The Court of Holyrood. An Old Story

Edinburgh, Alexander Macredie, 1825. 3rd edition. Hardcover. pp. 194. 8vo. Bound in original paper-covered boards. The original plain boards are present but partially detached. The paper spine covering is absent. There is a bookplate from Colquhoun's Circulating Library, of Edinburgh, affixed to the inside of the front board. The stitching of the text block is loose but holding. The contents shows some light foxing, but are otherwise unmarked and remain perfectly readable. A poor, to fair, copy. A novel about Mary, Queen of Scots, with a short Preface signed by 'The Authors'. Some uncertainty appears to exist (most apparently amongst book dealers offering for sale copies of this title) as to the dates of publication of the first, second and third editions. Part of this confusion is engendered, no doubt, by the 1826 issue of the Literary Gazette which notes this title as having been 'just published'. In fact, an earlier edition was published in 1822 under the title 'The Court of Holyrood, Fragments of an Old Story.' by Macredie, Skeely, a predecessor of the publisher of the 1825 third edition. There is no easily discernible record of when, or by whom, the first edition was published. What is certain to us is that our copy is designated as the 'Third Edition' and bears the date of 1825 at the foot of the title page. .

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Book number: 9900020647

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Mary Queen of Scots;Scotland;;;;;;;

Jeems Kaye: His Adventures and Opinions [Three Volumes Bound As One: First Series, Second Series, and Third Series]

Glasgow, W. & R. Holmes, ND. Hardcover.8vo,,Bound in 3/4 black leather over black grained cloth.Front hinge cracked, but stitching still intact. Bds. a bit bumped & scuffed. Contents clean. Overall, good to good plus condition. Ink inscription on title page, dated 1928, perhaps from one of the contributors. Two other ink notations. Ill.: 48 original illustrations.

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Book number: 9900030696

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Scotland;Humour;Humor;Scot;;;;; 48 original illustrations

Recollections of Eton. By an Etonian. With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall

New York City, Harper & Brothers, 1870. Wraps. pp. 126, ads.8vo, A scarce and unusual item, written as a novella in a style which precedes, but is similar to, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' (first published in 1858 and again in an 1885 edition also illustrated by Sydney Hall). It must have been fairly popular with American readers as Harper's 1880 annual catalog still lists it for sale, and still in paper wraps (as is our copy). Harcourt's ''Eton Bibliography' notes that this title was first published in 1825 as one of a collection of Eton-related novellas; and then again in 1842 as an edited version of only 45 pages in Hood's 'New Monthly Magazine and Humorist', and again in 1864 by Bracebridge, and finally in 1870 by Chapman and Hall (presumably with somewhat larger type as the entry indicates 362 pages. Our offering, and the 1870 London edition, would appear to be the only ones with the delightful Sydney Hall illustrations. It is curious that Harcourt does not record the Harper edition. Our copy is in the original printed paper wraps, with a full-page advertisement for three of Harper's magazines on the back cover and a two-page detailed list of 'Harper's Library of Select Novels' preceding the title page. The novella is divided into two parts: 'The Lower Boy' and 'The Upper Boy', both of 14 chapters. The covers are soiled, the spine heavily chipped, and the page edges ragged. There are spots of foxing and soiling in the text which remains, however, perfectly readable. Still a good copy. The author is not identified by there are suggestions that it was Charles Frederick Johnstone, about whom very little, if anything, is known. The rather small type is set in double columns. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900045112

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Private school;Eton;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

Tart Thirteen Dark & Dirty

Winnipeg, MB, 2003. 1st printing.Oblong 8vo,,Card covers a bit scuffed, else unmarked and in very good cond, A miscellany of artsy-fartsy photos, articles, poems, reviews and similar fluff concocted by Winnipeg creative-type people. Ill.: colour, b&w photos.

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Book number: 9900044019

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Keywords: ;;;;;;;; colour, b&w photos

[Sherwood Heights] O'DWYER, A. and G. Whitney (eds.)

Fluid Filosofies of Future Fools by the Pupils of Sherwood Heights Junior High / Sherwood Park, Alberta / 1968-69

Sherwood Heights, AB, Sherwood Heights School, 1969. 2nd printing. pp. 152.12mo,,Light wear and soiling to stiff card covers, else g/vg cond, A collection of student essays and poems, some of which would now be considered politically incorrect. .

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Book number: 9900042410

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Education;Yearbook;;;;;;;

Abani, Chris

Graceland

New York, Picador, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 321. Very good+. .

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Book number: 037671

Catalogue: Literature

Abani, Chris

Graceland

New York, Picador, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 061879

Catalogue: Literature

Abe, Kobo; E. Dale Saunders [Trans.]

The Box Man; a Novel

New York, Vintage, 2001. Paperback. pp. 178. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 082197

Catalogue: Literature

Abramson, Neil

Unsaid

New York, Center Street, 2012. Paperback. pp. 358. 8vo. French flaps. Very good+. .

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Book number: 056863

Catalogue: Literature

Achebe, Chinua

Anthills of the Savannah

Toronto, Doubleday Canada, 2010. Paperback. 8vo. Very good. .

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Book number: 057519

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Achebe, Chinua

Arrow of God

London, Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 287. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine slant, slight sunning to spine, bumped bottom corner, creasing to corner of ffep; very good-. .

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Book number: 078628

Catalogue: Literature

Achebe, Chinua

Chike and the River

New York, Anchor Books, 2011. Paperback. pp. 89. 8vo. Self wrap cover, untrimmed foredge. Illustrations. Lightest shelfwear, Near fine. .

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Book number: 067677

Catalogue: Literature

Aciman, André

Call Me by Your Name

New York, Picador, 2017. Paperback. pp. 248. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 086397

Catalogue: Literature

Adams, Henry

The Education of Henry Adams

New York, The Modern Library, 1931. Hardcover. pp. 517. 8vo. Publisher's black topstain. Light shelefwear, owner's sticker to front pastedown; very good in very good dustjacket showing small short tears. .

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Book number: 082661

Catalogue: Literature

Adams, Richard

The Iron Wolf and Other Stories

London, Penguin Books, 1980. Hardcover. pp. 141. Large 8vo. Brown binding. Contains both black and white drawings and beautifully coloured engravings. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Ill.: Yvonne Gilbert and Jennifer Campbell.

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Book number: 083189

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Yvonne Gilbert and Jennifer Campbell