Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing, 1978. Dark blue boards. Faint yellowing to page edges, minute rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Jacket has minute rubbing to spine ends and outer corners, else fine.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1966. Red and black boards, red top page edges. Fine copy. White dust jacket lightly dusty, rear panel has rubbing and small tears, VG otherwise, flap price intact. Alberta author's second book, a novel.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1984. Beige boards. pp 132. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1945. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small chips and tears to spine ends; red band at foot of spine sunned to yellow; short tears to flap folds; VG otherwise. Short stories of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by the noted Nova Scotia author.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. Black and blue boards. Fine copy. Jacket has minor rubbing at edges, else fine. Signed by the author on the title page, and with ink ownership name of Canadian author John Metcalf. Second novel of this Austrian-Canadian immigrant to Alberta. "Kreisel became one of the first Jewish writers to write about Jewish-Canadian issues." - Wikipedia.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. Black and blue boards. Fine copy. Jacket has light rubbing, VG. Second novel of this Austrian-Canadian immigrant to Alberta. "Kreisel became one of the first Jewish writers to write about Jewish-Canadian issues." - Wikipedia.

Toronto: Ryerson, 1930. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (8), 279. Lacking the front free endpaper, else a VG copy. A novel of Laura Secord. Part III concerns the War of 1812. Uncommon.

Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887. Octavo, original reddish-brown cloth gilt lettered, all edges gilt. pp (8), (viii), (9)-215. Without the errata slip at rear found in some copies. Covers damp stained ans faded (a portion of rear cover bleached to white); bubbling to pastedowns; offset tanning to free endpapers; ink owner name to title page (J.C. McCorkell); text paper lightly rippled. In all, only fair externally, but internally, but for the rippling, the text is VG or better. "Sarah Anne Curzon née Vincent (1833 - November 6, 1898) was a Canadian poet, journalist, editor, and playwright who was one of 'the first women's rights activists and supporters of liberal feminism' in Canada. During her lifetime she was best known for her closet drama, Laura Secord: The Heroine of 1812, one of the works that made Laura Secord a household name." - Wikipedia. She called "Laura Secord" Canada's first feminist play. Contains a 6 page "Memoir" of Secord at the front. Also includes notes and some correspondence pertaining to the War of 1812.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1923). Red cloth lettered in black. pp 320. Yellowing to page edges, else a fine bright copy. Dust jacket has chips to corners of front panel; chips across head and foot of spine with loss of spine imprint and parts of "Angels'" at head; small chips and creased tears to rear panel; fair. 24 stories, only collection of short stories by this major minor Canadian poet. Uncommon in any sort of jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1923). Red cloth lettered in black. pp 320. Yellowing and foxing to page edges; Xmas, 1925, gift inscription at front; spine just a mite sunned; VG+ otherwise. 24 stories, only collection of short stories by this major minor Canadian poet.

Halifax, N.S: T.C. Allen, 1922. [2]. 44, [2] pp + frontispiece portrait and other plates, stapled and glued into card covers. Nicks and small chips to the yapp edges, with shallow chips along top edge of front cover; VG otherwise. Includes a checklist of her periodical and book publications. Edition of 500 copies. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926. Pale green decorated cloth stamped in red and green. Yellowing to page edges, foxing to endpapers, book a little leaned, VG otherwise. A first novel for adults after three juveniles by this major minor Canadian poet.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986. Card covers (not issued in hardcover). Fine copy, with ink ownership name of Canadian author John Metcalf. A somewhat comic novel set in Quebec cottage country.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963. Green cloth, red top page edges. pp (286), [2]. Private bookplate, else fine. Dust jacket (design by Frank Newfeld) has yellowing to spine and flap folds, nicks & creases to upper edge of rear panel, VG+ otherwise. A literary hoax. The 1960 Hutchinson UK edition was withdrawn by the publishers at the request of Mrs. Pennington. Presented as selections from the diaries of one David Peterley, recording literary and political events from 1926-1939, from a manuscript in McGill University Library in Montreal. There is no such manuscript- the whole thing is fiction written by the University's head librarian Richard Pennington. This first state of the Canadian issue has a cancel title leaf, and one cancel leaf in text (text rather different from UK text). Also, the bogus frontispiece portrait was dropped.

St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater Books, 1978. Paper issue in card covers. Lengthy 1984 inscription by the author. VG copy. A novel.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1922). Light blue cloth lettered in black. Yellowing to page edges, lacking the front free endpaper, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has a shallow chip across head of tanned and bit rubbed spine (no lettering lost): front panel has a fingernail-size chip to lower outer corner, a short creased tear to top edge, and a small sticker scar; nicks and small corner chips to rear panel; some internal repairs with white paper tape; split to upper front spine find and across the spine; in all, good, but still respectable in appearance. Art by D. Farley. The second of two novels for adults, after three juveniles, by this major minor Canadian poet. Uncommon in any sort of jacket.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. Light blue boards. Photos. Fine in VG+ price-clipped jacket. The acclaimed Nova Scotia author's autobiography.

Toronto: Doubleday, 1983. Blue boards. Fine in fine jacket. A 400+ page comic baseball novel. "A marooned circus sideshow troupe meets a fundamentalist religious sect for the most bizarre baseball game ever recorded in this hilarious novel in the tradition of Tom Robbins." Author's second novel. 1.5 kg parcel.

Québec: 1897. Brown leather grain pictorial cloth gilt, pale green endpapers. pp (2), (251). Mild wear to head of very lightly sunned spine, page edges yellowed, tidy ink owner name in top margin of title page, VG+ otherwise. Watters p 369 classifies as fiction but it is in fact mostly a collection of essays and verse. Proctor was the editor of the Daily Telegraph.

New York: Stokes. Variant binding. Beige decorated cloth stamped in red, black and silver, including pistols, daggers, and a skull on front cover. pp [2], (10), 308, (2, ads), [2] + 12 plates. Spine tanned, with light rubbing to ends; light toning to text paper; private book label inside front cover; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise. A collection of 20 short stories, some being crime stories, some supernatural, some macabre. "His contributions to macabre fiction were few but memorable. At the top of the list is his collection of nasty stories, REVENGE! (1896), for their time a surprisingly grim bunch." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 22. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 27. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 102. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 56. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 10. Hubin (1994), p. 51. Not in Bleiler (1948;1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Uncommon book.