Original grey paper boards backed in black cloth. Sadie and her little sister, Flora, have been uprooted from their home in Canada. Their father has put them into a boarding home in St. John's while he prospects for gold. The operator of the boarding home is not nice, and the girls at school are no better. And then the money stops....281 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1930). Normal wear. Cover spot. The author has used this novel to condemn the practice of auctioning off indigent persons to the highest bidder, of which there is ample evidence in New Brunswick. The author was for many years minister of an Anglican Church in Saint John's South End. 318 pp. View More...
Brown softcover, printed on demand. One of the popular novels of Rev. H.S. Cody, Anglican minister late of Saint John, N. B. No writing or damage to this book. 174 pp. View More...
Original light blue cloth lettered in dark blue on boards. Previous owner's name, with no other writing or damage. Another popular novel by a Saint John clergyman. Begins with a confrontation between a blackmailer and a woman who had exchanged her newborn baby boy for a girl. 277 pp. View More...
Original illustrated brown cloth lettered in orange on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. Minor edge and corner wear. Interior clean. One of many popular novels written by Reverend Cody, beloved pastor of an Anglican congregation in Saint John. 303 pp. View More...
Original dark green cloth lettered in white on boards. The author's first novel, which followed his biography of his first bishop in the Yukon. Laid in is the first of two articles from the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which gives an account of Cody's life by Ted Jones, who wrote Cody's biography, All the Days of His Life, in 1981. 342 pp. View More...
Original tan cloth lettered in orange on boards. Laid in is a note in blue "ditto": "244 Madison Avenue, New York. This book is not published until September ( 21, 1923 - handstamped) It is specially requested that you do not review it before that date. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY." Another of the popular novels set in the far North by an Anglican clergyman from Saint John. Rear hinge cracked. 296 pp. View More...
Original tan cloth on red-bordered boards. White paint sprayed on cover. Previous owner's name. Cody's fiction has been compared to James Oliver Curwood's. Previous owner's name. Rear hinge cracked. 296 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards lettered in red. Gift note with date (Xmas '18). One corner tear and two short marginal tears not affecting legibility. Clean and sound. One of the many novels written by a former pastor of St. James Anglican Church on Saint John's South End. 308 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Volume Thirty of the Works of Wilkie Collins. Written in Paris when Dickens was a neighbour and frequent companion. The two little novels included are Miss Dulane and My Lord and Mr. Policeman and the Cook. Hinges cracked and glued. Previous owner's name. 320 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name, a resident of historic Caverhill Hall in Saint John. The title is dedicated to Caroline Graves, the first of at least two of Collins's lovers. "Fallen leaves" are the down and out, four of whom are the lead characters. They are all involved in some way with Amelius Goldenheart, the hero. A leading theme is how to create relationships which are neither exploitative nor hypocritical. 525 pp. View More...
Original dark grey-green cloth on boards. Probably a first Canadian edition since previous owner dated it 1922 in front (Published first in 1920). Something about an eleven-year-old Chicago boy who wanders into Lincoln Park Zoo, where "the madness took him." He makes friends with one of the elephant keepers, who tells him about India. He decides he has to go to India. Previous owner's name. Rear hinge cracked. Store label. Worn spot on cover. 350 pp. View More...
Original green illustrated cloth on boards. Reprinted from The Sky Pilot, but much more attractively presented than the larger volume, with a lovely portrait frontispiece and smaller illustrations decorating every page. 128 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Gift note dated 1935. Tobias Bassett pulled on his oilskins and buckled down the sou'wester over his ears preparatory to venturing upon the high gallery to scrape the clinging snow from the glass. "You have a care what you're doing up there, slipping around outside the light," advised his sister. 338 pp. View More...
Original bright orange cloth on boards. This is the second book of the Steve Knight Series.The third and final book, The Phantom Fleet, was published in 1942, shortly before the death of the author, Ted Copp. Tanned text block suggests wartime publication, but there is no such stamp. Assumed First Edition by original publisher. Illustrated endpapers. 212 pp. View More...
Original pictorial red cloth on boards. Previous owner's name (twice). Appears to be a first edition for book publication. Although copyrighted by Ward, Lock, it was apparently for use in their Windsor Magazine in 1902. Minor edge wear. Last leaf torn 4 inches and taped. 406 pp. View More...
Original photo cover trade paperback. A collection of short fictional pieces on various themes, from Che Guevara to the goldfields of the Yukon and back home to New Brunswick. ISBN 1-894372-69-7. 185 pp. plus bio. View More...
Original tan cloth on boards. DJ dusty and spotted and taped inside. Previous owners' names. Very dusty edges. Interior clean and undamaged. The owner of an old house in New England is puzzled by the numbers of offers he receives to buy it. What he doesn't know is that there is said to be treasure buried somewhere nearby. Eventually he discovers an old copper mine ....Oh, yes, and there is romance, too. 325 pp. View More...
"For perhaps the first time in his life Howland felt the spirit of romance, of adventure, of sympathy for the picturesque and the unknown surging through his veins."- p. 1. Modern readers might suspect an overdose of Cialis, but this is the first line, so he hasn't met the lady yet. When he does meet her, he nearly gets killed ! It's almost enough to make him forget why he's here - to build a railroad for Mr. Van Horn. (It's Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, President of Canadian Pacific Railway). Faithful readers will pardon my puns and enter into another adventure in the wilderness of ... View More...
Original red cloth covered spine over attractive mottled brown patterned paper boards. One-inch tear in cloth at edge of lower part of spine. Corners and edges well rubbed. Both hinges cracked. Minor foxing. Newspaper article pasted in on front free endpaper. This is the romantic story of Manon (a poor girl), and her lover, the Chevalier Des Grieux, who forfeits his family fortune to be with her. The novel was controversial when it was first published in 1731, and banned in France. The Abbé Prévost toned down some of the more scandalous details in a version published in 1753. 319 page... View More...
