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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
Original illustrated cover paperback. Gutter strain pp. 214-215 lightly glued to prevent separation. No writing. Four adults in 1919 cope with life on a Nova Scotia shore, battling boredom, religious bigotry, death, and moving away, However, "the family bonds formed and their firm roots in the place prove stronger than ties of blood." - back cover. Glowing testimonies. 398 pp. View More...
Red cloth on boards. DJ shipped head and foot of spine. One reviewer suggests that he should have stayed with Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle ( two other Buchan novels). In this one, our hero is arrested for apparently forging a relative's paycheque, only to discover that his wife did it. Another reviewer suggests not making this novel your first exposure to Buchan. 357 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Tiny finger pull tear at head of spine. Boy meets fly-by-night girl and marries her. When he takes credit for her bouncing cheque he is jailed and loses his army commission. Now free, he serves as a spy in Belgium and later goes to Greenland to rescue a wealthy explorer. 383 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing. A lifelong competition between two brothers, one a border "reiver" and the other a soldier. 317 pp. View More...
Original black softcover backed in black cloth. Minor wear head and foot of backstrip. No other damage and no writing. Follows 39 Steps and Greenmantle. 339 pp. View More...
Original green cloth lettered in red on boards. First free endpaper missing. Last free endpaper shows word Library with no other evidence. Rear pastedown map of The Republic of Olifa. An industrial tycoon wants to rule the world from his base in Olifa. Lightly cocked. 384 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Buchan invents a country, and then claims that the problems of the West will be settled between it and the United States. How so? 384 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Worn and grubby. Buchan readers point out that this one is different. Through the eyes of Leithen, the girl changes frfom a vulgar flapper to a nearly-tragic heroine. 286 pp. View More...
Original beige cloth on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. DJ spine missing two inches at foot, and taped inside. Set in the early 19th Century, the protagonist becomes entangled with a secret society and a scheme to assassinate the Prime Minister. 320 pp. View More...
