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The Fiddlehead, January 1983, No./Number 135

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick (UNB)/St. Thomas University (STU): 1983

Seller ID: 016107

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The 135th issue of a magazine featuring a variety of literary fiction and poetry, with reviews and illustrations. This issue contains three poems by the incomparable Alden Nowlan. 146 pages. Light rubbing, thin scratches, impressions. Internally tight and clean.
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Ridgerunner

By: Adamson, Gil

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press: 2020

Seller ID: 018570

ISBN: 148700656X

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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THE POTTERSFIELD PORTFOLIO, New Writing from Atlantic Canada, Volume 8, 1986-87

By: Amirault, Peggy, Barbara Cottrell, Robin Metcalfe, Donalee Moulton-Barrett (editors)

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 013783

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Contains material from more than three dozen contributors, among them George Elliott Clarke, Joah Harmon, Susan Kerslake, Lesley Choyce, Silver Donald Cameron and Spider Robinson. 52 pages. Light general wear.
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A Rhinestone Button

By: Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 015041

ISBN: 0-676-97549-6

Binding: Hard Cover

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. This copy signed by Anderson-Dargatz on title page. White boards w/silver foil spine lettering. An unread copy.
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The Handmaid's Tale (signed bookplate)

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart (M&S): 1985

Seller ID: 018594

ISBN: 0771008139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

To anyone who needs to be told what this one is about, welcome back to Planet Earth. A lot has happened while you've been away. But you can read about that elsewhere. Of importance to this listing, 'The Handmaid's Tale' won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was: short-listed for the 1986 Booker Prize (won that year by Kingsley Amis, for 'The Old Devils'); nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award (congratulations Orson Scott Card for 'Speaker For the Dead') and the 1987 Prometheus Award (won by Vernor Vinge for 'Marooned in Realtime'); turned into a music...
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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: 0-88951-031-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A novel set in WWI. Inscribed and signed ("To Gerry/with memories/Orvill E. Ault") on front end paper. 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: 0-682-48496-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ault's second novel, being "The hilarious adventues of a million-dollar lottery winner and the girls who help him spend it." Signed by Ault on front end paper. 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: 0864925107

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. This copy signed by Baldwin, on title page. 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: 0864925107

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

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: 0-7715-9680-4

Binding: Hard Cover

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, dust jacket by Michael Halliwell. 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: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Historical fiction, telling of a man's struggle to found a settlement in New France while dealing with uncertainty and violence. Grey cloth, 317 pages, dust jacket illustration by Mario Cooper. Bumped spine ends, light corner wear, gift inscription on front pastedown, light tanning, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping to conrers/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: 0-7715-9644-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very 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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Here the Dark

By: Bergen, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Windsor, Biblioasis: 2020

Seller ID: 018571

ISBN: 1771963212

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

Condition: New

An award-winning writer offers a new collection of seven short stories and one novella, the whole shortlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize. 215 pages. A tight, clean, unread copy.
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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: 0-88784-180-5

Binding: Hard Cover

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: 0-9681171-0-4

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

No date (1996). Boudreault took fourteen 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), back cover illustration by Vanessa A. Raven. Mild slant, a bit of rubbing, edgewear, two thinly creased corners, auth...
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Beggar's Feast

By: Boyagoda, Randy

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Viking Canada: 2011

Seller ID: 017714

ISBN: 0670065633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Boyagoda's second novel, following 'Governor of the Northern Province,' which was longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize. A child born in 1899 to low prospects in a Ceylon village and abandoned by his parents when they become "convinced by his horoscope that he'd be a blight upon the family," escapes his birthworld and eventually becomes a financial success, returning after almost a century "to the village he once called home," where "he tries to win recognition for his success in the world -- at any cost." Orange boards w/black spine lettering, 311 pages + 1 page of acknowledgements. Gently ...
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Blackouts

By: Boyko, Craig

Price: $10.00

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

Seller ID: 017404

ISBN: 0-7710-1669-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. Boyko's well-received first book, being a collection of eleven 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: 0-676-97101-6

Binding: Hard Cover

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: 0 88750 248 2

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. A collection of ten 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." This copy inscribed and signed by Brewster at top of title page. 127 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. Uncommon signed.
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GLASS (signed)

By: Brunner, Astrid

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Halifax, AB collector publishing: 1991

Seller ID: 010754

ISBN: 1-895466-00-8

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps/French Flaps

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 pgs.; 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: 1-895466-00-8

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

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: $17.50

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

Seller ID: 016131

ISBN: 0-7710-1752-9

Binding: Hard Cover

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. This copy signed by Bush above her name on title page. An unread copy.
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Jojo

By: Caron, Roger

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 009006

ISBN: 0-7737-2208-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Caron spent twenty-four years of his life in prison, producing two books about the experience (the first, 'Go-Boy!', won the Governor General's award, and the second, 'Bingo!' related the bloody riots at Kingston Penitentiary in the early '70's). This is his first novel, and not surprisingly, the central theme is a mixture of revenge, crime and prison. Inscription in an extravagant hand on first end paper reads "1/11/88/To Dave/(squiggle)with respect/(squiggle)smile/(squiggle)Roger Caron (squiggle/scribble." Cream boards, 180 pages. Gently bumped spine ends. Lightly rubbed dust jacket w/mi...
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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: $75.00

Publisher: Porter's Lake, Pottersfield Press:

Seller ID: 013777

Binding: Magazines

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: 0-676-97288-8

Binding: Hard Cover

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; this copy signed, by author, on title page; dj illustration by Anne Meredith Barry; dj 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

ISBN: 0-7715-9976-7

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, cover illustration by Sarah Jane English. 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: 0-00-223497-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Pseudonym of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler, New England-born writer who moved to New Brunswick. Nominated for a Governor General's Award, this is a collection of eleven 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: 0-385-66060-X

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: 0-86492-448-8

Binding: Hard Cover

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: Hard Cover

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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Sounding Line (signed)

By: DeGrace, Anne

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, McArthur & Company: 2009

Seller ID: 016648

ISBN: 1552787974

Binding: Hard Cover

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 (i...
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To Scatter Stones (signed)

By: Dohaney, M.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charlottetown, Ragweed Press: 1992

Seller ID: 016750

ISBN: 0-921556-23-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Sequel to 'The Corrigan Women.' This copy signed by Dohaney ("Best wishes/M.T. Dohaney"), on title page. 189 pages. Moderate general wear.
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A Marriage of Masks

By: Dohaney, M.T. (Jean)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charlottetown, Ragweed Press: 1995

Seller ID: 013894

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

"To outside eyes, Laura and Kevin Stevenson's marriage is fulfilling and successful. But the truth is startlingly different from the facade. Through Laura's flashbacks, we follow the couple's brief courtship and shotgun wedding. We witness the pressures of convention. And we begin to understand the price of deceit, silence and unhappiness." This copy signed (Jean Dohaney) on title page. 174 pages. Vertical crease to back cover, light edgewear.
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Room

By: Donoghue, Emma

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollinsPublishers/HarperCollins/Harper Collins: 2010

Seller ID: 018482

ISBN: 1554688310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The mother of a five-year-old boy devises an escape plan to get them out of the room where they have spent the entirety of her son's existence, and where she has been held captive for seven of her 26 years. This one garnered a lot of attention, winning the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, being nominated for a wheelbarrow full of awards, and making the long- and shortlists of numerous others. White boards w/white cloth backstrip w/red foil spine lettering, 321 pages (plus acknowledgments/brief author biography). Bumped bottom spine, in dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear, bumped bottom spi...
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Seven (7) Mondays, Volume Three (3)

By: Douma, Laurel, Anna Greenwood, Shiralee Hudson, Mark Purdon (editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Jolicure, the Anchorage Press: 1997

Seller ID: 017634

ISBN: 1-895488-16-8

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of poetry, photographs and short stories by 32 university students. Unpaginated. Crease to bottom right corner of front cover, light scuffing, several pinholes to front cover and extending through first third of the book. Internally tight.
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Report on the Death of Rosenkavalier

By: Drabek, Jan

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1977

Seller ID: 009928

ISBN: 0-7710-2880-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

author's fourth book; a Czechoslovakian returned from Canada to his native Prague publicly executes "a prison official whose sadistic tactics are killing political prisoners in Czechoslovakia," thereafter finding himself arrested and interrogated in prison by a Russian official; this copy inscribed, dated and signed ("To xxxxx with nice/memories of a Maritime workshop/July 1987/Sincerely,/Jan Drabek") on half-title; dj illustration by Emma Hesse; uncommon signed; bumped corners, light soil, tanning; edgeworn/price-clipped dj w/light chipping to corners/spine ends, uneven 1.5" tear diagonally f...
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The Elephant Talks To God

By: Estey, Dale

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions: 1989

Seller ID: 014096

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A collection of charming, insightful conversations between an elephant and his maker. 61 pages. Light wear to corners, thin scratches, thin reading crease to spine, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Elephant Talks to God

By: Estey, Dale

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions: 1989

Seller ID: 015146

ISBN: 0-86492-106-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A collection of charming, insightful conversations between an elephant and his maker. 61 pages. Christmas gift inscription to previous owner, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Bonner Deception

By: Estey, Dale

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1983

Seller ID: 015611

ISBN: 0-312-08780-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New Brunswick writer's second novel, "an alternately cerebral and visceral tale of the ambiguities of modern espionage." Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 298 pages, dust jacket illustration by Terry Fehr. Light edgewear, two tiny soil marks to bottom fore-edge, provincial Department of Tourism stamp to second half-title, in price-clipped dust jacket w/a bit of edgewear, 1/4" tear to top right rear panel, 3/8" tear to top of rear fold. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Uncommon signed.
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Generica (signed)

By: Ferguson, Will

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Toronto, Penguin Books: 2001

Seller ID: 014115

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Trade paperback original, and Ferguson's first novel after some well-received works of non-fiction. Shortly after "an overworked, underpaid editor" sees to publication a book which "promises to help readers lose weight, stop smoking, find inner peace and achieve true happiness," all hell breaks loose because the book works, and "an apocalyptic plague of happiness ensues." Signed on title page. 309 pages. An unread copy.
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Midget Stories For Busy People, Number 1

By: Fox, Marion Wathen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Self-published:

Seller ID: can.00025

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

No date. Lets us know right away what to expect: "This is the first in a series of 'Midget Story Books for Busy People' written by New Brunswick's own 'Story Lady' Marion Wathen Fox. The stories are not of the hair-raising, blood-curdling type; but clean, intensely interesting, romantic, even thrilling--the kind enjoyed by all. Help the author place one in every home and in every Christmas parcel." (Now, I dunno 'bout you, but I wonder just the teensiest bit when a writer feels it is necessary to tell me that her stories are "intensely interesting" -- wouldn't it mean more if a reader though...
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The Bannonbridge Musicians (signed)

By: Fraser, Raymond

Price: $17.50

Publisher: St. John's, Breakwater Books Ltd.: 1978

Seller ID: 010669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

Issued simultaneously with the hardcover. A bunch of Maritimers do a bit of drinking, a bit of womanizing, and a bit of adventuring. Cover illustration by Gerry Squires. Warmly inscribed: "To my cherished friends/-----, -----, &/-----,/from the Duke of/Northumberland/Ray Fraser/Aug 9, 1978/Black River Bridge, N.S." Short splits to bottom spine edges, rubbing, impressions, corner tips creased, some sunning to spine and back cover, some soil to edges, 1 page w/small soil mark. Internally tight.
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In Another Life (signed)

By: Fraser, Raymond

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, Lion's Head Press/LHP: 2009

Seller ID: 016663

ISBN: 0968603483

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

Fraser's eighth book of fiction, one that adds to his growing reputation, and from all reports seems destined to gain him a wider audience than he currently enjoys. 304 pages, cover painting by Alfred Sisley. This copy signed by Fraser, on title page. An unread copy.
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THE TRIALS OF BROTHER BELL, Two novels: 1.) Repentance Vale, and 2.) The Struggle Outside (signed)

By: Fraser, Raymond

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Roslin, Lion's Head Press/LHP: 2010

Seller ID: 017185

ISBN: 098651831X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

"Two satiric novels by the 2009 winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award." 272 pages, cover painting (Dulle Griet, 1562) by Peter Brueghel. An unread copy.
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The Emperor's Virgin

By: Fraser, Sylvia

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1980

Seller ID: 009617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Canadian author's fourth novel; a story based on historical fact, and set in A.D. 95, in the time of the cruel and tyrannical Roman Emperor, Domitian; signed on title page; dj illustration by Stewart Sherwood; edgewear, blue circle stamped to top edge; dj has edgewear, wear to spine ends, chipping to corners, rubbing, impressions;
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Berlin Solstice (signed)

By: Fraser, Sylvia

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1984

Seller ID: can.00010

ISBN: 0-7710-3176-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

In the Germany which produced Adolf Hitler, a group of Germans is caught up in the nightmare that devastated half of Europe. Ever-eloquent and classy, Irving Layton said of this book, "I'd give my right arm and left tit to have written 'Berlin Solstice.'" Lightly dusted edges, bumped spine ends. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear, wear/minor chipping to corners, 3/8" chipping to top spine end, wear/minor chipping to bottom spine end, rubbing, flaking, short tears to top edge of rear panel.
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The Night Before Summer

By: Friedman, William B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Charlottetown, Tudor Press 1001: 1976

Seller ID: 013638

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"An intimate story of struggle and survival" set on Prince Edward Island. 128 pages. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Angie and the Arab (signed)

By: Ganong, Joan

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Brunswick Press: 1957

Seller ID: 016008

Binding: Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A series of conversations between a 16-year-old girl and an Arab man who is a friend of her father, in which they attempt to understand each other's viewpoints and feelings on a number of topics. This copy warmly inscribed by Ganong on half-title ("To Jean--/With whom I've/gone over the dialogue/in so many plays/that it seems/doubly fun to have/her reading a dialogue/ of mine!/Joan."). An uncommon item inscribed or signed. 56 pages. Edgewear/corner wear, creasing to top right corner of front cover, a full-length vertical crease to back cover, other creases to back cover, small soil marks t...
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Tall Lives (signed)

By: Gaston, Bill

Price: $23.50

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada / Canada Publishing Corporation: 1990

Seller ID: 016429

ISBN: 0-7715-9335-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A pair of Siamese twins joined at the big toe and separated at birth by their father have continued on their separate paths, but when one learns a secret about the other's wife, "their lives start to converge again," and "the twins find themselves on a collision course with each other." This copy signed, on title page, by Gaston. Black cloth w/grey spine lettering, 243 pages, cover illustration by Jamie Bennett. Moderate handling wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches to rear panel.
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A Perfect Night to Go to China

By: Gilmour, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Publishers: 2005

Seller ID: 015002

ISBN: 0-88762-167-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Winner of the 2005 Governor Generals Award for fiction. A father leaves his six-year-old son alone for fifteen minutes, only to find upon his return that the boy has disappeared. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 179 pages. An unread copy.
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16 Categories of Desire

By: Glover, Douglas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions: 2000

Seller ID: 016895

ISBN: 0-864492-314-7

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. This is the first state, with "Categories" misspelled as "Categoires" on the spine, and a sticker, with the title correctly spelled, affixed to the spine. Eleven stories. 186 pages + acknowledgments. Lightly scuffed covers. A nice, unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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16 Categories of Desire

By: Glover, Douglas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions: 2000

Seller ID: 016896

ISBN: 0-864492-314-7

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola

By: Godfrey, Dave

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Erin, Press Porcepic: 1973

Seller ID: 013913

ISBN: 0-88878-012-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in 1967 by House of Anansi (which Godfrey co-founded with Dennis Lee). Godfrey has inscribed, signed and dated this copy ("For/Barry Cameron/Dave Godfrey/Feb. 1974") on half-title. Can be difficult to turn up signed hardcover copies of this one, especially ones that aren't desecrated by librarians. A handsome, albeit unusual volume. Marbled boards w/black cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 159 pages, illustrated, illustrated end papers. Moderate general wear.
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The Violent Season (signed)

By: Goulet, Robert

Price: $28.50

Publisher: New York, George Braziller: 1961

Seller ID: can.00032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Violence explodes in a small French-Canadian town. Signed on front end paper. Beige cloth w/red/black lettering to spine, 383 pages.
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Flying O'Flynn

By: Graham, Rosemary

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart (M&S): 1958

Seller ID: 018504

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Seven adventures of an Irish washerwoman who enjoys "the fame of her skill at the washtub and the ironing-board," one such adventure seeing her summoned to Cloudland where, in return for "consenting to do the royal laundry," she is "given the power to fly anywhere she wished in her (large washing) basket." (Doesn't seem like much of a reward to me, but then again, I've never been an Irish washerwoman with any particular washtub or ironing skills, so maybe it's the equivalent of a bottle of Scotch and a couple dozen Ding Dongs.) Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 136 pages. Mildly bumped co...
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Cockroach

By: Hage, Rawi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Anansi: 2008

Seller ID: 017515

ISBN: 0887842097

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. Award-winner Hage's second book, this one telling the story of an immigrant to Canada, a thief who attempts suicide but is rescued against his will "and obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned by naive therapist," soon "leading us back into the narrator's childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale to tell, and out into the frozen streets of the city after dark where the thief survives on the edge." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 305 pages. Light rubbing and a h...
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DeNiro's Game (signed)

By: Hage, Rawi

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, Anansi: 2009

Seller ID: 017707

ISBN: 0887848133

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Hage's first novel, winner of four major awards and a finalist for four more. 277 pages (including glossary of Arabic terms) + brief author biography. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. Uncommon signed.
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De Niro's (DeNiro's) Game

By: Hage, Rawi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press: 2006

Seller ID: 018177

ISBN: 0887841961

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Two childhood friends who have become adults in the hell-hole that is war-torn Beirut choose different survival paths, one path filled with petty crime to finance an escape, the other filled with killing, crime and drugs in the city's militia-dominated underworld. Winner of the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for English fiction in 2006. And if that weren't enough, Hage won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards), with the...
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THE HOLE THAT MUST BE FILLED, Stories (inscribed & signed)

By: Harvey, Kenneth J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited: 1994

Seller ID: 012822

ISBN: 0-316-34983-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of fourteen stories. This copy warmly inscribed to Philip Lee, erstwhile editor of the New Brunswick Reader before becoming editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Journal newspaper in Saint John, New Brunswick from 1998 to 2000. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 220 pages, dust jacket by Alistair Drysdale. Gently bumped corners/spine ends, lightly tanned edges, in dust jacket w/moderate general wear.
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Excessive Joy Injures the Heart

By: Harvor, Elisabeth

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 2000

Seller ID: 013521

ISBN: 0-7710-3963-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. According to the front flap copy, this one "charts the tricky anatomy of obsession, capturing along the way the dilemmas of contemporary urban life, and our neverending quest to remedy the aches in our minds, bodies, and spirits." Harvor has signed this copy on title page, beneath her name. Mild general wear, in lightly rubbed dust jacket. A nice copy.
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Late Nights on Air

By: Hay, Elizabeth

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 2007

Seller ID: 016064

ISBN: 0771038119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

First printing (7,000 copies) w/complete number sequence. Winner of the 2007 Giller Prize, this one tells the story of a man who falls in love with a voice he hears on a Yellowknife radio station in 1975, then learns that the woman behind the voice is more than he imagined. Dark grey cloth w/silver foil spine lettering, 364 pages + acknowledgements. An unread copy.
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Late Nights on Air

By: Hay, Elizabeth

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 2007

Seller ID: 016065

ISBN: 0771038119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

The Shadow Boxer (signed)

By: Heighton, Steven

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Random House of Canada: 2000

Seller ID: 016898

ISBN: 0-676-97193-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The story of a poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from his boyhood in 'the Soo' as far as Egypt." This copy signed by Heighton, on title page. Blue/grey cloth w/silver spine lettering, 384 pages (plus acknowledgments and permissions, wraparound dust jacket photograph by Steve Solum. Bumped spine ends in scuffed dust jacket w/light wear to spine ends.
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Hollywood Secrets

By: Hepworthy, Hugo (pseudonym of Kent Thompson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fundy Production Associates: 2000

Seller ID: 007383

ISBN: 0-9684792-1-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Fine

The sensationalist tale of the unacknowledged son of a Hollywood starlet and the daughter of -- well, *some*one! -- who enter into a life of crime and a flight from respectability. This one has a bit of the sensational to its publishing history as well: apparently the author had the contractual right to see and approve any changes performed on his manuscript before publication. But changes were made, publication came and went, and it wasn't until a trickle of books had made the stands that the author learned of the changes -- of which he did not approve -- whereupon there was evidently some ...
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A Gradual Ruin (signed)

By: Hilles, Robert

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2004

Seller ID: 015800

ISBN: 0-385-65961-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. A Governor General's Award-winning poet offers "a haunting story about the desperate choices made in wartime, and lives affirmed or shattered in a moment." This copy signed by Hilles on title page. Black boards w/gilt spine lettering, 301 pages (including acknowledgements). An crisp unread copy.
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A Gradual Ruin (signed)

By: Hilles, Robert

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2004

Seller ID: 016213

ISBN: 0-385-65961-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. A Governor General's Award-winning poet offers "a haunting story about the desperate choices made in wartime, and lives affirmed or shattered in a moment." This copy signed by Hilles, with his usual initials, on title page. Black boards w/gilt spine lettering, 301 pages (including acknowledgements). A crisp unread copy.
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The Barclay Family Theatre

By: Hodgins, Jack

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1980

Seller ID: 009905

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

"The story of the seven Barclay sisters and the bemused men in their lives." Hodgins's fourth book. Some slant, wear/fading to spine ends, lightly soiled edges. Rubbed dust jacket w/edgewear, short tears/chipping at spine ends/corners, impressions.
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The Winter of Time

By: Holmes, Raymond (pseudonym of Raymond Souster)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Toronto, News Stand Library 85 / Export Publishing Enterprises: 1949

Seller ID: 017365

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Canadian writer's first novel, set during "the last year of the war and the first year of the peace," and the problems that are encountered by a young veteran "accustomed to regimentation and suddenly thrown on kis own resources to take his place in the way of life for which he had fought." 160 pages. Light edgewear, light rubbing, 1/2" separation to bottom right spine edge, 1/8" separation to bottom left spine edge, subsequent lifting of bottom spine, thin crease to bottom left corner of back cover, vertical creasing to back cover, moderate handling wear. A scarce vintage paperback.
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Wild Dogs

By: Humphreys, Helen

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins Publishers/Harper Collins/Phyllis Bruce: 2004

Seller ID: 013712

ISBN: 0-00-200512-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. An award-winning writer gives us the story of six people threatened in one way or another by some aspect of life, and who meet, each evening at dusk, "at the edge of the woods, calling their dogs to come back to them, dogs that have turned wild and vanished from their lives." Deep green boards w/gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 185 pages + 1 page of acknowledgments. A tight, unread copy.
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Dolce Agonia (signed)

By: Huston, Nancy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McArthur & Company: 2001

Seller ID: 015288

ISBN: 1-55278-244-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. During "a few hours of a snowy Thanksgiving night in a small college town in New England," the members of a gathering hosted by a discomfiting poet come to know each other more intimately than they thought possible. This copy signed by Huston, on title page. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 259 pages. Light general wear in like dust jacket.
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Dolce Agonia (signed)

By: Huston, Nancy

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Toronto, McArthur & Company: 2001

Seller ID: 015632

ISBN: 1-55278-244-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. During "a few hours of a snowy Thanksgiving night in a small college town in New England," the members of a gathering hosted by a discomfitting poet come to know each other more intimately than they thought possible. This copy signed by Huston, on title page. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 259 pages. Dust jacket w/small crinkle to bottom right corner of rear panel. An unread copy.
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The Landing

By: Ibbitson, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, KCP / Kids Can Press: 2008

Seller ID: 017588

ISBN: 1554532388

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff card wraps edition issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children (text). 160 pages (including historical note and author's note). A hint of edgewear, impression to bottom left corner of front cover, moderate surface wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Song of Kahunsha

By: Irani, Anosh

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 015289

ISBN: 0-385-66228-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Author's second book, telling the story of a ten-year-old boy who struggles for survival on the streets of Bombay. 310 pages. Light rubbing, a hint of wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean. Uncommon.
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The Cripple and His Talismans

By: Irani, Anosh

Price: $21.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Raincoast Books: 2004

Seller ID: 015412

ISBN: 1-55192-651-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Author's well-received first novel set in Bombay, where it "begins and ends with a search for the narrator's severed arm." Signed and dated by author, on title page. Red cloth w/black lettering/gold decorations to front cover/spine, wraps half-sleeve around back cover, 252 pages, map end papers. As New in NF band. Unread.
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Poached Egg on Toast (signed)

By: Itani, Frances

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins Publishers/Greenwillow Books: 2004

Seller ID: 016126

ISBN: 0-00-200584-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

A collection of 20 stories gathering Itani's best work, and offering seven new stories as well. Grey/dark green boards w/silver foil lettering to front cover/spine, 272 pages. A very nice, unread copy in a lightly scuffed dust jacket.
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017820

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: the one with the major typographical error, the one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and the one missing an entire leaf. This is the latter, missing pages 213/4, and seems even scarcer than the variant with the error. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Moderate wear to ...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017821

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Spotting to covers, light wear to cor...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017822

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends,...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017823

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Tanned edges w/a small soil spot to b...
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Apologize, Apologize! (signed)

By: Kelly, Elizabeth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada: 2009

Seller ID: 016442

ISBN: 978030739695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

A "rational first-born son" tries to make sense of "a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm -- and a veritable chorus of dogs." This copy signed by Kelly, on title page. Cream boards w/black spine lettering, 324 pages. A pristine, unread copy.
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People Like Us in a Place Like This

By: Kreiner, Philip

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press: 1983

Seller ID: 018190

ISBN: 0 88750 467 1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

This is a "collection of stories, set in northern Quebec, concerning the points of tension between the technological culture of southern whites and the aboriginal civilizations." (giving credit where it is due, that information is from the WorldCat site). Charcoal cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 133 pages, cover photograph by Gail Low. A suggestion of wear to corners/spine ends, in mildly rubbed dust jacket w/thin impressions, light edgewear, 1/4" tear to top right corner of front panel.
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The Green Madonna (signed)

By: L'Ami, C.E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster Press: 1952

Seller ID: 016095

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Winner of the Westminster Award for Fiction. From the front flap: "This is a story of fifteenth century England, in an era of adventure and intrigue, when many a lord and prelate ruled his manor by whim and fancy rather than by right and God...when the common man's slaving earned him nothing, and serfs met in secret to plot and to plan." This copy signed by L'Ami at top of front end paper. Olive cloth w/green decoration to front cover, green spine lettering, 302 pages, dust jacket illustration by Nathan Berman. Mild slant, moderately worn corners/spine ends, dusty/tanned/lightly soiled to...
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

By: Lam, Vincent

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 016678

ISBN: 0-385-66143-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

First printing w/complete number sequence. One of only 5,000 first edition copies, this is Lam's first book, being a collection of twelve interwoven stories that won the Giller Prize. Black cloth w/red spine lettering, 355 pages (including glossary, acknowledgments, brief author biography). Some slant, light edgewear, in dust jacket w/light rubbing, edgewear, 1/8" nick to top right spine end, nicks to top spine folds, 1/2" tear to bottom left spine edge, impressions. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
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A Woman of Her Age

By: Ludwig, Jack

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart/M&S: 1973

Seller ID: 014049

ISBN: 0-7710-5379-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "Ribald, witty, and frequently intensely moving prose contrasts the style of life in the wealthy Westmount district of Montreal with the colourful (and not far removed, except on the social scale) polyglot area known as the Main." Ludwig has inscribed and signed ("Montreal/December 1975/For Barry Cameron/with my/very best/wishes/Jack Ludwig") this copy on reverse of half-title, then signed again beneath his name on title page. 197 pages. A bit of wear to corners/spine ends, faint foxing to top edge, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light rubbing, 1" tear to top edge of front...
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The Porter Of Bagdad

By: MacMechan, Archibald

Price: $28.50

Publisher: Toronto & New York, George N. Morang & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: can.00086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

A collection of 37 pieces described by their author as "arabesques in prose." 150 pages, grey boards, 1/2 tan cloth, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Flaking to gilt, tanned edges, corners bumped and worn, light cover soil, tiny abrasion to cloth near front gutter, some foxing throughout.
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The Withdrawal Method (signed)

By: Malla, Pasha

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Toronto, Anansi: 2008

Seller ID: 017603

ISBN: 0887842151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Malla's first book, being a collection of thirteen stories that won the Trillium Book and Danuta Gleed Literary awards. Additionally, it was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. White boards w/blue spine lettering, 322 pages (including acknowledgements and brief author biography). An unread copy in a lightly scuffed dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear.
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Raymond and Hannah (signed)

By: Marche, Stephen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada: 2005

Seller ID: 017440

ISBN: 0-385-66041-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Marche's first novel. 207 pages. Bumped spine ends, small bumps to bottom edges of back cover, in dust jacket w/bumped spine ends, scuffing, light general wear.
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Some Great Thing

By: McAdam, Colin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Vancouver, Raincoast Books: 2004

Seller ID: 015483

ISBN: 1-55192-695-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Author's well-received first novel, set in Ottawa in the 1970s and telling the story of two men who take up the challenge of attaining control of the city. This copy signed on title page. Aqua boards w/silver foil spine lettering, 403 pages. Lightly worn dust jacket.
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The Mysteries

By: McGill, Robert

Price: $10.00

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

Seller ID: 014398

ISBN: 0-7710-5521-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. McGill's well-received debut, in which "a woman's disappearance unlocks the secrets of a small Ontario town." Black boards w/pale green spine lettering, 338 pages. An unread copy w/bump to top spine end. A very nice copy.
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First Impressions, Second Impressions, Third Impressions

By: Metcalf, John (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press:

Seller ID: 015229

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Wraps editions published simultaneously with the hardcovers. A 3-volume set "designed for writers who need and deserve fuller exposure than is possible in Best Canadian Stories." 'First Impressions' features the work of Martin Avery, Isabel Huggan and Mike Mason; 'Second Impressions' offers stories by Peter Behrens, Linda Svendsen and Ernest Hekkanen; and 'Third Impressions' gives us fiction from Barry Dempster, Don Dickinson and Dave Margoshes. 142, 180 and 178 pages, respectively. All 3 volumes are internally tight.
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STORIES PLUS, Canadian stories with authors' commentaries

By: Metcalf, John (editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1979

Seller ID: 015334

ISBN: 0-07-082883-7

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. A collection of stories and poems by premier Canadian writers, including Clark Blaise, Austin Clarke, Ann Copeland, Robert Gibbs, Terrence Heath, Jack Hodgins, Norman Levine, Alistair MacLeod, Leon Rooke, Audrey Thomas, Kent Thompson, and W.D. Valdgardson. 243 pages, illustrated with photographs of the contributors. Mild edgewear, faint edge soil, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Ghosts of Jay MillAr

By: MillAr, Jay

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Books: 2000

Seller ID: 014109

ISBN: 155245 034 0

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Follows a 1998 edition of twenty copies hand-sewn by the author (1998 is listed on the copyright page, but the year of this publication, 2000, is listed on the back page). A collection of five chapbooks, being "an anthology of geographical formations that have recently been extracted from the imagination," written by various MillAr personae. Unpaginated. Rubbing, light edgewear, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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February (signed)

By: Moore, Lisa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press: 2009

Seller ID: 018282

ISBN: 088784202X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A woman whose husband died in the Ocean Ranger oil rig tragedy off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982 must come to terms with her memories of the dead when her son "grapples with what it might mean to be a father" after he has made a girl pregnant. Grey cloth w/red foil spine lettering, 312 pages (including acknowledgements, author biography). Light general wear in dust jacket w/light rubbing, mild wear to spine ends. A fairly nice copy.
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Broken Barrier

By: Mowat, Grace Helen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fredericton, University Press of New Brunswick: 1951

Seller ID: 018189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A Staten Islander advertises for a housekeeper "from the Provinces," and sometime thereafter the pair of them end up in New Brunswick, where the beginnings of "an idyllic romance" continue to blossom. Spruce green cloth w/black spine lettering, 182 pages, dust jacket illustration by John G. Todd. Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, previous owner's notation (place/date of purchase, his name, and historical note) on front end paper, another previous owner's upside-down signature on last end paper (apparently she thought she was writing on the first end paper -- you know how it goes...
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Lingerie Tea

By: Mulholland, Sylvia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton / H&S: 1998

Seller ID: 007792

ISBN: 0-340-67484-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Mulholland's second book. A black comedy results when a woman thinks she should throw a lingerie tea party for a leggy law student who has just become engaged to a senior partner in her law firm. Dust jacket illustration by Robert Stevens. This copy inscribed, signed and dated by author, and comes with the promotional bookmark supplied by the book's Canadian distributor, General Publishing. Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 295 pages. Dust jacket w/thin scratches, light impressions, light general wear.
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The River Midnight (signed)

By: Nattel, Lilian

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Seller ID: 008604

ISBN: 0 676 971 53 9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Near the end of the 19th century in a small village near Warsaw, four women who have grown apart are brought together by two orphan children and an imprisoned daughter. Dust jackaet illustration by Shelagh Armstrong-Hodgson. Scuffed dust jacket w/a hint of wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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Hail Mary Corner (signed)

By: Payton, Brian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Vancouver, Porcepic Books / Beach Holme Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 017334

ISBN: 0-88878-422-8

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

Condition: Near Fine

Payton's first novel, telling the story of "the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood." A sixteen-year-old boy and his friends live in isolation inside a Benedictine seminary, "a medieval world steeped in ritual and discipline -- a place where black-robed monks move like shadows between doubt and faith." 209 pages. Light general wear. An unread copy.
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Flotsam (signed)

By: Percy, H.R.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: St. John's, Breakwater Books: 1978

Seller ID: 011350

ISBN: 0-919948-57-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Percy's first novel after a collection of short stories ('The Timeless Island'). This copy signed on front free end paper. Pale blue cloth, 223 pages. Mild slant, sunned edges/spine, lightly toned edges, tiny soil mark to top edge, in rubbed dust jacket w/edgewear, moderate chipping to corners/spine ends, impressions/scratches, two 1" tears to top edge of front panel.
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The Sea Captain's Wife (signed)

By: Powning, Beth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada: 2010

Seller ID: 016887

ISBN: 0307397106

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

First printing w/complete number sequence. Nominated for the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. A woman who has married a sea captain and "imagines an exciting life at sea with him" is denied her wishes when she becomes pregnant, and must remain behind when he sets sail. Upon his return years lataer, a scandal forces him to take her and his young daughter on board, where "they set sail for London with bitter hearts." This copy signed by Powning, on title page. Cream boards w/bronze spine lettering, 371 pages (including glossary, acknowledgments). An unread copy.
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A Measure of Light (signed)

By: Powning, Beth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Penguin / Random House / Knopf Canada: 2015

Seller ID: 018095

ISBN: 0345808479

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

A "seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England" discovers the colony of Massachusetts Bay is as restrictive as the country she fled, and after becoming one of America's first Quakers, realizes that "she must follow her convictions in order to bring an end to the brutal repression of the Quakers in Massachusetts, for whom death by hanging is the ultimate punishment." Brown boards w/gilt spine lettering, 324 pages. An unread copy.
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The Coming of Winter

By: Richards, David Adams

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press: 1974

Seller ID: 013759

ISBN: 0 88750 128 1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The first novel from a guy who has gone on to win a wheelbarrow full of awards, and who has become one of Canada's most respected (and collectible) writers. This copy inscribed and signed by Richards ("To Rick Burns/God Bless/Keep Writing/Yours/Dave Richards") on front end paper. The Rick Burns in question died in late 2004, but not before making a name for himself as an award-winning painter and sculptor (and yes, he wrote, too). Since the pair were fellow Miramichi-ers and acquainted with each other, this was quite likely signed in the year of publication. An entirely legible inscription and...
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The Friends of Meager Fortune (signed)

By: Richards, David Adams

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 015439

ISBN: 0-385-66094-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. The multi-award-winning former resident of Miramichi, New Brunswick offers the story of a young man prophesied to be greater than his older brother, but who will destroy their family's legacy. Longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize. This copy signed by Richards, above his name on title page. Burgundy boards w/black cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 366 pages. (A word about our grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As New -- is our highest grade, and it's down from there. "Mint" is a word referring to a delightful flavour or an imposing edifice where...
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The Friends of Meager Fortune (signed)

By: Richards, David Adams

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 015801

ISBN: 0-385-66094-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

True 1st edition, 1st printing w/complete number sequence. The multi-award-winning former resident of Miramichi, New Brunswick offers the story of a young man prophesied to be greater than his older brother, but who will destroy their family's legacy. Longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize. This copy signed by Richards, above his name on title page. Burgundy boards w/black cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 366 pages. (A word about our grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As New -- is our highest grade, and it's down from there. "Mint" is a word referring to a delightful flavour or an impo...
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The Lost Highway (signed)

By: Richards, David Adams

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2007

Seller ID: 016540

ISBN: 0385664966

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

First printing w/complete number sequence. When Alex Chapman learns that his tyrannical great-uncle has just been sold a winning lottery ticket, he is determined that his great-uncle will never see the money. This copy signed by Richards, on title page. Red boards w/black cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering, 393 pages. Dust jacket w/light rubbing, impressions to rear panel. An unread copy.
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Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul (signed)

By: Richards, David Adams

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada: 2011

Seller ID: 017638

ISBN: 0385666535

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Award-winning author Richards presents "a complex tale about crime and punishment, truth and lies, power and justice," that begins with the death of a seventeen-year-old Micmac boy who is killed during his first day on a new job. Brown boards w/illustration in blind to top of front cover, caramel cloth backstrip w/black spine lettering, 291 pages. An unread copy.
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The Blasty Bough

By: Rose, Clyde (editor)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Portugal Cove, Breakwater Books: 1976

Seller ID: 013954

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Fiction, essays, and folklore from a variety of Newfoundland writers. 219 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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A Portrait of Love (inscribed & signed)

By: Ross, W.E.D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Avalon Books/Thomas Bouregy and Company: 1985

Seller ID: 014159

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

After winning a trip to Amsterdam, a young woman falls in love with a talented artist whose behaviour troubles her, and soon thereafter she finds herself "hopelessly enmeshed in a web of hearbreak and danger." Dedicated "To my good friend Marion Wait, Kennel Club Judge and executive officer of the Animal Rescue League," this copy also bears Ross's handwritten inscription, "To Marion/For our long time/friendship/Dan/June 3/85." Uncommon signed. Red cloth w/black spine lettering, 181 pages, dust jacket illustration by Edrien.
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SELECTED SHORT STORIES, A Collection of Notable Short Stories by Canadian Writers First Published in The Canadian Magazine

By: Rutledge, J.L. (editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Hugh C. MacLean Publications: 1937

Seller ID: 005950

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: About Very Good

The third volume of stories from The Canadian Magazine, this one including work by Laura Goodman Salverson, Leslie McFarlane (better known as Franklin W. Dixon, the creative force behind one of the 20th century's most enduring juvenile adventure series, The Hardy Boys), Will R. Bird, Roderick Stuart Kennedy, D.K. Findlay, Frances Beatrice Taylor, Leslie Gordon Barnard, Alberta C. Trimble, Beryl Gray, Hubert Evans, Van Harrison, Anne Elizabeth Wilson, Charles G. Booth, N. de Bertrand Lugrin, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Fred Sloman, M.E. Palmer, Frederick B. Watt, Victor Lauriston, and Latrobe C...
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THIS WILL BE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN and other stories (signed)

By: Skibsrud, Johanna

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Hamish Hamilton Canada: 2011

Seller ID: 017724

ISBN: 0670066303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

A collection of nine stories, following a pair of poetry titles and the Giller Prize-winning 'The Sentimentalists.' White cloth w/black spine lettering, 170 pages (including acknowledgments). An unread copy.
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THE REPUBLIC OF WHORES, A Fragment From the Time of the Cults

By: Skvorecky, Josef

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf: 1993

Seller ID: 015010

ISBN: 0-394-22307-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1971, and here translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. This copy signed by author, on title page. Black boards w/gilt spine lettering, 248 pages, illustrations by Jan Brychta. Mild slant, tiny soil mark to top edge, equally tiny/faint soil mark to front end paper, in rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches.
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Awesome Chillers (signed)

By: Steele, S.M. (Shirley Moore)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 2001

Seller ID: 018489

ISBN: 0-533-12818-8

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Fine

A collection of four short stories, all with elements of horror and suspense. Steele also wrote 'What Justice is This?', the true story of the murder of her two-year-old son, Vernon, in 1962. On the back cover the author has drawn lines through the publisher's name and address, because Vantage Press, in her words, "has been selling them on Amazon & never paid me anything!" 35 pages. A clean, tight, unread copy.
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Cartoon Woods

By: Taylor, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press: 1988

Seller ID: 009210

ISBN: 0 88750 737 9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Very Good

Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Author's first novel. A young girl who grows up with her mother is not satisfied with knowing only that her father committed suicide, and so embarks on a journey to learn more about him. Cover by Noreen Mallory. Stiff card wraps, 111 pages. Some edge/corner wear, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Mrs. Blood (inscribed & signed)

By: Thomas, Audrey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Talonbooks: 1980

Seller ID: can.00024

ISBN: 0-88922-063-8

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Author's first novel, first published in New York in 1970. Light edgewear.
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Shotgun and Other Stories (signed)

By: Thompson, Kent

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick Chapbooks: 1979

Seller ID: 010134

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Number One in the New Brunswick Chapbooks series. 10 stories. Introduction by Nancy Bauer, cover by Noreen Mallory, illustration of author by Bruno Bobak. This copy inscribed and signed. No hardcover edition. Two tiny dropstains to front cover, slight discolouration to edges of rear cover, light general wear.
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Shotgun and Other Stories

By: Thompson, Kent

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick Chapbooks: 1979

Seller ID: 010679

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Number One in the New Brunswick Chapbooks series. Ten stories. Introduction by Nancy Bauer, cover by Noreen Mallory, illustration of author by Bruno Bobak. No hardcover edition;
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Summer of My Amazing Luck (signed)

By: Toews, Mariam

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Turnstone Press: 1997

Seller ID: 017729

ISBN: 0-88801-205-5

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Two single mothers load their "clothes and toys and food and kids" into "a van held together with coat hangers and electrical tape" and head off to Colorado to find the fire-eating busker who is the father of the twins of one of them. 192 pages, cover illustration by Rick Sealock. Moderate corner wear, moderate general wear.
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The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

By: Tulchinsky, Karen X.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Polestar/Raincoast Books: 2003

Seller ID: 015162

ISBN: 1-55192-556-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. The well-received story of a mild-mannered historian's biography of his father, "a famous Jewish-Canadian boxer from Toronto who has been portrayed as a brutal bruiser in a scurrilous book by a local journalist." This copy signed by Tulchinsky beneath her name on title page. Black cloth, 494 pages. An unread copy.
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Love and Other Ruins

By: Tulchinsky, Karen X.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Vancouver, Polestar Book Publishers/Raincoast Books: 2002

Seller ID: 015296

ISBN: 1-55192-554-0

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The sequel to 'Love Ruins Everything', picking up the story of Nomi Rabinovitch and her cousin Henry four months later. Uncommon. 317 pages. Lightly smudged wraps. Unread, internally tight and clean.
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The Truth About Death and Dying (signed)

By: Umezawa, Rui

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada: 2002

Seller ID: 015651

ISBN: 0-385-65908-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Author's debut novel "that traces the legacy of war through three generations of a Japanese family as they endure the tumult of history." This copy signed by Umezawa on title page. Black boards w/red lettering/design to spine, 291 pages. A pristine, unread copy.
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AMRiiKA (signed)

By: Vassanji, M.G.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1999

Seller ID: 014395

ISBN: 0-7710-8723-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. This copy signed by Vassanji beneath his name on title page. Black cloth w/blue spine lettering, 412 pages. Bumped corners w/faint splashsoil to fore edge/bottom edge, in lightly worn dust jacket.
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The Storm and the Silence (signed)

By: Walker, David

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1949

Seller ID: 012145

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in the Scottish Highlands, this is the Scottish-born author's "story of a man hunt and of the struggle between the wild and the tamed within a man and in society." Signed on half-title. Brown cloth, 248 pages, dust jacket illustration by John Costigan. A bit of slant, dusty/tanned edges, gift inscription (beneath Walker's signature) from parishoner to her cleric, in edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, light chipping to corners/spine ends, 1" tear to top edge of rear panel, general wear. Quite scarce signed.
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STORMS OF OUR JOURNEY, & Other Stories

By: Walker, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1963

Seller ID: 015276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

A collection of eleven stories, three of them concerning India, two concerning Scotland, and the other six set in Canada and other places. This copy inscribed and signed by Walker, on title page. Inscription reads: "For Bruce Bartlett/With best wishes on his 21st/birthday./David Walker/21st July 1973." Blue/white cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 255 pages, dust jacket by Peter Edwards. Moderate general wear, in similar dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
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Fury (signed)

By: Watmough, David

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press: 1984

Seller ID: 010688

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition; continues the adventures of Davey Bryant ten years after he first appeared in 'Love & the Waiting Game'; cover by David McKay; rubbing, moderate edgewear, impressions, dusty edges;
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The Mad Trapper

By: Wiebe, Rudy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1980

Seller ID: 015236

ISBN: 0-7710-8976-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A fictionalized account of the relentless 1930s manhunt for Albert Johnson, the mad trapper of Rat River. This copy signed by Wiebe, on title page. Flecked beige boards w/red cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 189 pages, dust jacket illustration by Gerry Williams.
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The Burning Wood

By: Williams, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Anansi: 1975

Seller ID: can.00077

ISBN: 0-88784-435-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A young boy raised in a strict fundamentalist family is drawn gradually to the passionate Indian world around him, and after undergoing a profound change at a Cree sun-dance ritual, abandons the life of Bible camps and church outings in favour of an activity with his new Indian brothers, which ultimately leads to tragedy and public disgrace. Dusty top edge, sloppy glue job at lower part of front pastedown and cloth edge. Dust jacket has wear to top edge of front panel, less significant wear to other edges, short tear to top edge of front panel, rubbing to folds, lightly sunned spine, 1/2" x ...
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One Last Good Look

By: Winter, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press: 2001

Seller ID: 015833

ISBN: 0-88784-667-X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

First published in 1999 by The Porcupine's Quill. A collection of stories which follow "the youthful and observant Gabriel English as he grows up in Newfoundland, leaves home and establishes himself in the world." This copy inscribed and signed ("Saint John/For Bob,/some/stories/about/Nfld friends--/looking forward/to/reading/about yours!/all best/Michael Winter") on title page. So if your name is Bob, and you've always planned to do a little writing about those friends of yours, here's your chance to show the world that an established, honest-to-God writer has encouraged you to go for it (...
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The Death of Donna Whalen (signed)

By: Winter, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Hamish Hamilton Canada: 2010

Seller ID: 017561

ISBN: 067006663X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

In St. John's, Newfoundland, a woman is stabbed thirty-one times, with friends and family of the opinion that the murder was committed by her abusive boyfriend. From the back cover: "In this mesmerizing work of documentary fiction, Michael Winter pieces together the transcripts and court testimonies" of the boyfriend's trial, preserving "the nuanced voice of each witness." 232 pages, plus acknowledgments. A bit of slant, rubbing, impressions/scratches, light edgewear, crease to bottom right corner of front cover, a few pages slightly wavy (probably from moisture).
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Sweeter Life

By: Wynveen, Tim

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Random House Canada: 2002

Seller ID: 014598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. When their parents die in a car crash, three adult siblings try to put order in their lives, but they are "three separate melodic lines that, when they meet, cause more dissonance than harmony." Signed by Wynveen at top of title page. Olive boards w/gilt spine lettering, 426 pages. Lightly rubbed dust jacket. An unread copy.
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Category: Canadian Fiction