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New York: Murray Hill Books, 1944. Illustrated Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gordon Grant. Mapped end papers. DJ is price clipped, edge worn, spine sun faded with a small perforation near heel.

Chatto and Windus, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The Memoirs of a Hotel-Keeper. Foreword by Graham Greene. Illustrated with B&W photos. HCB is FINE. DJ is only Good, price clipped and has a large stain at upper back, also 1" closed tear at back end flap. A fascinating read by an interesting man who did what he loved.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, Canada,, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. It is unfortunate but lately this once hot and controversial Canadian poet has been slipping into obscurity. A mentor and friend to Leonard Cohen Layton was once a driving force in Canadian poetry. This volume has been dated and inscribed to the critic and editor Jon Pearce, as well his personal blind stamp is present.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Press, 1969. First Thus . Soft cover. Good. Winter 1969. Work by Irving Layton, Al Purdy and Alden Nowlan on the back cover. Foxed front and back card covers. Stapled.

USA: Pioneer Publications, 1943. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Learn how to dance - just follow the footsteps! Tattered DJ. Reprint.

New York: Hyperion, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Intro by Terry McMillan. Small faint stain on front end papers. This book is Spike Lee's "own account of his exploration into the life and death of Malcolm X, and his long struggle to get the film made.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Fresh from the success and critical acclaim of his first novel In The Fall, Lent has produced another highly original work, or as Colum McCann noted "his own undisputed territory in American literature." Association copy: inscribed to family.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. The first novel by this new American writer that Jim Harrison enthused "has the absolute mastery to create his own reality" and that the book "is a fulsome and harrowing tale and I cannot recommend it highly enough."

London: Collins, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A signed presentation copy form the author to his good friend , the novelist David Caute (John to his friends). Chatwin is mentioned throughout the book and contributes the 19 B&W photos used as illustrations. Mapped end papers. INCLUDED is the Uncorrected Advance Proof for this edition (not signed). Three lines of marginalia on page opposite Part 1. Near Fine.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectures. Sixth Series. Held at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, January, 1954. At the time C. D. Lewis was Professor of Poetry at Oxford university in England. From the DJ flap: "Freedom: dignity: responsibility. ... In these Lectures I am going to talk about three poets, each of whom, I believe, can enlighten us on one aspect of our three-fold subject. W. B. Yeats was much preoccupied with the idea of human dignity; George Meredith, in Modern Love, was absorbed by the problems of the individual responsibility; Emily Bronte was all her life consumed by a passion for freedom." Light bump to lower front corner with some sun to DJ spine.

Penguin Books, 1951. Soft cover. Very Good. A nice copy with a new preface by the author. Some spotting on cover near the fore edge with wear to heel of spine. Part of 'The Penguin Poet' Series.

New York: Grove Pr, 1988. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Price clipped. Booker prize winning author.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. DJ is edge worn with closed tears and wrinkles. The title says it all.

Element Books Ltd., 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DJ has 2 minor nicks at top of spine and rear corner - o/w fine.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1979. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Edmund Gilligan. Part of the Easton Press series: "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Collector's Edition. No jacket as issued.[oversize]

London: Oxford University Press, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. DJ is price clipped with some edge wear and a 2cm closed tear to crown.

Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1963. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This was Lowry's first novel, written when he was nineteen and originally published in 1933 by Jonathan Cape. He had since revised it and this is the first Canadian edition. A near fine book (old discounted stickers on back paste down), top stained in midnight blue, in a less than very good dust jacket (price clipped with edge wear)

Hartford, CT: Andrew Mountain Press, 1995. Assumed First Edition . Soft cover. As New. Author. Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. "The enthralling tale of a young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War, who braves the perils of the wilderness to carry a vital, secret message to Canada.

Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing Ltd., 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The story of the Tilikum (a West Coast Indian war canoe), its first mate, his companion and their voyage across the Pacific.