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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 160 title(s) on 7 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
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| Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1919. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 88 pages. Speakers include: Elihu Root, John Galsworthy, Stephen Leacock and many others. Tissue protected black and white frontis of subject. Gilt spine lettering. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Nice solid copy. Good+. CAD 59.89 [Appr.: EURO 37.75 US$ 56.72 | £UK 34.25 | JP¥ 4878] Book number: 561a5210 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | |
| A.L.O.E. The Crown of Success or Four Heads to Furnish London, T. Nelson and Sons. 1881. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 219 pages. A very attractive volume with exquisite gilt lettering and illustration upon brown cloth. All edges gilt. With frontis and illustrations. Presentation inscription upon chocolate coloured front endpaper dated 1882, else unmarked. Moderate wear overall. Dampstains to the corners of some pages and back endpaper. Good+/No Jacket. CAD 68.77 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 US$ 65.13 | £UK 39.5 | JP¥ 5602] Book number: 56107346 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
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| L'enfant Voue Au Blanc Ou Prudence Est Mere De Surete Belgium, Oeuvre Saint-Charles De Grammont. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 260 pages. Text in French. Above-average wear. Binding has defects. Worthy reading copy. Reading Copy. CAD 51.32 [Appr.: EURO 32.25 US$ 48.6 | £UK 29.5 | JP¥ 4180] Book number: 564a5365 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | |
| Hannah Newton or, A Girl's Trial London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 62 pages. Undated. Circa late 1800s?. Loose leaves. Well-worn decorated green boards. Hinges gone. Reading Copy/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56108036 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
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| Hobson's Choice - VHS Movie Tape with Case Janus. Average wear. British Academy award winner - Best British Film. "Delightful and Rewarding" - The New York Times. Sit your family down and watch this movie. They will thank-you. Suffers early from over-acting by Charles Laughton (Mr. Hobson) but as the story develops you will be abundantly rewarded. Good. CAD 69.95 [Appr.: EURO 44 US$ 66.24 | £UK 40 | JP¥ 5698] Book number: 561c5471 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | |
| North Coast Collection 1992 Prince Rupert, BC, Prince Rupert Writer's Group. 1992. Stapled, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 78 pages. With contributions from: Barrie Abbott, Dan Branch, Mallory Burton, Gerry Deiter, Anna Fritch, Marylou Fritch, Grace Hols, Keanna Kawatski, Lea Tassie, Sheila Peters, Nancy Robertson, Jean Rysstad, George Stanley, Claudia Stewart and K. Wayne Wilson. An annual editorial project with special interest in north coast (British Columbia) material. Very Good/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56305561 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
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| The Saturday Review of Literature, December 19, 1936, Vol. XV No. 8 COVER PHOTO OF NOEL COWARD USA, Saturday Review Co. 1936, First Edition. Stapled, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 24 pages. W.E. Woodward's "A New American History" is reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger. Noel Coward's "Tonight at Eight-Thirty" is reviewed by Frances Woodward. Frederic C. Howe's "Denmark - The Cooperative Way" is reviewed by Agnes Rothery; F.L. Lucas's "The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal" is reviewed by Leonard Bacon. "The Story of Jack and Jill" (as it might be told by William Faulkner, P.G. Wodehouse, and Alexander Woollcott). Jane Whitney's "Elizabeth Fry" is reviewed by Henry Seidel Canby. The Bowling Green, by Christopher Morley. "The New Caravan" is reviewed by Gorham Munson. Unmarked. Average wear. Small white sticker on back cover. Good. CAD 89.95 [Appr.: EURO 56.5 US$ 85.18 | £UK 51.5 | JP¥ 7327] Book number: 842a4756 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | |
| ADAMSON, ISAAC Hokkaido Popsicle New York, NY, U.S.A. Perennial/HarperCollins. 2002, First Printing. (ISBN: 0380812924) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 329 pages. After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! - a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life - Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation.. then the trouble begins. Above average wear. Moisture induced rippling to first several pages. Unmarked. Fair/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56200077 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth Volume VI - Old Saint Paul's Volume I - Windsor Edition Philadelphia, PA, Gibbings & Company, Limited. 1901, Windsor Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Franklin, John. From print run of 2000. Includes three plates. Large blank ex libris design upon inside of front board. Front hinge going. Moderately cocked. Boards are well worn but lovely gilt illustration upon front board is clearly visible. Gilt design and writing upon spine still clearly legible/visible. Moderate yellowing to pages. Fair+/No Jacket. CAD 34.95 [Appr.: EURO 22 US$ 33.1 | £UK 20 | JP¥ 2847] Book number: 56106543 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| ALLIX, HEREWARD In the Face of the Enemy - A Novel Sussex, U.K. The Book Guild Limited. 1987. (ISBN: 0863321917) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 131 pages. "Crazy Ed" Cresset - eccentric, loner and volunteer fireman - is more than just the mild, stammering old Englishman who, for twenty years, has been accepted by the good people of Pratt's Landing, Vancouver Island as one of their own. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear to attractive dust jacket. Excellent copy. Fine/Near Fine. CAD 34.36 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 US$ 32.54 | £UK 19.75 | JP¥ 2799] Book number: 56201348 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN The Goloshes of Fortune and Other Stories - the Hans Andersen Library London, George Routledge and Sons. Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 119 pages. Illustrated with thirteen pictures. Undated. Gift inscription upon front endpaper dated 1916. Very attractive in decorated blue cloth boards with lovely colour illustration pasted on front. Large ornate decorated gilt title upon front board and spine. Both hinges open. Very nice reading copy. Reading Copy/No Jacket. CAD 57.30 [Appr.: EURO 36 US$ 54.26 | £UK 32.75 | JP¥ 4667] Book number: 56107539 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| ANNETT, R. ROSS Especially Babe - with Introduction By Rudy Wiebe Edmonton, Tree Frog Press, Limited. 1979, Reprint. (ISBN: 0889670803) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 187 pages. Reprint of the 1942 edition. Illustrated boards. Ink stamp upon front free endpaper and at bottom of page 31 else clean and bright, tight and square. Light wear. Lovely copy. Very Good+/No Jacket. CAD 49.95 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 47.3 | £UK 28.75 | JP¥ 4069] Book number: 56304480 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
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| ANONYMOUS Etymonia London, Samuel Tinsley. 1875, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 258 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. "What we have herein written has been conceived in a spirit of philosophic dispassionateness. Let, then, those who would criticize passionately remember this, and forbear. We address ourself to the masters of reason and to the intellectual man; and not to those who are the mere slaves of prejuduce. Let these stand aside, since with them we have no business." - from Author's Notice. One-inch openings at each end of spine. Above-average wear to decorated brown boards. Gilt lettering upon front board and spine. Relatively benign erasures to endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Fair. CAD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 2198.25 US$ 3314.5 | £UK 2000.25 | JP¥ 285092] Book number: 562a5829 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | |
| ASSCHER-PINKHOF, CLARA; EDELSTEIN, TERESE (TRANSLATOR); SMIDT, INEZ (TRANSLATOR) Star Children Detroit, MI, U.S.A. Wayne State University Press. 1986. (ISBN: 0814318460) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255 pages plus black and white photo section. Author had a dream in 1943; "Star Children. the children with the Jewish star. They went past me, the star children that I had known and knew in the critical times in the city and in the theater which was their prison. the dead children and the living. I knew at that moment that I had to be their voice - that I had to speak out and say what they had felt and suffered." In these sixty-eight short stories, she is indeed their voice. Explores a new kind of realism in Holocasut literature. "Although there are many Holocaust books, this one is important and special." - Elie Wiesel. Very Good+/Very Good+. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56306290 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| VARIOUS AUTHORS Cornhill Magazine Vol. VIII July to December, 1863 London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1863. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 760 pages. Various defects but remains a decent reading copy. Includes 14 illustrations. Reading Copy. CAD 229.41 [Appr.: EURO 144.25 US$ 217.25 | £UK 131.25 | JP¥ 18687] Book number: 56402635 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BAGEHOT, WALTER Selected Essays of Walter Bagehot - Nelson's Classics Series U.K. T. Nelson and Sons, Ltd.. Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 471 pages. Undated. Red boards well-worn. Contents unmarked and lightly yellowed. Binding loosening but intact. Decent working copy. Fair+/No Jacket. CAD 34.95 [Appr.: EURO 22 US$ 33.1 | £UK 20 | JP¥ 2847] Book number: 56209572 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BARNET, SYLVAN; ET AL Literature : Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically - Second Edition USA, Longman Publishing Group. 1997, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0673525236) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2016 pages. Designed for courses in literature and composition that emphasize critical thinking. Minimal markings. Light wear. Nice copy of this large, weighty tome. Very Good/No Jacket. CAD 54.95 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 52.04 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 4476] Book number: 56403317 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BARRIE, J.M. The Admirable Crichton - A Comedy: The Plays of J.M. Barrie London, Hodder and Stoughton. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 168 pages. Undated. Unmarked. Some yellowing. Average wear. Good/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56200246 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BAUER, HANNA This Vessel, This World... Georgia Strait and Other Poems Davis, CA, Abbey Road Press. 1985. (ISBN: 9961456205) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 61 pages. Very attractive volume with calligraphy upon textured beige card covers. Inscribed by author to well-known bookseller Thorah Howell of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Contents include Strait of Georgia, Travel, Journey to the Antipodes, Zampano and Gelsomina, and Endings. Author is a psychotherapist and educator. A married mother of two, she divides her time between private practice in Davis, California and Gabriola Island on the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, where she writes. Light soiling and wear to covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56305988 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BENNETT, ALVIN God the Stonebreaker (Caribbean Writers Series) London, Heinemann. 1973, Reprint. (ISBN: 0435981005) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Good. CAD 149.82 [Appr.: EURO 94.25 US$ 141.88 | £UK 85.75 | JP¥ 12204] Book number: 56403461 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BIENEK, HORST The Cell Toronto, ON, Canada, McClelland & Stewart. 1973, Reprint. (ISBN: 0771014031) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, 95 pages including biographical notes of author. Author spend four years in the forced labor camp at Vorkuta, in Siberia, as a political prisoner. He utilizes his experience for this novel. This is a poet's novel, every word needs to be there, every repetition and every variation on a sequence of words contribute to a closely knit pattern of thought. This book is best read aloud. No library markings to exterior of book. Several ink stamps inside. Back endpaper removed. Good+/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56306253 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BOECK, CHRISTOPHER Raadhusklokkerne Copenhagen, H. Hagerups Forlag. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 192 pages. Written in Danish. Spine missing. Heavily worn. Front hinge going. All pages appear to be present. Unmarked. Rough copy. Reading Copy/No Jacket. CAD 57.30 [Appr.: EURO 36 US$ 54.26 | £UK 32.75 | JP¥ 4667] Book number: 56200962 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BONSELS, WALDEMAR Notes of a Vagabond - Ways of Men New York, Albert and Charles Boni. 1931. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, 274 pages. Translated from the German. Usual library markings. Partially yellowed. Average wear. Binding aging but intact. Good/No Jacket. CAD 34.36 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 US$ 32.54 | £UK 19.75 | JP¥ 2799] Book number: 56200811 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
| BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN The Descent of Man and Other Stories New York, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited. 1980, Reprint. (ISBN: 0070069565) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 219 pages. "T.C. Boyle is on his way out of the literary underground where he has been almost a legend." - Vance Bourjaily. Lightly yellowed. Unmarked. Light wear. Good+/No Jacket. CAD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 19 US$ 28.36 | £UK 17.25 | JP¥ 2440] Book number: 56108796 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. | ||
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| BRADBURY, MALCOLM The Modern British Novel London, Secker & Warburg. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0436201321) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, 512 pages. Index. Select bibliography. "Takes bearings on a major century in British fictional writing, mapes out and defines the landscape of a form that retains its questing energy." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Good/Good. CAD 69.95 [Appr.: EURO 44 US$ 66.24 | £UK 40 | JP¥ 5698] Book number: 563a4535 Click here to order or inquire at RareNonFiction.com. |
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