| 3549 THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS: A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB OF TORONTO 1903-1953. Toronto University Women's Club of Toronto, 1953 First Edition, very good with blue cloth-covered boards, pages clean and tight, 50pages. Frontispiece is black and white photo of 162 St George Street. |
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| 4126 THE LIFE THAT WAS OURS: A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND REMINISCENCES. Toronto self-published, 1985 Softcover, illustrated card covers lightly stained, pages clean and tight. This is a collection of first person reminiscences, stories and poems by the residents of the retirement residence Belmont House in Toronto. |
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| 1935 QUARRY: VOLUME 44, NUMBER 3. Kingston, Ontario Quarry Press Inc., 1995 A fine copy in wraps, date stamped on title page. Includes: Elizabeth Hay, Andrew Piper, Karen Connelly, Gavin Connor, Eugene McNamara, John Lavery, Seaton Findlay, Jon Likin, Peter Babowski, Billie Livingston, Sandy Shreve, Simon Perchik, Denneth Steven, Chad Norman, Cameron Wallace, and a review by Eric Folsom. 1-55082-125-3 |
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| 3906 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VISIT OF ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH AND FRENCH LAWYERS TO CANADA AND THE USA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1930. London Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co Ltd, 1930 Pamphlet, 30 pages, sewn into blue card covers. Foxing, spotting to covers, pages clean and tight. |
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| 3538 SUCCESS : CANADIAN LEADERS PREPARE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY. Toronto, ON, Canada Key Porter Books, 1996 Collection of lectures delivered as the Annual James Gillies Alumni Lecture at York University's Schulich School of Business. Includes lectures given by Conrad Black, Joe Clark, Ted Rogers, Maurice Strong, Israel Asper, Matthew W Barrett, Laurent Beaudoin, Marshall A Cohen, Isaiah A Litvak, Peter Munk, Michael Pitfield, Kenneth D Taylor. First Edition, fine in a fine dustjacket. 1-55013-811-1 |
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| 3890 TENDERFOOT TO QUEEN'S SCOUT. Ottawa, Ontario The National Council Boy Scouts of Canada, 1965 Revised edition. Illustrated card cover lightly rubbed and darkened with age, pages clean and tight. Previous owner's name at top of title page. |
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| 2625 TWO SOLITUDES: CONVERSATIONS MARGARET ATWOOD - VOCTOR-LEVY BEAULIEU. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1998 First published as Deux Sollicitudes by Editions Trois-Pistoles in 1996. First English language edition, translation by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. A fine trade paperback. 0-7710-0836-8 |
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| 3990 A WALKING TOUR OF MILLBROOK. Ontario The Save the Mill Committee, Printed around 1982 by the Millbrook "Save The Mill Committee", this booklet has 25 pages of local information each page followed by an illustration of the local building drawn by Louis Taylor. A near fine book, cream coloured pages, sepia drawings, with card covers. |
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| 1998 A YOUNG PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF TORONTO: A SCRAPBOOK HISTORY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN TORONTO. Toronto Toronto Board of Education, 1985 A sesquicentennial project of the Toronto Board of Education, to help celebrate Toronto's 150th anniversary, produced by a student editorial staff. Includes photos of schools, educators and students from 1830 to 1985. 39 pp, illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, softcover. |
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| 2870 Anderson, Doris. REBEL DAUGHTER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Toronto Key Porter Books, 1996 First Paperback Edition. A fine copy in wraps. 1-55013-767-0 |
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| 1017 Anderson, Doris. ROUGH LAYOUT. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1981 First edition. Author's second novel. A near fine harcover, rubbing along edges in a fine dustjacket. 978077100742 |
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| 1020 Atwood, Margaret. THE CANLIT FOODBOOK, "FROM PEN TO PALATE- A COLLECTION OF TASTY LITERARY FARE". Toronto Totem Books, 1987 Recipes and contributions by Canadian writers such as Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Robertson Davies and Margaret Laurence. A good softcover, creased corner on back cover. 978000217908 |
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| 1816 Atwood, Margaret. CAT'S EYE. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1988 A fine copy in wraps. First Canadian paperback edition. 0-7710-0853-8 |
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| 1502 Atwood, Margaret. LADY ORACLE. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1976 Atwood's third novel. A tight copy, small stain on side edge, in a worn jacket, creased and rubbed with black background showing white patches and corner wear, chips missing at top edges of spine. First Edition. 0771008155 |
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| 1072 Atwood, Margaret. POWER POLITICS. Toronto House of Anansi Press Limited, 1973 Third printing, softcover. A very good copy, small stain on top back of wraps, rubbed edges. |
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| 005015 Atwood, Margaret (editor); Weaver, Robert (editor). THE OXFORD BOOK OF CANADIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH. Toronto Oxford University Press, 1988 Short stories selected by Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver. 0195405978 |
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| 4162 Bain, George (editor). LETTERS FROM LILAC: CLEM WATKINS JR. Toronto Macmillan of Canada, 1978 A collection of letters which originally appeared in the Globe and Mail newspaper. Illustrations by Duncan McPherson. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. 0770517250 |
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| 3477 Barkhouse, Joyce. GEORGE DAWSON: THE LITTLE GIANT. Toronto Natural Heritage/Natural History, Incorporated, 1989 First Paperback Edition, a near fine trade paperback, light wear at corners. 0-920474-56-X |
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| 3624 Bell, David V J. THE ROOTS OF DISUNITY : A STUDY OF CANADIAN POLITICAL CULTURE. Toronto Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1992 First Edition, a fine trade paperback, author's signature and gift inscription on half-title. 0-19-540858-6 |
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| 005155 Bell, William. STONES. Toronto Doubleday Canada Limited, 2002 Short Stories. A fine trade paperback. 038565829X |
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| 1259 Berton, Pierre. DRIFTING HOME. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1973 First edition. A good reading copy. Gold cloth-covered boards are slightly bumped at corners, black jacket show white marks from wear around edges, previous owner's name on front-facing end page. 0771011954 |
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| 3531 Black, Arthur. BLACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN. Toronto Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1997 Essays. First Paperback Edition, a fine trade paperback. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. 0-7737-5914-X |
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| 3530 Blais, Marie-Claire. MAD SHADOWS. Boston Little Brown and Company, 1960 First American Edition, translated from the French La Belle Bete, by Merloyd Lawrence. A very good copy, light blue cloth-covered boards, faded at top, pages clean and tight in a good dustjacket, chipped at corners and spine edges, two tears at top edges. Dustjacket is now mylar covered. |
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| 2839 Braithwaite, Max. ONTARIO. Vancouver J J Douglas Ltd, 1974 First Edition. A fine copy, dark red-cloth covered boards, in a near fine dustjacket, wear at corners and spine edge. 0-88894-064-5 |
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| 3259 Broadfoot, Barry. NEXT-YEAR COUNTRY: VOICES OF PRAIRIE PEOPLE. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1988 Personal accounts of life in the Canadian prairie provinces from across the twentieth century. First Edition, a near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket, light crease on inside front panel. 0-7710-1675-1 |
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| 1073 Burgess, Ivan. FLOWERS OF GRAVE CONCERN. Toronto Cameron Press, 1966 Poetry. First edition. Paperback, signed by the poet. A good copy in wraps, foxing across bottom front panel. |
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| 4729 Burnard, Bonnie. A GOOD HOUSE : A NOVEL. New Providence, NJ, U.S.A. BPR Publishers, 1999 Giller Prize 1999. A very good trade paperback, award sticker on front cover, 283 pages. 000648526x |
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| 3762 Burt, Sandra (editor); Code, Lorraine (editor); Dorney, Lindsay (editor). CHANGING PATTERNS: WOMEN IN CANADA. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1988 How the women's movement changed the lives of women in Canada. First Edition, a near fine trade paperback, pages slightly darkened but clean and tight, no underlining, light crease on back card. 0771028539 |
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| 1520 Callaghan, Barry, editor. EXILE, A LITERARY QUARTERLY: VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1990 Near fine copy in silver wraps. Issue is dedicated to the memory of Morley Callaghan. Volume includes Walking in Eden by Sean virago, Stone Thrower by Antun Soljan, Henry by George Angel, About Face - black and white portraits of Tom Hedley, Bert Bell, Robert Markle, Dimitri Bisti, Dorothy Cameron, Morley Callaghan, Mordecai Richler, Harold Town, Clare Coulter, Lorraine Monk, John Fillion, Zachary Solov, Mundel Lowe, and Artie Shaw photographed by John Reeves, personal Effects by Pierre Morency, Grief by Elizabeth Phinney, four poems by Lorna Crozier, Lying Lights by Bill Gaston, Dreamchild by Gunter Kunert, and three poems by Ihor Kalynets. |
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| 1028 Callaghan, Morley. A WILD OLD MAN ON THE ROAD. Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1988 Fiction. A near fine copy with a small remainder dot on bottom, in a fine dustjacket. 978077372192 |
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| 1819 Callwood, June. JUNE CALLWOOD'S NATIONAL TREASURES. Toronto Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1994 Callwood's interviews from her National Treasures Vision TV series, including Margaret Atwwod, Phil Fontaine, Rosemary Brown, Charles Pachter, Buffy Sainte-Marie, William Hutt, Maureen Forrester, Farley Mowat, Karen Kain. First Canadian paperback edition. A fine copy in wraps. 0-7737-5687-6 |
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| 3210 Casselman, Bill. CASSELMANIA: MORE WACKY CANADIAN WORDS & SAYINGS. Toronto Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited, 1996 Trade paperback, in near fine condition. 0-316-13314-0 |
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| 006000 Choy, Wayson. THE JADE PEONY. Vancouver Douglas & McIntyre, 1995 Avery good trade paperback, later printing, 1550544683 |
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| 1524 Clark, John Livingstone, text editor and Jonasson, G. N. Louise, images editor. PRAIRIE FIRE: A CANADIAN MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING (VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1). Winnipeg 1997 A near fine copy in wraps. |
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| 4026 Coates, Ken; McGuinness, Fred. MANITOBA: THE PROVINCE AND THE PEOPLE. Edmonton Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1987 A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0888303173 |
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| 1270 Cochrane, William. FUTURE PUNISHMENT; OR DOES DEATH END PROBATION. Bradley, Garretson & Co, 1886 By an ex-moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and author of The Heavenly Vision. Illustrated by the celebrated French artist Gustave Dore from Dante's "Inferno" and "Purgatory and Paradise". Red/brown cloth decorated in black and gold. Shelfwear to top and bottom of spine and rubbing on front and back boards, foxing, soiled edges but otherwise in good condition. |
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| 1278 Corbeil, Carole. IN THE WINGS. Toronto Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1997 Fiction. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0773730419 |
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| 1946 Crosbie, John S.. THE INCREDIBLE MRS. CHADWICK: THE MOST NOTORIOUS WOMAN OF HER AGE. Toronto McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1975 Biography of a railroad worker's daughter from Eastwood, Ontario, born in 1857 and who became an entrepreneur, forger, clairvoyant, prostitute and society lady. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket, closed tears, rubbed at edges and corners. Signed by the author on the front facing end page. 0-07-082194-1 |
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| 1307 Cumming, James D. NOW AND THEN. Toronto Northern Miner Press Limited, 1966 Fine in a very good dust jacket, slight rubbing along edges. A collection of articles by this mining engineer/inventor/columnist, all of which appeared in "The Northern Miner". Dustwrapper has wrap around art by Hal Johnson. First Edition. |
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| 2851 Davies, Robertson. THE MERRY HEART: SELECTIONS 1980-1995 & HAPPY ALCHEMY: WRITINGS ON THE THEATRE AND OTHER LIVELY ARTS. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1997 A two-volume set bound in brown paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spines, contained in a matching brown slipcase, with Davies "signature" printed in gilt lettering on side. No dustjackets, as issued. This set is protected in original publishers shrinkwrap. 0-7710-2588-2 |
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| 1008 Davies, Robertson. MURTHER & WALKING SPIRITS. Toronto McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991 First edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 978067084189 |
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| 2636 Dudek, Louis. PARADISE: ESSAYS ON MYTH, ART AND REALITY. Montreal Vehicule Press, 1992 Collection of ten essays which include 'a provocative fresh look at Nabakov, a description of the literary quarrel between Morley Callaghan and John Glassco, essays on the works of Ken Norris and R J MacSween, and an essay on myth delivered as the F R Scott Lecture at McGill University in 1991.' First Edition. 1-55605-032-7 |
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| 3307 Ehring, George and Roberts, Wayne. GIVING AWAY A MIRACLE: LOST DREAMS, BROKEN PROMISES & THE ONTARIO NDP. Oakville Mosaic Press, 1993 First Edition. A near fine trade paperback, 391pp. 0-88962-554-9 |
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| 1405 Fetherling, Douglas. BEST CANADIAN ESSAYS, 1990. Saskatoon Fifth House Publishers, 1990 Large paperback, a fine copy. First Edition. 0920079636 |
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| 1055 Finch, Robert. ACIS IN OXFORD. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1961 Poetry. First printing; a fine copy in a slightly marked dust jacket. |
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| 1189 Findley, Timothy. INSIDE MEMORY: PAGES FROM A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK. Toronto Harper Collins Publishers, 1990 First edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0002156970 |
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| 4742 Flick, Don. CATCH AS CATCH CAN. Hantsport, Nova Scotia Lancelot Press Limited, 1980 Fiction. A very good trade paperback. 088999126X |
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| 2735 Foster, J A. MUSKETS TO MISSILES: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CANADA'S GROUND FORCES. Toronto Methuen Publications, 1987 Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, illustrated endpapers. First Edition. A very good copy, slight slant to spine and shelfwear at bottom corners, in a near fine dustjacket. 0-458-81220-X |
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| 1094 Garner, Hugh. AUTHOR, AUTHOR. Toronto Ryerson Press, 1964 Fiction. First edition. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket with one closed tear on back. This is collection of essays by the novelist and playwright. |
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| 4402 Geiger, John: Beattie, Owen. DEAD SILENCE : THE GREATEST MYSTERY. Toronto, ON, Canada Viking Canada, 1993 Archaelogical study of the search for the truth of what happened to James Knight, and his men on the ships Albany and Discovery in Hudson's Bay in 1719. First printing, near fine in a very good dustjacket, light wear at edges. 0670843180 |
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