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The Country Diary Of an Edwardian Lady
by Edith Holden
“The first publication of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977 was a publishing phenomenon. The facsimile reproduction of Edith Holden’s naturalist’s diary for the year 1906 sold over one million copies in its first year and held the record number of appearances in bestseller lists for 15 years. Now on the 20th anniversary of its publication, we are reissuing the book. Edith Holden’s handwritten works, including her favourite poems, personal thoughts and observations on the wildlife...
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Whitey and Mickey, an Autobiography Of the Yankee Years
by Whitey; Mantle, Mickey; Durso, Joseph Ford
Adventurers Books & Ephemera
Scoundrel Time. (Special Limited Edition)
by Hellman, Lillian
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Special edition reserved for the friends of the auhtor and Little, Brown and Company. 155pp. Cloth. Signed by Hellman on the limitation page. Spine panel faded but with lettering perfectly readable, upper corner tip bruised. A near fine copy in the original acetate dustjacket. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
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CA$99.81
Memoirs of the Wesley Family; Collected Principally from Original Documents
by Clarke, Adam
New York: Published by N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824. First US Edition. Hardcover. ix, [2], 12-432pp. Contemporary full sheepskin. Engraved frontispiece of Epworth Church and one inserted plate. A history of the family of John Wesley, the evangelist and theologian founder of Methodism. Old signatures on front free endpaper and title page. Scattered foxing throughout, wear to covers, front cover partially split at spine. A good copy. ; Octavo.
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CA$99.81
My Gamble with Life
by The Earl of Rosslyn (James St Clair-Erskine)
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 309pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine. With eight plates. Signed and inscribed by the Earl of Rosslyn on the front free endpaper: "For -- / this book is with pleasure / autographed by / the Author / Rosslyn / April 1828 [sic]." Scattered foxing throughout, front hinge weak, half-title partially detached and covers slightly warped. A good+ copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
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CA$149.72
Essai sur Tite Live
by Taine, Hyppolite
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860. Hardcover. viii, 348pp. Later brown half calf, spine with raised bands, gold decorations and calf labels lettered in gold. A very good+ copy. In the French language. ; 12mo.
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CA$41.59
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by Michaelis, David
New York: Harper, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder stripe to bottom edge. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with light scuffing to spine panel. "... the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts: at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination." ; Octavo.
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Vita del beato Gioanni di Parma settimo general ministro di tutto l'Ordine de' Minori
by Affò, Ireneo
Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1777. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 224pp. Contemporary vellum backed paper covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Some stains to covers, stain affecting lower corner of boards and of leaves, previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper and to title page, small wormhole to front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo.
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CA$1,247.67
G. F. Watts
by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, N.D.. Hardcover. 75, [1]p. Green decorated cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. The biography of English painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts. Short inscription on front free endpaper, some wear to edges. A very good copy. ; Octavo.
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CA$49.91
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
by Davis, William C
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Tail of spine is bumped. A near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Octavo; 678 pages.
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CA$41.59
Women of Worth: A Book for Girls
by [Christopher C. Dean]
New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. 302pp. Red cloth stamped in blind and gold on the front, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Frontispiece, engraved title, and six inserted plated. Fading to spine, front free endpaper and flyleaf are partially attached to the front pastedown endpaper, some wear to extremities. A good copy. ; 12mo.
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CA$58.22
William Cobbett
by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1926. First US Edition. Hardcover. 254pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Short inscription to front free endpaper, a few tiny spots to spine. Internally clean. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo.
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CA$124.77
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third
by Jesse, J. Heneage
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867. Second Edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. xii, 601pp; x, 562pp; x, 616pp. Contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards, spines with morocco labels lettered in gold, and elaborate gilt decorations. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Armorial bookplates on the front pastedown endpapers. A few scuffs to leather, light rubbing and edge wear. A clean, very good+ set. ; Octavo.
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CA$249.53
Ariel: The Life of Shelley
by Maurois, Andre
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Armed Services Edition 864. Oblong format. A very good- copy. ; Small octavo.
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CA$24.95
Memoirs of Monsieur Claude, Chief of Police Under the Second Empire
by Claude, Antoine Francois
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1907. First US Edition. Hardcover. 321pp. Original red decorated cloth stamped in gold on the front panel, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and eleven inserted plates with illustrations. Condenses five of the original ten volumes in one, dropping parts that were long out of date. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Light wear to extremities. A bright, near fine copy.; Octavo.
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CA$74.86
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
by Elder, William
Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. [2]pp of publisher's advertisements, 416pp + subscribers' list and [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Original decorated cloth stamped in blind on the sides, spine lettered in gold. Engraved title, frontispiece, and four inserted plates with woodcuts. Biography of the famous Arctic explorer. Some wear to corner tips and spine ends, a touch of foxing to edges of text block. A very good copy. Sabin 22094.; Octavo.
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CA$207.95
The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Collected and Edited by Roger Ingpen. With Illustrations
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Ingpen, Robert, ed
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. lviii, 479pp; xvi, [480]-1020pp. Blue half calf over marbled boards, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gold, raised bands, and elaborately decorated in gold, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. The gorgeous bindings are signed by Zaehnsdorf on the verso of the front free endpapers and were made for Charles Scribner's Sons. With b&w photographs, drawings, and foldout letters facsimiles. Number in red...
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CA$499.07
Con Hugo: il creatore di Corto Maltese raccontato dalla figlia
by Pratt, Silvina; Bocquet, Josè Luis
Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2008. First Italian Edition. Softcover. A fine copy. Profusely illustrated. Translated from the French by Raffaella Fontana. In the Italian language. ; Octavo; 247 pages.
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CA$58.22
Q. Curtii Rufi de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni libri superstites cum freinshemii supplementis, suis variorumque notis illustravit A. Huguet
by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Paris: Excudit C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Nova scriptorum Latinorum bibliotheca". Complete in two volumes. xii, 290pp; 288pp. Later brown half cloth over marbled boards. Scattered foxing to text blocks, law firm unobtrusive stamps on titles and last leaves, old stain affecting the top edge of some of the leaves of volume I, a touch of wear to edges. A nice very good set. ; Octavo.
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CA$133.08
Runes of Ahrh Eih Eche
by Bacon, Jonathan, ed
Lamoni, IA: Jonathan Bacon, 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Stapled wraps. Very Good+. Edition limited to 1000 of which this is # 825. Upper right corner of front cover bumped. A very good+ copy. Signed by Bacon. A collection of letters by Robert E. Howard to various correspondents. Also included is the Howardian Alphabet by Randall Spurgin. ; 38 pages; Signed by Author.
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CA$58.22
A Memoir of the Right Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky. (John Lawson Stoddard's Copy with a Poignant Inscription on the Front Free Endpaper)
by Lecky, Elisabeth
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. xiii, 379pp. Black cloth stamped in gold on the spine panel. Portrait frontispiece and three portraits from photographs. The front free endpaper inscription reads: 'John L. Stoddard / Azzano, / Lake Como, Italy / 1910. / To no author am I more indebted for illuminating / and stimulating information than to / W. E. H. Lecky, through his masterpieces of / erudition and instructiveness, - "Rationalism / in Europe" and "History of European...
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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
by Ro, Ronin
New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First US Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.
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CA$41.59
The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by His Nephew. In Two Volumes
by Trevelyan, George Otto
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 475pp; viii, 480pp. Contemporary brown half calf over cloth, spines with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and morocco labels lettered in gold, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Likely Selkirk historian Thomas Craig-Brown's copy with a Selkirk, Scotland bookplate and his signature on it. There is a handwritten letter addressed to Craig-Brown tipped in in volume one but unfortunately not all the text is...
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CA$249.53
The Memoirs of a Bookman
by Milne, James
London: John Murray, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 316pp + ads. Green cloth stamped in gold on the spine, top edge stained red. Some scattered foxing throughout, lower corners bruised, boards are slightly bent. About very good. Signed, inscribed and dated by Milne on front free endpaper. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
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CA$124.77
Lincoln's Last Day. (John E. Boos' One of a Kind Copy)
by Starr, John W., Jr
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Hardcover. 92pp printed on coated paper on the recto only. Half morocco over cloth, spine lettered in gold, all edges sprinked, red endpapers. John Boos' red ex-libris printed on the verso of the title. Lincoln's portrait is printed in red on the background of every fourth leaf. The illustrations differ from the original version. This copy has a portrait of Lincoln on photographic paper bound in after the title, a different one bound in after page 71, a photo of...
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CA$415.89
Life and Writings of Frank Forester. Volume II
by Forester, Frank (Henry William Herbert)
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Each volume complete in itself. 300pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Illustrated. Frontispiece loose, faint pencil markings on some of the pages, previous owner's name on the flyeaf and on one of the pages. A good copy. BAL 8178. ; Octavo.
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CA$66.54
Life and Work of Mr. Gladstone
by Castell Hopkins, J
Toronto and Brantford: The Bradley-Garretson Company, Lt'd, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 498pp, [2]pp. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Portrait frontispiece and several illustrations. Mild foxing to endpapers and edges, some wear to edges and spine ends, spine panel very slightly faded. A clean and bright very good+ copy. ; Quarto.
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CA$83.18
