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Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Louis Carrier & Co.: 1929
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 008385
Condition: Very Good
Original deep blue cloth on boards. Laid in is a review by a Saint John resident, apparently. The author was a Saint John boy who got a good education and eventually became a successful novelist after brief stints at college teaching. The novel centres on a love triangle composed of a neurotic man who desires, and is much desired by, a shady lady, while at the same time is befriended by an ice-cold lassie who thinks too much. Hot stuff for Saint John in 1929 ! Map endpapers with familiar place names. No writing or damage. 311 pp. View more info
By: Curtis, Wayne
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing: 2005
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 007210
Condition: Fine
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 info
By: Curtiss, Philip
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt Co.: 1919
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003416
Condition: Good
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 info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1910
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 009979
Condition: Good Plus
"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 wilder... View more info
By: D'Exiles, Antoine Francois Prévost
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons: 1886
Seller ID: 003176
Condition: Fair to Good
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 pa... View more info
By: Daniels, Jan (W.E. Dan Ross)
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: London, Robert Hale Limited: 1966
Edition: First Edition.
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 012363
Condition: Very Good
Saint John author, Dan Ross, adds another to his list of hundreds of novels under various names. DJ price-clipped. Laid in is a clipping from a local newspaper. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Scribner: 1917
Seller ID: 000521
Condition: Very Good
Original brown boards with black lettering and design. A cheap little book, but excellent in condition. Only 43 pp., but not even a P.O.N. to spoil your total enjoyment. View more info
By: Dawes, Neville
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: London, MacGibbon & Kee: 1960
Edition: First - First Published 1960
Seller ID: 009395
Condition: Very Good
Original brown cloth on boards. This novel has proven its lasting worth by being re-published nearly 50 years after this First Edition. Ramsay Tull is privileged to attend Oxford University, but when he gets back home he gets involved in nationalist politics, thereby immersing himself once again in the language and life of Jamaica. Text block tanned. 288 pp. View more info
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: London, Methuen: 1908
Edition: First Published in 1908
Seller ID: 000687
Condition: Good
Original red cloth with titles in gilt-flowered frame on boards, no DJ. FFEP MISSING. Rare volume, whose author is better known as the son of his mother, Sarah Morgan Dawson. Warrington had had her diaries published after she died, as A Confederate Girl's Diary. Warrington was a friend of Joseph Conrad, but although he wrote at least four other novels as well as The Scourge, never became well known, spending most of his time in France. Only one other copy of this First Edition known. Edges browned and tiny black ink spot on cover. 309 pp, plus 40-page catalog of Methuen offerings, a use... View more info
By: Day, Holman
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Harper and Brothers: 1915
Edition: First(Published July, 1915)
Seller ID: 001714
Condition: Good
Original green cloth on boards. No DJ. Minor rear cover soil, so Good. Previous owner's name and address. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Book is sound and clean except as noted. 334 pp. View more info
By: Day, Holman
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1916
Seller ID: 012810
Condition: Good Plus
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Romance between a ship's captain and the owner's daughter. 462 pp. View more info
By: De Balzac, H.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Sons Limited: 1911
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011870
Condition: Good Plus
Red leather on flexible board. Translated by Clara Bell. Introduction by George Saintsbury. Calvinist Martyr; The Ruggieri's Secret; and The Two Dreams. Top edges gilt. Bookmark. 350 pp. View more info
By: De Coulevain, Pierre (Jeanne Philomene Laperche)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Goodchild, Limited: 1912
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 004909
Condition: Good Plus
Original green cloth, blindstamped in art deco floral brackets, on boards. Translated by Alys Hallard. There seems to be a difference of opinion as to the author's identity. Augustine Favre De Coulevain is also given as the proper name, even though Laperche is heavily favoured. Two American women in Paris and Rome are misunderstood in terms of their freedom and frankness. 459 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1961
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 001343
Condition: Very Good
Original yellow cloth on boards. DJ price clipped. Previous owner's name. Very crisp and clean. This novel comes between The Building of Jalna and Morning at Jalna in the Whiteoaks series. 296 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Little Brown and Co.: 1941
Edition: Whiteoaks Edition - Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 003040
Condition: Good Plus
Original green blindstamped cloth on boards. Ink inscription and minor corner tip wear. Great British humour, according to reviews on the net. 406 pp. View more info
By: Deeping, Warwick
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1941
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004184
Condition: Very Good
Original orange cloth on boards. A junior chartered accountant leaves the firm and heads back to the land. No writing and no damage. 332 pp. View more info
By: Deeping, Warwick
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company, Ltd.: 1930
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010392
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards. No writing. Small corner tears to DJ. The number of internet reviews suggests that this 20's novel of a worker's life in Britain touches a variety of heartstrings. Some pity the man without a wife and the boy without a mother. Others bewail the negative portrayal of women as a group. Regardless, there's lots to think about in this easily-read work. 394 pp. View more info
By: Deeping, Warwick
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1931
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 011924
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Green cloth on boards. Gift note. Set in idyllic rural England between two world wars and published under the alternate title, The Ten Commandments. Features a one-eyed veteran, his housekeeper, and the mother and daughters of the Mill House, a nearby tea room. DJ missing small pieces at head and foot of spine. 378 pp. View more info
By: Deeping, Warwick
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Ryerson Press: 1929
Edition: First Canadian Editiion
Seller ID: 011926
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Dark blue cloth on boards. DJ has 3-inch fold tear taped inside. Gift note. Based on author's own life as a medical doctor, which he gave up to be a writer. However, when WW I came along, he signed up and served. 423 pp. View more info
By: Deeping, Warwick
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Limited: 1935
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 011927
Condition: Good to Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing 75%, so no previous owner's name. No writing. Karl, a popular playwright, owes his success to his mother, who strives for success in a secondhand clothing shop. 424 pp. View more info