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Academy Annual, Christmas, 1912, No. 17

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Halifax Academy Academy, Halifax , 1912,:

Seller ID: 81284

(Halifax County Academy). The Academy Annual, Christmas, 1912, No. 17. Discimus Facere Faciensdo. Halifax : Published by the Students, Halifax County Academy, 1912. Pp (6),[1]-64,(4), frontis + 7 plates. Advertisements. 8vo, off-white card covers, printed in gold and blue. Editor-in-Chief, CatherineHenrion. Along with the regular academic sections, articles of interest in clude : “A Century Ago and Now, (1812-1912)”; “Heroism”; “A Journey Up Country”; “The Manufacture of Sugar” (pp. 22-25); “My Impressions of the middleCanadian West” by Lionel Shatford (pp. 27-30); “A Voy...
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Academy Broadcast Vol. 1 No. I March 1933

By: Halifax Academy)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1933,:

Seller ID: 51992

(HALIFAX ACADEMY). The Academy Broadcast Vol. 1 No. I March 1933. [Halifax]: n. p., 1933. Pp. 32. Illustrated. 8vo, stapled light brown paper covers with school crest to front. The premier issue of the publication by the Halifax Grammar School including short stories, sports and school notes. Previous owner's name typewritten in several places, covers lightly rubbed, else vg. 30.00
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Academy Broadcast Vol. I No. 2 June 1933

By: HALIFAX ACADEMY)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1933,:

Seller ID: 51993

(HALIFAX ACADEMY). The Academy Broadcast Vol. I No. 2 June 1933. [Halifax]:n. p., 1933. Pp. 32. Illustrated. 8vo, stapled orange paper covers with sc hool crest to front. A publication by the Halifax Grammar School including short stories, sports and school notes. Includes numerous autographs of teachers and pupils. Some fading to spine and edges, small tear to fore-edge, three lines of notations to the front cover expunged, previous owner's nameinked to front, else vg. 30.00
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Academy Broadcast, Easter Number, 1934

By: Halifax Academy)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1934,:

Seller ID: 43924

(Halifax Academy). The Academy Broadcast, Easter Number, 1934. [Halifax]: n. p., 1934. Pp. 48. Illustrated. 8vo, stapled light brown paper covers withblue and gold decoration. A publication of the Halifax Grammar School incl uding short stories, sports and school notes. Cover partly detached at lower staple else vg. 20.00
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Address Unknown

By: TAYLOR, Kressmann

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1939,:

Seller ID: 100112

TAYLOR, Kressmann. Address Unknown. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1939. Pp(64). 8vo, black cloth pine, grey paper covered boards, red lettering to f ront cover, white envelope vignette to front board and white lettering to spine. Foreword by Whit Burnett, editor of Story Magazine. "In this dramaticseries of letters (between an American living in San Francisco and his for mer business partner who returned to Germany) American writing has been enriched by one of those rarities in the field of literature, a perfect short story. Further, it is one of those inevitable stories, so significantly...
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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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Admirables et autres nouvelles. signed. pbk.

By: BARRET. Robert

Price: $60.00

Publisher: L'Atelier, Troyes, 1977,:

Seller ID: 70522

BARRET. Robert. Admirables et autres nouvelles . Troyes: L'Atelier, 1977. Pp. [1]-101,(3). Small 8vo, printed cream card covers with blank spine. Number 133 of a limited edition of 300. A collection of short stories. Text in French. Vg. Signed with an extensive inscription by the author on the titlepage. 60.00
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Adult Entertainment. First Edition in dustjacket

By: METCALF, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1986, ISBN:0771598963:

Seller ID: 15710

METCALF, John. Adult Entertainment. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada (1986). First Edition. Pp (6),1-201,(1). 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "With Adult Entertainment, John Metcalf is sure to delight his admirers - and win new readers - with his characteristic blend of elegant prose, wry compassion, and mischievous comic vision." - rear dj panel. "The two novellasand three short stories that make up Adult Entertainment are vintage Metca lf. In the stories we meet a shy student exposed to a grotesque landlady and her horrific family ["Single Gents Only"], a teacher ...
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Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories. in dj.

By: THOMAS, Dylan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New Directions Books, New York, 1955,:

Seller ID: 66633

THOMAS, Dylan. Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories . (NY): New Directions Books, (1955). Pp. (i)-viii,(1)-275,[3]. 8vo, grey cloth with white lettering to spine. Contents: "Adventures in the Skin Trade", "After theFair", "The Enemies", "The Tree", "The Visitor", "The Lemon", "The Burning Baby", "The Orchards", "The Mouse and the Woman", "The Horse's Ha", "A Pro spect of the Sea", "The Holy Six", "Prologue to an Adventure", "The Map of Love", "In the Direction of the Be...
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After the Quake. Stories. First American Edition in dustjacket.

By: MURAKAMI, Haruki. RUBIN, Jay, trans.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Knopf, New York, 2002, ISBN:0375413901:

Seller ID: 108634

MURAKAMI, Haruki. After the Quake. Stories. Translated from the Japanese byJay Rubin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First US Printing. Pp. (12),[3 ]-181,(1). Small 8vo, red cloth boards with black paper covered spine, yellow lettering to spine. "In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japanwas transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which dest royed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his...
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Afternoon of an Author : A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays. 1stUS in dj

By: FITZGERALD, F. Scott MIZENER, Arthur, intro./notes

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958,:

Seller ID: 12730

FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Afternoon of an Author : A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays.. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1958). First Edition. Pp.226. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some fading to the rear cloth , else vg in price- clipped dj (with some tape-repair to the spine ends, several short tears, foxing to the rear panel). 50.00
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Against the Desert : Stories by Writers of Soviet Turkmenia

By: SARYKHANOV, Nurmurat, Beki SEITAKOV, and Berdy KERBABAYEV Soviet Short Stories series

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1965,:

Seller ID: 108897

SARYKHANOV, Nurmurat, Beki SEITAKOV, and Berdy KERBABAYEV. Against the Desert : Stories by Writers of Soviet Turkmenia. Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. [196-?]. Pp (8),9-[158],(2). Illustrated. Small 8vo, illustrated olive card covers, French flaps, front cover and spine lettered in white. In the Soviet Short Stories series. Contents : The Book (by Nurmurat Sarykhanov); Against the Desert (by Beki Seitakov); City of Oil (by Berdy Kerbabayev). Light wear to spine ends, else very good. 40.00
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All the Men are Sleeping : Selected Fiction. 1st Cdn in dj

By: MacDONALD, D. R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, 2002,:

Seller ID: 48492

MacDONALD, D. R. All the Men are Sleeping : Selected Fiction. (Toronto) : Doubleday Canada, (2002), First Canadian Edition. Pp. 349. 8vo, black paper covered boards. David R. MacDonald (b. Boularderie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia). A selection of short stories. Very good in dustjacket. 20.00
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All the Myriad Ways. First Edition, Signed.

By: NIVEN, Larry.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ballantine, New York, 1971,:

Seller ID: 111884

NIVEN, Larry. All the Myriad Ways. New York: Ballantine Books, (June 1971).First Printing. Paperback Original. Pp. (10),1-181,(1). Small 8vo, illustr ated card covers, white spine, white lettering to front cover, black lettering to spine. Mass market paperback. "The latest collection from a writer whose stature as science fiction's finest hardcore s.f. author is now well established... From the beginning, Larry Niven's work showed the kind of thoughtful, studied detail which is the hallmark of a powerful imagination at work behind concepts that are totally original. The present colection c...
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Almost Meeting. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KREISEL, Henry

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981, ISBN:0912316131:

Seller ID: 15766

KREISEL, Henry. The Almost Meeting [dustjacket adds: and other stories]. Edmonton : NeWest Press, (1981). First Edition. Pp (10),11-148. 8vo, brown cloth, black lettering to spine. Henry Kreisel (b. June 5, 1922, Vienna, Austria - d. April 22, 1991, Edmonton) Canadian writer and professor. This is Kreisel's collected short stories written between 1954 and 1980. The stories: "The Almost Meeting", "Chassidic Song", "Homecoming", "Annerl", "An Anonymous Letter", "The Travelling Nude", "Two Sisters in Geneva", and "The Broken Globe." ...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Eight, June 1964

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). ATWOOD, Margaret MANDEL, Eli MARSHALL, Tom

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1964,:

Seller ID: 102306

(ATWOOD, Margaret). (REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Eight June 1964. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1964. Pp. (4),5-96. 8vo, yellow card covers, black lettering tofront cover, blank spine. The eighth issue of Reaney's hand-set Canadian l iterary journal, dealing very broadly with the myth of Jonah. Contents: "Jonah: A cantata text set to music by John Beckwith, arranged by him out of the Bible with commissioned verse by Jay Macpherson"; "Notes on Jonah" by John Beckwith; Eli Mandel's "Mary Midnight"; poetry b...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Eleven December 1965-March 1966

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). LOWTHER, Pat BISSETT, Bill BOWERING, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1966,:

Seller ID: 102309

(LOWTHER, Pat). (REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Eleven December 1965-March 1966. London, Ont. : Alphabet, 1966. Pp. (1),2-80. 8vo, orange cardcovers, black lettering to front cover & spine. The eleventh issue [although, on the contents page, it curiously states that this is issue "number eight"?] of Reaney's Canadian literary journal. Contents: Jack Chambers's "Toronto-London One-Way -- Gray Coach Lines"; Stuart Shaw's "Montreal Receives Solly Krakowitz"; poetry by John Hirsch (four poems), Theodore Bl...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Four, June 1962

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). MacEWAN, Gwendolyn MANDEL, Eli TOWN, Harold

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1962,:

Seller ID: 102260

(REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Four, June 1962. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1962. Pp(2),3-74,(14). 8vo, yellow card covers, black lettering to front cover, bl ank spine. The fourth issue of Reaney's hand-set Canadian literary journal,dealing very broadly with the myth of Icarus. Contents: reviews by Ian Sow ton, Pamela Terry, Kenneth Winters, Hope Lee, Ronald Bates, Edward Yeomans,and Eli Mandel; poetry by Marvyne Jenoff, Peter Dale Scott, E.J. Barnes, G erald Vise, D.A. Campbell, Jack Tootell, John R. Colombo, Christopher Pries...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Nine November 1964

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). BREWSTER, Elizabeth CURNOE, Greg KOGAWA, Joy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1964,:

Seller ID: 102307

(REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Nine November 1964. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1964.Pp. (2),3-96. 8vo, brown card covers, black lettering to front cover, blan k spine. The ninth issue of Reaney's hand-set Canadian literary journal. Contents: reviews by Warren Stevenson; Keewatin Dewdney's "The Slaughterhouse"; Olga Skey's "The New Bug"; George H. Thomson's "The Real World of William Golding"; poetry by Ralph Cunningham, Lawrence Matthews, Elizabeth Brewster, Francis Sparshott, Tom Marshall, Stuart MacKinn...
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Alphabet : A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Seven, December 1963

By: REANEY, James, (ed.). JOYCE, James) LEE, Dennis MacEWAN, Gwendolyn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alphabet, London, Ont, 1963,:

Seller ID: 102304

(JOYCE, James). (REANEY, James, (ed.). Alphabet : A Semiannual devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination. Number Seven December 1963. London, Ont.: Alphabet, 1963. Pp. (2),3-92,(4). 8vo, green card covers, black letteringto front cover, blank spine. The seventh issue of Reaney's hand-set Canadi an literary journal, dealing very broadly with the myth of Misshipeshoo. Contents: Norval Morrisseau's "Misshipeshoo & Other Water Monsters"; poetry by Tony Urquhart, Dennis Lee, Rae Davis, Joan Finnegan, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Edward Yeomans, Peter Revell, D.G. Jones, Cecile Cloutier; Edward Du...
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