ARMSTRONG, THOMAS

A Ring Has No End

London: Cassell & Company, 1958. 1st UK. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear.; A tight solid book. ; 410 pages; A novel set in Russia culminating in the Russian Revolution. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 20295

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: Revolution RUSSIA FICTION British Fiction

ASIMOV, ISAAC & MARTIN HARRY GREENBERG

Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space

New York: Bluejay Books Inc, 1985. 1st Thus. Paperback. ISBN: 0312944012. A couple of small dirt spots on inside front cover and light shelf soil lower page fore edges.; A near-fine volume, crisp and bright. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 355 pages; An anthology of Sherlockian tales by sci-fi writers including one by Arthur Conan Doyle. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 21462

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction

Keywords: 0312944012 Sherlock Holmes Science Fiction Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction::Mystery

ASPRIN, ROBERT LYNN & LYNN ABBEY (EDITORS)

Cross

Garden City NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1984. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Only light wear to book and DJ ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, map endpapers ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 628 pages; Another anthology of stories set in Sanctuary, by some of the finest fantasy writers extant. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21189

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: sanctuary thieves' world Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

ATWOOD, MARGARET

The Handmaid's Tale

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771008139. DJ is slightly sun-faded on spine, otherwise NF. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 324 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21803

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0771008139 gilead offred Fiction::Canadian

ATWOOD, MARGARET

In Other Worlds: Sf and the Human Imagination

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771008481. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; "This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction."". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21465

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 0771008481 Science Fiction Ursula Leguin marge Piercy Essays

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tamarind Mem

London: Viking, 1997. 1st UK; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670874558. As new; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.60 X 5.60 X 1.10 inches; 272 pages; "Having moved to Canada from India, Kamini tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. Recounting the story of her mother's life, Kamini reveals the desires, secrets and fears that link different generations, exploring the bond between mothers and daughters." "A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India's railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17615

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0670874558 india Vancouver Mother daughter immigrants South Asia Fiction::Canadian History::Canada

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tamarind Mem

Toronto, ON: Viking, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0670869163. Signed by Author; Light wear to card covers, a little creasing base of front cover, some tanning of pages ; Card covers have french flaps which contain the blurbs. ; Trade PB; 266 pages; This is the first novel by the Indo-Canadian writer. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 11397

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0670869163 India FICTION Canada Fiction::Canadian

BADAMI, ANITA RAU

Tell It to the Trees

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676978932. Only slight wear.; A bright, solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8.40 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 255 pages; One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house. It’s the body of Anu Krishnan.For Anu, a writer seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas’ “back-house” in the sleepy mountain town of Merrit’s Point was the ideal spot to take a year off and begin writing. She had found the Dharmas’ rental through a happy coincidence. A friend from university who had kept tabs on everyone in their graduating year – including the quiet and reserved Vikram Dharma and his first wife, Helen – sent her the listing. Anu vaguely remembered Vikram but had a strong recollection of Helen, a beautiful, vivacious, social and charming woman.But now Vikram had a new wife, a marriage hastily arranged in India after Helen was killed in a car accident. Suman Dharma, a stark contrast to Helen, is quiet and timid. She arrived from the bustling warmth of India full of the promise of her new life – a new home, a new country and a daughter from Vikram’s first marriage. But her husband’s suspicious, controlling and angry tirades become almost a daily ritual, resigning Suman to a desolate future entangled in a marriage of fear and despair.Suman is isolated both by the landscape and the culture, and her fortunes begin to change only when Anu arrives. A friendship begins to form between the two women as Anu becomes a frequent visitor to the house. While the children, Varsha and Hemant, are at school, Anu, Vikram’s mother, Akka, and Suman spend time sharing tea and stories. But Anu’s arrival will change the balance of the Dharma household. Young Varsha, deeply affected by her mother’s death and desperate to keep her new family together, becomes increasingly suspicious of Anu’s relationship with her stepmother. Varsha’s singular attention to keeping her family together, and the secrets that emerge as Anu and Suman become friends, create cracks in the Dharma family that can only spell certain disaster.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 15485

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0676978932 South Asian LITERATURE

BAERLEIN, HENRY

Box O' Lights

London: Leonard Parsons Ltd, 1923. First English Edition. Hardcover. A tight solid book. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 251 pages; Blue cloth boards have sun-fading, corners bumped. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. This is a series of short stories, mostly reflecting mostly historical - ancient Greece, Roman, mediaeval Europe, et al.. Good+ .

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Book number: 1648

Catalogue: Short Fiction

Keywords: FICTION Greece Rome Mediaeval short stories FICTION Fiction::Short Stories

BAGBY, GEORGE & AARON MARC STEIN

Killer Boy Was Here

Garden City: Crime Club by Doubleday, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows light edge wear. Book is missing back free end paper, previous owner's stamps and date stamp on front end papers. Glue remnants on front and back pastedowns under flaps. 'Anco copy' stamped on bottom page edges. Book was probably from a company library. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 185 pages; "George Bagby was the nom de plume of the American novelist Aaron Marc Stein (1906- August 29, 1985),[1][2] who specialized in mystery fiction. Bagby's focus was on police investigators, especially the fictional Inspector Schmidt, Chief of Homicide for the New York Police Department. In the Schmidt novels, mystery-writer Bagby himself appears as "the Watson to Schmidt's Holmes, following him on cases, and acting as biographer."" (Wikipedia). Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 15014

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: aaron marc stein pseudonym Fiction::Mystery

BALLANTYNE, R. M.

Chasing the Sun Or Rambles in Norway

London: J. Nisbet & Co, ca.1879. Later Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by B&W Plates. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 124 + ads pages; Light bumping & wear, pages heavily tanned (pages not brittle) front hinge started but still solid. Previous owner's name on front free end paper dated 1921. Blue cloth decorative cover, gilt decoration on spine. "Fred’s father was a wealthy Liverpool merchant. At the period when our tale opens Fred himself had become chief manager of the business. People began, about this time, to say that the business could not get on without him. There were a great number of hands, both men and women, employed by Temple and Son, and there was not one on the establishment, male or female, who did not say and believe that Mr Frederick was the best master, not only in Liverpool, but in the whole world. He did not by any means overdose the people with attentions; but he had a hearty offhand way of addressing them that was very attractive. He was a firm ruler. No skulker had a chance of escape from his sharp eye, but, on the other hand, no hard-working servant was overlooked.". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 580

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Biography Travel TRAVEL

BALLANTYNE, R. M

The Fugitives Or the Tyrant Queen of Madagascar

Toronto: A. G. Watson, 1887. 1st Canadian. Hardcover. Shelfwear to extremities, corners bumped. Previous owner's notations on FFEP, light foxing to some pages. ; A tight solid book. Reddish brown cloth covered boards with leaf design front and spine, gilt titles on spine ; B&W Illustrations; 431 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 15917

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction madagascar Fiction::Historical

BANKS, RUSSELL

Hamilton Stark

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395264715. DJ shows light edge wear, sun-faded on spine, bottom front fore corner bumped.; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.30 X 5.70 X 1.30 inches; 309 pages; "Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17309

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0395264715 FICTION

BARING-GOULD, WILLIAM S. (EDITOR)

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol II Only

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1970. Second Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. Boards show shelf wear, top corners bumped. DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears, chipping and soiling. Large 5cm X 4cm (approx.) area missing from DJ at top of spine and lower fore corner. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 824 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 19703

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: Fiction::Mystery LITERATURE

BARNHARDT, WILTON

Gospel

New York: St Martins Press, 1993. Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312088027. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 788 pages; "Gospel concerns the search for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. Wilton Barnhardt's narrative races through three continents, nine countries, and dozens of colorful locales, as two characters—shy theological student Lucy Dantan and hard-drinking, disillusioned ex-Jesuit Patrick O'Hanrahan—pursue rumors and clues about the gospel's whereabouts and contents. In the end, what they discover will challenge and forever change the nature of faith.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21870

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0312088027 FICTION