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Price: $40.00
Publisher: Oxford, England, Oxford University Press: 1964
Edition: Fifth Series, Vol. XIX
Seller ID: 005772
Original tan paper boards backed in beige cloth. Articles include Early Georgian Provincial Magazines, A Bibliography of the Writings of William Henry Smith, and The Binding(et cetera) of Vala. Heavy book will need extra postage. 360 pp. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926
Seller ID: 006972
Original bright red cloth on boards. Faded streaks on front. Previous owner's name and bookplate. Tiny marginal check marks throughout. A book of eloquence and wisdom seldom found. 380 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press: 1925
Seller ID: 004404
Original dark green cloth with paper spine label on boards. Duplicate spine label inside back cover. Spot of paper stuck to front cover. Previous owner's name in light pencil. Diary covers 1818 to 1847. Untrimmed front and foot. 215 pp. plus brief index. View more info
By: Reade, Charles
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Collins' Clear-Type Press:
Seller ID: 008588
Original deep maroon pigskin on flexible boards. Previous owner's name on dark endpaper. This novel pointed up the issue of "ship-knackers", owners who purchased only worn-out ships and profited by them until their inevitable failure, usually with significant loss of human life. Top edges gilt. 400 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Graphic Publishers Limited: 1930
Seller ID: 012213
Showing school stamp, so must have been used as a high school text. Begins with the "literature of knowledge" and then passes on to the higher levels of truth and beauty. Liberally underlined. 295 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark, Limited:
Seller ID: 004138
Original green pictorial cloth on boards, lettered in gold cover and spine. First free endpaper and title page are missing. Otherwise clean and sound. Stories centred around Miranda and her friendship with Kroof, the she-bear. 276 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan Press, Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 011532
Black cloth on boards. Inscribed and signed by author. No other writing and no damage. F.R. Levis had a long career as college professor in England. His wife, Queenie, worked with him in literary criticism. They published Scrutiny, a literary magazine for about 20 years. Both were known for their powerful personalities and frequent controversies. 176 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Company: 1865
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003432
Original brown suede (leather) with circular pastedown of girl's portrait. Short essays on various subjects. The binding appears similar to Caldwell's Rosemary Series of 1903. Gilt top edges. No writing. Cover pastedown is wrinkled and has edge missing. Short cover edge tear. Marbled endpapers, with front pastedown torn at head. 477 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Orpington, Kent, George Allen: 1878
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 007423
Original full brown crushed morocco with gilt border on light boards. Cover lightly sprung. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Walter Overbeck Wade, born about 1838 in India and served in 91st Argyllshire Reg't of Foot in Greece in 1854 and 5th Administrative Battalion, Lancashire Rifle Volunteers in 1874. The text of this book is a selection of passages from Ruskin's work of 1843 on Modern Painters, as chosen by his friend Susan Beever, or Beaver, of Coniston. Nearly invis... View more info
By: Sand, George
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, George Barrie & Sons: 1900
Seller ID: 002032
Original blue cloth with fine gilt borders and signature. Translated by George Burnham Ives. Volume II only of a 2-volume set. Series titled Historic and Romantic Novels by Amandine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant(George Sand). Begins at Chapter XXIV of The Sin of Monsieur Antoine. Top edges gilt; balance untrimmed. 342 pp. View more info
By: Sanger, Peter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Gaspereau Press Ltd.: 2005
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 004300
Original dark grey card covers with red DJ. Inscribed and signed June 18, 2005. Author has five poetry books to his credit previously, and serves as Poetry Editor of Antigonish Review. This volume is both prose and poetry. 235 pp. plus bio. View more info
By: Savile, George (Whibley, Charles, Ed.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1927
Edition: Limited Edition(Unnumbered)
Seller ID: 003180
Original salmon-coloured paper covered boards with green illustration and lettering. Ragged dust jacket is in two pieces laid in to front of book. Slight discolourations at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. The book belonged to Joan Foster, one of the daughters of the Honourable Walter Foster, Premier on New Brunswick from 1917 to 1923, and later Senator of Canada. This small book measures 3 1/4" by 5" and is part of the ... View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Im Inselverlag:
Seller ID: 003448
Original blue cloth with gilt sailing ship on flexible card covers. Netherlands, 30 Years War, Short historical accounts. Text in German. Stain to head of text block, not affecting text. 868 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., Lovell:
Edition: Aldine Edition
Seller ID: 000601
Original highly-decorated embossed red cloth on boards, gilt on spine. Aldine edition. Minor damage top of backstrip, OW good. 431 pp. Small stain on back cover. P.O.N. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, R.S. Peale:
Seller ID: 001221
Original red cloth highly decorated in black on boards. Gilt spine lettering. No DJ. Both hinges cracked, showing fabric, and repaired. Two leaves untrimmed at top corners. Ca. 1880. Better than a reading copy by a lesser-known publisher. The Fortunes of Nigel - 436 pp. Count Robert of Paris - 411 pp. Two long novels under one cover. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.:
Seller ID: 001515
Original green cloth decorated in black on boards. No DJ. One of the more popular of the Waverley Novels. Minor cover wear and bumped corners, OW very good. SEE PHOTO. 582 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1887
Edition: Warne's Crown Library Edition
Seller ID: 004490
Original brown cloth decorated and lettered in black on bevelled boards. Previous owner's name in elegant ink script. No other writing and no damage. 467 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge And Sons, Limited:
Seller ID: 007172
Original floral decorated blue cloth on boards. Every Boy's Library. Previous owner's name with no other writing or damage. Very small print ! 196 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Collins Clear Type Press:
Seller ID: 011078
Glossy maroon pigskin leather on flexible board. Title page missing; In its place is a poem, Lake of the Woods, written by M. B. Leitch, Complaint Department. Previous owner's signature is Flora McDonald, Wapella, Sask. Minor scuffing to ends of spine and corners. 632 pp. with notes, plus catalog. (See two following listings from same previous owner). View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Henry Holt: 1907
Edition: First(Published November, 1907)
Seller ID: 001716
Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering and design on boards. No DJ. Essays include Ruskin and At the End of the Rainbow. 293 pp. plus list of 116 American short-story writers. Foredges only stained. View more info
