The Porcupine's Quill
Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
of Erin Village, Wellington County
Ordering Books
Individual Orders
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To order direct from The Porcupine’s Quill, send a chcque to 68 Main St., Erin, ON, N0B 1T0. If you send the cheque in advance we will pay the HST and shipping charges. We normally ship within 24 hours, and we are happy to accommodate rush deliveries by your choice of courier so long as you are willing to cover the freight costs. VISA orders can be accommodated by fax ONLY (do not send credit card information through email). Fax your order to (519) 833-9845. If you’re looking for class sets, please let us know. Discounts and special contests for students may be possible. For more information e-mail The Porcupine’s Quill. |
In Erin Village, we manage an antiquarian shop at the back of Stephanie Gairdner’s Renaissance, which features a disportionate selection of Porcupine’s Quill titles.
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60 Main St. Erin, ON N0B 1T0 |
phone: 519-833-0872 email: sg@renaissance-erin.com www.renaissance-erin.com |
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If you would like to purchase a PQL book online, we prefer to deal through Abebooks, where we have bookseller status. |
Please ask your local bookstore to order any of the titles you find in our catalogue. Regionally, we recommend the services of some of the very finest of independent booksellers in the country:
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41 Quebec St. Guelph, ON N1H 2T1 |
phone: 519-821-3311 email: queries@bookshelf.ca www.bookshelf.ca |
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121 First St. Orangeville, ON L9W 3J8 |
phone: 519-942-3830 email: booklore@bellnet.ca bookmanager.com/1162381 |
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513 Locust St. Burlington, ON L7S 1V3 |
phone: 905-639-0925 email: diffdrum@mac.com www.differentdrummerbooks.ca |
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1060 King St. W. Hamilton, ON L8S 1L7 |
phone: 905-528-4508 toll free: 1-800-867-0090 email: staff@princebooks.net www.princebooks.net |
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96 King St. S. Waterloo, ON N2J 1P5 |
phone: 519-884-2665 toll free: 1-888-241-7546 email: orders@wordsworthbooks.com www.wordsworthbooks.com |
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1974 Weston Rd. Weston, ON M9N 1W2 |
phone: 416-241-5801 email: squibbs@on.aibn.com squibbsstationers.com |
There are also several bookstores in Toronto that carry PQL titles, including:
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366 Bay Street Toronto, ON M5H 4B2 |
phone: 416-361-0032 email: info@benmcnallybooks.com www.benmcnallybooks.com |
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Queen West 883 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON M6J 1G5 |
phone: 416-366-8973 email: info@typebooks.ca www.typebooks.ca |
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The Annex 427 Spadina Rd. Toronto, ON M5P 2W3 |
phone: 416-487-8973 email: info@typebooks.ca www.typebooks.ca |
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The Annex 501 Bloor St. W. Toronto, ON M5S 1Y2 |
phone: 416-961-4496 email: annex@bookcity.ca www.bookcity.ca |
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Danforth 348 Danforth Ave. Toronto, ON M4K 1N8 |
phone: 416-469-9997 email: danforth@bookcity.ca www.bookcity.ca |
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The Beach 1950 Queen St. E. Toronto, ON M4L 1H6 |
phone: 416-698-1444 email: beach@bookcity.ca www.bookcity.ca |
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Yonge & St. Clair 1430 Yonge St. Toronto, ON M4T 1Y6 |
phone: 416-926-0749 email: stclair@bookcity.ca www.bookcity.ca |
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To find a local independent bookstore near you, search Book Manager. |
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Amazon.com is probably the best source for individuals wanting to order PQL titles in the United States. Amazon lists over 196 PQL titles as in-stock and ready for shipping within twenty-four hours. Amazon is also often the best site to use for ordering recent releases. |
| Amazon.ca usually offers the cheapest prices of any on-line source for Porcupine’s Quill titles. |
| Chapters-Indio may be a viable alternative, depending on the availability of stock on hand. One problem with Chapters is that they insist that our books are published in hardcover, which is not true. Another problem is that a book which is not in stock at Ingram’s warehouse in Tennessee will show a three to five week delivery time. |
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If you would like to purchase an ebook editon of a PQL title, you cansearch the selection of eBooks available in PDF format at our eBook Store |
| Google Play also offers a number of PQL eBooks. |
The Porcupine’s Quill is remarkable in
Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our
journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin
Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically
onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and
sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing
machine.
To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit
us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in
general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other
videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production
machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site
at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.
“In my sixteen years of reviewing Canadian literature for the Toronto Star, I have found that the Porcupine’s Quill has upheld the most consistently high level of excellence in writing and publishing of any of the literary presses in this country. Its output alone would put Canada on a firm international footing in contemporary world literature.” —Philip Marchand
