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WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-670-809160.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 20391More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CUNNING MAN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Commentary on human nature in a very funny and wise novel. 469 pp. ISBN: 0-670-859117.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21283More details Price: $18.00 -
MURTHER & WALKING SPIRITS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-670-841897.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, price-clipped)
Book ID: 21633More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PAPERS OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'comprising The Diary, The Table Talk and A Garland of Miscellanea by Samuel Marchbanks but enlarged to include a Biographical Introduction and Copious Notes calculated to remove all Difficulties caused by the passing of Time, and to offer the Wisdom, not to speak of the Whimsicality, of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, by his long-suffering friend, Robertson Davies.540 pages. ISBN: 0-670-811459.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tight copy, but with a remainder line, slight fading to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 21635More details Price: $18.00 -
MURTHER & WALKING SPIRITS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-670-841897.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookseller's line on bottom edge)
Book ID: 23889More details Price: $19.00 -
MURTHER & WALKING SPIRITS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-670-841897.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, remainder mark)
Book ID: 24467More details Price: $20.00 -
RAT MEDICINE And Other Unlikely Curatives.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, (2000.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of twenty short stories. Cover praise from Timothy Findley ('Put this book on your literary map and circle it in gold, for here lies buried treasure. Dig into its pages and discover a new voice, one that can be tender, tough and - in the best and most adventurous sense - dangerous. ') and others. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-889626901.
Condition: Near fine in glossy black illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38054More details Price: $14.00 -
ORIGIN OF HALOES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2005). First edition - A novel by this Canadian author, spanning two decades, a story of "loyalty, betrayal, and lingering ghosts, set against the backdrop of the Olympic Games" from Rome in 1960 to Moscow in 1980. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85090More details Price: $16.50 -
ISLE ROYALE: The Front Door of Canada.
Edition: First printing.
Halifax, Nova Scotia: T.C. Allen & Co., n.d. [ca 1928.] dj. Hardcover first edition - An appealing slim volume with information on Cape Breton Island - early and later pioneers, later pioneers, folklore, missionaries, Mic Mac (Mi'kmaq) Indians and more. Illustrated with nine full page plates from photographs. 81 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in red cloth (bookplate) with a paper title label on front cover in a rather poor example of the plain cream dust jacket (some soiling to dj, over all edge chipping and wear.) Still rather uncommon in dj.
Book ID: 44018More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MEASURE OF DARKNESS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2016. First edition - The second novel by this award-winning Canadian author and neurologist. "Martin, an acclaimed architect, emerges from a coma after a roadside accident to find his world transformed: his injury has left him with neglect syndrome, a loss of spatial awareness that has rendered him unfit to practice and unable to recognize the extent of his illness. Despite support from his formerly estranged brother and two grown daughters, his paranoia builds, alienating those closest to him." 250 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74499More details Price: $18.00 -
PILGARLIC THE DEATH
Edition: Trade paperback.
Montreal: Quadrant Editions, 1980. SIGNED - A nicely done reprint on good quality paper of this Canadian author's first novel. SIGNED on the first prelim page.
Condition: Some water damage caused crinkling, light staining on the back cover, and a little bleeding from the red inside endpapers - still, overall in good condition.
Book ID: 7441More details Price: $14.00 -
STONES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Delta Fiction, 1990. A trade paperback. Collection of nine short stories by the Canadian novelist (and Edgar winning author.)
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated covers. (usual toning to the pages that affected many titles in this series.)
Book ID: 9496More details Price: $12.00 -
THE TELLING OF LIES: A Mystery.
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing in the US.
New York: Delta Fiction, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - A story of murder and lying among the summer clientele of an old hotel on the coast of Maine. Published as a trade paperback in the US, and winner of the 1989 Edgar award for best paperback original mystery, even though it had originally been published in hardcover in Canada in 1986.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 23684More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BUTTERFLY PLAGUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of Canadian's author's second novel, set in Southern California in 1938. 376 pp. Dust jacket by S. A. Summit. ISBN: 0-670-19798x.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good- dust jacket. (short closed tear at top of dj spine, small abraded spot on spine.)
Book ID: 39208More details Price: $50.00 -
PILGRIM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1912, this novel by an award-winning Canadian writer echoes one of his themes of the exploration of the lives of people vulnerable to mainstream institutions, In this novel (as in his early 'Butterfly Plague'), the institution is psychiatry and this is an account of a battle between Carl Jung, "self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious", and Pilgrim - the man who cannot die, who "claims to be ageless and sexless, having lived as both male and female for four thousand years." Shortlisted for Giller Prize. 486 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019197x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 47571More details Price: $18.00 -
SPADEWORK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A late novel by this award-winning Canadian writer. The accidental severing of a telephone cable by a garderner's spade has some devastating consequences. Set in a fictional version of Findley's hometown of Stratford Ontario. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0194723.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48945More details Price: $18.00 -
PILGRIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2000.). First edition - Set in 1912, this novel by an award-winning Canadian writer echoes one of his themes of the exploration of the lives of people vulnerable to mainstream institutions, In this novel (as in his early 'Butterfly Plague'), the institution is psychiatry and this is an account of a battle between Carl Jung, "self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious", and Pilgrim - the man who cannot die, who "claims to be ageless and sexless, having lived as both male and female for four thousand years." Shortlisted for Giller Prize. 486 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60891More details Price: $24.00 -
ACROSS THE BRIDGE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - New collection of 11 interconnected short stories by this highly praised and award winning Canadian writer - almost all of them take place in Paris, and most originally appeared in The New Yorker, 198 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-33052.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30290More details Price: $18.00 -
IN TRANSIT: Twenty Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book publication of these stories originally written in the 1950s and 1960s, and which appeared in the New Yorker. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-39457575x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short remainder line)
Book ID: 83909More details Price: $18.50 -
ASCENSION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Canadian writer's gripping second novel which begins in the summer of 1976 as Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. A story of gypsy and circus life set in Transylavania, Budapest and in the circuses and carnivals of Europe and America. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author .
Condition: Fine (a new copy) Promotion postcard laid in.
Book ID: 29615More details Price: $25.00 -
ANGEL WALK.
Edition: First printing.
[Toronto]: Little Brown Canada, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about a pioneering woman photographer, who at the age of 85 looks back on her life, from the wilderness of Northern Canada to the years in London during World War II. 413 pp. ISBN: 0-316-319066.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 45252More details Price: $16.00 -
WE SELDOM LOOK ON LOVE: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of this collection of eight short stories, originally published in Canada as a trade paperback. These stories - with their themes of necrophilia, freaks and outsiders - push past the limits of convention. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06017031X.
Condition: very near fine in a fine dust jacket. (remainder line.)
Book ID: 42170More details Price: $15.00 -
LOST IN NORTH AMERICA: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1994. First edition - Humorous essays on the Canadian character - ranging from glossing over serious problems (a man suffering from deep depression is descibed as 'down in the dumps'), encounters with the wilderness -including a very funny story about the snapping turtle taken in by his family - and more. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-88922-3505.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 31163More details Price: $12.00 -
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 -
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