The Weavers a Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago

Toronto: Copp Clark Co. Limited, 1908. First Canadian Edition; Second Printing. Unknown Binding. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne illustrator. Light edge wear to green cloth covered boards, bottom fore corner worn through, light soil. Gift notation on FFEP, small hole top dedication page. A little foxing early pages. Front hinge intact, back hinge started but solid. Page edges show a little soil. ; Black stamped design and gilt stamped titles front and spine. A tight solid book.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 14720

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: FICTION Fiction::Canadian

ANDERSON, DORIS

Rough Layout

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771007426. Signed by Author; Light wear to extremities. Price-clipped dust jacket has short tears top of spine, small chip missing at base of DJ on spine. Previous owner's stamp on front free end paper and half title page ; Signed by author on title page. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve. A bright, solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages; The story line about the editor of Canadian women's magazine, trying to keep her responsibilities as wife, mother and businesswoman from devolving, lightly resembles Anderson's own life. Anderson was, for a time editor, of Chatelaine magazine.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 16201

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0771007426 magazine Toronto Fiction Fiction::Canadian

ANDERSON-DARGATZ, GAIL

Turtle Valley

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676978851. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.3 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches; 292 pages; "Kat has returned with her disabled husband and young son to her family’s homestead in Turtle Valley, in British Columbia’s Shuswap-Thompson area. Fire is sweeping through the valley in a ruthless progression toward the farm and they have come to help her frail parents pack up their belongings. Kat’s mother, Beth, (the now elderly protagonist of Anderson-Dargatz’s first novel, the award-winning The Cure for Death by Lightning) is weighed down by her ailing husband, Gus, and by generations of accumulated detritus. But there is something else weighing her down, a secret she has guarded all her life. Kat is determined to get to its source before fire eats up all that is left of the family’s memories.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19807

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0676978851 British Columbia Fiction::Canadian

ATWOOD, MARGARET

The Handmaid's Tale

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771008139. DJ is slightly sun-faded on spine, otherwise NF. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 324 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21803

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0771008139 gilead offred Fiction::Canadian

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tamarind Mem

London: Viking, 1997. 1st UK; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670874558. As new; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.60 X 5.60 X 1.10 inches; 272 pages; "Having moved to Canada from India, Kamini tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. Recounting the story of her mother's life, Kamini reveals the desires, secrets and fears that link different generations, exploring the bond between mothers and daughters." "A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India's railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17615

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0670874558 india Vancouver Mother daughter immigrants South Asia Fiction::Canadian History::Canada

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tamarind Mem

Toronto, ON: Viking, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0670869163. Signed by Author; Light wear to card covers, a little creasing base of front cover, some tanning of pages ; Card covers have french flaps which contain the blurbs. ; Trade PB; 266 pages; This is the first novel by the Indo-Canadian writer. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 11397

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0670869163 India FICTION Canada Fiction::Canadian

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tell It to the Trees

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676978932. Only slight wear.; A bright, solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8.40 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 255 pages; One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house. It’s the body of Anu Krishnan.For Anu, a writer seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas’ “back-house” in the sleepy mountain town of Merrit’s Point was the ideal spot to take a year off and begin writing. She had found the Dharmas’ rental through a happy coincidence. A friend from university who had kept tabs on everyone in their graduating year – including the quiet and reserved Vikram Dharma and his first wife, Helen – sent her the listing. Anu vaguely remembered Vikram but had a strong recollection of Helen, a beautiful, vivacious, social and charming woman.But now Vikram had a new wife, a marriage hastily arranged in India after Helen was killed in a car accident. Suman Dharma, a stark contrast to Helen, is quiet and timid. She arrived from the bustling warmth of India full of the promise of her new life – a new home, a new country and a daughter from Vikram’s first marriage. But her husband’s suspicious, controlling and angry tirades become almost a daily ritual, resigning Suman to a desolate future entangled in a marriage of fear and despair.Suman is isolated both by the landscape and the culture, and her fortunes begin to change only when Anu arrives. A friendship begins to form between the two women as Anu becomes a frequent visitor to the house. While the children, Varsha and Hemant, are at school, Anu, Vikram’s mother, Akka, and Suman spend time sharing tea and stories. But Anu’s arrival will change the balance of the Dharma household. Young Varsha, deeply affected by her mother’s death and desperate to keep her new family together, becomes increasingly suspicious of Anu’s relationship with her stepmother. Varsha’s singular attention to keeping her family together, and the secrets that emerge as Anu and Suman become friends, create cracks in the Dharma family that can only spell certain disaster.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 15485

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0676978932 South Asian LITERATURE

BENSON, DORIS

A Place Called Hecla

Manitoba: Self Published, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0978302508. Signed by Author; Some wear to corners of card covers ; Signed by author on front fly leaf, A bright, solid book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Hecla Island, located in Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba is a very real place, once home to an Icelandic community, now dispersed. This is a post WWII novel about a young man from that community who was a bomber pilot. He falls in love with an Irish Canadian, city-bred woman and feels the need for her to love the island he grew up on.. Very Good .

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Book number: 16902

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0978302508 hecla manitoba Fiction::Canadian LITERATURE

BIRD, WILL R.

Here Stays Good Yorkshire

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ chipped worn, tape repaired tears, chipped top and bottom of DJ and at board foredge. Only light wear to red cloth covered boards.; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; The book's story is based on the founding of Chignecto country, Nova Scotia, starting in the 1770's.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20377

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: Nova Scotia Yorkshire chignecto Fiction::Canadian

BIRD, WILL R.

The Passionate Pilgrim

Toronto, ON: The Ryerson Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket quite worn with chips, creasing and short tears, some sticker removal damage lower front panel of DJ. Light yellowing of pages, only light wear to book. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Red cloth covered boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19636

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: Canada Acadians Nova Scotia

BIRNEY, EARLE

Turvey; a Military Picaresque

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ chipped and worn, light soil, short tears with some creases, only light wear to book ; DJ in Mylar, tight solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; A humorous novel about life in the army by one of Canada's most distinguished poets.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 12736

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: Military Canada FICTION Fiction::Canadian

BLONDAL, PATRICIA

A Candle to Light the Sun

Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ worn, chipped creased with a few tears, small ink mark top FFEP ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, black cloth covered boards with silver and red titles on spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; This first novel was published posthumously after the author, a young mother, died of cancer. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 10103

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: Canada FICTION Fiction::Canadian

BOWERING, GEORGE

Caprice

Markham, ON: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670812072. Slight edge wear, crease on front flap. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 266 pages; It's the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster. Enter Caprice. Almost six feet tall, with black stallion, flaming red hair, long legs, and a lethal bullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother's murder. Caprice leaves an indelible impression on the people she encounters: Gert, the whore with a heart of gold; Gert's son, for whom she provides affirmation, and not the least Frank Smith, her lover, a teacher and amateur baseball player who wants her to leave the law enforcement to the professionals and marry him.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 15765

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0670812072 british columbia kamloops Western Fiction::Canadian

CAMERON, ANNE

Stubby Amberchuk and the Holy Grail

Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0920080227. Tape stains on top and bottom of endpapers.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar protector. ; 9.40 X 6.30 X 0.90 inches; 282 pages; "Stubby Amberchuk and the Holy Grail is about baseball, poker, women's wrestling and magic. A little logging town becomes a mythical kingdom and a tiny lizard turns into a dragon.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 18372

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0920080227

CARNEY, PAT

On Island Life Among the Coast Dwellers

Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 1771512105. A near-fine volume. ; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages; "In this collection of short stories, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of day-to-day life in coastal BC. Featuring a revolving cast of characters —the newly retired couple, the church warden, the musician, the small-town girl with big city dreams —Carney’s keen observations of the personalities and dramas of coastal life are instantly recognizable to readers who are familiar with life in a small community. With her narrative of dock fights, pet shows, family feuds, logging camps and the ever-present tension between islanders and property-owning “off-islanders,” Carney’s witty and perceptive voice describes how the islanders weather the storms of coastal life.". Near Fine .

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Book number: 20058

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian::Short Stories

Keywords: 1771512105 British Columbia Short Fiction Vancouver Island Fiction::Short Stories