Monthly Archives: January 2016

Mordecai the Great: Montreal Satirist, Ironist, and Wicked Wit

(Andre Deutsch, 1954 dj; designer: indecipherable cover signature) (the hyped 1955 Popular Library pb version of The Acrobats) (Andre Deutsch, 1955 dj; cover: R.F. Micklewright) (sexy 1965 paperback Library pb) (Andre Deutsch, 1957 dj by Heather Standring) (Apprenticeship in process … Continue reading

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Northrop Frye’s Student-Turned-Poet-of-Myth

(Macpherson’s rare 2nd book with a rare signed note in which she corrects the recipient for thinking/assuming she (Jay) was a man!) (the rare 1957 hb, Oxford University Press Canada; design derived from Jean de Beaugrand for the arms of … Continue reading

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Our Greatest Female Storyteller Ever

(1st US ed. McGraw-Hill, 1973 dj; cover: Stan Skardinski0; based on 1968 Canadian version) (left: Douglas Gibson/M & S  dj, 1986; cover painting: Alex Colville’s “Elm Tree at Horton Landing”, AGO; middle: rare Munro reading of “The Progress of Love”, … Continue reading

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An Important B.C. Fiction Writer from the U.S.

(Talonbooks, 1975 pb; cover: “Dream with House, bed and Scraper” by Judith Lodge; photo by Betty Fairbank; I used the story “House” in Inside Stories II; Harcourt, 1987) (signed Naiad Press pb, 1985; cover: Susannah L. Kelly) Born in Plainfield, NJ, … Continue reading

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From Actor to Top ON Fiction-Writer from Stone Orchard

(signed 1997 Viking Penguin dj; cover contributors:  Kamil Vojnar/Photonica, John Scully, Spencer Francey Peters) (signed 1988 Viking Penguin dj; cover; David Wyman & Blair Drawson; photo originally by Elisabeth Feryn) (TLS by Findley, 1988, in book above) (signed, numbered ed. 1997, … Continue reading

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A Newfoundland Actor-Writer

  (signed McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1973 dj; photo: Canart Films) (left: Dell pb, 1987, cover: David Wyman, made into a film; right: Signet/NAL pb: 1976, his 1st film) (based on Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, an excellent film … Continue reading

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