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A Checkered Life; Poetic Waifs

By: Joyce, Col. John A.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, S.P. Rounds, Jr.: 1883

Seller ID: 003502

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original yellow cloth decorated in black in checkerboard motif on boards. Author served in 24th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War, and was a poet of some reknown. Book is lightly soiled and worn outside, and has a thumb-sized hole through one preliminary leaf. Leaf-patterned endpapers. Interior clean and easily-readable. A Checkered Life has 300 pp. Poetic Waifs has 18 pp.
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Soldier Doctor; The Story of William Gorgas

By: Judson, Clara Ingram

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1942

Seller ID: 010526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Yellow cloth on boards. School library evidence. At first glance this book appears intended as an effort to inspire young people to enter the military as medical officers. However, the text is plodding to the point of boredom. William Gorgas emerged from the South to active duty in Cuba, where he and others battled the fly that brings yellow fever. Later he worked in Panama and Africa. 151 pp.
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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Two Volume Set)

By: Kenyon, Frederic G. (Ed.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Macmillan Comany: 1898

Seller ID: 006481

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. First free endpapers and frontispiece portraits missing from both volumes. Volume I covers 1806-1851. Volume II covers 1851-1861, and includes a copy of her letter to Napoleon III in behalf of Victor Hugo, whom Napoleon had exiled. Volume I has 478 pp. Volume II has 464 pp. Please allow for extra postage.
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Walker of Derry

By: Kerr, W.S.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Londonderry, Self Published: 1938

Seller ID: 006976

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original bright red cloth backed in yellow cloth on boards. Faded strip along head of cover prevents its being Very Good. Previous owner's name and date ('45). For those not familiar with the history of Ireland, this book honours the memory of Rev. George Walker and many others who defended the city of Londonderry from James II, deposed King of England who was attempting to rouse his Catholic supporters in order to regain the British throne. With assistance from France, James attacked in April, 1689. Without benefit of advanced weapons or official leadership, the residents of Derry held fa...
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Blood and Champagne; The Life and Times of Robert Capa

By: Kershaw, Alex

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2003

Seller ID: 009482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. "Born in Budapest as Andre Freidman, Capa fled political oppression and anti-Semitism as a teenager by escaping to Berlin, where he first picked up a Leica and then witnessed the rise of Hitler." - DJ. Arguably the finest photojournalist of the century, he was killed in Vietnam in 1954. 298 pp.
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The Sins of t he Father; Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded

By: Kessler, Ronald

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Warner Books: 1996

Seller ID: 008857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige paper boards, backed in black cloth. The author cites various illegal activities which are attributed to the subject. How could the same person be chosen to be Ambassador to Great Britain, Chairman of the SEC, and chairman of the US Maritime Commission ? 480 pp.
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Felbrigg; The Story of a House

By: Ketton-Cramer, R.W.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1962

Seller ID: 012590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Orange cloth on boards. " The history of an English house, from the early seventeenth century to the present time." The book deals with private people leading private lives up to Chapter Eight, which begins the story of William Windham, who was to become a national celebrity of the first rank. 304 pp. with index and family tree.
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Elvis

By: Kirkland, K.D.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Bison Books: 1989

Seller ID: 012349

ISBN: 0-86124-499-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Preface by Sandy Martindale. A broad selection of photos as well as text. 112 pp.
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I Was a Pagan

By: Kitchen, V.C.

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1934

Seller ID: 005303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Light pencil notes inside front cover, but no other writing or damage. This author was closely connected with the Oxford Group, as well as with the originator of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is his autobiographical record of his struggles with alcohol and paganism. As a result of its positive influence on his life, this book was dedicated to the Oxford Group, "That disciplined army of life changers who gave new meaning to my life and new direction to its purpose." Front board scrubbed to remove white spots. Faint foxing freckles on prelims only. 271 p...
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The Ladners of Ladner; By Covered Wagon to the Welfare State

By: Ladner, Leon J.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Mitchell: 1972

Seller ID: 000164

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original cloth in very good DJ. Inscribed by author: "To my good friend Tom Bell M.P with my compliments and best wishes. Leon J. Ladner. 12 June 1973." 161 pp. plus two appendices, references, and index.
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Seventy Years, 1852-1922; Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory

By: Lady Gregory

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc.: 1976

Seller ID: 012826

ISBN: 0025455 508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The author is obviously a woman of good breeding, with both sense and sensibility. Her writing moves swiftly, bounding from one subject to another yet not failing to complete comment on the chosen article before proceeding further. Her life seems to have been a series of whirlwinds, not advancing beyond careful control. One wonders what her plays were like. 559 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday

By: Lahee, Henry C.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page and Company, Inc.: 1898

Seller ID: 003321

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blindstamped maroon cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on boards. Green ribbon bookmark. Very clean overall. Biographical sketches of opera, oratorio, and concert singers of renown from the beginning of Italian opera to the 1880's. Several full-length portraits. Newspaper clipping of portrait and story of Caruso glued inside back cover. The front hinge has been strained at the head, but is not separated. Green ribbon bookmark. Lahee (1856-1953) was a well-known musical commentator of his day. 337 pp. plus index.
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The Man from Margaree; M.M. Coady, Educator/Reformer/Priest

By: Laidlaw, Alexander F. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Limited: 1971

Seller ID: 008659

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. Rev. Dr. Coady is credited with organizing the co-operative movement in the Maritimes in the 1930's. Previous owner's name. 218 pp.
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Franklin of the Arctic; A Life of Adventure

By: Lambert, Richard S.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, Limited: 1960

Seller ID: 010573

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Light blue cloth on boards. School library stamps. No writing. Holding this book makes me want to read it again. 354 pp. with Reference and glossaries.
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Victoria; Sixty Years a Queen

By: Lancefield, Richard T.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, G.M. Rose and Sons, Publishers: 1897

Seller ID: 012940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Blue cloth on boards. Gift note in black marker. Many illustrations and portraits. Scuffed at head and foot of spine. 503 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Steam Lion; A Biography of Samuel Cunard

By: Langley, John G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Nimbus Publishing, Ltd.: 2006

Seller ID: 008496

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Purchased new from a dispersal of a university bookstore. He started in shipbuilding, mining, and forestry, expanded into warehousing, and with his ships hauled mail, freight and passengers over much of the world. 169 pp. with index.
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Sir Vivian Fuchs (The Living Biographies Series)

By: Larsen, Egon

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Ltd.: 1959

Seller ID: 006456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original salmon cloth on boards. Plastic wrapper over corner-clipped DJ. Library bookplate, card pocket, and stamps. No writing. Emerging from a sheltered middle class existence, and still a student of geology, Fuchs signed on for an expedition to Greenland at the age of 21. After several trips to Africa he turned his attention to the South Pole. 110 pp.
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The Honorable Judge Wilmot

By: Lathern, Rev. J.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Methodist Book-Room: 1880

Seller ID: 007855

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. Well-respected and well-loved, Judge Wilmot served as Attorney-General and later, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. He is credited by some with initiating "responsible government" to the province. Prefatory Notice by the young Reverend Currie hailed Wilmot as an outstanding member of the Methodist Church in Fredericton of which Currie was pastor. The aurhor, Rev. J. Lathern, was pastor of Exmouth Methodist Church in Saint John. Very light foxing. 133 pp.
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Thomas H. Raddall; Twayne's World Authors Series; Canadian Literature

By: Lecker, Robert (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Twayne Publishers: 1983

Seller ID: 010359

ISBN: 0-8057-6557-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards. Clean and sound. Previous owner's bookplate. One of Canada's too few creators of historical fiction, Raddall worked his way up from various manual jobs to the notice of John Buchan and Rudyard Kipling, among others. He vowed to stop writing when it became no longer interesting. Known for straightforward reporting of events related to military and maritime life. 151 pp.
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Frank; The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna

By: Lee, Philip

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 2001

Seller ID: 010473

ISBN: 0-86492-303-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth on boards. Gift note. DJ lightly taped to pastedowns. "A nearly perfect politician" in the words of Dalton Camp - DJ. After 10 years as a whirlwind politician, McKenna landed softly among the bankers, who seem to control everything. 318 pp.
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