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By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Morang & Co., Limited: 1904
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 013253
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Acadia University: 1965
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004552
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., George P. Putnam: 1848
Edition: New Edition, Complete in One Volume
Seller ID: 006886
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 ... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel:
Seller ID: 006074
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1976
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 001340
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. View more info
By: Klinck, Carl F./ Watters, Reginald E. (Eds.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage, Limited: 1966
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 010943
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards. University library stamp. Interior clean. 626 pp. View more info
Price: $600.00 USD
Publisher: London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge: 1865
Edition: New Edition/First British Edition
Seller ID: 010193
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. View more info
By: Lawrence, Eugene
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1880
Seller ID: 011542
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. View more info
By: Leacock, Stephen
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Bell & Cockburn:
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 010766
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. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Seller ID: 010199
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. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Edition: Deluxe Edition No. 32 of 500
Seller ID: 010200
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. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Edition: First (No. 32 of 500 copies)
Seller ID: 010203
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.... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887
Seller ID: 001399
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. View more info
By: Longfellow, H.W.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887
Seller ID: 004823
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Peter Fenelon Collier:
Seller ID: 012600
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 ! View more info
By: MacKay, Charles
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge: 1895
Seller ID: 000436
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. View more info
By: Maclaren, Ian
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Fleming H. Revell: 1895
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008609
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. View more info
By: Maclaren, Ian ( Dr. John Watson)
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company, Limited: 1903
Seller ID: 008411
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. View more info
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, Isbister and Company: 1889
Seller ID: 006211
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1924
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009101
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. View more info