Search Results: Authors starting with M from Reading Rat

Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 334 p, trade paper; includes index. Full bibliography online. Detailed account of Louis Riel's life, trial and execution by a noted historian. Gift inscription on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. VG condition.

Annick Press, 1993. Apparent First. Paperback. Very Good. Helene Desputeaux. Unpaginated; square format PB. VG condition. Full colour ilustrations. SIGNED by author. The story of Marcy, a birthday balloon. and 10 men and a ladder. LADDER INCLUDED.

Winnipeg MB: Queenston House, 1987. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket. 203 p.; VG+, light reading wear, back edge of cover a bit bumped. Interior clean and solid. Signed by author on title page, " To Mel, Happy Birthday! Jake MacDonald". "In this story we journey north to Indian River Lodge, one of Canada's prestigious fly-in fishing resorts. Founded by an enterprising American, Indian River Lodge is now operated by his unscrupulous son. It provides summer employment for a maverick crew of native and white characters who will never find a place in society's mainstream. Into this famous but godforsaken outpost wanders Dominic Chambrun . . . " 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Roslin ON: Chipmunk Books, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 58 p. perfect bound small book of poetry. Gray card covers with ink drawing of trees. Very good, clean, unmarked. Some poems have previously appeared in literary magazines.

USA: Alfred A Knopf Inc., 1975. Pictorial Cover. Good/Good-. Jacket Painting: Goodfellow, Peter. 570p. This is an epic tale of enterprise and love set in England in 1839. 4 young characters are brought together. DJ has some tears in it. Overall very readable and I'd wager to say a very good read if you have the time to get lost in it's pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scholastic, 1987. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. Maurice Sendak. 128 paperback. VG condition. B & W illustrations by Maurice Sendak. copyright 1954. One of a series in which Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures children's bad habits. For ages 6 - 10.

Calgary: Brindle & Glass, 2004. Later edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/First. 210 pages; trade paperback; VG+. Annotated by James Martin, introduction by Will Ferguson. This is the third edition of Grant MacEwan's biography of colourful an irreverent Calgary newspaperman Bob Edwards, who "skewered corrupt politicians, deflated the pretentions of socialites, created merry havoc with invented news stories, and chronicled . . . his descent into the maelstrom of alcoholism." First published in 1957, Institute of Applied Art, second edition 1974, Western Producer Prairie Books, this new 2004 edition is handsomely produced.

Toronto: MacMillan, 1972. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stephen Gerriets. 76 p.; VG/VG; ex-library with usual stamps, DJ taped to boards. DJ covered in plastic and is in very nice condition. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. A collection of poems inspired by the Apollo 12 mission. "Gwendolyn MacEwen is one of the most talented young Canadians writing today. She received the Governor General's Award in 1969 for her collection of poetry The Shadow Maker. . . . The Armies of the Moon is her fifth book of poems." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Penguin, 1999. Uncorrected Proof. Printer Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. Viking Penguin; uncorrected proof; 1999; VG; 8 1/2 x 11 inches, spiral bound in card covers. Illustrated w. B&W photos. Author's memoir/biography of his father. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books, 1997. First Thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New. As New/As New; unread, bright, crisp copy in like DJ. Sports columnist MacGregor is also well-known for the Screech Owls hockey mysteries for young readers. This volume is a collection of reports "from an arena where 'the game' is family life. These funny, warm, insightful accounts - some first printed as newspaper and magazine articles, some brand new - will touch anyone who has ever been either a parent or a child." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Thistledown Press, Limited, 1996. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 150p. Collection of short fiction for young adults. Authors thrid book of this nature, well regarded. 1993 Vivky Metcalf award. book is in very good condition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Winnipeg, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. 246 p. incl. index and bibliography; tradepaper; illus. with B & W photographs. Sequel to The Apprentice's Tale. Ross came to Canada in 1930 in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company. His first book covered his first posting to Grassy Narrows. In this volume he takes up his account in 1941, when he was posted to Waterways, Alberta to manage the HBC store there. He provides a look at te fur trade in Northern Saskatchewan 50+ years ago.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Not Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -. 433 p., incl. index. HC. VG/VG-. Book has black marker stripe on top of text block, otherwise in nice, clean condition. DJ unclipped, bumped, chipped, closed tear on back (mended with archival tape). Based on extensive personal experience in four years' residence in Saudi Arabia, where Sandra Mackey led a "clandestine life as a reporter and observer" while pretending to be no more than the wife of a doctor in Riyadh. Double Elephant - over 25" - 50" tall.

Wreck Cove Cape Breton NS: Breton Books,, 1994. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 42 p. large format HC approx. 9'x11" landscape format. Pictorial boards in matching unclipped DJ. PO name on ffep, otherwise unmarked. A memoir of growing up in a small Cape Breton community, illustrated by Christy MacKinnon's own colourful drawings. Christy was born in 1889 and lost her hearing as a small child. She recorded her memories of growing up in a large family with a loving stepmother and schoolteacher father, going to Halifax to attend a school for the deaf, and many other experiences. A warm, lovely story.

Winnipeg: Pachyderm Press, 1993. Apparent First. Staplebound. Very Good. 38 p. staplebound; VG. Essay/meditation inspired by a visit to the Pearl Harbor Memorial in 1976 and to the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park in 1982. One of a series of chapbooks published by St. John's College, University of Manitoba

Montreal, PQ, Canada: Vehicule Press, 2000. Probable First. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 108 p.; Cover art J. W. Stewart. VG, minor reading wear, marker stroke through UPC code on back cover. First poetry collection by Brent MacLaine, includes some previously published poems. A native of PEI, MacLaine has taught in China and Singapore and at the University of Alberta, returning to PEI in 1991. "These poems spring from an imagination that swings between the experiences of there and away, of wind; and the experiences of here and home, of root." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Collins, 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5th impression September 1964; ex-library; DJ clipped, but otherwise good, in plastic cover; front hinge cracked; tape marks on cover. Jacket design by John Heseltine. Good reading copy of a classic suspense/adventure story. "On a stormy winter night at Holy Loch, the U.S. atomic submarine 'Dolphin' leaves in a hurry, with orders to take a Dr. Carpenter under the North Polar ice-cap and to surface with him near a burnt-out weather station, called Zebra. Who is he and what does his locked bag contain? What has happened at the lonely station, what is wrong with the 'Dolphin'? Who could possibly put this book down before he knew the answers? This is a subtle, fast and violent novel." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

McClelland & Stewart, 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Very good; small label with PO name & address on inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. /near fine. 283 pp. This is the first printing, first edition, without the Globe and Mail review, with quotes from Ondaatje, Munro, Atwood, MacLennan, Banks, Staines, Vanderhaeghe on back of dj. Signed by author on title page.

Toronto: Flat Singles Press, 1995. First edition. Staplebound. Very Good. Cover photograpy Vincenzo Pietropaolo/Silverlight. Unpaginated; small staplebound in pictorial wraps; one of 200 copies printed. Poetry collection, some previously published in literary magazines. VG

Oakville Ontario: Frederick Harris Music Co. Limited, c. 1928. Apparent first edition. Staplebound. Very Good +. Paperbound and stapled; 81/2 x 11 inches, 53 pages. Words and music; English translation by J. Murray Gibson; arrangements by Achille Fortier, Alfred Laliberte, Oscar O'Brien, Leo Smith and Ernest MacMillan. No publication date but a number of songs are copyright by Frederick Harris Music Co. 1928. Very nice clean copy, some wear along stapled spine.