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The Butcher's Tales ---by Rikki ---a Signed Copy ( Erica Ducornet )

By: RIKKI (signed) ( Pseudonym of Erica / Rikki Ducornet )

Price: $70.93 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Aya Press, 1980, 1st edition, First Printing: 1980

Seller ID: 165847

ISBN: 0920544215

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

---------large (quarto) softcover, a Very Good+ copy with just a wee hint of rubbing and flaking to the front panel with some darker paper from underneath showing through, some very light soiling, signed by Rikki on the limitation page, #124 of 231 copies, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Heart of the Ancient Wood -by Charles G D Roberts -a Signed Copy

By: Roberts, Charles G D (signed)( Sir / George Douglas ) ( E S Caswell 0signed )

Price: $56.73 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1900 ( 1901 ), 1st Edition, First Printing: 1900

Seller ID: 164373

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------hardcover, a solid Very Good example, green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, light overall wear and some rubbing to the edges, some browning to the spine,, a bit of age toning to endpapers, age toning to the upper edge of the text block, gift inscription on front blank endpaper dated 1945, ownership signature and 1901 date for E S Caswell on front blank endpaper, signed by CGDR "yours faithfully Charles G D Roberts Nov 10/39", E S Caswell was also a Canadian author best known for his book Canadian Singers and Their Songs, a nice association copy, ---all plates are p...
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The Backwoodsmen -by Charles G D Roberts, Illustrations / Illustrated By Paul Bransom

By: Roberts, Charles G.D. ( George Douglas ), Illustrations / Illustrated By Paul Bransom

Price: $31.17 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Ward Lock, No Date (circa 1935), 1st Printing: 1935

Seller ID: 164263

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a near Fine example, brown cloth, in a very attractive Good price clipped dustjacket, short closed tear on jackat along the spine, some small chips and flakes, front hinge looks like it may have been repaired, 8 two-tone plates, very nice example of the colour dustjacket of caribou winter grazing, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Beautiful Wife -by Leon Rooke -a Signed Copy

By: Rooke, Leon (signed)

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2005, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2005

Seller ID: 162693

ISBN: 0887621929

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, signed and inscribed "To M______ -So many thanks. Leon Rooke", 293 pages, ---"Viva Straight, a single woman who works for the Refugee Board of Canada, has set off with her mother for their annual holiday in the Dominican Republic when their plane is mysteriously diverted to the Philippines. There she meets and has a night of bliss with the enigmatic Monsieur Epee, who presents himself to her imagination as the ideal man – apart, perhaps, from the fact that he is possessed of a beautiful wife alr...
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The Voluptuous Garden: 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: $18.39 CAD

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

Seller ID: 159328

ISBN: 088878371X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------softcover, about 12w x 9h inches, 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. The garden ...
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In the Wings: Stories of Forgotten Women -Signed (includes: Anne Hathaway Shakespeare; Laura Secord; Lilian Bounds Disney [wife of Walt ]; Annie Taylor; Alice Seeley Harris; Pilar Casal; Marguerite Monet Riel; etc)

By: Rule, Bernadette (ed.) Linda Helson; Michelle Ward-Kantor; Jean Rae Baxter; Mary Eileen McClear; Richard Van Holst; Pauline Hewak; Joe Girard; Waheed Rabbani; Ethel Edey; Jane Devries; William Chan; Rachel Harvey; Lise Levesque; Judy Pollard Smith; et al

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Ontario, Woodstock, ON: Seraphim Editions, 2012, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2012

Seller ID: 152813

ISBN: 1927079101

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------trade paperback, a Near Fine copy, signed or signed and inscribed by many, 162 pages, -----A collection of seventeen stories with an introduction by editor Bernadette Rule. Most of these stories would come under the genre of historical fiction, as the writers were challenged to use the tools of fiction to bring these women back to life. The details of time and place are all authentic and based on research. Through this blend of fact and fiction each woman’s character, as the writer understands it, emerges from the shadows into brilliant clarity. Women profiled in the stories includ...
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Life and Works of Ethelwyn Wetherald, 1857 - 1940 - Canadian Poet and Journalist, with a Selection of Her Poems and Articles ---a Signed Copy

By: Rungeling, Dorothy W (signed) ( Ethelwyn Wetherald related)

Price: $35.43 CAD

Publisher: No Place of Publication, No Place ( Canada ): Self Published - Dorothy Rungeling, 2004, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2004

Seller ID: 164783

ISBN: 0973180021

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------softcover, a Near Fine example, signed by Rungeling, 131 pages, b&w photos, ---contents include: Ethelwyn the Poet; Sam and Sally's Romance; A New Family Arrives; Ethelwyn the Person; Rockwood to Pelham via Philadelphia; Schooling on American Soil; A Taste of Women's Lib?; Ethelwyn the Journalist; Back to Tall Evergreens; The House in the Treesl Ethelwyn the Mother; Who was Ethelwyn?; Tragedies; The Party; 1940; Selection of Poems; List of Her Books, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Spice Box: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Writing

By: Sinclair, Gerri; morris Wolfe (selected by) Leonard Cohen; Mordecai Richler; Irving Layton; A M Klein; Matt Cohen; Eli Mandel; Phyllis Gotlieb; Morley Torgov; Larry Zolf; David lewis Stein; Avi Boxer; William Weintraub; Joseph Sherman; Norman Levine; Etc

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1981, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1981

Seller ID: 156690

ISBN: 0919630758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy with browning to the paper, in a lightly rubbed Very Good+ dustjacket with a bit of sunning to the spine, 310 pages, contributions from: Solomon Ary; Rochl Korn; J I Segal; Adele Wiseman; A M Klein; Seymour Mayne; Henry Kreisel; Abraham Boyarsky; Matt Cohen; Joe Rosenblatt; Ted Allan; Fredelle Bruser Maynard; Lela Parlow; Shirley Faessler; Miriam Waddington; Eli Mandel; Robert Currie; Abraham Ram; Phyllis Gotlieb; Morley Torgov; Jerry newman; Norman levine; Leonard Cohen; Irving layton; Jack Ludwig; Mordecai Richler; Joseph Sherman; William Weintraub; E...
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ROBERTSON DAVIES: For Your Eye Alone, Letters 1976 - 1995 ---selected and Edited By Judith Skelton-Grant -a Signed Copy ( Correspondence )

By: Skelton-Grant, Judith (signed); Robertson Davies

Price: $35.43 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart ( M&S ), 1999, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1999

Seller ID: 157340

ISBN: 0771035411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, signed and inscribed by J S-G, 402 pages, looks new, ---"Robertson Davies brought a great sense of style to everything he wrote. Whether it was a letter to his daughter ("Love from us both, Daddy") or a formal letter to the editor disembowelling a hostile reviewer that concludes humbly ("I am content to remain, Yours, writhing in deserved ignominy---"), he wrote with care, with zest, and in a clearly distinctive voice. Since these letters written by Davies have been selected from the years when he was at the ...
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Double-Header: As Is / Lost & Found -by Raymond Souster ( Poems / Poetry )

By: Souster, Raymond

Price: $28.33 CAD

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

Seller ID: 164069

ISBN: 0887501419

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///
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Riverrun -by Peter Such -a Signed Copy (a Novel of the Beothuk ) ( River Run )

By: Such, Peter (signed)

Price: $18.39 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1973, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1973

Seller ID: 163739

ISBN: 0772006202

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example in a Good dustjacket with chips and tears, signed and inscribed by the author "For H______ R___ with kind regards April 10 '74 Peter Such", any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Joyner's Dream -by Sylvia Tyson ---a Signed 1st Edition

By: Tyson, Sylvia (signed)

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Harper Collins / HarperCollins, 2011, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2011

Seller ID: 161928

ISBN: 1554684951

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------softcover, about 6w x 9h inches, a Near Fine example, signed and inscribed "Meryy Christmas J_____ Enjoy! Sylvia Tyson", former owner's address label otherwise close to new with just a wee bit of light rubbing, ---"Joyner’s Dream is the sweeping story of a family and its dubious legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a persistent knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s, continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations from all walks of life -craftsmen and highwaymen, aristocr...
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The Divine Economy of Salvation -by Priscilla Uppal -a Signed Copy

By: Uppal, Priscilla (signed),

Price: $28.33 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2002, 1st edition, First Printing: 2002

Seller ID: 164404

ISBN: 0385658044

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Fine example, in a Fine dustjacket, looks new, signed without inscription by the author ---"In a startling debut, celebrated poet Priscila Uppal crafts a deeply moving, dark and suspenseful tale about the crimes of youth that haunt adult life. --As an adolescent girl, in the face of her mother’s declining health, Angela H. is sent away to a Catholic boarding school. Feeling lonely and neglected, Angela finds comfort and rebellion with a group of girls who call themselves The Sisterhood. On the verge of becoming women, the girls taunt and tempt each other with the...
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Category: Canadian Literature Fiction