HILLERMAN, TONY

The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries (the Blessing Way / Dance Hall of the Dead / Listening Woman)

Avenel NJ: Wing Books, 1989. Omnibus; Third Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 051707771X. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 499 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21459

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 051707771X Joe Leaphorn Navajo jim chee Fiction::Mystery

HILLERMAN, TONY

Three Jim Chee Mysteries

New York: Wings Books, 1990. Omnibus; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517092816. Light tanning of pages, otherwise as new ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; People Of Darkness / The Dark Wind / The Ghostway; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.9 inches; 566 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 20682

Catalogue: Fiction::Westerns

Keywords: 0517092816 jim chee Navajo

HOCKING, SILAS K.

God's Outcast

London: Frederick Warne & Co, N.D.. Hardcover. Illustrated by B&W Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages; Blue cloth boards are soiled, with marks on back board through to cardboard. Corners bumped with shelfwear to corners and edges. 1/4 inch tear at top of spine. Some foxing. Blind-stamped design with gilt decoration, bevelled edges. Not dated - c.1900. Illustrated by Lancelot Speed.. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 1730

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: Fiction, Lancelot Speed Fiction::Historical

HOCKING, SILAS K

Gripped

New York: F. Warne, 1902. Early printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelf wear, light wear to gilt. Dated (1905) gift inscription on blank page. Light foxing to page edges and first few pages ; A tight solid book. Dark teal blue cloth covered boards with blind and gilt stamped design and titles front and spine, decorative endpapers. Illustrations by J. Gillingham including frontispiece with tissue guard ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 19315

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: gripped Silas hocking

HODGINS, JACK

Distance

Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771041993. Signed by Author; Signed by the author on the title page. Book is in unread condition. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 383 pages; Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms – with Sonny’s help. But before facing the gravity of what’s ahead, the two embark on a journey to Australia, in search of a woman from their past, and over the course of the next few months their adventures will reveal difficult truths about fathers and sons, about families, about how we live and how we die – and about the good and bad things that distance can sometimes provide. Wise and irreverent, deeply moving, at times comic, and with vivid settings ranging from the frozen banks of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal to the lushness of Vancouver Island, from the bustle of downtown Sydney to the sun-baked desolation of the Queensland outback. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 8369

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0771041993 Referendum Vancouver Island Australia Quebec Fiction::Canadian

HOLLAND, CECELIA

Valley of the Kings; a Novel of Tutankhamun

London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575024704. Tape stains on boards, sticker remnant and pocket removal damage, causing some loss to FFEP, tape stains back end paper, withdrawal stamp on title page. Some foxing and soil to page edges. DJ shows only light edge wear and creasing.; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Ex-Library; 231 pages; An intrepid Howard Carter struggles against the rigors of the desert and the intransigence of Egypt's Department of Antiquities while searching in the Valley of the Kings for a hidden tomb, in a fictional account of the discovery of Tutankhamen's long-lost tomb.. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 14249

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0575024704 pharaoh Howard Carter tutankhamen King tut Egypt Fiction::Historical

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL

Elsie Venner a Romance of Destiny

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1885. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt print on spine, top edge gilt and untrimmed fore edges. Light wear, corners lightly bumped. This is a very attractive volume with good quality paper, having only light yellowing. Hinges cracked but solid. Undated - circa 1880's (second preface dated 1883). In this story Holmes demonstrates his opposition to the concept of that 'an individual can be held morally responsible for an inherited flaw. ' (Benet). Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 2934

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: FICTION FICTION

HOME, MICHAEL

That Was Yesterday

London: Methuen, 1955. 1st UK. Hardcover. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. DJ chipped and scuffed with a few tears, light wear to book; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A tight solid book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 230 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 14010

Catalogue: Fiction::UK

Keywords: British Fiction British Fiction

HONE, JOSEPH

Firesong

London UK: Random House UK, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1856192482. Light toning of pages as is common in British publications ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 694 pages; "New Year`s Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the ice of a vast lake, far north in Russia. Cousins of the Romanov Tsars, this is the Rumovsky family - Prince Pyotr, his wife Princess Sofia, their son Ivan and twins Yelena and Alexander, and their young Irish governess, Miss Harriet. With them is the patriarch of the family, old Prince Mikhail, a strange, towering figure, a man from another century, with his fabulous Boyars` court at the castle, a Tamburlaine of the snows... Behind the Rumovsky family and their mediaeval island castle lie 300 years of autocratic but peaceful rule. Ahead of them, the old Prince expects the same for his descendants. It is not to be. Firesong is the story of the Rumovskies - their lives, deaths and hazardous escapes in the nightmarish new Russia that soon engulfs them: a land stricken by famine, pestilence, war and death. A story both intimate and epic, reminiscent of Dr Zhivago, this is a dramatic saga of men and women who fight for their destiny, in love and peace, against all the odds of war and dissolution.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20863

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Russia

Keywords: 1856192482 RUSSIA Revolution Tsar Fiction::Historical

HOOD, ROBERT ALLISON

The Case of Kinnear

Toronto, ON: Macmillan of Canada, 1942. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 329 pages; Light chipping, back discolored, small tape repaired tears, stains back DJ in mylar. This is set in Scotland mid-1800's. 'A ragged urchin of a chimney-sweep who rescued a nobleman's daughter from kidnapping, was chased for his pains from the door of her home' many adventures ensue but a clergyman educates him for the ministry, then ends up the parish of self-same girl.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 711

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: Scotland CAN-LIT Canadian Literature Fiction::Canadian

HOOTON, MATTHEW

Deloume Road

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307398137. Light wear to book; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.1 x 8.55 x 6.05 Inches; 320 pages; From a breathtakingly talented new writer: a beautifully written, gripping novel that weaves storytelling magic, life, love, and tragedy into the beauty of the Canadian landscape. 'Deloume Road' takes us into a hot August month on Vancouver Island during the first Gulf War, to a small rural community where the children's lives play out unchangingly in the woods and secret places - until they discover an object from the past that will come to haunt them all. Slowly we discover how intertwined are the lives of recent comers with long established neighbours: a Ukrainian butcher who yearns for his wife and small son left behind - and learns something disturbing; a widowed Korean girl who fears for the life of the baby she is carrying; a Native artist whose pilot son has crashed in the wilderness… And behind them all, the shadow of Gerard Deloume, whose suicide in 1899 set off a sequence of events that erupt a century later with violent, tragic consequences.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 14420

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0307398137 Vancouver Island Gulf war Korean Fiction::Canadian

HORSLEY, REGINALD

Hunted Through Fiji, Or, 'twixt Convict and Cannibal

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1909. Later Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by J. Ayton Symington. This scarce book has blue cloth covered boards with bumped corners and heavy general wear, minimal fraying of spine tips. It appears to have received repairs, new front endpapers, missing rear free end paper, binding glued to last page. A child has drawn a picture on rear pastedown. Light spotting of pages and minimal foxing ; A tight solid book. Undated but appears to be circa 1910-1925. At the bottom of the chapter numbers appears the number 1923. Faint pencilled gift notation, might read Aug 19, 1914 or 1924 ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 316 pages; B&W frontispiece + 3 B&W plates, possibly missing plates. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 10932

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: fiji Adventure headhunters Fiction::Historical

HORTIE, CARL

Annie

Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888878877. Signed by Author; DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears and chipping, some archivally repaired.; Signed by author on the half-title page. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; "Annie Kinnikinck, the central character in this novel set in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), is a young Haida recently promoted to supervisor of the operating room in the small hospital on Moresby Island. She struggles desperately to raise the consciousness of the Indian women on the Islands. She is faced with antagonism and racial prejudice by her white contemporaries as well as the Indians themselves who feel that "no way can an Indian supervise the white employees without becoming more white than the whites themselves,". Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 18829

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 0888878877 Haida Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands moresby island Signed Haida Gwai racial prejudice Fiction::Canadian FICTION

HOSSEINI, KHALED

The Kite Runner

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003. First British Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0747566992. DJ shows light shelf wear some creasing top edge, light lean to book; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.03 X 5.67 X 1.02 inches; 324 pages; "Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they grow up as close as brothers, but their fates, they know, are to be different. Amir’s father is a wealthy merchant; Hassan’s father is his manservant. Amir belongs to the ruling caste of Pashtuns, Hassan to the despised Hazaras.This fragile idyll is broken by the mounting ethnic, religious, and political tensions that begin to tear Afghanistan apart. An unspeakable assault on Hassan by a gang of local boys tears the friends apart; Amir has witnessed his friend’s torment, but is too afraid to intercede. Plunged into self-loathing, Amir conspires to have Hassan and his father turned out of the household. When the Soviets invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee to San Francisco, leaving Hassan and his father to a pitiless fate. Only years later will Amir have an opportunity to redeem himself by returning to Afghanistan to begin to repay the debt long owed to the man who should have been his brother.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18731

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0747566992 afghanistan Kites FICTION

HOSSEINI, KHALED

The Kite Runner (Illustrated Edition)

Toronto ON: Doubleday, 2007. First Illustrated Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385665083. No dust jacket as issued, red cloth covered boards with pasted on illustration on front board, gilt titles front and spine. B&W photos and colour artwork ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; "Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid '90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant, startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan.". Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 21852

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0385665083 afghanistan FICTION