Chernoff, Maxine

Leap Year Day

Chicago, Another Chicago Press, 1990. Perfectbound, 142 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. New and selected poems up to 1989 in a pre-publication copy whose laminated cover shows much lift. Strong writing though.

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Book number: 872

Catalogue: Manuscript edition

Chief of the General Staff, Canada

Canadian Army Training Pamphlet No. 9: Instruction in Elementary Motor Mechanics

Ottawa, Governement of Canada (The King), 1942. Stapled through the front and taped, 312 pp. 5.25"-7.75". Good. With illustrations on instructions on how to operate any kind of motor you could think of in 1941. Brown cover stapled through with brown tape covering the staples, front and back.

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Book number: 1577

Catalogue: Reference

Chomsky, Noam

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Cambrudge MA, MIT Press, 1970 (1965 ed.). Perfectbound, 251 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. Bedrock text of the theory of transformational generative grammar. Powder-blue cover printed in olive and white do not favour the book's appearance, but the density within is compelling.

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Book number: 950

Catalogue: Semiotics

Cirlot, Juan-Eduardo; Pere Vivas and Ricard Pla, Fotografias

Gaudi' / una introduccion a su arquitectura

Barcelona, Triangle Postals, 2001. Perfectbound, 192 pp. 6.25"-6.25". fine. Toto en espagnol, but more full-colour photos of the works than text. Architecture for the imagination, Only minor scuffs to covers. Fussball on cover.

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Book number: 1391

Catalogue: Architecture

Cocteau, Jean

Drawings

New York, Dover Publications, 1972. Perfectbound, 140 pp. 8.5"-11.25". good. 129 drawings from the 3rd edition of Dessins (Paris:1924) in replication. Foreword by Edouard Dermit, translations by Stanley Applebaum. Some stains and a penmark.

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Book number: 1542

Catalogue: Art

Cocteau, Jean, P. Owen, translator

The White Book

San Francisco, City Lights, 1990. Perfectbound, 76 pp. 5.5"-8". Fine. Issued anonymously by Editions Quartiers Chemins in 1928, this is a reprint of the 1969 edition out of London. Lift to the laminate cover but still stainless.

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Book number: 392

Catalogue: Cultural Studies

Codrescu, Andrei, editor

Exquisite Corpse No. 45

Normal IL, Illinois State University Publications, 1994. Staplebound, 40 pp. 6"-15". fine. Gerald Malanga's "Mythologies of the Heart ..." on paper cover, James Gallant on Jean Baudrillard follows. Chock full of books and ideas. Stain from price stamp.

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Book number: 1472

Catalogue: Periodicals

Codrescu, Ion

Vaspete Strain

Constanta, Romania, Ex Ponto, 1999. Perfectbound, 174 pp. 5"-8". good. A Foreign Guest, is the translation into English. Bilingual haiku diary of the Romanian poet and painter when he was a haiku guest in the USA. Water stains to upper corner .

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Book number: 744

Catalogue: Haiku and related

Coleman, Wanda

Imagoes

Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Perfectbound, 171 pp. 6"-9". Fine. Poems that insist the personal isn't just political but lyrical, chant-worthy, absurdly funny and on the verge of orgasm as well. Back of the book has the poet's photo. Some lift.

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Book number: 1203

Catalogue: Poetry

Coleman, Lisa and Ed Greenwood, editors

White Wall Review Volume 2, Number 1

Toronto, Ryerson Literary Society, 1980. Perfectbound, 89 pp. 6"-9". fine. Poems by Di Cicco, Swede, Kilbrai, Kadoutsis, Deahl, Acorn, Yerou, Dempster & Hryciuk, e.g. Graphics by Barth, Balderston and Neal. Plain blue cover, muted production, some broken edges.

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Book number: 1423

Catalogue: Periodicals

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Portable Coleridge

New York, Viking, 1950. Perfectbound, 630 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Fair. Edited and introduced by I. A. Richards. More than half its volume is prose with healthy sections of the “Biographia Literaria� and many letters. Bunged corners and wear, clear reading copy only.

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Book number: 61

Catalogue: Poetry

Colette, Jean Yves et Michel Gay, direction

la nouvelle barre du jour 141

Outremont QC, Éditions de la nbj, 1984. Perfectbound, 105 pp. 5.25"-7.75". fine. Proceedings, Q & A's, Documents and debates from the "deuxième colloque bissextile" called Vouloir La Fiction/ copyright la modernité" . Author photos, bright paper.

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Book number: 1645

Catalogue: Periodicals

Colette, Jean Yves et Michel Gay, direction

la nouvelle barre du jour 142 "Lire Autrement

Outremont QC, éditions nbj, 1984. Perfectbound, 94 pp. 5.25"-7.75". Fine . Provocative stuff. Between sepia-rose covers. A cut-out graphic demarcates each of the 12 highly individual author's sections.

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Book number: 1646

Catalogue: Periodicals

Colette, Jean Yves et Michel Gay, direction

la nouvelle barre du jour 143 "L'Écriture Célibataire

Outremont QC, éditions nbj, 1984. Perfectbound, 91 pp. 5.25"-7.75". Fine. Carole David, Louise Desjardins, Normand ey Johanne de Bellefeuille, Marcel Labine, Roger Des Roches, Lucie Ménard, Bertrand Bergeron et André Lamarre.. Bend to cover5.25.

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Book number: 1647

Catalogue: Periodicals

Colette, Jean Yves et Michel Gay, direction

la nouvelle barre du jour 144 "Profils et Bruits

Outremont QC, éditions nbj, 1984. Perfectbound, 90 pp. 5.25"-7.75". Fine. Takes at least part of its heading from Alin Bourgeois' "Noises nor Bruits" bringing spaces back into the poetry. Whole issue has playful, hand-drawn graphics introducng each piece.

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Book number: 1648

Catalogue: Periodicals