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WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM
Edition: First UK printing
London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. Variant in black boards (also comes in brown). Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has two creased nicks to bottom of front panel; spine very lightly yellowed with mild soiling; one inch tear and faint sticker shadow to front panel; VG otherwise. The first edition in hardcover of the author's first book (US edition, 1962), was in paperback only. ; Octavo 0234770635
Book ID: 42956More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ?
Edition: First Edition
London: Brunel White, 1935. Octavo, pp 19, [3], stapled in light green card covers. Slight sunning to margins of covers; shallow damp spot to bottom edge of some leaves; VG otherwise, no owner names. "Being One Dozen and One Master Card Effects that anyone can do !" Scarce, Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Book ID: 42792More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
WOUNDED THAMMUZ
Edition: First printing
London: Routledge, 1942. 12mo, pp 24, in plain light green card covers with red and white jacket. Fine copy, no owner names. Jacket has a small chip at foot of spine and a short tear at head; light dust soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise. The poet's first separate book, a long elegy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 38473More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
WOVEN WIRE SCREENS, Their Selection, Application and Use. Catalogue 70-C.
The W.S. Tyler Company of Canada Ltd: St. Catharines, Ontario: no date [1940s?]. Small quarto, red flexible leather grain cloth gilt lettered, colour pictorial endpapers. [2], (182) pp. US printed. Indexed, illustrations. Nice colour drawing of the parent factory in Cleveland, OH. A fine copy of this Canadian trade catalogue.
Book ID: 21469More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
WRESTLE WITH AN ANGEL. Drawings by Colin Haworth
Edition: First printing
Montreal: 1965. Octavo, pp 49, stapled, card covers with flaps. Near fine. Poetry. Delta Canada No. 1. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 42398More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
WRESTLE WITH AN ANGEL. Drawings by Colin Haworth
Edition: First printing
Montreal: Delta Canada, 1965. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, pp 49, stapled, card covers with flaps. Slight cover yellowing, VG+ otherwise. Inscribed by the author to John Metcalf "with admiration, Ron Everson." Signed by Metcalf above the inscription. Poetry. Delta Canada No. 1. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 51265More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WRIGHT MORRIS
Edition: First printing
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. Inscribed by Author; pp 48, stapled in card covers. Spine sunning, yellowing to page edges, VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author to Canadian authors Connie and Leon Rooke - "to Connie & Leon, naturally, Wright". Connie Rooke wrote her PhD dissertation on Morris. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 53862More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
WRITING ARABIC: a practical introduction to Ruq'ah script
Edition: Fourth Printing
Oxford University Press, 1970. Rubbing to the spine and spine folds, VG otherwise. ; Octavo; pages
Book ID: 54480More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WRITING AWAY: the PEN Canada Travel Anthology
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. Card covers. Fine copy. Contributions by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, June Callwood, George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, George Galt, Graeme Gibson, Peter Gzowski, Jack Hodgins, Isabel Huggan, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Thomas King, Myrna Kotash, Alberto Manguel, David McFadden, Rohinton Mistry, Daniel David Moses, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, P K Page, Nino Ricci, David Adams Richards, John Ralston Saul, Carol Shields, Linda Spalding, Susan Swan, Judith Thompson, Jane urquhart,Aritha Van Herk, Ronald Wright, with facsimile signatures front and rear; Octavo
Book ID: 53053More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
WRITING HOME: a PEN Canada Anthology
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. Inscribed by editor; Card covers. pp 390. Facsimile author signatures front and rear. Light soiling to page edges, near fine. Inscribed by the editor to her son . Contributions from 44 Canadian writers, including Atwood, Ondaatje, Findley, Munro, Mistry, writing on the idea of home. ; Octavo; Signed by editor
Book ID: 53357More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
WRITING HOME: a PEN Canada Anthology
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. Card covers. pp 390. Facsimile author signatures front and rear. Fine copy. Contributions from 44 Canadian writers, including Atwood, Ondaatje, Findley, Munro, Mistry, writing on the idea of home. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53868More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
WRITING LIFE: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life (signed)
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. Card covers. Author photos and biographical sketches at rear. Fine copy. Written as a fundraiser, all proceeds went to PEN Canada. On a label for the launch at Hart House, University of Toronto, pasted in at front are ink signatures and short presentations of some of the contributors - Alice Munro, Shani Mootoo, Michael Winter, Howard Engel, Barry Callaghan, Camilla Gibb, Jonathan Garfinkel, Susan Coyne, Michael Helm, David Macfarlane, Jane Urquhart, Anne Michaels, and Bernice Eisenstein. Also signed by the editor and Ellen Seligman. ; Octavo; Signed by Authors
Book ID: 52933More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
WRITING LIFE: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life (signed)
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. Card covers. Author photos and biographical sketches at rear. Fine copy. Written as a fundraiser, all proceeds went to PEN Canada.; Octavo
Book ID: 53052More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
WRITING ON THE WALL
Edition: First printing
Victoria, BC: Outlaw Editions, 1996. Inscribed by Author; pp 31 + red flyleaves, stapled in card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author to a noted Canadian literary couple. An essay. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Square 16mo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 52815More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
WRITTEN ON THE BODY (Canadian proof)
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1992. Advance uncorrected proof. 190 pp, in white glossy pictorial card covers. UK printed. Light soiling to bottom page edges, else a fine copy. A scarce proof done in a small print run. Projected Canadian publication date was Sept., 1992. Same design as the UK proof.
Book ID: 7417More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
WROUGHT IRON IN ARCHITECTURE: Wrought Iron Craftmanship; Historical Notes and Illustrations of Wrought Iron in Italy, Spain France, Holland, Belgium, England, Germany, America; Modern Wrought Iron; Light Fixtures and Knockers; Specifications
New York: Scribner's, c1967. Later printing (first was in 1929). Cloth & boards. pp (vi), 202. Photos, drawings, index. Fine in VG jacket.; Quarto
Book ID: 45258More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Wood engravings by Peter Forster
Edition: Third Printing
London: Folio Society, 1998. Green moiré cloth in green card slipcase. Bit of spine sunning, else fine in fine slipcase; Octavo
Book ID: 54517More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WYCLIFFE AND THE SCAPEGOAT
Edition: First printing
London: Gollancz, 1978. Red boards, black & red on yellow non-pictorial dust jacket. Text paper slightly toned, as usual, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket, no previous owner marks, very nice indeed. "A further novel concerning Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his exploration of strange facets of human nature." - jacket. Set in Cornwall. 0575024240
Book ID: 18845More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Edition: First Edition
London: Tate Publishing, 2004. Glossy card covers. Reproductions in colour and b&w. Fine copy. ; British Artists; Octavo; 80 pages
Book ID: 55158More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
London: Longmans, Green, for the British Council and the National Book League, 1955. pp 40 + frontispiece portrait, stapled in cream printed wrappers. Fine copy.; Writers and Their Works No. 64; Octavo
Book ID: 55249More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66