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TENDRE CAPTURE: Poesie.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Ottawa, Canada: Les Editions du Vermillion, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Early and uncommon collection of poems by this award-winning writer, SIGNED on the first page with the words "Tous my vieux du bonheur" and dated le 3 septembre in the year of publication. Text in French (en francais.) 112 pp plus table of contents. ISBN: 1895873029.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54296More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MONARCHS ARE FLYING.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, (1987). First edition - The first novel by this Canadian author, a courtroom drama of a woman charged with murdering the woman who was her ex-lover, set in an intolerant small town, with a homophobic police detective. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-932379338.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79469More details Price: $12.50 -
CROSSING THE CHACO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Montreal: White Dwarf Editions, (1982). First edition - First book by this Canadian author and translator (although born in Chicago, he emigrated to Canada during the Vietnam War), founder of the White Dwarf small press. Includes one fold-out poem. The poems in this collection are mostly typographical and related to Latin America - the cover, which Hazelton designed - has a map-poem of Central and South America on the back cover. In 2006 Hazelton received the Governor General's award for the translation of VŽtiver, by Jo‘l Des Rosiers. 84 pp. ISBN: 0-969107218.
Condition: Near fine in stiff light blue wrappers (a little rubbing to the spine.) Uncommon.
Book ID: 38733More details Price: $25.00 -
ONE GOOD STORY, THAT ONE: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Toronto: HarperPerennial / Harper Collins, (1993). First edition - A collection of ten short stories by this award-winning author, born in California but resident of Canada for many years, and who identifies as being of Cherokee and Greek descent. These stories are "steeped in native oral tradition, led off by a sly creation tale, introducing the traditional native trickster coyote. Weaving the realities of native history and contemporary life through the story, King recounts a parodic version of the Garden of Eden story, slyly pulling our leg and our funnybone." Named in the University of Toronto Bookstore Review as one of the top100 Canadian books of all time. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-002240009.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (prev owner's name).
Book ID: 87045More details Price: $17.50 -
THIS PLACE CALLED ABSENCE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82222More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83085More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (upper corner of front endpaper torn, signs of being read)
Book ID: 83086More details Price: $20.00 -
DESERT OF THE HEART.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1992). The first novel by this groundbreaking, and award-winning, Canadian-American author. The story of two women who fall in love with each other was originally published in 1964 5 years before homosexuality was de-criminalized in Canada. Basis for the 1985 film 'Desert Hearts.' Movie tie-in edition with cover and one photograph from the film. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-930044738.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover).
Book ID: 88556More details Price: $15.00 -
SMALL IN THE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, in the first issue dust jacket without any award medallions.)
Book ID: 80953More details Price: $45.00