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1) Room of One's Own, Volume 24-2: Translations of Flesh

Vancouver, 2001. Literary Journal. A near fine trade paperback.. JOURNAL FICTION SHORT STORIES. more information

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2) Black in the Saddle Again
Black, Arthur

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1997. Essays. First Paperback Edition, a fine trade paperback. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. . ISBN: 0-7737-5914-X. CANADA CANADIAN AUTHORS HUMOR HUMOUR ESSAYS. more information

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3) Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990
Bloom, Allan

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. First Edition. A near fine copy, small stain across page ends, in a near fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-671-70777-9. ESSAYS. more information

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4) Native Informant : Essays on Film, Fiction, & Popular Culture
Braudy, Leo

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1991. A near fine copy, minor shelfwear, in a near fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-19-505274-9. FILM ESSAYS ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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5) The Bedside Guardian 38
de Jongh, Nicholas, editor

London: William Collins & Sons Limited, 1989. A selection of articles from The Guardian 1988-89. Introduction by Ian McKellen. Illustrated with black & white photos. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0002235722. COLLECTIONS JOURNALS ESSAYS FICTION. more information

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6) Four German Writers
Eichner, Hans

Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1964. Seven radio lectures on Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Bertoldt Brecht, broadcast on CBC University of the Air, by Eichner, a professor of German at Queen's University. A near fine trade paperback, pages tight, slight discolouration of card cover.. MANN KAFKA RILKE BRECHT GERMAN WRITERS BIOGRAPHY LITERARY ANALYSIS. more information

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7) Writers Revealed: Anthony Burgess, Sara Maitland, Brian Moore, John Mortimer, Iris Murdoch, Piers Paul Read, Bernice Rubens, A N Wilson in Conversation With Rosemary Hartill
Hartill, Rosemary (editor)

London: BBC Publications, 1986. Writers' own comments on how and why they write as they do. Paperback, pages darkened at edges but clean and tight.. ISBN: 0-563-20734-5. BIOGRAPHY ESSAYS. more information

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8) Everyone Hates a Beauty Queen: Provocative Opinions and Irreverent Humour
Harvey, Kenneth J

Toronto: Exile Editions Ltd., 1998. Essays. A near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 1550962523. ESSAYS. more information

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9) The Pushcart Prize VIII : Best of the Small Presses
Henderson, Bill (editor)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1984. "Collection of works by more than 50 poets essayists and storytellers." First Paperback Edition, a near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 0380678683. ESSAYS SHORT STORIES. more information

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10) Dante Today, Special Spring & Fall Volume Quaderni d'italianistica
Iannucci, Amilcare A (editor)

Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Society for Italian Studies, 1989. Volume 10. No 1-2. First Edition. A fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 000226-8043. ESSAYS AUTHORS WRITERS. more information

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11) Talk, Talk, Talk
Ingram, Jay

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1992. First Canadian Edition, a fine copy, signed by the author on the title page, in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-670-84012-2. ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE ESSAYS. more information

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12) Crazy About Gardening: Reflections On The Sweet Seductions Of A Garden
Kennedy, Des

Vancouver: Whitecap Books Ltd, 1994. A near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 1551101378. ESSAYS GARDENING. more information

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13) Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Lessing, Doris

Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1986. Text of five lectures broadcast on CBC Ideas in October, 1985. Very good softcover, ex-libris stamp at top of title page, no other markings. . ISBN: 0-88794-244-X. COLLECTIONS LECTURES. more information

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14) Selected Epigrams
Martial

Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc.. First Thus, translated and with an introduction by Ralph Marcellino. The Library of Liberal Arts. A very good trade paperback, pages clean and tight, cover slightly faded.. ESSAYS. more information

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15) Steppenwolf and Everyman: Outsiders and Conformists in Contemporary Literature
Mayer, Hans

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971. Eleven essays on literature and the social conflict by a leading Marxist critic. Includes criticicm on Durrenmatt, Grass, Ionesco, Brecht, Hesse, Pasternak, Musil, Sartre, Wilder, Mann, Gombrowicz. Translated and with an introduction by Jack D Zipes. A very good paperback copy, light wear along page edges. . ESSAYS LITERATURE POLITICS. more information

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16) The Geography of Voice: Canadian Literature of the South Asian Diaspora
McGifford, Diane (editor)

Toronto: Tsar Publications, 1992. A fine trade paperback, 274pp. Anthology includes writers originally from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, East and South Africa and the Caribbean who now reside in Canada. First Edition.. ISBN: 0-920661-27-0. ESSAYS SHORT STORIES. more information

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17) The Man Made Of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages
Momaday, N Scott

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-312-15581-6. ESSAYS STORIES FICTION. more information

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18) On the Scope and Nature of University Education
Newman, Cardinal John Henry

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1956. Everyman's Library No. 723. Very good with red cloth-covered boards, previous owner's name on front-facing endpaper. In a lightly worn red dustjacket. . ESSAYS EDUCATION. more information

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19) Places In The Heart, The Best of Warwick Roger
Roger, Warwick

London: Century Hutchison, 1989. A near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 1869410580. ESSAYS JOURNALISM. more information

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20) Children of the Earth : Literature, Politics, & Nationhood
Shell, Marc

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1993. Review copy, publisher's review stamp on front-facing endpage, price clipped dustjacket, otherwise fine.. ISBN: 0-19-506864-5. ESSAYS NATIONALISM POLITICS ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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21) In the Midst: Writings 1962-1992
Tallman, Warren

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992. Literary criticism. First Edition. A near fine trade paperback, one short scratch at front spine edge.. ISBN: 0-88922-308-4. ESSAYS. more information

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22) The Lillian Lectures
[Unterwang, Mildred] Agnew, Wendy

New Providence, NJ, U.S.A.: BPR Publishers, 1999. First Edition, trade paperback. Poetry, exploring gender stereotypes and a new approach to religion.. ISBN: 1-55245-015-5. Illus. by Moore, Doug (illustrator); Geinsburger, Flint (illustrator). WOMEN FEMINISM HUMOR HUMOUR ESSAYS. more information

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