NORRIS, KATHLEEN

Belle

Toronto: Doubleday, Doran & Gundy, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows edge wear, short tear base of DJ spine. Damp stain to upper back panel and fore edge of front panel of DJ, some transfer to book top back fore corner and upper back spine edge. Top back for corner bumped. ; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. This is the first Canadian edition. ; 1.6 x 8.1 x 5.5 Inches; 349 pages; "The age-old fallacy that Mother Love is always perfect, is gently exploded in this wise and tender romance of Phil and Shelley who almost lost their happiness through the jealous dominance of a sweet and devoted mother" jacket blurb.. Very Good- in Good dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: FICTION Mother love LITERATURE

POE, EDGAR ALLAN

Works of Edgar Allan Poe

New York: Gramercy, 1990. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517053586. Deluxe binding shows very light shelf wear, gift inscription on blank page, pages are tanned. ; A bright, solid book. Blue leatherette binding with stamped with gold and white design front and spine ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 753 pages; "The collected tales of America’s foremost master of mystery and the macabre in one handsome volume - - 67 tales, one novel (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym) and 30 poems in all. You’ll find such classic tales as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum and many, many more. What collection would be complete without the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe which includes The Raven, Annabel Lee, A Dream Within a Dream, The Haunted Palace just to name a few of the 30 poems included ". Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued .

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0517053586 Edgar Allan Poe Literature

RICHLER, MORDECAI

Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writings

Toronto: Madison Press Books, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 189733009X. Book as new, DJ shows light wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, B&W photos. Silk bookmark bound in. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 432 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Canada

Sonstige Stichworte: 189733009X mordecai Richler CANADIANA duddy kravitz POETRY LITERATURE

RIPLEY, GORDON

Who's Who in Canadian Literature 1997

Teeswater, ON: Reference Press, 1997. Paperback. ISBN: 0919981461. Ex reference library with library markings on FFEP and title page, no pocket ; Yellow card covers unmarked. Text unmarked ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 357 pages; Included are living Canadian poets, playrights, story writers, novelists, children's writers, critics, editors or translators.. Very Good+ .

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Katalog: Canadian Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: 0919981461 Reference CAN-LIT

RIPLEY, GORDON & ANNE MERCER

Who's Who in Canadian Literature, 1992

Teeswater, ON: Reference Press, 1992. Paperback. ISBN: 0919981267. Ex reference library. Minimal library markings, red glossy card covers show light wear, bottom back corner creased ; A bright solid, book ; Ex-Library; Who's Who in Canadian Literature; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 369 pages; Trade paperback. Included are living Canadian poets, playrights, story writers, novelists, children's writers, critics, editors or translators.. Good+ .

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Katalog: Canadian Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: 0919981267 Canadian Literature & Fiction Books Reference French Canadian World Literature Reference

LE ROUX DE LINCEY, M.

The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre

London: Gibbings & Company, Ltd, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear, some soiling. Pages from the appendix are uncut on the front edge. ; A tight solid book, gilt on top page edges, laid paper, untrimmed fore and bottom page edges. Hinges intact, dark teal cloth covered boards with black stamped design on front boards and gilt stamped titles front and spine. This is a reprint of the 1894 translations by the Society of English Bibliophilists including reproductions of copperplate engravings from the Berne edition from the 18th century. ; Volume 2; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 225 pages; Volume 2 only. "Marguerite de Navarre (1492 - 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance." "The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day.". Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Katalog: Literature::France

Sonstige Stichworte: Short Fiction France LITERATURE LITERATURE

ROY, GABRIELLE & PATRICIA CLAXTON TRANSLATOR

Enchantment and Sorrow the Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987. First English Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0886191017. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, light creasing of DJ. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.8 inches; 415 pages; In the years before her death Gabrielle Roy began her autobiography but unfortunately death took her before she could finish. "This, then, is the story of the first thirty years of Gabrielle Roy's life, her discovery of herself as an individual, and gradually, her vocation as a writer." The original French version was published in 1984 as 'La Détresse et l'enchantment'.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::French Canadian

Sonstige Stichworte: 0886191017 gabrielle roy tin flute Fiction::Canadian LITERATURE Biographies & Memoirs

RUSHDIE, SALMAN

Step Across This Line Collected Nonfiction 1992

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676975437. DJ shows very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 399 pages; "The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: 0676975437 9/11 fatwa Iran LITERATURE HISTORY

SCHORER, MARK

Sinclair Lewis: An American Life

Toronto: Mcgraw - Hill Book Company Inc, 1961. BOMC. Hardcover. DJ and boards show shelf wear with short tears, creasing and chipping of DJ.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Book Club Edition; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 867 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Biographies & Memoirs::Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Sinclair lewis

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD

Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw

London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1950. First thus. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, short edge tears and significant chipping, pieces missing from DJ top and bottom of spine, previous owner's name on FFEP. Former dealer's sticker base of front pastedown with sticker shadow on FFEP, some yellowing of pages ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE

SMITH, MABELL SHIPPIE CLARKE

Dickens Day-By

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1911. 1st Thus. Hardcover. A couple of short tears in leather head of spine, slight loss top fore corner as well as a couple of slight nicks in the edges, light soil ; Fawn colored suede covers with gilt title imprinted in front cover, decorative end papers pasted directly to suede backs ; 108 pages; This is a collection of quotes from Dickens novels and letters, one for each day of the year. Very Good .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Charles Dickens Literature

STEGNER, WALLACE EARLE

Recapitulation

Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited First Edition. Leather Bound. Boards show very light shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate on blank page.; A bright, solid book. Full leather with gilt stamped decoration on front board and gilt titles and decorations on spine and four raised bands. All edges gilt and bound in is a brown satin ribbon bookmark. Laid in is the Notes from the Editors which accompanied the book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 335 pages. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Wallace stegner first editions LITERATURE

STEVENSON, YVONNE HELEN

Burns and His Bonnie Jean the Romance of Robert Burns and Jean Armour

Sidney, BC: Gray's Publishing, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, with minor short tears and light chipping and rubbing on edges. Remainder mark top page edges ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Bibliography at end of book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 113 pages; A study of the love of Scottish poet Robbie Burns for Jean Armour who became his wife and bore his children.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Robert Burns Biography Biographies scotland Jean Armour Bonnie Jean LITERATURE

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE; GEORGE SAINSBURY (EDITOR & INTRODUCTION)

The Great Hoggarty Diamond, Fitz

London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1930. Omnibus. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards show only light wear to blind stamped boards, 2 spots of soil on back board ; A bright, solid book, hinges intact. Undated but gift notation is dated 1930 - attractive notation using calligraphy "This book is presented to the Mad Hatter in memory of Wonderland's first dinner by an admirer of Wonderland. 29th March 1930/ A happy dinner celebrated by (signatures in different inks) Duchess/ March Hare/ Mad Hatter/ Flamingo/ Dormouse/ Alice" ; The Oxford Thackeray Volume 4; B&W Illustrations; 503 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Sonstige Stichworte: samuel titmarsh LITERATURE

THWAITE, M. F.

From Primer to Pleasure an Introduction to the History of Children's Books in England from the Invention of Printing to 1900

London: The Library Association, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Some shelf wear is evident to the DJ and the boards, sticker stain on spine of book. A small 'C.1' written on copyright page. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages; An excellent reference in the field of children's literature.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Juvenile

Sonstige Stichworte: LITERATURE Children JUVENILE LITERATURE