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The Hull Home Fire. First Edition

By: ABBOTT, Linda.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Flanker Press, St. John's, NF, 2013, ISBN:9781771172622: 2013

Seller ID: 104317

ISBN: 1771172622

ABBOTT, Linda. The Hull Home Fire. St. John's : Flanker Press Limited, (2013). First Printing. Pp. (6),1-231,(3). 8vo (139 x 216 mm), photo-illustrated orange - brown card covers with white lettering to spine.

Linda Abbott (b. 1954, St. John's, Newfoundland) was living there at the time of publication.

"Day after day, thousands of people passed by an unassuming, three-storey building on the corner of New Gower and Springdale streets in St. John's. Operated by the Hull family, the ground floor was rented to a commission merchant; the top two floors and annex buildi...
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The Handmaid's Tale. First American Edition, Second Printing in dustjacket

By: ATWOOD, Margaret

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1986

Seller ID: 26564

ISBN: 0395404258

ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Second American Printing. Pp (10),3-311,(1). 8vo (160 x 233 mm), blue cloth spine, grey paper-covered boards, with silver lettering to spine.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, C.C., O.Ont., C.H., F.R.S.C. (b. November 18, 1939, Ottawa) was living in Toronto at the time of publication.

"'The Handmaid's Tale' is not only a radical departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it des...
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The Handmaid's Tale. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: ATWOOD, Margaret.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1985, ISBN:: 1985

Seller ID: 8681

ISBN: 0771008139

ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. (Toronto) : McClelland and Stewart, (1985). First Canadian Edition. "Printed and bound in Canada by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited". Pp (12),13-324,(4). 8vo (162 x 235 mm), beige cloth boards, maroon spine, with beige lettering to spine.

Spadoni and Donnelly 3587.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, C.C., O.Ont., C.H., F.R.S.C. (b. November 18, 1939, Ottawa) was living in Toronto at the time of publication.

Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
Shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Pri...
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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? First Edition in dustjacket

By: BADAMI, Anita Rau

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 116617

ISBN: 0676976042

BADAMI, Anita Rau. Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (Toronto) : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2006). First Printing. Pp. (14),[3]-412,(7). 8vo (162 x 235 mm), black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine.

Anita Rau Badami (b. September 24, 1961, Rourkela, Odisha, India) emigrated to Canada in 1991. She was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia Polytechnic in Bombay, and the University of Calgary. Ms. Badama was selected as Jury Chair for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and received the Marian Engel Award for a female writer in mid-career.

"Anita Rau Badami's ne...
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Mountain Cloud. First Edition in dj.

By: BARBEAU, Marius MACDONALD, Thoreau

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1944,:

Seller ID: 76958

BARBEAU, Marius. Mountain Cloud. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1944. First Edition. Pp. [1]-300. Illustrated by Thoreau Macdonald, maps to ffep, rfep and paste-downs. 8vo, tan cloth covers with brown illustration and lettering to spine and front. Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 989. Charles Marius Barbeau (b. March 5, 1883, Ste-Marie-de-Beauce Québec -d. February 27, 1969, Ottawa), Canadian anthropologist, ethnologist and fo lklorist. "In Canada's northern wilderness beyond the mountains, and beyondyet more mountains was Glenlyon, where in the middle decades of the la...
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A Name for Himself : A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall. First Edition

By: BARKHOUSE, Joyce

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Irwin Publishing: 1986

Seller ID: 115199

(RADDALL, Thomas H.). BARKHOUSE, Joyce. A Name for Himself : A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall. Toronto, Canada : Irwin Publishing, (1986). First Printing. "Printed and bound in Canada by Imprimerie Gagné Ltée". Pp (6),1-87,(3). Illustrated with 13 b&w photos and some maps in the text. 8vo (134 x 209 mm), red glossy photo-illustrated card covers, with yellow & white lettering to spine.

Thomas Head Raddall, O.C., F.R.S.C. (b. November 13, 1903, Hythe, Kent, England – d. April 1, 1994, Liverpool, Nova Scotia).

Joyce Carman Barkhouse, née Killam C.M., O.N.S...
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All Gone Widdun. First Edition.

By: BECKEL, Annamarie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Breakwater, St. John's, 1999, ISBN:1550811479: 1999

Seller ID: 30713

BECKEL, Annamarie. All Gone Widdun. (St. John's, NF) : Breakwater, (1999). First Edition. Pp (4),5-385,(7). 8vo, art-illustrated cardcovers (cover art by Gerald Squires).

Annamarie L. Beckel (b. central Ohio) . This was her first novel. "All Gone Widdun is a work of fiction. Most of the major events in the novel are based on accounts in James P. Howley's classic, The Beothucks oe Red Indians [...], and Ingeborg Marshall's A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk [...]. Nearly all the named characters-with a few notable exceptions - were real people. Their personalitie...
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Straw in the Wind. First Edition in dustjacket

By: BENNETT, E.M. Granger

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ryerson Press, Toronto , 1958,:

Seller ID: 21951

BENNETT, E.M. Granger. A Straw in the Wind. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (1958). First Printing. Pp (4),v-vi,1-281,(1). 8vo, yellow cloth. Laugher p.31, Watters p.247, Rhodenizer p.766. Ethel Mary Granger Bennett (b. December, 1891, Shroton, Dorsetshire - d. April 19, 1988). "This novel centers around the happenings at Fort La Tour, Acadia, in the seventeenth century, as seen through the eyes of La Tour's young and sensitive cousin, Isabelle. Theaction also moves to Boston and Quebec." - from the dj. Very good in sligh tly chipped dustjacket. 25.00
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Sunrise for Peter. First Edition In dustjacket

By: BIRD, Will R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ryerson, 1946,:

Seller ID: 29610

BIRD, Will R. Sunrise for Peter and Other Stories. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (September 1946). First Printing. Pp [i]-vii,1-223,(1). 8vo, orange cloth, black lettering to spine. Watters p.249, Rhodenizer p.766, Laugher p.38. Not in O'Dea. Includes 1. Sunrise for Peter [Newfoundlanders at the Somme]; 2. The Dory Builder; 3. The Substance of Content [Newfoundland]; 4. Paid-up Member; 5. When a Boy's a Man; 6. The First Platoon; 7. Ma's Enlargement; 8. Beyond the Wire; 9. Movies Come to Gull Point [Newfoundland?]; 10. Out of the Past [a Chignecto story]; 11. One Cold Night; 12. Brother [Spence...
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Sunrise for Peter. First Edition

By: BIRD, Will R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ryerson, Toronto, 1946,:

Seller ID: 107384

These Good Hands. A novel. First Edition

By: BRUNEAU, Carol.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cormorant Books, Toronto, 2015, ISBN:9781770864276: 2015

Seller ID: 110569

ISBN: 177086427X

BRUNEAU, Carol. These Good Hands. [A novel]. (Toronto : Cormorant Books, 2015). First Printing. Pp. (8),[1]-311,(1). 8vo, decorated pale illustrated cardcovers with French flaps. With brown & black lettering to front cover & spine.

Carol Bruneau (b. 1956, Halifax).

"Set in the early autum of 1943 in Vichy France, 'These Good Hands' interweaves the stories of Camille Claudel, the French sculptor, and Solange Poitier, the fictional nurse who cared for her in the final days of her thirty-year incarceration in the Montdevergues Asylum.

Claudel's biographers ...
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Frontiersman.

By: CODY, H.A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: William Briggs, Toronto , 1912,:

Seller ID: 24386

CODY, H.A. The Frontiersman : A Tale of the Yukon. Toronto : William Briggs, (copyright 1912). Pp (8),9-342,(2). 8vo, green cloth. Laugher p.107, Watters p.263, Drew, Lawmen in Scarlet : An Annotated Guide to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Print and Performance. p.19. Very good. 35.00
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Bargain, The. First Edition.

By: CUDE, Mary Pat

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Ragweed, Charlottetown, 1997, ISBN:0921556675:

Seller ID: 25550

CUDE, Mary Pat. The Bargain : a novel. (Charlottetown) : Ragweed, (1997). First Printing. Pp [1]-237,(3). 8vo, illustrated blue card covers with yellow lettering to front, white and yelow lettering to spine. "The Bargain is afinely crafted novel of love and politics, recreating Canada and Nova Scot ia at the time of Confederation, a historical saga through which we relive our past in the company of a wonderful cast of characters." - Sheldon Currie. The Bargain is her first novel. Very good. 8.50
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Making of Nicolas Montour. First thus.

By: DESROSIERS, Leo-Paul French Writers of Canada series VAN OORDT, Christina, trans.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harvest House, Montreal, 1978, ISBN:0887721710:

Seller ID: 101086

DESROSIERS, Leo-Paul. The Making of Nicolas Montour. Translated by Christina van Oordt. Montreal: Harvest House, (1978). First thus printing. Pp. (8),[1]-200. 8vo, illustrated white and black card covers. A volume in the French Writers of Canada series. "Leo-Paul Desrosiers is the uncontested masterof the historical novel; in this book the full maturity of his talents is revealed. A profound knowledge of history and tradition gives authenticity to his picture of the harsh life of voyageurs and traders in the north country at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and to the pitiless riva...
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Le Chef des Acadiens. Second Edition, Revised 2ième Edition, Revisée

By: DEVEAU, J. Alphonse

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Editions Lescarbot, Yarmouth, 1980,: 1980

Seller ID: 25695

DEVEAU, J. Alphonse. Le Chef des Acadiens. 2ième Edition, Revisée. (Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Écosse) : Les Éditions Lescarbot, (1980). Pp (6),[7]-154,(2) + 2 leaves with b&w illustrations. 8vo (136 x 216 mm), art-illustrated glossy white cardcovers, with black lettering to front cover & spine.

Cover and text illustrations by R. Mathey.

Maillet, Bibliographie des publications de l'Acadie des provinces maritimes: livres et brochures, 1609-1995, 1272.

Joseph-Alphonse Deveau, O.C. (b. November 22, 1917, Salmon River, Digby County, Nova Scotia - d. J...
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Le Chef des Acadiens. First Edition

By: DEVEAU, J. Alphonse

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1956

Seller ID: 33949

DEVEAU, J. Alphonse. Le Chef des Acadiens. No place : No publisher : (1956). 1iere Edition. "Imprimé par J . A. Hamon, Yarmouth, N.S." Pp (6),[7]-154,(2). 8vo (147 x 217 mm), light blue cardcovers, with black lettering to front cover & spine.

Maillet, Bibliographie des publications de l'Acadie des provinces maritimes: livres et brochures, 1609-1995, 1272.

Joseph-Alphonse Deveau, O.C. (b. November 22, 1917, Salmon River, Digby County, Nova Scotia - d. July 28, 2004, Mavillette, Digby County, Nova Scotia) a former professor at Université Sainte-Anne ...
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Wabeno Feast. First Edition in dustjacket

By: DREW, Wayland Anansi 25

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Anansi,, Toronto, 1973, ISBN:0887844251:

Seller ID: 15733

DREW, Wayland. The Wabeno Feast. Toronto : Anansi, (1973). Pp (8),1-280. 8vo, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wayland Miller Drew (b. December 9, 1932, Oshawa - d. December 3, 1988, Bracebridge, Ontario). Drew's first novel. "The Wabeno Feast is the story of boys growing up in a pulp-mill townin Northern Ontario whose lives fall apart as they become enmeshed in a de structive urban society. Life in contemporary Canada degenerates into a nightmare of pollution, violence and social disorder, and only one man, searching both the personal and historical past for clues to the breakdown, f...
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Sounding the Iceberg : An Essay on Canadian Historical Novels.

By: DUFFY, Dennis.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ECW Press, Toronto, 1986, ISBN:0920763138:

Seller ID: 86723

DUFFY, Dennis. Sounding the Iceberg : An Essay on Canadian Historical Novels. (Toronto) : ECW Press, (1986). First Edition. Pp (8),i-vi,1-84,(2). Index. 8vo, blue cloth, black lettering to spine. Very good. 15.00
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North Star is Nearer. First Edition in dustjacket

By: EATON, Evelyn

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1949,:

Seller ID: 55889

EATON, Evelyn. The North Star is Nearer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First US Edition. Pp 232. 8vo, blue cloth. Evelyn Eaton was bornin 1902 in Switzerland, lived in Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia, and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Name, else vg in poor, chipped dj. 17.50
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Restless Are The Sails. First Edition in dustjacket

By: EATON, Evelyn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941,:

Seller ID: 46611

EATON, Evelyn. Restless Are The Sails. NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1941). First US Edition. Pp. 348. 8vo, navy cloth. Edgeworn, name, else vg in worn and chipped dj. 20.00
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Keyword:LITERATURE CANADA CANADIAN LITERARY HISTORICAL FICTION