Kenneth Dyba (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 106 Pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Near Fine. First Edition. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has a 3/8" tear top of front panel, is bright except for slight fading of the spine panel. "Cat meets girl - Cat loses girl - Cat finds girl" or so the story goes.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. November House 1983. Signed and Inscribed by author on First page. Tanning of pages.

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Author's third novel. 183 pages.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Vancouver: November House, 1973. 234 pp. "There are no ghosts at Twelvetrees Manor. The living inhabitants would long since have sent them screaming." Dust jacket has some edge wear, short tears and small chips to edges, a bit of dust soiling. Not price clipped. Looks good in new plastic cover. Black cloth on boards binding is lovely, clean, with wee bumps to bottom corners. Former owner's name has been clipped from corner of front free endpaper. Text is unmarked. Good/Good-. 9 x 5 3/4.…

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Very slight yellowing of rear cover and a light stain at top of inside rear cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. Small curl at corners. Wraps have light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 13.8 x 21.3 x .8cm, wt250g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Slight tanning of rear cover next to spine. Inscribed by Canadian playwright on title page "Christmas, 1989 / For Sister Cherie and / Mr. Buddy - with / obese snowflake love! / Kenneth". Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Canadian Edition. "A decidedly flamboyant, fast, flashy and funny extravaganza" 183p. Author inscription on ffep. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11", photocopy of typed playscript; 70 pages in printed stiff wraps, side stapled, bright blue binder's tape on spine. Play by this Canadian author that was produced by Toronto Free Theatre in March 1983.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. No statement of later print. Canada Council bookplate on the front free endpaper, light soil on the top edge, previous owner's stamp (nursing home?) on the ffep and on pages 37, 73, and 137. DJ has edge/rub wear, small tears and light soiling. Actual book for sale pictured. 14.7 x 22.4 x 2.3cm, wt600g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Dr. Betty Mitchell who was born in 1896 was an educator at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. But her real claim to fame was in the theatre. Read more about : Alsask, Thirza, Scots Presbyterian Covenanter, Cappon, Wellington Yake, Our Town, Relieving Principal, Conrad Bain, Nana Canning, adjudicator, and Cleveland Playhouse, B/W photographs accompany text. Author has dedicated the second page after the title page. Cond : Boards are rose coloured with black lettering at spine. End-papers are white. D.J. is the colour of claret. White lettering Photo portrait by Pearl Freeman of Betty on cover. Volume and d.j. are decidedly crispy and clean. Would be very collectible except for 7 pages of annoyingly minor ink marginalia. Quote (p.65) : " Walter Pritchard Eaton told me, when I mentioned the play to him the next day at Yale, that Chekov's `Cherry Orchard' was one of the masterpieces of the world. I had known it great but I perhaps would not have concurred so readily in this opinion had I not seen it played, and played well before a rapt and resoinsive audience. That is the final consummation of ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. B/W Photographs (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Specks on top edge of pages; dust jacket has tiny chips top of flap folds, a short tear bottom of front flap fold and a very short tear bottom of rear panel. Canadian author's first book, a darkly comic novel. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper "Michael / in friendship and with gross Hollywooden affection! / Ken / April 27, 1973". Also laid-in is a handwritten letter by author, dated 1977, to a Mr. Fraser of Edmonton, for consideration of this novel. Signed by Author.…

Softcover. Signed Edition 70 pp, Association copy. Printed as Typescript. Cream colour card wraps with black fabric spine. With dedication on title page to "Elliot" [Hayes], late Lit. Director at Stratford Festival, by Ken. Very good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 106, signed, dated and dedicated on the front free endpaper by Ken Dyba. Signed by Author. book.