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$30.00Toronto: Coach House Press (1984). First edition. 68 pp. Fine in wrappers. Poet and rock musician Priest's third book, a collection of performance pieces, songs and prose poems. INSCRIBED by Priest on the title page, and signed by him on page 38, beneath the poem 'Blue Pyramids.'$30.00Toronto & Montreal: McClelland and Stewart (1968). First edition. 128 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.$75.00Toronto & Montreal: McClelland and Stewart (1968). First edition. 128 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Purdy on the front free endpaper.$200.00Windsor: Black Moss Press (1982). First edition, deluxe issue. 159 pp. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with leatherette spine and corners. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.$35.00Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1972). First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers.$100.00Coatsworth: Black Moss Press (1977). First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Light rubbing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed cover label. Small abrasion inside front cover, tiny tear to unprinted front free endpaper. One of 100 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper SIGNED by Purdy.
$125.00[Vancouver]: Colophon Books, 1990. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed at the Pie Tree Press. Pairs “Blood Pressure Blues” with “Concerning Ms. Atwood.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.$35.00Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry (1956). First edition. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Fourteen poems.$25.00Toronto: Coach House (1981). First edition. [172 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Rahmani’s first novel, a mystery in three voices.$25.00Toronto: Coach House Press (1970). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Illustrated by D.M. Price, printed by Elizabeth Cunningham.$25.00Oakville: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions (1976). First trade paperback printing. 79 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Stamped “Review Copy” on the first leaf.$125.00NY: Knopf, 1968. First edition. 180 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Richter on the front free endpaper.$20.00Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (1978). First edition. 30 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. A story for children by this Canadian novelist, with 22 illustrations by Rikki.$35.00Prince George: Caledonia Writing Series [1973]. First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (Aug. 16. 76) and INSCRIBED by Robinson on the title page, who has also made one addition to the text. Poems and stories.$20.00Prince George: Caledonia Writing Series [1973]. First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and stories.$10.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1991). First edition. 186 pp. Light dampstain along bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$75.00(np): Oberon (1977). First edition. 157 pp. Top edge a bit dusty, else fine in near fine dust jacket with some overall light wear. Rooke's third book, a collection of short stories.$35.00Toronto: House of Anansi (1968). First edition. 78 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. His second book.$20.00Toronto: Coach House (1976). First edition. 109 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers; a paperback original. One of 1500 copies printed.$45.00Toronto: Coach House (1975). First edition. 167 pp. About fine in self-wrappers; a trade paperback original. One of 750 copies printed.$25.00Toronto: Coach House (1986). First edition. 112 pp. Fine in wrappers; a trade paperback original.$25.00[Vancouver: Doni Scob] (nd). First edition. 4to. 27 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Poems. Laid-in is a letter from Scob, presenting this copy for review.$20.00Toronto: McClelland and Stewart (1973). First edition. 95 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket (a bit rubbed). Scott’s eighth book of verse, a collection of poems and translations.$25.00NY: New Directions (1989). First trade paperback edition. 160 pp. Trivial soiling to fore-edge, else near fine in wrappers. This is the first installment of Scott’s trilogy of documentary long poems exploring the intersection between the act of writing, autobiography, and global politics and violence. A former Canadian diplomat, Scott, now a scholar at UC Berkeley, is particularly well-suited for this task, and the poem is a stunning virtuoso collage of memory, violence, and the necessity of the mediating power of artifice. A letter from publisher James Laughlin to Stanford scholar Albery Gelpi is laid in.$35.00Berkeley: Berkeley Poetry Review (1981). First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Eight poems.$50.00London: Fourth Estate (1997). First UK edition. 339 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in. The 'true' first edition, preceding the Canadian and US editions.$27.50NY: Penguin (1995). Advance reading copy. 183 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Shields on the title page.$35.00NY: Penguin (1995). Advance reading copy. 213 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Shields on the title page.$75.00Toronto: Random House of Canada (1993). First edition. 361 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Winner of both the Governor’s General’s award and the Pulitzer Prize.$30.00London: Fourth Estate (1994). First UK edition. 243 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of seventeen short stories.