STEVEN TEMPLE BOOKS IS STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND IS SHIPPING TO EVERYWHERE IT IS ALLOWED.
Having operated shops on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto since our founding in 1974, we closed the shop in March, 2014 and now operate from home in Welland, Ontario (close to Niagara Falls, only two turns from Toronto). We can see visitors by appointment. The books (currently around 10,000 of them) are priced, on shelves, and in categories. We continue to specialize in literary books, especially Canadian literary books, general Canadiana, and select out-of-print and rare books in various fields (mostly 19th and 20th century, though we do stock some earlier). We now have some ephemera, but don’t stock comic books, fairly recent used books, bestseller novels, nor paperbacks (unless collectible). Business is primarily by internet or mail. We welcome and pay attention to wants lists when they are for books we might actually find some day and which are worth more than a token amount.
We accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, Amex, PayPal, cheque (Canada and US only), money order, e-transfer (Canada only) – even cash.
Some recent arrivals…
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BALDUCCI'S WHO'S WHO
Edition: First printing
Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2004. Card covers. Total edition of 60 numbered copies, 50 paperbound for sale, and 13 casebound lettered copies of which 10 were for sale. This is the author's own copy, #48 of 60, signed. Printed at the Gaspereau Press. Biblioasis No. 1. Out of print. Fine copy. ; Octavo; (63) pages; Signed by Author
Book ID: 56116More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
THE LAST SHOT: a novella and eleven stories
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2009. Advance reading copy in glossy red card covers. Fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56115More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
OH ! : twenty-seven stories
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Exile, 1997. Glossy card covers. First state covers, with front cover photo of a naked woman's torso, with ample bush, by Gregory Dru. According to Leon, there were only 100 copies. It was withdrawn after wife Connie Rooke, then a University of Guelph VP, objected, feeling it would negatively affect her position. Fine copy. Laid in is a promotional postcard reproducing a Rooke painting. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56114More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
THE APRIL POEMS
Edition: First Edition
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2013. Card covers. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56113More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WIDE WORLD IN CELEBRATION AND SORROW: acts of kamakazi fiction
Edition: First printing
Holstein, Ontario: Exile, 2012. Card covers. Fine copy. Short stories. This was the author's own copy, which he has signed (simple signature on title page), ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 56111More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
BALDUCCI'S WHO'S WHO
Edition: First printing
Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2004. Quarter bound in grey cloth and marbled boards with cloth cover label, thick textured endpapers. pp [4], (63), [5]. Total edition of 60 humbered copies, 50 paperbound for sale, and 13 casebound lettered copies of which 10 were for sale, This is the author's own copy, "F" of 13. Printed at the Gaspereau Press. Biblioasis No. 1. Out of print. Fine copy. A short story. Laid in is a three page computer printed poem titled "Dormant Seeds", folded twice. ; Octavo
Book ID: 56110More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
HITTING THE CHARTS : selected stories. With a Foreword by John Metcalf
Edition: First printing
Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2006. Colourful endpapers and binder's blank front and rear. Bound in half green morocco with boldly colourful boards, leather inner hinges, spine label, by proprietor Dan Wells. Printed at the Coach House Press. Edition of 25 copies. Fine copy. This was the author's own copy but he hasn't signed it. ; Octavo; (2), (231) pages
Book ID: 56108More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
OH ! : twenty-seven stories
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Exile, 1997. Glossy card covers. First state covers, with front cover photo of a naked woman's torso, with ample bush, by Gregory Dru. According to Leon, there were only 100 copies. It was withdrawn after wife Connie Rooke, then a University of Guelph VP, objected, feeling it would negatively affect her position. Fine copy. Signed by the author. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 56120More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
A TRANSPORT OF GRIEF
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Lyricalmyrical Press, 2007. Bound in quarter black cloth and buff boards with pictorial cover label. pp [32], unpaged. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author "To Al" (editor Allan Briesmaster?). ; Octavo
Book ID: 56118More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE POETRY OF GWENDOLYN MacEwen. Volume One, the early years. Introduction and introductory notes by Margaret Atwood.
Edition: First Edition
(Toronto): Exile, 1993. Card covers. Fine copy.; Octavo; xii, (13)-175 pages
Book ID: 56117More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BALDUCCI'S WHO'S WHO
Edition: First printing
Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2004. Quarter bound in grey cloth and marbled boards with cloth cover label, thick textured endpapers. pp [4], (63), [5]. Total edition of 60 numbered copies, 50 paperbound for sale, and 13 casebound lettered copies of which 10 were for sale, This is the author's own copy, one of three, lettered AA. Printed at the Gaspereau Press. Biblioasis No. 1. Out of print. Fine copy. A short story.; Octavo
Book ID: 56109More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
A MAPLE STUMP FENCE
No place (Victoria, BC): Terrapin, 1977. Stapled in plain purple card covers. "first impression xerox in an edition of 10 copies from the manuscript." Verse and drawings. Some cover sunning, else fine. Signed by the author.; Octavo; [14] pages; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55996More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE SEARCH RELENTLESS
Edition: First printing
London: Methuen, 1925. Brown cloth bordered and lettered in black. Spine lightly sunned; yellowing and foxing to page edges; light foxing to text mainly early and late; 1930 ink ownership inscription at front; else a VG clean and unworn copy. The BC author's scarce third novel, set in BC. US ed. in 1928. Skinner was behind the founding of the distinguised Rivers of America series. ; Octavo; (4) (252) pages
Book ID: 55746More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
CHUMS 1917
Edition: First Edition
London: Cassell. Red pictorial cloth. pp (iv), 716 + 8 colour plates and 4 b&w plates. Xmas, 1917, ink gift inscription at front, text paper yellowed as always, endpapers tanned, spine a little darkened with some flaking to the gilt lettering at head, repairs to tears at foot of spine, VG clean and tight otherwise. 2.2kg parcel; Tall quarto
Book ID: 52983More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel. Translated by Anne Frydman & Robert L. Busch
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1998. Card covers. pp (xxxiv), (172). Photos in text. Front cover a bit curled, else a fine copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo 1883642981
Book ID: 52675More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16