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BARBED LYRES: CANADIAN VENOMOUS VERSE.

By: Atwood, Margaret, foreword. (Tom Denholm, Glen Stone, Denis Woollings, Brian Davis, Gerry MacIntosh, Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Hoard Engel, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Robert Priest, al Purdy, Charles Pachter, Mavor Moore, Don Harron, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30244

ISBN: 1550132520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations by political cartoonist Aislin. "(W)inning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satircal verse (judged by) author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured. Also included are poems submitted by invitation from: Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Howard Engel, Don Harron, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Mavor Moore, Susan Musgrave, Eric Nichol, Charles Pachter, Robert Priest, Al Purdy, Erika Ritter, Robin Skelton, et al." A 1/2" dia raised area under the ...
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FORTUNE, MY FOE & EROS AT BREAKFAST - TWO PLAYS.

By: Davies, Robertson.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Simon & Pierre: 1993

Seller ID: 24545

ISBN: 0889242410

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

126 pp, 9" H. Includes an introduction by Robertston Davies and short biographical essay. "A recent immigrant and two professors of literature try to find support for an artistic project, but meet with incomprehension and indifference from smug middle class Canadians, in the wry satire, 'Fortune, My Foe'. (3 acts, cast 7 males, 3 females). 'Eros at Breakfast' explores first love, and how it effects the 'inner man' - a decidedly different viewpoint! (1 act, cast 4 males, 1 female)." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two small creases at top edge of fro...
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MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.

By: Dickens, Charles.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press:

Seller ID: 30142

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good+

808 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H). Thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edges gilt. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone illustrations, including frontispiece, decorated title page. **No dustjacket or slipcase.** Falling out with his cantankerous grandfather, Martin Chuzzlewit attempts to make his way in the world by apprenticing himself to the scheming architect, Seth Pecksniff. Dimissed by Pecksniff at his grandfather's insistence, he embarks for America with the congenitally cheerful Mark Tapley, who is desperate to find an environment that he feels w...
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Image for THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 6. THE ROMANTIC AGE IN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: ROMANTICS TO EARLY VICTORIANS.)

THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 6. THE ROMANTIC AGE IN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: ROMANTICS TO EARLY VICTORIANS.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. David Punter, Alexander Youngson, John Beer, Michael Rosenthal, John Harvey, Alexandra Wedgwood, H.C. Robbins Landon, Tom Williamson, Pat Kirkham, Christopher Gillie.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambrige University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

330 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; Romantics to Early Victorians; Edinburgh: City of Reason and Nature; Literature; The Fine Arts; Graphic Satire and Illustration; Architecture; Music; The Athenaeum; Enclosure and the English Hedgerow; The Applied Arts: Design, Craft and Trade; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

By: Goldsmith, Oliver.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press:

Seller ID: 29978

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good -

315 pp, 16mo (6 2/16" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, b&w frontispiece. In this work by the 18th century Irish author, a wealthy vicar is ruined by his business associate and forced to take a position in a secluded village. The dastardly local squire attempts to seduce one of his daughters and causes financial hardship to the family, before getting his comeuppance at the hands of his own servant. The myserious Mr. Burchell marries another daughter, after revealing himself as the kindly ...
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THE TUMBLING MIRTH: REMEMBERING THE AIR FORCE.

By: Harvey, J. Douglas.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23157

ISBN: 0771040490

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

263 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). Liberally illustrated with b&w cartoons. "(A)n anecdotal history of the Royal Canadian Air Force from its origin in 1924 to the time of unification in 1967. It is an account to delight all readers - and one that will bring tears of laughter and recognition to air force personnel of every rank and station." Previous owner's ink name stamp on top of text block, Christmas gift inscription on free front endpaper, light wear and wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very small surface paper loss at bottom of front board. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has light edge wear ...
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CHRISTMAS WITH STEPHEN LEACOCK: REFLECTIONS ON THE YULETIDE SEASON.

By: Leacock, Stephen. Introduction by Prof. Ralph L. Curry.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage/Natural History: 1988

Seller ID: 2979

ISBN: 0920474470

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

111 pp, small 4to (9 7/8" H). "(A) collection of Yuletide stories, some of them being published for the very first time. Written during the interval between the two World Wars, through the Great Depression and on into the deeply troubled times that preceded the outbreak of World War II, Stephen Leacock's observant eye and brilliant use of satire reminds us even today of the need to cast aside our differences and truly celebrate the meaning of the Christmas season, with the intention of carrying this meaning into our daily lives.". Includes: Christmas Rapture; First Aid to the Christmas Touris...
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THE STAR SEEKERS. A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL.

By: Lesser, Milton.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston: 1953

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

212 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "When man tackles the first really long journey - across twenty-six trillion miles of uncharted space - to the nearest star, it will take him two hundred years to complete the flight. Not until the sixth generation nears maturity will the starship reach its destination. Around this fascinating theme, Milton Lesser has woven a tale of the first starship's final days of flight. He pictures the ship as a hollowed-out meteorite composed of four concentric circles - a world in which civilization has deteriorated and superstition risen to a high pitch, making those within una...
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CAW-CAW BALLADS.

By: MacDonald, Wilson.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, T.H. Best: 1963

Edition: 9th Printing

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 20783

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

47 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Non-personalized inscription by author on half title page: "Yours in good caws. Wilson MacDonald". B&w illustrations. Human foibles are satirized in these poems featuring crows. Contents: The Political Crow; The White Crow; The Black Crow; The Society Crow; The Critic Crow; The Exclusive Crow; The Service Club Crow; The Golfing Crow; The Titled Crow; The Poor Sick Crows; The Artist Crow; The Barrister Crow; The Fundamentalist Crow; The Henpecked Crow; The Pepless Crow. Tiny chip at edge of rear pastedown, minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has fading t...
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COMBER COVE.

By: MacDonald, Wilson.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, S.J. Reginald Saunders: 1937

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 27909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

91 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H). B&w illustrations. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Mr and Mrs H.M. Campbell / May the star of happiness shine ever above the House of Campbell / Wilson MacDonald / 466 Holland Ave, Ottawa". "These poems are accurate character descriptions of people who dwell in a certain small town. This town quota is augmented by pen pictures of people living in a nearby village. As the author explains in his introduction, 'this outer excursion was necessary for 'William Ward' and 'George Francis' could scarcely have endured the atmosphere of Comber Cove'. Mr. Wilson MacD...
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THE HOUSE OF ONTARIO.

By: MacGillivray, Royce. Edited by Vivian Webb. Illustrations by Mark Grice.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: (Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc., Toronto, 1983), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 5501

144 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w silhouettes by Mark Grice. "A collection of satires, sketches and imaginary histories amounting to a mythical history of the premier province of Canada...It contains in shocking and sometimes unforgettable detail the w hole history of Ontario except for the facts." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. VG+
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STEPHEN LEACOCK. MAKERS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE SERIES.

By: McArthur, Peter.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1923

Seller ID: 28225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

176 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), dark blue cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine, gold signature on front board. Tipped in b&w frontispiece. Looks at the life and work of Canadian humorist and historian, Stephen Leacock. Contents: Biographical; Anthology; Appreciation; Bibliography; Index. Light edge wear, tiny bump to top corner of boards, 1946 Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper, small areas of browning in gutters of first few pages of biographical section, very light browning to edges of text block, minor rubbing on rear board.
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THE WIDOW BEDOTT PAPERS.

By: Neal, Alice B., Introduction. [Frances Miriam Whitcher, nee Berry.]

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Cincinnati, Derby & Jackson: 1856

Seller ID: 30353

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

403 pp + [4] pp publisher's advertising, 7 1/2" H. Green cloth (faded to a brownish hue) with blindstamped decoration on front and rear boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Eight b&w plates (including frontispiece) - the paper of these illustrations has tanned in comparison with the text pages. The author is not credited on the title page, but noted in the introduction as Miriam Berry, married to Rev. B.W. Whicher, and identified elsewhere as Frances Miriam Whitcher nee Berry. Mrs. Whitcher is possibly the first published female American humorist and this collection contains some...
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MORE TALES FROM THE MESS.

By: Noonan, Miles.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Century: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21620

ISBN: 0712610677

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

173 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w cartoons. "Readers who enjoyed 'Tales From the Mess' will be glad to know that that collection by no means exhausted its compiler's rich fund of anecdotes about the absurder a spects of life in the British army. Further researches have enabled Miles Noonan to assemble this sequel which again, while in no way reducing our admiration for the Nation's armed forces, will not encourage us to regard them with excessive solemnity. Once again the settings of the tales range geographically from Malaya to Ireland and from South Africa to Liverpool and historically from Victo...
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HEAVY WORDS LIGHTLY THROWN: THE REASON BEHIND THE RHYME.

By: Roberts, Chris.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Granta: 2004

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 29804

ISBN: 1862077657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp, 9" H. B&w illustrations. "Was little Jack Horner a squatter? 'Baa, baa, Black Sheep' a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Jill do on that hill? Who was Mary? And why was she contrary? This witty and ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of the most innocuous-sounding nursery rhymes, revealing a seething subtext of sexual innuendo, religious hatred and political subversion. (It) provides a fascinating history lesson, teases out some alarming Freudian interpretations, and makes entertaining connections to contemporary political and popular culture." A few very tiny speck...
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VILE BODIES.

By: Waugh, Evelyn.

Price: $725.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30441

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

252 pp, 7 5/8" H, red & black patterned cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First printing of the first edition with no subsequent printings noted on the verso of the half title page. Black/white/red decorated title page. Waugh's second novel, a comedy of manners, satirizes the 'Bright Young Things' of post First World War London society. Light browning to endpapers, light browning to pages - a little more in margins, moderate browning to edges of text block, some light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners of boards, four very small light stains on pages 128 & 129, slight separation b...
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THE LITTLE WARRIOR.

By: Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville. (P.G. Wodehouse)

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

384 pp, 7 3/4" H. Grey cloth with green title block on spine, green oblong with author's name on front board and decorative border with title in green letters. GDH symbol on title page denoting First Edition. The American first preceded the British which was published in 1921 as 'Jill the Reckless'. When a wealthy young woman loses her fiance and her fortune, she abandons London society for New York, finding employment as a chorus girl - and true love. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, ver small bump to bottom corner of both boards, book is very slightly cocked, very light browning ...
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Keyword: Satire