Condition: Very Good Plus

Unpublished True Stories; from the Private Files of True Story Magazine

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Macfadden : 1939

Seller ID: 000222

Original paperback pulp of true-life stories, or at least so claimed. Could not be better condition. At the risk of shocking you, here are the stories:To Hold My Man; Leave Married Men Alone; My Strange Marriage; When a Girl Trusts a Stranger; Out of My Wife's Past; Tried to Be a Glamour Girl; Without a Husband; I Forgive- Would You?; My Daughter-in-Law's Secret; and I Told the World My Story. An example of how desparate readers were for material before TV ! 181 enticing pp.
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A Boy's Life in Fredericton; Anecdotes & Reminiscences

By: Bailey, Joseph Whitman

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., University of New Brunswick Libraries : 1999

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 013764

ISBN-13: 9781551310503

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Magenta softcover book with photo collage and red and white lettering on cover. A Boston lawyer writes of his boyhood in Fredericton in the late 1860's and early 1870's. Comments on various topics of the day by this sportsman and world traveler, son of pioneer geologist and science professor, Loring Woart Bailey, and his wife, Laurestine d'Avray.
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A Way of Seeing; A Critical Study of James Agee

By: Barson, Alfred T.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press : 1972

Edition: First, Not Stated

Seller ID: 000650

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original beige cloth on boards. DJ very good, with a couple of small spots. DJ flap blurb: "I have read everything written on Agee and his work...In my opinion (this) is the soundest general book so far". - David McDowell, Agee's literary executor and personal friend. 218 pp. with index and credits. Nearly as new.
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Danger on the Coast; A Story of Nova Scotia

By: Bonner, Mary Graham

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Knopf : 1941

Edition: Stated First Edition

Seller ID: 000475

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original orange cloth on boards, without fault or blemish. DJ good, but I taped small tears inside to prevent further damage, except thumb-sized piece missing from bottom rear. 250 pp. plus ad.
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More Up Country Memories; Lower St. John River Communities

By: Bormke, Diane and Aiton, Linda

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Grand Bay-Westfield, N.B., Bayfield Services, Ltd. : 2000

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 013756

ISBN-13: 9780968423219

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original colour photo cover paperback. Gift inscription. Extremely popular second book by the owners-editors of River Valley News. Crammed full of photos and stories of residents of the Lower St. John.
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Early Fredericton Postcards

By: Brooks, Gordon

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, NB, New Ireland Press : 1998

Edition: First - No Additional Printings

Seller ID: 013431

ISBN-13: 9781896775173

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Bright yellow card covers with colour photos and red and green titles. The author has organized the book into chapters containing postcards with similar subject matter. 54 pp.
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The Story of the Hymns; or Hymns That Have a History. An Account of the Origin of Hymns of Personal Religious Experience.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society : 1875

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Dark green cloth on boards with black embossed design on front cover, gilt lettering, and blindstamped design on rear cover. Previous owner's name. Tiny cracks (1/4 to 1/2" long) in endpapers at hinges. Last chapter is a list of hymn-writers with their birth/death dates and hymns written. 295 pp.
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Sisters; Canada and India

By: Clarke, Flora

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Moncton, N.B., Self-published : 1939

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 013258

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original red cloth with gilt lettering and design on boards. Previous owner's name. Flora Clarke spent 35 years as a missionary in India under the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Her home church was First United Baptist, Moncton. A hefty book, it also contains lots of local history. 682 pp.
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Economic Success

By: Cole, William Morse

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Macmillan Co. : 1926

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 002906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original brown cloth illustrated in orange and black on boards. Cole lists three requirements for economic success: Imagination, Concentration, and Logic. This book is intended as a text for higher elementary and intermediate levels. This copy has no marks or damage. The author taught the subject at Harvard for several years. 391 pp.
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Tomorrow's World

By: Collins, Hunt

Price: $110.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Avalon : 1956

Seller ID: 000186

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Published simultaneously in Canada. Believed First Edition. Original orange cloth without a flaw except P.O.N. discreetly placed in upper right corner of FFEP. DJ has a few minor edge tears repaired inside with invisible tape. Still glossy after all these years ! 223 pp.
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The Price of Honesty; Life, Laughter, and Liquid Lunches

By: Costello, Ralph

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Brunswick Press : 2011

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 013858

ISBN-13: 9780887902000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original black paper boards. Unclipped DJ. Memoir by a Saint John publisher who tells about meeting other well-known figures based in New Brunswick.
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True Stories; New Brunswickers at War

By: Dearborn, Dorothy

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N. B., Neptune Publishing Co., Limited : 1997

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 013613

ISBN-13: 9781896270128

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Red pictorial softcover with white lettering. Gift inscription, previous owner's name. Fast-moving, inspiring stories featuring military heroes from New Brunswick.
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Stand By for Action; A Sailor's Story

By: Donald, Commander William

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, William Kimber : 1956

Edition: First ( No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 002848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering on boards. One of the most successful small ship commanders, he was known especially for his service in Norway in 1940. He continued to serve through the rest of WW II, earning the D.S.C. and Bar. He died in 2002 at the age of 91. This book is very clean and sound, with no writing or damage. 200 pp. plus several ads of contemporary war stories. .
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Heroes of New Brunswick

By: Doyle, Arthur T.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Brunswick Press : 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013259

ISBN-13: 9780887901188

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Photo cover paperback. Bios and portraits of 25 men and women who put New Brunswick on the map. 133 pp.
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Le Chevalier De Maison-Rouge

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company : 1899

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 013788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original terracotta cloth with gilt Art Nouveau floral decoration and gilt spine lettering, on boards. No DJ. No writing or damage. A Tale of the Reign of Terror. The Sixth Volume in the Series of Historical Romances known as the "Marie Antoinette Series." Text in English. Heavy book may need extra postage.
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Saint John; A Sporting Tradition(1785-1985); Signed Copy

By: Flood, Brian

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, Neptune : 1985

Edition: Stated First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 013752

ISBN-13: 9780969221807

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original brown cloth with pictorial DJ. The author and his brother, Henry Flood, won the pair-oared event at the 1982 Canadian National Rowing Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario. In this book, Brian records the history of rowing, harness racing, skating, baseball, hockey, bicycling, boxing, curling, golf, bowling, basketball, and track/field. Covers the sports story of Saint John from ice skating by Demont's crew in 1604 to the Jeux Canada Games of 1985. Many photos and drawings. Large book may require extra postage.
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The Strange Death of Martin Green

By: Frome, David (Leslie Ford)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., The Crime Club, Inc. : 1931

Edition: Stated First Edition

Seller ID: 013250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original black cloth with red lettering and the Crime Club logo on the front. Previous owner's name. Martin Green goes out for a round of golf and doesn't make it back to the country club. Racial stereotypes. 309 pp.
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Old Tyme Christmas in New Brunswick

By: Goss, David

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Dover, N.H., Arcadia Publishing : 1997

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author

Seller ID: 013619

ISBN-13: 9780752405230

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Beige photographic softcover extolling the joys of Christmas in homes and churches. Christmas is for many their favourite holiday. At home, at church, or on far off battlefields the season is marked with singing, eating, and sharing. Here are photo reminders from New Brunswick of how some families marked the season.
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Thoughts for the People; Illustrating Man's Real Relation, Physically, Politically, Socially, and Religiously, to the Universe of God

By: Greene, Reuben (M.D.)

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard : 1896

Edition: First

Seller ID: 001688

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on boards. No DJ. "With Practical Suggestions upon the Origin and Prevention of Sickness, Suffering, and Premature Death; The Result of Fifty-six Years of Professional Experience and Observation." - subtitle. His thoughts on everything from government to the benefits of laughing and crying. No related information found, and no other copes seen. Minor acid-toning to endpapers. 272 pp.
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The Painted House of Maud Lewis; Conserving a Folk Art Treasure

By: Hamilton, Laurie

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B./ Halifax, N.S., Goose Lane/ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013405

ISBN-13: 9780864923349

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Softcover of 118 pp. depicts the restoration and reconstruction of the home of the late Maud Lewis of Marshalltown, N.S. No writing or damage.
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