Gunter was active at the end of the 19th Century as novelist and playwright. In 1902 he wrote A Florida Enchantment, which featured a duo sex change. I found no reviews of this present title. 272 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. A bachelor salesman is trying to decide where to spend his vacation when he gets a letter from his married sister. Humorous, educational fun ! DJ has pieces missing. Book has shelf wear. Book is very clean, and printed from new plates. 247 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. Plastic jacket taped top and bottom to good DJ. St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses' Library stamp, but this one is romantic fiction rather than nursing-related as many of Hamill's others are. A little musty. 220 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Lower right corner of dedication page missing. Previous owner's name. No other writing or damage. I found the expression "burned his ships" puzzling until I checked it on Google. The conversation in general is effusive and ornamental. One reviewer described it as "clunky." Apparently the author had converted to Catholicism recently. Perhaps he sought to impress with a too-generous helping of new knowledge. 319 pp. View More...
Only some light pen tracing over "Three" and "Bad" on cover keep this from being graded As New. Undated, but ca. 1952. "I'd forgotten everything except that here was one hell of a woman who made love like a jungle animal... ." 124 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original olive cloth with pastedown of Sadie on boards. Sadie is a waitress in Kansas City who quits her job and leaves town after a breakup. Luckily, she finds a new job right away, but it's in tiny Bagdad, near Death Valley. Previous owner's name. Edges grubby. 310 pp. View More...
Original grey paper boards. Pictorial DJ rumpled and written on (See photo). Well-received second novel by this young southern woman. A first-person approach that takes a little different tack on dealing with the fear of rape. "Heartening", according to DJ. 181 pp. View More...
A beautiful girl of the carnivals has men swarming around her every day, men with ideas, men who see her charms for what their(sic) worth as a source of profit and pleasure. - From the intro. To top it off, she falls in love with the wrong one ! 129 pp. plus ads. Will you look this good at 50 ? View More...
Original green grained plasticized cloth on boards. Signed, "Alberta Hawse, I John: 5:11,12." Long gift note and previous owner's name. DJ unclipped. Vinegar Boy's regular job is carrying vinegar wine and myrrh to the crucifixion hill. Today he had hoped to meet a man who was gaining a reputation as a miracle worker, to see if he could remove the ugly birthmark on the boy's face. However, he was called to work - there were to be 3 crucifixions today. 176 pp. View More...
Original green 3/4 cloth on feather pattern boards. No DJ. Minor edge wear and corner bumping. Small tavern label. Exquisite pencilled name (previous owner?) and date (1890) on title page. SEE PHOTO. A surprisingly successful short novel. "After perusal of this weird, fantastic tale, it must be admitted that upon the shoulders of Julian Hawthorne has descended in no small degree the mantle of his more illustrious father." - London Times. 126 pp. plus review page and lengthy catalog. Cover hand soiled, OW very good. Earlier than other offered copies. View More...
Original gold cloth on boards, no DJ. No date, but appears to be an early edition. Cover title is in extreme upper right(SEE SCAN). Bowed, spine very grubby, and 5 leaves rumpled at top edge by careless closing, OW good. 320 pp. View More...
Original illustrated olive cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1906) in bold, flowing script. An early Canadian printing of this 1901 volume. If you're anything like me, you might find this story quite easy to get into, and rather hard to put down. Mrs. Wiggs is dirt poor but has high moral values which she tries to pass on to her five children as well as her neighbours' kids. A touch of romance rounds out this popular volume. Clean and complete, with some light strain to binding. Pp. 145-152 edge-torn, not affecting text. NOTE; Please see also our listings of her two other... View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Fading to spine and head. Jule is the son of the protagonist of Henderson's first novel, Ollie Miss, written in 1934. Jule grows up in Alabama, but leaves it behind for the glamour and glitter of Harlem. 234 pp. View More...
Original light green cloth with striking art deco florals in darker green on boards. Grubby text block of cheap stock reminds one of WWII, but is earlier. Different from many Hentys - more human, less violent, and an enjoyable read according to one reviewer. 276 pp. plus ad for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. View More...
Original deep maroon cloth on boards. Two illustrations missing, of eight. Sunday School Library evidence. Covers spotted and edgeworn, but holding together ! 352 pp. View More...
Original red cloth lettered in gold on boards. An exotic novel of love, jealousy, attempted murder, and eventual isolation. 481 pp. No writing and no damage. View More...
Original light blue cloth on boards. No synopsis found. Begins, "It was Harriet's turn to carry the tray up to the tower where her father was working, or at least engaged in some occupation which he described as work. Nobody had ever actually caught him seated at his desk, writing." - p. 3. 269 pp. View More...
Original red cloth lettered and decorated in black on boards. Previous owners' names and date (1931). Some fading spots to cover. No other writing or damage. A "modern" novel set in Jerusalem. 332 pp. View More...
Original colour cover trade paperback. Small price tag removal scar the only fault. This is the author's first published fiction. An officially-arranged nuclear explosion succeeds too well, and Nova Scotia is suddenly independent ! 262 pp. No writing or names. View More...
