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(w)ri(gh)t(e)s

By: Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective ANDREWS, Shari BIRSDSELL, Darcie DREW, Lorna

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wild East Publications, Fredericton, N.B., 1991, ISBN:0969414722

Seller ID: 108759

Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective. (w)ri(gh)t(e)s. Fredericton, N.B.: Wild East Publications, 1991. Pp (7),8-64. 8vo, blue stapled card covers, "In March 1990, the Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective produced their collectively written play, flights. In the fall of that year, the Collective regrouped to write, workshop and stage a new play for 1991. (w)ri(gh)t(e)s is that play...the writings of thirteen women woven together." (from the back cover). The thirteen authors are : Shari Andrews, Darcie Birdsell, LornaDrew, Margarita Enriquez, Clarissa Hurley, Anne Israelie, Dana McDa...
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Afterimage. Signed

By: HUMPHREYS, Helen.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial Canada,, Toronto, 2001, ISBN:0006485189

Seller ID: 80006

HUMPHREYS, Helen. Afterimage. (Toronto) : Harper Perennial Canada, (2001). First Printing. Pp (6),1-247,(3). 8vo, illustrated card covers. Helen Humphries lives in Kingston, Ontario. This novel won The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for 2000. A few pages dog-eared, name, else very good. Signedwith inscription by the author. 15.00
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At the Harbour Mouth. First Edition

By: MacMECHAN, Archibald BELL, John, (ed.).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Pottersfield Press, Porters Lake , 1988, ISBN:0919001491 : 1988

Seller ID: 10562

ISBN-13: 9780919001497

MacMECHAN, Archibald. At the Harbour Mouth. Edited by John Bell. Porters Lake : Pottersfield Press, Nova Scotia, Canada (1988). First Edition. Pp (6),[7]-140,(4). 8vo (151 x 228 mm), glossy blue art- and photo-illustrated card covers, with black lettering to covers & spine. With a b&w photo of MacMechan on the rear cover. Archibald McKellar MacMechan, F.R.S.C. (b. June 21, 1862, Kitchener, Ontario - d. August 7, 1933, Halifax). "Many writers have endeavoured to chronicle the experiences of Bluenose men and women during the age of sail, but none have surpassed the Halifax author A...
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Canadian Poems of the Great War. First Edition

By: GARVIN, John W. (ed.). MONTGOMERY, L.M. McCRAE, John LOGAN, John Daniel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Publishers, Toronto , 1918, : 1918

Seller ID: 88466

GARVIN, John W. (ed.). Canadian Poems of the Great War. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart Publishers, (1918). First Edition. Pp (2),3-256. 8vo (125 x 186 mm), reddish-brown cloth, with gilt to front board and spine. Spadoni & Donnelly 392, Watters p.75. John William Garvin (1872–1934). An anthology of War Poems by 73 Canadian writers, including “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, “Our Women” by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and six poems by John Daniel Logan. Foreword. Marion Anning W.J. Armitage [William James Armitage of Halifax ] Gertrude Bartlett Grace Blackburn Jean Blewett Mi...
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Coming Attractions 89

By: HELWIG, Maggie, and Bronwen WALLACE (eds.). BURKE, Brian RYSSTAD, Jean HEINEMANN, Michelle

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oberon Press, Ottawa, 1989, ISBN:0887507689

Seller ID: 93566

HELWIG, Maggie, and Bronwen WALLACE (eds.). Coming Attractions 89. [Ottawa]: Oberon Press, (1989). Paperback Edition. Pp (7), 8-100, (4). 8vo, illust rated brown card covers, lettered in black. "Here we have three young writers on the edge of professional maturity. Brian Burke and Jean Rysstad both come from Vancouver. Burke refuses to comment on his own work, adding that once his stories are finished he never reads them. Michelle Heinemann, who lives in Calgary, writes anxious stories that are full of disturbing mysteries. Rysstad is more conventional and closer to her roots. Her last sto...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 10, No. 4, August 1991

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1991,

Seller ID: 107063

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.10, No. 4, August 1991. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1991. Pp (1), 2-32 including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated blue stapled card covers, lettered in black. Contents : Trades Well Paid and Challenging; Pay Equity Progressing in PEI; Need Women in Math-Science; Child Support: Who Pays? What Price?; The Changing Faces of Canadian Families; Building a New Family—A Personal Story; Meet Yogi Gamester of South Granville; Self Help Groups on PEI; Orderly Payment of Debt; NAC Promotes Solidarity/Diversity; Couns...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 11, No. 6, December 1992

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.) ITANI, Frances

Price: $14.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1992,

Seller ID: 102750

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.11, No. 6, December 1992. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1992. Pp (1 ),2-36 including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated green stapled card covers. Contents : A Tribute to Anderson House Women; First Mourn, Then WorkFor Change; Legal Aid in Crisis; My Battle For Legal Aid - One Woman's Suc cess Story; Rigoberta Menchu - Guatemalan Peace Activist; Rural Nurse at Heart of Community (by Jean Ginn); Farm Childcare Hot Issue; East Prince Entrepreneurs; Soirée au Feminin; Drop in to EPWIC; Networking in Rollo Bay; Qu...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 12, No. 4, September 1993

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1993,

Seller ID: 102821

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.12, No. 4, September 1993. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1993. Pp ( 1),2-36 including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated blue stapled card covers. Contents : A Slice of Life—Column (by Evie Davidson); Tips for Aspiring Writers (By Janet Reeves Great); Stories and Poems (By Common Ground Readers); Profile of Artist Carmel Smith Bachand (By Anne McCallum); Milton Acorn Women's Celebration; Legal Beagle on Copyright; NAC Conference Powerful and Positive (By Ellen Reynolds); Report on Child Assault; Science Profes...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 8, No. 4, August 1989

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1989,

Seller ID: 102745

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.8, No. 4, August 1989. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1989. Pp (1),2 -28 including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated blue stapled card covers. Contents : Women Must Control Reproduction; Early Rebels—The School Improvement League (by Helen MacDonald); One Woman's Charlottetown; Equality Revisited—R.E.A.L. Conference (by Hugette Leger); Female Mounties Celebrate Fifteen Years [Women Wanted on the Force, p.13]; Food and the Future; Bioenergetics—The Way to Vibrant Health; Do Doctors Mistreat Women? (by Carolyn D...
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Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol. 9, No. 4, August 1990

By: McCALLUM, Anne, (ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PEI Women's Network, Charlottetown, 1990,

Seller ID: 102816

McCALLUM, Anne (ed.). Common Ground : The News and Views of PEI Women. Vol.9, No. 4, August 1990. Charlottetown : PEI Women's Network, 1990. Pp (1),2 -28 including covers. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated yellow stapled card covers. Special Isue : A Celebration of Island Writers. Contents : Features : Meet Vian Emery—Creative Energy Abounds; Georgetown Exciting Theatre Venue;Who's Coming To The Milton Acorn Festival?; Roama Spillmore Column. Poems : Shirley Limbert, Helen I. Stetson, Elaine Harrison; Hazel Bin, Shirley Limbert; Betty Henderson, Kim; Hazel Birt; Mari Basiletti; Hazel Birt; Beverle...
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Correspondences : A poem by Anne Michaels ; portraits by Bernice Eisenstein. First Printing

By: MICHAELS, Anne, and Bernice EISENSTEIN EISENSTEIN, Bernice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2013, ISBN:9780771056512

Seller ID: 107553

MICHAELS, Anne, and Bernice EISENSTEIN. Correspondences : A poem by Anne Michaels ; portraits by Bernice Eisenstein. First Printing. (Tooronto) : McClelland & Stewart, (2013). First Printing. Pp (120) panels. Illustrated. 8vo, grey cloth boards, one board lettered in black, one board with colour inlay, bound in accordion format, held together with grey elastic ribbons, encased in a paper slipcase. This work consists of full color portraits of 20th century figures and writers by Bernice Eisenstein, paired with a poem of literary elegy by Anne Michaels. Very good. 30.00
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Country Roads : Memoirs from Rural Canada. First Edition

By: CHAMBERLAIN, Pam (ed.). JOHNSTON, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, N.S., 2010, ISBN: : 2010

Seller ID: 93278

ISBN-13: 9781551097596

CHAMBERLAIN, Pam, (ed.). Country Roads : Memoirs from Rural Canada. (Halifax, NS) : Nimbus Publishing, (2010). First Edition. "Printed and bound in Canada". Pp (8),1-270,(2). With 29 b&w photos in the text. 8vo (159 x 222 mm), photo-illustrated semi-glossy card covers, with beige lettering to spine. With a small colour photo of Chamberlain on the rear cover. Pam Chamberlain (b. 1970, Alberta) was living in Calgary at the time of publication “In Country Roads, writers from Victoria, BC, to St. John's, Newfoundland, reflect upon their experiences growing up in rural Canada. The anthology ...
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Crawford Symposium. Reappraisals : Canadian Writers

By: CEAWFORD, Isabella Vallancy). TIERNEY, Frank M., (ed.) LIVESAY, Dorothy TIERNEY, Frank M. (ed.) DUDEK, Louis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 1979, ISBN:2760343855

Seller ID: 101063

CEAWFORD, Isabella Vallancy). TIERNEY, Frank M., (ed.). The Crawford Symposium. Edited and with an introduction by Frank M. Tierney. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, (1979). Pp (8),ix,(1),1-158. Frontispiece Portrait. 8vo, orange card covers, lettered in white. In the Reappraisals : Canadian Writers series. Cover title : The Isabella Vallancy Crawford Symposium. Contents : Introduction (by Frank M. Tierney); The Life of Isabella Valancy Crawford (by Dorothy Livesay); In Search of Isabella Valaney Crawford (by Penny Petrone); Crawford's. Early Works (by Margo Dunn); Crawford and the Penetra...
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Crime in a Cold Climate : An Anthology of Classic Canadian Crime. Paperback.

By: SKENE-MELVIN, David, editor. SERVICE, Robert W. JOHNSON, Pauline.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Pierre, Toronto, 1994, ISBN:0889242607

Seller ID: 108295

SKENE-MELVIN, David, editor. Crime in a Cold Climate : An Anthology of Classic Canadian Crime.. Toronto : Simon & Pierre, 1994. Pp (8), 9-286, (2). 8vo, illustrated grey card covers. Contents: John Dent "The Gerrard Street Mystery" ; Grant Allen, "The Episode of the Mexican Seer" ; Robert Barr, "TheAbsent-Minded Coterie", "The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs" ; William Fraser , "Bulldog Carney", Wild Oats" ; Pauline Johnson, "The Riders of the Plains" ; Roger Pocock, "The Lean Man" ; Robert W. Service, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"...
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David Adams Richards : Essays on His Works. First Edition

By: RICHARDS, David Adams). TREMBLAY, Tony, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Guernica, Toronto , 2005, ISBN:1550711997 : 2005

Seller ID: 79015

ISBN-13: 9781550711998

(RICHARDS, David Adams). David Adams Richards : Essays on His Works. Edited by Tony Tremblay. Toronto : Guernica, 2005. First Edition. Pp [1]-159,(1). 12mo (108 x 178 mm), photo-illustrated glossy grey cardcovers with yellow and white lettering to front cover, with black lettering to yellow spine. No 16 in the Writers Series. David Adams Richards, C.M., O.N.B. (b. October 17, 1950, Newcastle, New Brunswick). Michael Anthony 'Tony' Tremblay (b. 1962) was teaching in Fredericton at the time of publication. "David Adams Richards is one of Canada's foremost writers. A writer of poet...
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Day the Men Went to Town : 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

By: CAPLAN, Ronald, (ed.) MacDONALD, Ann-Marie CLARK, Joan COADY, Lynn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Breton Books, Wreck Cove, 1999, ISBN:1895415438

Seller ID: 47916

CAPLAN, Ronald, (ed.). The Day the Men Went to Town : 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton. Wreck Cove, Cape Breton Island : Breton Books, (1999). Pp (6),vii,(1),[1]-164,(4). 8vo, illustrated cardcovers. "Starting with TessieGillis, women have been writing the non-traditional story of Cape Breton I sland; the deeper, sometimes darker, side. They offer here a rich, rare view of being young, of being old, even of being a man. The stories in The Daythe Men Went to Town are about fisherwomen and aliens from space, the poig nancy of family life, and tragedy in the coal mines. They are about sev...
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Daydreams of Angels. Second Printing, signed.

By: O'NEILL, Heather.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins, Toronto, 2015, ISBN:9781554684519

Seller ID: 115191

O'NEILL, Heather. Daydreams of Angels. (Toronto) : HarperCollins Publishers, (2014). Second Printing. Pp. (6),1-354,(4). 8vo, illustrated pale-blue cardcovers with yellow & dark blue lettering to front cover and spnie, Frenchflaps. Heather O'Neill (b. 1973, Montreal). Shortlisted for the 2015 Scoti abank Giller Prize. "Heather O'Neill's unforgettable novels, 'The Girl Who Was Saturday Night' and 'Lullabies for Little Criminals', captured readers with the vulnerability and charm of her characters Nouschka and Baby and the irreverent descriptions of their lives on Montreal's St. Laurent Boul...
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Directory of Caribbean Personalities in Britain and North America

By: DICKSON, Roy, (ed.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gleaner Company Limited, 1985, ISBN:9766120005

Seller ID: 100554

DICKSON, Roy, (ed.). The Directory of Caribbean Personalities in Britain and North America. Kingston, Jamaica : The Gleaner Company Limited, 1985. Pp.[i]-iv,(5),6-333,(2, map), (1). Double column. 8vo, blue hardcover, gilt l ettering to front and spine. The majority of the entries have an accompanying b&w photo. The Canadian section comprises pp. 85-156. Two literary figures : Austin Clarke (pp. 100-101) and Cyril Dabydeen (p. 104). "Personalities they have. There's no denying it. You can often spot them or hear them from a good way off. Few introverts here. And yet even that may be a ster...
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Dreamspeaker and Tem Eyos Ki and the Land Claims Question. First Edition industjacket

By: HUBERT, Cam CAMERON, Anne CAMERON, B.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto / Vancouver, 1978, ISBN:0772012202

Seller ID: 102403

HUBERT, Cam. Dreamspeaker and Tem Eyos Ki and the Land Claims Question. Toronto / Vancouver : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, (1978). First Edition. Pp. (6),1-137,(1). 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Cam Hubert" was for a time the name of Barbara Anne Cameron (b. August 20, 1938 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer, now better known as Anne Cameron. "Dreamspeaker, [pp.1-85] the original novella of the award-winning CBC film, tells the stark and moving story of a young boy's life. Committed to an institution for delinq...
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During Rain, I Plant Chrysanthemums. First Edition in dustjacket

By: GILL, M. Lakshmi.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1966,

Seller ID: 104438

GILL, M. Lakshmi. During Rain, I Plant Chrysanthemums. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (1966). First Edition. Pp (6),1-26. 8vo, red cloth, gilt letteringto spine. Laugher p.201.Myrna Lakshmi Gill, (b.1943)"In her poems, Laks hmi Gill expresses the contrasting conditons of the human spirit: fire, frigidity, chaos and wonder. At times the temper is passion; then again, exhaustion. Her subjects are seen in shifting perspectives: not even the traditional absolutes remain static." - from the dj front flap. With praise by Earle Birney on rear dj panel. "Lakshmi Gill, of Punjabi / Spanish parentage,...
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