ATWOOD MARGARET

Circle Game

House of Anansi, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. A Very Good+ Paperback, a sound binding with unmarked pages, age tanning. Cover edgewear and rubbing. " Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26875

Catalogue: Canada, Poetry, Literature

Keywords: Canada > Poetry Literature

ATWOOD, MARGARET

Selected Poems 1966-1984

Toronto, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1990. Paperback. ISBN: 9780195408089. A Near Fine Paperback, a sound binding, clean & unmarked pages. An uncreased spine. A Erratum ( to complete the poem Mushrooms on page 272 ) included with the book. "Poems selected by the Canadian poet from her six collections record her development as an increasingly acclaimed poet and the complexity of her sensibility and vision." ; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 320 pages. Near Fine .

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Book number: 26889

Catalogue: Canada, Poetry

Keywords: 9780195408089 Canada Poetry Canada Poetry

BARTON JOHN, NADINE MCINNIS

A R C: Canada's National Poetry Magazine, Spring 1994. No. 32

Arc Poetry Society, 1994. Paperback. In Fine Condition, tight, bright & unmarked. "Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Canada: An International Year of the Family Special Tribute" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 26991

Catalogue: Canada, Poetry, Magazine, Gay & Lesbian

Keywords: Canada Poetry Magazine Gay & Lesbian Canada Magazines and Periodicals Gay and Lesbian

BOUCHARD DAVE, ROY HENRY VICKERS

Elders Are Watching, the Special Edition

Raincoast Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1551921103. Black Hardcovers, silver titles to the spine. Very Good+ with clean & unmarked pages, tightly bound. Light moisture wear to the bottom edge of the first few pages. The DJ is Very Good with light cover scuffing and edgewear. Wonderful & colorful native art through the book. "In this new deluxe hardcover edition, poet David Bouchard and First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers collaborate to revere the nature of Canada's rugged West Coast with lyrical, thoughtful poetry. "; 10.79 X 8.98 X 0.47 inches; 56 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 22474

Catalogue: Native Indians, Poetry, Canada

Keywords: 1551921103 Canada Poetry Arts Natives, Canadian/American

COHEN, LEONARD

Beautiful Losers

Edmonton, Alberta: New Canadian Library, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN: 0771092865. A Very Good Mass Market with a tight binding, the pages are unmarked with age tanning. An uncreased spine. Small ticker to the front cover . "One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint. "; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.8 inches; 260 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26205

Catalogue: Poetry, Fiction, Literary, Canada, Men

Keywords: 0771092865 Poetry Literature Canada Death Canada Poetry Literary & Literary Citicism

DESBIENS, PATRICE

Sudbury: Poèmes, 1979-1985

Sudbury, Ontario: Prise De Parole, 2007. Paperback. ISBN: 2894232209. Cet ouvrage de Patrice Desbiens comprend une re´e´dition de « L'espace qui reste » (1979) , « Sudbury » (1983) et « Dans l'apre`s-midi cardiaque » (1985). Ces recueils e´puise´s retrouvent enfin leur vie e´ditoriale en un petit format poche. Le lecteur renouera avec cette voix unique qui, au fil d'une quinzaine de recueils, traduit l'errance urbaine des cœurs e´corche´s. Ces poe`mes initient ce que l'on pourrait appeler la «pe´riode sudburoise» de Desbiens ou` se lit toute son appartenance a` la communaute´ franco-ontarienne, ce qui ne l'empe^chera pas d'e^tre rapidement reconnu comme un des poe`tes majeurs dede l’Amérique française." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 267 pages. Near Fine .

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Book number: 26524

Catalogue: French Canadian, Canada, Poetry

Keywords: 2894232209 French Canadian Poetry Canadiana Poetry French Books

FRéCHETTE, LOUIS

La Légende D'Un Peuple

Écrits Des Forges, 1989. Paperback. ISBN: 2890461688. A tight bound Paperback with clean & unmarked pages. Light wear to the front cover spine hinge. Overall in Near fine condition. "La Légende d'un peuple (1887) est un poème épique du poète québécois Louis-Honoré Fréchette, « traitant des exploits et des héros de l'histoire [du Québec] » 1 et divisé en trois époques, de la découverte de l’Amérique aux débuts de l' époque contemporaine." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 281 pages. Near Fine .

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Book number: 27088

Catalogue: Canada, History, Poetry

Keywords: 2890461688 Canada History Poetry

MACDONALD, WILSON & GUY RUTTER

Paul Marchand and Other Poems

Toronto, Ontario: Pine Tree Publishing, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Guy Rutter. First Edition. Signed by the author, in a lovely inscription, on the front end paper. Black / grey textured covers, white titles to the cover and spine. A sound binding with clean, unmarked pages. Bumping to the spine end and corners. "MacDonald’s poetry in this collection employs dialect verse, specifically the French-Canadian habitant dialect of English, popularized by William Henry Drummond. "; B&W Illustrations; 7.75"; 46 pages; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 27424

Catalogue: Canada, Poetry

Keywords: Canada > Poetry

ONDAATJE, MICHAEL

Collected Works of Billy the Kid

House of Anansi Press, 1970. Paperback. ISBN: 0887840183. A Very Good Paperback, red, brown covers. The pages are clean & unmarked. A crease to the front cover top corner. Cover edgewear and rubbing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26817

Catalogue: Poetry, Westerns, Canada, Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0887840183 Historical Fiction Westerns, Poetry Canada > Fictions

RUTLEDGE, DONALD

Various Bravery

McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Paperback. A Very Good+ Paperback with a bright, unmarked text and a tight binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 78 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26720

Catalogue: Poetry, Canada

Keywords: Canada > Poetry Canada Poetry