Search Results: Canadian Literature from Post Horizon Booksellers

Moose Jaw, SK, Canada: Coteau Books, 1983. First Canadian Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 370pp. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and sound, showing mild sunning and soft vertical crease. Duodecimo. The exciting new Saskatchewan breakfast cereal in book form. Delicious kernels from Saskatchewan writers.

Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 166pp. One copy signed by Gail Bowen on the title page; second copy inscribed by both Gail Bowen and Ron Marken on half-title page. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased.

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Coteau Books, 1992. First Canadian Edition . Mass Market Paperback. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 403pp. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Duodecimo. "The wonderful new improved breakfast cereal in book form with delicious kernels from Aritha van Herke, David Arnason, Fred Stenson, Armin Wiebe, David Carpenter, Lorna Crozier, Birk Sproxton, Glen Sorestad, Robert Currie, Lois Simmie, Dave Margoshes, Dennis Cooley, Gertrude Story, Brenda Baker, Kim Morrissey, Rick Hillis, Donna Caruso, Yukon Premier Tony Penikett, and many more

Edmonton, AB, Canada: Hurtig Publishers, 1979. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 335pp. Goldenrod endpapers. Green boards with gold lettering on spine. Photo illustrated DJ clean, showing light shelf wear, preserved in archival cover. James Moir - Poetry editor; June Bhatia - Fiction editor; Hugh A. Dempsey - Non-fiction Prose editor. With over 100 Alberta writers represented, the sheer diversity of this collection - fiction, nonfiction and poetry - which spans the twentieth century, will make this a book to read and read again.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Key Porter Books, 2007. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 248pp. Signed by author to title page. Tan boards w fine black lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo.

McClelland and Stewart, 1986. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 220pp. Cream boards, deep purple quarter-wrap spine w cream lettering. Slight scuff to tail. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Standard library markings, though condition suggests the book saw limited circulation.

Regina, SK, Canada: Coteau Books, 1994. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 213pp. Signed by the author on fly-leaf. Colour illustrated wrapper w French flaps is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Like an archaeologist, Robert Mullen digs beneath the surface of contemporary North American life to reveal a centuries-old yearning for meaning in Americas

Regina, SK, Canada: Coteau Books, 1994. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 213pp. Colour illustrated wrapper w French flaps is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo.. Book 9 in the McCourt Fiction Series.

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Canadian Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 311pp. Black cloth w fine gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder - a timeless work of art and a revelatory journey

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 311pp. Black cloth w fine gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder - a timeless work of art and a revelatory journey

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Guernica Editions, 1998. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 386pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo Over fifty Italian-Canadian authors contribute short stories, poetry, sketches, essays, plays, film scripts, novellas, prose poems, life-writing, political articles and memoirs to this first anthology of Italian-Canadian writing

Chicago, IL, USA: Charles H. Kerr & Company. Booklet. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 30pp. Photo illustrated wrapper shows light soiling. Stapled binding is worn, but holding. Duo-decimo. n.d. There were many reprints of this short story by Jack London, (1876-1916) and the earliest (probably not before 1912), was issued by Charles H. Kerr & Campany Co-Operative, Chicago, n.d."- Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature

Surrey, BC, Canada: Birch & Northgate Press, 2016. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sutherland, Daniel Keith. xi, 298pp. Indexed maps and illustrations. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. From the historical fiction series, The MacHugh Memoirs by James L. McWilliams, (1938-2022). 1803, MacHugh returns to Paris as the bodyguard for the Count Mehee de la Touche but an affair lands him in the notorious prison fortress of Bitche and embroiled in several assassination attempts aimed at his personal enemy, the Emperor Napoleon

Charlottetown, Nova Scotia, Canada: Gynergy Books / Ragweed Press, 1998. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 254pp. Inscribed by Dan Yashinsky on title page to Saskatchewan poet Gary Hyland (1940-2011) at the 2005 Saskatchewan Festival of Words. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Duodecimo Thirty-two storytellers from across Canada offer challenge, change, trickery, courage and adventure

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 468pp. Teal endpapers Top edge dyed green. Goldenrod cloth w green lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Colour illustrated DJ clean, showing very light shelf wear, now preserved in Brodart cover.

Montreal, PQ, Canada: Quadrant Editions, 1982. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 131pp. Goldenrod fly leaves. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Book appears unread. This anthology of eleven short works of experimental fiction includes three previously published pieces by the author. A collection of largely unconnected short pieces, most of which can loosely be called fictions with some of indeterminate form or intent. An imaginative and linguistic representation of the jungle of mass culture and technology." - David Ingham

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Coteau Books, 1993. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 177pp. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight. Octavo. A collection of ten appealing stories with a contemporary sensibility. The characters are restless people trying to escape the predictable in stories that have a sense of humour even through despair and an emphasis on the nature of family relationships

Saint John's, NF, Canada: Breakwater Books, Limited, 1976. First Canadian Edition 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Squires, Gerry; Dawe, Tom. 138pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo. Poetry and prose by Grace Butt, Pat Byrne, Michael Cook, Tom Dawe, Bill Gough, Ray Guy, Dr. A.C. Hunter, Tom Moore, Al Pittman, Helen Porter, Clyde Rose, Geraldine Rubia, Ted Russell, Art Scammell, Enos D. Watts.

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada: Bunim & Bannigan Ltd, 2007. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 205pp. Fore edge rough cut. Light brown boards w blindstamp publisher colophon on front cover, black quarterwrap spine w crisp gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover.

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Coteau Books, 1997. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 281pp. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. This engaging tale spans the Alberta oil boom of the fifties and the folk music scene of the sixties. Along the way, Tim finds out the difference between sex and love, and discovers how to catch trout and be a writer. He even learns to play the banjo.