Search Results: Authors starting with C from Reading Rat

Saskatoon SK: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983. Third printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 144 p. large format PB with pictorial boards; index, many B & W photographs and other illustrative material. The author draws on his own experience of teaching in one room schools in Alberta beginning in 1928, and extensive interviews with over 100 rural teachers, students, and school officials. Very nice overall condition, slight wear. Has gift inscription (in lovely Cyrillic script) on half-title page.

Tralee : The Kerryman, n.d.. Not Stated. Staplebound. Very Good +. Pamphlet; card covers, stapled, 5 x 6 inches, 32 p. Copyright 1964. VG condition, some rubbing and wear along spine. The story of Mary O'Connor, the Rose of Tralee, and William Mulchinock. Their tragic love story has inspired songs, poems and a the annual Rose of Tralee International Festival. John Caball has written other stories and plays drawn from Irish History. This edition produced for Aer Lingus.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 48 p.; VG-; small dark green hardcover book, gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed at edges, has library sticker on front cover and pocket inside back cover. Interior clean and unmarked. This is the text of the 1957 Swarthmore Lecture, given by Henry Joel Cadbury, Emeritus Professor of Divinity of Harvard University. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition; copyright date 1984, printing date not shown. VG/VG; ex-library with usual stamps, pocket, residue of barcode sticker on back. Slight spine lean. DJ price-clipped, in plastic cover, taped to boards. Previously unpublished novel by Cain. DJ illustration by Michael P. Meritet. Afterword by Cain biographer Roy Hoopes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: St. James Church, Incorporated, 2001. Apparent First. Soft Cover. NEW/No Jacket. A. M. Calder. 101 p.; NEW; multiple copies available. Full-colour photos of all the windows are included. "Parishioners of Winnipeg's St. James Aglican church and their visitors admire the surrounding windows depicting biblical scenes portrayed in the magnificently dramatic fashion of stained glass. . . . they tell - in sequence - the story of Christ's life from the Annunciation to the Ascension." The Baptistery Window, by noted artist Leo Mol, is also included. Most of the windows were created by the Meikle Studio of Toronto, and the West Window and two of the aisle windows were the work of Westmacott Art Glass Studio of Winnipeg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. one copy sold Jan 2010

Naperville IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2012. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 365 p.; TP; a sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, focusing on Cols. Buford, Fitzwilliam and Brandon as they "set out to meet their destinies on the fields of Waterloo". Includes list of sources and a short excerpt from Caldwell's other Austen pastiche, Pemberley Ranch.

Toronto ON: Macmillan Canada, 1977. Not Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 169 p.; VG/Fair; book is in very nice condition, interior bright, unmarked; DJ unclipped, edges somewhat worn, large chunk out of back (flaps intact). "What happens aboard a raft on the cold Atlantic before Ira Groome's eyes is shocking and unforgettable - and leaves him with questions about the complexity of human emotions that he would rather not face. So, coolly and deliberately, he brings down the shutters of impersonality over his heart, becomes a career officer, a company man, a man ruled by the head, not the heart. Only as he lies on his deathbed does he realize that by taking that decision he was 'committing high treason against himself.'" 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Good +. Photographs By: Visser, John De. 48 colour and 54 BW photographs. This book is filled with photographs of Canadian winter, which if you live in Canada is not always something you want to see. Especially in summer. Anyhow. The accompanying text is by Morley Callaghan who was born in 1903 he studied law at St. Michaels college and has written many published novels. The photos are by De Vissier who born in 1930 in the neteherlands and has many photography and arts awards. DJ has smalle tears on top edges and botom edges.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Rexdale, Ontario, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -. 213 p.; VG/VG-; green boards with gold lettering on spine, PO name and address on ffep, otherwise very nice and clean interior, DJ unclipped, slighe edge wear, several closed tears mended with archival tape. Seventeenth published work, with many autobiographical elements, by an outstanding Canadian author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First publication in this format; 170 p.; NF/VG+; two novellas. "No Man's Meat" first pub. privately in 1931. "The Enchanted Pimp", written almost 50 years later, complements the earlier work. An interesting book in NF condition; DJ has very slight rubbing of edges. May be unread, very clean and crisp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1994. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 260 p.; tradepaper, French folds; VG+. Selected from June Callwood's series of interviews for Vision TV, this volume includes conversations with Margaret Atwood, Phl Fontaine, Rosemary Brown, Charles Pachter, Buffy Sainte-Marie, William Hurt, Maureen Forrester, Farley Mowat, and Karen Kain. A wonderful introduction to some of the people who "exemplify a good life, a useful life. The givers. The treasures."

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 312 p.; tradepaper; VG+. "In March 1985, 68-year-old Margaret Frazer learned she had terminal cancer. As a retired single woman whose family lived far away, she faced a lonely death in hospital - a situation all too common in today's world. But in a lifetime of commitment to worthwhile causes, Margaret had met many people - among them June Callwood." Sixty people, many of them strangers to each other, came together as the "Friends of Margaret", forming a team to care for her in her own home, allowing her to watch one final spring in her garden.

Duluth, MN, U.S.A.: Spinsters Ink, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Spinsters/Aunt Lute PB; First edition; 1987; VG-; book is unread but top corner bumped, some pages look dented or warped as if it has been stored badly. Clean and solid, nice reading copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 1992. Not Stated. Perfect Bound. Very Good -/No Jacket. 51 p.; VG-, slight edgewear, lower corner of f. cover and upper corner of b. cover lightly creased. Clean and firm. A collection of poems, many on First Nations themes. Cover illustration of West Coast First Nations woman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: MacFarlane Walter & Ross, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. HC; third printing; VG+/no DJ. PO name on ffep, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very nice copy if DJ not important to you. Stevie Cameron's very critical political bio. of Brian Mulroney. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Harpercollins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. 295 p.; HC, VG+/VG-; very nice, clean copy in bright unclipped DJ; DJ has small tear at top edge of spine. Noted writer and film-maker Anne Cameron "takes us into a world that is as raucous and as full of injustice as the Wild West . . . " . . . five of the toughest children you'll ever meet and their quest to survive and find love and consolation.

Camden NJ: Campbell Soup Company, n.d.. Not stated. Staplebound. VG. 9 p. booklet of recipes and menu planning suggestions using Franco American canned gravies. Creative uses of leftovers, dishes men like, etc. No date, probably from 1970s.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Midmarch Arts Press, 1999. Not Stated. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Bastian, Linda (illustrator). Possible first edition; 81 pages; NF, just minor shelf wear. "An elegy for a marriage. Its poems elaborate the metaphor of an arduous channel crossing, in the process evoking another kind of journey - this time solo performance - on which the poet, singing, finds her voice." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1989. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. First Perennial Library paperback edition; 826 pages; clean, square, tight copy. A project of the National Council for Research on Women and the Business and Professional Women's Association. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

above/ground Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Saddle Stitched. Very Good +/No Jacket. Unpaginated; VG+; original wraps; small chapbook of poems published in an edition of 150 for a reading at the Imperial Library Pub, Toronto, November 27, 1997 as part of an above/ground press night. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.