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Necessary Secrets; The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

By: Van Wart, Alice (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Deneau: 1986

Seller ID: 012620

ISBN: 0-88879-122-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Imagine your first novel being banned by your mother and Mackenzie King (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept). This book centers on Smart's journal writing of the 30's and 40's. Laid in is a lengthy news clipping. 285 pp.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon

By: Verne, Jules

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York, George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: 013276

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Blue green hardcover with red and yellow lilies on the front with black lettering and decoration. Minor corner wear. Dampstain at top of rear cover. Pencil scribbles inside front cover and on rear free endpaper. Hinges starting. Small holes at bottoms of pages from 235 on (not affecting text). Gift inscription dated 1891. Previous owner's stamps. Part of Routledge's "Every Boy's Library". This adventure novel about African exploration was an instant hit when it was published, and allowed Verne to become financially independent. 249 pp. plus six pages of ads.
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Complete Works of Voltaire; 50-1760-1

By: Voltaire

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Voltaire Foundation; Taylor Institution: 1986

Seller ID: 010709

ISBN: 0-7294-0334-3

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

White (blank) softcover. Part of the Complete Works. French and English. 542 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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The Ring of the Niblung; II, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

By: Wagner, Richard

Price: $450.00 USD

Publisher: London/New York, William Heinemann/Doubleday Page: 1911

Seller ID: 004186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original tan cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gold on boards. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. Formerly in a private school library, but card and date due slip left in to show that it was never circulated (These are attached inside the rear board, so easily removed). Six small library stamps on inside covers/endpapers, and a few at random throughout, not affecting either text or illustrations. ALL drawings present, flat, and protected by tissue guard. Front hinge is lightly cracked at title page, but sound and secure. Corners lightly bumped. A diamond rescued from th...
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Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

By: Walpole, Hugh

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1934

Seller ID: 005240

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth on blindstamped boards. Gold spine titles. A romantic novel set in Polchester, which town is the protagonist of the story, in the early Twentieth Century. Harmer John seems too good to be true. Book is heavily cocked. Previous owner's name. 485 pp.
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The Compleat Angler

By: Walton, Izaac

Price: $1,000.00 USD

Publisher: London, George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1931

Seller ID: 013066

Binding: Publisher's Vellum

Condition: Very Good Minus

Cream publisher's vellum with gilt titles and small gilt fish on somewhat grubby spine. No slipcase. Top edges gilt. Rough-cut edges, with several uncut leaves. #92 of a limited edition of 775 copies, signed by the artist. 12 lovely colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Introduction by Henry Williamson. A discussion among a fisherman, a hunter, and a falconer proceeds to the hunter's being invited for a fishing trip, with the rest of the work devoted to an essay on fishing. I call it Literature. Some call it Philosophy. First published in 1653. 224 pp. This book is on consign...
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A Room Of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leonard/Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press: 1929

Seller ID: 012278

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Light brown cloth on boards. McMaster University library copy donated by Cyrus Eaton (library bookplate dated November, 1930 ). Gutter crack Pp. 160-161 which I would glue if it were mine. Some light pencil notations in margins. Odor-free. 172 pp.
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The Dram Shop; (L'Assommoir)

By: Zola, Emille

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus: 1902

Seller ID: 011187

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Black cloth on boards. Front hinge cracked and glued. Text block aging. Edited by Ernest A. Vizetelly. First printed in 1877, it seems to bear witness to the overwhelming power of strong drink. Very convincing ! 410 pp.
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