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By: Beale, Anne
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, J.H. Earle:
Seller ID: 002900
Condition: Good Plus
Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on boards. Cover drawing of a man rescuing a girl from the sea. First written in 1876, the title bears resemblance to the historical Welsh family of the same name who made fortunes in slate and slavery, but I found no clear connection. The author was a popular British novelist who lived through most of the 19th Century, residing with her sister, a singer, until their deaths in the 1890's. Small name label of Mabel Gertrude Finney. Some strained gatherings, but no separation. Age-toned. 388 pp. View more info
By: Bell, J.J.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, George N. Morang & Co., Limited: 1903
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008078
Condition: Very Good
Original blue cloth with art nouveau thistle on boards. First feature is a glossary, necessary for reading this popular Scottish tale. 188 pp. View more info
By: Bennett, C.M.
Price: $32.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.: 1939
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002312
Condition: Good Plus
Original beige cloth with black letters on boards. Previous owner's name and other scribbles on front endpaper, and dent in top cover edge, otherwise clean and readable. Possibly First Canadian Edition. Pirate fiction. 310 pp. View more info
By: Benson, E.F.
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc.: 1937
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010793
Condition: Very Good
Maroon cloth with pastedown on boards. Previous owner's initials. Janet Taylor has just lost her husband, and is desparate to provide for her three children. An expert dressmaker, she consults her older sisters-in-law as to the wisdom of pursuing such a business. Their Victorian sensibilities are grievously offended, leaving Janet to find an alternative. 103 pp. View more info
By: Benson, E.F.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc.: 1937
Edition: First( No Additional Printings)
Seller ID: 010794
Condition: Very Good
Maroon cloth with pastedown on boards. Lady Rebecca Gillingham lived her life through others. When she learned that Sir John and Lady Acton had taken Bolingbroke House, she descended on them - eager to usher them into proper Victorian life. Catherine Acton, their vivacious daughter, had other ideas. 110 pp. View more info
By: Benson, E.F.
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co.: 1937
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010795
Condition: Very Good
Maroon cloth with pastedown on boards. Previous owner's initials. Her name is Dorothy, which means "Gift of God." Unfortunately, she is an aging spinster who makes others miserable by trying to make them happy ! Even her dog grits its teeth when she wags its tail ! Can't you just hear her now ! 114 pp. View more info
By: Berlin, Sven
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: London, Collins: 1971
Seller ID: 006907
ISBN: 0002118327
Condition: Very Good
Original red-orange soft cover with pastedown title block. Frontispiece by Sven Berlin is portrait of a woman with a bird on her head. The author/artist (1911-1999) began work life as an adagio dancer. He wrote several books, best-known of which was The Dark Monarch, withdrawn due to legal action and republished forty years later. In Dromengro (Man of the Road) he follows his life interest in quest of Gypsies. The last two pages are a glossary of Gypsy expressions used in the novel, which he terms an Idioticon. 256 pp. View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Copp, Clark Co., Ltd.: 1900
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 011009
Condition: Good
Red cloth on boards, symetrically decorated in peiod style. One reviewer discounts the book totally. Still, there is much to be learned from it of social customs in England at the turn of that century, if nothing else. 347 pp. Pp. 13-15 torn at top and some text obscured. Pp. 153-161 small brown spot bled through. View more info
By: Bevan, Tom
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Collins' Clear-type Press:
Seller ID: 003804
Condition: Fair to Good
Original blue cloth with black lettering and decoration on boards. Both hinges cracked and weak, but holding. Set in India just before WWI. 315 pp. View more info
By: Bindloss, Harold
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McLeod and Allen: 1914
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 004840
Condition: Good
Original brown cloth delicately lettered in gold on boards. Four tiny white paint spots on back cover. First free endpaper missing. The family-owned company in England sends young Andrew to Canada to organize a mining proposition in the early 1900's. Last leaf wrinkled and has 2-inch tear. 350 pp. View more info
By: Bird, Will R.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1972
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011332
ISBN: 7705-0757-3
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. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:
Edition: Worthington
Seller ID: 008172
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. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:
Edition: Worthington
Seller ID: 008173
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. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:
Seller ID: 008174
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... View more info
By: Black, William
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:
Edition: Worthington
Seller ID: 008176
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. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., John W. Lovell Company:
Edition: Worthington
Seller ID: 008177
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. View more info
By: Bland, E.A.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Ward & Drummond:
Seller ID: 004529
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. View more info
By: Boggs, Sara E.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1906
Edition: First
Seller ID: 005164
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. View more info
By: Boileau, Ethel
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.,Ltd.:
Edition: 38th Thousand
Seller ID: 011765
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1958
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 001990
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. View more info