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By: Boileau, Ethel
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.,Ltd.:
Edition: 38th Thousand
Seller ID: 011765
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
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
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
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1918
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 002231
Original blue cloth with black lettering. Mysterious white specks on cover. Bosher (1865-1932) was an active speaker on Women's Suffrage, especially in Virginia. 190 pp. plus ads. View more info
By: Boulton, Agnes
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co.: 1944
Edition: Second Impression Stated
Seller ID: 010832
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. One internet source states that this novel received good reviews, none of which I could find, including one from the New York Times. Boulton married Eugene O'Neill, and together they had Oona, who married Charlie Chaplin. The author uses racial terms considered inappropriate today. 227 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1932
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002776
Original magenta cloth with black lettering on boards. Spine faded, and abrasion to corners and spine. First edition. Price reduced for condition. This is a volume of fiction from an author known for her biographies of famous people. No synopsis found. The protagonist appears to be the daughter of a Philadelphia physician. Her goal seems to be to "marry well". Previous owner's name in very light pencil. 332 pp. 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
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
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
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
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
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
By: Braider, Donald
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Bodley Head, Ltd.: 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 007952
Original blue paper boards. Clear plastic wrapper over DJ. Library discard. "Few artists have ever been so cursed by tragedy and so elevated by happiness as Goya." - DJ. 318 pp. View more info
By: Breary, Nancy
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited: 1956
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009948
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. View more info
By: Bridge, Ann
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1937
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002524
Original red cloth with gilt motif on boards. Previous owner's name, bookplate and sticker. No other marks or damage. Alleged to be her best novel to date. 459 pp. View more info
By: Bronte Sisters
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Octopus Books Ltd.: 1982
Seller ID: 003978
Original dark blue leatherette heavily decorated and lettered in gold on boards. All edges gilt, with some rubbed away. No other damage and no writing. An elegant volume, perfect as a gift. Heavy, so please inquire for postage before ordering. 815 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1930
Seller ID: 008292
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 info
By: Brooks, Collin
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: London, Elkin Mathews and Marrott, Limited: 1934
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 010214
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 info
By: Bruce, Charles
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Formac Publishing Company, Ltd.: 1988
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 006491
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 info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.: 1919
Seller ID: 003736
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 info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Lane: 1926
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005034
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 info