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The cut 'n' pastes below are taken from searches online to find books by essayists, poets, and sculptors who interest me and by whom or about whom I have either acquired a book or want to find a title.

Often I search on AddAll and then compare what I find with what Montreal booksellers offer. If I find a book in Montreal, I can avoid a wait and the expense of handling and shipping -- depending on my quality / price comparisons.

What you find below are mere notes. A file would be opened on any single title or author as it moved from my Wish List to my Must Have List and, finally, to the Order or Buy This Title file.

Artists, authors and poets:
(use ctrl 'F' find after highlighting a name below and you can see one or two entries for a relevant title)

George Segal (environments)
Marino Marini (sculpture)
James Joyce (secondary critical essays and books)
Gluck, Louise
Irving Layton
Mordecai Richler
Phyllis Webb,
Michael Hamburger
Geoffrey Hill
Alan Sillitoe
A. R. Ammons
Carol B. Davis
John Ashbery
Pablo Neruda
Lawrence and Nancy Gladstone's "book book"

--------------- bare-bone results of quick searches -----------



Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
by Goldstone, Lawrence


Continuing the couple's love affair with book collecting

that was first shared with readers in "Used and Rare, "

the Goldstones get hooked on the correspondence and

couplings of Bloomsbury, track down Bram Stoker's

earliest notes for "Dracula, " and discover new places to

buy rare tomes--meeting eccentric personalities along the

way.

Seller's Name: The Denver Bookmark, CO, USA
price: C$3.40

Previously, before using AddAll, I could only find more

expensive 2nd-hand copies of that book


Slightly Chipped
Footnotes in Booklore Goldstone, Lawrence
Goldstone, Nancy St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-26395-3
$12.95

( Other 2nd hand dealers there are charging MORE . . .

with one in NYC charging $2 less if you 'name'

bookfinder in the order form ! )

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Canto general II (ISBN: 9500300540)
Neruda, Pablo
Bookseller: Book Dispensary
(Vaughan, ON, Canada) Price: US$ 4.98

Book Description: Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires,

Argentina, 1971. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good.

Editorial Losada (Argentina) edition, VERY GOOD

softcover, no marks in text. Bookseller Inventory #

016308

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As We Know: Poems (ISBN: 0140422749)
Ashbery, John
Bookseller: TIGHT LINES BOOKSHELF
(Baldwin, NY, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 3.00

Book Description: Penguin Books, New York, 1979. Soft

Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First

State. Oblong. vi, 118pp. Bottom edge is mildly stained

o/w Very Good condition.


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Home Is North (ISBN: 0823302008)
Davis, Carol B.
Bookseller: TIGHT LINES BOOKSHELF
(Baldwin, NY, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 7.50

Book Description: Golden Quill Press, Francestown, New

Hamphire, 1974. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First

Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 68pp, foreword by

David Dillman (President, Poetry Society of Alaska),

illustrations by Diana Tillion. The author's prolific pen

covers many facets of Alaskan life, places and legends. In

addition to the beauty of the poetry, the author's vivid

descriptions of such scenic wonders as Glacier Bay, which

with its 200 glaciers, and their surroundings, constitute

the largest glacial area in the world. I the poem Alaska

Water Gateway Mrs. Davis describes the then new ferry

system, the scenery, the background of towns and the

lifework of residents along this waterway to Alaska.

Bookseller Inventory # 033333

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Glare (ISBN: 0393040968)
Ammons, A. R.
Bookseller: TIGHT LINES BOOKSHELF
(Baldwin, NY, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 7.50

Book Description: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York,

1997. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket

Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over

7¾" - 9¾" tall. 294pp. Bookseller Inventory # 029053

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---------------------- Sillitoe, novels and poetry
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
(ISBN: 0451114361)
Sillitoe, Alan
Bookseller: Miles Books
(Highland, IN, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 1.00

Book Description: N A L, New York, New York, U.S.A.,

1961. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Later

Printing. Book is clean and tight. Your order ships from

our Chicago Land warehouse that is centrally located for

the entire U.S. Bookseller Inventory # 144361

Without Beer or Bread (1957) IS RARE = $900 !!!

------- the BALDWIN, NY store has 3 or 4 women poets

writing on Alaska themes -----

-------------------- MORE Sillitoe at $45

From Canto Two of the Rats.
Sillitoe, Alan
Bookseller: TIGHT LINES BOOKSHELF
(Baldwin, NY, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 45.00

Book Description: Privately Published By Alan Sillitoe,

Wittersham, Kent, 1973. Printer Wrapper. Book

Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

8pp

better world books has 3 or more Geoffrey Hill titles at $1

Speech! Speech! (ISBN: 1582432406)
Geoffrey Hill
Bookseller: Better World Books
(Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 1.00

Book Description: Counterpoint Press. Book Condition:

Used - Good. Fast shipping, best return policy, and social

responsibility put Better World Books above the rest.

Orders ship in 24 hours. Choose Expedited for 2-4 day

delivery. Returns are 100% no-questions-asked. Over 1

million happy customers! Your purchase benefits

Columbus Literacy Council! Shows some signs of wear,

and may have some markings on the inside. Bookseller

Inventory # CS-002-366

------------- better world (next)
Illuminating Shadows: The Mythic Power of Film
(ISBN: 0877736456)
Geoffrey Hill

Bookseller: Better World Books
(Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 1.00

Book Description: Shambhala. Book Condition: Used -

Good. Fast shipping, best return policy, and social

responsibility put Better World Books above the rest.

Orders ship in 24 hours. Choose Expedited for 2-4 day

delivery. Returns are 100% no-questions-asked. Over 1

million happy customers! Your purchase benefits the

National Center for Family Literacy! Former library

book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some

markings on the inside. Bookseller Inventory #

BV-017-596
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Somewhere is such a kingdom: Poems 1952-1971
Geoffrey Hill
Bookseller: Better World Books
(Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 1.00

Book Description: Houghton Mifflin. Book Condition:

Used - Good. Former library book. Shows some signs of

wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100%

Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over 500,000 happy

customers. Support Literacy! Your purchase benefits the

National Center for Family Literacy!. Bookseller

Inventory # DK-010-381

------------------------ Interviews with Poets
the whole BTL series ($19 New)

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The Truth of Poetry, by Michael Hamburger
--- 6 online booksellers (lowest price of $17)
--------------- Below I give blurbs for some of them

ISBN: 0953284190 for the Michael Hamburger book.

In Montreal, one copy is held by BRONX
(SEE INTERVIEWS WITH POETS on the Internet)


Hamburger also enjoys a considerable reputation as a

critic-cum-literary historian, with several collections of

essays to his name, and the masterly The Truth of Poetry,

first published all the way back in 1968, and recently

reissued by Anvil, exciting Michael Schmidt to say:

"Poetry readers often find that a few prose texts have

opened their eyes and ears, to the world of poetry. In my

case there were Auerbach's Mimesis, Davie's Purity of

Diction and Thomas Hardy and British Poetry … Ricks's

Milton's Grand Style, Empson's Seven Types … and, near

or at the top of the pile, The Truth of Poetry by Michael

Hamburger."

----------------------- Or $12 as below ====
Michael Hamburger In Conversation With Peter Dale

(ISBN: 0953284115)
Dale, Peter; (Dale, Peter - ed.)
Bookseller: TheBookCom
(Horsham, WSx, United Kingdom) Price: US$ 12.36

Book Description: Between The Lines, UK 1998 Between

The Lines S. Ordered in from publisher - usually 1-2 wks

extra., 1998. BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 210mm. 80

pgs. Illustd by KITAJ, R.B. Books - General.

ILLUSTRATIONS

-------------------- SEE
Michael Harris on the Montreal Books website

Even Your Right Eye
Webb, Phyllis
Bookseller: The Wonderful Store
(Stella, ON, Canada) Price: US$ 13.00

Book Description: McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto,

1956. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust

Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition;

Not Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pp. Usual library

marks & attachments, but otherwise a clean, tight copy

with lightly rubbed spine ends. Ex-Library.

------------------ now Harris's Montreal Books (below)


Webb, Phyllis. Even Your Right Eye, Toronto:

McClelland and Stewart, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition.

Near Fine/No Jacket. Poet's first separate book.

INSCRIBED by poet to Irving Layton. Layton's

bookplate on front pastedown with his name handwritten

in capital letters. Excellent association copy. Lettering on

spine rubbed, otherwise fine, lacking jacket. $260.00 CDN

($200.00 USD)


Born in Victoria, B.C. in 1927, Webb currently lives on

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. She taught in

Creative Writing programmes across the country, and

won numerous prizes, including the Governor General's

Award for Poetry in 1982. She was appointed to the

Order of Canada in 1992. She is one of Canada’s most

celebrated poets.

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Richler, Mordecai. The Acrobats, London: Andre

Deutsch, 1954

The Acrobats
RICHLER, Mordecai
Bookseller: My Book Heaven
(Alameda, CA, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 65.00

Book Description: Putnam, 1954. First Edition. Very

Good condition. No dustjacket.

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Richler, Mordecai. The Acrobats, London: Andre

Deutsch, 1954. Hardcover in jacket. First Edition,

preceding Canadian and American editions. Near

Fine/Very Good. A nice copy with yellowing to endpaper,

ownership signature, in jacket with short closed tear, 1”

chip at head of spine, faint blue stain on back. Overall, a

nice copy. $200.00 CDN ($150.00 USD)


Born in Montreal in 1931, Richler was the author of ten

novels, including Barney's Version (1997), Solomon

Gursky Was Here (1989), Cocksure (1968), and The

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), as well as

numerous screenplays, essays, children's books like the

Jacob Two-Two series, and several works of non-fiction.

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, Richler was

made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2001, only

a few months before his death. He is one of Canada’s

most beloved (and brilliant) authors.


============= On Layton, the first earlies are all

above $1200

Layton, Irving. Here and Now, Montreal: First Statement

Press, 1945

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Gluck, Louise. Firstborn, New York: The New American

Library, 1968.

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Firstborn
Gluck, Louise
Bookseller: Anansi Books
(Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom) Price: US$ 9.66

Book Description: Anvil, London, 1959. Mass Market

Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Minor aging wear to

book. Stains to corners, appropriate to age.
---------- also
Gluck, Louise. Firstborn, New York: The New American

Library, 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine+/No

Jacket. SIGNED by poet on title-page. Author’s first

book. Grey cloth over boards with dark blue lettering on

spine. Pea-sized pale stain on back cover, otherwise fine.

Scarce. $650.00 CDN ($500.00 USD)


Gluck is the current Poet Laureate of the US. Her sixth

collection of poems, The Wild Iris, won the Pulitzer Prize

for Poetry in 1992. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

and was previously a Senior Lecturer in English at

Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

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Joyce, James; Connolly, Thomas (editor). James Joyce's

Scribbledehobble : The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans

Wake, Northwestern University Press, 1961. First

Edition. Hardcover.
--------------First one here is on abebooks.com (see below)

Scribbledehobble: The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans

Wake, Ed. By Thomas E. Connolly


Bookseller: Dunaway Books
(St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 37.50

Book Description: Northwestern U. Press, Evanston,

1961. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket

Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket price clipped; jacket

has some rubbing; else pages clean and tight.

------------------ Now a Montreal dealer (at precisely 3X the price)

Joyce, James; Connolly, Thomas (editor). James Joyce's

Scribbledehobble : The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans

Wake, Northwestern University Press, 1961. First

Edition.

Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very nice copy in

rubbed and very lightly soiled jacket. #002517. $130.00

CAD ($100.00 USD)

--------------------- Sculptors

Marino Marini: Complete Works

Read, Herbert; and Patrick Waldberg and G. Di San

Lazzaro. Marino Marini: Complete Works, New York:

Tudor Publishing Company, 1970


Marino Marini: Complete Works
READ, HERBERT; WALDBERG, PATRICK; DI SAN

LAZZARO, G
Bookseller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB
(Toronto, ON, Canada) Price: US$ 150.00

Book Description: New York: Tudor Publishing Co. 1970,

New York, 1970. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine.

First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover.

Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Illustrated throughout in black and white and in full

colour. Cased in custom black card case.


---------------------- OR (wi/out box and slightlt damaged)

Read, Herbert; and Patrick Waldberg and G. Di San

Lazzaro. Marino Marini: Complete Works, New York:

Tudor Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition.

Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Linen over boards with

red lettering in white jacket with black lettering and red

Marini drawing. Includes 1000 reproductions, 80 of them

in colour and printed under the artist's personal

supervision. This 500-page volume is the largest of

monographies as well as the first general catalogue of the

genius work of Marini, "the last paladin of Western

Sculpture." Contains an introduction by Herbert Read,

general text by Patrick Waldberg, and catalogue and

notes by G. di San Lazzaro.


A splendid copy with discreet ownership signature on

endpaper, light foxing to front-edge in jacket with sunning

to spine, several short tears repaired from behind with

tape. Contains errata slip. #004627. $260.00 CAD

($200.00 USD)


Marino Marini(continued)

Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
by Marini, Marino; Hammacher, Abraham Marie

price: C$86.35

Edition: First Edition Binding: Cloth Publisher: Harry N.

Abrams, New York, NY, U.S.A. Date Published: 1970

ISBN: 0810902745 Description: Very Good in Very Good

jacket. Ex-Library. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. New York,

NY, U.S.A. Harry N. Abrams. 1970. Hard Cover. small

Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 327pp., 315 illustrations,

including 63 tipped-in color plates. Very Good/Very

Good. Ex-library with the usual markings, front free

endpaper has been removed. Red cloth with light

edgewear, a clean and tight copy. Unclipped and unpriced

dust jacket in mylar taaped to boards. A large and heavy

book. read more

seller information:
Name: The Bookpile, PA, USA

George Segal

A Québec library entry:

Auteur Segal, George, 1924-; Van der Marck, Jan, 1929-

Titre The sculpture of George Segal / [Text] by Jan van der Marck

Sujet Segal, George, 1924-;
Sculpture de figures humaines 20e siècle États-Unis
Éditeur New York, H. N. Abrams [1975]

Collation 233 p. ill. (certaines en coul.) 28 x 30 cm.


Libraries won't sell a title entry like this. Library searches are a good way to find out what titles exist and are out of print.