Category: Canadian Literature Fiction

The Emperor of Ice-Cream -by Brian Moore -a Signed Copy

By: Moore, Brian (signed) (aka Michael Bryan, Bernard Mara )

Price: $33.68

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Mayflower Books, 1967, 1st UK Paperback Edition, First Printing : 1967

Seller ID: 169070

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------paperback, a solid Very Good example, light wear and rubbing, a bit of age toning to paper, sunning to the spine with some lettering being quite faded, signed without inscription by MOORE, scarce edition but even moreso signed, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey -by Brian Moore -a Signed Copy

By: Moore, Brian (signed) (aka Michael Bryan, Bernard Mara )

Price: $47.18

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: Dell # F147, 1962, 1st Paperback Edition, First Printing ( Canadian Imprint ) : 1962

Seller ID: 169071

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------paperback, a solid Good to Very Good example, light wear and rubbing, a bit of age toning to paper, store stamp, signed and inscribed by MOORE "To John Brian Moore", scarce edition but even moreso signed, this copy is a Canadian imprint which is pretty much identical to the US imprint except for Printed in Canada on the copyright page, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Wake of the Great Sealers ---by Farley Mowat ---Illustrated By David Blackwood

By: Mowat, Farley, Illustrated by David Blackwood

Price: $53.93

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1973, 1st edition, First Printing : 1973

Seller ID: 168116

ISBN-13: 9780771015274

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example but the lettering from the dustjacket has left ghost images of the letters on the cloth of the front board, in a chipped and torn but generally intact attractive Good dustjacket, ---a semi-fictitious account of the lives of Newfoundland sealers in the 19th and early 20th centuries., any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Image for Essays on Canadian Writing # 66 Winter 1998 / Alice Munro Issue (inc. AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque; Women & Narration in Friend of My Youth; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83; AM in The New Yorker; AM's Carried Away, etc)

Essays on Canadian Writing # 66 Winter 1998 / Alice Munro Issue (inc. AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque; Women & Narration in Friend of My Youth; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83; AM in The New Yorker; AM's Carried Away, etc)

By: Munro, Alice (related) Robert Thacker; Magdalene Redekop; Marianne Micros; Deborah Heller; Joann McCaig; W R Martin, Warren U Ober; Nathalie Foy; Dennis Duffy; Carol L Beran; Ildiko De Papp Carrington

Price: $33.68

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Essays on Canadian Writing / ECW, 1998, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1998

Seller ID: 169484

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

----------softcover, about 5.5w x 8.25h inches, a Very Good+ example, a bit of light wear, 232 pages, contents include: Introduction: AM, Writing "Home": "Seeing this Trickle in Time" by Thacker; The Luxury of Excellence: AM in The New Yorker by Beran; Recasting the Orpheus Myth: AM's "The ChildrenStay" and Jean Anouilh's EURYDICE by Carrington; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83 by McCaig; AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque by Redekop; "A Dark Sort of Mirror": "The Love of a Good Woman" as Pauline Poetic byDuffy; Et in Ontario Ego: The Pastoral Ideal and the Blazon ...
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Image for The Progress of Love: Stories By Alice Munro -a Signed Copy (inc. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink )

The Progress of Love: Stories By Alice Munro -a Signed Copy (inc. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink )

By: Munro, Alice (signed)

Price: $80.93

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1986, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing : 1986

Seller ID: 169880

ISBN-13: 9780771066665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------( 2nd printing of the 1st edition ) --- hardcover,a Near Fine example, a tight square clean copy, some age toning to the upper edge of the text block, a bit of light rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards, one corner is ever so slightly bumped, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, --- this contains: The Progress of Love;. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink ), any image direct...
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Cocuklar Kaliyor - Oyku -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Turkish Edition of Love of a Good Woman ) ( çocuklar Kaliyor - Öykü )

By: Munro, Alice (signed), Translated By Cem Alpan

Price: $202.43

Publisher: Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey: Can Sanat Yayinlari, 2012, 1st Turkish Edition, First Printing (assumed ) : 2012

Seller ID: 169254

ISBN-13: 9789750715204

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------softcover, about 5w x 7.5h inches, a Near Fine unread copy,with a Near Fine belly band advert, a wee bit of rubbing to the book abd belly band, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, Honestly can there be any other signed copies out there???, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Amistad De Juventud -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Spanish Edition of Friend of My Youth )

By: Munro, Alice (signed), Translated By Esperanza Perez Moreno

Price: $202.43

Publisher: Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain: Debolsillo, 2010, 1st Spanish Edition, First Printing (assumed ) : 2010

Seller ID: 169255

ISBN-13: 9788499086675

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------softcover, about 5w x 7.5h inches, a Fine unread copy, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, Honestly can there be any other signed copies out there???, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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AEROFLOT: 90 Years in the Air. A History in Posters ( Aeroflot Russian Airlines / Aviation Advertising History )

By: No Author / Aeroflot Russian Airlines ( Foreword By Vitaly Savelyev, General Director )

Price: $168.68

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, No Place ( Russia ): No Publisher ( Aeroflot ), NO DATE ( 2013 ), 1st Edition, First Printing : 1987

Seller ID: 169666

ISBN-13: 9780920428863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, no dustjacket as issued, a couple of small nicks and dimples along the lower edges of the boards and spine tip, 237 pages, packed with colour examples of 90 years af posters, all text is in Russian and English, ---according to an online source: On March 17, 2013, the largest Russian air carrier, Aeroflot airlines, celebrated its 90th anniversary. For this significant date, the anniversary edition "Aeroflot. 90 years in the air. History in posters" has been printed ---The book was presented to guests of the event and honorary employees of Aeroflot. Th...
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Tin Roof: Michael Ondaatje ( # 41 of 50 SIGNED hardcover Copies)( later collected in: Secular Love and The Cinnamon Peeler )

By: Ondaatje, Michael (signed)

Price: $539.93

Publisher: British Columbia, Lantzville, British Columbia: Island Writing Series, 1982, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1982

Seller ID: 169981

ISBN-13: 9780919479937

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

----------( 1st printing of the LIMITED First EDITION ) hardcover, a solid Fair to Good only exlibrary copy, external wear and rubbing mainly to the edges and tips with show through to cardboard under the 'cloth', the publisher calls this a cloth binding but it is really more of a composite covering a la faux leather, signed by Ondaatje on the title page as called for, this has been numbered 41 on the copyright page, clearly a very rare edition of a scarce Ondaatje poetic offering, library marks and stamps and pocket in the book, no library marks on the boards, any image directly beside this ...
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Image for From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected By Michael Ondaatje - INTRODUCTION -Signed By Ondaatje ( Pre-Publication Proof of the Introduction )

From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected By Michael Ondaatje - INTRODUCTION -Signed By Ondaatje ( Pre-Publication Proof of the Introduction )

By: Ondaatje, Michael (signed) ? Lester & Orpen Dennys pre-Publication

Price: $33.68

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990 - PRE-PUBLICATION ( Proof ). 1st Edition, First Printing : 1990

Seller ID: 167707

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, a definite oddity and certainly quite scarce, about 8.5 x 11 inches, coil bound, a Very Good+ example of this pre-publication proof for Ondaatje's introduction for FROM INK LAKE, includes the title page, the contents page for all the stories to be included, and has the 5+ page introduction by MO, signed and inscribed by Ondaatje in his typical near indecipherable script, I think the inscription is " to Tim all best (?) Michael Ondaatje", any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///--sizes are...
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ALPHABETIQUE: 26 Characteristic Fictions -by Molly Peacock -a Signed Copy ( Illustrations / Illustrated By Kara Kosaka )

By: Peacock, Molly (signed)

Price: $26.93

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart ( M&S ), 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing : 2014

Seller ID: 169456

ISBN-13: 9780771070150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, price clipped, signed and inscribed by Peacock "December 2, 2014 For Cathy Happy Birthday A-Z! Molly Peacock, 141 pages, colour illustrations, ---"Take the sumptuousness of Molly Peacock's own #1 bestselling The Paper Garden, the extraordinary creative variety of The Bedside Book of Birds, and the cat-nip-for-language-geeks appeal of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and wrap it around tales rich with wisdom and humanity, and you get Alphabetique: the most gorgeous gift book of the season. -- Molly Peacock has written a new...
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We All are All (and other thoughts on days alone ): DRawings and Words By Jack Pollock ( #44 of 65 copies)

By: Pollock, Jack ( Privately Published By Jack Pollock and Louise Levitt )

Price: $67.43

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Privately Published (by Jack Pollock and Louise Levitt )(designed and Produced at Dreadnaught ), 1980, 1st edition, First Printing : 1980

Seller ID: 167317

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hardcover, a Fine example, housed in a lightly rubbed Near Fine slipcase, no dustjacket as issued, # 44 of 65 copies, this copy does not have the 3 original silkscreen prints which were signed by Pollock, ---really quite rare, a shame about the silkscreen prints being gone, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Image for Selected Poems of Frank Prewett / Exile Editions ( part-Iroquois Ontario Poet / War poetry )(selections from: The Collected Poems / Poems / The Rural Scene )

Selected Poems of Frank Prewett / Exile Editions ( part-Iroquois Ontario Poet / War poetry )(selections from: The Collected Poems / Poems / The Rural Scene )

By: Prewett, Frank (poet); Edited By Bruce Meyer (also Introduction) and Barry Callaghan (also preface) / Exile Editions

Price: $67.43

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Exile Editions, 1987, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1987

Seller ID: 169664

ISBN-13: 9780920428863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, gift inscription, some very faint pencil underlining, 95 pages, b&w photos as well as one illustration (frontispiece), collects 46 poems as well as "Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago: Three Broadcast talks (from 1964 ),, ---from the front flap: Frank 'Toronto' Prewett was a Canadian poet. Born near Mount Forest, Ontario in 1893 probably of part-Iroquois stock, he was raised in Toronto and left in 1915 to fight in the First World War. Wounded and shell shocked, he met Siegfried Sassoon [wh] introduced him...
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All the Bees and All the Keys ---by James Reaney, Music By John Beckwith, Drawings By Rudy McToots / Press Porcepic

By: Reaney, James; Music By John Beckwith; Drawings By Rudy McToots / Press Porcepic

Price: $33.68

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Press Porcepic, 1976, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1976

Seller ID: 168573

ISBN-13: 9780888780591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover,about 9.25 x 12.25 inches, a Near Fine example in a lightly rubbed Near Fine glassine dustjacket, a play with accompanying music, charming illustrations by McToots, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt 1973 - 1996 -a Signed Copy ( Poetry - Poems / Prose )

By: Rosenblatt, Joe (signed) ( Joseph ); Foreword By Michael Bell

Price: $26.93

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, BC: Porcepic Books, an Imprint of Beach Holme Publishing Limited, 1996, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1996

Seller ID: 167953

ISBN-13: 9780888783714

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) softcover, a Near Fine example, signed without inscription by JR, 183 pages, illustrated, ---"Applauded as a witty and eccentric pioneer of Canadian poetry, Joe Rosenblatt is also a talented visual artist. Though several books have included Rosenblatt?s black and white sketches to supplement his poetry, The Voluptuous Gardener is the first book to celebrate Joe Rosenblatt as an artist in his own right. The voluptuous gardener may well be a gardener in Eden, surrounded by the pleasure and innocence of a new world, but also dangerous temptation. ...
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Double-Header: As Is / Lost & Found -by Raymond Souster ( Poems / Poetry )

By: Souster, Raymond

Price: $26.93

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oberon Press, 1975, 1st Collected Edition, First Printing : 1975

Seller ID: 169351

ISBN-13: 9780887501418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, about 5w x 8.75h inches, a Near Fine example, small dimple on front board, in an attractive Very Good dustjacket, light wear and rubbing, small dimple on front panel, this edition collects all the poems from AS IS and LOST & FOUND, , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Telegony: A Story -by Sean Virgo / Punchpenny Press (sequel to Interact which appeared in White Lies & Other Fictions plus 2 )

By: Virgo, Sean / Punchpenny Press # 91 of 100 Numbered Copies

Price: $67.43

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB: Punchpenny Press, 1998, 1st Edition, First Printing : 1998

Seller ID: 169478

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------softcover, chapbook, a Near Fine example, ever so slight bump to lower fore edge corner, a sequel to a much ealier story published in White Lies & Other Fictions plus 2 which was published by Exile editions, this is copy # 91 of 100 numbered copies, scarce-, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---
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Category: Canadian Literature Fiction