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Bottle

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Hay Festival Press: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200662

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. One of 1000 copies. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. 2004 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 54 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation.CONTENTS: Bottle -- It's not easy being half-divine -- King Log in exile -- Take charge -- Thylacine ragout -- Post-colonial -- Faster -- Nightingale -- Bottle II.Keywords: MARGARET ATWOOD BOTTLE CANADIAN LITERATURE SHORT STORIES View more info

The Blind Assassin: A Novel

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2266860

ISBN: 0771008635

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 ... View more info

The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1986

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2290323

ISBN: 0395404258

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. Jacket a bit toned. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 311, [1] pp. 8vo. The classic dystopian novel by the Canadian author. Handmaid's Tale won the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Prometheus Award. Atwood has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times. Inspiration for the Hulu original TV series. Offred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future. View more info

Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2291699

ISBN: 006015179X

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. View more info

The Lyre of Orpheus (The Cornish Trilogy Book 3) (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society Series)

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2289806

Condition: Fine

First edition, preceding the trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's insert laid in. 1988 Full-Leather. 472 pp. 8vo. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Frontispiece, illustrations, and decorative borders by Sherilyn VanValkenburgh. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. The third book in Davies's Corn... View more info

Doctor Luke of the Labrador

By: Duncan, Norman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2203554

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 physicians travels along the coastal region of Labrador. KEYWORDS: HISTORICAL FICTION CANADA CANADIAN View more info

The Actress' Daughter: A Novel

By: Fleming, May Agnes

Price: $10.00

Publisher: G.W. Carleton & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: 1677697

Condition: Good

2 inch split to rear joint, edge wear, binding shaken, bookplate on front endpaper. 1886 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 394, [2] (publisher ad). A novel by one of the first Canadians to enjoy a successful career writing fiction. View more info

Emily's Quest

By: Montgomery, L.M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: A.L. Burt Company: 1927

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2280905

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Pencil writing on front endpapers. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 310 pp. By the author of Anne of Green Gables. Emily's Quest is a novel and the last of the Emily trilogy by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love... as she tries to banish a... View more info

Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, Book 3)

By: Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Ryerson Press: 1949

Edition: 5th Printing

Seller ID: 2285243

Condition: Very Good

5th printing of the first Canadian edition, which was released nearly 30 years after the American edition due to Montgomery's deteriorating relationship with L.C. Page. She died just as the Canadian editions of this and her subsequent books were being released. Lacks jacket. Minor wear to corners. 1949 Hard Cover. viii, 326 pp. Green cloth, black titles. The third in Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport ... View more info

Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One -- Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea; Anne's House of Dreams

By: Montgomery, Lucy Maud; Shapiro, Ellen S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gramercy Books: 1986

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2285426

ISBN: 0517605171

Condition: Very Good

Television tie-in edition. Ink and pencil gift notes on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1986 Hard Cover. xvi, 634 pp. 8vo. Includes reproductions of illustrations from the early 1900s editions of each work, and an introduction by Ellen S. Shapiro. Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited girl who arrives instead? Anne Shirley, with her boundless imagination and heart, slowly brings joy... View more info

The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201638

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Fine.Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. 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, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. ... View more info

Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)

By: Ringuet; Sirois, Antoine (afterword)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1989

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2269966

ISBN: 0771099959

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 man’s 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 Quebec’s traditional rural one. View more info

The Electrical Field

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2282388

ISBN: 0676971261

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. View more info

One Hundred Million Hearts

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2282389

ISBN: 0676975119

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' ... View more info

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

By: Service, Robert W. [William]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1916

Seller ID: 2291072

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, so... View more info

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