Rare books from Reading Rat

Winnipeg: Plug In Editions, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Susan Chafe, design, William Eakin, photographs. 66 pages, Large format (12 x 9 inch), leporello binding, card covers, French folds; accompanying essay by Wayne Baerwaldt with translations into Portuguese, French and Japanese. VG+ condition, minor shelf wear, has original owner's name on first page, otherwise unmarked. Beautifully produced with many colour drawings by Marcel Dzama of the Royal Art Lodge.

Vancouver BC: Copublished by Contemporary Art Gallery, 1997. Paperback. Good +. 159 p.; soft cover, large format (12 x 9 inches); catalog of exhibit held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and six other galleries in Vancouver; introductions by all four curators in English, Spanish translations included. In Good to Very Good condition, unmarked, bottom corner of back cover bumped and worn, approx. 12 last pages rippled at lower corner. B & W and colour photographs of art works in various media.