Literature from Capricorn Books

Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1994. 2 short story collections, each 8 3/4" H. 1. A Litany in Time of Plague - 167 pp, 1994, ISBN 0889841454. "K.D. Miller's first collection of short fiction. The 'plague' of the title story is a reference not only to AIDS but to its ironic companion, loneliness. Each of the characters in the ten linked… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. 205 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth century Europe, based on a true story. In 1551, King Joao III of Portugal decided to give Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon, along with his keeper, Subhro. The two had been living… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 265 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Matty appears out of the flaming destruction of the Blitz. Who is he? Is he more or less than an ordinary human? Is the journal he keeps madness or inspiration? The twins are young enough to be his daughters: Sophy - dark, amoral, cruel; and Toni - fair, brilliant,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Methuen, 1929. 153 pp, 7 11/16" H, purple/red boards with gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. 20 full page b&w drawings by E.H. Shepard, known for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. A humorous look at life in the British Army as everything from dogs, cats, lambs and cows to monkeys, parrots and an elephant undermine regulations and authority.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. 224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. Cream cloth with blue lettering/decoration, silver crown and E on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece… Saber más sobre este artículo

(New York): Delacorte, 1973. 303 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w drawings. "Kurt Vonnegut bids farewell and Godspeed to all of the literary characters who have worked so hard for him over the years. Their unconditional liberty is the author's fiftieth birthday present to himself. Only Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer, is told of his new freedom from the whims… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan, 1910. 256 pp, 10" H. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustrations on spine/front board, top edge gilt.100 b&w illustrations throughout the text by Hugh Thomson and 16 colour plates by Alfred Rawlings tipped on heavy brown stock with caption-bearing tissue guards. All illustrations are present, but the tissue-guard for "The Dragon Inn, Three Mile… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 379 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(G)athers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays, which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays… Saber más sobre este artículo

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2004. 479 pp, 8 1/2" H. " 'The Monk' (first published in 1796) is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who goes on to sell his soul to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Exile Editions, 2017. 125 pp, 8" H. Inscribed on half title page: "To: Shauna / Thank you! / Michael Mirolla / April 10, 2018". "(T)ells us stories that blend the explicable with the inexplicable. As if a camel were actually passing through the eye of a needle, these stories pass what is commonplace through a hyper-realistic lens into… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Penguin, 1976. 311 pp, 7 3/4" H. "Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of 'The Mabinogion' passed through generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we now read them. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and of the shadowy otherworld, the tales are… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Sundial, 1979. 688 pp, 8 1/2" H. 3 complete and unabridged novels by Wilbur Smith in one volume. Gold Mine - "Rod Ironsides is the Underground Manager of the Sonder Ditch Gold Mining Company and he is young, tough and ambitious in a dangerous, greed-infested world. Yet he is the unsuspecting pawn of Manfred Steyner, one of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962. 186 pp, 8 1/4" H. "(T)he tale of an instinctive artist, a young man driven by his intense desire to create, through visual images, a beauty that does not yet exist. There is magic in the sharply contrasting backgrounds: the remote reaches of the Canadian North and Paris and the French countryside. As fisherman,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1989. 154 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "A fast paced, satirical novel - about politics, corruption, influence, intrigue. The setting is a major resource development project in northern Manitoba, Canada. Based upon real events, real people, the novel explores the intrigue inherent in massive development projects, the contradictions between the concerns of profit and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Orion, 1998. 404 pp, 9 1/2" H. 2 b&w maps. "Recounts the tragic and terrible saga of the Trojan War, a three-thousand-year-old tale of enduring love, abiding hate, vengeance, betrayal, honour and sacrifice. The narrative is passed from one character to another: Priam, King of Troy, doomed to make the wrong decisions for the right reasons; the Greek… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. iv, 972 pp, 9 7/8" H. Black cloth with blind stamped decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine and front board (giving the title as "Harper's New Monthly Magazine"), plain light green endpapers. Colour, b&w and sepiatone illustrations, photographs throughout. Contents include: Adventuring Along the Upper Orinoco, by Caspar Whitney; Beauty… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh / London: Cadell / Simpkin and Marshall, 1830. Eleven volumes, 8vo (8 5/8" H), bound in dark green leather with blindstamped borders. Spines have 5 raised bands with title and volume number in gilt, all textblock edges gilt, gilt dentelle edges to inside of covers. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of each volume: Matthew Liddell / Constans et Fidelis.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan, 1886. 82 pp, 8 3/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and illustration on front board. All edges gilt. Dark brown endpaper, many charming b&w illustration, including tissue-covered frontispiece - all present. The first appearance in book form - previously published in The Spectator. Contents: Sir Roger's Family; Mr. William Wimble; The… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Bodley Head / William Heinemann , 1972. 562 pp, 7 3/4" H. Heinemann SBN 434305618. "The following three stories in this collection are published in book form for the the first time: The Blessing, Church Militant, Dear Dr Falkenheim." "Looking over these stories now which stretch in time from 1929 to the eve of the 1970's… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan, 1897. 339 pp, 7 11/16" H. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards. Five raised bands, two maroon leather labels, gilt lettering, banding on spine. Top edge gilt, integral ribbon bookmark. Marbled endpapers. Dick Heldar experiences an unhappy childhood but finds success as an artist for London newspaper during the Sudan campaign. When he returns to England,… Saber más sobre este artículo