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My Rare Double-Signed “All the President’s Men”

Has both authors’ signatures (next to impossible to find). Just in time for another impeachment.

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A Very Rare Signed Brian Moore

with the actual dust jacket, not a facsimile dj.

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A Very Rare 1912 Inscription by Pauline Johnson

in a copy of a rare Legends of Vancouver.

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My Vintage Autographed Letter from Farley Mowat to a Good Friend

in a copy of The Desperate People, one of his early books.

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My Vintage Autographed letter from Robertson Davies

in A Voice from the Attic when he was starting out as a newspaper man and author.

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Nice Music for a Rainy Sunday

Includes Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, Sonata No. 2 in A, and Sonata No. 3 in E, played by Baroque violin and harpsichord (as Bach played all keyboards on)

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Weekend Report in June

The ugliest American crashes his way thru the summits and china shops of the world, on his way to bully Rocket Man. Overnight here, a motorcyclist meets his deer finale on the vacant Henday. And Sunday waking up to a … Continue reading

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Two Books Atwood Can Be Justly Proud of

And they aren’t fiction or poetry. I’m thinking of the best book ever written on Canadian Literature called Survival and another called Negotiating with the Dead which presents her conclusions about writing and being a writer. I revisited the latter … Continue reading

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Intersection/Interlude

THOM-THOM-THOM steady, unrelenting from the car beside me at the light. And suddenly I want to tell him about Beethoven’s “Fifth” or Glenn Gould’s “Goldberg” that there are other beats and rhythms than monotone, other tones, sounds and voices than … Continue reading

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June Quotables

(why I travel to Butchart Gardens near Victoria as often as I can) “Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson “How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it … Continue reading

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