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  • TENDRE CAPTURE: Poesie. by Champeau, Nicole V.
    Champeau, Nicole V.
    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: 54296
    Keywords: canadian, en francais, Poetry
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  • THE MONARCHS ARE FLYING. by Foster, Marion.
    Foster, Marion.
    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: 79469
    Keywords: canadian, first novel, Gay and Lesbian, legal thriller, mystery
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  • Hazelton, Hugh.
    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: 38733
    Keywords: canadian, first book, Poetry
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  • THE DAWN AT SHANTY BAY. by Knowles, Robert E. (1868-1946)
    Knowles, Robert E. (1868-1946)
    THE DAWN AT SHANTY BAY.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Fleming H Revell Company [1907.]. Hardcover - A Christmas story by this Canadian clergyman and novelist, set at Shanty Bay, a lumber camp in Northern Ontario. Decorative borders on every page, in light green, and illustrated endpapers. Vignettes and tailpieces at each chapter beginning and end. 156 pp.

    Condition: Good only in green cloth with gilt and pink illustration of a cabin in the woods buried in snow (missing frontispiece and title page, but otherwise a tight copy, and quite attractive both in the binding and internally.)

    Book ID: 39508
    Keywords: canadian, Christmas books, lumber camp, vintage book
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  • SMALL IN THE CITY. by Smith, Sydney.
    Smith, Sydney.
    SMALL IN THE CITY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming story, with only a few words and many evocative illustrations, the first book both written and illustrated by this award-winning Canadian illustrator, and itself the recipient of many honors. A young child reassures his lost cat that he knows how scary it can be to be small in a big city, especially as the snow is falling, but here are some tips which might help. Named by the New York Public Library as the Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, an NPR Best Kids Book of…

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    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming story, with only a few words and many evocative illustrations, the first book both written and illustrated by this award-winning Canadian illustrator, and itself the recipient of many honors. A young child reassures his lost cat that he knows how scary it can be to be small in a big city, especially as the snow is falling, but here are some tips which might help. Named by the New York Public Library as the Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, an NPR Best Kids Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year and more. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper with a small drawing. A book which should become a classic. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0823442614.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, in the first issue dust jacket without any award medallions.)

    Book ID: 80953
    Keywords: canadian, Children's and Illustrated, first book, Governor General's Literary Award, New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019
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  • SMALL IN THE CITY. by Smith, Sydney.
    Smith, Sydney.
    SMALL IN THE CITY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A charming story, with only a few words and many evocative illustrations, the first book both written and illustrated by this award-winning Canadian illustrator, and itself the recipient of many honors. A young child reassures his lost cat that he knows how scary it can be to be small in a big city, especially as the snow is falling, but here are some tips which might help. Named by the New York Public Library as the Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, an NPR Best Kids Book of the…

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    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A charming story, with only a few words and many evocative illustrations, the first book both written and illustrated by this award-winning Canadian illustrator, and itself the recipient of many honors. A young child reassures his lost cat that he knows how scary it can be to be small in a big city, especially as the snow is falling, but here are some tips which might help. Named by the New York Public Library as the Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, an NPR Best Kids Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year and more. A book which should become a classic. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0823442614.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, in the first issue dust jacket without any award medallions.)

    Book ID: 80954
    Keywords: canadian, Children's and Illustrated, first book, Governor General's Literary Award, New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019
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