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THE ROARING GIRL: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Toronto: Somerville House Publishing, (1995). SIGNED first edition - True first edition of this collection of twelve short stories, winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 189589753X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 61183More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HEALER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins (HarperFlamingo) (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel (fifth book) by this award winning Canadian writer. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0192275.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61184More details Price: $28.50 -
IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Collins, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Autobiography of a Pioneer" In 1919, the author arrived from Yorkshire as a Canadian war bride, and she and her husband homesteaded in Northern Alberta. She shares those early days of good times and difficult in these pioneer reminiscences. Photographs. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2166127.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (bookplate)
Book ID: 58398More details Price: $16.50 -
SPIRIT WRESTLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Eskimos of Baffin Island, by this Canadian author-artist, who lived among the Inuit for many years. Author's "last word." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-15-184755x.
Condition: Very good- in a good dustjacket (rem line, price-clipped, short closed tear and some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 15707More details Price: $13.50 -
SPIRIT WRESTLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Eskimos of Baffin Island, by this Canadian author-artist, who lived among the Inuit for many years. Author's "last word." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-15-184755x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 65442More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WORLD BEFORE US.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 88817More details Price: $18.00 -
VENGEANCE OF THE BLACK DONELLYS.
Edition: Trade paperback. Revised edition.
Toronto: Pagurian Press, (1988.). 'Canada's most feared family strikes back from the grave.' In 1880 in a lnoely farmhouse near Lucan, Ontario, one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history occurred when five members of the hated Donnelly family were brutally murdered. As she was being clubbed to death, old Johannah Donnelly set a curse on her killers - that every one of them would die a violent death. Although the author states that this book is not a factual account but fiction, this story of how the Donnellys were finally avenged is based on stories told in the area - in writing it, Kelley talked to oldtimers in Lucan area and searched through old newspaper, police and court records. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-889321361.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30444More details Price: $10.00 -
BENTON OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
Edition: Vintage reprint.
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.
Condition: Good overall in brown cloth with black lettering and illustration on front cover (gift inscription dated Dec 1925, some biopredation to the spine)
Book ID: 85478More details Price: $16.50 -
BOX SOCIALS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the small towns, ballfields, barns and bedrooms of rural Alberta Canada in the 1940s, by the award winning author of "Shoeless Joe." 225 pp. ISBN: 0-345-377494.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 7139More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MOCCASIN TELEGRAPH AND OTHER TALES.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Godine, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of this early collection of humorous stories, set on the Ermineskin Reservation in Western Canada, by the author of 'Shoeless Joe.' Andre Dubus called these 'beautifully told stories.. of a people's abiding courage, humor, endurance and love...It is a magical and original book.'. ISBN: 0-87923-5101.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (some bleeding from the cloth spine to the interior of the dj, only visible inside the dj.)
Book ID: 18414More details Price: $45.00 -
BOX SOCIALS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the small towns, ballfields, barns and bedrooms of rural Alberta Canada in the 1940's, by the award winning author of "Shoeless Joe." INSCRIBED on the title page "For Jack, Go the distance" and signed Bill Kinsella. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-345-377494.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72763More details Price: $30.00 -
BOX SOCIALS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the small towns, ballfields, barns and bedrooms of rural Alberta Canada in the 1940's, by the award winning author of "Shoeless Joe." 225 pp. ISBN: 0-345-377494.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40149More details Price: $15.00 -
A VERY POLITICAL LADY.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this former Canadian member of Parliament and Minister. SIGNED on the title page by the author.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (edgewear, 1 tear.)
Book ID: 13767More details Price: $25.00 -
MORTAL REMAINS.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
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.
Condition: Near fine. Some rubbing to each wrapper. Slip tipped onto first page apologizing for the unauthorized use of a copyrighted photograph by Owen Beattie on the front cover.
Book ID: 18976More details Price: $20.00 -
YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU CLAIM.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Victoria, BC: Porcepic Books, (1990.). First edition - Rather uncommon copy of this first collection of poems by Lau - gritty, strong and distrubing narratives that reflect her experiences as a drug user and prostitute on the streets of Vancouver. Her second book following her memoir "Runaway." Cover praise by Irving Layton who called her "the poet I've been waiting for...She has the experience and street-learned savvy to see the cruel hoax that idiots and hypocrites call civilization." 59 pp. ISBN: 0-88878-2918.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 36052More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DIVINERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in rural Ontario, this is the story of a woman at a crossroads in both her life and her art. As she struggles to continue her writing she is haunted by ghosts from her personal and ancestral past - that of the European settlers of the vast prairies and the outcast Indians and Metis. The seventh - and arguably the most important novel by this highly praised writer. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Includes an "album" of songs. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-3944915649.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84047More details Price: $35.00 -
SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Villard, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this young Canadian writer (her first won the W. H. Smith Award for Best Canadian First Novel of the Year.). ISBN: 0-394-568087.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket. (pc, some rubbing to edges.)
Book ID: 9122More details Price: $12.50 -
SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Villard, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this young Canadian writer (her first won the W. H. Smith Award for Best Canadian First Novel of the Year.) SIGNED on the half title page. ISBN: 0-394-568087.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good+dustjacket. (some rubbing to edges and light edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 19366More details Price: $30.00 -
IN SCARLET AND PLAIN CLOTHES: The History of the Mounted Police.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1933. Hardcover first edition - An account told in a lively narrative - and somewhat fictionalized - manner. The emphasis is on "the splendid and colorful past." 365 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth (of course) with black lettering (gift inscription inside front cover.)
Book ID: 54146More details Price: $15.00 -
NO GREAT MISCHIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this acclaimed Canadian writer (Ondaatje calls him 'one of the great undiscovered writers of our time.') It follows the lives of several generations of a family that emigrates from Scotland to Cape Breton Island. Thirteen years in the writing, this was published to great critical acclaim and won several literary awards including the awarded the Trillium Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Dartmouth Book & Writing Award for Fiction, the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Choice Award, and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049701.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48829More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LIFE OF PI.
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket..
Book ID: 67876More details Price: $20.00 -
A BEAST WITH TWO BACKS: Two Novels.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
[Ottawa]: Oberon Press, 1981. First edition - Short novels by two young Canadian writers - includes 'The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves' by Mason and 'Hans Denck, Cobbler' by Rigelhof. First book appearance of Rigelhof. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (some light soiling to the white background on the covers.)
Book ID: 15111More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PARADISE MOTEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, and second book. This edition was printed in Canada for release in both Canada and the US.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new unread copy, but with a remainder line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 13051More details Price: $30.00 -
FAMILY MATTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Bombay in the mid 1990's, by this award-winning Canadian writer who was born there. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46178More details Price: $18.00 -
FAMILY MATTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Bombay in the mid 1990's, by this award-winning Canadian writer who was born there. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403736.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 49940More details Price: $21.00 -
SINCE DAISY CREEK.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Beaufort Books, 1984. Hardcover first edition - The story of Colin Dobbs, who is recovering from a grizzly bear attack, and of a bear hunt - and a life - gone wrong. Canadian writer.
Condition: F/VG (chip at top of spine, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 4591More details Price: $18.00 -
OPEN: Stories.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Toronto: Anansi, (2005.). Canadian author's second book, a collection of ten short stories; finalist for the Giller Prize. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-88784-684X.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 45797More details Price: $10.00 -
THE ILLUMINATION OF ALICE MALLORY.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, a blackly humorous coming of age story and a satire on modern relationships and class distinctions in which a young shopgirl with a passion for reading D. H. Lawrence's novels meets a Lawrence scholar. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2236672.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 44678More details Price: $12.50 -
FRIEND OF MY YOUTH
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 10 short stories by one of the best writers in this form, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Winner of Canada's Trillium Prize.
Condition: Some toning to the pages, but overall near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some indentations in the back cover of the dj.)
Book ID: 11266More details Price: $30.00 -
RUNAWAY: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83089More details Price: $35.00