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Halford's Adventure (aka Mystery Reef)

By: Bindloss, Harold

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London & Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co, Limited: 1928

Seller ID: 013173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original moss green cloth with black lettering on boards. Some minor spotting to edges of text block. "For Sale Abroad" blindstamped on back cover. Bindloss was a prolific British novelist who didn't start writing until he was over 30, eventually producing over 100 books. He was a nomad in his youth, and spent some years farming in Western Canada - many of his books were set there. This book was published in Europe and Australia as "Halford's Adventure", but it was published in the U.S. as "Mystery Reef." 319 pp.
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Angel Cove

By: Bird, Will R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1972

Seller ID: 011332

ISBN: 7705-0757-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Gift note. Nineteen chapters tell individual stories of life in a small Newfoundland village. The author explains that he got ideas for the book from talking with young soldiers in WW I. 236 pp.
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The Monarch of Mincing Lane

By: Black, William

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:

Seller ID: 008172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth, intricately decorated in black on boards. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owner's name with no other writing and no damage. This is one of seven of Black's works in identical bindings, priced separately. One reviewer has high praise for this novel, comparing Beauchamp with Osborne in Thackeray's work. 351 pp.
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The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton

By: Black, William

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:

Seller ID: 008173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth, intricately decorated in black on boards. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. This one begins with the family discussion of a carriage trip through the North Country. Evidently this theme was based on a similar trip the author had taken from London to Edinburgh. 364 pp.
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Madcap Violet

By: Black, William

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:

Seller ID: 008174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth, intricately decorated in black, on boards. Previous owner's name in elegant script. First published in 1877, this is perhaps the favourite of Black's novels, seven of which we have listed in matching binding. Violet North is an attractive girl in her late teens who seems to go from one "scene" to another with hardly a break. She has irritated her German teacher into calling her a devil, which incident she is now piously describing to the Principal. She skips school for a day with a boy she hasn't known before. Later, she falls madly in love with a philosophi...
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The Three Feathers

By: Black, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:

Seller ID: 008176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth, intricately decorated in black with gilt titles on boards. A thorough search found no synopsis. However, it was clear from reviewers' comments that Black was popular and highly regarded at the time (1875). This volume is cocked, and bears the signature of the previous owner. 297 pp.
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In Silk Attire

By: Black, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:

Seller ID: 008177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth decorated lavishly in black, with gilt lettering cover and spine, on boards. This is the last of the seven matching volumes to be listed. With the previous owner's name is the date, Xmas 1888. First published in 1870. Popularized as a dime novel frequenjtly sold on trains as part of the American movement westward. Book is cocked. 289 pp.
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Old Chickweed

By: Bland, E.A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Ward & Drummond:

Seller ID: 004529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original multicoloured florals on grey cloth on boards. General cover soil and corner wear. Previous owner's name. No additonal writing. Interior tanned, but easily readable. Old Chickweed (George Meredith) is a veteran of the Crimean War who served too briefly to receive a pension. Now he and his wife survive on his earnings as a street vendor. Regardless of their poverty, he watches out for a neglected child downstairs and feeds her when he can. 224 pp.
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Sandpeep

By: Boggs, Sara E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1906

Seller ID: 005164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in yellow on boards. Two of four illustrations are missing. Front endpaper missing. Cover worn, but holding together well. A delightful first-person novel of Sandpeep, a girl of the east coast who lives with Aunt Hit after her father dies early. 421 pp.
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Turnip-Tops

By: Boileau, Ethel

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.,Ltd.:

Seller ID: 011765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1937). Believed issued in 1933, and brought out later by E.P. Dutton in Boston or New York City under the title, A Gay Family. Story begins with Mother praising her daughter, and develops into warm, wholesome account. There are also two sons. One reviewer on DJ calls it "exquisite" and "sensitive". What do you think ? 256 pp. plus ads. DJ torn and rough.
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Parton's Island

By: Boles, Paul Darcy

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1958

Seller ID: 001990

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering on boards. Bright and clean. "A novel of two boys and an island they made their own." - Second front endpaper. 220 pp. plus ad.
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Danger on the Coast; A Story of Nova Scotia

By: Bonner, Mary Graham

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Knopf: 1941

Seller ID: 000475

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original orange cloth on boards, without fault or blemish. DJ good, but I taped small tears inside to prevent further damage, except thumb-sized piece missing from bottom rear. 250 pp. plus ad.
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White Wolves

By: Bower, B.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little,Brown: 1927

Seller ID: 000413

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original light brown cloth on boards, title in black within blue box. No DJ. Bookseller's stamp and small inscription on FFEP. Minor edge wear and careless dog-earing, but not affecting text, which is clean and complete. Cocked. 298 pp. Bertha Muzzy Bower (1871-1940) was an American woman writer of "Westerns". Her first and best-liked of this type was Chip of the Flying U - Reader's Encyclopedia.
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Cabin Fever; A Novel

By: Bower, B.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1918

Seller ID: 005222

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's name. Edges grimy. Begins with the author's ruminations about the malady, and then takes up the story just as the protagonist, Bud Moore, is having serious problems with his wife, who has a young baby. 291 pp.
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The Quirt

By: Bower, B.M. (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair-Cowan)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1920

Seller ID: 005683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original blue-green cloth on boards. The less you have, the more careful you are of your possessions. Hunter and Johnson owned a good spread, but they kept a close watch on it - except when they were sick or had drunk too much. 298 pp. Previous owner's name. Some cover scuffing.
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Burning Water

By: Bowering, George

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Don Mills, ON, Musson Book Company: 1980

Seller ID: 009727

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Black paper boards. Unclipped DJ has two small edge tears. Remainder mark. Burning Water, the author's third novel, won the Governor General's Award for Fiction. It is a story about George Vancouver. 258 pp.
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Sea, Forest, and Prairie

By: Boys and Girls of Canada

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, John Dougall & Son: 1893

Seller ID: 003644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on boards. Some loose prelims. A collection of short stories written by Canadian school children and selected to represent various provinces. Minor abrasion to head and foot of spine. 323 pp.
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Two Thrilling Terms

By: Breary, Nancy

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited: 1956

Seller ID: 009948

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Red cloth on boards. Sally Latham can think of nothing else than going to boarding school in five days' time ! Her Godfather will pay her way to attend Creighton Towers. Dated and decidedly British, but perhaps valuable as a lesson in past manners and speech. Previous owner's name and other writing on rear endpapers. 2244 pp.
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Rash Romance

By: Brookman, Laura Lou

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1930

Seller ID: 008292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth on boards. Can't find a review, but it seems to be one of several closely-related pieces by the same author. This one begins in an office occupied by five typists in a publishing house. 367 pp.
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They Ride Again

By: Brooks, Collin

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: London, Elkin Mathews and Marrott, Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 010214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Faded blue cloth on boards 20 date stamps from local lending library. Cocked. The author known for detective stories has given us instead a rousing tale of make-believe, of stagecoaches and highwaymen. A piece of dust jacket glued to first endpaper. 333 pp.
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Category: Fiction