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Thirty Housman Letters to Witter Bynner

By: Haber, Tom Burns (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1957

Seller ID: 002867

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original floral paper boards with green cloth backing.. Corner tips showing. Samples of literary conversations between Housman and a young admirer who was also a poet, as well as poetry editor of McClure's Magazine. One of a Limited Edition of only 700 copies. 36 pp.
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An Outline of English Literature (Edition De Luxe - Illustrated)

By: Hammerton, J.A.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Educational Book Company, Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 007943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original yellow cloth on boards. DJ missing spine. Gift note. 116 pp.
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Passages from the American Note-Books (Vol. II only)

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1868

Seller ID: 001843

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original blind-stamped green cloth on boards. Volume II only. 2 1/2 inch tear in front free endpaper previously repaired with brown paper tape, and following gutter strained. "Ticknor and Co." at base of backstrip. Printed by Welch, Bigelow at Cambridge. Tiny specks of wear at corners. Spine gilt bright. 228 pp.
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Love and the Soul Hunters

By: Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs. Pearl Craigie)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons:

Seller ID: 004862

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original red blindstamped cloth on boards. Private college library stamp and previous owner's name. Written in 1891, and entitled "Some Emotions and a Moral." The same year, she left her husband, taking their son with her to her parents' home. Became one of the outstanding female authors. 288 pp.
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A Nyomorultak (Les Miserables); Two Volume Set

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Budapest, Europa Konyvkiado: 1981

Seller ID: 004542

ISBN: 9630719916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Both books and DJs very good. No writing and no damage. ISBN of Volume II is 9630719991. Volume I has 856 pp. Volume II has 638 pp. One of Hugo's most popular, in Hungarian text.
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Toilers of the Sea

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press:

Seller ID: 013322

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original red cloth on boards with gilt lettering and embossed decoration of the Collins logo on the front cover. Mermaid endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1938. Red dustjacket has a 1/16" tear, a 1/4" tear, a 1" tear at top edge, and is missing a 1/4" piece at bottom of spine. Front hinge starting. Hugo spent 15 years exiled to the island of Guernsey - this book is set there. 470 pp.
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The Essential Gore Vidal

By: Kaplan, Fred ( Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Random House: 1999

Seller ID: 002238

ISBN: 0-679-45746-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth spine on black boards. First gathering not well-secured in printing. A large, heavy volume of 985 pp. Contains extracts from Vidal's work.
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The Works of Rudyard Kipling; The Second Jungle Book

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 009561

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards, initialed RK front and back. No writing or damage. Title shows Kipling's trademark left-facing swastika. Sixteen timeless stories of animals in their habitats. Sequel to The Jungle Book. Normal wear, clean and sound. 324 pp.
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Traffics and Discoveries

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Morang & Co., Limited: 1904

Seller ID: 013253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green cloth on boards with gilt lettering and embossed black illustration of a sailboat on the cover. Previous owner's names. Cream-coloured textured paper with rough-cut edges. This book is a collection of Kipling's poems and short stories which was originally published by MacMillan and Co. in England, and Doubleday Page in the United States. 363 pp.
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Centennial Tales and Selected Poems

By: Kirkconnell, Watson

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Acadia University: 1965

Seller ID: 004552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ edge-worn and strip missing from back. Many pieces from Kirkconnell and others as well. 530 pp.
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Spenser and the Faery Queen

By: Kirkland, Mrs. C.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., George P. Putnam: 1848

Seller ID: 006886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original green cloth, blindstamped "Putnam's Choice Library" on boards. The author was editor of the Union Magazine of Literature and Art, and later, joint editor of National Magazine, Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion. Pp. 2-41 consist of a biography of Spenser (1553-1599), while the balance consists of the First Book of the Faery Queen, which ends abruptly on page 244 as the conclusion is being discussed. Although there must be some text missing, it is assumed that it is of insufficient amount to alter the value and understanding of what is present. Cover is spotted, with ...
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Kleist Samtliche Werke

By: Kleist, Heinrich Von

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel:

Seller ID: 006074

Binding: Flexible Cloth

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth on flexible boards. Dramen, Erzahlungen, Gedichte, Kleine Schriften. Text in German. Minor damage to head of spine. Short scratch to cover. 1187 pp. Bookplate of Ernstgeorg Baron Malortie.
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Literary History of Canada; Canadian Literature in English Second Edition, Volume Three

By: Klinck, Carl F. (Ed)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1976

Seller ID: 001340

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Trade paperback, Volume 3 only. Two stamps, card pocket, and spine sticker from high school library. One gutter strain re-glued. Clean and unmarked. An excellent reference. 391 pp with detailed index.
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Canadian Anthology (Revised Edition)

By: Klinck, Carl F./ Watters, Reginald E. (Eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage, Limited: 1966

Seller ID: 010943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards. University library stamp. Interior clean. 626 pp.
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The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments (3 Vol. Set)

By: Lane, Edward William

Price: $600.00 USD

Publisher: London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge: 1865

Seller ID: 010193

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Full brown calf on boards. Edited by the translator's nephew, Edward Stanley Poole. Half-inch split to top of front joint of Vol. I, but soundly bound. Five raised bands each volume, which have a tree calf binding. Edges and endpapers decorated in feathered pattern. No writing. Light foxing spots to endpapers only. 555, 578, and 703 pp., respectively, in the three volumes from a doctor's library. Heavy books will need extra postage.
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The Diviners (Advance Proof Copy)

By: Laurence, Margaret

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Limited: 1974

Seller ID: 013310

ISBN: 0-7710-4748-7

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Grey softcover with red lettering on cover. Edges of textblock are spotted and stained. This is an Advance Proof Copy of Laurence's fifth novel, to be released in May, 1974. It is the story of a woman writer in Manitoba. The book has been banned many times by school boards, so it must be good! 382 pp. plus Acknowledgements and Note.
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A Primer of American Literature (Harper's School Classics)

By: Lawrence, Eugene

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1880

Seller ID: 011542

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small, brown hardcover, handy pocket size. Immigrants, Puritans, 18th Century, Poets of the Revolution, 19th Century, Novelists, Science and Art, Orators, Poets, Humorists, Journalists, and Historians. 136 pp. with index.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

By: Leacock, Stephen

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Bell & Cockburn:

Seller ID: 010766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Red cloth on boards. Tiny nick in faded spine. MHOP, Edmonton and two previous owners written in front. Foxing spots on title. Strained gutters required gluing - now sound. Believed to have come from Marketplace House of Prayer, West Edmonton Mall, 2008 or later. 264 funny pages.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Lee, Harper

Price: $1,000.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1965

Seller ID: 013344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Orange cloth on boards with figural mockingbird in green and orange. Minor wear to corners, with 1/8" loss of cloth at top of rear spine. No writing or other damage. Published five years after its initial publication, this edition was produced for use in schools, and is fairly scarce. The novel ends with p. 296. Following is a biographical note about the author. Following this (pp. 296-312) are some Questions for Intensive Study and Questions for Writing.
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Harry Lorrequer; Vol. I Only of 2

By: Lever, Charles

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:

Seller ID: 010199

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards with paper spine label. Lever began this project a few years after gaining a position as a country doctor and marrying his first wife. Apparently he wrote late at night, with little thought of organization. Lorrequer is said to be a string of Irish stories, good, bad, and indifferent. The success of his writing surprised him. He followed this with several more which we have listed separately, all in matching covers. Volume I of a 2-volume set has 280 pp.
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Category: Literature