IS TEN: Summer 1971
(Toronto): (The Coach House Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover and center illustration by Michael Snowdon. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Michael Ondaatje, and others.
(Toronto): (The Coach House Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover and center illustration by Michael Snowdon. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Michael Ondaatje, and others.
Toronto: Ganglia, [1967]. First Edition. wraps. Single 3-1/4" x 4-1/4" sheet of blue paper folded once. The author's second publication, a one-line poem.
London: Marion Boyars, (1979). First British Edition. Hardcover. Ondaatje's first novel, an account set in New Orleans of the life of Buddy Bolden, jazz trumpeter. Issued three years after the American and Canadian editions.
[Toronto]: [Coach House Press], (1967). First Edition. hardcover. His uncommon first book, copy #495 of only 500 numbered clothbound copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page in his later scrawl. This copy belonged to Canadian poet Dennis Lee who has SIGNED the front endpaper. Lee was the co-founder.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical journey by the author, born in Sri Lanka, of THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Autobiographical journey by the author, born in Sri Lanka, of THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
[Toronto]: Anansi, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Wraps issue published simultaneously with the hardcover issue, this being the first state without the award statement. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to film director Arthur Penn: "who has his own painful/beautiful [crossed out] version/Michael Ondaatje/Feb. 71." Laid in.....