Atwood, Margaret

Bodily Harm [First Edition, First Printing]

Toronto, Mcclelland And Stewart, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 301. 8vo. Lilac, and cream boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Touch of edgewear, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed unclipped dustjacket bearing original price of $16.95. A lovely copy. .

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Book number: 2925

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: the handmaid's tale; history; canadian history; women's studies; gender studies

Atwood, Margaret

Bodily Harm [First Edition, First Printing]

Toronto, Mcclelland And Stewart, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 301. 8vo. Lilac, and cream boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Touch of edgewear, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed unclipped dustjacket bearing original price of $16.95. A lovely copy. .

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Book number: 4815

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: the handmaid's tale; history; canadian history; women's studies; gender studies

Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale [First Edition, First Printing]

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart | T.H. Best Printing Company Ltd. 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 324. 8vo. measuring 9.5" x 6.5". Maroon and cream boards with white lettering to spine, like endpapers. Faint spot of rubbing to spine tail, else, exceptionally well-preserved. Contents equally without blemish which remains bright, clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+, well-preserved, unclipped, dustjacket showing a few very light spots to the margins of the rear panel, complete with original price of $22.95 (dustjacket now housed in protective BroDart mylar cover). A scarce and attractive copy of an exceptional novel by one of Canada's finest writers. As with all true first editions of this title, the copyright pages states a date of 1985 with copyright attributed to O.W. Toad Limited and published by McClelland and Stewart. Very Good +
¶ References: Spadoni & Donnelly Citation #3587 (pp.725).

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Book number: 7458

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: history; canadiana; science fiction; religion; rare;

Atwood, Margaret; Zoran Ancevski (Trans.); Katica Kulavkova; Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski (Ed.)

Selected Poems [English/Macedonian Edition]

Struga, Macedonia, Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 520, [18]. Square 4to. Pictorial boards. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Atwood. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in fine dustjacket (now housed in protective BroDart mylar cover). Near fine. Scarce in commerce. Not in Peel. Text printed simultaneously in English, and Macedonian. Limited Edition of 600 copies.

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Book number: 3605

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: canlit; languages; macedonian; foreign languages; canadian literature

Bantock, Nick

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy [Complete Three Volumes]; Comprising of Vol. I: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondce; Vol. II: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues; and Vol. III: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes]

San Francisco and Vancouver, Chronicle Books | Raincoast Books, 1991 - 1993. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Pictorial boards, and replete with black-and-white, and colour illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked. All three books in fine condition, and housed in fine dustjackets. As New .

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Book number: 2854

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: art; canadian art; epistolary; novel; canadiana;

Barkman, Betty; [Barkman, Helena Plett, 1912-2002]

Laina: Of a Dual Grave; Runaway Cattle; a Shattered Heart; and a Love That Never Dies: A True Story Creatively Written

[Pansy, Manitoba], privately Printed by the Author, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 259. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread. As New SIGNED, and inscribed by the author to the title page.

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Book number: 4201

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: memoirs; manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; western canadian history; prairie; biography; autobiography

Bergen, David

The Age of Hope

Toronto, Harper Collins, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 287. 8vo. Near fine, and housed in near fine dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page.

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Book number: 2367

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Bergen, David

Leaving Tomorrow [Signed]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 275. Small 8vo. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over ivory boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine, unclipped, dustjacket. As new. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page.

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Book number: 5527

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: manitoba literature; canlit

Birdsell, Sandra

Children of the Day [Signed]

Toronto, Random House Canada, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 405. 8vo. Publisher's brown, and terracotta boards, bronze lettering to the spine. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding and housed in good+ rubbed dustjacket showing tide-marks along the spine of panel. Overall, very good. Very Good SIGNED in ink by Birdsell to the title page.

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Book number: 4069

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: signed books; signed; first edition; canlit; women's studies; gender studies; women writers

Birdsell, Sandra

The Missing Child [Signed]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lester & Orpen, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 319. Small 8vo. Publisher's light-blue boards, gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket. Near fine. .

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Book number: 5785

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: canlit; women's literature; signed

Bjornson, Ingi G.; Cindy F. Bjornson

Sing for Me a Quiet and Clean Land

Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada, Privately Printed | Neso Lake Adventures, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xiv, 178. Small 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked. As new. See OCLC #812197604. Not found in Peel. .

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Book number: 5774

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: memoirs; biography; manitoba history; local history; trappers; hunting; trappers manitoba biography

Blais, Marie-Claire (1939-2021)

Manuscripts de Pauline Archange, Roman ; [The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange]

Montréal, Quebec, Éditions du Jour, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 127. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8". Plain card covers, untrimmed page edges. Single faint stamp to the ffep, else, text-block without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding. A most uncommon edition of this title, pre-dating its later translation and publication in the English language. Text in its original French. Collection: Les Romanciers du Jour.

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Book number: 6140

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: canadian literature; quebec; gender studies

Blythe, Aleata E. Robinson; John J. Pawlyk (Illust.)

The Ballad of Alice Moonchild and Other Stories

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Pemmican Publications, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 56. Slim 8vo. Textured, illustrated covers. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Alice Moonchild is the name given a child born of an Indian girl and a white trinket dealer. She was a child who belonged to neither nation - a person of her won who would have to be accepted before peace would come to either people.

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Book number: 6189

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: manitoba history; women's studies; women writers; prose; poetry

Blythe, Aleata E. Robinson; John J. Pawlyk (Illust.)

A Bit of Yesterday

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Pemmican Publications, 1985. Softcover. pp. 82. Slim 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Collection of short stories, most of which focus on rural Canada, past and present.

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Book number: 6168

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: manitoba history; women's studies; women writers; prose; poetry

Boyden, Joseph

The Orenda [First Edition, First Printing]

Toronto, Hamish Hamilton, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 490. 8vo. Red harcovers, black and red lettering and illustration to the front boards, and spine; map endpapers. Appears unread; as new and housed in near fine dustjacket. Scarce first edition, first printing with complete number line to the copyright page. .

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Book number: 2717

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: indigenous studies; first nations; manitoba history; local history; canadiana; indian studies; aboriginal studies; history