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Barnardo Boy

By: Diltz, Bert C.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Initiative Publishing House, Inc.: 1982

Seller ID: 004124

ISBN: 0889510245

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ uncredited. A novelette based on the experience of an English orphan boy brought to Canada in the late 1800's to improve his life. As too often is the case, he is taken advantage of as a source of cheap labour by any number of "guardians". 136 pp.
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Ships of Youth; A Study of Marriage in Modern India

By: Diver, Maud

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt Co.: 1931

Seller ID: 007118

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. Striking DJ cover art of young woman with riding crop. DJ badly chipped and worn, barely holding together. Researching this title led me to discover the degree to which British and Indian relations at many levels were surrounded by stereotypes and prejudice. Sequel to A Wild Bird. 496 pp.
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The Firm of Girdlestone

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., International Book Company: 1889

Seller ID: 013190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brick cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Top back corner rubbed. It is believed that this is a pirated copy which came out before the UK edition in 1890. When the prosperous Girdlestone firm skids toward bankruptcy, the father cooks up a scheme. He announces a new discovery of diamonds in the Urals, and then buys as many as he can from suppliers who believe the hoax and are willing to cut their their losses by selling. However, an authentic new discovery deflates the Girdlestone loot, and he thinks up another scheme, this time to get his hands on a y...
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Furlough from Heaven

By: Dreifuss, Jerome

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Crown Publishers: 1946

Seller ID: 008325

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original grey cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date. "This story is about a visit Leonardo Da Vinci paid to New York City on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in June of 1941." 254 pp.
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Twenty Years After; A Historical Romance (Being the Continuation of the Three Musketeers)

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., R.F. Fenno and Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 008491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original illustrated blue cloth on boards. Cover fading and edge soil. Triumphs over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady are behind them. Civil war endangers France, and England is in turmoil under Cromwell. Their greatest opponent in Milady's son. 513 pp.
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The Forty-Five Guardsmen(Sequel to Chicot the Jester)

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Co.:

Seller ID: 011903

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards. Third volume of "Valois Romances". Previous owner's names and date (1927). Warning: Be sure to read them in order (Queen Margot, Chicot, and 45 Guardsmen). 484 pp.
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The Best of a Bad Job; A Hearty Tale of the Sea

By: Duncan, Norman

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Fleming H. Revell: 1912

Seller ID: 007193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards, lettered in white. Previous owner's name blacked out. An author popular for his sea stories, especially of Newfoundland. This one is a recollection by one old sailor of another one he knew and his sickly, orphaned grandson. 204 pp. plus catalog.
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The Magpie

By: Durkin, Douglas

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited: 1923

Seller ID: 012173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Red cloth on boards. Two pinholes in spine. A novel of postwar disillusionment. Shortly after Durkin completed this novel he joined forces with Martha Ostenso for a long and profitable relationship. The Magpie is important also for portrayal of increasing sexual freedom for women. 330pp.
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The Frozen Jungle

By: Earl, Lawrence (Larry Wiezel)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Limited: 1955

Seller ID: 013413

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

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.
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The Making of Harry Cossaboom

By: Edson, Jerrod

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dream Catcher Publishing, Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 007211

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

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.
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A Lover for Anne

By: Erskine, Sylvia

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Carnival Books:

Seller ID: 000076

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

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.
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Macaria

By: Evans, Augusta J.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company:

Seller ID: 002083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blind-stamped red cloth with yellow lettering on boards. Minor corner bumping, with no other faults. A novel about two women of the Southern States who learn to get along without their men as a result of the Civil War. No dates are given, so this must be a reprint. The only other title credited to the author here is Beulah. An alternate title to Macaria on the web is Altars of Sacrifice. 418 pp. plus ads.
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A Fatal Resemblance

By: Faber, Christine

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., P.J. Kenedy & Sons: 1891

Seller ID: 005665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

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.
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Bill Myron

By: Fales, Dean

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dutton: 1927

Seller ID: 000531

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth on boards, gilt lettering. No DJ. Patterned EPs. 390 pp.
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John o' the Green

By: Farnol, Jeffery

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1935

Seller ID: 012117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. King Tristan has a plan to enlarge his territory, but the local kings won't go along. He captures John, who agrees to help in order to save his nine comrades. Little does he know that his first conquest will be feminine. 340 pp. Third of spine missing from DW.
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Justice By Midnight

By: Farnol, Jeffery/ Farnol, Phyllis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sampson Low: 1955

Seller ID: 012244

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has small spine tears head and foot. No writing. This was Farnol's last book, which was actually finished by his wife. From the DJ: "The story is set in the uneasy England of James II. Rejected love turns the exquisite, soulful Mr. Anthony Armadale into the grim, misogynistic outlaw 'Captain Midnight', the terror of those wealthy autocrats who considered themselves to be above the law. Encouraging him in his daring interventions between Tyranny and its victims, the little parson Aeneas Wade never guesses his identity. Not so the lovely Lady Clarissa Fa...
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Middy and Ensign

By: Fenn, G. Manville

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton:

Seller ID: 002876

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Diamond Dyke; or The Lone Farm on the Veldt, a Story of South African Adventure

By: Fenn, George Manville

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, Limited:

Seller ID: 005999

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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The Fire Line

By: Ferguson, Trevor

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd.: 1995

Seller ID: 004274

ISBN: 0002243938

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Fern Leaves

By: Fern, Fanny (Sara Payson Willis)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Donohue, Henneberry: 1890

Seller ID: 001469

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original green cloth of Caxton Edition decorated in black with gilt spine title. Published in 1853, this was the author's most popular book, selling 46,000 copies in four months. This copy is soiled and edge-darkened, but clean inside. SEE PHOTO. 392 pp.
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