Black cloth on boards. The main character is constantly torn between his interests and his social values. Recommended to the reader who recognizes its strengths and forgets its shortcomings. 383 pp. View More...
In three parts: Fosse, Laverlaw, and The Island of Sheep. The criminal gang is finally subdued. No writing. Colpitts Stationer's gum label. 318 pp. Next year after The House of the Four Winds, but set 12 years later. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. DJ complete, with light wear head and foot. Previous owner's name and gift note. Pieces written originally for Blackwood's Magazine, except two written for Grey Weather earlier. From the Pentlands Looking North and South, The Company of the Marjolaine, A Lucid Interval, The Lemnian, Space, Streams of Water in the South, The Grove of Ashtaroth, The Riding of Ninemileburn, The Kings of Orion, The Green Glen, The Rime of True Thomas, and several more. 307 pp. View More...
Original orange cloth on boards. DJ edge-chipped and missing thumb-size piece. Previous owner's name. The story of upper class Chinese society as witnessed by the author in the 40's, in novel form. 316 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with full pictorial pastedown on boards. Little information found on this title, which was issued as "Kathleen" apparently. Previous owner's name and address. 212 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Front hinge cracked. Writng on rear endpapers. A daughter is shunned by her family for marrying the wrong man. A son is born, and when his mother dies he is put into the care of a mean uncle. The family rallies to provide the boy with a suitable life. 364 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. No writing. Upper half of rear hinge broken through. Hot stuff for 1920 reviewer in New Zealand who ends her review with the putdown, "But Miss Jane Burr and her explanation disgust us." Apparently Miss Burr had the nerve to write about adultery and divorce ! For myself, I started reading out of curiosity and soon found myself on page 60 ! 197 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Text in Dutch. Previous owner's name in light pencil. No other writing and no damage. Undated, but appears to be the 1938 First Edition by comparison on Internet. 212 pp. View More...
The author of At the Earth's Core receives a letter from an antelope hunter in the Sahara. He has discovered a telegraph box hidden in the sand ! What is at the other end of the wires leading down into the sand ? One of the Adventure Stories. The DJ is chipped at corners and edges, and the front flap is reinforced neatly with wide paper tape. The front edges of the book cover have faded from moisture. 322 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ has 3-inch tear to bottom of front joint, as well as 1-inch tear to foot. Gift note. No other writing or damage. Set in Lustadt, capital of a fictional European nation before WW I. Opens with a group of men chattering about the possible escape of their mad boy-King. 365 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name snipped from first free endpaper. Early chapters suggest the topic to be consolidation of public schools. While you read you'll pick up a new dialect. 297 pp. View More...
Original copper cloth lettered in black on boards. A soldier returned from the war is disgusted with his family and friends. Previous owner's name, otherwise clean and sound. 334 pp. View More...
Nellie, who at 21 has just lost her mother, tells her own story. Middle class life in England near the end of the 19th Century. Wear to head and foot of spine. 546 pp. View More...
Original green cloth lettered in black on boards. Piece of DJ glued inside front cover. Two previous owners' names, but no other marks or damage. I could find no synopsis or any further information except that the author is credited with another popular book, Faith of Our Fathers. 365 pp. View More...
First published in 1941 by Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, an Irish novelist, as the first of a trilogy, to be followed by To Be a Pilgrim(1942) and The Horse's Mouth(1944), which together succeeded in gaining a level of respect not accomplished heretofore in spite of several attempts. This author is a prime example of determination winning out over nearly lifelong poor health. 216 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards, title in gilt. Probable first edition. Very little background found on this volume. The author (1850-1922) was born in Ohio and attended Vassar, graduating in 1869. She travelled widely, which provided ample material for her many books, titles of which often begin with "Romance of (place)..." Interior is clean and sound, but previous owner has autographed the prelims a few too many times. 235 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards. Gift inscription and pencil drawing on endpapers. Interior clean and cover hand-soiled. No synopsis found for this story of two classmates in a private girls' school in England. This author also wrote "Jill the Outsider." 191 pp. View More...
Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with gilt all-cap titles cover and spine. One of a series by Chester, buoyed along by slangy narrative characteristic of slightly dishonest politics and business, practiced together. Copyright 1913 by Bobbs-Merrill, which leads me to believe this copy is the first Canadian edition. Previous owner's name. 401 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. No marks or damage. The story of a Jew's treatment under Hitler. No further reviews found. Ryerson Fiction Award. 274 pp. View More...
The author "describes a love between two women in its totality,experienced as both physical presence and a sense of infinity." - back cover. Very light notes, underlines, and dog-ears in the first 50 pp. only. 211 pp. View More...
