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By: N/A
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Dundee, John Leng & Co. Ltd.: 1957
Seller ID: 002687
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers: 1888
Edition: First (No additional printings)
Seller ID: 003062
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers: 1910
Seller ID: 012053
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Grosset and Dunlap: 1911
Seller ID: 012396
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. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Athenaeum Society:
Seller ID: 007625
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. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Athenaeum Society:
Seller ID: 007626
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. View more info
By: Bonnie, Fred
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Canada, Oberon Press: 1987
Edition: First (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 001764
ISBN: 0 88750 666 6
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. View more info
By: Boswell, Lamont, Martyn (eds.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Nelson Canada: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005741
ISBN: 0-17-602036-5
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, DAW Books, Inc.: 1993
Seller ID: 011861
ISBN: 0-88677-593-0
Condition: Very Good
Black paper boards backed in black. 14 short stories. 335 pp. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall: 1874
Seller ID: 012083
Condition: Good Plus
Red-orange cloth on boards. Several uncut top and foredges. About 225 pp. in each volume. Volume 1 contains: Dumb Love, Libussa, and Melechsala by Musaeus, as well as: The Fair-Haired Eckbert, The Trusty Eckart, and The Runenberg by Tieck. Volume 2 contains The Elves and The Goblet by Tieck, as well as Schmelzle's Journey to Flaetz and Life of Quintus Fixlein. Approx. 225 pp. in each volume. Previous owner's name in each. Several uncut top edges. View more info
By: Curtis, Wayne
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing: 2005
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 007210
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. View more info
By: Curtis, Wayne
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Nimbus Publishing, Limited: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009861
ISBN: 1-55109-271-9
Condition: Very Good
Softcover volume of short stories, set in the Maritimes. 137 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1936
Seller ID: 010822
Condition: Very Good
Red cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. No other writing and no damage. Several short stories set in various times and places. The Great Brown-Perichord Motor is only one example of the breadth and detail of the author's ruminations. 298 pp. View more info
By: Edgerton, William B. (Trans./Ed.)
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Pegasus: 1969
Seller ID: 013338
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Books Abridged: 1956
Seller ID: 000411
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. View more info
By: Fallis, N.R.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin, & Company Limited: 1939
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 004358
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. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Halcyon House: 1941
Seller ID: 010846
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. View more info
By: Girvan, S.K.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Wakefield and Richards: 1951
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 006868
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Vancouver, The Caitlin Press: 1987
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004103
ISBN: 0920576176
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1942
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 010770
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. View more info