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The Poets' Tributes to Garfield; A Collection of Many Memorial Poems

By: Various Poets

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King: 1882

Seller ID: 009671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Dark brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on beveled boards. Gift note, Christmas, 1882, with no other writing. All edges gilt. 160 poetic tributes to the slain President. Very small stamp, Mary Mellish, Archibald Memorial, suggests it may have been donated to a library after the first owner was through with it. Further research places this library at Mount Allison University. 168 pp.
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Sherman E. Burroughs; Memorial Addresses (To)

By: Various U.S. Congressmen

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Sixty-seventh Congress (GPO): 1924

Seller ID: 001433

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth with gilt cover lettering on boards. No DJ. Minor mildew haze on cover only. Tributes and testimonials to Burroughs by 14 fellow U.S. congressmen supply a surprising amount of biographical information, in addition to the expected congratulatory messages. Hon. Sherman E. Burroughs represented the first district of New Hampshire in the House for six years, commencing in 1917, when he filled the vacancy left by the death of Hon. Cyrus A. Sulloway. Mr. Burroughs had made a reputation as an astute lawyer much earlier, and in the interim served in the state legislature. 58 pp...
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A Little Nut-Brown Man; My Three Years with Lord Beaverbrook

By: Vines, C.M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leslie Frewin Publishers, Ltd.: 1968

Seller ID: 012915

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bright blue paper boards. DJ price-clipped. No other damage and no writing. A rather light-hearted look at the wealthy businessman who near the end of his career hired a young male secretary.
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Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Von Seidlitz, Woldemar

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wien, Phaidon-Verlag: 1935

Seller ID: 000805

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original black cloth with gilt lettering cover and spine, no DJ. Considerable underlining and marginalia have reduced it to good, but still quite readable and useful. A substantial book. Many illustrations are interspersed through text, with the last several pages reserved for Da Vinci's own works. 728 pp. TEXT IN GERMAN.
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The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography

By: Wallace, W. Stewart (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1967

Seller ID: 005811

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has small tears head of spine and corner wear. Interior clean and unmarked. Heavy book will need extra ;postage. 822 pp.
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Thomas Carlyle

By: Watt, L. Maclean

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Jack:

Seller ID: 000129

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fair

Original decorative cloth, no DJ, bent corners, some underlining. P.O.N. is H.A. Cody, signed over initials D.H.L. as last-previous owner. Cody, an Anglican minister in Saint John for many years, was widely known in Canada for his novels, which are still highly-collectible. This little volume is a slim, necessarily brief biography of Carlyle. People's Books. 93 pp.
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The Bradbury Chronicles; The Life of Ray Bradbury

By: Weller, Sam

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 2005

Seller ID: 009376

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original white paper boards backed in grey. Red remainder mark on foot edges. Otherwise, Fine. No writing or damage. Subtitle, "Predicting the Past, Remembering the Future." Fahrenheit 451 was probably his best-known title. 384 pp. with index.
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Life and Labors of Robert Alex. Fyfe, D.D.;Founder and for Many Years President of the Canadian Literary Institute, Now Woodstock College

By: Wells, J.E.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, J.E. Wells: 1885

Seller ID: 001766

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth with bright gilt lettering. Very rare biography of outstanding Baptist preacher in U.S. and Canada. No marks or deliberate damage. One pair of leaves edge-torn by careless separation(uncut). Active at Perth, Ontario; Milwaukee, WI; Toronto; and Woodstock, Ontario, but known primarily for his founding of, and long connection with, Canadian Literary Institute. 466 pp.
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The Young Wordsworth

By: West, Trudy

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Roy Publishers, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 008828

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original dark green paper boards. Unclipped DJ. Upper board lightly dished at top. No writing. 136 pp.
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The Truth About Hollis

By: West, W.J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Duckworth: 1989

Seller ID: 002367

ISBN: 0 7156 2286 2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering on boards. Previous owner's bookplate the only fault. An investigation which follows on questions raised by Peter Wright in his book, Spycatcher, as to the presence of a Communist sympathizer/spy in MI5 during World War II. 230 pp.
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Mock Trial; The Woodrow Wheatley Story

By: Wheatley, Woodrow

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I., A-1 Computer Services: 1992

Seller ID: 003142

ISBN: 0-9693424-1-1

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial blue cover trade paperback. The author's 25-year fight with the PEI justice system over a bank's putting him out of business. 249 pp.
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Showman; The Russ Whitebone Story

By: Whitebone, Russ

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 1986

Seller ID: 004521

ISBN: 0864920881

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original white photo cover trade paperback. Inscription signed by Shirley Whitebone, wife of the author. Very interesting reading, well-written and fast-moving life story of this gregarious entertainer. Lots of history of Saint John as well. 118 pp. plus Contents page.
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Henry Miller; Letters to Emil

By: Wickes, George (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, New Directions Publishing Corp.: 1989

Seller ID: 010968

ISBN: 0-8112-1092-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. DJ protected by plastic wrapper. Library stamp and card pocket. No writing. 168 pp.
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The Builders of America; Lives of Great Americans from the Monroe Doctrine to the Civil War

By: Wildman, Edwin

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Company: 1925

Seller ID: 008990

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original tan illustrated cloth on boards in exceptional condition. DJ front flap laid in. No writing or damage. 314 pp. with index.
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The Greville Diary; Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication (2 Vol. Set)

By: Wilson, Philip Whitewell (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 007768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. The subject's chief talent seems to be that of being in the right place at the right time. His position among the social and political elite led to many incidents reported here. Volume I has 568 pp. Volume II has 602 pp. Please allow for extra postage on these heavy books.
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Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington of Boston, Mass.

By: Wisner, Benjamin B.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Crocker and Brewster: 1833

Seller ID: 011435

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Brown calf on boards. Introductory Essay and Original Poem by James Montgomery. Mrs. Huntington carried on correspondence with several persons. Pp. 157-158 has dark foxing spots, and Pp. 351-360 were not trimmed at the foot. 360 pp. The previous owner has filled the page between the frontispiece and the title with a tribute to his late sister.
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Frances E. Willard; The Story of a Noble Life

By: Witts, Florence

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sunday School Union:

Seller ID: 004946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue cloth decorated with portrait and flags on boards. Splendid Lives Series. General cover wear, but no writing or damage except gutter strain at pp. 96-97. One of Illinois' most prominent women, she founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the 1880s. 143 pp.
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Simon Peter; His Life and Letters

By: Wolston, W.T.P. (M.D.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Oak Park, IL, Bible Truth Publishers:

Seller ID: 012045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good - Orig. Shrinkwrap

Red cloth on boards. Gift note. Very clean and sound. 368 pp.
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The War Chief of the Six Nations; A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

By: Wood, Louis Aubrey

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1915

Seller ID: 010154

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Good Plus

Blue leather on flexible board. No. 16 in the Chronicles of Canada Series. Top edges gilt. Minor wear to head of spine. Mohawks. Senecas. 147 pp. with index.
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The Biographical Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Persons of All Nations

By: Woodrow, G.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: London, Allan Bell & Co.: 1837

Seller ID: 006828

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth backed in brown leather on boards. Three hundred small portraits of historic personages, with a paragraph describing each in small print. Previous owner's name. top edges gilt. Spine joint and corner tip wear, but firmly bound. Approx. 150 pp.
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Category: Biography