Canadian Literature from Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB

Toronto: Oasis, 1981. 1st edition. Signed on the preface page but also inscribed to serendipitous poet / artist Joe Rosenblatt in 1982. 20pp. Illustrated long poem. Tri-lingual English / French / Spanish. Illustrated wraps.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Ludwig Zeller. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Macmillan, 1988. - first issue text that bulks 1 1/16 th inches [ as do review copies ], later thicker paper accounts for the extra sixteenth inch - no yet known textual variants between the two - SIGNED on the title page, o/w fine in fine dj.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

North Bay, Ont .: Nebula Press, 1975. - crime novelist Giles Blunt contributes contributes a long poem " In Some Cafe " - long before his first novel or his decade of writing for TV's " Law and Order " - perhaps his first appearance in print - a fine copy of the scarce first issue of this ambitious little… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. - the printer & binders copy with a white printed tag affixed to the front board stating " T. H. Best Printing company limited - LIBRARY SAMPLE - giving the date of Aug. 9 / 76 " handwritten, with check & location number - appears to be the finished book otherwise - an artifact… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Payot, 1926. - a well regarded treatis on the scientific basis for an interpretation of the Supernational, spiritualism, telepathy, metaphysics, hypnotism, pshyic phenomenia, animal magnetism, etc. - this was W. E. E. Ross's copy with extensive marginalia in Ross's hand, in many places, mostly defending the existence of the Metaphisical / Supernatural world, about 600 words in… Read more about this item

Toronto: Macmillan, 1932. 1st edition. 2nd book. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down, owner's inscription on the 2nd blank, foxing to the prelims; a very good copy lacking the unprinted spider web patterned glassine dust jacket - once uncommon, ordinary & unsigned copies have accumulated recently in the abe cesspool & are now cheap & plentiful.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991. proof copy in large format 9 X 12 " - typeset photo - duplicated sheets bound into a gray die-cut folder - publicity sheet title page - labeled uncorrected proof - 247 pp. - a few copies for important reviewers, some for in-house uses - fine copy - and rare - [ unlike the US… Read more about this item

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990. cerlox ring-bound proof copy - the body is type - set to 271 pp. - title page & prelims. not yet set - an early form of the text with an editors check & question marks in pencil in margins ( a few ) - the only proof from any country we have encountered… Read more about this item

Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. - a fine unread copy in fine crisp dj, not price clipped & w/o the usual prize sticker, minor binder's glue in gutters, as with all early copies ( before the poor glue used was discovered, & corrected ) - Giller Prize winner.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item

Windsor, Ontario: Sun Parlor Advertising Company , 1970. - Black Moss anthology of contributors to the magazine including Dorothy Farmiloe Peter Stevens Bill Bissett Douglas Barbour Alden Nowlan Ian Young Joyce Carol Oates Parrick Lane Pat Lowther Dennis Lee Marty Gervais Michael Ondaatje Eugene McNamara Eldon Garnet, etc. - oblong 8vo, 74 pages, stapled and tape bound blue wraps,… Read more about this item

Ottawa, Ont.: Magnum Bookstore, 1991. - only 30 copies printed total edition - a fund raiser for a reading series - this being 1/26 signed copies [ of 30 ] - a chapter from the novel - very fine in quarto stapled wraps. - scarce of course as it is the smallest limitation of any Rooke book !. Signed by… Read more about this item

Waterloo: University of Waterloo, 1985. - scarce Magic Realism issue with Susan Musgravew. P. Kinsella Robert Kroetsch Lawrence Yates, etc. - fine condition - vol. 5 # 1 - 84 pages.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ottawa, Ont.: Magnum Readings, 1992. - one of a limited edition of only 30 copys printed - in total - [here one of 26 signed] - quarto stapled wraps - a very fine copy. scarce of course as it is one of the smallest limitations in the Layton cannon and was sold at the bookstore reading & not necessarily to… Read more about this item

Toronto, Can.: Nightshade Press / Shaw Street Press, 1986. - Canadian fine press book designed, typeset, and printed by Glenn Goluska at the Nightshade Press - the typefaces Linotype Optima & foundry Stencil & handprinted on acid-free Mowhawk Letterpress Text - signed by the author [ this is one of 25 copies handbound in silk batiked boards, cloth spine,… Read more about this item

Erin , Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 1977. - oblong 8vo - though not mentioned in the colophon along with the wrappered & leatherbound editions - some copies were bound in black fabricoid - a leather-like cloth and given a wonderful half-tone photographic dj, showing the wicked witch herself perched on a shale ledge and staring darkly into the camera lens… Read more about this item

Edmonton: J. M. LeBel Enterprises, 1973. - Canadian Poetry Recording - F. R. Scott, Marya Fiamengo, Stephen Scobie, Ralph Gustafson, Michael Doyle, P. K. Page, Earle Birney, Sharon Stevenson, Douglas Barbour, Michael Ondaatje, Francis Sparshott - by far the scarcest of modern Canadian Poetry Records - only the second we've seen, the first I bought from Longhouse Books… Read more about this item

Toronto: Viking Penguin, 1996. - correct first edition, French flaps, trade paper wraps - first novel by this Indo - Canadian writer of considerable merit - paper tanning as usual, else a fine copy.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Knopf, 2004. - 293 pp. - poet's novel, well loved - f/f/dj.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. - no date but preface dated 20th April 1831 - vil. 1 pp iv + 312 / vol. II pp. iv + 312 / IIII pp. iv + 324 - volume 3 contains a 19 page appendix describing the towns and townships of Upper Canada including an accurate description of our own… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. - first winner of the Giller Prize - signed - first printing with full number line - single spine crease else fine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.