Category: Canadian Fiction

Ridgerunner

By: Adamson, Gil

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press : 2020

Seller ID: 018846

ISBN-13: 9781487006563

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Sequel to 'Outlander,' published in 2007. In 1917 a boy separated from his father and left in the care of "a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion" manages to escape, taking with him "something the nun is determined to get back -- at any cost." Winner of the 2020 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize celebrating the best in Canadian fiction, and shortlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize. Pine boards w/gilt spine lettering, 443 pages (including acknowledgements), + brief author biography. An unread copy in collectible condition.
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A Rhinestone Button (signed)

By: Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Random House of Canada : 2002

Seller ID: 015041

ISBN-13: 9780676975499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Comes with a homemade (by the author and her husband) bookmark with a handwritten notation to that effect on reverse. White boards w/silver foil spine lettering. An unread copy.
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The Maverick (signed)

By: Ault, O.E. (Orvill)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, Initiative Publishing House : 1984

Seller ID: 016238

ISBN-13: 9780889510319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A novel set in WWI. Inscription reads, "To Gerry/with memories/Orvill E. Ault." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 108 pages. Previous owner's gold foil stamp on front end paper, in dust jacket w/light chipping to top corners/top spine, sticker shadow to top right corner of front panel, some smudging to rear panel.
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The Castles in Spain (signed)

By: Ault, Orvill E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hicksville, Exposition Press : 1976

Seller ID: 016240

ISBN-13: 9780682484961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ault's second novel, being "The hilarious adventures of a million-dollar lottery winner and the girls who help him spend it." Maroon leatherette w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 204 pages. Glue stains to pastedown edges at spine, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, mild chipping to spine ends/corners, diagonal 1" tear to top right corner of rear panel.
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ENGLISH LESSONS and Other Stories, Reader's Guide Edition (signed)

By: Baldwin, Shauna Singh

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 2007

Seller ID: 016892

ISBN-13: 9780864925107

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. The Reader's Guide Edition to Baldwin's well-received 1996 book of stories "dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present." The book won the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award. Afterword by Kuldip Gill. 216 pages. A hint of wear to corners. A nice, unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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ENGLISH LESSONS and Other Stories, Reader's Guide Edition (signed)

By: Baldwin, Shauna Singh

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 2007

Seller ID: 016893

ISBN-13: 9780864925107

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. The Reader's Guide Edition to Baldwin's well-received 1996 book of stories "dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present." The book won the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award. Afterword by Kuldip Gill. 216 pages. A hint of wear to corners. A nice, unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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Buy Canadian

By: Barclay, Pat

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Pocket 80208 : 1976

Seller ID: 014639

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback original. Ownership of Canada may be falling into the hands of foreigners unless a woman fanatic about the country can prevent it. 159 pages.
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Duet For Three (signed)

By: Barfoot, Joan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada/Canada Publishing Corporation : 1985

Seller ID: 012114

ISBN-13: 9780771596803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Barfoot's third novel, probing "the unique and enduring bond that unites mother and daughter." Signed on title page. Maroon cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 252 pages. Gently bumped corners/spine ends, light general wear, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/impressions/thin scratches.
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Samara the Wholehearted (signed)

By: Bauer, Nancy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 1991

Seller ID: 014509

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Bauer's fourth novel. This copy inscribed and signed ("For Nancy & Dan,/with my best wishes/Nan!/Nov '91"). 163 pages.
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Land for Their Inheritance

By: Bennett, E.M. Granger

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press : 1955

Seller ID: 012536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Tells of a man's struggle to found a settlement in New France while dealing with uncertainty and violence. Grey cloth, 317 pages. Bumped spine ends, light corner wear, gift inscription on front pastedown, light tanning, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends, 1" semi-circular tear to bottom edge of front panel, other shorter edge tears, general wear. Dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve.
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Prospero's Daughter

By: Beresford-Howe, Constance

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada : 1988

Seller ID: 009347

ISBN-13: 9780771596445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

After failing to escape her domineering father's need to influence and shape everything around him, a woman is drawn into his scheme to arrange the life of his eldest daughter, her half-sister. Dust jacket illustration by Karen Johnson. This copy inscribed and signed on title page ("For S---- and D---/affectionately,/Connie B-Howe"). A bit of slant, top corners bumped/worn, gently bumped spine ends/bottom corners, previous owner's surname in small black magic-marker letters to top edge of front end paper. Lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/rubbing, thin scratches, impressions.
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GROUND WORKS, Avant-Garde For Thee (signed)

By: Bok, Christian (editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press : 2002

Seller ID: 014397

ISBN-13: 9780887841804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. A collection of "the wild and weird, transgressive and transformative, funny and fearless works at the root of our best writing." Includes selections from George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Matt Cohen, Christopher Dewdney, Graeme Gibson, Dave Godfrey, Daphne Marlatt, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, John Riddell, Andreas Schroeder, Chris Scott, Gail Scott, Ray Smith, Audrey Thomas, Martin Vaughn-James, Derk Wynand, J. Michael Yates, and Robert Zend. Introduction by Margaret Atwood. Bok has signed this copy, on title page. Red cloth w/black spin...
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ABEGWEIT, the novel of Prince Edward Island (signed)

By: Boudreault, Joseph

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Uigg, Abby Press

Seller ID: 017344

ISBN-13: 9780968117101

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

No date (1996). Boudreault took 14 years to write this novel, which tells the story of the beginnings of Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island, of "the Jolliets and Arsenaults, the first Acadians on its shores, and of the Mi'Kmaq people. And it is about the MacLachlans and McCallums and MacKays, and especially of the Stewarts and others who sweated for its salty bays and red soil." 497 pages (plus afterword, maps, brief author biography, Island chronology). Mildly cocked, a bit of rubbing, edgewear, two thinly creased corners, author's name/address stamp to inside back cover. Inter...
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Blackouts

By: Boyko, Craig

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S : 2008

Seller ID: 017404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. Boyko's well-received first book, being a collection of 11 stories. Black cloth w/red foil spine lettering, 323 pages. Light surface wear to dust jacket. An unread copy.
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At the Full and Change of the Moon

By: Brand, Dionne

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada : 1999

Seller ID: 009306

ISBN-13: 9780676971019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A Governor General's Award-winning poet here tells the six generations story of a Trinidadian slave's daughter and her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who "will spill out across the world to America, to Canada, to Europe." Dust jacket illustration by John David Hawver. Small bump to top edge of front cover. A very nice unread copy.
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It's Easy to Fall on the Ice (inscribed and signed)

By: Brewster, Elizabeth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon : 1977

Seller ID: 015228

ISBN-13: 9780887502484

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. A collection of 10 stories, following seven books of poetry and a novel. According to the back cover, these stories explore "the ways in which people reach out and touch each other: the things they say and the things they leave unsaid." 127 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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GLASS (signed)

By: Brunner, Astrid

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Halifax, AB collector publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 010754

ISBN-13: 9781895466003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of short stories which, according to the rear panel, are "born of the fire and ice of World War Two [and] are dream evocations of lived reality." 71 pages. Some rubbing, thin scratches, mild corner wear.
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Glass (signed)

By: Brunner, Astrid

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Halifax, AB collector publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 011969

ISBN-13: 9781895466003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of short stories which, according to the rear panel, are "born of the fire and ice of World War Two [and] are dream evocations of lived reality." This copy signed by author. Cover illustration by William B. Ritchie. 71 pages. Some rubbing, thin scratches, light general wear.
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Claire's Head (signed)

By: Bush, Catherine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart/M&S : 2004

Seller ID: 016131

ISBN-13: 9780771017520

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

A woman who endures headaches attempts to track down her missing sister -- a medical journalist suffering from migraines -- the trip taking her first to Montreal, then to Amsterdam, Italy, Las Vegas and Mexico (how come when this woman's sister disappears she gets to go to all these neat places to track her down, but when one of my sisters disappears the best I can get is the inside of a mall?). Beige cloth w/red foil spine lettering, 321 pages + acknowledgements. An unread copy.
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THE POTTERSFIELD PORTFOLIO (3 volumes), Fiction and Poetry From Atlantic Canada, Number One 1979-1980, Volume 2 1980-1981, and Volume 3, 1981-1982

By: Choyce, Lesley (editor)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Porter's Lake, Pottersfield Press

Seller ID: 013777

Binding: Magazine

Condition: About Very Good

The first three issues of a yearly publication featuring both established writers and unknowns contributing prose and poetry. Volume One contains work by Harry Thurston, Spider Robinson, Fred Cogswell, Harold Horwood, Susan Kerslake, Alden Nowlan, Farley Mowat, H.R. Percy, Fraser Sutherland, James Irving, and many others. Volume 2 features Fraser Sutherland, Silver Donald Cameron, Alistair MacLeod, H.R. Percy, Harold Horwood, bill bissett, Michael Brian Oliver, Jeremy Akerman, John Steffler, Fred Cogswell, Alden Nowlan, Raymond Fraser, and many others. Volume 3 features Raymond Fraser, Robert ...
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Latitudes of Melt

By: Clark, Joan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada : 2000

Seller ID: 009090

ISBN-13: 9780676972887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A story spanning a lifetime, beginning when two men from a small Newfoundland fishing community rescue a baby girl found floating on an ice pan in the North Atlantic, and continuing through the foundling's girlhood, adulthood and old age, when the mystery behind her survival on the ice is made clear. Dust jacket w/area to top right corner of front panel where sticker removal took some gloss with it. An unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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Swimming Toward the Light (signed)

By: Clark, Joan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada : 1990

Seller ID: 018188

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 13 "stories of childhood in wartime Nova Scotia, growing up in Cape Breton, first jobs, first loves, hopes and dreams, lovers and children and making peace with reality." 235 pages. Light surface wear, previous owner's stamp/initials to title page, small white strip covering cover illustration credit listed on copyright page (on the back cover the illustration is credited to English, but the strip covers the line crediting the illustration to Mary Pratt). Internally tight and clean.
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The Golden Thread

By: Copeland, Ann (pseudonym of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Harper Collins/HarperCollins : 1989

Seller ID: 009454

ISBN-13: 9780002234979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

New England-born writer who moved to New Brunswick. Nominated for a Governor General's Award, this is a collection of 11 stories, each featuring Claire Delaney. This copy inscribed and signed (as Copeland: "For xxx and xxxx--/Ann Copeland") at bottom of front free end paper. Gentle bumps to bottom spine, pencil price impressions to top right corner of front free end paper, in lightly rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/thin scratches.
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The Wreckage

By: Crummey, Michael

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada : 2005

Seller ID: 015287

ISBN-13: 9780385660600

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

An award-winning writer offers "a story of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate." 360 pages. An unread copy, w/just a breath of wear, internally tight and clean.
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The Famished Lover (signed)

By: Cumyn, Alan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 2006

Seller ID: 017571

ISBN-13: 9780864924483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black boards w/silver spine lettering, 306 pages + two-page author's note. Scuffed cloth, bumped spine ends, bump to bottom edge of front cover, faint soil to page edges, in dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear, rubbing, a few minor impressions.
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Sweet Constancy

By: Cunningham, Louis Arthur

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins : 1955

Seller ID: 009041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A wealthy man's beautiful and pampered daughter has a more than passing interest in a man of whom her father disapproves, so the father enlists the aid of a sensible and tactful woman to discover the reason behind his daughter's intractibility. Gently bumped corners, impressions to front cover, some soil/foxing to top and fore-edge, ink numerals to rear pastedown, in dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping, edge tears, small pieces torn from top edge near spine, impressions, general wear. A scarce title in any format or condition.
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The Americans Are Coming (signed)

By: Curtis, Herb

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 1989

Seller ID: 019042

ISBN-13: 9780864921086

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Curtis's first novel, which was also the first title in his acclaimed Brennen Siding Trilogy. 263 pages. Mildly sunned spine, light surface wear, gently bumped corners, thin reading crease to spine, small soil mark to top right corner of half-title.
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Second Place

By: Cusk, Rachel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, Harper Perennial / HarperCollins / HarperCollins Publishers : 2021

Seller ID: 018739

ISBN-13: 9781443458733

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Cusk's 11th book, long-listed for the 2021 Booker Prize. A woman who believes that an artist's vision "might penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life," invites him "to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family," but when he accepts the invitation, his arrival "becomes an enigma -- and disrupts the calm of her secluded household." Cusk was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, but now lives somewhere in France, wherever that is. Red boards w/silver foil spine lettering, 183 pages + brief author biography (can you believe it? -- mention is ma...
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Sounding Line (signed)

By: DeGrace, Anne

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, McArthur & Company : 2009

Seller ID: 016648

ISBN-13: 9781552787977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

First printing w/complete number sequence. When an unidentified flying object crashes into the water off a small Nova Scotia fishing community in 1967, it's at first assumed to be a plane crash, but when an Ottawa reporter, a psychic UFO-chaser, a CBC film crew, and a Halifax reporter show up, another explanation seems possible. (From the front flap: "A true incident -- considered 'Canada's Roswell' -- that occurred in 1967 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, forms the backdrop for 'Sounding Line', a novel about space, depth, and possibility.") Black boards w/silver spine lettering, 360 pages (inclu...
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To Scatter Stones (signed)

By: Dohaney, M.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charlottetown, Ragweed Press : 1992

Seller ID: 016750

ISBN-13: 9780921556237

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Sequel to 'The Corrigan Women.' 189 pages. Moderate general wear.
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Category: Canadian Fiction