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For King and Company

By: Meacham, Ellis K.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1976

Seller ID: 001812

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fine

Original blue cloth on boards. As sound and clean as they come. Author's third novel highlighting the exploits of Captain Percival Merewether of the East India Company. Loads of nautical terms to recall or research! 336 pp.
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The Back Door

By: Meade, Julian R.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Longmans, Green, and Col, Ltd.: 1938

Seller ID: 008453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original red cloth on boards. Gift notes. Front hinge cracked. Hand soil. Meade lived only to the age of 31 years, but he had a whirlwind existence as a writer, illustrator, and gardener.. His favourite subjects seemed to be his fellow Virginians. This book tackles the problem as to how whites can help blacks. A young woman, part white, marries a black man who contracts TB. In order to prevent being evicted, the woman sells herself to the landlord's son. Extensive pencil writing on rear endpapers, not affecting text. 310 pp.
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The Queen of Joy

By: Meade, Mrs. L.T.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Company: 1914

Seller ID: 006249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original grey illustrated cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and address. A convent in France has been converted into a school for wealthy girls. No synopsis found. 372 pp. The author has 280 or more titles to her credit.
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Out of the Fashion

By: Meade, Mrs. L.T.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Platt & Peck Co.:

Seller ID: 006300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original decorated blue cloth with large portrait pastedown on boards. Copyright 1892 by Cassell. Previous owner's name and date (1916). Set in London, the central characters are a father and his four daughters from 14 to 20. No synopsis found. 270 pp. plus ads.
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A Bluebell in a Quarry; Corpus Christi on the Eve of the Third Millennium

By: Meagher, John Mary

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Moncton, N.B., Ahymsa Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 002623

ISBN: 0-9685235-0-1

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial cover trade paperback. Inscribed and signed by "John". An eye-opener into the life of Ireland in the 1950's, recommended to anyone "from away" who cares. 264 pp. with glossary.
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Blindfold

By: Melville-Ross, Antony

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1978

Seller ID: 001780

ISBN: 0 00 221689 2

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. DJ lightly repaired inside. An aircraft, somewhat erratically piloted, is forced down on an RAF fighter station in Cyprus. Aboard is a dead dog... - DJ. 224 pp.
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Introducing Terry Sloane

By: Merrel, Concordia (Mary Phyllis Joan LOGAN Morton)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited: 1933

Seller ID: 005533

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and greeting card glued in. Grubby and cocked but clean and easily readable inside. One of dozens of romantic novels by this author. This one is scarce. I could find no bio on the author. 320 pp.
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When Love Flies Out o' the Window

By: Merrick, Leonard (Leonard Miller)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton:

Seller ID: 004500

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Both endpapers missing. A romantic novel ahead of its time, in which the woman goes to work to support herself as a partner. 284 pp.
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Michael Thwaites's Wife

By: Michelson, Miriam

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.: 1909

Seller ID: 004082

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth with white titles on boards. Believed First Canadian Edition. No synopsis found. Faint stain across cover. No writing and no other damage. A rare book, with colour illustrations by Coles Phillips, who is credited with the art technique characterized by the "Fadeaway Girl." 402 pp.
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Ladies Must Live

By: Miller, Alice Duer

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1917

Seller ID: 002750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original ladder/flower motif on blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Random small spotting. Appears to be a frothy romance motivated by social climbing, not dissimilar to the author's own background. Born into wealth, Miller did earn at least part of her own way through Barnard College after the family fortune was lost. However, she managed to recoup her own losses by marrying into wealth. This book and others were made into movies in the 20's. This copy is assumed to be the first Canadian edition. Eight illustrations. 249 pp.
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Strange Lights at Midnight; A Maritime Island Adventure

By: Mitcham, Allison

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 007209

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Original trade paperback. An adventure novel set on Passamaquoddy Bay Island, with its clues from the past. Angela, the protagonist, who pastures her sheep on the island through the summer, stumbles upon some evidence that someone else has been visiting the island, and wonders why. ISBN 1-894372-13-1. 183 pp. plus bio.
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The Case of the Missing Master

By: Mogridge, Stephen

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.: 1961

Seller ID: 003958

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright blue paper boards lettered in black. DJ has several tears repaired inside. Ink inscription, but no other writing. Donald Castle and his brother, Robert, take off on their trusty motor scooter, Maysie, to search for Mr. Forbes, a favoured headmaster. 151 pp.
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Emily's Quest

By: Montgomery, L. M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1947

Seller ID: 013225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Yellow cloth on boards with silver lettering and decoration. Cavendish Edition. Protagonist is Emily Starr of Blue Moon, Blair Water. The love story of Emily and Teddy Kent. 262 pp.
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Rainbow Valley

By: Montgomery, L.M.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart:

Seller ID: 008758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original green cloth with full pastedown on boards. Frontispiece by M.L. Kirk matches cover. Severe gutter break before Contents page, but cover well-attached. Anne Shirley has grown up, married Gilbert, and is the mother of six children. When a minister's family moves in nearby, there are five more kids in Rainbow Valley ! 341 pp. Gift note and date (1919).
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Every Man for Himself

By: Moorhouse, Hopkins

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.: 1920

Seller ID: 003441

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original brown cloth with black lettering on boards. Previous owner's name. Small cover spot. A crime novel set in Toronto by a Winnipeg author; his second, after Deep Furrows. 342 pp.
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Home for the Holidays

By: Mottram, R.H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1932

Seller ID: 008938

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth on boards. The author worked in a bank before being encouraged by Mrs. John Galsworthy to try his hand at writing. A piece of DJ glued inside tells us that this is the story of a typical country parson's family who is looking forward to their boys' coming home. They bring a friend with whom their sister is enthralled, but before she can act another relative, an actress, barges in and spirits the friend away. Repeated date stamps from the Fireside Lending Library. 230 pp.
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Broken Barrier

By: Mowat, Grace Helen

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., University Press of New Brunswick: 1951

Seller ID: 011673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A romance of New Brunswick and Staten Island, among the Loyalists of the 18th Century. 182 pp.
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Heart of the North

By: Mowery, William Byron

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday Doran: 1930

Seller ID: 009393

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Definitely dated and politically offensive in language. Alan Baker is the Mountie who is sure to bring the six thieves and one murderer to justice. 331 pp.
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Paradise Trail

By: Mowery, William Byron

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Triangle Books: 1938

Seller ID: 012108

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Blue cloth on boards. DJ chipped and torn. Our hero happens to be running from the law, the law of which he has been a student ! How on earth did it come about that his face was on that poster in B.C. so soon after he escaped Winnipeg ? Two men had been killed in the robbery, but if you can't clear yourself what else can you do ? Book is cocked. 273 pp.
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Darkness and Daylight

By: Mrs. Mary J. Holmes

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Carleton, Publisher: 1867

Seller ID: 005554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Original blue cloth on blindstamped boards, front and back. A unique theme with strong female characters. One of at least 10 of this author's works currently popular. Eventually, she wrote over 30 novels. Edgeworn with small tears to head of spine. Two previous owners' names. 384 pp..
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