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Collectibles
Is there a bibliophile in your life who loves to collect books by favorite authors or autographed editions? After thirty years as a bookseller I have managed to collect quite a few of these goodies and am now able to offer some of them for sale. Nearly all the titles on the following list are signed first editions in very good shape.
If you are interested in a title, please e-mail us at lauriesbookcompany@shaw.ca and we will happily provide you with further details. The list is alphabetical by author and I have noted anything of interest.
Cataloguing the collectibles has proved a more time-consuming challenge than I anticipated. But we’re getting there, so keep watching this space as we add more and more great books.
ALDA, Alan
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
ATWOOD, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Blind Assassin
Alias Grace
Oryx & Crake
Negotiating with the Dead
The Penelopiad
True Stories
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Payback
Rude Ramsey & The Roaring Radishes
BACH, Richard
Out of My Mind
BACHMAN, Randy
Takin’ Care of Business
BADAMI, Anita Rau
Tamarind Mem
The Tiger’s claw
BAKER, Jacqueline
A Hard Witching
BANKS, Lynne Reid
Four of the Indian in the Cupboard series, paperbacks
BANKS, Russell
Angel on the Roof (signed paperback)
BANTOCK, NICK
Griffin & Sabine series, first three signed
The Venetian’s Wife
BARBER, James
Peasant’s Choice (cookbook)
BARBOUR, Douglas
Lyric, Anti-Lyric
BARBER, Katherine
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to do with Pigs
BARRE, Richard
The Ghost of Morning
BARRY, Dave
Guide to Guys
BATEMAN, Robert
Birds
BEHRENS, Peter
Night Driving
BEMROSE, John
Island Walkers
BERGEN, David
Case of Lena S
The Time In-Between (Giller winner)
BIRDSELL, Sandra
Russlander
BIRNEY, Earl
Rag & Bone Shop (1971, signed)
Near False Creek Mouth (unsigned)
Ghost in the Wheels (unsigned)
BISSOONDATH, Neil
A Casual Brutality
A World Within Her
BLAISE, Clarke
Days & Nights in Calcutta
BLANCHARD, James J
Behind the Embassy Door
BLUNT, Giles
Forty Words for Sorrow
By The Time You Read This
The Delicate Storm
BOCK, Dennis
Ash Garden
The Communist’s Daughter
BOYDEN, Joseph
Three Day Road (third edition)
Through Black Spruce (second edition)
A Mixed Blood Highway (Henry Kreisel lecture)
BRAUTIGAN, Richard
Willard & His Bowling Trophies (unsigned)
BROWN, Chester
Louis Riel
BUCHANAN, Diane
Between the Silences
BULLARD, Mike
Open Book
BYATT, A.S.
Angels & Insects
CALLWOOD, June
Emma
CARNEY, Pat
Trade Secrets
CHRETIEN, Jean
Straight From the Heart
My Years as Prime Minister
COADY, Lynn
Saints of Big Harbor
COHEN, Leonard
The Book of Longing
CONNELLY, Karen
Touch the Dragon
The Border Surrounds Us
One Room In A Castle
COSBY, Bill
Love & Marriage
COX, Josephine
Cradle of Thorns
DAVIES, Robertson
Murther & Walking Spirits (signed)
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (Unsigned first editions)
Feast of Stephen (Unsigned first editions)
DENTON, Don
First Chapter: Canadian Writer’s Photography Project
DE BERNIERES, Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (signed but 4th reprint)
Red Dog
Labels (One Horse Press)
Birds Without Wings (advance reading copy)
DEVERELL, William
Mindfield
DILLARD, Annie
The Living
DRABBLE, Margaret
The Witch of Exmoor
DUNCAN, Jennifer
Frontier Spirit
DUNNING, John
The Bookman’s Wake (advance reading copy, rare!)
EGGERS, Dave
A heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (unsigned first ed)
ENGER, Leif
Peace Like A River
So Brave, Young & Handsome
ERDRICH, Louise
Master Butcher’s Singing Club
Four Souls (special edition)
FARQUHARSON, Charlie
The Old Testament
Cum Buy the Farm
FERGUSON, Will
Generica
FINDLEY, Timothy
Famous Last Words
The Telling of Lies
From Stone Orchard
The Piano Man’s Daughter
Inside Memory
FORAN, Charles
Butterfly Lovers
FORD, Richard
Wildlife
Independence Day (signed advance reader and paperbacks)
A Multitude of Sins
FREELAND, Chrystia
Sale of the Century
FRAZIER, Charles
Cold Mountain (signed 13th edition & unsigned manuscript)
FROST, Karolyn
I’ve Got A Home in Glory Land (2008 GG award for non-fiction)
GABALDON, Diana
The Fiery Cross
GALLANT, Mavis
Selected Stories
GIBSON, William
Spook County
GIBSON, Graeme
Gentleman Death
GILL, Charlotte
Ladykiller
GILLESPIE, Curtis
Crown Shyness
GLOVER, Douglas
The Life & Times of Captain N
Precious
GOLDING, William
To The Ends of the Earth (365 of 400 limited editions)
GOUGH, Laurence
Karaoke Rap
GRENVILLE, Kate
The Idea of Perfection
GRISHAM, John
The Chamber
Rainmaker
GZOWSKI, Peter
Morningside Papers (signed manuscript of the 5th series)
HADDON, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
HALL, Steven
The Raw Shark Texts
HARRISON, George (Yup, the beatle)
I, Me, Mine (limited edition of George’s autobiography; this is #1843 of only 2,000 books printed. Bound in leather, in a presentation box, signed by Harrison.
HANNA, Don
The Wise & Foolish Virgin
HANSEN, Rick
Man in Motion
HARRADENCE, Milt
The Western Flair
HART, Matthew
Diamond
HAY, Elizabeth
Garbo Laughs
HEIGHTON, Steven
The Shadow Boxer
HELPRIN, Mark
A Soldier of the Great War (advanced reading copy)
HENDERSON, Robert & MACDONALD, John
Double the Vision.
(Local surgeon & architect travel the world; watercolor illus)
HIAASEN, Carl
Basket Case
HIJUELOS, Oscar
Mr. Ives’ Christmas (special boxed set & a signed hardcover)
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (adv. reader w bookplate)
HILL, Joe
20th Century Ghosts
HILL, Gerald
Getting to know You (poetry)
HODGINS, Jack
Broken Ground
The Honorary Patron
HOLLINGSHEAD, Greg
Spin Dry
Famous Players
The Roaring Girl
Bedlam
HOMER-DIXON, Thomas
The Ingenuity Gap
HOSSEINE, Khaled
The Kite Runner
HOUSTON, James
Ghost Fox
HUSER, Glen
Grace Lake (paperback)
HUSTON, Nancy
Fault Lines, (advanced reading copy, signed)
IRVING, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany (hardcover & m/m)
Son of the Circus (advanced reading copy & hardcover)
Widow for One Year (advanced reading copy)
Until I Find You
JARDINE, Quentin
Thursday Legends
JILES, Paulette
Enemy Within
JONES, Lloyd
Mister Pip
JOHNSTON, WAYNE
The Time of Their Lives (Oberon)
The Divine Ryans
Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Navigator of New York
