canada fiction

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORD on the title page. This copy of Pulitzer Prize winner Ford's novel presents the story of 15 year old Dell Parsons and his sister Berner, who must fend for themselves when their parents are arrested, convicted and imprisoned for a Montana bank robbery. Dell's sister runs while Dell is spirited into Canada to live with an American who has his own issues. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate wear to covers. Novel of mystery, romance and adventure set among the gold miners of the Yukon in Northwestern Canada, by this British writer-adventurer who traveled extensively in the remote northwest.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers stamped in black, 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Richard Kennedy, with copyright stamps (both US and Canada) on title page.

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page ("Rodney Wingfield 1990"). The first of the author's Inspector Frost mysteries, originally written in 1972 at the prompting of Macmillan (and spurred on by a non-refundable advance of GBP50), the manuscript was promptly rejected, before eventually being published in Canada in 1984. This UK edition followed some five years later and the Yorkshire Television adoptions staring David Jason appeared soon after. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 274 pages. B&w decorations by Lois Lenski. A nice selection of Canadian stories. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with 3-color pictorial decoration on the cover. Five b&w plates by Harry Burgess. Covers with edgewear, front hinge cracked, binding shaken but still holding. Dog advntures set in the northern wilds of Canada, told from the dog's viewpoint.

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is Gough's third novel featuring the tough duo of police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, who work out of Vancouver, Canada. The interaction, cooperation and unspoken understanding essential to a successful police partnership is one of the most fascinating aspects of Gough's writing as he sends his sleuths into an investigation of a brutal drug-related murder. In tight, hard-hitting prose, Gough delineates a plot in which a monstrously cruel drug king, Gary Silk, orders his underlings to kill one another off after a multimillion-dollar drug deal has gone awry.

Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine, 174 pages illustrated with b&w photos. Clean copy.

Softcover. University of Toronto Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. Two critical discourses central to current Canadian literary theory emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s: post-colonialism as a political paradigm and postmodernism as a literary practice in Canadian and Quebecois fiction. Sylvia Soderlind considers the current debate about the relationship between these two discourses, and proposes a methodology that makes it possible to identify and distinguish between features pertaining to the two. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped on green cloth covers. Moderate wear to edges, and covers. Tight copy. Novel set in the fur trapping region of the Cree Indians in Canada.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 343 pages. Brown and white cloth cover, gilt design, very light foxing. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Slight foxing on edges, but inside is clean and unmarked, with b&w illustrations throughout. A nice, bright copy. Gathering tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Russia, Alaska, and the polar region, which were told and retold through months of long winter night, "Northern Tales", reflects a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Fiction Collective, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. Clarence Major explores the complex interrelationships of four characters--Cora Hull, Canada Jackson, Dale, and the narrator--within an experimental narrative framework. Primarily set in New York City, the story unfolds in a non-linear, episodic manner that challenges readers' perceptions of reality and character development. The narrator, who reveals himself to be unreliable and conscious of his manipulative role, controls the narrative while frequently blurring the boundaries between his imagination and the characters' lives. Cora, at the center of the story, is depicted in various roles, including as an actress and a student of feminist theory, yet remains elusive and undefined, reflecting the transient nature of the characters' relationships. Clean copy

Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 913 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

Hardcover. Canada, Bond Street Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation. Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point. Such phrases as "heart of darkness" and "The horror! The horror!" have entered the language, often cited without an awareness of their original contexts. His popular legacy extends to Latin American fiction, to the spy novel, to the terrorist and anarchist character, and to film. The writers he has influenced range from T. S. Eliot to William Faulkner to V. S. Naipaul and John Le Carre. For a writer of "difficult" fiction he has enjoyed a remarkably wide impact, yet as Marlow proclaims in Lord Jim of the figure whose story he tells,"he was one of us," and so Conrad remains in fascinating ways.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ontario, Viking Canada, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FINDLEY on the title page. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, Doubleday Canada, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Canada, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, Softcover with light wear to wrappers. b&w photographs, bibliography. Clean, tight copy.