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100 petites histoires du passé pour conserver notre langue et notre cultureacadienne.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Les Éditions de la Piquine, Meteghan Centre, N.S., 2002, ISBN:0968940218

Seller ID: 93653

ROBICHAUD, Marie-Colombe. 100 petites histoires du passé pour conserver notre langue et notre culture acadienne. (Meteghan Centre, N.S.) : Les Éditions de la Piquine, (2002). First Edition. Pp [1]-[200],(4). Illustrations. 8vo, illustrated grey card covers. One hundred stories told in the form of conversations between Philomène and Thimothée, or Cazimir and Zabeth. Text inFrench. Very good, with a loose single-page Index to photos laid in. 15.00
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1949. pbk.

By: FRENCH, David

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Talonbooks, 1989, ISBN:0889222665

Seller ID: 6154

FRENCH, David. 1949. Vancouver : Talonbooks, (April) 1989. First Printing. Pp (8), 9-174, (2). 8vo, white trade paperback. "1949 continues the saga ofthe Mercer family, enlarged to include the extended family as well as off- stage characters from theplays. David French deals with the emotional and political decisions that the characters must come to as Newfoundland joins Confederation on April Fool's Day of 1949. As recent immigrants to Toronto the members of the Mercer family see this event both as a new future and as a loss of Newfoundland's culture and independence." - from rear cov...
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A Deathful Ridge : A Novel of Everest. First Edition, Paperback

By: WAINWRIGHT, J.A. WAINWRIGHT, Andy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mosaic Press, Oakville, 1997, : 1997

Seller ID: 25291

ISBN-13: 9780889626508

WAINWRIGHT, Andy. A Deathful Ridge : A Novel of Everest. Oakville, ON. - Buffalo, N.Y. : Mosaic Press, 1997. First Edition. Pp (10),1-138,(2). 8vo, black photo-illustrated cardcovers, with French flaps, with red & white lettering to spine. John Andrew Wainwright (b. May 12, 1946, Toronto) now Nova Scotia and long-time professor at Dalhousie. Wainwright's first novel. " A Deathful Ridge rewrites the life and myth of George Mallory, who disappeared with Andrew Irvine near the summit of Mount Everest in 1924. Mallory was the greatest climber of his generation, but also a Cambridge grad...
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A Garden Enclosed. 1st, ill. card covers with french flaps

By: MARCHAND, Blaine.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cormorant Books, 1991, ISBN:0920953522

Seller ID: 56973

MARCHAND, Blaine. A Garden Enclosed. (Dunvegan, ON): Cormorant Books, (1991). First Edition. Pp [69]. 8vo, illustrated card covers with french flaps. Presentation copy signed by author. Vg. 20.00
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A la Pointe des Yeux

By: MARCEAU, Alain Collection les Matinaux 6)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Les Éditions de l'Hexagone, Montreal, 1958,

Seller ID: 60401

MARCEAU, Alain. A la Pointe des Yeux . Montreal: Les Éditions de l'Hexagone, (1958). Pp. 30. 8vo, printed grey card covers with french flaps. Collection les Matinaux, 6. A collection of poetry. Text in French. Spine slightly browned, name, else vg. 25.00
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A Perte de Temps. First Printing.

By: GRAVEL, Pierre BROWN, Alan, trans. Anansi Fiction Serires, AF8 Spiderline Editions

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Anansi, Toronto, 1974, ISBN:0887843328

Seller ID: 101115

GRAVEL, Pierre. A Perte de Temps. Bilingual Edition. Toronto and Montreal: Anansi / éditions parti pris, (1969). First Printing. Pp. (8),[i]-xiv,(2),[1]-117,(3). 8vo, printed pale green card covers with black titles to front and spine. Anansi Fiction Series, AF8. Spiderline Editions. "A cleanly-chiselled story about young members of the Montreal terrorist movement in the early sixties. 'A Perte de Temps' has been called the first serious Canadian novel on the subject." - from rear. Text in French, however, with a running vocabulary in English for the more difficult words. Small ...
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A Precocious Autobiography. First American Edition in dustjacket

By: YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1963, : 1963

Seller ID: 9549

YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. A Precocious Autobiography. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1963. First American Edition. Pp (10),[11]-124,(4) + an 8-page central section of b&w photos. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (b. July 18, 1932, Zima, Russia - d. April 1, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma). "One of the most significant books ever to come out of the Soviet Union, this remarkable lite story is already tne subject of unprecedented international press coverage. When it appeared in part in a French newspaper...
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A Short History of Belgium in Relation to England. First Edition

By: DEVOGELEER, J.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 0, : 1971

Seller ID: 79755

DEVOGELEER, J. A Short History of Belgium in Relation to England. Lier : Van In, n.d. [1971]. First Edition. Pp [1]-85,(3) + additional typescript pages bound in as follows : between pages 60 and 61 (2 pages – Brussels bombarded in 1695), between pages 80 and 81 (pp. 1-6 – World War I), and after last blank (pp. 7-15 – World War II). 8vo (150 x 220 mm), art-illustrated white cardcovers, printed in blue and green, with blank spine. Preface. 1. Prehistory. The Stone Age - The Bronze and Iron Ages. 2. The Romans. 3. The Middle Ages. The Franks : The Merovingian House - The Carolingian...
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A Toi. First Paperback, French edition.

By: THUY, Kim. JANOVJAK, Pascal.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Libre Expression, Montreal, 2011, ISBN:9782764805596

Seller ID: 113217

THUY, Kim and Pascal JANOVJAK. A toi. (Montréal, Québec) : Libre Expression, (2011). First Printing. Pp. (8),7-[167],(1). 8vo, illustrated cream and blue card covers with elliptical port-hole cut to front cover, navy blue spine. Text in French. The second novel by the Vietnamese-born Canadian author, and Governor General's award-winner. Very good. 20.00
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A Toute Epreuve

By: ELUARD, Paul, and Juan MIRO GREET, Anne Hyde MIRO, Juan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1984, ISBN:0807611026

Seller ID: 106041

ELUARD, Paul, and Juan MIRO. A Toute Épreuve. Geneve : Gerald Cramer, (1958). [in facsimile]. Pp (100). Stiff wraps. - with - Introduction by Anne Hyde Greet New York : George Braziller, Inc., 1984. Pp (6),7-22,(2). Illustrated, 4to, grey printed card covers. Both housed in loose board covers, with velum paper spine, woodgrain paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, and the whole housed in the original woodgrain paper covered cardboard slipcase. A facsimile reproduction of this collaboration by poet Paul Eluard and artist Juan Miro, with an introductory essay by Anne Hyde Greet. ...
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A voile libre : Jeune recueil collectif.

By: Acadian - Poetry - Juvenile).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Petit-Rocher, Acadie :, 1983,

Seller ID: 83107

(Acadian – Poetry - Juvenile). A voile libre : Jeune recueil collectif. (Petit-Rocher, Acadie : SiR), n.d. [1983?]. Pp (10),1-67,(5). 8vo, illustratedblue card covers. A collection of poems by students from École secondaire Népisiguit (Nepisiguit Secondary School), the only French-speaking high school in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada area. It holds around 1,200 studentsfrom grade nine through twelve. Test in French. Namestamps, else very good . 15.00
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Abject Object : Avatars of the Phallus in Contemporary French Theory, Literature and Film (Chiasma 17)

By: READER, Keith. Chiasma 17).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York, 2006, ISBN:9042017295

Seller ID: 97112

READER, Keith. Abject Object : Avatars of the Phallus in Contemporary French Theory, Literature and Film. Chiasma 17. Amsterdam / New York : Rodopi, (2006). First Edition. Pp (10),[11]-225,(1). Index. 8vo, illustrated purple card covers. "If the phallus remains to the fore of our understanding of gender difference, it is far from the indisputable bedrock of masculinity some might suppose it to be. Indeed, as the present study amply demonstrates, portrayal of the phallus in our (post)modernist age frequently entails a disquieting plurality of tensions and ambiguities wherein the corporeal c...
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Abraham de Brooklyn

By: DECOIN, Didier

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1971,

Seller ID: 54170

DECOIN, Didier. Abraham de Brooklyn. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, (1971). Pp. 250. Text in French. 8vo, red cloth, white titles to front and spine. Very good in clear ustjacket. 30.00
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Absente pour la journée

By: ST-PIERRE, Christiane

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Éditions d'Acadie, 1989,

Seller ID: 49912

ST-PIERRE, Christiane. Absente pour la journée. (Moncton, NB): Éditions d'Acadie, (1989). Pp. 179. 8vo, grey ill. card covers. Previous owner's name inkstamped to edges and verso of half-title, else vg. 15.00
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Acadia : Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History. First American Edition. 2 volume set

By: RICHARD, Edouard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Home Book Company, New York, 1895, : 1895

Seller ID: 73537

RICHARD, Edouard. Acadia : Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History. By an Acadian. New York : Home Book Company, (1895). First American Edition. No printer given. In Two Volumes. Pp (6),[1]-392,(6) + portrait frontispiece of Richard.; (4),[1]-384,(2) + map frontispiece. 8vo (156 x 236 mm), maroon cloth, with gilt lettering to fronts & spines. With Home Book Company at foot of spine. With plain endpapers. Rhodenizer p. 573, who tells us that this was translated into English by Lewis Henry Drummond (1848-1929). Strangley not in Watters or Maillet. Édouard-Émery Richard (b...
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Acadie, Terre Promise : Roman

By: DUBOS, Alain

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Presses de la Cité, Paris, 2002, ISBN:2258055695

Seller ID: 102352

DUBOS, Alain. Acadie, Terre Promise : Roman. [Paris] : Presses de la Cité, (2002). Pp (12),13-[641],(7). Map. 8vo, illustrated card covers, lettered in red and black. "De 169S à 1755, la grande saga de la famille Lestang, de leurs allies (les Hébert, les Melanson...) et de leurs descendants dans la Nouvelle-France, en Acadie. Arrivés du Béarn, Julien, Catherine, TiPierre et leurs parents débarquent à Port-Royal au printemps 1695. Chacun des enfants va suivre son chemin dans les tumultes de cette France lointaine convoitée par les Anglais. Julien se fond dans le monde sauvage des chasseurs ...
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Act of Courage. signed. 1st UK in dj.

By: MALLINSON, Allan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Bantam Press, London, 2005, ISBN:0593053400

Seller ID: 75996

MALLINSON, Allan. An Act of Courage . London: Bantam Press, (2005). First UK Printing. Pp. [i]-xii,(2),1-366,(4). Map endpapers. 8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "Christmas 1826 finds Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons alone and a prisoner. Captured by the Spanish, he is locked up in the notorious fortress of Badajoz, with little means of outside communication, his Prayer Book his only mental sustenance. He must escape, but as Hervey lays his plans his thoughts return to 1812, when as a young cornethe was here with Wellington's Peninsular Army. Having survived the terr...
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Actes du Deuxième Colloque de Marseille (28-29-30 janvier 1972) : Etat present de quelques travaux concernant le XVIIe siècle : 1. Racine. 2. Le livre, documents d'archives. 3. Histoire sociale et économique. 4. Mentalités religieuses

By: Deuxième Colloque de Marseilles) RACINE, Jean C.M.R. 17

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Centre Régional de Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogiques, Marseille, 1973,

Seller ID: 99827

Deuxième Colloque de Marseilles). Actes du Deuxième Colloque de Marseille (28-29-30 janvier 1972) : Etat present de quelques travaux concernant le XVIIe siècle : 1. Racine. 2. Le livre, documents d'archives. 3. Histoire sociale et économique. 4. Mentalités religieuses. C.M.R. 17 (Centre Méridional de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle). Marseille : Centre Régional de Rechercheet de Documentation Pédagogiques, 1973. Pp (4),3-192. 8vo, illustrated whi te card covers. Contents : Première Partie - Racine : Raymond Picard's "Avant-Propos"; Jacques Morel's "Racine en 1972 : La nouvelle criti...
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Ada Gives First Aid : A Riotous Comedy of Modern Times in One Act

By: MERRIFIELD, Eunice.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Samuel French, New York, 1943,

Seller ID: 96514

MERRIFIELD, Eunice. Ada Gives First Aid : A Riotous Comedy of Modern Times in One Act. New York : Samuel French, (1943). Pp [1]-43,(5). Scene Design, Small 8vo, green stapled card covers. “Scatterbrained Ada organizes a classin first aid, even though Ada doesn't know the difference between a break and a sprain! But the "victim" is taken sick and cannot appear for the demonstration. Then a strange man has an accident in Ada's garden. Fate has handed a victim to the first aid class! And what "the girls" do to him is a caution! Then they discover that he is a doctor who has moved ...
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Admirables et autres nouvelles. pbk.

By: BARRET. Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: L'Atelier, Troyes, 1977,

Seller ID: 70521

BARRET. Robert. Admirables et autres nouvelles . Troyes: L'Atelier, 1977. Pp. [1]-101,(3). Small 8vo, printed cream card covers with blank spine. An un-numbered copy of a limited edition of three hundred. A collection of short stories. Text in French. Vg. 30.00
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