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Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679311408 . Pink hard covers with silver titles to the spine. Tightly, bound, bright & unmarked. **Signed by Coupland on the title page. Small mark on the front cover, sharp corners. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "Members of the Drummond family descend upon Florida to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah, but their trip is turned upside down by a series of mishaps, coincidences, and bizarre events--including kidnapping, gunplay, and black-market negotiations. By the author of Miss Wyoming." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 279 pages; Signed by Author .

Viking Adult. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670858390 . Blue hard boards with white cloth spine covering, gilt titles to the spine. In As New condition. The DJ is clipped and is in Near Fine condition with light cover scuffing. "April Stevens' spare prose and ear for the varied vernacular of life-styles and generations make her debut novel a wonderfully appealing, and quietly penetrating, study in remembrance and regeneration. A droll and poignant novel of family dysfunction." ; 1 x 7.9 x 5.6 Inches; 211 pages .

Vintage Canada. Fine+ with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paperback. 0676973612 . Trade Paperback, both copies are in Fine condition, tightly bound, a bright, unmarked inteiror. In The Skin of The Lion Published 1996 with 244 pgs. Anil's Ghost published 2001 with 311 pgs. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 555 pages .

Douglas & McIntyre. Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Paperback. 1550542583 . Trade Paperback with French flaps. This is a very nice copy with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. In Fine condition with light cover scuffing. "In all of these stories -- about disintegrating relationships, yearning housewives, survivors of political and literary wars, people at the very centre of the Quebec dream and those excluded by it -- the true hero is the city of Montreal itself, a rapidly changing, indefinable city, which not only provides the backdrop of its inhabitant's lives, but is the essential force with which they must deal. "; 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.1 Inches; 208 pages .

David Fickling Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0385751559 . Green / gray hardcovers in Near Fine condition. A solid binding with a bright, unmarked text and light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and also in Near Fine condition. "Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out." ; 8.20 X 5.90 X 1.30 inches; 326 pages .

Penguin Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. Trade paperback. 0140239758 . Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition, a small tear to the back bottom spine hinge. Tight, bright & clean. "The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed." . ; 0.71 x 7.72 x 5.04 Inches; 224 pages .

Pocket Book GC-26. Very Good. 1955. Mass Market Paperback. B00N43ZAQE . A Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition, tightly bound with an unmarked text. Cover edgewear and spine creasing. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Ilustrated by Reginald Marsh. "The classic novel of the lost generation of the 1920's, a vigorous and sweeping a panorama of twentieth century." ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 623 pages .

Picador UK. Very Good+. 1986. Paperback. 0330296108 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good++ condtion. Very moderate cover wear, no creasing to the spine. "A story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma." ; 6.93 X 4.37 X 1.18 inches; 450 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Simon and Pierre / Dundurn. Fine. 2003. Paperback. 1550024566 . Trade Paperback in Fine condition. Tight, bright & unmarked. ; 8.72 X 5.30 X 0.57 inches; 206 pages .

Random House Canada. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0394220439 . White hardcovers in Near fine condition, tight, bright, unmakred. Small black to the bottom edge. First Edition. The DJ Is Very Good ++ condition. Light shelf wear. An extraordinary story of a small group of people whose lives are unexpectedly tested and altered by the sudden arrival of a stanger in their midst." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages .

Vintage Books. Very Good. 1995. Paperback. 0394280903 . Trade Paperback. Very Good, tightly bound, sparse underlining through the book, light tanning to the interior page edges. "A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here, are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha, and Travis. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages .

Vintage Books. As New with no dust jacket. 2003. Trade paperback. 0676974805 . Trade Paperback in As New condition. "Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story set in the rural 'badlands' of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape, and even laying too much store by education can be subtly dangerous. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and hideous events occur - offstage." ; 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.2 Inches; 294 pages .

Harper Collins. Very Good+. 1995. Trade Paperback. 0006479359 . Very Good +, tightly bound and unmarked with light tanning to the interior page edges. "Drunken journalist Miller is sent as a punishment from his Belfast newspaper to small-town Crossmaheart as a replacement for someone who has disappeared. Once there, he falls is love with the missing man's girlfriend." ; 7.48 X 5.04 X 0.79 inches; 261 pages .

Penguin Books. Very Good. 1959. Mass Market. Smaller Trade paperback in very good condition. Unmarked with age yellowing to the pages. Very Good. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 188 pages .

T. D. Davidson. Very Good. 1900. Paperback. Paperback in Very Good condition. Pages are tightly bound, clean & unmarked. Wear to the cover edges, cover scuffing and a small stain to the front cover. A tear to the top spine end and a name written to the back of the frontispiece of the "Doctor". Pictures available. 17th Edition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 78 pages .

Harper Perennial. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. Trade Paperback. 0061098256 . Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, unmarked. "Billy was deposited as an infant on the doorstep of Thomas Mann's home in a basket with a message reading "Eddie's bastard." Eddie, Thomas' son, had died in Vietnam, so now suddenly, Thomas had a grandson and an heir - to the long legacy of the Mann family stories, stretching back to the Civil War." ; 1 x 8 x 5.27 Inches; 384 pages .

London, England: Heinemann. Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 043440263X . Tightly bound with a clean interior, spine ends are bumped and there is tape residue on the covers. An ex-library book with the pocket and stamps. The DJ is unclipped and is covered with a clear plastic covering. " This book follows the progress of a family from the Polish ghetto at the end of the last century, to presnet day England. As of the end of the 60s. "; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 408 pages .

Toronto, Ont: McClelland & Stewart. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2003. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0771037929 . Tan hard boards with grey titles to the spine. In As New condition. Tight, bright, unmarked. The DJ is unclipped in Fine condition. "Set in Ottawa in the 1990s, Garbo Laughs is the quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, a woman inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child. Bent on seeing everything she has missed, Harriet rapidly becomes so saturated with old movies, seen repeatedly and swallowed whole, that she no longer fits into the real world. "; 1.3 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 376 pages .

(1942). Very Good. 1942. Hardcover. B0000EF2EX . Hardcovers, overall Very Good with a solid binding the first 12 pages have some light underlining otherwise a bright, unmarked text. There is some staining to the front free end papers, and the covers and spine are fading with cover edgewear. Illustrations by Jean Oberle. The ilustrations are wonderful and in color. ; Color Illustrations; 10 "; 205 pages .

Paris, France: Geroge Barrie Et Fils. Very Good. 1896. Hard covers. Green buckram boards with title printed on paper attached to the spine. Unmarked and tightly bound, deckled edges, some of the pages are uncut. Light spine end bumping with frontispiece and black & white illustrations by Pierre Vidal. Pages are uneven along the side and bottom edges. ; La Comedie Humaine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 414 pages .