New York: New American Library, 1970. Spine very lightly sunned with a small crease at head, slight yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise. Orange dust jacket spine faded to white, with a bit of wear to head; bit of sunning to inner and upper margins of front panel, corner crease to rear panel, VG otherwse, flap price intact. Ink ownership name of author Leon Rooke. A savagely funny send-up of the porno film industry,

1990: Godine, 1990. Maroon cloth & blue boards. Fine in fine jacket, and inscribed by the author to Leon Rooke in March, 1990. "For the best baby I know, with love, Jane". Author's first book, a novel.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. Card covers. Text paper yellowed as always. Small soft corner crease to front cover and first few leaves, else fine. Inscribed by the author to Leon and Connie Rooke. A novel. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: Grove Press, 1961. Cloth & boards, pp 242 + plates; maps in text, index. Ink name at front, else fine. Jacket has small chip, VG otherwise. "This is the first full political, social, and economic survey of the Sudan."

Toronto: Stoddart, 1985. Advance uncorrected proof in white non-pictorial card covers. Yellowing to spine and lightly to page edges; VG+. A coming of age novel by this prolific Nelson, BC, author (mostly self-published).

New York: Harcourt, Brace [1944]. Later printing. Blue cloth. Moderate wear to spine ends; text paper toned, page edges yellowed; mild cover marks; a good clean and sound jacketless copy.

New York: Braziller, 1976. Green boards. Fine in fine jacket, with ink ownership signature of author Leon Rooke.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Fine in fine, priced clipped jacket. Ink Xmas gift inscription from Michael Ondaatje to a well-known Canadian literary couple, old friends.

Toronto: Anansi, 2006. Cream boards. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. Card covers. Fine copy. A novel set in modern South Africa by this South African writer. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award.

Holstein, Ontario: Exile, 2005. Card covers with flaps. Colour illustrations. Fine copy.

Toronto: McArthur, 2006. Card covers. Fine copy of this thriller novel set in Burma. Initialed by the author on the title page.

Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1996. Card covers. Fine copy, wiith a signed note by the author to Leon and Connie Rooke laid in. Short stories. Leon Rooke blurb on rear cover.

New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996. Advance uncorrected proof in white non-pictorial card covers. Spine very lightly yellowed, publication month supplied by hand on front cover, else fine. A first collection of short stories by this Canadian Native author (Haisla). The book won won the Winifred Holtby Prize for best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth and was selected as the New York Times Editor's Choice and notable book of the year. Her first novel, MONKEY BEACH, made the Giller Prize short list.

Ravenna, Italy: Longo Editore, 2006. Card covers. Fine copy. Text in Italian and English, translations by Sara Fruner and Filippo Mariano, with some revisions by Francesca Valente in collaboration with the author. Poetry

London: Grey Walls Press, 1953. Light brown cloth. Browning to inner margins of free endpapers from offsetting of binding materials, as always, else fine. Jacket has minute rubbing to outer corners, else fine. A lovely copy. Bruccoli A15.2.a. This is Bruccoli's variant in "pinkish tan V cloth". It also comes in tan boards, and in a lighter tan cloth unnoted by Bruccoli. Connolly Modern Movement #79.

London: Grey Walls Press, 1953. Strip of browning from offsetting of binding materials at inner margins of free endpapers, as always; short shallow bruise to lower edge of front cover, else fine and bright in a fine dust jacket, a lovely copy. Bruccoli A15.2.a., the variant in tan boards. Connelly THE MODERN MOVEMENT #79.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Card covers. Light spine yellowing, else fine. The 1982 Toronto edition won a Governor-General's Award. Short stories. First book

Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2007. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket. A collection of short stories.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996. Card covers with flap. Literary agency sticker at front, else fine.