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4838 CANADIAN FICTION MAGAZINE NUMBER 73 : SEX AND DEATH. Toronto The Canadian Fiction Magazine, 1991 Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Hancock. Contributors: Geoff Hancock, Barbara Gowdy, William Mark Giles, H. Anne Robertson, Evelyn Lau, Susan Crawford, Meeka Walsh, Lorna Jackson, Andrew Parkin, Bill Gaston, Robert Mullen, Douglas Glover. Cover art by David Ostrem. 000045477X
11.50

4331 EDGES OF REALITY: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE UNCANNY, MACABRE, AND THE MAD. Illinois Scott, Foresman and Company, 1972 Shorter long fiction. A near fine trade paperback, 295 pages. 0673034321
7.50

2681 GARDEN TALES: CLASSIC STORIES FROM FAVORITE WRITERS. New York Viking Studio Books, 1990 Thirty striking photographs and five classic short stories: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield; A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty; The Chysanthemums by John Steinbeck; Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the Occasional Garden by Saki. Photographs by Jane Gottlieb. Introduction by Martha Stewart. First Thus, a near fine copy, black remainder mark on bottom edge, in a near fine dustjacket. 0-670-82692-8
10.00

2176 MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LITERACY. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1990 Short stories. Published by M&S to commemorate International Literacy Year. Foreword by Knowlton Nash. Cartoon by Aislin. Stories by Sandra Birdsell, Neil Bisoondath, Harry Bruce, Morley Callaghan, June Callwood, Matt Cohen, Robertson Davies, Brian Doyle, Joan Finnegan, Sheila Fischman, Tony German, Peter Gzowski, Dorris Heffron, Jack Hodgins, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Joy Kogawa, Gordon Korman, Michael Ondaatje, David Adams Richards, Ben Wicks, Rudy Wiebe. First Edition. Paperback in near fine condition. 0-7710-2166-6
10.00

2768 PEARL S BUCK'S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS. New York Simon and Schuster, 1974 "Warm and joyous stories about the Christmas season from the world's greatest writers chosen by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S Buck". Thirty-nine short stories by: Hans Christian Andersen, Eugene Field, L Frank Baum, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving and others. Second printing. A near fine copy, silver lettering on red cloth spine, sunning to top of boards, in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. 671-21868-9
12.00

4669 PLANET, THE WELSH INTERNATIONALIST, VOLUME 52. Wales 1985 A very good softcover, light wrinkling at bottom front corner. Poetry, prose, essays. 0000484288
15.00

3470 THE QUARTERLY #25, SPRING 1993. New York Vintage Books/Random House, 1993 Collection of short stories. First Edition, a near fine trade paperback. 0-679-74501-7
14.00

005000 ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, VOLUME 24-2: TRANSLATIONS OF FLESH. Vancouver 2001 Literary Journal. A near fine trade paperback.
11.50

005290 RUPERT ANNUAL NO 63. Exeter, United Kingdom Pedigree Books, Limited, 1999 A fine hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 1874507198
20.00

1863 SCHOOL-MASTER TUNGKUO. Peking Foreign Languages Press, 1954 Adapted from a modern version of the Chungsan Wolf, an ancient Chinese fable, by Tung Chu-hsien and Yu Chin, drawings by Liu Chi-Yu. Stated first edition, October, 1954. Each page is a black and white drawing with sub-text. Illustrated cover, 82 pages. A very good copy, creased at corners.
25.00

1344 THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. London Spire / Hodder & Stoughton, 1990 Stories include: Pride Before A Fall by Andrew Greely; Death Hath Also This by H.R. F. Keating; She Went of Her Own Accord by Kate Saunders; Perchance to Dream by William Douglas Home; Take Heed! by Morris West; A Time for Tea by Rachel Billington; and Return to Sender by Michael Carson. Paperback, remainder mark. 0340538546
10.00

005261 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION OFFICERS MANUAL. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Fasa, 1988 A near fine softcover, large format, 144 pages, illustrated with line drawings. 1555600794
24.00

2672 Adams, Douglas. MOSTLY HARMLESS:THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE INCREASINGLY INNACURATELY NAMED HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY TRILOGY. London Heinemann, 1992 First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dustjacket, shelfwear at edges, tiny perforation at spine edge. 0-434-00926-1
10.00

2128 Adams, Jane. TRADEOFFS. New York William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1983 First Edition. A very good copy, rubbed along bottom of boards and jacket. 0-688-01366-X
10.00

2546 Adler, Renata. SPEEDBOAT. New York Harper & Row Publishers, 1988 A very good copy, pages have yellowed. 0-06-097143-6
10.00

1838 Adler, Warren. PRIVATE LIES. New York William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1991 First Canadian paperback edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-688-10120-8
11.00

4110 Aldecoa, Ignacio. THE BIRDS OF BADEN-BADEN. Madrid Spain Iberia, 1986 Libro de a Bordo from Iberia Airlines. Originally published as Los Pajaros de Baden-Baden, translated from the Spanish by Susana Heringman. A near fine softcover, French fold covers. 8450542243
15.00

1664 Alexis, Andre. CHILDHOOD. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1998 A fine copy, softcover. First Edition, signed by the author on the title page. 0771006659
35.00

2543 Alguire, Judith. ICED. Toronto Women's Press, 1995 Lesbian/women's hockey romance. First Edition. A fine copy, trade paperback. 0-88961-214-5
14.00

2469 Allen, Charlotte Vale. DREAMING IN COLOUR. New York HarperCollins, 1993 First Edition. A near fine copy, remainder line on bottom page edges next to spine, in a very good dustjacket, minor rubbing at corners. 0-00-223904-3
10.00

1680 Allen, Charlotte Vale. ILLUSIONS. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1987 A novel of sexual obsession. A good reading copy, light staining to page edges, in a very good dustjacket. First Edition. 0771007450
11.00

005055 Allen, Roger MacBride. ISAAC ASIMOV'S UTOPIA. New York Ace Books, 1996 Novel based on Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Book club edition, a very good hardcover in a very good dustjacket. 0441002455
9.95

1496 Allende, Isabel. THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS. New York Alfred A Knopf Canada, 1985 Fiction. First American Edition. Author's first book. Translated by Magda Bogin. A fine copy, light dot at top of front board, in a price-clipped dustjacket with three small tears (1/4") at top edge and creased inner panel, protected in mylar cover.
40.00

1498 Allende, Isabel. PAULA. New York Harper Collins, 1994 Fiction. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. A fine copy with remainder mark on bottom edge, in a fine dustjacket. First American Edition. 0060172533
11.00

3853 Altieri, Daniel; Cooney, Eleanor. SHANGRI-LA: THE RETURN TO THE WORLD OF LOST HORIZON. New York, NY, U.S.A. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1996 A re-creation of the legendary city of James Hilton, updated to a story of the cultural revolution. First Edition. 0-688-12872-6
14.50

1408 Amiel, Joseph. STAR TIME. New York Crown Publishers Inc., 1991 Fiction. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. 0517575191
14.00

1024 Amis, Kingsley. DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS. New York Summit Books, 1988 Fiction. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 978067167582
11.00

005382 Amis, Kingsley. THE GREEN MAN. London Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1969 Fiction. First edition. A fine copy dark blue boards; in a fine, slightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket, wrap-around cover art by Colin Andrews, price-clipped with minimal wear at edge of back of jacket. 224617400
50.00

3584 Amis, Kingsley. STANLEY AND THE WOMEN. London Hutchison & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1986 First British Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-09-156240-6
12.00

4608 [Andersen, Hans Christian] Dulcken, H W (translator). THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED STORIES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. London Chancellor Press, 1985 Reprint of facsimile edition. Originally published by George Routledge & Sons, London, in 1889. Two hundred and ninety illustrations by A W Bayres. Near fine, pages slightly darkened, in a near fine dustjacket. 0907486266
20.00

4752 Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. A RECIPE FOR BEES. Toronto Alfred A Knopf Canada, 1998 First Canadian edition. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0676971008
14.00

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
11.00

000023 Anderson, Kevin J; Moesta, Rebecca.. THE LOST ONES NO 3 (STAR WARS: YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS, NO 3). New York, NY, U. S. A. Boulevard Books, 1995 Fantasy. Fourth printing. Good softcover, pages clean and tight. 1572970529
4.95

009025 Anderson, Paul. THE EARTH BOOK OF STORMGATE-1. Berkeley Publishing, 1980 Paperback, near fine. 450047962
4.95

4434 Anderson, Paul. GENESIS. New York, NY, U.S.A. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000 Science fiction. First edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0312867077
14.00

4653 Anderson, Poul. THE HIGH CRUSADE. Riverdale, new York Baen SF, 1960 A near fine hardcover, black paper-covered boards, very good dustjacket with light edgewear. Book club printing.
8.95

4480 Anholt, Laurence. SUMMERHOUSE. Don Mills, ON, Canada Stoddart Kids, 1999 Children's story, illustrated by Lynne Russell. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0773731520
14.50

1546 Anon. (Bedier, Joseph). LE ROMAN DE TRISTAN ET ISEUT. Paris L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1946 Yellow cloth boards, faintly sunned along edges, black and gilt illustrated plate on front, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, yellow marker ribbon, pages are clean and tight. This is number 3445 of a numbered edition of 5000 with the illustrated plate by Andre Collot. One small tear to first inside page, small bookstore sticker on second inside page. A very fine copy.
45.50

3330 Ansay, A Manette. MIDNIGHT CHAMPAGNE. New York William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1999 Softcover, uncorrected bound galleys. A near fine copy.
10.00

000193 Anthony, Piers. BEARING AN HOURGLASS (INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY SERIES BOOK 2). New York, NY, U. S. A. Ballantine Books, 1985 Later printing paperback. Very good condition, lightly scuffed. Light creasing to spine. Pages clean and tight, with darkened page edges. 0345313151
4.95

000192 Anthony, Piers. ON A PALE HORSE (INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY SERIES , BOOK 1). New York, NY, U. S. A. Ballantine Books, 1986 Later printing paperback. Good condition, lightly scuffed, light creasing to spine. Pages darkened. 0345338588
4.95

005231 Anthony, Piers. UP IN A HEAVAL. New York, New York, U.S.A. Tor Books, 2002 first edition. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket, bright and glossy. 0312869045
14.00

4114 Apple, Max. FREE AGENTS. London Faber and Faber, 1986 First British Edition, a near fine copy in a fine dustjacket, slight darkening to pages. 0571138527
20.00

4591 Applegate, K A. THE HORK-BAJIR CHRONICLES. New York Scholastic, Incorporated, 1998 Science fiction - Animorphs series. A fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket, two light scores on back of dustjacket. 0439042917
17.50

4703 Apy, Deborah. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983 Retelling of the old fairy tale by Apy. Illustrated by Michael Hague. A very good copy, with previous owner's note at top of front facing endpaper. This is a hardcover, red boards, blue endpapers, in a price-clipped dustjacket. An impression of writing has also been left on the front of the dustjacket as if someone had used the book as a support while writing a note. It is visible if the book is tilted into the direct light. 0030640768
12.50

4651 Arenas, Reinaldo. SINGING FROM THE WELL. New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Putnam, Incorporated, 1988 Fiction. Translated by Andrew Hurley. A very good trade paperback. 014009444X
11.00

4495 Arensberg, Ann. INCUBUS. New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1999 Contemporary supernatural novel of demonic possession and the incubus experience of women tormented by sexual persecution by an entity appearing in various supernatural forms. A very good hardcover in a good dustjacket, edgewear, one short tear, scratched on surface. 0394556968
9.00

004910 Armour, Margaret (editor). THE EERIE BOOK. Secaucus, N.J. Castle Books, Illustrated by W B MacDougall. A near fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket.
17.50

2493 Armstrong, Jennifer. MARY MEHAN AWAKE. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 First Edition. A fine copy, glossy illustrated boards, semi-transparent parchment dustjacket has several tears and chips and is now in mylar wrapping. 0-679-88276-6
10.00

3051 Arnason, David. THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD. Vancouver Talonbooks, 1989 Short stories. First Edition. Trade paperback. A near fine copy. 0-88922-269-X
11.00

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