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CONFRONTATION (Face à Face). Translated by Fred Cogswell.
Edition: First edition in English
Frederiction, New Brunswick: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973. 26, [2] pp, stapled, in white card covers. Edition of 500 copies. Fine copy, signed by translator. A poem selected from the author's LE PREMIER MOT. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Signed by translator
Book ID: 42179More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
CONTES DE NOEL (2 volumes)
Sherbrooke, Québec: Apostalat de la Presse, no date (1951). Two volumes. Card covers. pp (164, (152). Illustrated. Volume one has a tan stain in lower outer corner of front cover, else near fine. Volume two is fine. W.E. Collins's copy with his catalogue card laid in.
Book ID: 44396More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Society for Art Publications / McClelland & Stewart, 1962. pp (16) text plus reproductions, some in colour. Yellowing to first (blank) page from something once laid in, else fine. The Gallery of Canadian Art series no. 1. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. Size: Squarish octavo
Book ID: 45309More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
Correspondence between the Hon. W. H. Draper & the Hon. R. E. Caron ; and, between the Hon. R. E. Caron, and the Honbles. L. H. Lafontaine & A. N. Morin, referred to in a recent debate in the legislative assembly, containing many suppressed letters
Edition: First Edition
Montreal: Printed by Desbarats & Derbishire, 1846. pp iv, 36, bound in modern black cloth, spine gilt lettered. Title page has an old ink name and a small chip to upper outer corner (no printing affected); text paper lightly toned, with soft vertical crease; else fine. The variant with "Queeu's Printers" [sic] in imprint. TPL 2763: "Published by, or on behalf of, Caron, who was acting as intermediary between Draper, leader for the Government in the Assembly and Lafontaine, leader of the Lower Canada group."; Octavo
Book ID: 26653More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
Coups de dés
Edition: First printing
Montréal: Author, 1954. Card covers, pp (79). A bit leaned, spine lightly darkened, VG+ otherwise. Poetry. This was W.E. Collin's copy, with his small pencil note at front. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47536More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Creatures of the Chase. Translated by John Glassco
Edition: First printing in English
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Blue boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has mild rubbing; VG. A novel about a trapper, a woman, and the bush of Northern Quebec.; Octavo 0771082169
Book ID: 48877More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
CRÉMAZIE
Edition: First Edition
Montréal: Fides, 1956. 16mo, card covers. pp (96). Spine lightly yellowed, book a little leaned, near fine otherwise. W.E. Collins's copy with his ink signature, a few pencil notes and his catalogue card laid in. Collection Classique Canadiens. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44387More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
Crisis in the Canadas: 1838-39. THE GREY JOURNALS AND LETTERS.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 15738More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
CUIVRE ET SOIES suivi de MAINS DE SABLE.
Edition: First Edition
Montréal: Éditions Du Jour, 1964. (80) pp, black card covers. Covers a bit rubbed; text paper tanned as usual; else a VG copy. Inscribed by the author to John Robert Colombo in 1969. Total editon of 1000 copies, this is number 100 of the 975 ordinary copies. Poetry by a noted Québec poet. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo.
Book ID: 14005More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Cul-de-sac. roman
Edition: First printing
Québec: Institut littéraire de Quebec, 1961. Inscribed by Author.; White card covers printing in brown. pp 223. Yellowing to text paper as always,nicks and crease to lower edge of front cover, a few scattered light pencil notes in text and rear endpapers, creases to spine VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author in June, 1961. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
Book ID: 26870More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CURSORY OBSERVATIONS MADE IN QUEBEC, PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA IN THE YEAR 1811. With a preface by William Toye
Ottawa: Mortimer, 1960. Blue and cream cloth. pp xii, (2), 42. Text paper yellowed (as issued?), else fine. Dust jacket has minor wear at head of spine, else fine. Rare original was published in Bermuda by the author. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45884More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DAYS OF RAGE
Edition: First Edition
Montreal & Toronto: October Publications, 1974. Black cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has some fading to the red spine lettering and some rubbing, VG otherwise. A novel of the FLQ of Quebec.; Octavo
Book ID: 49587More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Des nouvelles: Le mendiant fleuri, L'esprit est prompt ..., Vouloirs futiles
Edition: First printing
Montréal: Éditions de la Bibliothèque canadienne, 1928. Card covers, pp 195. Nicks to edges of covers, a bit leaned, VG otherwise, This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy. It has his catalogue card laid in. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 47556More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Destinée : roman
Edition: First printing
Montréal: l'Imprimerie populaire, 1946. Card covers, pp (181). Book is leaned, spine very lightly darkened with creases, VG unworn copy otherwise. This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy. It has a light pencil note and laid in is his catalogue card. The author was one of the earliest female journalists of Québec and was there a pioneering feminist. Her life inspired Louise Simard's 1996 novel Le médaillon dérobé. There are streets in Québec City and Lévis named for her. This was her last novel. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 47526More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Discours de l'Honorable Omer Côté, C. R., secrétaire de la province, à l'occasion de la réunion annuelle de la Société des éditeurs canadiens du livre français, Québec, 18 janvier 1945
Edition: First printing
Québec: Éditions Serge, 1945. pp [12], stapled in card covers. Fine copy. This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy. It has his catalogue card laid in.; 16mo
Book ID: 47578More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DIVINE DIVA. Translated by Agnes Whitfield
Edition: First edition in English
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1991. Card covers. Fine copy. Review copy with rubber stamp on title page. A short novel. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 52759More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
DIVINE DIVA. Translated by Agnes Whitfield
Edition: First edition in English
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1991. Inscribed by Author; Card covers. Fine copy. With good inscription by the author to Leon Rooke. A short novel. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 53214More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Douze conferences sur des sujets varies, donnees devant les membres du Club Musical et Litteraire de Montréal au sours de la saison 1944-1945
Montréal: 1945. 266 p. Card covers. Book a little leaned, near fine unopened copy otherwise. W.E. Collins's copy with his catalogue card laid in.
Book ID: 44397More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
Dragon Island. Translated by David Ellis
Edition: First printing in English
Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1978. Card covers. Creases to fore margin of one leaf (manufacturing flaw), else a VG copy of this novel about a young man, a dragon hunter, who sets out to save and island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence from becoming a dumping ground for atomic waste. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo 0773710272
Book ID: 49332More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
DUST OVER THE CITY. Translated by John Latrobe and Robert Gottlieb
Edition: First printing in English
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. c1955. Cloth and boards. Private bookplate and soft ripples to front free endpaper; light yellowing to page edges; else fine. Dust jacket a little darkened on spine, with red yellowing a bit faded; corner crease to front flap; small chips and nicks; VG otherwise. The author's second novel, first to be translated into English, it won the Pris du Cercle du Livre de France and 1953. Set in a small mining town in Québec. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48999More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46