Fiction from Bruce McLeod

Very Good First printing trade paperback. Crisp, clean, square & tight, no markings. 5.5" x 8.5", 279 pages. A collection of 20 classic Canadian mystery and detective stories, spanning almost 150 years, from authors including Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Stephen Leacock, Margaret Millar, Sara Woods and Alice Munro.

Very Good HC, circa 1930. Front paste-down and 4 plates by Ellig Silas. Clean, no writing, square and tight, with rubbing at spine tips and corners, a few light marks on fore-edges. 5.25" x 7.5", 319 pages.

NEAR-FINE 1st Edition Trade Paperback Inscribed and SIGNED by the author. nearlly perfect covers, as-new interiors. 182 pages.

Fine 1st Printing paperback. As-New but for lightly tanned pages. 11cm x 18cm, 317 pages. 20 short stories mapping 200 centuries of life in Scotland.

As-New trade paperback. No wear to covers, binding or pages. Crisp, clean & unmarked. 5" x 7", 199 pages. #2 in the Mitchell Brothers series.

Near-Fine trade paperback. Nearly new covers, clean & unmarked pages, square and tight. 5" x 7", 146 pages. #6 in the Mitchell Brothers series.

As-New First Edition trade softcover. No wear, no creases, no markings, crisp & clean. 5.5" x 8.5", 128 pages.

As-New trade paperback with French flaps. No wear, no markings, crisp & clean. 6" x 9", 213 pages. McCourt Fiction Series 9

As-New/As-New first edition HCDJ. Unread & never fully opened. Makes a great gift! 5.5" x 8.5", 163 pages. 10 spirited tales that together form a dark and very funny novel about love, music and political intrigue. This Czech/Canadian writer has won international acclaim and many awards for his memorable novels about life in the former Czechoslovakia.

NEAR-FINE 1st Edition trade paperback. A clean and unmarked copy with nearly perfect covers. 6x9, 171 pages. The author's accomplished debut collection was a significant event for the Canadian short story.

Fine 1st Edition trade softcover. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Previous owner's stamp, otherwise unmarked. Covers nearly perfect, interiors crisp & clean. 6x9, 216 pages. The third in a trilogy by this Arborg/Hecla Island author, following 'A Place Called Hecla'' and 'When Home Can't Be Hecla."

Very Good/VG- 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing. (First English translation of "Vieille France".) Nearly perfect red boards with gilt lettering, no corner bumps. Spine, binding and all pages as-new, no foxing, no soiling. No markings but for previous owner's name on front endpaper. Unclipped dust-jacket has tanned spine, light chipping, and a couple of short edge tears (art by Heather… Read more about this item

Near-Fine trade softcover. Sun faded spine, no creases, no markings, very nice. 6x9, 249 pages. Unique bilingual anthology presents 9 original stories by prominent English-speaking Canadian authors translated by nine French-speaking counterparts, and vice-versa.

Near Fine 1st Printing softcover. Volume 13 (2001) in this series of fiction by new Canadian writers. Unmarked, nearly perfect covers, as-new interiors. 5.25" x 8.25", 194 pages. 13 stories from Mike Barnes, Tim Rogers, Heather O'Neill, Susan Rendell, Annabel Lyon, Kevin Armstrong, Heather Birrell (2), Vivette J. Kady,Margrith Schraner, Craig Boyko, Lisa Moore, and Billie Livingston

Very Good 1st Edition Trade softcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page, no other markings. Clean, tight, no tears, no creases, no dog-eared pages. Very nice collectible condition. 5.25" x 8.25", 347 pages. Set in Chilliwack, the Cariboo and Chilcotin, the author crafts 3 fast-moving tales of human deception: A Deep & Singular Greed, Body in the… Read more about this item

As-New 1st Printing, 1st Edition (stated) HC in an unclipped As-New DJ. 5.75 x 8.25", 224 pages. Collects 11 ghost and supernatural Russian tales from the 20th-Century, selected and translated from the Russian, with an introduction by Muireann Maguire.

Very Good HC, no DJ. No publishing date, however a pastedown bookplate on front endpaper is dated 1908. Square & tight, top corners gently bumped, edges slightly darkened. Beautiful embossed red cloth boards with gilt titles and designs. 5.25" x 7.5", 367 pages, b&w frontispiece.

As-New 1st printing trade softcover. No markings, no wear. 6" x 9", 144 pages, bibliography. A landmark collection of 13 short stories from the most important South Asian writers of Canada. Many have won international acclaim... Rohinton Mistry, Neil Bissoondath, M G Vassanji, Cyril Dbydeen. All are accomplished authors. Nearly half the writers in this collection are women.

FINE. High quality hardcover book with distinctive crimson boards in faux leather with elaborate gilt tooling & author's facsimile autograph, decorative endpapers, frontispiece illustration, ribbon marker. 5" x 8", 472 pages. Makes an ideal gift. Part of the 1976-1978 "Collected Works" series.

Fine First Edition trade softcover with Fine dust-jacket. Crisp, clean, unmarked. 4.75" x 7.75", unpaginated. An exceptional novel by this Iceland-born author, a prolific contributor to the literary and Icelandic communities of Canada as a writer, poet, editor and translator.