Search Results: Canadian Literature from KALAMOS BOOKS

Toronto: Descant, 1982 Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Signed by Editors. Descant XXX1V-XXXV-XXXV1 Numbers 34-35-36 Consolidated issue containing : Volume 12, Number 4 (1981) + Volume 13, Number 1-2 (1982] 243p. illus. Signed by Editor on verso of title page.

Toronto: Descant, 1991 Book. New. Original Wraps. Theme : Gastronomique Double Issue : Volume 21, Number 4 + Voliunme 22 Number 1 Winter 1990, Spring 1991 265p. illus.-.

Toronto: Descant, 2007 Book. As New. Stapled Wraps. Theme : Margins and Borders with Iran in Focus This issue includes a poem by Miltos Sachtouris [page 136] translated by Evan Jones.

Toronto: Descant, 2010 Book. As New. Original Wraps. Theme : Summer and Smoke : The Search for Values This issue includes Mason, David " The Protocols of Used Bookstores" [Forty-four guidelines for buyers in used book stores by a renowned Canadian rare book dealer - read and learn! ].

Toronto: Descant, 1990 Book. As New. Original Wraps.

Toronto: Descant, 1980 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. This issue of the Canadian literary magazine contains 2 poems by Smaro Kamboureli on page 35.

Toronto: Descant Book. As New. Original Wraps. Theme : Twenty-Four poets. Helen Zisimatos [p 112-113] 000.

Toronto: Descant Book. As New. Original Wraps. Theme : Twenty-Four poets. Helen Zisimatos [p 112-113] 000.

Toronto: Descant, 2009 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus.. Theme "Private Worlds, Publis Exigencies 293p. illus. [Includes "Me. Avie Bennett and the Yiddish Question" by David Mason pages 194-201].

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2001 Book. New. French Wraps. 1st Canadian Edition. an extraordinary novel of love and risk, of loss and redemption. Edmund, the narrator, is flying away from Barbados and into an American witness protection program. He is driven by guilt and grief to try to understand how he has come to this pass, and the novel unfolds as layers of memory reveal the story. Edmund had always lived in the shadow of his older "brother" Jeffrey, a charming schemer who returns to the island from Canada with grand plans for wealth and power. Jeffrey`s realization of wealth is tied into money laundering for the Colombian druglords and his misguided belief that wealth creates freedom begins a spiral of entrapment and corruption that no one can escape. For a while, however, it seems to those that love and trust him that Jeffrey can outsmart the cartel and extract what the island needs from the wages of sin without exacting the price. Five star hotels are built, banking centres established… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1952 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. "Tuesday and Wednesday" reconstructs the events of two days in the life of Mort and Myrtle Johnson, whose uninspired marriage is strangely transformed by the tragic intervention of fate. "Lilly's Story" is the study of a woman who, protecting her daughter, invents a new identity for herself, only to live as a fugitive from her own happiness. Fist published in 1952, these intuitive and richly ironic stories reveal the unspoken longings and surprising motives that balance the equations of love. 282p. Neat sound copy, cartoon drawn on final endpaper. CARTTON DRWAN ON FINAL ENDPAPER caRTON DRWSN IN LAST ENDPWPER .

Don Mills, Ontario: Tapestry Records / RCA CBC , 1981 Audio Book. New. Laminated HC. 1st Issue. [GD 7376] Original cast performance recorded live at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Nov. 28 and 29, 1980. Read by John Stark [Side 1.] Introduction [by] Gordon Pinsent. Ladies & gentlemen: Stephen Leacock./ Insurance as I see it./ With the photographer. /The new food / The card trick [Side 2.] The conjurer's revenge / My financial career / Speaking patois / In dry Toronto / Save me from my friends.Vintage vinyl sound recording on 12" LP disc 33 1/4 rpm.New, never played -- still sealed in plastic.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. The author's first novel in 14 years, a novel full of what many readers will see as tantalizing hints of autobiography. The central character is an elderly writer, well respected abroad but almost unknown in his own country. His life intersects with others in obsessive and disturbing ways. A literary achievement as rich in subplot as it is in character, raising many questions and dealing with many ideas. A rich, complex, brilliant book where "things start going off in the wrong directions". Name of previous owner on ffep. else fine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. --"Robertson Davies brought a great sense of style to everything he wrote. Whether it was a letter to his daughter ("Love from us both, Daddy") or a formal letter to the editor disembowelling a hostile reviewer that concludes humbly ("I am content to remain, Yours, writhing in deserved ignominy---"), he wrote with care, with zest, and in a clearly distinctive voice. Since these letters written by Davies have been selected from the years when he was at the height of his fame, the recipients range widely, from Sir John Gielgud to Margaret Atwood, and from Greg Gatenby ("You are a merciless man and God will punish you in the next world") to his publishers abroad. Naturally, like all the best letters, they contain fascinating gossip: "and Salvador Dali, at the next table, raised his eyebrows and popped his eyes to such a degree that I feared they might leave their moorings and… Read More

Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Can Ed.. It was Emily Carr (1871?1945).[helped blaze] .a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of late Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art. Her boldly original landscapes are praised today for capturing an untamed British Columbia -and its indigenous peoples- just before industrialization would change it forever. In her latest novel, Susan Vreeland brings to life this fiercely independent and underappreciated figure. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to prewar Paris, where her art was exhibited in the famed Salon d'Automne, Carr's story is as arresting as it is vibrant. Vreeland tells it with gusto and suspense, giving vivid portraits of Carr and the unconventional people to whom she was inevitably drawn: Sophie, a native basket maker; Harold, the son of missionaries, who embraces indigenous cultures; Fanny, a New Zealand artist who spends a summer with Carr… Read More

Toronto: New Press, 1972 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Canadian Edition.. Set on a small island off Spain... a lyrical novel about the disguises of love and the forces that repress it. The story of three expatriates, two Canadian and one Americand ..who discover that just as the island's idyllic nature is threatened by the worid outside, so, too, is their love for one another. Coloured with rich sensual details it evokes the experiece of a generation that has sought adventure and beauty in Europe. Crisp unmarked coiop, an copu,.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. First Thus. New Canadian Library # 48. Introduction by David Dooley.Frenzied Fiction is another winner from humorist and political scientist Stephen Leacock. Brief and brimful with laugh after laugh, these short stories and vignettes are the perfect antidote to a foul mood, a nasty day at the office, or just a basic case of the blahs. 157p..

London: Bloomsbury , 1997 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. "It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos, who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history." First novel by this author which has won many prizes. The movie based on this story, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, opened the September 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. .

London: Bloomsbury , 1997 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. "It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos, who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history." First novel by this author which has won many prizes. The movie based on this story, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, opened the September 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. "Handwriting' is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since 'The Cinnamon Peeler'. It is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems on delicacy and power- poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka." 78p..