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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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Arthur O'Leary; His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands

By: Lever, Charles

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:

Seller ID: 010200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards. Limited edition. First written in 1845. A friend and competitor of Sir Walter Scott, he opted out of the "rat race" and went on vacation soon after. This book has 499 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Tom Burke of "Ours" (2 Vol. Set)

By: Lever, Charles

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:

Seller ID: 010203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards, with paper spine labels. Limited edition. One of the sought-after military novels of this author. First written in 1844, it is the story of an Irishman who seeks glory serving under the colours of France. On graduating from a military academy, he enters the ranks of the 8th Hussars. By accident he becomes involved in political intrigue, which with further military action occupies the balance of his active life. He resigns briefly, then returns to the fray long enough to see Napoleon exiled. Offered a general's rank, he refuses to fight for the Bourbons and retires....
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The Lover, and Other Papers of Steele and Addison

By: Lewin, Walter (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887

Seller ID: 001399

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original black cloth with spine label only on boards. Hinges cracked but holding, corners bumped, previous owner's name. Camelot Series edited by Ernest Rhys. Thought-provoking essays by the best. Unfinished edges. 360 pp.
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Longfellow's Prose Works; Hyperion, Kavanagh, and The Trouveres

By: Longfellow, H.W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887

Seller ID: 004823

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth on boards. The Camelot Series. Introduction by William Tirebuck, a newspaper editor and close friend of Hall Caine. Hyperion is a romantic novel published in 1839, criticized by Poe. Kavanagh is an 1849 novel which argues for a national literature for America. The Trouveres were folk singers of northern France in the 12th and 13th Centuries, the subject of this short essay. 334 pp. Stain to cover and light foxing to endpapers.
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The Works, Vol. IV (The Parisians. What Will He Do With It?)

By: Lytton, Edward Bulwer

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Peter Fenelon Collier:

Seller ID: 012600

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Lettered in gilt, cover and spine. Previous owner's name stamp. Perfect for the collector of this large quarto series. The only date reference is to 1872 following the introductory chapter of The Parisians, which has 332 pp. Total pages are 764 for both titles. Very heavy book will need extra postage. No writing or damage !
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

By: MacKay, Charles

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge: 1895

Seller ID: 000436

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Gilt lettering cover and spine. No DJ. Minor spine end wear. Binding a little shaky, but holding together. Rear hinge cracked. A selection from the works of the most famous writers who have flourished in Great Britain and America, arranged in chronological order, and classified according to subject. 534 pp. plus ads.
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The Days of Auld Lang Syne

By: Maclaren, Ian

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Fleming H. Revell: 1895

Seller ID: 008609

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Another by the tremendously popular author of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. Text in heavy dialect. Cocked. Cover soil. 366 pp.
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Our Neighbours

By: Maclaren, Ian ( Dr. John Watson)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company, Limited: 1903

Seller ID: 008411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. First 38 leaves show bug damage on extreme lower corner tip. Essays and anecdotes with heavy Scottish flavour. 341 pp.
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Good Words

By: MacLeod, Donald (Ed.)

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Isbister and Company: 1889

Seller ID: 006211

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original dark green cloth on beveled boards. Previous owner's name. A gathering of interesting stories, reports, poems, and hundreds of b/w drawings, several full-page on machined paper, by various artists. All edges gilt. A marvelous substitution for, and improvement over, television ! 860 pp. This heavy book will need extra postage.
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Headwaters of Canadian Literature

By: MacMechan, Archibald

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1924

Seller ID: 009101

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. The author taught 40 years at Dalhousie University, and was largely responsible for increasing the popularity of Herman Melville as a result of his essay on Moby Dick, which he called "the best sea story ever written." - internet. Although he died in 1933, there might be something to gain by applying some of his comments to modern Canadian literature. Nearly every name in the book is underlined in pencil. Previous owner's name. 247 pp.
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The Aesthetic Dimension; Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

By: Marcuse, Herbert

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 1978

Seller ID: 011379

ISBN: 0-8070-1518-0

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Discussion is focused on 18th and 19th Century literature. 88 pp. with index.
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British Novelists and Their Styles; A Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction

By: Masson, David

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Gould and Lincoln: 1859

Seller ID: 006097

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original green patterned cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1873). First free endpaper missing. Novel as Literature, Early British Prose Fiction, British Novelists of 18th C., Scott, British Novelists Since Scott. 312 pp. plus ads.
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Bits and Pieces

By: Masterman, J.C.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1961

Seller ID: 007739

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original green cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Biography and Autobiography, Crime and DEtection, Articles and Jeux d'Esprit, and Theatre. 192 pp. The author was a broadly-gifted scholar, athlete, intelligence officer, and Oxford Don who was interred by the Germans for most of WWI while still a student.. 192 pp.
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The Fourth Column

By: McAree, J.V.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 008274

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original grey clolth on boards. A "McAree miscellany" gleaned from his columns in The Mail and Empire newspaper, predecessor of the Globe and Mail. Previous owner's name. 332 pp.
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More Leaves from Lantern Lane

By: McClung, Nellie L.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Publishers: 1937

Seller ID: 006826

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth on boards. Reprints of original newspaper articles. Spine grubby. Interior clean. 201 pp.
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