New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2004. McKowen, Scott. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full green cloth. Ribbon marker. vii, 304 pp. Some light staining to fore edge of text block, else fine in fine jacket. Anne Shirley, the fiery and fiercely independent heroine of Anne of Green Gables, has captivated generations of..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full orange cloth. 368 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. viii, 827 pp. Slight cockling to lamination at spine head, else fine and clean. Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but..... More
New York: Barricade Books, 1991. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition stated, second printing. Full black cloth. vii, 216 pp. Fine condition. Known for his best-selling Fletch series, award-winning novelist Gregory McDonald takes us on a descent inot the dark heart of America - a world of poverty so..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Hard Cover. 8vo. Canopus in Argos: Archives. Full blue cloth. xi, 365 pp. Stain to spine head and top edge of front board. A few small stains to top and fore edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned and lightly bumped to..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1976. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. A Crime Club Selection. Full navy leatherette boards. 182 pp. Rubbing to extremities, spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket is bumped and creased at extremities, chipped to foot of front cover, sunned at spine. The sleepy town of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 311 pp. Bumping and creasing to corners, creasing to spine. Near fine overall. More
London: The Folio Society, 2001. Fraser, Eric. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full red-orange paper with black spine label, and black, green and gold circular panel with Smaug to front board. Map endpapers. 245 pp. B&W illustrations. Sunning to spine, else fine. In near fine custom slipcase with a few scuffs. More
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 165 pp. In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order's mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1968. Soft Cover. 12mo. First Dell new edition printing. Soft cover. 218 pp. All edges green. Creasing to spine and joints, wear to extremitiess. Light damp staining to edges. Short tear to p. 95 at fore edge. "A darkly brilliant tale of modern devilry that...induces..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Warren Fox, Dorothea. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Half red cloth, cream paper boards with green stamped Christmas choir vignette to front board. White lettering to spine. Red and white pictorial endpapers. 181 pp. Damp stain to front board, some discolouration to paper boards..... More
New York: Wing Books, 1998. Hard Cover. 12mo. Full green cloth. B&W map endpapers. 468 pp. Light bumping to spine ends, light stain to front board. Slight bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. Over 35,000 years ago, in prehistoric Europe during the Ice Age, humanity as it eventually..... More
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2003. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. Full black paper. 97 pp., [10]. Fine condition. Hailed in Europe and South America as a masterful work of psychological suspense, Manguel's novella is a story of mystery, murder, and the passion of an artist. Centering on Robert Louis Stevenson..... More
Bruxelles: Editions La Boetie, 1948. Magritte, Rene. Soft Cover. 8vo (super). Original illustrated wrappers, with the glassine. 190 pp., [6]. [12] B&W plate illustrations + 64 in-text vignettes. From a total edition of 4100 copies, this is no. 34 of 72 copies that includes an original drawing (lacking in this..... More
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1926. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, fleur de lis in gilt on upper front cover, lix, 356pp. Engraved frontispiece. Pages lightly foxed, spine faded; light wear to edges and corners o/w a very good copy printed on thick paper. More