author is originally from South Africa and is now a Canadian writer and art director. This novel won the IPPY Gold Medal for Women's Issues in 2011. It is a look at the world of eating disorders. An as-new and unused book.
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Category: Canadian Literature