Originial blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear to corners. Some water spotting to cover. Back half of the dustjacket and a newspaper article about the author laid in. A novel of aircraft downed in the wilds of Labrador; another by a native of Saint John, New Brunswick. 244 pp. View More...
Original trade paperback. A Saint John bus driver searches for meaning and finds it in the face of the inevitable. ISBN 1-894372-08-5. 133 pp. plus bio. View More...
Previously published as Men Call Her Tramp. Colour cover features nubile blonde skinny-dipping, suddenly to discover a dark-haired Lothario looking on. Will they get together ? Cover glued along spine after staples pulled through. Minor cover cracks along lower spine, front and back. Fifty years old, and still bright and clean ! 130 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with floral borders on boards. First free endpaper missing. Hinges cracked and glued. In the depths of the Catskills, in 1835, a young girl roams happily among the trees,speaking to them with genuine affection. Another of this author's novels of the Irish in a new country. 391 pp. View More...
Original intricately blindstamped green cloth on boards. Colour frontispiece. A novel set on the Parang River of Malay Peninsula in British colonial times. Racial slurs. Last gutter cracked. 371 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth, illustration of running ostrich, on boards. Frontispiece and 3 additional plates. Two men, half-brothers, set up an ostrich farm. One of the hazards they have to deal with is lions. First free endpaper missing. Minor rubbing head and foot of spine. 335 pp. View More...
Original cream paper boards backed in black. As new overall except for previous owner's name stamp. A railway worker who is also a dreamer and a lover of language, a man with a lot to say.... 245 pp. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ has several tears repaired inside, and is hand-soiled. A member of British Parliament becomes disillusioned with politics, loses his Communist wife, and takes up with a younger woman - nearly losing his career. 232 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. First edition by Harper and Brothers Copyright codes (H-D) is August, 1929. Gift note dated Christmas, 1929. General normal wear, with light wear to corner tips. 218 pp. This book put Riverton, DE on the map. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. DJ chipped along top. Story of a disenchanted office worker who walks away from it. 306 pp. View More...
Black cloth on boards. Unclipped D.J. Book and DJ flawless. Five complete novels. Diamonds are Forever. From Russia with Love. Goldfinger. Casino Royale. Live and Let Die. 715 pp. View More...
Original salmon cloth on boards. This book gives every indication of having been a favourite - several leaves threatening to separate, but still all accounted for. Dedicated to "Jimmy, the terrier, who never doubted, but loved and waited." Many dog-related incidents throughout. Only one other credit found for the author - a short story in Life in 1916. I have glued the threatening leaves in order to preserve it for still another dog/fiction lover who won't mind the well-used look. 275 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Bookstore ink stamp. No other hardcover copies found. No synopsis found. Protagonist is a sleazy young lawyer who is quite comfortable with extra-legal hijinks as long as he isn't found out. Spine ends worn. 295 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth illustrated in black and blue on boards. Fifth volume in the series. Grace Harlowe has completed her course and now returns to Overton as an alumnus. Her goal is to take over the direction of Harlowe House, a residence endowed by Mrs. Gray for the use of girls who could not afford such an education otherwise. This book shows careful treatment by the previous owner, whose name is neatly written on first free endpaper. Hinges have been carefully glued to correct the inevitable cracking of the paper over these joints. Photo shows the fully-illustrated cover. 256 pp. View More...
Original shocking pink cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ lightly chipped head and foot, with 1-inch tear bottom of spine. Small marginal worm hole first 55 pp., not affecting text. "Can an innocent man, handicapped by a prison sentence, make good ?"- front flap. Copyright 1918 by George Sully & Company. No writing. 288 pp. View More...
Best-known of his novels, in the scarce Canadian Edition. Red cloth, black letters, 325 pp. plus ads. Light foxing on title page, minuscule bookstore stamp, spine and corners crimped. Rear hinge lightly cracked. One uncut page tear(Minor). View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Faint brown stain to cover. Previous owner's name. This British author is best known for her novel, The First Violin. I found no reviews of Borderland. 428 pp. View More...
Original green marbled boards on 3/4 green leather. Rear hinge cracked and glued. Two-inch tear to top edge of last free endpaper. Four raised spine bands. 42, 98. and 58 pp., respectively, in the three stories. "From the German of Caroline Pichler" stated on title of Quentin Matsys. Ca. 1840, since Pichler died in 1843. View More...
Original black cloth, white spine lettering, DJ very good. "When Chloe visits the Isle of Man for the first time, she is perturbed to find that she "recognizes" both landscapes and people she has never seen before." - DJ. Price red-markered out on FFEP. 192 pp. View More...
