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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Very Near Fine book in a very Near Fine jacket - both very much so. See all scans and description. New York & Avenel, NJ: Gramercy Books (Random House / Avenel), 1992. Sixth Printing. 'Walt Whitman - Selected Poems', with introduction by Christopher Moore. Octavo, illustrated jacket, white fine buckram boards with gilt imprinting on spine, 224 pp. A bright, handsome Near Fine book with four thin lines of underscore at pages 11 and 12 of the preface, and which is immaculately as new otherwise in a very, very Near Fine jacket which does show a faint bar of sunning toward the top of the front panel. See all scans. Almost a kind of eye-candy on the shelf or cocktail table, but this is a serious selection from Whitman, of course. Ships in a new, study, protective box - not a bag. L202.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. **Bundle Up and Save On Postage** 7.25 X 10.25" 294 pages (2001) Weight 1 Kg. A very nice hard cover copy in dust jacket, very clean and well bound, without flaw. Twelve of Canada's finest writers draw on their skills as master storytellers to contribute to this collection of wonderfully imaginative accounts of what it's like to make history. Margaret Atwood casts her eye back to 1759 and brilliantly captures the journal entries of frightened French women, trapped in Quebec City as the English forces attack. Vividly illustrating the joy, sorrow, anger and passion of more than two centuries of our history, here are fifty unforgeable images: the Belgian Queen, a seductive reminder that the Klondike of Roch Carrier's story was anything but a purely masculine domain, Viola Desmond at the Hi-Hat Club, whose glamour and elegance contrasted starkly with the small-minded racism so powerfully chronicled by Dione Brand. Each story is further brought to life by an accompanying visual narrative.…