Publisher:
Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1989. First edition, limited.
Seller ID: 57062
Brown cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Ownership ink stamp on the copyright page, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is #40 of 150 signed and numbered copies. View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. First printing.
Seller ID: 57063
Blue boards, spine lettered in silver. Lower edge slightly bumped, a fine copy in a like dust jacket. Inscribed and signed to Al Purdy on the divisional half-title page. "For Al Purdy with / thanks and appreciation, / Alistair MacLeod". A note laid in states that this book was bought at the garage sale held at his house after Purdy's death. View More...
Carboro: Truck Press, (1975). First edition. Plain, unlettered light brown cloth. Gray-blue end papers. This is copy Q of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Marlatt, of an edition of 526. A fine copy. View More...
Vancouver: Georgia Straight Writing Supplement: Vancouver Series #3, 1971. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.5 X 11 inches. Limited to 400 copies. This is Larry Eigner's copy, quite beat-up, with wear to the spine ends and edges. Typically, he has used colored pens on the first leaf. Also there is a note in his hand on the first page: "September 3/71 / reading at VAG / day RINGS came out". A nice association copy. Eigner and Marlatt knew each other - the Eigner collection at Stanford contains a number of letters from Marlatt to him, from the period 1969 - 1977. View More...
[Victoria]: Oolichan Books, 1978. First edition. A poetry broadside, measuring 8 X 13 inches. Printed in red & black. Fine condition. Limited to 126 copies, this is one of 100 numbered, signed by Marshall. Printed by Morriss Printing Company, published to coincide with the author's reading of The West Coast Trail Poems in Ucluelet. Nicely printed. View More...
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1957). First edition.
Seller ID: 56847
Two-tone boards, blue & black, spine lettered in blue. Some wear to lower edge, a very good copy in a slightly chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. Not a bad copy. Beneath a 1957 non-authorial inscription, the author has inscribed the book in 2003: "To Rachel [Wyatt] / wishing you a happy everything! / an old book / with much love, / Joyce". A curious novel of a troubled marriage, set in Toronto. Very scarce. View More...
[126pp.]. Original green cloth, front cover designed and lettered in black. Text block stapled. Some wear to edges, front fly leaf lacking, evidence of some glue repair to inner front hinge; a sound, very good copy otherwise. Introduction by Dr. E. Blackadder. Matheson was a Nova Scotian, principal of a school in Halifax. Several long poems concern Nova Scotia, and the Micmacs; numerous shorter poems are on the subject of the Great War. A second edition appeared in 1919, and ran to 152pp. View More...
Burnaby: Blackfish, 1971. First edition. 7 leaves loose in a hand-sewn portfolio. Some yellow spotting of title leaf, but fine. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Mayne. View More...
Toronto: Anonbeyond Press, 1978. First edition. Eight small printed sheets, each with a brief poem (authorship not identified), laid into a folded, illustrated terracotta sheet. Limited to 100 copies, signed by McCaffery and Smith; this is copy #26. Small price in pencil on front cover, a fine copy. View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: William Briggs, 1912. First edition.
Seller ID: 50621
Green pictorial cloth designed in black & white, lettered in gilt. Large piece cut from the front end paper, old stain to the lower corner of the first 20 pages; otherwise, this is a really bright and attractive copy, with the spine lettering totally bright & intact. Contains the title story and seven short stories. View More...
A broadside poem on a single sheet measuring about 7.5 x 9 inches. Cream paper. Printed in an edition of 126 copies. Signed by McKinnon. Slight wrinkle to margin, a fine copy. View More...
A broadside poem on a single sheet measuring about 7.5 x 9 inches. Cream paper, printed in red & black. Printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies in March 1979. Signed by McKinnon. Slight wrinkle to margin, a fine copy. View More...
Publisher:
Vancouver: Blewointmentpress, 1973. First edition.
Seller ID: 55938
8.5 x 11 inches, decorated wrappers, stapled. Modest edge wear, a few stains to front wrappers, a nice copy. Inscribed and signed by McKinnon on the front cover. View More...
Publisher:
(Vancouver: William Hoffer/TANKS, 1987).
Seller ID: 53007
Original stiff cream wrappers, front cover illustration by Carol Moisseiwitsch. This is one of 100 numbered copies, signed by Metcalf, of an edition of 1000. A fine copy. A powerful statement against the government funding of art, i.e. The Canada Council. Woodsworth A44b. View More...
Publisher:
Calgary: Housepress, [c.1996] First edition.
Seller ID: 55932
Small white wrappers, stitched. Linocut cover by Derek Beaulieu. Copy #16 of 60 copies signed by Miki (and with a second, unidentified signature). Fine condition. Miki, born in Winnipeg of Japanese-Canadian parents, has been a powerful force in the fight for redress from the federal government, for Japanese-Canadians who were subject to internment during the second world war. He has been awarded the Order Of Canada and the Order Of British Columbia, and he is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Canada. His 2001 poetry collection, Surrender, won the 2002 Governor General's Award for Poetry. View More...
[Vancouver]: powell street revue, 1977. Limited to 300 copies. A poetry broadside on cream stock, measuring 10 X 26 inches. Some tiny nicks to edges, but in fine condition. A lengthy poem in two columns, with the author's name and the date printed at the bottom. Miki, born in Winnipeg of Japanese-Canadian parents, has been a powerful force in the fight for redress from the federal government, for Japanese-Canadians who were subject to internment during the second world war. He has been awarded the Order Of Canada and the Order Of British Columbia, and he is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Can... View More...
Warsaw: Nasza Ksiegarnia, 1957. Flexible yellow pictorial cloth designed in black and green. [272] pages. Illustrated. Slight dampstain to lower edge, covers a bit bowed, in general a clean very good copy. A Polish translation of Anne of the Islands; translation is by Janina Zawisza Krasucka, illustrations by Bogdan Zieleniec. View More...
Publisher:
London: John Bale, 1931. First edition.
Seller ID: 56689
Orange boards lettered in black. A clean very good copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, a few tape repairs to the inner jacket, some small chips to edges. Ownership inscription on the front end paper dated 1932. Signed by the author on the title page. A scarce novel of a girl's life in Ontario. Of Irene Moody: "Irene Helen Hawkins Moody [1879-1958] was born in St. Thomas, Ontario to parents who emigrated from the Island of Guernsey, she was educated at the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, Alma College, and the Curry School of Expression. Upon her 1905 marriage to Dr. William Moody (1881-1912),... View More...
Vancouver: Pons Press, 1968. First edition. Yellow wraps designed in black. Some dust soiling, about fine. Signed by Moore on the inner front cover, dated 1970. Limited to 1000 copies. Scarce. View More...
Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2007. First edition. Gray cloth, printed paper label on front cover. Gray end papers. A fine copy. This is one of 50 numbered copies bound in cloth, of a total edition of 200. A collection of verse. View More...
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