AVERY, GILLIAN

Nineteenth Century Children; Heroes and Heroines in English Children's Stories 1780-1900

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1965. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 260pp. 8vo. Dust jacket shows moderate edge wear, with light tears and a small chip, none of which impacts the information. Wine-coloured cloth, with gilt title to spine. Clean and crisp, with black and white illustrations.

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Book number: 125441

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Children's Literature, Books About Books, Children's Literature, Literature - Children's, Victorian Literature

AVERY, MARTIN

The Singing Rabbi

Canada, Oberon Press. (ISBN: 0-88750-491-4). 1983, 1st printing. (Card covers) Fine. 104pp. 8vo. Brown card covers with gilt stamped lettering to front, spine and rear. A collection of stories focused on being Jewish.

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Book number: 114128

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Fiction, Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature, Jewish, Literature, Short Stories 0887504914

AZARIAN, MARY

A Farmer's Alphabet

Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher. (ISBN: 0-87923-394-X). 1981. (hardcover) Very good plus in good to very good dust jacket. 61pp, [3]. Folio. Bound in red quarter-cloth with olive boards; woodcut title block in black on top board; spine lettered in gold. Light rubbing to edges of boards from shelfwear. Dust jacket age-toned, more pronounced at extremities; spine ever-so faintly sunned, noticeable only upon the closest scrutiny; small spot of light soiling on rear panel near spine. Else jacket with only light edgewear; small 1" closed tear at head of front panel. Crisp in protective mylar. An absolutely beautiful alphabet book, illustrated with full-page woodcut plates in black, lettering in deep-red. Printed and bound by Book Press (Brattleboro).

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Book number: 124612

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Alphabet Book, Art, Illustrated, Illustrated Books, Juvenile, Juvenile Books, Wood Engraving, Woodcut 087923394X

BACH, RICHARD

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

New York, the MacMillan Company. 1971, 4th printing. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 79pp. 8vo. Dust jackets shows mild edge wear, and is lightly rubbed. The book is clean, tight and bright, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs taken by Russell Munson. Previous owners name to ffep.

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Book number: 125450

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, American Literature, Literature

BACON, R.L.

The House of the People

Auckland, Collins. 1977, 1st edition. (4to) Near fine in fine dust jacket. Illus. illustrated endpapers. Former owner's gift inscription to title-page. Illustrations by R.F. Jahnke.

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Book number: 110216

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Maoris, New Zealand

MINIATURE. BACON, FRANCIS

Sayings of Bacon

London, Siegle, Hill & Co.. [circa 1917], 4th ptg. (Leatherbound) Very good. 77pp. Full limp leather, 3 1 / 2 " high. Edited By "J.P.".

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Book number: 201341

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Miniature

DE BAENA, JOHAN ALFON

Cancionero de Baena; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale

New York, Hispanic Society of America. 1971, 2nd Thus. (Folio) Near fine. Unpaginated. The 1971 reprint of the '26 edition, which was itself a facsimile reprint. Foreword by Henry R. Lang.

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Book number: 203323

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Spanish

BAGGE, PETER

Other Lives

New York, Vertigo/DC Comics 978-1-4012-2557-5. (ISBN: 978-1-4012-2557-5). 2010, 1st printing. (hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 135+. 4to. First printing. Black and white graphics. A fine copy.

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Book number: 125092

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Graphic Novels, Art, Graphic Novels, Literature 9781401225575

BAILEY, DON

Bring Me Your Passion

Oberon Press. (ISBN: 0-88750-690-9). 1987, 1st Paperback Edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 138pp. 8vo. Wrappers; cover art by Janet Moore. Wrappers rubbed. Inscribed by Don Bailey on the first leaf. Internally tight and clean.

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Book number: 123869

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Prairie Literature 0887506909

BAILEY, MICHELE

Haycastle's Cricket

London, Macmillan. 1996, 1st edition. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 188pp.

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Book number: 202286

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-British, Mystery

BAILLY, JEAN SYLVAIN. (VOLTAIRE)

Lettres sur l'Origine des Sciences, et sur celle des Peuples de l'Asie, adresses a M. de Voltaire par M. Bailly, & Precedes de Quelques Lettres de M. de Voltaire a l'Auteur

London and Paris, Elmesly and Debure. 1777. (Full leather) Very good. 348pp. Full contemporary leather, raised bands - joints tender. Edge wear and bumps. Marbled endpapers. A very clean and tight copy.

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Book number: 200090

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-European, French, Science and Mathematics

BAKER, NICHOLSON

The Anthologist

New York, Random House 978-1-4165-7244-2. (ISBN: 978-1-4165-7244-2). 2009, Advance uncorrected proof. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 243pp. 8vo. Signed. Advanced uncorrected proof. Novel about poetry and writer's block. Yellow card wrappers. Fine copy.

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Book number: 129582

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Advance Copies, Advance Uncorrected Proof, American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American 9781416572442

BAKER, NICHOLSON

Checkpoint

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. (ISBN: 1-4000-4400-6). 2004, 1st edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 115pp. 8vo. Signed. First edition. A short novel which essentially describes a conversation between a man, somewhat deranged, who wants to, plans to, assasinate George W. Bush and his friend whose burden it is to talk him out of it. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129585

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American, Signed Editions 1400044006

ANNHARTE BAKER, MARIE

Columbus Coyote Cafe

Winnipeg,Mb, Moonprint Press. (ISBN: 0-9698035-1-6). 1994. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 49pp. 8vo. Scarce. Poetry, both political and humorous. B / W ills. Of Coyote thoughout. Clean, tight and bright throughout.

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Book number: 122757

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Poetry, Canadian Writers, Canadiana, First Nations, Ojibway, Poetry 0969803516

BAKER, NICHOLSON

The Everlasting Story of Nory

New York, Random House. (ISBN: 0-679-43933-1). 1998, 1st edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 226pp. 8vo. Describes the remarkable inner landscape of a 9 year old American girl who spends a semester at a school in England. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129583

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Collectible Books, First Editions, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0679439331