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Perspectives Number Fifteen (15)
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956
Softcover. 223 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD+
Spine is wrinkled. Lower corner bumped. Pages lightly tanned. Binding is sound and square. Text is clean, no highlighting or marginalia.
Includes articles by: B.F. Skinner, Robert Lowry, J.F. Powers, Paul J. Tillich, Beaumont Newhall, Selden Rodman, Dave Brubeck, Daniel G. Hoffman, Leslie A. Fiedler, Yvor Winters, Robert W. McLaughlin, John Crowe Ransom, Arthur Mizener.
Canadian Literature No. 6: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review (Autumn 1960)
George Woodcock (editor) Hugh MacLennan, Earle Birney, Milton Wilson, William McConnell (contributors)
Canadian Literature No. 6: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review (Autumn 1960)
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Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1960
Softcover. 92 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Split starting at lower corner of spine.
The School of Femininity: A Book For and About Women As They Are Interpreted Through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today
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Toronto: Musson, 1972
Hardcover. 382 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Faint spotting to edges of text block. Dust jacket is worn at tips with several short tears.
Black Wolf: The Life of Ernest Thompson Seton
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Douglas & MacIntyre, 1986
Softcover. 240 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Otherwise a crisp, clean copy.
Includes index, bibliography.
The Monthly Epic: A History of Canadian Magazines 1789-1989
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Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989
Hardcover. 355 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is price clipped.
Includes index. vii, 355 p. : ill.
Wild Gooseberries: The Selected Letters of Irving Layton
Irving Layton (edited by Francis Mansbridge)
Wild Gooseberries: The Selected Letters of Irving Layton
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989
Hardcover. 424 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
xxiii, 424 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-413) and indexes.
The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (two volumes)
Edgar Allan Poe (edited by John Ward Ostrom)
The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (two volumes)
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948. First edition
Hardcover. 664 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Spines and lower edge of front cover (vol 1) are slightly faded.
Shakespeare: For All Time
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Oxford University Press, 2003
Hardcover. 442 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Three remainder stripes to top edge of text block. Small closed tear to top corner of dust jacket.
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature
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Haus Publishing, 2009
Softcover. 246 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Very faint spine crease. Otherwise like new.
Dickens
Peter Ackroyd
Dickens
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HarperCollins, 1991
Hardcover. 1195 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light edgewear. Dust jacket is browning at edges.
Biography of Charles Dickens.
Critical Approach: A Guide to the Comprehension and Appreciation of Prose and Verse
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. Revised edition
Softcover. 112 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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New York: W.W. Norton, 2005
Softcover. 430 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint spine crease. Pages tanned.
Greenblatt's account of how Shakespeare's personal experiences, the world he lived in, the people he knew, can be read in the plays and poems.
The Secret Life of France
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Faber & Faber, 2010
Softcover. 278 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Pages are slightly tanned.
French culture and society through the eyes of a British woman who has lived there for decades, examining what makes France different from everything that surrounds it.
Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose
Brita Mickleburgh (editor), Malcolm Ross (foreword)
Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973
Softcover. 306 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Slight shelfwear. Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings. Spine is not creased.
One of the earliest CanLit anthologies designed for high school use, compiled by Brita Mickleburgh, a pioneer in teaching Canadian literature in secondary schools at a time when most English curricula relied on British and American texts. Includes selections from Leonard Cohen, Percy Janes, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Emily Carr, and many others.
The Other Country: Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro
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ECW Press, 1993
Softcover. 581 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Previous owner has neatly laminated the covers with clear plastic. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.
A Bookman's Budget
Austin Dobson
A Bookman's Budget
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Oxford University Press, 1917. Second impression
Hardcover. 201 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Spine is quite faded. Binding has several dents from being pressed against some sort of edge. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.
Essays, poems, and occasional pieces on books and the bookish life.
The Scottish Tradition in Literature
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Oliver and Boyd, 1958. First edition
Hardcover. 352 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Boards slightly bowed. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. No dust jacket.
Academic survey of Scottish literature from the medieval makars through Burns, Scott, and Hogg to the 20th century.
Nord No. 6  Roch Carrier Automne 1976
Rodrigue Gignac (direction)
Nord No. 6 Roch Carrier Automne 1976
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Sillery, QC: Les Éditions de l'Hôte, 1976
Softcover. 152 pages. FRA

Condition: GOOD
Sticker removal damage to front cover. Shelfwear.
Rotten Reviews
Bill Henderson (editor)
Rotten Reviews
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Penguin Books, 1987
Mass market paperback. 93 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Back cover is creased. Old bookstore stamp to first page.
Anthology of the most scathing reviews received by books that went on to become classics.
Phantom Drift 1: A Journal of New Fabulism
David Memmott, Leslie What, Matt Schumacher (editors)
Phantom Drift 1: A Journal of New Fabulism
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La Grande OR: Phantom Drift Limited, 2011
Softcover. 153 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.