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Three Men and a Maid

By: Wodehouse, P. G.

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Co., Publishers: 1922

Seller ID: 011879

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name stamps. Loose binding warranted gluing to secure. If you're a Wodehouse fan you'll be glad I rescued it since they are getting harder to find. 304 pp.
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Sam the Sudden

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, F. D. Goodchild Co.:

Seller ID: 006295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original red cloth lettered in black on boards. Rear hinge lightly cracked and glued. Library ink stamp with no further evidence. Edges grubby. No names or other writing. Believed First Canadian Edition. Ca. 1925. A complicated comedy perhaps only Wodehouse could imagine. 248 pp.
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East Lynne (Library of Classics)

By: Wood, Mrs. Henry

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear Type Press:

Seller ID: 011018

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Very Good

Maroon leather on flexible boards with ribbon bookmark. Impeccable condition in lightly worn box. A widely popular novel from 1860 based on adultery and double identities. One reviewer exclaims, "Wilkie Collins, eat your heart out !" It was staged repeatedly as a guaranteed success, and filmed at least once. Who will win this fine copy ? Top edges gilt. 644 pp. in handy purse or pocket size.
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East Lynne

By: Wood, Mrs. Henry

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press:

Seller ID: 013325

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original maroon cloth on boards with gilt lettering. Mermaid endpapers. Previous owner's name. Hand-soiled yellow dustjacket has missing pieces at top and bottom of spine. Both hinges starting. This novel was a Victorian best-seller, and reads like a soap opera. It has been adapted to stage and film multiple times. 644 pp.
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Soldiers of Misfortune; The Story of Otto Belleme

By: Wren, Percival Christopher

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green, & Co.: 1931

Seller ID: 010800

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials the only marks. No damage. Oxford graduate becomes a prizefighter and then a Legionnaire, a parallel to Wren's own experience (although his entry into the Foreign Legion is not substantiated. 432 pp.
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Fort in the Jungle

By: Wren, Percival Christopher

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green, & Co.: 1936

Seller ID: 010801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Beige cloth on boards. Spine darkened. Previous owner's initials the only marks. Foxing freckles on front and bottom edges. Written as third in a trio with Action and Passion (1933) and Sinbad the Soldier (1935). Again, the protagonist ends up in the Foreign Legion. 319 pp.
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The Disappearance of General Jason

By: Wren, Percival Christopher

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1941

Seller ID: 010802

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Mustard cloth on boards. Handsoil to spine. Dysart reappears as a Muslim. 438 pp. Previous owner's initials.
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Two Feet from Heaven

By: Wren, Percival Christopher

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1940

Seller ID: 010803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Tan cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials the only marks. No damage. A clergyman has a bad dream - bad enough to require counselling. No wonder, for he has been saved by a certain woman from answering to a horrible crime. What goes around comes around. Cockney abounds. 330 pp.
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A Maid Among Men

By: Wrexe, Alexander

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y./London, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 009284

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Titles in light green. First free endpaper missing. The true First Edition in book form, contemporary with publication by Curtis in Ladies' Home Journal. The high-born young French lady takes the position of a lady's maid in order to escape boredom and suffocating poverty. No writing. 207 pp.
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A Man's Reach

By: Wright, Muriel S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 004065

ISBN: 0805916407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige cloth on boards. DJ has one tiny nick in front foot. No names or writing. "A poignant story of how a childhood of sorrow and solitude contribute to an insecure and bitter adult life." - DJ 197 pp.
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Stars for Sale

By: Wright, Ruth

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company: 1930

Seller ID: 002753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue cloth with five stars and lettering in black on boards. DJ flap with synopsis glued in. Previous owner's name and small sticker.. An orphan girl looking after a younger brother is tempted to marry a prosperous older man.... 304 pp.
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Towards Morning

By: Wylie, I.A.R.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 011807

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Maroon cloth on boards. First published in 1918, and set in Germany during WW I. Protagonist is an employee of city hall. Contrast between "war is Hell" and nurturing home life in Germany. 287 pp. Black crayon scribble inside front cover.
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Bloody Years; A Decade of Plot and Counter-Plot By the Golden Horn

By: Yeats-Brown, Francis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 007045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green cloth on boards. The author gained fame with his previous work, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, two years before. This book is in excellent condition. 312 pp.
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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Yonge, Charlotte M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 011217

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Blue cloth on boards. First free endpaper removed. Mother has decided to go to her husband serving in the military in India. He has been hurt in a fall. The children must be provided for. Strained gutters have been glued. Top edges uncut Pp. vI-vII. Foxing to rear endpapers. 291 pp.
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Deep Sea

By: Young, Francis Brett

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.:

Seller ID: 004284

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Gold signature lower right rubbed. One of Britain's favourite poets and authors, Young died at 70 in 1954 after falling only slightly in popularity. No writing or damage. Novel of a disabled fisherman in England. Believed circa 1920's since the First Edition of 1914 and the next few titles were first published by Martin Secker, with several titles first published by Collins in the 20's. 259 pp. Still rare, but price reduced on discovery that it's not a First Edition.
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Red Clark Takes a Hand

By: Young, Gordon

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., The Sun Dial Press: 1941

Seller ID: 002696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original red cloth on boards. DJ missing half of cover. No front free endpaper. Light repair to front hinge. DJ taped inside. Published serially under the title, "Red Clark Takes Charge." 277 pp.
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