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By: Breary, Nancy
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited: 1956
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009948
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1930
Seller ID: 008292
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. 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
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. View more info
By: Bruce, Charles
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Formac Publishing Company, Ltd.: 1988
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 006491
ISBN: 0887800653
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.: 1919
Seller ID: 003736
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Lane: 1926
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005034
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $150.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1935
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 007543
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1950
Edition: Twelfth Impression
Seller ID: 007544
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1939
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 007546
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton, Limited: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009886
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009900
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1928
Seller ID: 011732
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $32.00 USD
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: 1933
Seller ID: 011733
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926
Seller ID: 011734
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. View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Co.: 1919
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 011735
Condition: Good
Beige cloth on boards. This book shows edge wear and grubby top edges. Third of the Hannay series. Don't make the mistake of checking reviews on the internet. If you want the full treatment just plow in ! Surely one of the most intricate and inventive stories of the WW I era ! 374 pp. Note: In case you become a Buchan addict, we have lots more of his titles in our store. Just ask ! View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 011736
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. View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1946
Edition: First Canadian Editiion
Seller ID: 005088
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Oliphants Limited: 1956
Edition: First - First Published 1956
Seller ID: 006233
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. View more info
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.: 1878
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003135
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1921
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008469
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. View more info