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INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2007. First edition - Canadian author's first collection of short fiction, seven linked stories, set in Montreal, Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, these show "Tannis and her husband Stephen, as they negotiate the day-to-day twists, turns, impasses and throughways of their domestic and work lives. . facing mid-life, aging and abandonment." 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0889822344.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84505More details Price: $18.50 -
SUCH A LONG JOURNEY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (second book) by this award winning author, who was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1975. This novel is set in Bombay in 1971 at the beginning of the war between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh. Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-679-402586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49047More details Price: $45.00 -
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart /Douglas Gibson Book, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this very personal collection of stories - stories inspired by her the history of her Laidlaw ancestors, starting in the wilds of the Scottish Border in 1700 - by this award-winning Canadian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Includes a brief foreword by Munro. x, 349 pp. plus author bio and 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-771065264.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88520More details Price: $35.00 -
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal collection of stories by this award-winning writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Includes a brief foreword by Munro. x, 349 pp. ISBN: 978-1400042821.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74701More details Price: $17.50 -
THE RIVER MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning Canadian short story writer, one which brings her own family history into life. Told as nine interwoven stories, this novel portrays Jewish village life in the 19th century. In the center is Misha the midwife, the "wayward heart of Blaszka, she holds safe all the local secrets, including the stories of the four vilda hayas, 'the wild creatures,' as she and her girlfriends were known." Set during a nine-month period in 1894, each chapter recounts many of the same events through the eyes of different characters. Author's note, recommended reading, glossary. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-684853035.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78309More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1919). Hardcover - The second book in this popular mystery series by this Canadian author, set in a New York City of "evil-smelling tenements and back alleys as the haunts of dope fiends, thieves and murderers." Dale, who was known as the Grey Seal, was a wealthy New Yorker by day and an expert safecracker at night - Able to surreptitiously change from one identity to the other, he worked to expose the seedy and corrupt underbelly. 340 pp plus 12 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in light brown cloth with black lettering (corners somewhat bumped), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78969More details Price: $15.00 -
A ROPE AGAINST THE SUN: A Play for Voices.
Edition: First printing.
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada: Breakwater Books, (1974). First edition - A play set in Newfoundland by this award-winning Canadian poet, educator and playwright. 69 pp.
Condition: Near fine in orange illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88171More details Price: $15.00 -
MORTAL SINS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second crime novel by this Canadian author featuring journalist and sleuth Judith Hayes. When a wealthy, reclusive Canadian tycoon dies suddenly at his own dinner party and a shoeless corpse turns up, she begins to investigate and finds herself following a dangerous international trail. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-453006167.
Condition: Good only in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant)
Book ID: 79102More details Price: $13.50 -
COLOURS IN THE DARK.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Vancouver, B. C.: Talonplays with Macmillan of Canada, (1969.). First edition - One of Reaney's most important plays - includes the author's note from the original production. 90 pp, printed throughout on avocado green paper.
Condition: Near fine in stiff photographic illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 34542More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE DARK PLACES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69669More details Price: $21.50 -
PLAYING WITH FIRE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. Two bodies are found, one on each of two barges moored in a dead end canal. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019877x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63822More details Price: $17.50 -
BAD BOY.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire - in this one, Banks's daughter Tracy has gone on the run with an attractive but dangerous young man. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0062004802.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, short closed tear to dj).
Book ID: 69875More details Price: $16.50 -
WATCHING THE DARK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69034More details Price: $21.50 -
WATCHING THE DARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-0062004802.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73465More details Price: $18.50 -
PLAYING WITH FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. Two bodies are found, one on each of two barges moored in a dead end canal. SIGNED and dated on the title page by Robinson, underneath a four-line quote from the book. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-76061.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72563More details Price: $40.00 -
THE GUILTY PLEA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's second novel, a legal thriller set in Toronto. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0374278496.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (one corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 65025More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SHADOW ROADS: Book Three of the Swans' War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final volume in an epic fantasy saga - the story of a land brutally divided by the ruthless enmity of two ancient families. 433 pp. Dust jacket art by Stephen Hickman. ISBN: 0-380-974916.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60404More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ISLE OF BATTLE: Book Two of the Swans' War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume in an epic fantasy saga - the story of a land brutally divided by the ruthless enmity of two ancient families. 467 pp. Dust jacket art by Stephen Hickman. ISBN: 0-380-974908.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 60403More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ONE KINGDOM: Book One of the Swans' War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in an epic fantasy saga - the story of a land brutally divided by the ruthless enmity of two ancient families. 463 pp. Dust jacket art by Stephen Hickman. ISBN: 0-380-974894.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 60402More details Price: $18.00 -
HYBRIDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Volume Three of the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, his prize-winning series (the first won the Hugo) which looks at two alternate earths - the one we know where 'homo sapiens' dominated and one where Neanderthals are the dominant hominid. SIGNED on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-312876904.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56240More details Price: $35.00 -
WWW: WONDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final novel in the Webmind trilogy. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0441019762.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages).
Book ID: 64565More details Price: $18.00 -
WWW: WATCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Webmind trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0441019762.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a few small spots on edge of textblock)
Book ID: 64426More details Price: $35.00 -
WWW: WONDER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The third and final novel in the Webmind trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0441019762.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64402More details Price: $20.00 -
TRIGGERS.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 77791More details Price: $17.50 -
WWW: WAKE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover - The first novel in the Webmind trilogy. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0441016792.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 75466More details Price: $12.50 -
WWW: WONDER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover - The third and final novel in the Webmind trilogy. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0441019762.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73538More details Price: $12.50 -
FLIGHT TO HOLLOW MOUNTAIN: The Talamadh, Volume One.
Edition: First printing.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, an epic saga rooted in Norse and Celtic mythology, set in the Circadian Middle Earth where the harmonious world established by King Ardiel is slowly giving way to disorder, and his harp, the finely crafted Talamadh, has been stolen. Illustrated map endpapers. Glossary of names and places. 412 pp. ISBN: 0-802837948.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64891More details Price: $16.50 -
UNLESS.
Edition: First printing.
Random House Canada, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer Prize winning author. "Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner - silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word 'Goodness'" SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679311793.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75581More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WHIRLPOOL
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Godine, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian writer's first novel, set at Niagara Falls in the summer of 1889, originally published as a trade paperback in Canada in 1986. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-8062.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 32802More details Price: $25.00 -
JUDITH.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, the story of a woman, on the brink of a precarious future, who has returned to the farmland she knew as a child. Winner of the Seal Books $50,000 First Novel Award. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-316896969.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (date stamped on top of textblock, short tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 74631More details Price: $17.50
