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1989. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together some of the best writers of contemporary world literature. This is one of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 48 signatures. Signed by: Bharati Mukherjee, Nobuo Kojima, Jamaica Kincaid, Julian Barnes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Susan Fromberg Schaffer, William Jay Smith, Mordecai Richler, Joan Chase, Murray Bail, Deirdre Bair, Alice Wexler, Thomas McGuane, Desmond Hogan, Martin Amis, Hella Haasse, Alice Adams, Norman Sherry, Gabriele Eckart, Hans Joachim Schadlich, Friedrich Christian Delius, Caryl Churchill, W.P. Kinsella, Roy Heath, Nissam Ezekiel, Ruth Rendell, Kjartan Flogstad, Michael Coren, Pia Tafdrup, Louise DeSalvo, Hugo Loetscher, and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival, Greg Gatenby. Designed by Annalisa Di Felice and Anita Kunz. 18-1/2" x 25-1/2". Fine. [#029748] $1,000

(n.p.), Well-Defended Press, 1990. A spoof on corporate reports, with contributions by a number of Canadian writers including Kinsella, Ann Knight, Spider Robinson, and others. Kinsella contributes "An excerpt from my essay, Treacherous Snivelling and Other Dangerous Trends in Contemporary U.S. Poetry." Also includes a poem (in Latin) by "Silas Ermineskin," a Kinsella alter-ego and one of the central characters in a number of Kinsella's highly praised Indian stories. Ermineskin's contribution is signed by "Ermineskin," somewhat illegibly. Also signed by Kinsella, Knight, Robinson and five others, presumably all the contributors, although the use of pseudonyms on the contributions makes it impossible to determine, from internal evidence alone, if this is the case. Folded sheets, with plain card-stock covers: apparently a home-made production by someone with a copier, a laser printer, and the friendship of a number of Canadian literary figures. Although the limitation is not stated, and the production methods did not preclude creation of more copies, we are told that there were 30 copies done. 24 pages, folded sheets in cardstock covers. OCLC locates only one copy, in the Canadian national archives. Fine. [#029934] $750
On Sale: $525

(Ontario), Out of this World/(Quarry Press), (2000). Stories edited with an introduction and contributions by Kinsella. Fine in wrappers. [#029816] $20

(NY), Ballantine, (1992). The first American edition of the third novel by the author of Shoeless Joe and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. This is a Depression-era novel set in western Canada. Foxing to top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029798] $20

(Toronto), HarperPerennial, (1995). The first Canadian paperback edition of this collection of Indian stories featuring Frank Fencepost and Silas Ermineskin, protagonists of several earlier volumes of Kinsella's humorous tales. Fine in wrappers. [#029804] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, (1996). The simultaneous softcover issue of the first American edition of this collection of Indian stories featuring Frank Fencepost and Silas Ermineskin, protagonists of several earlier volumes of Kinsella's humorous tales. Fine in wrappers. [#029806] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, (1996). The first American edition of this collection of Indian stories featuring Frank Fencepost and Silas Ermineskin, protagonists of several earlier volumes of Kinsella's humorous tales. Small crown bump, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029805] $20

Boston, Godine/Nonpareil, 1986. First thus, an American paperback reissue. Fine. [#029777] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, (1995). First thus. Originally published as The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Fine. [#029811] $20

(Ontario), Totem, (1998). The first Canadian paperback edition. Signed by the author. Age toning to pages; near fine in wrappers. [#029789] $20

Toronto, Collins, (1987). A collection of stories, this being the true first edition, which preceded U.S. publication by several years. Signed by the author and dated in a different ink. Foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029785] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University, (1990). The hardcover issue of the first American edition. Mild foxing; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029787] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University, (1990). The first American edition; this being the simultaneous softcover issue. Mild foxing to top edge; else fine in wrappers. [#029788] $20

Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, (1993). First thus. A reissue of his 1980 collection of stories, the title story of which was the seed for his prize-winning novel Shoeless Joe. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Fine. [#029770] $20

Toronto, Totem, (1986/1987). The first Canadian edition, which followed the 1985 U.S. edition. An interesting collection of stories, with an introduction in which Kinsella prints the text of a 1980 letter he wrote to Richard Brautigan, who was discovered to have committed suicide when this book was in preparation. A touching tribute, and a look at the writer's view of the sources and models for his own art. Only issued in wrappers. Fine. [#029774] $20

(NY), HarperCollins, (1995). The first American paperback edition of this collection of baseball stories. Fine. [#029802] $20

(Toronto), HarperPerennial, (1994). The first Canadian paperback edition of this collection of baseball stories. Fine. [#029800] $20

(Toronto), HarperCollins, (1993). The true first edition (i.e., Canadian) of this collection of baseball stories. Mild foxing to top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029799] $20

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. The first American edition of this collection of baseball stories; this is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Edge foxing; near fine. [#029793] $20

Toronto, Collins, (1988). A collection of baseball stories. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Signed by the author. Foxing to page edges; near fine. [#029791] $20

(Markham), Penguin, (1983). Signed by the author. Read and creased; very good in wrappers. [#029778] $20

Markham, ONT, Penguin Canada., (1983). Paperback original. Publisher's inscription on first leaf. Very Good. [#703960] $20

(Toronto), HarperPerennial, (1996). The first Canadian paperback edition of this novel, loosely connected to his earlier book, Box Socials. Near fine in wrappers. [#029808] $20

(Toronto), HarperCollins, (1995). A novel, loosely connected to his earlier book, Box Socials. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029807] $20