Literature

HarperPerennial, (1991), 11th printing.. 310 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial. English, Hurston traces Moses' life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confront. a t i o n with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humour, passion and psychological insight - the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture." Interior - clean and. t ig ht w ith no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, small remainder mark on bottom of textblock, flat uncreased spine. VG+. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, (1994), Ist printing.. 255 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "...at the time (Huxley) wrote his classic novel (Brave New World), (he) was a proponent of eugenics and an outspoken champion of anti-democratic government. For the past sixty years this Huxley has remained. entirely unknown. 'The Hidden Huxley' presents a selection of his hitherto undocumented articles and broadcasts of this period. They reveal a complex figure, who was both typical of his era in his abhorrence of mass civilisation, and unique i. n t h at his contempt gradually gave way to a sympathetic affinity with ordinary men and women. By 1937, when Huxley left Europe for the United States, the cultural elitist had been firmly displaced by the legendary humanist. Huxley's fascinating. p r og re ss from a scourge of the masses to their compassionate spokesman - a volte-face which took him down coalmines, into factories and to a New Forest camp for the unemployed - is here exposed for the first time." Dust jacket has minor edge w. ear /w rin kli ng, light rubbing. VG+/VG. more information

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1954, first edition.. 256 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. A novel set in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising. Slight bump to top corner of approx. first 50 pages, tiny chip and light stain at fore-edge of page 69/70 -. slight stain offset on adjacent pages, small bump at top corner of front board, light to moderate rubbing to boards and edges, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good+ reading copy only.. more information

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Macdonald, London, (1948), first edition.. 192 pp, small 8vo, HC in dust jacket. The author's first novel. "From the moment Bill Gallow drove his car along that sunlit coast (of Provence), sleepy in the aftermath of war, he sensed an air of tension and reserve. He sought only the peace an. d seclusion necessary to his career as a writer, but his life at the Villa Mar was to involve him in a strange and terrifying adventure..." Endpapers browning lightly, light edgewear to boards, light dust staining to top of boards. Dust jac. k e t h a s small chips/tears/wrinkles, light scuffing/soiling, small area missing from bottom of front panel near spine - scan available on request. VG-/Fair. more information

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Michael Joseph, London, 1964, first edition.. 119 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This is the story of a small French-Canadian boy and his attachment to an old horse that belongs to the local undertaker. It is also the story of his ne'er-do-well uncle who arrives on the scene from. the lumber camps full of good intentions and the best of spiritis. Uncle Jean-Marie has no money, but that wouldn't trouble him. His attitude to the ladies of the suspicious little town is watched. Jean-Marie is supposed eventually to be joini. n g his brother in the family grocery business at the Supermart. Instead he is building a stable for the horse and singing in the glee club. The rather intricate relationship between Jean-Marie, his nephew and the various ladies - to say nothing . of t he school-teacher, Miss Rogers - comes to life in this most unusual and charming book with astonishing vividness. (It) is a story with that rarest of qualities, the subtle power of lingering in the memory, providing an experience that one fee. ls one has actually shared...." Tiny closed tear at top edge of page 83/84 - archivally taped, light browning to edges of textblock - tiny foxing marks on top of textblock, previous owner's name and a birthday gift inscription on free front endpap. er. Du st jacket has very tiny chips at top/bottom of flap-folds and hinges, light browning on rear panel/spine and some edges. Very Good-/Very Good. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1984), Ist edition.. 223 pp, small 8vo, HC in dust jacket. Dust jacket design by David Griffiths. "Dan Nelson is a Canadian Indian, and he has just walked 350 miles acros the Northern hills to secure backing in Yellowknife for two gold seams he has found. He meets an. Indian girl, Sam, a huge stray wolf-dog called Kayuk and a crooked dealer called Ziegel. Dan returns home to Fort Norman to begin preparations for mining the gold, and encounters Ziegel's ruthless tactics for beating him to the mine, in the f. o r m o f the hired thugs sent out from Yellowknife to halt his progress. What follows is an extraordinary story of courage and determination..." Dust jacket has minor wrinkling/rubbing. A clean, tight, bright copy. VG+/VG+. more information

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Alan Sutton, (Gloucester), 1982.. 112 pp, small 8vo, soft cover. B&w illustrations. "...includes six short stories: Evergreens, Clocks, Tea-kettles, A Pathetic Story, The New Utopia, and Dreams...in typical light-hearted vein (Jerome) suggests that this is a sensible book, a book. to improve the mind, to do the reader good. If laughter is indeed the best medicine then he certainly succeeded. The stories are illustrated with over forty line drawings." Interior - page edges browning very lightly, otherwise clean and tig. h t w ith no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing, top corner of book lightly bumped - more towards rear, bottom edge of rear cover lightly wrinkled with slight migration into last few pages, spine flat and uncreased. VG-. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, 1950, new edition.. 628 pp + 2 pp "Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake", 8vo (8 3/4" H) hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine, maroon stained top edge) in dust jacket. Previous owner's signed bookplate on free front endpaper, small light fi. ngerprint in margin of page 61, slight waviness to fore-edge of textblock, light shelf soiling on bottom of textblock, slight fading to colored top of textblock near spine, very light browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, light wrinkling . a t top/bottom of spine, three tiny soiling marks/specks on fore-edge of textblock. Dust jacket has a few small chips and tears - mainly at top/bottom of flap-folds and spine/hinges, light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, some darkening to spine w. it h a few faint scuff/rub marks. Very Good/Good. more information

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HarperCollins, Toronto, 1996, first edition.. 272 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0002243709 "All Eva ever wanted was to make herself invisible. And she succeeded: she was as stable, as unremarkable as her brown-brick Toronto house. Until the day Eva feels a strange man'. s eyes follow her every move and she knows she has been exposed. Until the day an unmarked envelope slips through her mail box. It contains only the fragment of a 1930s photograph, but it hints of secrets untold - and it explodes Eva's carefully . c onstructed world. The woman in the photograph means nothing to Eva. It's the boy who takes her breath away: he is identical to her own eleven-year-old son, Ben. Driven by a need she scarcely understands herself, Evan turns her back on her safe . li fe and begins a compelling journey that reaches deep into memory and the unknown history of her family. Stripping away her adult defences, she confronts the painful enigmas of her childhood: her beautiful mother, haunted by the love she has lost. ; h er distant and helpless father; a Ukrainian immigrant family whose powerful connection with her life can no longer be ignored. Eve's quest to reclaim the past leads her away from Toronto to the foreign ground of Kiev, to a man she has never for. gott en and to the discovery of passion's risks and intense joys. Sharpened by the beautiful precision that has made (the author) on of Canada's most acclaimed writers, (this) is a rich, complex tale of love, betrayal and the profound need to belon. g to a place and a people." Soft crease on top half of pages 189 to 204. Dust jacket has several creases down fore-edge of front flap, small area of sticker removal damage to laminate on front panel. Very Good/Very Good-. more information

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Penguin, New York, (1986, 28th printing).. 244 pages + 3 pages of advertisments. 8vo (7 3/4" H) soft cover. ISBN 0140042520 The uninhibited story of two west coast wanderers and their free-wheeling quest for kicks & truth. The search begins with a passionate exploration of wine, week-end . girls and oriental mysticism, but it comes to a soaring climax on a snow-capped mountain top----in the intimate solitude of the Sierras. Interior - very small light stain on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exte. rior - very light edge wear. Very Good. more information

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McGraw-Hill, New York, (1978), reprint.. 96 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...a portrait of a young prostitute destroying herself in the squalid drug underworld of Mexico City. Here, in the characteristic voice of Kerouac at the height of his dazzling descriptive powers, emerged the major themes . of his eclectic religious romanticism." Interior - clean and tight with no pevious ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear/browning, very minor foxing to top of textblock, spine flat with minor creasing. VG-. more information

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Oberon, n.p., 1976, first edition.. 133 pp, 8vo (8" H), soft cover with self-flaps. ISBN 0887502067 The author's first novel. "....the sensitive, probing story of a young man who comes to teach school in a coastal village facing the Atlantic. Into his narrow, lonely man's world th. ere bursts the enigmatic presence of a girl-child. Stricken, silent, suspicious, the girl comes with the man, is fed and clothed, warmed by his presence. Gradually she learns to live with her memories, to accept what has happened to her, to repa. i r the damaged fingers of her mind. This is a haunting story of loneliness, of fear, of love." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft corner crease on front cover, very light browning to edges of text. bl oc k and covers, a few tiny light stains on top of textblock, a few wrinkles on spine, minor soiling - light color rub mark on front cover, small light brown stain on spine and rear hinge. Good+. more information

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Heinemann, (Auckland, New Zealand, 1982), Ist printing.. 144 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of seven short stories. "All these stories are concerned with crises in personal relationships but few of them are without hope. In her sympathy for her characters the author helps the reader to sidestep the . moral judgments that might otherwise so easily be made." Interior - small triangular piece cut from top corner of ffep, slight bumping to bottom corner of textblock, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, tiny bump to bottom of spin. e, soft corner creases to rear cover. VG-. more information

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David R. Godine, Boston, (1987).. 117 pp, small 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "First printed in book form in the United States as the climax of Mr. Kiely's short fiction collection 'The State of Ireland' (Godine, 1980), it is now issued by itself together with a long lingering au. tobiographical afterword written by the author for this edition...In 'Proxopera', a sustained tragicomic portrait of an outrage, three IRA Provos take over a farmstead in the North and hold a family hostage against its grandfather's delivery of . a b o mb in a creamery can to the doorstep of a local judge. It's all quite mad, and, as you'll see, there's no guarantee it won't work." Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing. VG+/VG. more information

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William Morrow, New York, 1977, first edition.. 287 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0688031943 "Until the sixties and the dawning of the age of glib talk about marijuana and its potent derivative, hashish, people who used drugs were free of establishment censure. Hashish in. toxication was virtually unknown to the middle class, and hardly a burning social issue. So what writers in the past have had to say - usually in the form of first-person narratives - provides a revealing and curiously unaffected view of the ple. a s u res and perils of hashish use....Herodotus, in the fifth century B.C., for example, never ate hashish, but he had ample documentation to write a detailed account of its use in Scythia. Sexual activity and hashish go hand in hand in several st. or ie s from the 'Thousand and One Nights'. Marco Polo's thirteenth-century travelogues contained tales of hashish, many of which have passed into folk memory. But the discovery of hashish by a small group of French poets and intellectuals in the . nin ete en th century, most notably Baudelaire, Gautier and Nerval, did more to give the literary world a view - surprisingly 'anti' at times - of the role of hashish in the life of the artist than any other single factor. Similarly, the writings o. f Lo uisa Ma y Alcott and Fitz Hugh Ludlow in the mid-1800's were courageous attempts to tell the American public about the mind-altering qualities of a drug which had been freely available from apothecaries for decades. Here, for the first time i. n one volu me, are the words of literary and historical greats on the experience of hashish, for a fascinating look at the way others before us have praised and damned this dubious paradise." Faint erased pencil mark on free front endpaper, a few . pages with s mall faint liquid stain at top edge - also shows lightly on top of textblock in three places, fading to top edge of spine, light soiling and tiny bump to bottom edge of boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, has monor edge wear/wrinkli. ng. V G/VG. more information

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HarperPerennial, Toronto, 1993, first edition.. 145 pp, small 8vo (7 13/16" H), soft cover with self-flaps. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE: "FOR LARRY - THANKS FOR THE INTRO (?) GOOD LUCK WITH THE WRITING BEST THOMAS KING". ISBN 0002240009 Ten stories by "one of the first rank of contemporary Native. American writers". Contents: One Good Story, That One; Totem; Magpies; Trap Lines; How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well; The One About Coyote Going West; A Seat in the Garden; Joe the Pai. n t er and the Deer Island Massacre; A Coyote Columbus Story; Borders; Acknowledgements. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor soiling to edges of textblock, tiny very light ink mark on fore-edge of textbloc. k, m inor rubbing. Very Good+. more information

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HarperCollins, (Toronto, 1996), Ist edition.. 216 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Remember Ray Kinsella, the baseball visionary...from 'Shoeless Joe'? Or Gideon Clarke, the hero from 'The Iowa Baseball Confederacy', who, after a miraculous sojourn in the past, proved that what he a. nd his father new about a Midwestern baseball league was entirely true? Nobody believed either of them. And nobody believes Joe McCoy. Joe McCoy's only hope is that Ray Kinsella and Gideon Clarke will believe his fantastical tale. Joe knows . t h a t , if he had to do it over again, he definitely would have pitched the Iowa State Baseball Championship, for sure married his tough but sexy high school sweetheart Maureen - and would never have written that crazy story about the UFO sighting. . N ow h e's on the run from the law, accused of hijacking a jet and kidnapping a baby. And he can't quite shake the feeling that there must be a parallel dimension where he's living the life he was supposed to lead - his real life..." Minor wri. nk lin g t o t op/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light rubbing. NF/VG+. more information

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HarperPerennial, (Toronto, 1997).. 208 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "These thirteen stories contain a rich panorama of personalities and predicaments, where laughter vies for sorrow and the sordid gives way to unexpected beauty." Contains 'Lieberman in Love' the story that inspired the Aca. demy Award-winning film. Interior - tiny manufacturing imperfection on fore-edge of page 125/6 (archivally taped), otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and very bright. VG+. more information

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HarperPerennial, (New York, 1998), 3rd printing.. 278 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich America. n (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an unillusioned former political prisoner about the leave his country and his young woman ward. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly en. t e r t aining of Milan Kundera's novels, 'Farewell Waltz' poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy..." Interior - clean and tight with no pre. vi ou s ow nership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, tiny crease at bottom corners of covers, remainder mark on bottom of textblock, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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ECW/McMaster University Library Press, (Hamilton, 1993), reprint.. 145 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Originally published in a small edition in 1954, 'A Tree for Poverty' was Margaret Laurence's first published book. This renowned collection of translations of Somali poems and stories is based on Laurence's in-depth inve. stigation of the oral tradition of Somali literature." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright. NF. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1976), 2nd reprint, New Canadian Library No. 126.. 282 pp, mass market paperback. "...a sensuous immersion in the colour-drenched world of Ghana during the 1950's. Here, against an exotic African backdrop, the author works out her themes of self-betrayal, struggle and pride...finely tuned to the r. hythmic nuances of speech, and unerring in its perception of the complex African reality...conjurs up the African atmosphere of conflicting cultural duality in terms that have universal application, in a work of universal appeal. Interior - page. s a nd inside of covers browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light to moderate rubbing, tiny creases on top front cover corner, spine is lightly faded and flat/uncreased. Good+ . re a di ng copy.. more information

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Virago, (London, 1986), reprint.. 391 pp, trade paperback. "First published in 1950, this sensitive novel is a compelling record of one woman's love and the strength of her silent faith...Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts in 1912 but moved to Ireland as a child. An acclaimed sh. ort story writer and author of two novels..." Interior - small area of water staining in top margin near spine of approx. first 20 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear/scuffing, spine u. n c r e a s ed. G+. more information

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Penguin, (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1985), reprint.. 314 pp, PB. Interior - page edges just starting to brown, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny creases at corners, light edgewear, small area of wrinkling at top of back cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Grafton, London, 1988.. 175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0246116617 "All the stories in this volume appear in new, authoritative texts based on manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collecti. ons in England, Italy and America. Whole phrases and sentences missing from previously published texts of 'New Eve and Old Adam' are now printed; a previously unknown manuscript of 'Love Among the Haystacks' provides the text of that story and a . p r eviously unpublished typescript is used for the text of 'Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw'. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication." Contents: Introdu. ct io n; A Prelude; A Lesson on a Tortoise; Lessford's Rabbits; A Modern Lover; The Fly in the Ointment; The Witch a la Mode; The Old Adam; Love Among the Haystacks; The Miner at Home; Her Turn; Strike-Pay; Delilah and Mr. Bircumshaw; Once--!; New E. ve and Old Adam; Note on the texts; A note on pounds, shillings and pence; Chronology. Dust jacket is price clipped, has minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor browning to spine and flap-folds. Near Fine/Very Good+. more information

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Second Chance Press, Sag Harbor, N.Y., (1982).. 202 pp, Trade paperback. "An American offer to buy land for an atomic war base in Iceland provokes a storm of protest throughout the country. This is the event which gives Halldor Laxness a starting point for his novel and in it he satirizes polit. ics and politicians, Communists and anti-Communists, phony culture fiends, big business, and all the pretentions of authority." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - covers starting to brown slightly, light . e d g e w e ar, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1964).. 142 pp, PB. Introduction by Robertston Davies. "Stephen Leacock's eye for the absurd and the pen which he used to poke gentle fun at the oddities of life have seldom appeared to greater or more humorous advantage than in this collection of sketche. s viewing from the funny side phenomena from the New Poet to businessmen, education, and the strange folk to be found in the reading room of a men's club." Interior - pages starting to brown lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous. o w n e r ship marks. Exterior - book slightly cocked, minor edgewear, one small ink 'squiggle' on front cover. A clean, sound copy. VG. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967, reprint.. 220 pp, mass market paperback. "....a superb collection of brief pieces by Stephen Leacock at his best. In it this irreverent observer of the human comedy touches on many subjects, including sports, the movie industry, radio, education, internatio. nal relations, and current literature. Leacock illuminates the enduring follies of human nature through his lively wit, sharp satire, and spontaneous sense of incongruity, but his moods are often laced with hints of nostalgia and always convey hi. s profound understanding and wisdom. Here is a delightful starting point for all who are not acquainted with Canada's greatest humourist, as well as a source of deep pleasure for all Leacock readers." Interior - very soft bump to top corner of ap. pr o x. first 100 pages, light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - creases at top corner of covers, light rubbing on rear cover, light crease on front hinge, very light fading and light creases on . spi ne , minor edge wear. Good. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1961, 6th reprint.. 284 pp, mass market paperback. "This impressive novel, which caused a rage of controversy when it was first published, and which became an immediate best-seller, is set in the working-class parish of St. Joseph in Quebec City's lower town. In a br. illiantly comic assault upon provincialism and parochialism, narrow piety and political scheming, Lemelin brings the community to life with good-natured and vivid irony. An impassioned story of young love, jealousy, and ambition pursues its own c. o u rse in this boisterously overgrown village, uneasily taking its place in modern urban society. Lemelin's sympathy with youth is at the heart of the book as is his close understanding of working-class energy, poverty and pride." Winner of the '. Pr ix David', the 'Prix de la Langue Francaise' and two Guggenheim awards. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of textblock, slight fading to spin. e, mod erate rubbing on covers. Good+. more information

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Jarrolds, London, 1946, reprint.. 240 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Two unconscious forces are twisting the life of Imogen Hutton from the normal. Fear of living a fully adult life, and jealousy of her younger sister, Catharine have transformed her into a h. elpless invalid - Imogen cannot walk; cannot move, even, without help. She is a gentle, lovely invalid, reigning over 'The Peacestead' of her bedroom - a Peacestead seething with hidden jealousy and unconscious fear. When Imogen falls in love it . i s Catharine's lover upon whom she successfully sets her heart. In her last bid for normal health she puts herself in the hands of a psychiatrist and with effort and anguish learns to face the truth. Imogen is cured. She is ready to take up agai. n a woman's normal life. Will the cure be lasting? Catharine, losing her lover to Imogen, thinks not. Don't marry Imogen, she says. You wouldn't know what it means. Living in the same house as Imogen...it goes beyond imagination...the slow stra. ng ling of your freedom - mind as well as body. She'll suck your energy to feed her own. She will meddle with your mind so that no secret place will be free from her meddling. You will be allowed no interests but her interests, no friends but her. fr iends...Who is right, Catharine, bitter in losing her lover to her sister? Or Luke, who loves Imogen?" Book slightly cracked at pages 158/159, slight browning to pages, browning on edges of text block, light edge wear, tiny bump on bottom edge. of rear board, light soiling on bottom of text block. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has several very small chips and small tears, light edge wear/wrinkling, light soiling and rubbing on rear panel, faint sticker removal mark and tiny scuff o. n fr ont panel. Very Good-/Good-. more information

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Williams-Wallace, Stratford, Canada, (1992).. 120 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of 14 short stories. "Original short stories rooted in the rich Caribbean oral tradition and addressing the cycles of life, death and rebirth as they occur in real people's lives in the contemporary world. Th. e author is an ardent collector of Caribbean folklore and mythology...born in Trinidad, lived in the U.K. and now lives in Toronto..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, small creas. e t o top corner of front cover, migrating slightly into first few pages, small soft creases to front cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG-. more information

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Somerville House, Toronto, (1996).. 270 pp, 8vo, soft cover with self-flaps. "The publication of Gordon Lish's selected short fiction is a publishing event of considerable note. Here for the very first time are the best short stories from the literary canon of the influential and ic. onoclastic fiction writer Gordon Lish." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright. NF. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1930, one of 250 copies.. 51 pp, 10 7/8" H, soft cover with yapped edges. "Of this edition of Malvern Essays by Cecil Francis Lloyd, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed by the Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada, for their friends at Christmastide, in the year of Our . Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty." Contents: Home; Down to the Sea in Ships; The Burden of Existence; Ruins; The Simple Life; Clouds; Bird Visitors to the City; Lonely Lakes; Wild Flowers; Smoke; The Spirit of Water. Interior - very lig. ht browning to pages - light on endpapers, tiny closed tear with crease (archivally taped) at top of title page, very small soiling mark in gutter of pages 18 and 19, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - moderate ed. g e wrinkling, several tiny small edge tears - some archivally taped, small piece missing from bottom of spine, closed tears at top/bottom of front hinge, light rubbing, a few very small or tiny stains on covers, slight darkening to edges. Good. more information

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William Heinemann, London, 1955, first edition.. 399 pp, small 8vo (7 15/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....although completely independent as a novel, (this book) continues the story of Thornton and begins with a view of his life Barcelona. Living on a legacy with which he has opened a sho. p for servants' clothes (a typically Thorntonian branch of commerce) and in a state of uneasy and unfaithful truce with Dominique, his second wife, Thornton broods about his diplomatic past, his dead first wife Gloria, and the impending arrival of. B arbara, his nine-year-old elder daughter, from England - all the things and people which have made his life seem full of angry uselessness and useless anger. Thornton, like his friend Barry Keating, is only really at home when there is danger. . I n Spain it can be found more easily perhaps than in England. There are enough dangerous diversions to go around; the residue of past smuggling enterprises on the frontier, and an affair concerning North African politics into which Keating is mano. eu vr ed by the Spanish police and which Thornton joins because he craves for adventure and is a born self-destroyer, irresistibly attracted to those things which he should shun. 'The Starless Night' is exciting, frequently comical or witty, and ab. ove al l intensely human. Thornton, with his mixture of toughness and weakness, the hopeless muddle of his affairs (so close to life and so often absent from fiction) is a character who inspires fury and contempt, liking and pity. It is of course. bec ause he, like every other Lodwick character, is so alive." Light browning to edges of textblock - tiny faint foxing marks on top of textblock, light edge wear, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very small tears and chip. s - m ainly at top/bottom of spine, small closed tear with creases at top of front flap, small hole and surface paper loss on spine, light to moderate browning, light soiling, light waviness on spine, small light watwer mark on front flap-fold. Ve. ry Goo d/Good -. more information

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Bell and Cockburn, Toronto, n.d.. 308 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover (dark green boards with orange lettering and decoration on spine) - no dust jacket. Interior - book is cracked at pages 160/161 - pages holding firmly, tiny stain on free rear endpaper, otherwise clean and t. ight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small faint watermark on front board, tiny bump to corners, very light rubbing. VG-. more information

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Jonathan Cape, London, (1924), no. 619 in a limited numbered edition of 900.. 217 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H), hard cover (blue figured boards with title labels pasted on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. No. 619 in a limited, numbered edition of 900 copies. A collection of essays including: On Valentines and Other Thin. gs; Roast Goose; Christmas Mumming; The Poor Victorians; Six Dozen of Port; The Vice of Collecting; The Art of Unbelief, etc. Interior - endpapers and pages browning, small bookstore label on rear pastedown, otherwise clean and tight with no pre. v i o us ownership marks. Exterior - edges of textblock and spine heavily browned, wear at board corners, small edge piece missing from top of spine, small split at bottom of both hinges and at top of rear hinge, very small piece of paper missing o. n sp in e edge and several at bottom of spine, label on front board is lightly browned and has a tiny stain, spine label has a small piece missing from one corner. Good.. more information

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McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto, 1992), reprint.. 176 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0771098820 "The superbly crafted stories collected in (this book) depict men and women acting out their 'own peculiar mortality' against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac . and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirit of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change." Interior - clean and tight w. ith no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, small corner crease at bottom of both covers. VG. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (Toronto, 1993), Ist edition.. 232 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "The appearance of a young storyteller with a unique fictional voice is cause for celebration. Yann Martel's title story won the 1991 Journey Prize, and was included in the 1991-92 Pushcart Prize Anthology. The intensely . human tragedy that lies at its heart is told with a spare, careful elegance that resonates long after it has ended - and is matched through all the stories by an original and dazzling freshness." Contains: The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios. ; The Time I Heard The Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton; Manners of Dying; The Mirror Machine. By the author of "Life of Pi". Interior - clean and tight with no previous . o w n e rship marks. Exterior - clean and bright, flat uncreased spine. NF. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1967.. 104 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: Three Points in My Life (translated by Philip Stratford), by Claire Martin; Three Poems, by Gerard Malanga; My Brother Solomon, the Bible, and the Bicycle, by C.J. Newman; Five Poems, by David Helwig; The Bi. ggest Bridge in the World, by R.D. Mathews; To a Christian Montpelier, by George Jonas; Nine Short Poems, by C.J. Newman; Pay Your Money - Take Your Choice, by David Helwig; Hundreds and Thousands, by Rosemary Kilbourn; Five Poets (Miriam Wadding. t o n , Henry Beissel, F.R. Scott, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen), by Wynne Francis; Number One Imperial Superboy, by William Kilbourn; New Books; Letters to the Editor; Contributors. The back cover, sponsored by Hudson's Bay Company, features a poe. m by G ustave Lamarche - 'Kateri Tekakwitha'. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - fading to spine lettering - still legible, minor edge wear to covers, light wear at top/bottom of spine, tiny watermark and lin. e rub on front cover, very light rubbing, minor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblockand covers, very small bump at top/bottom of spine. Good+. more information

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Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, Tours, n.d. (presentation label dated 1917).. 224 pp, 4to (11" H), hard cover (gray cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine, gold lettering/banding and picture pastedown on front board) - no dust jacket. All edges gilt. B&w illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Two adventure stories, one set in. Mexico and Algeria, where the hero joins the Foreign Legion, the other in the far north of Canada and Alaska. Table: De La Montagne au Desert - Preface - Premiere Partie: La Fuite - La Canada; La Chapelle Ardente; Le Frere et la Soeur; Le Post S. u s pendu; La Frontiere; Hospitalite Mexicaine. Deuxieme Partie: A L'Assaut d'une Carriere - Le Naufrage; La Bombe; Les Souterrains de la Villa Nebrozzini; La Masure; Les Idees Superstitieuses de Fiorina; Le Drame de Sidi-Ben-Keilah. L'Ermite des . Ne ig es: Prisonnier sur un yacht; Au poste; Halte en pleine voie; Et de sept. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light edge wear to boards, very light rubbing, faint liquid mark on top of textblock, two smaller marks on bottom of textb. loc k, light wrinkling and wear at top/bottom of spine, several tiny ink marks at bottom of spine and rear hinge area, three small soiling marks on rear board, a few small light liquid marks on front board, minor loss of gold on lettering and decora. tion . Good+. more information

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Macmillan, London, 1952, first edition.. 338 pp, 8vo (9" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Contents: Introduction; 'The Finest Story in the World'; The Man Who Was; The Tomb of His Ancestors; At the End of the Passage; 'Wireless'; On Greenhow Hill; 'Love-O'-Women'; The Brushwood Boy; The Man. Who Would Be King; William the Conqueror; 'They'; Tods' Amendment; Mowgli's Brothers; The Miracle of Purun Bhagat; Without Benefit of Clergy; The Village That Voted the Earth was Flat. Very light edge wear, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of. s p ine. Dust jacket has moderate wear and wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, a few small closed tears, one very small chip, slight fading and a few tiny watermarks on spine, light browning, light rubbing and soiling on rear panel, a. fe w small soiling marks on front panel. Very Good/Good. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995, first edition.. 192 pp, 12mo (7 5/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0679441220 B&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. "Once again Peter Mayle takes us to glorious Provence, this time yielding center stage to his beloved dog, Boy, an uncan. nily perspicacious and shaggy canine of unknown origins who recounts his event-filled life in this unique and rollicking memoir. From his humble beginnings fighting siblings for liquid sustenance, until the day he established undisputed control o. f the Mayle household, Boy describes his village life as a bachelor, his comtempt for hunters, his love (after a fashion) for chickens, his amorous interludes, his run-ins with plumbers and other human annoyances, his athletic diversions, his dinn. er - party tidbits (literally), and other joyous and trying adventures in the French countryside. Boy's understanding of human foibles, his stylistic insouciance (learned, no doubt, at his master's feet), and Edward Koren's superlative drawings mak. e f or a wonderful visit to Mayle country." Very minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very minor wrinkling at top of spine and one very tiny closed tear. Near Fine/Very Good+. more information

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Coach House Press, Toronto, 1983, first edition.. 243 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover (green cloth with orange lettering on spine, orange lettering and illustration on front board) - no dust jacket (as issued). Promotional material laid in. ISBN 0889102058 B&w illustrations. Contents: Everyday. Life in the Twentieth Century; A Woman and Her Dog; A Tremendous Spasm of Pain; The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada; The Iroquois Hotel; The Pleasures of Love; The Christmas Card Hustler; Who Can Avoid a Place?; The List of Dreams; Drapes; The Rock. s at the Bottom of the Lake. Lightr edge wear to boards, minor browning to edges of textblock, three small shallow bumps to fore-edge of textblock causing light crease, a few tiny dints to fore-edge of boards, very light rubbing, light wrinkling a. t t op/bottom of spine. Very Good. more information

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Pocket Books, New York, 2005, first edition.. 239 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0743499212 Double page map. "The new pastor at the Cove Road Church in Covington (North Carolina) discovers that a former pastor from forty years ago was never ordained as a minister, and was th. erefore not qualified to marry anyone - which means that five longstanding marriages are invalid! With their marriages thrown into crisis, it's decided that the couples absolutely must remarry on Christmas Eve. But with the church desperately in. n eed of repairs and lacking the funds to fix the rotting floorboards and the outdated heating system, how can they ever get it ready in time? Sounds like a job for the ladies of Covington! Grace, Hannah, and Amelia step in to organize the weddin. g s, while their friends and neighbors volunteer paint, lumber, and good old-fashioned elbow grease to fix up the church. But when last-minute obstacles threaten to stop the weddings, they're going to need a miracle to turn Christmas Eve into a we. dd ing day that no one will ever forget...." The book closes with three holiday recipes and seven discussion questions that could be used by book groups. Minor rubbing on boards, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good+/Near Fine. more information

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Oberon Press, n.p., 1980.. 142 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0887503683 "....designed for writers who need and deserve fuller exposure than is possible in 'Best Canadian Stories'. In this first volume....we're introducing three writers of singular cha. racter and promise: Martin Avery, who is experimenting in an unobtrusive way with new fictional perspectives, Isabel Huggan, who will remind readers of the early Alice Munro, and Mike Mason, two of whose strong lyrical pieces have already appeare. d in 'Best Canadian Stories'." Two very tiny dints on first two pages, a few very small light liquid marks on top and fore-edge of textblock, minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, very small ghost sticker mark. a n d small soiling mark on rear panel, very small water mark on spine. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Twayne, New York, (1973).. 647 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "...the first anthology of Yugoslav writing of this scope in English. It contains the most significant poems and stories, as well as excerpts from novels and plays, from the versatile literatures of the four. main nationalities of Yugoslavia - Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia. The works of the nineteenth century are especially interesting because they are rarely published in English. In the introductions to the individual literatures the e. d i t o rs provide a satisfactory historical and critical insight into the Yugoslav literatures. The chronological order of authors also affords a clear picture of the development of these literatures. Many of the selections are published here for. t he f ir st time in English. The translations by various hands are chosen for their completeness and faithfulness to the originals." Gift inscription on free front endpaper, slight bump to top corner of rear board, light soiling to bottom of te. xtb loc k. Du st jacket has edge wrinkling, tiny edge tears, spine color faded but lettering still very legible, light rubbing, now protected in mylar sleeve. VG/G. more information

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Porcupine's Quill, (Erin, Ontario, 1994).. 167 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...K.D. Miller's first collection of short fiction. The 'plague' of the title story is a reference not only to AIDS but to its ironic companion, loneliness. Each of the characters in the ten linked stories comes to the e. nd of his or her spiritual rope. Kelly attends a Requiem Mass where she adds her and her ex-husband's names to a list of the dead. Arley pursues a dangerous fantasy down one dark alley after another. Raymond learns that his inability to love. i s e xactly matched by his need to do just that..." Interior - previous owner's chop (stamp) at top corner of first page, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - light edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Porcupine's Quill, (Erin, Ontario, 1999), Ist edition.. 246 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...a collection of strongly linked short stories that follows Daisy Chandler through life from age five to fifty. First as a painter, then as a writer, Daisy struggles to understand her family, her friends, her lovers and. herself...With one foot in the fifties and the other on the millenium, Daisy bears witness to herself and her companions with unflinching honesty and a wickedly irreverent sense of humour..." Interior - previous owner's chop (stamp) at top co. r n e r of halt-title page, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear/scuffing, spine flat and uncreased. NF. more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, reprint.. 157 pp, mass market paperback. B&w illustrations. Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, hinge creases, one small corner crease, small raised faint stain on fron. t cover - migrates through to inside of front cover. Good. more information

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Progress, Moscow, (1982).. 327 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...includes short stories, novellas, and excerpts from the works of well-known Ukrainian writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The variety of genres and themes gives the reader. a chance to get to known the history of the Ukrainian people from days of yore to the first decade of the twentieth century. The works presented here are notable first and foremost for their profound psychological insights into the fate of the . c o m mon working man. The growth of human character is portrayed as it acquires inner strength from the struggle for social justice, legal rights, and humane treatment....translated by a well-known Canadian translator, Mary Skrypnyk." Light soili. ng t o bottom edge of boards. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing, light waterstain on inside of rear flap-fold and inside of rear hinge. VG/VG-. more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983, reprint.. 192 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0140036598 "When Old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months. Then one bright April day some discreet onlookers saw a good-looking woman pushing her way thr. ough the nettles to the front door. Who was she? Was she married? Then where was her husband? These were only some of the questions later asked by her curious neighbours. The mystery is only part of the latest news from Thrush Green, the vill. a g e which bubbles with feuds, disasters and delights...." Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - soft creases on covers, a few tiny dints on front cover, crease on spine, . sm al l faint watermark on rear cover, book slightly cocked. Very Good-. more information

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