New York: Avon - EOS, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first epic fantasy novel. Dust jacket praise from Anne McCaffrey. Jacket illustration by Tim & Greg Hildebrandt. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-380978016.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1918). Hardcover - A story of the RNWM Police by one who had been a member of the force. Glossary. 318 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: St Martin's, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of international intrigue set mostly in Vancouver B.C. - or off the coast there. 250 pp.

Toronto: Exile Editions: 1991. One of Canada's most distinguished writers, and winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, Patrick Lane breaks into new territory, sets off new tremors in the psyche in this collection. ISBN: 1-5509-60105.

Boston: Little Brown, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, the story of an elderly African-Canadian woman and the little girl who is dumped on her trailer doorstep one day. The title refers to Rusholme, Addy's childhood, a small town settled in Ontario by fugitive slaves. Dust jacket praise from Jacqueline Mitchard who says "The story of a 70-year-old woman's journey through the nearly unbearable sorrow of her past, in order to save an abandoned little girl, is a first novel of exquisite power, honesty and conviction." Shortlisted for several awards. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-316-069027.

Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, (2005). First edition - Fourth collection of poems by this award winning young Canadian author. 120 pp. ISBN: 1-551927896.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes sections on family memories, literary studies, sporting, Christmas, humor and more. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped in. 313 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2008). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of three generations, set in Vancouver's Chinatown, where she was born and raised. 241 pp. ISBN: -312379854.

New York & London: Liveright, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this Canadian author to appear in the US. Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, these interconnected stories are set in a brand new subdivision in 1970s Toronto. "When a series of inexplicable suicides begin to haunt their community, no one is more fascinated by the terrible phenomenon than young June. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she sits hawk-eyed at the center, bearing witness to the truth behind pulled curtains: the affairs, the racism, the hidden abuses." 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1631495526.

Toronto & Berkeley: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book inspired by Gordon Lightfoot's song which was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year, a song which describes the construction of the transcontinental railway as "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea." Beautifully illustrated by Ian Wallace with gorgeous landscapes and evocative portrayals of the people who lived the building of the railroad. Includes Gordon Lightfoot's music and lyrics, a brief history of the railroad and Wallace's notes on the illustrations. SIGNED by Wallace on the front endpaper. Large format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0888999535.

Winnipeg: Ravenstone / Turnstone Press, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The 6th novel featuring former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig who has landed a summer job running a high school theater program linked to a Shakespear Festival. SIGNED on the title page. 378 pp plus ads. ISBN: 978-0888014702.

Winnipeg: Ravenstone / Turnstone Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - "Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she takes an evening job monitoring a chat room called Babel for an employer she knows only as Chatgod" and begins to suspect that their is a link between the chatroom and a man found murdered at his computer. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-888012845.

Toronto: RendezVous Press, (2002). First edition - The third mystery set in Ottawa and featuring Camilla McPhee who runs a law office specializing in justice for victims of violent crimes. 338 pp plus 1 pp ad.

Calgary, Alberta: Northern Lights Books / Red Deer Press (2000). Hardcover first edition - A colorfully illustrated alphabet focusing on all things Canadian, from aurora to Dan McGrew, Evangeline to Gretzky, poutine, Perce and Zamboni. Illustrated by Alan Daniel. Includes several pages explaining the words and images chosen. Winner of the Alberta Children's Book of the Year Award and nominated for many other awards, Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-889952221.

Toronto: Sister Vision, (1990). Includes some poems in Jamaican dialect. Glossary. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-920813-003.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in this unusual series set in the Canadian Arctic and featuring teacher Edie Kiglatukand her friend Sergeant Derek Palliser. Includes author's note "Fact or Fiction" about black ops nuclear testing. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0670785803.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1999.). Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Canadian-born author, A coming of age story that takes place on a remote and ruggedly beautiful island off the coast of Nova Scotia, where Morag grows up on an isolated farm with her grandparents, and knows her mother only from postcards sent from Africa. 223 pp. ISBN: 1-571310266.

Toronto: Riverbank Press, (2000). First edition - The second novel by this Guyanese-born Canadian writer, nominated for the Governor General's Award. "Over the course of the evening following the burial of his older brother, David, Simon and his partner, Faye, struggle to reconcile their pasts through the prism of the brother who brought them together, but who also drove them apart. A flood of memory - of childhoods in Canada and the Caribbean, of youthful hopes and adult choices - swirls about this haunting multi-layered novel about the shifting nature of love and belonging." 195 pp. ISBN: 1-896332137.

New York: Grove Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this artist and poet who was born in Ireland but grew up in Trinidad. Set partially on a fictitious Caribbean Island, and partly in Vancouver, Canada, this is a love story that transcends the strictures of society. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17988.

Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1987. First edition - A collection of poems by this Chilean author, who divides his time between Toronto and Santiago, which "explore both new literary forms and a variety of subjects, including the psychology of exile" and life in his adopted country of Canada. Translated by Christina Shantz. Winner of the first prize in the Spanish writing competition of the University of Alberta. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-92095328X.

New York: Summit Books, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, with settings ranging from the Canadian North to Venice Beach, California. SIGNED by the author. Cover praise from writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland and others. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-671-64419x.

New York: Summit Books, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, with settings ranging from the Canadian North to Venice Beach, California. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Cover praise from writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland and others. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-671-64419x.

New York: Summit Books, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, with settings ranging from the Canadian North to Venice Beach, California. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Cover praise from writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland and others. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-671-64419x.

New York: Summit Books, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, with settings ranging from the Canadian North to Venice Beach, California. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Cover praise from writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland and others. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-671-64419x.

New York: Summit Books, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, with settings ranging from the Canadian North to Venice Beach, California. Cover praise from writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Louise Erdrich, Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland and others. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-671-64419x.

New York: Vanguard, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exceptionally attractive copy of this early collection of short stories, many set in Canada, where Oates lived for many years. The border in the title refers not only to the physical border between Canada and the US, but to the other more intangible borders that separate men from women, one way of life from another. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8149-07741.

New York: Hyperion, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Boldly expressive and very colorful art by the Haida artist, Sharon Hitchcock, vividly brings to life this story, which is based on a legend of the Haida oral tradition and explains how it came to be that some animals grow thicker fur coats in the winter,while Bear sleeps. Includes informative notes on Haida beliefs.Illustrated endpapers with Haida totems. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-7868-20268.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this collection of poems about love, landscape and the sweep of history in this Canadian writer's first home: Sri Lanka. Notes. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-68778.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this collection of poems about love, landscape and the sweep of history in this Canadian writer's first home: Sri Lanka. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-68778.