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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: Bindloss, Harold
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: London & Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co, Limited: 1928
Edition: First - First Published 1928
Seller ID: 013173
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. 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
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Knopf: 1941
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 000475
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. View more info
By: Bower, B.M.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Little,Brown: 1927
Edition: C. 1927, Published Jan., 1927
Seller ID: 000413
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. View more info
By: Bower, B.M.
Price: $19.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1918
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005222
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. View more info
By: Bower, B.M. (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair-Cowan)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1920
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 005683
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. View more info
By: Bowering, George
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Don Mills, ON, Musson Book Company: 1980
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 009727
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Montreal, John Dougall & Son: 1893
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 003644
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. View more info