Countdown to Our Annual Book Auction

Our annual book auction is just a few days away! We have extended the deadline for signing up for our annual luncheon and auction: there are still some seats available, if you're able to join us.

This event is always really fun; you have a chance to acquire books submitted to our competition, all lovely and interesting, and many hard to find - for yourself, or for gifts.  

A reminder; our auction contains the books that were entered in the competition from the publishing year 2011, but it ALSO contains the winning books from the publishing year 2010, and a good number in duplicate. These books are featured in depth in our awards catalog here, but I also thought I should showcase a few of those books here on the blog.

Horse that Leaps through Clouds
by Eric Enno Tamm. 
Douglas & McIntyre.

Polaroids
by Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris.
Arsenal Pulp.

Armchair Book of Gardensby Jane Billinghurst.
Greystone.

Cigar Box Banjo
by Paul Quarrington.
Greystone.

Compagnie Marie Chouinard Company
par Marie Chouinard et CollectiF,
les éditions du passage.

Short History of Forgettingby Paul Tyler. 
Gaspereau.

Little Hummingbird
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 
Greystone

Inuit Modernby Gerald McMaster. 
Douglas & McIntyre and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Relations on Southeastern Hudson Bay:
an Illustrated History of Inuit, Cree, and Eurocanadian Interaction, 1740-1970by Toby Morantz. 
Avataq Cultural Institute.

Room in the City: photographs
by Gabor Gasztony;
foreword by Gabor Mate. 
Anvil Press.

Sea Legend
by Mark Callanan. 
Frog Hollow Press.

Sketches: From Here and There
by A.J. Diamond. 
Douglas & McIntyre.

In the Suicide's Library: a Book Lover's Journey
by Tim Bowling. 
Gaspereau.

Vij's at Homeby Meeru Dhalwala & Vikram Vij. 
Douglas & McIntyre.

Visions of British Columbia,
by Bruce Grenville & Scott Steadman. 
Douglas & McIntyre.

Wild Ride, The: a History of the North West Mounted Police, 1873-1904
by Charles Wilkins. 
Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers.

The event is this coming Saturday - November 10th. Come at 11 am to look at the books; lunch is at 12 noon; the auction begins at 1:00 pm. It's at the University Golf Club, close to transit, and with lots of free parking. The lunch is $18 per person (we currently have 10 spaces available for lunch); or you can just come to the auction. But do please let us know so that we can be sure there's a chair for you. 

Please contact us by email before Thursday November 8th if you're planning to attend.