Edmonton AB, Longspoon, 1980. Perfect binding, 90 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. First edition paperback original. English and French texts intersposed sans translation. Grainy brown covers.
Toronto, Impulse, 1986. Perfect binding, 130 pp. 11"-11". Good. Big format, 33 contributors' Sheard, Williamson, Bentley Mays, Govier, Payne and Doyle among them. Very stylish, many enjoyable reads.
Toronto, Impulse, 1974. Perfectbound, 189 pp. 5.5"-8". good. Entitled, W)HERE? The Other Canadian Poetry. UU, Rosenblatt, Nichol, Marlatt, Gilbert, Gadd, Dawson, Davey. Cull, Copoithorne, Coleman, bissett and Ball. Very well done.
Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1934. Perfect binding, 208 pp. 4.25"-6.5". Good. Poems, selections of fiction and criticism followed by homework suggestions. One wobbly corner.
New York, Walter Black, 1934. Cloth, 649 pp. 5.5"-7". Good. Seven volumes printed as one book in double-column pages on fine paper. All prose, no poetry. Binding loose, red matte hardcover, no jacket.
Outremont QC, La Nouvelle Barre du jour, 1981. Perfect binding, 230 pp. 5"-7.5". Fine. Featuring Claude Beausoleil, Michael Delisle and a cavorting concrete poem to begin by azelie, zee artand as well as work by the directeurs. Raindrops on green cover.
pogrom : zeitschrift fur bedrohte volker / Nr. 182
Gottingen Deutschland, Steidl Verlag, 1995. Staplebound, 58 pp. 8.25"-11.75". fine. Ganzen auf Deutsch -magazine for endangered peoples -despite upbeat cover of 4 women on a motorbike chilling how 22 years later world-wide oppression is so much worse.
New York, privately printed, 1980. Staplebound, 44 pp. 5.75"-8.25". Good. Haiku, tanka and drawing; head-down bumblebee on the crème-matte cover, e.g. I walk along the path mistakes take.
van Gennep, Arnold; Monika B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee, translators
The Rites of Passage
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1969 (1960). Perfectbound, 198 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. Terrific introduction to anthropology first published in 1909 in French, now a "classic study of cultural celebrations". Creases in cover cards, pencil markings.
Greek Poetry and Philosophy: Studiies in Honour of Leonard Woodbury
Chico CA, Scholar's Press, 1984. Sewn-cloth, 336 pp. 6"-9.25". fine. Festschrift for the distinguished Professor. 22 essays, David Campbell, Anne Carson, Gordon Kirkwood among the contributors. Minor stain.
Evanston IL, Triquarterly / Northwestern University Press, 1989. Perfectbound, 128 pp. 5"-7". fine. Culture, politics and literary activity in South Africa through the 1980's.'Triquarterly Magazine' Issue #68, taken from a symposium at Northwestern University, Evanston IL.
Toronto, House of Anansi, 1993. Perfectbound, 58 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. First edition, pb original by one of the founders of House of Anansi Press. Poems breathe with a sense of feral observation. Black on dark brown cover illustration by Karen Loconte. Poet photo on back.
Lausanne, Mylabris Press, 1984. Perfectbound, 222 pp. 6.5"-9.5". Good. Beautifully produced journal of a literary magazine. Poems and prose in Chinese, French, German & Spanish as well as English. Even English-language haiku. Upper corner dinged.
Gimbutas, Marija, Edgar Polome and Roger Pearson, editors
The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Volume 12 Numbers 1 & 2 Spring-Summer 1984
Washington, Institute for the Study of Man, 1984. Perfectbound, 192 pp. 6"-9". Fine. Amber soft-matte paper covers seem flimsy but are still as new now. Many plates and figures included in its 192 pp.