Keyword:LITERATURE SIGNED CANADA NOVA SCOTIA FIRST LITERARY CANADIAN FICTION NOVELS

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Man Wanders Sometimes First Edition, Paperback, Signed

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Stoddart, Toronto, 1989, ISBN:0887841619:

Seller ID: 17689

BAKER, Kent. A Man Wanders Sometimes. (Toronto) : Stoddart, (1989). First Paperback Edition. Pp (4),1-228. 8vo (140 x 216 mm), white art-illustrated cardcovers. Kent Baker (b. April 1938, Bristol, Connecticut). The spine of book has the publisher as Anansi. This is his first novel. "This is a novel about a guy named Harry. He has a girlfriend, a house by the ocean in Nova Scotia, a couple of dogs and a set of binoculars. On the surface everythingabout him seems normal. But what goes on inside his head is something else ." - from rear cover. Very good. Signed, without inscription, by th...
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Purple for Sky. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: BRUNEAU, Carol

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cormorant Books, Dunvegan, Ont., 2000,:

Seller ID: 70128

BRUNEAU, Carol. Purple for Sky. (Dunvegan, Ont.): Cormorant Books, (2000). Pp 407. 8vo, tan cloth Carol Bruneau (b. Halifax, Nova Scotia). . Vg in dj.Signed by the author. 30.00
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Purple for Sky. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: BRUNEAU, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cormorant Books, Dunvegan, Ont., 2000,:

Seller ID: 73401

BRUNEAU, Carol. Purple for Sky. (Dunvegan, Ont.): Cormorant Books, (2000). First Printing. Pp 407. 8vo, tan cloth. Carol Bruneau (b. Halifax, Nova Scotia). Vg in dj. Inscribed by the author. 25.00
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Mountain and the Valley. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: BUCKLER, Ernest

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York , 1952,: 1952

Seller ID: 48147

BUCKLER, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley. New York : Henry Holt and Company, (1952). First Edition. Pp (10),1-373,(1). 8vo, light blue cloth, red top stain. Orange, Ernest Buckler: An Annotated Bibliography A1, Watters p.253, Laugher p.65, Rhodenizer p.788.

His first novel. "The publishers are honored to present in Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley a novel they believe to be of true literary distinction. This is a story of farm people in Nova Scotia, their dignity and their love and their loneliness. More specifically it is about the Canaan family - ...
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Mountain and the Valley. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: BUCKLER, Ernest

Price: $700.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York , 1952,:

Seller ID: 107117

BUCKLER, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley. New York : Henry Holt and Company, (1952). First Edition. Pp (10),1-373,(1). 8vo, light blue cloth, red topstain. Orange, Ernest Buckler: An Annotated Bibliography A1, Watters p.253, Laugher p.65, Rhodenizer p.788. His first novel. Ernest Buckler, OC (b.July 19, 1908, West Dalhousie, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia – d. March 4, 1984, Bridgetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia). "The publishers are hono red to present in Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley a novel theybelieve to be of true literary distinction. This is a story of farm p...
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Cruelest Month. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed.

By: BUCKLER, Ernest

Price: $500.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1963,:

Seller ID: 78056

BUCKLER, Ernest. The Cruelest Month. (Toronto) : McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1963). First Edition. Pp. (7),8-298,(2). 8vo, black cloth with whitedesign and lettering. Design by Frank Newfeld. Orange, Ernest Buckler: An Annotated Bibliography A2, Spadoni & Donnelly 1661, Laugher p..65. Ernest Buckler, OC (b. July 19, 1908, West Dalhousie, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia– d. March 4, 1984, Bridgetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia). "Ernest Bu ckler's literary stature was established by the publication of "The Mountain and the Valley," which in the author s own lifetime is alrea...
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Cruelest Month. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: BUCKLER, Ernest

Price: $65.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1963,:

Seller ID: 9639

Second Season of Jonas MacPherson. First Edition, Signed

By: CHOYCE, Lesley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, 1989, ISBN:1895449057:

Seller ID: 4862

CHOYCE, Lesley. The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson. (Saskatoon) : Thistledown Press, (1989). Pp (8),[9]-156,(4). 8vo, trade paperback. Very good. Signed by Choyce. 10.00
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Memento : A Novel . First Edition, Signed

By: CONLIN, Christy Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: GO Transit, Toronto , 2016, ISBN:9780385662413:

Seller ID: 116149

CONLIN, Christy Ann. Memento : A Novel . [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, (2016). First Printing. Pp (8),[1]-375,(1). 8vo (154 x 228 mm), art-illustratedcardcovers, with French flaps. Christy Ann Conlin (b. in Nova Scotia) grew up just outside Berwick and was living in Wolfville, Nova Scotia at the ti me of publication. "Haunting gothic elements are exquisitely re-imagined inthis strange tale of madness, murder and dark secrets set on the rugged Ba y of Fundy coast by the acclaimed author of Heave. "Fancy Mosher A novel arranged in two parts. Part I. 1. The Twelfth-born; 2. Hear the Wind ...
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Homing : The Whole Story (from the Inside Out). First Edition, Signed

By: DOMET, Stephanie.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Invisible Publishing, Halifax, 2007, ISBN:9780978218508:

Seller ID: 110906

DOMET, Stephanie. Homing : The Whole Story (from the Inside Out). Halifax &Montréal : Invisible Publishing, (2007). Pp. (10),[1]-148, (4). 8vo, illus trated blue cardcovers. Stephanie Domet (b. August 30, 1970). "Leah is haunted. By the things she's done, by the things she should have done, and bybthe ghost of her brother. She has to let go of the past if she, or her brother, are ever going to move on. A funny, urban love story, Homing is about awoman who's grown afraid of the outdoors, a ghost that's lost its way, a m usician who's trying to find his, and Sandy and Harold, a pair of homi...
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Dazzled. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed.

By: GRAY, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Irwin Publishing, Toronto, 1984, ISBN:0772515034:

Seller ID: 7344

GRAY, John. Dazzled : A Novel. Toronto : Irwin Publishing, (1984). First Edition. Pp. (9),[2]-245,(3). 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Aka John MacLachlan Gray, he was born September 26, 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario, andraised in Truro, Nova Scotia. This is his first novel, which the front of dustjacket tells us is "An outrageously funny novel". "Can a vain, neuroticpost-Sixties North American male named Willard, who suddenly finds himself thrown out of the warm bosom of marriage by his insensitive wife, Wanda, s urvive an unwilling journey through the real world of the 1970s ...
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Lightly. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: HALL, Chipman

Price: $32.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1977: 1977

Seller ID: 26026

ISBN: 0771037708

HALL, Chipman. Lightly. (Toronto) : McClelland and Stewart, (1977). First Printing. Pp. (4),5-127,(1). 8vo (147 x 20 mm), blue cloth, with silver lettering to spine.

Laugher p.224, Spadoni & Donnelly 2849.

Hall was born in Halifax in 1941.

A novel arranged in twenty chapters.

"Hauntingly poignant, at once timeless and firmly rooted in the particular,Lightly is a novel suffused with wisdom, nobility and a vary rare, very simple human appeal.

The special bond which forms between a virtually abandoned young boy and his recen...
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Evening Light. First Edition, Signed

By: HORWOOD, Harold

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pottersfield Press, 1997, ISBN:1895900069: 1997

Seller ID: 75613

ISBN: 1895900069

HORWOOD, Harold. Evening Light. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada : Pottersfield Press, (1997). First Edition. Pp (8),7-158. 8vo (140 x 215 mm), photo-illustrated pale card covers, with blue & black lettering to off-white spine.

Harold Andrew Horwood, CM (b. November 2, 1923, St. John's, Newfoundland – d. April 16, 2006, Halifax).

"An unusual new novel by one of Canada's finest writers, this eloquent, subtle chronicle tells the life story of one Newfoundlander who is raised in a small outport. As a boy he lives through the end of an era of sailing ships...
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Remembering Summer. First Edition, Signed

By: HORWOOD, Harold

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pottersfield Press, 1987, ISBN:0919001351: 1987

Seller ID: 79082

ISBN: 0919001351

HORWOOD, Harold. Remembering Summer. (Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada) : Pottersfield Press, (1987). First Edition. Pp (6),7-191,(1). 8vo (150 x 229 mm), art-illustrated blue cardcovers, with white lettering to covers & spine. Cover painting by Nyna Cropas.

Harold Andrew Horwood, CM (b. November 2, 1923, St. John's, Newfoundland – d. April 16, 2006, Halifax).

"Rembering Summer is a novel of love and hate, of peace and war, a book written from the guts and from the soul..

The setting is Newfoundland in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is...
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Confessions of a Failed Yuppie. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: HOULIHAN, P.J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Carlton Press, New York, 1991, ISBN:0806238135:

Seller ID: 24859

HOULIHAN, P.J. Confessions of a Failed Yuppie. New York : Carlton Press "A Geneva Book", (1991). First Edition. Pp (6),9-130. 8vo, tan cloth, black lettering to spine. Patricia J. Houlihan = Patricia Parsons. "P.J. Houlihan'sConfessions of A Failed Yuppie is a lighthearted look into the intricate w orld of "Yuppiedom." Its refreshing and enjoyaoie perspective of the lifestyle offers the reader an imaginative view of how one woman, refusing to become another casualty, came to the realization that living life as a Yuppie just wasn't for her. With the emotional theme of "b...
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Bearer of the Chosen Seed. First Edition, Signed

By: JESS, Cameron Royce

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Inscape Publications, 2003, ISBN:0973241403: 2003

Seller ID: 73787

ISBN: 0973241403

JESS, Cameron Royce. Bearer of the Chosen Seed. Illustrations by Caitilin W. Pelletier. Port Williams, Nova Scotia : Inscape Publications, 2003. First Edition. "Printed and bound in Canada by AGMV Marquis." Pp. (8),1-455. With 4 illustrations and a map in the text. 8vo (139 x 216 mm), brown and black art-illustrated cardcovers, with yellow & orange lettering to black spine.

Cameron Royce Jess (b. 1943, Nova Scotia) was living near Halls Harbour at the time of publication.

Caitilin W. Pelletier was living near Parrsboro at the time of publication.

An his...
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Fall on Your Knees. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: MacDONALD, Ann-Marie

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 1996,:

Seller ID: 31055

MacDONALD, Ann-Marie. Fall on Your Knees. (Tor.) : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1996). First Edition. Pp (8),[1]-566,(2). 8vo, black spine, rust boards. The actual first edition. Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 5359: "Powerful novel about New Waterford family." Vg in dj. Signed. 180.00
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Adult Onset. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: MacDONALD, Ann-Marie

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2014, ISBN:9780345808271:

Seller ID: 108606

MacDONALD, Ann-Marie. Adult Onset. (Toronto) : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2014). First Printing. Pp. (8),1-384,(6). 8vo, dark grey cloth boards, yellow paper-covered spine, silver lettering to spine. "Mary Rose MacKinnon -- nicknamed Mr or 'Mister' -- is a successful author who has opted to put aside her career in her forties and devote herself to her young family. She livesin a comfortable urban neighbourhood with her partner, a busy theatre dire ctor, and their two children, trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance the demands of (mostly) solo parenting with the needs of her relen...
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Furiously Wrinkled. : A Novel. First Edition, Signed

By: MacSWEEN, R.J.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Antigonish Press, Antigonish , 1976,: 1976

Seller ID: 60075

MacSWEEN, R.J. Furiously Wrinkled. : A Novel. [Antigonish] : The Antigonish Press, 1976. First Edition. No printer given. Pp. (6),7-112. 8vo (141 x 217 mm), light green art-ilustrated card covers, black & red lettering to front, with black lettering to spine.

Father Roderick Joseph MacSween (b. May 8, 1915, Ironville, Cape Breton - d. February 1, 2002, Antigonish) was a poet and for 35 years an English professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and founder of The Antigonish Review.

Laugher p.368.

Covers lightly rubbed,...
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Deception of Livvy Higgs. First Edition in dustjacket, signed.

By: MORRISSEY, Donna

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Viking Canada, Toronto, 2012, ISBN:9780670044788:

Seller ID: 101991

MORRISSEY, Donna. The Deception of Livvy Higgs. (Toronto) : Viking, (2012).First Printing. Pp. (10),[1]-274,(4). 8vo, white cloth with grey lettering to spine. Morrissey's fifth novel. "For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. The sto ry opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in...
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Keyword:LITERATURE SIGNED CANADA NOVA SCOTIA FIRST LITERARY CANADIAN FICTION NOVELS