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Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1984
Softcover. 101 pages. ENG
Softcover. 101 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Conference proceedings on John Richardson's Wacousta and Richardson's place as Canada's first novelist.
Corvina, 1982
Hardcover. 572 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 572 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is unevenly toned. Pages are starting to tan near edges. No writing/markings.
Includes bibliography, index, b&w photo plates.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition
Hardcover. 282 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 282 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Top corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket has a few spots of foxing to reverse. Not price clipped. Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings.
Includes appendices, index.
New York: Ungar, 1993. Second edition
Softcover. 362 pages. ENG
Softcover. 362 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE
Slight rubbing to covers. No creases. No writing/markings.
Includes index.
London: St. James Press/Macmillan, 1977
Hardcover. 550 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 550 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Dust jacket is price clipped, spine faded, dampstain to lower edge of jacket, not affecting boards. No tears. No writing/markings.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972
Hardcover. 233 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 233 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light offsetting and foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, with one tiny closed tear. Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992
Hardcover. 268 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 268 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Top corner slightly bumped. Dust jacket has light foxing to reverse. Not price clipped. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
La Manouba, Tunisia: Faculté des lettres de la Manouba, 1995
Softcover. 368 pages. ENG
Softcover. 368 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Laminate has flaked at folds. No writing/markings. Spine is not creased.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980
Softcover. 86 pages. ENG
Softcover. 86 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on first page. Glossy covers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise clean, square, unmarked.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD
Faint foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has a short tear to top edge. No writing/markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Saxe Commins was Senior Editor at Random House from 1933 until 1958. Includes extensive extracts from Commins notes, reports, letters etc. from his work with many major writers (Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Wiliam Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, WH Auden, James Michener, Isak Dinesen, etc.)
London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Second revised edition
Softcover. 437 pages. ENG
Softcover. 437 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD+
Spine is faded. Small crease to lower front corner. Binding is sound.
Includes index.
Surveys the fluctuations of Communist literary policy and official aesthetics, and the impact they have had on writers such as Solzhenitsyn, Blok, Mandelstam, Akhmatov, and Evtushenko.
London: Sphere, 1987
Softcover. 436 pages. ENG
Softcover. 436 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are tanned. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings.
Includes bibliography, table of dates, index.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990
Softcover. 149 pages. ENG
Softcover. 149 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Slight edgewear. Spine is not creased. Binding is tight. No writing/highlighting.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990
Softcover. 149 pages. ENG
Softcover. 149 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Slight edgewear. A bit of sticker residue on front cover. Spine is not creased. Binding is tight. No writing/highlighting.
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition
Hardcover. 409 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 409 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD / FAIR
Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Faint offset tanning to front free endpaper. Notes and highlighting to several chapters. Binding is sound and tight. Dust jacket is quite chipped at top edge of spine, with a couple of tears, wear to tips, several small spots of dampstain.
London: Virago, 1986
Softcover. 174 pages. ENG
Softcover. 174 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD+
Front cover is creased along spine. Spine is not creased. Pages are tanned. Small spot of adhesive remnant from an old price sticker inside front cover. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Sydney University Press, 1975. Facsimile edition
Hardcover. 1078 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 1078 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / GOOD
Both volumes have a note in fountain pen on front endpaper (purchased 23 March 1979 University of Western Ontario Bookstore). Dust jackets have light edge wear, and a bit of foxing. Volume 1 dust jacket has a small dampstain to upper corner of rear panel.
Two volume set. ISBN volume 1: 0424067005 ISBN volume 2: 0424067102
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981. First edition
Hardcover. 285 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 285 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / GOOD
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.