Search Results: Canada from Books of the World

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Trade Paperback. Harper Torchbooks, HB 3011. Later printing. Very Good. Tanned. Price stamp to first page, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Edge and corner wear. No tears. Not from a library. 294 pages. Contents: The New American Nation Series, Editor's Introduction, Preface, Coming of the Revolution, Road to Lexington, Boston, Contest for Canada, Britain Declares War, Independence Proclaimed, Long Island to Morristown, Philadelphia Takes Howe, Surrender at Saratoga, Reformation in the States, Congress & Confederation, The Bourbons Enter the War, Stalemate in the North, The Home Front, Savannah to Yorktown, The Path to Peace, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, November 1989. Paperback. 1991 reprint. Very Good. Dust stains to top edge. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 235 pages. Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not dead, but has returned to Halifax to clear his name. Hugh MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917. Authors: Hugh Maclennan; Alister Macleod (afterward)

New York: Ariel Books, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition, likely first printing (no additional printings listed). Quarter-bound in pink cloth over boards with black titles and green sides with three black illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. 23 full-page color lithographs and numerous B&W illustrations by Lynd Ward. Very Good. FFEP clipped. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Corners sharp. Not from a library. 96 pages. 8 x 11 x 0.4 inches.

Vancouver: Altitude Publishing, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Third, Revised Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. One-inch dog-ear to upper rear corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 349 pages. Illustrated with 200 color photographs, 55 historical photos, and 25 maps.

Toronto: Random House Canada, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Fine. Black remainder dot to bottom edge. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. 304 pages. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

New York: Walker & Company, November 2006. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 356 pages. Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Within minutes, the Mont Blanc, ablaze, grounded against the city's docks. The explosion that followed would devastate the city and shock the world. Set against the background of World War I, Curse of the Narrows is the first major account of the world's largest pre-atomic explosion and the remarkable relief effort that followed.

Markham, Ontario: Penguin, November 1985. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Third Printing. Very Good+. Unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight but lightly creased. Cover clean with reading wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 199 pages.
Contents: Angela -- The lady from Lucknow -- The world according to Hsü -- A father -- Isolated incidents -- Nostalgia -- Tamurlane -- Hindus -- Saints -- Visitors -- The imaginary assassin -- Courtly vision.

New York: Ballantine / Fawcett Crest, February 1987. Mass Market Paperback. 21st printing, December 1989. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with light spine crease. Cover clean and bright with front hinge crease. Edgewear. 395 pages.Winner of the 1985 Governor General's (Canada) Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. Adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a television series, and other media. It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.

Toronto: Vintage Canada, March 2001. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Near Fine. Mild reading wear to corners, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. No tears, creases, or folds. 359 pages.

Ottawa: Canada Map Office / Bureau des Cartes du Canada, January 1983. Three cartographic indexes: Index I - Eastern Canada (eastern Manitoba to the Maritimes); Index 2 - Western Canada - British Columbus to eastern Manitoba; Index 3 - Northern Canada. Geographic coverage complete in three sheets. Color. Printed on both sides. Sheets 28 x 40 inches, folded to 6 x 9 inches. Very Good+ condition. Not from a library. Unmarked. No tears. Light edgewear to Index 1.

Greenville, South Carolina: Michelin Travel Publications, October 2003. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. No remainder mark. Not damaged. Not from a library. 128 pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2017. Hardcover. First Edition / Full number line. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpage, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 245 pages. Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction--his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's police detective fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman delivers a fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of… Read More

Edmonton, Alberta: Quagmire Press, 2013. First Printing (stated) / full number line. New. Not damaged. Not a remainder. 240 pages.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1981. Trade Paperback. Second printing, 1982. Very Good-. Prior owner's mark. Creasing and 1/2-inch chip to lower corner of front cover. Text tanned but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to top edge. 527 + xii pages.

New York: Ballantine Books, May 1990. Paperback. First Mass Market printing. Very Good. Interior tanned but unmarked. Spine is straight, tight and uncreased. Corner creases to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 617 pages. Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Scribner, November 2001. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing of the Movie Tie-In Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and lightly creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 364 pages. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.

London: Penguin, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Reading wear to corners and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 214 pages.
Containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation this volume gives a fascinating insight into culture and literature of France and Quebec as well as providing an invaluable educational tool. Including Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in "The Hunter's Cafe," to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic "You Never Die," these stories make excellent reading in any language.

Toronto: Harper Perennial, August 2005. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Remainder mark. Not from a library. 327 pages.
Victoria, a chef living in North London, can't seem to shake her ghosts. But when her sister dies in Guyana, leaving behind a young son, Victoria's life changes in ways she could never have predicted. Suddenly she is forced to confront both the death of her past and the frightening promise of her future. A tender portrait of two people searching for truth, love and identity, this is an astonishingly wise novel.