Five Novellas; the Rite of Youth, a Balkan Epic, a Soldier's Life, the Specters of St. John's, Notes to Poland

www.lulu.com, 2006. Stated First Edition. Unknown Binding. Light edge wear to card covers, previous owner's name on FFEP ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; This self published work is the first appearance by the author in print.. Very Good .

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Book number: 13518

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: balkans iron curtain World Literature Poland FICTION

He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson

New York: Tor Books, 2010. 1st Thus. Paperback. ISBN: 0765326140. Card covers show light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 351 pages; Short horror fiction by such authors as Stephen King and Whitley Strieber celebrating the works of Richard Matheson. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 21496

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 0765326140 Anthologies Richard matheson Fiction::Horror

The Weavers a Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago

Toronto: Copp Clark Co. Limited, 1908. First Canadian Edition; Second Printing. Unknown Binding. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne illustrator. Light edge wear to green cloth covered boards, bottom fore corner worn through, light soil. Gift notation on FFEP, small hole top dedication page. A little foxing early pages. Front hinge intact, back hinge started but solid. Page edges show a little soil. ; Black stamped design and gilt stamped titles front and spine. A tight solid book.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 14720

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: FICTION Fiction::Canadian

ACHARD, AMéDéE, RICHARD DUFFY (TRANSLATOR)

The Dragoons of la Guerche

New York: Howard, Ainslee & co, 1899. First English Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by B&W Plates. Some edge wear to extremities of cloth covered boards, a little softening of top fore corners, light soil, light lean. Previous owners' names on front free end paper, missing tissue guard to frontispiece ; A bright, solid book, slate grey cloth covered boards with gilt black and red design stamped on front cover, gilt titles front and spine, top edge gilt, red and black publisher insignia stamped on back, hinges intact ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 289 pages; This is a sequel to 'The Huguenot's Love'. We follow the adventures of two good friends, the Huguenot Armand-Louis and and the Catholic Renaud during the period of the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 15166

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 30 years war thirty years war

ACKROYD, PETER

The Plato Papers

London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1856197018. DJ shows light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.35 X 5.98 X 0.87 inches; 139 pages; Something different from Ackroyd is this alternative history. "Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city. He dwells particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300), which existed before the dimming of the stars and the burning of the machines....." (blurb). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18411

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 1856197018 mouldwarp London Alternative history Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

ADAMS, MARION

Marjorie's Enemy

London: S. W. Partridge & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Some wear to extremities, pages yellowed, missing free end papers. Book is a little shaken but hinges solid. Split in middle of book repaired with hinge tape. Previous owner's name in front. ; Text unmarked, blue cloth covered decorative boards show a girl with a soldier, outlined with flowers, gilt print and gilt outlining title on spine ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 96 pages; A novel set during the English Revolutionary War.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7023

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: Collectibles

ADLER-OLSEN, JUSSI

The Purity of Vengeance a Department Q Novel

New York: Dutton, 2013. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525954015. Remainder mark bottom page edges. DJ is near-fine condition.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 500 pages; "In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners—the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl’s assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19481

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0525954015 Fiction::Mystery

ALCOCK, DEBORAH

Crushed Yet Conquering; a Story of Constance and Bohemia

London: F.H. Revell Co, N.D.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Clipped DJ heavily chipped with some loss head & tail of spine, long archival repaired tear front panel of DJ. Gift notation on FFEP dated 1940 ; DJ in Mylar. A bright solid, book, blue cloth covered boards, hinges intact ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 576 pages; The author specialized in religious fiction.. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 12009

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: John Hus Religious novel British Fiction Fiction::Historical

ALDISS, BRIAN W. & IAN POLLOCK (ILLUSTRATOR)

Brothers of the Head

New York: Pierrot/Two Continents, 1977. First US Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0846703866. Card covers show light shelf wear,some wear and shelf soil to corners. ; A bright, solid book. B&W and color illustrations by Ian Pollock throughout this oversize paperback. ; B&W and Color Illlustrations; 10 X 9.50 X 0.40 inches; 119 pages; "Siamese twins, Barry and Tom, have a dormant but sinister third head growing out of Barry’s left shoulder. Plucked from the untamed Norfolk coastline by showbiz entrepreneurs cashing in on their demonically violent and freakish relationship, they form a rock band, The Bang Bang, and taste superstardom. Throughout their jealous battles over the woman in their life and their brutal existence, they are forever accompanied by their ominous companion, who makes increasing demands for its right to life." A quirky illustrated story from the renowned science fiction writer. Very Good .

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Book number: 18542

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 0846703866 Science Fiction siamese twins Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

AMORY, CLEVELAND

Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat Cat Who Came for Christmas / Cat and the Curmudgeon / Best Cat Ever

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1995. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 1884822282. Boards and DJ show very light shelf wear, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 6 X 2.25 X 8.75 inches; 814 pages; "Cleveland Amory's three classic cat stories have been compiled for the first time into one edition, The Compleat Cat, an enchanting, moving, and humorous collection. A self-confessed curmudgeon and dog lover firmly established in his ways, Cleveland Amory never anticipated how one dirty and scrawny alley cat could affect his life so dramatically. Underneath the New York grime of this hungry stray hid a shimmering white coat and an endearing pair of green eyes; Amory was smitten, and Polar Bear moved right in. In The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Amory crafts a charming narrative between cat and owner. Polar Bear converses through the swish of his tail, a look in his eye, and the tone of his meow. A humorous battle of wits ensues between the headstrong owner and the even more stubborn cat. Amory's second book, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, draws us deeper still into the lives of Polar Bear and Amory, as cat and human face fame, romance, and everyday domestic crises. Now rather famous, Polar Bear is uneasy about his new celebrity status, interested only in eating his fan mail. Amory's final Polar Bear book, The Best Cat Ever, takes a more serious twist: both cat and owner fall ill with arthritis and old-age complications. Amory takes Polar Bear on the cat's final trip--a jaunt back to his college days, where we learn more about Amory's fascinating past.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21005

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 1884822282 FICTION Biographies & Memoirs

L'AMOUR, LOUIS

Jubal Sackett

New York: Bantam, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0553050869. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with light chipping to DJ edges, short closed tear top front panel of dustjacket. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; The Sacketts #4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages; "In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett’s quest will bring him danger from an implacable enemy . and show him a life—and a woman—worth dying for". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20835

Catalogue: Fiction::Westerns

Keywords: 0553050869 Fiction::Westerns

ANDERSON, PAUL

Hunger's Brides

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679310886. Light edge wear, short closed tear, top back panel of dust jacket. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 9.49 X 7.20 X 2.48 inches; 1408 pages; "Spanning three centuries and two cultures, Hunger’s Brides brings to vivid life the greatest Spanish poet of her time, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, & plumbs a mystery that has intrigued writers as diverse as Robert Graves, Diane Ackerman, Eduardo Galeano and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Why did a writer of such gifts silence herself? At the time of her death in 1695, Juana Inés de la Cruz was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue, yet she had never set foot in Europe. Instead she was born among the descendants of the Aztec empire, in the shadow of the mountain pass Cortés and his troops descended on their advance to Montezuma’s capital. A child prodigy from a barbarous wilderness, her beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the viceregal court in Mexico City. But at the age of nineteen, still a favourite of the court, Juana entered a convent, and from that point her life unfolded between the mystery of her sudden flight from palace to cloister, and the enigma of her final vow of silence, signed in blood. After a quarter-century of graceful, often sensuous poetry, plays and theological argument, Sor Juana chose silence, which she maintained until she died of plague at the age of forty-five.Drawing on chronicles of the conquest and histories of the Inquisition, myth cycles and archeological studies, ancient poetry and early Spanish accounts of blood sacrifice, Hunger’s Brides is a mammoth work of inspired historical fiction framed in a contemporary mystery. In the dead of a Calgary winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding — in his arms he clutches a box he has found on her table addressed to him. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected, now-disgraced, academic. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students, and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic, voracious, she had disappeared two years earlier in Mexico, following the thread of her growing obsession with Sor Juana. Over the ensuing days and weeks, as a police investigation closes in around him, Gregory pieces together the contents of the box she has left him: a poetic journal of her travel in Mexico, diaries, research notes, unposted letters, and a strange manuscript - part biography, part novel - on Sor Juana.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 15498

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0679310886 aztec sor juana Fiction::Historical

ANDERSON, DORIS

Rough Layout

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771007426. Signed by Author; Light wear to extremities. Price-clipped dust jacket has short tears top of spine, small chip missing at base of DJ on spine. Previous owner's stamp on front free end paper and half title page ; Signed by author on title page. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve. A bright, solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages; The story line about the editor of Canadian women's magazine, trying to keep her responsibilities as wife, mother and businesswoman from devolving, lightly resembles Anderson's own life. Anderson was, for a time editor, of Chatelaine magazine.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 16201

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0771007426 magazine Toronto Fiction Fiction::Canadian

ANDERSON-DARGATZ, GAIL

Turtle Valley

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676978851. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.3 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches; 292 pages; "Kat has returned with her disabled husband and young son to her family’s homestead in Turtle Valley, in British Columbia’s Shuswap-Thompson area. Fire is sweeping through the valley in a ruthless progression toward the farm and they have come to help her frail parents pack up their belongings. Kat’s mother, Beth, (the now elderly protagonist of Anderson-Dargatz’s first novel, the award-winning The Cure for Death by Lightning) is weighed down by her ailing husband, Gus, and by generations of accumulated detritus. But there is something else weighing her down, a secret she has guarded all her life. Kat is determined to get to its source before fire eats up all that is left of the family’s memories.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19807

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0676978851 British Columbia Fiction::Canadian

ARMSTRONG, THOMAS

Pilling Always Pays

London: Collins, 1955. Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, light soiling. Price-clipped. Pages somewhat toned ; DJ in mylar. A bright solid book.; Crowther Chronicles #2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 447 pages; This is a follow-up to 'The Crowthers of Bankdam'. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 19378

Catalogue: British Fiction

Keywords: Fiction Sam Pilling Ramsfield Fiction::Historical