Edited Sam Solecki (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 300 pages Trade paperback. Card cover with French flaps. A like new fine copy.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First. John Gordon "Jack" McClelland CC (1922 - 2004) was a Canadian publisher. He was known for promoting Canadian writers as president of the McClelland and Stewart publishing house. He began working for McClelland and Stewart, his father's company, in 1946, becoming president in 1961. Under his control, the company promoted Canadian literature and encouraged Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Leonard Cohen, Marian Engel, Farley Mowat and Mordecai Richler. He introduced a popular series of Canadian authors in paperback, making Canadian writing more accessible to the general public. "I decided that I didn't want to be dependent on foreign agencies," he would recall. "I saw that a logical decision in London or New York could cut our volume in half. A Canadian nationalist was born overnight." This copy is fine in color, photo-illustrated wrappers. A single name "Maynard" in ink on the half title page. No other marks or damage at all. Inscribed by McClelland on the title page. Signed.

First edition Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Bright. Nicely illustrated with photographs.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Remainder Mark Bottom Edge, otherwise a very nice soft cover copy with French flaps, without flaw. 6 X 9" 300 pages. From the publication of Gabrielle Roy's Tin Flute in 1947 to Michael Ondatje's Running in the Family in 1984, Jack McClelland presided over the creation of the Canadian canon, and his letters are the most revealing evidence of his influence. Whether counseling Margaret Laurence on the title for The Stone Angel or defending his firms' decision to publish Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, the letters reveal a thoughtful and insightful editorial mind.

First edition SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Fine and bright blue boards in like glossy pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Few like Al Purdy, the voice of the northern lands (Canada) with travel pieces from the outback of Canada and the Arctic to the writing life with portraits of authors and poets. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the full title page.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Worn at edges. Pages tanning. Previous owner's name on half-title page. 367pp. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover original. Fine book in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Signed by the author on the title page. edited by Sam Solecki. Review copy with publisher sheet and business card laid in. Ticket to the author event laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: soft covers, fine condition. poems by various poets, articles by Marshal Mcluhan, Eli Mandel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 2001, second printing. 606pp. Frontispiece portrait of the poet. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition with no inscriptions. "By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced. In five decades as a published author he had produced over forty books and received innumerable distinctions, including two Governor General's Awards and the Order of Canada. A hands-on writer who delighted in co-producing specialty publications and small press titles in addition to his major collections with leading publishers, Purdy left a massive and diverse body of work, much of it long unavailable to the public."The Collected Poems," edited by Purdy critic Sam Solecki with the full participation of the author, for the first time brings all of Purdy's poetic writings together in one volume, including all his later books, work previously uncollected from earlier periods as well as several excellent new poems he completed in the months before his death. It is, as he said, everything he wished to be remembered for.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Signed by author on ffep. Lightly rubbed on ends of spine, two creases on spine, pinpoint black remainder dot on bottom edge, else very good plus. Pages spotless. DJ lightly wrinkled on ends of spine, lightly rubbed on ends of flap folds, original price sticker on front flap, else very good plus. Protected in mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. An association copy and one of the last books to be published in Purdy's lifetime, signed on the pre-title page in black ink by Purdy to David Herreshoff, the Poet Laureate of Kaslo, BC "For Jessie & David & vise versa / with cordial good wishes / Al Purdy". Printed glossy wraps, 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. [1]-131, [132 - blank]. Front cover with an image of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. From the back cover "A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read is Al Purdy." . . "to Paris Never Again is Purdy's first collection of new writing 's since 1994: fifty-one poems plus "Home Country," an essay of nostalgic anecdotes that provides a facinating background to much of the poetry. Here is the work of a major poet in the maturity of a long, eventful life; a voice steeped in the wisdom of age, yet responsive to the subtlest shadings of experience." Ref. see p.76 "On Retirements", Gilmore, Jon Barnard.

[1-55017-332-4] [2004]. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 560pp. Notes, chronology, index. Letters of Al Purdy. Edited with introduction by Sam Solecki. (Ideas, Ideas, Letters, Poetry--Canada).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A very unique and fine/fine condition copy, signed by Margaret Atwood at her Foreword's title page. Very unique signed and scarce. Additional shipping may be quoted due to the book's weight. Signed by Author(s).