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Down the Stretch; Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist

By: Hewitt, W.A.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1958

Seller ID: 008313

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original orange paper boards. First free endpaper mssing. DJ jas a few nicks along head. Book is clean with no writing. Hewitt, 1875-1966, was involved in sports in many capacities all his life. Current fans will be more familiar with his son, Foster, and grandson, Bill, both hockey announcers of recent vintage. 239 pp.
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Joe Howe; The Man Who Was Nova Scotia

By: Hill, Kay

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Limited: 1982

Seller ID: 009912

ISBN: 0-7710-4096-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. Biography of a politician who could do no wrong (in the eyes of some) by a renowned children's author. 220 pp.
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Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend

By: Hingley, Ronald

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Konecky and Konecky: 1974

Seller ID: 012888

ISBN: 1568520050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Green composition boards. DJ flawless. 482 pp. Heavy book will need extre postage.
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Uneasy Lies the Head

By: HM Hussein of Jordan

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1962

Seller ID: 011974

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Red cloth on boards. Library card pocket. DJ protected by plastic wrapper. King Hussein (1935-1999) served Jordan as King from 1952 until his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 233 pp.
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Joyce Kilmer; Poems, Essays, and Letters; Two Volumes in One

By: Holliday, Robert Cortes (Ed.)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday and Co., Inc.: 1946

Seller ID: 002236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ chipped with small pieces missing and internal repairs. Volume One; Memoir and Poems, 271 pp. Volume Two; Prose Works, 290 pp. Frontispiece portraits at age 30 in civilian clothes, and two years later as a sergeant in uniform (Two months before he was killed in action). Previous owners' names.
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The Romance of Biography

By: Hood, Edwin Paxton

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, James Clarke & Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 001940

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original green cloth heavily decorated in black and gilt on bevelled boards. Pencilled notes on endpapers, and minor marginalia. Previous owner's name. Bookseller's stamp. Several strained gutters, but holding together well if carefully handled. 388 pp. with index, plus ads.
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Life After Life; A Story of Rage and Redemption

By: Hopkins, Evans D.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Free Press/Simon and Schuster, Inc.: 2005

Seller ID: 007894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original paper boards. Member of the Black Panther Party, Hopkins came to widespread attention after writing "Who's Afraid of Virginia's Chair?" while serving a sentence for armed robbery. 287 pp. ISBN 0-7432-4623-3. Remainder mark.
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Rudyard Kipling; A Character Study; Life, Writings, and Literary Landmarks

By: Hopkins, R. Thurston

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.: 1921

Seller ID: 009142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original red cloth on boards. DJ heavily taped inside. Biographical, At School, Personality, Anecdotes," Brushwood Boy" and "They", "From Sea to Sea", "Kim", Tales of Horror and Terror, The Soul of Sussex, Animal Stories, Poetry, "Stalky and Co".:, Kipling's Cultured Delight in Odour, Kipling's London Days. Laid in is a page from Punch, portraying Kipling as "The Singer of Empire." 251 pp. Book is clean and sound.
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Joey; The Life and Political Times of Joey Smallwood

By: Horwood, Harold

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1989

Seller ID: 008746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original grey paper boards. DJ unclipped. Small dot remainder mark on bottom edge. 348 pp.
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K.C.; The Biography of K.C. Irving

By: How, Douglas and Costello, Ralph

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Books: 1993

Seller ID: 011061

ISBN: 1-55013-493-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black paper boards. The hard-to-believe story of a multi-billionaire and his minions, the subjects of constant speculation - whether adulation or excoriation - by fellow Maritimers. Previous owner's bookplate. Signed by both authors on half-title. 400 pp.
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K.C.; The Biography of K.C. Irving

By: How, Douglas and Costello, Ralph

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Books: 1993

Seller ID: 013374

ISBN: 1-55013-493-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Black paper boards. The hard-to-believe story of a multi-billionaire and his minions, the subjects of constant speculation by fellow Maritimers. 400 pp.
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Lord London; A Tale of Achievement

By: Howard, Keble (John Keble Bell)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., McBride, Nast, & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 002682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue cloth with bold gilt lettering on boards. No front free endpaper. "Old Ladies Home, Saint John" in ink script on half-title. Light edge and backstrip abrasion. Interior clean and sound. Based on the life of Alfred Harmsworth, publisher of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror newspapers in London, and later becoming Lord Northcliffe. 351 pp.
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Beaverbrook; A Study of Max the Unknown

By: Howard, Peter

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Brunswick Press: 1964

Seller ID: 011062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. Previous owner's name. One of the most capable men in recent history. 164 pp.
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Things I Didn't Know; A Memoir

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: 009641

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Black paper boards. Rear of DJ scratched, otherwise Near Fine. Hughes, who died in 2012 at 74, was widely known as an art critic. A native of Australia, this book tells the story of his falling out of love with it and his removal to New York. Opening chapters describe a near-fatal auto crash as well as subsequent debilitating experiences. Picturesque descriptions of sad events. 395 pp.
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Young Hunting, a Memoir

By: Hunter, Martin

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, ECW Press: 2008

Seller ID: 012090

ISBN: 978-1-55022-852

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Well-written, fast-moving memoir in softcover. Signed. 250 pp.
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A Twentieth-Century Physician

By: Hurst, Sir Arthur

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold & Co.: 1949

Seller ID: 006841

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ price-clipped, otherwise very good. Autobiography with notes on other prominent physicians. 200 pp.
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Wings Over the Sea; The Story of Allan Moses

By: Ingersoll, L.K.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 1991

Seller ID: 012511

ISBN: 0-86492-101-2

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Story of a man credited with the museum on Grand Manan. Photos in Africa. Previous owner's name. Tea stain on edges only. 151 pp. plus index.
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Mr. Speaker

By: Jerome, James

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1985

Seller ID: 003637

ISBN: 0-7710-4403-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black paper boards. Photo portrait DJ, unclipped. No writing or damage. Speaker of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979, Jerome offers an insider's look at the difficult task of getting politicians to play by the rules. 175 pp.
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The Works in 15 Vols.; Vol. XII Lives of the English Poets

By: Johnson, Samuel

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute: 1806

Seller ID: 012688

Binding: Full Leather on Boards

Condition: Good

Full brown calf on boards. The Lives of the English Poets; Addison, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay, Granville, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somervile, and Savage. 328 pp. Remains of library bookplate.
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All the Days of His Life; A Biography of Archdeacon H.A. Cody

By: Jones, Ted

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., New Brunswick Museum: 1981

Seller ID: 010111

ISBN: 0-919-32607-2

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Marbled softcover. No writing or damage. Spine lightly creased, but not broken. This biography by Cody's nephew reveals the respect in which he was held both locally and internationally. He wrote 25 books. 428 pp. plus family trees.
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Category: Biography