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Longmans Canada, (Toronto, 1963), Ist edition.. 180 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Although this powerful first novel is set in the Alberta foothills, it takes the reader into unknown country - an arid region created and peopled with unerring realism by a brilliant new writer. T. he story of young Mandolin's return to the only home he has known and his struggle to extricate himself from the web of futility and sorrow which he discovers to be his heritage, by fighting evil with evil, would be devastating in its starkness we. r e it not for this young author's penetrating sympathy. His skilled depiction of character, his withering scorn of brutality and small-mindedness, his ability to stir the heart, turn this tragic tale into a most moving experience." Small light s. ta i n at bottom edge of both boards, very light browning to endpapers, tiny foxing marks on top of textblock, very light browing to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has a few small closed tears - one wih creases, light edge wear, tiny chips at top. of s p ine and top/bottom of flap-folds, moderate browning to spine, rear panel and some edges. VG-/G. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1965.. 96 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: Indian, by George Ryga; From 'In Praise of Older Women', by Stephen Vizinczey; The Pride, by John Newlove; The Writings of Margaret Laurence, by Barry Callaghan; John Sutherland: 1919-1956, by Raymond Souster. ; Seven Days of Looking at a Rubber Plant, by Raymond Souster; Lunchtime Reflections on Frank Davey's Defence of the Black Mountain Fort, by Louis Dudek; Poetry Chronicle, by Brian McCarthy; Words, Words, Words, by Robert McCormack; Buckler & Allen,. by Dave Godfrey; Reviews: An American Original, by Robert Weaver; An Industry & an Art, by Edith Firth; Too Many Editors, by John Robert Colombo; Poet's Autobiography, by Robert Weaver; Letters to the Editor; Contributors. Interior - clean and ti. ght with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling on spine, minor edge wear to covers, light wear at top/bottom of spine, a few small soft creases on covers, very light rubbing, minor soiling, very small light mark on fore-edge of textbloc. k, very small bump at top of spine, a few light fingerprints on rear cover, book very slightly cocked, tiny dint on front cover. Good+. more information

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J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada), Toronto, 1955, first edition.. 84 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Journalist, economist, scholar, humorist - B.K. Sandwell's death in 1954 robbed Canada of one of her most lively and versatile intellects. Written over a period of thirty years, these essays have. a timeless quality and a gleeful approach ot the business of day-to-day life that will make them as acceptable to the generations that follow B.K.'s as they were to his own. Ancestors, etiquette and even bathrooms, among other topics, are at the. i r happiest when viewed through the eyes of B.K. Sandwell." Light browning to edges of textblock, very light browning to edges of boards and spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, browning to spine and flap-folds, light browning . to e dges. Very Good/Very Good-. more information

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Harvest House, Montreal, 1966, first edition.. 140 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Contents: Introduction; Stories: Outport Heritage - Fish and Brewis - Hard Cash - Trap Berth - Buyer Must Be in Good Condition - Mail Day for Amelia - Night School - A Shot to Remember - Render Un. to Caesar... - The Outdoor Motor - My Political Career - Sea Fever - The Culler - The Whale - Confirmation Prelude; POEMS: Gros Morne-Bonne Bay - Wanted-Wives Who Can Cook - Tommy Decker's Soliloquy - Tommy Decker's Venture - Disillusionment - "T. h a t They Might Have Life"-1937; SONGS: A Newfoundland Come Home Song - The Squid-Jiggin' Ground - Squarin' Up - The Six Horse-Power Coaker - Bakeapple Jam - The Joe Batt's Arm Bully - The Caplin Haul - Long May Your Big Jib Draw; Glossary. Previ. ou s owner's bookplate (with small gift inscription) and very small store label on front pastedown, light to moderate browning to text pages, very light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, small bump to top corner of boards. Dust jacket has moderate . edg e wear/wrinkling, two closed tears (approx. 1 1/2") archivally taped, a few very small edge tears, one small chips and several tiny chips, light rubbing, minor soiling, a few tiny scuffs. Good+/Good-. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1955, first edition.. 156 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "TO A MOST CIVIL SERVANT, W.T. SHRIVES, FROM A DECIDEDLY UNCIVIL ONE - LEX SCHRAG". A humorous "collection of semi-factual reports on the trials a. nd tribulations of a (married) couple who forsook the soot and effluvia of East Trawnta (Toronto) for the dust and seepage of Eastern Scarborough...." Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Search; Discovery; Disillusionment; Reconstruction; Agricult. u r e; Commissariat; Zoology; Mechanics; Theology; Transportation; Sociology; Megalopolis. Minor edge wear, slight bump at top of spine. Dust jacket has a few tiny edge tears, light wear at top of spine, two small closed tears archivally taped, li. gh t rubbing on rear panel. Very Good+/Very Good. more information

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Anchor, n.p., (2002).. 309 pp, 8vo (8" H), soft cover. ISBN 0385259921 The author's first novel. "Okay, before you open this up you need to know a few things. This is not 'Fodor's Guide to Kenya'. You'll find that in the travel section. This is something written by . yours truly while on a safari with my parents and our guide, Gabriel, back in the summer of '89. You might think that a journal penned by a nineteen-year-old has nothing to offer you. But if you spend a good chunk of your day wondering what the he. ll is going on, and you don't get jolted into puritanical convulsions by the occasional reference to masturbation and drugs, then c'mon in. I promise I'll respect you in the morning." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks.. E xterior - clean. Fine. more information

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Collins, London, 1964, first edition.. 160 pp, small 8vo (7 15/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. " 'Why should it always be the woman', asked Martha, 'who's landed with a little illegit?' Putting principle into practice, she thus desposited a two-weeks-old infant on the paternal door-. step and returned carefree to her proper business of painting masterpieces: vanishing so successfully, indeed, from the lives of both lover and son, that ten years elapsed before the consequences of her misbehaviour caught up with her...." The s. e q u el to 'The Eye of Love' and 'Martha in Paris'. Tiny ink stamp on rear pastedown, light wrinkling at top of spine, small bookstore label on front pastedown, light soiling to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, light soil. in g/ ru bbing on rear panel. VG/VG. more information

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(Peerage/Octopus, London, 1987.). 378 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Two of Tom Sharpe's bestselling comic novels in one volume. In 'Porterhouse Blue', 'Dyspeptic Sir Godber Evans arrives in the cloistered, comfortable world of a Cambridge college known more for its gastronom. y than its learning, intent on introducing widespread change. He has reckoned without the determined defiance of the well-fed college staff, especially the traditionalist head porter Skullion..." In 'Blott on the Landscape', 'Blott is a Dresde. n - b o rn, ex-Italian naturalized Englishman with a passionate love of all things English, including his employer Lady Maude. When he discovers that Lady Maude's hideous ancestral home is under threat from her devious husband Sir Giles, Blott will. s to p at nothing - blackmail, wild animals or open warfare - in his efforts to protect it..." Very light browning to pages, light edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, tiny dint to rear hinge. VG/VG. more information

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Random House, Toronto, (1992), Ist edition.. 366 pp, lg 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0394222180 "Where does love go? Is Fay better off on her own anyway? Is she capable of permanent romantic love? Does such a thing even exist in the late twentieth-century? Now that her. affair-of-a-thousand-days is over and her routine disturbed, Fay has somehow to reestablish some sort of order in her life..." Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling. Near Fine/Near Fine. more information

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Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1982, first edition.. 216 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 077159724X The award-winning Canadian author's fourth novel. "At forty, Brenda Bowman, happily married suburban housewife and mother of two, is taking her first trip alone - to a craft. s convention in Philadelphia. Although her life is comfortable and settled, Brenda has been aware for some time that something has changed. Since her mother's sudden death four years earlier and her own discovery - through her quilting - of an a. r t istic sensibility she hadn't realized she possessed, she has been troubled by new and unsettling emotions. Sheltered as she has been all her life, she is unprepared for the strange attacks of sadness and the new angers and insecurities she is e. xp er iencing. But at the convention in Philadelphia, where she is removed from her familiar routines and surroundings, her doubts and uncertainties are brought into focus. A sexually indiscreet roommate and an attractive stranger from Vancouver l. ead he r to face her own views on the meaning of fidelity and the worth of traditional values. Every reader will understand Brenda's dilemma and will delight in the humor and compassion that award-winning novelist Carol Shields bring to this portr. ayal . ( This book) - a companion piece to her novel 'Happenstance' - shows us the 'growing-up' of a middle-aged woman in a way that is touching and ultimately optimistic." Small bump to bottom corners of boards, book very slightly cocked, three v. ery s mall faint liquid splashes on rear board, minor edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, one small closed edge tear, two tiny edge tears, faint crease on front panel and on part of spine, very light rubbing - mainly on rear panel and . a smal l are a on spine. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1976, first edition.. 179 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0070823405 The award-winning Canadian author's first novel. " 'Every year a new mate; it is beyond imaginating. New feathers to rustle, new beaks to bang, new dense, twiggy nests to constru. ct....' muses Judith Gill as she and her husband and children watch a television program on birds. Everything, from the suburban house she and her family live in to her choice of friends, has been made along conventional lines. As she herself sa. y s , 'I never think anymore of the kind of life I once wanted to have'. She has built around her life a hedge of restraint, 'a violet-tinted reserve', deriving her pleasures from small, everyday ceremonies which add their own unique flavour and co. lo ur . That delicate balance between the obvious and the mysterious forms the focus as Judith observes and investigates the hidden drives and motives of her own life, the lives of the people around her and the life of the pioneer woman she is diss. ect ing for a book, Susanna Moodie. Judith's husband is elusive, her children remote, her friends motivated by needs and aspirations she herself has long abandoned. Untangling the entrapment of facts and fictions leads her to heightened self-awar. enes s an d rather surprising discoveries." Previous owner's bookplate with blacked out name on free front endpaper, minor edge wear, one page with tiny corner crease, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wr. inkli ng - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, one small edge tear, very light rubbing/soiling on rear panel, a few tiny edge chips. Very Good/Very Good-. more information

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1977, first edition.. 213 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0070825475 The award-winning Canadian author's second novel. "Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to liv. e her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: 'family, banktellers, exhusband, landladies, bus drivers....men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who fee. l sorry for her'. Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud. The occasion is her widowed mother's second wedding and it leads to poignant self-d. is c overies as human foibles and self-deceits are exposed with startling clarity. Delicate and bittersweet, the story offers a warm and joyful kinship with the sublimely self-denying mother, critical of her own wedding cake ' 'it's a little dry, i. f y ou ask me' - the debonair teen-age niece who shocks the minister by telling the truth about her aunt, the bridegroom who reveals his own surprises and the lovers who discover that they have already found in each other what each was vainly seeki. ng.. .." Previous owner's bookplate with blacked out name on free front endpaper, minor edge wear, bump at top rear corner, very small bump at top front corner. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, several small edge tears - one with crease. , cre ases at top of flap-folds, light rubbing on rear panel. Very Good-/Very Good-. more information

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Macmillan, London, 1952, first edition.. 217 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly, in its beginnings, it is Mr. Sitwell's autobiography in terms of what he has described and seen. An American critic has written of him. : 'Perhaps no writer has ever covered a wider range in the arts that make life beautiful. Particularly impressive is the sum and volume of his writings on architecture, painting and sculpture.' The same critic continues: 'But his passion for . m u s ic and the theatre is almost as constant,' and of this enthusiasm there is full evidence in this new work, which contains particularly beautiful passages on dancing. A good deal of the last part of the book is taken up with flower description. s, a nd here the author writes with all the fire he devoted to 'The Kingdom of the Birds'....Mr. Sitwell has never trodden the beaten track, and 'Cupid and the Jacaranda' is unlike any other book. It shows him at his best, and will not fail to fi. nd its de votees." A few tiny faint foxing specks on endpapers - also at top edge of title page and preceeding page, slight fading and a few tiny foxing marks to color on top of textblock, light wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor edge wear. Dust. ja cket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few tiny chips, two small tears - one with creases, light fading/browning to spine and flap-folds - tiny foxing marks on flap-folds, light browning and scattered foxing on inside surface. VG/G+. more information

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Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2004, first Canadian printing.. 126 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0676976816 B&w illustrations. "The third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the arro. ws of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure. Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only to discover that while he has been away his murine colleagues have been a play." By the author of "The No. 1 Ladies' . D e tective Agency". Dust jacket has very light fading on flap-folds, minor rubbing. Fine/Very Good+. more information

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Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2004, first Canadian printing.. 128 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0676976794 B&w illustrations. "Welcome to the extraordinary world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. In the first of these three tall novels, we follow von Igelfeld from his student days . and his early fieldwork in search of ancient Irish obscenities, to an aching infatuation with a dentist fatale, ending up with a Venetian sojourn that has distinct, and troubling, echoes of Thomas Mann." By the author of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detectiv. e Agency". Dust jacket has light fading to color on areas of flap-folds, very minor edge wrinkling. Fine/Very Good. more information

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Methuen, London, 1952, reprint.. 297 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "One of Thorne Smith's wild and delightful fantasies. It is the tale of Rex Pebble, an elderly gentleman who managed to keep on good terms with his wife as well as his mistress, Spray Summer. s. One evening he went to call on Spray, carrying under his arm a slight but insulting present to her from his wife. As he was sitting by the pool in the garden of Spray's house he looked at the statue of a young nymph which stood in the pool. . T o his amazement the nymph beckoned and Rex leaped into the pool....When (he) emerged, something quite extraordinary had happened....'The Glorious Pool' answers the age-old wish, 'If I could only be young again!' It is a saga of the universal dre. am , the dream of youth in which, as in a mirror, Thorne Smith reflects all the foibles, the inconsistencies and the manners of our times. The novel also adds to the Thorne Smith gallery another immortal, Mr. Henry the sad bloodhound who could not. sme ll ." Small split in paper at top of inside front hinge, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small bump at three corners, tiny bump at top edge of rear board, light edge wear. Dust jacket light edge wrinkling, one small closed tear, light. brow nin g on spine and flap-folds, crease down spine, very light edge wear. Very Good-/Very Good-. more information

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Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York, c1933, later printing (ca.1951).. 304 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "When the mysterious hand pulled Mr. Hector Owen (who was waiting there pretty hopelessly for his wife) through the rainswept, dismal doorway on a depressing New York stre. et, it pulled him at the same time into a new life - a life where inhibitions vanished and dreams came true. For this is the odyssey of Mr. Owen, the average man, who never had had his share of fun, whom life bullied and harried, who wanted nothi. n g so much as to go away somewhere and hide. Instead, through the miraculous doorway, he was to meet love and adventure, to fall in with Miss Honor Knightly, that paragon of her sex; with Mr. Monk, who had written a book, and with Minnie the stuf. fe d whale, who was simply inert; with the three outrageous shopkeepers, Messrs. Larkin, Britt-Britt and Dinner; with hordes of women who pursued him clamorously; with triple martinis served in a stein; with, in short, the kind of a life he had alwa. ys wa nted to live. As tender and wise as he is funny, Thorne Smith has made this book for and about all of us. It will take high place in the gay, ribald gallery with 'Turnabout', 'The Bishop's Jaegers', 'The Stray Lamb' and his other masterpiece. s o f l aughter and satire." Previous owner's initials and date on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket is clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light rubbing, s. ligh t da rkening to spine and flap-folds, a few tiny tears at top of spine - taped. Very Good-/Good+. more information

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Sun Dial, Garden City, New York, c1934, reprint.. 292 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Rex Pebble was a man whose soul had never quite clicked. Not that, with the dapper distinction of sixty, he cared. It was only that life had seemed one long dirty trick. until one curious evening when Rex went to call on his mistress, Spray Summers, taking along a remembrance from his wife. Sitting beside a lovely pool in the lush summer garden of Spray's house, Rex let his mischievous eye rove a fountain piece,. w hich he privately called 'Baggage' and which for many years had tantalized his imagination. To his amazement, the girl moved. In fact, she beckoned. Rex leaped into the pool and after him, in furious jealousy, his mistress, a bit of a wanton h. e rs elf. Something strange, exciting, and rather beautiful happened. Rex and Spray came out - what shall we say? - with faces and everything lifted. Thus begins one of the most amazing evenings and one of the most amusing booiks you have ever ex. pe rie nced. In the words of Nockashima, a Japanese butler beside whom Hashimura Togo of blessed memory pales into insignificance: 'This night', said Nockashima, 'the nakedest I recall. Madam some wow. Very nice. Hot stuff now'. The novel also . add s to the Thorne Smith gallery another imortal, Mr. Henry, the sad bloodhound who could not smell. (This book) answers the age-old wish, 'If I could only be young again!'...." Small soiling mark on page 17, light browning to fore-edge and bott. om o f tex tblock, light soiling marks on boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small watermark on coolored top of textblock - dye migrates slightly into top edge of pages. Dust jacket has moderate to heavy edge wrinkling, small chips and tears. - so me wit h creases and/or tape, light rubbing, light browning to spine and flap-folds. Good/Good-. more information

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University of Toronto Press, (Toronto, 1973).. 347 pp, 8vo, soft cover. The 'Literature of Canada - Poetry and Prose in Reprint' series. "...first appeared in serial form in 1916...stresses the importance of pioneer life, its heroic and ideal qualities, as part of a unifying national tradition. . Through two conventional love stories he explores two important themes: the early settlement of Plainville (a fictional community in Manitoba) with its difficulties and the sense of community these call forth; and the ironic impact upon the p. i o n e ers of the dreamed-of prosperity and civilization...Stead evokes the social and cultural milieu of the time his book appeared." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, very small corner. c re as es and minor scuff on front cover, spine flat and uncreased, old price inked out on rear cover. VG. more information

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Something Else Press, New York, 1969, first U.S. edition.. 240 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This is its first publication in an English-speaking country, and the small first edition, published in Paris in 1930, was never widely distributed in the United States....It was written in the su. mmer of 1927, a very special year for avant-garde writing....Lucey itself is a small village in central France, located over the hill from where Miss Stein was staying, and over another hill from where the distinguished French playwright Paul Clau. d e l was staying, which explains the references to Claudel and to hills in the text....Nothing much happens in the book. It would be impossible to prepare an outline of the plot....The action is purely interior: a great deal is noticed, digested, . ab so rbed, compared. The result can therefore be taken on the one hand simply as an account of being in the countryside (at Bilignin), or on the other hand as an investigation into the interlocking nature of things and into the ways that language . can be used for description...." Minor browning to edges of textblock, minor soiling, a few very tiny water marks on colored top of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, three tiny edge tears with creases, light. bro wnin g - mainly on spine and flap-folds/top edge, moderate soiling. Very Good/Good. more information

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Signet / New American Library, (New York, 1953), Ist Signet printing.. 180 pp, mass market paperback. B&w illus. "Troubles chase themselves in Tortilla Flat. If you don't like your husband you change him for another. When you're hungry you throw rocks at fishermen and help yourself to the mackerel they've caught. A. nd if you're thirsty, there are ways of finding a gallon or two of wine..." Interior - pages browning very lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light fading to spine and some edges of c. o vers, several soft creases down front cover, tiny pin hole on front cover, minor rubbing, minor discoloration on edges of textblock, book lightly cocked. G+. more information

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Viking Press, New York, (1980), reprint.. 692 pp, small 8vo (7 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Contains two complete novels - 'The Red Pony' and 'Of Mice and Men' - plus selections from 'The Long Valley', 'The Pastures of Heaven', 'Tortilla Flat', 'In Dubious Battle', 'The Grapes of Wr. ath', 'The Sea of Cortez', 'About Ed Ricketts', 'Cannery Row', 'East of Eden' and 'Travels with Charley in Search of America', two uncollected stories, and the Nobel Prize acceptance speech. A few tiny bumps to boards, light wrinkling at top/bot. t o m of spine, clean and tight inside. Dust jacket has light edge wear, very light edge wrinkling, light ink staining from old price label on front panel, minor discoloration on rear panel. VG/VG-. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, (1952), Ist edition.. 45 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "From 1927 to 1939 Dr. O.J. Stevenson contributed a regular feature to 'The Ontario Agricultural College Review', under the heading 'The English Department'. His first aim was to impress upon his students the imperat. ive need for good English and correct speech. In the second place he aimed to inspire, to broaden their interests and establish standards of taste. Out of a vast collection of occasional pieces, those in this book have been selected by Mrs. . S t e v e n son. They offer some hint of Dr. Stevenson's joy in living, his zest for anything that might enrich experience. In his last little book there is life, and the wonder and joy of if." Pages just starting to brown lightly. Light edgewea. r to b oa rd s. Dust jacket is complete, but browned and rubbed with very tiny chips/tears at edges. VG/G. more information

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Sphere, London, (1972), Ist Sphere printing.. 174 pp, PB. "Art Henry was quite inconsiderate: he should never have survived his heart attack according to the tidy computations of his Orwellian society. And to walk the streets playing his trombone as he searched for his lost poodle simply did. n't fit the orthodoxy of an England dosed, dazed and dumb-founded by a welfare state that sprayed its proles like crops and bred its executives in test-tubes." Interior - pages starting to brown, top corner of textblock bumped, several dog-ea. r s - t ight in binding. Exterior - light edgewear/rubbing, light soiling to covers/textblock edges, small creases at top corners, spine heavily sunned - author's name still dark and clear, other text just visible, spine flat and uncreased. Scan. a va i la b le on request. G. more information

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Grosset & Dunlap, New York,1954, reprint.. 410 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Michael O'Halloran, or Mickey, as you soon get to call him, is a newsboy, small in size, but with a big, broad, commone-sense, down-to-earth philosophy of life and a ready Irish wit. Mickey. - all alone after his mother's death - has just decided to get himself a bull dog for company when he discovers Peaches, a mite of a girl with a crippled back. Mickey straightway undertakes to look after her and to bring her up in the way she s. h o u ld go. He starts his training by announcing to her after the first exhibition of temper on her part: 'Now you cut that out, Miss Peaches, right off! I wouldn't take no tantrums from a dog, and I won't from you'. Mickey's discipline and tend. er c ar e ultimately result in a new back and a new world for Peaches. Everyone who loves the novels of Gene Stratton-Porter will find many new and heartwarming characters in this humorous and charming love story." Light browning to fore-edge of . tex tbl ock , minor browning to pages, light browning to spine and edges of boards, light edge rubbing, light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price clipped, has a few very small chips and tears - several with creases, light edge wrinkl. ing. Ve ry G ood-/Good. more information

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Triangle, New York, 1943, reprint.. 252 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Jimmy Malone's and Dannie Macnoun's folks came over on the same boat and settled on Rainbow Bottom in the Limberlost. When they died, they left their snug little, almost adjoining cabins, . their rich bottomland and their traplines to Jimmy and Dannie. So the two lads grew up, hunted and fished together and loved each other like brothers. When they both fell in love with lovely, fragile Mary, it was happy-go-lucky Jimmy who won her, . after Dannie, loving but bashful, had sent him to her with his heart. So she became Mary Malone and moved to Rainbow Bottom. Dannie packed up to leave; Mary wept, so he stayed...." First section of the book is a chapter, "Gene Stratton-Porter: A . Little Story of Her Life and Work". Light browning to pages, browning to edges of textblock, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight bump at three corners. Dust jacket has light to moderate edghe wear/wrinkling, tiny chips . and small closed tears, very light soiling, one or two small foxing marks, light fading to spine colors. Very Good/Good. more information

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Methuen, London, 1963, reprint.. 782 pp, 12mo (7" H), hard cover (red cloth with white lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. 17 colour plates (collated) and numerous b&w woodcuts by John Leech. A classic comic novel of the "horse and hounds" set in 19th century England. Small so. ft bump to top corner of approx. last 100 pages, slight bump to top corner of rear board, light browning to edges of textblock, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good-. more information

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Methuen, London, 1961, 11th edition.. 580 pp, 12mo (7" H), hard cover (red cloth with white lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. 13 colour plates (collated) and numerous b&w woodcuts by John Leech. A classic comic novel of the "horse and hounds" set in 19th century England. A few ti. ny light stains in margin and gutter of page 248/249, on bottom of textblock and at top fore-edge of textblock; light edge wear; small light scuff on spine; light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine; very light browning to edges of textblock. Very G. o o d-. more information

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Methuen, London, 1950, 9th edition.. 465 pp, 12mo (7 1/16" H), hard cover (red cloth with white lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. 24 colour plates (collated) and numerous b&w woodcuts by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. A classic comic novel of the "horse and hounds" set in 19th . century England. Previous owner's name and small bookstore label on front pastedown, book lightly cracked at pages 310/311, light edge wear, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good. more information

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Longmans, (London, 1967).. 414 pp, 16mo, HC (pictorial front board, no dj). "...an attempt to recreate from fragments of known facts, from likelihoods and deductions and guesswork pure and simple, the kind of man this war-leader (Arthur) may have been, and the story of his l. ong struggle." Arthur and the Knight of the Round Table. Very light edgewear to boards, covers clean and bright. VG+. more information

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Pottersfield Press, (Potter's Lake, Nova Scotia, 1986).. 137 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of 14 short stories. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, small soft crease to bottom corner of rear cover, spine flat and uncreased, with tiny area of scuff. ing. VG. more information

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Longmans, Green, London, (1937), Ist edition.. 261 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover (beige cloth with red lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by author. "...modern travellers assure the world, 'the monster of a hundred years ago, with his teeth like milestones, and his coat of do. uble zebra checks which made the eyes dance, and with this voice like the voice of a trumpet, has passed away. We are a refined, adaptable, and pleasant breed.' The modern traveller lies in his heart. And distressed by the greatness of the fal. s e h ood I have attempted, after much objective and subjective study, to present this little gallery of sketches of the Englishman abroad..." Interior - bequest bookplate on free front endpaper, small bookstore label on rear pastedown, otherwise c. le an a nd tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light browning to edge of textblock, very light soiling to top/bottom of textblock, darkening to spine and edges of boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very small area of . wea r a t t op of front hinge, small faint stain on front board. G+. more information

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Vertical, (New York, 2004), Ist U.S. edition.. 311 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "On this literary gonzo trip in which a man of letters finds out, too late, that flirting with extremist politics can have unsavory consequences for one's mind, we encounter the likes of Virgil the ref. rigerator (a memorable 'three-dimensional' character) and 'Henry IV' the feline aficionado of books. Endlessly resourceful, relentlessly erudite, but always accessible, 'Sayonara Gangsters' is a unique masterpiece of literary postmodernism that . a i m s to entertain rather than to intimidate..." Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling. F/NF. more information

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Mosaic Press, Oakville, Ontario, 1989, first edition.. 154 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0889624070 "A fast paced, satirical novel - about politics, corruption, influence, intrigue. The setting is a major resource development project in northern Manitoba, Canada. Based up. on real events, real people, the novel explores the intrigue inherent in massive development projects, the contradictions between the concerns of profit and the concerns of environmental responsibility. The entire plot explodes in scandal where t. h e major protagonist must flee. At a time when we are extremely skeptical about the business community, about politicians, about our ability to cope with environmental issues, 'Faux Pas' will be read with great interest." Minor edge wear to boa. rd s, minor bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has slight fading on spine, minor wrinkling/wear at bottom of spine, light rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good. more information

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Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, n.d.. 206 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "The hero of the story, like Tolsoi himself, comes to the Caucasus in search of fresh impressions amid the vicissitudes of life there: he falls in love with a young Cossack woman and gives hi. mself up to a chaos of conflicting desires...." Small ink number on free front endpaper, very small bump at corners of boards, very light soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling,. a few very small chips, three small tearsa few very small areas of surface paper loss, small red crayon mark on front panel, light rubbing and soiling. Very Good-/Good. more information

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Emblem/McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto, 2002), 2nd printing.. 392 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, (this book) weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centr. e of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver, a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappearances of her brother Tilman, afflicted since childhood wi. t h w anderlust. From Ontario, they are swept into a colossal venture in Europe years later, as Toronto sculptor Walter Allward's ambitious plans begin to take shape for a war memorial at Vimy, France. Spanning three decades, and moving from a Ge. rm an - se ttled village in Ontario to Europe after the Great War, 'The Stone Carvers' follows the paths of immigrants, labourers, and dreamers. Vivid, dark, redemptive, this is a novel of great beauty and power." Interior - clean and tight with n. o p rev io us ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear. NF. more information

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Coach House Press, Toronto, 1975, 1st Limited Edition.. 181 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. One of an edition of 1,500 copies. The author's fourth "visual novel", partially infuenced by travel in Mexico. Previous owner's small name label at bottom of free front endpaper, small bump at . top/bottom of spine, very small bump at bottom corner of boath boards, light wear at corners and top/bottom of spine very light on bottom of boards, tiny bump at bottom edge of front board. Dust jacket has creasing at top edge, very small chips and. tears at top of spine, heavy color fading on spine and small area of dis-coloration, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap folds, 2 1/4" x 1/8" piece missing from front panel and part of spine (knife cut), two 1 1/4" knife cuts 1/8" apart on fr. ont cover - now archivally taped. Very Good/Good-. more information

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Erica House, Baltimore, (1998), Ist printing.. 192 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Sarah Ferunder is a normal child like any other until it appears that her imaginary childhood playmate Josh is not imaginary after all. Joshua is an angel sent down from heaven to teach and protect the little girl on a hi. ghly unusual journey...Written with a passionate conviction and an expert knowledge of world religions, Theophany, is a spiritual gem. It looks at our world through the eyes of an especially adorabel girl prophet, and challenges common belief. s y s t e ms about good and evil." Interior - printing offset on inside of front cover from title page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, light scuffing to front cover, spine flat and uncreased. . VG. more information

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Mosaic Press, (Oakville, Ontario, 1982), Ist pb edition.. 86 pp, 8vo, soft cover. The author's first collection of short stories - 14 in total - "...draws upon themes which affect us all - love, death, lonliness, childhood - in settings as various as Winnipeg, Montreal, Jerusalem and Harrisburg, Pennsylva. nia." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, sticker mark at top corner of front cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Syracuse University Press, (Syracuse, New York), 1963, Ist edition.. 372 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "This Anthology is tangible evidence that 'The Dial'...printed more original and influential work than any other journal in America or England. Here are many of (its) now-famou. s contributors, not always as we know them best. Included are letters from 'The Dial's' international correspondents: Thomas Mann (Germany), T.S. Eliot (London), Ezra Pound (Paris), Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spain). D.H. Lawrence writes a book revi. e w , William Carlos Williams discusses Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes reviews 'The Great Gatsby', and Paul Claudel gives us 'A Glance at the Soul of Japan'. An unfinished version of Eliot's 'The Hollow Men' and an early version of Pound's 'Fifth . Ca nt o' are included and works of Derain, Picasso, Matisse, and other artists are reproduced in this collection. All of the departments of 'The Dial' are represented, and most of the material has not been reprinted elsewhere..." Light wrinkling . at top /bo ttom of spine, small area of old glue on rear hinge, slight loss of color on colored spine label. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, a few small chips/tears/creases at top of spine - archivally taped, small ghost sticker mark on . fro nt p anel , light edge wear at bottom of spine. VG/VG-. more information

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Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1984).. 206 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "This unique collection of short stories, poems, and interviews by Canadian writers commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the CBC Radio program 'Anthology', the network's flagship literary series th. at is heard all across the country...Every selection in this book made its first appearance on 'Anthology'..." Includes Alice Munro, Al Purdy, Matt Cohen, Joyce Marshall, George Bowering, Audrey Thomas, Northrop Frye, Bill Schermbrucker, Margare. t A twood, Moreley Callaghan, Helen Weinzweig, Joan Finnigan, W.P. Kinsella, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Nathan Cohen, Norman Levine, Charles Ritchie, Anne Marriott, Phyllis Webb, Marian Engel, and Phyllis Gotlieb. Very light edge wear. Dust jacket has ve. ry li ght edge wrinkling, light fading to spine. VG/VG-. more information

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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1962, Ist edition.. 360 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. A collection of contributions to The Tamarack Review during its first five years. Includes works by Alden Nowlan, Mordecai Richler, Irving Layton, Raymond Souster, Alice Munro, Earle Birney, Miriam Waddington, Leona. rd Cohen, Eli Mandel, John Glassco and others. Gift inscription on free front endpaper, small bookstore label at bottom of front pastedown, faint browning to pages, minor edgewear to boards, light sunning to 1/8th" strip at bottom of spine, sl. i g h t darkening to top of textblock. Dust jacket is complete, but worn and rubbed, with tiny chips/closed tears, small stains, small scuffs and darkening - now protected in mylar sleeve. VG-/Fair. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1966.. 112 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. B&w drawings. Contents: Defunctive Music: A Play for Radio, by Daryl Hine; Give Us This Day; and Forgive Us, by Austin C. Clarke; Twelve Drawings, by Anton Van Dalen; Projection No. One, by Hayden Carruth; Seven Poems. , by George Jonas; Letters from Africa, to an American Negro, by Dave Godfrey; Pablo Neruda: Four Authorized Translations, by Heinz Fischer; Clarke Closes In, by Janice Tyrwhitt; Dylan, by Alfred Purdy; A Hopeful Portent, by W.L. Morton; Four Can. a d i an Novels, by Robindra Biswas; The 'Recent Unpleasantness', by John Robert Colombo; A Triumph, by Phyllis Grosskurth; Fair Exchange, by Robert Weaver; Letters; Contributors. Poem by A.W. Purdy, 'Arctic Rhododendrons', on rear cover. Interior. - s ma ll crease/bump to top of first few and last few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light wrinkling on spine, minor edge wear to covers, light wear at top/bottom of spine, small crease at top edge of. bo th cov ers - tiny tear at front archivally taped, light rubbing, minor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock, slight darkening to spine, book slightly cocked. Good. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1965.. 112 pp, 8 7/16" H, soft cover. Contents: You Never Ast Me Before, by Hugh Garner; On the Margin, by Ronald Bryden; Three Poems, by Ronald Bates; Four Poems, by Victor Coleman; The Historian and French-Canadian Nationalism, by Ramsay Cook; The Deliv. erance of the Pure, by George Cuomo; Black Days on Black Mountain, by Frank Davey; Four Poems, by Glen Siebrasse; Exhaustion and Persistence, by Robin Biswas; The 'Image' of the Church, by Graham Cotter; Jack London - Transitory Egoist, by Serrel. l H illman; New France Under the Sun King, by Bernard Weilbrenner; Line and Form, by Dave Godfrey; A Historical Goofball, by Diana Goldsborough; Letters to the Editor; Contributors. Interior - soft bump to top corner of textblock, otherwise clean . an d t ight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling amd light watermark on spine, minor edge wear to covers, light wear and tiny bump at top/bottom of spine, small soft crease on covers, soft bump to top corner of rear cover, light rub. bin g, mi nor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock, slight darkening to spine. Good. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1967.. 108 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: Editorial, by Robert Weaver; Four Poems, by P.K. Page; Why Are the People Staring, by Janet Bonellie; Eight Poems, by Margaret Atwood; The Two Elenas (translated by Elaine Cameron), by Carlos Fuentes; Eight . Short Poems, by John Newlove; Millstone for the Sun's Day, by Rudy H. Wiebe; Paris, by Michael Ondaatje; It's a Small World, by Hugh Hood; The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Mordecai Richler; Celine Revived, by George Woodcock; New Wave Nichol, by John. Robert Colombo; Contributors. The back cover, sponsored by Hudson's Bay Company, features a poem by Miriam Waddington - 'Apollo Tree'. Interior - light bump to top/bottom of gutters of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other o. w n e rship marks. Exterior - wrinkling on spine, minor edge wear to covers, light wear at top/bottom of spine, a few small soft creases on front cover, light rubbing, minor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock and covers, bump to top. /b ot to m of front cover/hinge area. Good. more information

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Chatto & Windus, London, (1981), Ist edition.. 238 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "In the remote virgin forests of western Canada two men, Errol Wolfe and Scott Murray, meet by chance and, with Errol's wife Gayle, set off in high spirits for a fishing holiday. Five years before, wh. en they were both bachelors, Errol and Scott had discovered a glorious unsullied lake, teeming with trout, deep in the mountains of British Columbia...But their lake is no longer the dream-place it was. Someone has been there before them, leavin. g d readful traces of a perverted brutality. The shadow cast by these grisly signs is darkened further by the mocking of a crippled Indian, whose malignant presence violates their privacy..." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, a few tiny fai. nt fo xing marks on edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, slight darkening to spine and flap-folds, newer tape on top inside of spine. Great wrap-around artwork. VG/VG. more information

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Longman Paul, Aukland, 1973.. 218 pp, 7 1/4" H, soft cover. ISBN 0582717191 "....a simple love story about different types of love. It is about every migrant's dream of the grand return home; about racism (Papalagi-Samoan, Pakeha-Maori, Samoan-Maori, New Zealand Samoan-Samoan. Samoan) and about attempts to reach some measure of racial understanding. Ultimately it is about youth; about two young people trying to find themselves; about a young Samoan who, through the tragedy of his deep love for a Papalagi (of European. d e scent) girl, learns who and what he is and learns to accept his identity...." Interior - page 15/16 has large corner crease, very small red ink smudge at bottom of last page, small soft crease at bottom corner of pages 215-218, otherwise clean. an d tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - "Film' label on front cover, very light edge wear, small corner crease on front cover, very light rubbing, slight fading to spine color, faint crease/wrinkle on spine. Very Good-. more information

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Harper & Brothers, New York, 1927, Ist edition, No. 92 of 250 numbered, signed copies.. 388 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover (cream-colored cloth spine and tips of boards, green textured paper covered boards, paper label on spine) in slipcase. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON LIMITATION PAGE. No. 92 of edition limited to 250 copies. The story of a Wis. consin family in the 19th century. Small, old catelog clipping tipped in at front endpapers, small shallow chip, two tiny archival tape repairs and old glue residue at fore-edge of page 5, tiny faint area of glue residue at fore-edge of front bo. a r d , browning to approx. top 2" of spine and spine label, small light area of browning at bottom of spine, small rub mark to top edge of front board. Slipcase is complete, but is worn at edges, rubbed, has moderate soiling, has been re-glued at . se ve ra l edges and is in delicate condition. The book has a slightly tight fit in slipcase. Very good book in a delicate slipcase.. more information

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Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 1996, first edition.. 158 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0879516666 "Taking as his point of departure the sexual obsessions and initiation of the poet John Milton, Paul West elucidates the psychology of an artist who would come to create the most e. nduring and compelling work of Western civilization on the subject of Original Sin. But that all comes later. Now young Milton is a Cambridge student, a virgin, intoxicated by the power of words and the stories of myth - and especially the myth . o f Amaryllis, the shepherdess in Virgil. When he meets her on a crowded London street, and is led mutely to her odd dwelling, hung with the dripping animals skins and shared with a philosophizing, castrated expert on plague remedies, he encounter. s a living myth so powerful as to make his earlier learning - his religion, really - pale by comparison. Is she a prostitute? A witch? A myth sprung to life? All that and more, as she invites Milton to use her as his Muse. Brilliant, confoundin. g, a llegorical, and entertaining, (this book) holds the reader in thrall throughout with both its heady prose and astounding story." Dust jacket has very minor rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1966.. 104 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: Foreword, by Edmund Wilson; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, by Marie-Claire Blais; Four Drawings by Mary Meigs; Six Poems, by Irving Layton; An Interview with Christopher Isherwood, by Clifford Solway; In . Purdy's Ameliasburg, by Earle Birney; Arctic Poems, by Alfred Purdy; Tennessee Williams and the Cocaloony Birds, by Barry Callaghan; A Gloss of Poems, by Dorothy Livesay; The World of Muriel Spark, by Phyllis Grosskurth; That Heaven-sent Lively Rope. -walker, Irving Layton, by Hayden Carruth; A Civil Bore, by F.W. Watt; A Formidable Beginning, by William Kilbourn; Poetry Chronicle, by Alan Pearson; A Member of the Stock Exchange, by Dave Godfrey; Contributors. The back cover, sponsored by Hu. d s o n's Bay Company, features a poem by John Newlove - 'The Hitch-Hiker'. Interior - tiny bump to bottom corner of last few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling on spine, minor edge wear to covers,. l ig ht wear at top/bottom of spine, a few small soft creases on covers, very light rubbing, minor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock, very small bump at top of spine. Good+. more information

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