Search Results: Titles starting with R from WhoByBooks

Hardcover. Fine. Five signed works by Ms. Schoemperlen: 1. RED PLAID SHIRT. Toronto: HarperFlamingo, 2002. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Signed by Author(s). As New / As New. ISBN: 0002005182. Short stories by Ms Schoemperlen, collected over a 20 year period. 2. IN THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Signed by Author(s). Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0002243733. This is the author's first novel. Noted for her short stories of which she won a GG for her collection Forms of Devotion, Ms. Schoemperlen has tackled "life's defining passion: our need for love." as her novel debut. 3. FROGS & OTHER STORIES. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. Book. Signed/inscribed By Author. Good. ISBN: 0919627382. An early collection of stories. Some rubbing and scuffs to… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the notorious and highly original author's first book. Previous owners signature on FFEP. DJ has practically no fading to the spine (perhaps 15%) - uncommon for this book. Black cellophane edges have ever so slightly curled with minor rubs to corner extremities and a 1 cm closed tear to upper back.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. From the highly acclaimed author of Obasan.

East Lawerence Town, Nova Scotia, Canada: Pottersfield Pr, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New.

Mosaic Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. The second novel by this young writer (her first was the internationally acclaimed and award winning The Cure for Death by Lightning)

Toronto: Harpercollins Canada, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Some light corner crease to DJ flaps.

New York: Random House, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Review Copy with publishers photo and review slip laid in. In Mr. Hoagland's third collection of essays (19 in all) we read about " trapping wolves, bearding bears and carnival diving, about Dixie slaves, baseball heroes and literary backbiting, about city walks, Vermont communes, texas ranchers and newts and surviving." A great collection from a fabulous writer.Inscribed, signed and dated in year of publication in New York.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slight lean to book. Very minimal edge wear to DJ.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. An excellent volume of poetry from this Pulitzer winning poet. Maroon coloured boards. Fine in a tanned and slightly chipped dust jacket. Association copy - signed with a lengthy inscription to an obvious friend: "For ___ with best regards and the reminder of our pleasure in palimpsest.(Perhaps all poetry is a palimpsest!) Robert Hillyer 26 March 1959

Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Grant MacDonald; Tanya Moiseiwitsch. The 3 volumes of the first 3 years (1953, 1954, 1955) of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. 1. Guthrie, Tyrone and Robertson Davies. Renown at Stratford. ill. Grant MacDonald. Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1953. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Near Fine / Fair. A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, 1953. This was the inaugural year of the Stratford Festival which has been going strong ever since. Pieces by Tyrone Guthrie, the great British director and Robertson Davies in the years before his international acclaim as a writer. Remarkable drawings of the players by Grant MacDonald a renown painter. Of the players that year was Alec Guinness and the about to be great writer Timothy Findley. Also of note is that the colophon states: This book is the first book produced in Canada,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A selection of writings chosen by the author himself to be representative of his life's beliefs and work. Fine in a very good dust jacket (price clipped with some edge wear). Translated by Justin O'Brien.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. The author's third novel

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Nine Canadian Poets Discuss Their Work. The poets being: Bowering, Helwig, Joas, Kearns, MacEwen, Marshall, Newlove, Nowlan and Yates. A nice copy that is lightly bumped with some edge wear notably at upper spine. Cover art by Barry Rubin.

London: Heinemann Ltd., 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. DJ is quite wrinkled ant tattered, torn and chipped!

Toronto: Doubleday of Canada, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Another great story set in the Miramichi by this fine writer.

London: Picador, 1981. First Thus . Soft cover. Fine. Introduction by Bruce Chatwin.

Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New.

Toronto: Tsar Pubns, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Corners are slightly worn.

Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A second novel from the writer of Minus Time her debut novel that was short-listed for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. "The Rules of Engagement is a powerful exploration of what love is, the emotional borders we must cross in order to try to attain it, and the responsibilities inherent in its possession."