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The Little Camp on Eagle Hill (Warne's Star Series)

By: Warner, Susan

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 006307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original highly decorated green cloth on boards. Front endpaper missing. The author (1819-1895) was widely-known for her first novel,The Wide Wide World, which she wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell in 1850. A little less successful was her Queechy two years later. It is interesting to note that her lawyer father had lost his business in the Panic of 1837, thus pressuring his elder daughter to help support the remaining family ( His wife, Anna Bartlett, had died while Susan was still young). Notwithstanding the success of her first novel and the only slightly less successfu...
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The Launching of a Man

By: Waterloo, Stanley

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally: 1899

Seller ID: 002398

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth decorated in blue and gilt on boards. Just a few random pencil scrawls. Previous owner's name. Begins in a sophomore classroom, where the protagonists seem to be an athletically-inclined student and his professor. The setting is somewhere in Michigan. Last leaf torn and repaired. 285 pp.
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The Legacy; A Story of a Woman

By: Watts, Mary Stanbery

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1911

Seller ID: 009764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Salmon cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Watts (1868-1958) was born in Delaware County, Ohio, and educated in Cincinnati. Her work is characterized by frank and humble interpretations of American life. 394 pp.
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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: Wells, H.G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1922

Seller ID: 007652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original red cloth on boards. No writing. Small nick in front hinge. This novel about a prominent business man and his discussions with a psychiatrist has been seen by some as a love letter from Wells to Margaret Sanger, the prime mover of birth control efforts which did not bear official results until many years later. A "thinly-veiled autobiography" perhaps, as some have said. At any rate it seems to be widely agreed that Wells's writing during his "social period" is not up to the previous standard. 286 pp.
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The Drifting Island; Or the Slave-Hunters of the Congo

By: Wentworth, Walter

Price: $35.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 007576

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright orange cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ chipped head and foot and taped inside. No synopsis or review located. Appears to be an effort to interrupt the slave trade and allow the natives to go free. 331 pp.
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King for a Month

By: Westerman, Percy F.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie and Son:

Seller ID: 002500

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original grey cloth with black lettering and spine pictorial on boards. High school library evidence, but no significant damage except missing front free endpaper. Portion of DJ glued inside rear cover. 224 pp.
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Rose O' Paradise

By: White, Grace Miller

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Co. Limited: 1916

Seller ID: 003472

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original bright maroon cloth with gilt pictorial on boards. DJ from H.K. Fly Company, N.Y., has several repaired tears inside, and a cover crease, but is complete. A haunting DJ and front. of a girl with a bucket of kittens and a violin going ourt into a blizzard ! Four full-page b/w plates. Previous owner's name and small lodge sticker on front endpaper. 352 pp.
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Flaming Fur Lands

By: White, Samuel Alexander

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1948

Seller ID: 006597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original red cloth on boards. Previous owner's label and pencilled circle on first free endpaper. A novel concerning rival traders who compete for both business and love in the frozen barrens of Labrador. 153 pp.
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Flaming Fur Lands

By: White, Samuel Alexnder

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1948

Seller ID: 009875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Protagonist is a Labrador fur trader succeeding his father, who made a few enemies in the business. The author is widely respected due to his production of novels, short stories, and magazine articles on various Nature themes. In fact, one French publisher authorized White's total output in French. No marks or damage to the book. DJ is lightly chipped around the edges. 153 pp. Scarce !
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Call of the North

By: White, Stewart Edward

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Triangle Books: 1942

Seller ID: 000897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ has piece missing at bottom of spine. SEE SCAN. Ned Trent had bucked the powerful factor of the local Hudson's Bay outlet, who then sentenced Ned to "la longue traverse". Then he met the factor's daughter ... 260 pp. P.O.N.
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A Bishop Out of Residence

By: Whitechurch, Victor L.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press:

Seller ID: 008613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green cloth bordered in black on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1924). A bishop from the city retires to a country parish for "rest and relaxation." It's not to be ! 315 pp.
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The Mankiller of the Foothills

By: Whitney, Elliott

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly and Lee Co.: 1936

Seller ID: 002587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original tan cloth lettered and decorated in black on boards. Page heads state "The Boys' Big Game Series" on verso, and "The White Tiger of Nepal" on recto. 255 pp. plus teaser previews of three similar stories. General age-toning, but easily readable.
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The Lassie of Glengarry

By: Wilbur, Mrs. R.M.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, American Baptist Publication Society: 1894

Seller ID: 008606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original grey-green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Tales from Scotland. 192 pp.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Wilde, Oscar

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hartsdale House: 1931

Seller ID: 012870

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Grey cloth with blue florals on boards. Previous owner's name. DJ worn all round, but no tears. "One of the most readable as well as most famous novels of all time."- DJ.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Wilder, Thornton

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Albert and Charles Boni: 1928

Seller ID: 012660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Grey cloth on boards. DJ worn with small tears along top. Very clean and well-illustrated. Five people die in a fall from the bridge, and Brother Juniper wonders why. 235 pp.
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Viking's Rest; A Story of the Land of Evangeline

By: Williams, Frances Fenwick

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, F.D. Goodchild Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 006297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original red cloth lettered in black on boards. A young female journalist from New York escapes to an Acadian country bungalow. 301 pp.
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My Lost Duchess

By: Williams, Jesse Lynch

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Century Co.: 1908

Seller ID: 001392

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth decorated in lighter blue, gilt, and portrait pastedown. No DJ. Spine lettering worn. Nick, the protagonist, begins by watching women from his window, pursues one in particular, and then...? Five quaint colour drawings and a cover pastedown by Wallace Morgan illustrate this oh-so-Victorian glimpse of New York social life. Front free end paper missing. "Old Ladies Home" in ink script, and initials OLH on edges suggest that it was an informal library copy. Minor corner wear. 311 pp. Don't miss the PHOTO.
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The Brightener

By: Williamson, C.N. And A.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Burt: 1921

Seller ID: 000033

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fair

Apparently a later book, written substantially by "A.M." near or after the death of her husband and co-author, "C.N." Numerous EP scribbles in ink, PON, front hinge broken, and spine faded. 355 pp. plus brief ads.
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Lady Betty Across the Water

By: Williamson, C.N. And A.M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.: 1906

Seller ID: 002698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original plum cloth with oval pastedown portrait and white lettering on boards. Front free endpaper missing. Corner and edge wear. "Old Ladies' Home" on title, and "OLH" on edges. Unusually fine art work by Orson Lowell in colour. 306 pp.
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Red Dragon Square

By: Wilson, Yvonne

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 004996

ISBN: 1894372034

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original pictorial cover trade paperback. My suggestion is to check internet references for insight into this book. Very good condition. Inscribed by author, it is her second novel. 212 pp. plus bio.
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