Colombo & Company is the publishing imprint for about half of the books listed below.
Poetry
- Lines for the Last Day (1960)
- The Mackenzie Poems (1966)
- Miraculous Montages (1966)
- The Great Wall of China (1966, 1996)
- William Lyon Mackenzie Rides Again! (1967)
- Abracadabra (1967)
- John Toronto (1969)
- Neo Poems (1970)
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1971)
- Leonardo's Lists (1972)
- Praise Poems (1972)
- Translations from the English (1974)
- The Sad Truths (1974)
- The Great Collage (1974)
- Proverbial Play (1975)
- Mostly Monsters (1977, 1995)
- Variable Cloudiness (1977)
- Private Parts (1978)
- The Great Cities of Antiquity (1979)
- Selected Poems (1982)
- Selected Translations (1982)
- Recent Poems (1982)
- Off Earth (1987)
- Luna Park / One Thousand Poems (1994)
- Space Poems (1995)
- Contrails (1996)
- Earlier Lives (1996)
- Ether / Rewords (1997)
- What Is What (1998)
- Interspaces (1999)
- Impromptus (2000)
- Half a World Away (2000)
Poetry Anthologies
- The Varsity Chapbook (1959)
- Poetry 64 / Poésie 64 (1963)
- Shapes & Sounds (1968)
- How Do I Love Thee (1970)
- New Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971)
- Rhymes and Reasons (1971)
- Trio (1975)
- The Poets of Canada (1978)
- We Stand on Guard (1985, 1998)
- Master of All Poets (1996)
- Worlds in Small (1992)
- Small Wonders (2000)
Aphorisms
- Uncommon Knowledge (1996)
- Semi-Certainties (1998)
- Open Secrets (2000)
Canadiana
- Colombo's Book of Canada (1978, 1998)
- Toronto's Fantastic Street Names (1982)
- Colombo's 101 Canadian Places (1983)
- Colombo's Canadiana Quiz Book (1983)
- Canadian Literary Landmarks (1983)
- 1001 Questions about Canada (1986)
- 999 Questions about Canada (1989)
- Writer's Map of Toronto (1991)
- Writer's Map of Ontario (1992)
- QuasiBook Edition of the Writer's Map of Canada (1995)
- Quotable Canada (1998)
Quote Books
- Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974)
- Colombo's Concise Canadian Quotations (1976)
- Colombo's New Canadian Quotations (1987)
- The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations (1991)
- Colombo's All-Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994)
- Colombo's Famous Lasting Words (2000)
Reference
- Colombo's Names & Nicknames (1974)
- Colombo's Canadian References (1976)
- The Canada Colouring Book (1980)
- The Canadian Global Almanac (1992+)
- Omnium Gatherum (1994)
- Shapely Places (1996)
Compilations
- Richard Maurice Bucke: Catalogue (1963)
- Probings (1968)
- Colombo's Hollywood (1979)
- Walt Whitman's Canada (1992)
- The New Consciousness (1994)
Fantastic Literature
- CDN SF&F (1979)
- Other Canadas (1979)
- Blackwood's Books (1981)
- Friendly Aliens (1981)
- Not to Be Taken at Night (1981)
- Years of Light (1982)
Humour & Lore
- Colombo's Little Book of Canadian Proverbs (1975, 1997)
- 222 Canadian Jokes (1981)
- Colombo's Last Words (1982)
- Colombo's Laws (1982)
- René Lévesque Buys Canada Savings Bonds (1983)
- Great Moments in Canadian History (1984)
- The Toronto Puzzle Book (1984)
- Canada First Quiz (1984)
- Quotations from Chairman Lamport (1990)
- Ogdenisms (1994)
- Metro's Goldwyn Mayor (1995)
- Erotica Canadiana (1995)
- 666 Canadian Jokes (1996)
- Slightly Higher in Canada (1996)
- Colombo's Doublebook of Laws & Last Lines (1996)
- The Stephen Leacock Quote Book (1996)
- Iron Curtains (1996)
- Kidstuff (1996)
- All About Us (1998)
- More Iron Curtains (1998)
- Yet More Iron Curtains (2000)
- Canadian Capers (2000)
Surveys
- Colombo's Book of Marvels (1979)
- Mysterious Canada (1988, 1998)
- The Little Blue Book of UFOs (1992)
- Ghost Stories of Ontario (1995)
- Haunted Toronto (1996)
- Mysteries of Ontario (1999)
- Ghost Stories of Canada (2000)
Personal Accounts Series
- Extraordinary Experiences (1989)
- Mysterious Encounters (1990)
- Mackenzie King's Ghost (1991)
- UFOs over Canada (1991)
- Dark Visions (1992)
- Close Encounters of the Canadian Kind (1994)
- Ghosts Galore! (1994)
- Closer than You Think (1998)
Stories Series
- Strange Stories (1994)
- Marvellous Stories (1998)
- Singular Stories (1999)
- Weird Stories (2000)
- Ghosts in Our Past (2000)
Monograph Series
- Conjuring Up the Owens (1999)
- The Occult Webb (1999)
- Lambert's Day (2000)
Native Studies
- Poems of the Inuit (1981, 1997)
- Windigo (1982, 1997)
- Songs of the Indians (1983, 1997)
- Songs of the Great Land (1989, 1996)
- The Mystery of the Shaking Tent (1993)
- Voices of Rama (1994)
Translations: Bulgarian
- Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village (1975)
- The Balkan Range (1976)
- The Left-handed One (1977)
- Remember Me Well (1978)
- Depths (1978)
Translations: Spanish
- 152 Proverbs Adapted to the Taste of the Day (1975)
- When the Animal Rises from the Deep the Head Explodes (1976)
- Mirages (1977)
Translations: Polish
- Dark Times (1979)
- Evenings on Lake Ontario (1981)
- Far from You (1981)
- Such Times (1981)
Translations: Romanian
- Sorescu: Selected Poems (1982)
Translations: Hungarian
- From Zero to One (1973)
- East & West (1978)
- Beyond Labels (1982)
- Learn This Poem of Mine by Heart (1983)
- Some Hungarian Poets (1995)
John Robert Colombo's works copyright © to the author.