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Various Poets A Little Book of English Lyrics
London Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1919 Third Edition Hard Cover Good Plus to Very Good No Jacket Frontispiece by W.E.F. Britten
Original green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Hundreds of verses, with Index of First Lines and Index of Writers. 458 pp.
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Various Affection's Tribute
Buffalo, NY Berger Publishing Co. 1907 Hard Cover Good No Jacket Uncredited
Original bright florals on white paper boards. More colour scenes and floral alternating with pithy sayings from a variety of sources. 14 pp. Some cover spots.
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Various Apocrypha
Full Leather Good No Jacket
Original black leather on flexible boards. No publication information, since there is no title page nor any sign of its removal. Previous owner's name and date of 1923. Appears to include the King James Version, as I Esdras through II Maccabees. All edges gilt, and very clean. 292 pp.
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Various Chums 1921
London Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1921 Hard Cover Good Plus to Very Good No Jacket Various
Original red cloth on boards. Foldout 4-colour frontispiece of the Interior of a Locomotive with names of parts. Several additional full-page colour plates. Previous owner's name in pencil. The perfect companion for a bored child. Back cover spotted and faded. 832 pp.
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Various Authorities Lectures on Military Dentistry; Revised Edition
Washington, D.C. Med. Dept. U.S. Army 1943 Revised Edition Soft Cover Good No Jacket Photos and Drawings
Original salmon soft cover. No DJ. Small hole through front cover to p. 50. SEE PHOTO. Small note glued inside front cover, probably ex-base library, dated 1943. No marks or tears. Sixteen lectures by various medical/dental officers, covering all aspects of jaw injuries, wounds of the face, shock, chemotherapy, bone, tracheotomy, dietary management, and sectional splints. 105 pp.
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90.00 USD
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Various Our Canadian Girl; Treasury Volume One
Toronto Viking Canada(Penguin) 2003 0-670-04484-9 / 9780670044849 Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket Various
Original colour illustrated laminated boards. Book One of each of four series: Rachel, A Mighty Big Imagining; Marie-Claire, Dark Spring; Emily, Across the James Bay Bridge; and Penelope, Terror in the Harbour. 297 pp. plus ads for books and website.
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18.00 USD
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Various Pearls of Poetry; Illustrated (Pearl of Price)
Philadelphia Charles J. Peterson 1885 Hard Cover Good Plus No Jacket Ten Full-page Engraved Portraits
Original blue cloth with urn and pearl motif on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1884) in exquisite script. Ten appealing full-page engravings of young women and girls, most with tissue guards. Note discrepancy in titles between cover and title page. Long tear in title taped on verso. Corners worn and gutters strained, but no separation or serious damage. Patterned endpapers, All edges gilt. 68 pp.
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35.00 USD
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Various U.S. Congressmen Sherman E. Burroughs; Memorial Addresses (To)
Washington, D.C. Sixty-seventh Congress (GPO) 1924 Original Cloth Very Good No Jacket Front Photo Portrait
Original black cloth with gilt cover lettering on boards. No DJ. Minor mildew haze on cover only. Tributes and testimonials to Burroughs by 14 fellow U.S. congressmen supply a surprising amount of biographical information, in addition to the expected congratulatory messages. Hon. Sherman E. Burroughs represented the first district of New Hampshire in the House for six years, commencing in 1917, when he filled the vacancy left by the death of Hon. Cyrus A. Sulloway. Mr. Burroughs had made a reputation as an astute lawyer much earlier, and in the interim served in the state legislature. 58 pp.
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Various Story of a Nation; Defining Moments in Our History
Doubleday Canada 2001 First. Number Line Ends with 1. Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Photos & Drawings
Original black paper boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. Twelve essays by well-known authors. "Experienced by many of its citizens as a shrinking and porous community,...Canada...(is) in the middle of a fascinating and perilous project of recrafting the foundations of a common identity." - Preface. ISBN 0-385-65849-4 and 9 780385 658492. 294 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Various Authors The British Heritage; The People, Their Crafts and Achievements As Recorded in Their Buildings and on the Face of the Countryside
London Odhams Press, Limited Hard Cover Good Plus No Jacket Photos and Colour Plates
Original green cloth on boards. No writing. Covers faded and spine joints and head worn. The British Heritage, Britain's Storied Past, Heritage of Soil, Heritage of Scenery, Britain as Seen by the Artists, Heritage of the Home, Heritage of the Town, Custom and Tradition, Heritage of Craftsmanship, Indes. 320 pp.
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Various The Maple Leaf Book of Stories
N.Y. McLoughlin Brothers 1900 Hard Cover Good Plus No Jacket Various
Original grey cloth on boards illustrated with two birds, nest, and leaves. Tape removal residue. Previous owner's name stamp. One leaf torn full width (unrepaired). Brilliant 4-colour frontispiece and 3 additional colour plates. Many b/w drawings. Several short storiesand poems by various authors. Unpaginated. 100 pp. approx.
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50.00 USD
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Various Editors and Contributors The Medical Annual and Practitioner's Index; 1889
Bristol, England John Wright & Co. 1889 Seventh Year Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Drawings
Original smooth green cloth with bright gilt lettering on light boards. Bowbacked due to storage on edge, causing strain to front hinge. Not separated, Previous owner's name. Electro-therapeutics, Hydropathics, Lunatic Asylums, and other topics important at the time. Listed separately are five copies from the 1890's, part of a lot of 18 old medical books just purchased. 668 pp. with many ads.
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95.00 USD
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Various Authors The Sky Their Battleground; True Adventure Stories from the "R.A.F. Flying Review"
London Herbert Jenkins 1962 First ( No Additional printings) Hard Cover Good Plus to Very Good Good Plus to Very Good Uncredited Drawings
Original blue cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ protected by taped-on plastic wrapper. Library discard in good condition, although rear free endpaper excised and rear hinge cloth-taped. Spitfires, Stirlings, and other planes figure in these "unbelievable" account from WWII. A companion to Heroes of the R.A.F. and They Got Back. 143 pp.
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