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Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. New collection of 11 interconnected short stories by this highly praised and award winning Canadian writer - almost all of them take place in Paris, and most originally appeared in The New Yorker, 198 pp.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First US printing. Stories which follow three generations of a family in the fictional small town of Agassiz in Manitoba. Dust jacket praise from Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro and W. P. Kinsella. Jacket art and frontispiece by R. W. Scholes. 346 pp.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Stories which follow three generations of a family in the fictional small town of Agassiz in Manitoba. Dust jacket praise from Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro and W. P. Kinsella. Jacket art and frontispiece by R. W. Scholes. 346 pp.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First US printing. A novel which explores the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of her day, convicted of involvement in the murder of her employer.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dustjacket.. First US printing. A novel which explores the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of her day, convicted of involvement in the murder of her employer.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps). First US printing. A novel which explores the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of her day, convicted of involvement in the murder of her employer.

[Toronto]:: Little Brown Canada,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, otherwise tight and clean.). First printing. Novel about a pioneering woman photographer, who at the age of 85 looks back on her life, from the wilderness of Northern Canada to the years in London during World War II. 413 pp.

New York:: Carroll & Graf,, (2003.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (a new copy) Promotion postcard laid in.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Canadian writer's gripping second novel which begins in the summer of 1976 as Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. A story of gypsy and circus life set in Transylavania, Budapest and in the circuses and carnivals of Europe and America. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author .

New York:: The Viking Press,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front endpaper.). First US printing. Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp.

Vancouver / Toronto:: Douglas & McIntyre, , (1993). SIGNED -. Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. "Welcome to the Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, a rustic retreat on a beautiful island off the west coast of British Columbia. Your hosts are the endearingly eccentric Hector and Virgil, twins by birth though not by nature. Their B&B attracts a particular and sometimes peculiar clientele." The first of several books about this retreat for bibliophiles. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- Golf rhymes with -uh, rolf? All best." Winner of The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. 152 pp.

[Ottawa]:: Oberon Press,, 1981.. First edition -. Very good in stiff wrappers (some light soiling to the white background on the covers.). First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Short novels by two young Canadian writers - includes 'The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves' by Mason and 'Hans Denck, Cobbler' by Rigelhof. First book appearance of Rigelhof. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (c 1918). Hardcover -. Good overall in brown cloth with black lettering and illustration on front cover (gift inscription dated Dec 1925, some biopredation to the spine) . Vintage reprint. A story of the RNWM Police by one who had been a member of the force. Glossary. 318 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

San Francisco:: Sierra Club,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, bookstore line on top edge). First US printing. The author's first book - he grew up in the Canadian West and in 1985 he revisited the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. He includes accounts of the various colonies of immigrants, the treatment of Indians, and of the countryside itself. Index. viii, 260 pp.

Princeton, New Jersey:: The Ontario Review Press,, (1982.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Collection of short stories by this Canadian writer, poet and translator, founder and editor of the literary magazine, Exile, and an award winning journalist. 165 pp.

Princeton, New Jersey:: The Ontario Review Press,, (1982.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Collection of short stories by this Canadian writer, poet and translator, founder and editor of the literary magazine, Exile, and an award winning journalist. 165 pp.

Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A complex and multi-layered story, set in the 30s and 40s - but also including a science fiction novel (the title 'The Blind Assassin' refers to this novel) within the novel. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award and the Booker Prize. 521 pp.

Ontario:: Cormorant Books,, (1997). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. "In The Blue Circus Jacques Savoie plunges into a world in which music harmonizes with the poetry of Baudelaire. In the same breath he transports us beyond words into a place where the memories that we think we share can be transformed into dreams." Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.154 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First American edition. Contains 2 stories not included in the Canadian edition.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good only dust jacket (tears and some creasing to corners of folds of dj.). First American edition. Contains two stories not included in the Canadian edition. 281 pp.