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Two Thrilling Terms

By: Breary, Nancy

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited: 1956

Seller ID: 009948

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

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.
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Rash Romance

By: Brookman, Laura Lou

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1930

Seller ID: 008292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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They Ride Again

By: Brooks, Collin

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: London, Elkin Mathews and Marrott, Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 010214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Channel Shore (A Novel)

By: Bruce, Charles

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Formac Publishing Company, Ltd.: 1988

Seller ID: 006491

ISBN: 0887800653

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Mr. Standfast; An Enthralling Present Day Romance

By: Buchan, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.: 1919

Seller ID: 003736

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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John Burnet of Barns; A Romance

By: Buchan, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Lane: 1926

Seller ID: 005034

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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The Moon Endureth; Tales and Fancies

By: Buchan, John

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1935

Seller ID: 007543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Free Fishers

By: Buchan, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1950

Seller ID: 007544

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Three Hostages

By: Buchan, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 007546

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. DJ has long fold tear and missing bits head and foot. Previous owner's name. Frontispiece map of Machray and Haripol Forests. This story precedes The Island of Sheep (Listed separately). Richard Hannay is called out of retirement with Mary in the Cotswolds to solve the kidnaping of three children of prominent people. Sandy Arbuthnot helps. 319 pp.
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The Island of Sheep

By: Buchan, John

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton, Limited: 1936

Seller ID: 009886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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A Prince of the Captivity

By: Buchan, John

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1933

Seller ID: 009900

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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The Half-Hearted

By: Buchan, John

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1928

Seller ID: 011732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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A Prince of the Captivity

By: Buchan, John

Price: $32.00 USD

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: 1933

Seller ID: 011733

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Dancing Floor

By: Buchan, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926

Seller ID: 011734

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Courts of the Morning

By: Buchan, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929

Seller ID: 011736

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Pavilion of Women

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1946

Seller ID: 005088

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Strait is the Gate

By: Buckingham, Marjorie

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oliphants Limited: 1956

Seller ID: 006233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ torn at corner folds and taped inside. No writing. The central figure of the book is a young woman with a lovely singing voice whose parents are conservative church-goers. She experience "true conversion" when a new minister arrives. 224 pp.
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Kathleen's Love Story

By: Burnett, Frances H.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.: 1878

Seller ID: 003135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Key Note

By: Burnham, Clara Louise

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1921

Seller ID: 008469

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Passionate Spectator

By: Burr, Jane

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Seltzer: 1921

Seller ID: 007563

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

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.
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