THE VERY RICHNESS OF THAT PAST. Canada Through The Eyes Of Foreign Writers. Volume II. Signed
by Gatenby Greg; edit
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Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, (1995), 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. The second collection of 'appreciations' of Canada by visiting international authors, Inscribed by Editor and founder of the annual Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, Greg Gatenby to a fellow Canadian author and his wife on the title-page. 'For.who have been a rich part of my past, Greg Gatenby', Toronto, Oct11/95'. Bright and fresh, (Canadian author's discreet bookplate to the front pastedown), in navy cloth, silver titles to the spine in a just about fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 498 pp. With keenly observed, idiosyncratic and sometimes humorous contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Raymond Chandler, Wallace Stegner, Aleister Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates et al.
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- THE VERY RICHNESS OF THAT PAST. Canada Through The Eyes Of Foreign Writers. Volume II. Signed
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- Gatenby Greg; edit
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- Alfred A. Knopf, (1995)
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- Date Published
- 1995
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