CLEUGH, SOPHIA

Ernestine Sophie

New York: Macmillan, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; SIGNED and DATED by Cleugh. ; 451 pages; Wear to spine & worn to boards on corners, missing back FEP. Some thinning on FFEP.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 906

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: FICTION Fiction::Historical

COATES, TA-NEHISI

The Water Dancer: A Novel

New York: One World, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399590595. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 403 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21539

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0399590595 Slavery underground railroad FICTION

COBB F.R.G.S., JAMES F.

Martin the Skipper; a Tale for Boys and Seafaring Folk

London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co, circa 1880. Hardcover. Green cloth covered decorative boards with gilt stamped designs front and spine show light wear, one quarter inch tear head of spine. Foxing to page edges, front hinge started but solid, Initials in ink on FFEP ; A bright solid, book ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 403 + ads pages; The book is undated but appears to be pre-1900. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 10778

Catalogue: Fiction::Maritime

Keywords: MARITIME FICTION Marine

COHEN, MATT

Too Bad Galahad

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. Later Printing. Paperback. Illustrated by Margaret Hathaway. Light edge wear to extremities of this book, short split top back spine edge ; French flaps over card covers, humourous illustrations throughout. ; A humorous homage to the legend of the knight, Sir Galahad. This is an early short story by Matt Cohen, one of Canada's most beloved modern fiction writers who was first published in 1969 and continued with many novels, collections of poetry, short stories. After his death in 1999 it came out that he has wrote children's books under the name Teddy Jam. This is not from the limited edition first printing.. Very Good .

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Book number: 16233

Catalogue: Short Fiction

Keywords: POETRY King Arthur Sir galahad Canada Fiction::Short Stories

COLFER, EOIN

And Another Thing Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three

New York: Viking, 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670063908. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; ""I have decided to embark on a very different project. Something unique that I hope will interest you as much as it does me. I have written the official 6th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Most of you have probably already read Douglas Adams' insanely brilliant space series. If you haven't then you don't know funny. Take it from me, the Hitchhiker books are bar none the funniest sci-fi books ever written. People have laughed so much reading Hitchhikers that they have had to have organs removed. One guy in France popped an eyeball. I kid you not. So, what's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have. What's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I imagine you cry. It's about Arthur Dent, one of the last humans left alive after the Earth has been destroyed by the remorseless Vogons. Arthur manages to hitch a ride on a spaceship and go planet hopping with his friends Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusean journalist. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two headed president of the galaxy, pirate and worst dressed man in the universe. And Marvin, the paranoid android. All this hitching and adventuring went on for five books and then Douglas Adams passed away before he could write book six. Hitchhiker has been heard on radio, seen on tv and enjoyed on the cinema screen, there was even a musical version. But the story could never end, until now. I am going to continue on where Douglas left off. Unfortunately for me, he left off on rather a large cliffhanger. Everyone was dead. Which means I have rather a large challenge ahead of me, but it is one I am looking forward to. I really hope you will board the spaceship with me so we can travel through Douglas Adams' hilarious galaxy together, which will save me having to hang around in your driveway. See you at Barnard's Star."". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18905

Catalogue: Fiction::Science Fiction::Series

Keywords: 0670063908 arthur dent zaphod beeblebrox hitchhiker vogons

COLIN, GALEN C.

Storm King Rides

London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co, circa 1933. Hardcover. DJ is torn, tape-repaired, binding is bumped in corners. DJ in Mylar. Light foxing of page edges. ; Not dated but circa mid 1930's. A tight solid book, hinges intact; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 314 pages; A volume from the early series of children's fiction published in England.. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .

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Book number: 446

Catalogue: Fiction::Westerns

Keywords: Children's Fiction Western - Westerns Fiction::Westerns

COLLINS, MICHAEL

The Resurrectionists

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1861591950. Signed by Author; Light wear to base of DJ ; Signed by author on title page. DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; North America is truly Michael Collins's heart of darkness. And it is a territory mapped with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace set in the frozen wastes of a winter town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in this former mining town. Now his uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger. When Frank hears that the stranger bears the name of a man who died twenty years before, he decides to head North. To dig up the dead.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 11111

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 1861591950 Michigan Fiction::Mystery

O'CONNELL, CAROL

Killing Critics

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399141685. 309 pages; Slight wear top of DJ. DJ unclipped. A tight bright book. Dust jacket in Mylar. Mallory is back in this tense thriller.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 6770

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0399141685 Fiction Mallory

CONNELLY, MICHAEL

The Night Fire

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316485616. Only slight wear, shallow crease top fore edge of spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch # 22; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; "Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries -- while still working her own cases on the midnight shift -- Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just don't add up.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21757

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 0316485616 harry bosch Mystery Fiction::Mystery

CONNOLLY, JOHN

The Burning Soul

New York: Atria Books, 2011. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1439165270. Small nick bottom edge of dust jacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Charlie Parker, Book 10; 9 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 406 pages; "“There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one’s humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.”Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor’s Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away.But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor’s Bay itself, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Now, in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself.Because Randall is telling lies.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18326

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Keywords: 1439165270 Charlie Parker Fiction::Mystery

CONRAD, JOSEPH

An Outcast of the Islands

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd, N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards show light edge wear.; A tight solid book. Undated but probably printed in the 1920s ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 391 pages; "An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard, who also appears in Almayer's Folly (1895) and The Rescue (1920), in addition to sharing other characters with those novels. It is considered to be underrated as a work of literature for many. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to his "A Heart of Darkness".". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 17307

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: Fiction::Historical

CONROY, PAT

The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395353009. Price clipped dust jacket shows light edge wear, some light discoloration on front free end paper ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 576 pages; "A modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the complex and damaging family legacy they share. Moving between the sparkling glamour of New York City and the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country" Conroy speaks from the heart of a family very reminiscent of the one he grew up in.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21808

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0395353009 South carolina New York FICTION

COOK, BOB

Faceless Mortals

London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575042893. Some creasing head and tail of DJ spine, previous owner's embossing first few pages, light yellowing of pages ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 204 pages; A political thriller - "Herbie Feigl, an obscure prep-school master, goes missing in Yugoslavia and a tabloid newspaper claims he is a spy". An ex MI6 Professor of Philosphy feels obliged to pursue the matter and discovers a mystery involving many agencies.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 10061

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery

Keywords: 0575042893 MYSTERY Espionage CIA KGB Thriller Fiction::Mystery

COOK, MEIRA

The House on Sugarbush Road

Winnipeg: Enfield & Wizenty, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. ISBN: 1926531302. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book. Decorative paper covered boards over beige cloth spine. Satin bookmark bound in. ; 8.60 X 6.30 X 1 inches; 312 pages; "The House on Sugarbush Road, set in post-apartheid Johannesburg shortly after the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela, is the story of the intertwining lives of a once prominent liberal Afrikaner family and Beauty Mapule, their domestic servant of more than thirty years. Cook's intimately interconnected and finely drawn characters are white, black, rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, old and young; they are also hustlers, do-gooders, petty criminals and sensualists, heading towards dramatic explosions both inevitable and unexpected.". Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 18740

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian

Keywords: 1926531302 South Africa nelson mandela johannesburg

COOK, HOWARD E.

The Weed and the Winter Solstice Confessions of a Soul Apart : A Novel

Athens, TN: Friendly City Publishing, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0938212028. DJ shows very light shelf wear. A couple of dings bottom front board ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages; "A novel based on an Appalachian folk tale of a gruesome Yuletide axe murder, the Franki Silvers legend. Retold as a modern novel set around the middle of the 20th Century, it becomes eerily suggestive.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18491

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0938212028 Allegory Fiction::Mystery