Publisher:
HarperCollins, (Toronto, 1996), Ist edition.
Seller ID: 8787
216 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Remember Ray Kinsella, the baseball visionary...from 'Shoeless Joe'? Or Gideon Clarke, the hero from 'The Iowa Baseball Confederacy', who, after a miraculous sojourn in the past, proved that what he a nd his father new about a Midwestern baseball league was entirely true? Nobody believed either of them. And nobody believes Joe McCoy. Joe McCoy's only hope is that Ray Kinsella and Gideon Clarke will believe his fantastical tale. Joe k n o w s t h a t , if he had to do it over again, he definitely would have pitched the Iowa State Baseball Ch... View More...
134 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 1/4" H x 11 15/16" D). Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions of the artist's work and b&w photographs. "(C)elebrates the distinctive talent of the Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree from Saskatchewan, and his relationship with Dr. Allan Gonor, mentor and friend. Sapp specializes in paintings depicting native life as he remembers it on the Red Pheasant Reserve near North Battleford, with subjects ranging from social activities and farming chores to full-dress ceremon-ies. These remarkable examples of Canadian art might never have existed were it not fo... View More...
245 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Inscribed on half title page: "To T____ Best Wishes & Many Thanks! Warren Nov. 2001". Also inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "T____, Hopefully my retirement will be as enjoyable as yours, Mike Harris". The second inscription is in two different coloured inks (possibly two different hands). "(F)or the first time, Kinsella lifts the veil on what really goes on inside campaigns - and it's not pretty. This is the good, the bad and the ugly of partisan politics, and Kinsella argues that all three are necessary for a healthy and democratic political dialogue.... View More...
104 pp + (8 pp), oblong (8 11/16" H x 10 5/8" D). Colour reproductions, b&w drawings. "From farms and ranches, coastlines and islands, in some thirty stories and vignettes by some of North America's best loved writers and the exquisite art of Len Gibbs, here are timeless portraits which evoke not just rural living, but the universal condition. Meet a diverse and changing mix of people whose lives have been shaped by harsh realities and share with them the pain and sunshine, and truth and laughter. Here prose and paintings have been interwoven to create a loving tribute to those who have ch... View More...
