Search Results: Titles starting with E from Reading Rat

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Oberon Press, 1989. Probable First. Pictorial Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 73 p.; VG+, light edgewear. A suite of poems inspired by medieval manuscripts, and illustrated with tiny illuminated drawings of beets, oranges, turnips, roses, cabbages, chestnuts, and a partridge in a pear tree. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Golden, CO, U.S.A.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 209p. Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Watson is a modern environmental Robin Hood. Driven by the need to address the issues surrounding global extinction of ocean habitat and wildlife. 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.

T. Eaton Company, 1990. Not stated. Staplebound. VG. 52 p. staplebound booklet containing recipes from around the world and advertising from Eatons and other businesses including Thomas Cook and Delta Hotels. Part of a regular promotion. condition

Usborne, 1988. American edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kuo Kang Chen, Brin Edwards, Caroline ewen. 48 p PB. Incl. references, now somewhat dated, and index. Clearl explanations and well-described projects and activities for older children. Very good condition, some edgewear

Toronto: Penguin Books, 1989. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Penguin Canada paperback; VG+; gently used, has inked notation on first page, otherwise unmarked. 370 p. incl. chronology, bibliography and index. Carefully researched political biography of Ed Broadbent. Illustrated with B & W photographs. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chelsea MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen. Unpaginated; large format slim HC, pictorial boards in matching unclipped DJ, beautiful condition. On November 9, 1975, the lake frieghter Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin with a load of taconite for a routine crossing of Lake Superior. A heavy storm overtook the Edmund Fitzgerald and the ship sank with all hands. The ship's bell was recovered in 1995 and replaced at the site of the wreck with a replica bell engraved with the names of the 29 crew members. Kathy-Jo Wargin's simple but moving text, and Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen's atmospheric paintings, recreate the story for young readers. Suitable for older children to adults.

Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 188 p.; HC, black cloth boards, red glossy unclipped DJ, VG+ condition."An unforgettable account of growing up on a prairie farm . . . gives voice to the experience of love and the profound lessons provided by a rural upbringing."

New York: Davis Publications Inc, 1979. Magazine. Good/No Jacket. 38th anniversary issue. 15 New stories. dog eared corners of cover. age darkening. price sticker on front cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London UK: Picador, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 260 p.; VG+ in VG+ DJ; hardcover, approx. 8" tall, white boards printed with silver snowflakes, translucent white DJ. Presented as a manuscript found in an abandoned car after a snowstorm, it presents a relationship through a series of entries on snow, from Angel to YHWH. A very strange format.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 297p. The end of the world is a compilation of tragedies that seemed the end but from the ashes came new life. A portable apocalypse reader. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Te Neues Pub Group, 2001. Apparent First. Hard Cover. NEW/No Jacket. 104 p.; glossy pictorial covers. A selection of more than 100 unpublished Kim Anderson (pseud. of Bertram Bahner) photographs that break new ground with their unparalleled charm. His lovingly staged photos give us insight into the world of "little adults" and allow us to partake in unforgettable moments. Introduction and captions in German and English. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 333 p.; VG; slight reading wear, very nice unmarked copy. Guy Vanderhaeghe's prizewinning novel of the Canadian west, linking Hollywood in the 1920s with the Cypress Hills massacre. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Women's Press, 1992. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 253p. incl. chronology. The story created by the Tobique Women. They acted against discrimination of Native Women on reserves. Price sticker on back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oberon Press, 1988. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Mary Pratt. 118 p.; VG/VG; ex-library with Withdrawn stamp on ffep, DJ taped to boards, interior clean and unmarked. DJ in plastic protective cover. Jacket illus. by Mary Pratt. "Elizabeth Brewster . . . can turn coal into diamonds at a touch or make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The small moments of gace and illumination that ignite her poems: these are the company of angels that inhabit the world of her memory and imagination." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House Children's Publishing, 1985. First Edfition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Fernando (illustrator). HC; VG+, slight scuffing of cover and a few light pencil marks on title page. Otherwise clean, tight, bright copy. Apparent first edition. Very colourful cover illustration on glossy boards. Full colour illustrated children's adventure/fantasy story. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, with Assistance from the Canada Council, 1973. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 86p. This is a play about the hardships of Eskimo life, Told with compassion and understanding. "A sudden fierce Realization of Dignity..."-James Barber, The Vancouver Province. Withdrawn stamp, Plus Manitoba Theatre Centre Stamps. Listin system markings on spine. Book itself is very good, no damage to speak of, pages good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Prairie Publishing Company, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 109p. The author served in the second world war and has describeb this book as, "more auto biographical than anything" but also "completely fictitious". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Victoria BC: Trafford Publishing, 2002. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good +. 193 p; pperback; publisher Trafford On Demand; nice, clean condition, minor reading wear. First novel by poet and short story writer Bartel. "Anna is only fidteen when she is sent away from her family's drought-stricken farm to work for a wealthy family in the city. A recent immigrant from the ravages of Bolshevik Russian, Anna struggles to understand her place, first in the home of her proud English employers, and later in a community composed almoste entirely of recent immigrants . . . "

Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books, 1991. 1st Paperback. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. First paperback printing; orig. publ. cloth 1999. VG condition, just light edge-rubbing. This novel "picks up the threadds of the lives of some of the characters introduced in Nights Below Station Street. . . . Its main narrative concerns the turbulent relationship between the violence-prone Ivan Basterache and his young pregnant bride Cindi." 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.