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Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush

By: Maclaren, Ian

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hurst & Co.:

Seller ID: 012412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Small hardcover, lavishly decorated in florals on cover and spine. The schoolmaster, Domsie, is in high spirits upon learning that one of his pupils, George Howe, has won first place in Humanity and Greek in college entrance tests. 182 pp. The occasional letter has failed to print due to lack of ink.
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The New Paul and Virginia; Or Positivism On An Island

By: Mallock, W.H.

Price: $200.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus: 1878

Seller ID: 001947

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good Minus

Original brown cloth with woven design framed in black on boards. Gilt spine title. Very small spine ends worn away. Cover is deceptively clean and attractive, but there is evident gutter strain and some gatherings are quite insecure. No gluing. An amusing novel about two well-known society types marooned by shipwreck on an island - a spoof of the prevailing Positivism philosophy. 144 pp. plus 40-page catalog. Previous owner's initials and date in tiny ink script.
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Our Next-Door Neighbors

By: Maniates, Belle K.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild, & Stewart, Ltd.: 1917

Seller ID: 012714

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Orange cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing. "Some people have children born unto them, some acquire children and others have children thrust upon them. Silvia and I are of the last named class." So begins this action-packed account of a couple who become the unwilling caretakers of the neighbours' five children. 280 pp.
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In the House of Another

By: Mantle, Beatrice

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Century Company: 1920

Seller ID: 007196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original yellow cloth on boards. First edition in book form, after publication in Sunset Magazine. Previous owner's name in light pencil. Covers grubby. No synopsis was found. It seems to be the story of a woman troubled by mental problems. 318 pp.
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Victorious Troy, or The Hurrying Angel

By: Masefield, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1935

Seller ID: 009449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Red cloth on boards. Library discard. Permanently remembered for "I must go down to the sea again," Masefield also wrote this novel of a grain boat running into trouble in the South Pacific in 1922 .Covers evenly worn and rear hinge cracked. Text unmarked and easily read. 308 pp. with Glossary.
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Miranda of the Balcony

By: Mason, A.E.W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1899

Seller ID: 004842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue blindstamped cloth on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. First gathering glued to prevent separation. Both hinges cracked. British author of over 20 novels served in WW I. 312 pp.
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The Hour Before the Dawn

By: Maugham, W. Somerset

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Sun Dial Press: 1943

Seller ID: 010826

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black paper boards. No writing or damage. England in WW II. Several positive reviews online. 307 pp.
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The Explorer

By: Maugham, William Somerset

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson Book Company Limited:

Seller ID: 013337

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Original olive green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Front hinge broken halfway down, rear hinge cracked. Missing FFEP. Minor edgewear. Dent in edge of front cover about 2" from top. This is a story of a well-off family whose fortune has been squandered by an irresponsible father, and his children's efforts to keep their 300-year-old estate in the family. 297 pp.
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Flight to the Villa Mistra

By: Maxwell, Vicky

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1973

Seller ID: 004615

ISBN: 0002332396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original blue cloth on boards. Bright and clean. No synopsis or description found. 158 pp.
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Hill Rise

By: Maxwell, W.B.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1907

Seller ID: 002854

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original tan cloth with black titles on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. Cover hand soil and foxing freckles on front edge. No publication date given. Maxwell was the fourth son of prominent novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and became one himself. Apparently an aristocratic momma's boy, he did see three years' active duty in World War I, starting when he was past 50 ! Arthur Conan Doyle had high praise for his writing, which seemed to center on goings-on of the British upper crust. Maxwell never lost his sense of superiority through his impressive career. I could find no synop...
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A Fair Saxon

By: McCarthy, Justin

Price: $275.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Sheldon & Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 003954

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original rust-coloured cloth with gold lettering and black decoration on boards. Minor corner wear, edge wear, and soil, but holding together very well and easily readable. The author was an Anti-Parnellite MP whose real love was books. This is his third novel, in which an MP is accused of supporting the Fenians. See photo. 468 pp.
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The Second Chance

By: McClung Nellie L.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1910

Seller ID: 006956

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original bright red cloth illustrated with colour pastedown of six children on boards. No writing. Foxing freckles to edges only. First free endpaper missing. Fragments of DJ say "Illustrated in Colour" but no illustrations inside. A further account of Pearlie Watson, who was introduced in her first book, Sowing Seeds in Danny. 369 pp.
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Music at the Close

By: McCourt, Edward A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1947

Seller ID: 009725

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. No marks or damage. This author "passed from relative obscurity during his lifetime to almost total oblivion after his death." - Winnifred M. Bogaards. How this could happen after Music at the Close won the 1947 Ryerson Fiction Award is puzzling. One distraction for me is that the protagonist's name is Neil Armstrong. 228 pp.
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The Thorn Birds

By: McCullough, Colleen

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., International Collectors Library: 1977

Seller ID: 012718

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Green cloth on boards. Slight corner wear. This novel is the best-selling book in Australian history. Its miniseries was second only to Roots. Ample servings of romance, sex, money, and religion abound. 560 pp.
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The Husbands of Edith

By: McCutcheon, George Barr

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt Company: 1908

Seller ID: 006079

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green decorated cloth with Edith in oval pastedown on boards. A complicated, light romantic comedy with four enchanting full-page colour plates by Harrison Fisher. Handsoil to covers. Internally clean and sound. Every page floral-bordered. The Fisher illustrations are worth the price !
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Romeo in Moon Village

By: McCutcheon, George Barr

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, & Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 011223

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name in light pencil. A bridegroom runs away - and then a charming romance develops. Seven lovely maidens to a single Romeo. - Bookman, Jan., 1926. 344 pp.
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Lament in the Wind

By: McIntyre, Hazel

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Middlesex, England, Moran Publications: 1998

Seller ID: 011963

ISBN: 0-9524426-1-2

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover, inscribed and signed. Tells the life story of a child born in Ireland through her diaries. Chosen by "Woman's Way Magazine" for serialization. I found the text to be in need of editing due to misplaced commas and occasional misspellings. 244 pp.
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Ten Thousand Days Has Our Youth; Volume I of a Three-Volume Novel

By: McNamee, Stephen

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Wilmington, Delaware, Nopoly Press, Inc.: 1986

Seller ID: 003830

ISBN: 0-930950-03-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original light grey cloth on boards. DJ lettered in dark blue. 321 pp.
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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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Category: Fiction