CANADIAN LITERATURE

Moonstone, ON: Penumbra Press, 1980 77 pages. Features a collection of material by Yvonne McKague Housser. Unmarked. Moderate wear and soiling.. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: McArthur & Company, 2000 349 pages. Funny, moving and wonderfully insightful, JUMP is both a love story and a cri de coeur from Canada's most romantic city, caught, like Myra, in the throes of change. Touch of curl to front cover. Attractive illustrated covers.. First Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: MacMillan, 1975 122 pages. The selections here represent the multifaceted response to the prairies, and together, they aim at re-creating the prairie experience. Several school stamps, etc, else unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice solid copy.. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former School Text. more information

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Canada: Impertenent Press, 1993 132 pages. "Exposes the perils of lesbian relationships in this collection of 10 provocative and unusual stories. Author writes convincingly about loss, longing, betrayal, and even the occasional lucky break. Weaving the corporeal with the spiritual, she demonstrates that love is, ultimately, the bond that holds the universe together." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. . First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Prince George, BC, Canada: Caitlin Press, Incorporated, 1998 302 pages. A novel which probes the depth and complexity of human emotions that shape people's lives. Prior owner's details upon half-title page else unmarked. Light wear. Clean. Nice copy in illustrated glossy covers. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: MacMillan, 1976 212 pages including biographical notes. "Modern Canadian writing is far more rooted in the past than we usually care to admit." - from introduction. Crisp and clean with very light wear. Very nice copy. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Wilson Freelance, 1997 128 pages. Stories include: Clambake, The Engineer, The Cowboy Hat, Elmer Saves the Day, and many more. Ink stamp atop title page else unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Sound working copy.. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Berryman, Jason (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lantzville, BC, Canada: Oolichan Books, 1991 117 pages. A collection of 52 contemplative essays celebrating the seasonal cycles of island life. He seeks a life free of despair by discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary and by learning to see the unity of life dwelling in all embodied existence. Smoke, apple pressing, clam-digging, driftwood, rocks, or roses become inspirations for his celebrations of the specific.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1985 324 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Set in the near future in a locale resembling Cambridge Massachusetts, this work describes life in what was once the United States. "A Clockwork Orange, as seen by women." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with modest wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Totem, 1987 216 pages. Index of recipes. "...This may not be the most useful foodbook you will ever read. On the other hand, it may be the most eclectic.... A civilized literary symposium on the subject of food, containing, as it does, a great many extracts selected from Canadian poetry and prose, past, present, and coast-to-coast, on the subject of some of the things people put into their mouths with a view to ingestion. Viewed another way, it's a collection of recipes preceded by some amusing verbal shenanigans." - from back cover. Bit of writing inside front cover and atop half-title page. Average wear. Bit of curl to front cover. A sound copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Atwood, Margaret. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Victoria, BC, Canada: Ekstasis Editions, 1984 40 pages. "Poetry investigating the theme of dual sexuality with both sensitivity and courage, and relates it to the even larger themes of the nature of individual human identity... In its combination of the confessional and the philosophical, and in its fusion of the meditative and narrative modes, this book is a step forward in author's poetry and therefore a step forward for poetry in Canada." - Robin Skelton. Very light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. . Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Lowry, Miles. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Simcoe, ON, Canada: Davus Publishing, 1996 220 pages. "It is V.E. Day in Hamilton, Ontario. Tom Davis, 20 year-old law student at Osgoode Hall, runs into Skip Burke, his ice-hockey hero before the War, invites him to dinner, and introduces him to dinner, and invites him to Hamilton society with romantic consequences - complicated by perceptions of class." Very light wear. Attractive illustrated covers. One inch crease to bottom corner of back cover. Gift greetings beneath introduction signed by "Viola and Dave." This may be a presentation copy from author and his wife. Excellent copy.. Special Sesquicentennial Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lantzville, British Columbia, Canada: Oolichan Books, 1990 196 pages. "A complex, contemporary voice." - Edna Alford. Author's signature upon half-title page else tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy.. Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1980 173 pages. A personal and revealing selection of twelve new stories by Canadian women. Ranging from warmth and grace to the bitingly angry, these stories share the clarity and honesty of women describing women's lives. Average wear. Unmarked. . First Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Mosaic Press, 1978 95 pages. "This is a first collection of my prose narratives and essays. The ten pieces roam about from the B.C. coast to the Peruvian Andes." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Sound copy. . Good/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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Canada: Knopf, 1992 308 pages. "Takes us into the heart of a city, into the lives of men and women struggling with the lives of everyday life, with the lure of corruption and high living, and with the meaning of faithfulness, betrayal and love." - from dust jacket. Book virtually as new; clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket in excellent condition but for one inch by one-half inch chip from base of back panel. Very nice copy overall. . First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Talonbooks, 1977 191 pages. "Two Ontario detectives search for Evangeline and George Bowering as he comes to terms with the disappointments and pleasures of growing up Canadian." - from back cover. Average wear. Price sticker remnant on front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 1985 305 pages. "The bittersweet, marvellously comic story of the turbulent relationship between a woman with a dream... and a man with a scheme." - from back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Solid copy.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated, 1990 222 pages. "The third novel is a series of historical novels... Takes Emma, now nearly 16, out of the hotel and she meets Abner Freeman, the shopkeeper, his invalid wife Rose, and their teen-aged son Charlie." - from back cover. Ink stamp to half-title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. . Soft Cover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Oberon Press, 1983 104 pages. "Most of these stories deal with the lives of women and the relationships of women to women, mothers, daughters, aunts, cousins. These are the relationships that endure, the things that ultimately matter." - from back cover. Unmarked. Above-average wear. . Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada: Creative Writing Club, Malaspina College Student Council, 1978 51 pages. With contributions from: T.E. Alcorn, Mildred Macleod, J.B. Harestad, B.W. Grome, Myrtle Bergen, Tracy Addison, Winona Baker, Mae Hill Brown, Ethel Layer, Keven Roberts, Sharon Fearon, Louise Monette, Andy Mathisen, Donis Ruf, John Tutlis and Tim Merrill, Some writing in red pen atop title page.. Stapled. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Sherwood, Debbie. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada: Creative Writing Club, Malaspina College Student Council, 1977 70 pages. With contributions from: Ellen Rose, T.E. Alcorn, Mildred Macleod, J.B. Harestad, B.W. Grome, Myrtle Bergen, Earla-Kim McColl, Tracy Addison, Noreen Elliott, Winona Baker, Mildred Tremblay, Mae Hill Brown and Ethel Layer. Some writing in red pen atop title page.. Stapled. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Sherwood, Debbie. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Saltspring Island, BC, Canada: Glendambo Publishing, 1997 155 pages. It can happen anywhere: random violence, terrorism, cruelty, but there are some who will not go gently into that dark night. Superb... an international thriller right out of today's headlines.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Self-Published, 1992 120 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon title page. Author has laboured as a welder, blacksmith, carpenter, boat builder, logger, commercial fisherman, art teacher, wilderness fur trapper, hard rock miner, and homesteader. During the same 25 year period he has maintained a serious commitment to the arts of both painting and sculpture. These experiences are the raw material from which these poems were forged. Cover features photo of author's welded sculture named "Raven Lady.". Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: Playwrights Canada Press, 2000 175 pages. Part dialogue, part narrative, part playscript, this unique book contains the award-winning play Jessica, as well as the extraordinary story of its making. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing Company, Limited, 1993 223 pages. A collection of stories by a natural born recycler, do-it-yourselfer, tinkerer and packrat. Basic survival in the world of Haywire includes beat-up old Pintos, guitars, bottles of rum, etc. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, Canada: The Ryerson Press 148 pages including index. Undated. Bookplate inside front cover. Lovely condition. Brilliant gilt lettering and decoration upon navy spine. Light wear. Unmarked. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, Canada: Irwin Publishing Prior owner's name inside front cover of The Book of Small, else all books unmarked. All books with glossy colour illustrated covers. Some lean to spines and light to moderate wear overall. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1945 222 pages. Colour frontispiece of 'Billie' the dog. Hard cover library binding with usual markings. Average wear. A worthy reading copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Carr, Emily. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Toronto, Canada: Anansi Press Limited., 1987 529 pages in illustrated glossy red card covers. Le Chef, the Premier of Quebec, boss of "The Right Party", decides to put a vote-getting highway through a sleepy backwoods village. A robustly entertaining saga of love, politics and corruption in the fictional province author has made his own. Prior owner's signature upon half-title page else unmarked. Moderate wear. . Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Victoria, BC, Canada: Ekstasis Editions, 1999 108 pages. Slight curl to front cover. Author is recognized internationally as Canada's physician/poet. A practicing psychiatrist who lives in Toronto, he is author of five previous books of poetry. In this book, author walks a circus tightrope between the absurd and the absurdly real, the extraordinary and the quotidien. A parade of figures from the Human Comedy, both benevolent and malign, that grace and haunt our daily lives.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Self-Published, 2000 344 pages. The fictional account of a family of homesteaders in the Land of the Mighty Peace. "... about the strength and courage required to survive that land but mostly it is about a sense of place, the homes we all lived in and the lives we've left behind." - from back cover. Author was born in the Peace River Country in 1917. She has signed and inscribed this copy upon the first blank page, otherwise the book is unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.. SIGNED. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Red Deer, AB: The Kingfisher Press, 1979 193 pages. "I hope this book will have as pleasant a reception as did Once Upon a Childhood, and that it will seem to be not just about my own little town but of all the other little towns like it the world over." - from the Introduction. Includes many black and white illustrations. Two creases to the front cover. Reading creases to spine. Unmarked. Average wear. Light staining to bottom edge of text and front cover. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ash, Edwin E.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Clinch Mountain Publishing, 1990 240 pages. Author's signature upon title page. "Mix one very beautiful blond, a Private Eye with a penchant for bourbon and a heart for a sob story, and stir well. Add an unorthodox feud between a mountain recluse with a long memory and a local do-gooder with a warped sense of virtue... and you have the makings for a private down home war wiht P.I. Sam Tenase caught square in the middle." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with glossy covers and negligible wear. Excellent copy.. Signed. Soft Cover. Fine+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Editions du Club Quebec loisirs, 1993 Over 595 pages. "Six cents pages de depaysement, de rebondissements. Bref, un bon divertissement qui amene, a quelques occasions, de la buee dans les yeux." - Francine Baudouin, La voix de l'Est. Written in French. Nice copy with only light wear to book and dust jacket. Dust jacket features colour artwork of Gilbert Raffin. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Oolichan Books, 2000 431 pages. "Leaving behind a job, a basement apartment, and a brooding, art-obsessed boyfriend, Elsie Leggett embarks on a journey to the west coast of Canada." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. . Signed. Soft Cover. Fine+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Markham, ON, Canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited, 1986 219 pages. "Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, Mazo do la Roche, Hugh MacLennan, and Robertson Davies - these and many other Canadian writers are featured in this distinguished anthology of stories, poems, recollections, recipes and games: a truly warmhearted collection of the finest of Canadian Christmas from the 17th century to the present day. - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Vancouver, B.C.: New West Press Co. Ltd., 1982 347 pages. Canadian story-teller Marion Crook crafts three fast moving tales of human deception: A Deep and Singular Greed; Body in the Barn; Salmon River Run. Author's signature upon title page else unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Nice copy.. Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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British Columbia: Crook Publishing, 1985 240 pages. In June of 1886 the new city of Vancouver bustles with a growing population and increasing opportunities for business and trade. When Amy MacDonald, the school teacher at Hastings Mill, discovers new Winchester '86 rifles are being smuggled through the city she tries to enlist the aid of the earnest but slow-witted provincial policema. She involves the Royal North West Mounted, a curious local newspaperman, a businessman, a knowledgeable woman of the street, and her irrepressible younger borther in her efforts to prevent the contraband from flowing to the Metis rebels in the North West. Vancouver life is complicated by the murder of a Metis and the persecution of the Chinese living in the city. Within the social limits placed on women in Vancouver of 1886, Amy tries to obtain justice. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: MacMillan, 1970 314 pages. "Davies combines his comic and story-telling abilities with his force as a critic and scholar to creat his most brilliant and most important novel." - from dust jacket. Orange cloth-covered boards. Prior owner's name at top of half-title page else unmarked.. Some lean to spine. Moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Solid copy.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1977 124 pages. Rural Canada in this and the last century is wittingly and entertainingly presented to us in two of Robertson Davies' most popular plays. An author's epilogue on the two plays adds scholarship to pleasure in its examination of the relation between the two plays and of their individual dramatic character. A little above average wear. Sticker scar and bit of writing atop front cover. Bookplate or pocket has been removed from inside front cover. Contents unmarked. Does not appear to be a former library copy. Good reading copy. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Fair+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited, 1974 288 pages including bibliography. Moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Regina, SK, Canada: Coteau Books, 1993 193 pages. A first novel from the winner of the 191 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award and nominee for the 1991 Governor-General's Award for Fiction. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Victoria, BC, Canada: Orca Book Publishers, 1993 181 pages. When truth and myth collide, what we are left with are ambiguity and doubt, conditions that leave us all doubtful guests. Moderate wear. Unmarked. . Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing Company, Limited, 1981 166 pages. An exciting outdoor adventure in which the author returns to the Skeena River country of his earlier classic, Mist on the River, to tell the story of a modern Indian youth whose desire to safeguard the traditional values of his people leads him into confrontation with a pushy white promoter Belile, who is intent upon turning the quiet village of Pitchpine into a seamy tourist trap. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Vancouver, B.C. Canada: Talonbooks, Limited, 1985 206 pages. A collection of fiction writing. "An industrial biography of the Canadian Northwest." "Clear, incisive and honest statements about today's world. Not to be missed." - CHQM Radio, Vancouver. Glossy laminated covers. Light pencil marks upon front endpaper and table of contents. Moderate wear. . First Printing. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Laughing Willow Books, 1995 162 pages. Winners of the Federation of BC Writers' Festival Competition. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. . Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1996 683 pages. Brings together fifteen of the most significant plays published in Canadian Theatre Review between 1974 and 1991. Most have been out of print since their appearance in the journal. Includes lost classics such as Ten Lost Years and This is For You, Anna. Moderate wear. Average quantity of markings to contents. Rubber stamp upon half-title page. Solid copy in bright red covers. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Self-Published, 1994 119 pages. Lengthy inscription and signature of author atop title page. Prior owner's details upon back page. Average wear.. Signed. Spiral. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1993 440 pages. It all starts when Lilah Kemp, one-time librarian and sometime spiritualist, inadvertently lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Heart of Darkness and is unable to get him back in. Light wear to clean book. Prior owner's info. inside frontboard else unmarked. Minor moisture exposure at head of spine has cause maroon ink to bleed onto inside (only) of dust jacket. This has caused a minor fading to that portion of book. One inch tear to dust jacket at top of front fore-edge. Nice copy.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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