Search Results: Titles starting with H from WhoByBooks

New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An intellectual biography of one of the century's most imprtant thinkers by a towering figure in French intellectual life." Translated by Ross Guberman.

McGill-Queen's University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Germaine Arnaktauyok. An Inuit tale of a boy becoming a man and ' a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment'. Boards tanned at extremities and DJ tanned rubbed and chipped at spine (else VG). PO signature to FFEP. First trade. Signed by both author and illustrator.

New York: Macmillan, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author. BCE news pamphlet about his book is laid in. DJ is somewhat tattered. Small bleed of binding colour to edge papers at heel of spine. Mapped end papers. Probable BOMC.

Toronto: Bantam Books of Canada Ltd, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. What harassed and harried city-dweller has not dreamed of escaping to a quiet place in the country?" An editor with one of the oldest daily newspapers in Canada decides to give it a go... A very personal presentation copy.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Another wide ranging yarn from the award winning author of A Scientific Romance and Stolen Continents.

New York: Viking, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. This is Ms. Wiggins first collection of short stories.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. "The bright buggy wheels and the flying feet of Maida were to take Tillie Shantz, daughter of a Mennonite family, far from home and friends and into a new world of laughter and warmth. Marriage outside the faith meant giving up her family, losing her friends, forsaking lifelong customs-a departure from the secure and serene future that had been planned for her to follow. But it also meant George Bingham's love, an awakening to colour and music, the lure of an expanding, wonderful world for Tillie. "The characters," Mrs. Creighton says, "are without exception entirely imaginary people, except for the horses. They are portraits of fast friends." The author's theme is her strong belief in the individual's control over his own destiny. Tillie's questioning and her decision, her exploration and discovery, are described with understanding and humour; the story of her marriage and her… Read More

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. "The enthralling tale of a young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War, who braves the perils of the wilderness to carry a vital, secret message to Canada.

Charlottetown, PEI: The Acorn Press, 1999. Assumed First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Almost AS NEW. Index, genealogical lists etc.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. From the Pulitzer prize winning author of A Thousand Acres , a grand and exuberant depiction of the world of horse racing.

Menston Yorkshire, England: Scolar Press, 1970. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Facsimile of the original edition in three parts dated 1663, 1664 & 1678. Blue cloth, corners not sharp else FINE. [oversize]

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A bittersweet comedy of a television family's gradual rise to celebrity in Toronto in the sixties and seventies." An early work by the award winning writer of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. French flaps. Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Porcepic Books, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. New and Collected Poems, 1987 - 1999. Part of the Canadian Classic Series. Intro by Dave Godfrey. Great work by this noted poet and novelist.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Rubbing to card cover edges, some interior staining and a 2cm closed tear to an interior text page.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1 cm closed tear to head of DJ spine.

Boston: David R Godine Pub, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A fabulous and memorable work by this writer, signed and dated in 1984 with a lengthy inscription to David (Godine?) on the FFEP. INCLUDED is the Winter 1980/81 issue of The American Scholar (condition: VG, size: 10" x 7", not signed) that first published the essay, Aria: A memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. This essay subsequently became the second chapter of his book and was included in the Best American Essays of the Century edited by Atwan and Oates. An excellent duo. Edge wear to rear lower flap. Imposition error on pg.143 with erratum slip laid in.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Raincoast Books, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. Reading slip laid in. Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

Toronto: Little, Brown (Canada), 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the award winning Newfoundland writer's second book of stories.