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The People's Friend Annual

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Dundee, John Leng & Co. Ltd.: 1957

Seller ID: 002687

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original colour pictorial of girl in red hood and holding a white puppy with one black ear on paper boards. Dated 1957 from ad for accordions. Twenty short stories. Colour photo of Scotland on back cover. Interesting ads, including one for "Pink Paraffin". Long inscription and repaired finger pull tear head of backstrip. 190 pp. of memories of Scotland in the 50's.
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The Conscript; and Other Tales

By: N/A

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers: 1888

Seller ID: 003062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth decorated in brown and blue florals with gilt title on boards. Prize presentation plate from Greenock Academy awarded to Robert N. MacCunn, June, 1889. Robert ( born 1877 and died 1938) was a brother to Hamish MacCunn, a well-known classical musician. Tiny bookseller label from F. Logan, Stationer, Greenock. Twenty-two tales from Scotland. 256 pp. Negligible spine and corner tip wear.
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The Best Stories By the Foremost Catholic Authors; Vol. VI (ONLY) of X

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers: 1910

Seller ID: 012053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Cracked front hinge glued. Among the authors are Mary E. Mannix, Jerome Harte, Bertha Bondy, May Lowe, and Karl Klaxton. Fifteen short stories on 254 pp.
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Heart Throbs; Volume Two

By: N/A

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Grosset and Dunlap: 1911

Seller ID: 012396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth with full pastedown panel on boards. Prose and verse contributed by the American people. Previous owner's name. 447 pp. plus index of titles and authors.
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The Last Incarnation of Vautrin; Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants; Gobseck; Comedies Played Gratis

By: Balzac, Honore De

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Athenaeum Society:

Seller ID: 007625

Binding: 3/4 Leather on Marbled Board

Condition: Near Fine

Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. No writing or damage. One of the series titled Scenes from Parisian Life, part of The Human Comedy. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Book is tight and clean, and appears hardly read. Top edges gilt. Front edges deckled. Copyright 1896. 222, 182, 280, and 20 pp., respectively, with the last two stories paginated consecutively.
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Modeste Mignon; A Daughter of Eve; The Peace of a Home

By: Balzac, Honore De

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Athenaeum Society:

Seller ID: 007626

Binding: 3/4 Leather on Marbled Board

Condition: Near Fine

Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. No writing or damage. One of the series titled Scenes from Private Life, part of The Human Comedy. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Copyright 1896. 352, 153, and 48 pp. respectively, with the last two stories paginated consecutively.
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Wide Load

By: Bonnie, Fred

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Canada, Oberon Press: 1987

Seller ID: 001764

ISBN: 0 88750 666 6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original brown cloth on boards. Very good DJ and plastic wrapper. Library stamp. Musty. Wide Load, Name the General, In Another Language, Take a Seat Not a Solo, Mistrial, and The Bulk Tour. Slight wrinkling due to dampness. 111 pp.
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Crossroads II; Canadian Stories and Poems

By: Boswell, Lamont, Martyn (eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Nelson Canada: 1983

Seller ID: 005741

ISBN: 0-17-602036-5

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue trade paperback. Writers' colour portraits on cover. A few pencil underlines. Short pieces by W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, and several others. 175 pp.
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Darkover

By: Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, DAW Books, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 011861

ISBN: 0-88677-593-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black paper boards backed in black. 14 short stories. 335 pp.
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Monkeys in a Looking Glass

By: Curtis, Wayne

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing: 2005

Seller ID: 007210

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Original photo cover trade paperback. A collection of short fictional pieces on various themes, from Che Guevara to the goldfields of the Yukon and back home to New Brunswick. ISBN 1-894372-69-7. 185 pp. plus bio.
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Preferred Lies; A Collection of Short Stories

By: Curtis, Wayne

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Nimbus Publishing, Limited: 1998

Seller ID: 009861

ISBN: 1-55109-271-9

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover volume of short stories, set in the Maritimes. 137 pp.
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Satirical Stories of Nikolai Leskov

By: Edgerton, William B. (Trans./Ed.)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pegasus: 1969

Seller ID: 013338

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering on spine. Orange dustjacket features drawing of Leskov, and is price-clipped, faded, worn at corners, and has a 2" split at top of rear cover edge. Previous owner's name. Fourteen short stories which take place in Tsarist Russia by a novelist who's been called the "most Russian of Russian Writers." 411 pp. including Bibliographies.
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King of Paris; Water, Water Everywhere; Tolbecken; and The Mermaids

By: Endore, Guy, et al

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Books Abridged: 1956

Seller ID: 000411

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon spine with floral boards. DJ has 1 inch missing bottom of spine. Lower quality paper browning. King of Paris is Alexandre Dumas. Water, Water is a trip to Greece, the Aegean Islands, Yugoslavia, and finally the Thames Region. Tolbecken is the story of a young man who must choose between the old way his grandfather knew and the less-straightforward present. The Mermaids concerns Lolla, confined to a TB sanatorium, and Aldar, who wants to be more than a bedside visitor. 448 pp.
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A Miscellany of Tales

By: Fallis, N.R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin, & Company Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 004358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth with white lettering on boards. Intended as an introduction to the various authors whose work appears, with Exercises. 164 pp.
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The Short Stories of James T. Farrell

By: Farrell, James T.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Halcyon House: 1941

Seller ID: 010846

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. DJ is chipped head and foot. 51 stories and a novelette. Heavy book will need extra postage. 308 pp.
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Peter and His Tales of the Wee People (Signed)

By: Girvan, S.K.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Wakefield and Richards: 1951

Seller ID: 006868

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. DJ torn foot of spine and thumb-sized piece missing head of spine. Inscribed "With best wishes to the Maple Leaf 'Wee Ireland' from Peter 'hisself'. July, 1956." Signed on title page, "Sam Girvan." Previous owner's name. Twelve short stories plus glossary. 98 pp.
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The Celluloid Barrette

By: Gourlay, Elizabeth

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, The Caitlin Press: 1987

Seller ID: 004103

ISBN: 0920576176

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon soft cover with author's self-portrait. Thirteen short stories. Limited edition of 500 copies. 172 pp.
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Highroad to Adventure; An Anthology

By: Hanson, Earl P. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1942

Seller ID: 010770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Green cloth on boards. A gathering of short stories of adventure from around the world. Juvenile or high school levels. Map endpapers. 591 pp. Heavy book will need extra post age.
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La Belle Que Voila

By: Hemon, Louis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Nelson, Editeurs: 1923

Seller ID: 012182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

A series of short stories published two years after the marvelously successful Maria Chapdelaine. Text in French. Sold 100,000 copies the first week.
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A Second Round of Tales

By: Henry, N./ Treble, H.A. (Eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1930

Seller ID: 006600

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name label inside cover. Clean and sound all around. Legend of the Two Discreet Statues (Irving); Spectre of Tappington (Barham); Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe (Hawthorne); Purloined Letter (Poe); Sexton's Hero (Gaskell); Legend of Monte Del Diablo (Harte); Horseman in the Sky (Bierce); That Little Square Box (Doyle); Tower of Treason (Chesterton);Two Householders (Quiller-Couch); In Borrowed Plumes (Jacobs). 192 pp.
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