Literature

A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, New Zealand, 1970, first edition.. 155 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 589004956 B&w illustrations. Set in New Zealand. "(Kersey Hooper) could handle dogs; he could handle stock; he could handle the Blackrange. But could he handle the good keen girl whom he b. rough home as the Mistress of Blackrange Station? Born under Virgo (his fortunate gemstone was the sardonyx) Kersey Hooper married a Capricorn. It should have been OK, because at their first contact the planets Mars, Uranus and Pluto were all wi. t h in the orbs of a conjunction in the Twelfth House of the Ingress Map, and the Vernal Equinox was happening at the time. It should have been OK. But what actually happened to Kersey and Faith wasn't in the 'Astrological Almanac' - and, what is . mo re , farm-management under the rules of the Zodiac wasn't nearly as easy as it looked...." The author's ninth book. Small business label on front pastedown, top corner of free front endpaper has been clipped, small soft crease at top corner of . pag es, slight fading to top edge of boards, small bump to top corner of both boards, slight bump to top of spine, tiny bump to bottom edge of boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, light wrinkling along top edge, light rubbing - mainly on . rear pan el, 2" piece of old tape residue on rear panel. Good+/Good+. more information

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Hachette, Paris, 1964.. 411 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H), soft cover with self flaps. B&w illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Interior - a few tiny soiling specks on half-title page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one tiny corner crease, ver. y minor browning, a few soft wrinkles across spine, minor edge wear/wrinkling. Very Good. more information

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1960, first edition.. 360 pp + index, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover (dark blue cloth with silver lettering and medium blue decoration on spine, medium blue initials and decoration on front board) - no dust jacket. A collection of essays on the subjects of literature, liter. ary criticism and drama, gathered under the headings: A Call to the Clerisy; Enjoying and Enduring; Ovid Is Not Their Master; From the Well of the Past; Making the Best of Second Best; The Hue and Cry after a Good Laugh; In Pursuit of Pornography; . S pelunking on Parnassus; Epilogue; Index. Two pages with small dog-ear creases, light browning to fore-edge of text block, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear. Very Good. more information

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Sampson, Low, Marston, London, n.d.. 235 pp, 8vo (9" H), hard cover (dark blue bevelled boards, gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. 21 b&w photo portraits. A collection of stories, essays and poems by Alfred Noyes, G.K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, E.V. Knox, John Galsworthy. , John Buchan, John Drinkwater, Eden Philpotts, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Compton Mackenzie, Arnold Bennett, W. Pett Ridge, W.B. Maxwell, Stephen Graham, Stephen McKenna, Patrick MacGill, Harold Begbie, Max Pemberton, A.S.M. Hutchinson, Sir Sidney . L o w , and Sir Owen Seaman. Interior - previous owners name on free front endpaper, book lightly cracked in three places - pages firmly held in place, edges of photograph plates are wrinkled and have small closed tears. Exterior - light wrinklin. g to t op/bottom of spine, top 1" of rear board and all of spine lightly sun faded, a few minor marks on rear board. G+. more information

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World, Cleveland, 1946.. 318 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Roxana was indeed a fortunate mistress. Deserted by her wastrel husband, with five small children to support, she embarked on a purple career with gusto and practicalit. y. 'Always the best' might have been her motto, for she became the beloved of Europe's wealthiest and most illustrious men. Paris, London, Venice, Rome - all the glittering meccas of Eighteenth Century society served as backgrounds for her amor. o u s exploits. She lived well, loved luxuriously, and bore countless children until she was well past middle age. And though her end disproved the title 'fortunate', still Roxana accepted calamity with her customary fortitude, and one feels sure. t ha t in time she rose to sin again with triumph and magnificence...." Light edge wear, very light browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear, browning to panels, heavy browning to spine, flap-folds and top edges of fla. ps. V er y good/Good+. more information

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Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1998, first American edition.. 209 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0871137119 "In her dazzling, much-heralded debut novel, Kiran Desai tells a wryly hilarious and poignant story of live, love, and family relationships - simultaneously capturing the vivid cul. ture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience. (This) is the story of Sampath Chawla, born in a time of drought into a family not quite like other families, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of . f ailure at school, failure at work, of spending his days dreaming in the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much. (U)ntil one day Sampath climbs a guava tree in search of p. ea ceful contemplation and becomes unexpectedly famous as a holy man. Sampath's newfound fame sends the tiny town of Shahkot into turmoil. His feisty sister falls in love with the very unsuitable Hungry Hop Ice Cream Boy; a syndicate of larcenous,. al coholic monkeys terrorizes the pilgrims who cluster around Sampath's tree; his father attempts to turn the orchard into a highly profitable carnival scene; and an overzealous spy determines to get to the bottom of it all and, to his consternatio. n, a chieves this goal in a most unpleasant way. In short, none of Kiran Desai's outrageous characters goes unaffected as events spin increasingly out of control." Very small light soiling mark on bottom of text block. Dust jacket is price-clippe. d, ha s minor edge wrinkling. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Macdonald, (London, 1989).. 159 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "There is a moment when the reality of the individual - the personal assumptions, illusions and delusions through which he views others, the little games of pride and malice with which he protects himself - m. ust confront the greater reality of the world. It is in that moment that things both end and begin. In this sharp and original collection of stories Carl Djerassi (an internationally honoured organic chemist, best known for his synthesis of th. e f i rst oral contraceptive) takes that moment and uses it to illuminate our lives. Shrewd and ironic, he shows himself to be a compassionate observer of the human condition - a skilful writer whose understanding of the absurdities of individual . tr i um ph s and disasters helps us to better understand ourselves...(His) short stories reflect his intimate knowledge of science, industry, and the world of art collectors..." Page edges browning very lightly, one tiny corner bump, small shallow . bum p to top edge of front board. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling. VG/VG+. more information

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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1933, first edition.. 64 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "INSCRIBED FOR ELIZABETH AND ELINOR CANNON - LLOYD C DOUGLAS, NOV 11, 1933". When a businessman believes his life is in constant jeopardy because of a fluke . accident, he learns to live his life to the full, savoring every hour. Very light browning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock - some darkening to top of textblock, very light edge wear. Dust jacket has been clipped on rear flap, light . to moderate edge wear, light edge wrinkling, a few tiny chips and tears, one 1" closed tear. Very Good/Good. more information

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Penguin, (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1978).. 266 pp, PB. Interior - pages/inside of covers starting to brown lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, spine slightly faded (text still very legible), spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, 1983, first edition.. 202 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0571131115 "This is the fourth in Lawrence Durrell's current sequence of novels, following 'Contance', which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. What Mr Durrell calls his 'quincunx' can now b. e seen emerging as an Avignon quintet, more and more recognizably linked with the themes and characters of 'The Alexandria Quartet'. In 'Sebastian' the locale is principally Geneva, picking up from the close of 'Constance', and as the story unfo. l d s what were enigmas become revelations, and what seemed brilliant patchwork becomes a cunning woven tapestry. The relationship of Constance and Affad is under threat, and they realize they are heading for a fearful crisis; while her profession. al p ra ctice as a clinical psychiatrist involves her in the patient healing of an autistic child = her lover's son - and the handling of a dangerous criminal psychopath. These intertwined episodes are as full of tender insight nd electrifying mel. odr ama as anything Mr Durrell has ever written." Two small faint soiling marks on top of textblock. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, tiny hole and light wear at top of rear flap-fold. Very Good+/Very Good. more information

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St. Martin's Griffin, New York, (1999).. 416 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), soft cover. B&w plates. "The first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore mesmerized the world with his spiritual insights and finely wrought writings. This comprehensive and engaging. anthology gathers his polymathic achievement, from the extraordinary humanity of 'The Post Office' to memoirs, letters, essays and conversations, short stories, extracts from the celebrated novel 'The Home and the World', poems, songs, epigrams,. a n d paintings. This inspired collection of works by one of this century's most profound writers is an essential guide for readers seeking to understand Indian literature, culture, and wisdom, and the perfect reintroduction of Tagore's magnificen. c e to American readers." Interior - previous owners chop (stamp) on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, flat uncreased spine. NF. more information

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William Heinemann/British Book Service (Canada), London/Toronto, (1953), Ist edition.. 254 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "...the story has as a background the hills and the Rocky Mountains of Alberta; in the foreground are the mining centre of Coaltown and, living in it, a young girl of nearly seventeen - not a fairytale heroin. e, but a delightful person, natural, impressionable and intensely alive. Her name is Maggy Mileris and she is the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, for Coaltown is a 'little Europe' and contains no less than thirty-five different nationalities. w o r king and living there, not to mention the gypsies who come and go, and the pedlar, Eli Kharam. Like most communities, only a little more so, Coaltown is full of snobberies, and Maggy, who had never thought that nationality was important, soo. n f in ds that other people think it is..." Very light edge wear to baords, two light marks to top/bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wear, four small closed tears archivally taped, minor rubbing. VG/VG. more information

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Ecco Press, (Hopewell, New Jersey, 1997), 2nd printing.. 312 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0880015594 "History and legend brilliantly combine in Simon Elegant's bawdy 'autobiographical' account of China's famed rabble-rousing versemaker Li Po...a magnificent portrayal of a cr. itical time in China's history and the life of a literary legend. Nearly thirteen hundred years after the fact, Simon Elegant's scrupulously researched novel captures the essence of the eccentric bard of spontaneous verse...in fullest splendor an. d bravado." Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has minoredge wrinkling. Near Fine/Near Fine. more information

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Ecco Press, (Hopewell, New Jersey, (1998).. 260 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Thurgood Brinkman is a young, black, Ivy League-educated journalist at a comic-book-colored national newspaper in Washington, D.C. Unhappy with how every aspect of life is turning out, Thurgood tries to escape his profess. ional and romantic entanglements by traveling to the Middle East to cover the Gulf War. A hilarious, devastatingly honest novel, 'My Favorite War' is a biting commentary on our media-saturated culture that pillories racism, journalism, American. , a n d the war." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing to covers, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Allen Lane / Penguin Press, (London, 1999), first edition.. 454 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0713993022 "As one of three sisters herself, Penelope Farmer sets her exploration of sisterhood in an autobiographical framework, describing loving and not so loving sisters in the past. and present generations on all sides of her family. With the help of writers in many fields and over many centuries, she guides us through the peaks and troughs of sistery love, both between sisters and between sisters and brothers - from child. h o o d, separation, love, marriage and parenthood, to old age and death itself. Famous literary sisters appear: the Brontes; Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; the Mitfords; Mary Lamb and brother Charles; Vera Brittain. Alongside them the theatrica. l an d musical ones: Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland; Maria Callas and her sister; Jacqueline du Pre and hers; Mozart and his sister. Then there are the well-known fictional sisters: the March sisters; Dorothea and Celia Brooke; the Schlegel . si ste rs ; Ursula and Gudrun from 'Women in Love'. And many not so well-known sisters, both fictional and non-fictional besides. We observe the sisterly bonds of bees, lions, elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees. We are guided by Richard Dawkins . thr ough th e genetics of ant colonies. And, throughout, we are asked to reflect on the nature of sisterhood itself. Is a sister born not made? What is the essence of the sisterly bond? What relationship does that bond have to the myth of siste. rhoo d con stru cted around it? - a myth leading to all those symbolic sisterhoods, of nurses, nuns, feminists and so forth, a section on whom concludes the book....Through poetry, prose, autobiography, memoir, science and anthroplogy, Penelope Farm. er pi eces t ogeth er the world of sisters and sisterhood, creating a rich tapestry of evocative and often moving writing that will find echoes in the experience of all who have or are sisters, or even just those who would like to have had them." S. light bump to top/b ottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing. VG+/VG+. more information

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Signet / New American Library, New York, 1952.. 512 pp, mass market paperback. "Terror, poverty and tempestuous, unpredictable adults were the guardians of Danny O'Neill's South Side Chicago world. By the time he was ten, he was intimately acquainted with the worst side of men and women - their. drunken, maudlin quarrels, brutal excesses and sordid bouts with sex. And only occasionally did he glimpse the tenderness and love that his world could not afford...." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - mod. e r ate browning to pages, one page with tiny edge tear archivally taped, light edge wear, heavy browning to edges of textblock, a few small line indentations on front cover, small scuff on rear cover, light wrinkles on spine. Good. more information

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Virago, (London, 1988), reprint.. 320 pp, trade paperback. "First published in 1935, this is an exquisite novel with vivid descriptive passages and concise placing of emotions. In unravelling and exposing the precariousness of one family's security, Molly Keane has created one of . her finest and most intuitive works." Interior - page edges just starting to brown, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, soft crease across top corner of back cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Picador, (London, 1994), 7th printing.. 342 pp, small 8vo, soft cover. The first novel by the author of 'Bridget Jones's Diary'. "Disillusioned by her glitzy life in London and her desirable but cruel TV-presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks it all in and spends four years runnin. g a refugee camp in Africa. Then famine strikes in a nearby province and an influx of starving refugees threaten to overwhelm the camp. Frustrated by the cautious response of the aid agencies, Rosie decides on a drastic short-term solution. S. h e r eturns to London, breaks back into the celebrity circuit and brings the celebs out to Africa for a star-studded TV emergency appeal..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, small crease at. b ot t om edge and soft crease down rear cover, spine flat with light creases. VG. more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1970, reprint.. 366 pp, mass market paperback. "In these essays, broadcasts and articles, ranging from 1936 to 1951, a great liberal individualist discusses politics and ethics, people, places and the arts, and states his tolerant personal creed." Interior - very. light browning to pages, small closed tear on page 25/25 - archivally taped, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small sticker removal mark and two small corner creases on front cover, very light edge wear, slight. l y concave spine with very light crease. Good+. more information

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Stoddart, (Toronto, 1987), 2nd printing.. 320 pp, 8vo, soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO ANOTHER CANADIAN AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Cover art by Alex Colville. "A book of remarkable and moral imagination...a new collection of seven stories and three novellas set on the West Coast and a. broad in the Third World. Frequently, the offsetting of these worlds - affluent and hungry, stark and fashionable - uncovers insular values in the developed west that reveal our own underdeveloped character..." Interior - clean and tight. E. x t e r i o r - light edgewear/rubbing, wrinkle to spine from manufacturing process, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, (1997).. 367 pp, Trade paperback "Uncorrected Manuscript", Ver. 97.1.14. The author's first novel. "A magnificent love story in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Cold Mountain' is a breathtaking account of one man's voyage home fro. m the front at the end of the Civil War. Based on true stories passed down by the author's great-great grandfather, 'Cold Mountain' is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of war and back home to his prewar sweet. h e a rt, Ada..." Soft crease/bump to top corner of back cover affecting approx. last 30 pages of text, light bump at bottom of text block causing light creasing to bottom corner of pages 255-288, minor edgewear to covers/corners, lamination at bot. to m co rner of front cover just starting to lift, small soft creases at fore edge of front/rear covers, light rubbing/scuffing, spine flat and uncreased. G+. more information

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Hamish Hamilton, London, (1981), Ist edition.. 143 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. Dust jacket cover art by Jillian Willett. Madeleine disappears on the morning of Easter Sunday, 1915..."In this small, rural community, artificially enlarged by the handsome cadets billeted in the nearby Royal Flyin. g Corps barracks, everybody seems to know something, to be watching somebody else. Who is involved...?" Light wrinkling/creasing at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. light creasing at top of spine. VG/VG. more information

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Alyson, (Boston, 1983).. 300 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, soft ceases at top corner of front/rear covers which migrate into pages, spine flat with one faint crease. VG. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929, Ist edition, no. 1442 of an edition limited to 2000 copies.. 225 pp, small 8vo (7 11/16" H), hard cover - no dust jacket. No. 1442 of an limited edition of 2000 copies. "Henry Blake Fuller died on July 28, 1929, just on the eve of this book's publication. It seems almost foregone that he will take his plac. e among those many artists to whom recognition comes too late. The man who wrote such miniature masterpieces as 'The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani' and 'The Last Refuge' (which Carl Van Vechten has called a forerunner of 'South Wind') is unknown to. t h e world at large. Only a few discerning critics are aware that from his pen came an unparalleled series of novels about Chicago (although this particular one has a European locale); that this quient man was possessed of one of the finest talen. t s th at American has known..." Pages and endpapers browning lightly, book slightly cracked at pages 116/117, edges of textblock browned, minor edge wear to boards, light fading to areas of boards and spine, tiny tear at top of spine, very light r. ub bi ng and soiling. Good. more information

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1974.. 167 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0771091915 "The men and women who inhabit the short stories of Mavis Gallant fall in love, squabble, grieve, dream and ultimately survive in ways that reflect the human condition with deadly accuracy. Whether s. et in rural Quebec or the cosmopolitan world of Paris, these stories are crafted with subtlety, compassion and an irrepressible wit." Contents: Introduction; The Other Paris; The Picnic; About Geneva; Acceptance of Their Ways; My Heart is Broken. ; An Unmarried Man's Summer; The End of the World; The Accident; Malcolm and Bea; The Prodigal Parent; The Wedding Ring; New Year's Eve; In the Tunnel. Interior - moderate to heavy browning, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership mar. ks . Exterior - browning to edges of textblock, light soiling to bottom of textblock, minor browning on covers, minor edge wear. Good+. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998, First edition.. 274 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented . by a housewife who is a modern-day Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella that follows, the concept of salvation is explored through material possessions - a collection of kitsch. - as a traveling salesman is slowly lost in the sheer surfeit of matter in a small Illinois town. In another, Gas explores the mind's ability to escape. A young woman growing up in rural Iowa finds herself losing touch with the physical world . a s she loses herself in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. And in 'The Master of Secret Revenges', God appears in the form of Descartes' evil demon, Lucifer, as Gass chronicles the life of a young man named Luther and his development from his devili. sh y o uth to his demonic adulthood. A profound exploration of good and evil, philosophy and action, filled with the wit and style that have defined the work of William Gass." Tiny faint mark on bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has very minor ru. bbi ng. NF/NF. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1965.. 104 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: An Interview with Ralph Ellison, by Allen Geller; A Queen in Thebes, by Margaret Laurence; In Memoriam: E.J.P., by A.J.M. Smith; The Fall & Rise of the Old Cite Libre, by Gerald Taaffe; Five Poems, by George. Jonas; A Door in a River, by D.L. Coles; Drawings, by Don Jean-Louis; Four Poems, by Miriam Waddington; Six Poems, by Walter Bauer (translated by Humphrey Milnes); The Alienated Intellectual, by Alex L. Murray. Interior - very small bump to top. a n d bottom corner of textblock, very light browning to inside edges of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling and tiny scuffs on spine, minor edge wear to covers, faint watermark at top 1" of spine,. li gh t 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 and covers, very small bump at top of spine, book slightly cocked. Good. more information

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HarperCollins, Toronto, 1993, first edition.. 175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0006475140 "Each of these seven stories explores the intimate psychological journeys of women in crisis. We meet Jasimine, an adolescent imprisoned in an illusory world and the bonds of an a. sylum; Cleo, who survives the terrors of madness and the shocking betrayal of her psychiatrist; Rosie, who at the end of her life finds herself tormented by her unborn children; and Meg, who must say goodbye to the love of her life and face the fu. t u re on her own. In a style that is devastatingly honest and disturbingly beautiful, Gibson pieces together the shattered lives and allows us to see in them our own faint reflections. 'Sweet Poison' takes us to the edge and back, daring us to co. nf ro nt the fine line between sanity and madness, between love and hate; in the end, it forces us to redefine these boundaries for ourselves. Writing with clarity and insight about women and trauma, Margaret Gibson captures brilliantly the strengt. h a nd fragility of the female psyche." Very light browning to edges of textblock, minor soiling on boards. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, 1987, first British edition.. 239 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0571146716 "Readers of Gilchrist's stories will find much to celebrate in this new collection, as many favourite characters reappear. The title story features former bandit Nora Jane Whittin. gton who has moved to California and is now expecting twins. Nora's part-time lover, Freddy Harwood, is here too, metamorphosed into a reluctant hero in a hilarious and moving tale. Here too is Rhoda, growing up to experience teenage love in 'Th. e Expansion of the Universe' and then motherhood in 'Adoration'. Crystal Weis grows too, in 'Traceleen at Dawn', this outrageous Southern belle quits drinking, as recounted by her devoted maid and confidante. And involved in everything from murde. r t o dieting there is a whole cast of new Gilchrist characters for us to enjoy in this exhilarating collection." Very light browning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock, minor wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkli. ng , very minor rubbing. Very Good/Very Good+. more information

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Vintage, (Toronto, 2000).. 229 pp, 8vo (8" H), soft cover. ISBN 0679310290 "...about a turbulent year in the life of Simon Albright, a sixteen-year old boy struggling to be his sophisticated mother's best friend, the rebel his girlfriend adores and the son his father respec. ts. Which is a hard act to pull off when your mother is distracted, your girlfriend too beautiful and your father in and out of a mental institution. In Simon we have an unforgettable character, a boy balanced precariously on the uncomfortable . e d g e of manhood and uncertain which way to turn...unfolds with mingled sarcasm, grief and awe, and propels the reader straight through to it startling climax." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - spine slight. ly t wi sted, one very small soft corner crease. VG. more information

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Collins / Auckland City Council, Auckland, 1973, first edition.. 231 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Winner of the $2,000 Auckland City Centennial Fiction Contest, 'Follow, Follow' must rank as one of the most impressive novels published in New Zealand since the war. In its delicate exploration . of family relationships, its sensitive probing of the heart of a woman and its mature treatment of sex, it is the work of an imagination under strict artistic control....With subtlety and insight, Alice Glenday shows a hidden crime weighing upon a f. amily and yet somehow being drawn into the texture of daily living. The artistry of (this book) is outstanding, with its deceptively placid opening contributing to the final effect, with believable characters who behave as in life rather than in . f i ction, and with a New Zealand atmosphere of beach and cliff which is unobtrusively part of the entire fabric. Alice Glenday's story-telling gifts enable her to make this very moving novel a most successful fusion of a compulsive story with deep. a nd sympathetic human observation." Light browning on pages 36 & 37 due to laid-in old newspaper clipping, small bump to corners of boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, book slightly cocked, minor browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacke. t h as moderate edge wrinkling, several small tears - some with creases, several very small chips, light rubbing, minor soiling. Good/Good. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1976.. 128 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 077109230X "On a wave of indiscriminate bombings, chaotic protests, painted slogans and blind rage, the F.L.Q. erupted as a potent force among the students and young Bohemians of Quebec in the 1960's. The first. novel to speak of and for the Separatist generation, Jacques Godbout's 'Knife on the Table' probes the ambivalent, confused and restless world of a young 'quebecois' wanderer and the two women who are his lovers. It is a brilliant mixture of poe. t r y and politics, rupture and romance, art and adventure. Here, in matchless translation, is the influential work that put an end to 'French literature in America' and marked the start of 'an American literature in French'." Interior - light bro. wn in g to pages - moderate on inside of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light browning to edges of textblock, very light rubbing, light crease on front hinge. Good+. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1966.. 96 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: The Hard-headed Collector, by Dave Godfrey; Six Poems, by Phyllis Gotlieb; The Elevator, by George Bowering; Two Poems, by Miriam Waddington; Four Poems (translated by G.V. Downes), by Pierre Trottier; Montre. al and French-Canadian Culture, by Naim Kattan; Riel, by Gael Turnbull; Six Poems, by Philip Roberts; The Art Scene '66, by Elizabeth Kilbourn; Interpretations, by Robert McCormack; Beautiful Beginners, by Dennis Dufy; Newfoundland Viking, by Geo. r g e Johnston; Foreign Affairs, by Douglas Fisher; Canadian Affluence, by Abraham Rotstein; Goodbye Humphrey, by Diana Goldsborough; A Find, by John Robert Colombo; Contributors. The back cover, sponsored by Hudson's Bay Company, features two poe. ms b y Alden Nowlan - 'Midnight of the First Snow' and 'The Spy'. Interior - tiny bump to bottom corner of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling on spine, minor edge wear to covers, small c. los ed te ar at bottom of front hinge, two tiny faint watermarks on front cover, very light rubbing, minor soiling, book is lightly cocked. Good+. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, (1979), Ist edition.. 265 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Matty appears out of the flaming destruction of the Blitz. Who is he? Is he more or less than an ordinary human? Is the journal he keeps madness or inspiration? The twins are young enough to be hi. s daughters: Sophy - dark, amoral, cruel; and Toni - fair, brilliant, empty. Their generation inhabits a world of cold terror, a world running down, a world where love is dying. Yet Matty and Toni never meet, and Matty and Sophy for no more th. a n a moment. There are others too, like Sebastian Pedigree, thought by some to the the wickedest of men...William Golding has written a story of our times, a chilling mystery which never ceases to mystify. The master of disturbing suggestion, he. s ti r s up the sediment of dark thoughts and half-ideas within us all; but for the reader as well as the characters, the reality of inarticulate fear emerges more clearly than ever." Pages browning very lightly. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkl. ing , t in y spot of discoloration on rear panel. VG/VG. more information

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Viking, Toronto, 1994, first Canadian edition.. 324 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. ISBN 067085882X "In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, . the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate new novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. The return of exiles is transform. ing the city, and through the lives of Didymus Noqoma, his wife Sibongile, and their lovely daughter who cannot even speak her parents' African language, the reader experiences the strange passions, reversals, and dangers that accompany new-won ac. c e ss to power...." Very light edge wear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1948.. 698 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket, integral ribbon bookmark. A collection of 18 short stories and 3 plays. Pages browning lightly, small black mark at bottom of last page of text and facing page, creasing to bottom of rear blank page, light edgewear . to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is worn, with chips/tears, scuffing/wrinkling/brownings and soiling, but is basically complete - now protected in mylar sleeve. Scan available on request. G+/Poor. more information

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Benton Ross, Auckland, New Zealand, 1986.. 205 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover. ISBN 908636172"A blackbird dies in Olive's hands and the blood stains won't rub out. Even the cat can't eat the fish pie that her family says tastes like glue. And at the bottom of her garden the avocado tree i. s dying....How can Olive 'pull herself together' when reality overwhelms her everywhere she looks? By painting in the attic and teaching herself to smoke? Does she in fact have a choice? It is only from the rooftop that prospects seem serene.... . L isa Greenwood's startling first novel is about the chill winter of self-discovery that begins when delusions fall away in the face of the demands of others. What happens when Olive's family fail to recognise her needs? Deadly accurate in its o. bs er vations, the novel delights too with the whimsy of the author's overview. When life is at its most oppressive, it seems, there is still reason enough for hope." Interior - tiny crease at top corner of first half of pages, otherwise clean and. ti ght with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small bump to top corner of front cover, tiny bump at bottom corner, minor rubbing, small shallow bump on rear cover - migrates into last few pages. Very Good. more information

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J.M. Dent and Sons, Toronto, (1933), Ist edition.. 336 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover - no dust jacket. Map endpapers. A novel about a Manitoba farming family in the early part of the twentieth century. Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership. marks. Exterior - light edge wear, spine color heavily faded - gold lettering still legible, scattered watermarks - some causing fading of color on front board. Good sound copy.. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, c1925, first Canadian edition.. 341 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (blue cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. A story of relationships and love set in a Swedish community on the Canadian prairies. Minor browning to pages, sma. ll soft crease at top corner of first 14 pages, one page with dog-ear crease, small light stain at fore-edge of pages 17-25, a few pages with a tiny foxing mark, browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear, wear at corners, light wrinkli. n g at top/bottom of spine, minor soiling on boards. Good. more information

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Macmillan, London, 1951, reprint.. 335 pp, small 8vo, hard cover (maroon boards with gold lettering on spine, gold decoration on front board) - no dust jacket. "Dickens is probaby best appreciated when short extracts from his humorous passages are read aloud...The selections from hi. s novels are here set forth in chronological order for the purpose of marking the gradual change from excellent farce as in 'Pickwick' and the youthful extravagance of 'Nicholas Nickleby' to the maturer indictment of the law's delay and the insol. e n c e of office as in 'Bleak House' and 'Little Dorrit'...For the benefit of those readers who wish to be reminded of the intricate narrative portions of the novels, a brief outline of the plot of each one introduces the different sections of this. A nt ho logy." Selections from: Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak Hose, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expe. cta tio ns, Our Mutal Friend, Tales and Sketches, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Interior - previous owners name/date on front pastedown, very light browning to pages, small light stains on free rear endpaper. Exterior - light edge wear to boards, s. ligh t fa ding to spine. VG-. more information

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Herbert Jenkins, London, (1931), Ist edition.. 312 pp. + ads, 8vo, HC (no dust jacket). "This is a cleverly contrived novel which has for its picturesque setting, Fleet Street. It introduces the many different types of journalists who throng the Street of Ink..." Interior - pages just startin. g to brown very lightly, two pages have small dog-ears at bottom corner, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, small area of darkening at bottom of spine, three small areas of light soiling at . b o t t o m of rear cover - orange boards and black lettering/decoration generally bright and crisp. Scan available on request. VG+. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1943.. 52 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (gold lettering/borders on spine) - no dust jacket. Copyright page states "First and Second Printings before Publication". A bittersweet love story about a shy young New York office worker who experiences a . fleeting but intense romance with a soldier about to be posted overseas in WWII. Light to oderate browning to pages and endpapers, lght edge wear to boards, fading to spine color - lettering still very legible, light fading on hinges, browning to e. dges of textblock, slight bump to top of spine. Good+. more information

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A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, (1970), reprint.. 299 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. B&w drawings, map endpapers. "...a wonderful wealth of authentic New Zealand country writing...Here are the yarns spun round the musterer's campfire; or in the pub after a dusty day in the saleyards; or in the homes. tead kitchen when the farmer's long day is over and the washing-up is done and one tale leads to the next...This is the very fabric of New Zealand folklore and it makes delightful reading." Slight bumping to board edges, minor edgewear. Dust. j a c k e t has moderate edgewear/creasing, small stain at top of rear flap fold, minor soiling elsewhere. VG-/G. more information

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Doubleday Canada, (Toronto, 1998), first edition.. 310 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0385256523 The author's first novel. Two small Cree boys are torn from their family and placed in a Catholic residential school where their names are changed and they are forced to spe. ak English only. As young men, they move to Winnipeg where they confront racism, but are always watched over by the 'Fur Queen', a beautiful young woman they saw in their childhood in a photograph and have taken as their guardian angel. "Native. s t ory-telling techniques with European narrative form to create an engaging, funny, passionate and triumphant novel about the experience of being a stranger in your own land." Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, and very minor rubbing. Fine/N. e ar F ine. more information

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HaperCollins, (Toronto, 1997), 3rd printing.. 512 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0002245671 When the narrator, the 38 year-old son of a black father and a white mother living in Southern Ontario, loses his job, he goes to Baltimore and embarks on a quest for his family hi. story..."Beginning with his own parents' struggle against segregation in Canada and moving back in time to the story of his great-great grandfather - a supposed hero in John Brown's famous anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia - Langston d. i s c overs a long line of relatives in constant battle for their rights and dignity...slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario - once a final stop on the Underg. ro un d Railroad..." Very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing on bottom of boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling. NF/VG+. more information

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Raincoast, Vancouver, (1995), 3rd printing.. Unpaginated, square 12 mo. (approx 7 1/4" x 7 1/4"), HC with decorated boards in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated with photos, maps, reproductions of ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, receipts, vintage pictures, etc. "Somew. here in Northern Africa, a woman traveler awakens with a mysterious mark on her hand, a mark that soon grows into a tatoo....Lydia records her daily experiences in a journal, keeping track of hotel addresses and conversations, and pasting such . f l o t s am and jetsam as maps, photographs, and drawings into her diary. She records her shock and dismay as the marks on her hand reveal themselves to be a detailed map of an unknown territory. Later, a cryptic Moroccan man explains the map's c. on ne ct io n to a spiritual and physical journey she must take. When Lydia diappears unexpectedly, (her friend) Chris takes up her diary to record his search for her - and for a way to unravel the riddle of the Tattooed Map..." Dust jacket has ve. ry min or edg ew ear. This is a new, unread book. NF/NF. more information

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Folio, London, 1952.. 156 pp, 8vo, hard cover (dark green cloth spine with gold lettering, mabled paper covered boards), no dust jacket/slipcase. 'Memoirs' of the romances and adventures of a Russian prince, written by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, close friend of the poet She. lley. Interior - very light foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. VG-. more information

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Tamarack Review, Toronto, 1965.. 112 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Contents: The Holy Man, by Hugh Hood; The Truth of Fables, by Michael Hornyansky; An Interview with Marie-Claire Blais, by Barry Callaghan; Recent Russian Poetry, by R.A.D. Ford; Singing, by Jack Lowther Wilson; Five . Poems, by Joan Finnigan; Montreal Letter, by Naim Kattan; Windigo, by George Bowering; A Thank-you Letter, for E's Lovely Breasts, by F.W. Watt; Defeat, by Mair Verthuy; Two Books on Canada, by Hugh Maclennan; Wanda Landowska, by John Beckwith; Wils. on's O Canada, by Phyllis Grosskurth; Money and Power On the Run, by Robert Weaver; Letter; Contributors. Interior - small bump to top corner of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - wrinkling on s. p i n e, minor edge wear to covers, light wear at top/bottom of spine, a few small soft creases on rear cover, small crease at top corner of front cover, very light rubbing, minor soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock and covers, very s. ma ll b ump at top of spine. Good+. more information

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Rendezvous, (Toronto, 1997), Ist edtion.. 240 pp, 8vo, soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. "The life of fiftyish Jessie Dearborn takes an unexpected turn when she steps in front of a chainsaw to defend the trees she loves from a ruthless developer. This simple act of defi. ance uncovers a passion that surprises everybody and awakens not only her small Muskokan town's conscience, but Jessie's own slumbering sensuality..." Interior - clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1982, 1st edition.. 252 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771042205 Winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. "....an evocative story of a Canadian couple caught in personal and cultural conflict in the lush and volatile climate of contemporar. y South India. Seeking to escape the stultifying atmosphere of a small university town in Ontario, Juliet accompanies her husband David on a research sabbatical to southern India. There, the relentless swelter of life near the equator seizes the. m in a timeless drift; they become part of the life process. And, divested of familiar defences, they are vulnerable and raw. Their past experiences become reorchestrated in memory, and their life together is called into question. Their confront. at i on with an alien and tradition-bound culture becomes critical when they befriend Yashoda, a beautiful young widow whose life is made intolerable by the austerity of family law. Yashoda's seductive helplessness engages David and Juliet in separ. ate b ut compelling ways, and their involvement in her plight draws them into a situation of terrifying consequence. Janette Turner Hospital is a superb stylist with unusual insight and a skill for sensuous description. Based on first-hand knowle. dge, he r portrait of India is exotic and often disturbing. She has written a novel full of passion, atmosphere, and the drama of human interaction." Light edge wear, area of light damp staining on front board. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wr. inkli ng - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, area of faint damp staining on inside front panel/flap-fold. Very Good-/Very Good-. more information

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