Red cloth on boards. The Reader's Library. Book is clean and sound, and of light construction. Mary J. Holmes was a prolific American author whose numbers of books sold rivalled Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her novels were placed in the previous century. 244 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. No writing. Text tanning. A New York Times review of 1856 has high praise for two of the stories, Rice Corner and The Thanksgiving Party and Its Consequences. 273 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth heavily decorated in black with bold gilt lettering on boards. Gilt top edges. Untrimmed front and foot. May be first Canadian edition. G.K. Chesterton apparently held this novel in low esteem, especially compared with The Prisoner of Zenda. You be the judge! Very light cover edge and corner wear. 426 pp. View More...
Original bright red cloth bordered and lettered in red on boards. No DJ. Hope has been called the "English Dumas" in light of the amazing popularity of his earlier Prisoner of Zenda and other swash-buckling tales. Born a poor preacher's son, he trained for a law career, giving it up to write. His Prisoner of Zenda is one of the most popular stories known, a springboard for numerous TV adaptations. Paper label residue on spine. 376 pp. View More...
Original brown suede leather lettered in gold on flexible card covers. Marbled endpapers. Quite unusual to find a first novel in such delicate but beautiful condition. A native of Maine, the author presumably situates her story there, as "Edgecomb" appears several times. Romantic fiction centred on a country girl. Previous owner's name. Rear hinge broken and glued. 316 pp. View More...
Brown cloth on boards. Copyright 1917 by Bobbs-Merrill Co. and apparently published soon after by Grosset & Dunlap. Previous titles place Prudence as the oldest of five sisters in a Methodist household, but she is now contemplating marriage to a Presbyterian pastor. Previously published under the title, Sunny Slopes.This book has cover wear, marking inside front cover, and repaired hinges. However, its rarity justifies the price. 356 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth with gilt emblem of Famous Books by Famous Authors on boards. Previous owner's name. Cover corner creased. Minor edge spots. Several b/w scenes. 550 pp. View More...
First a library stamp on the inside cover and remains of an envelope on the FFEP, but get beyond these and you'll find an absorbing story with a moral, all in a very clean, bright book. Juan Gallardo, the hero, has from earliest childhood exhibited a natural aptitude for the bull ring. Fame and fortune come to him. But neither his powers nor his fame can last forever. - Introduction. Bright red cloth, 320 pp. View More...
Original illustrated blue cloth on boards showing steam paddlewheeler. This is t he first book by Alice Jones (1853-1933), daughter of businessman and politician from Halifax, Alfred Gilpin Jones. Alice studied languages in France and Italy and wrote for Toronto Week. Bubbles We Buy was issued by Jones in 1903, and she is credited with two additional novels. The Night-hawk is a story from the American Civil War, from the point-of-view of a Confederate spy in Halifax. Antoinette Castelle risks her life for the cause repeatedly while experiencing numerous close calls and shady dealings, whil... View More...
Original bright red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ nicked at foot and worn head and foot. The Lutine bell is a part of the history of Lloyd's shipping industry. The bell is rung once to mark a ship which is lost, and twice for a safe arrival. The story concerns a Greek ship, the Amphitrite, overloaded with ore and heading out from Norstad into the Norwegian Sea. The American crew is already mutinous from various causes, and their anger is brought to bear on Mavros, the captain. 215 pp. View More...
Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and embossed design in cover. First two front free endpapers have been excised raggedly with scissors. Previous owner's name. Rear hinge cracked. Slight corner wear. This is the story of a tobacco farmer's son who tries to rise above his upbringing, and almost makes it. 510 pp. View More...
Bright maroon cloth on boards. DJ chipped all round, but nothing missing. No writing. A novel about a Welsh girl from the Valleys who makes a name for herself, singing in London. 210 pp. View More...
Original red cloth with black lettering on boards. Front. of Olive Borden as Lee Carlton and George O'Brien as Tom Neville, with several additional full-page halftone photos from the 1926 movie produced and directed by John Ford. Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed. Previous owner's bookplete with scribbled-out name. Lightly shaken, with wear to head and foot of backstrip. 314 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original tan illustrated cloth on boards. Prize bookplate. DJ rubbed, with light chipping head and foot. A wonderful example of English schoolboy fiction in good condition. 208 pp. View More...
Original solid blue cloth lettered in orange on boards. White spine DJ by Tandy. Orange endpapers. Wartime paper. Lists to The Quest of the Missing Map on DJ, so believed publication date is 1942. Previous owner's name in pencil. Numerous invisible tape repairs inside DJ. 216 pp. The girls are waiting for a train when they intervene in an incident between two members of a circus troupe. Ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt. View More...
Original blue half-cloth on red boards, DJ has minor inside tape repair, and some signs of blue offset from cover. "West Texas hasn't changed much in the nearly seventy years Wes Hendricks has been a cowboy... . Now his grandson, fresh from college, has come to convince him otherwise, to show him West Texas has changed." One can almost hear the sparks start to fly ! 261 pp. Price-clipped. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. No writing except previous owner's initials. Story of three generations of life between two families in Louisiana. Several positive reviews on the net. 807 pp. Might need extra postage. Edition unknown - no hand mirror on cover. View More...
Maroon paper backed in black cloth on boards. A brilliant scientist returns home to find that everyone he knew has disappeared, apparently victims of the disaster he had created. He rescues a drowning girl, and then there are more.... He forgets what he came here to do. 518 pp. View More...
