Toronto: University of Toronto / The Champlain Society, 1976. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound into stiff paper wraps with flaps. Browning toward upper edge of front panel. Light foxing to outer edges. Features the faculty [Milton Acorn, Dennis Lee, and Joe Rosenblatt] and..... More
Toronto: Contact Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Wraps. 8vo. White coloured wraps lettered in black with red spiral drawing on front cover and title page. This copy inscribed by Atwood to Canadian author Jane Rule and her partner " For Jane & Helen with much affection & thanks for listening Peggy..... More
Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. [vi], 58. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering, white endpapers. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Gift inscription to front free endpaper; paper tanning as usual, else near fine copy in slightly scuffed orangy-red dust-jacket designed by..... More
New York: Harper & Row. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. Pp. [vi], 56. Blue cloth, backed in blue cloth, silver spine lettering, red endpapers. Light bump to foot of spine and ink name to flyleaf. Good clean copy. First American edition. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. 1st UK edition. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine in decorative dust jacket. Minor spotting to edges. Minor foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn at extremities. Small ink inscription to endpaper. First published in 1964. More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964. 1st Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Gilt lettered black cloth in decorative dust jacket. Ownership stamp to endpaper. Some age darkening to dj spine with two mild abrasions. Short tear to top of front panel o/w very nice copy. In our experience the hardest of Cohen's titles..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Gilt lettered black cloth in decorative dust jacket. Interior fine, crisp, and clean. Dust jacket fairly bright for a white dust jacket, slightly a bit more toned around the edges and spine, with light wear at the spine head and white..... More
Buffalo: Allen De Loach/Intrepid Press, 1969. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 4to. Mimeographed sheets stapled into printed red stiff paper covers. More
Toronto / Montreal: Rowsell & Hutchison / Eben Picken, 1892. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo. With a supplimentary chapter of Canadian Archaeology. Bound in brown cloth with black printing to the front cover; gilt to spine. Spine slightly faded, some faint shelfwear. More
Niagara: Mail Office, 1859. 1st. Cloth. 12mo. Red embossed cloth with gilt title on the recased spine. One front endpaper renewed o/w a vg copy. Long epic poem from the author of "the Golden Dog" about the settling of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists. 178 pages plus errata..... More
Contact Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. Purple cloth with large mounted white cover label and red lettering, designed by Betty Sutherland. White cover label tanned, crack in the gutter between p. 14/15 though still tight and secure, else a good, clean copy. More
Toronto: Aleph Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Grey stapled wraps lettered and decorated in black. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Macewen's second book. 12 poms. Ink and pencil markings throughout. (not so bad). Apart from one small stain at the spine a very nice..... More
Toronto: Contact Press, 1956. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original printed stiff paper wraps, lacking dustjacket, but includes "New Poetry Publications" advert laid in to rear. With some wear to outer extremities and a crease along centre of spine, which is also slightly browned..... More
Toronto: Contact Press, 1956. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound into original stiff printed paper wraps. Inscribed and signed in the year of publication "for Jack Hersh: good friend and collaborator through the lean years". Has original dustjacket, showing some wear to the outer..... More
Montreal: Contact Press, 1954. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound into stiff paper wraps printed in grey, black and yellow. Slight browning to spine. First poems by three Canadian Poets. With liquid paper correction to Mandel's mis-spelled name on front cover and on title..... More