Category: Canlit

The Swab's Prayer.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 53480

[Vancouver], 1976. Broadside, a single sheet measuring 8.75 X 8.5 inches. Cream stock, text printed in black, type ornaments in magenta at top & bottom. Fine condition. At the bottom is printed: Brad Robinson / For the crew of the Sechelt Queen / Xmas, MCMLXXVI.
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Snake Oil. A Portfolio of drawings by Joe Rosenblatt.

By: Rosenblatt (Joe)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54270

Toronto: Exile Editions, (1978). First edition. Loose leaves in a green cloth portfolio. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Rosenblatt. Some faint dust soiling, but fine in a fine portfolio. Nicely printed, the binding by The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario.
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Road Trips.

By: Rosenblum (Rebecca)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54819

Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2010. First edition. Green & white pictorial cloth, green end papers. Three rather attractive illustrations by an unknown artist. A fine copy. This is one of 30 copies bound in cloth, of a total edition of 100. A short prose work.
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The Wreck Of The White Bear, East Indiaman.

By: Ross (Mrs [Ellen])

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 52815

Two Volumes. Montreal: John Lovell, 1870. First edition. Blue-green cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in gilt script. Brown coated end papers. Some chipping to lower spines, shelf wear to edges and a bit of foxing, back cover of Volume 2 spotted and discolored, one signature starting in Volume 1; a very good set otherwise. The author, whose full name was Ellen Edith Alice McGregor Stalker Ross, came to Canada from Scotland in the early 1850s. She was the author of the novel VIOLET KEITH (1868), and several others. Copies of this novel are known in brown, maroon and ...
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Red Bandana on the Night Train.

By: Safarik (Allan)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 53276

Burnaby: Blackfish Press, 1976. First edition. An illustrated poetry broadside, drawing by Leonard Brett. A single sheet measuring 9.5 X 14.5 inches. Fine condition. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Safarik.
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Harper of Heaven. A Further Adventure Into Memory.

By: Service (Robert W.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: Benn, (1948). First British edition.

Seller ID: 57094

Light brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. A nice clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, some chips from spine extremities and corners. The second volume of Service's autobiography, preceded by Ploughman of the Moon (1945). The American edition appeared from Dodd, Mead, also in 1948. Mitham A28b.
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Ploughman of the Moon. An Adventure Into Memory.

By: Service (Robert W.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: Benn, 1946. First British edition.

Seller ID: 57095

Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Photographic frontispiece of the author. A nice clean copy in the pictorial dust jacket, a little wear to corners and upper spine. The first volume of Service's autobiography, followed by Harper of Heaven (1948). The American edition appeared from Dodd, Mead in 1945. Mitham A27b.
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A List Of The Mammals Of Manitoba. By Ernest E. Thompson.

By: Seton (Ernest Thompson) [Ernest E. Thompson]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: [Toronto, Printed at the Oxford Press, 1887].

Seller ID: 56723

Original pictorial wrappers. 26pp. Illustrated title page and several illustrations in the text. Old yellowed tape marks to covers, lower corner chipped, splitting along lower spine, ownership signatures on front cover and title, a few folded page corners, a very good copy otherwise. Issued as Transactions of the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society, No. 23, May, 1886. Expanded from the very rare first edition ["The Mammals of Manitoba", 15pp., 1886, not illustrated], this is Seton's first published work. According the the bibliography of Seton (Doubleday, 1925, pg. 15-16), this expanded...
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In Laban's Field.

By: Sibum (Norm)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 52664

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1988. First edition. Red cloth, black leather spine designed and lettered in gilt. Brown end papers. A fine copy in the matching red cloth slipcase. This is one of 26 lettered copies, bound by Courtland Benson, signed by Sibum on the title page. Woodsworth A56.
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The Shadows of Beauty Lengthen.

By: Sibum (Norm)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 52202

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1983. First edition. A broadside poem on a single sheet, measuring 9 X 13 inches. Printed in black and ruled in orange. Fine condition. Designed by Robert Bringhurst, this is one of 300 numbered copies, created for free distribution at the 1983 Vancouver Antiquarian Book Fair. An additional 26 copies were issued signed, in cloth bindings. An attractive and uncommon broadside. Woodsworth A30a.
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In The Jazz Vestibule.

By: Skarstedt (Sonja A.)

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Montreal: SAS, 1993. First edition.

Seller ID: 56759

Original grey porous wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Green end papers. A 24-page poetry booklet. This is copy #5 of ten copies, numbered and signed. "a chapbook produced in honour of Ralph Gustafson's Birthday Saturday August 14th, 1993". Obviously, scarce.
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Patmos and Other Poems.

By: Skelton (Robin)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1955). First edition.

Seller ID: 55406

Patterned boards printed in red & green. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, a couple of tiny tears at edges; really quite a nice copy.
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the hold of our hands. eight letters to Sylvia.

By: Skelton (Robin)

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 54736

Victoria: Privately Printed, 1968. First edition. Beige cloth designed and lettered in blue. Blue end papers. Boards slightly bent, but a fine copy. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Robin Skelton, this copy additionally inscribed "With love from Sylvia".
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I'm Coming Back!

By: Smart (Elizabeth)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 52808

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1991. First edition. A single sheet, 11 X 17 inches, once folded to make a 4-page booklet. A fine copy. Limited to 300 copies. Published for free distribution at the Sydney Book Fair, October 17-21, 1991. Smart's original typescript about her visit to Australia is reproduced, faced with a transcription. Woodsworth A59.
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The Mirror. Betty's Bar, York.

By: Souster (Raymond)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54918

[Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969]. An illustrated poetry broadside/leaflet, one sheet once folded to make a booklet measuring 8 x 11 inches. Fine condition. Prints the title poem and another: Late Arrival. This was issued in the Unicorn Press folio Series 3, No. 1: A Canadian Folio, issued in 1969 in an edition of 375 copies.
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Queen City. Poems by Raymond Souster. Photographs by Bill Brooks.

By: Souster (Raymond) and Bill Brooks.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 52379

Toronto: Oberon Press, 1984. First edition. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. This is copy V of 26 lettered copies, signed by Souster and Brooks on a laid-in slip.
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At Split Rock Falls by Raymond Souster [with] Four Poems by R.G. Everson.

By: Souster (Raymond) and R.G. Everson.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54632

Norwich, Vermont: American Letters Press, 1963. First editions. The Souster is a single leaf, once folded to make a small booklet; the Everson is an 8-page booklet, stapled into green stiff printed wrappes. Light wear to to upper edge of the Souster, otherwise condition is fine. The two booklets accompanied by a letter to a Canadian poet from the publisher, typed, November 19, 1964. The publisher, Ritchie Darling, mentions the publication of the two booklets, and mentions his new press: The Green Knight Press.
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What is Behavioralism? Thoughts on the Crisis in the Social Sciences.

By: Stankiewicz (W.J.)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 52303

West Chesterfield: Girs Press, 1971. First edition. Stiff brown pictorial wrappers in a plain dust jacket, machine-numbered on the front cover. Illustrated end papers. A little bumping to corners, but a fine copy. This is copy number 92 of an edition of 333 copies, and is one of 133 containing a lithograph signed by the artist, Maria A. Girs. Stankiewicz was Professor of Political Science at the University Of British Columbia.
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Almighty Voice.

By: Suknaski (Andrew)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54908

[Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1976]. First edition. A broadside poem, one sheet measuring 6.25 x 14.5 inches. Printed in 4 colours. Fine condition. Issued as Dreadnaught 52 Pickup 39 [edited by Greg Gatenby, 100 copies published]. Offered here singly, not often seen.
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Moses Beauchamp for mike olito

By: Suknaski (Andrew)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54031

[Winnipeg?]; Turnstone Press, 1978. An illustrated poetry broadside, measuring 18.5 X 14 inches. Fine condition. 250 copies printed.
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Category: Canlit