BENSON, E.F.

Dodo; A Detail of the Day

New York, George H. Doran Company. 1921. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. vi, 441pp. 12mo. Beige cloth, black titles to front and spine. Starting at front hinge, and there is a tiny sticker affixed to the lower rear fixed endpaper. Internally clean and bright.

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Book number: 125440

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literature

BENSON, E. F.

The House of Defence

New York, Cupples & Leon Company. 1906, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 318pp, +[2pp adverts]. 12mo. In original publisher's illustrated cloth binding. Binding with light rubbing at extremities from shelfwear. Tiny gouge at top-edge of rear board. Small, faint red stain to cloth on rear board. Binding a little shaken; starting at PP178 / 179 and pp258 / 259; early signs of starting else wear. All leaves and gatherings remain entirely secure. Illustrated with four colour plates (including the frontispiece.) after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm. Frontispiece with protective tissue guard. "Facsimile page of manuscript from the Image in the Sand" [p.3], lacking tissue guard. Internally, with only occasional light dirtying to margins (from the turnings of dirty fingers, no doubt). Else internally clean. An acceptable copy of this first edition.

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Book number: 122493

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Historical Fiction

BERGEN, DAVID

The Matter with Morris

Toronto, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd./ A Phyllis Bruce Book 978-1-55468-774-9. (ISBN: 978-1-55468-774-9). 2000. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 256pp. 8vo. Signed. Jacket shows very light wear to the upper edge. The book is clean, bright, and solid.

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Book number: 125228

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canadian Authors, Canadian Literature 9781554687749

BERNAL, RICHARD

The Ants Go Marching One by One

Lincolnwood, Illinois, Publications International. (ISBN: 0-7853-0045-7). 1993, 1st edition. (boards) Fine, no dust jacket. 10pp. 8vo. illus. Glazed boards. Non-working musical accompaniment. Cut-out cover. Flawless throughout. Another sing-along songbook by a simple push of a button. Cute and fun with great artwork.

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Book number: 113580

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Pop-Up Books, Moveable Books, Music 0785300457

DE BERNIÈRES, LOUIS

Birds without Wings

Toronto, Knopf Canada. (ISBN: 9780676976946). 2004, 1st Canadian edition. (hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 625pp. 4to. SIGNED. Mapped endpapers. Dust jacket not price clipped. Owner's gift inscription on the half title page, else a fine copy.

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Book number: 117276

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, British - Literature, Fiction, Literature 9780676976946

DE BERNIÈRES, LOUIS

Birds without Wings

Toronto, Knopf Canada. (ISBN: 9780676976946). 2004, 1st Canadian edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 625pp. Mapped endpapers. Dust jacket not price clipped. The slightest of bumping to head of jacket at spine. Else fine.

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Book number: 123489

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, British - Literature, Fiction, Literature 9780676976946

BERRY, MICHELLE; CAPLE, NATALEE (EDITOR)

The Notebooks; Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers

Toronto, Canada, Anchor Canada/Random House of Canada Limited. (ISBN: 0-385-65827-3). 2002. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 505+. 8vo. Short stories from and interviews with seventeen of Canada's most celebrated and creative writers, reflective of a writer's life in the twenty-first century. A fine copy.

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Book number: 124840

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Canadian Authors, Canadian Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Collections 0385658273

BESANT, WALTER

Fifty Years Ago

New York, Harper & Bros.. [circa 1890]. (Decorative cloth) Very good plus. 268pp. Frontispiece, illus. ports. Bright gilt printed covers showing only a tiny bit of wear to head & tail. Front hinge tender. Internally about fine. A picture of British society as it was when Victoria ascended the throne.

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Book number: 203479

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, British, Victoriana

BESSAI, DIANE (EDITOR)

Prairie Performance: An Anthology of Short Plays

Edmonton, NeWest Press. 1980. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 192pp.

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Book number: 103299

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Theatre

BESTALL, ALFRED

Rupert in Mysteryland

London, Daily Express. 1973, reprint. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 32pp. Adventure Book no.1 includes Rupert and the Missing Pieces.

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Book number: 111084

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

BESTALL, ALFRED

Rupert at Rocky Bay

London, Daily Express. 1973, reprint. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 32pp. Adventure Book No.2 includes Rupert and the Green Buzzer.

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Book number: 111085

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

BETHUNE, W.C. (EDITOR)

Canada's Western Northland: Its History, Resources, Population and Administration

Ottawa, J.O. Patenaude. 1937. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 162pp. Illus. maps, one folding.

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Book number: 103302

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Fur Trade, Canada, Canadian Prairies, North, North American Indian

LE SAGE [ALAIN-RENÉ LESAGE] (AUTHOR); SAINTE-BEUVE, CHARLES AUGUSTIN (NOTE)

Le Diable Boiteux

Paris, Librairie de Garnier Frères, Éditeurs. 1874. (hardcover) Very good. xxxviii, 392pp. 12mo. Brown, polished quarter-leather over marbled boards; spine in six plain compartments, raised-bands; author compartment in red leather, lettered in gilt; title compartment in green leather, lettered in gilt. Period re-bind, with the distinctive marbled boards and trimmed, simple speckled edges. Leather on spine soiled; rubbed. Corners rubbed. Marbled EPs; the EPs were evidently once slightly stuck-together, with a few small corresponding surface transfers. Previous owner's stamp to title page. Else internally bright and clean. Frontispiece. Text in French. "Nouvelle Édition Complète précédée d'une notice sur le Sage par Sainte-Beuve" -title page (Bookseller's trans: "New Complete Edition preceded by a note on le Sage by Sainte-Beuve).

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Book number: 124505

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Antiquarian Books, Classic Literature, French Literature, Literature - France, Literature - French

BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC

Tamarack; A Caricature Gallery of Literary Masters; Poems by George Woodcock, Nellie McClung, Tom Marshall, Ian Young, Patrick Anderson and Stories by John Metcalf, John Gregg, Irene Friedman, John Gabrielli

Toronto, Ontario, The Tamarack Review. 1975. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 104pp. 8vo. The Tamarack Review; Isssue 67; Third Quarter, October, 1975. Clean, tight copy. Includes 19 delightful caricatures of Canadian Literary Masters, as well as the writings of several of the Canadian literary elite.

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Book number: 123184

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Canadiana, Fiction, Literature, The Tamarack

BIEMAN, ELIZABETH

Plato Baptized; Towards the Interpretation of Spenser's Mimetic Fictions

Toronto, University of Toronto Press 978-0802057679. (ISBN: 978-0802057679). 1988. (Cloth) As new in as new dust jacket. 325pp. As New.

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Book number: 109257

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature 9780802057679