Card covers (not issued in hardcover). Text paper a little yellowed, as always; slight foxing to inside of covers and to first and last page; else fine. Not common.

Green boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a one inch tear and small chip at bottom rear spine fold; spine sunned; rubbing to panels; generally VG otherwise. Her best known novel and the basis of Larry Fineberg's stage adaptation EVE which starred Jessica Tandy. A story about a woman who chucked it all and walked out at age 65.

Orange boards. Spine a bit concave and softly creased; light yellowing to page edges; else VG. Jacket has fading to orange spine lettering, near fine otherwise. Inscribed to noted Canadian poet Mariam Waddington "with warmest affection and admiration, Connie B-Howe". An uncommon signature and a nice Canadian literary association.

Orange boards. Fine copy. Jacket has a one inch split to bottom front flap fold, orange spine lettering a bit sunned, VG+ otherwise.

Salmon boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a bit of rubbing, VG.

Blue boards. Fine in fine jacket.

Dark blue boards. Page edges have faint soiling, minor spotting, else fine in fine jacket. Inscribed by the author ("To Carol, with best wishes in your career, Joan Barfoot") and with ink ownership signature of Canadian author John Metcalf.

Blue boards. Paper tape affixed to outer margin of front pastedown (hidden by jacket flap), else fine in fine jacket.

Cloth & boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.

Reprint from plates of the Dodd, Mead, 16th printing, of Oct., 1926 (first was June, 1924). Blue cloth. pp (viii), 417 + frontispiece. Last leaf has a small chip and creases to one corner (no text lost); light damp stain to lower margin of front cover and to early leaves; page edges yellowed; Dec. 1927 ink gift inscription at front; else a near fine copy. Dust jacket has small corner chips and tears at head of spine, small chip to lower margin of front panel; VG+ otherwise, bright and attractive.

Variant in publisher's brown sheep nicely decorated in red and gilt, top edges gilt, light brown endpapers. Page edges yellowing, gilt to top edges rubbed and darkened, light spot to bottom page edges; bit of wear to foot of spine and lower outer corners; spine a bit sunned; bit of rubbing to edges and one corner; VG otherwise, attractive.

Card covers. Fine copy,

Card covers with flaps. 479 pp. Fine copy.

Folio, 34 cm. Maroon cloth gilt. Colour endpaper maps. (288) pp. Well illustrated (some in colour). Ink owner name at front; bit of cover rubbing neatly touched up; page edges lightly yellowed; front cover a little splayed; VG clean copy otherwise. Ontario county history. 2.5 kg parcel.

Second printing. Terra cotta cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has chips at spine ends, minor soiling, price-clipped, VG otherwise. British Columbia setting. Glowing jacket blurbs. Her first book.

Card covers with flaps. pp (126). Fine copy with a wraparound band. The best-known work of this Québécois writer and comedian, something of a modern classic of Québec literature and a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award. It has been reprinted a number of times.

Octavo, red cloth. pp 351. War economy text paper lightly toned, page edges yellowed, a bit leaned, pencil name at front, VG otherwise. Dust jacket has small chips at ends of slightly darkened spine; rear panel is soiled, with three small red streaks and a short tear; VG otherwise, flap price intact. The author's only novel, about a travelling circus in Europe, it won a Governor-General's Award. Published the same year in the US as KELLER'S CONTINENTAL REVUE. No Canadian edition at the time. Bambrick was a professional harpist who played in all the capitals of North America and Europe.

Blue boards. Fine in fine jacket. Montreal author's first book. His next book, LAW OF DREAMS (2006) won a Governor-General's Award for Fiction.

The paper issue. Fine copy.