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The New Zippy Stories

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Herald Pub.: 1942

Seller ID: 000134

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fair

Note the tiny missing corner, then bust a gut at the five stories in dated jargon, ads, and Pen Pals Heart Exchange. Back cover features ad for "The Woman Who Lived in Hitler's House" (A book). Someone could not resist lightly colouring in "Gay's" lingerie on p. 75. Warning: For military reasons, members of the Armed Forces are asked not to exchange letters with pen pals ! 96 pp. Will you look this good when you're 60 ?
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Crown of Glory; or Faithful Unto Death; A Scottish Story of Martyr Times

By: N/A

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1876

Seller ID: 001983

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original decorated red cloth on bevelled boards. Cocked; corner wear. "By the author of Little Hazel, the King's Messenger."157 pp. Author unidentifed, but also wrote "Little Snowdrop and Her Golden Casket" and "Under the Old Oaks; or Won by Love," according to ads in back of this volume.
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The Story of Noni Chatterji; A Tale of Zenana Life in Simla

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge:

Seller ID: 009200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth on boards. Spine faded. "St. Mary's Sunday School, August, 1905" in ink on first free endpaper. A puzzling book. Noni is a lower-caste, illiterate woman in Northern India who meets Clare, a young British missionary. Clare teaches Noni to read. Noni marries, and eventually has a little girl (with no reference as to how or when she might have become pregnant). Noni is disappointed because she had wanted a boy, who by tradition would look after his father for the rest of his life. Noni's husband, or Babu, typically cares only for himself, and treats Noni more as a...
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A Race for Life; And Other Tales

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society:

Seller ID: 011315

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Nine short stories by various authors. Three splashes of light green paint to spine. Library bookplate and stamps. Stories are: A Race for Life; The Russian Lottery Ticket; The Clock We Were All Ashamed Of; The Young Fisherman of Heligoland; The Power of Music; The Flying Leap; David the Scholar; The Foundling of the Fens; and Anson Gregg's Wedding. 316 pp.
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The Quest of Mary Selwyn; A Sequel to "Uncle Frank's Mary"

By: "Clementia", Sister of Mercy Mary Edward

Price: $1,000.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers, Inc.: 1917

Seller ID: 011798

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark green cloth on boards. Title in black, framed by florals. Author is believed to be the head Sister of St. Patrick's Academy, Chicago, who was credited with a previous copyright to the title," Nancy", in 1911. DJ also by Charles Chambers is Very Good, with no writing or tears and only light surface wear and hand soil. Book could be rated Near Fine except for removed small address label on first free endpaper. Mary tells her uncle that she wants to make her first Communion at Lourdes. This book is on consignment, so our 20% discount to booksellers does not apply. 245 pp. An alternat...
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Elsie's Widowhood

By: (Farquharson), Martha Finley

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:

Seller ID: 010395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Tan cloth on boards. Cover shows Elsie sitting in chair and reading. Spine shows two daffodils. This is the seventh title in the series of 28. Originally published in 1880, this book follows Elsie's Children. Elsie's daughter, Elsie, is dealing with the absence of her fiance, who has gone to Europe to study. The family is doubly saddened by the sudden death of Elsie's husband, Edward Travilla. Elsie is comforted by her father, Horace Dinsmore. Gift note, previous owner's name, and library bookplate. Adhesive tape residue on spine.
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Claudia; A Tale

By: A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Nelson & Sons: 1876

Seller ID: 008442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original brown cloth decorated in gold on beveled boards. Previous owner's name and brief notes in pencil. Rear hinge cracked. Wear to head and foot of spine and corner tips. 301 pp. No reviews found.
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A Person of Discretion

By: Acland, Alice

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1958

Seller ID: 002172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ has piece missing top of spine. Three sisters from Brussels become entangled in the black market and the Resistance in the closing stages of the war. Inscription/name on rear free endpaper. 256 pp.
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A Death in the Family

By: Agee, James

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., McDowell, Obolensky: 1985

Seller ID: 004187

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth decorated in green and lettered in silver on boards. Unusual duplicate DJs, so inside one is FINE, while outside one is very good. "Waking" on p. 80. A beautiful copy with no writing or damage. Issued posthumously. 339 pp.
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Death of a Hero

By: Aldington, Richard

Price: $32.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus: 1930

Seller ID: 008002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. The protagonist, Winterbourne, is learning that "The real test was beginning. Like everybody who had not been there, he was almost entirely ignorant of life in the trenches." - p. 272. An anti-WWI novel with censured expressions removed and replaced with asterisks. Previous owner's name, with no other writing and no damage. 440 pp.
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The Queen of Sheba

By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1900

Seller ID: 003907

Binding: Flexible Leather

Condition: Good

Original brown suede illustrated and lettered by pyrography. The story appeared in five parts in Atlantic Monthly in 1877, 14 years before My Cousin the Colonel, with which it is often twinned. The protagonist, a bank cashier and bookkeeper, plans a three-week holiday on horseback in northern New Hampshire. Mary, his newly-purchased steed, has her own agenda. 231 pp., followed by several attractively-illustrated ads.
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The Golden Serpent

By: Alegria, Ciro

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York and Toronto, Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.: 1943

Seller ID: 010775

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Red-orange cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials inside back cover. Feels like a travelogue through the highlands of Peru, led by an educated and observant guide. Characters are halfbreeds living along the Maranon River. 242 pp. Fiction translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis.
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Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk

By: Alexander, William

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1888

Seller ID: 013188

Binding: Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Good

Original paper on boards with attractive Art Nouveau decoration and lettering in beige, brown and black. 1/4 of spine paper missing. Fiction in a broad Scots brogue, with a glossary at the back. 285 pp. plus three pages of ads at the back.
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Golden Lads; A Tale

By: Anderson, H.M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd.: 1928

Seller ID: 004086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original light brown cloth on boards. Front free endpaper missing. Y.W.C.A. stamp. Set in early England. 317 pp.
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Three Men - and Troddles; Being Some Further Exploits of a Well-known Quartette

By: Andom, R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd.: 1916

Seller ID: 004541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original pictorial orange cloth on boards. The ninth book of Troddles. Cover faded, corners worn, and inscription. 318 pp.
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The End of a World

By: Anet, Claude

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Knopf: 1927

Seller ID: 000567

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original beige cloth decorated in green and black on boards, no DJ. Translated from the French by Jeffery E. Jeffery. Name clipped from top of half title. A tale of the maturing of No, son of Timaki, of the People of the River. 268 pp. with postscript.
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Sinners in Heaven

By: Arden, Clive

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd.: 1925

Seller ID: 001632

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original red cloth on boards. No DJ. Finger pull split top of spine. Front free endpaper missing, and small hole in title page. Binding firm and interior clean. A romantic tale of a couple left stranded on an island, his romance with a native girl, and a far-fetched ending. Richard Dix played the male lead for the movie. 252 pp.
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Sanine; A Russian Love Novel

By: Artzibashev, Michael

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hartsdale House: 1932

Seller ID: 010842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Decorated light green cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. No damage. Translated from the Russian by Percy Pinkerton. Exhibits a new set of values as compared with older Russian intelligentsia. First published in 1907, and popular in the Romanow era. Sensualism, self-gratification, and self-desruction. 328 pp.
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Three Novels; Uncle Moses, Chaim Lederer's Return, and Judge Not-

By: Asch, Sholem

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Putnam: 1938

Seller ID: 007301

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original black cloth on boards. Title page missing, so dated from other listings. 127 pp. Library stamp and spine number. Normal wear to covers. Clean inside.
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Her Book

By: Ashford, Daisy

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson:

Seller ID: 002836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original grey paper boards backed in grey cloth on boards. The only Canadian edition found. Front free endpaper has two prices in crayon and lower corner missing. Front and foot untrimmed. 338 pp.
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