Date: October, 23 2011 (publishing and launch date)
Website: www.books.bc.ca

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia with Poet Laureate Brad Cran will coordinate with its member publishers to reprint 10 lost classic Vancouver books selected by an advisory committee from submissions. In addition, we will celebrate and market 10 or more BC books that remain in print and which also represent the literary culture of Vancouver. Together these books will comprise the Vancouver 125 Legacy Books collection. The books will be available for purchase in October 2011.

Books that will form the collection are:

Non-fiction
A Hard Man to Beat by Howie White, Harbour Publishing.
Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront by Rolf Knight, New Star Books
Opening Doors: Vancouver’s East End edited by Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, Harbour Publishing
Who Killed Janet Smith? By Edward Starkins, Anvil Press

Fiction
Class Warfare by D. M. Fraser, Arsenal Pulp Press
A Credit to Your Race by Truman Green, Anvil Press
Crossings by Betty Lambert, Arsenal Pulp Press
The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair, Ronsdale Press

Poetry
Day and Night by Dorothy Livesay, Oolichan Books
Anhaga by Jon Furberg, Smoking Lung/Arsenal Pulp Press

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Read more

The Association of BC Book Publishers: “Vancouver 125 Legacy Books Collection Announced”

The Globe and Mail: “Vancouver’s ‘lost gems’ to be republished for city’s 125th anniversary”

Vancouver is Awesome: “Vancouver 125 Legacy Books Collection Announced”