Search Results: Canadian Literature from Charles Agvent

Toronto: Ganglia, [1967]. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Single 3-1/4" x 4-1/4" sheet of blue paper folded once. The author's second publication, a one-line poem.

[Toronto]: Anansi, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. About Fine. Wraps issue published simultaneously with the hardcover issue, this being the first state without the award statement. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to film director Arthur Penn: "who has his own painful/beautiful [crossed out] version/Michael Ondaatje/Feb. 71." Laid in is a full-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Ondaatje to Penn also dated Feb. 1971. In part: "One of the first movies I remember as a teenager was Left Handed Gun. Tho I didn't then know who directed, acted, etc. It was only a long time later when watching it and the moon shooting scene came up that I found out it was your work + I realized it had been for some time part of my blood. So at some moments my version of Billy's story is made up of what I remember of your version-- I have two tales of Charlie's death, one yours...." Arthur Penn's first feature film was THE LEFT HANDED GUN, starring Paul Newman in a role meant for James Dean.… Read More

London: Marion Boyars, (1979). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Ondaatje's first novel, an account set in New Orleans of the life of Buddy Bolden, jazz trumpeter. Issued three years after the American and Canadian editions.

(Toronto): (The Coach House Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Small gouge at bottom of the spine at the rear, not affecting contents. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover and center illustration by Michael Snowdon. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Michael Ondaatje, and others.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As new in shrinkwrap. Decorated dark green leather. Limited and true First Edition SIGNED by the author and with a special introduction by him not included in the trade edition.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with quarter-sized chip at head of spine and two-inch tear extending from it to the rear panel. This much under-rated Catholic Canadian writer's most elaborately symbolic novel. INSCRIBED to ------ "this is a book I like" and SIGNED by the author.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to upper corners; slight foxing to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Autobiographical journey by the author, born in Sri Lanka, of THE ENGLISH PATIENT.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Autobiographical journey by the author, born in Sri Lanka, of THE ENGLISH PATIENT.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick. Made into a memorable film, FIELD OF DREAMS, starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones.

New York: THe Viking Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Spine slightly sunned; textblock cocked. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy of the First American Edition in printed orange wraps.