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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
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 47.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7500]
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
USD 26.25 [Appr.: EURO 25 | £UK 20.75 | JP¥ 3938]
Catalogue: Literature
Keywords: Scotland;Humour;Humor;Scot;;;;; 48 original 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
USD 11.25 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1688]
Catalogue: Literature
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
USD 18.75 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2813]
Keywords: Education;Yearbook;;;;;;;

 
Abramson, Neil
Unsaid
New York, Center Street, 2012. Paperback. pp. 358. 8vo. French flaps. Very good+. .
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Book number: 056863
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 1125]
Catalogue: Literature

 
Aciman, Andre
Call Me by Your Name
New York, Picador. Paperback. pp. 248. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .
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Book number: 092644
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1650]
Catalogue: Literature

 
Ackerley, J.R.; Elizabeth Marshall Thomas [intro.]
My Dog Tulip
New York, New York Review Books, 1999. Paperback. pp. xii, 190. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .
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Book number: 094545
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1500]
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
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1500]
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Adams, Richard
Watership Down
London, Puffin Books, 1973. Paperback. pp. 478. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .
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Book number: 087669
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1350]
Catalogue: Literature

 
Adamson, Gil
Ridgerunner
Toronto, Anansi, 2021. Hardcover. pp. 443. 8vo. Near fine. .
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Book number: 092713
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1875]

 
[Joseph Addison, Richard Steele]
The Spectator / Two Volumes in One; with Notes and a General Index. From the London Stereotype Edition
Philadelphia, J. J. Woodward, 1835. Leather Bound. pp. 456; 459. 8vo. Bound in brown leather. Portrait frontispiece. Spine label missing. Spine badly pulled at head, some spotting/rubbing to binding, occasional foxing to contents, which are otherwise unmarked. Binding sound. A reprint of the daily journal, from No.1 to 635, March 1, 1710-11 to December 20, 1714. .
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Book number: 093041
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 47.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7500]
Catalogue: Literature

 
Adiga, Aravind
Amnesty
New York, Scribner, 2020. Hardcover. pp. 256. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .
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Book number: 084990
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1875]
Catalogue: Literature

 
Adler, H. G.
The Journey
New York, Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Hardcover. pp. xxi, 292. 8vo. Light shelfwear, with some liquid-caused soiling along top edge and soiling/rippling to several pages; good in good+ dust jacket. Translated from the German by Peter Filkins. .
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Book number: 058295
USD 8.25 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 1238]
Catalogue: Literature
Keywords: Fiction; Holocaust; WWII; Auschwitz

 
Adrian, Chris
The Children's Hospital
New York/San Francisco, Grove/McSweeney's, 2006. Paperback. 8vo. Light general shelfwear, corners slightly thumbed; very good-. .
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Book number: 058492
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 1125]
Catalogue: Literature

 
P. TERENTII [TERENCE] [PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER]
Comoediae Sex, Cum Interpretatione Donati E/T Calphurnii, Et Commentario Perpetuo Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius
The Hague, Holland, Isaacum Vander Kloot, 1732. Hardcover. pp. 1322, 46. Very thick 8vo. Title page printed in red and black with vignette. This volume is bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated spine and boards. Rear hinge is weak but still intact. Front hinge cracked: now close to detaching from text block. Overall, the binding is scuffed and rubbed. Marbled endpapers with old armorial bookplate on front pastedown, the bookplate being that of the Rev. Jasper Hume Nicolls (1818-1877) who, in 1845, was appointed the first Principal of Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Contents clean, with slight age-darkening and a few early marginal notations. It would be a simple matter for a competent bookbinder to strengthen the joints and repair the hinges, while retaining the original binding. Terence (died 159 BC?) was a Roman writer of comedy. He wrote six plays during his short life: 'Andria', 'Hecyra', 'Heauton timorumenos', Eunuchus', 'Phormio' (from which the expression 'fortis fortuna adiuvat' is derived ['fortune favours the brave']), and 'Adelphoe'. They were widely known and studied in the Middle Ages, and much read in England in the sixteenth century. Terence's influence can be traced in early English comedy and again in the comedy of manners of the Restoration (Oxford Companion to Classical Literature). Ill.: copper plate frontispiece.
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Book number: 9900009454
USD 112.50 [Appr.: EURO 106.5 | £UK 88.5 | JP¥ 16876]
Catalogue: Literature
Keywords: Comedies;Plays;Drama;Rome;Romans;Classics;Latin;; copper plate frontispiece

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