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The Blind Assassin: A Novel

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2266860

ISBN: 0771008635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket spine a bit faded. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 521, [3] pp. 8vo. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize, Time's best novel of the year 2000, and one of Time's top 100 novels since 1923. Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five ...
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Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1984

Seller ID: 2291699

ISBN: 006015179X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine ends lightly stained, top edge lightly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Stories by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist deal with a divorced woman and her lovers, a bankrupt musicologist, an eccentric young man, a boy and his father, and family relationships.
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The Dean's December (The First Edition Society)

By: Bellow, Saul; Bloom, Allan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1982 Hard Cover. 377, [1] pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Preface by Allan Bloom, illustrations by Robert Heindel. Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago. A student had been been murdered and Corde had directed that charges be pressed aga...
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Doctor Luke of the Labrador

By: Duncan, Norman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2203554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pencil name on verso of front free endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. 327, [4] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Canadian author telling the story of a physician's travels along the coastal region of Labrador.
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998

Seller ID: 2201638

ISBN: 0771066856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 399 pp. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Canadian author known for her short fiction. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, th...
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Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)

By: Ringuet; Sirois, Antoine (afterword)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1989

Seller ID: 2269966

ISBN: 0771099959

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Lightly rubbed. 1989 Mass Market Paperback. One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres traces the course of one mans life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebecs traditional rural one.
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The Electrical Field

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Canada, Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Seller ID: 2282388

ISBN: 0676971261

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Author's first novel. When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war.
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One Hundred Million Hearts

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Canada, Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Seller ID: 2282389

ISBN: 0676975119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life in Toronto. When Masao dies, Miyo discovers he harbored a secret life, including a previous wife and child. Miyo travels to Tokyo to meet Hana, her half-sister (who is obsessed with their father's war history) and is shocked to learn he was a member of the Special Attack Forces-a kamikaze. But if these pilots' ...
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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

By: Service, Robert W. [William]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1916

Seller ID: 2291072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A few faint spots on boards, some purple rubbed away from cloud design (very common with this edition). 1916 Hard Cover. 192 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, green, black, and white image on front board, soldier vignette on spine, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Charles L. Wrenn, with captioned tissue guards. A collection of poetry by the well-known writer famous for his works about the Yukon Territory, this compilation includes a number of poems about World War I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, somet...
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By: Shields, Carol

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Harbourfront Reading Series: 1997

Seller ID: 2197981

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - limited to 550 copies, including 150 signed and numbered by the author. This copy is the latter, hand-numbered 83 and signed by Shields on the limitation page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 10 pp. A brief work by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAROL SHIELDS FLATTIES SIGNED FIRST EDITION
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The Orange Fish

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, Random House: 1989

Seller ID: 2197970

ISBN: 0394221001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 199 pp. A collection of twelve short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Milk Bread Beer Ice is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old Hazel is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In Today Is the Day, the village women gather together for their annual ritual of planting ...
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Unless

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Random House Canada: 2002

Seller ID: 2197975

ISBN: 0679311793

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 321 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happin...
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Dressing Up for the Carnival

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Fourth Estate: 2000

Seller ID: 2197976

ISBN: 1841151645

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 249 pp. 8vo. A collection of short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife's lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptio...
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The Stone Diaries

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Fourth Estate: 1993

Seller ID: 2197983

ISBN: 1857021541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the prolific Canadian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitche...
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Happenstance

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1980

Seller ID: 2271313

ISBN: 0070923779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faintly smoky, top edge lightly foxed. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries.
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Fashion, Power, Guilt, and the Charity of Families

By: Shields, Carol & Catherine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Blizzard Publishing: 1995

Seller ID: 2197979

ISBN: 0921368593

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Publisher's errata slip laid in. 1995 Trade Paperback. 64 pp. A play co-written by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries.
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Anniversary: A Comedy

By: Shields, Carol; Williamson, Dave

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Blizzard Publishing: 1998

Seller ID: 2197978

ISBN: 092136881X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by both authors without inscription on title page. 1998 Trade Paperback. 60 pp. A play co-written by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries.
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Friends of a Feather

By: Stratton, Allan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Playwrights Canada: 1984

Seller ID: 2294425

ISBN: 0887544223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription, Glad you liked it. Light stain on spine base, minor generally wear. 1984 Trade Paperback. 132 pp. Allan Stratton is an award winning, internationally published and produced Canadian playwright and novelist.
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Away: A Novel

By: Urquhart, Jane

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 2200778

ISBN: 0771086598

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers toned, light shelf wear. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 356 pp. A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada,Awaytraces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-wi...
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Storm Glass

By: Urquhart, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ontario, The Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated: 1987

Seller ID: 2200909

ISBN: 0889841063

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers and pages toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 127 pp. With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquharts dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husbands estrangement; a grandmother makes a startling confession from her youth; a young woman discovers herself through the life of an Italian saint; and, in a s...
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The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan

By: Urquhart, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ontario, The Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated: 1983

Seller ID: 2200911

ISBN: 0889840490

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1983 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 63 pp. The machine at Marley, and the machinations of court at Versailles. The small manoeuvres of society. Of saints and sinners, kings, and courtesans more than courtiers--from Louis Quatorze, watched dispassionately by Madame de Montespan from the pillow of the king's bed, to the worms that play their final game of love beneath the statues in the graden--The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan is a worthy successor to Jane and Tony Urquhart's earlier collaboration, I Am Wal...
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