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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First edition.. Grey boards designed in gilt, white cloth spine lettered in gilt. Green end papers. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket, some tiny tears at edges and some noticeable rubbing to the spine. Inscribed and signed from Kinsella on the half-title page, dated 1984. A collection of five stories, the first… Read more about this item

[Halifax: Royal Print and Litho, 1931]. First edition. . 8vo. Vellum, the front cover decorated and titled in brown and black. Map end papers. Frontispiece & 9 illustrations. Covers bowed, short tears at the hinge ends from the bowing, a nice clean copy in very good condition. Apparently 500 copies were printed, of which this is one of 250… Read more about this item

Toronto: Contact Press, (1965). First edition. . Original decorative wrappers. Title page printed in red & black. Darkening to edges, light wear, a very good copy. There were 250 copies produced, of which 50 were in hardcover. This is the paper issue, one of 200.

Fredericton: Fiddlehead, 1971. Extended and revised edition. . Original wrappers. A nice clean copy. Limited to 2000 copies. Inscribed and signed by Livesay on the inner front cover.

Nanaimo: Institute For Coastal Research, 2006. . Black wrappers lettered in silver, in a heavy paper dust jacket. A fine copy, ownership stamp on front end paper. Printed at the Gaspereau Press in Kentville, N.S. This copy is signed and dated by Bringhurst on the title page, and also inscribed and signed at the colophon by the four who… Read more about this item

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935. First edition. . Decorative printed boards. Darkening of spine and edges, a nice clean copy. Inscribed and signed by Gustafson on the title page. His first book.

[North Vancouver]: Capilano College/Cobblestone, [c.1977].. A 4-page booklet, finely printed in red & black. This copy unfolded, so a single sheet measuring 9 x 7.5 inches. Fine condition. Limited to 225 copies. A single short poem, for Ellen Tallman.

Cobblestone Press [Capilano College, North Vancouver, 1977].. A 4-page booklet, finely printed. This copy unfolded, so a single sheet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Fine condition. Limited to 100 copies.

London, NY & Toronto: John Lane/Bell and Cockburn, 1912. First Canadian edition.. Dark red cloth lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in colour. Short tears at top and base of spine, some wear to tips, a very good copy. Small ownership stamp on inner front cover. Inscribed by Leacock on the front fly leaf, dated September 20, 1912. "With the writer's… Read more about this item

London: Benn, 1946. First British edition. . Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Photographic frontispiece of the author. A nice clean copy in the pictorial dust jacket, a little wear to corners and upper spine. The first volume of Service's autobiography, followed by Harper of Heaven (1948). The American edition appeared from Dodd, Mead in 1945. Mitham A27b. … Read more about this item

London: Benn, (1948). First British edition.. Light brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. A nice clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, some chips from spine extremities and corners. The second volume of Service's autobiography, preceded by Ploughman of the Moon (1945). The American edition appeared from Dodd, Mead, also in 1948.… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Private Press of Robert Reid and Takao Tanabe, 1962. . First edition, second issue, in textured black wrappers, front cover lettered with large wood type. Text printed in red & black. Apparently only about 200 copies were issued of what was originally an edition of 300; some unbound copies were reportedly destroyed in a flood. William Hoffer speculated… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Private Press of Robert Reid and Takao Tanabe, 1962. . First edition, first issue, in smooth black wrappers, front cover lettered with large wood type. Text printed in red & black. Apparently only about 200 copies were issued of what was originally an edition of 300; some unbound copies were reportedly destroyed in a flood. William Hoffer speculated… Read more about this item

Invermere or Cranbrook, BC: The Author, 1921. Second Edition.. Small wrappers, stapled. 12pp. Some fading of covers, about fine. First published earlier in an edition of 100 copies, this second edition was published in an edition of 500. A short intro on the inner front cover explains that the legend was first printed in the Cranbrook Courier. The text… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. First printing.. Blue boards, spine lettered in silver. Lower edge slightly bumped, a fine copy in a like dust jacket. Inscribed and signed to Al Purdy on the divisional half-title page. "For Al Purdy with / thanks and appreciation, / Alistair MacLeod". A note laid in states that this book was bought at the… Read more about this item

London: Selwyn & Blount, (1925). First edition.. Grey boards, cloth spine, printed paper labels on spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Light rubbing to the front cover, a very fresh and attractive copy. Signed by Pratt on the front end paper: "E.J. Pratt / With Compliments". Of an edition of 1000, 480 copies were issued in the UK by Selwyn… Read more about this item

Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1989. First edition, limited.. Brown cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Ownership ink stamp on the copyright page, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is #40 of 150 signed and numbered copies.

Toronto: Ryerson, (1966). First edition, First printing.. Grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. A nice clean copy in the pictorial dust jacket, some light wear to edges, quite a nice copy. Small embossed ownership stamp on title page. Inscribed and signed by MacEwen on the half-title leaf. Her fifth collection, the first from a major publisher.

Devon: Stockwell, 1948. First edition.. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A clean very good copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, some chips from upper edge. Ownership inscription in the front: Jan 4 1949 / St Johns / Newfoundland. Poems of both wars, and others including at least one relating to Newfoundland. Art Pratt was in the… Read more about this item

Quebec: Editions de l'Universite Laval, 1947. First edition.. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Lower spine bruised, a clean very good copy. Issued as Volume III, Numero 2 in the series: Extrait du Laval Theologique et Philosophique. An offprint, paginated [221] - 242. Uncommon.