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By: Camp, Wadsworth
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, & Company: 1922
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 005245
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 info
By: Carey, Rosa N.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company:
Seller ID: 011303
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 info
Price: $26.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Harper & Brothers: 1926
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 004240
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 info
By: Cary, Joyce
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1950
Edition: Fourth Impression
Seller ID: 012871
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 info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Outing Publishing Company: 1911
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002661
Original red cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial pastedown on boards. Dark spot and short scrape on front cover and four small depressed white spots on rear cover. No other marks, damage, or writing. The tenderfoot is a New York City office worker with a gun fetish. He can't wait to go hunting for deer in the Adirondacks. Racial slurs. Other stories in the book: Stalking the Slippery Seal, Deep Sea Fishing with a Fly Rod, An Ex-Tenderfoot and a Buck, Savages fo... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society:
Seller ID: 000967
Original green cloth on boards, no DJ. Soiled, foxed, edgeworn, no EPs, and first of four illustrations MISSING. Still, rare enough and important enough to preserve. 96 pp. View more info
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1893
Seller ID: 007137
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 info
By: Channon, E.M.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Nisbet:
Seller ID: 000492
RARE. Bright red cloth with mounted horsemen/women in black, no DJ. Tiny tear repaired top of spine. P.O.N.(twice). In, around and about a very British girls' school. 255 pp.plus ad for Cavalcade Series. NO other copies found. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company, Limited: 1931
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 007280
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 info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McLeod and Allen:
Seller ID: 002662
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 info
By: Child, Philip
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1945
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 009728
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 info
By: Cixous, Helene
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1991
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010601
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 info
By: Clark, Joan
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Penguin/Viking: 2002
Edition: First
Seller ID: 004846
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 info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Blackie and Son, Limited: 1903
Seller ID: 006252
Original dark blue cloth illustrated with lady painter on boards. Previous owner's name hardly visible on dark-coloured endpaper. No other writing and no damage. No synopsis found. Kathy Fairclough is the eldest of four children of the widower, Dr. Fairclough, an academic. Only 14 when her mother died, Kathy has taken her place in caring for the children, as well as helping her father and teaching. 288 pp. plus catalog. View more info
By: Cody, H. A.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Limited: 1929
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011271
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 info
By: Cody, H.A.
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., George H. Doran Company: 1923
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 005313
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 info
By: Cody, H.A.
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1921
Seller ID: 005314
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 info
By: Cody, H.A.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1910
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005468
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 info
By: Cody, H.A.
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1913
Edition: First Canadian Editiion
Seller ID: 008231
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 info
By: Cody, H.A.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart:
Seller ID: 008725
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 info