BLACKIE

Thrilling Stories for Girls

London, Blackie & Son. [circa 1930], 1st print. (boards) Fine in good to very good dust jacket. unpaginated. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Frontispiece. Illustrated EP's. B&W illustrations. Gift inscription to PD EP. Clean and tight. DJ shows owner's name along head to front, small and neat, in ink, above title. Chipping along tail edge of front, particularly at spine and at fore-edge. Chipping to spine at head as well as at fore-edge.

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Book number: 114054

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Children's Literature, Juvenile

BLADES, JOE

Casemate Poems

Waterloo, Ont. Widows & Orphans. (ISBN: 0-9734130-1-8). 2004. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 66pp. 8vo. Scarce. Poetry written whilst Blades was one of two artists-in-residence in Fredericton, NB. The residencies were public and interactive, with visitors passing throught the workspace in which two concurrent artists-in-residence were present in any given week. Includes both the poetry and B / W photography of the author.

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Book number: 123231

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Poetry, Canadian Poetry, Canadiana, Poetry 0973413018

BLAISE, CLARK

Tribal Justice

New York, Doubleday & Company. 1974, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 224pp. Dust wrapper browning at spine.

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Book number: 200186

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-Canadian, Literature-American

BLATTY, WILLAIM PETER

The Exorcist

London, The Folio Society NONE. 2017. (hardcover) Fine. xi, 320pp. 4to. This edition follows the 40th anniversary edition published by Harper (US) and Corgi (UK) in 2011. Red cloth. Title, stamped in gilt, to front and spine. Includes 13 full page illustrations and 13 chapter headpieces. Housed, as issued, in a sturdy, Spot UV black slipcase. Sublime copy in near fine slipcase. Illustrated by Jeremy Caniglia.

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Book number: 131370

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Speculative Fiction, American Literature, Collectible Books, Horror, The Folio Society

BLINDLOSS, HAROLD

Brandon of the Engineers

New York, A. L. Burt Company. 1916, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. [2], 346pp. 12mo. Green cloth boards, printed in black. Cloth notably soiled, foxed; spine dust-darkened. Lacking dust jacket, as common. Top edge foxed. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Textblock age-toned, as expected. Else internally clean. Colour frontispiece. Lacking rfep. Published in England under the title "His One Talent.".

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Book number: 126592

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, English Literature, Fiction, Literature - English

BLUNT, GILES

Forty Words for Sorrow

Toronto, Random House of Canada Limited. (ISBN: 0-679-31057-6). 2000, 1st printing. (hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 326pp. 8vo. Black paper over boards, lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket with light shelfwear; small blue sticker at foot of rear panel. Bright, tight, and clean.

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Book number: 122222

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Crime, Crime Novels, Fiction, Literature, Literature - Canada 0679310576

BOBROWSKI, JOHANNES

Levin's Mill

London, Calder and Boyars. 1970, 1st British Edition. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 230pp. From the German. Translated by Janet Cropper.

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Book number: 203686

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, German

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI

Decameron

Hertfordshire, Wordsmith Classics of World Literature / Wordsmith Editions Limited 978 1 85326 133 6. (ISBN: 978 1 85326 133 6). 2004. (Mass market paperback) As new. lxxxi, 766pp. 8vo. Classic work of Italian prose, likely composed 1349 - 1353. A new English version by Cormac O Cuilleanain based on John Payne's 1886 translation.

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Book number: 127981

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Classic Literature, Black Plague, Classic Literature, World History 9781853261336

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI; ALDINGTON, RICHARD (TRANSLATION); KENT, ROCKWELL

The Decameron of Giovanni Baccacio

Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Company Inc. NONE. 1949. (hardcover) Very good. xxviii, 562pp. 8vo. 100 tales; 10 each day for 10 days. Quarter bound, beige cloth with red cloth boards, some markings. Light stain at inner front hinge. Corners bumped. 32 plates and a single black and white illustration at the start of each day; magnificent illustrations by the incomparable Rockwell Kent. Overall a very good, solid copy of this important work, a historical record of the Black Plague.

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Book number: 129072

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Classic Literature, 14th Century, Black Plague, History, Literature - Italian

BOCK, DENNIS

The Ash Garden

Toronto, Harper Flamingo Canada. 2001, 1st edition. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 281pp.

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Book number: 110765

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canadian Authors, Canadian Literature

BOCK, DENNIS

The Ash Garden

Toronto, Harper Flamingo Canada. 2001, 1st edition. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 281pp. 8vo. Tear started, which does not affect any information, at bottom edge of back cover. Else solid and without blemish.

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Book number: 123346

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canadian Authors, Canadian Literature

DU BOIS, W.E.B.

The Ordeal of Mansart

New York, Mainstream. 1957. (Cloth) Good to very good in good dust jacket. 316pp. The clipped wrapper shows edge wear, rubbing and fading. Binding cocked and shaky. Former owner's inscription on rear endpaper. Vol.1 of the Black Flame trilogy written when Dr. Du Bois was nearing 90.

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Book number: 200536

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature-American, Ethnic - Black, United States

BOLSTER, STEPHANIE

Three Bloody Words

Maxville, On, Above/Ground Press. (ISBN: 0-9699636-2-9). 1996, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 23p. 8vo. In original red printed wraps; saddle stapled. Unblemished. Above / ground Press poetry chapbook series, #8.

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Book number: 119575

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Poetry, Chapbook, Poetry 0969963629

BONAWITS, G. (PICTURES BY); COLEMAN, HELEN (DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY}

Little Travelers Around the World; Visits to People in Other Lands

New York, A.S. Barnes & Co. NONE. 1907. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. v, 110pp. Folio. Content reflective of the time in which it was written. Black and white drawings and full page plates. Cover shows moderate wear as may be anticipated, but remains solid. There is an inscription penned to the front free endpaper; else is clean and bright.

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Book number: 127973

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Children's Books, Adventure Books, Children's Books, Exploration, History, Travel Books

BOND, GUY L.; DORSEY, G. A.; CUDDY, M. C.; WISE, K.

Just for Fun [Classmate Edition]

Chicago, Lyons and Carnahan. [circa 1962], Classmate Edition. (hardcover) Good. 188pp. 8vo. Illustrated boards. A couple small marks with pen near head of top gutter (undeniably from the fumblings of small hands who were enjoying this book). Small pen mark to fore-edge. Occasional underlining in pencil. Young previous owner's information at head of ffep. Remarkably bright and clean for a volume which was obviously enjoyed by a burgeoning reader. The Development Reading Series.

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Book number: 120241

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Children's Literature, Juvenile, Readers