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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987
Softcover. 188 pages. ENG
Softcover. 188 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages tanned. Otherwise like new.
Basil Johnston's comic and affectionate stories about life on the Ojibway reserve at Cape Croker, Ontario.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1992
Softcover. 192 pages. ENG
Softcover. 192 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Very faint crease to back cover.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000
Softcover. 259 pages. ENG
Softcover. 259 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE
Pages are slightly tanned.
Al Purdy's only novel, set in a small Ontario town during WWI, drawn from his boyhood memories and his feeling for small-town Protestant Ontario.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1993
Softcover. 238 pages. ENG
Softcover. 238 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint opening crease to front cover beside spine. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings.
Poetry collection by BC logger-poet Peter Trower, one of the founders of the Canadian tradition of writing about resource labour.
Exile Editions, 1987
Softcover. 95 pages. ENG
Softcover. 95 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Review copy stamp on first page.
Selected poems of Frank Prewett, the Ontario-born WWI poet and friend of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves.
McClelland & Stewart, 2011
Softcover. 384 pages. ENG
Softcover. 384 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
A woman in the near-future theocracy of Gilead is reduced to reproductive servitude, in Atwood's canonical dystopian novel.
Markham, ON: Penguin, 1988
Mass market paperback. 316 pages. ENG
Mass market paperback. 316 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are slightly tanned. Corners worn. No writing/markings.
A young Jewish man from Montreal's St. Urbain Street is driven by a desperate need to own land, using and discarding everyone who gets in his way.
Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1958
Softcover. 50 pages. ENG
Softcover. 50 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Stapled wraps. Staples starting to rust. Sticker shadow to front cover.
Account of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and the 1660 Battle of the Long Sault, in which a small French and Indigenous force held off an Iroquois attack.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993
Softcover. 356 pages. ENG
Softcover. 356 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Small dampstain to a corner of back cover. Pages are tanned.
An Irish woman who washes ashore on the Québec coast sets in motion a haunting that shapes generations of her family across two continents.
McClelland & Stewart / New Canadian Library, 1978
Mass market paperback. 467 pages. ENG
Mass market paperback. 467 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Pages are tanned.
Bracebridge, ON: Maple Land Press, 2001. First edition
Softcover. 131 pages. ENG
Softcover. 131 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE
Pages starting to tan at edges. Signed and inscribed inside front cover.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973
Softcover. 306 pages. ENG
Softcover. 306 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Slight shelfwear. Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings. Spine is not creased.
One of the earliest CanLit anthologies designed for high school use, compiled by Brita Mickleburgh, a pioneer in teaching Canadian literature in secondary schools at a time when most English curricula relied on British and American texts. Includes selections from Leonard Cohen, Percy Janes, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Emily Carr, and many others.
Sainte-Adele, QC: Les Editions du Grenier, 1969
Softcover. 198 pages. FRA
Softcover. 198 pages. FRA
Condition: VERY GOOD
Covers are yellowing along edges. Previous owner's name on first page.
Quebec novel featuring the miser Séraphin Poudrier and his long-suffering wife Donalda.
Toronto / Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin, 1977. First edition
Hardcover. 228 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 228 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Grey cloth with silver titles. No dust jacket. Faint dampstain to top edge of text block. Sequel to 'So Free We Seem'.
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1962. First edition
Hardcover. 152 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 152 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Corner of front free endpaper clipped. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is chipped along edges, several tears, sticker shadow to upper corner, faint dampstain to lower edge of spine.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964. First edition
Hardcover. 112 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 112 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light blue cloth with purple titles. Boards are browning along edges. Dust jacket has a couple of short closed tears, small chip to colour along spine fold, light foxing.
St. John's, NL: Harry Cuff Publications, Ltd., 1984
Softcover. 216 pages. ENG
Softcover. 216 pages. ENG
Condition: FAIR
Spine is creased and slanted. Covers yellowing. Spine cracked.
Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, 1990
Softcover. 173 pages. ENG
Softcover. 173 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD+
Notations in ink inside front cover (looks like book club schedule). Opening crease to front cover beside spine.
Pocket, 1975
Mass market paperback. 272 pages. ENG
Mass market paperback. 272 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Old bookstore stamp inside front cover.
Toronto: Seal, 1979
Mass market paperback. 181 pages. ENG
Mass market paperback. 181 pages. ENG
Condition: FAIR
Covers are scuffed. Faint spine crease. Previous owner's name and old bookstore stamp on first page. Pages tanned.
Winner of the inaugural Seal First Novel award in 1977.