Angelou, Maya

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Random House Of Canada, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 141. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8". Publisher's quarter lilac cloth over maroon boards, gilt lettering to the spine, untripped page edges. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket. Appears unread; near fine. Complete number line present to the copyright page. Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power do spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page.

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Book number: 5570

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Livesay, Dorothy; David Arnason (Intro.) [Compiled by the staff of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Manitoba Libraries]

The Papers of Dorothy Livesay: A Research Tool

Winnipeg, Manitoba, University Of Manitoba Libraries, 1986. First edition. Softcover. pp. 419. Pictorial stiff card covers. Light general shelfwear, ink stamp to title page else contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. .

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Book number: 195

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: bibliography; history; literature; poetry; canadian literature; english literature; canadiana;

Bailey, Alfred G. (1905-1997)

Creative Moments in the Culture of the Maritime Provinces; Address Presented to the Humanities Research Council of Canada Maritime Regional Conference, Halifax, June 9-10, 1949

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Dalhousie Review, 1949. Reprinted from the Dalhousie Review, October, 1949. Stapled Wraps. pp. 231-244. Tall 8vo. Mustard yellow stapled card covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. .

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Book number: 1902

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: canadian literature; poetry; canadiana;

Bartlett, Allison Hoover

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

New York, Riverhead Books, 2009. Hardcover. pp. 274. 8vo. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound bindind; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 4863

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Bidwell, Paul (Ed.); E.F. Dyck (Ed.); Gary Jahnke (Ed.); Don Kerr (Drama Ed.); Brenda Riches, et al.

Grain [Magazine of Literary & Visual Arts] - Special Lyric Issue ; Vol. X, No. 3

Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, August, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 64. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers attributed to Alicia Popoff. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations, drawings, etc. Includes selections of poetry and prose by John Newlove, Lorna Uher, Walter Kellythorne, Peter Sanger, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 5701

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: canadian literature; art; art review; literary review; western canadian literature; poetry

Bidwell, Paul (Ed.); E.F. Dyck (Ed.); Gary Jahnke (Ed.); Don Kerr (Drama Ed.); Brenda Riches, et al.

Grain [Magazine of Literary & Visual Arts] - Special Narrative Issue ; Vol. X, No. 4

Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, November, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 63, [1]. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers attributed to David Johnson. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations, drawings, etc. Includes selections of poetry and prose by Ian Zimmerman, Bill Schermbrucker Kenneth Dyba, Tsigane, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 5703

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: canadian literature; art; art review; literary review; western canadian literature; poetry

Tyler, Anne; Ward Ritchie (Typography, Binding and Jacket Design)

If Morning Ever Comes, a Novel

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Hardcover. pp. 265, [1]. 8vo. Publisher's quarter terracotta cloth over teal boards, facsimile signature of the author to the lower-right margin of the front board, untrimmed page edges. Small bump to the lower-margin of the front board, else, very good+. Contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket showing one very light sticker mark to the front panel (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good. .

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Book number: 5981

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Bobbin, Tim, [John Collier]; Robert Walker

The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq. And "Plebeian Politics, or the Principals and Practices of Certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs, Vulgarly Called Warrites by Way of a Dialogue Betwixt Two Lancashire Clowns Together with Several Fugitive Pieces (Two Volumes Bound in One); Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements: Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse to Which Is Added, a Life of the Author

Manchester, United Kingdom, J. Slack, 1818. Leather Bound. pp. 226; pp. 83. 8vo. Bound in contemporary 3/4 maroon leather over marbled boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine over black spine label. Twenty-seven copper engraved plates along with minor illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to boards, slight offsetting to endpapers, lightest occasional foxing (chiefly confined to endpapers), contents remain overwhelmingly clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good+. Tim Bobbin (pseudonym for John Collier [1708-1786]) was an early English satirist and caricaturist. .

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Book number: 35

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: humour; lancashirel; british humour;

Borrow, George

Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest ; A New Edition Containing the Unaltered Text of the Original Issue; Some Suppressed Episodes; Ms. Variorum, Vocabulary and Notes by the Author of the Life of George Borrow

London, John Murray, 1907. Leather Bound. pp. xxv, 569. Small 8vo. Prize-binding, bound in 3/4 red leather over like cloth boards, gilt rules, and lettering to the spine; five raised bands, six compartments. Lovely marbled foredges, and endpapers. Lithograph frontispiece of the author accompanied with its original tissue-guard, and various other black-and-white illustrated plates. Light edgewear, some scuffing to the leather extremities, though, remains quite a handsome presentation, prize bookplate affixed to the front pastedown bearing the name of the student to whom it was awarded to. Text-block remains quite bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. .

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Book number: 3074

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: fine bindings; history

Bovey, Patricia E. (Curator), et al.

Canadian Political Cartoons: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1977

Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 55. Oblong 8vo. measuring 11" x 9". Pictorial covers. Rich with many black-and-white drawings, and illustrations. Light abrasion to the upper-right margin of the front cover, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good. See OCLC #6287043. Bovey surveys the history of political cartoons in Canada from 1774 to 1977.

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Book number: 5489

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: political criticism; politics; canadian history; media

Boyd, Shelley

Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens

Montréal, Quebec & Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Mcgill-queen's University Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xiii, 350. Square 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature. Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual gardeners, to show how modest, everyday spaces provide fertile grounds for the imagination. Combining the history of gardening with literary analysis, Garden Plots explores the use of the garden motif in the works of five authors: Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Gabrielle Roy, Carol Shields, and Lorna Crozier. With works spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these writers reveal the associations between the arts of writing and gardening, the evolving role of the female gardener, and the changes that take place in Canada's literary gardens over time. With the task of understanding our connection to the physical environment becoming increasingly important, Garden Plots explores the subtle relations between place and narrative. This fresh, literary approach to Canada's gardening culture reveals that gardens grow and change not simply in the earth, but also in the pages of our texts." .

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Book number: 4802

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: women's studies; gender studies; canadian literature; history

Brian, Denis

The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him

New York, Grove Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. x, 356. 8vo. Publisher's quarter tan cloth over gray boards, black rules and lettering to the spine. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws to the extremities, very faint "review copy" stamp (not ex-library) to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ very lightly rubbed, price-clipped, dustjacket. .

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Book number: 4825

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: the old man and the sea; for whom the bell tolls; spain; cuba; literary biography; american literature

Brown, Craig (Intro.); W.L. Morton; Ramsay Cook; Manoly R. Lupul; Marilyn Barber; Margaret Prang

Minorities, Schools, and Politics

Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969. Canadian Historical Readings, No. 7. Softcover. pp. xi, 111. Slim 8vo. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. .

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Book number: 4284

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: education; essays; literary criticism; canadian history;

Buck, Pearl S.; Barron Storey (Illust.)

The Good Earth

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1980. Leather Bound. pp. 319. 8vo. Quarter brown leather board over cloth boards with gilt rules, lettering and floral oranaments to spine and boards. Four raised bands, five compartments. Gilt foredges, lovely marbled endpapers, silk ribbon-marker. Gorgeous black and white illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Fine .

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Book number: 1025

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: history; china; eastern literature; american literature;

Bullen, J. B.

The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xv, 279. 8vo. Navy blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Fine and housed in fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 1350

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: art; history; british art; canadian art; art history; critical theory; colour; science; philosophy;